Well, even going back to Brahm, Dracula was less powerful in daylight but didn't necessarily kill him, it just reduced his strength and made him unable to use some powers (such as transformation, etc).

Still, he certainly didn't freakin' sparkle in the sunlight.

How about those of the person in line in-front-of/behind me?
If I have a receipt showing I paid for something via debit and Visa also charged me, I'm probably good. How do I show that I didn't pay for what was actually Bob's groceries?

though I usually turn the bluetooth off at night

Can this be set on a schedule or does it require manual intervention?

I'm not sure that e-Ink would be better in this case, depending on how you configure the watch-face. For an ebook reader, you read for approximately an hour, changing pages every 2-3 seconds. For a watch, it may be updating every second (assuming you have a "seconds" counter of some sort showing, or a chronometer etc). E-ink might not be fast enough to refresh, and with 1-update-per-sec it also might have have much advantage battery-wise.

The naming is a bit sneaky, though.

Which brings us to another syndrome.

"Not enough coffee in the morning syndrome"

I swear I read that as puppy. No wonder I couldn't find any references to it.

While many of the Chinese business-people speak English, those in the internal labour market may not (at least not fluently). Eliminating the language barrier won't help too much though unless some of the walls against foreign ownership/participation in the Chinese market are dropped. Currently it's often still quite hard to interact without a middle-man.

Indonesian is apparently the biggest economy on SE-Asia, or at least according to wikipedia, so that may make sense as well. It's also fairly close to Australia.

Japanese. Well they're not the tech poster-child anymore but I wouldn't count them out yet.

Korean. Supplanting Japan in many of the tech areas, with companies such as LG, Samsung, etc.

Hindi seems to be the dominant language in India (again according to WP), so maybe it's a similar case to China where knowing the language may allow one to bypass the middle-man. I'd say in those cases that knowing the culture is probably just as important as the language, however.

I believe I've heard a similar analogy around here:
    The tallest blade of grass is first to be cut by the lawnmower

In other words, those that stand out the most may also get undesired attention first.

I'd imagine the puppy analogy is similar, though hopefully minus the lawnmower

Less people getting screened (or at least less often), because they don't want it showing up on their medical records.

It's not like they can just pack up and move to the next country over

And we (the Canadians) are all very thankful for that!

Yeah, it's not like there are many that might prevent people from biking to work, like around here. Hell, sometimes you can barely drive to work, much less bike/walk.

I depends on how things are being reformed.
I'd imagine if certain items - such as the military - were reformed properly there'd be a lot more of the pie to spend on other categories...

Sometimes fixing one section requires or assists in fixing others.

I was thinking that it would be good for mapping out real "surround sound" similar to how complex reflection and/or ray-tracing is done.

Even if the initial sounds themselves are canned, the sound through a wooden hallway, a hallway with a carpet, or a large open room would be different. Combine that with digital surround and it could be quite useful.

Amusingly, I read this as but I doubt he'd get past the primates, which actually seems to be a good descriptor for many other members of the party.

Best tool for the job. Doesn't mean that people should plan to replace photoshop with mspaint, but it also doesn't mean that mspaint shouldn't be available.

Best tool for large spreadsheets, documents, etc: still a PC (or a laptop).
Best tool when one is on the go: Might not be the above. Just like a camera on a cellphone isn't going to compare to a DSLR, it's still a useful thing to have for many people depending on the situation. Not many people cart a full-sized camera around all the time.

I don't plan on writing out a master's thesis or a 1000x1000 cell Excel spreadsheet on a tablet, but for many more casual uses it's still useful.

Nobody is telling people that they *have* to use tablets instead of PC's (well, MS did foist a crappy tablet-centric interface out with win8, but different topic). They're saying the option is available.

Well, technically they'll die on Earth as well.
Really, it's a matter of timelines.

If they had a real plan to start a self-supporting Mars colony (or at least self-supporting within a timeline when aid of some sort could be sent), I wouldn't see a big issue with that. Not much different from the early exploration/colonial days.