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Comment Re:Suggestions... (Score 1) 1021

by lobStar on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @10:27AM (#24099841) Attached to: Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer?

It is considered something between a dialect and a language. Most Germans and Austrians can barely understand it. It is often easier for a Swede and a Norwegian to understand each other, and they are always considered different languages. However, all Swiss can change to standard high German at any time, and written Swiss German is only used in very colloquial settings.

Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer 374

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 23, 2007 @10:03AM from the but-he-does-cry-a-lot dept.

Google85 writes "Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him. The book capitalizes on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris' tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said."

Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results 172

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 22, 2007 @04:37PM from the this-one-goes-out-to-all-the-penguins-out-there dept.

DeviceGuru writes "While the Linux Foundation's third annual desktop Linux survey doesn't officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. They now have up an early look at the raw data. For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey compared to fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. Not surprisingly, the Ubuntu family of Linuxes is the most popular among organizations, at 54.1 percent. This was followed by the Red Hat family — RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora/CentOS) — with 50.2 percent. The Novell SUSE group — SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and openSUSE — came in third, with 35.2 percent."

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