Cars won't be have mechanically restricted speeds because that causes a saftey problem. Sometimes it is safer to speed up (in excess of the limit) to avoid an accident than slow down.
I don't think it is about buying over the net, so much as pre-selection over the net. Instead of puring over a news paper you can set a price range, a city (maybe even neighborhood), style, size whatever and get a list, then check them out. Also very good if you are going to relocate to a new city and want to narrow your choices down to make use of your visits to the city.
You are absolutely right. Java shouldn't be the only educational language. No language is so complete, so useable, so widely used, so feture rich that it demonstrates everything an comp sci degree needs to know.
Smalltalk is much cleaner OO than Java which is much cleaner than C++. I think the main reason Java is chosen over Smalltalk is Java is more widely used in the industry. It is a tradeoff purity versus use, Smalltalk wins in purity and c++ wins in use, but Java is a good middle ground
I think Java is a fine education language for the following reasons.
It is cleaner than C++.
It is widely and freely avalaible. (though so are many other languages.
It is being used widely in the industry, and I think educational institutions have a responsibility to realease students with marketable skills.
As for performance, it is slower than some languages closer to the heart of a computer, but speed is not the point of an educational language, constructs and methodology are. And Java offers all the needed constructs and is good to teach the OOAD methodology.
Spending non productive time != being less productive. It may in fact improve your productivity. It is a matter of psychology, if you aren't happy, you probably aren't productive, taking a break, taking care of some personal business can improve your mood, and your productivity.
Of course the display sets could develop dipthongs, ie more than one unicode char to represent a Chinese character. Part of the problem with the Chinese character set is that it is not an character set so much as a dictionary, with words having only one character, and no restriction in adding new ones. So don't make a single character for each of them, use letter combinations. OF course that is my western bias.
Power transmission has been basically unchanged for years. The last big change was moving to steel core aluminum from copper, and that was a cost issue, not through put. In order to meet future power demands there need to be changes at all levels production, distribution, and consumption. This is the first productive change in distribution I can remember.
How in hell can sending glowing jellyfish to Mars have any possible payoff. Are these guys on crack ?
Well let's see. Such research could be used to produce crops on earth too. If they can engineer a plant that can live on mars it surely can live in the Sudan. Plants that glow when they are stressed, yep usefull in agriculture, let's you know when to water or whatever
Do the Americans think they OWN Mars ? Surely Mars is owned by the United Nations who entrust that nobody destroys it.
Nope, they don't thing they own mars, they think nobody owns mars. So who will stop them. According to UN treaty no govenrment body can own any other planet or moon
Finally is it just me who is struck by the sheer outrageous obscenity and waste - all this money spent on throwing things at Mars when there are many problems on Earth that are far more pressing: AIDS, War, Famine, lack of gun control in our inner cities, etc etc etc.
I wish this argument would go away. but here goes the counter
War: Nope, our tax dollars won't prevent that
Famine: Yep, spending money on genitically enginering these plants ccould sure benifit the worlds food supply
AIDS: Maybe more money could be spend on AIDS research, but it is very well funded probably to the point of diminisheing returns
Lack of gun control: Nope, NASA's money isn't going to make the legislative process any smarter
Its about time the USA stopped funding NASA and Astrology altogether.
The biggest problem with click-through ads is that they are countable. This is why the advertising industry is pulling their advertising. They see a low number of click-throughs, and a low number of purchaces on click-throughs. So they can see the low response to their adds. They are more willing to spend their money on tv adds where they cant as readily see they are wasting money.
Computers, like hammers before them are great productivity tools, but like a hammer can be used in not so productive, even destructive ways.
Computers can definately spark someone's interest in many different topics. It can also be used as a form of mindless entertainment. The key here is balance. Expose children to computers, let them learn and expand their interests. Also hustle them outside to play ball with the other children so they learn to work and play well with others.
Regression testing isn't unique to XP. My company does a lot of system design. We write our class testscripts upfront and use them throughout the life of the project. I wouldn't call what we do Extreem Programming.
I am still undecided on this. I can see it producing some fast projects, I can also see projectst growing into an unwieldy hard to alter mess. I guess if the programmers used good design patterns and practices while programming it would work.
So, after thinking about it, it would probably pay off with good programmers but make things worse with not so good programmers
Wrong, Invita's sole purpose was to gather evidence on their previous crimes. They aren't charged with breaking into invita. If the fbi said there is this company invita and we want you to break into them for us. Then charged them with breaking into invita that would be entrapment.
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Cars won't be have mechanically restricted speeds because that causes a saftey problem. Sometimes it is safer to speed up (in excess of the limit) to avoid an accident than slow down.
I don't think it is about buying over the net, so much as pre-selection over the net. Instead of puring over a news paper you can set a price range, a city (maybe even neighborhood), style, size whatever and get a list, then check them out. Also very good if you are going to relocate to a new city and want to narrow your choices down to make use of your visits to the city.
You are absolutely right. Java shouldn't be the only educational language. No language is so complete, so useable, so widely used, so feture rich that it demonstrates everything an comp sci degree needs to know.
Smalltalk is much cleaner OO than Java which is much cleaner than C++. I think the main reason Java is chosen over Smalltalk is Java is more widely used in the industry. It is a tradeoff purity versus use, Smalltalk wins in purity and c++ wins in use, but Java is a good middle ground
I think Java is a fine education language for the following reasons.
It is cleaner than C++.
It is widely and freely avalaible. (though so are many other languages.
It is being used widely in the industry, and I think educational institutions have a responsibility to realease students with marketable skills.
As for performance, it is slower than some languages closer to the heart of a computer, but speed is not the point of an educational language, constructs and methodology are. And Java offers all the needed constructs and is good to teach the OOAD methodology.
Spending non productive time != being less productive. It may in fact improve your productivity. It is a matter of psychology, if you aren't happy, you probably aren't productive, taking a break, taking care of some personal business can improve your mood, and your productivity.
Even the laws of Physics?
Of course the display sets could develop dipthongs, ie more than one unicode char to represent a Chinese character. Part of the problem with the Chinese character set is that it is not an character set so much as a dictionary, with words having only one character, and no restriction in adding new ones. So don't make a single character for each of them, use letter combinations. OF course that is my western bias.
Power transmission has been basically unchanged for years. The last big change was moving to steel core aluminum from copper, and that was a cost issue, not through put. In order to meet future power demands there need to be changes at all levels production, distribution, and consumption. This is the first productive change in distribution I can remember.
Oh, you're right, that completely explains his lack of logic. How could I have missed that. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
How in hell can sending glowing jellyfish to Mars have any possible payoff. Are these guys on crack ?
Well let's see. Such research could be used to produce crops on earth too. If they can engineer a plant that can live on mars it surely can live in the Sudan. Plants that glow when they are stressed, yep usefull in agriculture, let's you know when to water or whatever
Do the Americans think they OWN Mars ? Surely Mars is owned by the United Nations who entrust that nobody destroys it.
Nope, they don't thing they own mars, they think nobody owns mars. So who will stop them. According to UN treaty no govenrment body can own any other planet or moon
Finally is it just me who is struck by the sheer outrageous obscenity and waste - all this money spent on throwing things at Mars when there are many problems on Earth that are far more pressing: AIDS, War, Famine, lack of gun control in our inner cities, etc etc etc.
I wish this argument would go away. but here goes the counter
War: Nope, our tax dollars won't prevent that
Famine: Yep, spending money on genitically enginering these plants ccould sure benifit the worlds food supply
AIDS: Maybe more money could be spend on AIDS research, but it is very well funded probably to the point of diminisheing returns
Lack of gun control: Nope, NASA's money isn't going to make the legislative process any smarter
Its about time the USA stopped funding NASA and Astrology altogether.
That's Astronomy not Astrology
They should sue any maker of ftp clients or servers for inevitable infrengement using their software.
I wonder if they will have a swimming pool. That would be odd in zero G. a big sphere of water hovering in the middle of the room.
The biggest problem with click-through ads is that they are countable. This is why the advertising industry is pulling their advertising. They see a low number of click-throughs, and a low number of purchaces on click-throughs. So they can see the low response to their adds. They are more willing to spend their money on tv adds where they cant as readily see they are wasting money.
(we can't even seem to hit the planet now, much less hit it and come back) They seem quite capable of HITTING the planet. Quite hard even. :)
Other than the huge progamming fees they pay to the distributors of the show
Computers, like hammers before them are great productivity tools, but like a hammer can be used in not so productive, even destructive ways.
Computers can definately spark someone's interest in many different topics. It can also be used as a form of mindless entertainment. The key here is balance. Expose children to computers, let them learn and expand their interests. Also hustle them outside to play ball with the other children so they learn to work and play well with others.
Like all things it is balance
Regression testing isn't unique to XP. My company does a lot of system design. We write our class testscripts upfront and use them throughout the life of the project. I wouldn't call what we do Extreem Programming.
I am still undecided on this. I can see it producing some fast projects, I can also see projectst growing into an unwieldy hard to alter mess. I guess if the programmers used good design patterns and practices while programming it would work.
So, after thinking about it, it would probably pay off with good programmers but make things worse with not so good programmers
I always distribute 'source' when I distribute my genetic material.
Now everyone will be able to see how much pr0n in on my hard drive.
Wow, only your liver heals? My organs repair themselve all the time. Last week I got a cut (the skin is an organ) and it healed right up.
Or even 4 color receptors if you are a tetrachrome and have the odd bluegreen receptor.
Oops, not the same company. Just Earthlink is owned by Sprint. Who has Mindspring?
Isn't Mindspring/Earthlink a Sprint venture? The article mentioned that Sprint is held by a Bell, thought I hadn't heard that.
Wrong, Invita's sole purpose was to gather evidence on their previous crimes. They aren't charged with breaking into invita. If the fbi said there is this company invita and we want you to break into them for us. Then charged them with breaking into invita that would be entrapment.