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by Ras_ 18y ago
You're buying easy access to the water.
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The person they seem to be quoting (Tero Kuittinen) is Finnish. He seems to be legit. "Tero Kuittinen is managing director and senior analyst for Avian Securities, a brokerage firm specializing in technology companies. He has also served as
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Nokia has already been in the PC business with Nokia Data until 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu_Siemens_Computers Excerpt: "The origins of the company can be traced back to the merger of the PC-divisions of the Finnish Nokia an
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Original dialogue: Q: "Will Nokia produce a mini-laptop of their own some day?" A (Nokia-CEO Kallasvuo): "Never say never. Of course we are also actively looking into this business opportunity." Source: http://areena.yle.fi/toista?id=1923
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Somehow I managed to anticipate something like this 9 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485620
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Actually they try to see the bigger picture in "connecting people". Phones are just their current platform of communication. I'm seeing an approaching point of convergence to PC's with every new generation of phones and computers. Current
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Congrats from another Finn. Did any Finnish news outlet pick this? I haven't seen any. Unlike your Facebook project, which was featured recently in Helsingin Sanomat. For anyone interested - here's the page with Google Translate: http://tr
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In Finland, we have the exact opposite. When tuition is universally free (actually you get paid to study, because government has allotted a student benefit for 55 months in third tier studies for everyone) from 1st grade to doctorate studi
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The Crying Game, Soylent Green, Requiem For A Dream, Misery
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From the inventor of Self-organizing Map (aka Kohonen network) himself: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Kohonen_network
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mpowerplayer from the previous round got $2.5M in September from New Atlantic Ventures.
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OCW + Omnisio-layer + comments provided by the HN community = success
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Link to Open Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/ I've "sat" halfway through their Econ 159 - Game Theory and Econ 252 - Financial Markets. They seem interesting enough to be completed. Open Yale has best UI but their course plate is limited in num
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Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
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Seems that the tech incubator LaunchBox Digital does not only incubate tech startups... http://www.launchboxdigital.com/about-us.html (About us, Founders: Julius Genachowski) Which chair for pg?
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Getting web page visitors past the 1st page, and to return - conversions. Until you solve this, there is little point in trying to get featured on high profile media. The key might lie in providing social proof (that people actually use you
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Sauna and licorice vodka! Finnish Tourist Board approves of this message.
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Sweden/Finland: Free tuition. Only cost comes from the obligation that you must be a member of the Student Government/Union. That's about $100 / year. Living is more expensive than in the US. If you are Bulgarian as your profile states, yo
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Second that. Didn't find anything supporting the title - just the other way around. Still a good read.
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Something has to be wrong here. 2 mbps, not 22 mbps average download speed would be very near to reality in Finland. 512k is lowest DSL here and DSLs up to 8mbps form the vast majority of Finland's broadband connections. DSL speeds 10mbps
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Come to university in Finland / Sweden. Tuition is free in both countries. Housing costs, but it does so everywhere. http://www.studyinfinland.fi/ http://www.studyinsweden.se/