Another Quebecois here. [flamebait mode: on:)] Americans don't know how to spell things like centre or colour. It seems they just write things as they sound, resulting in "color" and "center". Any citizen of a decent Commonwealth nation should know that it's colour and centre.[/flamebait]
Seriously, it's a matter of preference, and Canadians usually prefer the English spelling, but both English and American spellings are accepted, since we're not quite sure whether we're a new American colony or an old British one.
It also stood for quality. My father bought 41, with 3 expansions. I still have the receipt: ~900 CAD (back in the time when CAD was more expensive than USD). But it's probably one of the best buy (doh!;) he ever made: I'm still using it more than 20 years later, and i'm still more efficient* with it than with modern calculators. Solid engineering and manufacturing is expensive.
*By more efficient, i mean faster and more reliable. There's no way i'll ever balance shifts with anything but an rpn calculator with a good keyboard (hear that 49g+?).
Correct me if i'm wrong, but dragonflies are extrememly simple insects, and their wings are completely "dumb". IOW, the muscles only have to flap the wings to produce lift and propulsion (thanks to some weird canard-like effect). So, i guess dragonfly-like is possible, but bee-like not:)
Virtual money. If we agree that time*computing power=value, then we can assign a value to each token so that there is no gain to be made by creating a new token. While it may seem wasteful - GroupA use x h*flops to get y h*flops back, and x can't be too much smaller than y -, one must keep in mind that the token may be reused, so that GroupA only has to waste x*[number of tokens in circulation] h*flops to receive n h*flops. IE, for the system to work, there must be an incentive to not stockpile tokens. Fortunately, Moore provides us with built in inflation!
Because French, not Latin, is the other official language in Canada, and that a surprisingly good fraction of the Canadian population can actually use it?
"Dextre" is an adjective for someone who is good w/ his hands (adroit, skilled,...). While English doesn't seem to have kept detre, it has kept dexterity from french:
Dexterity \Dex*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. dexteritas, fr. dexter: cf. F.
dext['e]rit['e]. See Dexter.]
2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease
in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as,
dexterity with the chisel.
BTW, I forgot to add this to my first reply: Good programmers use the right tool for the right task. If a task is simplified by, say, dynamic typing, continuations, closures, backtracking or run-time definition of functions, why should one not use a language that responds to one's needs? From what i gather, the reason for the language restrictions in these contests is mostly that most of the problems would be too easy in many excluded languages.
The ICFP doesn't require you to use any specific programming language.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/proj/plclub/contest/faq .p hp
"What will the submission format be? Your entry to the contest will be a plain text file in a format that we will specify in the task description.
You may write your entry entirely by hand, or generate it using tools in a programming language of your choice; we will ask you to submit the source code for these tools (if any) along with your entry, and we will look at them for purposes of awarding the judges' prize, but we will not need to run your tools on our machines."
i'm really talking out of my ass here, but i remember a paper that discussed using n single-precision values to simulate higher precision. Couldn't you do that with multiple passes?
Think. You own a percentage of a company. Whether you have 10 times as many actions each worth 1/10 as much or vice versa, you own the same total value. The company's stock will change by the same %, and your profits will be the same.
If it's supposed to filter bad water (say, full of cholera or [insert random bacteria/virus (much smaller -> harder to filter...:\ )]), i don't think some more bacteria will make any noticeable difference.
Oh, and i forgot to take subpixel rendering into account; it gives us 433x144 B&W dpi. It seems that the M200 DOES have one of the best displays, but OP is still wrong;)
My Portégé m200 has 1400x1050, 12.1" LCD, so that's 144 dpi... and that's not even on a device where the resolution is a major selling point. I'd say your figure of 100 dpi for the "best displays" is wrong.
"In 1917, Ottawa imposed the controversial measure of compulsory military service, or conscription.
Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden initially expected Canada's overseas manpower needs to be met through voluntary means. Following the outbreak of war, militia units across Canada acted as recruiting stations. By the end of 1915, recruitment had declined and Ottawa allowed patriotic-minded groups of citizens to raise units at their own expense. In January 1916, Borden announced a Canadian overseas troop commitment of 500,000 men, an almost unsustainable number of voluntary enlistments from a population of barely eight million.
Recruiting was slower in French Canada, which lacked the ties of kinship and tradition with Britain that encouraged Canadians of British ancestry to enlist. As a result of high casualties and dwindling enlistments, in August 1917 the government passed the Military Service Act imposing conscription. French Canada bitterly opposed this measure, as did farmers' and labour groups, and Canadians became deeply divided over the issue."
You're thinking of WWII, http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1931conscriptio n_e.html.
And for those who are going to make some French=Surrender joke, pelase remember that most French Canadians didn't (don't) identify with UK much, and not much more with France. I guess dying isn't considered a national sport by some:\
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The SX IS a PIC, only a souped up PIC that goes up to 75 MHz, and thanks to the pipeline, 75 MIPS.
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Another Quebecois here. [flamebait mode: on :)] Americans don't know how to spell things like centre or colour. It seems they just write things as they sound, resulting in "color" and "center". Any citizen of a decent Commonwealth nation should know that it's colour and centre.[/flamebait]
Seriously, it's a matter of preference, and Canadians usually prefer the English spelling, but both English and American spellings are accepted, since we're not quite sure whether we're a new American colony or an old British one.
It also stood for quality. My father bought 41, with 3 expansions. I still have the receipt: ~900 CAD (back in the time when CAD was more expensive than USD). But it's probably one of the best buy (doh! ;) he ever made: I'm still using it more than 20 years later, and i'm still more efficient* with it than with modern calculators. Solid engineering and manufacturing is expensive.
*By more efficient, i mean faster and more reliable. There's no way i'll ever balance shifts with anything but an rpn calculator with a good keyboard (hear that 49g+?).
Correct me if i'm wrong, but dragonflies are extrememly simple insects, and their wings are completely "dumb". IOW, the muscles only have to flap the wings to produce lift and propulsion (thanks to some weird canard-like effect). So, i guess dragonfly-like is possible, but bee-like not :)
yes, h*flops is n flaoting point ops. But who'd understand me if i said flo? (**** anal friend, yes i should have said floationg point ops :)
Virtual money. If we agree that time*computing power=value, then we can assign a value to each token so that there is no gain to be made by creating a new token. While it may seem wasteful - GroupA use x h*flops to get y h*flops back, and x can't be too much smaller than y -, one must keep in mind that the token may be reused, so that GroupA only has to waste x*[number of tokens in circulation] h*flops to receive n h*flops. IE, for the system to work, there must be an incentive to not stockpile tokens. Fortunately, Moore provides us with built in inflation!
Because French, not Latin, is the other official language in Canada, and that a surprisingly good fraction of the Canadian population can actually use it?
"Dextre" is an adjective for someone who is good w/ his hands (adroit, skilled, ...). While English doesn't seem to have kept detre, it has kept dexterity from french:
Dexterity \Dex*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. dexteritas, fr. dexter: cf. F.
dext['e]rit['e]. See Dexter.]
2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease
in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as,
dexterity with the chisel.
nt
BTW, I forgot to add this to my first reply: Good programmers use the right tool for the right task. If a task is simplified by, say, dynamic typing, continuations, closures, backtracking or run-time definition of functions, why should one not use a language that responds to one's needs? From what i gather, the reason for the language restrictions in these contests is mostly that most of the problems would be too easy in many excluded languages.
The ICFP still manages to test solutions, does it not?
The ICFP doesn't require you to use any specific programming language.
q .p hp
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/proj/plclub/contest/fa
"What will the submission format be?
Your entry to the contest will be a plain text file in a format that we will specify in the task description.
You may write your entry entirely by hand, or generate it using tools in a programming language of your choice; we will ask you to submit the source code for these tools (if any) along with your entry, and we will look at them for purposes of awarding the judges' prize, but we will not need to run your tools on our machines."
quoth http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=help&d 2=codingWindow
.Net as a competition programming language."
"TopCoder currently allows coders to utilize Java, C++, C#, or Visual Basic
"Your solution will essentially be a class that contains at least one method - as defined in the problem statement. "
From this we learn that good programmers only use Algol-like languages (In fact, C-like) or VB, and all use OO.
I've an old 320 MB HD that's really 320 MB, so the practice definitely isn't 10 years old.
i'm really talking out of my ass here, but i remember a paper that discussed using n single-precision values to simulate higher precision. Couldn't you do that with multiple passes?
Isn't the goal of Google's method to defeat this problem?
Think. You own a percentage of a company. Whether you have 10 times as many actions each worth 1/10 as much or vice versa, you own the same total value. The company's stock will change by the same %, and your profits will be the same.
If it's supposed to filter bad water (say, full of cholera or [insert random bacteria/virus (much smaller -> harder to filter... :\ )]), i don't think some more bacteria will make any noticeable difference.
Oh, and i forgot to take subpixel rendering into account; it gives us 433x144 B&W dpi. It seems that the M200 DOES have one of the best displays, but OP is still wrong ;)
whoop-dee-doo. I guess with the Intarweb and all, the world really got smaller. I mean, we all experience the same weather, right?
My Portégé m200 has 1400x1050, 12.1" LCD, so that's 144 dpi... and that's not even on a device where the resolution is a major selling point. I'd say your figure of 100 dpi for the "best displays" is wrong.
mmm... Remember the kind of laptop you get for $600? TPC = laptop _+_ features, so they should be expected to be more expensive.
"In 1917, Ottawa imposed the controversial measure of compulsory military service, or conscription.
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Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden initially expected Canada's overseas manpower needs to be met through voluntary means. Following the outbreak of war, militia units across Canada acted as recruiting stations. By the end of 1915, recruitment had declined and Ottawa allowed patriotic-minded groups of citizens to raise units at their own expense. In January 1916, Borden announced a Canadian overseas troop commitment of 500,000 men, an almost unsustainable number of voluntary enlistments from a population of barely eight million.
Recruiting was slower in French Canada, which lacked the ties of kinship and tradition with Britain that encouraged Canadians of British ancestry to enlist. As a result of high casualties and dwindling enlistments, in August 1917 the government passed the Military Service Act imposing conscription. French Canada bitterly opposed this measure, as did farmers' and labour groups, and Canadians became deeply divided over the issue."
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1914conscrip
You're thinking of WWII, http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1931conscripti
And for those who are going to make some French=Surrender joke, pelase remember that most French Canadians didn't (don't) identify with UK much, and not much more with France. I guess dying isn't considered a national sport by some
I always thought Ariane was the one who helped Thésée (Theseus) get out of the Labyrinth...