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All factors may be involved. Ruling out poorly working DVD writers and poor DVD discs, the remaining problem is medium degradation. Storage is of utmost importance: humidity, temperature, light. Google around a bit, you will easily find all these discussed. Spike500's reference is a good...

I don't think so nitro. If you are happy with mediocre C++ skills and merely want to pick up mediocre Python skills, this may be OK. In the days I used to teach C++, I sometimes paraphrased Henri Poincarre's famous dictum: "If you want to become a good programmer, it's sufficient to read the...

The suppression of religion in the name of law goes hand in hand with the ongoing suicide of the West. Pretty soon the West will become serfs of cultures firmly rooted in religion. As de Tocqueville and the Founding Fathers observed: the only way to survive. What will remain of the West? A...

hey gerry, Indeed, I didn't realize that a Londoner these days would still advance fossilized arguments like APL, Beta & VHS in arguing about 2006 software tools. Thank ya for telling me about this. I couldn't have imagined these details by myself. So gerry, after all, my general...

I don't know about London but to me, they seem to have become rather uncompetitive & fossilized with their "oldboys" staffing habits. Your VHS, Beta and APL nonsense is probably much appreciated by "upper management" in London. If you like to read about wholesale financial research firing, do...

If you are trusting DVD's for critical backup, you don't have security. DVD's are handy for a lot of things but have a reliability way below current HD standards.

oddi, where would ya fit into all this? :p

Something like: lim E(payoff) -> infinity :)

Aren't these those guys that get fired wholesale? Today, I would never put to work a guy swearing by C++/C for scientific programming. It's the clearest indication that he is at least 10 years out of date in programming tool know-how. Would you pay for a guy to do a job that is going to...

:D :D :D

That's a no brainer. The way things are going, the US will soon be building cheap cars using cheap labor for export to rich countries like China, Korea, a.o.

This is a true p*ss*ng contest. :D

After having waved goodbye to windoz platforms a couple of years ago, I was faced with lots of VB programs mainly because of M$'s policy of steering you into that direction with its COM, SQLServer and MSOffice stuff. Although I have in the past done and taught a lot of C/C++ in UNIX prior to...

Don't forget your loose sheet ring binder!

Got your message. Glad to oblige. Indeed, some blockheads may be comforted by your remark. Thx.

Why should one go to Tucson for a week to watch Jack trade? We have been watching Jack's snow job for about 5+ years now. In fact, as hypo pointed out, Jack has been a tremendous help in corralling believing sheep to be shaven by them savvy infidels. If another edition of "Extraordinary...

In fact, I used "backtesting" because it appears to be a well agreed upon term at ET. I don't care how you do or you call it, but system development cannot be separated from a performance evaluation system. The only data available to drive such a system is PAST HISTORICAL DATA. There simply...

Must be the NLP doing this to him. :D :cool: :p PS: oddi, you seem to have picked up some of Jack's quirks. As with your "testment", Jack never managed to spell "Lipschitz" either. Must have been a little hang up of his stint at IBM's. ________________ Go Jack's Method(s?) all the way...

hypo, hush..., please stop giving away the store!

Hi all, For those interested in giving Qt / PyQt a try in linux. Install KDE, everything you need will be there. BTW, you can keep Gnome as your first choice GUI and install KDE next to it. That's how I do it. I prefer eric3 as Python IDE. eric3 should be running immediately if you do...