>Does the subtitle purism exist in just in a city like Paris, or is it a nationwide mindset?
Mostly in Paris, and not coincidentally, it's also in Paris that you have the greatest probability to speak to French people which speak English too. I think that those who prefer subtitled movies usually speak the original language too: it's good to sustain your knowledge of the foreign language.
>I'm sure productivity will skyrocket with this invention.
Note that I would say that more time is spent reading code than writing code, so if those funky operators helps reading the code, it may truly increase productivity, even though a little time is lost writing code.
>> *No GPS (that I'm aware of). I'm spending that amount of money, I'd like a GPS-enabled phone please. > Far from a deal-breaker. Sure that would be a nice addition.
At this price, I too consider that this *is* a deal-breaker, if it was added without price increase I would consider buying an iPhone, otherwise forget it.
>> *No radio.[cut] >The whole point of the iPod is to NOT be a radio... nothing changed with the iPhone. Now that is a stupid answer, being a good MP3 player shouldn't prevent in anyshape to be a radio player too, IMHO you've drunk a little too much Apple cool-aid.
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>Having perl as it is, what are the reasons to take a look at ruby.
Perl as it is, is a big reason to go elsewhere, personally I despise Perl because IMHO it is a language which is beginner-hostile and a maintenability nightmare too: too much stupid #$%^@, TMTWTDI is great for the 'lone programmer' but is very bad when you're trying to maintain someone else code.. IMHO Perl is a mess, so it encourage people to write messy code too.
Ruby is like Perl except that it has been build with good taste/elegance in the design..
Of course, if you're an expert in Perl, you're used to Perl's quirkiness and you don't see it anymore, but myself I'm average Perl programmer and when I help Perl beginners I often curse Perl design, same when I maintain code written by Perl experts which is usually unreadable and to be able to maintain it, I have to rewrite it (with lots of pain) to code readable by beginners, the result usually use a similar or just superior number of lines, so the quirkiness these tricks is just gratuitous..
But in this case, it is different: it is stopping to license to someone after they challenge the validity of the patent in court. I doubt that a judge would be very sympathetic to an enterprise punishing someone because he asked for a judgement.
>In fact, IBM picked it specifically because it sucked- Not true, otherwise they wouldn't have discussed with Motorola first, but Motorola's price was too expensive. They picked x86 because it was cheap.
>and backward compatibility requirements have prevented cleaning away crap like segmented memory. I think that x86-64 does away with segmented memory.
>If you had ANY idea how close they already are to real time with simply correlating credit card data and mobile phone cell lock records, you'd shit yourself.
Well, apparently assuming the rapist had a cell phone, they were not capable to link the cell phone the location data to identify the rapist, even after the fact.
As always, the real problem is: who will guard the guardians? Politicians, cops are humain beings, what will ensure that the new capacities will only be used for good reasons?
> to porn (I never did work out how that worked on a teletext screen, but there you are...)
I think it was mainly sex chat and apparently it worked quite well: it was one big source of revenue for FT and in France at the time, all the ads billboards were covered with nearly nude women doing advertisement for 'Minitel rose' (so many that it was a little annoying).
There was also some text porn and a few ASCII arts of course.. Some people spent *a lot* of money on these 'sex site'.
>it shows either a great deal of faith in the jet engines or a serious death wish.
I disagree: it all depends at which height the jet engines stop: if high enough, even in case of problem (asymetrical deployement/propulsion for example), he should be able to get rid of his wings and open his parachute (well, I remember a similar design where the pilot could drop the wings, not sure about his design).
What killed many early wingmen is that their wings were not removable, and of course that they opened quite low..
>it promised "Communism" in the "near future", not the afterlife, but it still was very similar.
Very similar as in 'totally different'?
You may have lived in USSR, but apparently you don't know that religions have usually: - an afterlife promise for you: nothing like this in what you call 'state religion' (and no a better future for your children is something totally different). - prayers: I fail to see where is the equivalent. - myth with miracles such as walking on the water, resurrection, etc.
I've never been to USSR but for me saying that the personality cult of USSR is the same as a religion is grossly inaccurate..
And I would add: - lack of competition: by forcing PC builders to only install Windows with the PCs or to pay extra: Be was in part killed by this: they tried to make PC builders provide dual-boot install, but Microsoft wouldn't let them, Microsoft settled (for a laughing amount of money), a trial by BeInc about this..
- agreed for the piss-poor products: I would add that Microsoft has the philosophy that the computer knows better than you what you want to do, which is a pain in the ass: for exemple in Word, quite often, the selection is different from where you clicked..
- consumer lockin: I hate Word with a passion, but I don't have the choice: everybody requires.doc format. And if I want to play a combat flight simulator, I have to pay Microsoft tax for Windows, even though I don't consider WindowsXP a very good OS (it sucks from security point of view).
While all the competing search website were filled with features, Google used (and is still using) a very simple webpage and they killed the competition..
So the 'features sell' credo is a bit oversimplistic, it depends very much on the situation.
The long boot time is caused by poor OS design: when I used BeOS, the computer took 14s (duration from boot loader prompt to GUI) to boot to a functional/reactive desktop (no cheat like Microsoft do in WindowsXP).
And this was on a Celeron333 with 128MB of RAM! So Windows and Linux (which is even worse in this respect) long boot times are caused by poor software design.
What's amusing is that when I point this to Linux's user, they are in denial: -"boot time doesn't matter, just leave your computer on", sorry but I like to sleep at night and I have a small flat, my computer is quiet but it still makes too much noise.. -"BeOS is dead", that's mostly true, but the point remain that it is possible to boot fast as it have shown. -"BeOS was a single user OS, that's why it could boot fast", if Linux's multi-user management has such huge impact, then it is broken.. -"BeOS worked on a single configuration, that's why it could boot fast", not true, sure the supported hardware list wasn't very big, but this was more a development resources problem than anything else....
>A piece of advice? Find another language to rant in, please.
No the content of his post was insightful, if you're not able to ignore some minor spelling mistake (maybe it was late in his timezone, or he was in a hurry, etc), go away.
Your post isn't insightful at all, the GP is right there are many different type of intelligence and being labelled smart doesn't mean that you have all these skills, only a few specialised.
I disagree. Sure, she inherited most of her wealth, but I would say that she has been quite clever at exploiting the media to be famous and use this fame to get money also.
Of course, it's much easier to make money when you already have lots of money..
That's an oversimplification: if memory serves, when the frequency of Ethernet packets interrupts becomes high, the kernel switch from an interrupt driven mode to a polling mode: this increase performance.
While I agree that medecine is making great progress, I also believe that many of the progress are before we didn't know that we didn't know, now we know that we don't know, so it's not that helpful.
As for the scanner, sure they are great but one of my friend got a sound in one of his ear after diving, he did a scanner which found something suspicious... on the other ear!
Given the poor stability of many plugin (flash), I wonder why making plugins in separate process is not the default for *every* browser. It's really an architecture flaw to put by default unknown code inside the main browser process.
Crashing is not so much a problem with tab with a decent browser which don't crash often and recover the opened webpage after any crash (Opera9), but the main problem is that if one tab becomes busy, usually you cannot use anymore the window:-(
In Mozilla, this happen quite a lot, in Opera less so, but it is still not interactive responsive enough for my taste (even though that's the best I know), with multiple window when one window was frozen, you could still use the other without trouble: that's a definitive minus point on the current tabbing implementation (that I know).
Well if you're drinking next to me, this doesn't have an effect on my health, except if you're driving of course where it is banned. That's quite different for the smokers and think about the waiters: they shouldn't have to make the choice between keeping their job and increasing their risk of dying from a cancer.
Your freedom stops where the freedom of other starts: as the smoke doesn't stay around the smokers, it's quite normal to make the smokers go out to avoid disturbing non-smokers.
>I wouldn't say that Linux or BSD have the power (or intention) of fully displacing Windows,
You're kidding right? Linux distros try all they can to displace Windows, now it's quite unlikely that they could succeed of course.
As for command-line vs GUI, Microsoft is working on a shell, will it be as useful as Unix shell? No, probably because of historical bagage, but in the same way Linux/Unix is stuck with a filesystem mess which is quite ridiculously complex. Hitorical bagage/compatibility is a bitch, be it for Microsoft or for Linux.
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>Does the subtitle purism exist in just in a city like Paris, or is it a nationwide mindset?
Mostly in Paris, and not coincidentally, it's also in Paris that you have the greatest probability to speak to French people which speak English too.
I think that those who prefer subtitled movies usually speak the original language too: it's good to sustain your knowledge of the foreign language.
>I'm sure productivity will skyrocket with this invention.
Note that I would say that more time is spent reading code than writing code, so if those funky operators helps reading the code, it may truly increase productivity, even though a little time is lost writing code.
>> *No GPS (that I'm aware of). I'm spending that amount of money, I'd like a GPS-enabled phone please.
> Far from a deal-breaker. Sure that would be a nice addition.
At this price, I too consider that this *is* a deal-breaker, if it was added without price increase I would consider buying an iPhone, otherwise forget it.
>> *No radio.[cut]
>The whole point of the iPod is to NOT be a radio... nothing changed with the iPhone.
Now that is a stupid answer, being a good MP3 player shouldn't prevent in anyshape to be a radio player too, IMHO you've drunk a little too much Apple cool-aid.
>Having perl as it is, what are the reasons to take a look at ruby.
Perl as it is, is a big reason to go elsewhere, personally I despise Perl because IMHO it is a language which is beginner-hostile and a maintenability nightmare too: too much stupid #$%^@, TMTWTDI is great for the 'lone programmer' but is very bad when you're trying to maintain someone else code..
IMHO Perl is a mess, so it encourage people to write messy code too.
Ruby is like Perl except that it has been build with good taste/elegance in the design..
Of course, if you're an expert in Perl, you're used to Perl's quirkiness and you don't see it anymore, but myself I'm average Perl programmer and when I help Perl beginners I often curse Perl design, same when I maintain code written by Perl experts which is usually unreadable and to be able to maintain it, I have to rewrite it (with lots of pain) to code readable by beginners, the result usually use a similar or just superior number of lines, so the quirkiness these tricks is just gratuitous..
But in this case, it is different: it is stopping to license to someone after they challenge the validity of the patent in court.
I doubt that a judge would be very sympathetic to an enterprise punishing someone because he asked for a judgement.
You know, there *is* such things as *abuse* of monopoly.
>In fact, IBM picked it specifically because it sucked-
Not true, otherwise they wouldn't have discussed with Motorola first, but Motorola's price was too expensive.
They picked x86 because it was cheap.
>and backward compatibility requirements have prevented cleaning away crap like segmented memory.
I think that x86-64 does away with segmented memory.
Not much else to add, ah yes: thanks Walter for building a *sane* language which may eventually replace C++ for many tasks..
>If you had ANY idea how close they already are to real time with simply correlating credit card data and mobile phone cell lock records, you'd shit yourself.
Well, apparently assuming the rapist had a cell phone, they were not capable to link the cell phone the location data to identify the rapist, even after the fact.
As always, the real problem is: who will guard the guardians?
Politicians, cops are humain beings, what will ensure that the new capacities will only be used for good reasons?
> to porn (I never did work out how that worked on a teletext screen, but there you are...)
I think it was mainly sex chat and apparently it worked quite well: it was one big source of revenue for FT and in France at the time, all the ads billboards were covered with nearly nude women doing advertisement for 'Minitel rose' (so many that it was a little annoying).
There was also some text porn and a few ASCII arts of course..
Some people spent *a lot* of money on these 'sex site'.
>it shows either a great deal of faith in the jet engines or a serious death wish.
I disagree: it all depends at which height the jet engines stop: if high enough, even in case of problem (asymetrical deployement/propulsion for example), he should be able to get rid of his wings and open his parachute (well, I remember a similar design where the pilot could drop the wings, not sure about his design).
What killed many early wingmen is that their wings were not removable, and of course that they opened quite low..
>it promised "Communism" in the "near future", not the afterlife, but it still was very similar.
Very similar as in 'totally different'?
You may have lived in USSR, but apparently you don't know that religions have usually:
- an afterlife promise for you: nothing like this in what you call 'state religion' (and no a better future for your children is something totally different).
- prayers: I fail to see where is the equivalent.
- myth with miracles such as walking on the water, resurrection, etc.
I've never been to USSR but for me saying that the personality cult of USSR is the same as a religion is grossly inaccurate..
And I would add:
.doc format. And if I want to play a combat flight simulator, I have to pay Microsoft tax for Windows, even though I don't consider WindowsXP a very good OS (it sucks from security point of view).
- lack of competition: by forcing PC builders to only install Windows with the PCs or to pay extra: Be was in part killed by this: they tried to make PC builders provide dual-boot install, but Microsoft wouldn't let them, Microsoft settled (for a laughing amount of money), a trial by BeInc about this..
- agreed for the piss-poor products: I would add that Microsoft has the philosophy that the computer knows better than you what you want to do, which is a pain in the ass: for exemple in Word, quite often, the selection is different from where you clicked..
- consumer lockin: I hate Word with a passion, but I don't have the choice: everybody requires
While all the competing search website were filled with features, Google used (and is still using) a very simple webpage and they killed the competition..
So the 'features sell' credo is a bit oversimplistic, it depends very much on the situation.
The long boot time is caused by poor OS design: when I used BeOS, the computer took 14s (duration from boot loader prompt to GUI) to boot to a functional/reactive desktop (no cheat like Microsoft do in WindowsXP).
...
And this was on a Celeron333 with 128MB of RAM!
So Windows and Linux (which is even worse in this respect) long boot times are caused by poor software design.
What's amusing is that when I point this to Linux's user, they are in denial:
-"boot time doesn't matter, just leave your computer on", sorry but I like to sleep at night and I have a small flat, my computer is quiet but it still makes too much noise..
-"BeOS is dead", that's mostly true, but the point remain that it is possible to boot fast as it have shown.
-"BeOS was a single user OS, that's why it could boot fast", if Linux's multi-user management has such huge impact, then it is broken..
-"BeOS worked on a single configuration, that's why it could boot fast", not true, sure the supported hardware list wasn't very big, but this was more a development resources problem than anything else.
>A piece of advice? Find another language to rant in, please.
No the content of his post was insightful, if you're not able to ignore some minor spelling mistake (maybe it was late in his timezone, or he was in a hurry, etc), go away.
Your post isn't insightful at all, the GP is right there are many different type of intelligence and being labelled smart doesn't mean that you have all these skills, only a few specialised.
I disagree. Sure, she inherited most of her wealth, but I would say that she has been quite clever at exploiting the media to be famous and use this fame to get money also.
Of course, it's much easier to make money when you already have lots of money..
Well you know opening packages on Christmas with young children wanting to play with their toys as soon as possible isn't the most calm situation.
Not true: RTFA, the article said that reseller ask for 'hard to open' package to avoid thief.
So I think that the GP is brilliant, but it'll only work if many customers do it.
That's an oversimplification: if memory serves, when the frequency of Ethernet packets interrupts becomes high, the kernel switch from an interrupt driven mode to a polling mode: this increase performance.
While I agree that medecine is making great progress, I also believe that many of the progress are before we didn't know that we didn't know, now we know that we don't know, so it's not that helpful.
... on the other ear!
As for the scanner, sure they are great but one of my friend got a sound in one of his ear after diving, he did a scanner which found something suspicious
Given the poor stability of many plugin (flash), I wonder why making plugins in separate process is not the default for *every* browser.
It's really an architecture flaw to put by default unknown code inside the main browser process.
Crashing is not so much a problem with tab with a decent browser which don't crash often and recover the opened webpage after any crash (Opera9), but the main problem is that if one tab becomes busy, usually you cannot use anymore the window :-(
In Mozilla, this happen quite a lot, in Opera less so, but it is still not interactive responsive enough for my taste (even though that's the best I know), with multiple window when one window was frozen, you could still use the other without trouble: that's a definitive minus point on the current tabbing implementation (that I know).
Well if you're drinking next to me, this doesn't have an effect on my health, except if you're driving of course where it is banned.
That's quite different for the smokers and think about the waiters: they shouldn't have to make the choice between keeping their job and increasing their risk of dying from a cancer.
Your freedom stops where the freedom of other starts: as the smoke doesn't stay around the smokers, it's quite normal to make the smokers go out to avoid disturbing non-smokers.
>I wouldn't say that Linux or BSD have the power (or intention) of fully displacing Windows,
You're kidding right? Linux distros try all they can to displace Windows, now it's quite unlikely that they could succeed of course.
As for command-line vs GUI, Microsoft is working on a shell, will it be as useful as Unix shell?
No, probably because of historical bagage, but in the same way Linux/Unix is stuck with a filesystem mess which is quite ridiculously complex.
Hitorical bagage/compatibility is a bitch, be it for Microsoft or for Linux.