Re: The answer is "JavaScript"...
Yes, the answer is C++, but I forgot the question :)
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Patches for your phone, tablet, laptop, PC, TV, microwave, blender, fridge, dishwasher, hairdryer, car, bicycle, razor and much more.
That'll be a very busy patch tuesday!
Mine's the one with paper and pencil in the pocket for when my fridge refuses to mail my shopping list.
As a long time linux user I know that flash for non MS systems is a mixed bag at best. So I don't use it.
As far as I remember, Adobe claimed lacking support from the linux community for their fine software, looks like Apple, Google and Microsoft sent them real programmers to fix that mess and had to add additional security because it's still broken ...
Leaving the DNS root servers under control of a government which can not pay the personal to maintain them seems a bad idea to me.
And to brazils economy, Ms. Rousseffs government is about to cancel an order for 36 F/A-18 Super Hornets and save 4 billion dollars which might be better invested elsewhere in brazil .....
>It's remarkable to me that certain people here seem to hate their own countries more than those who are actually despotic, enough to support Snowden in his vainglorious attempt to get recognition.
Funny you say that, I do love my country within reasonable limits. I really don't like GCHQ and PRISM to spy on me. Both are breaking german law doing it!
Are both due to coating, shading and the lens design.
The "Leica Glow" is mostly found on old pictures taken with non aspherical lenses with a single coating. Modern multicoated aspherical Leica lenses don't show this "glow".
I mostly use 35mm lenses on small format film and have lots of them. The one I love most is a bastard made from an old 1938 Zeiss Biogon, a Jupiter 12 PT1030 from Arsenal in a Leica Thread Mount from another russian lens. The results, on film and digital, match the look from the old pictures my grandfather took with a comparable lens in the late 40s.
Lens flare? Yes, if I point it to a strong light, which my grampa taught me not to, and then they are less prominent then in J.J.s films.
If I use slide film instead of traditional B/W like FP4 or TriX, then I prefer the brutal sharpness of modern lens designs with close to perfect correction, aspherical elements and any single surface multicoated. Like the current Zeiss Biogon T* 2/35 in ZM mount. Lens flares? Not with one of those!
When I compare scanned Provia with pictures from a digital sensor, taken with the same lens, I can't see much of a difference, if at all.
"This is a routine hazard for people of interest to spooks or serious police investigations, and it could be seen as a little odd that Greenwald, Miranda and Poitras didn't anticipate it."
Since I don't know if I'm of interest to spooks, I better take no chances.
Next trip to Brazil via Lisboa ...
I bought my first Macbook in 2007 because it was CHEAPER than a comparable Sony or Asus. Ok, I could have settled for a Celeron instead of a C2D ...
The MBP I got in 2010 was cheaper again and I still use it all day long, with a SSD and 8GB RAM I installed myself.
Have a look at the Mac mini, it is not too expensive if you compare like to like. Same for the iMac compared to other AiO PCs.
Upgrades and repairs are a problem, no onsite service :(, and the more modern the less repairable they are.
A Retina Macbook Pro is not for me, I just don't want to buy a maxed out machine because I might need it next year. Same for the smaller iMac where one can't even upgrade RAM. Not to mention the braindead position of the SD cardslot on the back ....
So yes, Apple is less attractive to me now then it was two years ago, but let's have a look next year, when I need a new one :)
which set lots of investment banks trading derivatives on fire.
If some of the things I'd been taught in Business School, some 20 years ago in the City :), are true, then there has to be a compromise.
Trading options on derivatives of derivatives nobody understands in nanoseconds is a very big risk. And one algorithm gone mad costs billions in minutes.
Nowadays 6 milliseconds latency make a difference of 100 million a year to a hedgefund in London trading in NY!