I've been in programming business applications for over 7 years and I can you that I use little to no mathematics above high-school algebra. The fact is programming languages themselves require very little math. The math comes from what your programming "about".
Programming is much closer to the study of linguistics. They are programming LANGUAGES after all. They have subjects and verbs and modifying expressions. Putting a logical line of code together is no different from formatting a sentence in another language. Just look at modern languages like Ruby and Python, where's the math?
Ok, units of measure for volume, distance, weight, yea, metric rocks. But lets face it, celsius is not dramatically any better than Fahrenheit. In fact as a gage for human relateable temperatures in weather Farenheight is vastly superior. 0 is f'n cold and 100 is f'n hot...what better range is that? I feel totally shortchanged in other countries when I have to deal with the measly tiny little range of temperatures. I mean come on! How can you get any satisfaction at being hot at 40 when you could complain about 100. Now thats a number to be hot at!!! So what is water freezes at 32? Im from Iowa...trust me 32 is still warm. Its not cold untill your under 20
Besides whats so magical about Celsius anyway. Its just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit. somebody just picked a range based on water..so what? and it doesn't even hold up in higher elevations where water does NOT boil at 100.
a few years ago ISU (or maybe just two grad students at ISU) patented a machine to do this. they ran the ice cream mix through a aluminum tube surounded by liquid nitrogen. I think they were going to start selling them so vendors could have easily transportable ice cream....at Baseball games or the beach. It was pretty...cool...eh bad pun.
Rent out the radio waves and use the money to help finance a giant governemt cable program to get cable lines in to every house in america. the line would provide basic cable and internet and include a box used for voteing so everyone could vote on public measures from their home and we could have a true democracy!
Im serious BTW, Im also a libraltarian with a strong communist streak:)
I wonder....what if the DMCA had existed in the 80's...could IBM have successfully sued compaq for backward engineering the PC's ROM? Could Apple have stoped microsoft from releasing windows? we might live in a vastly different world. Clones would never have been made...maybe Amiga, Atari and TI would still be making microcomputers!
And what does this mean for my darth maul tie-fighter univeral TV remote?
The real threat to adobe whould be if killustrator got ported to OSX (a good posibility givin OSX's Unix underbelly). how many graphic artists using Macs would abandon Illustrator for a free version? there is already a lot of interest in GIMP, the free photoshopish application .
I'm sorry, you cant make excuses for it. The Netscape 4.x browser sucks with a capitol S. The old car analogy is good though because driving navigator is just like driving an old car with burnt out shocks and struts and a cracked engine mount. It doesn't even render HTML 4 correctly and its CSS implementation is horrible.
like it or not web developers are going to use things like CSS and if you cant see it properly because your using a badly written program that's your fault.
Now that it looks like Netscape may go the way of Mosaic maybe we can all get on with the job of supporting good HTML standards (like css).
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I've been in programming business applications for over 7 years and I can you that I use little to no mathematics above high-school algebra. The fact is programming languages themselves require very little math. The math comes from what your programming "about".
Programming is much closer to the study of linguistics. They are programming LANGUAGES after all. They have subjects and verbs and modifying expressions. Putting a logical line of code together is no different from formatting a sentence in another language. Just look at modern languages like Ruby and Python, where's the math?
Ok, units of measure for volume, distance, weight, yea, metric rocks. But lets face it, celsius is not dramatically any better than Fahrenheit. In fact as a gage for human relateable temperatures in weather Farenheight is vastly superior. 0 is f'n cold and 100 is f'n hot...what better range is that? I feel totally shortchanged in other countries when I have to deal with the measly tiny little range of temperatures. I mean come on! How can you get any satisfaction at being hot at 40 when you could complain about 100. Now thats a number to be hot at!!! So what is water freezes at 32? Im from Iowa...trust me 32 is still warm. Its not cold untill your under 20
Besides whats so magical about Celsius anyway. Its just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit. somebody just picked a range based on water..so what? and it doesn't even hold up in higher elevations where water does NOT boil at 100.
parts of their web site are wrtten in CF which is not available for SCO unix. only for Sun, Linux, OS X, and HP-Unix.
I wonder why Macromedia has not released a cf for SCO unix. you'd almost think it didnt have the market share to make it worth while....hrmmmmm
a few years ago ISU (or maybe just two grad students at ISU) patented a machine to do this. they ran the ice cream mix through a aluminum tube surounded by liquid nitrogen. I think they were going to start selling them so vendors could have easily transportable ice cream....at Baseball games or the beach. It was pretty...cool...eh bad pun.
Rent out the radio waves and use the money to help finance a giant governemt cable program to get cable lines in to every house in america. the line would provide basic cable and internet and include a box used for voteing so everyone could vote on public measures from their home and we could have a true democracy!
:)
Im serious BTW, Im also a libraltarian with a strong communist streak
If you liked Neuromancer I highly recomend count zero and mona lisa overdrive which are kind of related but not exactly a trillogy.
Virtual Light is also quite good.
all as William Gibson of course!
I wonder....what if the DMCA had existed in the 80's...could IBM have successfully sued compaq for backward engineering the PC's ROM? Could Apple have stoped microsoft from releasing windows? we might live in a vastly different world. Clones would never have been made...maybe Amiga, Atari and TI would still be making microcomputers!
And what does this mean for my darth maul tie-fighter univeral TV remote?
That nich company is still managing to pull in a profit while those around them fail. Nice nitch if you ask me.
The real threat to adobe whould be if killustrator got ported to OSX (a good posibility givin OSX's Unix underbelly). how many graphic artists using Macs would abandon Illustrator for a free version? there is already a lot of interest in GIMP, the free photoshopish application .
I'm sorry, you cant make excuses for it. The Netscape 4.x browser sucks with a capitol S. The old car analogy is good though because driving navigator is just like driving an old car with burnt out shocks and struts and a cracked engine mount. It doesn't even render HTML 4 correctly and its CSS implementation is horrible. like it or not web developers are going to use things like CSS and if you cant see it properly because your using a badly written program that's your fault. Now that it looks like Netscape may go the way of Mosaic maybe we can all get on with the job of supporting good HTML standards (like css).