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  1. cscope ! on Ask SCO Presidents About Linux Adoption · · Score: 1
    SCO has placed cscope on sourceforge with a BSD type license,

    Thanks!

  2. News... on Cooling With Lasers · · Score: 1

    I read this about two years ago (and have no idea for how long this might actually be known) in a chemistry journal at our university. In other words: "Hey Slashdot, post news when they are new!"

  3. thats not new on BioWare Porting to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Duh! Where have you lived in the last three months? Tha neverwinternights is going to be released on Win, Linux and BeOS is widely known.

    How about posting News when they are new?

  4. short comment on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 2

    One word: Bandwidth.

  5. Where can I sign up for this? on German Censorware Targets Music · · Score: 1

    Well as long as the average person can sign up to that MP3-blocking thingie so that it can proect the music I produce at home with some friends I am for it. But as this wont happen it as this is just for corporate monopolistic suppression I say I hate it.

  6. Re:As I said: You don't get it. on C++ Answers From Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 2
    If you need to pass some arbitrary argument to your function, it's perfectly trivial to write a single (one, only one, single, solitary, not plural, only one, the number between zero and two, as in ONE) function template that takes an extra argument and passes it to the callback for each item.
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    As I said about eight or nine times, you only have to write the function template once. ONCE.
    That's why you make it a template: So you only have to write it once. Can you count to one? Try counting to one. When you get to one, stop counting. That's how many times you will have to write the function template: ONE time.


    0++ ?


    ROTFL

  7. Pls give Alan Kay more credit! on Xerox PARCers Doug Englebart and Alan Kay Webcast · · Score: 3

    Man, the guy created Smalltalk, way back when (early 70's?)

    He has a valid claim for _inventing_ OO programming!

    I think thats just a little bit more substantial than inventing 'overlapping windows', duh.

  8. I�m first !?! on Free Be · · Score: 0

    I cant believe it caliban (aka thies) is first for the first time 8-D

  9. This is cool! on Free Be · · Score: 0

    We finally have a desktop OS that is free (beer ;-) Death to KDE that evil resource-hog 8-D Be Im coming...

  10. look at dobelle.com -->avis about it! on Blind Get Wired - for Sight · · Score: 1

    Take a look at http://www.dobelle.com/vision/video.html they have even clips about the cables jacking into the connector o the patients skull! Eerie stuff. That is pure Borg technology. There are really a lot of avis and I, currently downloading them all :-) And by the way , it seems to be not a typo. They again write that he got the implants 22 years ago.

  11. cus Ted Turner says so? on AOL Nation · · Score: 2

    ...this merger would create "the most exciting and socially conscious company the world has ever seen!"
    I don't know if that comment is pre or post Jane tho :-)
    Actually the reason I'm worried is it seems that its the media types who are most worried about this merger; I clipped that quote from Scott Rosenberg's sharp commentary at salon

  12. Just ask them! on Get an ACME Klein bottle! · · Score: 1

    Then they should ask them whether they might mirror the site. Shouldnt be that difficult to do. would take only one E-mail. Then wait half an hour and just link the site without mirroring if there hasnt been a reply.

  13. DoS on Get an ACME Klein bottle! · · Score: 1

    They are still slashed to dots :-( Why doesnt Slahdot mirror these sites that havent a DS3 line for about 2 days so they wont have the inconvinience of being stormed by hordes of savage slasdotters??

  14. hey, that means more domains for everyone! on ICANN Registers Improper Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Id rather guess that this means that some ftp/telnet clients have to be upgraded. After all we are already short on domain names in some areas. Especially an the field of personal domains like johndoe.com there could be some relief if the "failure" would be made a standard.

  15. thats supposed to be cool? :-/ on The Quest For Cool Cases Continues · · Score: 1

    I looked at them, I thought about them, I went vomiting. What is this crap? Trying to be I-Macish like? Looks like el cheapo china plastic toys to me. I guess Ill stick with my nice gray powerbox and keep understating :-) The best way to personalize a case is still to make your own little logo and stick it on the plate where the corporate logo is supposed to be if it would be a retail box.

  16. A crypto-quote challenge :-) on Interrogate Crypto Luminary Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1


    "MGWDD VCI YDDT C ODLWDM, FN MPX XN MGDV CWD JDCJ."
    - EDZSCVFZ NWCZYQFZ

    Sometimes I try my newspaper's crypto-quote - usually takes me 1/2 to 1 hr :-(

    I'm just wondering, ahem, if you can solve this one (and if you did, how long it took you & what combination of hardware/software you used)

  17. Re:It's more than spoofing.. on MIT AI Acts Childish on Purpose · · Score: 1

    Like in mimicry. I came across a factoid about this bird, apparently would feed the carp in the pond. Apparently the gaping mouth of the carp was enough to trigger the 'mothering instinct' of the bird...

  18. Neural net bots rule Backgammon on State of Computer Game AI · · Score: 1

    The neural net backgammon programs such as jellyfish that play on FIBS (the First Internet Backgammon Server)are _extremely_ good players, always ranked in the top 10, just a hair off world-championship levels.

    Neural net programs are now indispensible for game analysis and teaching. Even the standard 'book' opening moves have been rewritten since they came on the scene.

    Its really humbling to realize that my ass is being kicked not because the computer is out-number-crunching me but because the neural nets encode a much deeper, more fundamental understanding of the strategy of the game than I'll ever have :-(

  19. Chuckle :-) on New ESR paper: The Magic Cauldron · · Score: 3

    I couldn't help but notice that ESR managed to write a 20 page essay on the future of software without mentioning a certain company from Redmond or a certain individual worth ~$90,000,000,000.00 even once :-)