And you can't call it "baMessage" for what reason?
Let's say I'm writing software for a portrait studio. Each picture you take is called a pose.
What would you think "PoseNumber" would be? Would it surprise you to discover that it is actually a string, and not a number?
What about the difference between an int, long, a short, or an unsigned __int64? "index" doesn't tell you anything about what you're dealing with. It tells you you're dealing with a datatype that represents the index, but nothing about the datatype itself; so every time that becomes important (say, when you want to write it out to disk in some ass backwards format that the client needs it in, or display it on the screen), you've got to wast 5 minutes finding where the variable is declaired. You may think it's fine to spend time searching through 300mb of source code to see where a variable is declaired, but it's a waste of my time -- especially when one or two characters would have told me what I needed to know.
Stop being lazy and spend time making your code clear, not ambiguous. Your variable names should be descriptive and tell you what they are. Not most of what they are.
It's one thing to be newbies on the block. Enterprise makes humans out to be the village idiot.
Gag me. My 1 year old neice demonstrates better judgement than the characters on the show. And she sticks random objects off of the floor in her mouth.
You're kidding right? If all you've watched for the last 20 years is reruns of gilligan's island, yeah Enterprise is good.
But geeze, I've seen cardboard with better personalities than the the people in the show. The effects and constumes are good, but the plots are HORRIBLE. If executed properly would be pretty cool, but every episode has failed utterly. I mean UTTERLY, with a gag me with a spork factor that I havn't seen since Mars 2.
I'll tell you about the Newton *I* used. The first model Apple came out with.
The batteries lasted 2 hours.
The display was indeed large. Which made the whole unit something you couldn't carry around with you in your pocket -- a Newton is HUGE compared to a Palm.
The CPU wasn't slow, the UNIT was slow. It was unresponsive, took way too long to interpret text written on the screen, and generally felt like Win98 running on a P90 with 16mb of ram.
The handwriting recognition that came with the unit didn't work well enough to do anything serious with it. It was fun to play with, but was WRONG more than 50% of the time. After weeks of training. As I said, other software developed later eliminated this problem for all intensive purposes.
Aside from the handwriting recognition, the UI on the unit was actually quite good. I liked it quite a bit.
Sound is something I need to give apple props on as well. It actually played real sound and not some cheap beeps.
The Netwon was a neat toy, but it most definately would NOT be usable as a PDA in my every day life in the form I saw it in. Obviously my needs arn't necessarily the same as yours, and I'm glad you make good use of yours. I, however, can't make good use of one.
If you use the same settings I use, you might see an extra half hour to hour (appears to be roughly 40 minutes, but I can't measure it precisely) of recording time. More if you use lower quality settings.
Ashcroft used to be a good person, fighting the good fight. But if you've examined what the man has done over the last 10 or so years, you'll notice a that the kind of legislation/government he supports has changed. He's gone from a good guy to a person who would seem to prefer life in germany about 60 years back.
Bose speakers do sound like crap. Overpriced crap at that. The only thing Bose speakers have working for them is that they're nearly indistructable.
Your dad's setup is probably a pretty good one, with the hardware you mentioned.:)
You won't find anything that truely sounds good at Best Buy. Their more expensive stuff is ok, but it's WAY overpriced.
Find yourself a good home theatre store. Bring a few CD's for you, tell the sales guy what you're looking for (2 speakers, under say $700) and he'll pop your cd(s) in and switch between various speakers/hardware to give you an idea what they sound like.
The "budget" end of good speakers will be somewhere around $500. For $500 you'll get something that sounds 100x better than anything you can find in best buy. You won't get a huge pair of speakers, but size isn't everything in audio quality. B&W makes probably the best budget speakers in the business. Just about anything you find in the home theatre store will be good stuff; use the sales guy -- the places I usually go to don't have commissioned sales people; but they really laid back, know their stuff, and give you a good idea what you can get in your price range.
If your definition of good quality sound is 800 watts pumping through JL or Infinity speakers you've got more important things to worry about than the distortion the MP3's introduce. Bletch.
I've had no problems with any games, including the same game being played on the internet on the same server but on different computers behind the router. No problems with the router crashing under any kind of load either. *shrug*
Not every state has different emissions standards, but several states have varying emissions standards.
What ends up happening is that the automaker just builds cars that complies to the toughest ones and sells those cars with the same emissions hardware across the rest of the country.
My new car has two precats on it in addition to the main cat in order to meet california emissions standards. My '84 ranger that emitts blue smoke out the tailpipe passes emissions where I live. Slight contrast.;)
No, you ARE comparing apples to oranges. There is not one similarity between the work required to program computers, and the work required to design and build a bridge aside from the fact that they are large tasks.
I ask, WHAT does civil engineering share with computer science? The ability to add 2+2? Cooking has that, that's for certain -- and you're kidding yourself i you think the vast majority of computer science students take near the level of math required for a civil engineering degree; and you're also kidding yourself if you think the majority of programmers out there ever do much math beyond i++. And what engineering discipline doesn't require "logical thinking" to some degree? You also going to insist that aerospace degrees arn't worth the paper they're written on either, because they mainly involve math and logical thinking too?
What in computer science deals with materials? What about bridge building requires boolean logic? What about applications programming requires statics? What about civil engineering requires knowledge of computing theory? The fundamental knowledge required for each field is completely different!
Civil engineering has about as much in common with computer science as cooking does. They all involve non-trivial tasks, all done in a different form. Each can be considered artistic in it's own way, as well as "just another job." In civil engineering you have to make sure your building doesn't fall down. In computer science you need to make sure your server software doesn't fall down. In cooking you need to make sure your cake doesn't fall down. Sounds the same, but the details required to make those items happen have absofuckinglutely nothing in common.
I'm not denying that there are so stupid ass civil engineers. There are stupid as hell comp sci people too. I also know people who can't do complicated math that are excellent programmers. I know programmers who couldn't fix a car if their life depended on it. I know mechanics who can't program a computer to save their life. I can do both, yet I can't seem to keep my checkbook balanced. I know some brilliant civil engineers. I know some people who seem to be able to do anything they can stick their mind to. I know some people who can prove the entire contents of my calculus text.
There is no pure "unbiased" way to measure the "difficulty" of a task. Tell me, how can you compare the difficulty of baking a pie with the difficulty involved in programming a computer? All a good score on the SAT says is that you're good at taking an SAT. I can produce a test that I could score well on and you'd score horribly on, after which I could give it to a 100 different people to "rank" your intelligence level; doesn't mean it's an accurate indication of "brilliance."
The fact of the matter is, is that some people are better at certain tasks than others. Everyone's brain is different. Yours is obviously incapable of accepting this fact. Does that mean I'm smarter than you? That you are somehow inferrior? Well, I'll let you decide on that.
You've never spent any real time around people who program Windoze apps have you? I've always got 2 or 3 copyies of cmd open for performing various tasks...
kill the menu, start the menue, register the typelibs, delete the corrupted obj files, etc... using the GUI to perform those tasks is annoying.
Everyone's brain works differently. A person who can't spell worth a damn can be a damn smart person.
Some people can do physics all day in and out but can't cook worth a damn. Some cooks can't do physics to save their life. You trying to say that if one person can do A but not B, then a person who can do B should also be able to do A, but it DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Your logic is that I should be able to get a Civil degree by spending 5 minutes on homework because programming computers is, to me, the simplest thing I could ever do. Yet, as you may have found other from other threads, I can't even begin to grasp some of the concepts involved with civil engineering -- I just can not do the math; I get it all mixed up and backwards.
How the hell in your backwards brain can you even compare the two fields anyway? They're entirely different concepts. The ability to do math does not imply an inate ability to think logically -- as your own post clearly demonstrates.
If you want a different comparisson, how can you meter the homework given between the two fields? What if all CS teachers give all of their students twice as much homework as civil engineers? What if it were the other way around? What if CS students spend so much time on homework because nobody teaches computer science well?
AN APPLE IS NOT AN ORANGE. Quit trying to compare them as if it were.
I suppose you really havn't watched much of Battlebots... some of those matches throw out some serious sparks and metal.
Especially the bot being actioned, which tore up biohazard. In the process of tearing up biohazard, sparks sailed through the air from the titanium armor he had on that bot, in addition to ripping pieces of that armor clear off.
It was really cool, in a beavis & buthead "fire fire" kinda way.:)
There are also some pretty stupid programmers out there. This doesn't mean that all programmers are dumb, nor does it mean that these programmers can't get a job done.
The same implication towards civil engineers applies. There are some dumb ones who can barely do the job, and there are ones that actually payed attention in college.
Additionally, the "style" of work done in each field is drastically different. To program you need to be able to think differently than you do to work out a physics problem. It just so happens that I breezed through my CS courses and struggled through Physics 23 & 24.
I don't even want to think about more more difficult courses, where you have to take into account the forces exerted among members of a bridge, the weights of structures at their various points and how they apply, forces exerted by expanding and contracting materials, the principles involved with reinforced concrete, etc.
Some people can remember the names of every person they've ever met, without asking for it again years later. This is "easy" to them. I can hardly remember the name of a person I talk to every day for the last 3 days if I just met them. "Difficulty" is relative.
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And you can't call it "baMessage" for what reason?
Let's say I'm writing software for a portrait studio. Each picture you take is called a pose.
What would you think "PoseNumber" would be? Would it surprise you to discover that it is actually a string, and not a number?
What about the difference between an int, long, a short, or an unsigned __int64? "index" doesn't tell you anything about what you're dealing with. It tells you you're dealing with a datatype that represents the index, but nothing about the datatype itself; so every time that becomes important (say, when you want to write it out to disk in some ass backwards format that the client needs it in, or display it on the screen), you've got to wast 5 minutes finding where the variable is declaired. You may think it's fine to spend time searching through 300mb of source code to see where a variable is declaired, but it's a waste of my time -- especially when one or two characters would have told me what I needed to know.
Stop being lazy and spend time making your code clear, not ambiguous. Your variable names should be descriptive and tell you what they are. Not most of what they are.
I'd just like to know how the hell they managed to get a burn rate of 6 million dollars a WEEK to start off with ...
You'd think that tons of backstory would be desirable in a SciFi series; a true SciFi fan survives without the backstory, because the show is cool.
And the same fan is dying for the reruns to start so he can see the backstory.
So, wouldn't tons of backstory give reruns more value than as filler between seasons?
I totally agree. Farscape has got to be my favorite show on TV right now.
And the cartoon episode was awesome. Even the live "in brain" moments managed to keep a cartoony feel to them.
"Take Revenge John!" (Harvy: big grin, nods up and done rapidly)
"Uuuuhhhh, nope." (Dargo: prior to chasing John around more)
It's one thing to be newbies on the block. Enterprise makes humans out to be the village idiot.
Gag me. My 1 year old neice demonstrates better judgement than the characters on the show. And she sticks random objects off of the floor in her mouth.
You're kidding right? If all you've watched for the last 20 years is reruns of gilligan's island, yeah Enterprise is good.
But geeze, I've seen cardboard with better personalities than the the people in the show. The effects and constumes are good, but the plots are HORRIBLE. If executed properly would be pretty cool, but every episode has failed utterly. I mean UTTERLY, with a gag me with a spork factor that I havn't seen since Mars 2.
I'll tell you about the Newton *I* used. The first model Apple came out with.
The batteries lasted 2 hours.
The display was indeed large. Which made the whole unit something you couldn't carry around with you in your pocket -- a Newton is HUGE compared to a Palm.
The CPU wasn't slow, the UNIT was slow. It was unresponsive, took way too long to interpret text written on the screen, and generally felt like Win98 running on a P90 with 16mb of ram.
The handwriting recognition that came with the unit didn't work well enough to do anything serious with it. It was fun to play with, but was WRONG more than 50% of the time. After weeks of training. As I said, other software developed later eliminated this problem for all intensive purposes.
Aside from the handwriting recognition, the UI on the unit was actually quite good. I liked it quite a bit.
Sound is something I need to give apple props on as well. It actually played real sound and not some cheap beeps.
The Netwon was a neat toy, but it most definately would NOT be usable as a PDA in my every day life in the form I saw it in. Obviously my needs arn't necessarily the same as yours, and I'm glad you make good use of yours. I, however, can't make good use of one.
Yeah, but it's not quite the same experience. :)
Other problems the newton had:
* Really poor battery life
* WAY too big
* Slow as hell
* Crappy handwriting recognition (albeit, some alternatives popped up over time)
But it was a fun device to play with, I'll give you that. Just wasn't very usefull.
And who can forget Llamatron? I loved that game. :)
...gonna have to dust off the 'ol ST one of these days and see if it still works.
If you use the same settings I use, you might see an extra half hour to hour (appears to be roughly 40 minutes, but I can't measure it precisely) of recording time. More if you use lower quality settings.
Ashcroft used to be a good person, fighting the good fight. But if you've examined what the man has done over the last 10 or so years, you'll notice a that the kind of legislation/government he supports has changed. He's gone from a good guy to a person who would seem to prefer life in germany about 60 years back.
Bose speakers do sound like crap. Overpriced crap at that. The only thing Bose speakers have working for them is that they're nearly indistructable.
:)
Your dad's setup is probably a pretty good one, with the hardware you mentioned.
You won't find anything that truely sounds good at Best Buy. Their more expensive stuff is ok, but it's WAY overpriced.
Find yourself a good home theatre store. Bring a few CD's for you, tell the sales guy what you're looking for (2 speakers, under say $700) and he'll pop your cd(s) in and switch between various speakers/hardware to give you an idea what they sound like.
The "budget" end of good speakers will be somewhere around $500. For $500 you'll get something that sounds 100x better than anything you can find in best buy. You won't get a huge pair of speakers, but size isn't everything in audio quality. B&W makes probably the best budget speakers in the business. Just about anything you find in the home theatre store will be good stuff; use the sales guy -- the places I usually go to don't have commissioned sales people; but they really laid back, know their stuff, and give you a good idea what you can get in your price range.
If your definition of good quality sound is 800 watts pumping through JL or Infinity speakers you've got more important things to worry about than the distortion the MP3's introduce. Bletch.
I've had the oposite experience as you.
I've had no problems with any games, including the same game being played on the internet on the same server but on different computers behind the router. No problems with the router crashing under any kind of load either. *shrug*
Not every state has different emissions standards, but several states have varying emissions standards.
;)
What ends up happening is that the automaker just builds cars that complies to the toughest ones and sells those cars with the same emissions hardware across the rest of the country.
My new car has two precats on it in addition to the main cat in order to meet california emissions standards. My '84 ranger that emitts blue smoke out the tailpipe passes emissions where I live. Slight contrast.
No, you ARE comparing apples to oranges. There is not one similarity between the work required to program computers, and the work required to design and build a bridge aside from the fact that they are large tasks.
I ask, WHAT does civil engineering share with computer science? The ability to add 2+2? Cooking has that, that's for certain -- and you're kidding yourself i you think the vast majority of computer science students take near the level of math required for a civil engineering degree; and you're also kidding yourself if you think the majority of programmers out there ever do much math beyond i++. And what engineering discipline doesn't require "logical thinking" to some degree? You also going to insist that aerospace degrees arn't worth the paper they're written on either, because they mainly involve math and logical thinking too?
What in computer science deals with materials? What about bridge building requires boolean logic? What about applications programming requires statics? What about civil engineering requires knowledge of computing theory? The fundamental knowledge required for each field is completely different!
Civil engineering has about as much in common with computer science as cooking does. They all involve non-trivial tasks, all done in a different form. Each can be considered artistic in it's own way, as well as "just another job." In civil engineering you have to make sure your building doesn't fall down. In computer science you need to make sure your server software doesn't fall down. In cooking you need to make sure your cake doesn't fall down. Sounds the same, but the details required to make those items happen have absofuckinglutely nothing in common.
I'm not denying that there are so stupid ass civil engineers. There are stupid as hell comp sci people too. I also know people who can't do complicated math that are excellent programmers. I know programmers who couldn't fix a car if their life depended on it. I know mechanics who can't program a computer to save their life. I can do both, yet I can't seem to keep my checkbook balanced. I know some brilliant civil engineers. I know some people who seem to be able to do anything they can stick their mind to. I know some people who can prove the entire contents of my calculus text.
There is no pure "unbiased" way to measure the "difficulty" of a task. Tell me, how can you compare the difficulty of baking a pie with the difficulty involved in programming a computer? All a good score on the SAT says is that you're good at taking an SAT. I can produce a test that I could score well on and you'd score horribly on, after which I could give it to a 100 different people to "rank" your intelligence level; doesn't mean it's an accurate indication of "brilliance."
The fact of the matter is, is that some people are better at certain tasks than others. Everyone's brain is different. Yours is obviously incapable of accepting this fact. Does that mean I'm smarter than you? That you are somehow inferrior? Well, I'll let you decide on that.
You've never spent any real time around people who program Windoze apps have you? I've always got 2 or 3 copyies of cmd open for performing various tasks ...
kill the menu, start the menue, register the typelibs, delete the corrupted obj files, etc... using the GUI to perform those tasks is annoying.
You're getting the differences between a library and an application confused. Get the concepts right in your head and get it straight.
What the hell are you smoking?
Everyone's brain works differently. A person who can't spell worth a damn can be a damn smart person.
Some people can do physics all day in and out but can't cook worth a damn. Some cooks can't do physics to save their life. You trying to say that if one person can do A but not B, then a person who can do B should also be able to do A, but it DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Your logic is that I should be able to get a Civil degree by spending 5 minutes on homework because programming computers is, to me, the simplest thing I could ever do. Yet, as you may have found other from other threads, I can't even begin to grasp some of the concepts involved with civil engineering -- I just can not do the math; I get it all mixed up and backwards.
How the hell in your backwards brain can you even compare the two fields anyway? They're entirely different concepts. The ability to do math does not imply an inate ability to think logically -- as your own post clearly demonstrates.
If you want a different comparisson, how can you meter the homework given between the two fields? What if all CS teachers give all of their students twice as much homework as civil engineers? What if it were the other way around? What if CS students spend so much time on homework because nobody teaches computer science well?
AN APPLE IS NOT AN ORANGE. Quit trying to compare them as if it were.
Taking out the hammers is the trick. :) Good luck.
I suppose you really havn't watched much of Battlebots ... some of those matches throw out some serious sparks and metal.
:)
Especially the bot being actioned, which tore up biohazard. In the process of tearing up biohazard, sparks sailed through the air from the titanium armor he had on that bot, in addition to ripping pieces of that armor clear off.
It was really cool, in a beavis & buthead "fire fire" kinda way.
Beatiful code is a for loop which takes up 10 lines between the (). 8^)
Yes, I am indeed very evil.
You'd be surprised how much faster code runs when you increment in the for loop constructs than inside of the loop.......
I believe that it cost about $8000 when all is said and done for each line of code placed in the space shuttle software.
That's an expensive "{"
:)
There are also some pretty stupid programmers out there. This doesn't mean that all programmers are dumb, nor does it mean that these programmers can't get a job done.
The same implication towards civil engineers applies. There are some dumb ones who can barely do the job, and there are ones that actually payed attention in college.
Additionally, the "style" of work done in each field is drastically different. To program you need to be able to think differently than you do to work out a physics problem. It just so happens that I breezed through my CS courses and struggled through Physics 23 & 24.
I don't even want to think about more more difficult courses, where you have to take into account the forces exerted among members of a bridge, the weights of structures at their various points and how they apply, forces exerted by expanding and contracting materials, the principles involved with reinforced concrete, etc.
Some people can remember the names of every person they've ever met, without asking for it again years later. This is "easy" to them. I can hardly remember the name of a person I talk to every day for the last 3 days if I just met them. "Difficulty" is relative.