Comment Re:STL (Score 1) 80
STL iterators do not use inheritance. Iterator tags do.
Comment Re: STL (Score 1) 80
Ah, you're referring to the inheritance relationships between the iterator tags, not the iterators themselves. The tags are metadata, not objects. The inheritance is a trick used in the guts of the algorithm implementations because C++ doesn't let you overload functions on concepts. You can't use that to claim the STL is object-oriented. You never have to inherit from anything to use the STL, even if you write your own custom iterators.
Comment Re: Opinion on Boost (Score 1) 80
Anyone can tell you Boost is a mixed bag. It was begun as an incubator for future std libraries, and it's succeeded: most of the new libraries in C++11 were Boost libraries first. Shared_ptr, chrono, random, regex... all good libraries. That's not to say all the Boost libraries should be in the standard, or are fit for that.
Comment Re: STL (Score 1) 80
Don't let Stepanov hear you say the STL is object-oriented. He has famously trashed OO, very publicly. Also, where do the iterator's use inheritance?
Comment Browser for *Web* Developers (Score 0) 74
Will this help me write an application in C++? No? Then don't call it a tool for developers. We're not all web monkeys.
Comment Re:Songkran in Thailand (Score 1) 157
Oh, hell yeah. I celebrated New Year 3 times last year: Western, Vietnamese, and Thai. Songkran was the best. Soaked head to toe, pool dance party until 3am. Buy your super-soaker early. Stores sell out.
Comment Re:Great white hope? (Score 1) 404
If I could, I'd mod you up. I was pretty aghast as well.
Comment Re:Debunking religions (Score 2) 658
I'd do the same, but for different reasons. I'm atheist, but the historical record is pretty convincing that a man named Jesus really lived 2000 years ago, and that he was a rabble-rouser, and had a bit of a following. Looking around me today, I have a hard time naming a single person who has had a deeper impact on the world. Think of it: from the Roman persecutions, through Charlemagne, the Medieval church, the Crusades, the great thinkers and artists and musicians and architects who helped shape the western world we know
Comment cowboy option (Score 1) 584
I'm stunned nobody has yet made the cowboy coffee/cowboy neal connection.
Comment Re:Grouping problems... (Score 0) 417
Couldn't have said it better myself. assert(Win2K == best && ME == worst);
Comment Re:What a wonderfull world of hate (Score 1) 737
Do you not get irony? She's holing a rainbow flag, you twit.
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles 215
aedmunde sends along news from the LA Times: "A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea Tar Pits. It's the largest known deposit of Pleistocene ice age fossils... in what might seem to be the unlikeliest of places — under an old May Co. parking lot in L.A.'s tony Miracle Mile shopping district. ...huge chunks of soil from the site have been removed intact and now sit in large wooden crates on the back lot... The 23 crates range... from the size of a desk to that of a small delivery truck... There were, in fact, 16 separate deposits on the site, an amount that, by her estimate, would have taken 20 years to excavate conventionally. ... Carefully identifying the edges of each deposit, her team dug trenches around them and underneath, isolating the deposits on dirt pedestals. After wrapping heavy plastic around the deposits, workers built wooden crates similar to tree boxes and lifted them out individually with a heavy crane. The biggest one weighed 123,000 pounds."
Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXML 208
tsa writes "Ars Technica reports that 13 of the 23 members from the technical committee of the Norwegian standards body, the organization that manages technical standards for the country, have resigned because of the way the OOXML standardization was handled. We've previously discussed Norway's protest and ISO's rejection of other appeals. From the article: 'The standardization process for Microsoft's office format has been plagued with controversy. Critics have challenged the validity of its ISO approval and allege that procedural irregularities and outright misconduct marred the voting process in national standards bodies around the world. Norway has faced particularly close scrutiny because the country reversed its vote against approval despite strong opposition to the format by a majority of the members who participated in the technical committee.'"
Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing 89
An anonymous reader writes "Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie explained that he sees the industry evolving into 'spatial computing,' and he envisions a 3-D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services. 'In a few months, the compay plans to test a new virtual reception assistant in some of its campus buildings. The assistant, which takes the form of an avatar, helps schedule shuttle reservations to get people to various locations across the 10-million-square-foot Redmond, Wash., campus. The system includes array microphones and natural language processing by which the avatar listens to the subjects and then interacts with them in real time. The system has been programmed to differentiate people by their clothing. Someone in a suit, for instance, would more likely be a visitor and not a potential shuttle rider.'"
