CDE was based on VUE from Apollo Computer, which was developed since 1988. It did not resemble Windows 3, neither in use nor visually.

To me version 1.x of KDE felt like a smoother (more responsive) version of CDE.

So it more or less returned to the original use of the word?

This was not some printed hand-out test. Would you really believe that the physics teachers all over the country forgot to write necessary information on the blackboard without a single one of them noticing? Moreover, our teacher had stressed some weeks before that we had to use different densities for frozen and liquid water - so the test was set up beforehand. Also, the fact that he prevented me from warning him and the class that something was missing was very unusual. This was absolutely done on purpose.

Indeed, and it was on purpose to test how the students would react to that.

The point is that we did, for several years even, but still everybody failed to apply it when they had to do it without being told to do so.

I disagree. Coding teaches how to translate a text or an idea into formulas/algorithms.

When I was at high school in the early eighties, the physics teachers in my country had conspired to do a test where they intentionally left out one of the parameters which should be given (it was an exercise on a transition between water and ice, but the density of ice was missing). I noticed that this was missing, and wanted to warn the teacher about it. He looked at me, signed that I should remain silent while looking ominously and said "just solve it".

So I made the exercise, and my end result was a formula with the missing parameter as a variable which had to be filled in. They did the same test in all classes, most students did not notice that something was missing (they just used the same density for liquid and frozen water), some other students wrote down that it could not be solved. I was the only one who had a complete and correct solution, just one in which a number had to be filled in.

As an early coder, this was for me a natural way to solve this. We had all learned to do algebra in math class with x and y, but for me it was something I used daily in practice outside math class. (Going off a tangent: I was convinced at the time that using computers would make humanity more intelligent. Then we got the GUI and after that "social" media...)

I do not know how US education is organized, is everybody taking the same classes?

When I was in high school, I followed the science-mathematics track from age 12 to 18 (8 hours of math per week: when I left high school I could do differentiation, integration, matrices, combinatorics, probability... on a level which one would get in the bachelors in the US), others followed the Latin-Greek, or Latin-math, or economics-accounting, or modern languages tracks in the same school depending on interest and talent, having 2 or 4 or 6 hours of math per week.

My daughter took the social sciences track and my son did the visual arts track, both were in the same school. We have tech/vocational high schools where they offer specializations from plumbing and welding, over electronics and car maintenance, to office work or child care tracks. We also have sports/athletics, horticultural/farming, maritime, and theater/music high schools.

Our system is not perfect, one criticism on it is that it is a waterfall system (students trying to start on an as high level as possible and then dropping down if it is too difficult or the wrong choice for whatever reason, losing time during that process), but it makes more sense to me than putting everybody through the same programme.

It was Sybase SQL Server before it became Microsoft SQL Server.

Sybase, Microsoft and Ashton-Tate started to work together in 1988 to port Sybase SQL Server from UNIX to OS/2. Microsoft later released it for Windows NT, and Sybase renamed their version to Adaptive Server Enterprise,

I guess this AI Computer was inspired by (or perhaps even part of) the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer Systems initiative.

I remember reading The fifth generation: artificial intelligence and Japan's computer challenge to the world by Edward Feigenbaum & Pamela McCorduck at the time.

The problem in this case is that the data was obtained in the EU, from the article:

No, that is not the claim. If the UK policed had stopped and fined the drivers in London, then all would be OK.

The claim is that the UK should follow the EU laws and proper procedures to obtain data from EU citizens in stead of going through illegal channels (in the case of Belgium through personal contacts with a Belgian bailiff, who was suspended for illegally providing the data of 20k Belgian citizens to an American private company working for Transport For London) to obtain the identities of the drivers.

Data cannot be shared without a treaty which allows and regulates that according with the laws in EU countries.

It was not the EU which kicked out the UK. The UK stepped out of the existing treaty, so they should negotiate a new one if they want access.

https://www.folklore.org/0-index.html

Nah, translated software has that kind of errors for over 40 years, that is the main reason why I never use localization on my computers.

I remember an Amstrad ad for their PC1512 that had 113 language errors. The weirdest was "simulatiediefstal" (Dutch for "simulation theft"). I could not understand it until it dawned on me that it had first been translated into French ("simulation de vol", but "vol" can mean both "flight" and "theft") before it was translated into Dutch, they were talking about a flight simulator; suddenly half of their translation errors made sense.

Eternal April has begun.