That seems dumb. They should talk to the LLVM guys about getting it licensed under BSD or the like. IIRC, they state on their webpage that they're open to discussing other licenses, and LLVM totally kicks ass. Someone does need to write a native C and C++ frontend for it though. It currently relies on GCC's frontends.
As I had stated, Prof. Matloff teaches "real Computer Science."
I suppose I can only attest for my own experience in the "Machine Dependent Programming" class that I took from him. From day one he told us that no, it would not be an assembly language course, and the programming assignments reflected that. They were certainly much more about understanding systems than writing volumes of code. We covered a variety of systems software topics beyond programming at the assembly level, including looking at virtual memory schemes, CPU architectures and design considerations, context switching, etc. What I find interesting is that he taught us all of the real systems material while having us use a very practical language for implementation of the homework assignments (Intel x86). Some other instructors use invented educational architectures for this course, and focused much much more on programming long pointless programs.
Prof. Matloff is not prejudiced against anyone. He's just honest. He won't hesitate to tell you if you're doing something wrong, regardless of whether you are white, black, or green. Some may perceive his frankness as "a sense of superiority & condescending attitude for them." I fully disagree; I appreciate that he is honest and to the point.
Anyway, that's my impression. I'm his former student. I'm also "foreign" (from India).
Are you, a CS professor, teaching real computer science, or are you teaching programming and calling it computer science at the behest of Intel?
This question is downright ridiculous. He is without a doubt the best professor I've known. He is notorious (feared?) in his department for teaching real Computer Science. Prof. Matloff's students rip out their hair solving his problems, but nearly every student of his will give a glowing review of his courses.
There are some instructors who are easy, there are some instructors who are difficult for the sake of being difficult, and then there are those who enrich. Prof. Matloff certainly enriches his students.
I hope you're just trolling, because then the entire calculus course should be the first and second fundamental theorems of calculus.
Those principles are very important, but what good are they if you don't understand how or why? Similarly, these kids have never programmed before, so they should be introduced to programming. Once they have an idea of what programming is, you can begin to teach them theory and such.
I sincerely doubt that someone who has never programmed would understand the motivation for an AVL tree or a hash table.
"how on earth do you think you can convince people that Open Source is a good thing?!"
Actually they want to convince people that Open Source sucks, and is evil. The FSF willt tell you that Free Software is good, but Open Source Software is evil.
I think I talked to this guy at OSCON... we had a friendly debate or three.
Obviously the best thing to do for an OSS coder is to send them a girlfriend. They have considerable trouble finding them on their own, so if you'd be kind enough to give them a hand, you'd be truly showing your appreciation.
It's part of the prototype user friendly BSOD, because the user spends most of his time looking at the BSOD, they wanted to make it a pleasant experience. I hear that in XP you will be able to choose color of your SOD!
They're importing all these underqualified Indians to work here at premium prices. People who don't know anything other than how to work Oracle get hundreds of thousands of dollars salary!
Funny thing is, I'm an Indian too. I was born in the USA though...
"Internet Explorer in Windows 98 and its successors can be functionally compared to Konqueror in KDE. They do essentially the same thing, integrate file management with web browsing and other internet-related services."
Yes, but the difference lies in the fact that (Internet) Explorer is the actual shell in Windows. So, if you delete Internet Explorer, you don't have your shell anymore. Without a shell, you can't use Windows! In KDE, even if you uninstall Konqueror (which isn't imposible like uninstalling IE), KDE is still fully functional.
"it's fragments of data (meat of a sandwich) that have no foundation to build on (bread). In addition, there is a noticable lack of detail on the things they do explain (lettuce and tomato)."
Damnit, now I'm hungry for a sandwich *and* a better book. Did you *have* to use food as an analogy?:P
"why bother writing a game for linux in the first place. Who would buy it?"
That's simple: It's free. I don't want to make a buck, I want to have fun.
Yeah, we have day jobs, but maybe we like to enjoy ourselves and develop a game for fun.
"Granted I don't have much chance of making any money, but at least that market place supports the concept of buying software"
Then why don't you develop for free, since you don't have much chance of making money? If it's free, more people will play your game because it's freely available.
"And forget the GPL -- that will kill any hope of money"
Then don't use the GPL.:P
I hope this guy is actually a Linux guy who is just mocking the windows programmers...:)
I think that they really can't enforce the law here, even if kIllustrator is confusingly similar to Adobe's product. I mean, who would they sue? Nobody owns the software. Who would pay the fee?
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No, it would be more accurate to say "the part that parses C and generates the IL". Really, there's a lot more to a compiler than the front-end.
LLVM currently uses GCC's front-ends, but these are GPL-licensed.
That seems dumb. They should talk to the LLVM guys about getting it licensed under BSD or the like. IIRC, they state on their webpage that they're open to discussing other licenses, and LLVM totally kicks ass. Someone does need to write a native C and C++ frontend for it though. It currently relies on GCC's frontends.
Seriously, is this actually put out by Microsoft... or is it a hoax that's just parodying MSFT?
Why does the fencing need electricity? Are these cell towers for Jurassic Park or something?
YAY, finally those damn scientists got off their ass and found a cure-all! We've been waiting ages for this!
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As I had stated, Prof. Matloff teaches "real Computer Science."
I suppose I can only attest for my own experience in the "Machine Dependent Programming" class that I took from him. From day one he told us that no, it would not be an assembly language course, and the programming assignments reflected that. They were certainly much more about understanding systems than writing volumes of code. We covered a variety of systems software topics beyond programming at the assembly level, including looking at virtual memory schemes, CPU architectures and design considerations, context switching, etc. What I find interesting is that he taught us all of the real systems material while having us use a very practical language for implementation of the homework assignments (Intel x86). Some other instructors use invented educational architectures for this course, and focused much much more on programming long pointless programs.
Questions are not ridiculous.
Sorry. I did not mean that literally; was just saying that it's a silly question to anyone who knows him.
-Jey Kottalam
Prof. Matloff is not prejudiced against anyone. He's just honest. He won't hesitate to tell you if you're doing something wrong, regardless of whether you are white, black, or green. Some may perceive his frankness as "a sense of superiority & condescending attitude for them." I fully disagree; I appreciate that he is honest and to the point.
Anyway, that's my impression. I'm his former student. I'm also "foreign" (from India).
-Jey Kottalam
So my question to Norm Matloff is. . .
"Is your own house in order?"
Are you, a CS professor, teaching real computer science, or are you teaching programming and calling it computer science at the behest of Intel?
This question is downright ridiculous. He is without a doubt the best professor I've known. He is notorious (feared?) in his department for teaching real Computer Science. Prof. Matloff's students rip out their hair solving his problems, but nearly every student of his will give a glowing review of his courses.
There are some instructors who are easy, there are some instructors who are difficult for the sake of being difficult, and then there are those who enrich. Prof. Matloff certainly enriches his students.
-Former Student of Prof. Matloff
I thought April 1 was almost 2 weeks ago?
OK, I've said that there should be a test to use teh internets, but I was just joking...
There exist backpack-style laptop bags out there, mostly targetting college students. I think Targus makes some.
I hope you're just trolling, because then the entire calculus course should be the first and second fundamental theorems of calculus.
Those principles are very important, but what good are they if you don't understand how or why? Similarly, these kids have never programmed before, so they should be introduced to programming. Once they have an idea of what programming is, you can begin to teach them theory and such.
I sincerely doubt that someone who has never programmed would understand the motivation for an AVL tree or a hash table.
C++ forever! Just use some GC (Garbage Collection) library.
Why? Come to EFnet #C++ and we'll chat.
-Jey Kottalam
Actually they want to convince people that Open Source sucks, and is evil. The FSF willt tell you that Free Software is good, but Open Source Software is evil. I think I talked to this guy at OSCON... we had a friendly debate or three.
Obviously the best thing to do for an OSS coder is to send them a girlfriend. They have considerable trouble finding them on their own, so if you'd be kind enough to give them a hand, you'd be truly showing your appreciation.
My page
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And this demo only works on 95/98 machines:
My 95/98 demo
It's part of the prototype user friendly BSOD, because the user spends most of his time looking at the BSOD, they wanted to make it a pleasant experience. I hear that in XP you will be able to choose color of your SOD!
I really don't think an underground distributor of illegal parts is going to check your DOB and do a background check on you.... :P
"Time to either get smarter users (yeah, right!) or block all executables at the mail server"
Well, most of these sysadmins are still trying to figure out what "Simtap" and Pee-Oh-Pee-Three do.
They're importing all these underqualified Indians to work here at premium prices. People who don't know anything other than how to work Oracle get hundreds of thousands of dollars salary! Funny thing is, I'm an Indian too. I was born in the USA though...
Yes, but the difference lies in the fact that (Internet) Explorer is the actual shell in Windows. So, if you delete Internet Explorer, you don't have your shell anymore. Without a shell, you can't use Windows! In KDE, even if you uninstall Konqueror (which isn't imposible like uninstalling IE), KDE is still fully functional.
-Jey Kottalam
"it's fragments of data (meat of a sandwich) that have no foundation to build on (bread). In addition, there is a noticable lack of detail on the things they do explain (lettuce and tomato)." Damnit, now I'm hungry for a sandwich *and* a better book. Did you *have* to use food as an analogy? :P
That's simple: It's free. I don't want to make a buck, I want to have fun.
Yeah, we have day jobs, but maybe we like to enjoy ourselves and develop a game for fun.
"Granted I don't have much chance of making any money, but at least that market place supports the concept of buying software"
Then why don't you develop for free, since you don't have much chance of making money? If it's free, more people will play your game because it's freely available.
"And forget the GPL -- that will kill any hope of money"
Then don't use the GPL. :P
I hope this guy is actually a Linux guy who is just mocking the windows programmers... :)
The actual RC5 packets are tiny. The few hundred bytes of data in them is enough for representing something like 2^23 keys (forgot exactly how many).
I think that they really can't enforce the law here, even if kIllustrator is confusingly similar to Adobe's product. I mean, who would they sue? Nobody owns the software. Who would pay the fee?
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