Of course all I said was biased, obviously. On the French quotes, though, there is a good reason to use them in French (and no good reason not to use them in English) : in English, there is very little chance of having an apostrophe right before the opening of quotes (or after they are closed), because of the way apostrophes are used in this language. In French though, it happens quite often, and you have to agree that nothing is more ugly than something like : l'"éléphant", right ? This '" is an abomination. On the other hand, l' << éléphant >> (you have to imagine how it looks with the true quotes though, not these ugly << >>) is much more clear and easy to read, isn't it ?
But anyway, the whole philosophies of French and English are different regarding punctuation marks, French prefers more white space while English tries to be as compact as possible it seems... (in French there's also space before and after !, ?,:,;, and quotes for example).
As for date formats... I think we will all agree that YYYYMMDD is the best of all, DDMMYYYY being maybe more natural, while MMDDYYYY is simply evil.
64 000 is the ONLY acceptable form, actually, as either the dot or the comma are accepted as decimal separators (http://www.bipm.org/en/CGPM/db/22/10/).
The other ones are ugly anyway, and I just wish the BIPM had the balls to impose the comma as the only acceptable decimal separator... 14 789,56 is so much prettier than "14,789.56", isn't it ?
And... looks like./ doesn't let me use french quotes in my comments (you know, the things that look like >) only "english ones"... another abomination coming from the english-speaking world.
Huh... there's no algorithm. The pages are not altered in any way. Your observation about relative links being "coralised" and absolute links not being coralised just means that... relative links are relative and absolute links are absolute.
I'm always astonished by the level of ignorance of people regarding nukes and blowing up large objects... I seriously doubt any amount of nukes detonated on the surface of the Moon would be able to blow it up, detonating all of the Earth's arsenal a thousand of kilometers or so under the surface might produce some results (but 'm doubtful about it) but there's no way we can do that.
I remember this time I was talking about sending nuclear waste or nukes to the Sun to get rid of them to someone, and another guy who heard that was like "No way ! With the power of modern nukes, we'd just blow up the Sun !". Stupid.
Except the Gendarmerie *is* part of the army. They are not under the ministry of Interior, they take part in the 14 July parades, etc. The Police is non-military and is under the ministry of Interior. But the only difference in their job is that the Police is mostly in >10 000 inhabitant cities and the Gendarmerie in the other ones, they do the same things otherwise.
Read slashdot more often and read the comments please. Comments in this previous story say that this isn't the department of Culture who said it, but the SACEM (the French equivalent to the RIAA). And another, more recent story (I don't care about looking for it) says that this bill proposal has been heavily amended and turned into a legalisation of P2P and reverse-engineering for open source software among others.
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Of course all I said was biased, obviously. On the French quotes, though, there is a good reason to use them in French (and no good reason not to use them in English) : in English, there is very little chance of having an apostrophe right before the opening of quotes (or after they are closed), because of the way apostrophes are used in this language. In French though, it happens quite often, and you have to agree that nothing is more ugly than something like : l'"éléphant", right ? This '" is an abomination. On the other hand, l' << éléphant >> (you have to imagine how it looks with the true quotes though, not these ugly << >>) is much more clear and easy to read, isn't it ? :, ;, and quotes for example).
But anyway, the whole philosophies of French and English are different regarding punctuation marks, French prefers more white space while English tries to be as compact as possible it seems... (in French there's also space before and after !, ?,
As for date formats... I think we will all agree that YYYYMMDD is the best of all, DDMMYYYY being maybe more natural, while MMDDYYYY is simply evil.
64 000 is the ONLY acceptable form, actually, as either the dot or the comma are accepted as decimal separators (http://www.bipm.org/en/CGPM/db/22/10/). The other ones are ugly anyway, and I just wish the BIPM had the balls to impose the comma as the only acceptable decimal separator... 14 789,56 is so much prettier than "14,789.56", isn't it ? And... looks like ./ doesn't let me use french quotes in my comments (you know, the things that look like >) only "english ones"... another abomination coming from the english-speaking world.
Huh... there's no algorithm. The pages are not altered in any way. Your observation about relative links being "coralised" and absolute links not being coralised just means that... relative links are relative and absolute links are absolute.
.eu which opened in 2005 ?
Except, except that the Council is the organisation that is trying by any means to push suftware patents laws.
I'm always astonished by the level of ignorance of people regarding nukes and blowing up large objects... I seriously doubt any amount of nukes detonated on the surface of the Moon would be able to blow it up, detonating all of the Earth's arsenal a thousand of kilometers or so under the surface might produce some results (but 'm doubtful about it) but there's no way we can do that.
I remember this time I was talking about sending nuclear waste or nukes to the Sun to get rid of them to someone, and another guy who heard that was like "No way ! With the power of modern nukes, we'd just blow up the Sun !". Stupid.
Except the Gendarmerie *is* part of the army. They are not under the ministry of Interior, they take part in the 14 July parades, etc. The Police is non-military and is under the ministry of Interior. But the only difference in their job is that the Police is mostly in >10 000 inhabitant cities and the Gendarmerie in the other ones, they do the same things otherwise.
Read slashdot more often and read the comments please. Comments in this previous story say that this isn't the department of Culture who said it, but the SACEM (the French equivalent to the RIAA). And another, more recent story (I don't care about looking for it) says that this bill proposal has been heavily amended and turned into a legalisation of P2P and reverse-engineering for open source software among others.