In the Diamond Age, the "premier" teaches logic, programming and nanotechnology in a similar fashion.

While it is good to see the concept taken to practice.....

Nothing new to see here, move along. ;-)

They can not do the plastination.... A while ago chavez expeled the "Bodies revealed" expo from venezuela, and denounced it as inmoral.

Embalming him using that procedure would be an about face that his supporters could not aford...

They have been doing it for ages.

I has exposed to their style as a case stud durng my MBA. I do not have the files handy, but you can research them on the ionternet.

I leave you this link to get you all started:

http://www.co-intelligence.org/S-Semco.html

Anything that is 16:10 aspect ratio, but most important: PIVOT TYPE. that way, If you want to see large swats of code, you put it in portrait mode. If you want to see code side by side, landscape.

Since the monitor is pivoting, you will need IPS, TN will not do.

Resolution and diagonal up to your taste and budget.

From anecdotal experience, Korean screens are OK. Nonetheless, a recomendation (for koreans or brand names alike) is to buy second hand from your favourite (ebay, craiglist), that way, someone else did the quality control for you (dead pixels, infant mortality, etc), just be clear on the conditions before the transaction is done. Of course, caveat emptor.

Would have killed you to provide a link to the Wikipedia article where you Copy&Pasted that pearl of wisdom?

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Significance

Or, if you wanted to pass that pearl of wisdom as your own creation, was it so difficult to remove the reference numbers in brackets? [22].

My god, talk about self absorption.

Nope, the Spanish say Octeto. We, the Latin Americans say Byte.

Since I did not live in any Western European countries other than Spain, Switzerland and France, I'll not go out on a limb about anything except this:

I am guessing that the quality of the education system in Germany (where you probably had GOOD classes of English as a foreign Language while in High School), couple with the proximity of the two languages (one of my dearest English teachers said that English is a highly simplified/primitive German), makes you guys comfortable with the language.

First my advice:
1.) Leave everything in the code ready for localization.
2.) If you have competent people to do the localization do as many as you can. DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT use Google translate or similar tools to do your localization.
3.) If you can not do a good localization, deffer the work to volunteers.

Now, the reality. I am a Spanish speaker, fluent in English as a second language (For What Is Worth, long time ago, my ToEFL score was 293/300, but I am quite rusty now). I was a manager in telecoms for a long time, now a Teacher (Comp Networks II, mainly Layer 3 Stuff) for Comp Scy and Telecom Engineers in a Jesuit University here.

But my level of English is an exception around here, not the rule. Our university demands an English sufficiency test in order to graduate. And yet, most of the students are incapable of reading in English. Something as simple as reading a paper (for example: "OSI Systems and Network Management" Lakshmi Raman, ADC Telecommunications IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1998) my students will not do in English. They will rather OCR it, then use Google Translate, and will not even refer to the original article when the machine translation gets "wonky".

The fact that the documentation is written in English is of little concern, anything that is remotely interesting will have translations, or books written by native speakers within weeks/months.

*** As some other poster wrote: Non native English speaking programmers will treat the foreign syntax like a black box (in some cases, having to program in English as opposed to Spanish actually helps, in Spanish "Yes" and "If" both map to "Si", and you have to infer which is which from context :-S ). So, an effort to localize is well worth it.

*** And as some other posters wrote: Localize ALSO to show respect to the culture of the other person(s). And remember that part of that respect is to localize correctly, not taking shortcuts like using Google Translate to translate your strings.

Of the back of my head, I can recall Tejas Semiconductor. There are others, google should serve you well.

The summary says:

It's too early for panic, but those of us in the early parts of their careers will be the ones who have to deal with the problem.

I dealt with the Y2K issue in a Telco environment. When the problem is looming closer, take me out of retirement and offer to pay me a small fortune, and I may consider showing you young lings how it's done. ;-)

"With enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" Right?
Well, the theory of the many eyes say that someone somewhere should have noticed/reported/tracked this bug sooner rather than later.
this comes to prove that many eyes are NOT enough. First you need more than merely many eyes, you need many QUALIFIED eyes.
Second, you need to complement your (many) eyes with systematic test cases to so some QA, trying ad a modicum of rigor, instead of, you know, letting the QA become an ad-hoc subjective process...

You could start as follows:

10 Print "Hello World"
20 goto 10
30 ???
40 rem profit

[said with nick burns tone] you're welcome!!

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ESR 17.0 is also available for download (as is ESR 10.0.11), but the autmatic update mechanism is not offering it as an option (at least not yet), only 10.0.11.

I guess they will let the Quality testing phase to be completed before offering it as an automatic update