User: CableModemSniper

Re:Circular Acronymns - GWU stands for...

On: Napster Strikes Deal With GWU

Its only recursive if your language has a call stack. If otoh, your langauge is based on graphs then it is indeed a circular (or cyclic) acronym.

Re:Edit?

On: System Downtime, Maintenance

The best solution appears to be the history function mentioned by athakur, but I never dared to look how this is actually implemented by wikipedia and how many resources are used by that.

cvs, patch and diff? (Kidding!)

Um...

On: 3-D Fossils Found in Canada

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ?

Re:Knighthood==recognition?

On: That's Sir Tim to You

Its also fairly well accepted that Lancelot was made up...by the French!

Re:blech!

On: Ars Technica Tours Mono

I've always thought (but never actually put into practice) that an interesting way to do it would be:

template<typename T>
Property
{
private:
T * data;
public:
Property(T * s) : data(s) {}
virtual Property<T>& operator=(const T& what)
{
*data = what;
return *this;
}

virtual operator T()
{
return *data;
}

};

//and then

class Someclass {
private:
int m_x;
public:
Property<int> x;

Someclass() : x(&m_x) {}
};

Someclass inst;

inst.x = 3;
cout << inst.x + 7 << endl;

etc.

Re:the past is the future

On: PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too

In a really simplified explanation:
Strongly typed - the identifier is typed
Dynamicly typed - the data (object) is typed
Weakly typed - the operations on the data are typed

Re:Wonderful

On: Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

Real symlinks, (as opposed to shortcuts), /proc filesystem, etc.

Re:And in related news...

On: Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!

Re:Wonderful

On: Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

This is FUD. SFU does its job quite well, and has for some time. SFU has many features that cygwin does not as well.

Re:My Win desktop already runs *nix code...

On: Unix To Beef Up Longhorn

There are a few things that SFU has that cygwin does not. For instance a /proc filesystem (!!).

Re:Turbolinux.....

On: Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux

Turbolinux has been around for a whiiiiile. According to their website since '92.

Re:Define 'reading'

On: Americans Read Fewer Books

Hmmm, snails vs. tacos...hot sauce....mmmm, Mexico wins!
(jk, I like snails too.)

Re:A clear advantage

On: Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution

_SPACE_ is entirely unecessary.

Re:Generic programming

On: Favorite Programming Language Features?

try qsort with argv and see how well it sorts it.

Re:Nothing new.

On: Online MD5 Cracking Service

This is offtopic, but I must mention when I saw your sig, at first glance I thought it was an overly elaborate regex.

Re:I'm not sure...

On: Auto Manufacturers Running Out Of Unique IDs

Um, since they designed the current VIN system in '81 according to the article, your '60s Chevy probably didn't have a VIN in the sense they are speaking of.

Re:Didn't work on me

On: HTML Frames Considered Harmful

Worked on Firefox 0.8 for me

Re:Free - XP

On: FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today

This is going to get modded offtopic but thats ok. Just so you guys know, I was joking, not trolling. Sorry to give the wrong impression (apparently).

Re:Free - XP

On: FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today

Just in case anyone is interested, I managed to find a link to this guy's project. Damn, uberfruk, you work fast.

Re:Binary codecs and the GPL

On: Real adds GPL to Helix Player, RedHat/Novell Join In

Wait, so by that logic, does MPlayer violate the GPL (since you can use proprietary codecs with MPlayer)?

Re:GStreamer?

On: Real adds GPL to Helix Player, RedHat/Novell Join In

accccccccctually, the current Helix player uses GTK widgets.

Re:So...

On: Slashback: Civilians, Rubyx, Restrictions

Damn man, just download the tarball. For all this "Gentoo is source-based!" business, you can't compile some source unless theres a .ebuild file somewhere in your FS for it?

Re:embracing?

On: Xgrid Agent for Unix

And as 30 seconds of thinking will tell you, Xgrid is not Xcode.

Care to try again?

Re:How is HAL a "robot"?

On: C-3PO Joins R2 in the Robot Hall of Fame

I dunno about that, because later he was seperated from the ship and tacked onto a monolith. That seems to imply more of a computer than a robot.

Re:VMs will solve this issue

On: The History of Programming Languages

A bunch of languages have this, Ruby for one I know for certain, and I believe Perl does as well.
Or you could just do:

#define unless(x) if(!(x))