A bigger problem is that the usefulness of the algorithm depends upon its secrecy. Google is perpetually tweaking their algorithm to prevent people artifically boosting rankings.
I don't think this is true. I bought my Gamecube to play Super Smash Brothers Melee, Super Mario Sunshine, and Animal Crossing. Since then I've bought Pikmin and Wave Race. Most of Nintendo's Gamecube games are either in some way unique or just done very well.
Basically Nintendo is becoming like the Mac OS X of gaming platforms. Smaller market share, not much support from other companies, but very well put together.
Nintendo is managing to do quite well, oddly enough, with its $30 Game Boy games that are direct ports of old Mario (NES/SNES) games. I've already bought most of those games twice...
There's also the e-reader, a Game Boy gadget that reads packs of cards you can buy for about $5 that have old NES games (like Donkey Kong Jr. or Tennis) on them.
Also WarioWare is a fairly recent GBA game that involves playing hundreds of little games. So Nintendo is following similar strategies in many places.
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time featured a sort of side quest whose objective was to track down and kill all Skulltulas, who made a very distinctive scratching sound. I was playing the game so much that I started to hear that sound walking around my house...
The major problem with Cornell is the weather. It is cloudy around 90% of the time and snowy for several months. If you suffer from seasonal depression, don't go here.
Aside from that, Cornell offers the experience of a solid engineering program within the framework of a solid general university. It gives you more opportunities if you're not totally sure about what you want to do -- I went from a CS major in Engineering to a Math/CS double major in Arts & Sciences. And unlike a state school, the atmosphere is fairly nerdy -- not at all focused on athletics.
Only in a very limited sense could Python be considered strong typing. It's stronger than C, but most anything is, and you can do things like
obj.feild = 4
and in general, functions tend to care about whether their arguments have certain properties (you can apply something to them) rather than what type they are.
And yes, type inference is absolutely necessary to have a workable strong-typing system - otherwise you end up with something as verbose as Java.
"Functional languages" generally means languages that allow for a functional style (having functions as arguments and/or return values of other functions) without much trouble. There are not may pure functional languages like Haskell in widespread use, mainly because you can't do some things as well (e.g. hashing).
What? You don't want strong typing in a scripting language -- for all the differences between Perl and Python, weak typing is one thing they share. (S)ML is my favorite language but I wouldn't use it for scripting.
It wouldn't accomplish much. Constitutional guarantees of basic freedoms mainly affect the Supreme Court, which has already recognized an implicit right to privacy in the Constitution (i.e. the Founders thought it was too obvious to bother writing in).
The main sources of problems in a market system are when the costs and benefits of an action are not localized to the actor. This is not so much a problem with the concept of a market system as with its implementation.
For example, the full costs of environmental pollution (medical problems, land reclamation, etc.) do not, generally speaking, fall on the polluter. If they did, they would far outweigh the cost of proper disposal.
Another example would be the benefits of curing a disease that is widespread in poor countries. The benefit to humanity as a whole might be great, but the benefits to a medical research firm might not outweigh the costs of development.
These are basically the reasons why a "pure" market system (one that makes no attempt to localize the costs and benefits of actions) can't be successful other than on paper.
More realistically, SSNs need to stop being considered secret and a form of authentication. It's much easier to take the lid of Pandora's Box all the way off.
Unlike BSD, the GPL carries a political message in it
I don't think anyone would consider the Preamble to be legally binding, or usage of GPL-covered software as implicit acceptance of its statements. As far as the license itself goes, it only advances free software to the extent that a Microsoft EULA advances proprietary software.
To say that the government using software under a certain license constitutes endorsement of that license's goals is like saying that the government employing an attorney or construction worker constitutes endorsement of his personal political views.
There are certainly benefits for a school to maintain its own distribution. It can include unusual or local software, either required for a course or used for things like payroll or checking grades. Also, it can reduce administration through standardization.
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A bigger problem is that the usefulness of the algorithm depends upon its secrecy. Google is perpetually tweaking their algorithm to prevent people artifically boosting rankings.
Basically Nintendo is becoming like the Mac OS X of gaming platforms. Smaller market share, not much support from other companies, but very well put together.
There's also the e-reader, a Game Boy gadget that reads packs of cards you can buy for about $5 that have old NES games (like Donkey Kong Jr. or Tennis) on them.
Also WarioWare is a fairly recent GBA game that involves playing hundreds of little games. So Nintendo is following similar strategies in many places.
No, I think he means the one that plays whenever you find something secret.
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time featured a sort of side quest whose objective was to track down and kill all Skulltulas, who made a very distinctive scratching sound. I was playing the game so much that I started to hear that sound walking around my house...
Maybe they hit the karma cap?
FWIW, the course here at Cornell descended from SICP uses SML and no textbook.
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Aside from that, Cornell offers the experience of a solid engineering program within the framework of a solid general university. It gives you more opportunities if you're not totally sure about what you want to do -- I went from a CS major in Engineering to a Math/CS double major in Arts & Sciences. And unlike a state school, the atmosphere is fairly nerdy -- not at all focused on athletics.
Yes, a school that teaches you the specifics of modern technology will provide everything you need for a career of five, maybe even ten years.
obj.feild = 4
and in general, functions tend to care about whether their arguments have certain properties (you can apply something to them) rather than what type they are.
And yes, type inference is absolutely necessary to have a workable strong-typing system - otherwise you end up with something as verbose as Java.
"Functional languages" generally means languages that allow for a functional style (having functions as arguments and/or return values of other functions) without much trouble. There are not may pure functional languages like Haskell in widespread use, mainly because you can't do some things as well (e.g. hashing).
worst troll ever
hunt, not wump.
Play hunt. It's playable on anything with a telnet client.
I don't want to be Elfstar anymore! I want to be Debbie!
To be more precise, it's the number-one way to whack a system written in C.
It wouldn't accomplish much. Constitutional guarantees of basic freedoms mainly affect the Supreme Court, which has already recognized an implicit right to privacy in the Constitution (i.e. the Founders thought it was too obvious to bother writing in).
For example, the full costs of environmental pollution (medical problems, land reclamation, etc.) do not, generally speaking, fall on the polluter. If they did, they would far outweigh the cost of proper disposal.
Another example would be the benefits of curing a disease that is widespread in poor countries. The benefit to humanity as a whole might be great, but the benefits to a medical research firm might not outweigh the costs of development.
These are basically the reasons why a "pure" market system (one that makes no attempt to localize the costs and benefits of actions) can't be successful other than on paper.
Actually a vaccine for malaria is in development. My uncle was a volunteer test subject for it.
More realistically, SSNs need to stop being considered secret and a form of authentication. It's much easier to take the lid of Pandora's Box all the way off.
Where I live, we call these libraries.
I don't think anyone would consider the Preamble to be legally binding, or usage of GPL-covered software as implicit acceptance of its statements. As far as the license itself goes, it only advances free software to the extent that a Microsoft EULA advances proprietary software.
To say that the government using software under a certain license constitutes endorsement of that license's goals is like saying that the government employing an attorney or construction worker constitutes endorsement of his personal political views.
There are certainly benefits for a school to maintain its own distribution. It can include unusual or local software, either required for a course or used for things like payroll or checking grades. Also, it can reduce administration through standardization.
Ugh. Most people who claim to be C++ programmers don't even understand syntax like
let alone things like multiple inheritance. C++ is a very hard language to thoroughly understand compared with something like Java.