Personally, I hope they change the ending. I always thought the ending was rather, disappointing. I mean, it's not like they all end up on crucifixes seeing a happy song or anything.
Wait a minute. You're right about the bytes. But isn't a byte==8 bits? Hm, or is it 16? I seem to recall that back in the day, an int was 8 bits, a long was 16 bits, and a word was 32 bits. That would make 64K = 524288 bits. Hmm, but now what used to be a word == int. Maybe I'm on crack? Heh.
I'm not even sure that byte is an SI unit at all (and surely it would make more sense for the fundamental unit to be the bit?)
Um, yes and no. The problem is that very early on we started having very large numbers using bits. For example, a computer with 64KB of memory actually had 65,536 bits of memory. Because 1 Kilo-byte = 1024 bits, right?
The problem here, talking about SI and bytes and so forth, is that it's not intended to be an SI system. When you get smaller than bytes, you don't get decabytes, centibytes, millibytes, etc. It goes from byte to bit, and that's it.
Am I the only one that had those stupid "bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte" exercises? Or am I making those up? Hmmm..... Don't right remember, it's been too many bytes since then.
Explaining the binary system to a nation which can't even handle metric notation is unlikely to happen, even if the movement is backed by an angry mob...
Those guys in the UK will get it, sooner or later.
Riddle me this: under your system, where the writer who turn the play into the movie script owns the copyright on script, and the director who directed the film owns copyright on his direction (including that of the actor), what changes? His similar interpretation is still arguably a derivative work of the writer and director's work.
Um, first, I don't think the director necessarily owns the copyright on the actor's performance. Like a rock band, I think the actor should have copyright on their own performance.
Second, the director's work is a derivative work of the writer's. He just owns copyright on his portion of the derivation. It's arguable whether or not it's a derivative work of the actors'. In order for it to work, there has to be a great deal of cross-licensing that could easily skyrocket movie costs, or bring them down, depending on how greedy the individuals get.
The problem with my proposed solution (which I only offered as a solution to the OP, I don't recall ever saying that I was for it) is it's complexity and dependency on bureaucracy. There's got to be a better way, but I haven't thought of it yet.
Why was this modded troll? I was making a joke about the original poster's username, which is vaginal discharge. Maybe the moderators need to pay more attention...
Yea, they deported all the religious fanatics to America and we end up with Jerry Fawlwell, Trent Lott, et. al. They deported all the criminals to Australia, now those people know how to party!
Um, actually, the american colonies got their share of prisoners as well. England used a lot of different colonies as penal colonies, I understand.
I have to agree with the original poster. The broadband connection is a luxury. Send the children to the public library. Almost all of them have Internet connections now even in the poorest areas.
While I'm living ina pretty good neighborhood, I'd like to point out that going to the public library in the poorest areas is potentially life-threatening. It usually indicates you have money. I don't know why, becuase library cards are cheap.
There is a reason that poor people are poor and that about 1/3 of lottery winers go bankrupt after 3 years. Wasting $50/mo on a broadband connection is a perfect example.
I suspect that the #1 reason poor people are poor is lack of education. But I have to agree that financial irresponsibility has to play a factor in many of them.
I hope your 4 year old is watching some educational movies and not the latest mindless Hollywood crap. I'd suggest both of you find some videos on financial planning and economics.
Depends entirely on how you define "educational".:) But there is a fair variety of stuff. And, for the record, crawling out of poverty usually indicates either a windfall (not in this case) which alsu usally reverts back to poverty, or some sort of financial planning acquired. The only reason I can't say that we're not poor anymore is because the business my buddy and I started isn't totally stable, yet. For that reason, I can't get paid too much, or the business might lose operating cash. You make an assumption, and as usually, when you assume [you can complete this sentence:) ].
(vi) licenses to TopCoder and Google rights to all information submitted during the tournament (including rights to source code and other executables),
That's right, and their license to use my code is commonly referred to as the GPL. If they wish to create derivative works from it, or incorporate it into a larger body of work, they will have to GPL the entire work.:) (That'll teach them to try to own *my* code)
Why do people always discount Delphi when discussing OOP. I know, I know... it's Object Pascal, but it's surely OO and is a fantastic alternative to atleast two of the languages mentioned in the artice (C# and ceartinly VB.NET)
Um, maybe it's because Delphi:programming::hamburger:food ?
Using a computer language of your choice, write a program that will factor a very large integer of arbitrary precision (1024+ digits) in as little time as possible - Points awarded on speed of execution
Ok, here goes:
You will need a Whitespace compiler to be able to run the listing I provided.
This probably has a lot more to do with tax laws than anything else.
Or they could be trying to keep terrorists out. Heh.
I've decided to enter, but I want them to have an automatic GPL deal that automatically inserts GPL headers in your code, 'cause I'd really hate to lose just because I had to type out the GPL at the top of every problem solved....
OH wait, Google's gonna own the code when I'm done? Fuck that.
Is it possible to have code written ahead of time? I mean, it says "ideas must be your own." But if you've put together a large library of useful functions that you've coded yourself (fourier transform; heap sort; Wheeler-Burrows transform; entropic compression; and so on), could you grab those code sections, and throw them in?
Hell, then I'll enter with this code:
solution = SolveAllProblems(problem);
It's a great little function I worked up back when I was in grade school...
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Of course, it also means more exposure to Sir Robin's minstrels probably. That could be problematic.
Just have your fork and steak knife ready, just in case the minstrels really do sing a lot.
We obviously have very different taste in women.
He's obviously never tasted a woman.
That's not the ending.
The ending is where .... oh look a bunny..........
Personally, I hope they change the ending. I always thought the ending was rather, disappointing. I mean, it's not like they all end up on crucifixes seeing a happy song or anything.
Do you mean subdued as in "Bennie Hill"? Or perhaps the subtle reparte that we see in "Are You Being Served"?
Maybe he's talking about Red Dwarf? Or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Standardising a byte on 8 bits was a later invention.. some early computers had 10 or 12 bits, so 64Kbit would be much smaller than it looked.
Eh? No, 64Kbit was always 65536 bits. I think what you're trying to say is that 64KB would be much smaller than it looked. :)
Yes. The poster before me asserted, though, that an old-skool computer advertised as having 64K of RAM had 65536 bits of memory, which is incorrect.
Yes, that was me, you were right. :) I just wanted to make sure I put the right number up, since I was being pedantic about it.
65536 bytes, not bits...65536 bits would be 8K.
Wait a minute. You're right about the bytes. But isn't a byte==8 bits? Hm, or is it 16? I seem to recall that back in the day, an int was 8 bits, a long was 16 bits, and a word was 32 bits. That would make 64K = 524288 bits. Hmm, but now what used to be a word == int. Maybe I'm on crack? Heh.
I'm not even sure that byte is an SI unit at all (and surely it would make more sense for the fundamental unit to be the bit?)
Um, yes and no. The problem is that very early on we started having very large numbers using bits. For example, a computer with 64KB of memory actually had 65,536 bits of memory. Because 1 Kilo-byte = 1024 bits, right?
The problem here, talking about SI and bytes and so forth, is that it's not intended to be an SI system. When you get smaller than bytes, you don't get decabytes, centibytes, millibytes, etc. It goes from byte to bit, and that's it.
Am I the only one that had those stupid "bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte" exercises? Or am I making those up? Hmmm..... Don't right remember, it's been too many bytes since then.
Explaining the binary system to a nation which can't even handle metric notation is unlikely to happen, even if the movement is backed by an angry mob...
Those guys in the UK will get it, sooner or later.
Riddle me this: under your system, where the writer who turn the play into the movie script owns the copyright on script, and the director who directed the film owns copyright on his direction (including that of the actor), what changes? His similar interpretation is still arguably a derivative work of the writer and director's work.
Um, first, I don't think the director necessarily owns the copyright on the actor's performance. Like a rock band, I think the actor should have copyright on their own performance.
Second, the director's work is a derivative work of the writer's. He just owns copyright on his portion of the derivation. It's arguable whether or not it's a derivative work of the actors'. In order for it to work, there has to be a great deal of cross-licensing that could easily skyrocket movie costs, or bring them down, depending on how greedy the individuals get.
The problem with my proposed solution (which I only offered as a solution to the OP, I don't recall ever saying that I was for it) is it's complexity and dependency on bureaucracy. There's got to be a better way, but I haven't thought of it yet.
Why was this modded troll? I was making a joke about the original poster's username, which is vaginal discharge. Maybe the moderators need to pay more attention...
Yea, they deported all the religious fanatics to America and we end up with Jerry Fawlwell, Trent Lott, et. al. They deported all the criminals to Australia, now those people know how to party!
Um, actually, the american colonies got their share of prisoners as well. England used a lot of different colonies as penal colonies, I understand.
Karl Benz (of Mercedes-Benz, I mean Daimler-Chrysler) invented the automobile. Send your checks there.
Eh? Try again.
Well, yes, line numbers in BASIC have been geting old for a long time now :)
Getting old? I haven't used a line number in a BASIC program since 1986.
I have to agree with the original poster. The broadband connection is a luxury. Send the children to the public library. Almost all of them have Internet connections now even in the poorest areas.
While I'm living ina pretty good neighborhood, I'd like to point out that going to the public library in the poorest areas is potentially life-threatening. It usually indicates you have money. I don't know why, becuase library cards are cheap.
There is a reason that poor people are poor and that about 1/3 of lottery winers go bankrupt after 3 years. Wasting $50/mo on a broadband connection is a perfect example.
I suspect that the #1 reason poor people are poor is lack of education. But I have to agree that financial irresponsibility has to play a factor in many of them.
I hope your 4 year old is watching some educational movies and not the latest mindless Hollywood crap. I'd suggest both of you find some videos on financial planning and economics.
Depends entirely on how you define "educational". :) But there is a fair variety of stuff. And, for the record, crawling out of poverty usually indicates either a windfall (not in this case) which alsu usally reverts back to poverty, or some sort of financial planning acquired. The only reason I can't say that we're not poor anymore is because the business my buddy and I started isn't totally stable, yet. For that reason, I can't get paid too much, or the business might lose operating cash. You make an assumption, and as usually, when you assume [you can complete this sentence :) ].
Why do you study computer science in school if you find it boring?
To be good at TopCoder.
Go back into your pussy and rot, vaginal discharge.
(vi) licenses to TopCoder and Google rights to all information submitted during the tournament (including rights to source code and other executables),
That's right, and their license to use my code is commonly referred to as the GPL. If they wish to create derivative works from it, or incorporate it into a larger body of work, they will have to GPL the entire work. :) (That'll teach them to try to own *my* code)
Why do people always discount Delphi when discussing OOP. I know, I know... it's Object Pascal, but it's surely OO and is a fantastic alternative to atleast two of the languages mentioned in the artice (C# and ceartinly VB.NET)
Um, maybe it's because Delphi:programming::hamburger:food ?
Using a computer language of your choice, write a program that will factor a very large integer of arbitrary precision (1024+ digits) in as little time as possible - Points awarded on speed of execution
Ok, here goes:
You will need a Whitespace compiler to be able to run the listing I provided.
This probably has a lot more to do with tax laws than anything else.
Or they could be trying to keep terrorists out. Heh.
I've decided to enter, but I want them to have an automatic GPL deal that automatically inserts GPL headers in your code, 'cause I'd really hate to lose just because I had to type out the GPL at the top of every problem solved....
OH wait, Google's gonna own the code when I'm done? Fuck that.
All other cash prize winners will choose a charity to receive their prize.
I wonder if the FSF and/or EFF are listed in their charity list?
Is it possible to have code written ahead of time? I mean, it says "ideas must be your own." But if you've put together a large library of useful functions that you've coded yourself (fourier transform; heap sort; Wheeler-Burrows transform; entropic compression; and so on), could you grab those code sections, and throw them in?
Hell, then I'll enter with this code: solution = SolveAllProblems(problem);
It's a great little function I worked up back when I was in grade school...
hasn't anybody heard of Europe over there ?
Dude, there's no life on Europa.
while (true) { System.out.println("Don't bother entering, because I am going to win!"); }
Finally, a compelling reason to use C++ instead of Java:
while(1) printf("Don't bother entering, because I am going to win!\n");