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I would love to go there...  ...starts looking at holiday brochures...
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
'This space for rent'
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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When you do, look us up! (Keith and I both live in Jordan)
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Playing Star Craft II. Don't bother me, eh?
Now and forever, defiant to the end.
What is Multiple Sclerosis[ ^]?
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote: When you do, look us up!
I certainly would - when I am next sent to Europe for work I will try to get a few weeks off for some touring on the way home - would love to go to Petra also...
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
'This space for rent'
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Petra will leave you in complete awe. I know I am always picking up my jaw off of the floor after every visit. Imagine a whole city carved out of a mountain? Without the facilities of power tools. Wow.
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Zirb, aka Zirbian in the Arabian peninsula, is insanely awesome when done right.
Happy Eid man! I tried calling you, were you there?
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A bit. The only difference I can see from what I read is that the food in a Zirb (Zirb means container btw) is placed within a clay/ceramic pot (a rather large one). Dig a deep whole, fill with a hellish amount of embers, place pot over coals, cover with sand, leave for a few hours, dig it up and wallow in the gorgeous taste.
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Keith Barrow wrote: My life is not like other peoples
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.
 
Keith Barrow wrote: surrounded by Bedou (in full traditional fig)
Oh, hey, BTW - what's a traditional Bedou fig look like, anyway?
(Never mind, I probably don't want to know.)
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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LunaticFringe wrote: what's a traditional Bedou fig look like, anyway?
you'd better get ready for a "come and see for yourself" answer.
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FFS...
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not familiar with the traditional use of a fig leaf in Western art.
It was a play on words on his typo. Fig? Rig? Give me credit for having some idea of what Arab garb would look like without your helpful google link.
 
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:facepalm:
Cheers,
विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!)
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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This[^] is exactly what I had in mind when I read your first reply.
Cheers,
विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!)
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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LunaticFringe wrote: Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.
Thanks for that (see sig )
LunaticFringe wrote: Oh, hey, BTW - what's a traditional Bedou fig
See fig[^], 2nd meaning. It's a bit old fashioned now, I must have read it in a book or something, I suspect one of the Jeeves and Wooster ones ...
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I think that using the word "rum" is tantamount to cruel and unusual torture.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I code most of the time in C# and C. C# as a desktop application and C for real-time and embedded applications.
well, recently i assigned a job of maintaining an application written in java, assuming based on my knowledge in C# i will learn it quickly.Not bad anyway until this morning!
We have to add a new feature to the application.I added a new table to the MySql database,assigned a primary key for it as unsigned int and went to the java application to generate random unsigned ID values.
BUT THE HELL!
Java has not unsigned concept! There are workarounds and i may finally find a solution, but i am thinking about original java designers why they decided to NOT put this handy concept in the application.
Any idea or history you may share with me?
Behzad
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Unsigned values are used by programmers - you said Java.
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Gary Rrowwwrr TwoWheeler?
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Have a read of this[^] article; especially the following quote from Gosling:
"For me as a language designer, which I don't really count myself as these days, what "simple" really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says that, for instance, Java isn't -- and in fact a lot of these languages end up with a lot of corner cases, things that nobody really understands. Quiz any C developer about unsigned, and pretty soon you discover that almost no C developers actually understand what goes on with unsigned, what unsigned arithmetic is. Things like that made C complex. The language part of Java is, I think, pretty simple. The libraries you have to look up."
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quippy: probably he didn't understand how unsigned works
smartass: as a language designer, he could well prevent the problems: all you need is overflow checking, no intrinsic conversions, and an explicit conversion.
smartass withotu answer: *smartass + Of course that complicates the language too, so we have to evaluate the benefits.
greybeard: Of course it's fecken complicated. Don't come to me for a diaper change
Anyway, it's an interesting decision from the langugae view because it keeps out a lot of complexity for an arbitrary gain. After all, from a comp sci view, the numeric liits are arbitrary.
However, that breaks down when you think about interoperability.
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peterchen wrote: greybeard: Of course it's fecken complicated. Don't come to me for a diaper change
So, who's the greybreard here?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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also, I said greybeard, not brownpants.
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