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(*** Voir conclusion ***) Quel est le critère qui fait qu'un rappel pour composante défectueuse est mis en place? Par exemple, dans le cas des batteries défectueuses d'ordinateurs portables Inspiron, Dell a lancé un rappel. La pile de mon... more
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Pour l'année 2007, ma première résolution sera de mettre en pratique ma décision de ne produire du contenu sur mon site personnel qu'en français. Ça ne sera pas facile. L'écriture de texte à saveur technique dans ma langue natale... more
I arrived very late for my flight at San Francisco International Airport this morning. I entered the terminal one hour before boarding time. I then panicked: there was a huge line line for checking in. There was no way I was going to be able to make it on time for my flight. I asked someone if I could bypass the line. He says "no way dude", checks my ticket, and says that this is the line for electronic tickets and those who checked in on the Internet the night before. I had a paper ticket, which is a different line. He shows me the line: there is one person waiting.
I was among the first passengers to be on board with my own Burger King egg and sausage sandwich. I would have missed my plane if I had an electronic ticket.
This is amazing. This electronic / Internet check in system was built to accelerate things. This tells me that scalability problems are not only present in software systems.
I then had to go through 2 big security checks today. Security status is "orange" today (and most days as I learned). I had to take off my shoes, remove my computer from my bag, and throw away my toothpaste as it was too big: above 3 ounces. The rule is that you can bring along liquid containers as long as they are smaller than 3 ounces, and that they all fit in a small Ziploc. They supply the Ziploc if you do not have any. The idea is that the total volume of all your small bottles should not add up to anything bigger than the Ziploc.
If you are clean, you get into the secured zone. But here is the bug: you can go out of the zone, and come back later. This is what I did: Once I got in the gate secured area, I realized there is no restaurants. I still had 3 hours before boarding my flight to India. I talked to the security guard at the exit gate who told me I could go out as long as I go back in line for another security check before getting back in. So I did just that.
This is buggy because if I were with a bunch of friends, we could have entered together with maximum amount of liquid, then all but one would had gone out of the zone, fill the Ziploc, and deliver it to the guy in the zone. Repeat until enough liquid has gone through.
Then, there is another check at the gate inside the secured zone. 2 security officials check the carry on luggage as you walk by, and stamp your boarding pass. I pass by and one of them asks me to put my computer bag on the table. I ask if I will have to stick around the gate once she checks the bag. She tells me that I can go wherever I want after the check. The stamp on my boarding pass will tell the air crew that I went through the check. So she opens a few zippers on my Dell laptop backpack, while I hold a plastic bag in my hands with 2 bottles of water and a bag of nachos I just purchased. She does not ask to see the plastic bag.
It takes no genius to see that this is a totally useless check point. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to come up with a work around this check point.
This tells me either one of 3 things:
I think it is obvious to identify the option I choose. But I may be wrong here and not capable to see the subtilities of a perfect security system.
Now boarding Air India flight 126...
I just read this from Mark Evans:
Instead of watching streaming video, he attended the conference in Second Life where he was able to chat with other people attending the same virtual event. [...] Now, this kind of activity, which be described as Chat 2.0,
Maybe I'll try this some day in my first-life, job, where I must interact daily with remote teams from other parts of the worlds. This is far more fun idea than what the enterprise solutions offered in the preceding century (i.e. groove networks)
Imagine a daily technical meeting in Bora Bora...
Back in 1998, driving back from USA , during a clear Fall night, full of aurora borealis, I discussed with a friend the fantasy of a virtual world where you define your character that could live on its own, with APIs that players could use to write their own content and actions. I thought back then that this was a cool idea, but it already existed, possibly up to 15 years before in true geeks circles, as text-based applications.
Some 8 years later, this has gone mainstream. On radio yesterday, someone said that American Apparel is using Second Life to test new products. The company offers its ideas for new clothing designs on Second life to test the public reaction. Put The Enterprise (with a big "T" and big "E") in the picture and all of this will really really be big.
Spreading the news on this religious battle's potential solution: elastic tab stops . When Eclipse, and other editors offer this feature, I believe I may give up using spaces. (notice the use of words such as religious, believe, and battle in this short post, and come back later to see what Google will come up with in the ads section...)
However, now that I think about it, the problem with spaces versus tabs, is their invisibility. Once you load a file correctly indented with either, you can mistakenly mix spaces and tabs as you type and you see no difference. Display errors will only show up when another person opens the same file using different settings or fonts.
But I like the behaviour of these tabs that change their position according to their sibling needs. Neat. Try the sample editor applet.
