I think the real question is what is it doing on Slashdot again. I seem to remember this story coming up when it was first published almost a month ago.
The people over at BOINC have a software called Bossa for distributed thinking projects (crowd sourcing). I am not sure of the current status of the project, but I have heard of at least one group that is trying to implement it.
For an "Introduction to Programming" course, how about pseudo-code?
Teach the concepts using pseudo-code, then give examples in specific languages, and paradigms. You could use a C inspired pseudo-code, so that the format and syntax would be near that of C, C++ and Java; and that would give you imperative and object oriented. I don't know enough about functional to comment on that.
You could also use pseudo-code to introduce the differences in the various types of programming.
Better yet, I think I have run across pseudo-code interpreters from time to time.
Another way to go, if there is enough demand is to offer multiple variations of the Intro course. "Intro to Programming with C++", "Intro to Programming with Java", "Intro to Programming with Haskel", "Intro to Programming with machine language", or whatever as desired and enrolled by the students.
As for that McDonalds comment, there was a story here on Slashdot (I think, I am to lazy to look for it) about a guy who worked for Taco Bell and had hacked the register to ring up everything at a penny when a certian keystroke was entered. He charged normal price and pocketed the difference. Hackers can get you anywhere.
The point is there is evidence that indicates that people with ADHD react differently to stimulants than most people. For instance, I currently take Adderall, which is amphetemine. How many people do you know that can take amphetemine and go to sleep less than two hours later. Probably find it is only people with ADHD or narcolepsy. I feel no effects from Vivran. You are right about the standard effects for these drugs, but a drug like penicillin cures bacterial infections in most people and kills a small number of people.
I guess what I am trying to say is not everyone reacts to drugs or other chemicals the same. If they did, doctors would have stopped joking about what they do being "practice" long ago.
So, what is your response to the assertion that Physics, Biology and Chemistry (just to name a few) all say evolution is impossible?
Physics - Second Law of Thermodynamics - All things will tend towards a simpler and simpler state. I don't know about you, but I think any life is more complex than free floating atoms.
Biology - The Law of Biogenisis - Life comes from Life. So, what was the source of life for the first single celled organism?
Chemistry - Several of the chemicals that are important for the operation and reproduction of a cell are known to react violently when placed together, except when in a cell.
These are just some of the ways that science itself says Darwin didn't know what he was talking about.
The code is their core asset, as they make their money putting forward and supporting the claim that global warming is occuring. (And they have the hockey stick to prove it.) If their code was opened the flaws suggested by M&M would become apparent, if they existed, as well as indications as to whether the errors were due to oversight, sloppy math or scientific bias. If any errors are found their livelyhoods as well as their cherished cause could tumble down around them. So much for peer review.
I mean, there are some people that would define Al Queda's actions as defending the human rights of the Middle East. Sinn Féin is a political party, but it has deep ties to the IRA. Not every one is what they say they are, or what they tell themselves they are.
The biggest thing I've seen so far, especially in this thread, is people become used to doing things a certain way and may be unable to quickly adapt to a new paradigm. It is possible to store all the information needed for a game in global variables that can be easily stored, but are available to all and subject to unrelatable effects from bugs and other sources. It is also possible to store all game information in objects, that protect the variables they contain from tampering, accidental or otherwise, but can be difficult to ensure every object is serialized, serialized properly and with a minimun of actual data.
I personally believe that just as game programming can be different from other kinds of programming, so also can different types of games differ in there best implementations. As such, there may not be a single answer, but each game must be designed individually. The key seems to be to ensure that the structure of the game is consistent and understood by the person responsible for designing the save functionality.
If emulators required no "guessing" then why can't you just run any program out there on an emulator, both out of the box? Fact is, as can be seen from any number of articles here on Slashdot, emulators often need "tweaking" to get certain programs to run properly on them. I do realize that this is often the case of programs that interact directly with the hardware, but what is more direct than telling a chip what to do with it's registers, actual, physical structures on the chip. Besides, how much sense does it make to program for one platform when you don't have that platform to test on. If a bug crops up, you have to ask, is it the program or the emulator or an interaction between the two. There is no feeling in the world like spending a week on a program, getting it to work perfectly and then receiving a failing grade because the program would not run on the professor's machine, or because the program had fundamental flaws that the professor saw as a misunderstanding of the material, but was an accomadation neccessary to get it to run under the emulator.
What my esteemed colleague is trying to say is, ASM is a language in which you give the chip specific commands. You tell the registers what to hold, what to do with what they hold, etc. For every ASM line of code there is only one machine language command created, unlike the potential hundreds created for a line of C. Taking a program that is written at that level and then allowing some emulator to guess at what you mean and how that is done on a completely different architecture makes no sense. You create a series of commands for the computer to run and then give it to an application that changes the commands to something else, in effect running a completely different program. It is just wasted time.
Of course one option you have is to just use the school's computer lab.
I would have to say, ask your local florist. I currently have a christmas cactus in my cube that I got from my florist, and it's doing very well despite the fact that I do not have a window and the lights almost never get turned off. It has survived a whole month so far.
You could also consult your local home improvement store or nursery, which ever one you know where is.
I got a BA in CS/Math from a liberal arts school and had a job developing a 3D modeling software package within two months of graduating. And that was last summer.
I believe you'll find the ones leaving off the "embryonic" are in fact not the religous, but those that want to allow embryonic stem cell research and realize the only way to justify it at this point is to act as all stem cell research is the same. Even thought adult and cord blood stem cells have produced results and embryonic stem cells have not.
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I am not a WiFi expert, but it seems to me that all the experts so far have missed a rather large detail. If your signal cuts out on a regular or fairly regular schedule, then there might be something external to your setup that is causing the problem and would cause problems no matter the set-up. You said the signal crossed a street, maybe every half hour a car stops exactly in the path of your transmission - transmission interupted. Or perhaps a vehicle travels by with a powerful radio transmitter (cop, firefighter, trucker, trucker wannabe). Another thing to consider is how close you are to a radio source (antenna, airport, publice safety facility, resistance cell, whatever). Again, I am not an expert at WiFi, but I have a lot of experience in trouble shooting and debugging, if you try and fix your problem without first determining it is not external to your setup, you may be just throwing money down a rathole.
And that doesn't include all the rare and endagered birds that would be killed trying to fly through the blades. Some animal activist groups are already trying to nix the wind power idea.
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I think the real question is what is it doing on Slashdot again. I seem to remember this story coming up when it was first published almost a month ago.
The people over at BOINC have a software called Bossa for distributed thinking projects (crowd sourcing). I am not sure of the current status of the project, but I have heard of at least one group that is trying to implement it.
For an "Introduction to Programming" course, how about pseudo-code?
Teach the concepts using pseudo-code, then give examples in specific languages, and paradigms. You could use a C inspired pseudo-code, so that the format and syntax would be near that of C, C++ and Java; and that would give you imperative and object oriented. I don't know enough about functional to comment on that.
You could also use pseudo-code to introduce the differences in the various types of programming.
Better yet, I think I have run across pseudo-code interpreters from time to time.
Another way to go, if there is enough demand is to offer multiple variations of the Intro course. "Intro to Programming with C++", "Intro to Programming with Java", "Intro to Programming with Haskel", "Intro to Programming with machine language", or whatever as desired and enrolled by the students.
As for that McDonalds comment, there was a story here on Slashdot (I think, I am to lazy to look for it) about a guy who worked for Taco Bell and had hacked the register to ring up everything at a penny when a certian keystroke was entered. He charged normal price and pocketed the difference. Hackers can get you anywhere.
The point is there is evidence that indicates that people with ADHD react differently to stimulants than most people. For instance, I currently take Adderall, which is amphetemine. How many people do you know that can take amphetemine and go to sleep less than two hours later. Probably find it is only people with ADHD or narcolepsy. I feel no effects from Vivran. You are right about the standard effects for these drugs, but a drug like penicillin cures bacterial infections in most people and kills a small number of people.
I guess what I am trying to say is not everyone reacts to drugs or other chemicals the same. If they did, doctors would have stopped joking about what they do being "practice" long ago.
So, what is your response to the assertion that Physics, Biology and Chemistry (just to name a few) all say evolution is impossible?
Physics - Second Law of Thermodynamics - All things will tend towards a simpler and simpler state. I don't know about you, but I think any life is more complex than free floating atoms.
Biology - The Law of Biogenisis - Life comes from Life. So, what was the source of life for the first single celled organism?
Chemistry - Several of the chemicals that are important for the operation and reproduction of a cell are known to react violently when placed together, except when in a cell.
These are just some of the ways that science itself says Darwin didn't know what he was talking about.
I think the key is it is a KID not a CHILD, but the site is /. so who knows.
The code is their core asset, as they make their money putting forward and supporting the claim that global warming is occuring. (And they have the hockey stick to prove it.) If their code was opened the flaws suggested by M&M would become apparent, if they existed, as well as indications as to whether the errors were due to oversight, sloppy math or scientific bias. If any errors are found their livelyhoods as well as their cherished cause could tumble down around them. So much for peer review.
I mean, there are some people that would define Al Queda's actions as defending the human rights of the Middle East. Sinn Féin is a political party, but it has deep ties to the IRA. Not every one is what they say they are, or what they tell themselves they are.
Boy, you read a lot into my comment. Might I suggest taking some time to relax. Maybe you have to many obligations. The world will go on without you.
Why would anybody not have their taxes filed already?
It's not USDA, it's FDA.
So, when you moving ed?
Is the world ready for another Hitchhikers trilogy?
The biggest thing I've seen so far, especially in this thread, is people become used to doing things a certain way and may be unable to quickly adapt to a new paradigm. It is possible to store all the information needed for a game in global variables that can be easily stored, but are available to all and subject to unrelatable effects from bugs and other sources. It is also possible to store all game information in objects, that protect the variables they contain from tampering, accidental or otherwise, but can be difficult to ensure every object is serialized, serialized properly and with a minimun of actual data.
I personally believe that just as game programming can be different from other kinds of programming, so also can different types of games differ in there best implementations. As such, there may not be a single answer, but each game must be designed individually. The key seems to be to ensure that the structure of the game is consistent and understood by the person responsible for designing the save functionality.
If emulators required no "guessing" then why can't you just run any program out there on an emulator, both out of the box? Fact is, as can be seen from any number of articles here on Slashdot, emulators often need "tweaking" to get certain programs to run properly on them. I do realize that this is often the case of programs that interact directly with the hardware, but what is more direct than telling a chip what to do with it's registers, actual, physical structures on the chip. Besides, how much sense does it make to program for one platform when you don't have that platform to test on. If a bug crops up, you have to ask, is it the program or the emulator or an interaction between the two. There is no feeling in the world like spending a week on a program, getting it to work perfectly and then receiving a failing grade because the program would not run on the professor's machine, or because the program had fundamental flaws that the professor saw as a misunderstanding of the material, but was an accomadation neccessary to get it to run under the emulator.
What my esteemed colleague is trying to say is, ASM is a language in which you give the chip specific commands. You tell the registers what to hold, what to do with what they hold, etc. For every ASM line of code there is only one machine language command created, unlike the potential hundreds created for a line of C. Taking a program that is written at that level and then allowing some emulator to guess at what you mean and how that is done on a completely different architecture makes no sense. You create a series of commands for the computer to run and then give it to an application that changes the commands to something else, in effect running a completely different program. It is just wasted time.
Of course one option you have is to just use the school's computer lab.
Current plans... Last update Mar02. Current Plans... Haha. Good one.
I would have to say, ask your local florist. I currently have a christmas cactus in my cube that I got from my florist, and it's doing very well despite the fact that I do not have a window and the lights almost never get turned off. It has survived a whole month so far.
You could also consult your local home improvement store or nursery, which ever one you know where is.
But even if the outside company that is doing the work is in the same building it's outsourcing.
The other side of the story is in some Asian countries I have heard of people being arrested for stealing electricity.
I got a BA in CS/Math from a liberal arts school and had a job developing a 3D modeling software package within two months of graduating. And that was last summer.
I believe you'll find the ones leaving off the "embryonic" are in fact not the religous, but those that want to allow embryonic stem cell research and realize the only way to justify it at this point is to act as all stem cell research is the same. Even thought adult and cord blood stem cells have produced results and embryonic stem cells have not.
I am not a WiFi expert, but it seems to me that all the experts so far have missed a rather large detail. If your signal cuts out on a regular or fairly regular schedule, then there might be something external to your setup that is causing the problem and would cause problems no matter the set-up. You said the signal crossed a street, maybe every half hour a car stops exactly in the path of your transmission - transmission interupted. Or perhaps a vehicle travels by with a powerful radio transmitter (cop, firefighter, trucker, trucker wannabe). Another thing to consider is how close you are to a radio source (antenna, airport, publice safety facility, resistance cell, whatever). Again, I am not an expert at WiFi, but I have a lot of experience in trouble shooting and debugging, if you try and fix your problem without first determining it is not external to your setup, you may be just throwing money down a rathole.
And that doesn't include all the rare and endagered birds that would be killed trying to fly through the blades. Some animal activist groups are already trying to nix the wind power idea.