It's got nothing to do with feminism or political correctness though, even if the media tries to paint it that way. It's a hygiene issue. Basically many men piss on the floor or the toilet seat, while women's bathrooms tend to be cleaner because they can't miss and it's in everyone's interests to keep the seats reasonably clean.

It's not just Sweden, men in South Korea and France have been proposing it too. Note that it's men proposing it in all cases, it's not some feminazi conspiracy. Also, it happened in the US first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

US investors are free to pump money into new nuclear capacity if they want to, but they don't. Too expensive, and if government funding gets cut they might never see a profit. There are also a multitude of things that can go wrong (not just meltdowns, things like premature ageing or the discovery flaws that are costly to fix) so it's a fairly risky investment. The countries that are building new capacity all offset the risk with government subsidy.

It needs to be glass for the touch screen to work. Things with plastic screens have resistive touch screen input which sucks, so almost all phones use glass and capacitative touch screen input.

Yes, because it's not a single material. It's strengthened glass with a thin layer over the top that is highly scratch resistant. Thus it is both very hard in terms of resisting scratches and very flexible (for glass) so that it doesn't shatter.

This technique is used on many high performance parts these days, for example helicopter rotor blades.

Depends where you mean in Asia. East Asian cultures may seem like that, but it's mostly due to really poor translation. Well, that and the fact that merely translating the worlds rarely conveys the full meaning or gives you any kind of cultural context.

For example, Japanese people often refer to things as "sugoi", which is usually translated as "amazing". It can actually mean a whole range of things, from surprising to astounding but the exact meaning is conveyed by the way it is said and context. On top of that there is this weird stereotype of the over-the-top Japanese TV advert, but honestly they are on the whole subdued than British and especially American adverts.

South Asia I don't know much about.

Why don't you use a 16:9 monitor in portrait mode for DTP? Most printed material is taller than it is wide, so a portrait widescreen monitor will let you see the entire page at once without zooming out so far it is tiny.

You could also just buy a 16:10 monitor. There are plenty of them about. If you feel adventurous you can get 16:10 2.5k screens from Korea very cheaply, and the use the same high end panels as Dell and Apple do. Search eBay for "catleap".

Turn the 16:9 monitor 90 degrees and it's ideal for document editing. If you do a lot of document work either have a portrait orientation 16:9 monitor or have two pages displayed on a landscape 16:9 display.

I find that 16:9 is better for coding too. I can have two code views side by side, or code on one side and debugger on the other. I have dual 16:9 monitors at work, and use the second one for a terminal window and datasheets (I'm an embedded developer).

700W is excessive, but 200W is also a low estimate. A high end GPU can pull around 180W these days (they are actually two GPUs on one card, with shared memory). A high end CPU will have a TDP of 120W, let along what it needs for computation. 350W is more realistic for a gaming rig.

The main problem that the EU has with Google is that it promotes its own services above everyone else's, making it very hard to compete with them. They proposed fairer search results but Google hasn't implemented them, so now they are talking about forcing the issue.

Also China is dominated by domestic companies who provide search, cloud services, email, chat and pretty much most of what Google does. It would have been very hard for them to complete, and with the political environment and the US's increasingly hostile position it just didn't make sense to continue.

From his point of view it seems suspicious that he was told that he could leave Sweden, but then for some reason the prosecutor changed her mind and decided he must come back for questioning. A video link or trip to the UK was not enough, he had to actually go to Sweden.

As far as I know there has never been an adequate explanation for that. While I'm sure Sweden would kick up a fuss if the US interfered, that might not be enough to keep Assange out of Guantanamo or some other place where they torture people. Given that the US wants him I can see why he is not willing to risk his life on the promise that he won't fall into their hands if he returns to Sweden.

Amazon and eBay both limit shipping costs on things like games consoles, so you can't have them that high. It's a particular problem on eBay because they seem to have set the price at the absolute minimum it is possible to post things for with no tracking on the slow boat.

Other search and map engines must be worried by this kind of thing though. One of the reasons Google Maps is so good is that they do image recognition with Street View photos. Google's search engine is better than Bing's because it understands the web more like a human does.

Why do you think Google is rolling out its own unlimited use fibre networks? The realized that ISPs are a threat and decided to either force them to offer a decent service simply drive them out of business.

It can certainly make life difficult for them. The recent revelations that GCHQ spied on the privileged conversations between suspects and their lawyers only came out because they were dragged in to court. It's not perfect but it's a useful weapon.