It's certainly not ironic that a babbling retard like yourself would fail to realize that it's called the "French Academy" (= Académie française) and not the "French i[sic]nstitute of l[sic]anguage".
What does U.Sian mean? Do you come from los Estados Unidos de Mexico?
There is no reasonably short unambiguous term for people who come from your country, but everyone will understand what you mean if you just say "American" like everybody else.
Well, since we're talking about France (since you're an intelligent individual, I won't bother to point out that France is in Europe, outside of America), I feel compelled to remind you that they use a modified (two-round) first-past-the-post system. So, what's your point?
If you had ever lived in France you would know two things:
1 They love tests. After taking the Brevet at the end of middle school and the Baccalauréat at the end of high diploma, many of them will go into special, two-year schools just to prepare them to take another test to go to a different school. Or some will go to a regular university, where after getting a degree they'll go take a test to try to become a "fonctionnaire" (public servant), a policeman, a teacher... a lot of French life is governed by tests. Becoming a driver is no different.
2 It's much, much, harder to get a licence there than in the United States.
There were twelve candidates in the recent presidential election, so, what's your point? Only three had a real chance of winning (unless you count Le Pen), so I don't even know where you get the number 4 from.
I'm not going to tell you what you "should" do, but unless your solar cells produce enough energy to offset your entire power consumption, turning off your PC will lower the amount of natural resources that you, as a person, consume.
And even if they do produce enough energy for all your needs, you could theoretically stock that energy or donate it to somebody else.
Actually, games are heavily optimized and do use everything they're given effectively. The use of a GPU is normal when you consider the graphics on modern games (it takes a LOT of processing power to render something that beautiful 30 times a second...). The CPU is used for physics and game state calculations, which are certainly not negligible.
What the fuck is £80? Remember that Slashdot is an American site. And even if it weren't, people across the world are more likely to understand prices quoted in dollars.
Are you a retard? Try coming to where I live (Western France). "All but the oldest generation" might be able to give you directions on the street, but they won't be able to understand complex topics.
Computer developers probably have a good reading knowledge of computer-related English, but that doesn't mean they'd be able to understand a conference given in real-time.
They speak the same language in London as in Mountain View, what's your point? It's pretty hard to go to Mountain View (or London) for somebody living on the East Coast.
Well, making computers do what are brains are good at is the first step to making computers that do everything better than us. Whether that is a good idea or not is outside the scope of this post.
Alright then, we don't have 100% perfect freedom of religion, due to the references to religion on money, in the Pledge... you could also mention the fact that the President is sworn in on the Bible, as well as I'm sure several other examples.
Although I think these examples are all bad and anti-freedom, I don't think that they're important enough to make one say that the United States are not a free country. When you look at the United States next to the set of countries, the freedoms enjoyed by their citizens are quite substantial.
Unless the DRM Cartels start controlling monitors, there will always be a way to get around something like this. Just build a device that, using the same standard used by GCs and monitors to communicate with each other, communicates with the GC and saves the data it sends off. Easy as pie.
Although I wouldn't put it past them to get together with monitor makers, change everything to a closed standard and make something like this impossible.
Then you're wrong. Although freedoms in the U.S. have been eroding for the past few years, we are still certainly a "free country" when you look at the rest of the world. Specifically, we have perfect freedom of religion, almost-perfect freedom of speech and of the press (better than most of Europe), freedom from imprisonment without a trial (except for non-citizens, apparently, see Gitmo), etc.
Explain why I should be patriotic in any way to my country of origin.
I'm not even going to give you any counter-arguments (yet), because the burden of proof is clearly on you, as you're the one who'se contending that one should be proud of one's country.
I live in France, and have since September. I interact with French people every day. I have never seen or heard of a.eu address, and didn't even know they existed until reading this Slashdot article.
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It's certainly not ironic that a babbling retard like yourself would fail to realize that it's called the "French Academy" (= Académie française) and not the "French i[sic]nstitute of l[sic]anguage".
What does U.Sian mean? Do you come from los Estados Unidos de Mexico?
There is no reasonably short unambiguous term for people who come from your country, but everyone will understand what you mean if you just say "American" like everybody else.
Fun can be used as an adjective or a noun. Although IANA English teacher, I see no problem modifying an adjective with an adverb.
This stupid fucking joke may or may not have been funny to someone, somewhere, but it sure isn't now.
le fin? un révolution? Tu fais beaucoup d'erreurs à la niveau de la genre...
Well, since we're talking about France (since you're an intelligent individual, I won't bother to point out that France is in Europe, outside of America), I feel compelled to remind you that they use a modified (two-round) first-past-the-post system. So, what's your point?
If you had ever lived in France you would know two things:
1 They love tests. After taking the Brevet at the end of middle school and the Baccalauréat at the end of high diploma, many of them will go into special, two-year schools just to prepare them to take another test to go to a different school. Or some will go to a regular university, where after getting a degree they'll go take a test to try to become a "fonctionnaire" (public servant), a policeman, a teacher... a lot of French life is governed by tests. Becoming a driver is no different.
2 It's much, much, harder to get a licence there than in the United States.
There were twelve candidates in the recent presidential election, so, what's your point? Only three had a real chance of winning (unless you count Le Pen), so I don't even know where you get the number 4 from.
I'm not going to tell you what you "should" do, but unless your solar cells produce enough energy to offset your entire power consumption, turning off your PC will lower the amount of natural resources that you, as a person, consume.
And even if they do produce enough energy for all your needs, you could theoretically stock that energy or donate it to somebody else.
Actually, games are heavily optimized and do use everything they're given effectively. The use of a GPU is normal when you consider the graphics on modern games (it takes a LOT of processing power to render something that beautiful 30 times a second...). The CPU is used for physics and game state calculations, which are certainly not negligible.
Allow me to politely point out that you are wrong.
Slashdot is an American site where people, on the whole, may or may not know how much a British Pound Sterling is worth.
Are you trying to tell me that a 7200 is better than a 6800 Ultra? Ridiculous.
Apparently Slashdot doesn't like the euro sign. $159.152 = 117.412025 euros
What the fuck is £80? Remember that Slashdot is an American site. And even if it weren't, people across the world are more likely to understand prices quoted in dollars.
From Google, £80 = $159.15200 = 117.412025
What about comparing across two series? A 7600 vs. a 6800, for example.
Are you a retard? Try coming to where I live (Western France). "All but the oldest generation" might be able to give you directions on the street, but they won't be able to understand complex topics.
Computer developers probably have a good reading knowledge of computer-related English, but that doesn't mean they'd be able to understand a conference given in real-time.
They speak the same language in London as in Mountain View, what's your point? It's pretty hard to go to Mountain View (or London) for somebody living on the East Coast.
Well, making computers do what are brains are good at is the first step to making computers that do everything better than us. Whether that is a good idea or not is outside the scope of this post.
<français>> est un mot sans majuscule. Sauf bien sûr si l'on parle d'un Français, un habitant de la France.
Alright then, we don't have 100% perfect freedom of religion, due to the references to religion on money, in the Pledge... you could also mention the fact that the President is sworn in on the Bible, as well as I'm sure several other examples.
Although I think these examples are all bad and anti-freedom, I don't think that they're important enough to make one say that the United States are not a free country. When you look at the United States next to the set of countries, the freedoms enjoyed by their citizens are quite substantial.
Unless the DRM Cartels start controlling monitors, there will always be a way to get around something like this. Just build a device that, using the same standard used by GCs and monitors to communicate with each other, communicates with the GC and saves the data it sends off. Easy as pie.
Although I wouldn't put it past them to get together with monitor makers, change everything to a closed standard and make something like this impossible.
Then you're wrong. Although freedoms in the U.S. have been eroding for the past few years, we are still certainly a "free country" when you look at the rest of the world. Specifically, we have perfect freedom of religion, almost-perfect freedom of speech and of the press (better than most of Europe), freedom from imprisonment without a trial (except for non-citizens, apparently, see Gitmo), etc.
Explain why I should be patriotic in any way to my country of origin.
I'm not even going to give you any counter-arguments (yet), because the burden of proof is clearly on you, as you're the one who'se contending that one should be proud of one's country.
I'm American. Go.
I live in France, and have since September. I interact with French people every day. I have never seen or heard of a .eu address, and didn't even know they existed until reading this Slashdot article.