Yeah, the industrial milk and meat from the Netherland doesn't have a good reputation in the rest of Europe. Just google "dutch giant industrial farm"

Well, if only that was true... I remember a long time ago (Win95 ?) I applied a service pack in a different language than the OS. The result was a clusterfuck. I called MS and from the conversation I could tell that something wasn't right. After a while I asked: "It sounds like you think I'm using a pirated version", which I wasn't (full on-site license with hundreds of seats). I think it was my beginning of a search for something better.

Right on the money. The only artificial language I did find interesting is one whose premise that you could use any word that exists in at least 4 European languages. I think it was Interlingua, but I can't find its specs right now. I did find it very easy to read. But then a chinese or bantu wouldn't understand a word anyway, so why bother ?

Hey guys, we found the Python programmer !

Don't like the license ? That's absolutely fine. But then don't use it and write your goddamn operating system FROM SCRATCH !

So, how retro-compatible are they ? Can you take any kind of TC container (file or device) and open it into those newcomers ? Or do you have to transfer the content into a new container ?

Although I've been a pro for 3 decades, I wouldn't want to be called an expert. The latest fads or syntax gimmicks of C++ and others can be a hindrance to sharing your code and making it maintainable. Case in point I just upgraded a software I wrote in C 20 years ago and there were no fundamental changes, just some new hardware, removal of now unrequired optimizations and off you go thanks for the check. I'd like to see the same thing with Dart or generic lambda containers or JQuery...

Particularly since there will be empty cars driving around to reach their next 'driver' instead of being parked. Either by being full on autonomous taxis, or shared between a number of individuals (like one car per family, once the father has reached work he sends the car back home so that the mother can take the kid to kindergarden, etc). Also, instead of paying 40$/hour to park the car download, tell it to drive around slowly until your meeting/dinner is over; that's not going to be a good thing for traffic.

With the latest exploits talking about dormant BIOS exploits impossible to remove without a JTAG hardware programmer, or USB port reprogramming with direct access to your memory... I'm afraid the worse is yet to come. This kind of exploit is mostly OS agnostic (plug in the wrong USB device and get completely owned), directly on hardware, undetectable, etc... If the authors want to keep it dormant for long periods they can.

When the first bots started I wish the internet providers had taken steps to completely block the internet access to the clueless owners of owned Windows systems. Show them a captive page with a short explanation why, and a download of an antivirus. No internet access until then. But this should have been done over 15 years ago.

Not necessarily because by then you'll have a loan on an expensive house, a bunch of kids on the way and a greedy mistress.

Interestingly, in France we call them chauffeurs, as in heaters. Because they used to have to shovel coal under the steam engine long before they could start them. And taxi and truck drivers are still called this way. Etymology...

A former boss once told me: "Whenever you think of a clever programming trick: forget it !". At the time I thought it was a joke, but now with experience I see the wisdom of that.

"In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him." -- Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame)

Looking at the latest event in France, I'm pretty sure that time is not very far ahead.

Go on the first line, press Ctrl-K (yes the line disappears because it's actually a cut), press Ctrl-K again on all the next lines you want to copy. When done press Ctrl-U to paste back your text. Move to when you want to paste, press Ctrl-U again. Done.

Thank god for that.