Would you care for some sauce to go with that chip on your shoulder? Geeez.

It wasn't common knowledge to me, and I do care.

It is considered proper--even courteous--to supply citations when making a claim, and not to get in a snit when someone asks you for them in a nice way.

Thanks for the links, they make interesting reading.

Guess I'm not a "usual" Swedish worker, then, because I don't get any O/T. But I do get 30 days paid vacation instead of 25, which suits me fine.

Accurate political polling in presidential elections has a very vital role in modern society. Otherwise, how else would you know how loudly to complain about how you are threatening to move to Canada if the other party's candidate wins?

Can confirm this. I've been with Chinese people who went to have artifacts verified, and they've got the whole mass spectrometer (or whatever it is they use for solids) set up. There are tons of companies involved in verifying pricey things, because Chinese of all people are well aware the market is full of fakes.

"Decease" usually implies that the subject didn't survive.

Tagalog and Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia aren't "most languages". :)

That being said, I should have thought of the latter myself.

Name a language written with Latin characters (other than English) that does not use any special characters or diacritical marks whatsoever.

(Even English requires extensions to the Latin character set. which originally had no "U", "J", or "W". )

"The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity."
-- Edsger Dijkstra

Who wants to bet the person who posted this has never heard of Dijkstra? He invented the shortest path algorithm, structured programming, and was the first person to label GOTO as harmful. Professionally immature, indeed. I'd go farther and say incompetent.

You keep making this assertion but you have yet to prove it.

Let's assume the customer thinks IMAX is awesome. Given that he's buying X because it was compared favourably with IMAX, this is reasonable. Let's say product X turns out to be crap. The customer's reaction is likely to be something like, "This is a piece of crap--the experience is in no way comparable to what IMAX does for films." This, too, is reasonable.

He is not going to decide of a sudden that IMAX has suddenly turned to crap, too, which is what you seem to think, even though this is not reasonable.

I'm sorry, where was there any attempt whatsoever made to pass off a different product as IMAX? Because I seem to have missed that part.

The reciprocal of x increases as x decreases.You want infinity, not zero, for x=0.

The Feds always look for the most expensive option. They'll end up with pricey battery powered hardware tokens when they could look at cheap Yubikeys.