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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 and I eventually got sick of never being able to find system settings and the really unhelpful search and switched to Xubuntu. I was reading this usability test and going "...And they went ahead with it!!??"
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 competing for the same work. The same goes for the vast array of courses in translation, film-making, forensic science, creative writing, game design or any number of appealing careers. There are always going to be more people wanting to do these jobs than there are positions available and educational institutions have no problem taking their money.
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 that their new hires don't have enough practical skills. So the technical schools become universities and start offering degrees in tourism, IT management, and financial planning.
"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 fought in the coalition against Napoleon so that it could demand Norway in the peace settlement. Previous to that Sweden fought in the Great Northern War of 1700-1721 to maintain and extend its Baltic empire and in the 30 Years War to defend Protestantism in Germany and to seize the basis for said empire.
I suggest that the existence of civil liberties and democracy in Sweden has more to do with peaceful activism and good government that with bloodshed and violent struggle.
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 made the key concepts clear and showed how they developed from previous concepts taught.
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 to armed robberies and taking things from unattended stores.
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 link to ALC (which does give lots of context) or to Japanese Wikipedia entries (which can compare to the English version of the same article)
For arguments sake: http://eow.alc.co.jp/%CE%AC%C3%A5/EUC-JP/ has lots of usage examples of 略奪 in context suggesting it does in fact mean looting.
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 reports a declaration of an emergency situation (apparently under official regulations for when a certain radiation level is reached) but otherwise nothing I hadn't already read.
It might just be the OP interpreting the situation as the beginnings of a meltdown.
edit: just spotted anigbrowl's post. Could have saved myself the googling (Ducking?)
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 cyclones of the Indian Ocean and 'correcred' the spelling to the Greek roots.
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 the 1880's.
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: http://www.alphenaandenrijn.nl/Smartsite.shtml?id=75994 http://www.alphenaandenrijn.nl/Smartsite.shtml?id=63643
The second one, at least, refers to a control group. The first suggests contacting the author for further details. I think it is a case where the news value of a piece of research outruns the peer review and publication process. For all we know the author thinks a lot more research is needed before he can publish anything.
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://www.pcb.wur.nl/UK/Research/ he is the head of a research group whose research is further detailed here: http://www.pcb.wur.nl/UK/Research/cell+division/From+cellto+...
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 he thought Monty Python would be interested in trying to get (the equivalent of) a G rating.
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 stuff and the safety excuse may just be a post-facto rationalization.
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, copying it passing it on to other people. When Linux took off, there was no Free-ly available Unix-like OS (at that time). Linux quickly gathered a critical mass of users who saw it as something like the answer to their prayers. I guess the strengths of Plan9 were not such as to create a new category for itself, and its flaws made it an unsuccessful competitor against existing Unix-like systems.
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, after the iPhone became a hit, everyone touted new smartphones as iPhone killers, which also flopped. Android is the only thing which has every reached the status of a legitimate iKiller. The Android tablet or some descendent of it might be your best bet for finding the tablet you're looking for.
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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie It did not occur to me at the time I read it that this was based on contemporary online media. It is interesting to consider that society might actually be moving in that direction.
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 to view, while the creators make their money elsewhere (through donations, t-shirt/book sales etc.). In these kind of things it is the voluntary readership/participation that makes the site/blog/comic a success. The existance of a community of users is a valuable resource that should not be alienated lightly.
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 as an "iPhone Killer", it will have to kill the iPhone first before people want to bury it in turn.
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 (The "Sense" UI seemed to make a lot of difference).
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 assumed this was because their Macintosh division was long established and very good at what they did, or designing for a platform they did not control brought Microsoft's true design talents.
Yes, my Uni experience overall has been kind of disappointing, but the good classes with interesting teachers have been amazing. Also the motivation of having to study has got me further than I would myself.
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