What non-arcane application would need to use multiple inheritance?
I'd say drop that requirement and go with Smalltalk!! Post a few questions to comp.lang.smalltalk to get more details. It's proven, reliable, syntactically very easy and there's smalltalkers available to staff up with.
Why spend time solving language issues when you can solve the problems people are paying you for?
I've always wondered if this would be a better way to pick a major...
Sit down with a major and pick a bunch of different courses that the major requires and are electives. Map out your whole 6 years (sometimes that's not a joke)
Then do that with a couple of other majors that are related. In your case MIS, CIS, CS. Then see which path looks more interesting. How does that semester with Computer Engineering 402, Theory of Computers 483, Writing Million Word Programs 415, & Bowling sound?
Spend a couple weeks with this so you can hash and rehash the possible schedules & classes. IOW, don't rush it.
Then when you find the most interesting one, or the one you keep coming back to w/o realizing it, you've found your major.
We're going to have to make some hard decisions about code style.
The best thing to do about code style is find some method or function code formatter (built into your ide) that most everyone can agree on. Basically, it should be very easy to format your code after writing it. Then code formatting is a non-issue. Everyone lives (and dies?) by that formatting.
...and what you're dealing with is a cultural reaction. Cultural conflicts (or civilizational conflicts depending on the scale) are the norm in today's society. The Saudi government is doing what it feels is best for its people's & its stability based on its culture. (i.e its traditions, religions, etc.) China, other Muslim govenments will follow suit.
All "the net" embodies is a new technology, as such, it will be used by cultures differently.
What happens when someone steals the basket with all your eggs?
Perhaps one should fill their basket with rotten eggs. Such as creating false and very tracable credit card #'s that in every way look real. Set a few of these rotten egg baskets about and let the bad people have at them.
Or, I suppose you could fix the software. But that's no fun.
You will probably get lonely. I tc'd for a year. Flew to the office once a month. It wasn't enough.
Don't get isolated. Ask a lot of questions, get involved in the hot projects. Keep busy. Make sure others don't forget you....Isolated people make good layoff targets.
Make a game. Publish it on a webpage. Hear people tell you it sucks. Give up. Get idea for new game. Make game. Publish it on a webpage. Hear people tell you it sucks. Give up. Go look at really cool games. Make mods. Publish mods. Hear people tell you mods suck. Give up. Get fed up with people telling you your games & mods suck. Get job maintaining boring C++ code for legacy systems. Make game in your own time that only you care if its cool or not. Show friends who don't suck. Publish it on a webpage. Hear people tell you it sucks. You don't care. You make it the way you want. Because you don't care, people tell you game is cool. You improve game because only you care what game is like. Listen to whiners who liked game the old way. More people tell you game is cool because you don't care what they think. Game becomes big smash hit. Sierra offers you great game designer job. You say no because you only want to make games you want. You tell your C++ boss he sucks and you start your own game company. You hire people who don't suck. They worship you. You don't care. Now you don't care about even your own games. You retire on $2 million and spend the rest of your life posting questions to Slashdot.
Perhaps you miss the point. Perhaps because I was short in my explanation of 'ether'. I didn't try to give a complete history of ether, that would have detracted. Yes, ether was being debunked long before MM, no arguments.
However, my point was that, in general, science holds no sacred cows, or at least shouldn't, whereas Christians hold the bible, the teachings of Jesus and the trinity to be absolute truths. (Perhaps not literal truths. Interpretation of Christian beliefs is left to the individual Christian. I am speaking very generally.)
This presents conflict if one chooses to try to define God through scientific means. Because one can't come up with an ultimate truth in science.
Do I think that a Christian can be scientific? Sure. Of course. Critical thinking is the hallmark of a learned person. That Christian may interpret the Bible in a more symbolic manner and not find conflict. Or perhaps he will find other ways to meld the views of science and morality/religion or God in a new way.
What kind of conflicts could arise? Any number. Conflicts between the stories of the gospels themselves, conflict between evolution & creationism, conflict between the Genesis creation of the world & Big Bang and other universe origin theories, the list is endless.
But how a Christian deals with that is his business. But there is potential conflict.
I'm probably going way off topic with this, but I felt compelled to answer.
It's really quite a straw man that gets set up, and I've never understood why people
seem to think that the possiblity of ET life sets up some sort of religious crisis.
I think this is primarily because scientists and science in general are critics by nature. Science's role is to always look critically at a topic and look for more answers. Most of what science is just theories until they get debunked by more science, etc.
But Christianity, on the other hand, takes a "X is the truth, we'll adapt all new information to X."
So you have two different philosophies competing. One says, question all. The other says question none. (I'm realize I'm being very very general, so don't please jump up and down saying - Christians question things in relationship to their faith and the world. I'm aware of that and I'm not trying to step on toes) So there's a natural tension here.
Take two concrete examples:
1st science: Ether was believed to be the all incorporating substance between people & things as late as the nineteenth century. Science later debunked that as incorrect and now we know that air is the material we live and breathe. Maybe someday that will be debunked when a scientist becomes interested enough. This kind of questioning is accepted and tolerated.
2nd Christianity: The book of Revelations was written by John and foretold of the 2nd coming of Christ. The Romans would be defeated, and life would be grand. Paul and many other Christians believed that this would happen in their lifetimes. When it didn't happen, and when Rome became Christian under Constantine, now what? St. Augustine then reinterpretted the book in his famous City of God to mean "well, its not a literal coming." This view then held til among others Thomas Muenzer & the German peasant wars, and on and on....The point is that the single idea was not questioned, only reinterpretted
When you have two fundamentally different ideologies, you get conflict.
According to the article, the laser's job is to weaken the surface of the missile just enough to cause pressure and other forces to breech the missile's exterior. Theoretically causing missile destruction.
Ok, is it just me or wouldn't a missile sender just design missiles with more rigid external integrity to defeat the laser. Kind of like Star Wars' weakness which was to overload the system with missiles.
Everyone knows that one more heavily-publicized Major Disaster will spell the end of an
otherwise worthy industry, no matter how unsafe and environmentally unsound the alternatives may be.
I disagree somewhat... Ask yourself how many dam breaks this world has had and we still are relying on dams for a good hunk of our power needs...The real problem is the "mystery" behind nuclear fission power... People get scared of what they don't know.
Greenspun goes on about ownership & long work weeks. If you want to learn about a better way to do your work and be productive, check out some of the stuff by Kent Beck and Ron Jefferies and others on .
XP (Extreme Programming)
It takes a lot of what Greenspun says and turns it on its ear.
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I'd say drop that requirement and go with Smalltalk!! Post a few questions to comp.lang.smalltalk to get more details. It's proven, reliable, syntactically very easy and there's smalltalkers available to staff up with.
Why spend time solving language issues when you can solve the problems people are paying you for?
Just my cents: 2.
Now software engineers will get even less exercise.
I've always wondered if this would be a better way to pick a major...
Sit down with a major and pick a bunch of different courses that the major requires and are electives. Map out your whole 6 years (sometimes that's not a joke)
Then do that with a couple of other majors that are related. In your case MIS, CIS, CS. Then see which path looks more interesting. How does that semester with Computer Engineering 402, Theory of Computers 483, Writing Million Word Programs 415, & Bowling sound?
Spend a couple weeks with this so you can hash and rehash the possible schedules & classes. IOW, don't rush it.
Then when you find the most interesting one, or the one you keep coming back to w/o realizing it, you've found your major.
The best thing to do about code style is find some method or function code formatter (built into your ide) that most everyone can agree on. Basically, it should be very easy to format your code after writing it. Then code formatting is a non-issue. Everyone lives (and dies?) by that formatting.
Seems like that's the game I play the most...
Max Headroom....Now tell me what's new about computer generated celebrities?
Imagine being able to take a shot a day of some exotic drug and then being able to almost instantly understand COM?
To see a more thorough argument read some of Samuel P Huntington's work
Perhaps one should fill their basket with rotten eggs. Such as creating false and very tracable credit card #'s that in every way look real. Set a few of these rotten egg baskets about and let the bad people have at them.
Or, I suppose you could fix the software. But that's no fun.
I'm going to put in for the .tld TLD
You will probably get lonely. I tc'd for a year. Flew to the office once a month. It wasn't enough.
Don't get isolated. Ask a lot of questions, get involved in the hot projects. Keep busy. Make sure others don't forget you....Isolated people make good layoff targets.
And some stations air it twice per day. Once in the afternoon and once in the evening.
Make a game. Publish it on a webpage. Hear people tell you it sucks. Give up. Get idea for new game. Make game. Publish it on a webpage. Hear people tell you it sucks. Give up. Go look at really cool games. Make mods. Publish mods. Hear people tell you mods suck. Give up. Get fed up with people telling you your games & mods suck. Get job maintaining boring C++ code for legacy systems. Make game in your own time that only you care if its cool or not. Show friends who don't suck. Publish it on a webpage. Hear people tell you it sucks. You don't care. You make it the way you want. Because you don't care, people tell you game is cool. You improve game because only you care what game is like. Listen to whiners who liked game the old way. More people tell you game is cool because you don't care what they think. Game becomes big smash hit. Sierra offers you great game designer job. You say no because you only want to make games you want. You tell your C++ boss he sucks and you start your own game company. You hire people who don't suck. They worship you. You don't care. Now you don't care about even your own games. You retire on $2 million and spend the rest of your life posting questions to Slashdot.
This shows that the 23 hour flight wasn't the longest. The Global Hawk has flown at least one other longer - 31.5 hours.
However, my point was that, in general, science holds no sacred cows, or at least shouldn't, whereas Christians hold the bible, the teachings of Jesus and the trinity to be absolute truths. (Perhaps not literal truths. Interpretation of Christian beliefs is left to the individual Christian. I am speaking very generally.)
This presents conflict if one chooses to try to define God through scientific means. Because one can't come up with an ultimate truth in science.
Do I think that a Christian can be scientific? Sure. Of course. Critical thinking is the hallmark of a learned person. That Christian may interpret the Bible in a more symbolic manner and not find conflict. Or perhaps he will find other ways to meld the views of science and morality/religion or God in a new way.
What kind of conflicts could arise? Any number. Conflicts between the stories of the gospels themselves, conflict between evolution & creationism, conflict between the Genesis creation of the world & Big Bang and other universe origin theories, the list is endless.
But how a Christian deals with that is his business. But there is potential conflict.
It's really quite a straw man that gets set up, and I've never understood why people seem to think that the possiblity of ET life sets up some sort of religious crisis.
I think this is primarily because scientists and science in general are critics by nature. Science's role is to always look critically at a topic and look for more answers. Most of what science is just theories until they get debunked by more science, etc.
But Christianity, on the other hand, takes a "X is the truth, we'll adapt all new information to X." So you have two different philosophies competing. One says, question all. The other says question none. (I'm realize I'm being very very general, so don't please jump up and down saying - Christians question things in relationship to their faith and the world. I'm aware of that and I'm not trying to step on toes) So there's a natural tension here.
Take two concrete examples:
1st science: Ether was believed to be the all incorporating substance between people & things as late as the nineteenth century. Science later debunked that as incorrect and now we know that air is the material we live and breathe. Maybe someday that will be debunked when a scientist becomes interested enough. This kind of questioning is accepted and tolerated.
2nd Christianity: The book of Revelations was written by John and foretold of the 2nd coming of Christ. The Romans would be defeated, and life would be grand. Paul and many other Christians believed that this would happen in their lifetimes. When it didn't happen, and when Rome became Christian under Constantine, now what? St. Augustine then reinterpretted the book in his famous City of God to mean "well, its not a literal coming." This view then held til among others Thomas Muenzer & the German peasant wars, and on and on....The point is that the single idea was not questioned, only reinterpretted
When you have two fundamentally different ideologies, you get conflict.
XP
Ok, is it just me or wouldn't a missile sender just design missiles with more rigid external integrity to defeat the laser. Kind of like Star Wars' weakness which was to overload the system with missiles.
I disagree somewhat... Ask yourself how many dam breaks this world has had and we still are relying on dams for a good hunk of our power needs...The real problem is the "mystery" behind nuclear fission power... People get scared of what they don't know.
And then the lego master suffered a massive heart attack and Lego King Aurthur were no longer in peril.
If I had to work on 150 million year old software.
It takes a lot of what Greenspun says and turns it on its ear.
Techies want perks that are worth more. Just like everyone else.
End of story
I know plenty of people who are already living on some other planet.
Oh what fun!