I've been telling my wife how I'm being powered by wine and its cousins. Now I have a concrete example.

"It's English...for better or worse international business.."
As long as English speakers are the CUSTOMERS. The underlying assumption is that the Chinese will always be the sellers and some English speaker the buyer.

Alcohol, Facebook's official drink!

I'm genuinely curious. What would happen in the US if I tweet messages praising Al-Qaeda and retweeted their propaganda and warnings about terrorism?

NT4 - 6 2000 - 4 XP - 3 Vista - 2 7 - 1 8 - 0???

this has been covered before. iphone's not popular in japan for three reasons: 1. no video phone 2. can't pay for stuff with it. (critically important. credit cards are sooo yesterday.) 3. no TV tuner (it's not a bad feature to have) also, it doesn't help that iphone cost as much as other phones that better cater to the japanese lifestyle.

who's even using Windows on slashdot? only people that are affected by this are pc techs who need to "upgrade" user machines. when i was in user support, i don't remember ever upgrading an OS on them unless we were completely reimaging them. so this shouldn't matter to anyone.

also people hold Windows to the highest of the standards on the slightest user interface issues even if it's in beta whereas Linux gets judged on technical aspects of the kernel only.

because he's a nerd recognized by jocks. instead of getting wedges, he got money and fame and now the wannabes feel like he's whored and betrayed the other nerds. the nerd wannabes mistakenly believe it's the nerdiness of bill gates the world embraces. so they constantly groan and moan how they are nerdier than gates but can't get a date or get out of their parents' basements. true nerds otoh are happy just to know they've created something better than other nerds. it's not the money or recognition from the quarterbacks and cheerleaders that they crave. they're happy to be recognized by other nerds as true nerds.

we got to see a glimpse of indian tech support call center in that movie. next time they put you on hold for 30 minutes, you know what they're doing.

slashdot headlines... informative and interesting ones stimulate my brain far more than non-news events that just clutter the main page.

You can draw the same graph for Japanese yen. The price of oil and dollar has a strong correlation, but you have the cause and effect reversed. World-wide liquidation of commodity positions (including oil) is causing the demand for dollar as well as yen.