Required to have GPS for the last 5 years? There still are plenty of cellphones that don't have GPS. Maybe you are talking about the celltower triangulation support which can give your location to few hundred meters in cities. Or the operator can just give the location of the cell tower which gives your location to about a city block or so. A GPS in a phone would a) use alot of power, b) wouldn't work indoors well and c) might not be able to have satellite lock at all indoors or in areas where the visibility to the sky is obscured. Also getting a lock indoors might take several minutes which won't help much when calling 112.
There is couple guys who publish a blocklist you can install to Opera that works by either blocking ads or hiding them in the page, unfortunately it does lack automagic updates or any GUI.
I myself take their blocklist and couple others and combine them with Squid, that way I have identical adblocking for any browser I happen to use on any machine I have.
Maybe someday Opera finally creates a powerful API to extend their browser so AdBlockPlus could be ported to it, or similar app be written. It seems that generally browser makers themselves don't want to include too powerful adblocks by default to their products and that is sad.
Quoting unknown author who wrote this in the spirit of MEIHEM IN CE CLASRUM, by Dolton Edwards.
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of negotiations, Her Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEngish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the forth year, people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivum vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
You need to back up this claim. The only reason I can see a search engine spider not being able to crawl the site is when
1) it doesn't follow <frame src> links
and
2) the main menu frame (or similar) is not linked to anywhere in the internet
Once the spider stumbles upon the main menu, it will continue from that to all the pages and wouldn't even know that the site has frames.
The problem with framed sites is that when you go to a framed site via search engine, you often end up with just the page containing your search term, but without frames, thus you will have difficulty navigating the site.
I hope they add transcoding (perhaps hardware accelerated) because without it, streaming various formats is very trouble some.
Currently I am using PMS (PS3 Media Server for Win/Mac/Linux http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/) to watch movies on my PS3 and there is minimal quality from transcoding as PMS can create 70+Mbps MPEG2 streams on the fly. Only thing it current is missing is ability to playback ripped DVDs.
In Finland the loser usually has to pay the legal expenses of the winner, doesn't matter who brought up the case. But even if you win, you cannot just send the bill from your 200 lawyers to the loser as it is the judge who decides what is the reasonable amount of legal expenses to be paid. Usually it is thousands, maybe tens of thousands of euros, but not more.
It does have somewhat chilling effect, but also is very effective to prevent frivolous cases. And many people have home insurance that also pays some of the legal expenses.
And to protect the little guy, we have things like Consumer Protection Agency, who takes the company to court on your behalf if it thinks there is a reason to make them comply with the law.
The finnish word for copyright is "tekijänoikeus" which literally means "author's rights" and under that title the law can easily be broader than just under "copyright".
4. I checked couple CFL manufacturers and they say it is ok to use CFLs in saunas, though the bulbs wont last as long as with "normal" use temperatures. Also the light is usually only used when people are in the sauna, so the burn up my house scenario is quite unlikely to happen.
5. I was just saying that using a heatpump might be even better option.
7. Perhaps you need to buy better quality CFLs or perhaps check if you have a broken powergrid in your house (lots of power spikes etc)
8. And I said that it is probably true, but still I would like to see a study comparing the total cost (monetary/environmental/etc) of CFLs vs incandescent.
9. I like meat/cars/furs/alcohol/whatnot:) and as you said, it really isn't a problem as you can buy dimmable CFLs, and they are not *hugely* more expensive.
10. I guess the TRIAC issue is the more common problem, but relay based detectors are available. And I would say, atleast in my use, a toilet CFLs sees more on-off action than my outdoors motion detector controlled lamp, and the toilet CFLs seem to work years. But ofcourse if you have lots of people blinking our outdoor lights, perhaps it would be better just to install one that works with timer or is light sensitive so it wouldn't be turning on/off less.
And why make a law? Well, the most important thing ofcourse is to make sure it complicates your life:) And as long as you are in the minority there is no issue:P
Also the law doesn't prohibit use, just selling, and incandescents bulbs for special use (eg saunas) would be still sold for those who need them. And one can always make these things themselves, it ain't rocket science you know...
That happens only when using motion sensors based on TRIACs, the ones I've seen have relays in them and they are not too expensive either, eg. for 18USD you can get this http://www.brazix.com/saving_devices/swivel.asp
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Required to have GPS for the last 5 years? There still are plenty of cellphones that don't have GPS. Maybe you are talking about the celltower triangulation support which can give your location to few hundred meters in cities. Or the operator can just give the location of the cell tower which gives your location to about a city block or so. A GPS in a phone would a) use alot of power, b) wouldn't work indoors well and c) might not be able to have satellite lock at all indoors or in areas where the visibility to the sky is obscured. Also getting a lock indoors might take several minutes which won't help much when calling 112.
There is couple guys who publish a blocklist you can install to Opera that works by either blocking ads or hiding them in the page, unfortunately it does lack automagic updates or any GUI.
I myself take their blocklist and couple others and combine them with Squid, that way I have identical adblocking for any browser I happen to use on any machine I have.
Maybe someday Opera finally creates a powerful API to extend their browser so AdBlockPlus could be ported to it, or similar app be written. It seems that generally browser makers themselves don't want to include too powerful adblocks by default to their products and that is sad.
This benchmark shows that Xen + Linux paravirtualization is faster than ESXi + Linux and as fast as ESXi + BSD: http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2009-04-25.some-virtualization-benchmarks.html
And I recall some other benchmarks with heavy I/O where paravirtualised Linux blew VMWare and other "real" virtualizations away.
You can keep the internet as soon as you stop using HTTP; it was developed with "our" money.
As long as they are the opposing sex I assume? Any progress on this issue?
Quoting unknown author who wrote this in the spirit of MEIHEM IN CE CLASRUM, by Dolton Edwards.
Tests show that atleast flash SSDs do have non-zero seek times, though the seeking is 10-100 times faster than with harddisks, but there is a penalty.
I tried to up mod but didn't have enough memory
You need to back up this claim. The only reason I can see a search engine spider not being able to crawl the site is when
1) it doesn't follow <frame src> links
and
2) the main menu frame (or similar) is not linked to anywhere in the internet
Once the spider stumbles upon the main menu, it will continue from that to all the pages and wouldn't even know that the site has frames.
The problem with framed sites is that when you go to a framed site via search engine, you often end up with just the page containing your search term, but without frames, thus you will have difficulty navigating the site.
I hope they add transcoding (perhaps hardware accelerated) because without it, streaming various formats is very trouble some.
Currently I am using PMS (PS3 Media Server for Win/Mac/Linux http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/) to watch movies on my PS3 and there is minimal quality from transcoding as PMS can create 70+Mbps MPEG2 streams on the fly. Only thing it current is missing is ability to playback ripped DVDs.
In Finland the loser usually has to pay the legal expenses of the winner, doesn't matter who brought up the case. But even if you win, you cannot just send the bill from your 200 lawyers to the loser as it is the judge who decides what is the reasonable amount of legal expenses to be paid. Usually it is thousands, maybe tens of thousands of euros, but not more.
It does have somewhat chilling effect, but also is very effective to prevent frivolous cases. And many people have home insurance that also pays some of the legal expenses.
And to protect the little guy, we have things like Consumer Protection Agency, who takes the company to court on your behalf if it thinks there is a reason to make them comply with the law.
The finnish word for copyright is "tekijänoikeus" which literally means "author's rights" and under that title the law can easily be broader than just under "copyright".
If they win, the TTKV most likely will need to pay for bookabooka's legal expenses.
Webpage containing a very long table might be more readable in fixed width format.
Sweden: 20 people per square km and they still manage to get cheap 100Mbps internets to people.
Oh, that is so sad. I used to play it on my C64 with amazing framerates of 1 and maybe 2.
4. I checked couple CFL manufacturers and they say it is ok to use CFLs in saunas, though the bulbs wont last as long as with "normal" use temperatures. Also the light is usually only used when people are in the sauna, so the burn up my house scenario is quite unlikely to happen.
5. I was just saying that using a heatpump might be even better option.
7. Perhaps you need to buy better quality CFLs or perhaps check if you have a broken powergrid in your house (lots of power spikes etc)
8. And I said that it is probably true, but still I would like to see a study comparing the total cost (monetary/environmental/etc) of CFLs vs incandescent.
9. I like meat/cars/furs/alcohol/whatnot :) and as you said, it really isn't a problem as you can buy dimmable CFLs, and they are not *hugely* more expensive.
10. I guess the TRIAC issue is the more common problem, but relay based detectors are available. And I would say, atleast in my use, a toilet CFLs sees more on-off action than my outdoors motion detector controlled lamp, and the toilet CFLs seem to work years. But ofcourse if you have lots of people blinking our outdoor lights, perhaps it would be better just to install one that works with timer or is light sensitive so it wouldn't be turning on/off less.
And why make a law? Well, the most important thing ofcourse is to make sure it complicates your life :) And as long as you are in the minority there is no issue :P
Also the law doesn't prohibit use, just selling, and incandescents bulbs for special use (eg saunas) would be still sold for those who need them. And one can always make these things themselves, it ain't rocket science you know...
But it didn't bork Opera, I was able to quickly myte the computer with F3 and then close all those tabs with apple-w.
And some other anecdotal evidence says Golf TDI does 67MPG on highway and 52MPG in cities when driven carefully and at steady speeds.
I was under the impression that the explosions in movies are actually made by exploding gasoline.
In Finland income tax is also automagically taken from you paycheck, but if you don't give your employer a taxcard, they will take 60%.
For command-line torrenting aria2 is another minimalistic option.
That happens only when using motion sensors based on TRIACs, the ones I've seen have relays in them and they are not too expensive either, eg. for 18USD you can get this http://www.brazix.com/saving_devices/swivel.asp
Just to add that good CFLs are rated for 15000+ hours.
Airam sells 1000W and 1700W equivalent CFLs (E40 plug).