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  1. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    OK well then multiple wikipedia pages are wrong then.
    But even if Hindi is not the main official language it is still the closest thing to a common language with far and above the most people speaking it.
    While English only has about 10% of the population (and basically every single one of them only knowing it as a secondary language) Hindi weights in at over 40%.

  2. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    It is a subsidiary official language and is only spoken by 10% of the population with basically every single one of them only knowing it as a secondary language (meaning most of the English speakers know Hindi as well).

  3. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 2

    But there is a difference with India as a whole and your little Americonized section of it.
    Using statistics you can easily deduce that only 10% of the population speaks English and all of them know another Indian language making it quite far down the list in potential universal languages in India.

  4. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    It is a subsidiary official language and only like 15% of the population speaks it and of that 15% nearly 100% only know it as a second language.

  5. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    As far as I have heard that is completely wrong, yes a moderate amount of people speak English but it is only a subsidiary official language and is just the second language of basically everyone who knows it in India while compared to all other languages Hindi is basically universally known (and guess what the most likely primary language of all of those English speakers).

  6. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    And yet still you could say that still a lot of Indians speak English even if it is significantly less then Hindi, but basically every single one of those Indian English speakers has English as a second language and would rather/is just as comfortable in speaking a Indian language (mainly Hindi).

  7. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    No that would be Hindi...
    First off because it is the official language and secondly because way way more people speak it in India then English.

  8. Re:Next on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    If there were call centers setup in the US to cater to Indian clients then why would they be speaking English in the first place?

  9. Re:why not outsource all of it? on US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts · · Score: 1

    But it does not seem to be a quality issue, simply a issue that the US military is known as a company that you can get away with ripping off.
    It does not matter how much you pay someone they will always prefer to double their profit margin if they can get away with it.

    And no outsourcing is not some miracle cure all solution. I have been involved with companies who have outsourced and been ripped off since day one.
    The difference between them and the US military is that the independent company learned its lesson and decided on that spot no more outsourced contractors.

  10. Re:The inevitable comparison, so let's get it over on Modern Warfare 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Huge Steam sale on all things ArmA on now, btw.

  11. Re:why not outsource all of it? on US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts · · Score: 1

    So the US military is having a problem with the quality of their outsourced hardware and your solution is more outsourcing...

  12. But if they know ... on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    That a addon is being installed without your permission then why not just pop up a message box and ask if you want to install this addon?

  13. Why a app? on Airline to Offer In-Flight Adult Movies · · Score: 1

    And why would you need a app to watch porn on your own tablet/smartphone?

  14. Re:Child? on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    "If it's not okay to beat a stranger for "violating the law""

    Someone should tell the police this.

  15. Re:JavaScript... or HTML DOM? on Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings · · Score: 1

    Java provides a in depth foundation of concepts used in languages such as C and C++.

  16. Re:Get with the Times Linux on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    Size creep in inevitable. The current 700MB image has already undergone about a 700 times size creep from early operating systems and it will continue.
    Ubuntu is designed for running on the common everyday computer and as time goes on that gets more powerful. And not to mention there are still tons of hardware specs it does not function perfectly on and more being created every day so if nothing else adding more drivers to the image will creep the size.

    Or do you actually think that "Nobody will ever need more than [700MB] RAM! [for an OS image]” – Bill Gates, 1981

  17. Get with the Times Linux on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 2

    This is ridiculous, CDs cost the same as DVDs and if your computer has a optical drive and is new enough that you should be using normal Ubuntu instead of one of its builds designed for low spec systems then you have a DVD drive (and a few gigs is nothing for a USB stick).
    I have been burning CD images to DVDs for like 5+ years now, because unless you want compatibility with really old systems there is no reason not to and lets face it Ubuntu is not really even compatible with these systems in the first place.

    So I cannot even imagine one person being inconvenience by this.

    Now significantly increasing the size will effect download time, but once it is on a HD 700MB or 1.5G are both so insignificant that it does not really matter.

  18. Re:Ok. That's one research field going too fast. on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    It is quite a scary sounding procedure. If our atmosphere catches fire and every life form from the smallest bacteria to the largest mammal is instantly incinerated then at least we will know who to blame.

  19. Re:Huh? on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    Because they do not want people from outside of the prison setting up a wifi network to exchange information.

  20. Re:What was the point of this exercise? on Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate · · Score: 1

    Most people are not intelligent enough to seek answers themselves and have internal debates and if they have no bias for either side will just sit on the fence forever.
    These same people are also unlikely to seek out or be interested in dry facts so both sites set up interesting debates between (hopefully) charismatic people.

  21. Re:Be guided, but not bound, by traditional paradi on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    But you could come up with a million different examples of data, and how they are handled has to be on a application level because only the application knows how to deal with the data.
    And there is a reason the files are linear series of data, because that is what HDs are as well.
    Not that a file cannot be broken apart into different sections to fit/optimize performance but at the application level they have to be considered linear series of data if only because every programming language of earth is set up to read files linearly.

  22. Re:Auto deleting files... on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    Neither of those would be a change to the concept of a file.
    The "delete after 60 days" would simply be accomplished by sending the request to a application who would store all requests and then every so often check to see if a file needs deleting. This is really the only way to accomplish your functionality, because if you stored the data in the file then the entire HD would have to be scanned constantly looking at all the files until one went out of date.
    The same would happen with emails except that the deletion app in question would pretty much have to be the email manager.

  23. What? on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    A file is simply a linear series of data. Period. End of story.
    I don't care where you store the ownership rights, the metadata, or what new fancy things you want to be able to do with files; That is not a ground breaking new concept.

  24. As a netbook user ... on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And some who who tried the early unity I have got to say that it is horrible for small screens.
    The normal Ubuntu interface slightly customized though is near perfect and way better then Windows.

  25. Re:What about treatments that prolong life? on Re-evaluating the Benefits of Cancer Screening · · Score: 1

    But that is a whole lot different then if she had a 0% chance of survival, but she could be kept alive for 6 months longer in constant severe discomfort and pain in a hospital bed.