One point that is not in the original Guardian article is that this is a proposal only, and a proposal that only applies to French companies that are part of the "Syntec" work agreement.
And it only applies to 200 000 workers whose worktime is not counted not in hours but in days (forfait jour), not one million..
That means they can work much more that 35 hours / week.
The limit being the labour law, ie: you must have rest period of at least 11 consecutive hours between each day of work and 35 consecutive hours each week. (so they can theorically work up to 88 hours in a week) The modification to the agreement implies that during these mandatory rest periods the worker has to disconnect from work email, remote access.
As a french speaker I am ashamed at the poor level of english reading level of most people in IT, even after five years in college..
A true IT professional should be able to read technical documents in English, which is the de facto standard language for CS..
One complaining about not being able to read English, needs to be told he'll be doing a great favor to himself by improving his english level.
According to blu-raystats.com 17 Mb/s is the bottom of the line for the video bitrate alone, 40 Mb/s being the top.
The average for the video bitrate seems to be at least 25 mbits/s, add the audio and you get 30 Mb/s.
This is the latest of so many instances.
Every time there is some news that has a strong echo, he creates some new oppressive law to please the far-rights voters..
This law reminds me of the precrime from Minority Report..
At least in the US FBI entraps the suspect before jailing him.
What's next in "Le pays des Droits de l'Homme" ? Jailing someone because a "Total Information Awareness"-like program consider him a terrorist-wanabee ? (he read the wrong book and regularly shops in ethnic grocery stores)
Fortunately not every corporation corrupts the iso process, not every corporation joins a standardization body while parallely setting a patent ambush.. So yes corporations can act differently;
I guess the morality of the executive leadership can affect the morality of the corporation's acts.
Sometimes the main shareholders are real humain beings with a conscience, which may affect their choices for the corporation.
Even if we accept the idea that every corporations are without conscience, they may a least be concerned and be affected by their customers perception of their acts.
If we excuse someone just because others did/do the same or worse, everything is excusable.
Steve Wozniak is still active, is the chief scientist of Fusion-IO.
They make very high IOPS storage devices in the form of PCI Express cards with solid state ram.
I do exactly the same as the GP, so I'm really interested to know how exactly can we otherwise evaluate if a game is good enough to buy. Please let us know.
Do you need a free lunch to evaluate if a restaurant is worth your money ?
How do you evaluate if a movie is worth the ticket without seeing it ?
Seriously..
This is the same country where the president decided to suppress the advertisement on evening public TV channels.
Presumably to help private TV channels to sell their advertising at a higher price.
And they created a new tax on ISP and telecom providers income in order to compensate this loss of income.
Tax creation has become a national sport under Sarkozy's regime.
The same with the law. When some news story impress the public opinion, they create very specific laws although it would be enough to applicate the existent laws. Depressing..
A type of fertilizer called purin can involve urine as a major component. It is used at least in France, for ages.
Generally the urine of cattle is used, but human urine can be used too, especially in the case for little garden where people grow vegetables for their own consumption.
Touchstone Pictures is nothing more than a brand of Disney.
Under this brand, Disney produced:
Starship Troopers, Revelations, Ladykillers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Apocalypto, The Prestige,The Royal Tenenbaums,Dead Poets Society,The Nightmare Before Christmas..
If you cared to read the article, you would have learn that Andrew appel led an examination team including himself and 5 other computer scientists (Maia Ginsburg, Harri Hursti, Brian Kernighan, Chris Richards, and Gang Tan).
From the PDF "Requirements Specification for HD DVD Video Application" (http://www.dvdforum.org/gen-reqspec.htm), an official document from the DVD Forum.
Apart from the requirements listed in this document it is required that the HD DVD Video application layer will support and improve upon features offered in DVD such as regional coding, multiple menu languages,
During the 34th steering committee meeting (May 24, 2006), DVD Forum created a "HD DVD RPC Ad hoc group to work with appropriate WGs to develop a specification and enforcement plan for RPC on HD DVD-Video including region map and requirements in consultation with the studios"
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One point that is not in the original Guardian article is that this is a proposal only, and a proposal that only applies to French companies that are part of the "Syntec" work agreement.
And it only applies to 200 000 workers whose worktime is not counted not in hours but in days (forfait jour), not one million..
That means they can work much more that 35 hours / week.
The limit being the labour law, ie: you must have rest period of at least 11 consecutive hours between each day of work and 35 consecutive hours each week. (so they can theorically work up to 88 hours in a week)
The modification to the agreement implies that during these mandatory rest periods the worker has to disconnect from work email, remote access.
Seems fair to me..
You couldn't be more dictactorship friendly than when giving the possibility of https interception, as the same time betraying your own customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tunisia_Scandal#Citizen_Surveillance_and_Hacking
As a french speaker I am ashamed at the poor level of english reading level of most people in IT, even after five years in college.. ..
A true IT professional should be able to read technical documents in English, which is the de facto standard language for CS
One complaining about not being able to read English, needs to be told he'll be doing a great favor to himself by improving his english level.
According to blu-raystats.com 17 Mb/s is the bottom of the line for the video bitrate alone, 40 Mb/s being the top.
The average for the video bitrate seems to be at least 25 mbits/s, add the audio and you get 30 Mb/s.
This is the latest of so many instances. Every time there is some news that has a strong echo, he creates some new oppressive law to please the far-rights voters..
This law reminds me of the precrime from Minority Report.. At least in the US FBI entraps the suspect before jailing him.
What's next in "Le pays des Droits de l'Homme" ? Jailing someone because a "Total Information Awareness"-like program consider him a terrorist-wanabee ? (he read the wrong book and regularly shops in ethnic grocery stores)
First android phones weren't multitouch, so pinch-zoom was impossible.
Fortunately not every corporation corrupts the iso process, not every corporation joins a standardization body while parallely setting a patent ambush.. So yes corporations can act differently;
I guess the morality of the executive leadership can affect the morality of the corporation's acts.
Sometimes the main shareholders are real humain beings with a conscience, which may affect their choices for the corporation.
Even if we accept the idea that every corporations are without conscience, they may a least be concerned and be affected by their customers perception of their acts.
If we excuse someone just because others did/do the same or worse, everything is excusable.
Steve Wozniak is still active, is the chief scientist of Fusion-IO.
They make very high IOPS storage devices in the form of PCI Express cards with solid state ram.
While HP Touchpad tablets stay on the shelves, Android tablets have captured 20% of the market share.
A big part of the difference is justified by the VAT, 19.6 % in my country..
That was so much of an "innovation" that its successor has only one size of controller.
A monthly subscription mandatory to play online, that's the kind of innovation i can live without.
I suggest Steve Jobs to put his money where is mouth is.
Please change http://trailers.apple.com/ so that it doesn't require quicktime plugin for watching video.
Of course Steve Jobs is all for open standards, he would NEVER use content to force us to install apple software when html5 so nicely fits the bill...
It's why http://trailers.apple.com/ is full html5, and you don't need to install quicktime to watch videos... Oh wait !
At least the Apple HTML5 showcase page access isn't limited to Safari anymore..
I do exactly the same as the GP, so I'm really interested to know how exactly can we otherwise evaluate if a game is good enough to buy. Please let us know.
Do you need a free lunch to evaluate if a restaurant is worth your money ? How do you evaluate if a movie is worth the ticket without seeing it ? Seriously..
This patch made LOTS of Windows 98 computers become slow as being unusable and/or enjoy frequent BSODs.
And they created a new tax on ISP and telecom providers income in order to compensate this loss of income.
Tax creation has become a national sport under Sarkozy's regime.
The same with the law. When some news story impress the public opinion, they create very specific laws although it would be enough to applicate the existent laws. Depressing..
A type of fertilizer called purin can involve urine as a major component. It is used at least in France, for ages. Generally the urine of cattle is used, but human urine can be used too, especially in the case for little garden where people grow vegetables for their own consumption.
Mundane remarks knows no bounds of age either.
Touchstone Pictures is nothing more than a brand of Disney. :
..
Under this brand, Disney produced
Starship Troopers, Revelations, Ladykillers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Apocalypto, The Prestige,The Royal Tenenbaums,Dead Poets Society,The Nightmare Before Christmas
See the complete list.
They seemed to be concerned enough to end their cross-promotional pact with MacDonald.
That happened just after Steve Jobs took the reins.
You may want to try teracopy
What make this used games sound so immoral is the tremendous profit made by the used game resellers.
Their margin isn't related to the added value of their service, but with the value of the game in a new condition.
They are effectively stealing the game industry.
1 man "expert witness" review of source code ?
If you cared to read the article, you would have learn that Andrew appel led an examination team including himself and 5 other computer scientists (Maia Ginsburg, Harri Hursti, Brian Kernighan, Chris Richards, and Gang Tan).
If terrorist attacks were a real threat to America, don't you think US would have endured several ones since 2001 ?
From the PDF "Requirements Specification for HD DVD Video Application"
(http://www.dvdforum.org/gen-reqspec.htm), an official document from the DVD Forum.
Apart from the requirements listed in this document it is required that the HD DVD Video application layer will support and improve upon features offered in DVD such as regional coding, multiple menu languages,
During the 34th steering committee meeting (May 24, 2006), DVD Forum created a "HD DVD RPC Ad hoc group to work with appropriate WGs to develop a specification and enforcement plan for RPC on HD DVD-Video including region map and requirements in consultation with the studios"
http://www.dvdforum.org/34scmtg-resolution.htm
This subcommitee is shown in the DVD Forum steering committee diagram:
http://www.dvdforum.org/images/forumorg-sc-06.jpg
HD DVD regional coding was a "feature" they were working on, they were probably to be added at a later date.