www.asus.co.uk redirects directly to uk.asus.com, but if you go to for example http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1000HE/, you will arrive at a marketing page designed to cater to British buyers. So it almost looks like some yahoo in British marketing decided to do this without be told to. "Taking initiative", I believe it's called...
The video is hosted at collaborationpeople.cdnetworks.us, so obviously it's on their account with CDnetworks (a content delivery network). CollaborationPeople, as someone has already found out and which seems to jar with the whois for collaborationpeople.com (a password protected site), is associated with this Michael Sharp fellow. So that corroborates the whois theory of who is behind the site. However, as someone mentioned, the two powerpoints only have that name because they were exported form PP to pdf, and they certainly never mention Microsoft.
Now, whatever motivated mr. Sharp to make that site, I don't know. It's still looks gloriously bad even though it's linked from the Eee page. However, I'm sure someone at Asus reads Slashdot, so I expect a statement to arrive soon.
The point is that any percentage is simply too much. We're talking about the possibility of saving human lives here (even one more life saved is a victory), not arguing over statistical expetancies.
Two extremist countries with nukes does not a world war maketh. At worst, the aforementioned two countries will cause extreme devastation to their regional neighbours, at which point the rest of the world will be royally pissed off and resolve to teach them what a real good strategic nuclear attack feels like, thus turning them in extremist ex-countries.
I hardly think anyone in China would forget losing a city. If anything, the propaganda machine would make sure to constantly remind the populace of it in order to encourage national unity. It's a pointless discussion anyway, because the NK leaders are nuts, but not in a lacking-self-preservation-instincts kinda way. In fact they're very good at preserving themselves.
Also, forget Hong Kong. Bejing and Shanghai are where it's at, bigger and closer to North Korea!
Strictly speaking I think America went to war with Japan because the Japanese attacked them first. American volunteers had been helping out in China before that, but that's a far cry from an official declaration of war.
But if they do have the backing of the Communications Act of 1934, that means they're acing lawfully. Something which renders castle doctrines invalid.
No, Air Force Two is whatever plane the Vice-Prez is on. Without the President onbouard, it's simply another Air Force plane. (Albeit a rather special one.)
You never really know if you're speaking to a human or just a machine that spits out canned answers and tries to avoid any questions it doesn't have an answer ready for.
Meh, that was just a short clip. The full version lasts for something like ten minutes, and he fires his gun several times, but the bear keeps coming back. In the end he scares off the bear with a combination of gunpowder and angry Viking-style ranting. In another incident on that expedition (it lasted two years), he had to kill a polar bear when it was less than a metre away and most definitely not scared of him. Now that really was shooting rather than shouting.
Lars Monsen programs are actually very good if you like wilderness programs. He's quite popular here in Norway, and has spawned his own tradition of Chuck Norris-style facts due to him being, well, awesome. In this series he lives a whole year outdoors above the Arctic circle, and previously he has done such things as walk across Canada, where he amongst other things scared away a bear by getting angry at it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hFGwX-BjHX8&feature=related (Obviously the shouting needs to be done in English since it's a Canadian bear...)
The State actually does a considerable amount of head-scratching about what to do with the money. Yes, on things like "how do we avoid causing massive inflation by pouring all this money into the economy", and "What are we going to do when the oil runs out". Pouring oil money over everything seems like a nice, simple and popular solution, but incredibly enough the reason why they don't do it is because they realize there is a downside which may well outweigh the benefits. (Actual responsible government, who'd have thought it?) Besides which, NRK has always been paid for by license fees from people who own televisions, so it is a) a moot point, and b) in the TV-owners interest for NRK to save money whilst getting high quality products to them.
(And even if Sweden is one of the most expensive countries that doesn't really change the fact that Norway is the most expensive.)
Which is why the good people at NRK went to great lengths to explain how BitTorrent works, why it isn't illegal and how you can use it. But in this particular case we are still talking about a sandbox experiment. (Notice the name, NRK Beta.) If NRK were to base a major distribution channel on BitTorrent, you can be sure they would package it in some user friendly way. At any rate they still have traditional web TV in lower quality. (Though they have another experiment running in cooperation with a engineering school where techie people connected to the national educational network grid UNINETT can get all their channels streamed in full DVB-T quality, not likely to make to the mainstream anytime soon. http://media.hiof.no/english/)
At any rate, I appreciate what they're doing with my television license money.
The circular also points out that OOXML is "under observation". Basically it means that they're watching the standardization/certification process, and if OOXML ends up approved as an open standard, then it will also be adopted as an official format. Although I seem to remember Norway voting against OOXML.
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www.asus.co.uk redirects directly to uk.asus.com, but if you go to for example http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1000HE/, you will arrive at a marketing page designed to cater to British buyers. So it almost looks like some yahoo in British marketing decided to do this without be told to. "Taking initiative", I believe it's called...
The video is hosted at collaborationpeople.cdnetworks.us, so obviously it's on their account with CDnetworks (a content delivery network). CollaborationPeople, as someone has already found out and which seems to jar with the whois for collaborationpeople.com (a password protected site), is associated with this Michael Sharp fellow. So that corroborates the whois theory of who is behind the site. However, as someone mentioned, the two powerpoints only have that name because they were exported form PP to pdf, and they certainly never mention Microsoft. Now, whatever motivated mr. Sharp to make that site, I don't know. It's still looks gloriously bad even though it's linked from the Eee page. However, I'm sure someone at Asus reads Slashdot, so I expect a statement to arrive soon.
The point is that any percentage is simply too much. We're talking about the possibility of saving human lives here (even one more life saved is a victory), not arguing over statistical expetancies.
Two extremist countries with nukes does not a world war maketh. At worst, the aforementioned two countries will cause extreme devastation to their regional neighbours, at which point the rest of the world will be royally pissed off and resolve to teach them what a real good strategic nuclear attack feels like, thus turning them in extremist ex-countries.
It's a '60's technology nuke.
Much like the rest of North Korea, in other words.
I hardly think anyone in China would forget losing a city. If anything, the propaganda machine would make sure to constantly remind the populace of it in order to encourage national unity. It's a pointless discussion anyway, because the NK leaders are nuts, but not in a lacking-self-preservation-instincts kinda way. In fact they're very good at preserving themselves. Also, forget Hong Kong. Bejing and Shanghai are where it's at, bigger and closer to North Korea!
Strictly speaking I think America went to war with Japan because the Japanese attacked them first. American volunteers had been helping out in China before that, but that's a far cry from an official declaration of war.
But if they do have the backing of the Communications Act of 1934, that means they're acing lawfully. Something which renders castle doctrines invalid.
However, in 1969 the minimum wage was $1.60, so six bucks an hour was quite alright.
Air Force One 2, perhaps?
No, Air Force Two is whatever plane the Vice-Prez is on. Without the President onbouard, it's simply another Air Force plane. (Albeit a rather special one.)
Plus, it just looks so much cooler on pictures when you have fighters alongside.
You never really know if you're speaking to a human or just a machine that spits out canned answers and tries to avoid any questions it doesn't have an answer ready for.
Did he win Jennifer Connelly's heart?
Meh, that was just a short clip. The full version lasts for something like ten minutes, and he fires his gun several times, but the bear keeps coming back. In the end he scares off the bear with a combination of gunpowder and angry Viking-style ranting. In another incident on that expedition (it lasted two years), he had to kill a polar bear when it was less than a metre away and most definitely not scared of him. Now that really was shooting rather than shouting.
Lars Monsen programs are actually very good if you like wilderness programs. He's quite popular here in Norway, and has spawned his own tradition of Chuck Norris-style facts due to him being, well, awesome. In this series he lives a whole year outdoors above the Arctic circle, and previously he has done such things as walk across Canada, where he amongst other things scared away a bear by getting angry at it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hFGwX-BjHX8&feature=related (Obviously the shouting needs to be done in English since it's a Canadian bear...)
Which is why the good people at NRK went to great lengths to explain how BitTorrent works, why it isn't illegal and how you can use it. But in this particular case we are still talking about a sandbox experiment. (Notice the name, NRK Beta.) If NRK were to base a major distribution channel on BitTorrent, you can be sure they would package it in some user friendly way. At any rate they still have traditional web TV in lower quality. (Though they have another experiment running in cooperation with a engineering school where techie people connected to the national educational network grid UNINETT can get all their channels streamed in full DVB-T quality, not likely to make to the mainstream anytime soon. http://media.hiof.no/english/) At any rate, I appreciate what they're doing with my television license money.
The circular also points out that OOXML is "under observation". Basically it means that they're watching the standardization/certification process, and if OOXML ends up approved as an open standard, then it will also be adopted as an official format. Although I seem to remember Norway voting against OOXML.
As anyone who has played Metal Gear Solid 2 knows, S3 is a baaaad thing.
Let's not forget "Wikipedia bans an entire town a year later just to be on the safe side."
'Cause they ain't got no grass in Svalbard.