You have that backwards. Calculus is the theory behind physics. Numerical methods and algorithms and so forth are the theory behind programming. Its more like having physics without the labs... and really, what they said is deemphasizing the programming, not eliminating it entirely. Theres lots of interesting math involved with computer science - why not let people get a degree in it? They can go on and be a professor, or work with supercomputers or anyone else that needs people strong in algorithms. They probably won't want a job in IT, but then again, to be honest, CS really should not be about IT.
The real question is why are all the women in engineering (at my school) signing up for Civil, Mechanical and Chemical (more women than men in CME from what I can tell) instead of Electrical, Computer and CS? (CS is in the College of Engineering here)
If I had to pull numbers out of thin air, I'd say that approximately 1/3 of MEs and around 1/2 of CEs are female. This compares with 1/20 or so in EE and maybe 1/10 to 1/5 in CS. (again, at my school - and I may be wrong on the CE/ME numbers)
Why? I bet the women learning about building bridges are capable of learning control theory or algorithms if they were interested - why aren't they interested?
Of course, most engineers on/. will take exception to the lumping in of CS with all the engineering disciplines (ie, ones that you can be a PE in), I generally do as well, but I think its interesting because it takes the same "kind" of person to declare any one of these majors - you have to like math, and thats the same for a real CS curriculum.
IANAL, but I was curious so I looked it up. The relevant part of the US Code is apparently here (15 USC Sec. 2302, subsection c - no idea if that will actually work for everyone, this link also has it here).
Not sure exactly how that statute would work with computers...
Isn't there a part of the uniform commerce code about warranties only being voided by what you do to the product is the reason for its failure?
I mean if I buy a car and replace the breaks and several months later the air conditioning goes out, they can't void the warranty for what I did to the breaks.
I really don't believe that piracy has made id go multiplatform. Their main money making is not from selling games, but from selling game engines. A multiplatform game engine is going to sell better than a single platform game engine, so its in their best interest to have the best multiplatform engines on the market. While all their previous engines have supported consoles, if they also make games for the consoles its likely to help them improve their engine because they'll have more experience with seeing what problems you get when using their APIs on specific platforms.
I imagine that due to HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley or something with similar requirements, all electronic communications must be logged in his workplace by federal law. If they allowed encrypted email they would not be able to log that communication and his company could be in very serious trouble.
Your University's library is paying that fortune out of your student fees (whether you're paying them or some scholarship fund is) so that everyone at the university (you included) can view journal articles. If you need a journal that your university does not subscribe to, you should talk to a librarian and they'll try to get it for you somehow - thats what they're there for.
Just like a Pentium 3 is a "full fledged" x86 microprocessor, even if it isn't as modern and powerful as Core 2 Duo.
My core 2 duo has instructions that my old pentium 3 does not. Any assembly instructions using SSE3 will not execute on the pentium 3, my c2d will do it just fine. The pentium 3 is a fine processor, but it physically cannot do something as there is no circuitry for the instructions. If a program depended on SSE2, SSE3 or having long datatypes, there will be nothing that pentium 3 can do to natively execute the code.
This is the same case with GPUs. If a program assumes circuitry thats not there on the processor, it won't run, full stop. The Wii does not have some render paths that new dx9 and dx10 engines may depend heavily upon - without the circuitry to handle the instructions, theres no way for these new programs to run.
In my maths course, no calculators are allowed in *any exam*, full stop.
Uh, in any class where you're applying math, you are very likely to be allowed to use some very advanced computer algebra systems. The electrical engineering classes I've taken would be extremely difficult if not impossible to pass without using a calculator on an exam - theres just waaaay too much linear algebra using far too ugly numbers to do it by hand in a reasonable amount of time. My Ti-89 can do matrix transformations in seconds which would take me 10 or more minutes. Humans don't do floating point operations very well. Thats what calculators are for.
I've used Vista for a while since RTM - I never got stopped by DRM doing anything with media. If you can do it right now in Windows XP, you'll be able to do it in Vista. As it stands, there is no media out there that uses any of the DRM features, and if the blueray/hddvd rollouts are any indication, I don't think we'll see them for a while, if ever. The real problem with Vista right now is that everyone's drivers are complete crap. I took a 30% performance hit on video and audio in Vista compared with XP - Creative and nVidia's Vista drivers are simply horrible (in fact the latter has severe issues with artifacting in games such as Oblivion and Counter Strike:Source. These games work just fine in Windows XP, and my card seems do just fine in Ubuntu using compiz).
This is the fault of Microsoft somewhat - they completely changed the way their drivers work for sound and video, though I can't imagine that nVidia and Creative are blameless. Systems are going to start shipping with Vista in a few weeks and games do not run properly. I'd imagine that other video intensive things like rendering and editing will run into the same problems.
BSG isn't doing that great ratings wise - why do you think they're moving it to Sunday nights? Advertisers pay a rate related to how many people have watched the show in the past... better Nielson ratings for BSG = more advertising revenue = more show... otherwise it gets canceled and wrestling or SG-1 reruns put in its place.
Ensign Ro was at the helm of the Ent-D for much of the post-Wesley time, and Jadzia Dax did a good job at the helm of the Defiant... Troi just had a hard time in general being useful;)
In 18th century terminology there were two major types of weapons - small arms and cannon. Note the absence of the word "cannon" in the 2nd ammendment.
I had that happen with ut2k4. I drove back to Circuit City within a few hours and I got a new copy. You can't return opened software, but retail stores seem to be perfectly happy to exchange for a copy of the same title...
I don't think that this will work with online retailers though.
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Of course... Women are completely incapable of taking jobs which require you to be on call most of the day - only young men can do that.
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That must be why nursing is dominated by young men.
You can only charge someone for trespassing after you tell them to leave... Same should of course apply for wifi.
You have that backwards. Calculus is the theory behind physics. Numerical methods and algorithms and so forth are the theory behind programming. Its more like having physics without the labs... and really, what they said is deemphasizing the programming, not eliminating it entirely. Theres lots of interesting math involved with computer science - why not let people get a degree in it? They can go on and be a professor, or work with supercomputers or anyone else that needs people strong in algorithms. They probably won't want a job in IT, but then again, to be honest, CS really should not be about IT.
The real question is why are all the women in engineering (at my school) signing up for Civil, Mechanical and Chemical (more women than men in CME from what I can tell) instead of Electrical, Computer and CS? (CS is in the College of Engineering here)
/. will take exception to the lumping in of CS with all the engineering disciplines (ie, ones that you can be a PE in), I generally do as well, but I think its interesting because it takes the same "kind" of person to declare any one of these majors - you have to like math, and thats the same for a real CS curriculum.
If I had to pull numbers out of thin air, I'd say that approximately 1/3 of MEs and around 1/2 of CEs are female. This compares with 1/20 or so in EE and maybe 1/10 to 1/5 in CS. (again, at my school - and I may be wrong on the CE/ME numbers)
Why? I bet the women learning about building bridges are capable of learning control theory or algorithms if they were interested - why aren't they interested?
Of course, most engineers on
IANAL, but I was curious so I looked it up. The relevant part of the US Code is apparently here (15 USC Sec. 2302, subsection c - no idea if that will actually work for everyone, this link also has it here).
Not sure exactly how that statute would work with computers...
Of course what I meant is that the hardware was broken before the software touched it.
If your software can break the hardware then your hardware is broken.
Isn't there a part of the uniform commerce code about warranties only being voided by what you do to the product is the reason for its failure?
I mean if I buy a car and replace the breaks and several months later the air conditioning goes out, they can't void the warranty for what I did to the breaks.
I really don't believe that piracy has made id go multiplatform. Their main money making is not from selling games, but from selling game engines. A multiplatform game engine is going to sell better than a single platform game engine, so its in their best interest to have the best multiplatform engines on the market. While all their previous engines have supported consoles, if they also make games for the consoles its likely to help them improve their engine because they'll have more experience with seeing what problems you get when using their APIs on specific platforms.
I hope that makes sense...
I imagine that due to HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley or something with similar requirements, all electronic communications must be logged in his workplace by federal law. If they allowed encrypted email they would not be able to log that communication and his company could be in very serious trouble.
Your University's library is paying that fortune out of your student fees (whether you're paying them or some scholarship fund is) so that everyone at the university (you included) can view journal articles. If you need a journal that your university does not subscribe to, you should talk to a librarian and they'll try to get it for you somehow - thats what they're there for.
This is the same case with GPUs. If a program assumes circuitry thats not there on the processor, it won't run, full stop. The Wii does not have some render paths that new dx9 and dx10 engines may depend heavily upon - without the circuitry to handle the instructions, theres no way for these new programs to run.
Does that clear things up a bit?
Tell that to string physicists.
Uh, in any class where you're applying math, you are very likely to be allowed to use some very advanced computer algebra systems. The electrical engineering classes I've taken would be extremely difficult if not impossible to pass without using a calculator on an exam - theres just waaaay too much linear algebra using far too ugly numbers to do it by hand in a reasonable amount of time. My Ti-89 can do matrix transformations in seconds which would take me 10 or more minutes. Humans don't do floating point operations very well. Thats what calculators are for.
0 degrees F is supposed to be the freezing point of salt water, though that worked about as well as setting 100 as typical human body temperature. ;)
I've used Vista for a while since RTM - I never got stopped by DRM doing anything with media. If you can do it right now in Windows XP, you'll be able to do it in Vista. As it stands, there is no media out there that uses any of the DRM features, and if the blueray/hddvd rollouts are any indication, I don't think we'll see them for a while, if ever. The real problem with Vista right now is that everyone's drivers are complete crap. I took a 30% performance hit on video and audio in Vista compared with XP - Creative and nVidia's Vista drivers are simply horrible (in fact the latter has severe issues with artifacting in games such as Oblivion and Counter Strike:Source. These games work just fine in Windows XP, and my card seems do just fine in Ubuntu using compiz).
This is the fault of Microsoft somewhat - they completely changed the way their drivers work for sound and video, though I can't imagine that nVidia and Creative are blameless. Systems are going to start shipping with Vista in a few weeks and games do not run properly. I'd imagine that other video intensive things like rendering and editing will run into the same problems.
Actually, I thought of Homeworld, a video game that predates the movie adaptation of minority report by 3 years.
BSG isn't doing that great ratings wise - why do you think they're moving it to Sunday nights? Advertisers pay a rate related to how many people have watched the show in the past... better Nielson ratings for BSG = more advertising revenue = more show... otherwise it gets canceled and wrestling or SG-1 reruns put in its place.
Ensign Ro was at the helm of the Ent-D for much of the post-Wesley time, and Jadzia Dax did a good job at the helm of the Defiant... Troi just had a hard time in general being useful ;)
You seem to have missed Jacksonian democracy, the robber barons of the late 19th century and the trust busting of TR amongst other over simplifications of US history...
In 18th century terminology there were two major types of weapons - small arms and cannon. Note the absence of the word "cannon" in the 2nd ammendment.
I bet those strict ordinances wouldn't survive a court challenge.*
*Assuming that you are living in the US.
China says that they were informed of the test 20 minutes before it happened - this must be why that measure was taken.
(China went on to inform RoK, Japanese and US governments)
I was assuming that the parent was refering to the AP World History exam, not one the teacher wrote...
I had that happen with ut2k4. I drove back to Circuit City within a few hours and I got a new copy. You can't return opened software, but retail stores seem to be perfectly happy to exchange for a copy of the same title...
I don't think that this will work with online retailers though.