I've been coding C for a while now and recursion has always been presented to me as hell on earth. I'm sure most of the people who has ever created a recursive pow had a stack overflow at some point due to the amount of calls made.
Of course, those pow functions were just inefficient anyway. But then, their iterative pow function was probably very inefficient as well.
The following pow function is recursive, but usually will not overflow the stack:
And of course, LISP (whatever version) doesn't disallow using camelcase in your own function names, although some LISP versions don't distinguish between uppercase and lowercase characters. Emacs Lisp does distinguish, however, and therefore if you (or the authors of a corresponding package) decide to use CamelCase for the function name, then you just have to use it on invocation, too.
Really, people, how hard is it to use its and it's properly? Its not that hard. If you pay me for it, I'll redo this post with it's errors corrected. What, you want error-free posts for free? Its obvious then that you are just a free-rider.
If I got any "its" or "it's" right in this posting, its obviously an error.:-)
In this case Darwin says the bird must die No, Darwin says the bird will die. The theory of evolution isn't a system of demands, but a scientific theory. It doesn't tell you how things should be, it tells you how things are, to the best of our knowledge. Just like the theory of gravitation doesn't tell you that things should fall down, it just tells you that they do fall down (under certain conditions).
Of course the windmills will produce traffic (a service technician coming to control them every now and then), power lines (obvious) and high-rise buildings (for the companies who build and operate those windmills). Possibly they'll also produce hunting (I can't currently find any link, but I'm sure with enough creativity, you'll find one). So you have to add all those birds killed by those activities to the numbers of windmills. You'll see immediately that the resulting sum is larger than the effect of any activity you mentioned.
And don't tell me that this calculation is not serious. After all, the RIAA gets away with this type of calculation all the time!
I don't think the protons would get to the detectors; protons are heavy charged particles, and therefore should deposit their energy in the medium quite fast (similar to alpha particles, which are already shielded quite efficiently by a normal piece of paper).
Well, actually the Greek doesn't have an H letter (AFAIK there was an H sound, but it didn't have its own character, but an appropriately accented vowel indicated that is was to be spoken with an H before it; I think those accents don't exist any more in modern Greek). OTOH, Latin definitively does have an H letter, although the Romans probably didn't speak it.
"Don't open dubious email" is bulldust. The email program should be secure.
Sure, in an ideal world, software doesn't have bugs. Now in the real world, about every piece of software might have yet unknown vulnerabilities which might be used by an attacker. For example: Just displaying an image should be fine, right? Well, not necessarily. There have been several vulnerabilities related to PNG display.
And of course, even if there's absolutely no vulnerability in the software, the mail might still use a "brain vulnerability" (there's nothing software can do to protect an user from himself).
Yes. If at all, it's a reason not to use Windows. There are several non-Windows operating systems out there, including several which run on the cheaper PC hardware. Even better, when switching from Windows, for an OS running on PC hardware, you generally don't need to buy new hardware at all, but can use the same hardware you've previously running Windows on. You can even keep dual-boot for some time, so if any unforeseen problems arise, you can temporarily (or in the worst case even permanently) switch back to the existing Windows install. Therefore you'd definitively need more reasons to buy Macs instead.
Sure, they build turbines which also produce energy when the wind currently doesn't blow!:-) No, the standard solution is to have other power plants step in. Which of course only works if there are enough other plants capable of doing that.
In most areas of the world, the wind blows not steadily. Electrical grids are very sensitive for sudden changes in power generation of consumption. At every moment, the energy consumed must equal the energy produced, or the system may fail (yes, generating too much power can cause a blackout!). Since you cannot control the wind, you have to compensate the varying power generation otherwise. The more wind energy is produced, the more important those instabilities in power production get.
Don't worry. After there are enough windmills, they'll find out how much the energy removed from the wind will affect the climate, and wind energy will be the next big evil...
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I've been coding C for a while now and recursion has always been presented to me as hell on earth. I'm sure most of the people who has ever created a recursive pow had a stack overflow at some point due to the amount of calls made.
Of course, those pow functions were just inefficient anyway. But then, their iterative pow function was probably very inefficient as well.
The following pow function is recursive, but usually will not overflow the stack:
Obviously this code isn't very well optimized, but then, it will still beat the normal iterative version if the exponent is very large.
And of course, LISP (whatever version) doesn't disallow using camelcase in your own function names, although some LISP versions don't distinguish between uppercase and lowercase characters. Emacs Lisp does distinguish, however, and therefore if you (or the authors of a corresponding package) decide to use CamelCase for the function name, then you just have to use it on invocation, too.
Really, people, how hard is it to use its and it's properly? Its not that hard. If you pay me for it, I'll redo this post with it's errors corrected. What, you want error-free posts for free? Its obvious then that you are just a free-rider.
If I got any "its" or "it's" right in this posting, its obviously an error.
That's why they call it a flourishing industry.
Never heard about the solar wind? :-)
No, it's only tangentially related.
We can't, there's too much divergence of ideas.
Of course the windmills will produce traffic (a service technician coming to control them every now and then), power lines (obvious) and high-rise buildings (for the companies who build and operate those windmills). Possibly they'll also produce hunting (I can't currently find any link, but I'm sure with enough creativity, you'll find one). So you have to add all those birds killed by those activities to the numbers of windmills. You'll see immediately that the resulting sum is larger than the effect of any activity you mentioned.
And don't tell me that this calculation is not serious. After all, the RIAA gets away with this type of calculation all the time!
See? The electric windmills don't give the birds water. They are BAD! :-)
I don't think the protons would get to the detectors; protons are heavy charged particles, and therefore should deposit their energy in the medium quite fast (similar to alpha particles, which are already shielded quite efficiently by a normal piece of paper).
Well, you can stabilize them with a tachyonic neutrino resonance. Just make sure you properly shield the semileptonic field.
Yes. It will be the day when they'll have nothing to lose any more.
Of course! :-)
Well, actually the Greek doesn't have an H letter (AFAIK there was an H sound, but it didn't have its own character, but an appropriately accented vowel indicated that is was to be spoken with an H before it; I think those accents don't exist any more in modern Greek). OTOH, Latin definitively does have an H letter, although the Romans probably didn't speak it.
Sure, in an ideal world, software doesn't have bugs. Now in the real world, about every piece of software might have yet unknown vulnerabilities which might be used by an attacker. For example: Just displaying an image should be fine, right? Well, not necessarily. There have been several vulnerabilities related to PNG display.
And of course, even if there's absolutely no vulnerability in the software, the mail might still use a "brain vulnerability" (there's nothing software can do to protect an user from himself).
Yes. If at all, it's a reason not to use Windows. There are several non-Windows operating systems out there, including several which run on the cheaper PC hardware. Even better, when switching from Windows, for an OS running on PC hardware, you generally don't need to buy new hardware at all, but can use the same hardware you've previously running Windows on. You can even keep dual-boot for some time, so if any unforeseen problems arise, you can temporarily (or in the worst case even permanently) switch back to the existing Windows install. Therefore you'd definitively need more reasons to buy Macs instead.
Well, given today's rather loose definition of "virus":
:-)
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/02/16/the-first-mac-os-x-virus-a-new-os-x-trojan/
So yes, there's ONE virus (when using the broad meaning of the word). I guess an AV program for OSX is easy to write
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Sure, they build turbines which also produce energy when the wind currently doesn't blow! :-)
No, the standard solution is to have other power plants step in. Which of course only works if there are enough other plants capable of doing that.
{{citation needed}}
In most areas of the world, the wind blows not steadily. Electrical grids are very sensitive for sudden changes in power generation of consumption. At every moment, the energy consumed must equal the energy produced, or the system may fail (yes, generating too much power can cause a blackout!). Since you cannot control the wind, you have to compensate the varying power generation otherwise. The more wind energy is produced, the more important those instabilities in power production get.
Don't worry. After there are enough windmills, they'll find out how much the energy removed from the wind will affect the climate, and wind energy will be the next big evil ...
It took several minutes, because we only got three (iirc) pings/minute, but i sent out "Dinner is served" a couple of times.
No, really. So when the aliens come to eat us for dinner, we at least know whom to blame.