Actually Linus is ethnically Finnish. He is part of the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. Swedish was the historical language of upper class in Finland but has also been the first language of especially the common people living on the coast regions. Even the Finnish-Swedish language differs quite from the actual Swedish.
Since I have been exposed to products of American culture throughout my life, I've been planning to some day travel to USA. It would be a marvellous experience to see those places and regions described in movies, TV series and books in reality.
During the past few years actions of USA have turned more and more freaky. Now when I finally have a regular income to be able to travel where I want, USA is definitely not in my list. The so-called security actions have scared me so that I do not want to travel to a police state not welcoming me.
And when talking about the fellow Europeans, I sure ain't the only one. And one can imagine how this arrogant and scary image of USA affects in other matters as well. I wonder when the rational citizens of USA realize the damage done to USA's relations with rest of the world.
According to latest PISA studies, Finnish education system is one of the best. There's some interesting posts from the American point of view about Finnish schools in Robert Kaiser's Finland Diary in Washington Post. One should also read Kaiser's answers to readers questions, many of those are related to education.
iTunes Music Store purchases can of course be burnt to CD, at which point they can play on just about anything.
Technically speaking, yes. You can also bypass the DVD region code system, but the theoretical possibility does not justify the restriction. You don't really expect people to burn their songs to CD every time they want to use them outside iSomething? It is indeed justified to criticize Apple for this.
I am very satisfied with a Series 60 version of Symbian Putty. It works great with my Nokia 6600 by using GPRS services of major Finnish cellular operators.
I can easily use Pine and Irssi in my Unix screen. Actually I've found that using the phone's own mail client is much clumsier.
Small screen of 6600 is surprisingly no problem. The only limitation is slow text input. T9 helps you to input fast normal text, but finding some special characters may take a while. The developers of Symbian Putty have been really helpful and actually added some special key shortcuts after my request.
I am not a telecommunications engineer, but AFAI, when there is no operator network available (your operator or roaming contract), you get this emergency option. And when you make an emergency call, the phone uses all its transmitting capacity trying to reach some base receiver station. At that point any operator goes, because emergency calls have the highest priority.
By this logic you could build a DIY jammer by generating a precise amount of noise so that normal calls get jammed, but the phone could still reach the base receiver station in a case of emergency. This is not very reliable way, so I guess commercial jammer systems do this by some sort of content analyzing firewalls.
The engadget story page had a link to the Search Spy site. I've been looking at it for a while, and one search string constantly coming up is "die slashdotters". How is this possible?
Another good system is the one that we have in Finland and many other European countries. If none of the candidates gets 50% of the votes at the first round of voting, there will be another round with only the two most popular candidates.
It means that first you can vote the canditate you like the most, and at second round the one you hate the least. In US it could fix the Bush/Kerry problem, because you could first vote for the one you really like without helping the bad guy getting into office.
I'm not an OSS developer, but I would think they would ignore this. What's next? McDonald's pays software companies enough money to include their trademark detection? So you can't scan/recreate/modify/distribute their likiness?
We are talking about legislation here. So if this will become a law in EU, I doubt that developers can just ignore this. Your McDonald's example would be different, because they cannot make it into a law. Even if they paid to Adobe and other for such, they couldn't force OSS developers to do the same.
I can't really understand the big hassle about this. I think that physical counterfeiting devices are banned as well, so why shouldn't this go with digital devices as well? If it would cause big troubles for advertising industry, I guess it would be taken into account.
If you accidentally get a counterfeited bill, it will be your loss. So it is a common intress to get rid of this. And for now on, there is no other way, not until we get of rid of all the physical cash. And that will sure take some time.
Don't these people clear with PR before voicing all these claims?
So the Java source should be open for the public but the decision processes should not?
I would not call this a disagreement. Even though Sun owns Java, there are many other members in the Java community as well. By creating discussion, everyone can state their opinions and Sun gets valuable information to support their decisions.
I think openness involves much more than just source code, and out-of-the-blue strategical moves certainly would not support that.
Actually strangely enough.. statistically the only way to reduce population growth is to lower the death rate.
Sorry, doesn't work that way. In statistics, you may be able to show that these two thing correlate with each other.
But correlation has little to do with causality. if low death rate is X and negative population growth is Y, it may be that X->Y, but also Y->X. There might be even some other factor Z that causes both Z->X and Z->Y (or there might be even more other factors involved).
To make it short, you just can't state that X->Y. Instead, you may make an educated guess that there is a Z like high standard of living that causes both X and Y, but with this information that is just a guess.
One could also think, that the overall technical progress may help to extend the battery life. Besides the hardcore gamers, most of us don't have to upgrade our computers so often because nowadays have the necessary computing power to fit our needs. As seen with Transmeta and some other laptop innovation trends, it means that the industry is not focused only on performance anymore. It seems that making low voltage devices is the future trend. If you can't change the batteries, change the devices instead.
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Actually Linus is ethnically Finnish. He is part of the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. Swedish was the historical language of upper class in Finland but has also been the first language of especially the common people living on the coast regions. Even the Finnish-Swedish language differs quite from the actual Swedish.
Since I have been exposed to products of American culture throughout my life, I've been planning to some day travel to USA. It would be a marvellous experience to see those places and regions described in movies, TV series and books in reality.
During the past few years actions of USA have turned more and more freaky. Now when I finally have a regular income to be able to travel where I want, USA is definitely not in my list. The so-called security actions have scared me so that I do not want to travel to a police state not welcoming me.
And when talking about the fellow Europeans, I sure ain't the only one. And one can imagine how this arrogant and scary image of USA affects in other matters as well. I wonder when the rational citizens of USA realize the damage done to USA's relations with rest of the world.
I better vacuum the dust out of my box...
I have no specific information about this incident, but if the IRC log is not a fake, this might be related:
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One of the four UN peacekeepers killed by Israel was a 29-year old Finn.
According to latest PISA studies, Finnish education system is one of the best. There's some interesting posts from the American point of view about Finnish schools in Robert Kaiser's Finland Diary in Washington Post. One should also read Kaiser's answers to readers questions, many of those are related to education.
Please tell me, dear Americans, where do you get these guys from?
Technically speaking, yes. You can also bypass the DVD region code system, but the theoretical possibility does not justify the restriction. You don't really expect people to burn their songs to CD every time they want to use them outside iSomething? It is indeed justified to criticize Apple for this.
Too bad this turned out to be a dupe. It reminds me of this Chilean Blob, which was interpreted as Cthulhu effluvia floating from R'lyeh to Chile. Well, the Elder Gods have time to wait...
I am very satisfied with a Series 60 version of Symbian Putty. It works great with my Nokia 6600 by using GPRS services of major Finnish cellular operators.
I can easily use Pine and Irssi in my Unix screen. Actually I've found that using the phone's own mail client is much clumsier.
Small screen of 6600 is surprisingly no problem. The only limitation is slow text input. T9 helps you to input fast normal text, but finding some special characters may take a while. The developers of Symbian Putty have been really helpful and actually added some special key shortcuts after my request.
I am not a telecommunications engineer, but AFAI, when there is no operator network available (your operator or roaming contract), you get this emergency option. And when you make an emergency call, the phone uses all its transmitting capacity trying to reach some base receiver station. At that point any operator goes, because emergency calls have the highest priority.
By this logic you could build a DIY jammer by generating a precise amount of noise so that normal calls get jammed, but the phone could still reach the base receiver station in a case of emergency. This is not very reliable way, so I guess commercial jammer systems do this by some sort of content analyzing firewalls.
In Finland the saddle chairs are quite a success.
The engadget story page had a link to the Search Spy site. I've been looking at it for a while, and one search string constantly coming up is "die slashdotters". How is this possible?
Another good system is the one that we have in Finland and many other European countries. If none of the candidates gets 50% of the votes at the first round of voting, there will be another round with only the two most popular candidates.
It means that first you can vote the canditate you like the most, and at second round the one you hate the least. In US it could fix the Bush/Kerry problem, because you could first vote for the one you really like without helping the bad guy getting into office.
In the current versions of Windows this feature is called The Blue Screen of Death.
Your web server can also be classified as an artificial living organism. But I ain't so sure about that living part anymore...
We are talking about legislation here. So if this will become a law in EU, I doubt that developers can just ignore this. Your McDonald's example would be different, because they cannot make it into a law. Even if they paid to Adobe and other for such, they couldn't force OSS developers to do the same.
I can't really understand the big hassle about this. I think that physical counterfeiting devices are banned as well, so why shouldn't this go with digital devices as well? If it would cause big troubles for advertising industry, I guess it would be taken into account.
If you accidentally get a counterfeited bill, it will be your loss. So it is a common intress to get rid of this. And for now on, there is no other way, not until we get of rid of all the physical cash. And that will sure take some time.
So the Java source should be open for the public but the decision processes should not?
I would not call this a disagreement. Even though Sun owns Java, there are many other members in the Java community as well. By creating discussion, everyone can state their opinions and Sun gets valuable information to support their decisions.
I think openness involves much more than just source code, and out-of-the-blue strategical moves certainly would not support that.
Sorry, doesn't work that way. In statistics, you may be able to show that these two thing correlate with each other.
But correlation has little to do with causality. if low death rate is X and negative population growth is Y, it may be that X->Y, but also Y->X. There might be even some other factor Z that causes both Z->X and Z->Y (or there might be even more other factors involved).
To make it short, you just can't state that X->Y. Instead, you may make an educated guess that there is a Z like high standard of living that causes both X and Y, but with this information that is just a guess.
But hey, United States got the biggest attention in Amnesty International Report 2004, and US produces more than half of the world's spam. You are correct, people seem to focus on irrelevant things. But compared to US, China is not the biggest to blame after all.
One could also think, that the overall technical progress may help to extend the battery life. Besides the hardcore gamers, most of us don't have to upgrade our computers so often because nowadays have the necessary computing power to fit our needs.
As seen with Transmeta and some other laptop innovation trends, it means that the industry is not focused only on performance anymore. It seems that making low voltage devices is the future trend. If you can't change the batteries, change the devices instead.