Google maps has this too. Like when you're wandering around the scenic temples in eastern Kyoto and you're starting to get hungry, just glance at your google maps and friendly, bright icons will show you the nearest Mcdonald's. And hey, Teriyaki Mcburgers are local, right?

Betrayal at Krondor had no experience points. Every time you used a skill you had a small (possibly random) chance of getting better at it. This chance could be made bigger by making the character "concentrate" on specific skills.

It's not until an article is posted on a subject you already know a lot about that you begin to appreciate just how many people on slashdot really don't even bother to understand the summary, let alone RTFA. Too many people seem to flat out dismiss any facts presented in the summary they don't like and rush to post a ridiculous strawman argument with no real understanding of either the news article or the background of the issue discussed.

Former diet member Shkei Arai () and current diet member Marutei Tsurunen would like to to have words with you. And Obama? Have you been to Japan post his election? Seems like every bookstore has a section devoted to just him. I bet if he moved to Japan now and became eligible for elections, he'd own them.

What kind of pages are you browsing if having protection against those attacks is necessary? Assuming you're not constantly going to unknown porn and warez sites, is there really much of a risk?

Funnily enough, just a few weeks ago I was looking for a job and a place tried to call me about a job while I was in the middle of an interview for another company. Since I didn't answer, they just sent me an SMS stating their business and instructions on which number to call once I'm available. I'm in my mid-twenties, I've been using a cell phone for 11 years and I've never had, wanted or needed voice mail service.

I used it on my old computer, but it dropped the ball on a few files I really needed to print (and get right). As a result, I haven't bothered installing Foxit on my current computer yet, and as Adobe Reader isn't bloated enough to have any negative effects on it, I might not.

The problems were with a form written in Japanese (characters displayed right, but the text bled into the margins) and some government forms that had lots of interactive crap.

There are some that are widely used in Japan. Might be pretty cool if Perfect Dark went "mainstream" in Europe as well.

In Finland, elections are held on Sundays so this argument does not apply.

A friend of mine had a 8Gb memory stick that went bad when we tried copying several hundred photos on it. With the first batch, it seemed to have multiple files with the exact same name in the same directory, which I believe shouldn't be possible. Each one had the same thumbnail too, and I'm pretty sure each could be opened normally. On the other hand, some of the photos we tried copying on it just weren't there. For some reason, we still tried with the second batch of photos. This time as well, many photos simply didn't show up on the stick after being copied. There were also some very, well, odd files present: too small to be photos and with file names consisting only of a few letters (with no extensions).

"Studying a foreign language is mandatory from grades 3 to 9 in the elementary school" There, fixed that for you. I know many people who took Swedish, German or French (like me). Russian is also a possibility. Of course, most of these people also take English at some point, but I have to say that for me at least, learning English at school was a joke. I started "learning" in the fifth grade, and was reading Pratchett, Gibson and Herbert in English by the end of sixth -- you can bet your ass I didn't learn that in less than two years in school.

You cannot sign away your rights in Finland. There are strict rules about what an employment contract (or any other contract for that matter) can legally include.

Getting modded informative was way funnier than the joke.

I meant "process" in the more general, non-specialized sense. Considering this camera hasn't been designed to write those large raw files, there's every reason to expect it'll be very, very slow at it. A Canon G7 hacked to shoot raw takes approximately 4-5 seconds. Ricoh GRD (which was actually designed to shoot raw) could take over 10 seconds.

Yeah, and 1Ds mark III is, what, ten of these and don't even get me started on medium format digitals. Nevertheless, at $500 this is among the most expensive point & shoot cameras there are (and ridiculously bad value for money, I might add). Apples and oranges, etc.