Are you sure that she says that? If so, she doesn't have a very deep understanding of her own religion. She would be more likely to say, "You won't go the Celestial Kingdom if you are not baptised. You also need to..."
What do you think the "Mormon" concept of hell is?
I appreciate your problems with your mother-in-law. Have you discussed this issue with your wife? Have you considered moving to another state? Please don't take this the wrong way, but you seem to be putting a lot of blame on her.
It uses compact flash instead of smart media. I consider this an advantage. You might not. I use the CF in my NexII mp3 plyaer as well.
Other than that it meets your specs. I have a wide angle lense for it (as well as a telephoto) and it is a 4 mega pixel camera. I am impressed by the image quality. I just wish that it took longer/higher resolution moives. Oh well. My geek friends have been so impressed with it that two of them went out and bought the same camera. The only disadvantage is that it isn't exactly small. If you want something to slide into your shirt pocket look elsewhere.
I will call in as usual, but this time I will refused to give any money until they change this policy.
While we're on the subject, ever notice how many "commercials" there are on "commercial-free" NPR? I hope that the executive recruiters from the Corn Fairy (is that like the Tooth Fairy?) or whoever they are die long slow deaths.
I think that it means that he wants to sell more books/seminars. He will leverage the material he has already prepared for the C++ and Java books. Sounds like a no brainer to me.
It should not be optional for any computer science curriculum.
Stanford, where Knuth is an professor emeritus does not require or even suggest that students read ANY of TAOCP to obtain a CS degree. Reading all of it would be difficult since it isn't completed.
First off, all the high school students out there who want to take the ACT test should study this list. If you can get the right answers and understand the hows and whys of them this knowledge will serve you well on the test. High test scores never hurt. IBM gives all prospective new hires an "Information Processing Aptitude Test" that is something of a beast. First test of its type that I have ever taken in which I was pressed for time. Doing well on this test may be important to your future at IBM depending on the department you are in.
Secondly, Shawn should know that I have not been helping him rewrite the VM and there is nobody else at IBM who is named John who currently writes any code with Shawn, thought this was not always so.
The written exams I took in CS weren't about hunting through documentation. If they happened to be a need for some documentation then the documentation was provided. Often exams were open book, open notes and designed such that it didn't matter if you had the book anyhow. Instead the exams that I took generally required no knowledge of any libraries at all. They would be problems that to write some small yet potentially useful function like a sort. Or designed to demonstrate your knowledge of recursion.
If a real coder can use these resources, why can't we?
Sorry, but universities don't consider students taking tests to be "real coders". They are people who are still learning some of the basics.
Another type of problem that I saw often in intro CS was here is a function. Tell us what it does. I have actually been asked this in a job interview. My answer was, well, it won't compile since there is a bug right here, but if it did, then this is what it would do... The person would had made the problem had no idea that there was a bug in the code. He made a note to fix it. I was glad that I had experience doing this sort of thing.
There seems to be an attitude of complaining about how school is run here on/. Maybe/. is populated by people attending crap schools. I don't know. What I do know is that any CS major worth his/her salt should be able to sit done and write out how to implement sorting routines and such pretty quickly. Also, remember that the test is not 100% of your grade. In programming classes there just might be some actual programming assignments that will give you the opportunity to show your coding skills in a sitting at a computer situation. Having to spend three hours with pencil in hand won't kill anyone and is acutally something that you should be able to do without whining.
Here is a list of memorable intro-level assignments that have been given at Stanford, in no particular order:
Game of Life
Towers of Hanoi
Boggle
Tic-Tac-Toe
Bunny World -ok, Bunny World wasn't that simple
Lode Runner
Simple Fractals
Driving directions
Mad libs
Slot Machine
Simple Drawing Program
C interpreter - seriously, they gave this to second quarter students
If anyone wants details on any of these please ask.
Our management tells us the minimum about this. Where are you gettin your numbers regards what % of IBM employees get raises each year? Do you know the % for this year?
A solid booster is ignited once, and then burns until it's empty so it can't be used to steer or stabilize.
Actually you can steer with a solid burner. The nozzles on the shuttle motors have a flex bearing which is a bunch of layers of rubber and metal sanwiched together. The nozzle can then be pointed in different directions. So you can use it to both steer and stabalize. You just can't turn it off once it is on.
Yes, I spent a year as a contractor at Thiokol. Yes, the tour was very cool. It was even better than the Mercedes Benz tour.
I was talking to a member of IBM's ethical hacking group a few months ago. He said he had gone down to DefCon and took one of his System 390 manuals as a bartering item. He said that he got all sorts of cool offers for it. Most of the hackers had never seen any documentation on the system so it was a total black box to them. The guy from IBM thought it was all rather funny since after he traded it away for items worth several times its value he went home and ordered another copy off of Amazon.
This article just goes to show that good security is hard, and is often an afterthought.
In 1984 in 5th grade we were allowed to write programs on the Atari 400 that the teacher had purchased with her own money. Bringing in outside games was not allowed. So I implemented a Tron light-cycles game with cool 3-d looking walls. Ok, so they were isometric walls. Anyhow I was amazed at how many people wanted to play it.
The only problem was that I hadn't written any collision detection code. I was self-taught and had no idea how I would have done it. Anyhow, the spectators provided the collision detection. If someone thought they saw a collision, they said so and the game was paused. Then the screen was examined and if there was a collision, the winner was announced. If not, the game continued.
I always thought that it was sad how much worse and harder to program the IBM PC's graphics were than the Apple II's and the Atari's. C64 had good graphics, but programming them in Basic was a pain.
Anyhow, I agree that if you teach kids how to do some simple graphics and some game logic they'll come up with some pretty fun stuff. They might even learn something while they are at it.
The first link doesn't even give you that information.
From the pdf:
Introduction
In [1], a new circuit-based approach is proposed for one of the steps of the
number field sieve (NFS) integer factorization method, namely finding a
linear relation in a large but sparse matrix.
This is on the first page of the linked pdf.
However, I agreed that it should have been spelled out in the post.
Since when does the GPL require you to state who wrote the code? I might be mis-informed here, but I thought that all you had to include was the GPL itself. You could use the old BSD-style license to include a some sort of mandatory notice, but not the GPL.
was Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration. He has been villified for stating that there was little need to protect the environment since the Second Coming was close at hand.
That is like saying, "I'm not going to eat anymore, since the Second Coming will happen any minute." Only it is worse since he was in a leadership position and therefore forced everyone else to participate in his point of view.
Currently seen the Magellan GPS at Walmart for 117, plus they have a 50 dollar rebate on them....is 50 bucks too much?
How long did it take for the price to come down to that? I am under the impression that this sort of thing is a close-out special. The initial promise of the device was that modules would be easy to develop, available quickly, and would be cheaper than their stand-alone counterparts. Now that the Visor is dead you can get the modules for cheap. Where was the $70 GPS 2 years ago?
I guess this is progress since they are moving away from a proprietary connector to an industry standard. Hopefully this new standard will last longer.
The thing that I never understood about the Springboard slot was how a Springboard GPS could cost so much more than a stand-alone one than included a nice screen and everything. I had thought that the point was that you could add funcitonality without spending so much money. But it turns out that you would spend lots of money for something that didn't do a great job. That just sucks. Was it a question of volume? Or difficulty integrating the devices? Anybody know?
Anyhow, I congratulate Handspring on their vision of an expandable PDA. At the same I think they have betrayed the trust consumers who thought they were investing in a platform, buying devices that they could still use after upgrading their Visor.
At the Taipei night market these things are all over. I bought one for $20. You can get a single controller with about 80 games in it for about $5. The contoller has a cartridge slot on the bottom so you can plug in additional cartridges. Did I mention that it is an NES and not a 2600? Well, neither did you.
I bought a bunch back to the states for Christmas. It was a VERY cheap way to entertain my entire family. My mom has become a Tetris freak, challenging all comers to head to head matches.
This is the third time posting the link in this thread, but maybe you are using messages. I know that is the only way that I bother to know when someone has replied to me.
I did something different. The response about the oscilliscope is correct. Basically it is a parametric funtion that determines the x-coordinate from the left channel and the y-coordinate from the right channel.
As mentioned above, I have put it up on one of my dumb game websites.
Put the dll in your winamp pluggin directory, select the Nullsoft Test Visualization Library v1.0 and then in the drop down box below select Strange.
I never developed it as nicely as I would have liked to. The source is on a HD that is currently not connected to my computer. I will try to get it for you.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you sure that she says that? If so, she doesn't have a very deep understanding of her own religion. She would be more likely to say, "You won't go the Celestial Kingdom if you are not baptised. You also need to..."
What do you think the "Mormon" concept of hell is?
I appreciate your problems with your mother-in-law. Have you discussed this issue with your wife? Have you considered moving to another state? Please don't take this the wrong way, but you seem to be putting a lot of blame on her.
Well, does he? No offense Larry, I am just wondering.
Other than that it meets your specs. I have a wide angle lense for it (as well as a telephoto) and it is a 4 mega pixel camera. I am impressed by the image quality. I just wish that it took longer/higher resolution moives. Oh well. My geek friends have been so impressed with it that two of them went out and bought the same camera. The only disadvantage is that it isn't exactly small. If you want something to slide into your shirt pocket look elsewhere.
While we're on the subject, ever notice how many "commercials" there are on "commercial-free" NPR? I hope that the executive recruiters from the Corn Fairy (is that like the Tooth Fairy?) or whoever they are die long slow deaths.
I think that it means that he wants to sell more books/seminars. He will leverage the material he has already prepared for the C++ and Java books. Sounds like a no brainer to me.
Stanford, where Knuth is an professor emeritus does not require or even suggest that students read ANY of TAOCP to obtain a CS degree. Reading all of it would be difficult since it isn't completed.
Secondly, Shawn should know that I have not been helping him rewrite the VM and there is nobody else at IBM who is named John who currently writes any code with Shawn, thought this was not always so.
If a real coder can use these resources, why can't we?
Sorry, but universities don't consider students taking tests to be "real coders". They are people who are still learning some of the basics.
Another type of problem that I saw often in intro CS was here is a function. Tell us what it does. I have actually been asked this in a job interview. My answer was, well, it won't compile since there is a bug right here, but if it did, then this is what it would do... The person would had made the problem had no idea that there was a bug in the code. He made a note to fix it. I was glad that I had experience doing this sort of thing.
There seems to be an attitude of complaining about how school is run here on /. Maybe /. is populated by people attending crap schools. I don't know. What I do know is that any CS major worth his/her salt should be able to sit done and write out how to implement sorting routines and such pretty quickly. Also, remember that the test is not 100% of your grade. In programming classes there just might be some actual programming assignments that will give you the opportunity to show your coding skills in a sitting at a computer situation. Having to spend three hours with pencil in hand won't kill anyone and is acutally something that you should be able to do without whining.
Towers of Hanoi
Boggle
Tic-Tac-Toe
Bunny World -ok, Bunny World wasn't that simple
Lode Runner
Simple Fractals
Driving directions
Mad libs
Slot Machine
Simple Drawing Program
C interpreter - seriously, they gave this to second quarter students
If anyone wants details on any of these please ask.
And isn't it a game? Ok, it the computer solves it then it isn't much of a game, but if you play it then it is a game.
Our management tells us the minimum about this. Where are you gettin your numbers regards what % of IBM employees get raises each year? Do you know the % for this year?
Where did you get this number? I was told the NOBODY got a raise. I don't happen to believe it, that is just what I was told.
Actually you can steer with a solid burner. The nozzles on the shuttle motors have a flex bearing which is a bunch of layers of rubber and metal sanwiched together. The nozzle can then be pointed in different directions. So you can use it to both steer and stabalize. You just can't turn it off once it is on.
Yes, I spent a year as a contractor at Thiokol. Yes, the tour was very cool. It was even better than the Mercedes Benz tour.
Well, at least it could before it died. It was also quite expert on the waterskis.
This article just goes to show that good security is hard, and is often an afterthought.
Which reminds me, we should meet up at the Pie sometime in the next two weeks before I move to Boston.
The only problem was that I hadn't written any collision detection code. I was self-taught and had no idea how I would have done it. Anyhow, the spectators provided the collision detection. If someone thought they saw a collision, they said so and the game was paused. Then the screen was examined and if there was a collision, the winner was announced. If not, the game continued.
I always thought that it was sad how much worse and harder to program the IBM PC's graphics were than the Apple II's and the Atari's. C64 had good graphics, but programming them in Basic was a pain.
Anyhow, I agree that if you teach kids how to do some simple graphics and some game logic they'll come up with some pretty fun stuff. They might even learn something while they are at it.
From the pdf:
Introduction
In [1], a new circuit-based approach is proposed for one of the steps of the number field sieve (NFS) integer factorization method, namely finding a linear relation in a large but sparse matrix.
This is on the first page of the linked pdf.
However, I agreed that it should have been spelled out in the post.
Since when does the GPL require you to state who wrote the code? I might be mis-informed here, but I thought that all you had to include was the GPL itself. You could use the old BSD-style license to include a some sort of mandatory notice, but not the GPL.
That is like saying, "I'm not going to eat anymore, since the Second Coming will happen any minute." Only it is worse since he was in a leadership position and therefore forced everyone else to participate in his point of view.
How long did it take for the price to come down to that? I am under the impression that this sort of thing is a close-out special. The initial promise of the device was that modules would be easy to develop, available quickly, and would be cheaper than their stand-alone counterparts. Now that the Visor is dead you can get the modules for cheap. Where was the $70 GPS 2 years ago?
The thing that I never understood about the Springboard slot was how a Springboard GPS could cost so much more than a stand-alone one than included a nice screen and everything. I had thought that the point was that you could add funcitonality without spending so much money. But it turns out that you would spend lots of money for something that didn't do a great job. That just sucks. Was it a question of volume? Or difficulty integrating the devices? Anybody know?
Anyhow, I congratulate Handspring on their vision of an expandable PDA. At the same I think they have betrayed the trust consumers who thought they were investing in a platform, buying devices that they could still use after upgrading their Visor.
I bought a bunch back to the states for Christmas. It was a VERY cheap way to entertain my entire family. My mom has become a Tetris freak, challenging all comers to head to head matches.
Here is the link:
www.angelfire.com/games4/anirak/vis_test.dll
Pop it into you pluggin directory, select it as the visualizaiton pluggin and then select "Strange" in the drop-down box at the bottom.
As mentioned above, I have put it up on one of my dumb game websites.
Here is the link:
www.angelfire.com/games4/anirak/vis_test.dll
Put the dll in your winamp pluggin directory, select the Nullsoft Test Visualization Library v1.0 and then in the drop down box below select Strange.
I never developed it as nicely as I would have liked to. The source is on a HD that is currently not connected to my computer. I will try to get it for you.