If you give money to mozilla, you will give to the Mozilla Foundation which is a non-profit. If Google gives money to Mozilla, they will give to the Mozilla Corporation (corporations have less regulations) whose sole shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation.
You can't really object to the Mozilla Corporation saying "Oh, they'll put all that money in the pockets of their shareholders" because the only shareholder they have is a non-profit entity.
The corporation does not disclose how much they make and they pay taxes.
That's only when you travel by plane. If you can cross the Canada / USA border, it's very easy. We have like what ? 245 roads[1] that enter the US without any kind of customs. And I did cross it, several time, last year at a custom and all they asked was "purpose of the visit ?" and "where are you from ?". One time a girl added "Do you have an ID". I said yes and she said "you may go" before I could reach my wallet so I could show her.
P.S.: I am a white male, I guess it probably matters.
1: This is from memory, it might be wrong but you have to be stupid not to be able to find one.
On the other hand, Google Desktop should definitely default to not storing your data on anyone else's server.
It is disabled by default. You can check the options during the install but it's clearly written that your files will be transfered to their servers. Of course people can't read but that's not Google's fault.
But maybe they should default to disabled and not offer the choice during install. Just put it somewhere in the preferences where people who can't read won't go.
It depends where you are exactly. Swears vary with geography. If you are outside of France, putain is actually funny as a swear word. So not only there is way more swears / insults but you have to adapt them depending of where the insultee is from.
I don't play Xbox live (or own an Xbox) but I'm french (as in the language, not the country) and compared to french, english is extremely limitated insult and swears wise so I'm not that surprised:)
On the other hand, we don't have any word as versatile as 'fuck'.
Pretty much everyone have a TV no matter if they use their computers to watch TV programs or not. Applying a tax on computer too mean that they collect twice from the same people.
Yeah, geeks might be able to avoid the redundant tax but they aren't the ones laughing all the way to the bank.
To be able to get what I want at a good price, I went with Peeflix instead. The way it works is that instead of of having of central warehouse with movies, people just trade between them. When someone wants a movie you have, you pay for the stamp and mail the DVD. When you do so, you get points (they call them peerbux) which you can trade for another movie someone else have. They charge you $0.99 per movie you order. The $0.99 is for the service of connecting people but also for the insurance. If you get a defective disc, you get your points back to get another one.
Each movie takes a bit longer to get to you than with Netflix so you are better to buy a few prewatched DVDs and earn more peerbux than movies you can watch at a time so it cost a bit more to start but once it's started it a lot cheaper ($0.99 + stamp / movie).
Beside it's nice that when you don't want to watch lots of movies, you can just stop returning those you have until you are free to watch them.
And I'm sure that it annoys the MPAA which doesn't make money on it since First Sale enable us to trade our physical goods without restriction once they are first bought:)
No. There have been billions of research dollars and millions of man-hours spent on trying to develop methods whereby non-programmers can become programmers. While some of them have had application-specific uses, not a single one has suceeded. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
There is also billions of dollars spent on re-inventing the wheel and patenting it. People look for ways to make non-programmers become programmers so they can write from scratch applications that already exist.
In this case the wheel is Moodle but the Not Invented Here syndrome is very common for any problem.
I guess that to be successful in both, you have to sell pretty boxes and offer commercial support. It's the techies who'll chose your product but it's the PHB who'll have to approve. Without a boxed product and paid support, they will probably refuse. With it, they might not even know it's open source (but the tech people will, that's what matters).
That's far stretched since the right word would be "quarantième" et non "quarantaine". Beside, it's hard to make a sentence that doesn't make it obvious that it's the ship and not the captain whose the subject.
An exemple of English / French I saw in a movie :
- Yeah but... - What about my butt ?!
I don't remember at all how they translated that:)
However, add in "domain knowledge" and you're in some interesting territory. I think this is essentially what Google did - they fed in oodles of texts in the various languages so that the system could statistically match phrases. At a simple level, you could have a lookup table of common colloquialisms (eg. 'he's kicked the bucket'(English/UK) == 'he broke his pipe' (French/FR)).
The problem is that why French/FR people will understand the expression, others like French/CA won't. And even if they did special lookup tables, you'll still miss subtely. For instance, if I want to use the expression you gave as an exemple as a warning to someone in French/CA, I could say "You'll break your neck." which would carry the same meaning. But if I say that someone broke his neck, then it should be understood literally.
Brûler would give 'to burn' in english. Burn is 'brûle'. In translates to 'en'. So the first sentence would be : Brûle en enfer.
Monkey-boy cannot be translated because you need to be explicit about the connexion between the two in french. Any way of translating your meaning I can think of would sound completely awful so you should just call him a monkey or find a french insult which are more plentyful in french than english. English lacks insults and swears compared to french.
The certain France-hating individual for whom that old insult was intended has been more accurately renamed 'lemur-boy' lately, so I hadn't had opportunity to think of it in a bit, but it remains the first thing that comes to mind when I see the word 'French'. Speaking of which, I need to go find a French word for 'lemur'...
Lémur:)
Once again, lemur-boy cannot be directly translated.
Paying athletes so they can train as a full time job helps too.
I don't like the idea of Olympics where the country who makes the best undetectable drugs wins. I believe we should draw people who are going to participate completely at random. This way, we'd see which country would win on it's own merit:)
You missed when CmdrTaco asked the crowd what he should do about those kind of submissions, huh ? He actually listened to what we had to say and if you look at the source of the page, you'll notice that Rolland's link got a nofollow.
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If you give money to mozilla, you will give to the Mozilla Foundation which is a non-profit. If Google gives money to Mozilla, they will give to the Mozilla Corporation (corporations have less regulations) whose sole shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation.
You can't really object to the Mozilla Corporation saying "Oh, they'll put all that money in the pockets of their shareholders" because the only shareholder they have is a non-profit entity.
The corporation does not disclose how much they make and they pay taxes.
That's only when you travel by plane. If you can cross the Canada / USA border, it's very easy. We have like what ? 245 roads[1] that enter the US without any kind of customs. And I did cross it, several time, last year at a custom and all they asked was "purpose of the visit ?" and "where are you from ?". One time a girl added "Do you have an ID". I said yes and she said "you may go" before I could reach my wallet so I could show her.
P.S.: I am a white male, I guess it probably matters.
1: This is from memory, it might be wrong but you have to be stupid not to be able to find one.
But maybe they should default to disabled and not offer the choice during install. Just put it somewhere in the preferences where people who can't read won't go.
No, it will just be compatible with licenses that requires this.
It depends where you are exactly. Swears vary with geography. If you are outside of France, putain is actually funny as a swear word. So not only there is way more swears / insults but you have to adapt them depending of where the insultee is from.
I don't play Xbox live (or own an Xbox) but I'm french (as in the language, not the country) and compared to french, english is extremely limitated insult and swears wise so I'm not that surprised :)
On the other hand, we don't have any word as versatile as 'fuck'.
Pretty much everyone have a TV no matter if they use their computers to watch TV programs or not. Applying a tax on computer too mean that they collect twice from the same people.
Yeah, geeks might be able to avoid the redundant tax but they aren't the ones laughing all the way to the bank.
To be able to get what I want at a good price, I went with Peeflix instead. The way it works is that instead of of having of central warehouse with movies, people just trade between them. When someone wants a movie you have, you pay for the stamp and mail the DVD. When you do so, you get points (they call them peerbux) which you can trade for another movie someone else have. They charge you $0.99 per movie you order. The $0.99 is for the service of connecting people but also for the insurance. If you get a defective disc, you get your points back to get another one.
Each movie takes a bit longer to get to you than with Netflix so you are better to buy a few prewatched DVDs and earn more peerbux than movies you can watch at a time so it cost a bit more to start but once it's started it a lot cheaper ($0.99 + stamp / movie).
Beside it's nice that when you don't want to watch lots of movies, you can just stop returning those you have until you are free to watch them.
And I'm sure that it annoys the MPAA which doesn't make money on it since First Sale enable us to trade our physical goods without restriction once they are first bought :)
One of those two :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Balmer
There is also billions of dollars spent on re-inventing the wheel and patenting it. People look for ways to make non-programmers become programmers so they can write from scratch applications that already exist.
In this case the wheel is Moodle but the Not Invented Here syndrome is very common for any problem.
Moodle has everything you are looking for. http://moodle.org/
I guess that to be successful in both, you have to sell pretty boxes and offer commercial support. It's the techies who'll chose your product but it's the PHB who'll have to approve. Without a boxed product and paid support, they will probably refuse. With it, they might not even know it's open source (but the tech people will, that's what matters).
1 em, non-proportional font then.
Sure. Unskipable trailers for other movies at the begining.
I'd guess surrounding the name in a div and then with CSS making that div width equal to 1em and positioning it on the left of your avatar picture.
That's far stretched since the right word would be "quarantième" et non "quarantaine". Beside, it's hard to make a sentence that doesn't make it obvious that it's the ship and not the captain whose the subject.
:)
An exemple of English / French I saw in a movie :
- Yeah but...
- What about my butt ?!
I don't remember at all how they translated that
Do you remember the joke ? I speak french and I can't figure out what it originaly was.
Monkey-boy cannot be translated because you need to be explicit about the connexion between the two in french. Any way of translating your meaning I can think of would sound completely awful so you should just call him a monkey or find a french insult which are more plentyful in french than english. English lacks insults and swears compared to french.
Lémur :)
Once again, lemur-boy cannot be directly translated.
Paying athletes so they can train as a full time job helps too.
:)
I don't like the idea of Olympics where the country who makes the best undetectable drugs wins. I believe we should draw people who are going to participate completely at random. This way, we'd see which country would win on it's own merit
You just wrote : A burn inside hell, boy of monkey.
Don't use translation tools.
You missed when CmdrTaco asked the crowd what he should do about those kind of submissions, huh ? He actually listened to what we had to say and if you look at the source of the page, you'll notice that Rolland's link got a nofollow.