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I don't mean the sun exploded, I mean just vanished into thin air. And by life I exclude bacteria, which I imagine would live on even in the cold.

How long would you imagine human life could remain? What would day 1, day 2 etc. be like?

It's like silk, but more lovely. Better than Jesus IMO. I want to worship Satin, what should I do next?

... when the principal act is in some way attributed to the sun, the sea and the sand - rather than a deliberate choice. Similarly, the murder in Crime and Punishment is clouded in a lack of choice to some degree within the text - yet Raskonikov is mentioned as an existentialist character.

This function is supposed to put card back @ bottom of pack for blackjack pgm. However in the first loop, a is starting at 47, which is the value of b. I expected it to start at 0.

Full code here: http://codepad.org/FnFUCFqT

PLease help...

void CardsBack() // move the unused cards to the front and the used ones to the back

{

// first move all the unused cards to the top of the deck.

b=51-Pack_Pointer;

for ( a = 0; a < b; a++); <=== naughty loop

{

Pack [a] [0] = Pack [a+ Pack_Pointer+1] [0]; //resets the array at the start of each shuffle

Pack [a] [1] = Pack [a+ Pack_Pointer+1] [1];

Pack_Value [a] = Pack_Value [a+Pack_Pointer+1];

}

// now put the used cards back from dealer

int f (0);

b=52-Pack_Pointer+Dealer_Cardcount;

for (a=51-Pack_Pointer; a < b; a++);

{

Pack [a] [0] = Dealer_Hand [f] [0];

Pack [a] [1] = Dealer_Hand [f] [1];

Pack_Value [a] = Dealer_Value [f];

f = f+1;

}

// and finally the used cards from the player - I reversed the order deliberately. If I had time I would have shuffled all used cards into another array first.

f =0;

for (a=51-Pack_Pointer+Dealer_Cardcount+1; a < 52; a++);

{

Pack [a] [0] = Player_Hand [f] [0];

Pack [a] [1] = Player_Hand [f] [1];

Pack_Value [a] = Player_Value [f];

f = f+1;

}

}

I am an old COBOL, RPG etc, programmer. My daughter has just started Uni and needs some help with her first C++ assignment. She hasn't yet learned about classes or GUIs so from what I can see she is supposed to write the code as procedural.

I'm trying to structure the code so that it passes a boolean variable to tell me if the user has requested to quit. So I define at the start

bool play_on (false)

and then call a function Initialise which asks the user's name and if he wants to quit.

Initialise (play_on).

In debug I can see play_on being set in the function, but as soon as I return it to the mainline the variable seems to contain null. What's going on? How can I do this? Cheers

I have been considering the ethics of gene science - Dolly the sheep et al. People often object because we would be playing God, so I considered how the Christian God regulated his creativity.

God created all mankind and all the animals. The animals he immediately condemned to Hell after a short spell on Earth. He requested that all humans worship him, otherwise he would commit them to eternal torture. He made this a bit more interesting by refusing to provide explicit proof that he exists, and by creating many other untrue similar religions - thereby knowing that all but a tiny percentage of humans would go the eternal torture route.

Now it strikes me we cannot do much worse than that. On the basis that our ethics are already far superior to God's, onwards gene therapy, say I. What do you think?

I ask myself: What would He Man do? Usually it involves beating up Skeletor, so I'm excused because Skeletor doesn't live in Winchester. What do you do?

And how were the British supposed the know that that meant the Americans had guns?

Hi

I am a long time poor guitar player who is taking lessons and crikey what an improvement! Now want to start doing a bit of home recording, and would like to buy an acoustic / semi-acoustic bass. I love the sound of a double bass - the burr and twang and the buzz. But that's not practical for me. I want to be able to play acoustically as well as thru the amp - so a reasonable volume acoustically a necessity. Want to spend up to $800 / £500 max.

I was looking at the Epiphone Zenith as an option, or an Ibanez. Thoughts please people.

No expert witness, flawed or otherwise. Questionable jury selection. Judge biased, trying to bring about a certain result. This conviction smells bad. Jesus was unlucky in my opinion. A strong argument against the death penalty you may think? Should his relatives be in for substantial compensation?

Most of my albums playback just fine on either CD player or computer. However a significant minority are distorted - fuzzy. They also rip the same way, so I can never listed to them on my ipod.

Is it some kind of rip protection? If so, is there a warning so I can not buy these on CD and download from iTunes instead? Or is there a setting I can change on my computer?

See that God has just slipped the "End of the World" project by 5 months, on the very day it is supposed to have gone live!

Surely evidence that God is an IT project manager - no?

They look simply ghastly. Like sailors or thugs or something. They really ought to be told.

Just when the flight is approaching the most dangerous point of the flight, they put cabin doors to manual. This is surely the time to take least risk. I'd rather they kept them automatic. What's wrong with these airplane folk?

I know it began with a letter "H", but what did the H stand for? Henry? Or some more exotic Middle Eastern name?

I have been told that I can save my address book so that I can simply upload when I change phones. How?

This is a bit of a compound question on exercise...

Why do they ache? Is there a way to avoid it, given that my trainer says I have to pump weights until I cannot lift any more? Why does it always ache worse on the second day after? What is happening to the muscles as they are aching, and why do they stop aching after 3 or 4 days?

Can you help me out? I need to know who the second guy from the left is.

Did he really not contribute to the writing at all? He was named as principal composer on all other albums. Maybe this is why the album is weak against Magazine's standards?

Personally I love to bury myself in the shortlist of both. However if there could be only one...