User: archaiclinuxuser

Re:My Conspiracy Theory: American Agribusiness

On: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

You're correct that is 9/5. However, that yields a greater value. 9*4 = 36. 36/5 = 7.2

Re:My Conspiracy Theory: American Agribusiness

On: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

4C in the last 28 years. That's about .7 degrees F not enough to matter
First, your math is wrong. F = (5/9)C + 32. 5/9*4 = 2.2222...

Second, it takes less than a tenth of degree centigrade to make a difference between what is frozen (solid) and what is melted (liquid).

Re:The Kansas Case

On: Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005

According to http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.h tml, the Enlightment occured before the founding of the country. Considering the U.S. forefathers were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment, I suspect they probably meant a separation of separation of church and state. You might want to see James Madison's view, http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/main_pages/madis on_archives/constit_confed/rights/epilogue/epilogu e.htm, or, perhaps, the view of Thomas Jefforson on Church and State, http://www.unf.edu/~dschwam/danbury.htm.

Re:What a joke

On: Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act

Filibusters are ownly allowed in the senate not the house even then its only a procedural filibuster which can be overridden by a 2/3 majority. Learn history. Learn government.

Greed 2.0?

On: Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0

I'm still running the initial beta release Greed v0.1.0

Re:CS doesn't teach programming

On: The Changing Face of Computer Science

Correction: change

int dstlen = strlen(dst);
if(dstlen > 0)
//if dst already has a value delete original
//value
delete dst;

to

if(dst != NULL)
delete dst;

,include stdlib.h, and change

return (char*)(memmove(dst,src,strlen(src)));

to

return (char*)(memmove(dst,src,strlen(src)+1));

I remembered the null character in initialization but not in the memmove parameters.

Re:CS doesn't teach programming

On: The Changing Face of Computer Science

I hate to say it but the parent's question is a legitimate one.

A correct response would look something like this

#include <string.h>

char* strcpy(char* dst,char* src)
{
int dstlen = strlen(dst);
if(dstlen > 0)
//if dst already has a value delete original
//value
delete dst;
dst = new char[strlen(src)+1];
/*C++ uses 1 byte ascii values to represent
chars so you should just supply the length of
the string. As well, memmove already returns
a pointer to the destination value so it is
sufficient to just return the type-casted
value of the pointer that memmove returns*/
return (char*)(memmove(dst,src,strlen(src)));
}

That should be a correct and efficient
implementation of strcpy. btw, I will be
attending the University Of Texas at Dallas this
fall to start work on a CS degree.

I can't really comment on whether or not
engineering majors really do code better than
those who major in CS. However, I have written
programs that are more efficient and readable
than my friends dad who has 25 years of
electrical engineering experience. Perhaps, I am
an isolated case, but I have found that
efficient data structures and algorithms can
often not only be more readable but more
efficient than low level machine code.

So, I am going to disagree with both you and the topic parent.