OOP was originally developed for dynamic modelling of chemical plants, a computationally intense field. Even 6 years ago I was working on models that simulate a full scale plant accurately that operated at real time speed. This was done in Java, obviously using objects.
Obviously this is only a subset of scientific calculations, but OOP was the logical approach to use.
The problem with that theory in a quoted company is that it then becomes in the executive's interest to do whatever they can to push the share price up, a la Enron.
Much easier than that. Think of a word. Add punctuation mark of choice. Then change the number at the end each month so it is 01 in January etc. This is how most people I know do it. Whether that is secure or not is a different matter.
Anything with a temperature above absolute zero glows. You've just got to be about the temperature of a star to emit most of your light at visible (to human) wavelengths.
APPROPRIATE violence may be required to stop violence. Properly planned armed response to hostage taking etc is perfectly reasonable. This does not mean that arbitrary acts of violence will do what you want.
I, for one, do not welcome our never thinking about someone standing there with a rucksack full of explosives and going BOOM during a heavy traffic time, say the day before Thanksgiving, overlords.
That's true. For a country that exists in isolation. Real countries sign treaties with each other that result in obligations that they must follow. For WTO members such as India they are not allowed to introduce Technical Barriers to Trade, for example. If the licensing process is open equally to foreign companies then this is perfectly fine. If it is not, then this would be a new TBT.
Not really. In this case I don't even think it's an ad hominem. He's criticising journalists for playing on people's fears to make sales, yet conveniently forgetting that his career has been based on the same principle, albeit extrapolated into sci-fi.
Now, I know he makes no claims that his books are real, but they have had the effect of generating fear anyway - with worries about 'grey goo' for example. It is the same psychology that drives people to buy his books as to buy the newspapers that he is criticising.
Generally it is better to announce redundancies before Christmas - rather than waiting until people have run up their bills and THEN making the announcement. Sad but true.
That's the same Crichton who's career has been made from writing fear-mongering books about space exploration (The Andromeda Strain), genetic engineering (Jurassic Park), nanotechnology (Prey) etc? Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
I don't think so in this case - if it was used for weapons launch monitoring I'd expect it to notify NORAD or someone else when it sees something unusual.
The flip side is that it could be watching the events and its 'intelligence' is actually used to categorise unusual measurements as weapon fire or not, and then only report the hostile activity.
As I said, the inverse of the square root of a number under the operation of multiplication is the reciprocal of the square root of the number. This function is named specifically because of that property.
But it's a function name. One would expect InvSqrt(n) to do the opposite that Sqrt(n) would do, i.e. squaring. RecipSqrt(n) would be a better name although I do admit it would take 2 more key presses!
The inverse of the square root is the square. The reciprocal of the square root is what is being calculated. In the case of multiplication I guess it's a reasonable name but it's pretty poor form in my view.
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I guess you missed the Clerks reference there.
OOP was originally developed for dynamic modelling of chemical plants, a computationally intense field. Even 6 years ago I was working on models that simulate a full scale plant accurately that operated at real time speed. This was done in Java, obviously using objects. Obviously this is only a subset of scientific calculations, but OOP was the logical approach to use.
The problem with that theory in a quoted company is that it then becomes in the executive's interest to do whatever they can to push the share price up, a la Enron.
Much easier than that. Think of a word. Add punctuation mark of choice. Then change the number at the end each month so it is 01 in January etc. This is how most people I know do it. Whether that is secure or not is a different matter.
The thief generally prints off a fake V5 form. It's only a couple of pages.
Anything with a temperature above absolute zero glows. You've just got to be about the temperature of a star to emit most of your light at visible (to human) wavelengths.
I guess it depends on your scheme - my company's pension is significantly in the black so if it has been well managed it can be okay.
If by "fewer people" you mean "pension funds so that retirement is possible for the majority of people" then I'll agree with you.
Dude, your cat can flush the toilet? Let me know the url so I can forward it to everyone!
APPROPRIATE violence may be required to stop violence. Properly planned armed response to hostage taking etc is perfectly reasonable. This does not mean that arbitrary acts of violence will do what you want.
That's the story of the Buddha.
A very shocked looking Matthew Perry?
Huh? Score:3, Interesting?
Where are you going to put the salt?
I, for one, do not welcome our never thinking about someone standing there with a rucksack full of explosives and going BOOM during a heavy traffic time, say the day before Thanksgiving, overlords.
That's true. For a country that exists in isolation. Real countries sign treaties with each other that result in obligations that they must follow. For WTO members such as India they are not allowed to introduce Technical Barriers to Trade, for example. If the licensing process is open equally to foreign companies then this is perfectly fine. If it is not, then this would be a new TBT.
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But they're not criticising journalists for it. That's the only reason that I'm picking on MC here. I enjoy his stories, but this irritates me.
Until it is scripted and they only have to pass it through a program that will obfuscate it sufficiently.
Not really. In this case I don't even think it's an ad hominem. He's criticising journalists for playing on people's fears to make sales, yet conveniently forgetting that his career has been based on the same principle, albeit extrapolated into sci-fi.
Now, I know he makes no claims that his books are real, but they have had the effect of generating fear anyway - with worries about 'grey goo' for example. It is the same psychology that drives people to buy his books as to buy the newspapers that he is criticising.
Generally it is better to announce redundancies before Christmas - rather than waiting until people have run up their bills and THEN making the announcement. Sad but true.
That's the same Crichton who's career has been made from writing fear-mongering books about space exploration (The Andromeda Strain), genetic engineering (Jurassic Park), nanotechnology (Prey) etc? Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
I don't think so in this case - if it was used for weapons launch monitoring I'd expect it to notify NORAD or someone else when it sees something unusual.
The flip side is that it could be watching the events and its 'intelligence' is actually used to categorise unusual measurements as weapon fire or not, and then only report the hostile activity.
As I said, the inverse of the square root of a number under the operation of multiplication is the reciprocal of the square root of the number. This function is named specifically because of that property.
But it's a function name. One would expect InvSqrt(n) to do the opposite that Sqrt(n) would do, i.e. squaring. RecipSqrt(n) would be a better name although I do admit it would take 2 more key presses!
The inverse of the square root is the square. The reciprocal of the square root is what is being calculated. In the case of multiplication I guess it's a reasonable name but it's pretty poor form in my view.