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  1. Re:Great... on Latest Proposals for C++0x · · Score: 1
    The areas where VC++ chokes on templates (both 6 and .net) are:

    * Partial template specialization (it doesn't do at all), and

    VC .NET 2003 have this feature now, in contrast to VC .NET 2002 that implemented it partially (pun intended).

  2. Re:Great... on Latest Proposals for C++0x · · Score: 2, Informative
    The main difference is partial template specialization, apart from some speed optimizations.

    However, alot of code breaks when moving to VC .NET 2003 : for some reason they decided to remove classic headers, giving us _days_ of work. I've never had so much problems with a compiler as with VC .NET 2003 when trying to just build projects that have worked fine since VC 6.0.

  3. Boost and STL on Latest Proposals for C++0x · · Score: 2, Informative
    Note that parts of Boost library is suggested as part of the new standard :

    N1450 03-0033 A Proposal to Add General Purpose Smart Pointers

    I've used parts Boost quite alot myself (www.boost.org), and found it very useful even when using Visual Studio.

  4. Re:should come in handy on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    Brilliant idea, that. Getting your "information" from a source with a clear axe to grind.

    What axe to grind? That Bush && Blair was lying and has trouble keeping their lies straight?

    It really amazes me that Clinton was impeached for having a blow job and lying about it, while going to war on lies is patriotic and the right thing to do.

  5. Re:should come in handy on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    We don't you try educate yourself be getting information elsewhere than Fox News and CNN?

    The following might help : http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

  6. Re:FUD on NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network · · Score: 1
    There are trojans in the wild that spammers use to send their spam, and expect that this will become more common.

    The following link shows that the article is not just FUD :

    http://users.757.org/~joat/blog/archives/cat_mal icious_code_reviews.html

    Jeem

    Description: An interesting trojan in that it contains a mail server and a web proxy. Often installed by another 'downloader' trojan. Often pulled down from a website. By default, opens three ports. The port number appears random but is based on the time zone and operating system number of the local OS. The lowest number will be a simple SMTP open relay which the attacker will often use to relay spam to the rest of the planet. This lowest port may contain the string 'jeem.mail.pv' in the banner if you telnet to the port. The middle port number will listen for instructions to the trojan which can include direction to connect to a specific IP/port or to listen on port 9000 for further instructions. The higest number port has the ability to act as a HTTP proxy. This can be a very annoying worm to be infected with. It has the ability to turn a lowly workstation into a spammer's dream: an open mail relay.

  7. Re:SHOCKING AND BAD PATENT PRACTICE on Patent Granted for Ethical AI · · Score: 1
    To be honest this really disgusts me. That a patent this wide has been granted is crazy. Applying affective research to processing user input is not new and the ethics of patenting ethics itself is really worrying.

    The US is bullying EU to introduce same patent practices as in USA. This is yet another example demonstrating that the US patent system - as practiced today - is quite bad. Combine this with a litigatous nature and we have a total mess.

  8. Re:How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux? on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 1
    this reply to the parent has also been done before... " Here's a dollar for you to buy some vowels."

    Actually, most comments on SCO has been done before, and I just carry on this great tradition on /. Whatever did you expect on yet another story about SCO on /. ?

  9. It's all about money? on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh dear! I just thought it was righteous outrage at teft of SCO's GPL'ed IP.

  10. Re:How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux? on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a dollar for you to buy some vowels.

  11. Re:what happen with /. on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Lighten up man! It's summer time; the season for stories about abnormally large and strange looking potatoes.

  12. What about SCO? on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1
    For some reason, SCO is not mentioned as competitor to Red Hat on page 18 chapter 6.1, even though the other partners of UnitedLinux is listed.

    That SCO is dead and buried in the Linux market is pretty clear, but UnitedLinux was established in part to counter Red Hat dominance.

    Would be interesting to know why the individual Linux distributers making up UnitedLinux is listed, while UnitiedLinux is not mentioned at all.

  13. Re:How does your phone ring on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 2, Informative
    The computer is grounded, and you are touching some metal part of the laptop (read conductor). Therefore, the electrical current is passed into you, resulting into a minor shock.

    Erhm, the whole point that the PC is grounded is that the PC is grounded and not you.

    There is a difference beeing grounded by your parents and a PC that is grounded. I am certainly not an EE, but that makes sense to me. In Norway we learn "grounding" (in both of the above meaning of the word) in elementary school.

  14. Re:Kroupware/Kolab 1.0 on Opengroupware · · Score: 1
    The Kolab project recieves financial support from the German state. Other open source projects does as well, like the project for anonymous surfing :

    http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html

    Now, contrast this to the US Total Information Awareness Agency.

  15. Re:Only one? on Open Source Organization Models Discussed · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is just the editors choice of headline. If you actually read the article you'll see the following outlined in red:
    Q: Will the nonprofit foundation be an organizational model that will define future software development?

    Moreover, you'll might notice that the second paragraph starts with :

    HBS professor Siobhán O'Mahony discusses her research on foundations formed around three projects

    So just read the article, it's quite good.

  16. Re:Uh... on Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit · · Score: 1
    I think that quite many outside USA does not care about the SCO issue, even if they've heard about it.

    Here in Sweden I've heard nothing in the press concerning SCO, and in Germany SCO was told to show the evidence or shut up.

    Until this actually goes to trial, or a settlement is reached, the story will continue to be big only on /.

  17. Re:9% is a lot on Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit · · Score: 1
    I'd be more interested in the 9% of people who said the suit *is* affecting their decisions. What are the reasons behind that response?

    Indeed, and we'll never know. Such polls are just for entertainment, nothing more.