The King James version is Crown copyright, and therefore the copyright persists.
One trivial question: what is the common link between Peter Pan and the King James Version of the Bible?
They are the only two British books that have this privilege - Peter Pan was given this by a special act of Parliament as the profits from the sales were bequested to Great Ormand Street Hospital (a well known childerns' hospital in London)
If you want a short term contract I think that you might want to try an SS2I (contracting company). There certainly seems to be some demand in the Paris region from such companies.
I think that you might like to be able to get by in French - whilst at work everyone might be able to speak English, outside of work you will need to be able to communicate.
Appartments are seriously expensive in Paris - walking past agency windows I have seen prices in the region of 5000FF for not very much in the way of an appartment.
I can't imagine French companies being willing to pay relocation expenses for a contract as short as 6 months. Note that the French holiday system might mean that for the first year you have virtually no holidays.
I am currently moving jobs so am up-to-date on some of these figures.
At the moment I work in Sophia Antipolis (06) France and earn 230kF with seven years of expirience.
I will be moving to Montpellier (34) France and should be getting about 300kF.
I am a real time / embedded software engineer.
My CV can be found at perso.wanadoo.fr/david.kerr-munslow if you want further details of where I am at in the scheme of things.
I second avoiding SS2Is! Though they can be an entry into a company proper - one contracts for a year and then one is made an offer if the company likes you.
Equally don't get too hung up on money - the cost of living controls how much the money is worth. I am English and find eating is cheaper and better. Car oriented things don't seem so pricey either (petrol/gas is only 6.50 FF/l +/- !!)
Bluetooth in France (and Spain) operates on only a subset of the channels (22 versus 78) it can work on most elsewhere. (Europe/USA 2.4-2.4835GHz, Spain 2.445-2475GHz, France 2.4465-2.4835GHz, Japan 2.471-2.497GHz)
Excusé-moi - peut-être j'ai tort! Je travaille en France (Sophia-Antipolis - 06) et je n'ai jamais entendu la plupart des mots ci-dessus.
Pire que ça - j'ai traduit quelques termes en français (de anglais) et j'ai complètement confondu mes collegues. Ex l'interface 'E1' pour ISDN (je n'ai jamais entendu RNIS) est prononcé "eee one" et pas "uuu un"...
This is an example of what the Academie Française can get up to. This is an extract of a mail that I received from a Frenchman, needless to say that none of the terms propsoed are in current usage. The French in general find the Academie rather strange too, however it is _their_ institution.
(I won't try to translate - it would rather spoil the idea!)
" A ma gauche, les termes anglais, utilisés par tout le monde. A ma droite, les termes de l'Academie Francaise ou du Journal Officiel correspondant.
J'ai lancé le brouteur de Rose qui a refusé de demarrer. Je pense qu'il est infecté par une Fragment infectieux de code nécessitant un programme hôte. Avec l'épépineur je n'ai rien vu. Il faut dire qu'avec l'emmaillotage de axmth on ne peut pas savoir si le programme a été rustiné ou pas. J'ai essayé d'envoyer un mel au support mais il y a un probleme d'ecluse. L'Hypertoile est inaccessible. J'en ai marre de ces graticiels, ils ne sont meme pas multi-enfilade ! Je vais demander à un de mes finaud de me trouver un meilleur partagiciel...
Yes - I read that line twice, but I think that it actually refers to NT (note the position of the full stop).
I think that the comment was suggesting that with even poor reliability, NT will beat Linux...
This would seem to contradict the idea that modern corporations have been built up around technology, and therefore depend upon it, stated elsewhere in the piece!
I think that you are thinking of Konrad Zuse. He built an electromechnical (relays) binary computer. (Several others later)
The German military saw no use for it, however...
The Manachester "Baby" was the first stored program computer (it used CRTs for memory!). ENIAC was programmed by wiring. EDSAC used a mercury delay line for memory (bits were stored as ultrasonic pulses which travelled down a trough of Hg).
The Web is very rich in historical details, if you want to search.
I presume that you are in America (110 volts!). In continental Europe the maximum current that can be drawn from a socket is 16A and in the UK (with the somewhat unusual ring circuits there) it is 13 Amps and then the fuse in the plug will blow!
In Europe it appears that vacuum cleaners are sold by the power rating (Watts) or the depression at the nozzel (kPa). Not so long ago I bought a vacuum cleaner and was completely confused by the price versus performance metrics that were employed... In the end I bought the one that was on special offer from a known manufacurer. I can sympathize with people who know as little about modems as I do about the purchase of a vacuum cleaner, and their annoyance to discover that they don't always work as well as they could for reasons beyond the control of the user... I just don't think that suing people left, right and centre is a constructive approach.
PAL = Picture Always Lousy NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour (Color!) SECAM = Sedom Ever Compatible!
Though won't there be problems with the 60/50Hz beating with the differing mains supplies? A 10Hz beat could be quite irritating (there again I might not have a clue what I'm talking about)
I am an Englishman who is working in France, for a French company and who works with French programmers daily.
I would like to say that my collegues are as competent as those of any other nationality that I have encountered. I would also like to point out that the French education system prides itself on producing very qualified (note - not competent!) "ingenieurs" - this is a word that does not completely translate into engineer as it can only be applied to university educated professionals.
At least our friend is programming in his native language (I presume) - the keywords are not translated, nor are any of the library functions. What is even worse is that if one uses "MS Dev Studio" - the help, nor the program has been internationalised!
One could therefore suggest that a Frenchman who can do what our friend does is actually MORE competent, as he is working in a foreign language!
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The King James version is Crown copyright, and therefore the copyright persists.
One trivial question: what is the common link between Peter Pan and the King James Version of the Bible?
They are the only two British books that have this privilege - Peter Pan was given this by a special act of Parliament as the profits from the sales were bequested to Great Ormand Street Hospital (a well known childerns' hospital in London)
If you want a short term contract I think that you might want to try an SS2I (contracting company). There certainly seems to be some demand in the Paris region from such companies.
I think that you might like to be able to get by in French - whilst at work everyone might be able to speak English, outside of work you will need to be able to communicate.
Appartments are seriously expensive in Paris - walking past agency windows I have seen prices in the region of 5000FF for not very much in the way of an appartment.
I can't imagine French companies being willing to pay relocation expenses for a contract as short as 6 months. Note that the French holiday system might mean that for the first year you have virtually no holidays.
However - good luck in trying!
I am currently moving jobs so am up-to-date on some of these figures.
At the moment I work in Sophia Antipolis (06) France and earn 230kF with seven years of expirience.
I will be moving to Montpellier (34) France and should be getting about 300kF.
I am a real time / embedded software engineer.
My CV can be found at perso.wanadoo.fr/david.kerr-munslow if you want further details of where I am at in the scheme of things.
I second avoiding SS2Is! Though they can be an entry into a company proper - one contracts for a year and then one is made an offer if the company likes you.
Equally don't get too hung up on money - the cost of living controls how much the money is worth. I am English and find eating is cheaper and better. Car oriented things don't seem so pricey either (petrol/gas is only 6.50 FF/l +/- !!)
Bluetooth in France (and Spain) operates on only a subset of the channels (22 versus 78) it can work on most elsewhere. (Europe/USA 2.4-2.4835GHz, Spain 2.445-2475GHz, France 2.4465-2.4835GHz, Japan 2.471-2.497GHz)
(These figures come from the Bluetooth specs!)
So it's not just France!
The months are already broken - it's been tried before.
...)
After all "Sept" ember Seventh month
"Oct" Eighth
"Nov" Ninth
"Dev" Tenth
A couple of guys from an older Empire had very large egos (Julius -> July and Augusus
I only replied as your post was funny!!
Excusé-moi - peut-être j'ai tort! Je travaille en France (Sophia-Antipolis - 06) et je n'ai jamais entendu la plupart des mots ci-dessus.
...
Pire que ça - j'ai traduit quelques termes en français (de anglais) et j'ai complètement confondu mes collegues. Ex l'interface 'E1' pour ISDN (je n'ai jamais entendu RNIS) est prononcé "eee one" et pas "uuu un"
David K-M (dckm88@zepler.org)
This is an example of what the Academie Française can get up to. This is an extract of a mail that I received from a Frenchman, needless to say that none of the terms propsoed are in current usage. The French in general find the Academie rather strange too, however it is _their_ institution.
...
(I won't try to translate - it would rather spoil the idea!)
"
A ma gauche, les termes anglais, utilisés par tout le monde. A ma droite, les termes de l'Academie Francaise ou du Journal Officiel correspondant.
Firewall - Ecluse
Shareware - Partagiciel
Plugin - Plugiciel
Freeware - Graticiel
Hacker - Finaud
Browser - Brouteur, butineur
E-mail - Mel
CD-ROM - cederom
Chat - Babillard
Chat mode - Babillardage
Swap - Permutation
Polling - Scrutation
Debugger - Epépineur
Encapsulation - Emmaillotage
Flame (to) - Attaquer au lance-flammes
HTML - Langage Hyper Descriptatif a Ferrets
patch (to) - Rustiner
Smiley - Souriard, Mimique, Emoticon, Rictus, Facies, Binette, Souriant
Thread - Enfilade
Virus - Fragment infectieux de code necessitant un programme hote
WWW - Hypertoile
WYSIWYG - VISualisation Imitant Virtuellement une Impression Graphique
Par exemple :
J'ai lancé le brouteur de Rose qui a refusé de demarrer. Je pense qu'il est infecté par une Fragment infectieux de code nécessitant un programme hôte. Avec l'épépineur je n'ai rien vu. Il faut dire qu'avec l'emmaillotage de axmth on ne peut pas savoir si le programme a été rustiné ou pas. J'ai essayé d'envoyer un mel au support mais il y a un probleme d'ecluse. L'Hypertoile est inaccessible. J'en ai marre de ces graticiels, ils ne sont meme pas multi-enfilade ! Je vais demander à un de mes finaud de me trouver un meilleur partagiciel
La France avance...
"
I am English and would like to think that there are better countries out there! If you can't think of any improvments, you have no immaginanation.
...
I am currently living in France and can think of several things we could learn from the French
Yes - I read that line twice, but I think that it actually refers to NT (note the position of the full stop).
I think that the comment was suggesting that with even poor reliability, NT will beat Linux...
This would seem to contradict the idea that modern corporations have been built up around technology, and therefore depend upon it, stated elsewhere in the piece!
I think that you are thinking of Konrad Zuse. He built an electromechnical (relays) binary computer. (Several others later)
r y/KonradZuse.html
;-) ), C. Babbage:
s /computing.html
The German military saw no use for it, however...
The Manachester "Baby" was the first stored program computer (it used CRTs for memory!). ENIAC was programmed by wiring. EDSAC used a mercury delay line for memory (bits were stored as ultrasonic pulses which travelled down a trough of Hg).
The Web is very rich in historical details, if you want to search.
On Zuse:
http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/courses/CS110/Histo
On the analytical engine (The FIRST computer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/
General computer museum:
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museum
I presume that you are in America (110 volts!). In continental Europe the maximum current that can be drawn from a socket is 16A and in the UK (with the somewhat unusual ring circuits there) it is 13 Amps and then the fuse in the plug will blow!
... In the end I bought the one that was on special offer from a known manufacurer. I can sympathize with people who know as little about modems as I do about the purchase of a vacuum cleaner, and their annoyance to discover that they don't always work as well as they could for reasons beyond the control of the user... I just don't think that suing people left, right and centre is a constructive approach.
In Europe it appears that vacuum cleaners are sold by the power rating (Watts) or the depression at the nozzel (kPa). Not so long ago I bought a vacuum cleaner and was completely confused by the price versus performance metrics that were employed
How about SECAM (the French "standard")?
PAL = Picture Always Lousy
NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour (Color!)
SECAM = Sedom Ever Compatible!
Though won't there be problems with the 60/50Hz beating with the differing mains supplies? A 10Hz beat could be quite irritating (there again I might not have a clue what I'm talking about)
I am an Englishman who is working in France, for a French company and who works with French programmers daily.
I would like to say that my collegues are as competent as those of any other nationality that I have encountered. I would also like to point out that the French education system prides itself on producing very qualified (note - not competent!) "ingenieurs" - this is a word that does not completely translate into engineer as it can only be applied to university educated professionals.
At least our friend is programming in his native language (I presume) - the keywords are not translated, nor are any of the library functions. What is even worse is that if one uses "MS Dev Studio" - the help, nor the program has been internationalised!
One could therefore suggest that a Frenchman who can do what our friend does is actually MORE competent, as he is working in a foreign language!