Friday, January 26, 2007

Mohammed Mafaz has sent you a LiveScience News Story -- Daydreamers: Scientists Find Our Bored Baseline

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Daydreamers: Scientists Find Our Bored Baseline
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070118_day_dreaming.html

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

The new iterator...

I was exposed to C# nearly seven months ago. Then only I got to know about this amazing cool loop in C#.., the foreach loop. Then later at a course in my undergraduate program, i saw it appear in Perl scripting. It was cool. During my second year projects at my campus I used it extensively, mostly for database programming.
But later i began to worry...Can't we survive without it? Because programming languages like C & C++ have survived for some years without that loop i guess. But my guess was wrong, because C++ did have a for_each function as in this link:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreach

But is it just because only this mistake we have to shift to the foreach loop..
However i believe it depends on the preference of the programmer...

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Does Islam tolerate other beliefs?

The Quran says: God forbids you not, with regards to those who fight you not for [your] faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them; for God loveth those who are just.
(Quran, 60:8)

It is one function of Islamic law to protect the privileged status of minorities, and this is why non-Muslim places have flourished all over the Islamic world. History provides many examples of Muslim tolerance towards other faiths: when the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem in the year 634, Islam granted freedom of worship to all religious communities in the city.

Islamic law also permits non-Muslim minorities to set up their own courts, which implement family laws drawn up by the minorities themselves.34, Islam granted freedom of worship to allowards other faiths: when the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem in the yera er the Islam