Don't be silly, they'd talk about One point twenty one jiggawatts. Then there would be a flamewar on the correct pronunciation of "giga" and whether a lightning strike can deliver 1.21Gw.

Actually, you could quite easily bring custom operators to Objective-C by adopting the Smalltalk approach. Simply allow symbols to be messages e.g.

        [@"foo" stringByAppendingString: @"bar];

could be written as

        [@"foo" +: @"bar];

Smalltalk allows you to drop the colon with binary operators so you could even have

      [@"foo" + @"bar];

Money going into my account? No, never noticed any... ... what's that you say? Yes, it is a nice new car. We're off to the Seychelles next week too. It's paid for by a bequest from Aunt Mildred's goldfish.

There are a number of people on this thread who are saying "I don't contribute because I don't have time". Well, why don't you contribute money instead then? If a piece of software has value to you, either because it helps you do your job, entertains you or saves you some time, then it surely has monetary value.

The advantage of contributing money apart from it taking only about five minutes is that you don't have to deal with the arrogant arseholes that all successful open source projects are staffed by (if many of the anecdotes above are correct).

Full disclosure: I am in this group of people, unless you count the very occasional bug report.

He wasn't talking about the Mac itself but the software applications that run on it.

This is not true. The 10% + 2 rule is a discretionary guideline that the police tend to use. In principle they can prosecute at any speed over the speed limit.

http://www.acpo.police.uk/docu...

Section 9 is the relevant part.

That was an idiot driver in Belgium moving into a lane where he had no visibility.

and judging by the fact that the video was taken from a lorry and the vehicle in front was a lorry and the car wasn't travelling much faster, it is unlikely that anybody was doing much more than 65mph

From which we can deduce you know very little about Objective-C.

I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that measures put in place to combat terrorism have been abused before.

OS X is no more heavily controlled than any Linux in the sense of putting what software you like on it. The only downside to it is that you have to buy your hardware from Apple.

ESA is mainly a French driven organisation. In France, 75% of electricity is generated by nuclear power stations.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good stereotype.

Could you post your calculations that lead you to that conclusion. Do you think that the engineers who designed the space craft forgot to make the same calculation?

Yes it is unless you did the calculations to show that there is not enough energy out there for the specific solar cells on this craft.

They were all designed to go much further than Rosetta.

147 terrible reviews, I think the £100 charge must be part of their business model.

You can create an interface in C. Just typedef a struct with a bunch of function pointers. People implement the interface by creating an instance of the struct and filling in the function pointers.

It's actually a fairly common pattern. For example there are several described here

You're overthinking it.

I'm heterosexual. I cannot choose to be sexually attracted to other men, I'm just not attracted to them. Whether this is caused by psychological reasons, the chemical environment in my mother's womb, or genetic factors is irrelevant. I cannot choose.

It should be pointed out that the choice thing is really a red herring. If homosexuality were a choice, that would still be no reason to persecute gay people.