It says "in Japan." The thing is that, in Japan, the driver is always, irrevocably, 100% in the wrong for hitting a pedestrian; this may be one reason why Toyota is offering the option.

The way I see it is that "reboot" and "restart" are pretty much synonymous, so outside of the computer context, people say that they're "rebooting" a show or series. The difference in that area, for me, is that "restarting" implies that there's some kind of continuity -- for example, the modern Doctor Who show builds off of the old one and shares continuity. A "reboot," on the other hand, is a ground-up revamping. It still probably annoys you though.

Yeah, I live here, in Japan. That's why I'd like to see America held to higher standards.

My problem with trains in American isn't speed.

I'd rather have a train system that had a range of trains to different places at lots of different times, every day. But most importantly, I'd like to have a train system that actually follows the time table. Nobody wants to pay for public transportation when you have to arrive early, wait a long time, and then not leave on time... and probably not arrive at your destination on time.

Wait, we do that for airplanes. Nevermind. Go about your business.

Rather than putting the module on a boom, I'd just put jets on the module and spin it up. You wouldn't need constant thrust, but on the down side, it wouldn't be able to put the module on the asteroid proper and you'd have to spin down for docking maneuvers.

It seems to me like you're defining "the box" incorrectly... not knowing what things are called doesn't define "the box" -- to me, it just makes communication more difficult. You end up saying things like "the thing with the thing that does the thing and acts like this..." while someone else who knew the name would just say "oh, the X sort" and everyone else nods in agreement. Communication is more efficient when everyone has a common vocabulary. Imagine trying to talk programming in C with someone who didn't know what different variables were called and instead just said "oh, the thing that just holds one character, but we can make it an array for this..."

It doesn't matter how you save if you get a degree in a field that doesn't pay much... and went to a private school. Of course, the damage is increased even more if you came from a low-income family and didn't qualify for many scholarships.

Considering that Gates dropped out of college and went on to great success, he may be one of the people who benefits more from information than social education. I've met several people like this -- they can read a text and extrapolate/use that information immediately on their own. Most people, I think, aren't that type, though, and so benefit from a traditional education at all levels.

Seriously, what's the point? I'm not saying it's pointless, but if the goal is to learn more about technology, why programming? Unless you're actually going to use it somehow, it's going to be a tremendous pain in the butt to learn and retain all these new ideas. Even if you do learn a bit about programming, there are always going to be professionals out there that can do it faster, more efficiently, and more securely than you can -- and if it's something for a business, you should probably be going with them.

If all you want to do is learn more about technology, subscribing to Popular Mechanics and reading it every month would be a good place to start. Or even just reading Slashdot every day.

If the goal is to learn more about computers, then it would probably be a lot more practical to learn about hardware than programming. Learn what the different basic parts of a computer are, what they look like, what types there are, how to replace them... that kind of stuff.

For a car analogy, instead of learning about the software that makes your car work, you should be learning about how to change the fluids and diagnose simple problems, check the tire tread... that kind of stuff.

What nation wants to spend money to send people up into space to clean up after what's essentially other people's garbage? There's no immediate gain, so nobody's going to do it.

No, it's used as a noun, just like when you say "That American is very tall." "Japanese" can be used in that sense, though, yes, it does come across sounding a bit provincial or offensive, just as if you were to say "that Oriental." But then again, that's the standard in some countries -- for example, in Britain.

It's worth noting that you can use "Japanese" as a noun in other contexts as well -- for example, "Japanese has complex grammar."

You mean:

A trolls B
B sues A for libel/slander/defamation

OR

A trolls B
B sues A for trademark/copyright infringement

Even more than the word itself, consider the combination of letters, since it's a URL. For example, anything with the pattern *sex* would be filtered, whether it was actually a word or not -- consider "expertsexchange.com" or something.

Wouldn't it be equally as likely that, say, people who are driven to achieve do better in WoW /and/ real life? Actually, I find that MORE likely than the idea that WoW makes lazy people goal-oriented and gives them a personal drive...

I don't see how this is early, if you look at the record of the modern Doctor Who franchise. Paul McGannis lasted all of one TV movie; Christopher Eccleston lasted for one year, and then David Tennant lasted for three. So Matt Smith at two would hardly be "early" -- just sooner than Tennant. Also, as pointed out before, The Sun is hardly the most reliable source.