Think of the way int/float/boolean are handled as objects, allocated and reference-counted for each simple statement. Ints alone are just worse because of their infinite length. This takes an awful lot of time. Some data flow analysis could spare a lot of this useless handlng.

"Office" is not an open source program

Ahah. "Fripon" meaning rascal, or mischievous, is also quite funny. "A ciel ouvert" also means "open pit".

Indeed at the time the average computer user was not afraid of opening the box. I recently came across the announcement of the first Apple "laptop" by Jean-Louis Gassée, in which he actually fully assembled the machine on stage. Very ironic when you consider how hard it is to disassemble Apple products these days.

Also count the purchase of P.A.Semi, an expertise jewel in processor design know-how

As long as the epidemic is running free, and that sick ppl contaminate more than one other, its growth is exponential. So there is no health system capacity that the epidemic cannot saturate. You only have to severely limit contamination, and until the vaccine is largely available, a strict lockdown is the only solution. It will sadly require a significant number of deaths for the population at large to realize they have to stay home to make sure they survive.

The lockdown in France does not try and delay the surge of cases. The lockdown has indeed worked to heavily *reduce* the number of cases and hospital load. It did so last spring and it is working again now.

For comparison, in France Iliad is selling its 5G/700M plan uncapped for 40€. It’s triple play with phone and TV included, same price everywhere -- that is where it is available, about 2/3 of homes are. 1G for 40€ is about average now, all offers are uncapped, rates higher than 1G are beginning.

Brexiters projected that, after leaving the EU, they would set more economic ties with their historic partners from the Commonwealth. Now, there are two large potential partners, Australia and New Zealand, which prefer to turn to RCEP. The lesson, geography still matters. And the UK is more and more at risk of being alone.

I'm in France, I get 100GB for 12€, that's about $13.5.

All this is completely nonsense. Everybody always knew that fuel efficiency numbers were undervalued, and that nobody could achieve them in practice. After all, what counts is the progress in efficiency and pollution rates, and this progress has been here for real.

"Avatar" basically tells the story of the invasion of America by western europeans. By painting it in modern, but crude and realistic colors, it shows how bad it was. By inventing an unrealistic happy ending, it attempts to reverse the course of the history - in memories. Maybe it makes it a good cure. Anyway, in this perspective what can be the follow-up ? Rewritings of other bad memories of occidentals, such as the the Vietnam war, the colonisation of Palestine, or of the opium wars.

See Avago's ExpressFabric for an interesting alternative.

Does anybody know Aaron Ramsey here ? He's a famous welsh football player. Every time he scores a goal, a celebrity dies. Alan Rickman is just another one in a rather long list including Osama bin Laden, Whitney Houston, and lately David Bowie.

To my knowledge, FON was the first to provide this kind of service many years ago, and since then many ISPs in many countries have done so. Here in France, all major ISPs provide this kind of service, and I assume it is the same in other countries. We would have heard about it for long if there was any security problem associated. So I wonder why this even makes a Slashdot news, and please, please, stop make FUD about this. It reminds of 19e century people fearing driving more than 25 km/h and others being doubtful about the Edison phonograph.