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Comment Re:Free hotspots are illegal in Finland? (Score 1) 151

You have to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky? The idea behind this law change is that if a private citizen leaves his wlan open, is it legal to use it? Previously it was not and now it will be. Thing is that there is no way for the user know if the wlan is left open on purpose or not. If a city provides a wlan for tourists, there usually is a sign that it is open and free to use. There are open hot spots for wi-fi all over the country. Almost every library has one and some McDonalds and also some cities give one out to their citizens and tourists.
Linux

Submission + - Gartner underestimating N900 sales rapidly (engadget.com)

icsx writes: Engaged and Reuters ran a story on Nokia N900 Maemo Linux phone. According to Gartner it sold only 100 000 units within the first 5 months. Nokia contacted Engaged with more accurate numbers. The real truth? It sold 100 000 units within 5 weeks instead.
The Military

US Navy Considering Wii Fit and DDR For Boot Camp 104

almehdaaol writes "New military recruits are coming in physically heavier and out of shape, so the US Navy has decided to take an interesting course of action by creating a new training regimen inspired by the fitness-centric Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution." This comes alongside a report confirming some of the BS we told our parents when we were growing up: "Bavelier said playing the kill-or-be-killed games can improve peripheral vision and the ability to see objects at dusk, and the games can even be used to treat amblyopia, or lazy eye, a disorder characterized by indistinct vision in one eye. She said she believes the games can improve math performance and other brain tasks."
Lord of the Rings

Submission + - Hobbit on Hold (torontosun.com)

Flea of Pain writes: Director Guillermo Del Toro has confirmed upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit has been put on hold indefinitely because the movie has been caught in a "tangled negotiation" over the future of the MGM movie studio.

The film, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's first book in the fantasy series, was reportedly due to begin shooting this summer, but has been mired in delays.

Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson, who will act as producer on the new film, recently dismissed rumours of trouble with the picture, insisting: "It's not really been delayed, because we've never announced the date".

The Military

Submission + - US Navy considering Wii Fit and DDR for boot camp (thekartel.com)

almehdaaol writes: New military recruits are coming in physically heavier and out of shape. So the US Navy has decided to take an interesting course of action by creating a new training regiment inspired by fitness-centric videogames Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution.

Comment Future is now (Score 1) 349

When Valve created Steam, they did it because there was no system for distributing games over internet and everyone said that the technology is 5-10 years in the future, not now. So we have had Steam now for several years and it's the most used games distribution system over internet.

What comes to the game updating, internet connection speeds get faster. PC's get faster. Systems are online more and more daily so if everything is automatic and game gets a patch, it's not a very long waiting period when you have that downloaded. Of course it depends from your own internet connection.

Some of these digital distributing services will either go down or will be bought by another but the faster these things start working together and putting up more games into the catalogs, the less issues there will be in the future.

Comment Re:Apple is just trying not to appear weak (Score 3, Interesting) 374

Nokia is Bigger. They have more employees because they do a hell of a lot more things than just design stuff and marketing. They have their own factories in which the phones are built. Apple just gives money to some chinese company to make their own iPhone and puts a hefty pricetag on the top. It's much easier to do 1 phone than 1+49 others. Nokia could sell out their factories and limit their company's agenda to management, R&D and marketing but that would be just stupid at the scale which they are now. They controll everything from top to bottom, Apple has control over only the things that are on top. Apple is far from the leading top from mobile phones and has a lot to learn.

Why would Apple would even want to buy Nokia? It's not like there's 50,1% of shares free out there on the market, waiting for someone to buy them off. Even hostile takeover isn't possible.

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