Full HD was nice when it was on 24 inches screen. When you see a Full HD picture on a big screen, the pixels are so big that you may wonder "is this high def ? The pixels are bigger than my old 1990 TV !".

That 8k monitor only has 160 dot per inch. That's not impressive at all.

For a monitor of that size (55"), having an 8k panel is nothing but hard to do. The difficulty resides in the production of the video (computer images are easy to render, but having a CCD captor at 8k is a different story) and the broadcast of the video (bandwidth, CPU, and HDMI cable at that frequency).

I have to disagree. It really depends what you are doing. I love C and I believe that C will not be replaced for certain pieces of low-level software (kernel, libraries, ...).

However, when you need to write a script or a dynamic web page, using C is painful and actually not a good idea. Python and PHP are much better for that. I'm not a language fetishist, I'm just an average lazy programmer. When I need to do some work, I choose the most efficient tool to do it. I won't try use a new language because the grammar is kewl. Usually, I switch to other languages when I feel it is much more appropriate to my current task.

If a language survives (after the initial hype), it is for a good reason. Shell script, Javascript, Python, PHP, ... will also be there for a long time.

With enough experience, yes. And you can check the generated assembly afterward to see if it matches what you expect.

Of course there are some cases where you know that you don't know what will get out of the compiler, but for the majority of if-then-else assignments, you don't get surprised by what comes out of the compiler.

There are exceptions on some architecture (e.g. Itanium) where the CPU is so complex that is it very hard to predict anything, but on x86/ARM, it's pretty simple.

Indeed not the largest ever built, and roughly the size of the largest in service currently (be it supertankers, cruise ships, or container ships).

On the container ship category, it is also not a breakthrough (List of largest container ships). Couple of feet larger, couple of feet longer, roughly the same number of containers .. no big deal.

You shouldn't, I agree. But I can't blame people because they use it : it is the most efficient tool I know of (95% of the time, the site I'm looking for is in the first 3 results).

It actually makes a lot of sense to use google for everything. At the beginning there were IP addresses ; hard to remember. Then DNS came up and URLs got much easier to remember.

But, hey, what is the real information when you want to go to http://www.bookstore.com/ ? Answer : bookstore. And that's precisely what google does.

Moreover, if you type "bokstore" instead of "bookstore", google will give you what you actually had in mind.

So yes, Google has a lot of power, which is used in the majority of cases to help people -- this is why people use it. But with that much power, it seems to me that it should be now heavily regulated by law. Search algorithms should be regulated by laws and openly discussed in parliaments. You cannot remove / favor someone just because you want. You may have some space for business to slightly favor (to some extent) those who pay for it. This kind of things.

An easy way to fix this would be to have the USPTO grant every patent (for a fee) as it does currently, but also every time you want to sue someone, you would need an USPTO expertise granting you the right to sue.

That way, creating bad patents would cost you money ; suing for nothing would cost you money, and invalidate your patents at the same time. And the USPTO would get enough money to have real experts look at each case.

I would agree if official taxis really knew their area, had a GPS in their car, did not try to refuse drives that don't fit them, and didn't try to steal you. I don't know for London, but in Paris and Dublin, I experienced it. No GPS, doesn't know the address, use the wrong (more expensive) fare, ...

The regulation is so hard that any taxi that pass it tends to consider itself "safe" from competition.

Taxi lobbies fight for more protections ... states gives them more protection [real failure here] ... user experience lowers ... competition arises ... chaos.

The fact that it is only available on Mac makes me wonder if Atom is that great ...

Unless I didn't understand the idea (not easy to find out what Atom is, actually), they're developing a javascript editor on top of Chromium. How could that NOT work on Linux and Windows ?

What the incentive for doing yet another editor ?

Having an editor running inside a web browser to develop javascript code could be a nice idea (especially to instant-test code), but looking at their website I'm a bit puzzled ...

So True.

When will people understand that most of the password we use are not stored on a passwd file we can crack off-line ? Basing the password policy on a brute-force offline cracking time is just annoying for everyone. Brute-force mitigation is very easy to do, and transforms a 4 character password into a very hard to crack password.

So, to all those shitty web-sites, stop enforcing annoying policies to your users (as if it would improve security) and implement other useful techniques such as mitigation on trial-error / IP attack detection, ...

I'm amused to see that in the US, having an internet access is still optional :-). Are the US considered an under-developed country ?

That said, I'm sure your comment only makes sense to a very small portion of the population ; which will make cable companies useless in the short term.