Does that mean those spamming chinks are off of our internet?
Phrased as flamebait, but a good question. A large percentage of the spam comes from China. Certain spam filters, such as SpamPal, have options to reject all mail coming from China, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, and similarly spammy countries.
I recently took an assembly programming college course. The course covered Intel x86 assembly and development in the DOS environment (DOS interrupts, etc.). (Yeah, it's outdated. Oh well.)
The DOS emulator in Windows is not especially great. Particularly, direct access to the video buffer is not always emulated correctly on my machine, the timer interrupt is not precise (not well-synchronized with other processes in the background), and a few other annoyances.
Instead of fighting and arguing with Windows, I took my old unused Pentium 1 and booted into FreeDOS on it, after making an ODIN (a one-disk distribution of FreeDOS) boot floppy. I did my work on that computer, and the emulation was perfect.
Thanks to the FreeDOS project!
(Now I gotta figure out what to do with that P1... I think I almost have to install Linux on it, being a Slashdot poster and all.)
Easy to learn, maybe, but I wouldn't call it programming.
It lacks the major concepts of procedural programming, such as control structures. Sure, you can use goto/jmp, but that doesn't give much insight at a first glance about what the "code" does.
Also, it's not very practical. I'm not saying it's not useful/practical in specific conditions, just that your mom wouldn't find it useful/practical for playing around with programming.
Catalan's conjecture is not that, it's a conjecture regarding the solutions of a very specific Diophantine equation: Mathworld entry: Catalan's Conjecture
Yes, it was proven in 2002, but the twin prime conjecture scores higher (IMO) because it's a very general problem in number theory, not one devious equation. (It doesn't score higher than FLT, which is also just a devious equation, because the proof of FLT proved the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture.)
As for the famous AKS algorithm, I would classify that into computer science, not math... Mathematicians already knew it's possible to test numbers for primality (any integer is either prime or not!), it was up to the computer scientists to find how to do it efficiently.
And yes, these proofs are not (paraphrasing Erdos) "taken from God's book of mathematics", but until such a Godly proof is known, they will suffice...
Assume both Ret1 and Ret2 are mandatory return values (i.e. should never be NULL pointers). Why waste time by comparing them to NULL inside F? Without moderate code abuse, a programmer can't pass NULL to the above function.
class C {
C::C(const C& rhs); };
In copy-constructors the language requires a reference. Could you theoretically do with a pointer instead? Sure, but this makes your life easier. rhs will never be a NULL pointer.
ostream& ostream::operator<<(int x) { //... print x...
return *this;// Is 'this' ever a NULL pointer? Assuming sanity is enabled, no! }
The ultimate and classic STL example. This takes care of your operator overloading argument as well. With this you can write elegant code such as:
cout << 17 << x << 42;
Let's rewrite the same thing with a pointer instead of a reference:
C is high-level, but its "level" is very low among the high level languages. You can write C code and practically envision the asm that it will compile into.
(As the grandparent poster put it, C is "portable assembly".)
Same with C++, but a little less so.
I don't think it's wrong to classify C as a low-level language, especially when comparing it to Java and C#.
If he's earned enough in his life to front $320,000 he should know better.
But he hasn't - the $320,000 is mostly bank debts. RTFA:
Between selling his investments, running up credit-card bills, depleting savings and borrowing against his house, the total comes to about $320,000. Most of that is new debt.
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Does that mean those spamming chinks are off of our internet?
Phrased as flamebait, but a good question. A large percentage of the spam comes from China. Certain spam filters, such as SpamPal, have options to reject all mail coming from China, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, and similarly spammy countries.
I recently took an assembly programming college course. The course covered Intel x86 assembly and development in the DOS environment (DOS interrupts, etc.). (Yeah, it's outdated. Oh well.)
The DOS emulator in Windows is not especially great. Particularly, direct access to the video buffer is not always emulated correctly on my machine, the timer interrupt is not precise (not well-synchronized with other processes in the background), and a few other annoyances.
Instead of fighting and arguing with Windows, I took my old unused Pentium 1 and booted into FreeDOS on it, after making an ODIN (a one-disk distribution of FreeDOS) boot floppy. I did my work on that computer, and the emulation was perfect.
Thanks to the FreeDOS project!
(Now I gotta figure out what to do with that P1... I think I almost have to install Linux on it, being a Slashdot poster and all.)
I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of this shirt.
Yes there is. I tested it. Gmail rejects messages containing virus attachments.
Here is the rejection message.
Cool. Yesterday I searched Mathworld for April fool's jokes, and found this:
The "Ramanujan Constant"
Today, I see it in your username. Happens.
Because it comes with Windows.
Easy to learn, maybe, but I wouldn't call it programming.
It lacks the major concepts of procedural programming, such as control structures. Sure, you can use goto/jmp, but that doesn't give much insight at a first glance about what the "code" does.
Also, it's not very practical. I'm not saying it's not useful/practical in specific conditions, just that your mom wouldn't find it useful/practical for playing around with programming.
Teaching your mom programming?! What a strange idea... Next you'll be saying Linux is ready for the desktop...
Catalan's conjecture is not that, it's a conjecture regarding the solutions of a very specific Diophantine equation:
Mathworld entry: Catalan's Conjecture
Yes, it was proven in 2002, but the twin prime conjecture scores higher (IMO) because it's a very general problem in number theory, not one devious equation. (It doesn't score higher than FLT, which is also just a devious equation, because the proof of FLT proved the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture.)
As for the famous AKS algorithm, I would classify that into computer science, not math... Mathematicians already knew it's possible to test numbers for primality (any integer is either prime or not!), it was up to the computer scientists to find how to do it efficiently.
And yes, these proofs are not (paraphrasing Erdos) "taken from God's book of mathematics", but until such a Godly proof is known, they will suffice...
This is the best thing that has happened to mathematics research since the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
C is high-level, but its "level" is very low among the high level languages.
/FFP (first Firefox post)
You can write C code and practically envision the asm that it will compile into.
(As the grandparent poster put it, C is "portable assembly".)
Same with C++, but a little less so.
I don't think it's wrong to classify C as a low-level language, especially when comparing it to Java and C#.
(or .info or .biz)
.info or .biz is doomed to failure (or to being used as a spoofed source address by spammers, or both).
Anything that ends with
"Yeah yeah yeah... Will you give me my fucking change, please? I'm triple-parked!"
-George Carlin
Hey Ari, I was just browsing Slashdot randomly and I found this post. I've never seen any post from you around here, and found that mildly amusing.
(Remember me? I'm Yoni, one of Vitaly's friends.)
...so that when they turn their backs on you, you'll get the chance to put that knife in...
Best song ever.
(Score: -1, Offtopic)
goatse.cx has been dead since January.
They got sued and shut down. =(
For anyone who is not yet aware, this is a reference to South Park season 2 episode 14 (Ctrl-F "Chewbacca", or better - watch the episode).
The Exchange Server protocol is another example.
-100C? Ha, that's NOTHING. I'm waiting for when they get to -300C.
I heard this told differently, and I liked the way I heard better:
The biologist wants to be a chemist.
The chemist wants to be a physicist.
The physicist wants to be God.
God wants to be a mathematician.
AFAIK, TCP is unchanged, so you'll have the same old TCP with the same 32-bit SEQ and ACK numbers over an IPv6 header instead of IPv4.
Not to mention the headline of the article.
from the redundant-naming-schemes dept.