La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

But another interesting implication here is what would happen (or will happen) when the majority of vehicles are electric? If our use is typical, it means about a 25% increase in electricity consumption just for transportation. What does that mean for the electricity infrastructure? Would we be able in the U.S. to add 25% more capacity in say 10 years without resorting to coal? How much of that increase can be met through conservation?

Réduire notre utilisation des énergies fossiles, c'est augmenter notre consommation électrique. Produire suffisamment d'électricité (et la distribuer) pour arriver au même niveau de confort est un problème qui reste à résoudre.

M. Frédéric Mitterrand, ministre. Le Gouvernement est défavorable aux amendements nos 8, 18 et 30. En 2006, le législateur a souhaité exclure du champ de l’exception pédagogique les œuvres réalisées pour une édition numérique de l’écrit, afin d’encourager le développement d’une édition numérique.

Le gouvernement préfère l'argent à l'éducation. On n'est pas surpris.

Since favicon has been introduced by Microsoft, browsers have implemented it. The issue is that it is using the well-known location anti-pattern.

Le web moderne EST un anti-pattern.

The benefit of template rewrite in the capability to maintain a table

of template line number to groovy line number which allowed me to

implement more precise error reporting when an exception occurs

Evidemment, ça n'a pas l'air d'avoir été remonté dans Groovy core...

C'est pour cela que je trouve admirable le projet de Liu Ming vivant dans un loft en Californie. Il a commandé à l'architecte Toshi Kasai de spaceflavor un espace minimal sous la forme d'un cube lui permettant de garantir un espace privatif dans le loft dans lequel il enseigne.

The HTML spec has jurisdiction only because people choose to apply it to their documents. If people choose to apply some other specification instead, or in combination, the HTML spec can't stop them. If an entirely separate group completely redefines what “HTML” means and publishes that as a rival spec, what matters is not what either spec says is permissible to do with the term “HTML”, but which spec users of HTML choose to follow.

Traduction : les gens font ce qu'ils veulent, donc les standards sont inutiles, donc le WHAT WG est inutile.

<blockquote><p>Japan’s cramped living conditions and the arrival of the iPad in May have spawned as many as 60 companies offering to turn paper books into e-books as publishers have been slow to provide content for new electronic readers. Japan has lagged the U.S. in introducing e-books because of a rigid pricing system, uncertainty over copyrights and early problems reproducing Japanese characters on screens, said Toshihiro Takagi, an analyst at market researcher Impress R&D in Tokyo.</p></blockquote> <p>Sachant que l'écran d'un iPad est plus mauvais pour reproduire les caractères japonais que celui des liseuses de 2004, je doute que le critère "reproducing Japanese characters" soit très pertinant.</p>

Japanese buyers of Amazon’s Kindle reader are redirected to the company’s U.S. site since no Japanese-language titles are available. Lack of content and low demand forced Tokyo-based Sony to stop selling e-readers in its home market in 2007. Osaka-based Panasonic Corp. gave up in 2008.

Les premiers à avoir eu des liseuses électronique grand public n'en ont pas fait usage à cause des éditeurs. La technologie ne sert pas à grand chose sans contenu.

Very recently, Sonatype completed significant development in the evolution of Hudson’s core architecture. The benefits of these changes include better leveraging of industry standards, increased performance and stability, and tight integration with Maven 3 that provides greater visibility into running builds. We are continuing to add engineers to our Hudson team and are working hard with the Hudson community to move much of the work we’ve done here to Java.net.

Sonatype a l'air de vouloir pourrir Hudson : enfin une véritable raison de basculer sur Jerkin'.