KindleのMy Clippingsの整理。
何かしらコメントをしておかないと、後で整理するのはなかなか大変ですね。
正直、ラインを引いたものの、その箇所だけを見て何のためのclippingなのか思い出せない箇所も結構ありました。
このあたりの機能がどう強化されるかに期待がかかります。
キーワードがある場合は黄色のライン。センテンス以上の単位でclippingしたつもりのものは赤。
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Reuters (Thomson Reuters)
- Highlight Loc. 1024 | Added on Monday, October 24, 2011, 11:10 PM
The No. 1 pick for 2012 is data-storage company Fusion-io Inc,==========
コカコーラ社の特集からHarvard Business Review (Harvard Business School Publishing)
- Highlight Loc. 1456-57 | Added on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 09:56 AM
・But we believe the U.S. is a great growth market, and we’re investing roughly $3 billion a year in it. Here’s why: It’s the only Western nation with a young demographic that is growing.
・Up to 30% of our bottles now use a resin made from sugarcane, not fossil fuels.
・Coca-Cola uses 350 billion liters of water a year for its business.
・reduced the calories in our beverages significantly over the past 20 years. Yet U.S. obesity rates have risen sharply.
・In the next 10 years some 800 million to 1 billion people around the world will move into the middle class―the biggest urbanization the world has known.==========
トヨタの特集からHarvard Business Review (Harvard Business School Publishing)
- Highlight Loc. 1546-48 | Added on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 11:18 PM
・relentless attention to detail, commitment to data-driven experimentation, and charging workers with the ongoing task of increasing efficiency and eliminating waste in their jobs.
・there were “seven wastes” that everyone in a manufacturing operation should strive to eliminate: overproduction; unnecessary transportation, inventory, and worker motion; defects; overprocessing; and waiting.
・But when they reframed the question to ask “What do we do repeatedly?” they realized that many aspects of the process, including peer review, daily builds (integrating all the pieces of code written that day into the program), testing,
・Knowledge workers need to understand who will use their output. When the supplier of the work is in direct contact with the “customer” (typically someone on the same team), the two can collaborate to ensure that the output performs as expected.
・“Can you get the work done by a certain deadline?” To the people from the U.S. company, yes meant yes and no meant no―and if anything went wrong, they might shout and pound the table. By contrast, the Indians often conveyed no so indirectly that their U.S. counterparts heard yes.==========
ＫＦＣの記事から（中国展開）Harvard Business Review (Harvard Business School Publishing)
- Highlight Loc. 2052-54 | Added on Thursday, October 27, 2011, 10:49 PM
・The typical Western approach to foreign expansion is to try to sell core products or services pretty much as they’ve always been sold in Europe or the United States, with headquarters watching closely to make sure the model is exported correctly.
・KFC is opening one new restaurant a day, on average (on a base of some 3,300), with the intention of reaching 15,000 outlets.
・They made a special effort to welcome extended families and groups. In the United States, by contrast, KFC outlets are designed primarily for takeout―most of the dining is done at home.
・In the chain’s early days, when the same recipes were served at all outlets, Shanghai customers complained that dishes were too hot, while diners in Sichuan and Hunan complained that they were too bland. So the company changed its recipes to suit the regions.==========
The Mainichi Daily News (The Mainichi Daily News)
- Highlight Loc. 488-90 | Added on Thursday, November 03, 2011, 11:10 PM
The G-20 groups Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
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Reuters (Thomson Reuters)
- Highlight Loc. 518-19 | Added on Monday, November 07, 2011, 11:03 PM
・In a separate presidential election in Guatemala, voters elected another Cold War veteran on Sunday, but from the other side of the ideological divide: retired right-wing general Otto Perez.
・Ortega was elected president in 1984 at the height of the war but was voted out in 1990 and then spent 16 years in opposition before bouncing back to power.
・About 57 percent of its people now live below the poverty line, down from 65.5 percent in 2005, according to government and World Bank statistics.
・The economy grew 4.5 percent in 2010 and is expected to expand 4 percent this year, making it one of the best performers in Central America, although it is still the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, behind Haiti.==========
Reuters (Thomson Reuters)
- Highlight Loc. 2295-97 | Added on Wednesday, November 09, 2011, 09:22 AM
IASB board member Stephen Cooper told an accounting conference on Monday IFRS 9 may have to be changed as it tries to "converge" its rules with those used in the United States.==========
The Mainichi Daily News (The Mainichi Daily News)
- Highlight Loc. 2029-30 | Added on Wednesday, November 09, 2011, 10:53 PM
But as the eurozone's third-largest economy, Italy, with debts of around 1.9 trillion euros ($2.6 trillion), is considered far too big for Europe to bail out,
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Language Logから
・among the "content-based factors" involved in such judgments are (1) whether the property is perceived to be characteristic of the kind, or an essential property of the kind; (2) whether the property is striking and/or dangerous; and (3) whether the members of the kind who lack the property have an equally salient alternative property.
・The reason? Most members of the general public don't understand statistical-distribution talk, and instead tend to interpret such statements as expressing general (and essential) properties of the groups involved.
・I'm a disgrace to my profession for not noticing the internal structure. The tir- root is common to most Romance languages, and means "pull", and I knew that. The pronoun mi means "me", as even a child might guess. And su "up" is from the same Latin root as the sup- of superimpose or superscript.
・The result? The mean word length in Hamlet (in modern spelling) was 3.99 characters; in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, the mean word length was 4.05 characters; in the DP's tweets, the mean word length was 4.80 characters.==========
英語でニュースや本を読める、ということと、英語で情報を得て教養や専門性を高めることができる、ということはまた違う話。なかなか難しいものですね。
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