Is that a feature that you can count on working indefinitely?
To the extent that Google supports standards, yes.
RFC2822 allows A-Z,a-z (case insensitive, 0-9, the chars ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ and . (assuming the period is not the first or last char) Any server that rejects an email address for containing one or more of the above characters is in violation of RFC2822, and should be considered broken.
Gmail is also broken, then: it does not support - nor _ in email addresses.
That really sucks.
What is offensive is the suggestion that the coercive power of the state may legitimately be employed to force use of a particular language by private persons in their dealings with one another, regardless of the consequences. I will be blunt about this: it is in fact evil for the government of Quebec to require French-language signage, even if the alternative is the extinction of French as a living language in Quebec.The government has no problem with private persons dealing with one another in any language they choose. If I'm in a restaurant and I choose to talk to the waiter in English, French, German or Russian, it's not a problem. The restaurant just has have a French menu. Exactly how is this "evil" again?
Keep in mind that French is not the language of "a bunch of immigrants who chose an English country but want to keep their stupid, dying language". As one poster said below, the problem was English being forced on the French majority by the English-speaking minority that controlled most businesses (I'm summarizing a lot, here).
If a Government body (say, a town administration) near the Mexican border in the US decided "hey, we sure seem to have a lot of Mexican folks here - let's just publish our bylaws and hold our meetings in Spanish only, and we will pretend to not understand you if you come and talk to us in English." It would be evil to not try to force them to use English as well as Spanish?
Down here in the US we basically expect and assume that all immigrants will give up their native language within a generation but not necessarily their culture. Indeed, as we do in Canada and Quebec. That is not the problem.
The problem is that French-speakers are not immigrants: French has been spoken in Quebec since before the arrival of the British colonisators and their subsequent conquest of the land.
(Note: please don't understand this post as "I resent the British invasion." That's not the point I'm trying to make.)
The government (or, more specifically, the 'Office Québécois de la Langue Française') used to require that a french version was available for non-entertainment software (the case that broke this law was when Windows 98 was delayed a few weeks because the French version wasn't ready at the same time as the English one was).
More recently, though, they have required that all software that did not come with a French version include a French-language instruction manual. This includes console games, and for the longest time, stores received hundreds of copies black-and-white shoddily translated game manuals for consoles, at game launch (not included in the boxes). Made it a huge pain to track all of them and to hand them out to customers.
Game companies have figured it out, though, and now most include bilingual manuals in-box.
Incidentally, the term "language police" is quite offensive to francophones such as myself, as well as anyone who has realized that French in Quebec actually was very well in danger of being wiped off by the deluge of English signs and companies up until the Quiet Revolution, and even, to a lesser extent, since then. There used to be a time where you could not be served in French in any businesses in Montreal, nor were there any French-language signage. I dare say that if it weren't for the "language police", it probably still would be the case.
While some of their tactics are quite heavy-handed, most of their actions are in fact very reasonable and help make Quebec a great place to live, in both official languages.
Some Sony WEGAs have SRS built-in, and it makes a pretty good difference on the built-in speakers. On an actual sound system, though - not nearly good enough.
Hey, lookit that! Someone doesn't understand the concept of 'market share', as in 'percentage points', not 'raw numbers'!
DOS was also the dominant OS in those days: therefore, DOS was targeted more than others.
Although one could argue that the Frontiers (especially the 370) make very, very bad prints (even when handled by a competent technician), especially from slides, they're still quite a good ways off from what even the best inkjet, and still far from what you get with dye-sub.
This is unfortunately the reason some movies are "cheesy mainstream crap" and other are "indie" - the Studios want to please to a maximum of people.
Ask around you, and many people will admit to seeing Titanic at least once, and if your social circle extends beyond a certain type of people, you'll find some people who genuinely enjoyed it. Whereas not many have seen "good, unique, indie stuff", and admittedly it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Which is why movie studios churn out crappy blockbusters by the dozen, and well-made films end up without distributors. It's ecomonics.
"Kim Stowe - Yes. We will have nearly 18 publisher/developer announcements in the coming months. "
I've always wondered what people mean when they say "nearly 18"... Does that mean 17? 16? Or 18, with some wiggle room in case one falls through?
I remember seeing a blurb for some game, saying "up to three different difficulty levels", and I asked the rep "what the hell does that mean?" - his answer? "Search me. I guess we've got three..."
"Jos. Louis" are a sort of mass-market chocolate cake sold in Quebec. They're made by Vachon, and hella-tasty.
It's actually named after the founder family's two sons, Joseph and Louis, not after the boxer. They also have a vanilla version called a "May West". No explanation for that name.
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Is that a feature that you can count on working indefinitely?
To the extent that Google supports standards, yes.
RFC2822 allows A-Z,a-z (case insensitive, 0-9, the chars ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ and . (assuming the period is not the first or last char) Any server that rejects an email address for containing one or more of the above characters is in violation of RFC2822, and should be considered broken.
Gmail is also broken, then: it does not support - nor _ in email addresses. That really sucks.What is offensive is the suggestion that the coercive power of the state may legitimately be employed to force use of a particular language by private persons in their dealings with one another, regardless of the consequences. I will be blunt about this: it is in fact evil for the government of Quebec to require French-language signage, even if the alternative is the extinction of French as a living language in Quebec.The government has no problem with private persons dealing with one another in any language they choose. If I'm in a restaurant and I choose to talk to the waiter in English, French, German or Russian, it's not a problem. The restaurant just has have a French menu. Exactly how is this "evil" again?
Keep in mind that French is not the language of "a bunch of immigrants who chose an English country but want to keep their stupid, dying language". As one poster said below, the problem was English being forced on the French majority by the English-speaking minority that controlled most businesses (I'm summarizing a lot, here).
If a Government body (say, a town administration) near the Mexican border in the US decided "hey, we sure seem to have a lot of Mexican folks here - let's just publish our bylaws and hold our meetings in Spanish only, and we will pretend to not understand you if you come and talk to us in English." It would be evil to not try to force them to use English as well as Spanish?
Down here in the US we basically expect and assume that all immigrants will give up their native language within a generation but not necessarily their culture. Indeed, as we do in Canada and Quebec. That is not the problem. The problem is that French-speakers are not immigrants: French has been spoken in Quebec since before the arrival of the British colonisators and their subsequent conquest of the land. (Note: please don't understand this post as "I resent the British invasion." That's not the point I'm trying to make.)
Not quite.
The government (or, more specifically, the 'Office Québécois de la Langue Française') used to require that a french version was available for non-entertainment software (the case that broke this law was when Windows 98 was delayed a few weeks because the French version wasn't ready at the same time as the English one was).
More recently, though, they have required that all software that did not come with a French version include a French-language instruction manual. This includes console games, and for the longest time, stores received hundreds of copies black-and-white shoddily translated game manuals for consoles, at game launch (not included in the boxes). Made it a huge pain to track all of them and to hand them out to customers.
Game companies have figured it out, though, and now most include bilingual manuals in-box.
Incidentally, the term "language police" is quite offensive to francophones such as myself, as well as anyone who has realized that French in Quebec actually was very well in danger of being wiped off by the deluge of English signs and companies up until the Quiet Revolution, and even, to a lesser extent, since then. There used to be a time where you could not be served in French in any businesses in Montreal, nor were there any French-language signage. I dare say that if it weren't for the "language police", it probably still would be the case.
While some of their tactics are quite heavy-handed, most of their actions are in fact very reasonable and help make Quebec a great place to live, in both official languages.
Some Sony WEGAs have SRS built-in, and it makes a pretty good difference on the built-in speakers. On an actual sound system, though - not nearly good enough.
Hey, lookit that! Someone doesn't understand the concept of 'market share', as in 'percentage points', not 'raw numbers'! DOS was also the dominant OS in those days: therefore, DOS was targeted more than others.
Although one could argue that the Frontiers (especially the 370) make very, very bad prints (even when handled by a competent technician), especially from slides, they're still quite a good ways off from what even the best inkjet, and still far from what you get with dye-sub.
Parent obviously does not know the difference between Justice and Law. Look it up.
This is unfortunately the reason some movies are "cheesy mainstream crap" and other are "indie" - the Studios want to please to a maximum of people. Ask around you, and many people will admit to seeing Titanic at least once, and if your social circle extends beyond a certain type of people, you'll find some people who genuinely enjoyed it. Whereas not many have seen "good, unique, indie stuff", and admittedly it's not everyone's cup of tea. Which is why movie studios churn out crappy blockbusters by the dozen, and well-made films end up without distributors. It's ecomonics.
"Kim Stowe - Yes. We will have nearly 18 publisher/developer announcements in the coming months. "
I've always wondered what people mean when they say "nearly 18"... Does that mean 17? 16? Or 18, with some wiggle room in case one falls through?
I remember seeing a blurb for some game, saying "up to three different difficulty levels", and I asked the rep "what the hell does that mean?" - his answer? "Search me. I guess we've got three..."
Not true. We have taxes on stuff that's less than $1. Dollar stores usually end up being $0,87 stores instead, so that the total becomes $1.
"Jos. Louis" are a sort of mass-market chocolate cake sold in Quebec. They're made by Vachon, and hella-tasty. It's actually named after the founder family's two sons, Joseph and Louis, not after the boxer. They also have a vanilla version called a "May West". No explanation for that name.