Nor should they be expected to be writing fully functional programs on a CS test
They are if the question is "How can this be done without mutation operators?" and the language of choice is Haskell or the subset of Scheme without set! or other mutators.
Quicksort Pick one number in a list at random. This number is called the pivot. Split the list into two smaller lists: those numbers smaller than the pivot and those bigger than the pivot. Then replace the list with the split lists in this order: the list of smaller numbers, then the pivot, then the list of larger numbers. Do the same with each of the smaller lists. You'll need extra scratch space for the start and end points of the lists that are yet to be split up. At the end, the numbers in the list will be in order.
Merge sort Cut a list of numbers in half. Sort each half. Then make a new list. Until the two sorted halves are empty, compare the first number of both halves, copy the lesser to the new list, and remove it from the beginning of the half. You'll need extra scratch space for the half you're sorting. At the end, the numbers in the list will be in order.
LEFT JOIN You have two tables of facts and figures: the left table and the right table. You're about to correlate them into a new table based on matching values in one column of each table, called the key column. The left half of the new table has the same columns as the left table, and the right half of the new table has the same columns as the right table. Each row in the new table corresponds to at least one row in the left table. For each row of the left table, look at the key column in the left table, and then look for rows of the right table whose key column has the same value. For each matching row in the right table, copy the row from the left table followed by this row from the right table into the new table. If no rows of the right table match, copy one row from the left table but leave the columns for the right table blank.
INNER JOIN This is the same as a LEFT JOIN, except you don't write anything if no rows in the right table match.
Does English department expect students to properly punctuate their twisting, or are they allowed to answer questions in pseudo-English?
A computer program in a major programming language generally uses a larger variety of punctuation marks than comparably long prose in English. Even in something like Python that has keywords and indentation for things where C++ and JavaScript use punctuation operators, you need to use all three kinds of brackets (round, square, and curly) in any nontrivial code that handles dictionaries. Nor does English class generally give a grade for handwriting past primary school. That's something you typically see only in logographic languages like Chinese and Japanese.
Would "semi-pregnant" mean your ultrasound shows a healthy baby but with no legs?
"Semi-infinite" in the featured article is hyperbole, but it does mean several lifetimes' worth at present consumption: "The report said there were hundreds of years of reserves of most of the rare earths in the area surveyed."
if somone pretends to be my alias on some random wordpress forum, who cares?
Someone might post something politically incorrect under your name in order to tarnish your reputation. It's called a joe job.
why the hell do I have or need an account at Office Depot? scifi.com? Excite? Hallmark???
Excite at least used to be an email provider. Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) is a provider of video programming to multichannel pay TV, and you need an account to verify that you subscribe to Syfy through a participating multichannel pay TV provider. You may have ordered some office supplies from Office Depot and allowed the site to store your shipping address in case you reorder them later.
Collect spares and learn to repair if you haven't already.
Those old devices full of bugs? Security holes?
Repairing includes replacing defective operating systems that respect users' freedom with fixed operating systems that respect users' freedom. For example, upgrade from old Debian to latest stable Debian (currently Debian 9 "jessie").
You can sync your iOS devices easily to local storage.
How does this work without using a Mac or a PC running a Microsoft operating system?
You save your data either on the local hard disk, on a USB source, or on a network source over any of the standard protocols.
Network source I understand, but not the other two. An iOS device has no "local hard disk". Instead, it has an internal flash memory, which is fairly small on entry-level models. Nor does it have a USB port. Instead, it has a Lightning port.
I remembered vaguely that there was some means to connect digital cameras. After a bit of web searching, I discovered that Apple had introduced support for devices other than cameras through the Apple USB Camera Adapter. It mentions "SD card readers", which I presume to include all storage devices formatted to a Microsoft FAT family file system. However, conventional hard drives will produce "attached accessory uses too much power" unless the drive is connected through a self-powered hub or the adapter is the new revision that supports USB 3. What types of data on an iOS device can and can't be synced through an Apple USB Camera Adapter?
How does Google allegedly decide who "a user of ad or tracking blocking software" is?
Presumably by failure to observe the side effects of the advertising script, which side effects are not publicly documented and may change without warning. One such side effect is that the entire ad was downloaded, and downloading and discarding the ad isn't going to help people who choose to use an ad blocker to save on cellular or satellite data transfer overage fees.
What does it look like when a YouTube video refuses to play for this reason?
I don't know what this particular message will look like on YouTube in particular once YouTube becomes more effective at detecting ad blockers. But the article "How publishers can engage with people who use ad blockers" shows a screenshot of a Funding Choices message wall.
Is the claim that YouTube is going to stop working for people whose browsers don't display ads or allow Google's cookies?
Every time you allow your computer to load and run a tracking javascript from some web site... that's what you vote for.
Hence my use of the Tracking Protection feature in Firefox. Hence my use of AllTheTropes.org instead of TVTropes.org.
Every time you buy a device where someone else has more authority over it than you do, which may restrict your ability to exercise control over what the device is allowed to do... that's what you vote for.
So how would I go about voting against computing devices that restrict the owner, other than not buying any computing device at all and thereby not having my business needs met? I tried buying a subnotebook PC that respects my freedom as best I could, only for others to outvote me, leading to the discontinuation of the entry-level subnotebook PC segment.
Lately, YouTube's parent company has become more serious about anti-adblock, introducing a tool called Funding Choices to let publishers limit how many monthly page views a user of ad or tracking blocking software can see. Nor does everybody have the opportunity to purchase a subscription to YouTube Red service. As anti-adblock technology improves, what means to exercise a "deliberate choice" not to "see ads online" were you thinking of, other than A. YouTube Red or B. posting a comment without having watched the video that is the subject of the article?
You can sync your iOS devices easily to local storage.
How does this work without using a Mac or a PC running a Microsoft operating system? Does the storage device need to present itself as a NAS of some sort? Or is there a dongle that plugs into the Lightning connector and allows syncing to a USB or microSD block device?
A 64-bit system is less vulnerable to return-oriented programming exploits because address space layout randomization (ASLR) increases return address entropy to a greater extent on 64-bit systems than on 32-bit systems. In addition, having both 32-bit libraries and 64-bit libraries loaded uses valuable RAM, and having one 32-bit application running in the background means you have to have both libraries loaded.
How much revenue (after Google's 30% cut) do you have per user, and how many users do you anticipate on iOS? If the product of the two exceeds $600, buy a Mac mini and VNC into it for compiles.
Wouldn't you just need to recompile the client library that connects over the network to the SAP and PeopleSoft databases? If that's not possible, create a new client library from the DBMS's network protocol specification.
Most of the free software with available source code is not windows specific, and most software that runs on linux has already been recompiled for ARM. The only reasons to run windows are for using proprietary software not available anywhere else
I'm specifically referring to Windows applications such as like ModPlug Tracker, FCEUX debugging version, and FamiTracker, which are free software and work well in Wine on x86-64 machines with i386 libs installed.
the Atari 2600/7800 were not general purpose computing devices
Nor were iOS devices until Apple revised its App Store Review Guidelines specifically to allow Swift Playgrounds. When the iPhone first came out, Apple was rejecting a collection of licensed Commodore 64 games because users could reset the virtual C64 into the ROM BASIC REPL, and Apple wouldn't approve it until the developer removed BASIC.
People use Windows/x86 to run their desktop apps. People run Android/ARM to run their Android apps.
The idea is that people would use Windows/ARM on an ARM laptop to run recompiled desktop apps. If the Windows applications you use are free software and not built with MFC, open an issue on the project's bug tracker to make ARM binaries.
If it's "custom made", then why don't you have the source code? Commissioning bespoke software without source code is like hiring an architect firm to design you a house and not giving you the blueprints.
(And yes, Apple/Jobs were pieces of cr@p for pioneering the walled-garden/computer-as-Alcatraz model of computing.)
More pieces of crap than Nintendo and Atari? The pair of synchronized RNG MCUs on the Nintendo Entertainment System and code signing on the Atari 7800 ProSystem were a direct response to a flood of poorly balanced games for the Atari 2600.
And if you're a publisher that's shutting down matchmaking servers for a game released only a couple of years ago, you're probably not going to be getting much repeat business from customers when your new game comes out.
Tell that to Electronic Arts, publisher of Madden NFL and FIFA. Players are expected to buy the sequel every year. And they do, in droves.
I'm also the type of gamer who doesn't go run off and buy the new shiny for $80 when I can get the bugfixed GOTY edition with all the extra content a year later for $20 on a Steam sale.
I guess part of it has to do with how long after release the game's publisher plans to keep the online multiplayer matchmaking servers operational.
So let's take the recent pay-with-computer-cycles as a decent example of a future ubiquitous micropayments convenience. Download a jpeg? Pay by waiting through ten seconds of computer cycles.
Later:
There was no mention of cryptocurrency mining anywhere.
Then what non-cryptocurrency means to "pay-with-computer-cycles" did you have in mind?
Nor was there any mention of existing laws.
I doubt that such laws could be created at all in the current legislative climate of Slashdot's home country. And even assuming a future sea change in the attitude of the US Congress, or an attempt by some other country to aggressively court migrants from the US, I am curious to see what a privacy law would look like that is effective but doesn't impose an undue burden on small businesses. Unless I'm severely misunderstanding the European Union's GDPR, it looks to balkanize international retail by requiring every non-EU business that ships products to the EU to hire a firm on EU soil to act as its representative under GDPR article 27, because the name and address on the shipping label are "personal data."
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I would have chosen a less pornographic example, such as Spencer West, Kevin Michael Connolly, Kanya Sesser, or Jen Bricker.
Nor should they be expected to be writing fully functional programs on a CS test
They are if the question is "How can this be done without mutation operators?" and the language of choice is Haskell or the subset of Scheme without set! or other mutators.
Language syntax is not really computer science, its trivia.
Error: "its trivia": pronoun has unclear antecedent; "trivia" belonging to what?
By your rules, English syntax is not really technical communication; it's trivia.
Quicksort
Pick one number in a list at random. This number is called the pivot. Split the list into two smaller lists: those numbers smaller than the pivot and those bigger than the pivot. Then replace the list with the split lists in this order: the list of smaller numbers, then the pivot, then the list of larger numbers. Do the same with each of the smaller lists. You'll need extra scratch space for the start and end points of the lists that are yet to be split up. At the end, the numbers in the list will be in order.
Merge sort
Cut a list of numbers in half. Sort each half. Then make a new list. Until the two sorted halves are empty, compare the first number of both halves, copy the lesser to the new list, and remove it from the beginning of the half. You'll need extra scratch space for the half you're sorting. At the end, the numbers in the list will be in order.
LEFT JOIN
You have two tables of facts and figures: the left table and the right table. You're about to correlate them into a new table based on matching values in one column of each table, called the key column. The left half of the new table has the same columns as the left table, and the right half of the new table has the same columns as the right table. Each row in the new table corresponds to at least one row in the left table. For each row of the left table, look at the key column in the left table, and then look for rows of the right table whose key column has the same value. For each matching row in the right table, copy the row from the left table followed by this row from the right table into the new table. If no rows of the right table match, copy one row from the left table but leave the columns for the right table blank.
INNER JOIN
This is the same as a LEFT JOIN, except you don't write anything if no rows in the right table match.
Do I get the second interview?
Does English department expect students to properly punctuate their twisting, or are they allowed to answer questions in pseudo-English?
A computer program in a major programming language generally uses a larger variety of punctuation marks than comparably long prose in English. Even in something like Python that has keywords and indentation for things where C++ and JavaScript use punctuation operators, you need to use all three kinds of brackets (round, square, and curly) in any nontrivial code that handles dictionaries. Nor does English class generally give a grade for handwriting past primary school. That's something you typically see only in logographic languages like Chinese and Japanese.
Would "semi-pregnant" mean your ultrasound shows a healthy baby but with no legs?
"Semi-infinite" in the featured article is hyperbole, but it does mean several lifetimes' worth at present consumption: "The report said there were hundreds of years of reserves of most of the rare earths in the area surveyed."
if somone pretends to be my alias on some random wordpress forum, who cares?
Someone might post something politically incorrect under your name in order to tarnish your reputation. It's called a joe job.
why the hell do I have or need an account at Office Depot? scifi.com? Excite? Hallmark???
Excite at least used to be an email provider. Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) is a provider of video programming to multichannel pay TV, and you need an account to verify that you subscribe to Syfy through a participating multichannel pay TV provider. You may have ordered some office supplies from Office Depot and allowed the site to store your shipping address in case you reorder them later.
Collect spares and learn to repair if you haven't already.
Those old devices full of bugs? Security holes?
Repairing includes replacing defective operating systems that respect users' freedom with fixed operating systems that respect users' freedom. For example, upgrade from old Debian to latest stable Debian (currently Debian 9 "jessie").
But it also appears to include replacing cells in a lithium battery pack, if a previous comment from an anonymous user is to be believed.
You can sync your iOS devices easily to local storage.
How does this work without using a Mac or a PC running a Microsoft operating system?
You save your data either on the local hard disk, on a USB source, or on a network source over any of the standard protocols.
Network source I understand, but not the other two. An iOS device has no "local hard disk". Instead, it has an internal flash memory, which is fairly small on entry-level models. Nor does it have a USB port. Instead, it has a Lightning port.
I remembered vaguely that there was some means to connect digital cameras. After a bit of web searching, I discovered that Apple had introduced support for devices other than cameras through the Apple USB Camera Adapter. It mentions "SD card readers", which I presume to include all storage devices formatted to a Microsoft FAT family file system. However, conventional hard drives will produce "attached accessory uses too much power" unless the drive is connected through a self-powered hub or the adapter is the new revision that supports USB 3. What types of data on an iOS device can and can't be synced through an Apple USB Camera Adapter?
How does Google allegedly decide who "a user of ad or tracking blocking software" is?
Presumably by failure to observe the side effects of the advertising script, which side effects are not publicly documented and may change without warning. One such side effect is that the entire ad was downloaded, and downloading and discarding the ad isn't going to help people who choose to use an ad blocker to save on cellular or satellite data transfer overage fees.
What does it look like when a YouTube video refuses to play for this reason?
I don't know what this particular message will look like on YouTube in particular once YouTube becomes more effective at detecting ad blockers. But the article "How publishers can engage with people who use ad blockers" shows a screenshot of a Funding Choices message wall.
Is the claim that YouTube is going to stop working for people whose browsers don't display ads or allow Google's cookies?
Yes.
Every time you allow your computer to load and run a tracking javascript from some web site... that's what you vote for.
Hence my use of the Tracking Protection feature in Firefox. Hence my use of AllTheTropes.org instead of TVTropes.org.
Every time you buy a device where someone else has more authority over it than you do, which may restrict your ability to exercise control over what the device is allowed to do... that's what you vote for.
So how would I go about voting against computing devices that restrict the owner, other than not buying any computing device at all and thereby not having my business needs met? I tried buying a subnotebook PC that respects my freedom as best I could, only for others to outvote me, leading to the discontinuation of the entry-level subnotebook PC segment.
Lately, YouTube's parent company has become more serious about anti-adblock, introducing a tool called Funding Choices to let publishers limit how many monthly page views a user of ad or tracking blocking software can see. Nor does everybody have the opportunity to purchase a subscription to YouTube Red service. As anti-adblock technology improves, what means to exercise a "deliberate choice" not to "see ads online" were you thinking of, other than A. YouTube Red or B. posting a comment without having watched the video that is the subject of the article?
You can sync your iOS devices easily to local storage.
How does this work without using a Mac or a PC running a Microsoft operating system? Does the storage device need to present itself as a NAS of some sort? Or is there a dongle that plugs into the Lightning connector and allows syncing to a USB or microSD block device?
A 64-bit system is less vulnerable to return-oriented programming exploits because address space layout randomization (ASLR) increases return address entropy to a greater extent on 64-bit systems than on 32-bit systems. In addition, having both 32-bit libraries and 64-bit libraries loaded uses valuable RAM, and having one 32-bit application running in the background means you have to have both libraries loaded.
How much revenue (after Google's 30% cut) do you have per user, and how many users do you anticipate on iOS? If the product of the two exceeds $600, buy a Mac mini and VNC into it for compiles.
Wouldn't you just need to recompile the client library that connects over the network to the SAP and PeopleSoft databases? If that's not possible, create a new client library from the DBMS's network protocol specification.
Most of the free software with available source code is not windows specific, and most software that runs on linux has already been recompiled for ARM.
The only reasons to run windows are for using proprietary software not available anywhere else
I'm specifically referring to Windows applications such as like ModPlug Tracker, FCEUX debugging version, and FamiTracker, which are free software and work well in Wine on x86-64 machines with i386 libs installed.
the Atari 2600/7800 were not general purpose computing devices
Nor were iOS devices until Apple revised its App Store Review Guidelines specifically to allow Swift Playgrounds. When the iPhone first came out, Apple was rejecting a collection of licensed Commodore 64 games because users could reset the virtual C64 into the ROM BASIC REPL, and Apple wouldn't approve it until the developer removed BASIC.
People use Windows/x86 to run their desktop apps. People run Android/ARM to run their Android apps.
The idea is that people would use Windows/ARM on an ARM laptop to run recompiled desktop apps. If the Windows applications you use are free software and not built with MFC, open an issue on the project's bug tracker to make ARM binaries.
If it's "custom made", then why don't you have the source code? Commissioning bespoke software without source code is like hiring an architect firm to design you a house and not giving you the blueprints.
Unless you're trying to port an existing MFC application, such as FamiTracker.
(And yes, Apple/Jobs were pieces of cr@p for pioneering the walled-garden/computer-as-Alcatraz model of computing.)
More pieces of crap than Nintendo and Atari? The pair of synchronized RNG MCUs on the Nintendo Entertainment System and code signing on the Atari 7800 ProSystem were a direct response to a flood of poorly balanced games for the Atari 2600.
And if you're a publisher that's shutting down matchmaking servers for a game released only a couple of years ago, you're probably not going to be getting much repeat business from customers when your new game comes out.
Tell that to Electronic Arts, publisher of Madden NFL and FIFA. Players are expected to buy the sequel every year. And they do, in droves.
I'm also the type of gamer who doesn't go run off and buy the new shiny for $80 when I can get the bugfixed GOTY edition with all the extra content a year later for $20 on a Steam sale.
I guess part of it has to do with how long after release the game's publisher plans to keep the online multiplayer matchmaking servers operational.
So let's take the recent pay-with-computer-cycles as a decent example of a future ubiquitous micropayments convenience. Download a jpeg? Pay by waiting through ten seconds of computer cycles.
Later:
There was no mention of cryptocurrency mining anywhere.
Then what non-cryptocurrency means to "pay-with-computer-cycles" did you have in mind?
Nor was there any mention of existing laws.
I doubt that such laws could be created at all in the current legislative climate of Slashdot's home country. And even assuming a future sea change in the attitude of the US Congress, or an attempt by some other country to aggressively court migrants from the US, I am curious to see what a privacy law would look like that is effective but doesn't impose an undue burden on small businesses. Unless I'm severely misunderstanding the European Union's GDPR, it looks to balkanize international retail by requiring every non-EU business that ships products to the EU to hire a firm on EU soil to act as its representative under GDPR article 27, because the name and address on the shipping label are "personal data."