The lawsuit seems really idiotic to me. If this is a problem, then go ahead and chance your policies to not allow kids to test out of classes without taking them--that's what most universities do if there are a bunch of BS classes that they need butts in just to pay the rent. Sure you're out $3k on this kid, but that's nothing, especially if you start to work up the legal fees of this crazy lawsuit. The bad press and public ridicule is not worth the $3k, a quiet rewrite of the university policies would be more than sufficient.
The good thing about C to a beginning programmer is that there isn't much to the language. You don't need a 700 page tome (or to hit google constantly) to figure out what X library function does. There's very little that has weird side effects or anything that isn't immediately obvious. C programs tend to do exactly what they say that do, even when that's not exactly what you're expecting. This is as opposed to something like C++, where you might be looking at a function and wondering why it isn't behaving as you expected not realizing that it was actually overridden later on in the code and where you have to understand the vagaries of the STL and all of the syntax it introduces.
The downside is that if you're looking at a large project, then there are almost certainly a whole bunch of custom libraries in use (instead of STL) with their own syntax and documentation. You won't see that too much with Arduino projects though, they tend to just do one thing quick and get it done.
Yes, but it won't work at all unless you explicitly tell your compiler to ignore the vast majority of C++ features and basically just write C in C++. You can use objects without incurring too much bloat, but don't even think about touching the STL or templates in general.
For comparison I made up a pair of Hello World programs, one in C and one in C++. The C version compiled down to 3220 bytes (still outrageous), but the c++ version came in at a whopping 4876 bytes, completely blowing away the 4k memory budget the op talked about.
You probably don't know many people living illegally then. Most of them eschew bank accounts on the assumption that if the government finds out about them, it can steal the money right out of their account, unlike the cash they have hidden under their mattress. Also, avoiding paper trails can be useful when you don't want someone tracking you.
So they live entirely on cash, which is annoying because a lot of services these days are moving away from cash when they can. For example, the toll road cuts back on tellers because most people just get the EZPasses, but if you're living in an area with lots of day laborers the tollbooth becomes a major point of congestion as all of these cash only folks have to stop and interact with the teller instead of zipping through.
The worst part: Apple users don't like to admit that it's a real pain in the ass to launch an app on Mac OSX that is not docked, but the dock has limited space so you can't put everything there. Spotlight works if you can remember the name, but otherwise you're scouring the applications directory (which is usually a terrible mess) looking for that icon.
You clearly weren't part of the focus group. I'm sure the focus group was also full of the kind of people who maximize every window, no matter what it is and have their desktop absolutely full of icons.
It would have been better as a proper tax, especially if it went to a single payer system. There would have been no legal arguments against it then too.
If we had proper hospital policy we wouldn't have needed this. If you show up at a hospital with an injury or disease and you can't prove you have insurance or cash on the spot, they kick you out to die in the street. Anything else just lets people freeload and is killing heathcare. Since we are not a third world country and will never have a system like that, then something like the individual mandate or a single payer system is necessary.
Yeah, like most of the things that would have saved money in the act, the lobbyists for the megacorps that are currently raking in the profit managed to get it killed. Not allowing Medicare to be smart with the way they buy drugs for instance. It's outrageous.
A data beach sounds like a wonderful place to go during the summer. You say the Wyndham has these? My bits have been looking mighty pale, they could really use some sun.
You know what I like about Apple stores? They're not pushy with the overpriced accessories. Last time I bought an iPhone the employee just showed me a list of what Applecare provides, and said he could add it to my bill if I'm interested. No hard sell, no pushing, just an upfront assessment of cost vs. service. For what it's worth, Applecare is pretty much the only warranty I purchase because it's so low BS. If something breaks (and I have a 2 year old), I just make an appointment, bring it in, and they fix it on the spot or at worst keep it a couple of days. No mailing it back at my own expense and waiting 4-6 weeks and then discovering that it only covered parts, not labor.
It's like they care about long term customer satisfaction or something. It's weird.
Yeah, there are no shortage of job listings for horrendous frankenjobs where there are maybe 5 people in the world with the right combination of skills they're asking for, and one of them just quit because you weren't paying him well enough. Of course they listed the job at 2/3 of the old guy's salary because it's entry level, right? Then they're complaining that schools are failing us because their job has been on the market for months and nobody has shown any interest.
If you are getting no hits on your job requiring 5 years of C, C++, Pascal, COBOL, Haskell, and Erlang that requires you to be a database expert, networking expert, have a gaggle of professional certificates, and know all relevant HIPAA regulations pertaining to cross domain knowledge sharing and also be willing to be a full time on-call administrator for a small datacenter, you can't offer $45k/year with "benefits negotiable".
It should be noted that the ruinous maintenance costs are what drove the previous owner to sell. He was losing something like $18-$25 million per year just keeping the place running and the population had dropped from 3,500 residents to just 1,900 over the past few years as well.
I would drop the whole TLD concept in a heartbeat. It just adds one more thing to remember that means very little anymore, and opens people up to confusion (wait, Whitehouse.com is a porn site!?!).
Seriously, what does it accomplish? The categories are so broad that they're nearly useless as an organizing tool, especially since many companies buy up the "lesser" TLDs for their domain just to prevent confusion. People don't organize domain names in a hierarchy like they did with Usenet groups, so appending a category label to each seems rather silly.
Country code TLDs are a symptom, not a feature. They come about because local governments want to exert their own control over some aspect of the internet, but really the whole point of the internet is to transcend borders and unite people in a single global network, even if that is a threat to entrenched interests.
Slowing them down is more than the UN, NATO, economic sanctions, political posturing, or anything else has done. Slow down the program enough and maybe there will be time for political reform to bubble up from the bottom. The last elections in Iran drew a lot of anger from the populace, we can only hope that the latent anger eventually boils over and goes full Egypt given enough time. Direct military intervention (regime change) is just not practical, so you do what you can. Anything we can do to hold back the day when Jerusalem is a radioactive crater is a win in my book. Sure it's possible, and maybe even likely, that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just blowing smoke with his promises to wipe Israel off of the map, but it's a big gamble when you're talking about the lives of 7.5 million people are on the line.
I don't think there are too many people who are overly skeptical of who made Stuxnet and Flame. The primary arguments seemed to be "Israel or the US, or Israel AND the US?" It seems pretty clear that both of these were a backdoor solution to a problem they felt could not be solved by diplomatic or economic means. Nuclear nonproliferation is something the world as a whole has been very bad at in the past, this could be one of the few success stories.
I think High School chemistry is a test to make sure that only people who really care about chemistry try to go on and do it. What other reason could their be for months and months of tedious math and no labs? And then you do give them a lab and it's incredibly lame--heat up a piece of metal in a flame, write a minimum of 8 pages (not including graphics) report on which parts of the flame are the hottest using the color of the metal. The number of kids interested in Chem II after that were in the single digits.
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The lawsuit seems really idiotic to me. If this is a problem, then go ahead and chance your policies to not allow kids to test out of classes without taking them--that's what most universities do if there are a bunch of BS classes that they need butts in just to pay the rent. Sure you're out $3k on this kid, but that's nothing, especially if you start to work up the legal fees of this crazy lawsuit. The bad press and public ridicule is not worth the $3k, a quiet rewrite of the university policies would be more than sufficient.
And if you're good with Photoshop you can save yourself hundreds of dollars a year in electricity costs. A win-win!
The good thing about C to a beginning programmer is that there isn't much to the language. You don't need a 700 page tome (or to hit google constantly) to figure out what X library function does. There's very little that has weird side effects or anything that isn't immediately obvious. C programs tend to do exactly what they say that do, even when that's not exactly what you're expecting. This is as opposed to something like C++, where you might be looking at a function and wondering why it isn't behaving as you expected not realizing that it was actually overridden later on in the code and where you have to understand the vagaries of the STL and all of the syntax it introduces.
The downside is that if you're looking at a large project, then there are almost certainly a whole bunch of custom libraries in use (instead of STL) with their own syntax and documentation. You won't see that too much with Arduino projects though, they tend to just do one thing quick and get it done.
Yes, but it won't work at all unless you explicitly tell your compiler to ignore the vast majority of C++ features and basically just write C in C++. You can use objects without incurring too much bloat, but don't even think about touching the STL or templates in general.
For comparison I made up a pair of Hello World programs, one in C and one in C++. The C version compiled down to 3220 bytes (still outrageous), but the c++ version came in at a whopping 4876 bytes, completely blowing away the 4k memory budget the op talked about.
You probably don't know many people living illegally then. Most of them eschew bank accounts on the assumption that if the government finds out about them, it can steal the money right out of their account, unlike the cash they have hidden under their mattress. Also, avoiding paper trails can be useful when you don't want someone tracking you.
So they live entirely on cash, which is annoying because a lot of services these days are moving away from cash when they can. For example, the toll road cuts back on tellers because most people just get the EZPasses, but if you're living in an area with lots of day laborers the tollbooth becomes a major point of congestion as all of these cash only folks have to stop and interact with the teller instead of zipping through.
The worst part: Apple users don't like to admit that it's a real pain in the ass to launch an app on Mac OSX that is not docked, but the dock has limited space so you can't put everything there. Spotlight works if you can remember the name, but otherwise you're scouring the applications directory (which is usually a terrible mess) looking for that icon.
That is so true. The stupid scrollbar in the start menu is still a horrible idea.
You clearly weren't part of the focus group. I'm sure the focus group was also full of the kind of people who maximize every window, no matter what it is and have their desktop absolutely full of icons.
It would have been better as a proper tax, especially if it went to a single payer system. There would have been no legal arguments against it then too.
If we had proper hospital policy we wouldn't have needed this. If you show up at a hospital with an injury or disease and you can't prove you have insurance or cash on the spot, they kick you out to die in the street. Anything else just lets people freeload and is killing heathcare. Since we are not a third world country and will never have a system like that, then something like the individual mandate or a single payer system is necessary.
Yeah, like most of the things that would have saved money in the act, the lobbyists for the megacorps that are currently raking in the profit managed to get it killed. Not allowing Medicare to be smart with the way they buy drugs for instance. It's outrageous.
Everybody who has health insurance, though higher premiums that cover the freeloaders.
To be fair, most of the plan has not been implemented yet so it's no surprise that most people don't even know what it does.
A data beach sounds like a wonderful place to go during the summer. You say the Wyndham has these? My bits have been looking mighty pale, they could really use some sun.
You know what I like about Apple stores? They're not pushy with the overpriced accessories. Last time I bought an iPhone the employee just showed me a list of what Applecare provides, and said he could add it to my bill if I'm interested. No hard sell, no pushing, just an upfront assessment of cost vs. service. For what it's worth, Applecare is pretty much the only warranty I purchase because it's so low BS. If something breaks (and I have a 2 year old), I just make an appointment, bring it in, and they fix it on the spot or at worst keep it a couple of days. No mailing it back at my own expense and waiting 4-6 weeks and then discovering that it only covered parts, not labor.
It's like they care about long term customer satisfaction or something. It's weird.
Yeah, there are no shortage of job listings for horrendous frankenjobs where there are maybe 5 people in the world with the right combination of skills they're asking for, and one of them just quit because you weren't paying him well enough. Of course they listed the job at 2/3 of the old guy's salary because it's entry level, right? Then they're complaining that schools are failing us because their job has been on the market for months and nobody has shown any interest.
If you are getting no hits on your job requiring 5 years of C, C++, Pascal, COBOL, Haskell, and Erlang that requires you to be a database expert, networking expert, have a gaggle of professional certificates, and know all relevant HIPAA regulations pertaining to cross domain knowledge sharing and also be willing to be a full time on-call administrator for a small datacenter, you can't offer $45k/year with "benefits negotiable".
No sandy beach?
It should be noted that the ruinous maintenance costs are what drove the previous owner to sell. He was losing something like $18-$25 million per year just keeping the place running and the population had dropped from 3,500 residents to just 1,900 over the past few years as well.
I would drop the whole TLD concept in a heartbeat. It just adds one more thing to remember that means very little anymore, and opens people up to confusion (wait, Whitehouse.com is a porn site!?!).
Seriously, what does it accomplish? The categories are so broad that they're nearly useless as an organizing tool, especially since many companies buy up the "lesser" TLDs for their domain just to prevent confusion. People don't organize domain names in a hierarchy like they did with Usenet groups, so appending a category label to each seems rather silly.
Country code TLDs are a symptom, not a feature. They come about because local governments want to exert their own control over some aspect of the internet, but really the whole point of the internet is to transcend borders and unite people in a single global network, even if that is a threat to entrenched interests.
You are distracted when the video isn't a blurry jittery mess in action scenes?!?
At least Linux didn't cost me $300 and come with a 2 year contract.
Slowing them down is more than the UN, NATO, economic sanctions, political posturing, or anything else has done. Slow down the program enough and maybe there will be time for political reform to bubble up from the bottom. The last elections in Iran drew a lot of anger from the populace, we can only hope that the latent anger eventually boils over and goes full Egypt given enough time. Direct military intervention (regime change) is just not practical, so you do what you can. Anything we can do to hold back the day when Jerusalem is a radioactive crater is a win in my book. Sure it's possible, and maybe even likely, that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just blowing smoke with his promises to wipe Israel off of the map, but it's a big gamble when you're talking about the lives of 7.5 million people are on the line.
I don't think there are too many people who are overly skeptical of who made Stuxnet and Flame. The primary arguments seemed to be "Israel or the US, or Israel AND the US?" It seems pretty clear that both of these were a backdoor solution to a problem they felt could not be solved by diplomatic or economic means. Nuclear nonproliferation is something the world as a whole has been very bad at in the past, this could be one of the few success stories.
Next generation computer memory is going to be delayed and your next computer is going to be slow because one company is being a jerk with patents.
I think High School chemistry is a test to make sure that only people who really care about chemistry try to go on and do it. What other reason could their be for months and months of tedious math and no labs? And then you do give them a lab and it's incredibly lame--heat up a piece of metal in a flame, write a minimum of 8 pages (not including graphics) report on which parts of the flame are the hottest using the color of the metal. The number of kids interested in Chem II after that were in the single digits.