I think you miss the point. If 20% of my clients speak English and 80% speak French (or vice-versa), I would hire bilingual staff. Don't call it "official-bilingualism," call it a good business practise. Obviously, if 1% were English, I would expect them to also speak French.
In the Federal government, you only need to be bilingual in areas where the population to serve is English or French (like the nation's capital). You only need to be bilingual (and I don't mean fully fluent) if you have non-bilingual personnel or need to serve the public. This means that the minor clerk is fine with only English unless he needs to serve French speaking people.
In any case, what's so hard about learning French? I picked-up Mandarin through a pod-cast. I think all kids in Canada should be thought both French and English until grade 13. That would solve the problem.
Isn't it also funny how you can travel to Quebec and be served in English almost anywhere but try to go to St-Petersburg in Russia and see what how far you'll get with only English.
I'm sure Western scientists would love to know *why* it failed.
Folks, when the Navy recover the remains of the vehicle they will know it didn't fail. What they will salvage will not be the payload they thought, that part is in orbit now, but the life-size effigy of Kim Yong-Il placed on top of the rocket with fingers pointing toward the sky. Muhahahhahhaaa!!!
Yeah and the penalty for speaking English or showing an English sign is one night at Club Super Sexe in downtown Montreal. Oh the humanity! I was brought up in French and went to English schools in Quebec and wonder what the heck you're talking about. Feeling angry is the problem here. Relax, it's all good. Quebec girls are hot and that's all that counts in my books.
...forgot to mention that Quebec is probably the most inclusive society out there. Go downtown Montreal and you'll see more diverse ethicity per habitant than any other city in North America.
Most of Quebec don't want to Canada to be split. But when some Canadians go nuts and get all pissy about decriminalizing pot or legalizing prostitution or drinking wine or beer in public and start burning Quebec flags, censoring radio stations, well, we'd rather split. Can you blame them?
People from Quebec want to live in a Canada which reflects their culture and values just as much as those of the other provinces and of which they can be proud of.
BTW: Official bilingualism works both ways. Speaking only French for example isn't going to get you a job if you need to serve English speaking citizens.
Funny, a few weeks ago, my friend who didn't speak a single word of English, was on a trip in N.Y. City to visit our other friend Nikko (not the GTA IV guy). He was baffled when he could order Vodka in Russian in a liquor store in Manhattan. Thankfully, the cab driver was able to get him where he wanted and also helped with the liquor. He couldn't understand why American can't say two words in Russian.
I would argue that someone who is bilingual/trilingual in the languages you've mentioned would not even be working as a programmer. After all women have better language skills than men...
Note that I am a trilingual programmer but that doesn't mean I have good language skills. It just means I can write, speak and understand more than one language.
I will argue that someone who has Russian as a first language and Chinese as a second will most likely be better off to code than someone with merely English as a first language.
Why would someone who speaks Russian and/or Mandarin and English code better than someone who only speaks English or Spanish for that matter? I think that it is more likely that someone who knows c++ and assembler intimately will code better than someone who knows only HTML (with all due respect to all those HTML gurus). Even if these HTML gurus know Russian and Mandarin.
I agree with that interesting statement. Maybe the dilemma is in the "what." Science and religion both claim, as an extension of the why and how,what happens, what happened or what will happen.
In high school was convinced I could build a flying saucer just from a magazine article. The only thing I was missing was a terawatt laser. Don't aim too low. That being said, I also thought that the COBOL statement MOVE INVENTORY-IN TO INVENTORY-OUT involved robotics.
I tried an Atom based Aspire today and IE was very slow loading. Those eeePCs-like systems are cute but running DOS isn't my thing anymore. So it's a trade off. Portability, battery life and features vs performance. I didn't try but I'm not expecting to be able to watch HD movies off of one.
That's why people run for office. Just get elected and cut wasteful spending. BTW: the tax revenue in the US is actually less than all G8 countries except for Japan. I guess now, with all those job losses, the taxation revenue will drop another 5-10 percent. Less revenue, less money to waste.
I haven't found anyone who actually likes it. Web based is not a destination folks, it's only a road. Don't take it if you're driving a Ferrari, the bumps will ruin the trip.
Let's face it, states are broke and need cash. Either raise traditional taxes (property tax, income tax, etc.) or find other creative ways to grab money from those who actually have some.
I suppose it also includes on-line pr0n. The state should be in the black in no time!
To beat (possible trauma) and to spank (temporary inflammation of the buttocks) are not the same thing. I'm not on any particular side of this debate, however, I don't beat my kids neither do I spank them. Abuse means exactly that and yes, there would be long term consequences. Let's not compare the two. Yes, I was occasionally spanked and I believe, in my case, this has resulted in immediate behaviour correction. Too often people make a link between spanking and anger. It certainly is inappropriate to spank as a result of anger. Spanking should be used as a means to correct immediately inappropriate and possibly life threatening actions by a child. I would simply suggest changing the building code for schools to include Faraday cages in the walls of every class. There, problem solved.
Here at the (anonymous) clinic we give our servers the name of disorders and conditions.
Guess which server had RAM problems? Emphysema suddenly shutdown one day when its fan locked-up and overheated. All MS servers have names of various cancers. Macabre yes, but it keeps them from spreading.
Our IT staff sounds quite impressive to the MDs when they're chatting in the cafeteria.
Coming up with an entirely new OS name is disingenuous.
To me there was a significant step in going from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. Then another big step from 2000 to XP and another big step from XP to Vista. I consider going to Windows 7 the same as upgrading Windows 98 to Windows Millennium Edition, catchy but insignificant except maybe for marketing. Corporations with very limited IT budgets are not going to move to Windows 7 any time soon.
I'm not Apple fan boy but don't see how a patent from Apple stops other products. It just adds to the cost. If the product is that great, all they need is to get a license from Apple and pass the cost on to you. I am sure Apple is willing to see other companies adopt their technology. Works great for Panasonic, Philips, Sony with Blu-Ray.
Personally I think that handing over security to Microsoft is like asking the Hell's Angels to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert.
Yep, I was one of those who bought one during the first 100 days. All I remember was how painful it was swapping 3.5" floppies in and out of that computer. It was easy but painful. The Apple Lisa was much better and had a hard disk (that amazing 5mb Apple Profile). Sadly it was 3-4 times the price.
The cost of buying a patent, any patent, from anyone should legislated be one billion dollar minimum with half of that going to the government. Enough already.
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I think you miss the point. If 20% of my clients speak English and 80% speak French (or vice-versa), I would hire bilingual staff. Don't call it "official-bilingualism," call it a good business practise. Obviously, if 1% were English, I would expect them to also speak French.
In the Federal government, you only need to be bilingual in areas where the population to serve is English or French (like the nation's capital). You only need to be bilingual (and I don't mean fully fluent) if you have non-bilingual personnel or need to serve the public. This means that the minor clerk is fine with only English unless he needs to serve French speaking people.
In any case, what's so hard about learning French? I picked-up Mandarin through a pod-cast. I think all kids in Canada should be thought both French and English until grade 13. That would solve the problem.
Isn't it also funny how you can travel to Quebec and be served in English almost anywhere but try to go to St-Petersburg in Russia and see what how far you'll get with only English.
I'm glad I can play GTA IV in French and English.
I'm sure Western scientists would love to know *why* it failed.
Folks, when the Navy recover the remains of the vehicle they will know it didn't fail. What they will salvage will not be the payload they thought, that part is in orbit now, but the life-size effigy of Kim Yong-Il placed on top of the rocket with fingers pointing toward the sky.
Muhahahhahhaaa!!!
Yeah and the penalty for speaking English or showing an English sign is one night at Club Super Sexe in downtown Montreal. Oh the humanity! I was brought up in French and went to English schools in Quebec and wonder what the heck you're talking about. Feeling angry is the problem here. Relax, it's all good. Quebec girls are hot and that's all that counts in my books.
Where are mod points when you need them. Dutchmaan's post should get some.
...forgot to mention that Quebec is probably the most inclusive society out there. Go downtown Montreal and you'll see more diverse ethicity per habitant than any other city in North America.
Most of Quebec don't want to Canada to be split. But when some Canadians go nuts and get all pissy about decriminalizing pot or legalizing prostitution or drinking wine or beer in public and start burning Quebec flags, censoring radio stations, well, we'd rather split. Can you blame them?
People from Quebec want to live in a Canada which reflects their culture and values just as much as those of the other provinces and of which they can be proud of.
BTW: Official bilingualism works both ways. Speaking only French for example isn't going to get you a job if you need to serve English speaking citizens.
That's because it's not an April's fool joke but a prophecy.
Funny, a few weeks ago, my friend who didn't speak a single word of English, was on a trip in N.Y. City to visit our other friend Nikko (not the GTA IV guy). He was baffled when he could order Vodka in Russian in a liquor store in Manhattan. Thankfully, the cab driver was able to get him where he wanted and also helped with the liquor. He couldn't understand why American can't say two words in Russian.
I would argue that someone who is bilingual/trilingual in the languages you've mentioned would not even be working as a programmer. After all women have better language skills than men...
Note that I am a trilingual programmer but that doesn't mean I have good language skills. It just means I can write, speak and understand more than one language.
I will argue that someone who has Russian as a first language and Chinese as a second will most likely be better off to code than someone with merely English as a first language.
Why would someone who speaks Russian and/or Mandarin and English code better than someone who only speaks English or Spanish for that matter? I think that it is more likely that someone who knows c++ and assembler intimately will code better than someone who knows only HTML (with all due respect to all those HTML gurus). Even if these HTML gurus know Russian and Mandarin.
I agree with that interesting statement. Maybe the dilemma is in the "what." Science and religion both claim, as an extension of the why and how, what happens, what happened or what will happen.
All these wars and for what ?
In high school was convinced I could build a flying saucer just from a magazine article. The only thing I was missing was a terawatt laser. Don't aim too low. That being said, I also thought that the COBOL statement MOVE INVENTORY-IN TO INVENTORY-OUT involved robotics.
IQ pills would help. Wait, is there such a thing? Are Google and Wikipedia getting into pharmaceuticals?
I tried an Atom based Aspire today and IE was very slow loading. Those eeePCs-like systems are cute but running DOS isn't my thing anymore. So it's a trade off. Portability, battery life and features vs performance. I didn't try but I'm not expecting to be able to watch HD movies off of one.
That's why people run for office. Just get elected and cut wasteful spending. BTW: the tax revenue in the US is actually less than all G8 countries except for Japan. I guess now, with all those job losses, the taxation revenue will drop another 5-10 percent. Less revenue, less money to waste.
VMware Server 2 is glitchy to say the least
I haven't found anyone who actually likes it. Web based is not a destination folks, it's only a road. Don't take it if you're driving a Ferrari, the bumps will ruin the trip.
Let's face it, states are broke and need cash. Either raise traditional taxes (property tax, income tax, etc.) or find other creative ways to grab money from those who actually have some.
I suppose it also includes on-line pr0n. The state should be in the black in no time!
To beat (possible trauma) and to spank (temporary inflammation of the buttocks) are not the same thing. I'm not on any particular side of this debate, however, I don't beat my kids neither do I spank them. Abuse means exactly that and yes, there would be long term consequences. Let's not compare the two.
Yes, I was occasionally spanked and I believe, in my case, this has resulted in immediate behaviour correction. Too often people make a link between spanking and anger. It certainly is inappropriate to spank as a result of anger. Spanking should be used as a means to correct immediately inappropriate and possibly life threatening actions by a child.
I would simply suggest changing the building code for schools to include Faraday cages in the walls of every class. There, problem solved.
It's called the placebo effect. Funny thing, you need a prescription to get some.
Here at the (anonymous) clinic we give our servers the name of disorders and conditions.
Guess which server had RAM problems?
Emphysema suddenly shutdown one day when its fan locked-up and overheated.
All MS servers have names of various cancers. Macabre yes, but it keeps them from spreading.
Our IT staff sounds quite impressive to the MDs when they're chatting in the cafeteria.
Psychoanalyze that!
Coming up with an entirely new OS name is disingenuous.
To me there was a significant step in going from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. Then another big step from 2000 to XP and another big step from XP to Vista. I consider going to Windows 7 the same as upgrading Windows 98 to Windows Millennium Edition, catchy but insignificant except maybe for marketing. Corporations with very limited IT budgets are not going to move to Windows 7 any time soon.
Yet I think they should have done better.
How many betas does a service pack need?
Personally I'm going to wait for Windows 8 (which should be the SP1 of Windows 7).
I'm not Apple fan boy but don't see how a patent from Apple stops other products. It just adds to the cost. If the product is that great, all they need is to get a license from Apple and pass the cost on to you. I am sure Apple is willing to see other companies adopt their technology. Works great for Panasonic, Philips, Sony with Blu-Ray.
Personally I think that handing over security to Microsoft is like asking the Hell's Angels to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert.
We can now spam distrowatch with a gazillion custom versions!
Yep, I was one of those who bought one during the first 100 days. All I remember was how painful it was swapping 3.5" floppies in and out of that computer. It was easy but painful. The Apple Lisa was much better and had a hard disk (that amazing 5mb Apple Profile). Sadly it was 3-4 times the price.
The cost of buying a patent, any patent, from anyone should legislated be one billion dollar minimum with half of that going to the government. Enough already.