What's your friend describe is a "mise au placard". It's a specific way to fire somebody without really firring him. It's extremely wrong in french for your managing staff motivations when you start to fire people without serious reasons and it's pretty hard to prove and convince every body that some body don't actually do as expected. So you don't fire him but progressively put him in a position where he don't have responsibility, interesting works, no computer, no phone, etc... and you simply wait that he resign by himself. If he resign he isn't cover by the social protection law, so it's cheaper for you, better for you managing staff, etc... The only problem is went you push it to far ( excessive work load, harassment, etc ) and the employ commit suicide ( Renaud technocenter serial suicide at work )
The "mise au placard" have nothing to do with this case where the employ was fired for "important fault". In this case the employer say "you committed an important fault in regard of the company, you are fired, you will not get the social protection".
Driving a truck drunk = important fault sending a mail to his MP = ?
Newly build french fast train line are already design for speed around the 250MPH and are operated at 200. They even have a top speed record at 360MPH. Except the Eurostar nearly all the TGV are faster than 150MPH
Big News, France and Germany have air travel too. But TGV and ICE still make profit. When you add the airport check, registration, and the limited number of fly available to a destination, the transportation from the airport to the city central, etc air transport are often longer than train.
Fast train killed all the under 500km air trip inf france and germany. It's economically viable but who can engage this amount of money in this kind of project except the state ? States finances road why should they don't finances train ?
Consider that in France there will probably be a different mandate forcing the use of French in video games soon.
No, only the user manual,PEGI (ESRB) rating and epilepsy risk warning must absolutely be in French for the French market ( don't know for the belgium and swiss). But if you release a unlocalized game you will probably miss most of your potential consumer. Most of the super market will not sell unlocalized game to prevent any problems and potential refund. Only specialized story sell imported game.
French speaking candian are often really protective and strict about the use of Anglicisms unlike the French who use a lot of Anglicisms (and even build false Anglicism like "planning"). The main different are that anglicisms come and go in the french french but often don't stay long and we don't have to fear about french extinction in france. That's another concern in quebec where they are suronded by English speaker.
French-speaking Quebecers associate more with Americans than they do with France.
They are north american people with a anglosaxon ( anglosphere ?) mindset, french are european with a latin mindset. We both speak french but that the only common point.
that the France French consider the Quebec French dialect to be "crude" and "yokel-like"
Quebec french insult sound particularly funny for french because most of them are religiously themed, when french insult are sexually themed (and most french aren't religious people). Quebec rapper like the "roi heenok" are an endless source of fun for french.
France : 65 millions of potential consumer France + Belgium + Swiss +... : 70 millions of French speaking European Quebec : 7 millions
Game maker will not stop to create French localizations for their games only to win the Quebec market.
As a French French, i think the problem is more about the lame localizations often done specially for the French Canadian market, many game and movie have two French version, the cheat and quickly done Canadian one and a decent French European one. It's all about the delay between the American and the European release of game and movies.
"Shouldn't the packets get rerouted if a particular link is down?" In a perfect world, yes it must be rerouted.
In real world ISP have peering contract between them, they usually share some amount of bandwidth for free ( balanced usages form two neighborhood, etc... ) but charge for the extra ( you use my infrastructure and it have a cost ).
So most of the ISP and large network infrastructure provider ( backbone, undersea cable, etc..) will not forward rerouted packet for free.
Pro. it's encourage big ISP to be directly connect to each other. that mean cheap "regional" bandwidth for the ISP and an high density network.
Con. It's make the inter continental/regional traffic expensive and unwanted. That one of the reasons ISP hate P2P traffic. Minor player are isolated and vulnerable, their are not interesting for big player ( few bad peering contract ).
It's already hard for an offshore oil platform to dig in deep see. It's nearly impossible in this case. Their are not such think as submersible bulldozer robot and the seabed composition is mostly unknown.
Doing anything in high deep is extremely expensive too
A lot of french sysadmin dislike Asterix name. Mobilix a french IT company was sued by the Asterix editor for IP infringement about the name of the company. http://linuxfr.org/2003/02/21/11436.html
It's some kind of civil right for French to be able to stroll along with mistresses in relative safty.
President Mitterrand, managed to do it 10 years at less ( secret service help too).
Law enforcement cameras are strictly regulated in France. For example streets cameras's software have inbuilt censor function that prevent filming a windows above the street level or blur some part of the picture to prevent privacy infringement.
Video from illegal surveillance camera cannot be used as proof in front of a court, etc.
The French really need to change their attitudes about photography and "privacy" in public places. As a Frenchman, i may ask why ? Do you know the french privacy law in a first place ?
Democrats don't believe in guns, ruling out revolution for them. They are so anti-firearm, no revolutionary could possibly support them. Sure it's impossible to do revolution without firearm... You're obviously American.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement
Today, arms companies are huge multinational companies without a soul. They will make and market whatever killing machines they can.
Really? How many F-22's has Iran purchased? F-22 Raptor Limit Policy
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Seriously guy, the F-22 isn't the only fighter on earth.
Take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Air_Force
how many American-made weapons has Al-Qaeda purchased? They got free samples during the Afghan revolution.
Ok, last question: how much US technology was sold to ANY communist nation during the cold war?
???? How much US technology was sold to fascist dictatorship during the cold war? Operation Condor, etc.
I live in the middle of French sugar beet field ( Seine et Marne) and with an 60dB of attenuation on my line i got, TV, Free phone call and 3Mbps down.
XKCD: DSL it's work bitch!/XKCD
Comcast should already have an heart attack when It discover than DSL TV becoming more and more popular ( in Europe).
Like it wrote in the article this technology is focus on set-top boxes. If you take the example of France all the major ISP already offer a set-top boxes and triple play ( internet TV phone ) to their 8 millions subscribers. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox , http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_(internet) )
For many European content providers the question is how to be sure their contents will be available to all those set-top box, when digital and terrestrial television slowly lost audience.
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What's your friend describe is a "mise au placard". It's a specific way to fire somebody without really firring him.
It's extremely wrong in french for your managing staff motivations when you start to fire people without serious reasons and it's pretty hard to prove and convince every body that some body don't actually do as expected. So you don't fire him but progressively put him in a position where he don't have responsibility, interesting works, no computer, no phone, etc... and you simply wait that he resign by himself.
If he resign he isn't cover by the social protection law, so it's cheaper for you, better for you managing staff, etc...
The only problem is went you push it to far ( excessive work load, harassment, etc ) and the employ commit suicide ( Renaud technocenter serial suicide at work )
The "mise au placard" have nothing to do with this case where the employ was fired for "important fault". In this case the employer say "you committed an important fault in regard of the company, you are fired, you will not get the social protection".
Driving a truck drunk = important fault
sending a mail to his MP = ?
It was send from his private e-mail address, he used his name and explain why he was so concern by this law because of his job. Nothing wrong here.
Newly build french fast train line are already design for speed around the 250MPH and are operated at 200. They even have a top speed record at 360MPH. Except the Eurostar nearly all the TGV are faster than 150MPH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Est
Big News, France and Germany have air travel too. But TGV and ICE still make profit. When you add the airport check, registration, and the limited number of fly available to a destination, the transportation from the airport to the city central, etc air transport are often longer than train.
Fast train killed all the under 500km air trip inf france and germany. It's economically viable but who can engage this amount of money in this kind of project except the state ? States finances road why should they don't finances train ?
Consider that in France there will probably be a different mandate forcing the use of French in video games soon.
No, only the user manual,PEGI (ESRB) rating and epilepsy risk warning must absolutely be in French for the French market ( don't know for the belgium and swiss). But if you release a unlocalized game you will probably miss most of your potential consumer.
Most of the super market will not sell unlocalized game to prevent any problems and potential refund. Only specialized story sell imported game.
In Europe we customarily get everything a lot later and usually at much higher prices "because it needs to be localized first".
Because they can charge them more and screw them with an 1$ = 1E conversion rate.
French speaking candian are often really protective and strict about the use of Anglicisms unlike the French who use a lot of Anglicisms (and even build false Anglicism like "planning").
The main different are that anglicisms come and go in the french french but often don't stay long and we don't have to fear about french extinction in france. That's another concern in quebec where they are suronded by English speaker.
French-speaking Quebecers associate more with Americans than they do with France.
They are north american people with a anglosaxon ( anglosphere ?) mindset, french are european with a latin mindset. We both speak french but that the only common point.
that the France French consider the Quebec French dialect to be "crude" and "yokel-like"
Quebec french insult sound particularly funny for french because most of them are religiously themed, when french insult are sexually themed (and most french aren't religious people). Quebec rapper like the "roi heenok" are an endless source of fun for french.
France : 65 millions of potential consumer ... : 70 millions of French speaking European
France + Belgium + Swiss +
Quebec : 7 millions
Game maker will not stop to create French localizations for their games only to win the Quebec market.
As a French French, i think the problem is more about the lame localizations often done specially for the French Canadian market, many game and movie have two French version, the cheat and quickly done Canadian one and a decent French European one. It's all about the delay between the American and the European release of game and movies.
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Somalian undersea cable will give an all new meaning to internet piracy.
"Shouldn't the packets get rerouted if a particular link is down?" In a perfect world, yes it must be rerouted.
In real world ISP have peering contract between them, they usually share some amount of bandwidth for free ( balanced usages form two neighborhood, etc ... ) but charge for the extra ( you use my infrastructure and it have a cost ).
So most of the ISP and large network infrastructure provider ( backbone, undersea cable, etc ..) will not forward rerouted packet for free.
Pro. it's encourage big ISP to be directly connect to each other. that mean cheap "regional" bandwidth for the ISP and an high density network.
Con. It's make the inter continental/regional traffic expensive and unwanted. That one of the reasons ISP hate P2P traffic. Minor player are isolated and vulnerable, their are not interesting for big player ( few bad peering contract ).
It's already hard for an offshore oil platform to dig in deep see. It's nearly impossible in this case. Their are not such think as submersible bulldozer robot and the seabed composition is mostly unknown.
Doing anything in high deep is extremely expensive too
First, the French copyright law "droit d'auteur" ( author's rights ) are significantly different of US copyright law.
Second, the article isn't accurate. The HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des Å"uvres et la protection des droits sur Internet, " hight authority of protection of broadcasting right on internet" approximative translation ) only investigate cases after copyright holder request.
So it's pretty unlikely that the author or the copyright owner request intervention of the hadopi for a work he distributed for free by himself.
A lot of french sysadmin dislike Asterix name. Mobilix a french IT company was sued by the Asterix editor for IP infringement about the name of the company. http://linuxfr.org/2003/02/21/11436.html
He's on Irak. This time the futur of mankind is in the hands of a franco-suisse ( half French, half Swiss ) man with a ski-stick !
The system wasn't design for tourist in the first place. It's a "personal public transport" mainly focus on Parisian.
It's a bit complicate to rent a bike if you don't already have a navigo card ( the RFID public transport card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigo). And non smart credit card ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Bleue ) aren't supported.
It's a bit risky too to ride in Paris if you are unaware of the drives use.
The system is fantastic, when the public transport are on strike, at night ( no subway between 1AM and 6AM )
It's some kind of civil right for French to be able to stroll along with mistresses in relative safty. President Mitterrand, managed to do it 10 years at less ( secret service help too).
Law enforcement cameras are strictly regulated in France. For example streets cameras's software have inbuilt censor function that prevent filming a windows above the street level or blur some part of the picture to prevent privacy infringement. Video from illegal surveillance camera cannot be used as proof in front of a court, etc.
I live in the middle of French sugar beet field ( Seine et Marne) and with an 60dB of attenuation on my line i got, TV, Free phone call and 3Mbps down. XKCD: DSL it's work bitch! /XKCD
Comcast should already have an heart attack when It discover than DSL TV becoming more and more popular ( in Europe). Like it wrote in the article this technology is focus on set-top boxes. If you take the example of France all the major ISP already offer a set-top boxes and triple play ( internet TV phone ) to their 8 millions subscribers. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox , http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_(internet) ) For many European content providers the question is how to be sure their contents will be available to all those set-top box, when digital and terrestrial television slowly lost audience.
35 years! What's the prescriptive periods for murder or escaping in Indiana ?
At this time Nicolas Sarkozy is totally drunk with the French XV, celebrating the victory over the All blacks. So it's a fake!