As I remarked elsewhere the rules are being broken left right and center, but they're in place just the same and that makes no sense at all to me.
Especially not when parties would voluntarily use a different language (such as English).
I personally walked out of one meeting a couple of years ago after being told that only French was acceptable because of a government requirement.
Too bad I was the guy representing a well paying customer, yes, I speak French but not good enough to get the finer points in a very intensive business meeting and definitely not when the matter is technological.
Half (or more than half) the technical English words have been forcibly given a French counterpart just to avoid 'pollution' (whatever that may be) of the French culture.
The interesting thing is that this 'island behavior' usually includes the French language somehow, check out Quebec and Belgium for instance.
Because people should be free to communicate in any language that they choose to use regardless of what the government dictates.
Of course plenty of companies break these rules because they are ridiculous to begin with but the fact that the rules exist is evidence of a very cramped world view. France still has trouble to come to terms with no longer being a super power any more.
The end result of all these silly rules is that certain meetings simply don't take place, companies avoid doing business in France.
France as a whole suffers because of this language police, further fuelling the fires of isolationism.
not to mention the little detail that you'll still be adding lube, which has more drag due to its stickyness than the perfect spheres will add as an improvement over 'normal ball bearings.
To all you anti-evolutionists and everybody else that would like to ignore the facts: Life is like game of cards, and if you want your children to play with only half a deck the rest of the world will eventually eat you for lunch, no matter what you've got in military power.
Progress is based on facts, not on faith. If you don't believe that, then next time you go to hospital think where you'd be going *without* science but just your faith: the graveyard.
the really interesting bit is that *NEITHER* the democrats or the republicans are very far from what the rest of the world would consider 'ultra right wing' or 'conservative'. The fact that even here on./ people with an probably above average intelligence have swallowed that left/right bullshit hook line and sinker.
In any other country there would be a real left wing and something close to your democrats or republicans as right wing or ultra right wing.
check out the 'CAN-SPAM' act, specifically the bit about double opt in.
If you do not get the email addresses from the intended recipients with the express permission to use them for marketing purposes and you verify those addresses by sending them a link that they then have to click to confirm their entry in to your database, but you send them commercial email anyway then according to the CAN-SPAM act you are busy in a way that is illegal.
Maybe I'm interpreting the law wrong here, there is a good chance of that, but I think that it is spelled out pretty clear.
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surgery for dummies ?
there is a bofh joke in there somewhere...
it's called 'franglais' :)
Actually they do not.
English is not even the official language of the US, I only have wikipedia handy as a reference and we all know I could have just edited that page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
But I swear I didn't, really...
As I remarked elsewhere the rules are being broken left right and center, but they're in place just the same and that makes no sense at all to me.
Especially not when parties would voluntarily use a different language (such as English).
I personally walked out of one meeting a couple of years ago after being told that only French was acceptable because of a government requirement.
Too bad I was the guy representing a well paying customer, yes, I speak French but not good enough to get the finer points in a very intensive business meeting and definitely not when the matter is technological.
Half (or more than half) the technical English words have been forcibly given a French counterpart just to avoid 'pollution' (whatever that may be) of the French culture.
The interesting thing is that this 'island behavior' usually includes the French language somehow, check out Quebec and Belgium for instance.
Because people should be free to communicate in any language that they choose to use regardless of what the government dictates.
Of course plenty of companies break these rules because they are ridiculous to begin with but the fact that the rules exist is evidence of a very cramped world view. France still has trouble to come to terms with no longer being a super power any more.
The end result of all these silly rules is that certain meetings simply don't take place, companies avoid doing business in France.
France as a whole suffers because of this language police, further fuelling the fires of isolationism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France
Things like this show how far behind the times France has gotten.
At some point they even wanted to have French established as the official language of the EU...
Protectionism has never worked to any countries favour, France probably least of all.
Did you know that business meetings in France have to be in French ?
the second is now defined in terms of itself ?
not to mention the little detail that you'll still be adding lube, which has more drag due to its stickyness than the perfect spheres will add as an improvement over 'normal ball bearings.
the sooner we get rid of flash the better, competition or not.
I hate these 'industry standards' that get used by everybody and their brother in applications where there are much better and open solutions.
To hell with flash, and no kudos for google/yahoo for helping this shite stay around longer.
if they can do it in Korea, they can do it in the us and canada.
We don't care. We don't have to...
Now if only they would get rid of all those dial up lines for internet access in rural areas.
It's really amazing that phone companies still don't have mandatory minimal access levels for net access outside major metropolitan areas.
It's getting better, but oh so slow. And in those areas where there is little or no competition 28.8 is still the standard.
for that you make my friends list.
That's exactly the problem, ignoring it is going to make it grow until it is so large, that by that time we will not be able to overcome it anymore.
This concerns all of us, not just those 'backwaters'.
doesn't make it so...
To all you anti-evolutionists and everybody else that would like to ignore the facts: Life is like game of cards, and if you want your children to play with only half a deck the rest of the world will eventually eat you for lunch, no matter what you've got in military power.
Progress is based on facts, not on faith. If you don't believe that, then next time you go to hospital think where you'd be going *without* science but just your faith: the graveyard.
the really interesting bit is that *NEITHER* the democrats or the republicans are very far from what the rest of the world would consider 'ultra right wing' or 'conservative'. The fact that even here on ./ people with an probably above average intelligence have swallowed that left/right bullshit hook line and sinker.
In any other country there would be a real left wing and something close to your democrats or republicans as right wing or ultra right wing.
Roger Penrose on /. whodathunkit.
I think the 'German' is redundant ;)
Louis, could you send me an email please, j@ww.com
thanks !
you make a good point, but I think you should qualify it with the relative amounts of greedy bastards / deeply caring people.
but how are you going to be sure *they* won't lose your data or go out of business ?
it is 'their' not 'there'
thank you !
I'd never even heard of them.
hehe, yes, so true, but then you can't access it electronically any more.
I really think the bookmark + cache would be a nice thing to have without resorting to 'dead tree' format.
But it's a good point, a printer would be an easy way to collect stuff that you really want / need to keep.
I keep running into bookmarks that have gone awol, then find that archive.org also doesn't have the pages anymore.
Combining a bookmarking / chaching service would be really handy.
check out the 'CAN-SPAM' act, specifically the bit about double opt in.
If you do not get the email addresses from the intended recipients with the express permission to use them for marketing purposes and you verify those addresses by sending them a link that they then have to click to confirm their entry in to your database, but you send them commercial email anyway then according to the CAN-SPAM act you are busy in a way that is illegal.
Maybe I'm interpreting the law wrong here, there is a good chance of that, but I think that it is spelled out pretty clear.