Where they trying to show that the Google device did not interfere with the microphone? But if it was at the same frequency as a local TV station, it would have not worked whether or not the Google device was on - the TV signal would have interfered.
If, on the other hand, the Google device was designed to avoid populated spectrum, it would have avoided that frequency in any case, assuming this feature worked at all.
So exactly what was being tested and what was the failure mode?
The repairs are going to take a long time. A blck hole formed and time moves real slowly down there now. Good new is the technicians get paid in uphole time.
Why is there a problem with that statement? They've calculated the expected mass using lattice quantum chromodynamics, and now they get to see if the calculation was even close. Its the physics equivalent of instant replay at Baseball - something that is clearly nice to have. Were the calculations fair of foul?
COBOL had the added cool (yuck) thing that you could modify gotos to go somewhere else.
There were some restrictions - there had to be nothing else in the paragraph. And there was no way to restore it once you had changed it.
Its been a while but I think the syntax was "MODIFY para_name TO GOTO para_name."
Conspiracy theorists contend that COBOL was supposed to be a language that could be read by managers, but when they found out they still couldn't read it, they added this feature so nobody else could read it either. I once had to fix a program that was peppered with this abomination.
You would think that companies would not put in language that is unenforceable
On the contrary - most companies put a clause in their contracts that says that if any part of the contract is found to be non-enforcable, it does not invalidate the rest of the contract. (That's the "severability" clause). So they anticipate that some of the clauses may not be enforcable.
Probably would have been fatal without the main tak explosion. The shuttle was going fast enough that it probably could not have survived the large changes in attitude that were likely, even if you could disconnect instantaneously, because of aerodynamic buffeting from the main tank shocks. Plus once you get way out of shape you probably are not going to be able to recover,
How could they leave this off the list of most entertaining books of the last 25 years. Not only does it teach a lot about gravity but you can use it experimentally as a central mass.
The comparison with strong encryption has me worried. I am reminded of the tee shirt that was a "munition" because it had a perl script for string encryption printed on it.
So does this mean if I try to cross the border with saliva on my tee-shirt they are going to arrest me? Some of us could be in trouble here.
You want to use a citation Index. Use references in papers you know about to move backwards and, as a citation index is an inverted index, that will allow you to come back forward.
Here are a couple of starting points for a citation search. You are going to get a lot of stuff but if you are doing a PhD you should be prepared to read a lot of papers, and reading them in historical order for a evolving subject like this is probably as good an approach as any - at least if you hope to produce any original ideas, which ought to be a goal of a Doctoral Candidate.
"Goto Considered Harmful" by Edsger Dijkstra. (You probably want to discard about a million ensuing (X considered Y) papers from Sigplan immediately)
You might also see what comes up for "Sale AHJ. 'Proposal for extension to Pascal', SIGPLAN Notices, 16, 4, 98-103.
" - it might be more focussed.
Another interesting starting point would be anything by C.A.R Hoare and the papers on Majester Stacks. You should also look at the works of Niklaus Wirth.
The beginning point for object oriented programming was Simula-67 so references to the original paper on that are another path forward. Ada is another language that was designed with programming methods in mind.
For applicative (functional) styles, start with Lisp and FP (Floyd Productions I think it stands for) and "Applicative Programming". Two other names to look for are Church and Rosser.
A lot of language design (but not C++) has been closely tied to ideas about what constitutes "good" programming and the two subjects were closely linked for a long time.
I was flying through Salt Lake City when George H decided to visit. They stopped all aircraft while he swanned about, so we spent the best part of an hour sitting on a taxiway. At my next connection on the east coast, I had to run between gates to catch my connection, when I had planned to get some dinner. (My flight out of SLC was of course also sitting somewhere in the outfield, so that was not a problem)
Land developers are invariable well fed, and they drive large vehicles whose handling is so bad that turning at a constant radius of curvature is impossible.
Seriously though, this should be part of the Imperial War Museum.
They also suppress the location of Frostbite Falls. All we know is its said to be in Minnesota. Guess they don't want anyone to know where two of their best agents live when they are not off making the world safe for punnery.
What really happened is they all had those dodgy exploding batteries in them so we arranged for them to be "lent" to known terrorist organizations with a bunch of phony national security docs on them to keep them interested. That's why we have to search laptops at airports - we don't want any of these dodgy laptop batteries being brought back into the country.
This is an important security matter; how would you like to be the guy having to explain to George W. that a burnt out rental car that had been hired to a known terrorist did not represent a terrorist attack, but simply said terrorists laptop battery cooking off.
One would think that there might be a number of barriers. Once life becomes wide spread, the next barrier could be when intelligent life becomes wide spread, in which case we are safe for a while yet. On the other hand, it could be when a dominant species fails to develop intelligence and destroys its environment instead.
Just make sure you save a copy. Sometimes you get to the point where you think a piece of code is hopelessly muddled only to find out after you deleted it that what was actually wrong with was quite trivial.
But was it PG Wodehouse who described the art of editing as going through your work and, whenever you find a sentence with which you are particularly pleased, striking it out and rewriting it?
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Actually the real difference between Ada and many other langauges is that it is possible to code in a way that often guarantees that subsequent changes will either be correct or else will fail to compile. In other words, it makes modification easier. The idea is that local changes cannot have global effects. This was a design goal of the language (look up "beaujolais effect" for some history)
For example, suppose you want to add a new value to an enumeration. As long as you adopt certain style conventions (avoiding default clauses) if you miss any places where you need to deal with it, you will get an error at compile time.
The overloading rules work well too because the result type is also involved in overload resolution. So you can have i:= foo(); and a:= foo(); call different foo's if i and a are different types. If i and a start out the same type and later one of them has to change, you just change it and you will get an error message on the call to foo that you need to fix until you provide the missing implementation.
Plus the fact that you have modules and a good system (in Ada 95) for hiding implementations, and a much better controlled system of generics than in C++ means you have better control over your system. You are never going to have your executable blow up from 10 M to 200M overnight because you added a template declaration.
As for verbosity, it really isn't. More perhaps than C/C++ but nothing like COBOL. However it does pay to use a slightly more verbose style than is absolutely essential by always fully qualifying names, but the same is true in C++.
The one weirdness that catches out beginners is that arrays passed as parameters retain their lower bound. So when dealing with substrings, for example, you have to be prepared for non-zero (or 1) lower bounds. But its easy to do.
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Where they trying to show that the Google device did not interfere with the microphone? But if it was at the same frequency as a local TV station, it would have not worked whether or not the Google device was on - the TV signal would have interfered.
If, on the other hand, the Google device was designed to avoid populated spectrum, it would have avoided that frequency in any case, assuming this feature worked at all.
So exactly what was being tested and what was the failure mode?
Next, Kentucky will rule they own all domains that mention evolution. (starting with Slashdot)
to get a guest spot on Top Gear
The repairs are going to take a long time. A blck hole formed and time moves real slowly down there now. Good new is the technicians get paid in uphole time.
They are going to need to sell a lot more of these to fulfill their goal of putting George Bush on Mars by 2020.
Why is there a problem with that statement? They've calculated the expected mass using lattice quantum chromodynamics, and now they get to see if the calculation was even close. Its the physics equivalent of instant replay at Baseball - something that is clearly nice to have. Were the calculations fair of foul?
I really don't think they should allow you to photograph the lobby of a Hyatt. You might threaten to show them to people unless they paid you money.
There were some restrictions - there had to be nothing else in the paragraph. And there was no way to restore it once you had changed it.
Its been a while but I think the syntax was "MODIFY para_name TO GOTO para_name."
Conspiracy theorists contend that COBOL was supposed to be a language that could be read by managers, but when they found out they still couldn't read it, they added this feature so nobody else could read it either. I once had to fix a program that was peppered with this abomination.
On the contrary - most companies put a clause in their contracts that says that if any part of the contract is found to be non-enforcable, it does not invalidate the rest of the contract. (That's the "severability" clause). So they anticipate that some of the clauses may not be enforcable.
Probably would have been fatal without the main tak explosion. The shuttle was going fast enough that it probably could not have survived the large changes in attitude that were likely, even if you could disconnect instantaneously, because of aerodynamic buffeting from the main tank shocks. Plus once you get way out of shape you probably are not going to be able to recover,
What I need is an ISP that filters out egregious neolisms. Gack!
How could they leave this off the list of most entertaining books of the last 25 years. Not only does it teach a lot about gravity but you can use it experimentally as a central mass.
What is the cost of sending a donut express mail (wouldn't want it to get stale) to Nigeria?
So does this mean if I try to cross the border with saliva on my tee-shirt they are going to arrest me? Some of us could be in trouble here.
Here are a couple of starting points for a citation search. You are going to get a lot of stuff but if you are doing a PhD you should be prepared to read a lot of papers, and reading them in historical order for a evolving subject like this is probably as good an approach as any - at least if you hope to produce any original ideas, which ought to be a goal of a Doctoral Candidate.
"Goto Considered Harmful" by Edsger Dijkstra. (You probably want to discard about a million ensuing (X considered Y) papers from Sigplan immediately)
You might also see what comes up for "Sale AHJ. 'Proposal for extension to Pascal', SIGPLAN Notices, 16, 4, 98-103. " - it might be more focussed.
Another interesting starting point would be anything by C.A.R Hoare and the papers on Majester Stacks. You should also look at the works of Niklaus Wirth.
The beginning point for object oriented programming was Simula-67 so references to the original paper on that are another path forward. Ada is another language that was designed with programming methods in mind.
For applicative (functional) styles, start with Lisp and FP (Floyd Productions I think it stands for) and "Applicative Programming". Two other names to look for are Church and Rosser.
A lot of language design (but not C++) has been closely tied to ideas about what constitutes "good" programming and the two subjects were closely linked for a long time.
Security Theatre of the Absurd.
By making sure only food purchased from the concessions is consumed at ball games, we make sure the poisoning is more evenly spread.
The way my team has been doing, a quick death from poisoning has to be preferable to watching them play an entire game.
Land developers are invariable well fed, and they drive large vehicles whose handling is so bad that turning at a constant radius of curvature is impossible.
Seriously though, this should be part of the Imperial War Museum.
They also suppress the location of Frostbite Falls. All we know is its said to be in Minnesota. Guess they don't want anyone to know where two of their best agents live when they are not off making the world safe for punnery.
How often do they come in and change the nails?
This is an important security matter; how would you like to be the guy having to explain to George W. that a burnt out rental car that had been hired to a known terrorist did not represent a terrorist attack, but simply said terrorists laptop battery cooking off.
Or maybe they were digging in the dirt and entered via tunnel.
One would think that there might be a number of barriers. Once life becomes wide spread, the next barrier could be when intelligent life becomes wide spread, in which case we are safe for a while yet. On the other hand, it could be when a dominant species fails to develop intelligence and destroys its environment instead.
But was it PG Wodehouse who described the art of editing as going through your work and, whenever you find a sentence with which you are particularly pleased, striking it out and rewriting it?
For example, suppose you want to add a new value to an enumeration. As long as you adopt certain style conventions (avoiding default clauses) if you miss any places where you need to deal with it, you will get an error at compile time.
The overloading rules work well too because the result type is also involved in overload resolution. So you can have i := foo(); and a := foo(); call different foo's if i and a are different types. If i and a start out the same type and later one of them has to change, you just change it and you will get an error message on the call to foo that you need to fix until you provide the missing implementation.
Plus the fact that you have modules and a good system (in Ada 95) for hiding implementations, and a much better controlled system of generics than in C++ means you have better control over your system. You are never going to have your executable blow up from 10 M to 200M overnight because you added a template declaration.
As for verbosity, it really isn't. More perhaps than C/C++ but nothing like COBOL. However it does pay to use a slightly more verbose style than is absolutely essential by always fully qualifying names, but the same is true in C++.
The one weirdness that catches out beginners is that arrays passed as parameters retain their lower bound. So when dealing with substrings, for example, you have to be prepared for non-zero (or 1) lower bounds. But its easy to do.