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...Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" The post was picked up by Gizmodo and Boing Boing, and prompted at least one commenter to note, "You would think that Nikon, being a Japanese company, would have designed this with Asian eyes in mind." (See the top 10 gadgets...
...detail. So a trade-off has to be made: either the blink warning would have a tendency to miss half blinks or a tendency to trigger for narrow eyes. Nikon did not respond to questions from TIME as to how the blink detection was designed to work. (See the top 10 iPhone apps...
...surprising that virtually all of the country's top executives were educated in the same institutions as those who have long dominated French politics: France's exclusive grandes écoles. These polytechnic, administrative and business graduate schools not only hone the intellectual mettle of the students they accept but also help them create the networks they'll need to rise to the highest circles of power. The problem is that the seats at these schools tend to go to the children of the élite, ensuring that power stays in the upper class - even in the same families - from generation...
...hardly a secret in France that in order to become an executive in a top French company, be asked to serve on a board or be tapped for a high civil-service post, you've got to have the right background, the right education, and have the powerful network of allies to help you get there," says Marc Touati, deputy director of the Paris-based financial-services group Global Equities. "Most are well-trained and talented people, but there are lots of people like that who have no chance at those top spots. Like it or not, France...
...there's another way change could come to the top of France's economic pyramid: the foreigners who hold 40% of the CAC 40 companies' capital could increase that amount and then demand the kinds of shareholders' rights and powers they enjoy in the U.S. and Britain - and stage a mini-coup of the France Inc. boardrooms...