Take a look at FIFA[^]'S site. At the top of the list of games there is a link that says "change to local time" or "change to your time". You can see scheduled games in your local time (good for watching on TV), and in the local time of wherever the game will take place (good if you're planning to go there and see the game). I saw it for the first time during the 2010 World Cup, and I like it. In general, sport events that are broadcasted to the entire world (the Olympic games start in a few days) pose the same challenge to whoever designs their sites, which are also designed for a wide audience, so this is one place where you can look for inspiration. JM2B, Pablo.

Minus points for those that don't read XKCD regularly. ;)

For me, yes. Altough Commit Strip didn't make it to Antartica yet...

It really is sad. I've spent quite a few quality hours with Dr Dobb's.

Yes. 11 is faster. Almost as fast as Chrome or Opera. According to my subjective impression (not measurement), slightly faster than Firefox. JM2B.

What about this?

foreach (x in someContainer)
{
ret = someFunction(x);
}

int someFunction(whatever x)
{
// do stuff
if (someCondition) return 1;

// do more stuff
if (someOtherCondition) return 2;

// ...
return 3;

}

Is this close to what you meant, or did I miss the point?

[^] I think you mean SmartStartMenu. Hope this helps, Pablo.

Consider blaming the victim[^]. Maybe Giorgio Chiellini acted like Marco Materazzi[^]? ;)

From what I've heard, hotels are not early adopters in technology. WPF has the following disadvantages: 1. It requires reasonably strong graphic cards. 2. It requires a Windows machine. If you want to actually sell software to hotels, IMHO, it should be accessible to Android tablets, and to ancient (XP) Windows machines. Just my two bits,

Really? It was on the first one I clicked! :-D

You may like this one: http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-times/ross-gittins-are-kpis-a-fad-5016051.html[^] Please keep us posted,

First and foremost, thank you, managing code is now much more efficient! Browsing my workspace, I see that .vcproj files are not colorized. I'd like to see them as XML files, with syntax colors (like the ones in .csproj files). Keep up the good work, Pablo

The compilers I've used give a warning in cases like this. JM2B,

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

See this: http://www.google.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+compile+time+polymorphism[^] For instance, in a C++ template, you can do something like this:

template class Foo: public T
{
int Baa(int k)
{
T * pT = static_cast(this); // this is the magic
return 42 + pT->Baz(k - 3); // for instance.
}
};

Any class that exposes a method Baz that returns something that can be converted to an integer, and can be called with an integer parameter, can be a template paremeter for class Foo. No special interfaces required, so it is less restrictive than, for instance, C# generics. Aside: 'less restrictive' doesn't mean 'better', or 'worse'. Also, the code above is resolved at compile time, which may have a noticeable impact on performance. Duck typing is also used in Javascript, for other reasons (mostly, IMHO, flexibility). JM2B,

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

I have it at home, and I've installed Ubuntu in 3 or 4 machines, usually dual boot with XP. I found it easier to install than XP. Day to day use is similar to W7 experience: the computer does what you expect, and you have to type an administrator's password to install or upgrade software. Have fun,

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

When my father retired and boredom started to hit, he also bought a PC. One of his projects was digitizing his vinyl records collection. Some of the older 78 rpm ones may very well be 'last specimens'. Another, transferring old VCR family/vacation/wedding movies to CDs, while adding subtitles and transitions in the process. A third project was scanning photo albums, and digitally retouching cracks. Of all possible graphic software choices, he uses MS Paint. In a short time he was also using Skype to communicate with friends and relatives, and Google+ to share pictures. Best hopes for your father,

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

And the OP of any thread gets bold.

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

Head hunting?

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

Obviously, you don't mean just time: otherwise, timespan and datetime in c# would do the trick. For phisical entities (mass, distance, acceleration, ....) there is a C++ library in BOOST: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/boost_units/Dimensional_Analysis.html[^] I remember reading an article (which I can't find) that used this to implement classes that allow you to do the following:

Acceleration g = new Acceleration(9.88); // m/(s*s)
Mass m = new mass(25); // kg
Force f = m * g;

Is that what you're looking for? Update: Found it. http://www.boostpro.com/mplbook/metafunctions.html[^].

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

Why didn't you use RAII?

class MutexLocker {
QMutex &m;
public:
MutexLocker(QMutex &qm) : m(qm) { m.lock(); }
~MutexLocker() { m.unlock(); }
}; // class

int GetStatus(){
MutexLocker tmp(statusMutex);
return status;
// destructor unlocks
}

Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).