[Click through to get a .pdf with more news on this event, yet another -- like the Wayne State event below, inspired by Laura Bush! This one's in Toronto.]
one thing I've found interesting whenever someone mentions L. Bush's comments, is that the symposium was supposed to be dedicated to Dickinson, Whitman, & Hughes. now, I don't see how you could really talk about Whitman & Hughes & not talk about politics. seems Laura got caught pulling names out of a hat.
Posted by: j shiroma on February 6, 2003 11:49 PMOh, say, can you not see
that Laura is not meant to be
a leader and defender
of our precious liberty.
Or, perhaps, she should be
driven by the ALA up a tall tree
there to espy the corporate conspiracy
of big oil,big talk, big problems to be!
O Say Can You Hear?
The dripping Gorgon’s head
over the sands of Iraq, spittle of snakes flame out
from a thousand gun barrels -
at last! the two worlds unite in the death struggle,
the two as one to make a third:
fantasy is reality is fantasy.
America has become its own horror cartoon,
each thought locked within its renegade cell,
Bugs Bunny holds forth in the senate on
the bankrupt dream-stocks buried at Fort Knox.
Donald Duck meantime jerks off in disgust
over the American flag - quacks
the country’s been bushwacked,
'ain’t worth a hill of beans’
in archaic colloquialisms of a nation near claim
jumping the Middle East.
The last capitalist gasp v the last medieval groan;
eventually, to make way for the eco-terrorists whose
motto: destroy what you cannot save: will sound
the retreat to a history vaporised - a memory erased.
So we come to inherit 'Our Common Loss’.
The Space Shuttle Columbia makes
its long wave 'good-bye’
bright finger nails tearing at the sky (like)
'morning Lucifer, that star that beckons all
mankind to daily rounds’
scratching down God’s blackboard
as seven souls fly away
toward the Pleiades.
So we make our omens to live and die by.
“ Stephenl Oliver, 2003
Being able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Michael on January 19, 2004 01:12 AMEach Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.
Posted by: Barbara on January 19, 2004 01:13 AMOur next line looks familiar, except it starts with an asterisk. Again, we're using the star operator, and noting that this variable we're working with is a pointer. If we didn't, the computer would try to put the results of the right hand side of this statement (which evaluates to 6) into the pointer, overriding the value we need in the pointer, which is an address. This way, the computer knows to put the data not in the pointer, but into the place the pointer points to, which is in the Heap. So after this line, our int is living happily in the Heap, storing a value of 6, and our pointer tells us where that data is living.
Posted by: Annabella on January 19, 2004 01:14 AMThe rest of our conversion follows a similar vein. Instead of going through line by line, let's just compare end results: when the transition is complete, the code that used to read:
Posted by: Manasses on January 19, 2004 01:14 AMLet's take a moment to reexamine that. What we've done here is create two variables. The first variable is in the Heap, and we're storing data in it. That's the obvious one. But the second variable is a pointer to the first one, and it exists on the Stack. This variable is the one that's really called favoriteNumber, and it's the one we're working with. It is important to remember that there are now two parts to our simple variable, one of which exists in each world. This kind of division is common is C, but omnipresent in Cocoa. When you start making objects, Cocoa makes them all in the Heap because the Stack isn't big enough to hold them. In Cocoa, you deal with objects through pointers everywhere and are actually forbidden from dealing with them directly.
Posted by: Emma on January 19, 2004 01:14 AM