I still think that's ambiguous.

For instance, nouveau riche is a French phrase imported into English. Webster's has it listed, but my spellchecker cries bloody murder when it sees me type it. That's two words; Webster's has an entry for nouveau but not for riche. So is riche an English word?

Webster's has anime as a Japanese import, but not otaku or hentai, both of which are also widely used in the English-speaking world.

Queso may be the Spanish word for cheese, but around these parts we use it as an English word to refer specifically to molten nacho cheese, as in chili con queso. Speaking of which, the word nacho is a relatively recent import, and while Webster's doesn't list chili con queso, it does list chili con carne.

I would probably have a lot more to work with, too, if we were speaking a different language, besides English, because so many neologisms in our language make their way around the globe.

H. G. Wells wrote War of the Worlds, set in England. Orson Wells directed an episode of Mercury Theatre on the Air that was an adaptation of the story, set in New Jersey. Nobody ever thought the novel was a factual account. There were some people who thought the radio episode was actual news reporting and panicked.

Hasbro only produces Scrabble in North America. Mattel has the rest of the world. There is, because of this, some discussion as to whether or not the rules change will apply in North America or not.

Last I checked, there is an XBOX, XBOX 360, PS, PS2, PS3, DS, PSP, and many other sections on torrent sites for a reason. While you can't play online with pirated copies of console games, they basically invited pirates to hack their XBOX 360's and such by offering cheaper, less feature rich versions of the consoles ("Arcade" Edition?) that are perfect for cracking, while the main uncracked console is used for online.

Just because they have good sales numbers doesn't mean pirating isn't happening on consoles. I know many people with cracked XBOXs and Playstations from every console generation. It only shows their desire for one thing: money. Gone are the days of game makers making games for the sake of the game or their own interest. And while I know that this is a capitalistic society, it pains me to see them turn a blind eye to piracy on one front because it makes more money for them at the moment.

Also, we are about 1 or 2 generations away from consoles essentially being a PC (the original PS3 shipped with a Linux boot option!). They need to realize that there will always be pirating no matter what they do. PC Gaming shouldn't be treated like some kind of ghetto where you are guaranteed to not make a profit unless you are targeting a "niche audience".

They harvest a small amount of your own bone marrow, extract the stem cells from it, and inject them into the spots where they are needed.

With the addition of one more step in that they cultivate the stem cells after extraction to increase their numbers before re-injection. Many other clinics already do extract, spin, inject. The higher numbers of stem cells after cultivation is what they say improves their effectiveness rate.

Most Nitrous-charged engines I've come across are rebuilt instead of serviced. That should give some indication as to what little relevance they have to a production vehicle.

Would it, though? The biggest key to success, that everyone is trying to emulate, is the App Store. It gives users an easy, convenient place to go to find software for their phone, and it makes the purchase process easy. Because of that, users were buying lots of iPhone software, on average more than users for other phone platforms. If the App Store weren't in place, users would have to go out of their way to try and find some place to download and buy software, and as a result wouldn't buy as much. If not as many people are buying software, then the market isn't as lucrative, and fewer devs would be attracted to the platform.

Well, that’s not exactly what it says... and I certainly wouldn’t expect the Autoplay on a new phone to be a virus, straight out of the box. Bloated and unnecessary, yeah, which is why I probably wouldn’t install it... but not malware. I’m no dummy, but even I wouldn’t expect that.

What can I do to encourage Europe and help them?

Hi! I'm with Six, Six and Sixth, representing the devil, and I would just like to point out that 'a right to internet access' does not necessarily mean that a person must at all times have internet access in their own home.

If their internet access at home is cut off, they can still go to any internet café, library or (at least over here) city hall and get their internet access there. If that is not compatible with the work they do - presuming they were self-employed - then maybe they should have thought about that before ignoring warnings (and I do presume they are sent by signed-for-with-ID mail).
This is not much different from a professional semi driver crying foul when their driver's license is (temporarily) revoked for speeding / DUI - they, too, tend to know better and try to stick to the rules better than a person whose livelihood does not absolutely depend on having that drivers' license.

That said - I do not believe cutting people off is the right thing to do. Pinching their bandwidth - so that e-mail, webpages, etc. continue to work but downloading/sharing entire albums, movies, etc. become unattractive - seems a better solution to me. If the user then still continues to 'pirate', another set of 3 strikes on the road to cutting the connection entirely might be warranted.

I'm not sure I really want an essentially Parliamentarian system, where someone in a six-party coalition gets in a snit and boom: the government falls apart. But you are so very right when it comes to the subject of IP and the Content Lords: both Red and Blue partys are the same color - servile corporate yellow.

They're ripping out all the accessibility already in place?

No, but gnome is switching from bonobo to dbus, from gecko to webkit, and from Gnome Speech Services to speech-dispatcher. There's no one left who cares enough to make all this work in Gnome 3.0 for SunOS. Want to make any bets as to whether screen readers work when SunOS switches to Gnome 3.0?

Not just that but also consider that the video card manufacturers will be judged by the quality of their product based on the end user experience and little else. If they refuse to let anyone else write drivers for their hardware then they can directly control the quality of said drivers. Additionally, they will test for different configurations on the set of operating systems for which they wrote drivers for. As soon as they open their spec, even if they claim that they only officially support Windows, people will still judge the quality of their product based on the word of a friend who couldn't get that darn card to work on their Linux box. So instead people write sub-par reverse engineered drivers that the manufacturers can sweep under the rug since most of the people using them will be tech-heads who better understand that they won't get ideal performance or stability. Even if you have little faith in humanity you have to at least trust that if the sales folks saw $$ in fostering 3rd party driver development that they'd dive on the opportunity.

The last that I've heard is that Spain faces some fiscal difficulties, they need to raise some revenue.

Though the study only considers the kernel, a starting point has been established. Downloading an entire operating system for free (other than ISP charges) denies the state the revenue from sales/VAT tax that would have been paid on shrink-wrapped product. The downloader receives benefit from the download similar to the benefit received by someone who purchased the shrink-wrap product. Should the downloader be taxed similarly to the tax-paying purchaser?

Now that a value is placed on something that is free, it is ready to be taxed like any other product on the market. What I wonder is, did U of O undertake the study at the behest of the government.

Um, Droid is a Motorola phone. It just looks like an HTC. Sort of.

And I did read the post. Try reading my response.

I get the impression that their point was that phones dial 911 when you hold the 9 key long enough. Android phones do not do this, as many touchscreen phones do not. Touchscreen is different.

Maybe you should try UNDERSTANDING the posts.

And while 1.6 is older than 2.1, it is NOT OUT OF DATE FOR G1. 1.6 is the current ROM for the G1, and maybe even for MyTouch.