I tried
"je n'aime pas du chocolat" and got "I do not like chocolate".
It manages to map your incorrect French phrases into incorrect English with similar errors. I'm really impressed by the software...
Just in case you were not being sarcastic, your own sentence is grammatically incorrect. The correct sentence is indeed "Je n'aime pas le chocolat".
In my country, it used to be that food was completely prohibited within movie theaters. I never really understood the obsession with eating popcorn while you watch a movie and thought it was purely an American thing, that it'd never take here.
Then food became allowed (well, food sold within the theater did), and whaddaya know, people did start eating in the theater.
Oh the horror! The noise of opening bags of crisps! THE INFERNAL CRUNCHING EVERYWHERE!
Seriously, it was so much better before that. I wouldn't say theaters were completely silent (you get teenagers and generally rude people in every culture), but the quality of the experience certainly got degraded.
What causes crime? Poverty, lack of prospects for a future, and ignorance.
Setting aside for now the issue of whether downloading copyrighted material is a crime, etc. etc., do you really think that *poverty, lack of prospects for a future, and ignorance* is what drives leechers to download bluray rips ?!
4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.
I agree that old memes just copypasted onto anything can be tiring. But half the fun in reading Slashdot is seeing Slashdot memes cleverly reinvented (a Russian reversal is still funny if it applies). I don't want to see the memes go away.
Also, with my current threshold settings, I can see only one meme (of the "$%*ÂNO CARRIER" kind) and no stupid bashing or "Microsh*t". You may be overreacting.
The French have a higher standard of living than we do...
Where do you live, Spain?
If you're comparing France to the U.S., then the French standard of living is about 70% of the U.S. That's measured in "purchasing power parity", meaning (roughly) how many hours you have to work to buy a standard basket of goods.
I don't know if we have a higher standard of living (whatever that means), but if it's defined with the number of hours worked, then surely 70% is not correct. We work 35h per week and I'm pretty sure Americans work more.
Both standard baskets of goods looked pretty similar to me.
Actually I RTFA'd (that makes at least two of us !) and while it doesn't say that those 12% responded, the percentage of users that clicked is about 52%. The relevant quote:
Slightly less than half (48 percent) said that they have never clicked on a spam e-mail. That's the good news, but that means the other half have clicked on or responded to spam. But why? The answers will undoubtedly horrify you. A full 12 percent said that they were interested in the product or service being offered -- those erection drug and mail order bride ads do reach a certain market, it appears.
Vi is one editor every professional should know the basics of because it's very feature complete and versatile. Emacs is more specialized but I'm not knocking it.
Not true. You've obviously never used Emacs. Vi(m) users usually make fun of Emacs because it does everything except coffee. Seriously, it's the standard troll vs. Emacs.
However if you're developing today, you need to move away from modal editors that have awful help systems and no menus.
Well it just happens that Emacs is not a modal editor. Also, it has a complete help system, and whaddayaknow, it has menus.
They simply don't encourage learning and get in your way if you're away from the editor for too long and have to try to remember obscure commands (or look them up!).
Now you have a (semi-) point. At least you'd have one if common commands weren't accessible through the menu.
Note they are EDITORS. An IDE does much much more. You should also be using IDEs and editors that support multiple languages. Gone are the days when a computer professional could afford to know just one or two languages. Who the hell wants to learn the quirks of different editors for each one?
I'm sorry, what ? Neither Emacs nor vi are single-language (I use Emacs for C++, Java, Perl and a bit of Erlang, and it has support -- syntax highlighting, compiling/debugging, indentation... -- for about every language you've heard of and many you've never encountered). Also, Emacs is not an editor. It's got every feature an IDE has, and more.
Well the CNIL is good and all, but they really have no power whatsoever in this case.
The law from August 2004 (modifying the Loi Informatique et Libertés from 1978) states that public administrations and organisms will not need the CNIL's authorization anymore in order to create precisely such files. Private enterprises and such still need it.
What's more, the 2004 law is an adaptation of a EU directive to the French LIL laws. So basically, I have no doubts it would be accepted by the EU Commission. It's up to us now...
I get the feeling there will be even less incentive for Microsoft to implement standards. After all, why get to all that trouble when someone does that for you ? Instead, they can get on bettering humanity with such wonderful new technologies as ActiveX...
Actually, PEARL *is* a programming language : it's the Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language. It still shouldn't belong to the list though, since it's much less used.
Ah, no thanks, especially considering the air pollution you get in a densely-populated city like Paris with all that automobile, truck and bus traffic. I'll wait until every vehicle on Paris streets are either Euro 6 emissions-compliant, run off natural gas, are hybrids/plug-in hybrids and/or all-electric.
Well, reducing traffic pollution is kind of the entire point of the Vélib system, isn't it ? I'd say bikes are Euro 6 emissions-compliant. And natural gas is a hazard in closed car parks, of which there are quite a few in the city.
Oh, and the buses are already going towards low-emission.
Paris wasn't the first city in France to implement those (unless you count the RATP short-lived bike rental service, with probably a total of fifty bikes in the entire city at its peak). Lyon at least predated Vélib with its Vélov system. Yeah, dunno why the apostrophe trend.
The project currently being pushed by Delanoë (mayor of Paris) is also noteworthy : the goal is to have the same system as Vélib, but with cars. Dunno if it will work as well, though, since you still need a license to drive them (at least I hope).
The thing actually has backing from several French universities and France Télécom (and Deutsche Telekom until the German started their own project). Now, while I agree it was largely spawned out of a misplaced patriotism, it was actually started by the Chirac government, not the current one (disclaimer : I am not a fan of either). Plus, it has, since march 2008, funding from the European Commission, so it's not going nowhere, either.
At worse, we'll get something on data mining out of this, since actual, live scientists are participating.
SSDs [...] won't be in laptops in the next few years Huh. I guess the Eee PC isn't a laptop anymore. (It wasn't a 128GB drive, but it was SSD all the same...)
if an application modifies your OS, your OS checksum will fail
I get this. What I don't get is how you can use TPM to protect against the typical worm, which is obviously not registered with the certifying authority. Either you register all software (and that would really, really suck), either you only register some of it (OSes, drivers, office apps, games...), but in that case, the rest is left unchecked. Did I miss something ?
I can completely see the utility of TPM in cases where very high security is required, though. Not imposed on the customer (as it would be if, as discussed in TFA, games required it).
to ensure that you are not running [...] infected software unknown to you
Hmm, I don't see that. If you cannot run any code beyond that allowed by the certification authorities... what does that mean ? I can't compile and run Hello World any more ? Or do I have to certify it by hand ? Compile/Link/Certify ? (Gentoo is *so* going down...) If I still can run anything I want to, if only certain programs have to ask for permission, then the security argument is pretty much off.
I would place my bets on it being abused to run a virtual dictatorship
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I tried "je n'aime pas du chocolat" and got "I do not like chocolate". It manages to map your incorrect French phrases into incorrect English with similar errors. I'm really impressed by the software...
Just in case you were not being sarcastic, your own sentence is grammatically incorrect. The correct sentence is indeed "Je n'aime pas le chocolat".
(I am a native French speaker.)
Actually, I'd put "popcorn" under Cinema/Cons.
In my country, it used to be that food was completely prohibited within movie theaters. I never really understood the obsession with eating popcorn while you watch a movie and thought it was purely an American thing, that it'd never take here.
Then food became allowed (well, food sold within the theater did), and whaddaya know, people did start eating in the theater.
Oh the horror! The noise of opening bags of crisps! THE INFERNAL CRUNCHING EVERYWHERE!
Seriously, it was so much better before that. I wouldn't say theaters were completely silent (you get teenagers and generally rude people in every culture), but the quality of the experience certainly got degraded.
What causes crime? Poverty, lack of prospects for a future, and ignorance.
Setting aside for now the issue of whether downloading copyrighted material is a crime, etc. etc., do you really think that *poverty, lack of prospects for a future, and ignorance* is what drives leechers to download bluray rips ?!
Hi. I'm an adult. I work as a software engineer.
[cut a lot of things I happen to agree with]
4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.
I agree that old memes just copypasted onto anything can be tiring. But half the fun in reading Slashdot is seeing Slashdot memes cleverly reinvented (a Russian reversal is still funny if it applies). I don't want to see the memes go away.
Also, with my current threshold settings, I can see only one meme (of the "$%*ÂNO CARRIER" kind) and no stupid bashing or "Microsh*t". You may be overreacting.
Where do you live, Spain?
If you're comparing France to the U.S., then the French standard of living is about 70% of the U.S. That's measured in "purchasing power parity", meaning (roughly) how many hours you have to work to buy a standard basket of goods.
I don't know if we have a higher standard of living (whatever that means), but if it's defined with the number of hours worked, then surely 70% is not correct. We work 35h per week and I'm pretty sure Americans work more.
Both standard baskets of goods looked pretty similar to me.
Over here pretty much everyone in my generation learned to write with a fountain pen (mandatory for a while in elementary school).
I don't see any of us writing better than the new generation.
I for one used a fountain pen from almost when I started to learn to write until university, and I have a terrible, unreadable handwriting.
What lab ? Inquiring French minds want to know.
Actually I RTFA'd (that makes at least two of us !) and while it doesn't say that those 12% responded, the percentage of users that clicked is about 52%. The relevant quote :
I'm French, I don't mind being called an European, and I know quite a few others who don't mind either.
Just because we like cheese doesn't make us xenophobes or even condescending, you know.
Vi is one editor every professional should know the basics of because it's very feature complete and versatile. Emacs is more specialized but I'm not knocking it.
Not true. You've obviously never used Emacs. Vi(m) users usually make fun of Emacs because it does everything except coffee. Seriously, it's the standard troll vs. Emacs.
However if you're developing today, you need to move away from modal editors that have awful help systems and no menus.
Well it just happens that Emacs is not a modal editor. Also, it has a complete help system, and whaddayaknow, it has menus.
They simply don't encourage learning and get in your way if you're away from the editor for too long and have to try to remember obscure commands (or look them up!).
Now you have a (semi-) point. At least you'd have one if common commands weren't accessible through the menu.
Note they are EDITORS. An IDE does much much more. You should also be using IDEs and editors that support multiple languages. Gone are the days when a computer professional could afford to know just one or two languages. Who the hell wants to learn the quirks of different editors for each one?
I'm sorry, what ? Neither Emacs nor vi are single-language (I use Emacs for C++, Java, Perl and a bit of Erlang, and it has support -- syntax highlighting, compiling/debugging, indentation... -- for about every language you've heard of and many you've never encountered). Also, Emacs is not an editor. It's got every feature an IDE has, and more.
So, what happened to the next Elder Scrolls ? Wasn't it supposed to be released in 2010 ?
Will they manage to release two large titles in the same year, or will they just postpone TES 5 ?
You don't have the faith, do you ?
Ah, nope.
Slashdot is CmdrTaco's blog.
Well the CNIL is good and all, but they really have no power whatsoever in this case.
The law from August 2004 (modifying the Loi Informatique et Libertés from 1978) states that public administrations and organisms will not need the CNIL's authorization anymore in order to create precisely such files. Private enterprises and such still need it.
What's more, the 2004 law is an adaptation of a EU directive to the French LIL laws. So basically, I have no doubts it would be accepted by the EU Commission. It's up to us now...
I get the feeling there will be even less incentive for Microsoft to implement standards. After all, why get to all that trouble when someone does that for you ? Instead, they can get on bettering humanity with such wonderful new technologies as ActiveX...
FTFA : "These things [quantum computers] can be very small and very cold, and they can be built out of exotic materials" - emphasis mine.
He makes this sound as a good thing.
Actually, PEARL *is* a programming language : it's the Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language. It still shouldn't belong to the list though, since it's much less used.
Ah, no thanks, especially considering the air pollution you get in a densely-populated city like Paris with all that automobile, truck and bus traffic. I'll wait until every vehicle on Paris streets are either Euro 6 emissions-compliant, run off natural gas, are hybrids/plug-in hybrids and/or all-electric.
Well, reducing traffic pollution is kind of the entire point of the Vélib system, isn't it ? I'd say bikes are Euro 6 emissions-compliant. And natural gas is a hazard in closed car parks, of which there are quite a few in the city.
Oh, and the buses are already going towards low-emission.
Paris wasn't the first city in France to implement those (unless you count the RATP short-lived bike rental service, with probably a total of fifty bikes in the entire city at its peak). Lyon at least predated Vélib with its Vélov system. Yeah, dunno why the apostrophe trend.
The project currently being pushed by Delanoë (mayor of Paris) is also noteworthy : the goal is to have the same system as Vélib, but with cars. Dunno if it will work as well, though, since you still need a license to drive them (at least I hope).
That's *Quaero*, latin for "I seek".
The thing actually has backing from several French universities and France Télécom (and Deutsche Telekom until the German started their own project). Now, while I agree it was largely spawned out of a misplaced patriotism, it was actually started by the Chirac government, not the current one (disclaimer : I am not a fan of either). Plus, it has, since march 2008, funding from the European Commission, so it's not going nowhere, either.
At worse, we'll get something on data mining out of this, since actual, live scientists are participating.
It's Michèle, not Michel. Wrong gender. (And damn you /. ! I shouldn't have to know HTML entities to type simple accents !)
I have a much clearer view of TPM now, thanks !
I was for some reason convinced that you needed an external authority to validate the checksums. The model you described makes more sense.
I get this. What I don't get is how you can use TPM to protect against the typical worm, which is obviously not registered with the certifying authority. Either you register all software (and that would really, really suck), either you only register some of it (OSes, drivers, office apps, games...), but in that case, the rest is left unchecked. Did I miss something ?
I can completely see the utility of TPM in cases where very high security is required, though. Not imposed on the customer (as it would be if, as discussed in TFA, games required it).
Hmm, I don't see that. If you cannot run any code beyond that allowed by the certification authorities... what does that mean ? I can't compile and run Hello World any more ? Or do I have to certify it by hand ? Compile/Link/Certify ? (Gentoo is *so* going down...) If I still can run anything I want to, if only certain programs have to ask for permission, then the security argument is pretty much off.
I would place my bets on it being abused to run a virtual dictatorshipEither that, or it completely fails to take off.