1 Yard is from the tip of your nose to the end of your index finger. Very handy if your selling cloth or rope.
If only measurements could be this standardized. A merchant with short arms could make a killing in textiles retailing. I'm generally in favour of any rules that hlep us short people.
Nobody is saying that farming isn't important. It's just that technology has reduced the labor intensivity of farming. In 1900, about 90% of the workforce was involved in farming. Today it's about 2%.
It is decadence to acknowledge that farming jobs have been largely elminated due to technology.
Oh, but the error message they give is rather interesting:
Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States.
If you really wanted me take part, then you wouldn't stop me from entering.
At one point they pushed products real hard. I think at one point they were spending a third of their revenue on marketing. That was right after they bought WordPerfect, I think.
That is exactly what a one-time pad is. Cross completely random information against your plaintext. Since the key is completely random, there is absolutely no way to decode it without the key.
Problems:
1) Key has to be completely random. If not, then patterns could theoretically be found and the message decrypted.
2) The key can be used exactly once. If it is used multiple times, then it can be decrypted. Which is why I am extremely skeptical of this "many-time pad" invention
What's the average theatre take for a big budget movie? Let's say around $100M. And let's say the movie production costs are around $60M. That's a $40M net.
A "big name" CD (eg Spears) sells something in the order of several million (>10M for the last I think). Let's say 5M on average. With an average price of $15, thats $75M. Productions costs are miniscule compared to movies. Say $2Mill for studio/recording, $10M to the artist (big name right?), + marketing. Still an extremely high profit.
Movies may well make more than CDs, but it could also be the reverse. There are probably X number of additional non-production expenses, ie marketing to take into account, distribution costs of CDs is probably more, etc.
I don't think you completely understand. Yes, speed limits often too low, or often ignored or what. I'm not in any way defending the system of speed limits, I think that it diverts police resources from more important matters. But whatever my feelings about the issue, the fact is that there are laws.
If you speed, then you've broken the law, no matter how silly it is. It's a choice you made, and choices have consequences. If the consequences are too severe for you than perhaps it's time to rethink your choices.
This is what is wrong with society. People can't take responsibility for their actions. The reason that U.S. courts are buried in countless lawsuits is because people always look for loopholes and can't do the honourable thing.
I can't tell what your code should do if it finds multiple people named Harry.
Assume that the list is unique.
And why would I assume the list contains only unique elements? Hmm, perhaps because it is specified/explained in the documentation. Unless the documentation specifies that the values are unique, then the only safe assumption I can make is that there are duplicates.
And how do I handle duplicates? Hmm, perhaps it's specified in that documentation stuff again...
Every compiler vendor who has sold a mainstream language compiler/IDE using a "program database" or some other such approach has tanked. (Note that I mean program database as the primary means of storing the code -- a replacement of flat files, not an addition to them.) So far, it's not really been a technological lack, it's just that programmers don't like it.
I recall reading some papers written by the major language guys a decade ago, and one of the things they all wanted to see was per-function recompilation (instead of per-translation-unit), better program information (like "where is this function used?") and other things that would require a more database-like format. Still hasn't happened except in research environments. (Pity.)
IBM VisualAge is hands down the best IDE I've worked with yet. No files to work at with all, everythings done by modify the database. Per-function compilation, excellent navigation, amazing debugger. It took a little bit more time to learn to use, but every now I then while I'm programming in Visual Studio I remember all the useful features that are no longer available.
I have had experience with the Java version, and there are also C and SmallTalk versions
Of course film is going to be better quality. As an analogy to the analog/digital quality comparison, take a ramp and flight of stairs. The ramp is analog, and the stairs are digital. The ramp will be smoother than the stairs. Even if stairs are really, really small the ramp will be smoother.
When you digitize an analog input you are taking a smooth, continous, input and dividing it up into a bunch of discrete chunks.
Same here. I have a few hundred CDs, and excepting a couple that I got when I was young and stupid, it's all good music. Of course, as you said, good music is subjective. Some people just don't seem to like half-hour Moog solos.
Not true. I've been around long enough to see several cycles of good music and shitty music. The late 70's just before punk arrived was a memorable shitty spell.
I seriously hope you're talking about disco and other pop music. If you're talking about prog then you'll have hurt my feelings.
GDP in the US is $9.963 trillion per year. GDP being the amount of output generated by domestic and foreign owned factors of production within the borders of the United States.
Computing Science and math are not just closely related, computer science is a sub-branch of mathematics. Although some might argue that mathmatics is a sub-branch of computer science.
Jest not. I was told a story recently of an Archbishop who was having dinner with the Queen of England (forget which one), and was too embarrassed to get up to go to the washroom. Bladder exlpoded and he died.
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1 Yard is from the tip of your nose to the end of your index finger. Very handy if your selling cloth or rope.
If only measurements could be this standardized. A merchant with short arms could make a killing in textiles retailing. I'm generally in favour of any rules that hlep us short people.
Nobody is saying that farming isn't important. It's just that technology has reduced the labor intensivity of farming. In 1900, about 90% of the workforce was involved in farming. Today it's about 2%.
It is decadence to acknowledge that farming jobs have been largely elminated due to technology.
I wasn't aware that Palladium would make Linux illegal. I just though it meant that unauthorized software won't run.
Oh, but the error message they give is rather interesting:
Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States.
If you really wanted me take part, then you wouldn't stop me from entering.
At one point they pushed products real hard. I think at one point they were spending a third of their revenue on marketing. That was right after they bought WordPerfect, I think.
Zealots come in all shapes and sizes: Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, etc.
Don't forget Atheist.
That is exactly what a one-time pad is. Cross completely random information against your plaintext. Since the key is completely random, there is absolutely no way to decode it without the key.
Problems:
1) Key has to be completely random. If not, then patterns could theoretically be found and the message decrypted.
2) The key can be used exactly once. If it is used multiple times, then it can be decrypted. Which is why I am extremely skeptical of this "many-time pad" invention
Movies make more money?
What's the average theatre take for a big budget movie? Let's say around $100M. And let's say the movie production costs are around $60M. That's a $40M net.
A "big name" CD (eg Spears) sells something in the order of several million (>10M for the last I think). Let's say 5M on average. With an average price of $15, thats $75M. Productions costs are miniscule compared to movies. Say $2Mill for studio/recording, $10M to the artist (big name right?), + marketing. Still an extremely high profit.
Movies may well make more than CDs, but it could also be the reverse. There are probably X number of additional non-production expenses, ie marketing to take into account, distribution costs of CDs is probably more, etc.
Anyway, what is the basis for your claim?
I don't think you completely understand. Yes, speed limits often too low, or often ignored or what. I'm not in any way defending the system of speed limits, I think that it diverts police resources from more important matters. But whatever my feelings about the issue, the fact is that there are laws.
If you speed, then you've broken the law, no matter how silly it is. It's a choice you made, and choices have consequences. If the consequences are too severe for you than perhaps it's time to rethink your choices.
This is what is wrong with society. People can't take responsibility for their actions. The reason that U.S. courts are buried in countless lawsuits is because people always look for loopholes and can't do the honourable thing.
Did you read the response from Thomson. They are not enforcing royalties on free software, just software being sold for money.
I can't tell what your code should do if it finds multiple people named Harry.
Assume that the list is unique.
And why would I assume the list contains only unique elements? Hmm, perhaps because it is specified/explained in the documentation. Unless the documentation specifies that the values are unique, then the only safe assumption I can make is that there are duplicates.
And how do I handle duplicates? Hmm, perhaps it's specified in that documentation stuff again...
Every compiler vendor who has sold a mainstream language compiler/IDE using a "program database" or some other such approach has tanked. (Note that I mean program database as the primary means of storing the code -- a replacement of flat files, not an addition to them.) So far, it's not really been a technological lack, it's just that programmers don't like it.
I recall reading some papers written by the major language guys a decade ago, and one of the things they all wanted to see was per-function recompilation (instead of per-translation-unit), better program information (like "where is this function used?") and other things that would require a more database-like format. Still hasn't happened except in research environments. (Pity.)
IBM VisualAge is hands down the best IDE I've worked with yet. No files to work at with all, everythings done by modify the database. Per-function compilation, excellent navigation, amazing debugger. It took a little bit more time to learn to use, but every now I then while I'm programming in Visual Studio I remember all the useful features that are no longer available.
I have had experience with the Java version, and there are also C and SmallTalk versions
It's a UK company not a SE asian one.
Of course film is going to be better quality. As an analogy to the analog/digital quality comparison, take a ramp and flight of stairs. The ramp is analog, and the stairs are digital. The ramp will be smoother than the stairs. Even if stairs are really, really small the ramp will be smoother.
When you digitize an analog input you are taking a smooth, continous, input and dividing it up into a bunch of discrete chunks.
Same here. I have a few hundred CDs, and excepting a couple that I got when I was young and stupid, it's all good music. Of course, as you said, good music is subjective. Some people just don't seem to like half-hour Moog solos.
Not true. I've been around long enough to see several cycles of good music and shitty music. The late 70's just before punk arrived was a memorable shitty spell.
I seriously hope you're talking about disco and other pop music. If you're talking about prog then you'll have hurt my feelings.
Over here on the East side a million million is still a trillion. A thousand million is a billion.
1,000 * 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000 (one billion)
Maybe you meant to say that a British trillion is the same as an north american billion?
GDP in the US is $9.963 trillion per year. GDP being the amount of output generated by domestic and foreign owned factors of production within the borders of the United States.
Solving riddles is form of problem solving. Software design is a form of problem solving. If you can't see how they're related I feel sorry for your.
By the way, riddles are fun to do. I wish more interviewers would ask me riddle.
Computing Science and math are not just closely related, computer science is a sub-branch of mathematics. Although some might argue that mathmatics is a sub-branch of computer science.
Jar^2 (or (Jar)(Jar)) expands to Jar Jar
Or, if you assume ^ is a binary XOR operation then Jar^2 evaluates to Jah
Don't know 'bout you, but I have multiple fingers.
From your bladder bursting probally.
Jest not. I was told a story recently of an Archbishop who was having dinner with the Queen of England (forget which one), and was too embarrassed to get up to go to the washroom. Bladder exlpoded and he died.
Probably because movies are also called "Motion Pictures" (hence the MP in the MPAA). People will often shorten motion picture to just picture.