So true. At least one company knows the value of backwards compatibility (and it's not Apple).

The Lisa, not the Apple II

Nice salary if you can get it.

That's too much, you can easily learn a language well in two years, and attain fluency in six months or less. Learning to repeat words you don't understand is extremely helpful, so good job.

That's fascinating. Who uses it? Do people need to be trained to use it? Or is that just something you're expected to know if you're (for example) a warehouse automation kind of guy?

Well, my own expectation is that your rant will have absolutely no effect whatsoever; but if you think otherwise, I am definitely both interested and intrigued in finding out why.

What do they actually do? I'm still not entirely sure.....ERP, whatever that is.

I'm more interested by the fact that you think using angry words at an AC will accomplish anything......

The weird thing is, more companies seem to be using SAP. Certainly SAP owns more buildings in the Bay Area (maybe putting their name on buildings is their entire advertising budget), and their revenue seems to be up. I honestly don't understand why, and I don't entirely understand what they do.

Yeah, I'm not sure the conclusions in the article are justified from the experiment. In my own experience learning to speak a second language fluently, I found situations similar to yours; for example, at first while doing live interpretation, it is quite difficult to remember which language to use. However, after a while you get used to it.

As for living in a foreign country, when you live in that country, you are forced to use the language a lot. You might be practicing the language for 8 hours a day. If you spent 8 hours a day practicing a language in your home country, you'd still learn the language rather quickly.

Further effect of this can be seen in people who live in the foreign country, but avoid opportunities to practice the language. They can go 30 years without actually learning it.

That is good for you. In her case, it had been that way since she was a kid, so she just thought that's how dentistry was until she became roughly an adult.

I think maybe you overestimate the kind of information that can be garnered from previous purchasing options....

I was thinking that too, but plenty of past series have managed to make Superman into an interesting character. So I would say the flaw is not in the character, but in how the writers try to write about him.

? Windows has been on mobile phones for a long time. Longer than the iPhone.

Uh, it wasn't just Microsoft, basically everyone who thought about the situation was forseeing that by the late 90s.