Well, that's nice. But while you go talk to Kim Ding Dong, what should we do in the meantime?
The possibility of nuclear (or other) missile hitting US soil is really minimal. And USA is big. Even with ten large explosions most US citizens would be perfectly safe. The possibility to get any benefit of use ones own bomb shelter is zero (with several decimals). N-Korea does not have a working nuclear bomb, but it's probably developing it. They still don't have long range missile. And they have a lot of enemies. S-Korea and Japan are much nearer. Yet N-Korea has no real need of starting a real war, since Kim knows they will loose it. The country is struggling to stay alive. The risk of a terrorist action by a militant group calling them selves muslims, is bigger. Even that horrible possibility must be compared to the possibility of other risks. How many people get hurt yearly in construction work? Many, I guess. So, I presume that the risk of getting accidentally killed while building the bomb shelter is bigger than the risk the shelter is protecting from. Don't wear a seatbelt because it would be more worthwhile to eliminate all auto accidents?
At this time of year, my biggest threat (when driving) is the elks. And the seat belt won't help much if you get 800 kgs meat on your face. Dropping the speed could prevent the accident. But for other risks I use the belt. Don't cook pork and chicken because you are working to eliminate all food borne pathogens? Actually I try to eat healthy food. Great! When's your funeral?
?? Sorry I cannot follow your meaning. Wake me up when Ashcroft pulls a Reno and serves up some Crispy Branch Davidians, shoots a mother carying a baby, or grabs a little boy who escaped from Cuba and ships him back. I thought we talked about whether it's sensible to build an own bomb shelter.
The question is not if MS *needs* PRC, but how does it get the maximum amount of money of it. Because of the piracy and other situation, the optimum pricing strategy in China might well be different from of other countries.
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On the point ! That was the only sentence I could agreed with Balmer. I sure hope that people will try Linux, even with Knoppix !
Readers, please, if You haven't tried out Linux, do it ! You won't regret.
Am-English are experts in finding new words and funny ways to use old ones. Who else would shorten Christmas as Xmas ? Its actually replacing word Christ with a PICTURE of a cross! It maybe funny, but why is it done? Other examples are numerous.
As an example, even Finland has its own state (?) office which gives recommendations on new (and old) words, their spelling etc. This keeps the language more understandable and encourages a logic structure. We avoid using foreign language words when speaking Finnish or at least there exists a "proper" alternative. New words conjugate as other Finnish words etc. Of course it's the people themselves who finally decide which word will become used.
Now if Americans cannot understand British-English, who is to blame ?
Recording from radio is legal, but selling/delivering that recordings are not what ever is the media or hte recording method. You cannot sell recorded c-casettes, do you ?
MS did buy licenses and it paid $21 Million. Microsoft is actively sowing uncertainty and doubt among potential Linux customers over who, if anyone, owns the intellectual property behind open-source software. In May 2003 it paid $21 million for software licenses from SCO...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5614334/print/1/displa ymode/1098
No, ours tend to have died fighting German Nazi's rather than Russians.
I didn't make me clear. I meant that that the fact that foreign troops are occupying your country is very another thing than sending our troops to fight in another country !
Pray tell, when are you expecting the Russians to attack again,
The Russians are completely unexpectable.
and do you think you'd actually be able to stop them,... At least 500.000 trained conscripts are better than 50.000 paid men! Ours strategy is to make it too expensive to occupy Finland. If we'll see that the borber is collapsing, we'll let them come. We'll go into the forests and start "the hunting".
Your lack of knowledge of knowledge of basic EU legislation is ironic for someone who goes by the nickname 'Mr Europe'. Please don't go personal. Let's keep this between opinions and not between individuals. ..."the majority of those eligible for it vote against it and the total against it make up over 20% of population"
When, where ?
It doesn't even make economic sense because it *costs* Finland millions of Euros and gives them virtually no strategic military benefit. Annual military budget($)/capita: Fin=345, UK=713. And UK is even ten times bigger!
volunteer soldiers have the same level of ethics too, they are normal people just like you and me.
Such as Lynndie England ? Somehow I think that the weirdest fanatics are always volunteers.
There are countless wars started by countries with conscription forces
More than countries with paid forces ? Link maybe?
I see nothing wrong with pushing 'ideological interests' and bringing them to brutal dictatorships responsible for the deaths of over 2 million people (against which, casualties in the conflict in Iraq are incomparable).
You say attacking Iraq was The Right Thing ?
I have no interest in bringing 'Christianity' to Muslim states... Agreed. Our "God" may not be better than theirs.
That doesn't mean i think all countries should have the same laws or values, if some nations want to outlaw tobacco or alcohol that's fine with me. ... I don't think the Finnish system of national service, under-which they would have locked Gandhi up as a criminal, is remotely acceptable.
You don's see any contradiction here ? ...If they want to treat women as property and stone people to death that's not fine with me, and your too right I want to impose that ethical code. ...
I think they should reform, or be kicked out of the EU for still having prisoners of conscience,...
Stoning women is acceptable, but making army compulsory isn't ?
The system stinks and is rotten to the core. It's quite indefensible. It has been set up through a democratic process and still apparently has majority of Finns on its side.
If SCO wins this, they would get an addition to their warchest with which to make trouble for legitimate open source software developers and users.
You didn't get it, did you ?
This case has *nothing* to with open source systems in general or Linux especially.
We all know that AIX is a Unix, and not open source.
It amazes me that a nation of largely intelligent people fall for the propaganda that national service being useful, and that governments in countries like Finland and Germany still manage to get away with it. In reality it's a barbaric anachronism and in the face of so many other countries that have had it in the past having now phased it out, or having announced plans to end it, people in Finland should really be questioning this rather than going along with the idea out of a sense of tradition.
You cannot name any of your relatives that we killed while stopping RUSSIANS attacking your country ! Most Finns can. That makes the diffrence. I'd rather serve and fight than flee to some country that uses "pound" to measure anything!
My advice to people in Finland would be to just go and live in another EU member state like the UK, where we don't force people to signup to work for the government (and where they don't get to tell you what weekends you can go home and what ones you cant).
Thank you for your advice. Don't call us, we'll call you.
Finns, the government are there to serve you, not the other way around.
Though OSRM's patent protection won't start until the beginning of 2005, it has set pricing: $150,000 per year for coverage of lawsuit and settlement costs of up to $5 million, Ravicher said.
From the previous we can calculate that they presume the odds to be less than 1 against 33 that Linux-user will be prosecuted during any year for breaking patents! Other wise they would be out of business quite rapidly.
No problem. Just another fortune hunter trying to sell us snake oil.
I've never considered myself as retard but, as You should know, you're self the last one to notice! To the subject: Nokia 1100 http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,42112,00.html
Phone Features
Phonebook with up to 250 names on SIM card and up to 50 in internal memory Distribution lists and concatenated text (SMS) messaging Date and time screensavers Built-in alarm and reminders Stopwatch and countdown timer Full-size animated screensavers Two built-in games Internal antenna Automatic keyguard lock Keyguard lock with security code Fixed ringing tones (1 Nokia tone and 34 monophonic buzzer tones) "
The word "profitless" does not fit in this case, since even this year Nokia has its operating margin more than 19% in their Mobile Phones Group (2Q 2004).
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/NYS/NOK/ Q22004pdf.pdf
It's clear that the margins are narrower than during previous years, but not profitless! Many other businesses aren't even dreaming of such numbers.
The low-cost manufacturers must be kept away with bringing constantly new features. Nokia has a flood of new models coming. We'll see if they lift the company to previous profit-level.
Motorola is bringing 30 new models this year, but they have a longer way to top profits.
Some manufacturers have been struggling with low profit for years, but for instance Samsung is doing well.
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Well, that's nice. But while you go talk to Kim Ding Dong, what should we do in the meantime?
The possibility of nuclear (or other) missile hitting US soil is really minimal. And USA is big. Even with ten large explosions most US citizens would be perfectly safe. The possibility to get any benefit of use ones own bomb shelter is zero (with several decimals).
N-Korea does not have a working nuclear bomb, but it's probably developing it. They still don't have long range missile. And they have a lot of enemies. S-Korea and Japan are much nearer. Yet N-Korea has no real need of starting a real war, since Kim knows they will loose it. The country is struggling to stay alive.
The risk of a terrorist action by a militant group calling them selves muslims, is bigger.
Even that horrible possibility must be compared to the possibility of other risks. How many people get hurt yearly in construction work? Many, I guess. So, I presume that the risk of getting accidentally killed while building the bomb shelter is bigger than the risk the shelter is protecting from.
Don't wear a seatbelt because it would be more worthwhile to eliminate all auto accidents?
At this time of year, my biggest threat (when driving) is the elks. And the seat belt won't help much if you get 800 kgs meat on your face. Dropping the speed could prevent the accident. But for other risks I use the belt.
Don't cook pork and chicken because you are working to eliminate all food borne pathogens?
Actually I try to eat healthy food.
Great!
When's your funeral?
?? Sorry I cannot follow your meaning.
Wake me up when Ashcroft pulls a Reno and serves up some Crispy Branch Davidians, shoots a mother carying a baby, or grabs a little boy who escaped from Cuba and ships him back.
I thought we talked about whether it's sensible to build an own bomb shelter.
I feel strongly that it would be more worthwhile to try to remove the cause for a nuclear holocaust than building shelters like this.
But in US: act in the peace movement and youll probably be judged as a terrorist/communist or something antiamerican.
And it includes all the documentation !
No, really, writing a lot of code in very few characters or lines is not the target, it is not good practice, it only makes code fuzzy.
The question is not if MS *needs* PRC, but how does it get the maximum amount of money of it.
Because of the piracy and other situation, the optimum pricing strategy in China might well be different from of other countries.
On the point !
That was the only sentence I could agreed with Balmer. I sure hope that people will try Linux, even with Knoppix !
Readers, please, if You haven't tried out Linux, do it ! You won't regret.
Well MS could publish the WinFS specifications so that we can get the OSS partition managers ready....
Ond now we'll put up a competing internet search service using GMail disk space !
Interestingly, most European nations take care of this disparity by granting new fathers potential leave as well.
Which is much shorter for fathers than mothers...
One day the cost of mother/fathernity leave is paid half byt mother's and father's employer.
Originally 'oh' means the letter not the number.
Am-English are experts in finding new words and funny ways to use old ones. Who else would shorten Christmas as Xmas ? Its actually replacing word Christ with a PICTURE of a cross! It maybe funny, but why is it done? Other examples are numerous.
As an example, even Finland has its own state (?) office which gives recommendations on new (and old) words, their spelling etc. This keeps the language more understandable and encourages a logic structure. We avoid using foreign language words when speaking Finnish or at least there exists a "proper" alternative. New words conjugate as other Finnish words etc.
Of course it's the people themselves who finally decide which word will become used.
Now if Americans cannot understand British-English, who is to blame ?
I have a jpg-files dated Sep 2001, which look very much same as this. Has anyone found any date information or are we fed with old data ?
And page reloading can hardly be deemed illegal.
If it actively and by intent does harm web traffic, it IS illegal.
Recording from radio is legal, but selling/delivering that recordings are not what ever is the media or hte recording method. You cannot sell recorded c-casettes, do you ?
MS did buy licenses and it paid $21 Million.a ymode/1098
Microsoft is actively sowing uncertainty and doubt among potential Linux customers over who, if anyone, owns the intellectual property behind open-source software. In May 2003 it paid $21 million for software licenses from SCO...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5614334/print/1/displ
This means great future for PNG, The Portable Network Graphics.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
No, ours tend to have died fighting German Nazi's rather than Russians.
..."the majority of those eligible for it vote against it and the total against it make up over 20% of population"
I didn't make me clear. I meant that that the fact that foreign troops are occupying your country is very another thing than sending our troops to fight in another country !
Pray tell, when are you expecting the Russians to attack again,
The Russians are completely unexpectable.
and do you think you'd actually be able to stop them,...
At least 500.000 trained conscripts are better than 50.000 paid men! Ours strategy is to make it too expensive to occupy Finland. If we'll see that the borber is collapsing, we'll let them come. We'll go into the forests and start "the hunting".
Your lack of knowledge of knowledge of basic EU legislation is ironic for someone who goes by the nickname 'Mr Europe'.
Please don't go personal. Let's keep this between opinions and not between individuals.
When, where ?
It doesn't even make economic sense because it *costs* Finland millions of Euros and gives them virtually no strategic military benefit.
Annual military budget($)/capita: Fin=345, UK=713. And UK is even ten times bigger!
volunteer soldiers have the same level of ethics too, they are normal people just like you and me.
...
...
...If they want to treat women as property and stone people to death that's not fine with me, and your too right I want to impose that ethical code.
...
...
Such as Lynndie England ? Somehow I think that the weirdest fanatics are always volunteers.
There are countless wars started by countries with conscription forces
More than countries with paid forces ? Link maybe?
I see nothing wrong with pushing 'ideological interests' and bringing them to brutal dictatorships responsible for the deaths of over 2 million people (against which, casualties in the conflict in Iraq are incomparable).
You say attacking Iraq was The Right Thing ?
I have no interest in bringing 'Christianity' to Muslim states
Agreed. Our "God" may not be better than theirs.
That doesn't mean i think all countries should have the same laws or values, if some nations want to outlaw tobacco or alcohol that's fine with me.
I don't think the Finnish system of national service, under-which they would have locked Gandhi up as a criminal, is remotely acceptable.
You don's see any contradiction here ?
I think they should reform, or be kicked out of the EU for still having prisoners of conscience,
Stoning women is acceptable, but making army compulsory isn't ?
The system stinks and is rotten to the core. It's quite indefensible.
It has been set up through a democratic process and still apparently has majority of Finns on its side.
If SCO wins this, they would get an addition to their warchest with which to make trouble for legitimate open source software developers and users.
You didn't get it, did you ? This case has *nothing* to with open source systems in general or Linux especially. We all know that AIX is a Unix, and not open source.
It amazes me that a nation of largely intelligent people fall for the propaganda that national service being useful, and that governments in countries like Finland and Germany still manage to get away with it. In reality it's a barbaric anachronism and in the face of so many other countries that have had it in the past having now phased it out, or having announced plans to end it, people in Finland should really be questioning this rather than going along with the idea out of a sense of tradition.
You cannot name any of your relatives that we killed while stopping RUSSIANS attacking your country ! Most Finns can. That makes the diffrence. I'd rather serve and fight than flee to some country that uses "pound" to measure anything!
My advice to people in Finland would be to just go and live in another EU member state like the UK, where we don't force people to signup to work for the government (and where they don't get to tell you what weekends you can go home and what ones you cant).
Thank you for your advice. Don't call us, we'll call you.
Finns, the government are there to serve you, not the other way around.
Just as JFK said!
Now there's no reason not to get it in Debian!
Someone please put up a Debian-package !
Though OSRM's patent protection won't start until the beginning of 2005, it has set pricing: $150,000 per year for coverage of lawsuit and settlement costs of up to $5 million, Ravicher said.
From the previous we can calculate that they presume the odds to be less than 1 against 33 that Linux-user will be prosecuted during any year for breaking patents! Other wise they would be out of business quite rapidly.
No problem. Just another fortune hunter trying to sell us snake oil.
I've never considered myself as retard but, as You should know, you're self the last one to notice!
To the subject:
Nokia 1100
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,42112,00.html
Phone Features
Phonebook with up to 250 names on SIM card and up to 50 in internal memory
Distribution lists and concatenated text (SMS) messaging
Date and time screensavers
Built-in alarm and reminders
Stopwatch and countdown timer
Full-size animated screensavers
Two built-in games
Internal antenna
Automatic keyguard lock
Keyguard lock with security code
Fixed ringing tones (1 Nokia tone and 34 monophonic buzzer tones) "
Is that too much for features ?
You don't have to. Buy the simplest (and cheapest) model. Stop whining if someone else wants the bells and whistles.
The word "profitless" does not fit in this case, since even this year Nokia has its operating margin more than 19% in their Mobile Phones Group (2Q 2004)./ Q22004pdf.pdf
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/NYS/NOK
It's clear that the margins are narrower than during previous years, but not profitless! Many other businesses aren't even dreaming of such numbers.
The low-cost manufacturers must be kept away with bringing constantly new features. Nokia has a flood of new models coming. We'll see if they lift the company to previous profit-level. Motorola is bringing 30 new models this year, but they have a longer way to top profits. Some manufacturers have been struggling with low profit for years, but for instance Samsung is doing well.
True. Never can ONE reason make a country the world leader by any measure...
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