Survey posted 2004-01-01 06:48 by Henrik.

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I can't believe how old I'm getting already. I have to go to college soon!!!

This is a strange poll.


MWM

Nah, it's a pretty open-ended poll. I like those. Leads to all types of different discussions. You can't get bored with that! :)

example: politics, bogus C functions, and the earth's speed of rotation

Ooh... how about, who is your favorite character from Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations"? Mine is Wemmick (sp?). You know, the lawyer's secretary.

MWM

Oh man is that a boring book!!!

What!!! I loved it! Now, Moby-Dick is what I call a boring book.

MWM

and the Catcher in the Rye is what i call a great book

amen

the beginning is borrrring, but I read it last night, and I am at the part where pip first goes to 'play' at that rich womans house. So far its probably Joe.

Yea, people used to have longer attention spans. I think that television has made us all dumber.

Keep with the book; the plot really picks up before long.

MWM

I read that book because I had to.... I prefer Robert Jordan.

You never know what your going to get. Sometimes you learn something... and sometimes you have to teach people lessons!!!

Sounds good to me :-D Oh, and all the different ways you can get 2004.

2004 >> Olympics >> year Olympics held >> doOlympics() C functions >> bogus C functions >> Me posting random stuff

2004 >> Election Year >> Bush getting reelected or not >> Whether Bush was a good president or not >> General Politics >> Me posting random stuff

2004 >> Leap Year >> Slowing of earth's rotation >> Entropy >> Me posting random stuff

All the same result. ^_^

favorite characters in english literature....

I prefer Prince Imrahil from tLOTR because he has a cool name. I actually have that msn screenname, although I never use it: prince_imrahil@msn.com
It was brute-forced a while ago and whenever I try to log on to experiment with MSN Explorer, it says I have too many incorrect password attempts.

I just discovered why my site has 0 hits (although for some reason the built-in PHP Nuke stats say 2 peeps were on a once, did I just say peeps?)... my dad has blocked port 80! ouch. My site (home server off cable modem) will never be seen! Oh well, maybe I can get him to unblock it for a day and get a domain transfer; although I really like not having to upload stuff. It is so easy, its insane! just move all your files to a specific folder, and BINGO! all your CGIs, scripts, pages, links all work. Of course you have to install activeperl, php, etc but its worth it :)

>> Leads to all types of different discussions. You can't get bored with that! :)

That's kind of the point! They are good...I agree.

Exactly what I was thinking.... What drugs were the staff members on...(JK!!! ;-) )

Good for me, it's graduation year. woo hoo

Ditto.

me also
for (int i=0;i<2005;i++)
{
if (i==2004)
System.out.println("It is now" + i);
}

It is now2004

You missed a space. :O

>>for (int i=0;i<2005;i++)
>>{
>>if (i==2004)
>>System.out.println("It is now" + i);
>>}

you have some optimization to do...

for (int i=0;i<2005;i++)
{
//do nothing
}
System.out.println("It is now "+(i-1));

Even that can be optimized!

System.out.println("It is now 2004");

lol

MWM

But it doesn't wait a few seconds! that's a NECESSARY part of the program!!!! lol j/k

Oh, ok. But if it is supposed to take time, why would you want to opimize it in the first place?

MWM

To save memory on your computer to download calculator programs! what else?!?!

That's the whole point of my life!!!

Also to cut down on the amount of code that you have to write!

I would say that over-optimizing would take longer than just naturally writing your code with a little optimization.

Usually, but if you do it enough, it eventually becomes a habit, and you don't have to optimize it later on, if you start writing really efficient code. But I guess it doesn't really matter that much. Computers now, are fast enough to run any slow inefficient program just as fast as an efficient one. The only program is how much space it takes up, and even now, with 120GB harddrives, it doesn't really matter. Programmers are getting lazy. LOL Look how much space AOL 9.0 takes up. *blah*

Try programming on a TI-82. You REALLY have to optimize to get it all to fit.

I am an 83+ owner, do you send over your C in compiled form, and if so, wouldnt the compiler just optimize the compiled code for you (delete comments, strip all newlines, etc)?

The 83+ is not programmed in C, but in z80 assembly. With the 68k calculators (89,92,92+,V200) the binaries are sent, not the source. (I think... I have never used one!)

MWM

like it would take time for a 32-bit processor running at a couple ghz to count to 2000. oh, but are we talking calcs here? oh, I was wondering why you were using system.out.blah.whatever rather than cout or system('@echo off\necho 2004') heh heh. Necho. Heh. Could you do that, including a \n in batch?

It would take time. Not much, but still some.

MWM