La lecture de l'acte d'accusation est un véritable feuilleton.

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Le Dimanche 17 juillet 2011 à 16:47 par Damien B

Pour ces cas, les forces de l’ordre utilisent des FAMAS (5.56 mm NATO, en service dans l’armée), des FR-F2 (7,62mm NATO)

N’empêche, tirer au NATO ça pue mais ça ne fait pas bien mal. Ça serait vraiment dangereux s’ils tiraient avec des munitions normées OTAN par contre.

Books need to be a predictable size; they have to be manufactured to a price, stored, transported and displayed. Then they have to fit on home bookshelves. People tend to like books that are easy to read, handle, and store. We generally like and need novels to be certain sizes. If you picked up a diary-sized novel in a series one day and the sequel was the size of a family bible, you'd probably find that annoying. I know many readers won't buy hardcovers and wait for mass market paperback editions simply because the regular size of "MMPBs" fits their bookcase, or is easier to carry around.

So, production editors and typographers do a very clever job of smoothing out that big variation using white space and font sizes to get more words on each page - or fewer. They're so good at doing it that a manuscript of 100,000 words can be made into a book that is identical in overall size to one up to twice the length. Don't believe me? Pick a few books at random, do a word count, and then look at the appearance of the pages. You won't notice it unless you're looking for it.

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Page count doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't tell you how much book you're getting for your money. And, to be brutal, if your evaluation of any book is based on how many words you get rather than the impact it has on you and how well it's written - well, that's just dumb. Sorry, but it is. It's not like a pound of apples for 50 pence being better value than a pound for 75 pence. You're not being short-changed if you get a shorter novel. And left wanting more is not being short-changed. It's what good books are supposed to do.

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So don't get hung up about counting pages. A book is as long as it needs to be to tell the story. Just open it, and enjoy.

On most computers, including the developers', the code simply set the system date to the current month, day and year. On the French computers-where dates use the DD/MM/YYYY format-the code swapped the months and the days.

La grande habitude américaine : "on most" signifie en fait "aux USA".

What really disappoints me, however, is the reaction by the general open source community. Check Twitter and you’ll see a flood of hate against SF.net. Have we forgotten that we’re all in this “open source” thing together? Do we not realize that it’s not a “popularity” contest, and that number of commits does not necessarily indicate a number of stable, released and downloadable projects? What GitHub does is awesome, and I fully support them in their efforts.

En même temps "git" en anglais c'est un connard, et "GitHub" c'est le point de rassemblement des connards. Qu'attendre de plus ?

I believe that the trend to “go Agile” is misguided. If a company is developing good software, the people involved in developing that software are happy working there, the software development is sustainable, and the business is being adequately served by that software, there’s really no need for them to try to be more or less Agile. Agile has challenges like any other culture, but the single biggest challenge I find is companies trying to solve development, process, management, and/or schedule problems by “going Agile.” Teams who have grown up in a culture that is fundamentally different than Agile simply will not find it easy to “go Agile.”

Scott Barber

Et pour finir, ce sera le 22 juin que sortira Eclipse 3.7, de son petit nom « Indigo ». Nous découvrirons alors si le plugin m2Eclipse a finalement été intégré à la distribution Eclipse (il n’est toujours pas dans les dernières version Milestone)

m2Eclipse intégré dans la distribution officielle Eclipse ? Parlez-moi d'une vision de cauchemar !

This prediction behaviour makes ANTLR lexers exceedingly difficult to get right.

Ca c'est sûr.

Celui qui a depose un bulletin doit le voir 'exprime' dans les resultats, et non pas annule parce qu'il ne plait pas a certains depouilleurs, aussi pertinents soit-t-ils, aussi observateurs.

Association pour la reconnaissance du vote blanc

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Traduisons en français :

Celui qui a dépose un bulletin doit le voir "exprime" dans les résultats, et non pas annule parce qu'il ne plait pas à certains dépouilleurs, aussi pertinents soit-ils, aussi observateurs.

Euh... reprenons la traduction :

Celui qui a, qui dépose un bulletin exprime qu'il doit le voir dans les résultats, et n'annule pas parce qu'il ne plait pas à certains dépouilleurs, aussi pertinent qu'il soit, aussi observateurs.

Voilà, c'est tout de suite plus clair. Vote-blanc.org, une association anti-raciste : ensemble, militons pour le petit nègre !

One of my favorites, finally available on Blu-ray. Just $14 at Amazon.

En tout cas, il ne risque pas de le voir sur ses milliers d'euros de matériel Apple.

There is another solution that you can use to suppress the formatting of specific block comments. Use /*- (note the hyphen) at the beginning of the block comment, and the formatting

won't be affected if you format the rest of the file.

On peut apprendre tous les jours.

D’abord et avant tout, il faut rappeler l’évidence : le budget culturel des ménages n’est pas extensible à l’infini. Avec l’essor des consoles de jeux, l’augmentation des ventes de DVD, les lecteurs MP3, les records d’entrées au cinéma, les appareils photo numériques, les forfaits de téléphonie mobile pour toute la famille, le prix des abonnements à Internet, il n’est guère surprenant qu’un rééquilibrage se fasse au détriment d’une industrie musicale qui n’a pas su se renouveler.

Et pourtant, le yaourt se vend toujours aussi bien : y'a un truc.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki, 15.07.1995

People go on about how the Kindle is great because there are no other distractions and because you can read it in direct sunlight and whatnot, but my feeling is that they're really saying "I'm avoiding the iPad because I don't want to be seen as slavishly buying everything Apple releases."

C'est ça le fanboyisme : ne pas pas reconnaître des arguments parfaitement valides parce qu'on a oublié tout rationalisme.

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.

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.

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 pertinent.

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'.