So, basically, I am very curious about the technical reasons which led the Australian government into considering this option.
Personally, I can see no reason for one to pay money for an architechture/platform depedent, time/space inefficient, closed operational system with no guarantees of freedom from malicious software even from the own vendor while one is next to an architechture independent, extremely efficient and open source costless alternative... except perhaps for either ignorance or corruption or both. Sadly, none of those are actually technical reasons...
That said, I think making the deal with MS going against all technical evidence should constitute a public crime just like it probably would were things out of the IT world.
By the way, MS offering to lower prices for school children often remembers me of a drug dealer selling the first handful of drugs for a low price to an unaddicted youngster.
Putting the braces in a new line has just the effect you mentioned. It destroys the purpose of blank lines. And the flow implied by the condition in an if, for instance, gets far from the condition itself.
But really, the worst code standard ever is GNU's. Not only do they put the braces in separate lines, they have tadwidth = 2 and they write like
In short, students do not want to learn and teachers do not want to teach. So they make a deal -- the mediocrity deal -- in order to relieve the effort from both parties.
Teachers who would not accept it get threatened and students who demanded better classes (like me) are tagged "nerds" and submitted to physical violence.
I had to study maths mostly by myself, but I also got the help from some teachers which were friends of mine and indicated me nice books.
The results. I am a second year undergrad in CC and people in my university (even the vast majority of teachers) find calculus too overwhelming for first years, so they removed it.
Algorithms? That is reinventing the wheel! All of this crap has been solved, of course.
The good deal is use proprietary framework and code websites and apps in java. That is what a computer scientist is for.
A (good) teacher exposed the results of a test and he found out more than half the class (second years and beyond) do not know a byte has 8 bits. He also gave a 6GHz CPU for runtime analysis, and some retarded idiot wrote it would execute 10^-3 instructions per sec.
Seriously, I lost hope. What I do is gather a group of friends and study for ACM ICPC. Fuck the rest of the course.
BTW, a probability teacher once told us a certain property of a function holds. I exhibited an counter-example to him silently and he purposedly ignored me. Then I said: "You are lying, this is false, that is bullshit, this does not work, here is the proof, you can not move on on this hypothesis." I said it less rudly, of course. Still, he told the class to laugh at my ignorance (the precise argument was my function was so bizarre only "nerds" would actually come up with it) and moved on, knowing it would get nowhere.
Well, the problem is students are corrupt, teachers are corrupt, this whole shit is corrupt.
Of course, there are exceptions. But I have lost hope in this place...
I know even if I give my best, I cannot stand before guys from eastern Europe, for instance. That is very sad...
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Oh, sorry then. Wrong complaint timing. :-)
True, but that would make it a lot easier for people to call me a troll. :-)
P.S.: I am not a troll.
I see the point.
I thought they had already decided not to run windows and are now reconsidering the decision.
Still, I guess they will open up themselves to brutally more critics should they actually go with MS.
So, basically, I am very curious about the technical reasons which led the Australian government into considering this option.
Personally, I can see no reason for one to pay money for an architechture/platform depedent, time/space inefficient, closed operational system with no guarantees of freedom from malicious software even from the own vendor while one is next to an architechture independent, extremely efficient and open source costless alternative... except perhaps for either ignorance or corruption or both. Sadly, none of those are actually technical reasons...
That said, I think making the deal with MS going against all technical evidence should constitute a public crime just like it probably would were things out of the IT world.
By the way, MS offering to lower prices for school children often remembers me of a drug dealer selling the first handful of drugs for a low price to an unaddicted youngster.
Nor do I!
Putting the braces in a new line has just the effect you mentioned. It destroys the purpose of blank lines. And the flow implied by the condition in an if, for instance, gets far from the condition itself.
But really, the worst code standard ever is GNU's. Not only do they put the braces in separate lines, they have tadwidth = 2 and they write like
if (condition)
{
foo
}
else
{
bar
}
Awful.
BTW, I like GNU.
Being more precise, the question was (MIPS ISA): .data .asciiz "The number is %d\n"
string:
la $t0, string
lbu $s0, 8($t0)
What is the value of the least significative *byte* of $s0?
We were supposed to use the ASCII chart and fetch the value of 'e'.
More than half the class answered: 0x0123ABCD or some other 32bit crap.
He said we were perfect random number generators.
Still, you're right, a byte can be different from 8 bits. I hope you will find my mistake less severe, though.
Here in Brazil stuff is really screwed up!
In short, students do not want to learn and teachers do not want to teach. So they make a deal -- the mediocrity deal -- in order to relieve the effort from both parties.
Teachers who would not accept it get threatened and students who demanded better classes (like me) are tagged "nerds" and submitted to physical violence.
I had to study maths mostly by myself, but I also got the help from some teachers which were friends of mine and indicated me nice books.
The results. I am a second year undergrad in CC and people in my university (even the vast majority of teachers) find calculus too overwhelming for first years, so they removed it.
Algorithms? That is reinventing the wheel! All of this crap has been solved, of course.
The good deal is use proprietary framework and code websites and apps in java. That is what a computer scientist is for.
A (good) teacher exposed the results of a test and he found out more than half the class (second years and beyond) do not know a byte has 8 bits. He also gave a 6GHz CPU for runtime analysis, and some retarded idiot wrote it would execute 10^-3 instructions per sec.
Seriously, I lost hope. What I do is gather a group of friends and study for ACM ICPC. Fuck the rest of the course.
BTW, a probability teacher once told us a certain property of a function holds. I exhibited an counter-example to him silently and he purposedly ignored me. Then I said: "You are lying, this is false, that is bullshit, this does not work, here is the proof, you can not move on on this hypothesis." I said it less rudly, of course. Still, he told the class to laugh at my ignorance (the precise argument was my function was so bizarre only "nerds" would actually come up with it) and moved on, knowing it would get nowhere.
Well, the problem is students are corrupt, teachers are corrupt, this whole shit is corrupt.
Of course, there are exceptions. But I have lost hope in this place...
I know even if I give my best, I cannot stand before guys from eastern Europe, for instance. That is very sad...