Print Media vs. Blogs
I’ve long been of the opinion that print media still has a place in the online world that we live in, if for no other reason than the fact that the longer release cycles allow for a higher standard; peer reviews and editors act as a sort of filtering.
Not that I’m the king of grammar, but I have come to expect print media to have been read by many editors prior to being released. In online communications, where the pace is much faster, I have come to expect grammar errors to sneak in. I often go back and read something that I’ve typed later on and see the most boneheaded mistakes that make me wonder what I was thinking, yet I feel excused in that I was focusing more on the content than the presentation. Print media, on the other hand, must focus on presentation, otherwise why does it exist?
I was disappointed to look at the mail pile today and see this:
Are the editors at Dr. Dobbs asleep at their desks?
If print media allows this advantage slip away, what is left for them?
Murphy says that I probably made a really stupid mistake in this posting. 
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Windows’ Impressive Package Management
Wow… I’m speechless.
After a LONG and painful uninstallation process that required far too many clicks I finally get this dialog…
This is after previously having just experienced the following: Choose an app to uninstall, get an error message claiming that it’s already been uninstalled by another installer, would I like to remove it from the add/remove list? Yes. Sorry, you don’t have permission to do that! Contact your admin. (if I wasn’t admin, I wouldn’t have permission to even be here in the first place!!!), poof, it’s gone anyhow…
rkerr@twowheels:~$ sudo aptitude purge windows
Filed under Programming | Comment (0)C++ 0X, what if?
The next version of the C++ standard has been called C++ 0X for so long now that we all expect the x to be replaced by a more specific digit when they are done. What if they don’t finish before 2012? Could it then be called C++ 0xC, or shortened… C++ C?
Wouldn’t that be confusing.
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