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Actually, the usability test pretty much replicated my experience with Unity. The dock was fine, but the way it folded was awkward. I wasn't sure what the Ubuntu menu did either an…

Well it's essentially the same problem for actions. The dream appeals to many, but the work is only available for a smaller number. The result is a lot of struggling actors competi…

The problem is that a university degree has more prestige that a technical school. So employers use it as a measure of the ability of the people they are hiring, and then complain …

"These are civil liberties that our forefathers fought, bled, and died to give us." The poster is Swedish. Sweden's last war was fought in 1814 to occupy Norway. Before that it fou…

This rings true for me. Certainly the courses I struggled in were ones where I had a hard time getting a grip on the concepts. The best lecturers helped by teaching in a way that m…

From Bing? Presumably Google would put the cake under a microscope to see if the flour came from their own cupboard.

This Chunichi Shimbun Article: http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2011031702... about the increase of looting in Japan following the earthquake uses 略奪 to refer both…

Really, I always found it pretty useful. I guess this might be because when doing J->E translation I already had context from the source text. Still the WWWJDIC results at least li…

Yes, but he hesitated to say this was sufficient and said the reactors were still "a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment".

略奪 ryakudatsu edit: link to definition - http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/je2/79721/m1u/%E7%95%A5%E5%...

NHK World English has an online at http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ so you could listen in. I didn't see any mention of meltdown in the latest news there. NHK's Japanese page report…

I think it is more correct to say that all the typhoon words derive from Greek (or at least a common source). Europeans borrowed a cognate local word (tufan) to describe the cyclon…

You can see the etymology of tycoon at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_magnate#Etymology The borrowing pre-dates the Hepburn romanization system which wasn't developed until…

Well the article on the University's web-page states the study was commissioned by the municipality of Alphen aan der Rijn. The municipality's website has two pages about the study…

A little more googling and you can find his biographical details with a list of his publications: http://www.pcb.wur.nl/UK/People/Faculty/André+van+Lammeren/ and according to http:…

Interesting. I note that Mark Forstater was the producer of the film. There doesn't seem anything strange to me about him trying to bargain the censors down. What seems odd is that…

You can read the actual contract rider for yourself at: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/van-halens-lege... In my opinion, the document is full of a whole lot of weird …

I think it is significant that both Unix itself and Linux were category killers. Unix succeeded because people kept going "Wow, there's nothing like this!" and writing in to get it…

Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Back in the early days of the iPod's success, company after company came out with iPod-killers that all basically flopped. Then, af…

Yes, GNU Go, the premier open source Go program is implemented exactly like this. Any graphical front ends in use are all written by third parties.

This reminds me of the concept of "whuffie" in Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" where he posits an entire future society based on these principles. http://en.wik…

Yes, Wikipedia would be another example. It is one of the most useful destinations on the web, but does not charge anything. So too are web-comics, just about all of which are free…

The blog did file it under "Apple Fanboyism" and "Microsoft Bashing", so at least they were honest about where they were coming from. I presume that since Android is being touted a…

An Android fan/wanna-be rather than a user yet, but of the two Android handsets I have played with, I was disappointed with the Nexus One, but really liked my friends HTC Desire (T…

Their Macintosh products tend to be really great. I really loved IE5 for Mac and was sorry when they discontinued it. MS Word on the Macintosh always seemed well designed too. I as…