Posts by Rashakil Fol

PLEASE do research before posting, will you? After a few quick google searches I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recollection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory
http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/essays/memory.html

Oh yeah, like Wikipedia and some random homepage is a reliable source... or anybody. Go on. Keep repeating what others say and pretending that you're an expert.

Don't worry, I have time to browse. I'll go spend a couple of hours doing your research for you.

> Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here are some examples:

Why do you assume that computers are harder to use and program, instead of assuming you were a lot smarter when you were younger?

> Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions in radians, when most people use degrees?

Why do you expect them to behave differently than the behavior they have had in all the history of mathematics? Why do you expect it to default to a version of the function that's usually slower to implement?

> Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) have two different syntax forms to call functions with, depending on which function you want?

What makes you think that having braces anywhere in its syntax makes a language "C-based"?

> In the 1980s, kids all over were programming computers. With the change to Windows, this suddenly stopped, as Microsoft made programming a lot harder to do. Why?

What makes you think programming was any harder to do?

> Why have all of the easy-to-use programming languages been replaced with the hard-to-use C derivatives?

Why do you act as if the invention of new programming languages means that older ones are replaced?

> Why are they making HTML harder to use by taking away features and not replacing them?

They haven't removed any features.

> …

There you might want to consider the best and worst case complexities. Ask yourself what shape of array will cause really poor behavior and what shape of array will cause the fastest behavior.

Why did I read this?

what the hell rashakil? Stop giving me negative rep!

You're so adorable <3 <3 <3

I don't understand why he thinks I'm going to bad rep him.

Because that's what you do? Why don't you rep him with "you're dumb"? That's what you do, right? And he's dumb. So tell him that! It'll make you feel good when it's done. You'll make your mark on the world, telling people that they're unintelligent. I'm sure then that they'll strive harder to achieve your level of perceptitude.

Umm ...... yeah. Like I said, I didn't write the parser. It's open source. Go complain to the project leaders.

If it's open source, that means you can go into geshi/cpp.php and change

'Keywords' => array(
			1 => 'color: #0000ff;',
			2 => 'color: #0000ff;',
			3 => 'color: #0000dd;',
			4 => 'color: #0000ff;'
			),

to

'Keywords' => array(
			1 => 'color: #0000ff;',
			2 => 'color: #0000ff;',
			3 => '',
			4 => 'color: #0000ff;'
			),

I'm assuming valid input.

Are we playing Buzzword Bingo?

Now you're calling me a retard. :-/

Rep is just some number stored in a table somewhere; I didn't expect you to be annoyed by it.

Yes... especially since we don't get that in new york.

Do you like killing people?

It seems like everytime Josh says something, he bashes every word!

You first got this idea from the physics thread. I do not see what's wrong with correcting factual inaccuracies or disagreeing with the notion of proudly writing down wrong answers.

Edit: you weren't taking me seriously that post, were you? And I hope you weren't taking my profile literally.

Doesn't look like the way he types.

How do you know I didn't deliberately type that way to throw people off?
:-)

Wait a second... you're calling somebody you don't know a moron and a dumbass, after they gave you a rep that didn't insult you or demean you in any way. I know you've called me a retard (or was it "RETARD"?) the first post you saw me make -- in fact, you made a post telling everybody how much you were going to call me a retard before your post that called me a retard, over and over again.

I've got to say, you must have brass balls... or you would if you acted this way in face-to-face conversation. I don't know what makes you think it's reasonable to go around assuming that people are dumber than you, and I don't know what gave you the assumption that calling people names is acceptable behavior.

A cylindrical colony is orbiting the Moon 700 kilometers above the Moon's surface. Its interior radius is 500 meters, and its inhabitants live under Earth-like gravity (10 N).

The air has been sucked out of the colony due to a political emergency, and Brian wants Daniel to receive a message, delivered in the form of a ten-pound brick that smashes through Dan's skylight.

Dan lives 1000 meters away (measuring along the surface of the ground) from Brian's projectile launcher, and the shortest walking path from Brian's projectile launcher to the point underneath Dan's skylight is the arc of a circle, in the direction contrary to the colony's rotation. Dan's skylight is 20 meters above the ground, and Brian's projectile launcher releases projectiles from ground level. His launcher works by imparting a constant force for two seconds on an object, along a magnetic track that can be pointed in any direction.

Brian has a five second window during which the projectile can be in the air before it is detected by the colony's projectile detection system and zapped out of the sky.

If Brian wants to fire the projectile thirty minutes from now, what should the magnitude of the force be, and in which direction should the launcher be pointed, assuming Brian wants to waste as little energy as possible?

P.S. The colony itself weighs 1.00*10^16 kg, not including the projectile.

Don't turn this into a gun control thread.

All conservation laws are basically the same.

If you don't have knowledge, don't pretend you do by making stuff up.

Um.. actually it does. I was referring to the law of conservation of energy.. Kinetic energy is not conserved in inelastic collisions, therefore you know that the maximum kinetic energy is lost. However, The law of conservation of energy is true for the system. The energy is transferred from kinetic energy to different kinds of energy (sound, heat, etc.)

No, you do not know the maximum kinetic energy was lost from the fact that kinetic energy is not conserved in inelastic collisions; you know that the maximum possible amount of kinetic energy was lost because the problem statement tells you that the vehicles end up at rest.

You did not use the principle of conservation of energy anywhere in your solution to the problem; you used the law that momentum is conserved.

How dare you blaspheme! Or did you do that before the beginning of time? Anyway,,,

The world was created 6013 years ago? Horsehockey!

The world was created 6000000000ish years ago? Mere orders of magnitude do not give correctness!

You fools. If only you knew the world was created 30 seconds ago. And I have knowledge that this is true. Sure, you can't prove that the Universe existed more than 30 seconds ago. But I don't need proof. Instead, I have not-proof. Not-proof is good enough for me. I don't need those leftist intellectualists to tell me what to think. I believe in the new time religion; it's good enough for me. Than those so-called "intellectuals," I think I am smarter besides. So if anything, that makes them stupiddectuals.

You don't think the Universe is only 30 seconds old? Can you prove it? You can't. Idiot. What were you thinking, even considering an older Universe? The universe just acts like it's older than 30 seconds. Sure, you've got memories of artifacts like the Bible and the x86 architecture and other things that don't belong in the 21st century, but that's just planted there to make it look like the Universe is older than 30 seconds. That's because God B likes messing with people's heads. Those who fall for his tricks get sent to Heck. I know this because I have not-proof in the truth.

Just think about it this way. What's the safe thing to believe? …

programming and "software engineering" are the same thing. If your school is offering a "programming" curriculum that is not called software engineering and is not called computer science, while offering a "software engineering" curriculum too, then I have to say, WTF?

There is actually no such thing as "software engineering," unless you work for NASA or other fields where the cost of failure is very high.

To answer your main questions:

- The average income of anything depends on where you'll be working.
- Your ability to get a job depends on how much of a non-moron you are.
- The stability of your job depends on how much of a non-moron you are.

atoi() is a non-standard function;

atoi is part of the C89 standard.