Do people still have landline telephones? Thus asks reader Sharon Claffey of Williamstown, Mass., echoing a question we’ve heard quite a bit this year.
We’re just as curious about that as you are, Sharon! And the startling answer is that about 73 percent of American adults lived in a household without a landline at the end of last year — a figure that has tripled since 2010.
Until recently, we weren’t sure that data even existed. Read More...
The answer is No, interface cannot have constructors. In order to call any method we need an object since there is no need to have object of interface, there is no need of having constructor in interface (Constructor is being called during creation of object).Click to see full answer. Similarly, you may ask, why we Cannot create a constructor to an interface?Interfaces in Java don’t have constructor because all data members in interfaces are public static final by default, they are constants(assign values at the time of declaration) . Read More...
Troubling echoes in adherence to Hollywood vision of the past. [ comment ] Everybody has heard about Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the recent Walt Disney blockbuster featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in the role of...a prince of Persia. That a rather fair actor with Swedish and Ashkenazi heritage plays the lead role in a story set in ancient Iran caused a minor controversy. Some enlightened people believe that Hollywood missed an opportunity to transcend its stereotypical depictions of non-Europeans, particularly Middle Easterners, by offering the part to a brownish hero. Read More...
