RIP Bernard

'Fifty Shades of Grey' best selling book ever in the UK.

Oh FFS. I would facepalm my head clean off.

One good thing I suppose, there's pretty much no moral high ground for anyone over the use of porn in this country any more. Let's face it, the difference between 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and "Razzle' is just packaging.

Jon

Razzle probably has better use of adjectives and narrative

I'm sure the recent events on Mars brought a smile to his face, and possibly his heart.

Mark

I've been unwell for a couple of days. By last night, I felt the effects were wearing off though still tired so went to bed. Slept until around 2200 and woke up, hungry. Had something to eat. Still felt worn and tired but couldn't sleep. So much so that I was still awake around 0540. Now bear in mind that I'm normally up around 0630, this was verging on dangerous. I ensured three alarms were set on the phone (0630, 0645, 0700) and I managed to sleep through all of them (I think I probably woke up and turned them off but I don't recall this). I suddenly woke up and looked at the clock - 0800! I've normally left the house by then.

No wash. No brushing. No breakfast. Quickly ironed my shirt, dressed and ran out the house.

The entire morning I've been farting, presumably because I've not eaten much over the last few days until last night and the smell is revolting.

Sounds like you need to go to the loo! lol

Hope you feel better today

Well thankfully that helped a little. I just smelled myself - a stench of farts, sweat and deoderant. I wonder what my patients thought of me?!?!?

just did my first bit of programming in Linux, getting my C++ noughts and crosses program to run on my Raspberry Pi the bulk of the program was written in Netbeans on Windows, but a few things had to be changed before it would compile (apparently integer to char conversions are not standard)

now i have shared folders via CIFS, so i can write to and from my desktop with the Pi. should be an easier way of getting things on there than constantly ferrying files around on my pendrive

At least in C, the actual sizes of the various datatypes are undefined. The C language spec. simply states that:

From what I can gather, C++ provides minimum ranges that different datatypes have to be able to store, as follows:

• signed char: -127 to 127 (note, not -128 to 127; this accommodates 1's-complement platforms)
• unsigned char: 0 to 255
• "plain" char: -127 to 127 or 0 to 255 (depends on default char signedness)
• signed short: -32767 to 32767
• unsigned short: 0 to 65535
• signed int: -32767 to 32767
• unsigned int: 0 to 65535
• signed long: -2147483647 to 2147483647
• unsigned long: 0 to 4294967295
• signed long long: -9223372036854775807 to 9223372036854775807
• unsigned long long: 0 to 18446744073709551615

You can see how a char can fit into a single byte, whereas an int needs at least two bytes. On a standard 32-bit desktop, it may actually be optimal to use a minimum of 2 or even 4 byte words, whereas on something like a Pi, with its simpler RISC processor, it may make more sense to just use a single byte where possible. Hopefully you can see why casting from int to char (which in C/C++ does not change the data in any way, just the way the data is interpreted) would not work.

wow, thanks Ed. Since I've been working with C# for the past two years the number of bytes in a variable types escape me sometimes, I'm used to having conversions all done for me

my current solution is this for loop:



the "+49" compensates for the gap between the value and it's place in the ASCII table (0 is 48, so to make address 0 in the array equal an ASCII 1, you have to add 49). this is probably very silly and obviously wont work with values above 9, but its fine for noughts and crosses

They wrap wraps funny here. I'm being a rebel and unwrapping, redistributing the filling then rewrapping

Reminds me of the time I was a medical student and chose to have a baguette from the sandwich bar at the hospital. The canteen had just opened for lunch and it was obvious this guy did not have a clue. He cut a slit in the baguette and didn't open it up. Instead, he tried to spread butter into the slit, failing miserably and then tried to stuff filling into it. I ended up with baguette that had a huge blob of butter at one side, rendering that portion inedible.