Unfortunately COBOL is not dead, it's a language I personally dislike but I'm sure there still will be COBOL programs and jobs in 50 years. In 2000 many programs were updated to support y2k and they are still here
Fortran gain some popularity in the recent years because of the multicores CPU. Intel's Fortran Compiler is maintained and really up to date.
If I could choose everyone will be doing mainly C++ as C++11 is really classy.
Unfortunately Without third party/manual edit Visual 2010 won't let you customised completely colors
It's pretty difficult to have at the same time
-black background
-bright text
-selected text readable.
In visual 2010 you could select only font color for language and only background color for selection. If you have bright text you should select dark color for selection, but with dark color for selection it's less readable as background is dark too.
On all previous versions (maybe even visual 1.0 with widows 3 theme ) you can have selected text with bright background and dark text but since VS2010 it's over.
Don't forget that in Europe most car are manual transmission.
It's not as easy to drive and change gears without a minimum training.
In France if you use an automatic transmission for your Driving exam, it's written on your license and you can't legally drive anything else than automatic.
After translating javascript you need to translate every javascript library, applications DOM or the translation is useless
I remember a French version of Pascal which makes me laught a lot.
Javascript is maybe around 150 translatable words, I'm sure it's easier to learn by sticking to english instructions and reading tutorial in your native language.
Paint battery why not, specially if it helps to manufacture special shapes for special needs. But what about recycling if every product have different battery shape with some on metal, other on ceramic or plactic...
1) there was no alternative
2) the minitel terminal was free
3) lot of public services degree results, school inscriptions, white pages...
4) lot of company services where you pay by minute ( you pay on telephone bill )
Today's many companies would love to be able to have a minitel business model for their websites. Imagine an internet where you control what people do/read and you can make them pay for:you listen to music on somerandomglog.com you need to pay x.xx €-$-£
The French "Television Regulator" finally put this on paper too.
In the early 90's the first move was to convince non public TV Chanel to stop changing volume on advertising It clearly improve but that wasn't perfect
Today the new regulation (thanks to Digital terrestrial television) is for channels to stop changing volume and to harmonize volume between all channels
Maybe but personally I haven't in mind even one patented feature which gives a company a monopoly sufficient to kill competition. Today's patents is made to fight between company of the same size.
It's used by big company to kill small once.
It's completely ignored by big company because they could handle years of procedures.
It's used by dying company to try to win maximum money before completely collapsing.
If the banks were losing out from this though would change the credit card system.
I disagree if bank lose more money to credit card fraud they will insure themselves for more loss.
So Then they have many options ask you to pay more for your card, "offer" you a deal special anti fraud card for money, take more money from your bank account...
As long as it's sustainable to make customers pay they will chose that option first.
We still have a lot of VC 6.0 project in my company ( for me the last good C ide from microsoft )
The IDE base has a lot of common with VB6. The problems we have is random crashs ( Win7 kill process that don't read message for a certain amount of time and win XP mode don't solve that)
The Debugger can't always kill degug process, which stuck you with closing and opening the IDE again.
The System change a lot since VB6 days, and some function or old usage are blocked by UAC, it's sometime a lot of tweek to make it run. We used to have customers' administrator problems when deploying some tools which rely on that kind of code.
It's not always possible to rewrite or even port to a modern version when the software plugin was written by a one of a few researcher which understand a specific problem for you.
Yes our patent system is so lovely.
To deposit,pay and collect license for a worldwide patent Fraunhofer Institute ask for "help" to Thomson. So now Thomson own part of MP3.
As I heard in French news a few month ago, It was planned that Monsanto will won at EU.
The plan for this year was that. It's almost impossible with a court decision in May to buy and grow seeds for this year in France. Everyone who want to plant corn has already bought real corn seeds for 2012 so France won almost one year.
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Unfortunately COBOL is not dead, it's a language I personally dislike but I'm sure there still will be COBOL programs and jobs in 50 years.
In 2000 many programs were updated to support y2k and they are still here
Fortran gain some popularity in the recent years because of the multicores CPU. Intel's Fortran Compiler is maintained and really up to date.
If I could choose everyone will be doing mainly C++ as C++11 is really classy.
Unfortunately Without third party/manual edit Visual 2010 won't let you customised completely colors
It's pretty difficult to have at the same time
-black background
-bright text
-selected text readable.
In visual 2010 you could select only font color for language and only background color for selection. If you have bright text you should select dark color for selection, but with dark color for selection it's less readable as background is dark too.
On all previous versions (maybe even visual 1.0 with widows 3 theme ) you can have selected text with bright background and dark text but since VS2010 it's over.
Flash EULA is in PDF.
On windows if you can install flash before any PDF reader.
Don't forget that in Europe most car are manual transmission.
It's not as easy to drive and change gears without a minimum training.
In France if you use an automatic transmission for your Driving exam, it's written on your license and you can't legally drive anything else than automatic.
After translating javascript you need to translate every javascript library, applications DOM or the translation is useless
I remember a French version of Pascal which makes me laught a lot.
Javascript is maybe around 150 translatable words, I'm sure it's easier to learn by sticking to english instructions and reading tutorial in your native language.
Recycling is not only Gold and silver there are many other toxic components in our hardware.
and it certainly cost a lot to safely remove all of them.
I've got a counter proposal. what about forever ?
Paint battery why not, specially if it helps to manufacture special shapes for special needs.
But what about recycling if every product have different battery shape with some on metal, other on ceramic or plactic...
Secure and anonymous at the same time is the challenge.
And as every actual technical solution will be always worse than paper.
Better stay with paper
1 bug in machine=all people vote suspicious
1 "bug" in paper=1 paper ignored
Minitel was a success for many reasons
1) there was no alternative
2) the minitel terminal was free
3) lot of public services degree results, school inscriptions, white pages...
4) lot of company services where you pay by minute ( you pay on telephone bill )
Today's many companies would love to be able to have a minitel business model for their websites. Imagine an internet where you control what people do/read and you can make them pay for :you listen to music on somerandomglog.com you need to pay x.xx €-$-£
The French "Television Regulator" finally put this on paper too.
In the early 90's the first move was to convince non public TV Chanel to stop changing volume on advertising It clearly improve but that wasn't perfect
Today the new regulation (thanks to Digital terrestrial television) is for channels to stop changing volume and to harmonize volume between all channels
Maybe but personally I haven't in mind even one patented feature which gives a company a monopoly sufficient to kill competition. Today's patents is made to fight between company of the same size.
It's used by big company to kill small once.
It's completely ignored by big company because they could handle years of procedures.
It's used by dying company to try to win maximum money before completely collapsing.
If the banks were losing out from this though would change the credit card system.
I disagree if bank lose more money to credit card fraud they will insure themselves for more loss.
So Then they have many options ask you to pay more for your card, "offer" you a deal special anti fraud card for money, take more money from your bank account...
As long as it's sustainable to make customers pay they will chose that option first.
We still have a lot of VC 6.0 project in my company ( for me the last good C ide from microsoft ) The IDE base has a lot of common with VB6. The problems we have is random crashs ( Win7 kill process that don't read message for a certain amount of time and win XP mode don't solve that) The Debugger can't always kill degug process, which stuck you with closing and opening the IDE again. The System change a lot since VB6 days, and some function or old usage are blocked by UAC, it's sometime a lot of tweek to make it run. We used to have customers' administrator problems when deploying some tools which rely on that kind of code. It's not always possible to rewrite or even port to a modern version when the software plugin was written by a one of a few researcher which understand a specific problem for you.
Yes our patent system is so lovely. To deposit,pay and collect license for a worldwide patent Fraunhofer Institute ask for "help" to Thomson. So now Thomson own part of MP3.
As I heard in French news a few month ago, It was planned that Monsanto will won at EU. The plan for this year was that. It's almost impossible with a court decision in May to buy and grow seeds for this year in France. Everyone who want to plant corn has already bought real corn seeds for 2012 so France won almost one year.