DSK is very famous for its relationship with women. He loves sex and women love him.
Generally, the women are very satisfied. Why on earth would he run after a maid if she was not make him advances ?
In this story, only idiots could believe he is a sexual predator, the plot theory is by far the most probable.
It is not the first try to trap him on his sexual weakness, but it is the first time it is not defeated.
a tax system is like an ecosystem. If you change it brutally, people will find holes and adapt their behaviour in order to pay less taxes while remaining in total legality. If you change it too often (like in France), you will penalise business (business likes fixed rules).
Computer models can help in modifying the system, but you can not improve it without a very deep understanding of the current system. You can not just say it is crap, even if it is true.
The autopilot could be fixed to do most of the tasks of a pilot except one: correctly react to a technical failure.
Human pilots (should) understand enough of their aircraft to make sound decisions when something go wrong.
In fact technical problems are not seldom at all, most of the time passengers do not know there was a problem.
I have switched (the main computer of the house) to Linux because there was no windows driver for my printer (hp photosmart) and for my scanner (epson 1240u).
I will never go back
If you are thinking about the book The Road Ahead, I have read it when it went out (in 96 in France). It was very deceiving. Everything was already old news. I was already using Mosaic in 93 and internet was already well understood in 96.
There was really nothing original in this book. The ideas were very poor. The case of "electronic wallet" is a good example of bad predictions. Almost everybody was predicting the replacement of coins by electronic wallet. Bill Gates has repeated this idea. This prediction was completely wrong.
Ubuntu is there since 2004. If you accept that new releases of Ubuntu are comparable to the service packs of windows, the support is similar.
With XP, Microsoft has done its best to preserve legacy applications. If an application working on 98 was not working on XP, the application was the culprit and needed to be repaired.
With Vista, Microsoft has broken compatibility. Application migration is complex. Many drivers do not exist on Vista64 or 7. If you want to keep your perfectly working hardware and software, you must stay in XP.
Personaly, I have migrated to ubuntu: all my hardware is supported and wine is as good as vista in running my applications.
I don't pretend anything, but I keep very preciously my old computer with my clean XP installation as a precaution.
At my work, in the simulation room, there are around 60 PC running linux (redhat) and that have never run windows. All of them have the microsoft XP pro sticker with a license key.
The last time I have reported a Google bug on slashdot, it has been corrected very quickly.
This may be the new procedure: report a bug to google and if it is not corrected quickly enough, advertise on slashdot.
I think the point is completely missed. There is no good tablet without a good OS and good applications.
Apple has created a good OS with the iPhone and "good" applications have been developed. When Apple's tablet has been created, it was already with a almost polished OS and already some useful applications.
Microsoft does not have a polished OS for a tablet and does not have applications for their tablet. Microsoft lack real experience in tablet.
I think that their long experience in desktop application and in bloated OS has a negative effect when developing tablets. It needs to change point of view, to be open-minded.
Microsoft has a good marketing strategy: they want people to think that tablets are a fad until they have a good product to sell.
Disclaimer: I have a tablet with Windows 7 (archos 9) and I use it since I have bought a small bluetooth keyboard, it was unusable before.
I have ubuntu with flash and proprietary video driver. ssh is the single open port. My backup disk is physically disconnected (usb drive). I regularly check last connection and running processes. Do you think I am at risk ?
Yes, I fully agree that some cpan libs are very difficult to understand. I think that the authors of these modules try to demonstrate their very high level of expertise in Perl by optimizing their code using the most advanced features.
It is not "normal programming", it is somewhere between art and snobism.
In ruby, you have less incentive for tricky constructions and people use generally longer identifiers that help understanding the intent.
I am a Perl lover. I think that Perl allows to write code that matches the way you think about the problem to be solved.
You have a lot of freedom in code writing, as a result, the coding style depend a lot of the personality of the previous developer.
The developer of your Perl codebase was perhaps a moron, or had a way to think too different than yours.
This freedom allows to write very bad code. I think that Ruby is very similar to Perl concerning freedom, you may also encounter very badly written code in Ruby.
All you says about C++ is correct. The problem of C++ is not readability.
The main problem of C++ is "what is executed is not what is written": there are many implicit constructors, converters, destructors or overloaded operators that are added during compilation. In general the bugs are in code you do not see. With the templates, the bug may be in code that do not even exists yet. Overloads of operators and namespace usage bring a lot of headache when mixed.
I hate also C++ because of all the problems I have encountered when I needed to mix different COTS libraries.
I do not think that a new syntax front-end would help to be more productive in C++.
The 5 languages Perl,Python,Ruby,OCaml and GHC have proved to allow very fast coding speed.
The main common point is the attention given to the syntax.
I have used Java quite a lot these last years and I am pretty convinced that coding would be faster if the syntax was less stupid.
The syntax is not the main problem of C++, but for Java, it is a very important one.
Yes, but Jython brings the usual python library with it. The soup resulting of mix up of python library and java library is not very clean.
Python is a clean language with a decent library. Jython is not.
The purpose of Mirah is to replace the not very good syntax of Java by a smart syntax derived from Ruby, only focused on being a better syntax than Java.
The result should be a clean language better than Java.
I think the main defect of Ruby is its library. This library lacks of naming consistency and suffers from confusing name aliases. The Java library is a lot better.
The syntax of Java is poor, it is not very concise and the syntax of recent additions (generic, enumerate) is not very clear.
I think a next step would be to write a translator from java to Mirah, to stop using jvm (either switch to dalvik or openjdk), then to say good bye to Oracle.
I am french. What is a speedy trial ?
In France, we have slow trial, very very slow trial and almost never ending trial.
We have also trial that ends because suspects death before the end of the trial.
Thank you, I have searched 5 minutes without finding it. Do you have also a link to the full article ? If it is written by a 17 year old, I should be able to understand it. Well, maybe not.
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DSK is very famous for its relationship with women. He loves sex and women love him.
Generally, the women are very satisfied. Why on earth would he run after a maid if she was not make him advances ?
In this story, only idiots could believe he is a sexual predator, the plot theory is by far the most probable.
It is not the first try to trap him on his sexual weakness, but it is the first time it is not defeated.
In 90, I was using xhtalk.
I have seen IRC the first time only in 92.
a tax system is like an ecosystem. If you change it brutally, people will find holes and adapt their behaviour in order to pay less taxes while remaining in total legality.
If you change it too often (like in France), you will penalise business (business likes fixed rules).
Computer models can help in modifying the system, but you can not improve it without a very deep understanding of the current system. You can not just say it is crap, even if it is true.
The batteries were at a higher level of charge at landing. They did produce fuel.
The autopilot could be fixed to do most of the tasks of a pilot except one: correctly react to a technical failure.
Human pilots (should) understand enough of their aircraft to make sound decisions when something go wrong.
In fact technical problems are not seldom at all, most of the time passengers do not know there was a problem.
I guess he has threaten an Intel employee to break his car if he did not give confidential documents.
History (and the art of war) teaches us that there is never a final winner. Only "winner for now" makes sense.
you would have love fortran
I have switched (the main computer of the house) to Linux because there was no windows driver for my printer (hp photosmart) and for my scanner (epson 1240u).
I will never go back
If you are thinking about the book The Road Ahead, I have read it when it went out (in 96 in France). It was very deceiving. Everything was already old news. I was already using Mosaic in 93 and internet was already well understood in 96.
There was really nothing original in this book. The ideas were very poor. The case of "electronic wallet" is a good example of bad predictions. Almost everybody was predicting the replacement of coins by electronic wallet. Bill Gates has repeated this idea. This prediction was completely wrong.
Ubuntu is there since 2004. If you accept that new releases of Ubuntu are comparable to the service packs of windows, the support is similar.
With XP, Microsoft has done its best to preserve legacy applications. If an application working on 98 was not working on XP, the application was the culprit and needed to be repaired.
With Vista, Microsoft has broken compatibility. Application migration is complex. Many drivers do not exist on Vista64 or 7. If you want to keep your perfectly working hardware and software, you must stay in XP.
Personaly, I have migrated to ubuntu: all my hardware is supported and wine is as good as vista in running my applications.
I don't pretend anything, but I keep very preciously my old computer with my clean XP installation as a precaution.
At my work, in the simulation room, there are around 60 PC running linux (redhat) and that have never run windows. All of them have the microsoft XP pro sticker with a license key.
The last time I have reported a Google bug on slashdot, it has been corrected very quickly.
This may be the new procedure: report a bug to google and if it is not corrected quickly enough, advertise on slashdot.
Web 2.0 is a commercial buzzword, it has no place on a site for nerds.
Anonymous would not exist if the society was civilized and if the justice was working correctly.
Behaviour of Sony is not acceptable. People should boycott Sony. DDoS is also an unacceptable practice whose consequences are impossible to predict.
I condamn DDoS, but I am happy that Sony receives a punishment for its acts.
I think the point is completely missed. There is no good tablet without a good OS and good applications.
Apple has created a good OS with the iPhone and "good" applications have been developed. When Apple's tablet has been created, it was already with a almost polished OS and already some useful applications.
Microsoft does not have a polished OS for a tablet and does not have applications for their tablet. Microsoft lack real experience in tablet.
I think that their long experience in desktop application and in bloated OS has a negative effect when developing tablets. It needs to change point of view, to be open-minded.
Microsoft has a good marketing strategy: they want people to think that tablets are a fad until they have a good product to sell.
Disclaimer: I have a tablet with Windows 7 (archos 9) and I use it since I have bought a small bluetooth keyboard, it was unusable before.
I have ubuntu with flash and proprietary video driver. ssh is the single open port. My backup disk is physically disconnected (usb drive). I regularly check last connection and running processes. Do you think I am at risk ?
The big banks have proven to be evil. There is no such bad reputation about the trustworthiness of the strange person.
Yes, I fully agree that some cpan libs are very difficult to understand. I think that the authors of these modules try to demonstrate their very high level of expertise in Perl by optimizing their code using the most advanced features.
It is not "normal programming", it is somewhere between art and snobism.
In ruby, you have less incentive for tricky constructions and people use generally longer identifiers that help understanding the intent.
I am a Perl lover. I think that Perl allows to write code that matches the way you think about the problem to be solved.
You have a lot of freedom in code writing, as a result, the coding style depend a lot of the personality of the previous developer.
The developer of your Perl codebase was perhaps a moron, or had a way to think too different than yours.
This freedom allows to write very bad code. I think that Ruby is very similar to Perl concerning freedom, you may also encounter very badly written code in Ruby.
All you says about C++ is correct. The problem of C++ is not readability.
The main problem of C++ is "what is executed is not what is written": there are many implicit constructors, converters, destructors or overloaded operators that are added during compilation. In general the bugs are in code you do not see. With the templates, the bug may be in code that do not even exists yet. Overloads of operators and namespace usage bring a lot of headache when mixed.
I hate also C++ because of all the problems I have encountered when I needed to mix different COTS libraries.
I do not think that a new syntax front-end would help to be more productive in C++.
The 5 languages Perl,Python,Ruby,OCaml and GHC have proved to allow very fast coding speed.
The main common point is the attention given to the syntax.
I have used Java quite a lot these last years and I am pretty convinced that coding would be faster if the syntax was less stupid.
The syntax is not the main problem of C++, but for Java, it is a very important one.
Yes, but Jython brings the usual python library with it. The soup resulting of mix up of python library and java library is not very clean.
Python is a clean language with a decent library. Jython is not.
The purpose of Mirah is to replace the not very good syntax of Java by a smart syntax derived from Ruby, only focused on being a better syntax than Java.
The result should be a clean language better than Java.
I think the main defect of Ruby is its library. This library lacks of naming consistency and suffers from confusing name aliases. The Java library is a lot better.
The syntax of Java is poor, it is not very concise and the syntax of recent additions (generic, enumerate) is not very clear.
I think a next step would be to write a translator from java to Mirah, to stop using jvm (either switch to dalvik or openjdk), then to say good bye to Oracle.
I am french. What is a speedy trial ?
In France, we have slow trial, very very slow trial and almost never ending trial.
We have also trial that ends because suspects death before the end of the trial.
Thank you, I have searched 5 minutes without finding it. Do you have also a link to the full article ?
If it is written by a 17 year old, I should be able to understand it.
Well, maybe not.