At work, some of the music critics are already mad at the (still few) record companies that publish CDs that can't be played on CD ROM stations. Reason: They actually use the CD ROM drives to listen to new records! Who would have thought of that... With a couple of hot-ass headphones, there isn't a need for CD players on every desk in the critics department, but this is the way it will end, I guess.
I work for an online newspaper here in Norway, and I wanted the paper to test the first Linux PDA, Agenda. So I wrote to Agenda Computing asking for a press kit and a demo model. This was half a year ago. They haven't shown us a model yet, only e-mails assuring that it will be sent "next month". So, is Agenda dead?
I actually wrote an article about this last spring in Norway's largest news website. You can find it here. I also got some statements on the subject from the now bankrupt "Magcom" mobile phone manufacturer...:)
Witness how they moan and cry about police trying to maintain order in Gothenburg, Sweden last weekend, ignoring the 50 injured officers and 5 dead horses that resulted from anarchist riots in the downtown core.
Not true. 20 police officers were injured, no dead horses, three civilians (protestors) shot and citically injured. And they were not riots per se, they were protests which got out of hand. Now do you see how important it is with multiple news sources?
I don't get it. Any moron should know that anything that emits radio waves is unsafe to use in a secure enviroment. I have a lot of experience with military computers, and wireless keyboards are forbidden (Under military instrictions in Norway) even on unsafe internet-connected computers. It's just too easy to sniff.
Regarding Tempest; The instructions (In short) for tempest shielding here is that servers have to be in a Tempest approved room. There can be no windows, and no RF emitting at all. CAT-5 is banned, it's fibre all the way. Any hubs, switches or routers have to be in code locked shielded safe-like containers. And there is no way, NONE at all, to connect it to the internet.
This whole region system is a good example of the SNAFU situation the film companies have created.
In Norway, the consumer authorites have very extended powers. The laws are also created in a way that protect consumers, since they are the non-professional part in a purchase or equal.
The problem here is that the region 1 DVDs are being difficult to sell in stores. The film companies has challenged the smaller DVD stores and also some of the big chains of stores with the 'illegal parallel import' rule under the copyright act. This was a rule made to protect record companies from stores importing cheaper identical products from abroad.
The consumer ombudsman is going to challenge this in court, claiming that a DVD from region 1 more often than not isn't an identical product. The region 2 DVD made for Scandinavia often has Pro Logic soundtrack where the region 1 has DTS (!) as the case is with the Titan A.E. DVD. That's why they're not identical, and the stores should be allowed to import them. Simple as that.
If you visit the main family site (www.familiasalla-es.ro), there's links to other sites like:
http://www.unite-and-resist.org , the anti-AI movement.
http://www.inourimage.org , the pro-AI movement.
For the really interested, both these domains are registered to Ghaepetto, Bianca and Stanley, Daniel. Could the names be a word play? Ghaepetto = Gepetto, father of Pinocchio the wooden boy who wanted to be a real boy and Stanley = Stanley Kubrick
The newspaper I work for, ran a story about taxation on food services. Basically, if you eat at the restaurant, the tax is 24% if you decide to take it with you, its' 12%. This has the funne effect that when you order a latte grande mocca etc. etc. with a lid, it's 12% tax. Without a lid it's 24% tax. 79% of the people taking the poll on sunday voted "April fool?" in a web poll...
Sooo... What do you like? Serial experiments Lain? Perfect blue? Ghost in the shell?
(Lain is my favourite. It's like a book. You are given some frame of reference, the rest is up to your imagination.)
There seems to be some confusion about the article here:
The system is both opt-in and opt-out. You opt-out from all lists in Norway by saying "i don't want ANY UCE to my e-mail." You can opt-in at a later time, if you want to.
The goverment in Norway are really cool about your personal details. IAALS, and I know for a fact that giving details about yourself to the goverment is much safer than giving them to a company. Reason? They are protected by stronger laws withing the goverment. A company or organisation who wants to store info about you have to apply to an independent board and get their permission. From that point, all info stored about you is open to you by law.
This will not prevent abuse from abroad, but goddamn it, it's a step in the right direction! Everybody who likes telemarketeers calling, raise your hand now! I though so.
Why the hell do people talk about China when I bring up this subject? This is NOT censorship at all. What you are saying "no" is clearly defined by law, and will be even more clear after the first trial. And if you want your precious spam back, just opt-in again.
Why can't americans grow up and vote? You are a democratic country, right? So get your asses up from the TV-couch, and do something about it. Like getting a better, more sensible voting system. Sheesh!
I entered my PN in the list yesterday, you don't have to enter any e-mail adress. You enter your personal number (Social Security number for you americans), and choose from a list what you don't want to recieve. The options are:
Telemarketing
Faxes
E-mail
SMS messages
SnailMail
Direct mail
The companies are forced to check their lists for a certain time before they send the spam, and have to remove any matching names permantently from their records.
The link is here: http://www.brreg.no/oppslag/reservasjon/index.html If want any charitable orgs to continue bothering you, there's an option that will let them, but not any profitable orgs, continue sending you spam / call you etc.
You may very well hide it, but deep inside I know you Americans envy us the right to jail a telemarketeer...:o)
I don't get it. A part of my job is to moderate the chatroom at Norway's biggest newssite, and it's fairly OK. It gets a bit boring, and you see a lot of strange opinions, but overall I have to say that I was surprised that the chatters stayed so well on topic and had sensible things to say. Here's the link to the site.
Of course, even if the tolerance for radical opinions is high, sometimes we have to delete racist remarks, etc.
Actually, when I was in the military, we had slide rules and circular slide rules to calculate radiation hazards and exposure times. It seems logical, you don't want to mess with paper tables and calculators when a nuke is dropping in nearby. These are in effective use today, and I personally like them because of the woven plastic cover that follow them. It makes a wicked CD cover!:)
As mentioned earlier, they are also commonly used for navigation-
Where I work, there's an implemantation of Novell GeoupWise for e-mail, calendar and remote e-mail use. I must say, that I was not impressed at first. The techies had a Debian box, going on 700+ days of uptime as a smtp/pop server and really disliked the idea of bringing it down for a comercial product.
We switched to GroupWise, and after som initial problems, the system was running just fine. At the moment I thought that it was hard to use and not very flexible. It seemed to work OK, with no downtime at all. But I still didn't like it.
That was before my experience with Microsoft products.
I had not the chance to tinker with MS products before I took on a temp job this summer at a company here in Oslo. They had the outsourced support deal for the systems of the second largest mobile telephone services company in Norway. The setup was _clean_ MS on multiple NT servers. The system was a total disaster. Exchange is a really unflexible, horrible system to begin with. And if you throw in a couple of techies that have NO clue to what they are doing the disaster is complete.
My point here is that the last mentioned company is the ones that really should have switched to *nix, because a NT system needs caring too. I don't know where people get the idea that it's so much easier to user NT/2000, the potential to fuck up is there too. There's no "Run perfectly and never screw up" check button in the setup, is there? -No! So at these companies, compare one large Debian box, more than 700 days of uptime to NT system with 2 hrs planned downtime in the week and 34 minutes unplanned downtime during buisness hours. What _could_ be cheaper? Add a nice script the makes administering the Debian box, what _could_ be the simplest to use?
The morale of the story, if you MUST drop *nix, use Novell. You won't regret it! As you will with you-know-who.
It looks like the FTP archive is having an "El Slashdotto Grande" experience, and Tucows don't have the latest version... Anyone out there with a mirror?
OK, I like the US. Really, I do. There are some things that I also don't like, mostly the same as you guys; corrupt politicians, RIAA, MPAA (All of the above seem to fuck up the whole world, not only the US.)
But then there are thingd that make your country seem downright insane. This would be a good example. If this happened here, the leaders in charge of the suspension would get a really hard reprimande if not fired. It would be considered as serious as removing a human's most basic right to express him / herself.
Also, the concept of 'homecoming' is also largely shunned here. You would have trouble finding an event so elitist and degrading here. It's designed to let people that think as a true individual feel bad about themselves. This kid recieved a punishment for standing out from the crowd and being a symbol of those you can't fit in to the mold.
I can remember an old "Outland" cartoon, feat. Opus the penguin telling a story about how the most silly sight on earth: was "4000 penguins staring at the sky, watching the planes go left, right and slowly 4000 penguins falled on their backs when the planes flew overhead." This was in 1985 or something...
Then, what does it say? I have loads of people commenting on this sig, but none of them have ever said what the correct translation is.... I might change it to: Kan du lese dette er du skandinavisk!
Betamax was better!
1) It had stereo sound a long time before VHS
2) Betamax always remained in the professional part of the market.
3) Not only was it the best system, it still iss. Digital Betamax is the preferred portable choice of EBU, just in front of DV
I find it hard to believe that someone could actually back up such a claim that VHS was better than Betamax in the beginning. The length of the tape isn't everything, at least not when there's such enormous difference in picture and sound quality as there were between Beta and VHS. According to people in the industry, VHS only caugth up with Beta when they released SuperVHS. And even that couldn't penetrate the professional market.
As for the pr0n comment, probably true!:)
At the Guggenheim museum of modern art i Bilbao, Spain, there's five huge columns that have bright blue LEDs on one side and bright red LEDs on the other. Poetry is constantly streaming either down- or upwards the 10 meter (33 ft) high columns. The words are in english, spanish and basque. Really, really, really, really cool! I remember that I was mighty impressed when I saw it for the first time, and even more impressed when I saw it the second time.
Also, at the Gardermoen Airport outside Oslo, Norway, there's a one meter wide, two meter high LED board. The LEDs are amber, and all are lit or dimmed to illustrate a figure jumping up and down in ultra-slow motion. It's always cool to see the figures when arriving from a long flight...:)
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At work, some of the music critics are already mad at the (still few) record companies that publish CDs that can't be played on CD ROM stations. Reason: They actually use the CD ROM drives to listen to new records! Who would have thought of that... With a couple of hot-ass headphones, there isn't a need for CD players on every desk in the critics department, but this is the way it will end, I guess.
I work for an online newspaper here in Norway, and I wanted the paper to test the first Linux PDA, Agenda. So I wrote to Agenda Computing asking for a press kit and a demo model. This was half a year ago. They haven't shown us a model yet, only e-mails assuring that it will be sent "next month". So, is Agenda dead?
Here's the cubicle described better.
You can find an interview from last February here.
I actually wrote an article about this last spring in Norway's largest news website. You can find it here. I also got some statements on the subject from the now bankrupt "Magcom" mobile phone manufacturer... :)
Not true. 20 police officers were injured, no dead horses, three civilians (protestors) shot and citically injured. And they were not riots per se, they were protests which got out of hand. Now do you see how important it is with multiple news sources?
Regarding Tempest; The instructions (In short) for tempest shielding here is that servers have to be in a Tempest approved room. There can be no windows, and no RF emitting at all. CAT-5 is banned, it's fibre all the way. Any hubs, switches or routers have to be in code locked shielded safe-like containers. And there is no way, NONE at all, to connect it to the internet.
In Norway, the consumer authorites have very extended powers. The laws are also created in a way that protect consumers, since they are the non-professional part in a purchase or equal.
The problem here is that the region 1 DVDs are being difficult to sell in stores. The film companies has challenged the smaller DVD stores and also some of the big chains of stores with the 'illegal parallel import' rule under the copyright act. This was a rule made to protect record companies from stores importing cheaper identical products from abroad.
The consumer ombudsman is going to challenge this in court, claiming that a DVD from region 1 more often than not isn't an identical product. The region 2 DVD made for Scandinavia often has Pro Logic soundtrack where the region 1 has DTS (!) as the case is with the Titan A.E. DVD. That's why they're not identical, and the stores should be allowed to import them. Simple as that.
Wow... The other links were just the beginning. Here's some more:
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/
http://www.familychan.org/
Anyone up for breaking this code?:
http://www.familiasalla-es.ro/letter.html
If you visit the main family site (www.familiasalla-es.ro), there's links to other sites like:
http://www.unite-and-resist.org , the anti-AI movement.
http://www.inourimage.org , the pro-AI movement.
For the really interested, both these domains are registered to Ghaepetto, Bianca and Stanley, Daniel.
Could the names be a word play? Ghaepetto = Gepetto, father of Pinocchio the wooden boy who wanted to be a real boy and Stanley = Stanley Kubrick
The newspaper I work for, ran a story about taxation on food services. Basically, if you eat at the restaurant, the tax is 24% if you decide to take it with you, its' 12%. This has the funne effect that when you order a latte grande mocca etc. etc. with a lid, it's 12% tax. Without a lid it's 24% tax. 79% of the people taking the poll on sunday voted "April fool?" in a web poll...
It wasn't!
If so, you may be taking dating advice from guy
Sooo... What do you like? Serial experiments Lain? Perfect blue? Ghost in the shell? (Lain is my favourite. It's like a book. You are given some frame of reference, the rest is up to your imagination.)
The companies are forced to check their lists for a certain time before they send the spam, and have to remove any matching names permantently from their records.
The link is here: http://www.brreg.no/oppslag/reservasjon/index.htm
If want any charitable orgs to continue bothering you, there's an option that will let them, but not any profitable orgs, continue sending you spam / call you etc.
You may very well hide it, but deep inside I know you Americans envy us the right to jail a telemarketeer...
I don't get it. A part of my job is to moderate the chatroom at Norway's biggest newssite, and it's fairly OK. It gets a bit boring, and you see a lot of strange opinions, but overall I have to say that I was surprised that the chatters stayed so well on topic and had sensible things to say. Here's the link to the site.
Of course, even if the tolerance for radical opinions is high, sometimes we have to delete racist remarks, etc.
Actually, when I was in the military, we had slide rules and circular slide rules to calculate radiation hazards and exposure times. It seems logical, you don't want to mess with paper tables and calculators when a nuke is dropping in nearby. These are in effective use today, and I personally like them because of the woven plastic cover that follow them. It makes a wicked CD cover! :)
As mentioned earlier, they are also commonly used for navigation-
Where I work, there's an implemantation of Novell GeoupWise for e-mail, calendar and remote e-mail use. I must say, that I was not impressed at first. The techies had a Debian box, going on 700+ days of uptime as a smtp/pop server and really disliked the idea of bringing it down for a comercial product.
We switched to GroupWise, and after som initial problems, the system was running just fine. At the moment I thought that it was hard to use and not very flexible. It seemed to work OK, with no downtime at all. But I still didn't like it.
That was before my experience with Microsoft products.
I had not the chance to tinker with MS products before I took on a temp job this summer at a company here in Oslo. They had the outsourced support deal for the systems of the second largest mobile telephone services company in Norway. The setup was _clean_ MS on multiple NT servers. The system was a total disaster. Exchange is a really unflexible, horrible system to begin with. And if you throw in a couple of techies that have NO clue to what they are doing the disaster is complete.
My point here is that the last mentioned company is the ones that really should have switched to *nix, because a NT system needs caring too. I don't know where people get the idea that it's so much easier to user NT/2000, the potential to fuck up is there too. There's no "Run perfectly and never screw up" check button in the setup, is there? -No! So at these companies, compare one large Debian box, more than 700 days of uptime to NT system with 2 hrs planned downtime in the week and 34 minutes unplanned downtime during buisness hours. What _could_ be cheaper? Add a nice script the makes administering the Debian box, what _could_ be the simplest to use?
The morale of the story, if you MUST drop *nix, use Novell. You won't regret it! As you will with you-know-who.
It looks like the FTP archive is having an "El Slashdotto Grande" experience, and Tucows don't have the latest version... Anyone out there with a mirror?
OK, I like the US. Really, I do. There are some things that I also don't like, mostly the same as you guys; corrupt politicians, RIAA, MPAA (All of the above seem to fuck up the whole world, not only the US.)
But then there are thingd that make your country seem downright insane. This would be a good example. If this happened here, the leaders in charge of the suspension would get a really hard reprimande if not fired. It would be considered as serious as removing a human's most basic right to express him / herself.
Also, the concept of 'homecoming' is also largely shunned here. You would have trouble finding an event so elitist and degrading here. It's designed to let people that think as a true individual feel bad about themselves. This kid recieved a punishment for standing out from the crowd and being a symbol of those you can't fit in to the mold.
Only in the US of A!
I can remember an old "Outland" cartoon, feat. Opus the penguin telling a story about how the most silly sight on earth: was "4000 penguins staring at the sky, watching the planes go left, right and slowly 4000 penguins falled on their backs when the planes flew overhead." This was in 1985 or something...
The Linux operating system, which is freely available to programmers
Gee, where does the GPL state that? I'm not a programmer, do I have to pay for my use? Oh well.
Then, what does it say? I have loads of people commenting on this sig, but none of them have ever said what the correct translation is.... I might change it to: Kan du lese dette er du skandinavisk!
Betamax was better! :)
1) It had stereo sound a long time before VHS
2) Betamax always remained in the professional part of the market.
3) Not only was it the best system, it still iss. Digital Betamax is the preferred portable choice of EBU, just in front of DV
I find it hard to believe that someone could actually back up such a claim that VHS was better than Betamax in the beginning. The length of the tape isn't everything, at least not when there's such enormous difference in picture and sound quality as there were between Beta and VHS. According to people in the industry, VHS only caugth up with Beta when they released SuperVHS. And even that couldn't penetrate the professional market.
As for the pr0n comment, probably true!
At the Guggenheim museum of modern art i Bilbao, Spain, there's five huge columns that have bright blue LEDs on one side and bright red LEDs on the other. Poetry is constantly streaming either down- or upwards the 10 meter (33 ft) high columns. The words are in english, spanish and basque. Really, really, really, really cool! I remember that I was mighty impressed when I saw it for the first time, and even more impressed when I saw it the second time.
:)
Also, at the Gardermoen Airport outside Oslo, Norway, there's a one meter wide, two meter high LED board. The LEDs are amber, and all are lit or dimmed to illustrate a figure jumping up and down in ultra-slow motion. It's always cool to see the figures when arriving from a long flight...