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This post is a short follow up to my previous post “Giving in”.

I stopped playing World of Warcraft two days before the 10 day trial was over, it just doesn’t have that holding grab after all. I guess for me this is due to the fact that the game is from 2004 and it just doesn’t hold together that well over such a long period. Also, the pay-to-play scheme isn’t doing it for me.

Still, the game itself, disregarding the graphics, is good if you like these type of games and have the time for it. For me, it’s back to Fallout 3 since some very nice DLC has been released.

Holy crap, this trailer looks freaking fantastic. I wasn’t born yet when Tron came out in ‘82 but I have definitely been a fan ever since I found out about it.

It’s been hard for me to convince anybody to watch Tron because of its status in geek culture. Regardless of this, if you enjoyed War Games, The Manhattan Project or Weird Science for that matter, Tron will kick their asses².

The upcoming C++ revision, C++0x has been delayed and is now scheduled for release somewhere in the 2010’s, thus effectively becoming C++1x.

Here’s a link to an article published in Dr. Dobbs Journal by C++’s creator Bjarne Stroustrup explaining why (page 3).

I don’t think anyone is really surprised with the delay as the new standard would lift C++ up to a more modern level in order compete with contemporary programming languages, thereby implementing much addendum. The list of new features and STL additions is certainly impressive and when C++0x, er, C++1x is released, we’ll probably all need to brush up on our C++ skills.