Second, if you don't understand your TA's accent it's your own fucking fault. You're in college, for god's sake. The best time to hang out with different people, who speak differently from you, and work on your communication skills.
Now, that's utterly ludicrous. Anyone teaching at an English-language University should have basic communications skills in English. And given the amount most University students pay for tuition, I certainly don't think it's "racist" to insist on that.
My guess at an average game:
100,000 copies of an "A" title computer software game, at $45. That's 4.5mil for the whole title.
My guess at an average movie:
10,000,000 tickets of an "A" title cinema release, at $7. That's 70mil for the whole title, and that's just in the theater.....
And it takes $40 million to make that movie. And there are more games made than Hollywood movies.
And the best games sell way more than 100,000 copies, even on computers. Oh yeah -- let's not even get into Nintendo and Playstation games, since PC games are small potatoes by comparison.
So there, I can invent my own incomplete (and basically arbitrary) premises to prove my own conclusion too. Or I could just point you
here or here, or, if that's not enough, here. Hogwash indeed.
Uh, many senators can make this claim. Simply getting elected as senator does not mean you're competent. I can't think of anything particular impressive which Gore accomplished.
Hey, inventing the internet is clearly something...
The problem is that most academic research is funded (at least in part) by taxpayers. Therefore, I, as a taxpayer, don't like the idea of a corporation (or anyone) obtaining exclusive rights to a technology/idea that I helped pay for.
If you're researching to make money, you should be doing it in a think tank or corporate research division. Taxpayer money goes to research for the greater good of society, university research should be public domain, period.
You're definitely in danger of becoming a one-trick pony here: in almost every post I've seen you make this summer, you've been raving about this ML stuff. I'm afraid your closeness to the project is limiting your objectivity on this issue.
Type-safe languages (and ML in particular) are not a programming panacea: they have neat features (and I particularily like ML, especially functors which are quite a great deal more elegant than C++ templates), but they have their drawbacks: you do get nice things like type-safety, bounds checking, (in ML/Haskell/et alia) functions as first-order variables, generic programming done right......but your language features don't come for free.
ML is never going to be as fast as C (and I know that you can optimize more aggressively because of pervasive strong typing and lack of aliasing issues, and it's an interesting research area), since the lambda calculus is not the natural paradigm on a von Neumann machine.
Plus, performance aside, sometimes you want to use pointers, because that's the most expressive tool for what you're doing -- experienced C programmers often feel hamstrung when programming in stricter languages like Java. I like ML, I also like C, and Scheme, and Pascal, and Perl, and..... ML doesn't necessarily work for everything.
Blatant jingoism alert: It's like safety scissors: not going to poke your eye out, but a clumsy tool for someone who really knows how to cut paper.;)
What is wrong with you people, do you not read and write the same language that you speak? No wonder the academic level of todays high school graduates is sinking like the titanic.
First off, you self-involved snot, if you don't have anything constructive to add to the discussion, you can do everyone a favour and keep your mouth shut. Just because someone slips when they are typing (and doesn't notice) does not give you license to assume that they are beneath you.
Secondly: your criticism isn't even technically correct, because "loosing" is the way the word is properly spelled in England, and hence most English-speaking countries.
Third: if you're going to criticize somebody's grammar (and be pretentious about it to boot), you'd better make damn sure to not make any yourself, lest you show yourself to be an arse. May I remind you that "todays" is not the possessive form of "today", nor is "titanic" the correct capitalization of a proper noun.
Perhaps you'd benefit from going back to high school and brushing up on your Grade 9 grammar; or more constructively, perhaps even back to Kindergarten, so you can learn how to be polite and interact with others?
> I keep seeing stuff about Real-Time > Linux/programming/OSes etc. - but I still > ahve no clue what the heck it is. Could > someone please explain, in simple terms, > what it is that all these articles are > refering to?
A real-time operating system is one that has to respond very quickly to incoming hardware events, usually with a constraint on the maximum time alloted to complete the response. While a conventional OS (like Linux in normal operation) offers no guarantees on how quickly it will respond to requests (usually very quickly, but under high load a request could be deferred quite a while), a real-time OS usually offers guarantees on performance.
Real-time is subdivided into "hard" real-time (an absolute guarantee on system response, usually harder to accomplish) and "soft" real-time (an average-case guarantee with a certain degree of variance.)
Real-time processing is most common in things like embedded systems ("fly-by-wire" computers on airplanes, for instance, had better not take too long to process requests!), but occasionally real-time shows up in a userland/PC environment (audio processing, scientific equipment monitoring, etc.)
It seems to me that the fair use provision here would, in following with the tradition of copyright law, permit personal archival copying as "fair use."
Two innocent men?? Last time I checked, the Ten Commandments were pretty much the last word on your God's law, and nowhere in the Ten Commandments does it say "Thou shalt blow away the queers," but it DOES state, rather explicitly, "Thou shalt not kill."
Not really. It's called Mutually Assured Destruction -- the only real reason we're not all living in underground bunkers now. It's hard to justify firing nukes at Russia if you know that they'll just go ahead and turn your continent into a giant smoking hole in the ground in response...
So, if you go and build anti-ICBM missles, Russia's gotta go do it too to keep the balance of power in check -- and all you've accomplished is wasting a whole lot of money.
Re-read the AUP and check for sure that you haven't violated any of the stipulations. If this is a first-time offense you can probably just go and talk to Betty Mathers at ITS and get it all straightened out.
The most salient question, of course, is how the binaries produced by gcc compare to those produced by bcc in terms of speed. Does anyone have any figures?
Perl, when used incorrectly, suffers from the same problem. The solution for complex scripts is to put the html code in templates just as you would in Perl. (See here for a fast templating package for Php.
Keep in mind that this is a design decision: allowing you to put code in your html makes sense when all you want is one or two lines of script.
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Cheers,
Greg
Different omega. And in Cantor's transfinite cardinality theory aleph-null is not the same as omega; aleph-null is a cardinal, omega is an ordinal.
Cheers,
Greg
Now, that's utterly ludicrous. Anyone teaching at an English-language University should have basic communications skills in English. And given the amount most University students pay for tuition, I certainly don't think it's "racist" to insist on that.
Cheers,
Greg
And it takes $40 million to make that movie. And there are more games made than Hollywood movies. And the best games sell way more than 100,000 copies, even on computers. Oh yeah -- let's not even get into Nintendo and Playstation games, since PC games are small potatoes by comparison.
So there, I can invent my own incomplete (and basically arbitrary) premises to prove my own conclusion too. Or I could just point you here or here, or, if that's not enough, here. Hogwash indeed.
Cheers,
Greg
Hey, inventing the internet is clearly something...
Cheers,
Greg
.... where X is large....
Cheers,
Greg
If you're researching to make money, you should be doing it in a think tank or corporate research division. Taxpayer money goes to research for the greater good of society, university research should be public domain, period.
Tom,
You're definitely in danger of becoming a one-trick pony here: in almost every post I've seen you make this summer, you've been raving about this ML stuff. I'm afraid your closeness to the project is limiting your objectivity on this issue.
Type-safe languages (and ML in particular) are not a programming panacea: they have neat features (and I particularily like ML, especially functors which are quite a great deal more elegant than C++ templates), but they have their drawbacks: you do get nice things like type-safety, bounds checking, (in ML/Haskell/et alia) functions as first-order variables, generic programming done right......but your language features don't come for free.
ML is never going to be as fast as C (and I know that you can optimize more aggressively because of pervasive strong typing and lack of aliasing issues, and it's an interesting research area), since the lambda calculus is not the natural paradigm on a von Neumann machine.
Plus, performance aside, sometimes you want to use pointers, because that's the most expressive tool for what you're doing -- experienced C programmers often feel hamstrung when programming in stricter languages like Java. I like ML, I also like C, and Scheme, and Pascal, and Perl, and ..... ML doesn't necessarily work for everything.
Blatant jingoism alert: It's like safety scissors: not going to poke your eye out, but a clumsy tool for someone who really knows how to cut paper. ;)
Cheers,
Greg
First off, you self-involved snot, if you don't have anything constructive to add to the discussion, you can do everyone a favour and keep your mouth shut. Just because someone slips when they are typing (and doesn't notice) does not give you license to assume that they are beneath you.
Secondly: your criticism isn't even technically correct, because "loosing" is the way the word is properly spelled in England, and hence most English-speaking countries.
Third: if you're going to criticize somebody's grammar (and be pretentious about it to boot), you'd better make damn sure to not make any yourself, lest you show yourself to be an arse. May I remind you that "todays" is not the possessive form of "today", nor is "titanic" the correct capitalization of a proper noun.
Perhaps you'd benefit from going back to high school and brushing up on your Grade 9 grammar; or more constructively, perhaps even back to Kindergarten, so you can learn how to be polite and interact with others?
Greg
> Linux/programming/OSes etc. - but I still
> ahve no clue what the heck it is. Could
> someone please explain, in simple terms,
> what it is that all these articles are
> refering to?
A real-time operating system is one that has to respond very quickly to incoming hardware events, usually with a constraint on the maximum time alloted to complete the response. While a conventional OS (like Linux in normal operation) offers no guarantees on how quickly it will respond to requests (usually very quickly, but under high load a request could be deferred quite a while), a real-time OS usually offers guarantees on performance.
Real-time is subdivided into "hard" real-time (an absolute guarantee on system response, usually harder to accomplish) and "soft" real-time (an average-case guarantee with a certain degree of variance.)
Real-time processing is most common in things like embedded systems ("fly-by-wire" computers on airplanes, for instance, had better not take too long to process requests!), but occasionally real-time shows up in a userland/PC environment (audio processing, scientific equipment monitoring, etc.)
Hope this helps...
It seems to me that the fair use provision here would, in following with the tradition of copyright law, permit personal archival copying as "fair use."
Who is more guilty in the eyes of your God?
So, if you go and build anti-ICBM missles, Russia's gotta go do it too to keep the balance of power in check -- and all you've accomplished is wasting a whole lot of money.
Apologies for the offtopic post ;)
The most salient question, of course, is how the binaries produced by gcc compare to those produced by bcc in terms of speed. Does anyone have any figures?
Keep in mind that this is a design decision: allowing you to put code in your html makes sense when all you want is one or two lines of script.