Most introductory CS classes using Java use a small, simple class written by the instructor for this purpose. You don't really need to understand the full structure or capabilities of the Java IO when you're starting out.
I don't know, CE seems like it's always been a beer and pretzels type game rather than a serious strategy game. It's intentionally unfair -- some powers just lose to other powers.
A link between violence and video games is probably the issue about which geeks are most dogmatic. Nearly all the posts so far in this thread seem to be of the form "Games can't promote violence, because that would just be TOTALLY UNTRUE." There is probably not much evidence for a link, but why refuse to even consider any data? It seems as though people are even more willing to play armchair psychologist than armchair lawyer.
You could give the full context of the second quote, but that would probably be too damaging to your troll.
Although the jacket is designed for women, there might be a market for a men's version. Tuttle said Tasers originally were marketed as self-defense devices for women, but the company sells as many to men as to women.
In fact, statistics from the Department of Justice show men are more likely to be victims of violent crime than women.
In addition, most violent crime against women is committed not by strangers, but by people they know.
According to the Department of Justice, 5.7 million violent personal crimes -- rapes, robberies, assaults -- were reported in 2001, the most recent year for which figures are available. Men accounted for 3.1 million victims and women for 2.6 million. Of the crimes against women, 32 percent were committed by strangers, while the remaining 68 percent were committed by family members, friends or acquaintances.
Anybody using these will definitely hate trading a zero-time stack allocation for a constant-time heap allocation. Put that in a loop and that becomes O (n) vs. zero. Add another loop and you get O (n^2) vs. again, zero.
Wow. That may be the greatest abuse of big-O notation I've ever seen. Unless you somehow have a loop where nothing else is done, adding one operation to the loop causes only a scalar difference, which is not represented in big-O notation.
There are a few applications of the E-Reader that strike me as interesting:
The trading cards for Animal Crossing, which allow you to receive items in the game when you scan a card. People seem to be fairly receptive of these, because they bend the rules of the game (letting you acquire certain items more easily) without breaking them outright (i.e. you buy an Action Replay and edit every item in the game into your inventory).
The card game Mario Party-e, which is mostly a fairly simple card game, but has certain cards which tell you to scan them into the e-reader and play a minigame to determine what happens.
The apparently fairly low cost of manufacturing the cards relative to other forms of media. It's the kind of thing you can stick in the bottom of a box of cereal.
Finally, there's just something innately cool about an object carrying data in addition to its usual function.
It seems like there's been a general trend in public education in the US in the direction of quantifiability. Not so much at the student level (students have been taking multiple-choice quizzes for decades), but increasingly, states attempt to measure the progress of their districts through standardized testing, which many students realize have absolutely no impact on them and consequently have little motive to take seriously. Oddly, legislators and the general public seem to take these rankings as impartial and useful under the guise of accountability. It seems as though a similar situation is affecting parents and children here.
You think they'd let someone look at it without an NDA? A person who's looked at that code could contaminate anything related they work on -- which is why groups like the XBox on Linux project specifically asked that you not help them if you are a professional XBox developer.
Have you ever seen a transcript of an appeals court or Supreme Court session? Judges seem to enjoy practically mocking the lawyers, whether or not they agree with them.
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Sun stealing the .net name from Microsoft is worse than that time when the whole internet stole .com from MSDOS programs.
Most introductory CS classes using Java use a small, simple class written by the instructor for this purpose. You don't really need to understand the full structure or capabilities of the Java IO when you're starting out.
What I find amusing is that modern cryptography, the primary application of number theory, is essentially about creating hard problems.
I don't know, CE seems like it's always been a beer and pretzels type game rather than a serious strategy game. It's intentionally unfair -- some powers just lose to other powers.
A link between violence and video games is probably the issue about which geeks are most dogmatic. Nearly all the posts so far in this thread seem to be of the form "Games can't promote violence, because that would just be TOTALLY UNTRUE." There is probably not much evidence for a link, but why refuse to even consider any data? It seems as though people are even more willing to play armchair psychologist than armchair lawyer.
Moreover, I'd rather have condescending technical support than a condescending operating system.
The trading cards for Animal Crossing, which allow you to receive items in the game when you scan a card. People seem to be fairly receptive of these, because they bend the rules of the game (letting you acquire certain items more easily) without breaking them outright (i.e. you buy an Action Replay and edit every item in the game into your inventory).
The card game Mario Party-e, which is mostly a fairly simple card game, but has certain cards which tell you to scan them into the e-reader and play a minigame to determine what happens.
The apparently fairly low cost of manufacturing the cards relative to other forms of media. It's the kind of thing you can stick in the bottom of a box of cereal.
Finally, there's just something innately cool about an object carrying data in addition to its usual function.
No, he's an entertainment reporter.
It is well that we should, for the moon is a serious menace.
The ACLU does this (on a more limited basis). See for instance this one about Carnivore.
The real future is in distribution of electricity over IP.
It seems like there's been a general trend in public education in the US in the direction of quantifiability. Not so much at the student level (students have been taking multiple-choice quizzes for decades), but increasingly, states attempt to measure the progress of their districts through standardized testing, which many students realize have absolutely no impact on them and consequently have little motive to take seriously. Oddly, legislators and the general public seem to take these rankings as impartial and useful under the guise of accountability. It seems as though a similar situation is affecting parents and children here.
You think they'd let someone look at it without an NDA? A person who's looked at that code could contaminate anything related they work on -- which is why groups like the XBox on Linux project specifically asked that you not help them if you are a professional XBox developer.
I read it as "Africa's Great Apes in Perl". I mean, I know CPAN is comprehensive, but lifeforms?
http://www.fatchucks.com/z3.cd.html
If you think coding to a coder is like fixing cars to an auto mechanic, you're missing the point.
I fully expect Slashdot to give me up-to-date news on typos around the world. No news source is better qualified to do so.
Have you ever seen a transcript of an appeals court or Supreme Court session? Judges seem to enjoy practically mocking the lawyers, whether or not they agree with them.
What bothered me more is that he basically seemed to imply that it was okay to make things illegal if some anecdotal evidence supports doing so.
When an astronomer says that a planet is a nice size, that's really just a nice way of saying it's too small to be seen with the naked eye.
There is a possibility for a great rap somewhere here.
Sure it's not a "C"?
Actually there is ftp://ftp.ece.cornell.edu/pub/Linux/redhat/. I don't know of ANY dorms that allow Roadrunner. In effect, CIT has a monopoly.