2005-11-04

hypochondriac

心気症; 健康に対する自信の欠如・喪失に始まり、健康であるのに病気があると信じて悩む。

2005-11-03

mitigate

和らげる, 軽減する

deter

思いとどまらせる, 防止する

surety

保証, 担保

factoid

公にされたため根拠なしに事実として受け入れられている擬似事実
One of the presentations was on the state of the overall book market, and had this factoid: 93% of all ISBN's sold fewer than 1,000 units and accounted for 13% of all sales.

attrition

損耗, 摩擦, 自然減

2005-11-02

basalt

玄武岩
スミソニアン自然史博物館の展示で陸の部分の地殻はgranite(花崗岩)が主で、海の地殻はbasaltが主だと書いてあった。

underdog

敗者

segue

(次の楽章・楽曲などへ)切れ目なく続く
We segue to a demo of Xbox 360 Live by "executive producer" Jeff Henshaw, with attention paid to integration of messaging to recruit other users for head-to-head play, as well as now familiar community features such as user ratings, feedback, and user-contributed content.
Live Softwareより

cootie

シラミ
They took the cooties off citizen media.

dossier

ある問題に関する書類一式
It says it has not connected the vast dossier of interests and behavior to specific users by name. But that could change as Google offers more personal services - like e-mail messages and social networking - and works more tightly with partners who already have such personal information.

prowess

勇気, 力量
Google was willing to make that bid only because of its confidence in its advertising sales prowess.

amiable

感じのよい, 親切な, 社交的な
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were exceedingly ambitious from the day they started Google, but the job of finding some source of revenue fell to Omid Kordestani, an amiable former Netscape sales executive who was brought to the company in 1999 by K. Ram Shriram, another Netscape alumnus and an early Google investor.

utilitarian

実用的な, 功利主義の
few outside of the engineering Ph.D.'s at Google think that television ads should simply be utilitarian, rather than entertaining, provocative or annoyingly repetitive - the models that have worked so far.

huckster

行商人, 宣伝屋
Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, explains the company's astounding success in advertising - and reconciles it with the founders' distrust of hucksterism - by suggesting that advertising should be interesting, relevant and useful to users.
Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Tooより

chap

《主に英略式》男,やつ
Say, old chap!《古風》

2005-11-01

wobble

傾く, ぐらぐらする
The mathematics of wobbly coffee tables

gregarious

社交的な
Taking these factors into account simultaneously results in a searching algorithm that gets messages to the target by passing it to gregarious individuals who are most like the target.
"Six Degrees of Separation" Theory Explained in New Algorithm by UMass Amherst Researchersより

2005-10-27

Beltway

米国Washington, D.C.とMaryland, Virginia両州を囲む首都環状高速道路
inside the B~  ワシントン政界で.
The conventional wisdom inside the Beltway and beyond is that, this week, at least one and possibly two senior White House officials will be indicted for crimes related to the Valerie Plame affair.
"SELF ANALYSIS" より

2005-10-26

rudimentary

根本の, 基本の
Scatter enough nodes on rooftops citywide, and then if the phone system collapses, there will probably be a surviving mesh strong enough to serve as a rudimentary backup.