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Printing anything from anywhere is no longer fantasy. In fact, it's often a necessity if using a smartphone, tablet, or laptop is an essential part of your daily workflow. Cases in point: You receive a huge spreadsheet attachment on your smartphone, and need a way to view the document without squinting. Or you revise a PowerPoint deck just as your plane lands, and need to print it before you arrive at a meeting. Or maybe you’re just staying with family out of town, and need to print a boarding pass directly from your phone. When all else fails, just scan the screen of your tablet.
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My printer has a feature that allows me to email it, and it will print both the body of the email and the attachments. Worked like a charm.
Of course, I have to be at home to get the printed papers, but I can print from anywhere. 
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Currently, there are four major types of e-voting around the world that are worth keeping an eye on: Brazil’s homegrown direct recording electronic (DRE) setup, Australia’s open-source software, Estonia’s Internet voting, and a Spanish startup’s efforts to expand what’s been called "crypto-voting." Each of these approaches has its own unique set of problems, but the primary obstacles they present for many voting officials and computer scientists is their lack of ability to verify source code and expense. The iVotes have it!
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At BUILD in Redmond today, Microsoft announced its plans to improve C++ standards conformance in its Visual Studio development environment, and talked about ways in which C++ would become a better, regularly updated, modern programming language. Microsoft developer and C++ standard committee chair Herb Sutter introduced work being done by the C++ community to make the language better, and also discussed the work being done by Microsoft to make its own compiler better. The Standard C++ Foundation will promote and advocate the usage and development of modern C++.
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CTP here[^]
(Compiler only, IDE doesn't yet "understand" the new syntax, and standard library doesn't make use of the new features yet)
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peterchen wrote: ORDER BY what user wants
DESC? Or ASC?
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So it turns out C is a functional language too! On the way to Strange Loop this year, John Van Enk and I were trying to find a way to write some C code that avoided dynamic (malloc) allocation. We discovered a technique that allows you to forgo the use of malloc in many common cases. It also enables very pure functional C code. You doubt? I shall demonstrate! This style actually has a special name: Continuation Passing Style.
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When I first started writing concurrent software, C++ had no support for synchronization. Windows itself had only a handful of synchronization primitives, all of which were implemented in the kernel. I tended to use a critical section unless I needed to synchronize across processes, in which case I used a mutex.... Today the synchronization landscape has changed dramatically. There are a plethora of choices for the C++ programmer. Exploring the state of synchronization in Windows and C++.
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