In other Office programs, this doesn't pose a problem, but in Excel the programmers have chosen to translate the functions usedin the cells.
Hear, hear. I learned on a french version of Excel and I found it very annoying too. Functions should keep their original names, same as in programming languages. However, Microsoft almost got it right. The files are all saved the same, the translation is performed on the fly. It would have been easy to make it optional.
...ALSO means that a significant percentage of the churchgoing population (who, in turn, are a significant percentage of the population at large) are not included in the results. Churchgoing folks are generally conservative, and thus more likely to use more typically corporate/conservative software (thus IE).
Probably won't alter the results much, but I'm sure it impacts them some.
Churchgoers don't represent a bit chunk of the *European* population. Heck, I live in North America (Quebec / Canada) and the percentage of people going to church on a weekly basis is estimated to be 10% and they are mostly elders and don't go on the net anyway.
Disclaimer : We have the lowest churchgoing rate in Canada.
Being able to just walk in the College computer store and buy stuff is often enough, no need to be a student. Works at the store where I am going at least.
There was a story about some sleep researchers from MIT having developed an alarm clock that monitors your sleep and wakes you up at a time when you're most likely to be well rested (outside a REM phase or whatever).
No need for sensors or anything complicated. Use two alarm clocks, set one at the earliest time you want to make. Set it on radio and set the sound fairly low. Set the second at the maximum time you want to wake but put it on alarm at maximum volume.
When you'll be ready to wake up, the low sound will wake you up. If it doesn't happen, the second will wake you. It might take a few shots to figure out how low/loud you must set the first alarm.
You only see their story worthy to be published on Slashdot. If they stop posting those, they will stop posting the spam too. This will give the editors more time to read the rest of submissions with better noise/signal ratio.
IIRC, EULAs are considered void in Australia because it's a contract occuring after the monetary transaction. After you paid, there is no way additional conditions can be added.
There would be ways to make a patent office efficient. First, find a way to fund them which doesn't mean they get more money if they grant more patents.
Next, change how the system works. Now, when a company ask for a patent, the Patent Office ask competitors of the company for prior art or at least reasons why the patent is obvious. If it fails, ask the public. Then review yourself. By making other do your work, you save a lot of time.
And finally, the core idea of the new system. Every time you troll the patent office, you get a time penality. Let's say 3 months. So there is 3 months in which you can't submit anything to them. Every time you do it again the time you have to wait until you can submit your next patent doubles. Every twice the time you are penalized with, you'd slide down a ladder. So if you had a 6 month penality you didn't troll for one year, you are back to 3 months and half a year after to nothing.
This system would not penalize the small guy with smart ideas but not a truckload of money.
performance is far behind java (which in turn is behind C/C++ of course), etc.
Have you ever heard of Psycho ? It's a Just-in-Time compiler (well, technically, it's a JIT specializer) for Python which speed up your programs significantly.
And all that you need to do is to add those lines to your program:
Sure if people buying those Xbox were going to buy all those games. Most of them probably don't even like 80% of the games in there. I'm not saying it was right to put the games on the hard disk but that trying to calculate "losses" is misleading.
This is where we all cheer, because the DMCA is being used appropriately. I suspect this story only got a green light because it has that particular acronym, but seriously guys -- this is what the law is supposed to do, right?
Nope. The DMCA is never used appropriately. I agree that they were wrong and what they did was clearly illegal but we have other laws than the DMCA to take care of that. The DMCA have no legitimate uses.
To me, as a Brit, this makes no sense. We have the "18" certificate over here. 18s are shown a lot.
I live in Quebec and it makes even less sense to me. We have 4 ratings : G, 13, 16 and 18.
G is general, not a lot of violence, 13 is your regular shooting people and blowing stuff up, 16 is lots of gore and you can only get an 18 rating with porn.
All those ratings are mere suggestions except for 18 which are really restricted to 18+. This mean that anybody can get into a theatre and we don't care how old the are.
Other provinces have the exact same rating system as the US.
Maybe. I don't claim to speak or write perfect english but what I was talking about is pronouncing english word like if they were written in french. The worse word I heard so far is damned with the "ed" pronounced in full at the end. Sounds very strange as a swear word.
What's wrong with it ? I remind you that Quebec is where signs with pictures instead of words were invented and it became a worldwide standard afterward. If anything on signs is different, it's someone else who changed it because we were first.
And no, we don't over frenchify, we just didn't traded a truckload of word for english versions like France did. We do use english word but nowhere near as often as France does and we still have french versions of those words. Do you still have a french version of "shopping" ?
And we can pronounce english words without completely mutilate them:)
I indeed forgot the most famous exemple (Frigidère).
Klaxon was a brand name at the begining of the previous century (the 20th). I guess the company is long dead. People used the name because "avertisseur sonore" was too long. Ski-doo means snowmobile.
I never heard anyone saying "Google-le". By the way, do you live in France or Québec ? I live in Québec, it often explain differences in language.
Xeros means photocopy. And it's barely used anymore. We have products / company names that became dictionary words in french too (kleenex, ski-doo, klaxon, etc.) but we don't verb nouns. This is why still say "search on Google" and not "google it".
Anyway, anyone and Calvin knows that verbing weirds language.
Either way I can't help wondering if this is a good thing since
if Suse or Ubunto or some other linux dist suddenly becomes popular
overnight, will they get nailed for bundling 100s of apps with it?
The difference is that they aren't bundling their own applications and they can be removed very easilly.
In the interest of science, I tried to forge the from field into mails I sent myself to my Gmail address. The first one was sent using Gmail smtp server and they changed it back to my real one.
The second one was sent from my ISPs smtp server and pretended to be from admin@gmail.com, I got a bright red :
"Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information."
The third pretended to from Bill Gates himself (billg@microsoft.com) and didn't raise any flag.
They don't always work. You should always inquire about the conditions to get the rebate. Stores will but $X after rebate whitout mentioning that the rebate states "only available in US" while you bought your product at a canadian store.
Most of the time they are okay but you should always ask to see the conditions.
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Churchgoers don't represent a bit chunk of the *European* population. Heck, I live in North America (Quebec / Canada) and the percentage of people going to church on a weekly basis is estimated to be 10% and they are mostly elders and don't go on the net anyway.
Disclaimer : We have the lowest churchgoing rate in Canada.
Remember when we used to say "You are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts." ? Now you can have both and copyright them.
P.S.: This opinion is copyrighted and you cannot share it.
Being able to just walk in the College computer store and buy stuff is often enough, no need to be a student. Works at the store where I am going at least.
Try spamgourmet. Same approch but easier.
No need for sensors or anything complicated. Use two alarm clocks, set one at the earliest time you want to make. Set it on radio and set the sound fairly low. Set the second at the maximum time you want to wake but put it on alarm at maximum volume.
When you'll be ready to wake up, the low sound will wake you up. If it doesn't happen, the second will wake you. It might take a few shots to figure out how low/loud you must set the first alarm.
You only see their story worthy to be published on Slashdot. If they stop posting those, they will stop posting the spam too. This will give the editors more time to read the rest of submissions with better noise/signal ratio.
Don't worry, both Slashdot and Digg will tell you when it will happen. Don't worry if you miss it the first time either.
IIRC, EULAs are considered void in Australia because it's a contract occuring after the monetary transaction. After you paid, there is no way additional conditions can be added.
That's how it should be everywhere.
There would be ways to make a patent office efficient. First, find a way to fund them which doesn't mean they get more money if they grant more patents.
Next, change how the system works. Now, when a company ask for a patent, the Patent Office ask competitors of the company for prior art or at least reasons why the patent is obvious. If it fails, ask the public. Then review yourself. By making other do your work, you save a lot of time.
And finally, the core idea of the new system. Every time you troll the patent office, you get a time penality. Let's say 3 months. So there is 3 months in which you can't submit anything to them. Every time you do it again the time you have to wait until you can submit your next patent doubles. Every twice the time you are penalized with, you'd slide down a ladder. So if you had a 6 month penality you didn't troll for one year, you are back to 3 months and half a year after to nothing.
This system would not penalize the small guy with smart ideas but not a truckload of money.
Have you ever heard of Psycho ? It's a Just-in-Time compiler (well, technically, it's a JIT specializer) for Python which speed up your programs significantly.
And all that you need to do is to add those lines to your program :
import psyco
psyco.full()
No, 3 was profit !
Sure if people buying those Xbox were going to buy all those games. Most of them probably don't even like 80% of the games in there. I'm not saying it was right to put the games on the hard disk but that trying to calculate "losses" is misleading.
Nope. The DMCA is never used appropriately. I agree that they were wrong and what they did was clearly illegal but we have other laws than the DMCA to take care of that. The DMCA have no legitimate uses.
G is general, not a lot of violence, 13 is your regular shooting people and blowing stuff up, 16 is lots of gore and you can only get an 18 rating with porn.
All those ratings are mere suggestions except for 18 which are really restricted to 18+. This mean that anybody can get into a theatre and we don't care how old the are.
Other provinces have the exact same rating system as the US.
Maybe. I don't claim to speak or write perfect english but what I was talking about is pronouncing english word like if they were written in french. The worse word I heard so far is damned with the "ed" pronounced in full at the end. Sounds very strange as a swear word.
What's wrong with it ? I remind you that Quebec is where signs with pictures instead of words were invented and it became a worldwide standard afterward. If anything on signs is different, it's someone else who changed it because we were first.
:)
And no, we don't over frenchify, we just didn't traded a truckload of word for english versions like France did. We do use english word but nowhere near as often as France does and we still have french versions of those words. Do you still have a french version of "shopping" ?
And we can pronounce english words without completely mutilate them
I indeed forgot the most famous exemple (Frigidère).
Klaxon was a brand name at the begining of the previous century (the 20th). I guess the company is long dead. People used the name because "avertisseur sonore" was too long. Ski-doo means snowmobile.
I never heard anyone saying "Google-le". By the way, do you live in France or Québec ? I live in Québec, it often explain differences in language.
Xeros means photocopy. And it's barely used anymore. We have products / company names that became dictionary words in french too (kleenex, ski-doo, klaxon, etc.) but we don't verb nouns. This is why still say "search on Google" and not "google it".
Anyway, anyone and Calvin knows that verbing weirds language.
If I hadn't wasted my last mod point this morning, I'd mod you insightful.
Yes, simply with the Virtual Identity extension for Thunderbird.
In the interest of science, I tried to forge the from field into mails I sent myself to my Gmail address. The first one was sent using Gmail smtp server and they changed it back to my real one.
The second one was sent from my ISPs smtp server and pretended to be from admin@gmail.com, I got a bright red :
"Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information."
The third pretended to from Bill Gates himself (billg@microsoft.com) and didn't raise any flag.
They don't always work. You should always inquire about the conditions to get the rebate. Stores will but $X after rebate whitout mentioning that the rebate states "only available in US" while you bought your product at a canadian store.
Most of the time they are okay but you should always ask to see the conditions.