The flash movie from the BSA makes absolutly no sense... Designers who copy sw usually do it for thier own purposes, and do not replicate it for others.
And what the hell does licencing software have to do with fighting a virus?
This is pure marketing hype, utter crap, and it bothers me to think that anyone above the age of five is going to go for that little infomercial.
And another thing. The BSA is the Boy Scouts of America, dammit.
This is either a joke, or the guy's an MCSE (Might Click Start Eventually).
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why
C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious)
programming language like Java, C# or - even better - Visual Basic
that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious
speed increase over C
"ordinary tomatoes do not contain genes, while genetically modified tomatoes do,"
If the entire survey was composed of questions like these, then the survey cannot be trusted. The question is ambiguos. Change one small word, and the question's meaning changes. A fair number of people may have read: "ordinary tomatoes do not contain genes that genetically modified tomatoes do,".
Most people in the US are only nominally literate. They do not always read what is actually written on the page. I work with lots of differnt people daily. A very small percantage of them are capable of reading a sentence correctly the first time. You'd be shocked and amazed how many people just scrape by, literacy-wise. It's really important to be carefull of that sort of thing when making a survey.
I also noticed a number of evlolution vs. creation sort of questions. As that little prob is a hot spot, with scientists in many fields divided on the topic, I personally would leave that to the 'personal optionion' section of the survey. Same thing with life on other planets. The hypothesis is untestable.
The scientific method requires testing the hypotheseis; if you cannot test it, it's philosophy, not science.
...and it has the added disadvantage of objects. Hey, at least its not Java which forces OOP on you instead of giving you an option... and harder to debug...
Objects have saved my butt countless times. As for debugging, objects are easier to debug, in my experience. The codebase itself is easier to understand, better design is possible, and better design makes for easier debugging.
All you really have to do to improve performance is limit the number of classes you use. The java platform is a good example of too many classes bogging some things down.
It's possible to write crappy code in any language, under any design method. Objects try to make it harder to design spaghetti code.
The universe by definition is a distributed system of objects. That's why OO is such a Good Thing(tm). It takes advantage of the way we understand the universe, to let us say what we need to say more succinctly. A really good system is based on reactions. It can keep a relativly stable state, no matter what. It's buffered.
As for the location of God Himself(tm), what part of 'omnipresent' didn't you understand?
One of the algorithms that was impressed onto me as one for a rainy day, was the radix sort. One variant of it can do some real magic. wish I could find my old notes on that... The other memorable one was Dykstra's shortest path alogorithm. The prof was Romanian, she spoke 12 languages, none of them english. I couln't undertand a word that woman said. I guess the CS field needs a comprehensive, but simple book on those 500 canonaical algorithms. Most CS books I've read seem to have been written to impress colleagues.
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The flash movie from the BSA makes absolutly no sense... Designers who copy sw usually do it for thier own purposes, and do not replicate it for others. And what the hell does licencing software have to do with fighting a virus? This is pure marketing hype, utter crap, and it bothers me to think that anyone above the age of five is going to go for that little infomercial. And another thing. The BSA is the Boy Scouts of America, dammit.
This is either a joke, or the guy's an MCSE (Might Click Start Eventually).
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java, C# or - even better - Visual Basic that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C
"ordinary tomatoes do not contain genes, while genetically modified tomatoes do,"
If the entire survey was composed of questions like these, then the survey cannot be trusted. The question is ambiguos. Change one small word, and the question's meaning changes. A fair number of people may have read: "ordinary tomatoes do not contain genes that genetically modified tomatoes do,".
Most people in the US are only nominally literate. They do not always read what is actually written on the page. I work with lots of differnt people daily. A very small percantage of them are capable of reading a sentence correctly the first time. You'd be shocked and amazed how many people just scrape by, literacy-wise. It's really important to be carefull of that sort of thing when making a survey.
I also noticed a number of evlolution vs. creation sort of questions. As that little prob is a hot spot, with scientists in many fields divided on the topic, I personally would leave that to the 'personal optionion' section of the survey. Same thing with life on other planets. The hypothesis is untestable.
The scientific method requires testing the hypotheseis; if you cannot test it, it's philosophy, not science.
...and it has the added disadvantage of objects. Hey, at least its not Java which forces OOP on you instead of giving you an option... and harder to debug...
Objects have saved my butt countless times. As for debugging, objects are easier to debug, in my experience. The codebase itself is easier to understand, better design is possible, and better design makes for easier debugging. All you really have to do to improve performance is limit the number of classes you use. The java platform is a good example of too many classes bogging some things down.
It's possible to write crappy code in any language, under any design method. Objects try to make it harder to design spaghetti code.
The universe by definition is a distributed system of objects. That's why OO is such a Good Thing(tm). It takes advantage of the way we understand the universe, to let us say what we need to say more succinctly. A really good system is based on reactions. It can keep a relativly stable state, no matter what. It's buffered. As for the location of God Himself(tm), what part of 'omnipresent' didn't you understand?
One of the algorithms that was impressed onto me as one for a rainy day, was the radix sort. One variant of it can do some real magic. wish I could find my old notes on that...
The other memorable one was Dykstra's shortest path alogorithm. The prof was Romanian, she spoke 12 languages, none of them english. I couln't undertand a word that woman said.
I guess the CS field needs a comprehensive, but simple book on those 500 canonaical algorithms.
Most CS books I've read seem to have been written to impress colleagues.