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I doubt Nokia is willing to burn the bridges with standardization bodies like that.

For some reason the article chose to use Estonian as an example of Finno-Ugric languages, which have all been traditionally considered difficult for English speakers.

Having no native teachers available increased the difficulty, and the WWII usage was against non-native English speakers. That said, the Native American languages that I know of ar…

"to correctly pronounce any Finnish word you just string together the sounds of the letters of the word." This is a lie-to-children that I too was taught in school, but it's not ev…

The only non-fanboy argument in the article is Japanese carriers' hunger for control. This is absolutely true, and might be the reason Android gets some traction in Japan. But cons…

"Instead of wading through menus and searching for a picture of an A with an umlaut, I can just type H\"{a}agen-Dazs directly." I just press the ä key.

I don't see how adding a predefined style called "level 2 heading" to paragraph would be more distracting than adding a "/this is a level 2 heading" TeX command. That said, I think…

Yes, but he's talking about people who have no idea how to use Word properly. How would similarly "skilled" people fare with TeX? I mean, what, you don't need to be "careful" writi…

Using WYSIWYG with predefined styles is more writing focused than messing around with TeX, I would think. I think the author seriously misrepresents the way Word is poised to be us…

Even for ten years ago, forgetting that other countries need to typeset too was kind of lame. ASCII is seriously limited outside American context.

I had always thought European cars had the door on the passenger side, while Japanese and American cars had it on the driver's side. I admit to not having driven all that many cars…

>This information can be found online or in the manual So can the information on how you should partition your hard drive for Linux installation. Yet (historically) most people thi…

Live in Tampere, work in Helsinki.

I'll just butt in to say Kobe is great. Lots of character and interesting places to hang out in. Has it's own charm, different from Osaka or Nagoya (which I really like too).

TFA's main point is that it takes companies like Nokia a very long time to ship a new product. Fair enough, but the time frame and the value judgements therein are just ridiculous …

This change does not seem to affect secondary gmail accounts: does anyone know of a way to get them to work too? Or is there a technical reason why Google cannot do it? In case som…

Just so you know, you can still see the email originated from gmail; you just don't get to see the gmail username. Probably not a huge issue, though?

Forwarding email from a random address to a gmail address has been possible as long as gmail has existed. It's not a feature that depends upon Google support.

For the silverlight-impaired, Light-Bot is a similar game and works in Flash http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot edit: Ah, I didn't notice there was a javascript version too.…

Oh well, I think I have to disagree with the article there. The Japanese may have different tastes than the western audience, but there definitely is a huge amount of effort spent …

But you can do that on pretty much any western smartphone, and it's not a particularly new feature. Whether it's good enough to encourage mass adoption is another thing entirely. T…

What would you do with HD video on a 480x320 screen? Anyway, it'd need an extra chip to work, which would make the phone bigger, and then it'd kill your battery when you used it (r…

The article speaks of excess hardware making the phones "surprisingly clunky", but really the phones don't have any hardware that you wouldn't find in a top of the line Nokia, and …

In general, a discussion that revolves around the exact definition of pretty much any concept is more or less sure to lead to retarded internet raging.