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Comment: Re:rather have money (Score 1) 520

by jrumney (#43789447) Attached to: Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive?

This is the NZ immigration dept trying to avoid a situation where a child born in NZ becomes stateless, clearly demonstrating that the new laws surrounding citizenship are in conflict with the International Convention on Rights of the Child. In reality it has nothing to do with the claim that people are dying on waiting lists for essential surgery.

Comment: Re:Learning is great (Score 1) 227

by jrumney (#43781973) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

Yes, they have like 22 native languages in India in total, not counting dialects, if I remember correctly.

They have hundreds of languages in India. 22 is the number of them that are given a special status as historically and culturally important languages in the India constitution. But the others are as much dialects as English is a dialect of German.

Comment: Re:Exactly Backwards (Score 1) 227

by jrumney (#43781875) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

Maybe they should be learning one of the Official languages of India (the second largest asian country) that is also widely spoken in other asian countries.

That would be English, then? Or are you including official languages of the various states of India (rather than the nation as a whole), in which case Tamil, Bengali, Urdu and Punjabi would also qualify?

Comment: iCal support in Calendar? (Score 2) 414

by jrumney (#43777731) Attached to: Google Drops XMPP Support

It's news to me that Google is dropping iCal support from Calendar. The whole rationale for them dropping support for ActiveSync was that standards based iCalendar support was available and most devices support that now (ie noone uses Windows Phone, they are all using Android or iPhone). So does someone have a supporting reference for that, or is the Unknown Lamer just confused?

Comment: Re:Why is there hatred of Open Platforms? (Score 3, Informative) 126

by jrumney (#43766165) Attached to: Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom

On my supposedly "archaic" x86 desktop, I download any Linux distro I feel like using and can use the exact same installer to setup a 5 year old desktop or next month's Haswell.

This has nothing to do with it being Intel vs ARM, it is that the complete definition of a PC compatible platform is standardized. Intel Atom based tablets may not necessarily follow that platform standard.

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