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Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Yeah, but if Phelps was a country, he'd be about sixth on the list.
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Originally posted by Jesus Angeles:
If it is a tie, they will decide the winner based on the alphabetical sorting order; therefore 'C'hina wins over 'U'SA.
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Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Which language do you base your alphabetical order?
And since Chinese is not an alphabetical language, how does one do that.
Hint: when the countries marched in the opening ceremony, they were ordered by the number of strokes in the idiograph that names the country.
Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Which language do you base your alphabetical order?
And since Chinese is not an alphabetical language, how does one do that.
Hint: when the countries marched in the opening ceremony, they were ordered by the number of strokes in the idiograph that names the country.
Originally posted by David O'Meara:
Which part?
Originally posted by Chris Seifert:
If this was in response to my question, I was interested in where the poster had heard about where the parade ordering had been done. I have an interest in unicode, linguistics and internationalization and am therefore interested in any good sites, groups or RSS feeds that might discuss issues related to those subjects. Should you happen know of any such places I would appreciate that information as well. I'm currently working through Korpela's "Unicode" book and am just starting to think about these issues.
Originally posted by Jesus Angeles:
Did you watch the Olympics opening?
The countries paraded 'not' in a to z order, but in some chinese order. That is what Pat was saying if I am not wrong.
The countries paraded 'not' in a to z order, but in some Chinese order.
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Originally posted by Raghunandan Mamidala:
Yes even count wise china is not too far.., We will have to wait till end to see whose count is more. Its hard for US to catch up china in gold the difference seems huge
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Well, sure, there's lots of those. But the rules require those people to be citizens of the country they are competing for. There's nothing wrong with having immigrants on your team.Originally posted by Raghunandan Mamidala:
Are there are any countries that allow imported players(I mean from other countries) to represent at Olympics ?
Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
Well, sure, there's lots of those. But the rules require those people to be citizens of the country they are competing for. There's nothing wrong with having immigrants on your team.
Actually, that's a myth. The original inhabitants are those who were present on the day the government was incorporated.Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
Yea, pretty much the entire USA team is made up of immigrants. Maybe not directly but descending from at least. But they are all American citizens.
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
Actually, that's a myth. The original inhabitants are those who were present on the day the government was incorporated.
After all, countries are political entities, primarily -- not mere land masses.
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Originally posted by Frank Silbermann: Actually, that's a myth. The original inhabitants are those who were present on the day the government was incorporated.
Originally posted by Raghunandan Mamidala:
Are there are any countries that allow imported players(I mean from other countries) to represent at Olympics ?
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann :
Actually, that's a myth. The original inhabitants are those who were present on the day the government was incorporated.
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Germany has a recent German citizen (women's gymnastics.) She is a German citizen now though not from another country.
The definition is kind of fuzzy, like most concepts (e.g. the color "red" -- at which exact wavelength of light do you begin?). But I suppose anyone whose ancestors were here before the Constitution was ratified would count as a regular American. Of course, then you have to ask about people for whom only _some_ of their ancestors were here at that time.Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Inhabitants of what political place on which of the many days the government was incorporated?
For example, if you lived in Detroit, Virginia on July 4 1776, did that count? Or did you have to be in what was later considered Virginia (Michigan and other areas were called the "Northwest territories" in the late 1700s.
Apparently there are a fair number of "native americans" whose cultural history says they have always been in the America, and they don't like this new idea that their ancestors came over from Siberia about 10,000 years ago.
What day do you use? The day the English claimed parts of the original 13 states? when the Spanish claimed it in the early 1500s? When Lief Ericson vistited in 900 AD or so?
Originally posted by herb slocomb:Its always fun to point out that DNA and artifact evidence shows Europeans were in North America 10-20,000 years ago
In most places in America, when Europeans found Native Americans whose ancestors arrived in the New World ten to twenty thousand years ago possessing any given pice of land, it was only because they conquored/extirminated/drove out earlier Native American settlers whose ancestors also arrived in the New World ten to twenty thousand years ago.* In a great many cases, more recent arrivals from Europe then did the same to them.Originally posted by Raghunandan Mamidala:
Future Generations of Nomadic people who settle in a particular country are definately citizens of that country.thats widely accepted 10000 years way too long dont you think they can claim that the piece of land is theirs.
Originally posted by herb slocomb:
Its always fun to point out that DNA and artifact evidence shows Europeans were in North America 10-20,000 years ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1406/segments/1406-4.htm
There was some more recent DNA evidence this year, but my quickie google lookup missed it.
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Originally posted by Arvind Birla:
Its just as fun to point out that winners usually get to write history and rewrite the past.