You would think from this thread that Apple has never advocated for human rights in China:
http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/
Isn't it better for Apple to do it that way than to piss off the country that manufactures nearly everything Apple sells?

Just turn on the subtitles for Survivor or The Amazing Race, and you'll see real-time live steno-captioning that's as good as it gets - with a 5 second delay, which is unusable even on TV, much less live conversation. I happen to know this about those shows because, being severely deaf, I managed to get a reply to a complaint about the inadequate subtitling of those shows. Believe me, I would love to have subtitles on real life, but I really don't think the tech is up to it.

William Adama disapproves of your attitude, goes on a bender and waits for the Cylons to attack...

Another useful idiom that we'll have to put away because we made it happen.

your-sister
your-brother
your-other-brother
your-mother
your-father
your-aunt
your-uncle
your-cousin
your-niece
your-nephew

These make great pet names, and probably make some very odd conversations in the server room.

1. Rush hour downtown traffic. Account for bicycles, buses and pedestrians with utterly no regard for traffic rules. Throw in random construction zones.

2. Icy conditions anywhere. They do get snow and ice in Virginia, don't they?

I quit driving, and all I lost was my peripheral vision. There is NO WAY this can ever go anywhere but a closed course.

I'm American, and speak only English. When I bought the movie "Run Lola Run", it had both the English voice-overs and the original German with English subs. The voice-over was honestly excellent and couldn't have been done better, but I still preferred the sound of the original German.

I think I would like to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in a similar way - with the original Russian being spoken with English subtitles. Normally this sort of reverse localization isn't done, but I see there's a mod for that, which I might experiment with:

http://stalker.filefront.com/file/In_Game_CC_and_Subtitles_for_Oblivion_Lost_22%3B97756

"After installing InGameCC you can bravely replace all sounds to Russian with Authenticity Sound Pack or a similar sound mod..."

Does it make sense to, for example, haul coal on planes? I don't believe you can replace trains with planes, or planes with trains.

No, really, we actually can't build them that fast:

"To get 10 terawatts, less than half of what we'll need in 2050, Lewis calculates, we'd have to build 10,000 reactors, or one every other day starting now."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189293

The Copernicus Crater link is the first time I've ever had Firefox 3 resize its window. WTH?

I live a block down the road from the Microsoft Redmond campus (it used to be 12 blocks, but they metatasized), so I walk by all this each day. But I don't work at Microsoft, so all I have is just sidewalk testimony.

The older Microsoft campus was confined to the east side of highway 520, with dozens and dozens of properties rented and scattered all over Redmond, Bellevue, and other places in the area. Lately they have been building an absolutely HUGE property just across the highway from the old campus, where they will consolidate all that rented office space.

Only 7 new buildings? When I walk by there, I can see at least 14 or 17 structures going up, but I can't tell what will be in them. Some of them are titled buildings number 97, 98, 99, and by that they mean Microsoft Redmond campus literally has that many buildings. The city of Redmond has a height limit on its buildings. I don't know the exact rules, but no skyscrapers. The Microsoft buildings are all about 4 or 5 very tall stories, so they are forced to sprawl rather than go up. When they dug the hole for it all, it seemed to be about 6-12 blocks on a side. Huge, huge hole for that 4600 car parking garage. Then they put up more of those big construction cranes than I've ever seen in such a small space - at one point they had 9 or 10 of them.

With that huge parking garage right next to the highway, they should have just let Microsoft have highway entrances directly out onto 520 and keep all that traffic off the local streets. That would make perfect sense to me. But it exits out onto NE 40th Street, which is a relatively small cross-street, which has relatively small entrance and exits to 520.

There is already a bridge across 520 between the Microsoft campuses - the NE 40th overpass and intersection with 520. Also, Microsoft has a huge fleet of hundreds of shuttle buses and cars that transfer people from point to point in the Microsoft sprawl. My reaction as a local to the idea of a car and pedestrian bridge for Microsoft is that, while it would be beneficial to the locals to keep some of the terrible Microsoft drivers off the local streets (a lot of them are from India!), Microsoft should foot the entire bill.

Retinitis Pigmentosa is a progressive vision loss disease. The age at which it begins and the rate at which it progresses varies (and greatly), but generally speaking, the younger people haven't lost all of their vision yet, while the older people have. While some children lose all vision by their teens, many victims don't start losing vision until their 20s and don't go fully blind until quite late in life.

This experiment will apply to younger people, but those younger people usually still have some vision left. It is far better to perform the experiment on someone who has lost all of their vision because they have nothing to lose if the experiment goes bad.

I have retinitis pigmentosa; I'm 39, and have only lost my peripheral vision so far. Pictures of what I can see and can't see wouldn't translate very well. The part of my vision where I can't see does not show as black, like when you close your eyes. There's no color at all - it's not color, it's nothing. What color do you see out of the back of your head?

The nothing is so nothing that as it slowly took over my peripheral vision over a period of 20 years, I never noticed it was there. It was not until an optometrist looked into my eyes while I was getting new glasses that I found out it was happening.

The linked article uses the word "influential", while the Guiness Records list does not. Guiness uses this criteria: "a top 50 list of games ranked both on their importance and on how fun they are to play." In this case, importance doesn't mean influential. Reading the linked article, it seems that by "importance", they mean which games sold the most and for the longest time.

A list of influential games would be entirely different, with games like Wolfenstein 3D, Dune II and Ultima III at the top.

The indie artists will get exactly as much as the non-indie artists (what do you call those, anyway?) You don't really think any musician would ever see a penny of this tax go in their checking account, do you?