Dense cities can still have poor public transportation, and sparse cities can still have good public transportation.
Sacramento is decently dense, and the public transportation is useless. Paris, on the other hand, is a fairly sparse city by today's standards, especially since pretty much none of their buildings reach the fifth floor. I'd call their public transportation system a huge success, partly because half the time if you stand at the exit to a stop, you can see the entrance to the next one. It means you'll never take the subway for just one stop (like you might in most American cities). They also have a commuter rail coming in from the suburbs, although that isn't as nice as the subway.
They covered multiprogramming issues, but there was virtually no programming involved with that class; we wrote three small programs. Most of the grade from that class was from the tests and quizzes, which were about half conceptual, and half "Which memory block gets evicted if we're using LRU?"
My car's old enough that I wouldn't get enough for it to cover public transit costs.
Plus I live near Sacramento, which has the useless Light Rail system. The stops are nowhere near where they need to be to be useful, unless you work right downtown.
I agree it's not that advanced, but there's not much room for it, with all of the other topics that need to be covered.
Here's an overview of the courses I took that were required for my degree: -Intro to CS (C++, covered basic concepts, not even really getting into OO basics) -Intro to CS, Pt 2 (C++, covered OO, classes, basics of pointers) -Data Structures (Java, nothing but hashes, lists, trees, etc) -Software Design (Java, mostly about how to structure OO designs well) -Intro to C and Assembly (covered pointer arithmetic in detail, machine architecture, and other low-level concepts) -Operating Systems (C, covered things like memory allocation, caching policies) -Programming Languages and Concepts (first half in Java, dealing with threading and GUIs, second half in SML, covering functional programming concepts) -Object Oriented Programming (C++, covered advanced OO concepts and designs)
Those are all of the courses required of every CS major at my school. We also had three "CS elective" slots, which we could fill with courses like networking, AI, graphics, or OS programming, but not every undergrad was required to take those, and they were mixed undergrad/grad classes, so I even if there was an advanced course on concurrency that covered it in further depth than "write a GUI with a worker thread", I didn't take it. As a result, I wouldn't feel comfortable designing a program that had threads interacting with each other without guidance.
As a recent college grad, I had one course in which threads came into play; it was in the course that introduced GUI work, so our GUI wouldn't freeze while a worker thread was running, but that is the area where single-threading is most apparent to the user, after all.
There isn't all that much room for undergrads to take courses on threading though; the course I took it in was the highest-level course that's required of all CS majors, and even still, that was only one semester after taking our "Intro to C and Assembly" course.
Realistically, an in-depth course on good threading implementation is at the graduate level, but there isn't a large percentage of CS majors that go on to graduate work.
Here's what I'm curious about: how did he get charged with theft and receiving stolen property?
Was it just that he had possession of the stolen property, so they knew that one would stick, so it was a lesser included offense, just in case they couldn't prove the theft?
I know that they most likely didn't do any image processing or editing with OpenOffice, but if it was done in Gimp or Photoshop, setting the resizing operation to do bilinear or cubic filtering would make it easier on the eyes.
My girlfriend found an old CD lying around for a Win98-era "children's office suite", that contained a bunch of cartoon characters helping you create documents, images, etc.
It included a text-to-speech program, into which she put in a short story she wrote several years ago. Her favorite part: "OH NO!", screamed Reggie. This got spoken as "Ohio no, screamed regg ee".:)
Did you say if you found your army between the Germans and the Russians... you'd attack in both directions?
No, I never said that. I never said any such thing. But I wish I had.
The war shouldn't be over. We should stop pussyfooting about the Russians! We'll have to fight them anyway. Why not do it now, when the army's here? Instead of disarming Germans let's get them to help fight the Bolsheviks.
In Soylent Green, the world was grossly overpopulated (to the point where stairwells had about 2 people sleeping on each stair), and the only people turned into food were convicts (people picked up in "scoops" during the food riot), or the recently deceased (Edward G. Robinson, for example).
I'm sure that if the they killed enough people to really make a dent on the population, then there would be enough "regular" food to go around.
Excuse me for using the English language as God intended it to be used...
Unless you're speaking in the language of Beowulf, I don't believe you.
In which case, I think you meant to say something like:
Arian mec to neotan seo Englisc scieppend geteohhian neotan
(please excuse the lack of accents, as Slashdot doesn't handle them well, and I can't find the appropriate XML entity references)
Your parent post was making a joke, that since you're referring to an American entity (Wall Street), you should use American spellings. You ruined the joke with your overly Anglophobic remark.
I liked visiting England, but seriously, get off your high horse.
Slashdot Mirror
Dense cities can still have poor public transportation, and sparse cities can still have good public transportation.
Sacramento is decently dense, and the public transportation is useless. Paris, on the other hand, is a fairly sparse city by today's standards, especially since pretty much none of their buildings reach the fifth floor. I'd call their public transportation system a huge success, partly because half the time if you stand at the exit to a stop, you can see the entrance to the next one. It means you'll never take the subway for just one stop (like you might in most American cities). They also have a commuter rail coming in from the suburbs, although that isn't as nice as the subway.
They covered multiprogramming issues, but there was virtually no programming involved with that class; we wrote three small programs. Most of the grade from that class was from the tests and quizzes, which were about half conceptual, and half "Which memory block gets evicted if we're using LRU?"
In some applications, memory bandwidth is already the bottleneck.
With trains the operator takes all of that cost
Don't forget where that money comes from... in most cities, it's from you, even if you don't take the train.
My car's old enough that I wouldn't get enough for it to cover public transit costs.
Plus I live near Sacramento, which has the useless Light Rail system. The stops are nowhere near where they need to be to be useful, unless you work right downtown.
I agree it's not that advanced, but there's not much room for it, with all of the other topics that need to be covered.
Here's an overview of the courses I took that were required for my degree:
-Intro to CS (C++, covered basic concepts, not even really getting into OO basics)
-Intro to CS, Pt 2 (C++, covered OO, classes, basics of pointers)
-Data Structures (Java, nothing but hashes, lists, trees, etc)
-Software Design (Java, mostly about how to structure OO designs well)
-Intro to C and Assembly (covered pointer arithmetic in detail, machine architecture, and other low-level concepts)
-Operating Systems (C, covered things like memory allocation, caching policies)
-Programming Languages and Concepts (first half in Java, dealing with threading and GUIs, second half in SML, covering functional programming concepts)
-Object Oriented Programming (C++, covered advanced OO concepts and designs)
Those are all of the courses required of every CS major at my school. We also had three "CS elective" slots, which we could fill with courses like networking, AI, graphics, or OS programming, but not every undergrad was required to take those, and they were mixed undergrad/grad classes, so I even if there was an advanced course on concurrency that covered it in further depth than "write a GUI with a worker thread", I didn't take it. As a result, I wouldn't feel comfortable designing a program that had threads interacting with each other without guidance.
Thank you for the clarification.
Only if you run Starter Edition, which is aimed at "emerging markets" only.
As a recent college grad, I had one course in which threads came into play; it was in the course that introduced GUI work, so our GUI wouldn't freeze while a worker thread was running, but that is the area where single-threading is most apparent to the user, after all.
There isn't all that much room for undergrads to take courses on threading though; the course I took it in was the highest-level course that's required of all CS majors, and even still, that was only one semester after taking our "Intro to C and Assembly" course.
Realistically, an in-depth course on good threading implementation is at the graduate level, but there isn't a large percentage of CS majors that go on to graduate work.
Here's what I'm curious about: how did he get charged with theft and receiving stolen property?
Was it just that he had possession of the stolen property, so they knew that one would stick, so it was a lesser included offense, just in case they couldn't prove the theft?
I know that they most likely didn't do any image processing or editing with OpenOffice, but if it was done in Gimp or Photoshop, setting the resizing operation to do bilinear or cubic filtering would make it easier on the eyes.
I was being facetious though. :)
Slashdot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246
Sun:
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/
Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html
Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-yourmoney-0503leckeyfile,0,5105395.story
Too bad they don't use antialiasing or any type of filtering for the thumbnails...
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/images/image11-big.png
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/images/image12-big.png
My girlfriend found an old CD lying around for a Win98-era "children's office suite", that contained a bunch of cartoon characters helping you create documents, images, etc.
It included a text-to-speech program, into which she put in a short story she wrote several years ago. Her favorite part: :)
"OH NO!", screamed Reggie.
This got spoken as "Ohio no, screamed regg ee".
Just get Billy Mays to read it.
"Hi! Billy Mays here for Linux! Watch how easily Linux boots up on this old computer! You can start configuring your scheduler in no time!"
I had that paragraph in all caps, but Slashdot didn't like that. :)
Jessica Abel
For a second, I thought you said Jessica Alba...
Then I was disappointed. :(
Here's the set of movie quotes:
Did you say if you found your army between the Germans and the Russians... you'd attack in both directions?
No, I never said that. I never said any such thing. But I wish I had.
The war shouldn't be over. We should
stop pussyfooting about the Russians! We'll have to fight them anyway. Why not do it now, when the army's here? Instead of disarming Germans let's get them to help fight the Bolsheviks.
Yeah, seized by the Stonemasons! Just ask Homer ...
I think you mean the No Homers club, formally known as the Stonecutters.
More often than not Soviet forces sent out 100 men with half a rifle each (every other carried a rifle; the rest carried the ammo).
The famous line from Enemy at the Gates:
"The man with the rifle shoots! When the man with the rifle dies, the man without the rifle picks up the rifle and shoots!"
Plenty of companies have branch offices, but EMC is one of the only ones I can think of with headquarters in Mass, along with Raytheon.
Branch offices in Mass that I can name off the top of my head: Sun, Intel, BAE, Cisco, Broadcom, Nvidia.
In Soylent Green, the world was grossly overpopulated (to the point where stairwells had about 2 people sleeping on each stair), and the only people turned into food were convicts (people picked up in "scoops" during the food riot), or the recently deceased (Edward G. Robinson, for example).
I'm sure that if the they killed enough people to really make a dent on the population, then there would be enough "regular" food to go around.
objectifies (yes, according to my professors that's a real word)
Most often heard in a context similar to "That chauvinistic pig objectifies women all the time."
And Nixon convinced Doctor Manhattan to win the Vietnam War for us. That doesn't make him a good president.
If you'd like. I was tempted to imply that there hasn't been a good president since Washington. :)
Excuse me for using the English language as God intended it to be used...
Unless you're speaking in the language of Beowulf, I don't believe you.
In which case, I think you meant to say something like:
Arian mec to neotan seo Englisc scieppend geteohhian neotan
(please excuse the lack of accents, as Slashdot doesn't handle them well, and I can't find the appropriate XML entity references)
Your parent post was making a joke, that since you're referring to an American entity (Wall Street), you should use American spellings. You ruined the joke with your overly Anglophobic remark.
I liked visiting England, but seriously, get off your high horse.