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  1. Re:Globalization at its finest on DNS Root Servers Outside US Surpass Those Inside · · Score: 3, Interesting

    perhaps, just perhaps, other countries don't speak english and gov means absolute nothing.
    I think that USA has a .us domain, it's just also the default domain. So x.gov is really x.gov.us.
    Of course you didn't want to mean that USA rules the world. Eh... you don't, no?

  2. Re:Of what use are generics? on Hejlsberg Talk About Generics in C# and Java · · Score: 1

    I don't like the templates/STL combo. I'm not saying it's not usefull, but is too much like a macro mechanism and can be messy. When you make a simple syntax error the compiler messages maybe 5 lines long and not at all clear on what the problem is. And very few people know the internal workings of a STL implementation, and it seems to me that you need to know quite too much to really have control over it. A guy over here that programmed C/C++ for years and use STL didn't know when you need a copy constructor. The documentations and tutorials I have seen over STL are very basic and usually pre ANSI standard. Things doesn't have entity with STL, like string isn't a first class object. As you say after the desert of pure C++ who can refuse the glass of water of any collection library. I think that a lot of C++ programmers that are in awe of STL don't realize that other languages have richer libraries that do a lot more than collection and end doing everything as a collection. Or different paradigms and end thinking of templates as an end and not as a tool.
    Just my opinion.

  3. Re:Why Generics? on Hejlsberg Talk About Generics in C# and Java · · Score: 1

    "Clue sticks can't solve all humanity's problems"

    Who says they can? It just will make you feel better and release some stress beating the hell out of someone. Much better if he's responsible of something.

  4. Re:Jenna Jameson on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    Okey. It's just in my country Flying Circus was available in VHS just this month. Yes we are third world, so what.
    Oh, I wasn't expecting...

  5. Re:Not unlike a real-life journal.... on Best of The Perl Journal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can't find the chapter on how to switch to Python.

    No, wait! My karma is innocent!

  6. Re:Best of Perl? on Best of The Perl Journal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh yes, Perl encourages people to write code that Perl can easily read. For people is a little harder.

  7. Re:Damn CMP on Best of The Perl Journal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, they didn't offer Windows Magazine to me! Oh well, it could have been worst; they could had offer it.

  8. Re:compensation? on Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for the movie! "portal to hell" a site in internet that sucks your soul in. It's like Ring, isn't? but you now, one you saw one terror movie, they are all the same. BTW, that would make more than one soul per domain.

  9. Re:Defensive? on IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers · · Score: 1

    SCO has a patent on publishing inventions on a web site?

  10. Re:Wow! on Ask About the Iraqi LUG · · Score: 1

    Why do you think otherwise?

  11. Re:Jenna Jameson on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    Nice sig! but how many know the reference.

  12. Re:How useful is this? on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    Oh yes! oh yes! At last I'll know what the f*** does all those @*#@!$@#! functions and constants and the like!
    Tell me that we also get solved those mistery man pages like "this program does what the program with the same name usually does in other (unspecified) (*nix or something) implementations, with the apropiate random desviations and platform dependent (unspecified) behaviour and programmer non-standard custom surprises"
    No? weeell it was too good to be, er... good.

  13. Re:A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    Parent should have been modded "informative"!

  14. Re:bah! on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    I agree. I just can't stand info. Only useful thing is that the info files are plain text enough that I can search them. On the other hand I don't want to read again a man page for more than quick reference (ie: parameters names). Both methods are obsolete. What I really like is something like .chm. At least works for me.

  15. Re:ok... on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 1

    And sending virus over the link. Or are we supposed to believe in Random Fillers from Mars Spirit? Nah, they are revenging for Independence Day.

  16. Re:debugging on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 1

    Oh man! at 20 minutes per each step command I would send the autodestruct command after stepping 3 lines of code. Or commit suicide myself if there's no way to kick that thing at distance.

  17. Re:Simpsons stuff... on Mice In Space · · Score: 1

    Mouse from space! run to the hills!
    I knew this would happen.

  18. Re:shame on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    It was the nearest series to ourselves in terms of time, culture and technology.

    Maybe that's part of the problem. The whole Star Trek concept going downfall since the end of TNG. DS9 still had some good episodes but not all good. Let's not even talk about Voyager. They got the chance to better thinks, and lost it with boring stories.

  19. Re:Yeah right on Bell Labs Demos Cell Phone Location Software · · Score: 1

    Great, you just gave away a national security secret.

  20. Re:Yeah right on Bell Labs Demos Cell Phone Location Software · · Score: 1

    He going to be called Truman, right?

  21. Re:The Grandmasters and Specials yet to be announc on Open Source Awards 2004 · · Score: 1

    The same thing in spanish speaking countries. Grandparent post is wrong.

  22. You missed the whole point on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    What you fail to grasp is that most of us make a living of that :-)

  23. Re:Design desitions on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a programmer and I disagree. Oh wait...

  24. Re:Design desitions on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think there's some office oral tradition that relates that with something called vacations.

  25. Re:Why does this get put on the frontpage, on Open Watcom 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    What if I DO know what OpenWatcom is but I didn't get the chimp training? Where I work you are supposed to be already trained and they don't wanna pay for it.