To play devil's advocate... The "97% of our DNA" argument is worthless. grep and xeyes would have 97% of the same code because they use libc, but they are different in every important way.
(I know I'm not the first to put this comment here; the real reason I'm commenting is that I want to describe how I make PowerPoint presentations...)
I do a lot of technical presentations. I imagine that I am explaining the topic to someone interactively using a white board (which is always very effective). Then I just make slides containing a cleaned up (and often animated) version of what I would have put on that white board. No whole-paragraph bullet points or long blocks of text.
When you say "this movie sucks because it's too hard to understand" you may be right, or you may be missing the point of the movie and exposing your own ignorance.
... an utterly unoriginal storyline. You know, it's only fairly recently that originally trumps all else as a measure of value. God help Shakespeare if he were trying to make a living with today's critics.
Not that I disagree in general, but that sizeof idiom is one I use all the time to compute the number of elements in an array. The point of the question is that this doesn't work for arrays passed as arguments to a function.
Are we going to be happy with dooming ourselves to what was great instead of what is out there? If you expect more out of life, don't go pointing to the gospel because good book says. Is that what's happening here? Or are people choosing to believe theories based on evidence and on the scientific method, rather than unsupported speculation?
Man, I wish the way i was taught about science was the way everyone was. You see, in my science class we were encouraged to talk about the science and they showed people who bucked the system at the expense of the establishment and were correct. People like Galileo who had to work against the established science to proclaim probably one of the worlds greatest discoveries. Every nutjob with unscientific "theories" likes to compare himself with Galileo. It must be a corollary of Godwin's law. Just because everyone disagrees with you doesn't mean you are a visionary who is ahead of his time.
My last Civic made it past one light-second. I'm expecting my current one to make about 220 Mm (I don't drive much) before the body finally rusts out and I have enough saved up to buy the next one outright.
Investors are detached emotionally, and will probably make a better call than any slashbotter. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ha ha ha. Ha. Oh man, that's a good one.
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People post stories to Slashdot hoping to draw readers to their site. Shocking!
You have clearly thought about this a lot more than I have. :-)
That's my word for the day.
You're assuming they are trading off current for voltage. If they were designing a transformer, your logic would be correct.
You, sir, are a nerd among nerds.
Can Slashdot simply pre-tag every article with slownewsday, rather than forcing us to do the grunt-work?
I used to run "w" and see what other people were doing, then look at the man page for that.
To play devil's advocate... The "97% of our DNA" argument is worthless. grep and xeyes would have 97% of the same code because they use libc, but they are different in every important way.
Most people can't create good presentations.
(I know I'm not the first to put this comment here; the real reason I'm commenting is that I want to describe how I make PowerPoint presentations...)
I do a lot of technical presentations. I imagine that I am explaining the topic to someone interactively using a white board (which is always very effective). Then I just make slides containing a cleaned up (and often animated) version of what I would have put on that white board. No whole-paragraph bullet points or long blocks of text.
When you say "this movie sucks because it's too hard to understand" you may be right, or you may be missing the point of the movie and exposing your own ignorance.
... an utterly unoriginal storyline. You know, it's only fairly recently that originally trumps all else as a measure of value. God help Shakespeare if he were trying to make a living with today's critics.Yeah, I agree. That was lame, lame, lame.
Not that I disagree in general, but that sizeof idiom is one I use all the time to compute the number of elements in an array. The point of the question is that this doesn't work for arrays passed as arguments to a function.
That, and the number is DECREASING!!
We're using an unofficial but universally understood unit of measure!!!!
My last Civic made it past one light-second. I'm expecting my current one to make about 220 Mm (I don't drive much) before the body finally rusts out and I have enough saved up to buy the next one outright.
Imperative programs are inherently hard to reason about in terms of global state and effects and as written tend to be subject to off-by-one errors.
Backus saw this in 1978!
And McCarthy saw this in 1958!Here's looking forward to more news from LAST YEAR.
You must be some kind of genius.
I hate it when people are perjuditial to wheels.
He's pointing out what he sees as a flaw in the study. I disagree with his opinion, but he hasn't made the particular mistake you're accusing him of.