Sound is not only annoying with ads. It should be generally forbidden for websites to use sounds (except for streaming video or similar things of course).
As someone who is regularly annoyed by windows smaller than the screen-size (or moving themselves for that matter) I would strongly suggest you leave the decision wether a new window should be opened to the user and let them resize the window as appropriate.
That doesn't change the fact that it isn't the computational performance needed for fast networking but I/O performance which can not be achieved by placing the processor work in another component but by upgrading the slower parts of the PC like the PCI-Bus.
I see the problems at german universities (or at least the one where I study) every day. The ones you mention are largely caused by bad funding (a.k.a. not enough teaching personnel) as everything is streamlined for less work for the staff. Indiviual, novel work costs much more time to correct and evaluate so most exams just focus on easily correctable questions. I guess if we had more than just 2-3 part-time workers for every course of 300-500 students it would be much easier and the quality would be better.
I really doubt Chinese Workers will come anywhere near the U.S. concerning pollution, both per capita and total. That would require them to use cars with U.S. "technology" instead of the much better (concerning fuel-consumption) european or asian. China doesn't have the oil reserves the U.S. has to back up this kind of consumption and i doubt they can spare the money to import that much if there are other ways.
Nobody would have said anything (I guess) if the Iraq had been in the progress of conquering half a dozen of the countries surrounding it (like Germany was in WW2) and the U.S. had decided to attack them. The situation was totally different then. Most germans have a guilt feeling (especially the older ones) even today about that time. In a situation where everyone thinks it is necessary to start from scratch it is much easier to build a new country.
It is different because y is not very common in german while z is. These are not the only differences btw. Most special characters are different and we have umlaut-keys. I use an english keyboard though because the german one has the / key on the shift-7 which is just awkward to type all the time in Linux (there are other advantages, this is just the most important one for me).
"Smart" Phones are NOT progress. They just waste a lot of time for a lot of people and are really annoying the shit out of everyone when someone not up to date with current microphone technology yells into his/her phone so everyone in a 10 meter radius can hear his/her part of the conversation.
I agree that mobile phones are a progress for certain people who travel a lot and have to be reachable (like service technicians e.g.) but cameras, games, ringtones and all that other shit companies put into "modern" phones are just a big scam.
The cellphone networks are firmly behind win CE because they generate much greater GPRS data profits that symbian devices (average 3 times more), because they get used used more to access the internet etc.
That might be simply because geek users (a.k.a. don't fall for marketing scams as easily) tend to buy more Linux Devices than the average user.
Taking a working engine isn't bad. In fact less developers should try to develop a new engine and more should concentrate on story. I would have loved to see more games with a story like Baldur's Gate I and II or Planescape Torment and the same engine. Icewind Dale I and II were not that good IMO but that isn't the fault of the engine, the linear storyline is more to blame for that.
English developed from german and french AFAIK. I don't know about french but as a native german speaker I know the german word "frei" which is almost exclusively used to describe freedom. The only exception is - ironically - "Freibier" (free beer) but I suspect that to be just because it is easier to pronounce then "kostenloses Bier" or "Gratis-Bier" which would be the alternatives.
The inefficiencies you describe are a matter of perspective. Most industrial countries don't have a large time difference compared to India but almost all of them have it compared to the U.S.
You are almost alone on your side of the World, not India.
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Most likely when Microsoft will end.
Sound is not only annoying with ads. It should be generally forbidden for websites to use sounds (except for streaming video or similar things of course).
As someone who is regularly annoyed by windows smaller than the screen-size (or moving themselves for that matter) I would strongly suggest you leave the decision wether a new window should be opened to the user and let them resize the window as appropriate.
Chances are that if you really need 10 Gbit/s networking you will have mostly network-related tasks running.
That doesn't change the fact that it isn't the computational performance needed for fast networking but I/O performance which can not be achieved by placing the processor work in another component but by upgrading the slower parts of the PC like the PCI-Bus.
I see the problems at german universities (or at least the one where I study) every day. The ones you mention are largely caused by bad funding (a.k.a. not enough teaching personnel) as everything is streamlined for less work for the staff. Indiviual, novel work costs much more time to correct and evaluate so most exams just focus on easily correctable questions. I guess if we had more than just 2-3 part-time workers for every course of 300-500 students it would be much easier and the quality would be better.
This could be a real adantage for China since it doesn't need ten lawyers for every developer just to check wether something is patented already.
Probably because India speaks english and China is more often seen as a future super-power enemy for the U.S. on the horizon.
I really doubt Chinese Workers will come anywhere near the U.S. concerning pollution, both per capita and total. That would require them to use cars with U.S. "technology" instead of the much better (concerning fuel-consumption) european or asian. China doesn't have the oil reserves the U.S. has to back up this kind of consumption and i doubt they can spare the money to import that much if there are other ways.
Nobody would have said anything (I guess) if the Iraq had been in the progress of conquering half a dozen of the countries surrounding it (like Germany was in WW2) and the U.S. had decided to attack them. The situation was totally different then. Most germans have a guilt feeling (especially the older ones) even today about that time. In a situation where everyone thinks it is necessary to start from scratch it is much easier to build a new country.
So (taking the lowest figure) killing 8000 people is okay to you?
In Europe we never had CDMA and thus I guess we won't go to WCDMA. UMTS seems to be the next big thing here now.
It is different because y is not very common in german while z is. These are not the only differences btw. Most special characters are different and we have umlaut-keys. I use an english keyboard though because the german one has the / key on the shift-7 which is just awkward to type all the time in Linux (there are other advantages, this is just the most important one for me).
"Smart" Phones are NOT progress. They just waste a lot of time for a lot of people and are really annoying the shit out of everyone when someone not up to date with current microphone technology yells into his/her phone so everyone in a 10 meter radius can hear his/her part of the conversation.
I agree that mobile phones are a progress for certain people who travel a lot and have to be reachable (like service technicians e.g.) but cameras, games, ringtones and all that other shit companies put into "modern" phones are just a big scam.
And even if it isn't it is much better to talk of a non-broken algorithm as broken than talking of a broken one as anything less than broken.
Don't you mean "We better learn how to get rid of it"?
Taking a working engine isn't bad. In fact less developers should try to develop a new engine and more should concentrate on story. I would have loved to see more games with a story like Baldur's Gate I and II or Planescape Torment and the same engine. Icewind Dale I and II were not that good IMO but that isn't the fault of the engine, the linear storyline is more to blame for that.
Nice!
You found a way to blame the ruining of this promising game to MS!
English developed from german and french AFAIK. I don't know about french but as a native german speaker I know the german word "frei" which is almost exclusively used to describe freedom. The only exception is - ironically - "Freibier" (free beer) but I suspect that to be just because it is easier to pronounce then "kostenloses Bier" or "Gratis-Bier" which would be the alternatives.
The inefficiencies you describe are a matter of perspective. Most industrial countries don't have a large time difference compared to India but almost all of them have it compared to the U.S.
You are almost alone on your side of the World, not India.
And if you have ten statistics and only pick the favorable one you will never see or solve your problems.
Sure you are not talking about the U.S. concerning the health care system and pollution problems?