Comment Re:New Coke was a Flop? (Score 1) 786
Coke still has sugar and not HFCS in some other countries.
Coke still has sugar and not HFCS in some other countries.
France's income tax is indeed usually lower than in the US, but that's not the whole picture.
You also have to look at sales tax (VAT), which is much higher in France at 19.6% vs around 7-8% in most US states.
Then there is the taxe d'habitation, which simply doesn't exist in the U.S. for renters.
All in all, you wind up paying more in France. The value, however, is much better in France, given all the various services and aid which are provided.
So we can expect an imminent Apple lawsuit then?
I'm not a big gamer, but the ones I do play, mainly 0Ad, Oil Rush, & Civ5 all work fine on my Q6600 (no overclock).
But mainly I enjoy having a bunch of applications open all at the same time without any problems: Netbeans, postgreSql admin & server, Gimp, LibreOffice, Firefox with a bunch of tabs, etc... and being able to play a quick game of 0ad without closing out of anything. Not bad for a 6 year old proc & mobo.
I've added memory, and updated the video card twice, it's an AMD 5350 now, but the most measurable upgrade was actually the SSD drive. Running Enlightenement DE also helps, at least when compared to Gnome3 or Unity, maybe only a little better or the same as Gnome2.
English is a mix of languages, essentially of Germanic origin (mainly Anglo-Saxon) and of Latin origin (mainly French). Germanic is the core of the language, the grammar is derived from it, as is the "basic" vocabulary. French and in some cases Latin directly were added later on, and most of the "extended" vocabulary derives from it, or in some cases, from Greek.
The pronunciation of the "G" is therefore largely dictated by the etymology of the word. You'll see that in the most common words: girl, get, together, gift, etc. the "G" is always hard. However, for words borrowed from French, Latin and Greek (often technical, scientific, legal, etc), the "G" follows the French pronunciation: in front of the vowels "e", "i", and "y" it is soft, otherwise it is hard:
giant (French "géant")
gentle (French "gentil")
gymnasium (Latin)
engine (French "engin")
vagina (Latin)
gyroscope (French from Greek words)
-ogy and -gist (French / Latin): biology, biologist, archeology, archaeologist, etc
-gyn- (meaning "woman", from Greek): misogyny, androgyny, gynoid, etc
Exceptions:
gynecologist, gibbon
Back to GIF: both ways of pronouncing it are correct, and indeed I have heard both styles. Although anecdotally, the soft version is used more often by people over 35-40.
Middle class families in the US don't have the same level of financial assistance from the government in case of layoffs as in Europe. Even for someone with a good position, losing a job is going to be a major problem much sooner than "within a year". More like a 2-3 months at best.
Perri-air, fresh from Druidia, will always be the best.
WindowsQT exists, in a way...
No change needed, the short "a" version is an accepted prononciation of the name, and in fact is closer to the original Latin.
When implementing RESTful APIs, I've found this Firefox plugin to be quite useful. It allows you to use DELETE and PUT requests (amongst others) from your browser.
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