erm... given that the typical 8.5x11 page has an 1 inch margin in each direction. The actual area covered by text is 6.5x9, which is 11.1" diagonal. Which is not too far off from iPad, which is 9.7" diagonal. So, an 12% shrinkage makes 12pt font unreadable? so 10pt font is unreadable?
If you have not done so already, I would recommend using http://www.codechef.com/ as a source of practice tests for your students, it has tests in various degrees of difficulty and CPU limit. As many may have mentioned, programming competitions tend to have different CPU seconds for compiled lang like C/C++ and interpreted lang (Python, Java). Codechef does something similar, though you may want to check if the difference is reasonable for the competition you're preparing for.
Also, the site has a lot of foreign participants and daily ranking for benchmark tests, this way your students can see where they rank and you can help them improve.
As for language choice, I'd choose Java if you wish to orient your students to a more collaborative projects, or Python for more solo projects. Most other languages on your list have various problems listed above by others and won't get the students as far as these two would.
For violating the law? Or to the scientist for reporting the violation?
BTChina and its mirrors are already down. Many of the forums have closed their sharing forums,etc
The crackdown is on any site without an Audio/Visual distribution license. Which you probably cannot get without paying some unknown bureaucrat somewhere
There's got to be a triple word score joke in there somewhere!
Top 1000 might be also making more than that from google adwords placed on their sites... Mark Cuban needs to make a bigger offer
Given that the dome will be a mile high, the idea that the dome surface will be less than that of house surface is rather unrealistic. At max, the roof area will be the full base of the the dome base, in, which the only walls will be along the base, by definition it will be of less unless the building heights are avg 1/3 mile high.
In reality. building roof coverage is significantly less than half the area of the region in all but the most densely populated cities. So, even though there are four additional sides to account for in most houses, it's not practical to consider that it will be able to overcome the surface area of such a massive construct
I must have taken a dumb pill this morning. I don't see how the square cube wiki article applies to the heating issues? Are you agreeing with GP that the heating bill will be worse or somehow will be lower heating bill? All the wiki seems to say is that there is more volume to heat, so there would be higher heating bills like GP was suggesting. Did I miss something?
Also, why would outside surface temp not drop below freezing?
Or you can rent a car which has one?
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This reminds me so much of Gattaca. If you send your children to this camp and one does well and another does poorly, you can't help but feel differently about the children. This is evil
I question the idea that funding of military is good for the economy. Military spending is often on manufacturing of non-renewable items. Items, like bullets and missiles, that need storage when not used and can only be used once(often to destroy objects of value).
As opposed to producing things that have utility value, like fishing nets, rakes, pots/pans, etc.
Yes, intelligence satellites became used for GPS and stuff, but what if money was used for civilian benefitting tasks to begin with? Would it have yielded better economic results
I agree! OEM's put very high premiums on any changes to standard config. So, if you want a better vid card or a mem upgrade (two easy ways to bring a PC over 1000$) It's cheaper to buy the components than to get it from the Dells or HPs pre-installed
yeah thinking the same thing.
They say that it's square miles in area, so, let's say 2. As this is microalgae. algae would be 2x10^6 sq miles in surface area. Earth is 197x10^6 sq mile in size.
so, a hecto-algae would cover the entire earth!
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
