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http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/11/03/navegante/1320329583.html

MÃ"VILES | Ãsltimos modelos del fabricante
Nokia eligià nombre 'Lumia' pese a saber que significa 'prostituta' en español

Efe | Helsinki
Actualizado jueves 03/11/2011 15:13 horas

El fabricante finlandés de teléfonos mÃviles Nokia decidià bautizar su nueva gama de dispositivos dotados de Windows Phone con el nombre de 'Lumia' pese a saber que ese término significa 'prostituta' en español, informaron medios locales.

Después de que Nokia presentara la semana pasada el Lumia 800 y el Lumia 710, sus primeros teléfonos inteligentes equipados con el sistema operativo de Microsoft, diversos medios de comunicaciÃn, foros y redes sociales calificaron la elecciÃn de este nombre como una "grave metedura de pata" de la compañÃa.

Sin embargo, Nokia explicà que conocÃa esta acepciÃn, aunque finalmente se escogià el nombre porque 'lumia' es "una palabra española muy antigua caÃda en desuso desde hace tiempo".

SegÃn el diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 'lumia' es un sustantivo poco usado y de origen incierto que significa 'prostituta', y al igual que su variante 'lumi', forma también parte del argot urbano. ...

"Los resultados mostraron que mÃs del 60 por ciento de los consumidores españoles pensà que era un gran nombre para un producto de tecnologÃa mÃvil. Les sugerÃa en primer lugar 'luz' y 'estilo', en lugar del otro significado, mÃs oscuro y negativo", explicà la compañÃa en su blog oficial.

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So let's do the math. "More than 60 percent" can mean 66, so let's call it 2/3rds. The other third thinks you have a filthy mouth.

Heh heh

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BMO

NO. There is a very good reason they are asking this question. In Europe (Spain in particular(Spanish)) diesel power has been passed off as renewable energy. The company get's to both sell dirty power AND collect on renewable energy subsidies. What's worse, nobody in the upper management or local politics has yet been prosecuted for the massive fraud - halls of power protecting their own it would appear.

So the question the environmentalists are calling it right. If this happens IN Europe, what can we expect when it's over in Africa unless there are strict transparent controls put in place? One thing is certain: There will always be Companies that will do almost anything to make a buck - we need to ask and address how the system can be abused before we invest public funds into it.

The environmentalists are right to ask the question, there are antecedents. In Europe (Spain in particular(Spanish)) there have already have cases of diesel power being passed off as renewable energy - they got caught only because they were arrogant enough to pass it off as solar energy... at night. If they had not been so greedy we would still be non the wiser, and the company get's to both sell dirty power AND collect on renewable energy subsidies. What's worse, nobody in the upper management or local politics has yet been prosecuted - halls of power protecting their own it would appear.

So the question the environmentalists are calling it right. If this happens IN Europe, what can we expect when it's over in Africa unless there are strict transparent controls put in place? One thing is certain: There will always be Companies that will do almost anything to make a buck - we need to ask and address how the system can be abused before we invest public funds into it.

For two hours, about 4 years ago news in Spanish about the incident

Bet it won't be the last. Luckily, this and other essential services gain resilience as years go by and many hard-working engineers figure out how to solve problems before they happen.

Just for your information, in Spain the prices (according to http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/05/07/navegante/1273236060.html) are 479, 579 and 679 euros (wifi) and 579, 679 and 779 euros (3G). All prices include VAT (I think it's 16% for this kind of thing).

In US$, those prices would be $610, $738, $859 and $738, $859, $993.
In pounds, £413, £499, £585, £499, £585, £676.

My guess, it won't sell much in Spain, with the crisis, and with the mean salary being something in the vicinity of 1,100 euros per month (although I'm sure some fanboys will be willing to starve to get it :P).

Here's the part (from TFS) I don't understand:

Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy. [emphasis mine]

What's with this "collective" thing? So, everybody can download a copy, but if you get them together in a building and play it through speakers it's illegal?

Yes, it seems the difference is *that* subtle. I just read the original judgement/sentence document
  only 8 pages in spanish and in my opinion the judge seems really fair.

When he is describing the current law he mentions the issue you raise, that "public offering" (for a lack of a better translation) *is* illegal. However the judge then clarifies that P2P can not be deemed as public offering (making it available for the public?) as when you "share" in P2P you are doing it on a 1 to 1 basis (peer to peer).

I do not know the Spanish law well, but the part of the sentence touching the legality/illegality of P2P seems only as a "side comment" (recommendation of the judge maybe, I do not know how much weight is has in Spanish system). The only clear judgement is that *linking* to files on P2P sites is not illegal (this is what Mr. Jesus does).

If you take a look here, you can compare both photographies. Note that the hair is the same...

Agree. Just rocks taking their place in a dynamic environment. And now contractors shall be rubbing their hands together.

I remember what happened to the Dedo de Dios (God's Finger) and what will relatively soon to the Roque del Fraile (Friar's Rock), two of the most remarkable geological symbols of Gran Canaria.

Same for Spain. New prepaid cards are only sold to properly identified persons. It's not mandatory yet for prepaid cards bought before the regulation passed, but on november 9 those lines not identified will be shut down (link in Spanish).

Actually, the Odyssey had a permission from the Spanish government to _investigate_, but not _recover_, in waters close to Gibraltar to try and locate the HMS Sussex (sunk in 1694), and the fact that they have made this announcement without saying where the heck that stuff came from has made the Spanish government suspicious. There's a good chance they have, indeed, recovered this stuff from somewhere they weren't authorized to.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/05/19/cultura/1 179591698.html (In Spanish, couldn't find an English news source).

Au contraire! De repente! SUV is one of those terms that is spreading across the globe.

The reason why it's sucking the CPU and Memory is simple, you're using Windoze. The solution, get rid of windoze, then install BSD or Linux. 'there is a verion of firefox for *bsd

Remember BSD and Linux and all open-source 'Rulez'
M$ Windoze and all closed source shit 'Droolz'

The topology helps, as the IPv6 backbone developers have realized you can't have a horrible design and expect it to work.

The problem is not with customers of a peered network (as their prefix MUST match that of the peered network), but with peers of peers, where prefixes may differ. Because you have more levels of peering, the problem is theoretically reduced (as lower levels MUST share a common prefix and are - generally - not permitted to peer between branches in the hierarchy) but that is more human policy than technology.

There is some confusion with regards IPv6 and backbone connections. IPv6 was originally designed NOT to support default routes. The ::0 route was not actually prohibited, it was however considered undesirable. Later on, this was relaxed and is now pretty standard. There have also been many changes in routing protocols - originally, transparency was the watch-word and Telebit came up with a nice protocol that hid layers. BGP4+ and Protocol Independent BGP became the standards, however, and that's what we live with today.

So how does all this help? It helps because details are kept hidden as far as possible. IPv4 is bad on routing, because the layout is crap, too much is visible and has to be learned, multiple specific routes may need to be learned for a given prefix, corporations buy large blocks of addresses then share them with multiple sites using different providers, etc. IPv6 doesn't permit a lot of that and policies agreed upon don't allow the rest.

In the end, routing requires that you know every possible route you need to follow to get to where you want to go, in the most general form you can store it. There's no escaping from that. The trick is to ensure that absolutely everything is (more or less) equally general and no specific exceptions are needed. It is the exceptions that are the killer, not the rules.

"Firefox binaries for Linux without GTK2 and XFT (ex. for RedHat 7.x)"
http://www.elmundo.es/imasd/servicios/binaries/fir efox/

The Google search on central america for me came up with many nice examples showing the region of Central America: . One of them, however, showed only South America!

You want me to try other domains such as .es? Look at this map of all continents. Or this one, which implies "America" as one continent, but still divides it into Norte and Sud: NO central.

Hi! Just to say that. Today, in El navegante (a blog section of the spanish newspaper "el mundo"), there is this new about the spanish CMT ("Comision del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones"), which is -more or less- the spanish FCC, had drop out a kind of a recomendation sheet on the IpVoice in spain, and it's point is the same. give 'phone numbers' for IpVoice users. have fun.

EEUU aumenta la ayuda tras la lluvia de críticas internacionales
After being critized internationally, The USA augments the help..

Knee-jerk indeed

You're right. In fact, this appeared on elmundo.eshttp://elmundo.es/navegante/2004/12/15/j uegos/1103114848.html yesterday:
Pechos grandes y ropa corta, reclamo de los videojuegos
La mayoría de los principales videojuegos consumidos por los adolescentes y jóvenes españoles reproduce estereotipos sexistas y difunden valores de la denominada 'cultura del macho', según concluye un estudio elaborado por el Centro de Investigación y Documentación Educativa (CIDE) y el Instituto de la Mujer, que analiza 250 de los juegos más vendidos, como 'El Señor de los Anillos', 'Final Fantasy' o 'Super Mario Bros'.
Basically, the same thing that you're saying, only backed up by two Spanish commissions.

I wish some of the "security" campaigns being run by the occasional government or tv station would take notice. For your average home user (the one that prints letters, writes e-mail, surfs the web, listens to music, but doesn't necessarily have to have the latest game) there's no excuse to still be running some slow, defective product from Redmond.

'Software' patent proposal aproved with Spain's refusal

Pending a second reading in European Parliament

Brusselles-- EU Competition Council reached a political agreement about the patentability directive of inventions applied in the field of computer science, with span ish representative voting against it who stated the directive lacked enough guarantees to prevent computer programs being patented.

The Irish Presidency and the European Comission introduced amendments to satisfy Belgium, Germany, Italy and other countries refusing the proposal. But Spanish Secretary of State for European Affairs, Alberto Navarro, 'after consulting Madrid' decided to keep his negative vote.

The proposal, which has raised refusal among Free Software advocates, is still pending a second reading in European Parliament

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The Spanish Government considers the advantages of the protection given by patentability are not clearly exposed, as computer programs are already protected by copyright law.

I live in one of the places of the world where excellent quality wine is produced: Catalonia (Spain). This is north of Spain, south of France.
Priorat Wines are made here, and many other very good wines.

This has been and extremely warm summer and some country people started telling this harvest was going to be one of the best since 100 years. This is a false asumption due to the fact that grapes mature sooner and got many sugar. Sugar is the key to develop alcohol.

So you got it, lots of sugar, lots of alcohol, better wine. Wrong. The harvest has been done in a hurry because the grapes got so matured that they
started get rotten in the wine. There has been little time for the grape to develop.

In short : you could get grapes with more sugar ( so wine with more alcohol ), but the quality of this grape is worse, and the harvest is short.

I disagree. Mainstream media will echo the protest (I don't know about TV, but "El Mundo" is a mainstream newspaper in Spain, and its digital edition) talks about the issue today, as it did yesterday.

Mainstream media like statistics. If important sites like Slashdot join the protest, they can safely add some more thousand affected users to the stats, and the protest becomes more important in the eyes of the public - thus, more important to the politician.

Found a list of sites/reports about this guy, Peter Lynds. To prevent a slashdotting, I will just print them here. It was found at http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/course/phy2002/forum/me ssages/299.html (remember to remove the space in the link if you MUST go /. them) but you should use the links here to prevent swamping them.

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id= 827792003

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20 030801.utime0801/BNStory/International/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/icc -gwi072703.php

http://www.dagbladet.no/kunnskap/2003/07/31/374849 .html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?stor yID=3515588&thesection=news&thesubsection=gene ral

http://iblnews.com/noticias/08/83260.html

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2003/08/01/ciencia/1 059697327.html

http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/

http://www.elcorreogallego.es/periodico/20030801/u ltimahora/N205769.asp

http://actualidad.eresmas.com/articulos/704306.htm l

http://brightsurf.com/news/july_03/ICC_news_073103 .php

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/ 6440571.htm

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi /news/pa/2003/08/02/technology/amateurclaimssoluti ontotimepuzzle.html

http://www.diariodigital.pt/news.asp?section_id=60 &id_news=64588

Im posting at +2 to make sure they get seen, so modding them up isn't necessary (dont need the karma). There are some serious questions about the guy, both ways, according the googling _I_ did. Don't have an opinion yet...

BAGDAD. - (source El Mundo newspaper, Spain 03/28/2003)

When the weeping of its children became unbearable, Fahd Alawi did not find another solution that to provide a little of Valium to them. After an intense night of bombings, most violent from the beginning of war the past 20 of March, the inhabitants of Bagdad waited the first lights of the dawn to be able to close the eyes and to forget the distressing hours last under the fire storm.

For the first time after several nights, the missiles and the pumps of the Anglo-American coalition have struck objectives in the same heart of Bagdad, among them three communications centers located in the two main arteries of the capital. The presidential complex to borders of Tigris also has been attacked.

"Nobody has been able to sleep", explained Fahd Alawi, a manufacturer of furniture of 38 years. On the tired face and great bags under the eyes, told that it was forced to give Valium to his children so that they were possible to be slept and who they let cry ".

"a pump fell on a car in our street, and began to burn. It was not more than the principle ", explains.

During all the night the explosions have shaken the city while the sky was illuminated with the brightness of the detonations.

The airplanes of the coalition have used pumps of great penetration that have made shake until the most solid buildings.

A nightmare

"For the children has been a terrible nightmare", assures Louaï Husein, of 42 years, proprietor of a cosmetic store in a district of the south of Bagdad, absolutely desert this morning.

The family of Louaï Husein took refuge in a room of her house of two plants, stay that constructed recently to serve as shelter, as it forced the Government during the war between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988.

"it was convinced that the house was going away to collapse on my head", explains. "we have not been able to close the eyes. One by one went vanishing us by the fatigue to the dawn ".

There is no room which resists to the pumps

Doctor Ali Hacen, that lives near one on the affected points of communication, the center of Al-Ulwiyya, was prepared for any eventuality. Before the beginning of the war, it armored a room of its house with plates and plastic to protect itself of a possible chemical attack. Nevertheless, it has served as little. "My house totally is destroyed", explained with the cheeks ignited and eaten by the beard. "It was like an earthquake".

The doctor has been able to confirm that the pharmacies are giving every time in greater amounts ansiolitics drugs to desperate parents before the impossibility to obtain that their children fall asleep. Nevertheless, it seems that these measures are not sufficient to tranquilize the children, nor either to the parents.

"My small Zina is six years old and piss in the bed has become", explained Jassem Ahmad, a storekeeper. "It has been crying all the night. And it did not stop to repeat 'I want to kill América, I want to kill América', as if America was a person ".

And now, continue discussing on CDMA vs. GSM.

Sorry for my (and Google Translator) bad english, and sleep well (if you can...)

It would be even better if they offered more stories from news sources arond the world. I've noticed in the past that if I read a story on CNN.com, and then go read it on El Mundo or Le Monde that you tend to get a very different point of view. Especially with stories that look at the United States or International issues. A real good example was the recent problems in Argentina and how the US news presented it, and how international news sources presented it.

It seems Talgo has made some things in the US... Its trains are being used between Portland and Vancouver. Amtrak and WSDOT bought some too. See also Talgo's site

It seems Talgo has made some things in the US... Its trains are being used between Portland and Vancouver. Amtrak and WSDOT bought some too. See also Talgo's site

Congratulations, and have a happy marriage!

Congratulations, and have a happy marriage!

According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the fungus feeds on carbon and nitrogen from the polycarbonate layer and destroys the information recorded on the aluminium.

There is a Flash graphic (but I haven't seen it).
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