They're called "fruitarians", eating only what falls off the plant by itself, rather than a portion of a living, growing plant.

Why single out China? If you bought your computer in the US but didn't speak English (perhaps your native language is Spanish... or even Chinese!), I don't think you can switch Windows to be in Spanish or Chinese without paying for a language pack or a Chinese-language installation CD.

Which, coincidentally, is the largest US coin in common use. (Imagine if they only accepted dollar coins.)

FWIW, in Germany, shopping trollies typically take 50-cent or 1-euro coins.

And with "known tunnel entrance", I suppose you mean "tunnel entrance known fifteen years ago when the car was manufactured".

Or are you proposing free monthly map updates? Or cars that don't last for more than a year or two?

Eh? How is that supposed to work?

Either the online website is operated by the government agency, then you have no way to know that the version of the code they run is the version they make available for download and scrutiny.

Or it's libre, you download and scrutinise it, and run it yourself, in which case it's not operated by the government agency (and isn't particularly online any more).

Also, why would you want libre tax software if you only want a single source to run it?

Isn't the entire point of libre software that it can be modified... by whom, if you won't trust any other service suppliers?

If you want a single, trusted supplier and are only concerned about being allowed to scrutinise the source code, then surely proprietary but gratis and source-available would be sufficient? (Though that still wouldn't solve the problem of proving that the code you see and the code you (implicitly) run bear any relationship one to the other.)

From FTA: "Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her job[.]"

You'll have to find a new sting.

Thank you for the context!

OK, you have a point.

Being understood definitely beats not being, even if you have to slow down to achieve that. And the translation was happening reasonably quickly if you were slow enough.

I was just a bit disappointed since from the "real time" I was expecting the translation to keep up with someone speaking at normal conversational speed. (Like the asker at the information kiosk, for example.)

Linus's native language is Swedish.

Looking at the video in the article, it seems that "in real time" means "at about 1/4 of the speed of regular signing".

Imagine. Having. To. Speak. Like. Kirk.

I would have thought it would be more convenient for someone to speak/be spoken to in their native language - sign - rather than send/receive a text in a foreign language - English or whatever.

Word.

I don't spend most of my computer time watching videos (wide-screen or no). I spend much of my time reading web pages or writing code, both of which profit from vertical resolution.

What good is 1920x1080 if I can have 1600x1200? Those extra 120px vertical are of more use to me than the 320px horizontal.

The first one should have been "parroty bits", right? :)

Do you have a picture of one?

The ones I've heard of say that the product contains chemicals which the State of California knows cause cancer.

So the stickers don't say the chemicals don't cause cancer elsewhere, just that other states have not recognised their carcinogenous properties (or have recognised them but chose not to require a warning to that effect).

I like to say two-and-a-half; kuru and suru are the really irregular ones and iku is regular except for the fact that its -te form is itte instead of *iite.