Talk short. No long sentence. Simple words. Over soon. Screw verbs. Noun adjective. Adjective noun. Noun, noun, noun. And, articles! So, no prepositions. Adverbs bad. Baaaad adverbs, no-no-no. See Dick run. Run, Dick run!
I've seen one at a supercomputing expo. IBM was showing the Bertha, a 22" 200 dpi monitor, running a mapping program (this was years before Google Maps). It was really incredible. Icons the size of fleas, and you could see detail with a magnifying glass, that you really couldn't see without it. Got $9K?
We might be cheap, but the carriers don't make it any easier. Walk into any phone store and try to buy a phone without a plan, or a plan without a phone, and see how far you get. They push you so hard into buying locked down phones that most people don't even know there's an alternative.
Hell, the only reason I know that unlocked phones exist is 1: I have a gadget-freak friend who knows how to do that (and he sent his phone away to some strange place to get it unlocked, which has the slightly icky feeling of getting plastic surgery in India) and 2: posts I read here.
My wife and I have been sharing a phone for years, and it's about time I got a new one. But I hate shopping for one, because I know all that stupid lock-in sales tactics I'm going to find. Yes, even online. Trying to "fight the system" and find an unlocked phone is complicated enough that even I, hater of service contracts, will probably get a contract anyway. After all, I'll probably stay with them for a year anyway.
If you buy a phone full-price, it's not like you get a break in the monthly cost. You maybe get out of the yearly contract. But that doesn't save you money unless you plan on switching carriers right and left. So, the choice is this: free phone or no free phone. What would you pick?
I think it depends on how you define CS. My school had a CS program that most certainly required you to touch a computer. There are lots of people (math bigots, mostly) who define Computer Science of what I think is better termed "theory of computation". Different schools, I'm sure, consider it differently.
To say Computer Science has nothing to do with actual Computers is a little pompous and ridiculous - note the word Computer in both. It's not "Computation Science" or "Computability Science" like the mathies seem to want it to be.
Then you have the folks that say "well, all Science must be math, it can't be science otherwise". I think "science" is here is more colloquially used as "The Study Of". Otherwise you couldn't have political science or music theory. After all, it's not rocket science!
Sure, it works great in theory, like when you're the only person on a programming project. Then, someone decides to use it to indent some ASCII art or something that's not a logical indentation level, you get garbage when viewing it at a different setting. People who says "I like logical tabs" also seem to set their tab-expansion to weird things like 3, so there pretty much a zero-percent chance of looking at their code intelligibly. And, no, I'm not going to use Emacs to look at your code.
Hard tabs are 8. Anything else, and you've never worked with other poeple. Or maybe you're a sociopath and just don't care.
Come on folks. Does anyone use "tabs" to lay out stuff on the web? Print? Documents? No!! Don't them in code.
Maybe, maybe not. By that logic you could argue that DUI should not be illegal, just crashing into people. Otherwise you are infriging on the rights of people who are perfectly capable of driving drunk.
I'm not so sure. I've only ordered basic cable for the last 8 years or so. I tell them that, hey, you're giving me basic cable for free. They don't care. So I buy an HDTV with QAM tuner and no intention of buying digital cable, since I use ReplayTV for everything. Now I get HDTV for free. They still don't care. They would actually have to get off their butt and install a filter, which they never do.
Right, I laughed at that #define remark, it's so green.
The real thing is to used named constants where it makes sense. #define is the crudest approximation of that, C can use enums, C++ can use "const" for compile-time values, etc.
In a real project, you have to scope your constants otherwise you'll have a billion of them in "everything.h" and every time you touch it, the world will rebuild. So nix the "centrally located" file theory.
In a real project, your constants will often have interdepedencies on other bits of code, so changing one will frequently affect the others. Heck, maybe changing one will cause it not to compile. This example makes them all trivial to the point of uselessness. Shuttling it off miles away in an #include file, can frequently give the impression this than can be changed with no effect on anything else.
This happened to me too. Sales guy wouldn't give me the online price, refusing to budge from $200 over it. I said I'll go over to the PC in the corner, order it online, and pick it up here in 20 minutes. He said go right ahead.
So I do. I actually was in the process of typing in the order to their website at the Vista display. Part-way through I realized dubiousness of actually using Internet Explorer on a pre-release operating system to spend a few thousand dollars, not to mention the absurdity and time-waste of it. So I walked down to the customer service counter and asked him to ring it up for the web price. He looked it up in the computer... and then gave it to me for $100 less than the website price.
My guess is they have a secret "lowest price" for price-matching, that's to say, they already know what the lowest price is, and you merely have to call them on it. Except they're too lazy to actually check the competitor's price. After all, that would involve actually taking time to read and have some PHB approve it... and will just give it you if you complain enough.
I have to agree with you, but I think most stereo equipment only has a standby mode (instead of true power-off) so you can turn it on via remote. Think about it for a bit. If it actually had a power switch, the legions of technophobes would sit there at the remote, pressing the buttons, wondering why it doesn't work...
True, but it's much more difficult to use. Gmail only has one sharp, but G#mail 6 sharps and one double-sharp! Ouch! Abmail would a lot easier and it would look exactly the same.
Which should be easy, because he already had a Congo a few years before. Just go in the basement and pull it out. (But keep that Zaire just in case it changes again.)
Parody is protected because it's a criticism of the work itself. Using works to make a comment on something else (e.g., copyright law) is a key element of satire, but I don't think it's necessarily protected because it is satire.
You should look at a newspaper or magazine sometime. Everybody is an editor, and nobody is a writer! Who writes the words if everyone just edits them?! Do they just cut and paste stuff of Wikipedia and Reuters? My suspicion is "editor" really means "writer" and "SuperImpressiveWhizzyTerm Editor" is an actual editor. It's probably title inflation.
Sure, one way is madvise. But that's not really close enough, and, it looks like it would only work for mmap'd segments. You'd need some sort of way the OS could signal the application that it did drop it, so you could invalidate any pointers into it.
Now that I think of it, it probably would be better as a heap manager feature than OS feature. You would have some way of marking a block as "freeable, but tell me when you do it". The heap manager would then try to allocate blocks out of this before asking the OS for more memory.
Sounds like a fun research project, if it's not already done.
The scourge of spam?? How about the scourge of articles dressed up as an fucking tree control! Which is animated to add insult to injury. And no print button!
This is, no doubt, Web 2.0 at its finest. I think I'd rather have spam.
What's next? Articles written as directed acyclic graphs?
You're right. Waiting for TV is over. But the price isn't as bad as they would lead you to believe...
$65/mo is what Tivo wants you to believe. For $0 a month I have a ReplayTV (with lifetime activation and commercial skip) and for $9/mo I get basic analog cable*. That's more than enough to fill all my free time with TV that I care to.
* But they give me extended digital cable for free, because they cannot be bothered to filter it out.
Why people choose [SUVs] for their main everyday vehicle in urban areas is beyond me.
Car seat inflation. In the olde days you could fit 12 kids in that station wagon. Five in the middle, two in the front, and about seven in the cargo area. The car seats are huge these days, and by law the kids need to be in them until... what? 17? So no more.
How many US vehicles fit 3+ kids in bulky car seat, has AWD/4WD, and isn't an SUV? There are not many.
Personally, I drive a medium wagon, because I don't usually drive the kids. It's just not possible to fit the entire family of 5 in there legally. We also have a small 2-row SUV and it just barely fits the three kids, and not for much longer.
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"I don't know what's scarier: losing nuclear weapons or that it happens so often that there's actually a term for it."
Talk short. No long sentence. Simple words. Over soon. Screw verbs. Noun adjective. Adjective noun. Noun, noun, noun. And, articles! So, no prepositions. Adverbs bad. Baaaad adverbs, no-no-no. See Dick run. Run, Dick run!
I've seen one at a supercomputing expo. IBM was showing the Bertha, a 22" 200 dpi monitor, running a mapping program (this was years before Google Maps). It was really incredible. Icons the size of fleas, and you could see detail with a magnifying glass, that you really couldn't see without it. Got $9K?
Hell, the only reason I know that unlocked phones exist is 1: I have a gadget-freak friend who knows how to do that (and he sent his phone away to some strange place to get it unlocked, which has the slightly icky feeling of getting plastic surgery in India) and 2: posts I read here.
My wife and I have been sharing a phone for years, and it's about time I got a new one. But I hate shopping for one, because I know all that stupid lock-in sales tactics I'm going to find. Yes, even online. Trying to "fight the system" and find an unlocked phone is complicated enough that even I, hater of service contracts, will probably get a contract anyway. After all, I'll probably stay with them for a year anyway.
If you buy a phone full-price, it's not like you get a break in the monthly cost. You maybe get out of the yearly contract. But that doesn't save you money unless you plan on switching carriers right and left. So, the choice is this: free phone or no free phone. What would you pick?
Right, but Dijkstra was probably a little bit biased to the "everything is math" definition of CS. Maybe Don Knuth is right...
To say Computer Science has nothing to do with actual Computers is a little pompous and ridiculous - note the word Computer in both. It's not "Computation Science" or "Computability Science" like the mathies seem to want it to be.
Then you have the folks that say "well, all Science must be math, it can't be science otherwise". I think "science" is here is more colloquially used as "The Study Of". Otherwise you couldn't have political science or music theory. After all, it's not rocket science!
Sure, it works great in theory, like when you're the only person on a programming project. Then, someone decides to use it to indent some ASCII art or something that's not a logical indentation level, you get garbage when viewing it at a different setting. People who says "I like logical tabs" also seem to set their tab-expansion to weird things like 3, so there pretty much a zero-percent chance of looking at their code intelligibly. And, no, I'm not going to use Emacs to look at your code.
Hard tabs are 8. Anything else, and you've never worked with other poeple. Or maybe you're a sociopath and just don't care.
Come on folks. Does anyone use "tabs" to lay out stuff on the web? Print? Documents? No!! Don't them in code.
Can you get a COBRA extension? My son has diabetes, and know how expensive it can get, even when you are insured. Good luck.
Can we impeach Cheney? Without the mind, the body cannot live.
DNA doesn't include plastic surgery.
Don't look at the store website, look at the manufacturer specs. I bought the Aquos precisely because it has a QAM tuner. It rocks. HD for $9 a month!
Maybe, maybe not. By that logic you could argue that DUI should not be illegal, just crashing into people. Otherwise you are infriging on the rights of people who are perfectly capable of driving drunk.
I'm not so sure. I've only ordered basic cable for the last 8 years or so. I tell them that, hey, you're giving me basic cable for free. They don't care. So I buy an HDTV with QAM tuner and no intention of buying digital cable, since I use ReplayTV for everything. Now I get HDTV for free. They still don't care. They would actually have to get off their butt and install a filter, which they never do.
The real thing is to used named constants where it makes sense. #define is the crudest approximation of that, C can use enums, C++ can use "const" for compile-time values, etc.
In a real project, you have to scope your constants otherwise you'll have a billion of them in "everything.h" and every time you touch it, the world will rebuild. So nix the "centrally located" file theory.
In a real project, your constants will often have interdepedencies on other bits of code, so changing one will frequently affect the others. Heck, maybe changing one will cause it not to compile. This example makes them all trivial to the point of uselessness. Shuttling it off miles away in an #include file, can frequently give the impression this than can be changed with no effect on anything else.
Indeed! Swiper should be the mascot for the project.
So I do. I actually was in the process of typing in the order to their website at the Vista display. Part-way through I realized dubiousness of actually using Internet Explorer on a pre-release operating system to spend a few thousand dollars, not to mention the absurdity and time-waste of it. So I walked down to the customer service counter and asked him to ring it up for the web price. He looked it up in the computer... and then gave it to me for $100 less than the website price.
My guess is they have a secret "lowest price" for price-matching, that's to say, they already know what the lowest price is, and you merely have to call them on it. Except they're too lazy to actually check the competitor's price. After all, that would involve actually taking time to read and have some PHB approve it... and will just give it you if you complain enough.
I have to agree with you, but I think most stereo equipment only has a standby mode (instead of true power-off) so you can turn it on via remote. Think about it for a bit. If it actually had a power switch, the legions of technophobes would sit there at the remote, pressing the buttons, wondering why it doesn't work...
True, but it's much more difficult to use. Gmail only has one sharp, but G#mail 6 sharps and one double-sharp! Ouch! Abmail would a lot easier and it would look exactly the same.
Which should be easy, because he already had a Congo a few years before. Just go in the basement and pull it out. (But keep that Zaire just in case it changes again.)
Parody is protected because it's a criticism of the work itself. Using works to make a comment on something else (e.g., copyright law) is a key element of satire, but I don't think it's necessarily protected because it is satire.
You should look at a newspaper or magazine sometime. Everybody is an editor, and nobody is a writer! Who writes the words if everyone just edits them?! Do they just cut and paste stuff of Wikipedia and Reuters? My suspicion is "editor" really means "writer" and "SuperImpressiveWhizzyTerm Editor" is an actual editor. It's probably title inflation.
Now that I think of it, it probably would be better as a heap manager feature than OS feature. You would have some way of marking a block as "freeable, but tell me when you do it". The heap manager would then try to allocate blocks out of this before asking the OS for more memory.
Sounds like a fun research project, if it's not already done.
This is, no doubt, Web 2.0 at its finest. I think I'd rather have spam.
What's next? Articles written as directed acyclic graphs?
$65/mo is what Tivo wants you to believe. For $0 a month I have a ReplayTV (with lifetime activation and commercial skip) and for $9/mo I get basic analog cable*. That's more than enough to fill all my free time with TV that I care to.
* But they give me extended digital cable for free, because they cannot be bothered to filter it out.
Car seat inflation. In the olde days you could fit 12 kids in that station wagon. Five in the middle, two in the front, and about seven in the cargo area. The car seats are huge these days, and by law the kids need to be in them until... what? 17? So no more.
How many US vehicles fit 3+ kids in bulky car seat, has AWD/4WD, and isn't an SUV? There are not many.
Personally, I drive a medium wagon, because I don't usually drive the kids. It's just not possible to fit the entire family of 5 in there legally. We also have a small 2-row SUV and it just barely fits the three kids, and not for much longer.