Three Squares Press is pleased to announce the Toronto launch of The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War. The event will be held at The Cameron House (408 Queen Street West) on Monday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. The book will be available for sale at a special launch rate.
Published by Three Squares Press, The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War brings together the work of more than 80 Canadian writers, expressing their opposition to a U.S.-led war on Iraq. Featuring a stirring foreword by Alistair MacLeod, The Common Sky includes many of this country's most recognized writers, including: Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Christian Bök, Canada's Poet Laureate George Bowering, Fred Wah, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Steven Heighton, Gerry Shikatani, Maggie Helwig, and many more. A complete list of authors can be found on the Three Squares website.
For more information, email Mark Higgins or call (416) 406-0591.
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Posted by Darren Wershler-Henry at March 24, 2003 04:03 PMThis variable is then used in various lines of code, holding values given it by variable assignments along the way. In the course of its life, a variable can hold any number of variables and be used in any number of different ways. This flexibility is built on the precept we just learned: a variable is really just a block of bits, and those bits can hold whatever data the program needs to remember. They can hold enough data to remember an integer from as low as -2,147,483,647 up to 2,147,483,647 (one less than plus or minus 2^31). They can remember one character of writing. They can keep a decimal number with a huge amount of precision and a giant range. They can hold a time accurate to the second in a range of centuries. A few bits is not to be scoffed at.
Posted by: Heneage on January 19, 2004 02:06 AMThis variable is then used in various lines of code, holding values given it by variable assignments along the way. In the course of its life, a variable can hold any number of variables and be used in any number of different ways. This flexibility is built on the precept we just learned: a variable is really just a block of bits, and those bits can hold whatever data the program needs to remember. They can hold enough data to remember an integer from as low as -2,147,483,647 up to 2,147,483,647 (one less than plus or minus 2^31). They can remember one character of writing. They can keep a decimal number with a huge amount of precision and a giant range. They can hold a time accurate to the second in a range of centuries. A few bits is not to be scoffed at.
Posted by: Effemia on January 19, 2004 02:07 AMThis back and forth is an important concept to understand in C programming, especially on the Mac's RISC architecture. Almost every variable you work with can be represented in 32 bits of memory: thirty-two 1s and 0s define the data that a simple variable can hold. There are exceptions, like on the new 64-bit G5s and in the 128-bit world of AltiVec
Posted by: Roger on January 19, 2004 02:07 AMTo address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.
Posted by: Randall on January 19, 2004 02:08 AMSeth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.
Posted by: Rees on January 19, 2004 02:08 AM