Opera's actually removed its Qt dependency since 10.50:

Like Opera for Mac, the Unix version will have some big changes under the platform hood: it will no longer be necessary to have Qt installed.

It means [Qt] is totally removed and no longer required at all. Hence UNIX [Opera] required a bigger rewrite than the other platforms.

Oh, like in that one episode of "I Love Lucy" where Lucy keeps pulling the cord and bring the train to an abrupt stop. The comment from quintesse completely makes sense now. Thanks!

For US Americans such as myself who are used to either pulling a cord (horizontal cord that goes across the wall of the bus) or pressing a button (much less common from my experience) to signal a stop, what other methods are there? I'm genuinely curious. I did a quick Google search, but I don't seem to be able to come up with the right search terms to get a result that tells the methods of stopping a bus for various non-US bus systems.

...and it's been working out fine thus far.

Back during the last time change (autumn of 2010), I decided to not change my alarm clock's time. My computer and laptop would auto-adjust, and I'd still have to change the times on my DSLR camera, e-reader, and Nintendo DS. But the alarm clock time remains the same. When the alarm clock shows "9:30 PM", I go to bed (even though it's actually 8:30 PM). When the alarm clock shows "4:00 AM" (even though it's actually 3:00 AM), it sounds and I wake up.

The effect is that my day shifts by an hour twice yearly, but I do not. It was strange for the first week or two, having everything around me shifted by an hour (giving me an extra hour in the dark morning, and an hour less after work), but that's much better than the two weeks it would have taken me to even begin to adjust to an altered sleeping schedule.

Soon I'll find if shifting my day back (moving an hour from my morning to my afternoon) will feel as strange as it did in the autumn. One thing I do know for sure, I won't lose an hour of sleep in the transition.

It's almost hard to believe that they're still doing that, but at the same time I can see it for anything intended for children and to be played on television. I've been buying up straight-to-DVD releases from RightStuf.com the past four years.

I think "Seven of Seven" is the last one I remember that outright rewrote a few lines and a scene for the dub, which was due to the scenes involving English language and humor based on that. For example, in one scene in Japanese, a little American girl says to the main character, "Are you ready?" and the Japanese main character says, "Yes, I'm a lady." For the dub, the little girl says "Are you ready?" and the main character says, "Ready for what?" I guess "Bamboo Blade" had similar with an English-speaking character in a couple of episodes, where they gave her a "gangsta" way of talking in the English dub to compensate.

For series intended for televised released, I do agree with you, SuricouRaven. Brock making donuts rather than rice balls, everything done to Sailomoon by DiC, the cut-and-paste fest that was the US Cardcaptor Sakura (which I've read about, but thankfully not seen more than half an episode of, as well as watching the first movie dubbed just to quality I thankfully missed out on), and the effort to remove religion from Saint Tail (a series which takes place in a Catholic school, with a nun for one of the main characters! And that series didn't even make it to television as intended, so it was a straight-to-DVD), those are definitely something unnecessary for some of them, and outright disasters for the rest.

Actually, with those series in mind, I'd add to your list of changes: removing religion, removing things that might upset religious parents (such as tarot cards), removing scenes with comic violence (such as Melvin in Sailormoon being hit in the face with a party streamer), removing "inappropriate relationships" (making Zoicite female, and making Neptune and Uranus cousins in Sailormoon), and trying to change the target audience to increase viewership (making Cardcaptor Sakura into a series for young male viewers.)

For straight-to-DVD series that were clearly never intended for television release (as far as I would imagine), however, I know the next time I watch "Petite Princess Yucie", "A Little Snow Fairy Sugar", and "Bamboo Blade", it's going to be a coin toss to decide which language to listen in, because the dub is that good.

Keep in mind, it's a little easier to dub an animated character's mouth being closed, open, closed, open, closed, open, closed from "ohayo" into "good morning" than it would be in a live action film, where the character's mouth and face have many frames of muscle movement.

This is actually an area where it seems (anime) dubbers sometimes cannot win. There will be a line said, and the only way to reasonably get the line to fit the mouth movements is to tweak it a little, changing the line while still retaining the same meaning, and fans will complain about it. But if they left the line as a direct translation, it wouldn't have fit the mouth movements, and fans will complain about that.

Granted, I haven't been a part of any anime forums in years, so maybe fans don't complain anymore?

I'm as much a sub purist as the next sub purist, but there have been many very decent dubs by a number of companies in the past five years. Probably a few years even before that, but that goes beyond the start of my disposable income.

Anything that shows on daytime TV will probably be censored and reworded. However, many straight-to-DVD series I've seen were well dubbed, counting translation, voices for characters, voice acting, and even lip syncing most of the time.

I realize that whether a dub is liked or not is subjective. I loved the English dubs for "Princess Tutu", "Petite Princess Yucie", "Haibane Renmei", "Azumanga Daioh", "Bamboo Blade", and more. But I also had trouble tolerating the "Kanon" dub (due to voices), and "DNAngel" had some voices that were difficult for me to get used to. And I'm sure there are others I didn't care for in English that I simply don't recall offhand.

There will still be bad dubs out there, or (technically) decent dubs with bad voice actors (for the roles they're playing). That said, this isn't 1996. "Sailor Moon" and "Dragon Ball Z" are not representative of dubs from the last five or more years.

I'm saying this generally, not directed at v1 specifically for saying these are few well-dubbed titles. I'm going to assume v1's given a few dubs a proper chance in the past five years, but if anyone else is sour on dubs and hasn't, you could be missing out.

As for me, I'll continue to watch shows in Japanese first. It helps keep my meager Japanese vocabulary from worsening, and I get to enjoy the characters as they originally were. But I'll also enjoy it in English (if the dub is tolerable) as I can better sit back and relax while watching, not having to worry about giving each subtitle a one-second glance to take in the translation of each line.

I must have spent about five minutes on the download page (third link in the summary) trying to find the download link. Turns out the download link only appears if one has Javascript enabled.

I will admit, I'm curious to see how they're handing the status bar's relocation. Guess I can enable Javascript for one page reload here.

It doesn't even take that much to see nothing on Facebook. I don't give Facebook Javascript access, and I found their new profiles don't load without Javascript. Then soon after, nothing else on the site loads without Javascript. I get essentially a blank page (with a few static layout items).

Doesn't matter to me as I only have a Facebook account so people can find me (recently reconnected with a childhood school friend, for example). I mostly just find it interesting that there is no Facebook for me with my no-Javascript setting.

I buy specifically from Barnes and Noble because of an existing method to remove the DRM, allowing me to read the e-books I buy on my Onyx Boox e-reader.

Oops, I misread the point intended by noidentity's post. For the company, shipping 100 widgets on a single truck is indeed cheaper than shipping to 100 addresses. Please ignore my reply up above =P

Do you believe that shipping 100 widgets on a single truck to a single store costs anywhere close to shipping 100 widgets individually to 100 people's doorsteps?

That depends; are we factoring in 100 people driving to the single store?

Not that I'm agreeing with the premise that Microsoft never has any innovations of their own, but in the case of Kinect, PrimeSense developed the hardware. I don't know if Microsoft further developed it, or provided requirements for PrimeSense to develop it into something to use for the XBox, but it didn't begin with Microsoft.

Seems CVS or similar would counter purposely creating bugs, unless someone's going to modify the history tree, and any older copies of the source code sitting around.

Am I missing any openings where "insert bugs" can still fill "???" and lead to "PROFIT!"? Maybe putting a bug in on purpose, and letting it sit around for a month before reporting it?

These are 500px wide...