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Hi,I am currently looking forward to studying in the US as an international undergraduate (first-year) student. My questions are too many, so I will list them here, and I hope some of you can help especially for people in the US:1. If I go to university in the first year, how fat is the chance for getting a scholarship for the 2nd year (i.e. how many percent of the students got scholarships)? Because I heard that there are lots of them, some covers full tuition fees and some don't. I wish I got more info on this...2. Is it true that comm colleges do not have the quality of a university, i.e. students with low scores always go to comm colleges, so comm colleges "suck"? Because I consider comm colleges for economical reasons.3. I heard that you have no chance of getting scholarships if you are still in comm college (for international students). Is that true?4. Which univ is known for its engineering programs, especially chemical engineering? (probably a bit too far-fetched, but I hope someone know!)5. Is it possible to get into some universities without SAT (but with good TOEFL - my IBT score is > 100)? Is it only the case of less known universities?6. Do you think my choice for education in the USA is good?That's all and I hope you can help!

$tmp = array();$s = 'the string you wish to permute, in the example, e.g. man';$out = '';$ctr=0;function perm($ctr) { global $out; global $s; global $tmp; //echo $out; if ($ctr == strlen($s)) { echo $out . "\n"; } else { for ($i=0;$i<strlen($s);$i++) { //echo 'a'; if (!$tmp[$i]) { $tmp[$i]=TRUE; $out .= $s[$i]; perm($ctr+1); $tmp[$i]=FALSE; $out = substr($out, 0, -1); } } }}perm(0); is something I have in my computer. (it is PHP if you haven't noticed)

I think this is because wordpress didn't write the .htaccess automatically. It should, but something might gone wrong. Wordpress should have notified you that it cannot write to .htaccess. Wordpress doesn't create files and folders for those urls, it just redirects them to index.php and then wordpress will serve the right page. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks If the problem is still there, may be mod_rewrite (the required apache module for this feature) is not installed? (I cannot imagine that, though... it is a standard feature)

Okami is a good game! Beautiful landscape, unique gameplay... when you are tired of playing RPGs or strategy games, Okami can be really refreshing.

I got the invite from one of my friends. That time I had been using email only for a short time (with Yahoo) so I could move everything to gmail. So far gmail is very good, I think no other free email provider is better than gmail.My friends at Yahoo keep telling me that they get tired of spam (they can have as much as 5 to 10 spams passing through Yahoo's SpamGuard every day); in gmail I have just received one spam passing through the filter throughout my whole life (my account gets about 250 spams every month, that is like 8+ spams a day)

Now that you said it... Probably you are correct. But I am still concerned about cross-platform viewer, because MS will obviously take Windows as its top priority. But to think about it, even current Linux Flash player is not as good as the Windows one...Seriously, we need an open source alternative for this kind of thing. Mozilla libraries (XUL etc) has the potential, and it does not introduce new programming languages (uses XML and Javascript) but a big library to learn...

This is wonderful! But the flash takes a while to load on dial-up connection. Quality tools like this are even scarce offline, but the geniuses at Stanford made it online!So those raster images in Wikipedia / Wikimedia can get a hand...

Thanks for the praise! I was very busy these days, and I get busier from time to time... And I am rather hesitant that I would not be able to write useful replies. I know PHP, Javascript, C, C++, Pascal, and Python. Some time ago I learned Java and VB, but that's so long time ago that I forgot (and I don't go very deep at all).

The intention that Microsoft will "support" other operating systems changes nothing. It is a market strategy and you have fallen for that - see how many people say "hey MS has changed so I will probably look into their products"?I believe that Microsoft will gradually remove support for other OSes from time to time (when Silverlight gained monopoly), and force other OS vendors to develop and maintain their own Silverlight player of some sort. Or they will publish an ISO standard for Silverlight and extend it with proprietary APIs like crazy so that free implementations are hard to catch up, just like the .NET Framework.And it just takes another Flash version to beat all that thing...

You said "Learn All About It" but you have not covered a lot of things - in fact, you have just covered the string concatenation operator So you will need arithmatic operators (+, -, *, /, %) and different variable types (int and double). The modulus operator "%" is special because you do not learn it at primary school...

There is a cross compiler for Windows (to compile Windows programs from Linux), but I don't think the reverse exist. People can just install a Linux when needed, while for Windows it is not always possible without more budget.However it can still be made relatively easy if someone knows how to configure and recompile GCC. But I don't think a lot of people will support the idea of this unnecessary workload (for maintenance).

To me, Angels and Demons is more unrealistic to me (creating an antimatter? Wow), but the message behind Angels and Demons is not as controversial as that of Da Vinci Code. I think that what's made Da Vinci Code more successful. Even if the way of writing is roughly equivalent, both books can still be entertaining even if you have read one of them.And why do people keep contrasting it with Da Vinci Code... Digital Fortress is much more suited for computer geeks...

It will obviously be very hard to copy memory. We can't even clone most dead objects in the world given enough elements to reconstruct it.And the brain is always changing. New memories are added, "logs" about the body are "written" even when you are sleeping, and the body still gets controlled even in sleep. And those cells are growing every time. Duplicating such a dynamic structure is superbly hard. Even duplicating a big database when it is used at the same time is hard and requires a lot of coordination (at least from the database point of view), the memory in the brain is much more complicated than that.

Nice analogy. But I have an alternative: Suppose that a species so much more intelligent than humans has an ability to create a universe and everything inside it, and s/he has the ability to view everything inside the universe. This makes sense because the universe can be only a computer simulation (like The Sims). S/he created our universe for a purpose, possibly for a research, for a student project, or just for fun. This way, s/he as The God can do everything: * God can choose one or two or three people as "prime object", who are consistenly observed upon. Sometimes these people are given some special properties to make him/her a bit different from the others. God can even give "divine revelation" to someone. This explains Jesus, Mohammad or whatever prophet there ever was. * God can set up the laws of evolution so that His/Her job becomes easier. Remember, God's purpose is a fascinating world, and creating one is hard, so a bit of randomness probably will help. * The rules of physics, chemistry, etc. is very easy to explain as God has full control of the "simulation". * God can create everything at once along with the food. * Everyone of us is meaningful to God, as useful data (which must be handed to the professor?); as a candidate for God to observe closer (probably people like presidents are observed a lot of times); as "helpers" for people God is observing. (if God wants something to happen to a person for the sake of His/Her experiment, God would not want it to happen miraculously but instead very naturally through the hands of people/things around, and it is easier to do that in a simulation rather than tampering with the database!) * God can make the universe anything God wishes, even expanding it only to see the feedback of human scientists. * God may have already set up multiple civilizations in multiple planets, probably because creating a universe is expensive and God can not afford the whole universe to fail; so God made parallel civilizations to observe. * Our history is maybe a "divine intervention" - a plot by the God, or it is purely the acts of the "simulation objects" - that is, humans. * So our discovery of DNA is really just an intelligent AI discovering how to program in the scripting language the AI was programmed in. * Mystics, mythology, occultism, ghosts, magic probably do exist, it could be a kind of "bug" in the simulation program where humans can command the simulation to do something beyond the usual physical/chemical constraints. So much things can be explained by this model, probably God does really exist! Tetraca was right about how an intelligent species would be intelligent enough not to delete their food from earth. However we see even now that some species (specii? specieses?) go extinct - that is because they do not develop well enough, and humans do not eat them. (we may be taking their furs, tusks or whatever but those minor needs can go away without people noticing)

Actually lookup tables officially has the name "memoisation", which is one form of dynamic programming (the top-down approach). The bottom up approach is sometimes faster and sometimes slower (in bottom-up approach, you generate all the answers to all subproblems then use that for answering the real thing). Dynamic programming will be very useful in very specific problems, namely when they have overlapping subproblems (like said). IMHO if you are interested in algorithms then proficiency in dynamic programming (and whether you know about it) is one of the "benchmark" of your programming skill.