No, you have binary points. But that's not the point. The point is that the IEEE representation has an implicit bit. Double.doubleToLongBits(3) returns 0x4008000000000000, not 0x400c000000000000.
BTW, remind me never to venture a guess about radiation on Slashdot. No one (myself especially) ever seems to get it quite right.:-)
I'm surprised that anyone has to guess. This is a site for nerds and geeks, so I expect the majority to have paid attention in physics lessons. IIRC we covered basic radioactivity when I was 14.
He mentions a medal which everyone got 10 years after the event. Ironically, the design of the medal gets basic particle physics wrong - it shows alpha-particles being deflected more than beta-particles, although they have a greater mass. (If that link dies, just use the Google image search for Chernobyl medal).
No, you only need to use the -Xbootclasspath parameter when you want to replace one of the standard libraries - say to put some debug code into the Object constructor.
I know that, and you know that, but the general public doesn't. Therefore anti-virus companies (whose products include firewalls and e-mail filters to protect against some worms) just use the word virus indiscriminantly. Meh.
I scarcely ever needed to use a textbook anyway - it seems from the other replies in the thread that one of the main purposes of the textbooks is to provide questions for the students to do, but our lecturers wrote questions and the supervisors would set a subset of those and past exam questions, which are available on the web. I don't know how it works at universities which don't have the Oxbridge supervision system.
I think you're being generous. When this story only had about 50 replies I recognised one of them from the previous time the same story was posted, so I went off to find the original. Searching for "Faulkland" in the original comments yielded no hits, so I tried searching for "bitch". Still no hits. There must have been at least 100 comments which should have been hits.
I use Wine to run the Logos Library System - a Windows-only e-book program with a proprietary file format which prevents me writing a clone. The reason - I've got over one hundred pounds' worth of books for it, bought when I used Windows.
If the study said that 1 in 4 Internet users have downloaded a film, you can't make any conclusions about the proportion of American Internet users who've done so.
you'd better get the gold, because 2nd place won't get you on a Wheaties box.
Depends how you get second. I think it was Walker's who had a series of adverts starring losers - notably Gareth Southgate, who was reviled at the time for missing a penalty kick.
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No, you have binary points. But that's not the point. The point is that the IEEE representation has an implicit bit. Double.doubleToLongBits(3) returns 0x4008000000000000, not 0x400c000000000000.
Actually you got the representation of 3 in IEEE754 wrong. Forgot the implicit bit of significand.
Yes, but it's a few thousand times as massive, so it's a lot harder to deflect.
He mentions a medal which everyone got 10 years after the event. Ironically, the design of the medal gets basic particle physics wrong - it shows alpha-particles being deflected more than beta-particles, although they have a greater mass. (If that link dies, just use the Google image search for Chernobyl medal).
No no no. The way to phrase it is "I can see this working ... in Japan!"
You can probably pick some up in your local supermarket. They go well with walnuts, BTW.
No, you only need to use the -Xbootclasspath parameter when you want to replace one of the standard libraries - say to put some debug code into the Object constructor.
I know that, and you know that, but the general public doesn't. Therefore anti-virus companies (whose products include firewalls and e-mail filters to protect against some worms) just use the word virus indiscriminantly. Meh.
I scarcely ever needed to use a textbook anyway - it seems from the other replies in the thread that one of the main purposes of the textbooks is to provide questions for the students to do, but our lecturers wrote questions and the supervisors would set a subset of those and past exam questions, which are available on the web. I don't know how it works at universities which don't have the Oxbridge supervision system.
Actually, I think you'll find the sabres used don't have a sharp edge, so it would be bruising rather than bloodletting.
Or you could do what other countries do and have libraries in the universities which have copies of all the books needed for the courses.
I think you're being generous. When this story only had about 50 replies I recognised one of them from the previous time the same story was posted, so I went off to find the original. Searching for "Faulkland" in the original comments yielded no hits, so I tried searching for "bitch". Still no hits. There must have been at least 100 comments which should have been hits.
I use Wine to run the Logos Library System - a Windows-only e-book program with a proprietary file format which prevents me writing a clone. The reason - I've got over one hundred pounds' worth of books for it, bought when I used Windows.
Probably grey or white, once you discount the pigmentation from blood. The easiest way to find out is probably with a hatchet...
Wait a couple of days NASA to realise the story's dropped off the front page.
How could you allow a link to a 40MB file into a /. article? Oh the humanity...
And today's award for Most Gratuitous Segue Into Politics Most Of The World Doesn't Care About goes to....
If the study said that 1 in 4 Internet users have downloaded a film, you can't make any conclusions about the proportion of American Internet users who've done so.
Pot, meet kettle. I presume your subject line should be interpreted as "Hello, grammar"?
Okay, I realise that Great Britain isn't a big island, but even so it's pushing it to claim that the coast is "smack in the middle of England".
Nice to see the mods getting it right: the suggestion that anyone would go to Sheerness for their holiday definitely deserves +5 Funny.