For what it's worth, this guy (hi Craig) is in several of my classes and is well-disliked for consistently asking off-topic questions in some kind of attempt to demonstrate how much more he ostensibly knows than the rest of us. I, for one, regret his choice to attend the University of Michigan.
That said, I disagree about CMU being a "general" school; I have it on authority from a Carnegie-Mellon Ph. D. that the departments they are *not* known for are not very good. However, the main reason I went to University of Michigan instead of CMU is that in-state tuition here is much better than $40k/year and they were only willing to match the amount of scholarship money I had received, not the final cost.
Oh, now I feel better about being pissed when someone near me in the computer lab carries on a conversation in a foreign language (usually Spanish, for some reason).
Er, wrong. It is still GPL, that just when you don't distribute it, the GPL's requirement to release code does not apply. You cannot, however, switch the code from GPL to closed source, even if you are the copyright holder. Once a code is GPLed once, it is GPLed for ever.
False. If I am the sole copyright holder of a work, I may choose to release it under any license I like. However, I cannot stop people from updating my previous GPLed versions to match the new versions. For example, In The Groove is a derivative of the GPLed StepMania project, but it is closed source because permission was obtained from all the StepMania copyright holders.
Yes, there is a difference. Consider the relationship status on Facebook. It has states such as "single", "in a relationship", "married", etc., and it also has an "unset" state. Suppose I am single and start a tentative relationship. Feeling giddy, I set my relationship status to "in a relationship". Before this change, I could, 10 minutes later, decide I didn't want this made public after all, and change my relationship status to "unset", feeling confident that virtually no one had noticed because the information was only available for a short time. Now, it's too late - as soon as I make a status change, it's preserved, and I can't hide the change after the fact.
That's "can't" in the sense of "isn't allowed to, for pragmatic reasons". For example:
"Your virus scanner can't run at real-time priority; the end user might have other things running!"
DXM abusers don't want medicine with pseudoephedrine in it anyway - you need/want more than the standard cough syrup dose for a hallucinogenic effect, and increasing the dose of pseudoephedrine is Bad For You - heart races and so forth.
At the University of Michigan, everybody can have WinXP for $14, and engineering students get it free through MSDNAA (MSDN Academic Alliance). Makes it kind of a pain to do LUG evangelism there...
1. Download and burn Debian stable install CD. 2. Run the installation. 3. When prompted to select packages, choose "File Server" and anything else that looks like what you need. Avoid manual package selection.
Is that true even if you built your VM with a compiler that emitted machine code instead of bytecode, such as gcj? I don't know enough about the nitty-gritty of Java to tell whether the language is actually too restricted to write a good VM, or if you just made the mistaken assumption that a JVM written in Java would have to run within a preexisting JVM.
If you're at a high school with a (mostly) comprehensive slate of AP classes and you take them, you'll meet or beat community college students for free. I started my first year of college (at University of Michigan) with 43 credits (counting a placement test for the 4-credit programming class required for all engineering students).
Disclaimer: I've been told my experience is "not typical"; I was also a TA for a 200-level class my second semester.
Till you're 18, there's no such thing as free speech.
I'm 18. That said, link to legal precedent, please? Minors may not have many privileges, but I don't see any age restrictions in the Constitution.
Don't developers want people to use their code?
As of this writing, Gaim is the 2nd most active project on SourceForge and the 11th most downloaded. However, at least one of the developers (probably at least two, but I only have one name in mind) says he does not care whether anyone else uses Gaim. To paraphrase the general sentiment I've heard on the topic: There are plenty of other IM clients. If Gaim doesn't suit you, go try a different one.
Knowing how to write a compiler is actually pretty practical because it entails a firm grasp of how to write and use a parser; I was hired in a "Linux support and software development on the side" context and found myself needing to write a compiler (or most of one, anyway) last week so we could support a competitor's internal scripting language. Obviously, I'm still working on it; I've done a parser in bison before but I don't have my CS degree yet and haven't taken a class on compilers.
I'm confused about your first example claim (labeled "Prove"). I was under the impression that stating that the number of instructions used by quicksort on the n-element array under discussion (call it I(n)) is O(n^2) is the statement that
for n>C, I(n)= 0.
If we substitute m = n-C, we have: for m>0, I(m+C) = k*((m+C)^2), but it's not obvious to me how you can cope with the shift for I(n) and the O(n) terms on the right side of the inequality.
Oh, come on. Lots and lots of SNES games need the player to be able to press more than one of {A,B,X,Y} at once. There's also plenty of N64 games that use the C buttons pretty frenetically; how are you going to play Mischief Makers with that control scheme? And even for the NGC, it's going to be fiendishly difficult to let go of the "C stick" with that scheme.
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For what it's worth, this guy (hi Craig) is in several of my classes and is well-disliked for consistently asking off-topic questions in some kind of attempt to demonstrate how much more he ostensibly knows than the rest of us. I, for one, regret his choice to attend the University of Michigan.
That said, I disagree about CMU being a "general" school; I have it on authority from a Carnegie-Mellon Ph. D. that the departments they are *not* known for are not very good. However, the main reason I went to University of Michigan instead of CMU is that in-state tuition here is much better than $40k/year and they were only willing to match the amount of scholarship money I had received, not the final cost.
Think, quite literally, tin foil.
Oh, now I feel better about being pissed when someone near me in the computer lab carries on a conversation in a foreign language (usually Spanish, for some reason).
Er, wrong. It is still GPL, that just when you don't distribute it, the GPL's requirement to release code does not apply. You cannot, however, switch the code from GPL to closed source, even if you are the copyright holder. Once a code is GPLed once, it is GPLed for ever.
False. If I am the sole copyright holder of a work, I may choose to release it under any license I like. However, I cannot stop people from updating my previous GPLed versions to match the new versions. For example, In The Groove is a derivative of the GPLed StepMania project, but it is closed source because permission was obtained from all the StepMania copyright holders.
The TTP Project wants to talk to you about your RTC clocks. Bring your RAID arrays to the meeting.
The University of Michigan teaches MIPS assembly, though apparently we don't use it in the projects.
Yes, there is a difference. Consider the relationship status on Facebook. It has states such as "single", "in a relationship", "married", etc., and it also has an "unset" state. Suppose I am single and start a tentative relationship. Feeling giddy, I set my relationship status to "in a relationship". Before this change, I could, 10 minutes later, decide I didn't want this made public after all, and change my relationship status to "unset", feeling confident that virtually no one had noticed because the information was only available for a short time. Now, it's too late - as soon as I make a status change, it's preserved, and I can't hide the change after the fact.
Germs could fit into a Nine Inch Nails album because it's very close to Terrible Lie.
Don't you mean "sadist"? A sadist likes to inflict pain; a masochist likes to receive it.
That's "can't" in the sense of "isn't allowed to, for pragmatic reasons". For example: "Your virus scanner can't run at real-time priority; the end user might have other things running!"
DXM abusers don't want medicine with pseudoephedrine in it anyway - you need/want more than the standard cough syrup dose for a hallucinogenic effect, and increasing the dose of pseudoephedrine is Bad For You - heart races and so forth.
Why are you writing all your (C++, I'm assuming) class members inline?
I hope I never have to maintain your code.
At the University of Michigan, everybody can have WinXP for $14, and engineering students get it free through MSDNAA (MSDN Academic Alliance). Makes it kind of a pain to do LUG evangelism there...
Why are you throwing by pointer?h tml#faq-17.8
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/exceptions.
1. Download and burn Debian stable install CD.
2. Run the installation.
3. When prompted to select packages, choose "File Server" and anything else that looks like what you need. Avoid manual package selection.
What was so hard about that?
Is that true even if you built your VM with a compiler that emitted machine code instead of bytecode, such as gcj? I don't know enough about the nitty-gritty of Java to tell whether the language is actually too restricted to write a good VM, or if you just made the mistaken assumption that a JVM written in Java would have to run within a preexisting JVM.
Neil Cicierega (aka Lemon Demon) was homeschooled. Scroll down for links to some of his work that you might be familiar with.
If you're at a high school with a (mostly) comprehensive slate of AP classes and you take them, you'll meet or beat community college students for free. I started my first year of college (at University of Michigan) with 43 credits (counting a placement test for the 4-credit programming class required for all engineering students).
Disclaimer: I've been told my experience is "not typical"; I was also a TA for a 200-level class my second semester.
Till you're 18, there's no such thing as free speech.
I'm 18. That said, link to legal precedent, please? Minors may not have many privileges, but I don't see any age restrictions in the Constitution.
Don't developers want people to use their code?
As of this writing, Gaim is the 2nd most active project on SourceForge and the 11th most downloaded. However, at least one of the developers (probably at least two, but I only have one name in mind) says he does not care whether anyone else uses Gaim. To paraphrase the general sentiment I've heard on the topic: There are plenty of other IM clients. If Gaim doesn't suit you, go try a different one.
Knowing how to write a compiler is actually pretty practical because it entails a firm grasp of how to write and use a parser; I was hired in a "Linux support and software development on the side" context and found myself needing to write a compiler (or most of one, anyway) last week so we could support a competitor's internal scripting language. Obviously, I'm still working on it; I've done a parser in bison before but I don't have my CS degree yet and haven't taken a class on compilers.
That sounds like a CE program, not a CS program. When someone says "programming", I don't think "computer engineering", but maybe I'm just off-base.
I'm confused about your first example claim (labeled "Prove"). I was under the impression that stating that the number of instructions used by quicksort on the n-element array under discussion (call it I(n)) is O(n^2) is the statement that for n>C, I(n)= 0. If we substitute m = n-C, we have: for m>0, I(m+C) = k*((m+C)^2), but it's not obvious to me how you can cope with the shift for I(n) and the O(n) terms on the right side of the inequality.
Oh, come on. Lots and lots of SNES games need the player to be able to press more than one of {A,B,X,Y} at once. There's also plenty of N64 games that use the C buttons pretty frenetically; how are you going to play Mischief Makers with that control scheme? And even for the NGC, it's going to be fiendishly difficult to let go of the "C stick" with that scheme.