Perhaps it's because all the technical people from the East end up in the West?
Look at the listing of graduate students in the CS department of any US university, and you notice a high percentage of them do not appear to be native-born.
So, it's not that the East doesn't contribute, it's that Easterners come to the West before they contribute; and who can blame them? Wouldn't you rather be at a well-funded school in an industrialized nation that has the latest equipment than fighting off the roaches while hoping the power doesn't go out to the old VAX in some third-world university?
For starters, they're fundamentally different architectures. On top of that, one of the things that made the Amiga so great was the multitude of co-processors it had which were -essential- to it working like an Amiga; if the new OS didn't rely on them it'd be relatively useless.
You've never worked at a McD's before, have you? There's no way you can survive on the ammount of money they pay for any length of time. You'd make more on unemployment than you could actually make MANAGING a McD's, let alone working as crew. Let's look at the numbers:
52 weeks/year x 30hr/wk (-very- unlikely they'll give you more) x $6/hr ------------- $9360
For your reference, the poverty guidlines in USia is at $8860/yr for a 1 person household.
The catch about the funkiness of python's syntax is not that it demands formalism; it's just that it demands you will do only one thing per line. -----------------
counterexample:
print (lambda A,D,B,C,E,F,G,H,Q:"\n".join(["".join([(Q[int(__imp ort__("math").log((reduce(lambda x,y:abs(x[1])<=D and (x[0]+1,x[1]**2+y[1]) or x,[(0,complex(r/B,i/B))]*A))[0]+1))%len(Q)]) for i in range(F*B,G*B,H)]) for r in range(C*B,E*B,H)]))(1500,4,100.0,-2.25,1.5,-1.25,1.25,4,".^:/I&@*%$#")
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too bad that only works on things that XOR makes sense for. What happens when you have lists of sockets? Or want to swap objects that aren't the same size?
Tuple assignment is much more interesting, and, while showing "a,b=b,a" is trivial, showing how & where tuple assignment can be used is an important thing to pick up if you're comming from languages which don't allow such constructs.
Maybe when the VC money was flowing into all the internet startups (AKA the.com boom), this would've been a good idea; all the flashy lights and custom-looking computer hardware would've really impressed clueless investors. These days, however, it's kinda silly and pointless.
If Sun's licence for Java has gotten away with preventing the publication of benchmarks & its use in nuclear power plants, this isn't much of a step beyond that...
[blockquote] Think of it as Palladium v0.9. [/blockquote]
Yes, and the first step towards Microsoft requiring systems to ONLY run 'authorized' operating systems. I can easily see this leading to a point, akin to 'motorheads' disliking any car made after the late 70s (where all the onboard computers severely limited the ammoun of maintenance yourself without purchasing expensive diagnostic equipment) where us 'geeks' collect and maintain hardware that's increasingly outdated in order to keep our freedoms.
If this is the case then WTF is it getting posted to slashdot? Wouldn't an email make more sense than letting us suboptimal Slashdotters give our uneducated guesses, beowulf jokes & goatse links?
If you're forcing people to 'upgrade' to XP, are you at least on the MSFT campus program where legit copies of MSFT software are available for free/reallyCheap?
What do you think you'll be doing in that year that is better than going to college?
It's highly unlikely, especially in the current economy, that you're going to be able to get the kind of job that's worth blowing of college for. Unless you've got someting solid lined up that's worthwhile (not just financially), this is probably a -very- bad reason to take time off.
If you think you need to 'grow up' in some way (emotionally/socially), going away to college would probably do way more for your growth than staying at home would.
If you plan on saving money for school, it's probably not worth it. Student loans are insanely easy to get and going into debt is worth it; like I said earlier you're not going to make enough money working your first year out of HS for it to make a serious difference.
If you're not certain about what you'd be studying, and somehow think you're going to get a better idea over the next year, being at college would be a much better place. Most schools give you a year or two to take care of general stuff before you need to declare a major, and there's no way to figure out what you want to study short of being exposed to it & dealing w/ members of the department....or do you even really want to go to college, or do you just feel it's expected of you? I could almost see 'taking a year off' being something you'd say to your parents so they wouldn't be disappointed for you not going. If you don't want to go, admitting it and moving on with your life would be a lot more productive than staying in a holding patern for a year.
Of course, if you're just not 100% certain you want to go, it never hurts to send in a few applications; you can always decide not to go, but deciding at the last minute that you DO want to go isn't as easy.
I have been asking around and everyone tells me it is a horrible move; however, the people who say this are the ones who did not take a year off."
perhaps nobody's telling you that it's a good idea because so few people that don't go to college right after HS actually get around to going back to school...
The thing is, AS is only really suitable for things with non-trivial answers. Networking a 3-in-1 printer is a simple job with a simple answer, assuming somebody's figured it out. A good AS involves differing opinions coming from varied experiences.
For simple queries (not served by google) something more like a message board is a beter solution. There's no need to clutter up AS with -really- simple questions.
Of course when you're buying new hardware with a warranty from Apple you can expect to pay a bit more than buying 'as-is' bits from somebody's burned out mac. I'm not against doing a little work, but I am against buying hardware that could very well be burned out & unwarrantied.
You'll never stop that. What you can do, however, is to get people touching with their fingernails (palm facing away from the screen) instead of their grubby, greasy fingertips.
Windows 95 was successful because people felt like they could use it without needing fear it
And here I was thinking that Win95 was successful because it was backwards compatable with the large installed base of win3.1, the success of which was dependant on the large installed base of DOS, which was dependant on the marketing muscle and name-recognition of IBM.
Had IBM not been as successful with the PC, it would've been interesting to see who would've become #1... Apple (Mac), Commodore(Amiga) or Atari (ST series), all of which were technically superior to the original PC and ran user-friendly GUI-based operating systems years before Windows shipped.
One question that seems to be unanswered here is what exactly is covered. Is it -any- MP3 player, or just ones that use the Frauenhoffer reference implementation? I mean, LAME has managed to get arround patent issues by completely reimplementing the encoder. I can't be that hard to completely reimplement the decoding algorithm cleanly, can it?
How convenient. I'm looking for a job and happen to have a birthday in September. I work cheap and don't expect much (other than free beer) in the way of birthday presents.
No it's not. C# is just as valid of a vehicle for teaching an introductory, required-by-all, programming class as any other language. Its not like MSFT -created- the requirement; things like this are fairly standard for engineering programs.
Simply learning Frontpage would be a pointless waste of time, only takes like 15min, and really has no place in the accademic requirements of a University. Passports would place system admininistration outside the control of the university. C#, on the other hand, fills the existing requirement for a programming language in an introductory programming class for people who don't really have an interest in programming. I don't see this as starting down a slippery slope either.
Now, I wouldn't really be happy if I had to be in this class (personally, I think something like Python is more appropriate), but I see the choice of language for this class to be mostly insignificant. Now, if they were doing this to the CS dept., things would be different.
I doubt the requirement for engineers to learn a programming language is a new thing at Waterloo. So MSFT donates a large sum of money and some modern development hardware/software to the school, and as a consession convinces the engineering department to use C# instead of C++ or Java. I see no harm here.
If Fluke donated a bunch of test equipment to a school, they would expect that students used it so that when they go out into industry they'll want Fluke hardware; MSFT is no different.
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Perhaps it's because all the technical people from the East end up in the West?
...and the list goes on.
Look at the listing of graduate students in the CS department of any US university, and you notice a high percentage of them do not appear to be native-born.
examples:
The University of Washington
MIT
Stanford
So, it's not that the East doesn't contribute, it's that Easterners come to the West before they contribute; and who can blame them? Wouldn't you rather be at a well-funded school in an industrialized nation that has the latest equipment than fighting off the roaches while hoping the power doesn't go out to the old VAX in some third-world university?
highly unlikely.
For starters, they're fundamentally different architectures. On top of that, one of the things that made the Amiga so great was the multitude of co-processors it had which were -essential- to it working like an Amiga; if the new OS didn't rely on them it'd be relatively useless.
You've never worked at a McD's before, have you? There's no way you can survive on the ammount of money they pay for any length of time. You'd make more on unemployment than you could actually make MANAGING a McD's, let alone working as crew. Let's look at the numbers :
52 weeks/year
x 30hr/wk (-very- unlikely they'll give you more)
x $6/hr
-------------
$9360
For your reference, the poverty guidlines in USia is at $8860/yr for a 1 person household.
The catch about the funkiness of python's syntax is not that it demands formalism; it's just that it demands you will do only one thing per line.
p ort__("math").log((reduce(lambda x,y:abs(x[1])<=D and (x[0]+1,x[1]**2+y[1]) or x,[(0,complex(r/B,i/B))]*A))[0]+1))%len(Q)]) for i in range(F*B,G*B,H)]) for r in range(C*B,E*B,H)]))(1500,4,100.0,-2.25,1.5,-1.25,1 .25,4,".^:/I&@*%$#")
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counterexample:
print (lambda A,D,B,C,E,F,G,H,Q:"\n".join(["".join([(Q[int(__im
too bad that only works on things that XOR makes sense for. What happens when you have lists of sockets? Or want to swap objects that aren't the same size?
Tuple assignment is much more interesting, and, while showing "a,b=b,a" is trivial, showing how & where tuple assignment can be used is an important thing to pick up if you're comming from languages which don't allow such constructs.
Hrmm... a larg enough block of Na tossed into a lake would essentially make a large pool of lye.
Na + H20 = Lye + stuff
Explosion + fish = dead fish
dead fish + lye = lutefisk
I'd hazard to guess that the large chunk of braile 'text' to the side of the terminal contains the instructions on how to operate the machine.
Maybe when the VC money was flowing into all the internet startups (AKA the .com boom), this would've been a good idea; all the flashy lights and custom-looking computer hardware would've really impressed clueless investors. These days, however, it's kinda silly and pointless.
If Sun's licence for Java has gotten away with preventing the publication of benchmarks & its use in nuclear power plants, this isn't much of a step beyond that...
[blockquote]
Think of it as Palladium v0.9.
[/blockquote]
Yes, and the first step towards Microsoft requiring systems to ONLY run 'authorized' operating systems. I can easily see this leading to a point, akin to 'motorheads' disliking any car made after the late 70s (where all the onboard computers severely limited the ammoun of maintenance yourself without purchasing expensive diagnostic equipment) where us 'geeks' collect and maintain hardware that's increasingly outdated in order to keep our freedoms.
great fun.
If this is the case then WTF is it getting posted to slashdot? Wouldn't an email make more sense than letting us suboptimal Slashdotters give our uneducated guesses, beowulf jokes & goatse links?
If you're forcing people to 'upgrade' to XP, are you at least on the MSFT campus program where legit copies of MSFT software are available for free/reallyCheap?
What do you think you'll be doing in that year that is better than going to college?
...or do you even really want to go to college, or do you just feel it's expected of you? I could almost see 'taking a year off' being something you'd say to your parents so they wouldn't be disappointed for you not going. If you don't want to go, admitting it and moving on with your life would be a lot more productive than staying in a holding patern for a year.
It's highly unlikely, especially in the current economy, that you're going to be able to get the kind of job that's worth blowing of college for. Unless you've got someting solid lined up that's worthwhile (not just financially), this is probably a -very- bad reason to take time off.
If you think you need to 'grow up' in some way (emotionally/socially), going away to college would probably do way more for your growth than staying at home would.
If you plan on saving money for school, it's probably not worth it. Student loans are insanely easy to get and going into debt is worth it; like I said earlier you're not going to make enough money working your first year out of HS for it to make a serious difference.
If you're not certain about what you'd be studying, and somehow think you're going to get a better idea over the next year, being at college would be a much better place. Most schools give you a year or two to take care of general stuff before you need to declare a major, and there's no way to figure out what you want to study short of being exposed to it & dealing w/ members of the department.
Of course, if you're just not 100% certain you want to go, it never hurts to send in a few applications; you can always decide not to go, but deciding at the last minute that you DO want to go isn't as easy.
perhaps nobody's telling you that it's a good idea because so few people that don't go to college right after HS actually get around to going back to school...
Why in the world would somebody use a non-lossy compression on poorly-recorded bootleg concerts?
The thing is, AS is only really suitable for things with non-trivial answers. Networking a 3-in-1 printer is a simple job with a simple answer, assuming somebody's figured it out. A good AS involves differing opinions coming from varied experiences.
For simple queries (not served by google) something more like a message board is a beter solution. There's no need to clutter up AS with -really- simple questions.
Of course when you're buying new hardware with a warranty from Apple you can expect to pay a bit more than buying 'as-is' bits from somebody's burned out mac. I'm not against doing a little work, but I am against buying hardware that could very well be burned out & unwarrantied.
You'll never stop that. What you can do, however, is to get people touching with their fingernails (palm facing away from the screen) instead of their grubby, greasy fingertips.
And here I was thinking that Win95 was successful because it was backwards compatable with the large installed base of win3.1, the success of which was dependant on the large installed base of DOS, which was dependant on the marketing muscle and name-recognition of IBM.
Had IBM not been as successful with the PC, it would've been interesting to see who would've become #1... Apple (Mac), Commodore(Amiga) or Atari (ST series), all of which were technically superior to the original PC and ran user-friendly GUI-based operating systems years before Windows shipped.
One question that seems to be unanswered here is what exactly is covered. Is it -any- MP3 player, or just ones that use the Frauenhoffer reference implementation? I mean, LAME has managed to get arround patent issues by completely reimplementing the encoder. I can't be that hard to completely reimplement the decoding algorithm cleanly, can it?
This is what happens when they lay off their patent lawyer and replace him with a crack dealer in the name of cutting expenses.
actually, python is a -very- dynamic language. You can do hello world as:
'binascii').a2b_base64("eNqNkuFqgzAUhV/lUhi5m"T HoxvZDqtC1b+FE7BQWMCqaMfb2S6LVxcra/MnlcL5zr"g XchzWcCBQRenQcbgzVyPz4E5DI4Qw2Q5aUvHQEoGZ"A mKpgTEkwYgjoHsiVWaVmknz/OhUkJVMs8xYNh12"p 5ZVC28OMJTcxbwvzFkxKB7MMkzK1haEd0L8X9"7 Jre6UhMvwMhPJBle2X4t+9zsJdAjv6f5e2L"y Fk2FVDupOwS/e4iPzx7nb6F0nOcs9L7CK"q NP/AzzoauFQpIRFtI0dINsEl5DpqMLB"I jngYLfql6uc5gjd+BHlvCKV6Kd7lp"x I3BU/9LPGuTHwJnCNd3YpWMim+P"Y BZc=")))
print 'hello world'
or:
print "hello world"
or even:
exec(__import__('zlib').decompress(__import__(
"
"95
"wER4
"uaH9OH
"FcgW8A8F
"3EzRTS8r4q
"Pu7TLdBSqa9j
"qsJZudqtDEynK4
"PtLlfjZnieObCSPT
"dOli+1U223J5Tv6C+u
Python also has the added bennefit of being an all-around much simpler language to learn than Java, as the last example demonstrates.
How convenient. I'm looking for a job and happen to have a birthday in September. I work cheap and don't expect much (other than free beer) in the way of birthday presents.
No it's not. C# is just as valid of a vehicle for teaching an introductory, required-by-all, programming class as any other language. Its not like MSFT -created- the requirement; things like this are fairly standard for engineering programs.
Simply learning Frontpage would be a pointless waste of time, only takes like 15min, and really has no place in the accademic requirements of a University. Passports would place system admininistration outside the control of the university. C#, on the other hand, fills the existing requirement for a programming language in an introductory programming class for people who don't really have an interest in programming. I don't see this as starting down a slippery slope either.
Now, I wouldn't really be happy if I had to be in this class (personally, I think something like Python is more appropriate), but I see the choice of language for this class to be mostly insignificant. Now, if they were doing this to the CS dept., things would be different.
I doubt the requirement for engineers to learn a programming language is a new thing at Waterloo. So MSFT donates a large sum of money and some modern development hardware/software to the school, and as a consession convinces the engineering department to use C# instead of C++ or Java. I see no harm here.
If Fluke donated a bunch of test equipment to a school, they would expect that students used it so that when they go out into industry they'll want Fluke hardware; MSFT is no different.