The most popular CS intro courses at Brown at taught in Java, with the other options for a CS intro taught in a combination of scheme, ML, Java, and perhaps a few others. This gives a not-too-wacky language to get your feet wet with. The CS course most often taken first semester of your sophomore year delves into some basic assembly and hardware concepts, and the higher courses are all pretty much done in C/C++, especially the software engineering course (one of the requirements), which is all C++ (there are a few exceptions -- AI courses are done in LISP, for example). Independant study courses/research/etc., you're pretty much free to use any language you want as long as it fits the task. Maybe I'm biased, but I think this is certainly a good model to use.
Agreed. In New Hampshire there is a natural structure called the "Old Man of the Mountains" that resembles, not surprisingly, the face of an old man in profile. (You can see this on the new quarters that have state-related decorations on them. The "Old Man" is on the NH quarter). Yes, it looks cool and it looks a lot like a face, but it almost certainly wasn't artificial.
Well, the poster could've read the thread a bit more to see that it probably wasn't Linus that posted it, but an April Fools joke by someone posing as Linus (the headers indicated it came from Washington State and was written using MS Outlook).
Troll may not have been the best choice for it, but there was no "jumped to conclusions" reason either.
The problem with credit cards is that stupid people use them stupidly. I'm the kind of customer the credit card companies hate -- I never carry a balance and always make sure I have enough cash in my bank accounts to pay the bill in full. Actually, I used to use a debit card for everything instead of a credit card for this reason, but since I got one of those cards with cash-back bonuses, I use that more ofen.
Despite John Ashcroft's stupidity, there is some light that bullying may be a contributing factor finally coming out. I remember that there was a lot of discussion on the news about how bullies were the probably cause of the Santee shootings.
You never tried programming on their lame excuse for UNIX then. It's not pretty.
I hear they're going to Solaris x86 and dropping their home grown UNIX (thankfully!), which, incidentally, has a ton of Microsoft code in it (no wonder why it sucks...).
Not necessarily. Modern CPU architectures make writing assembly a bitch due to pipeline stalls, resource conflicts on the CPU, etc. A really good optimizing C compiler can do much better than the average human can with hand-coded assembly. Assembly still has its uses for small, embedded and low-level things, but it's no longer necessarily the fastest, especially if you have a good compiler.
Actually, he wrote the original draft of City on the Edge of Forever, however, Gene Roddenberry didn't like it much (there were all sorts of wacky things going on concerning drug abuse by Enterprise crewmembers, etc.), so he rewrote a lot of it and pissed Harlan off to no end (and I think Harlan still holds a grudge about it to this day). The basic ideas remain though, Roddenberry just "sanitized" it a bit. I guess in actuality, it was sort of a coproduction of the two of them rather than a work by either one of them alone.
It's funny you mention this because the USA has lower taxes than many other countries on this planet. Our taxes are significantly lower than many European countries, for example. It is estimated that in the US, you pay 33% or so out of your paycheck in taxes. In Europe, that value could be 50% or even more.
I'm tired of these GPL vs. BSD-ish license wars... The fact is that neither license is perfect if you want something 100% freely redistributable. The GPL was created so that you can give away source, make copies, etc., forever and requires that it always be that way... It sacrifices a teensy bit of freedom, say 1%, to protect the other 99% of freedom, by requiring that all derived works be available under the same terms. Personally, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to guarantee the most important aspects of freedom, the redistributability. BSD-ish licenses, however, give you full 100% redistributability with no terms whatsoever. However, it also allows some jerk down the pipeline to take that freedom away on a derived work. As unlikely as it is to happen, it is possible that the xBSD groups could fold and the only versions of BSD-derived OSes are the commercial, proprietary, closed-source ones... The GPL prevents this from happening... The BSD license does not... Pick your risks.
I'm not sure what you read in what I wrote, but I specifically said that unions eventually become corrupt. You'll also notice I gave the example of the NEA, which is one of the greatest lobbying forces their are.
What's your problem with the National Education Association? So what if they are one of the greatest lobbying forces around? Education is a good thing! Teachers, frankly, get no respect. They have a thankless job, have to deal with larger and larger classes every year with smaller and smaller budgets, and aren't paid all that well either. My mother and uncle, who have been teaching for almost 30 years, make less than someone with equivilent education gets to start at your average high-tech company. Granted, teachers don't start teaching if they're planning to get rich, but it seems like they never get the respect they deserve.
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Unisys 2200s aren't that much better (and I have to program on one of them). And yes, they still have the swilly 1's complement math...
The most popular CS intro courses at Brown at taught in Java, with the other options for a CS intro taught in a combination of scheme, ML, Java, and perhaps a few others. This gives a not-too-wacky language to get your feet wet with. The CS course most often taken first semester of your sophomore year delves into some basic assembly and hardware concepts, and the higher courses are all pretty much done in C/C++, especially the software engineering course (one of the requirements), which is all C++ (there are a few exceptions -- AI courses are done in LISP, for example). Independant study courses/research/etc., you're pretty much free to use any language you want as long as it fits the task. Maybe I'm biased, but I think this is certainly a good model to use.
Agreed. In New Hampshire there is a natural structure called the "Old Man of the Mountains" that resembles, not surprisingly, the face of an old man in profile. (You can see this on the new quarters that have state-related decorations on them. The "Old Man" is on the NH quarter). Yes, it looks cool and it looks a lot like a face, but it almost certainly wasn't artificial.
Damn... .qwk format... This is old school, man!
I believe 1024 TB is a petabyte. 1024 PB is an exobyte, and 1024 EB os a yottabyte.
Well, the poster could've read the thread a bit more to see that it probably wasn't Linus that posted it, but an April Fools joke by someone posing as Linus (the headers indicated it came from Washington State and was written using MS Outlook).
Troll may not have been the best choice for it, but there was no "jumped to conclusions" reason either.
The problem with credit cards is that stupid people use them stupidly. I'm the kind of customer the credit card companies hate -- I never carry a balance and always make sure I have enough cash in my bank accounts to pay the bill in full. Actually, I used to use a debit card for everything instead of a credit card for this reason, but since I got one of those cards with cash-back bonuses, I use that more ofen.
Despite John Ashcroft's stupidity, there is some light that bullying may be a contributing factor finally coming out. I remember that there was a lot of discussion on the news about how bullies were the probably cause of the Santee shootings.
Hear hear! (or however the heck you spell it -- I've never seen the silly phrase written before :P).
Thank you very much for your time and effort.
You never tried programming on their lame excuse for UNIX then. It's not pretty.
I hear they're going to Solaris x86 and dropping their home grown UNIX (thankfully!), which, incidentally, has a ton of Microsoft code in it (no wonder why it sucks...).
Not necessarily. Modern CPU architectures make writing assembly a bitch due to pipeline stalls, resource conflicts on the CPU, etc. A really good optimizing C compiler can do much better than the average human can with hand-coded assembly. Assembly still has its uses for small, embedded and low-level things, but it's no longer necessarily the fastest, especially if you have a good compiler.
Actually, he wrote the original draft of City on the Edge of Forever, however, Gene Roddenberry didn't like it much (there were all sorts of wacky things going on concerning drug abuse by Enterprise crewmembers, etc.), so he rewrote a lot of it and pissed Harlan off to no end (and I think Harlan still holds a grudge about it to this day). The basic ideas remain though, Roddenberry just "sanitized" it a bit. I guess in actuality, it was sort of a coproduction of the two of them rather than a work by either one of them alone.
It's funny you mention this because the USA has lower taxes than many other countries on this planet. Our taxes are significantly lower than many European countries, for example. It is estimated that in the US, you pay 33% or so out of your paycheck in taxes. In Europe, that value could be 50% or even more.
I agree about the case... I just got mine and I love it... Too bad I'm still waiting for my Athlon motherboard to come in for the sucker. :P
I'm tired of these GPL vs. BSD-ish license wars... The fact is that neither license is perfect if you want something 100% freely redistributable. The GPL was created so that you can give away source, make copies, etc., forever and requires that it always be that way... It sacrifices a teensy bit of freedom, say 1%, to protect the other 99% of freedom, by requiring that all derived works be available under the same terms. Personally, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to guarantee the most important aspects of freedom, the redistributability. BSD-ish licenses, however, give you full 100% redistributability with no terms whatsoever. However, it also allows some jerk down the pipeline to take that freedom away on a derived work. As unlikely as it is to happen, it is possible that the xBSD groups could fold and the only versions of BSD-derived OSes are the commercial, proprietary, closed-source ones... The GPL prevents this from happening... The BSD license does not... Pick your risks.
What's your problem with the National Education Association? So what if they are one of the greatest lobbying forces around? Education is a good thing! Teachers, frankly, get no respect. They have a thankless job, have to deal with larger and larger classes every year with smaller and smaller budgets, and aren't paid all that well either. My mother and uncle, who have been teaching for almost 30 years, make less than someone with equivilent education gets to start at your average high-tech company. Granted, teachers don't start teaching if they're planning to get rich, but it seems like they never get the respect they deserve.