That assumes "net use" actually does anything and the same thing 100% of time, like you would assume all commands do.
But Sir, Windows is a different beast and the same command can lead nowhere! it's so bad sometype I find myself typing "net useless".
Care to show some figures about "people" who are "generally happy with Vista"?
I don't know. I use both, plus XP at home and I work in a place where people is in average unhappy with Windows Vista, although very few know about other OSs.
Yesterday, I asked the support group to install Ubuntu on mine after I spent 45mn deleting a 1GB directory with Vista, and spent 2.5mn deleting its image using "rm -rf" on the same box in a different directory from a virtual machine.
The bootime and shutdowntime are also absolutely horrendous compared to most Linux based systems. 5mn is much too long when you have to do that at least 3 times a day when your video driver produces blue screens of death, while the same PC under Ubuntu works like a charm. Plus, what the hell is Windows doing that requires 5mn of non-stop HD activity and no user interaction whatsoever? Even Ubuntu disk check at boot doesn't take that long.
In all objectivity, Ubuntu has gone a LONG way and Vista is making the case for more Linux based computers, shooting some $ out of the M-foot. And it is definitely not accurate to say that people are generally happy with Vista. Where I live and work the general trend is to move away from it.
Why would I clean-install Linux where tingz like Ubuntu 9.04 (beta, just like Windows7!) installed itself without a glitch from a previous version, without anyone telling me I should erase my life beforehand?
Did I do something wrong?
They happily keep violent/nazi/negationists sites up and running, but will censor a breast-feeding site or a site from people who have YET to be proven guilty of any wrongdoing (let's remind everyone that being on trial doesn't make you guilty).
Seriously, people using Facebook should consider why they're doing this. It's funny to see how M$ gets easily bashed each time they move a finger, but Facebook gets away with pretty much everything.
In a discussion about culture, Canada and the like, I think as a non "U" user (despites the U from USA), you should check your facts twice.
Once again, USA did NOT invent everything, particularly not transistors.
I just dont buy it because I can't expect my 10 and 11 year old kids to enjoy a title in a language they barely understand yet.
Since you are (also) living in Canada, which is a country with 2 official languages, your kids are assumed to learn english as well as french.
Your point is totally moot and the bashing of US non-translated movies unwelcomed. Plus you have no excuse for not teaching your kids english.
Signed by an immigrant whose 10-years old is a US citizen and speaks both languages fluently since she is forced to attend a french school in Quebec (which is good to some extent!).
And I can assure you that we have not many points in common with the rest of the north america.
Bash me at will if you'd like, but that's what 100% of Quebec natives would like to think and will tell you. Immigrants think Quebec is just a french version of north america.
Culturaly, Quebec is just as american as any north-american region. Football, hockey, doughnuts, bad coffee, blockbuster movies, Texas/Chicago/Wherever ribs, huge SUVs and cars, the list is american-like items in Quebec's way of life is endless. Even the countryside look like New England. It is just *less* worse than Ontario.
Unfortunately, there is a difference between enforcing the availability of french titles, and enforcing the usage of them.
As the FA says, the result will be that editors will no longer translate titles. This kind of shortsighted decisions are way too common in Quebec, even more when one has to deal with the Office de La Langue Francaise.
My native tongue is french, yet I think this is just yet one more move from the dumb asses that sit in government offices here.
I live in Quebec and I am now just a little more annoyed than I was before reading the FA.
Is this a smart move to get more video games into the hands of French speakers? Or, is it misguided, xenophobic protectionism? I'm going with the latter.
"misguided protectionism" is the right term for that. Quebec Office de la langue Francaise has been trying to impose all sort of similar restrictions in the IT world: we are now supposedly forced to use FRENCH operating systems, even when you're a development shop for a US customer. It just doesn't make any sense.
Add to it, in the case of games, translations usually suck. WoW in english is great and immersive, WoW in french looks and sounds uterly ridiculous.
The trouble with Quebec gov is that they don't give people the choice. They impose it when no one wants it. It usually fails and costs us money.
>>Ruby is a language. Languages usually don't have problems with scalability.
Ruby is an interpreted language. Interpreted Languages often have problems with their runtime's scalability.
I live in Quebec where there is a tendency to french-ize everything in order to keep the french language alive.
Unfortunately, some hard-core people here believe programs should be written in french too. That leads to unreadable code.
When such situation occurs, I usually compare it to flying planes: if a chinese pilot wants to land in Toronto or Amsterdam, he'd better speak english if he wants to land his plane. Imagine if anyone would speak their own language...Planes wouldn't be safe.
It is also true for things like unit systems: the metric system is the international language of measurement, yet there are a few that still won't apply it (why? don't ask me), at the cost of say, losing a Mars probes, or generate other such disasters.
Another example is international diplomacy, which for arbitrary/historical reasons used to be conducted in French. Adopting a common language, whatever it is, avoids Babel-like issues.
The same, to a lower scale, applies to writing code: we're no longer in our small corner so we need to find a common way to communicate to make sure we can land the plane, or talk to the neighbours.
No, obstination is not the reason in that particular case.
Computer research in France is (or was...) huge. French universities has invented Prolog, Ada and many other computer languages I can't remember the name (including silly Logo). It's not a surprise to see yet one more obscure language nobody else uses still in production, completely written and used in French.
That doesn't make it less painful though.
I'm a little fuzzy on the details from TFA but... what exactly would these jobs entail? I mean, if some govt. office is running MS Office now and have 100 employees, switching to OpenOffice would create 100 openings more? Or what?
Sounds to me like an emotional argument rather than something based on fact.
It's not all about OpenOffice. Your example is actually a wrong one. In Quebec, there's a LOT of IT activities, a massive IT workforce. Using that workforce to make/manage free products rather than support commercial ones is probably a better bet, as we all here in Slashdot already know.
I'm from Quebec and work in IT, and this is a very good example of how public affairs are usually run, as well as how things are done in companies.
Mot people are ignorant of what options they have available, which is OK. The trouble is that there is rarely an ear to listen at other options than the most obvious (usually wrong) ones.
There is no second opinion, no debate. Just a few people who think they know. They usually are proven wrong when it's too late.
This false sense of knowing gives way to all sorts of non-sense, but most people here are happy to live with that. Changing for the better is just an invalid option.
Must be the gulf stream. Montreal is at the same latitude as Bordeaux (France).
In a way that really doesn't sound fair considering how freaking cold the winters are in Quebec.
So, if you kiss your girlfriend (assuming such a thing exists), would that consist in "making breath available" or "distribution"? As I understand, the recent debate is around such distinction.
I've used Java from one of the first alpha releases, but it just hasn't panned out...
Indeed the alpha version of Java was slow. That was 12 years ago. Try running a GUI application with JDK 1.6 and a graphic card with an Open GL implementation, see if Python or other such high level languages does better, even on the GUI side which is not really Java's best field of play.
Plus, Java doesn't like to be called from other languages--it really wants to be "boss".
Oh..since you're talking about interoperability...The java RMI stack is basically CORBA, but maybe you don't know what that monster is.
I'm sorry to say that your ignorance in your post shows. You should not try to give people wrong ideas based on your biased and incomplete experience.
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That assumes "net use" actually does anything and the same thing 100% of time, like you would assume all commands do.
But Sir, Windows is a different beast and the same command can lead nowhere! it's so bad sometype I find myself typing "net useless".
Care to show some figures about "people" who are "generally happy with Vista"?
I don't know. I use both, plus XP at home and I work in a place where people is in average unhappy with Windows Vista, although very few know about other OSs.
Yesterday, I asked the support group to install Ubuntu on mine after I spent 45mn deleting a 1GB directory with Vista, and spent 2.5mn deleting its image using "rm -rf" on the same box in a different directory from a virtual machine.
The bootime and shutdowntime are also absolutely horrendous compared to most Linux based systems. 5mn is much too long when you have to do that at least 3 times a day when your video driver produces blue screens of death, while the same PC under Ubuntu works like a charm. Plus, what the hell is Windows doing that requires 5mn of non-stop HD activity and no user interaction whatsoever? Even Ubuntu disk check at boot doesn't take that long.
In all objectivity, Ubuntu has gone a LONG way and Vista is making the case for more Linux based computers, shooting some $ out of the M-foot. And it is definitely not accurate to say that people are generally happy with Vista. Where I live and work the general trend is to move away from it.
oh duh! Sorry about that. So I should re-install Windows'95 other a rather old XP one just to be sure?
Why would I clean-install Linux where tingz like Ubuntu 9.04 (beta, just like Windows7!) installed itself without a glitch from a previous version, without anyone telling me I should erase my life beforehand?
Did I do something wrong?
Facebook has a serious censorship problem:
They happily keep violent/nazi/negationists sites up and running, but will censor a breast-feeding site or a site from people who have YET to be proven guilty of any wrongdoing (let's remind everyone that being on trial doesn't make you guilty).
Seriously, people using Facebook should consider why they're doing this. It's funny to see how M$ gets easily bashed each time they move a finger, but Facebook gets away with pretty much everything.
Hum...NO. Please leave France alone. They have enough to do with their own stupid laws, like Hadopi.
Once again, USA did NOT invent everything, particularly not transistors.
Please give my "U"s back and re-centre that R.
I just dont buy it because I can't expect my 10 and 11 year old kids to enjoy a title in a language they barely understand yet.
Since you are (also) living in Canada, which is a country with 2 official languages, your kids are assumed to learn english as well as french.
Your point is totally moot and the bashing of US non-translated movies unwelcomed. Plus you have no excuse for not teaching your kids english.
Signed by an immigrant whose 10-years old is a US citizen and speaks both languages fluently since she is forced to attend a french school in Quebec (which is good to some extent!).
And I can assure you that we have not many points in common with the rest of the north america.
Bash me at will if you'd like, but that's what 100% of Quebec natives would like to think and will tell you. Immigrants think Quebec is just a french version of north america.
Culturaly, Quebec is just as american as any north-american region. Football, hockey, doughnuts, bad coffee, blockbuster movies, Texas/Chicago/Wherever ribs, huge SUVs and cars, the list is american-like items in Quebec's way of life is endless. Even the countryside look like New England. It is just *less* worse than Ontario.
Older actually. But true that it's much more obscure. Take it as english being a gross simplification of latin-based languages...
Unfortunately, there is a difference between enforcing the availability of french titles, and enforcing the usage of them.
As the FA says, the result will be that editors will no longer translate titles. This kind of shortsighted decisions are way too common in Quebec, even more when one has to deal with the Office de La Langue Francaise.
My native tongue is french, yet I think this is just yet one more move from the dumb asses that sit in government offices here.
Is this a smart move to get more video games into the hands of French speakers? Or, is it misguided, xenophobic protectionism? I'm going with the latter.
"misguided protectionism" is the right term for that. Quebec Office de la langue Francaise has been trying to impose all sort of similar restrictions in the IT world: we are now supposedly forced to use FRENCH operating systems, even when you're a development shop for a US customer. It just doesn't make any sense.
Add to it, in the case of games, translations usually suck. WoW in english is great and immersive, WoW in french looks and sounds uterly ridiculous.
The trouble with Quebec gov is that they don't give people the choice. They impose it when no one wants it. It usually fails and costs us money.
>>Ruby is a language. Languages usually don't have problems with scalability.
Ruby is an interpreted language. Interpreted Languages often have problems with their runtime's scalability.
There, fixed it for ya.
I live in Quebec where there is a tendency to french-ize everything in order to keep the french language alive.
Unfortunately, some hard-core people here believe programs should be written in french too. That leads to unreadable code.
When such situation occurs, I usually compare it to flying planes: if a chinese pilot wants to land in Toronto or Amsterdam, he'd better speak english if he wants to land his plane. Imagine if anyone would speak their own language...Planes wouldn't be safe.
It is also true for things like unit systems: the metric system is the international language of measurement, yet there are a few that still won't apply it (why? don't ask me), at the cost of say, losing a Mars probes, or generate other such disasters.
Another example is international diplomacy, which for arbitrary/historical reasons used to be conducted in French. Adopting a common language, whatever it is, avoids Babel-like issues.
The same, to a lower scale, applies to writing code: we're no longer in our small corner so we need to find a common way to communicate to make sure we can land the plane, or talk to the neighbours.
No, obstination is not the reason in that particular case.
Computer research in France is (or was...) huge. French universities has invented Prolog, Ada and many other computer languages I can't remember the name (including silly Logo). It's not a surprise to see yet one more obscure language nobody else uses still in production, completely written and used in French. That doesn't make it less painful though.
Amen to that...
I'm a little fuzzy on the details from TFA but... what exactly would these jobs entail? I mean, if some govt. office is running MS Office now and have 100 employees, switching to OpenOffice would create 100 openings more? Or what?
Sounds to me like an emotional argument rather than something based on fact.
It's not all about OpenOffice. Your example is actually a wrong one. In Quebec, there's a LOT of IT activities, a massive IT workforce. Using that workforce to make/manage free products rather than support commercial ones is probably a better bet, as we all here in Slashdot already know.
I'm from Quebec and work in IT, and this is a very good example of how public affairs are usually run, as well as how things are done in companies. Mot people are ignorant of what options they have available, which is OK. The trouble is that there is rarely an ear to listen at other options than the most obvious (usually wrong) ones. There is no second opinion, no debate. Just a few people who think they know. They usually are proven wrong when it's too late. This false sense of knowing gives way to all sorts of non-sense, but most people here are happy to live with that. Changing for the better is just an invalid option.
But then, the FAT shall be accused of "making files available". Filesystems aren't safe anymore.
Debian randomness!
Must be the gulf stream. Montreal is at the same latitude as Bordeaux (France). In a way that really doesn't sound fair considering how freaking cold the winters are in Quebec.
The members of the band don't know music notation.
"The members of the band don't know music".
There, fixed it for ya.
So, if you kiss your girlfriend (assuming such a thing exists), would that consist in "making breath available" or "distribution"? As I understand, the recent debate is around such distinction.
Java is just too damn slow
I've used Java from one of the first alpha releases, but it just hasn't panned out...
Indeed the alpha version of Java was slow. That was 12 years ago. Try running a GUI application with JDK 1.6 and a graphic card with an Open GL implementation, see if Python or other such high level languages does better, even on the GUI side which is not really Java's best field of play.Plus, Java doesn't like to be called from other languages--it really wants to be "boss".
Oh..since you're talking about interoperability...The java RMI stack is basically CORBA, but maybe you don't know what that monster is.I'm sorry to say that your ignorance in your post shows. You should not try to give people wrong ideas based on your biased and incomplete experience.
If you've ever wanted to run a Java app on a debian box, you know why this matters.
Your first sentence sums it up. Some comments from some editors and other posters are really idiotic, I'm glad someone sees the real thing.