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The machine never did give them problems. PEBKAC.

'Higgs-Boson' sounds like a particle discovered by two people named Higgs and Boson, which is not the case.

The Higgs particle was predicted by Higgs, amongst others, in '64. Its statistical behaviour classifies it as a boson (i.e., a particle that follows Bose-Einstein statistics), which are named after Bose.

By being Indian, may be? Even film posters are printed in the Latin script in India to be accessible to speakers of all languages who may be unfamiliar with each other's scripts.
Non-Latin URLs haven't been a barrier to anandabazar.com (Bengali), bartamanpatrika.com (Bengali), eenadu.net (Telugu), and navbharattimes.com (Hindi) from being successful and popular among their target audiences. I imagine the same is true of baidu.com (Chinese) and al-khaleej.com (Arabic) in their home markets.

A lot of the debate here seems to be about English-speaking countries vs. the rest of the world, but English isn't the only language that uses the Latin. Also, the unavailability of non-Latin scripts hasn't hampered the flourishing of home-grown websites in India and China named in their many local languages - what makes the ICANN think this is even necessary?

I'm in a biochemical engineering class where we need to write text notes as well as a large number of equations with an abundance of symbols, all from quickly vanishing slides. I type the text on my laptop and leave references for the equations. My friend writes only the equations -- by hand. I borrow her notes, fill in the equations in my own time, and send her a copy. Now both of us have neatly typed notes with nothing missing, all achieved using nothing more sophisticated than MS Equation Editor, a pencil, and cooperation. It works, and the learning curve is flat.

Fashion doesn't belong with the rest. At all.

Next vacation for you: India.

This is Slashdot. We know who Uhura is.

Don't they have any of those old-fashioned ones that involve gunpowder?

September 5 is Teachers' Day in India. It is the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's first Vice-President, second President, and a professor.

Not very well is now defined as delivering the same goods at a tenth of the price.

OP is right. In a perfect market, people make rational decisions based on perfect market information and rational interpretation thereof.

It's FTL, not FLT. Faster-Than-Light travel, not Faster than Light Travel.