Without any direct (live) contact with people, it will be at the same time hard and not very useful to learn a second language. If you live in the South-West, maybe you can try Spanish...
Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Care to correctly rephrase my sentence ? I first wrote it with "whether" instead of "if", but I think I would have needed to add "or not" at the end.
Okay, so what happens when millions (billions?) of persons use OS X and iTunes because they have to (company policy) or because they need to product iWhatever documents?
The same problems as we have today with Microsoft, yes. But we are still a very looooooong way from that.
Apple is building/their/ product and trying to get everyone to adapt their needs to it. At least MS is trying to make it's product general purpose (if ineptly in some cases), and allow people to have options at every level except the OS. Apple tries to restrict options at ALL levels.
One huge difference between Apple and Microsoft is that nearly nobody is forced to buy or use Apple products : people use it by choice, and are free to use alternatives. Maybe a few persons use a Mac at work because their company enforce it, plus of course the iOS developers.
In contrast, millions (billions?) of persons use Windows and Office because they have to (company policy) or because they need to produce Office documents.
It would make more sense to have August, December and April off so there are three month-long breaks.
A study made in Switzerland showed that the optimum distribution of school holidays (from a learning point of view) was based on blocks of 6 weeks school + 2 weeks holidays.
Of course it is socially difficult to shorten the summer holidays that much, but it is better to tend to 6-7 weeks summer holidays rather than 2-3 months.
It's news because it indicates that Microsoft's marketing department does not know of Osborne Computer
RTFA : the "information" does not come from PR, but from HR through job adverts.
And I don't think that the potential existence of Surface 2 might refrain people from buying Surface 1 : at least, it shows that Microsoft is a bit committed and not just simply testing the market...
A throwback, an abomination. It should have never been allowed to get this far, and the people responsible taken out back and 'dealt with.
Nobody will force you to use it. If your favorite Linux distro switches to Wayland, you will be free to switch to another one still using X11, or to make your own X11 fork.
That's the beauty of open source : the agenda is not dictated by a company (see Windows'8 Metro), but by what the users choose.
It is impossible to regulate this industry. What should be done is nothing : let Knight Capital Group try to absorb this $440M loss, if they can. If they go bankrupt, it is even better : this will teach a lesson to all other companies which deploy untested software, a lesson given in the only language that they understand : money.
Trying to enforce stricter guidelines only makes sense in industries where human lives are at stake (airlines, health...). For the financial industry, only the financial incentives make sense.
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#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
But what if you add the number of unreported rapes ? Countries like India or South Africa are probably even worse than the US.
It looks great, even if not 100% ready (I guess this is why it is still an add-on and not a part of the standard installation).
What I like most about it : no more PDFs cluttering my "Downloads" folder. And if I really want to save the PDF, it is only one click away.
Great job, guys.
You're right except for limiting it to the South-West.
Right, there is also French in the North-East :-)
I am not planning to travel or move/work abroad.
Without any direct (live) contact with people, it will be at the same time hard and not very useful to learn a second language. If you live in the South-West, maybe you can try Spanish...
Our country makes it too easy for nutcases to have guns. I, for one, would give up the right to bear arms for everyone, and not miss it.
Don't blame the guns : your country has a violence problem.
Ask him if he knows what is a PHB
If he corrects your English, hire him.
Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Care to correctly rephrase my sentence ? I first wrote it with "whether" instead of "if", but I think I would have needed to add "or not" at the end.
Ask him if he knows what is a PHB
MS R&D is the largest computer tech R&D in the world. Combine IBM, Intel, and AMD, and you get an idea of their size.
For a company whose main job is to develop software, it is not surprising to have a large R&D.
But if you talk about research, can you please remind me how many Nobel prizes IBM and Microsoft have each won ?
You don't have to expect anything, it is a given that this is going to be a legal requirement in the EU by 2020.
(citation needed)
Life here without AC wouldn't be possible. It will typically run about 10 months out of the year.
Can you confirm that nobody was living in your place 100 years ago ?
A good hacker is supposed to be curious. A can't imagine a good hacker who didn't at least once try smoking weed...
I'm not forced to buy or use MS products any more than Apple products.
Lucky for you. But many people have a job and no choice.
Okay, so what happens when millions (billions?) of persons use OS X and iTunes because they have to (company policy) or because they need to product iWhatever documents?
The same problems as we have today with Microsoft, yes. But we are still a very looooooong way from that.
Apple is building /their/ product and trying to get everyone to adapt their needs to it. At least MS is trying to make it's product general purpose (if ineptly in some cases), and allow people to have options at every level except the OS. Apple tries to restrict options at ALL levels.
One huge difference between Apple and Microsoft is that nearly nobody is forced to buy or use Apple products : people use it by choice, and are free to use alternatives. Maybe a few persons use a Mac at work because their company enforce it, plus of course the iOS developers.
In contrast, millions (billions?) of persons use Windows and Office because they have to (company policy) or because they need to produce Office documents.
Fragmentation is a developer problem that affects how easy it is to roll out software for the platform.
Apple keeps the core APIs consistent across devices. Everything you have listed is unrelated to the developer's ability to build their own apps.
Let's be nice with the poor author of the "article" : the GPS feature might cause some mild fragmentation...
But for the rest, it is clear that he is clueless. And not coherent, because he forgot the fragmentation due to different iPhone colors.
It would make more sense to have August, December and April off so there are three month-long breaks.
A study made in Switzerland showed that the optimum distribution of school holidays (from a learning point of view) was based on blocks of 6 weeks school + 2 weeks holidays.
Of course it is socially difficult to shorten the summer holidays that much, but it is better to tend to 6-7 weeks summer holidays rather than 2-3 months.
I like having my own garage
And I like not needing a car.
This is also something more or less normal here in Switzerland, the exact % being heavily influenced by your number of kids and their age.
It's news because it indicates that Microsoft's marketing department does not know of Osborne Computer
RTFA : the "information" does not come from PR, but from HR through job adverts.
And I don't think that the potential existence of Surface 2 might refrain people from buying Surface 1 : at least, it shows that Microsoft is a bit committed and not just simply testing the market...
Linux is still using an operating system design that's about 40 years old.
It, and most programs for it, are written in a programming language that's even older.
Yes, but they did at least evolve. X11 is still X11. And there is no X12 :-)
We're communicating using http, which is twenty years old.
That moves over TCP, which is about ten years older, give or take.
Your computer is gets its power from the wall, where the standards written for it are over 100 years old.
Lower-level standards.
(Oh, and guess how old the win32 API is?)
If you want to compare Win32 to X11, you need to compare it to DirectX, Direct3D, DirectDraw, and all their multiple versions.
Wayland is an attempt to remove the network transparency of X... in a world where everything is networked.
Some people might consider this utterly retarded.
X11 was released in 1987, in a world where the web did not exist, and the internet only used by a few scientist (including me).
So, Linux today is still using a graphical subsystem designed 25 years ago. Some people might consider this utterly retarded.
A throwback, an abomination. It should have never been allowed to get this far, and the people responsible taken out back and 'dealt with.
Nobody will force you to use it. If your favorite Linux distro switches to Wayland, you will be free to switch to another one still using X11, or to make your own X11 fork.
That's the beauty of open source : the agenda is not dictated by a company (see Windows'8 Metro), but by what the users choose.
So you think that skin color or gender is what makes a person correct for a given job? Do you understand how absurd that actually sounds? I guess not.
Of course it is absurd if you talk about doing the job. But not for getting it, unfortunately. And this is where Romney might have done a mistake...
Don't buy it.
Tell my company...
It is impossible to regulate this industry. What should be done is nothing : let Knight Capital Group try to absorb this $440M loss, if they can. If they go bankrupt, it is even better : this will teach a lesson to all other companies which deploy untested software, a lesson given in the only language that they understand : money.
Trying to enforce stricter guidelines only makes sense in industries where human lives are at stake (airlines, health...). For the financial industry, only the financial incentives make sense.