Haha...points for being a smart@$$!

 

HA HA HA HAH!

I like it.

Brian

 

You say ZEE, COLOR, CENTER, HUH?
We say ZED, COLOUR, CENTRE, EH?

 

Center and centre are actually two different words. Center is a geometrical term, and a centre is a building central to something. Now gray and grey, that's one. So is honour and honor (I think?) Or toque and wool hat. lol I think the rule of thumb was that the word with the extra letter is UK and the one with one less letter is US.

 

Sorry, not so. Check the Oxford online English dictionary and the Webster US online dictionary. I used to have the same idea as you until I checked several years ago.

My Dad was working as an electrical engineer in Florida. He drew up pencil a sketch of the site for a proposal for a new (circa 1971) large outside sign labelled "Cape Kennedy Space Centre". His boss pointed out the spelling error. He offered to change it but the Americans found it amusing just the was it was.

BTW, further to "These UK and Canadian guys really have different thinking processes than us sexy Americans.":

[edited by stroke of sanity from author]

So we're all a bit different in some way.

 

It would be fun to join in the cross cultural word play, maybe figure out which American took Nigel's candy. (last time I checked Canadians were Americans too)

The use of outsourcing as a solution is over used in the table. Having the money does not auto-magically mean that you can hire out the project and get satisfactory results. There is more to it then that.

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We're not. "America" and "Americans" are the self-adopted, unofficial names of the U.S.A. and its citizens. For example:
http://www.colbertnation.com/?p=1091

Don't lump Canadians or Mexicans in with your ambiguity, just because your nation's too lazy to come up with its own name.

 

Crazy. You can spell it as analyse, criticise, encyclopaedia, or mediaeval!

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm

America, the Americas, and North America aren't the same thing. After typing it so much I realzed that America is a really REALLY strange word. Like zoo. Zoo. Say it to yourself a few times.

 

That is actually true. I think we have to pick subcontractors that have more skills, high standards, more experiences and capabilities than we do as they can be effective, can expedite the project, and make it a success. After we meet the subcontractors, tour their facilities and learn about their work/project experiences, we can already sense what's going to happen. Also I feel it is important we do not pick a subcontractor with less skill than what we already have... if we do the project ourselves in-house and struggle, and the less-desirable subcontractor do it and also struggles - then we should just do this ourselves in-house so that we have less people struggling in this world! Anyways, I think the idea of having subcontractors is having partners that can communicate and provide effective solutions and services, and not the ones that will drag us down while we feed them money (then they become just an overhead that we didn't want to have in the first place).

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At times words and the meaning/emotion associated with them can be quite interesting. American is one of these interesting words.

I said (last time I checked Canadians were Americans too) so as not to be exclusive. Look what it got me!

About 30 years ago Canadians got very upset if people from the US used the term American and excluded them. We live on this continent too.
It seems Canadians have changed their minds

In regards to the link. We do not have an exclusive on this sort of stupidity. In a large population you are bound to have crackpots.

Recall Peter Wardley's thread I love being Canadian. It is not untypical of how Canadians feel about the US.
After 5 pages of postings Peter wrote

He was wrong.

I see this as an over reaction.

The US makes a good target for any Canadian who needs a scapegoat. That colors the water.

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Sacre' blu!!!!!

 

Line vs. queue? Where did this one go wrong?

 

DOes anyone use a "line" to refer to a list of requests being made to a processor?

THen again, does anyone use a queue to refer to a line of people waiting for something?

"No budding! Back of the queue!"

 

I haven't the faintest clue! I went into the electromagnetics and optics program. ASICS and vhdl isnt my forte.

 

Is this an invitation?
p.s.: You spelt colours incorrectly.