Here is the list I think you're talking about, and there is no category 5, nor is there an entry for English, since the list is categorizing the difficulty of learning languages for native English speakers.
It's even more absurd when you look at other units. Inches/feet are the only unit with this convenient factoring relationship, others have less convenient relationships like 8, 14, 16 and 20.
Anyone would think this is April Fools day with this retro Slashdot skin that almost works, and people talking about the meteor impact that broke the space time continuum as if it never happened.
Windows Server products meet those criteria too - provided you configure them in a specific way which renders them unable to run most off the shelf applications, and do not apply any updates between Service Pack releases.
Training and lost productivity due to unfamiliar interfaces adds up pretty quick. They'll have that with Ubuntu as well, but at least they have control over changes going forward.
The biggest problem was the differences in the way Microsoft and IBM targetted their marketing. I worked at an OS/2 shop at the time, building POS systems. When OS/2 Warp was about to come out, they sent one of their evangelists to talk to the developers about why we should upgrade from 1.3 (we skipped 2.0, because it was a major change that didn't really add value for the custom applications we were shipping). At the same time, Microsoft sent one of their sales guys to talk to our head of marketing, and the decision was made to switch both the OS/2 products and some other Unixware based products we made to NT 3.5.
The correct way to respond to such questions is with answers that comprise more than one word, making the answer obvious. Maybe some Slashdot readers need to move on from C to some object oriented languages to understand that a richer response can be returned to the caller.
Don't sign NDAs with companies simply for an interview. I did this. Epic fail on my part. Basically, I was creating similar systems on my own that a company in Missouri was creating. I, arrogantly, thought I was a shoe-in. I didn't get the job and for a period of two years I am contractually restricted from creating like-devices for that industry.
Firstly, that isn't usual for an NDA. Secondly, what did you receive in return? If the answer is nothing, then there is no way this will stand up in court.
If you're really in the contracting business, you need to learn something about contract law.
The point the GP is trying to make is that they just aren't directly comparable. Limiting yourself to the Linux kernel is unfair to Windows, as Windows is much more than just a kernel. But comparing with a full distribution is unfair to Linux, as there is much more in a distribution than even Windows + Office + SQL Server + everything else that Microsoft Update covers.
Japan has a lot of the same formalities, but they are reasonably friendly about them. In the US, I find you get orders barked at you from the time you step off the plane until you make it through to the public area, and the stories about dual citizens getting shipped off to Syria for "questioning" while in transit on flights home to Canada go far beyond what Japan's immigration would do to you.
There's a fine line between useful and scary when it comes to this sort of thing. Most people would find it useful to not see ads that don't interest them in the slightest, but when the ads get too personal and targeted, it gets spooky.
Or battery swap stations. Seriously, what is needed more than range is a universal standard for batteries with built in meters, so you can swap them at gas stations, paying for what you used when you swap it out. The "recharge" stops could then be much quicker than gas stops, and it leaves gas station owners happy, as they're still where you come to when you're out of juice, as it is much more convenient than plugging in at home and putting up with the brownouts as the car sucks more current than your household circuits were designed for.
There is only one borough in London where "white british" was not the largest ethnic group at the last census - Tower Hamlets, and only one other where "white british" made up less than 50% of the population (I think it was Lambeth but I'm not 100% sure). Your figures are way out.
Except in the case of Norton. It is well known that disabling it isn't enough to get your performance back. You have to uninstall it, then run a separate removal utility (google:"uninstall Norton" for details) to really remove it. Only then does it stop messing with your ethernet traffic and consuming CPU time.
This may account for another 30%, which does make it usually.
People may not have quite such extreme edge cases sitting around on their drives, but I have seen anti-virus programs bug out on enough real life compressed archives to see the value in these files as test cases for evaluation of such products.
I hope this move raises people's awareness of the fact that the Android Marketplace application is a Google proprietary application, and the Android Marketplace is in fact restricted to a small list of countries, even for free applications. There are better alternatives, but unfortunately not many developers upload their applications there, I suspect because they assume that everyone can access the official marketplace, and Google doesn't exactly make the restrictions widely known (try finding them from the Marketplace home page, or even from all their legal pages).
CFLs have electronic ballasts that run at many kilohertz, rather than the magnetic ballasts of old strip fluorescent lighting that run at mains frequency.
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Here is the list I think you're talking about, and there is no category 5, nor is there an entry for English, since the list is categorizing the difficulty of learning languages for native English speakers.
It's even more absurd when you look at other units. Inches/feet are the only unit with this convenient factoring relationship, others have less convenient relationships like 8, 14, 16 and 20.
Anyone would think this is April Fools day with this retro Slashdot skin that almost works, and people talking about the meteor impact that broke the space time continuum as if it never happened.
Windows Server products meet those criteria too - provided you configure them in a specific way which renders them unable to run most off the shelf applications, and do not apply any updates between Service Pack releases.
Training and lost productivity due to unfamiliar interfaces adds up pretty quick. They'll have that with Ubuntu as well, but at least they have control over changes going forward.
The biggest problem was the differences in the way Microsoft and IBM targetted their marketing. I worked at an OS/2 shop at the time, building POS systems. When OS/2 Warp was about to come out, they sent one of their evangelists to talk to the developers about why we should upgrade from 1.3 (we skipped 2.0, because it was a major change that didn't really add value for the custom applications we were shipping). At the same time, Microsoft sent one of their sales guys to talk to our head of marketing, and the decision was made to switch both the OS/2 products and some other Unixware based products we made to NT 3.5.
This is going to be a bit disappointing for all those people who organized Windows 7 launch parties to celebrate the moment. All four of them.
The correct way to respond to such questions is with answers that comprise more than one word, making the answer obvious. Maybe some Slashdot readers need to move on from C to some object oriented languages to understand that a richer response can be returned to the caller.
Firstly, that isn't usual for an NDA. Secondly, what did you receive in return? If the answer is nothing, then there is no way this will stand up in court.
If you're really in the contracting business, you need to learn something about contract law.
The point the GP is trying to make is that they just aren't directly comparable. Limiting yourself to the Linux kernel is unfair to Windows, as Windows is much more than just a kernel. But comparing with a full distribution is unfair to Linux, as there is much more in a distribution than even Windows + Office + SQL Server + everything else that Microsoft Update covers.
Don't forget "no dictionary words to appear anywhere within the password".
All the types are optional. The microcontroller I'm working with at the moment has int20_t, since that's the size of its addresses.
A fitting punishment would be to force Ralph Lauren to use Barbara Streisand in their next ad campaign.
I know about Gaelic Football, but what is the other one? Surely Aussie rules doesn't count!
Japan has a lot of the same formalities, but they are reasonably friendly about them. In the US, I find you get orders barked at you from the time you step off the plane until you make it through to the public area, and the stories about dual citizens getting shipped off to Syria for "questioning" while in transit on flights home to Canada go far beyond what Japan's immigration would do to you.
There's a fine line between useful and scary when it comes to this sort of thing. Most people would find it useful to not see ads that don't interest them in the slightest, but when the ads get too personal and targeted, it gets spooky.
Or battery swap stations. Seriously, what is needed more than range is a universal standard for batteries with built in meters, so you can swap them at gas stations, paying for what you used when you swap it out. The "recharge" stops could then be much quicker than gas stops, and it leaves gas station owners happy, as they're still where you come to when you're out of juice, as it is much more convenient than plugging in at home and putting up with the brownouts as the car sucks more current than your household circuits were designed for.
Except the Honda Insight and a number of 1.4 and 1.5 litre diesel engined small cars from Renault and Citroen.
There is only one borough in London where "white british" was not the largest ethnic group at the last census - Tower Hamlets, and only one other where "white british" made up less than 50% of the population (I think it was Lambeth but I'm not 100% sure). Your figures are way out.
This may account for another 30%, which does make it usually.
People may not have quite such extreme edge cases sitting around on their drives, but I have seen anti-virus programs bug out on enough real life compressed archives to see the value in these files as test cases for evaluation of such products.
I hope this move raises people's awareness of the fact that the Android Marketplace application is a Google proprietary application, and the Android Marketplace is in fact restricted to a small list of countries, even for free applications. There are better alternatives, but unfortunately not many developers upload their applications there, I suspect because they assume that everyone can access the official marketplace, and Google doesn't exactly make the restrictions widely known (try finding them from the Marketplace home page, or even from all their legal pages).
He should have just planted a GPS in her handbag, then he'd have the full protection of Massachusetts law.
CFLs have electronic ballasts that run at many kilohertz, rather than the magnetic ballasts of old strip fluorescent lighting that run at mains frequency.
Install a WiFi repeater somewhere central in your house.