Actually, AFAIK (and according to googling) churches in Finland can't even get the permit as they don't satisfy the "yleishyödyllisyys" (general benefit for society) requirement to get the permit. They co-operate with separate associations/foundations exist for that purpose, though, e.g. Finn Church Aid.
There is a change to the law being planned that would allow churches and universities to conduct fundraisers, but no big overhaul that would actually be needed for the out-of-date law...
Getting a permit requires a corporation or association registered in Finland, so they actually can't give the permit to Wikimedia Foundation even if they applied for one. The permit is also not given to private individuals, so you can't e.g. have a Paypal donate button without violating the law.
(There is also no legal requirement to provide such Finnish-on-Finnish transcription service, so the availability of such special-needs subtitles is pretty much limited to some select shows produced by YLE, the local public broadcaster.)
Actually, there is, but it only affects YLE. They have to provide hearing-impaired subtitles to 60% of their Finnish and Swedish programming, and the required percentage grows by 10 percentage points each year until 100% of Finnish and Swedish programs need to subtitled in 2016.
AFAIK single desktop expanded to monitors on different cards is not supported by X.org server. I think you should be able to get them grouped as two X screens, but that would prevent windows from being moved between them.
Here's how it works here in Finland: You either a) buy the phone yourself (HTC Titan is ~590 EUR ~= 773 USD), and then have a plan without a phone. Example plans: 0.66e / month, 0.066e / min, 0.066e / sms 3.90e / month, includes 3000min in-network calls, others 0.069e/min, 0.069e/sms 38.90e / month, 3000 min to all networks, 3000 sms messages. Unlimited non-NATted incoming-ports-open mobile broadband (HSPA+, max 15Mbps) is 13.90e / month (other speed classes exist), or 20.85e / month total for an extra SIM card ("MultiSIM") + USB modem (i.e. you get unlimited broadband in both your phone and computer for that price). These contract are normally non-fixed-term, so you can cancel/switch operators anytime. Note that in Finland only outgoing calls are paid by the mobile user, incoming calls are paid by the caller (mobile numbers have a separate number block).
or b) buy a plan with a phone. This is a bit different from the US subsidies in that you pay *nothing* up-front, and the plans are actually the same as in (a) above, but there is an additional separate monthly cost for the phone. However, the "subsidy" is very small, only a few percents (e.g. HTC Titan total additional cost is 576 EUR, just 2.5% below normal market price). These are generally 2 year contracts. AFAIK these kind of bundling contracts are generally not allowed, but a special time-limited law was enacted in 2006 allowing such contracts to be made for 3G phones only, and it has been extended at least once since.
The prices above are for Saunalahti, but other carriers have very similar pricing and plans.
At least my impression from all this is that we seem to pay more for the phones, but our plans are otherwise way cheaper (when compared to the US)...
At least here in Finland I don't usually have to stop at intersections when there is no traffic. I don't think it is 10 seconds (that's a long time), but still enough for you to not have to slow down while waiting for the light to change (or at least slow down only very little)...
There is no separate audio pin/channel, the audio data is transmitted during the blanking periods (or whatever the empty space between frames is called) and therefore work equally with both DVI and HDMI cables.
Well, at least one picture shows a recent-looking label with "18.05.12", which looks to me like a due date for next inspection or something like that...
Of course it always could be something else entirely.
There are Syncany and SparkleShare, but neither seems to satisfy your requirements yet as they are still quite new projects and work-in-progress (without e.g. android clients afaics).
I don't understand, could you explain how is 64-bit support in Linux shit?
All drivers are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit, and one can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications as in Windows.
Also, Ubuntu is not the same as Linux. The 64-bit support (especially 32bit-on-64bit support) depends a lot on how the distribution handles it. I started using a 64-bit installation (with some 32-bit stuff like Wine for win32 apps) of Mandriva Linux since 2005 and it always had the support of using 32-bit applications/packages directly as well.
If you instead meant some 64-bit specific problems not related to 32-bit support.. well, I really don't see those.
There seems to be some confusion. The law in question only forbids unauthorized access. It does not forbid unsecured Wi-Fi itself (yes, summary is wrong). And now they may be changing the law to allow accessing unsecured Wi-Fi without asking for permission.
Er, what? When I look at the screenshots, I see exact same icons as in XP. So much so, in fact, that I'm certain that they've just ripped them out of XP resource files.
AFAICS the screenshots in the article *are* from XP. This is how it really looks, as per comment #12 from the article: http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg
I concur, having used VDR for 5 years now with DVB-S/T/C. It is fast, lighter, more easily customizable than mythtv and there are lots of plugins available.
yea, and their streaming video pretty much sucks. In a world where braodband has been around for 10 years NASA TV on the Web is Marginal quality on Windows Media only, or crappy low bandwidth with everything else (they don't even use H.264 for quicktime which is a super small bandwidth link). There is a link to 1200kbps 640x480 Windows Media stream at Wikipedia entry of NASA TV. Not exactly hi-def, but better.
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It is true.
Actually, AFAIK (and according to googling) churches in Finland can't even get the permit as they don't satisfy the "yleishyödyllisyys" (general benefit for society) requirement to get the permit. They co-operate with separate associations/foundations exist for that purpose, though, e.g. Finn Church Aid.
There is a change to the law being planned that would allow churches and universities to conduct fundraisers, but no big overhaul that would actually be needed for the out-of-date law...
Unofficial English translation of the current Money Collection Act by the Ministry of the Interior]
Getting a permit requires a corporation or association registered in Finland, so they actually can't give the permit to Wikimedia Foundation even if they applied for one. The permit is also not given to private individuals, so you can't e.g. have a Paypal donate button without violating the law.
Paper versions still exist, I'd assume.
(There is also no legal requirement to provide such Finnish-on-Finnish transcription service, so the availability of such special-needs subtitles is pretty much limited to some select shows produced by YLE, the local public broadcaster.)
Actually, there is, but it only affects YLE. They have to provide hearing-impaired subtitles to 60% of their Finnish and Swedish programming, and the required percentage grows by 10 percentage points each year until 100% of Finnish and Swedish programs need to subtitled in 2016.
Source: Law (Valtioneuvoston asetus televisio-ohjelmiin liitettävästä ääni- ja tekstityspalvelusta)
AFAIK single desktop expanded to monitors on different cards is not supported by X.org server. I think you should be able to get them grouped as two X screens, but that would prevent windows from being moved between them.
Here's how it works here in Finland:
You either
a) buy the phone yourself (HTC Titan is ~590 EUR ~= 773 USD), and then have a plan without a phone. Example plans:
0.66e / month, 0.066e / min, 0.066e / sms
3.90e / month, includes 3000min in-network calls, others 0.069e/min, 0.069e/sms
38.90e / month, 3000 min to all networks, 3000 sms messages.
Unlimited non-NATted incoming-ports-open mobile broadband (HSPA+, max 15Mbps) is 13.90e / month (other speed classes exist), or 20.85e / month total for an extra SIM card ("MultiSIM") + USB modem (i.e. you get unlimited broadband in both your phone and computer for that price).
These contract are normally non-fixed-term, so you can cancel/switch operators anytime. Note that in Finland only outgoing calls are paid by the mobile user, incoming calls are paid by the caller (mobile numbers have a separate number block).
or b) buy a plan with a phone. This is a bit different from the US subsidies in that you pay *nothing* up-front, and the plans are actually the same as in (a) above, but there is an additional separate monthly cost for the phone. However, the "subsidy" is very small, only a few percents (e.g. HTC Titan total additional cost is 576 EUR, just 2.5% below normal market price). These are generally 2 year contracts. AFAIK these kind of bundling contracts are generally not allowed, but a special time-limited law was enacted in 2006 allowing such contracts to be made for 3G phones only, and it has been extended at least once since.
The prices above are for Saunalahti, but other carriers have very similar pricing and plans.
At least my impression from all this is that we seem to pay more for the phones, but our plans are otherwise way cheaper (when compared to the US)...
At least here in Finland I don't usually have to stop at intersections when there is no traffic. I don't think it is 10 seconds (that's a long time), but still enough for you to not have to slow down while waiting for the light to change (or at least slow down only very little)...
There is no separate audio pin/channel, the audio data is transmitted during the blanking periods (or whatever the empty space between frames is called) and therefore work equally with both DVI and HDMI cables.
I think you are confusing Tizen with Meltemi, which is the new Linux based OS for low-end Nokia devices.
Well, at least one picture shows a recent-looking label with "18.05.12", which looks to me like a due date for next inspection or something like that...
Of course it always could be something else entirely.
I have exactly the same setup.
When I'm at some other computer and need some seldom-used password I can't remember, I just look it up on my phone.
At least in Finland it works the other way, i.e. the seller has to prove that the problem was caused by improper use (Source).
There are Syncany and SparkleShare, but neither seems to satisfy your requirements yet as they are still quite new projects and work-in-progress (without e.g. android clients afaics).
I don't understand, could you explain how is 64-bit support in Linux shit?
All drivers are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit, and one can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications as in Windows.
Also, Ubuntu is not the same as Linux. The 64-bit support (especially 32bit-on-64bit support) depends a lot on how the distribution handles it. I started using a 64-bit installation (with some 32-bit stuff like Wine for win32 apps) of Mandriva Linux since 2005 and it always had the support of using 32-bit applications/packages directly as well.
If you instead meant some 64-bit specific problems not related to 32-bit support.. well, I really don't see those.
The Finnish broadcaster YLE reports that it started filtering the vuvuzela sound on Monday:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2010/06/yle_on_jo_suodattanut_lahetyksista_vuvuzelan_torinaa_1762215.html (Finnish)
(bad Google translation)
openSUSE has an RPM that pulls in Flash, because they're not allowed to redistribute it directly.
Are you sure? I see a 6 megabyte rpm there, quite large for a simple download wrapper:
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/suse/i586/
What is surprising (to me at least) is that the unsecured WiFi was illegal in the first place.
Only accessing them without a permission is illegal (as said in TFA; the summary fails to mention that, however)
Passing laws against using an unencrypted network will not actually protect anyone - it will simply give them a false sense of security.
The law is against *unauthorized* usage of an unencrypted Wi-Fi network.
There seems to be some confusion. The law in question only forbids unauthorized access. It does not forbid unsecured Wi-Fi itself (yes, summary is wrong).
And now they may be changing the law to allow accessing unsecured Wi-Fi without asking for permission.
As said in TFA, the F-18 aircraft incident happened before the airspace restrictions on a routine training flight.
Not directly answering your question, but:
PICTURES: Finnish F-18 engine check reveals effects of volcanic dust
Finnish fighter jets damaged by volcanic cloud
Original article of Finnish Air Force (in Finnish)
Er, what? When I look at the screenshots, I see exact same icons as in XP. So much so, in fact, that I'm certain that they've just ripped them out of XP resource files.
AFAICS the screenshots in the article *are* from XP. This is how it really looks, as per comment #12 from the article:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg
I concur, having used VDR for 5 years now with DVB-S/T/C. It is fast, lighter, more easily customizable than mythtv and there are lots of plugins available.
# rm -rf /
rm: cannot remove root directory "/"
Nowadays you need --no-preserve-root for that.
You could try nspluginwrapper.