No. Touch Screen. But that hasn't stopped people from installing TPC on their U50, it's just that MS won't let manufacturers put TPC on devices with touch screens.
It doesn't run TPC Edition: it doesn't have an active digitizer, so MS won't sell it to them (avoids "Ohnoes, i have to lift my hand when i write", i guess). IIRC, it was supposed to ship with XP Home.
Yeah, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBPFormula.html. It's so much easier with digit extraction: no need for arbitrary precision, fixnums are quite enough!
Ask for ID before _selling_ (optionally, stamp adults' hands to make it quicker), not on entry. Resturants & pubs can have minors if they don't drink - why couldn't you?
Raytracing is one of those applications that are incredibly trivial to parallelize. I wouldn't dare hope that your average application will have performance close to that.
Here's what it does well: solve complex problems while you are discovering them. When i'm solving math problems, i really couldn't care less about I/O. Format is more than good enough.
From my experience as a Canadian student (i just started university), that's only because you didn't try. Thanks to the Internet (and spending a lot of time chatting with an elitist group full of english majors;), I, a native French speaker, actually have a definite English style in writing. In fact, i don't think i've ever really studied style in French, while pure interest made me read what i could for English. The effect is that i write much shorter sentences and paragraphs than is the usual in French. Yet, none of my teachers had any problem with me handing in a 650-700 word essay when the minimum was 750 words: they knew i had the content (i usually made sure to barely reach the length requirements on the first one). It probably helped me get better grades too: less opportunities for spelling or grammar mistakes and, imho, shorter texts that keep the point fully fleshed out are obviously clearer and more readable, and thus better. Length requirements are simply a quick and dirty metric for content; like most approximations, it works well in the common case, but one should always be aware of its flaws when using it.
Reading comments on the topic of essays make me think that maybe French teachers have a different approach than English ones. My English teacher in grade 10-11 had a minor in history (from U of Vic), and our thesis usually had to take a stance on related political/historical issues too, but she was an exceptional teachers for what was basically a gifted students group (in a private, IB HS) - not exactly the norm. French teachers in CEGEP (public school, grade 12-13) did the same: we always covered a litterary movement AND the corresponding history, with points awarded in essays for the ability to link the two. Never did we discuss litterature in a vacuum; we always had to link it with something else. In fact, a friend of mine (unsurprisingly, now in Phys. Eng.) managed to use Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in an extended metaphor once! Studying something like a pure specialist, without putting it in relation with the world, is rarely fruitful or interesting (except for specialists;). Why would it be different when writing essays?
Multicore instead of higher clock. PiM. Conservative logic. New processes. Even while sticking to moving electric signals on silicon, there are alternatives.
I'm not on an Office-equipped box right now, but you can go in options and turn off all that auto correct crap. That takes cares of... getting glued together, weird auto indenting, etc, etc.
How about, because he, unlike others, does not seem to have failed 5th grade reading comprehension? He's never heard of a good programmer _who uses Jave_ outside of Sun.
Statefulness & update-in-place can be implemented using monads (Moggi) or linear objects (Girard's Linear Logic), which are mathematical objects with known and proven properties. I think monads are more easily adapted to regular programming (where copying & deleting is free), and so are usually used to implement state. Someone with better a theoretical grounding will hopefully reply:)
Yes, that is a problem with pattern matcing. Appel et al discussed solutions to this (interface badly abstracted in pattern matching -based languages). In short: people are aware of the problem (but i doubt the solution will be used in ML or haskell). However, in the meantime, it seems like you would only need some discipline (xyz only does abc, no matter what i feed to it) to alleviate the problem. As long as i don't define a ring where + is * and * +, i can still expect theorems to be true (as long as other properties of the ring don't affect that).
As for your last question, i'd try Common Lisp with a decent editor(eg emacs+SLIME). You can do both imperative and functional programming, have powerful macros, and dynamic strong typing. It is also the result of real people using Lisp in real life getting together to build a standard, so, while it carries a lot of seemingly historical baggage, the baggage is there because it was once useful, and often include unexpected solutions.
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Or a (AMD!) tablet PC for the same price :)
Oh, and i seem to remember that resolution >= 1024x768 is another requirement to get TPC Edition.
No. Touch Screen. But that hasn't stopped people from installing TPC on their U50, it's just that MS won't let manufacturers put TPC on devices with touch screens.
It doesn't run TPC Edition: it doesn't have an active digitizer, so MS won't sell it to them (avoids "Ohnoes, i have to lift my hand when i write", i guess). IIRC, it was supposed to ship with XP Home.
Yeah, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBPFormula.html. It's so much easier with digit extraction: no need for arbitrary precision, fixnums are quite enough!
I use both Lisp and maxima, and i fail to see the strangeness in maxima's syntax. In any case, the exposed syntax isn't anything Lisp-like.
The way monads are used to glue functions together is often compared to the pipe operator in shell scripting.
Because it fits with the other numbers.
Ask for ID before _selling_ (optionally, stamp adults' hands to make it quicker), not on entry. Resturants & pubs can have minors if they don't drink - why couldn't you?
Raytracing is one of those applications that are incredibly trivial to parallelize. I wouldn't dare hope that your average application will have performance close to that.
You were wondering. I tried to explain. Discreet is a word too, yes, but so is glue - it doesn't mean i can use it in place of discrete.
Here's what it does well: solve complex problems while you are discovering them. When i'm solving math problems, i really couldn't care less about I/O. Format is more than good enough.
Discrete
From my experience as a Canadian student (i just started university), that's only because you didn't try. Thanks to the Internet (and spending a lot of time chatting with an elitist group full of english majors ;), I, a native French speaker, actually have a definite English style in writing. In fact, i don't think i've ever really studied style in French, while pure interest made me read what i could for English. The effect is that i write much shorter sentences and paragraphs than is the usual in French. Yet, none of my teachers had any problem with me handing in a 650-700 word essay when the minimum was 750 words: they knew i had the content (i usually made sure to barely reach the length requirements on the first one). It probably helped me get better grades too: less opportunities for spelling or grammar mistakes and, imho, shorter texts that keep the point fully fleshed out are obviously clearer and more readable, and thus better. Length requirements are simply a quick and dirty metric for content; like most approximations, it works well in the common case, but one should always be aware of its flaws when using it.
;). Why would it be different when writing essays?
Reading comments on the topic of essays make me think that maybe French teachers have a different approach than English ones. My English teacher in grade 10-11 had a minor in history (from U of Vic), and our thesis usually had to take a stance on related political/historical issues too, but she was an exceptional teachers for what was basically a gifted students group (in a private, IB HS) - not exactly the norm. French teachers in CEGEP (public school, grade 12-13) did the same: we always covered a litterary movement AND the corresponding history, with points awarded in essays for the ability to link the two. Never did we discuss litterature in a vacuum; we always had to link it with something else. In fact, a friend of mine (unsurprisingly, now in Phys. Eng.) managed to use Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in an extended metaphor once! Studying something like a pure specialist, without putting it in relation with the world, is rarely fruitful or interesting (except for specialists
Multicore instead of higher clock. PiM. Conservative logic. New processes. Even while sticking to moving electric signals on silicon, there are alternatives.
I'm not on an Office-equipped box right now, but you can go in options and turn off all that auto correct crap. That takes cares of ... getting glued together, weird auto indenting, etc, etc.
Offer it on your servers and in the libraries. Forums, both on and off topic, anything.
Canada? Oh yes. The judge can order the other party to give "you" money. "You", because it seems it actually means "your lawyer".
grrr.
How about, because he, unlike others, does not seem to have failed 5th grade reading comprehension? He's never heard of a good programmer _who uses Jave_ outside of Sun.
cf Subject.
Statefulness & update-in-place can be implemented using monads (Moggi) or linear objects (Girard's Linear Logic), which are mathematical objects with known and proven properties. I think monads are more easily adapted to regular programming (where copying & deleting is free), and so are usually used to implement state. Someone with better a theoretical grounding will hopefully reply :)
Monads, linear objects. Read.
Yes, that is a problem with pattern matcing. Appel et al discussed solutions to this (interface badly abstracted in pattern matching -based languages). In short: people are aware of the problem (but i doubt the solution will be used in ML or haskell). However, in the meantime, it seems like you would only need some discipline (xyz only does abc, no matter what i feed to it) to alleviate the problem. As long as i don't define a ring where + is * and * +, i can still expect theorems to be true (as long as other properties of the ring don't affect that).
As for your last question, i'd try Common Lisp with a decent editor(eg emacs+SLIME). You can do both imperative and functional programming, have powerful macros, and dynamic strong typing. It is also the result of real people using Lisp in real life getting together to build a standard, so, while it carries a lot of seemingly historical baggage, the baggage is there because it was once useful, and often include unexpected solutions.
Bignums.... And the LAST non-zero digit (as opposed to the first digit) is trivial :p
Kinetically powered wrist watches are OLDE. My father has one that's ~40 years old (Omega). Again, engineering isn't the problem; marketing is.