Yeah, I keep getting yelled at for using standard fixed-length arrays instead of their apvectors, because "what if you need more space?!". Gee, ALL the resources in a computer are finite, maybe I'll use a reasonable limit for the size?
As if I'm too stupid to do my own bounds checking when reading/writing elements...
That's exactly the state of my school. QBasic is a horrible introductory language. Our year is going at a snails pace; spending days on each new topic, wasting time with our book's non-explanitory, redundant exercises.
I'm taking the AP class this year, and its pace is extremely slow. We learn a new method for something, and then spend a week on dumb Hello World implementations of it. From what I hear, you could get an A on the test by knowing basic structure and some specific syntax (Damn you AP libraries!).
I'm currently taking the C++ version and the textbook we're using really pushes OO design. I don't really see the need to switch to Java, as this would just put more of a burdon on the teachers to change their curriculums.
There should also be only one automobile manufacturer. All those different brands are confusing!
Let's have just one company in EVERY industry, it would make life so much simpler!
Oh well, I guess I'll get back to my wonderful soma vacation.
HP actually already tried charging ($10 or somesuch) for the privilage of using the latest-and-greatest DeskJet drivers a while ago, not sure if they still are though.
Assuming you have an origional (unlocked) P2 (as I do), you could get a decent heatsink, change some mobo jumpers and you could be running at 300MHz in a few minutes...
My post was extremely sarcastic.
I'm just saying that encryption shouldn't be synonamis (sp?) with wrongdoing.
People use those security envelopes (the ones that obscure text with random paint splotches inside) because they want to have a reasonable guarantee that people can't casually read their mail.
I don't like sending my private conversations plaintext over the net that anyone with the intent and resonable skill can intercept and read, just as I don't send my mail as a stamp on the back of my letter.
There are NO routine launches or EVA's.
Each one is extremely dangerous and requires thousands of hours of preperation and rehersal. At any moment there are hundreds of thousands of subsystems that could fail and, even with triple redundancy, cause a fatal catastrophe.
Each one of those photos gives a great deal of information on things of which we know VERY little.
With the noble goal to help prevent terrorism and possibly provide evidence, We feel that you are under an obligation to leave all of your doors and windows unlocked with a large, prominant sign on your front door reading "I have nothing to hide, come in and see!".
Also, you will make duplicate copies of all written materials created or used by you to be published in a section of your local paper entitled "I'm not doing anything wrong and I don't need privacy, thanks."
An audio/video recording/broadcasting system will be promptly installed in every room of your house as well because We know you have nothing to hide. This will be broadcast on a UHF frequency to your local area so that We can make sure that you aren't doing anything deemed 'questionable' by the State.
Thank you for doing your part as an upstanding citizen to protect society.
"Those who would give up liberty for a security deserve neither."
Jaywalking is crossing a street between parked cars or at an otherwise non-intersection area where you are likely to not be noticed by drivers.
It's a good way to be hit by an absentminded driver.
What happens when that one company with billions of dollars to spend makes the consumers unaware that there is anything to BE unhappy about.
- No, your cars are SUPPOSED to leak fluids, get horrible gas milage and randomly lose control and possibly harm you or bystanders.
Those other cars that don't do this?
Oh, they're either lying or being run by a bunch of wierd people.
WE know what's best for you. Trust US.
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Yeah, I keep getting yelled at for using standard fixed-length arrays instead of their apvectors, because "what if you need more space?!". Gee, ALL the resources in a computer are finite, maybe I'll use a reasonable limit for the size?
As if I'm too stupid to do my own bounds checking when reading/writing elements...
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That's exactly the state of my school. QBasic is a horrible introductory language. Our year is going at a snails pace; spending days on each new topic, wasting time with our book's non-explanitory, redundant exercises.
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What! I can't do anything without my precious AP libraries! :(
Does this mean I've been brainwashed?
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I'm taking the AP class this year, and its pace is extremely slow. We learn a new method for something, and then spend a week on dumb Hello World implementations of it. From what I hear, you could get an A on the test by knowing basic structure and some specific syntax (Damn you AP libraries!).
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You forgot:
(6) Security!
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I'm currently taking the C++ version and the textbook we're using really pushes OO design. I don't really see the need to switch to Java, as this would just put more of a burdon on the teachers to change their curriculums.
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What in the GPL forbids you from making a profit from your work?
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In 1986 a Therac 25, a radiation therapy machine, killed three people by giving them a 100x overdose of radiation. It was caused by faulty software.
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Unless you live in the UK, where no password == jail...
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There should also be only one automobile manufacturer. All those different brands are confusing!
Let's have just one company in EVERY industry, it would make life so much simpler!
Oh well, I guess I'll get back to my wonderful soma vacation.
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You're gonna have to wait until mid-january when they actually *have* an airlock on the ISS, erm Station Alpha :)
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When you reuse your old processors, it doesn't cost millions of dollars and risk people's lives.
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HP actually already tried charging ($10 or somesuch) for the privilage of using the latest-and-greatest DeskJet drivers a while ago, not sure if they still are though.
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Not quite... I've had this 233 at 300 for about 3 years continuously.
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Haha, that's a good one...
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Assuming you have an origional (unlocked) P2 (as I do), you could get a decent heatsink, change some mobo jumpers and you could be running at 300MHz in a few minutes...
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I also wouldn't want to live in a station full of graphite dust giving me blacklung and clogging all the air filters and water condensers.
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My post was extremely sarcastic.
I'm just saying that encryption shouldn't be synonamis (sp?) with wrongdoing.
People use those security envelopes (the ones that obscure text with random paint splotches inside) because they want to have a reasonable guarantee that people can't casually read their mail.
I don't like sending my private conversations plaintext over the net that anyone with the intent and resonable skill can intercept and read, just as I don't send my mail as a stamp on the back of my letter.
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There are NO routine launches or EVA's.
Each one is extremely dangerous and requires thousands of hours of preperation and rehersal. At any moment there are hundreds of thousands of subsystems that could fail and, even with triple redundancy, cause a fatal catastrophe.
Each one of those photos gives a great deal of information on things of which we know VERY little.
--
With the noble goal to help prevent terrorism and possibly provide evidence, We feel that you are under an obligation to leave all of your doors and windows unlocked with a large, prominant sign on your front door reading "I have nothing to hide, come in and see!".
Also, you will make duplicate copies of all written materials created or used by you to be published in a section of your local paper entitled "I'm not doing anything wrong and I don't need privacy, thanks."
An audio/video recording/broadcasting system will be promptly installed in every room of your house as well because We know you have nothing to hide. This will be broadcast on a UHF frequency to your local area so that We can make sure that you aren't doing anything deemed 'questionable' by the State.
Thank you for doing your part as an upstanding citizen to protect society.
"Those who would give up liberty for a security deserve neither."
--
Jaywalking is crossing a street between parked cars or at an otherwise non-intersection area where you are likely to not be noticed by drivers.
It's a good way to be hit by an absentminded driver.
--
What happens when that one company with billions of dollars to spend makes the consumers unaware that there is anything to BE unhappy about.
- No, your cars are SUPPOSED to leak fluids, get horrible gas milage and randomly lose control and possibly harm you or bystanders.
Those other cars that don't do this?
Oh, they're either lying or being run by a bunch of wierd people.
WE know what's best for you. Trust US.
- OK, sounds good.
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If you want to go above-and-beyond the call of l33tness, just become a commandline commando. :)
After all, gui's are for wimps, right?
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Holding major software buisnesses liable for problems with their programs..?
Hah, I doubt it.
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Microsoft isn't about charging "a reasonable price", it's about charging the most they can before people won't buy it.
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