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  1. Back to WW I (1914-1918) on Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval · · Score: 1

    At this time, in France, soldiers have same censorship for their (paper) letters.

    Civil people should not have to know about the war front situation, how it was hard, how troups were massacred, how rebellion goes in troups. All have to be nice so that civils dont be against this butchery. And if you were against the war, you were considered as a traitor for your nation.

    Can make parallel with Bush junior militar action in Irak when it was supposed to be against terrorism, people which were not for this action become de facto "anti-us" ones. Black or white, no grey.

    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premi%C3%A8re_guerre_ mondiale (search censure)

  2. Maybe, try another OS... on IBM's Chief Architect Says Software is at Dead End · · Score: 1

    ...built from ground with multiprocessors in mind, like... BeOS.

    For those which have not tested it, it was really reactive, more reactive on my old PPC604 PowerMac-7300 than current OSes are on recent hyper-powerful hardware with mountain of memory.

    So, maybe its a known design problem for OS designers, and at least partially resolved.

    Note: I dont talk about thouthands of core, for me they are still for number crunching, video production... For normal use, a reactive OS like was BeOS, even on a single core chip, is more efficient in my daily task than recent OSes with too many layers and software history support [I use Linux at home, WinXP at work].

  3. Re:use the O'Reilly Pocket Reference first on Core Python Programming · · Score: 1


    If you've got a printer, you can also use my Quick Reference Card (PQRC)
    at http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python/pqrc/

  4. Re:Three Points on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 1

    [sorry for my poor english]

    Even for temperatures since 1593, I'm not sure of their accuracy compared to today measurement.

    But I'm confident in current CO2 measurement from ground layers, and scientists have demonstrated correlation between global warming and CO2.
    The problem is the growth of CO2 due to human factors, they exploded in our industrial era. Yes, they may be other reasons for such augmentation, but only human impact explain its speed.

    Now, its not really agreable for us to ear that we have responsibility and we have to change our way of life, find alternative energy sources, find less "energyvore" ways to do things.
    And more, we must share this with third-world and emerging countries so that they dont use the same anti-ecologic development we did.

    When a majority of scientists agree on an analysis (using gloves for points which are still under discussion and need further analysis - see UN report), opponent must give based and demonstrated arguments, just ideas and politician oriented views isn't enough (it's Bush administration which tries to limit scientists publications showing global warming, not the other way!).

    And is global warming better than another ice age?
    Who discuss about another ice age ?
    Ask all these people living on grounds from zero to two meters altitude (generally from already poor countries).
    Consider this warming speed compared to other "natural" (not coming from a comete...) evolution and the time needed for animals and vegetals adaptation (ie. most will simply disapear).
    Take the problem of food production when water (and even drinking water) become a are and rare resource.

  5. Re:If people want an alternative to the de facto.. on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    In france, we have such a site, its called Framasoft it contains not only a nice classification of softwares by domain (for Windows, Linux, MacOS), but also some articles, manuals.

  6. Look at asciidoc on Manual Writing Tools? · · Score: 1

    It is not too much different than reStructuredText, it gives readable ascii content, but it target producing html and... DocBook. For Docbook, there is a system of redefinable tags (I have not used them, but I've read about them in the doc).

    You can find more informations at http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/.

    A+
    Laurent.