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C# 2.0 Spec Released
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft released the design specifications document for C# 2.0 (codenamed 'Whidbey') to be released early next year. New features of the language include generics similar to those found in Eiffel and Ada, anonymous methods similar to lambda functions in Lisp, iterators, and partial types."
Worst. Codename. Ever.
FIRST POST! eerrr second
ITS A FATTIE TRICK!
Normally I don't even bother, but since all of you so-called nerds are distracted by the World Series . I'm gunna keep it real.
fsck baseball! *Real* geeks prefer reading the new C# spec.
When, marriage ceased being a covenant or a solemn vow and became a
"contract." This rhetorical shift led us to see marriage as a
voluntary agreement between two adults. If marriage is a contract, then
the parties are free to negotiate the terms of their agreement, enforce
those terms, and terminate the agreement whenever they choose.
It's easy to see how this shift damaged the family. It not only opened
the door to "no-fault" divorce, but it has done the same for
cohabitation and same-sex unions. If marriage is simply a contract, then
it's impossible to limit the terms of that contract to one man and one
woman in a life-long committed relationship. Instead, anything goes.
There are other critical ways in which viewing marriage as a contract
hurts families. This view "undermines the basis of generosity and
self-giving" that is so essential to family life. On a construction
site, a welder can tell the foreman, "it's not my job," if he's asked to
do some carpentry. The same response by a husband to a request by his
wife is a sign of a dysfunctional marriage.
In other words, there are no job descriptions in marriage. Yet, this is
precisely where the "marriage as contract" rhetoric, and the worldview
it produces, is leading us. Instead of seeing marriage and family as a
joint effort lived out before God and the community, people see it as a
"deal." And, as with all deals, the name of the game is to make sure
that you get the best of the bargain.
This deceptive use of market language is almost as destructive for
marriage as it has been for the unborn and their mothers. In both cases,
it has provided people with a cover for acting selfishly without regard
for how their actions affect others.
Amy Ong
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
How exactly are you able to find the IP address of a poster?
I thought your "friends" at RoadRunner would take care of this?
I'm about to move anyway. So go ahead and see if RoadRunner gives a shit about someone posting GNAA posts to Slashdot (which by the way, is not against the TOS)
Very uncool to post someone's IP and solicit complaints because of a weblog post, but RoadRunner will ignore them, anyway.
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How in the hell does this "prove" that Microsoft can be trusted with .NET? It's a goddamned WHITEPAPER Miguel. It proves nothing.
.NET or anything else is their performance during the antitrust trials (you know...lying to the judge, falsifying evidence, that sort of thing). Nevermind their blatant attempt to hijack Java for their own purposes. And nevermind their questionable involvement with the SCO Group in their attempt to destroy Linux with litigation.
What proves Microsoft cannot be trusted with
And you are fooling yourself if you think Microsoft isn't eyeing you very carefully. They WILL be looking for a way to pull the carpet out from under you, and don't expect much sympathy when it happens.
On the plus side, since you left GNOME to it's own devices, the project has improved dramatically. Please, do us all a favour--keep wasting time and effort on MONO. It will keep you from messing up anything else with your rampant attention defecit disorder.
The parent is probably the most unfunny comment ever moderated "funny" that I've ever seen. A new low has been reached.
Amazing magic tricks
your school also got dominated by my school today. 28-0 hah!
reminds US of another "war" that ended badly.
Thousands march in Washington against war
Hundreds protest in San Francisco
Saturday, October 25, 2003 Posted: 5:25 PM EDT (2125 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- To chants of "Impeach Bush," thousands of anti-war protesters rallied in the nation's capital Saturday and delivered a scathing critique of President Bush and his Iraq policy.
Demanding an end to the U.S.-led occupation and the quick return of American troops, the demonstrators gathered on a sunny fall day at the Washington Monument to listen to speeches and songs of peace.
One man's small cardboard sign gave his summing-up of the day: "This administration does not represent me," it said in black capital letters typewritten on white paper.
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, exhorted the crowd not to be content with the gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
"Don't give Bush $87 billion, don't give him 87 cents, give our troops a ride home," Sharpton said to loud cheers from the crowd.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters also took to sun-drenched streets in San Francisco.
"We feel it's very important to keep our voices heard because we want our troops home," said Bill Nelson, a Burbank, California, bookstore owner. "We want the money here for health care and jobs, not a military industrial complex."
The rallies on both coasts were organized by ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and United for Peace and Justice.
The protest in Washington drew a diverse crowd--young, old, veterans, relatives with loved ones in the armed forces and American Muslims. An activist group of older women called the Raging Grannies, singing anti-Bush songs, brought whoops of agreement from the protesters.
Organizers estimated that 100,000 people turned out for the demonstration, but police at the scene put the number much lower, from 10,000 to 20,000. Police no longer issue official crowd estimates, so the size of the protest could not be verified.
Waving signs reading "Make Jobs Not War" and "Bush is a liar," the protesters marched from the White House, down toward the White House, on to the Justice Department and then back to the Washington Monument.
But the activists were not afforded the symbolic satisfaction of yelling protests to the White House gates, because the Secret Service put up barriers to keep them from marching directly in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush was spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
Michael McPhearson, a veteran from the 1991 Persian Gulf War, denounced the president, saying he had misled the nation. "You have butchered the truth, George Bush."