Actually, it gets even more complicated. Waterloo used to be called New Hamburg, but they changed the name around WWI for some reason.. I hear good things about their OctoberFest though.
The property mentioned in the article is only covers one property of the material. Different types of Carbon Fiber are already being used for sports car bodies, bicycles and countless other things. In the case of bicycles, yes carbon fiber allows you to create a light frame, but from what I understand, aluminum frames are still stiffer, more shock absorbent, more durable and most importantly, more cost effective. Until carbon materials can match aluminum in these properties, and in cost effectiveness, aluminum isn't going anywhere.
I don't disagree with you, what I personally have a problem with is how 'the circulation of money' tends to be towards a limited number of people. Sometimes, as in a case like this one, the money seems to circulate into oblivion. Unfortunately, I doubt that anyone knows of a way to structure economies so that more of the money that leaves your pocket into circulation ends up back in your pocket.
The Grandma of today will be very different from the ones decades from now (which is the time scale that this solution will work on). I'm not saying that what you mention isn't a problem now, but in the future peoples priorities will probably be different, so that $5 will end up coming from somewhere else like cable, or magazine subscriptions.
After your system has been up for a while, the list of 'free memory' updated by malloc() and free() gets fairly fragmented into odd sizes, that are spread out (especially if you aren't allocating in sizes near powers of 2). The more fragmented this list gets, the longer it takes for malloc to locate a block of memory that fits the size that you want. If I understand correctly, this change should make it possible to keep the free list more organized.
These days you can insert Python and quite a few other languages into the middle slot (D also comes to mind). I'd suggest just doing some searching around the net to see if you can find something that suits you.
And my school did get around to teaching OO that way in the form of ADT's (abstract data types). I'll clarify my earlier point as well, what I meant by fundamental is procedural programming, and good habits with that. You only have to read a few articles at thedailyWTF to see some of the structural abominations even so called 'veterans' come up with.
Yes OO is important and should receive a lot of attention, but I don't think that a lot of students are really ready for those ideas in an introductory class. People who are already experienced programmers entering College/University will find this kind of class a cake walk, but the real goodies for these people come in later classes anyway. Also, if it's not pointers for people to get confused about, it's references, inheritance, interfaces, inner classes and a bunch of other things that are more about the tool you're using than actual programming (i.e. how to develop and implement and algorithm).
By all means, schools should have a scientific computing or introductory programming class in Java. The problem comes in where these two classes are mixed in with the CS stream. Neither group of people is served that well, the non-cs students will often find the work unnecessarily difficult and cs students will get bogged down in tons of Java OO business (like I did) when they could be learning fundamentals 'about programming'. OO and library support are *not* fundamental, when you're learning math, you do your addition and subtraction, before multiplication and addition.
I wonder if dosbox supports (or could be modified to) emulate a dos compatible printer. There's probably quite a few other non-game pieces of software from those days that would be worth reviving.
It is now certainly bloated and busy. It's advanced features such as multiple indexing can drive you crazy with their ineptness, but at heart it is simply a blank screen for you to fill in. Turn off the Nazi grammar feature and it pretty well leaves you alone to do what you want. If you aren't creative, Word won't make you so. If you are creative, Word isn't going to regiment you into not being so. To claim otherwise is an excuse.
I don't think that that addresses some of the criticisms of the FA (and of the people who develop that kind of software). You could use ed for your word processing, but you can certainly do a lot better than that. The idea is to put the editor together so that it stays out of your way at all times, while still providing lots of useful features (but also not the with the kitchen sink).
If it's hardwired, I wonder if you could inhibit the response somehow through TMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation/. That way when you need to dust the attic, just put on the 'helmet' so you're temporarily not afraid of spiders.
As the saying goes, "don't fix it if it ain't broke". Last I heard, there were still suppliers around making replacement parts for PDP's since they still used at power plants among other places.
I'm not sure how general this result is, there's also research that indicates that some baby primates aren't afraid of snakes until they see how adult primates react to seeing one. Probably most mammals have slightly different mechanisms for doing this sort of thing.
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Actually, it gets even more complicated. Waterloo used to be called New Hamburg, but they changed the name around WWI for some reason.. I hear good things about their OctoberFest though.
The property mentioned in the article is only covers one property of the material. Different types of Carbon Fiber are already being used for sports car bodies, bicycles and countless other things. In the case of bicycles, yes carbon fiber allows you to create a light frame, but from what I understand, aluminum frames are still stiffer, more shock absorbent, more durable and most importantly, more cost effective. Until carbon materials can match aluminum in these properties, and in cost effectiveness, aluminum isn't going anywhere.
I don't disagree with you, what I personally have a problem with is how 'the circulation of money' tends to be towards a limited number of people. Sometimes, as in a case like this one, the money seems to circulate into oblivion. Unfortunately, I doubt that anyone knows of a way to structure economies so that more of the money that leaves your pocket into circulation ends up back in your pocket.
Fittingly, the captcha is 'cynical'
The Grandma of today will be very different from the ones decades from now (which is the time scale that this solution will work on). I'm not saying that what you mention isn't a problem now, but in the future peoples priorities will probably be different, so that $5 will end up coming from somewhere else like cable, or magazine subscriptions.
After your system has been up for a while, the list of 'free memory' updated by malloc() and free() gets fairly fragmented into odd sizes, that are spread out (especially if you aren't allocating in sizes near powers of 2). The more fragmented this list gets, the longer it takes for malloc to locate a block of memory that fits the size that you want. If I understand correctly, this change should make it possible to keep the free list more organized.
You should release those as a library.
That's fine if you have time to write wrappers for every function that returns arrays ;-)
These days you can insert Python and quite a few other languages into the middle slot (D also comes to mind). I'd suggest just doing some searching around the net to see if you can find something that suits you.
If foo() is explode() or something similar though, you're out of luck. I expect that this is what the OP was referring to.
And my school did get around to teaching OO that way in the form of ADT's (abstract data types). I'll clarify my earlier point as well, what I meant by fundamental is procedural programming, and good habits with that. You only have to read a few articles at thedailyWTF to see some of the structural abominations even so called 'veterans' come up with.
Yes OO is important and should receive a lot of attention, but I don't think that a lot of students are really ready for those ideas in an introductory class. People who are already experienced programmers entering College/University will find this kind of class a cake walk, but the real goodies for these people come in later classes anyway. Also, if it's not pointers for people to get confused about, it's references, inheritance, interfaces, inner classes and a bunch of other things that are more about the tool you're using than actual programming (i.e. how to develop and implement and algorithm).
By all means, schools should have a scientific computing or introductory programming class in Java. The problem comes in where these two classes are mixed in with the CS stream. Neither group of people is served that well, the non-cs students will often find the work unnecessarily difficult and cs students will get bogged down in tons of Java OO business (like I did) when they could be learning fundamentals 'about programming'. OO and library support are *not* fundamental, when you're learning math, you do your addition and subtraction, before multiplication and addition.
Unless your toy expenditure is the *reason* you can't afford the surgery..
I wonder if dosbox supports (or could be modified to) emulate a dos compatible printer. There's probably quite a few other non-game pieces of software from those days that would be worth reviving.
I don't think that that addresses some of the criticisms of the FA (and of the people who develop that kind of software). You could use ed for your word processing, but you can certainly do a lot better than that. The idea is to put the editor together so that it stays out of your way at all times, while still providing lots of useful features (but also not the with the kitchen sink).
Fink also only has a fraction of the number of packages available. I'm sure they are progressing with that, but they have a long way to go still.
This invention strikes me as behaving the same way as Homer's 'Everything's OK' alarm..
Just wait until your try and get the threaded-app you've writing to run on a different OS or runtime though..
Or better yet, Upside-Down-Ternet http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html/
It's too bad that you can't fit the equivalent ratio of *beer* on your keychain..
They are probably mixing up Q&A(Question and Answer) with QA, those short-forms are all the same right..
Yikes :-S I thought you meant Springfield as in the Simpsons. There's officially to many Springfields in the US.
That's true, but I would say that it's a vendor's responsibility to ensure that. No one can fully cluster your app for you.
If it's hardwired, I wonder if you could inhibit the response somehow through TMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation/. That way when you need to dust the attic, just put on the 'helmet' so you're temporarily not afraid of spiders.
As the saying goes, "don't fix it if it ain't broke". Last I heard, there were still suppliers around making replacement parts for PDP's since they still used at power plants among other places.
I'm not sure how general this result is, there's also research that indicates that some baby primates aren't afraid of snakes until they see how adult primates react to seeing one. Probably most mammals have slightly different mechanisms for doing this sort of thing.