You can ™ anything you like. That doesn't make it valid. You have to file to ® and that's more enforceable. I say more because USPTO just accepts your filing and its up to you to enforce it with lawyers and courts.
Maybe NewTek licensed to VMware. Maybe they didn't. In any case, NewTek has to get involved to prevent us all being confused...
Saying "no" is a hard stance to take. Google undoubtedly does have some very smart people and some very interesting work, so it's difficult to throw that away because one perceives them as brain damaged when it comes to relationships and interviewing.
And of course there's always the "if you say 'no', there's always someone who will take your spot happily."
Scaremongering article - badly informed and possibly biased. We've been eating Quorn products in the UK for years with no reported ill effects (otherwise it would have been pulled from the shelves very quickly).
I'd rather eat Quorn in the US than the drug pumped beef or GMO corn fed chicken any day.
Yeah, that made for some strange reading having gladly eaten Quorn stuff over a long time. I'm not really grasping the 'controversial' distinction between fungus and mushroom either.
It is interesting to see how a new market will react to the stuff though, I mean there's surely no shortage of veggie brands in the states?
I built http://iijo.org. Its free and does Chinese flashcards and uses spaced repetition. You can build vocab lists from a built in dictionary. You can also directly search the dictionary: http://iijo.org/dictionary.
I found that duolingo is actually not that good for advanced students - everything I saw on there seemed to be focused on learning by translating phrases into English. Thats pretty distracting once you get past a certain level.
I've used duolingo for Spanish review; it's pretty good. Honestly the best thing about it is the UX: you get little bite-sized exercises you can go thru as fast or slow as you want, review, etc., so it's easy to squeeze into a 10-20min/day block. The main weaknesses are a) the examples are arithmetically generated so sometimes you get "My horse only eats milk" or something as an example sentence (it's usually pretty good tho), and b) you don't get a deep grammar review, it's just lots of little examples & practices. The latter point could be seen as a "pro" depending on your learning style.
I've used Transparent recently and would recommend it. Not free but a lot cheaper than Rosetta Stone at $29 per month. They have a free offering called Byki as well which I haven't tried.
Although not specific for languages, memrise.com has flashcards for a handfull of languages. It also remembers what you got wrong and reiterates accordingly.
I'll second the childhood memories comment. I also remember pouring over Z80 machine code and does anyone remember typing in individual numbers on a 1K ZX81 to run a blocky space invaders program (circa 1979)??
I remember forking an open source game library around 1985. Well, typing the source code in from the magazine so I could make my own game with sprites. I don't think I made it because of those awful rubber keys and it was not my computer anyway. The owner claimed he knew a guy who could replace the weird rubber keys with some plastic Commodore keyboard (though that would make typing BASIC code challenging -- the Spectrum keyboard had some strange mode where you could type just a single key to insert DIM or LIST).
Worse, it required that mode. It was memory-saving by using single character codes for the commands rather than 3 bytes for DIM or 4 bytes to store LIST as ASCII.
Still, love and upvoted you for also having a ZX81 and, like me, typing in insane machine code. Probably felt like travelling back 2 years in time!!!! :)
