Sure. 2048 / 1666 = 1.23 to 3 s.f. But words are separated by a character of whitespace, so that leaves 0.23 characters for the word itself. Now, that wasn't difficult, was it?
What question do they ask? In most polls I see (in Britain, FWIW), the question is "If there were a general election tomorrow, who would you vote for?". I'd bet that they don't get 75% of people replying "I wouldn't vote", even though we get about 25% turnout.
If you look at it from a "per day" basis, that's only 1666 words a day, which is roughly twice the size as a medium-to-large slashdot post.
I set the threshold at 2048 characters, and most long/. posts are only just past that. If that's 1666 words, they have an average length of 0.23 characters.
Switzerland is the closest to an ancient democracy: the people can force a plebescite on anything by putting together a petition signed by 50,000 citizens.
Surely polygamy is the state of being in multiple marriages: if it were one marriage between a man and multiple women that suggests that the death of one wife would cause the man to cease to be married to the others.
The question was about changes of opinion on a matter of national importance. A private individual's drug abuse is not a matter of national importance, so he wouldn't actually have been answering the question.
Who needs a lever-operated machine when pencils are available? (I've been told before that US elections often involve casting about 20 ballots at once for everything from municipal dog-catcher to President, but I don't see how hole-punches make counting easier or quicker than with pencils).
The latest Hitchhiker's Guide? (Of course, one has to live in Britain or possibly Ireland or northern France to receive it, but the point is that some countries have good radio shows).
Extracting bytes from an int and composing bytes into an int are both operations which can be tidied behind a library call, so you only have to get it right once. Pointers are extremely pervasive in C, and claimed to be responsible for 90% of bugs.
Eh? That post hasn't been moderated at all. It's at 2 because I start there because I've excellent karma. Of course, if people want to mod it Funny, I won't be complaining: that's what I was aiming for.
No unsigned integer type in Java -- if you need an unsigned long, you're SOL. So it's pretty difficult to code certain numerical algorithms (compression and encryption, anyone?)
Care to explain? I can see three differences between signed and unsigned types:
The way they're printed. Irrevelant to coding compression / encryption algorithms.
The behaviour of the >> operator. Simple: use >> for signed ints and >>> for unsigned.
Widening operations. I agree that here you have to take care, but requiring care isn't the same as being difficult.
If by "compilation boundaries" you mean code compiled at different times, then you're wrong. The VM doesn't use information about generic types, but it is stored in the class files and used by the compiler when you import those classes.
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That's forwards compatibility, not backwards compatibility.
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Java has events and iterators - or does C# mean something different by them to Java?
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Java is not backward compatible with older versions.
In what way? Backwards compatibility has always been a high priority with Java, and while you do get occasional changes in behaviour they're mostly in obscure areas of the API.
Libraries? You have four options: port Java's libraries to C#; port C#'s libraries to Java; write some kind of wrapper which interfaces with both; write new libraries from scratch. All of those are harder work than bytecode translation.
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Sure. 2048 / 1666 = 1.23 to 3 s.f. But words are separated by a character of whitespace, so that leaves 0.23 characters for the word itself. Now, that wasn't difficult, was it?
A Spanish-speaking sycophant with pointy ears?
What question do they ask? In most polls I see (in Britain, FWIW), the question is "If there were a general election tomorrow, who would you vote for?". I'd bet that they don't get 75% of people replying "I wouldn't vote", even though we get about 25% turnout.
Shame there isn't a -1 Incorrect or Misleading, because this isn't the only post I've seen which merits it. The feudal system died centuries ago.
You can buy video games for 500 Canadian dollars? There I was thinking they were worth about tuppence...
You made a slight typographic error - subject line gives a substitution to fix it.
Switzerland is the closest to an ancient democracy: the people can force a plebescite on anything by putting together a petition signed by 50,000 citizens.
Surely polygamy is the state of being in multiple marriages: if it were one marriage between a man and multiple women that suggests that the death of one wife would cause the man to cease to be married to the others.
The question was about changes of opinion on a matter of national importance. A private individual's drug abuse is not a matter of national importance, so he wouldn't actually have been answering the question.
Who needs a lever-operated machine when pencils are available? (I've been told before that US elections often involve casting about 20 ballots at once for everything from municipal dog-catcher to President, but I don't see how hole-punches make counting easier or quicker than with pencils).
That's what they're really missing if they want a true iPod killer.
Surely you're forgetting the Segway!
The latest Hitchhiker's Guide? (Of course, one has to live in Britain or possibly Ireland or northern France to receive it, but the point is that some countries have good radio shows).
What's a right mouse button?
Extracting bytes from an int and composing bytes into an int are both operations which can be tidied behind a library call, so you only have to get it right once. Pointers are extremely pervasive in C, and claimed to be responsible for 90% of bugs.
Eh? That post hasn't been moderated at all. It's at 2 because I start there because I've excellent karma. Of course, if people want to mod it Funny, I won't be complaining: that's what I was aiming for.
If by "compilation boundaries" you mean code compiled at different times, then you're wrong. The VM doesn't use information about generic types, but it is stored in the class files and used by the compiler when you import those classes.
Too late: Sun already has it.
That's forwards compatibility, not backwards compatibility.
Java has events and iterators - or does C# mean something different by them to Java?
Libraries? You have four options: port Java's libraries to C#; port C#'s libraries to Java; write some kind of wrapper which interfaces with both; write new libraries from scratch. All of those are harder work than bytecode translation.