is that once the UK leaves, English will no longer be an official language of any UE member country. Ireland declared Irish and Malta declared Maltese as their official language for EU purposes, even if their people speak mostly English.
No. Vacation is "paid by the employer", which means the employee gets a lower wage for the working weeks to get some weeks off every year.
Maternity leave is paid by the government/everyone/employers/employees/whatever as long as employers do not get any financial insensitive for not hiring women in their 20s or 30s.
Where I live, every salaried person pay some kind of tax (which goes to a dedicated fund instead of common government revenues, so they don't call it a tax). That fund is used to pay parents (yes, it can be fathers too, although mothers can get more weeks) who take parental leaves. The cost is the same for the employer to have someone having 3 babies in a row (or no baby at all) no matter if they take parental leaves or not. Of course, the employer still has to get the work done while the employee is on parental leave, but at least there is no direct financial cost.
In this system, not coming back after either vacation or parental leave is not theft. You pay for your own vacations up front, and you kind of pay for your parental leave through your working life until you retire, even if of course there are winners and losers, winners being those who have a lot of kids. But you don't owe anything to your past employer by taking a maternity leave.
Meaningless. There's no shortage of people running around with iPhone 5s in this day and age.
Of course. But they got it for cheaper, or they paid full price but got it when it was new. Microsoft is asking full price for devices which are already 6-12 months late when they release.
Not being limited to 140 characters, being able to reply from a PC with a real keyboard sounds like real advantages. No reason to still use SMS in 2017, but even less for job hiring.
Every time I used FTP in my sources.list, it was slower to connect. The whole apt-get update process could therefore be twice as long on FTP, compared to HTTP. Even though I guess once connected, the file transfer protocol should be more efficient.
It's not a promotion problem. It's a device problem. Which Windows Phone devices compete with the Galaxy S8? The iPhone 7? They are always 6-12 months late (especially if you compare to Android, where they use the same components).
The EIA measured relative emissions across the US economy as "carbon intensity"—an average of the amount of carbon any sector gives off as it consumes different kinds of fuel
They use BTU as a measurement of the amount of fuel consumed to produce electricity. They convert volumes or masses of gas, oil, uranium into BTU. What are they doing with solar or wind isn't clear. A measure of CO2 per unit of energy produced would be much more meaningful, and wouldn't result in a division by 0 for solar.
I know quite a lot of Apple fanboys and none of them ever said they were holding off for the 10th anniversary iPhone. Nothing special is expected, it will be better than the 9th, worse than the 11th.
Apple probably lost many sales to Android manufacturers, however.
As a linux user, every time I have to use a Mac, I feel like I am back 10-20 years in time. I don't know if it's specifically Apple, or if it is generalized to the BSD versions of the standard unix tools, but the Linux/GNU tools are years ahead. Even the tab completion sucks by default on OS X.
The only reason why it's falling is because they count renewables as "fuel". So of course per unit of "fuel" consumed (and remember, solar radiation count as "fuel"), they emit less CO2. It doesn't mean the process of CO2 emitting thermal power plants actually improved.
Yes and it was a good thing to replace PS/2. There was just no rush to change. Ports were color coded (green and purple) so it was easy to plug the keyboard in the correct port. A smooth transition over a few years is the best thing to do when replacing ports.
Most early adopters of the USB-C port will replace their PC before connecting a single USB-C device. And no, dongles don't count. This is especially true for iPhone owners since phones are by far the most common USB-C devices.
It was also true that at the beginning of USB, there was no reason to rush into buying a PC without PS/2 ports. They worked just fine for keyboard and mouse. There was no real advantage in having 4 USB ports over 2 USB and 2 PS/2.
Citation needed. What I've seen is that different studies come to different conclusions and there are pros and cons to both approaches. There is no universally agreed-upon idea that stay at home children end up better.
Non-modern programming languages are not executable? What does that mean? They can obviously be compiled/interpreted into executable code, just like modern languages.
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You know that the guy is from Luxembourg, not France, right?
is that once the UK leaves, English will no longer be an official language of any UE member country. Ireland declared Irish and Malta declared Maltese as their official language for EU purposes, even if their people speak mostly English.
No. Vacation is "paid by the employer", which means the employee gets a lower wage for the working weeks to get some weeks off every year.
Maternity leave is paid by the government/everyone/employers/employees/whatever as long as employers do not get any financial insensitive for not hiring women in their 20s or 30s.
Where I live, every salaried person pay some kind of tax (which goes to a dedicated fund instead of common government revenues, so they don't call it a tax). That fund is used to pay parents (yes, it can be fathers too, although mothers can get more weeks) who take parental leaves. The cost is the same for the employer to have someone having 3 babies in a row (or no baby at all) no matter if they take parental leaves or not. Of course, the employer still has to get the work done while the employee is on parental leave, but at least there is no direct financial cost.
In this system, not coming back after either vacation or parental leave is not theft. You pay for your own vacations up front, and you kind of pay for your parental leave through your working life until you retire, even if of course there are winners and losers, winners being those who have a lot of kids. But you don't owe anything to your past employer by taking a maternity leave.
Meaningless. There's no shortage of people running around with iPhone 5s in this day and age.
Of course. But they got it for cheaper, or they paid full price but got it when it was new.
Microsoft is asking full price for devices which are already 6-12 months late when they release.
Not being limited to 140 characters, being able to reply from a PC with a real keyboard sounds like real advantages. No reason to still use SMS in 2017, but even less for job hiring.
Every time I used FTP in my sources.list, it was slower to connect. The whole apt-get update process could therefore be twice as long on FTP, compared to HTTP. Even though I guess once connected, the file transfer protocol should be more efficient.
It's not a promotion problem. It's a device problem. Which Windows Phone devices compete with the Galaxy S8? The iPhone 7?
They are always 6-12 months late (especially if you compare to Android, where they use the same components).
You simply get more with the competition.
Actually yes, I've seen many of them. Surface Pros.
just because surface users don't spend their days in starbucks doesn't mean there aren't any
$1000 for 4 GB of non-upgradable RAM and a (probably) non-upgradable 128 GB SSD.
from TFA :
The EIA measured relative emissions across the US economy as "carbon intensity"—an average of the amount of carbon any sector gives off as it consumes different kinds of fuel
They use BTU as a measurement of the amount of fuel consumed to produce electricity. They convert volumes or masses of gas, oil, uranium into BTU. What are they doing with solar or wind isn't clear.
A measure of CO2 per unit of energy produced would be much more meaningful, and wouldn't result in a division by 0 for solar.
The intensity measure is the amount of CO2 released per unit of FUEL consumed. Sounds like a division by 0 to me.
I know quite a lot of Apple fanboys and none of them ever said they were holding off for the 10th anniversary iPhone. Nothing special is expected, it will be better than the 9th, worse than the 11th.
Apple probably lost many sales to Android manufacturers, however.
As a linux user, every time I have to use a Mac, I feel like I am back 10-20 years in time. I don't know if it's specifically Apple, or if it is generalized to the BSD versions of the standard unix tools, but the Linux/GNU tools are years ahead. Even the tab completion sucks by default on OS X.
Resale value, as in, >2 year old Macs actually have one.
Which is a good reason to buy 2 years old PC for $0.
I will consider my parenting to be a success if my kids never end up thinking like this.
that's not what is being used to produce energy in solar power plants
Because solar radiation, water and wind aren't "fuel".
The only reason why it's falling is because they count renewables as "fuel". So of course per unit of "fuel" consumed (and remember, solar radiation count as "fuel"), they emit less CO2. It doesn't mean the process of CO2 emitting thermal power plants actually improved.
Yes and it was a good thing to replace PS/2. There was just no rush to change. Ports were color coded (green and purple) so it was easy to plug the keyboard in the correct port. A smooth transition over a few years is the best thing to do when replacing ports.
Most early adopters of the USB-C port will replace their PC before connecting a single USB-C device. And no, dongles don't count.
This is especially true for iPhone owners since phones are by far the most common USB-C devices.
It was also true that at the beginning of USB, there was no reason to rush into buying a PC without PS/2 ports. They worked just fine for keyboard and mouse. There was no real advantage in having 4 USB ports over 2 USB and 2 PS/2.
PC hardware support is still years ahead on Linux, especially for stuff such as WiFi adapters and GPU.
Citation needed.
What I've seen is that different studies come to different conclusions and there are pros and cons to both approaches. There is no universally agreed-upon idea that stay at home children end up better.
Non-modern programming languages are not executable? What does that mean? They can obviously be compiled/interpreted into executable code, just like modern languages.
Again, you are missing my point. What you say is only true outside civilized countries.