They were in there selling it just before the fall.
Seems like that must have been completely slipped my awareness at that time.
What we had was: U880 (Z80 rip-off) systems with CP/M, K1810WM86 systems (exact clone of the 8086 from Russia) with a "modified" MS-DOS (certainly not sold by MS), and later with DCP, a MS-DOS Clone. (See here (German, sorry) or here (also in German) for a history of computers in the GDR). And if we had this software like this then the USSR had it too and wouldn't spend precious convertible money on a product from Microsoft.
Of course you are right in that MS is selling where it can sell something, but that was not my point.
In fact, MS over the last 2 decades sold it into East Germany...
Just in case it slipped your awareness, it is now nearly 2 decades that East Germany as a country vanishes from the world and became a part of what is now called Germany.
Though I think the practicality of doing the kind of recording you're talking about is minimal, [...] How do you come by that? All you need is a computer with a sound card that supports line-in, some recording software, and a cable to connect your player-head-phone-output to the line-in. For good quality you will need something better then the mainboard sound device. Essentially, this is not so far from recording with a tape deck, only once you have a digital DRM-free version, you can copy it faster without decrease in quality. And while you're at it, you can also digitalize your vinyl-collection like this.
...a form of currency...
The Federation doesn't have currency. IIRIC in STIV when they are on earth of the 1970s they have to learn that they need currency. It's with the Ferengi that currency comes back into the ST world, and the Ferengi represent capitalism quite well: Make money.
Nonsense. Marijuana grows ALL OVER THE US.
Sorry, i was looking from the perspective of someone who lives in a city and wants to grow the good stuff in his flat. I know some of my friends tried, and the plants where very small. Here in Germany I havent seen any hemp growing on the roadside (at least not anymore) - too many people know what it looks like and so does the police.
Of cource, given the right equipment you can always try this
Actually, making wine is very easy - you need little equipment (a big carboy and a relief valve), sugar, water, some fruits to give it taste, and a warm place. After properly setting up everything you can literally forget it until the fermentation is finished. Growing weed is a lot more work, it needs light and you need to take care of the water levels all the time.
There's some progress on the r300 drivers though, whereas the free driver project for nvidia cards has basically died for lack of necessity. So ATI could in fact become the choice for free drivers fairly soon... no thanks to ATI itself however.
It is somewhat different. I remember very well the days back, when NVidia announced they would provide open source drivers, because I specifically bought a NVidia card then (something TNT2 or so). However, all they provided was an unreadable source code blob and no hardware specifications whatsoever. In the next iteration they started to provide binary only drivers. That was, when I made the switch to a Matrox Millenium G400 - a decent 3D card at that time.
ATI, on the other hand gave out specifications up until the R200 (or R100) series. IIRC, someone even sponsored the development of open source ATI drivers. - Therefore, implementing support for the R300 series is something that doesn't have to be done from scratch.
Implementing NVidia drivers, OTOH, would have needed complete reverse engeneering from day one on. Therefore, the DRI people decided that they will not support NVidia.
Seems like the submitter didin't even bother to read the article.
... Japan's science ministry hopes to calculate long-term patterns in the interaction of atmospheric pressure, air temperatures, ocean currents and sea temperatures,...
The weather forcast for tomorrow has nothing to do with long-term patterns. Anyway, why oh why do I complain, this is/. after all...
Suspected cybercriminals could also have severe limitations imposed on their financial dealings, requiring them to use "notified financial instruments" such as credit cards and bank accounts, and limit the amount of cash they can carry.
Thank you for your input.
But, how does getting an abortion physically harm you? How does it "punch you in the nose" so to speak?
Well, that's s simple one - it's all about control. With the right to abortion in place, a man can't control whether a woman will bear "his" child. To some men not having that kind of control is "a punch in the nose". You might want to read
Pauls Auster's Moon Palace - where this topic also plays a role at some point.
... underrated or overrateds, which don't ever seem to be used.
Actually, I use "underrated" quite often - since these two can not be meta-moderated. In a sense one might moderating something as "overrated" if it seems to be plain wrong.
Who talks about watching it - when you live in a city where five games take place (Leipzig) then it gets crammed down your throat. I could bear with the football games and the fans, but the hype is just intolerable.
There is no need to by RAM from Apple. When I bought by G4 Powerbook, and RAM-Upgrade from Apple would have cost me 800 Eur or so - instead I bought two Kingston 1GB SO-DIMM modules for 140 Eur each (at that time) and they work just fine.
There is a suspend as part of the vanilla kernel. I'm using it for quite some time now. Hibernate works on my Laptop, but only if I don't use the binary only nvidia drivers (Geforce2 Go) - and it works on my desktop system too - here even with the nvidia drivers (Geforce 6600) and SMP/Hyperthreading enabled (needs CPU hotplug enabled too). I'm using the hibernate scripts ( (apt-get install | emerge) hibernate) and the/sys/power/state method.
Suspend to RAM is not working on my desktop system though.
Firstly, East Germany came to your computer as DDR-RAM, now we are in the US school system... All Your Base Belong To Us!
Seriously, the East German School system was one of the better ones. Actually, Finnland, which scores amongst the best in the PISA-Tests took a good look at East Gerrmany and learnt a lot.
... and besides, it is a common misconception that East Germany was communist - we called it socialist, and even that one might argue.
And FAT is better?
Well, with FAT, the write cycles don't have to be synced. With journaling, at least some of the writes need to be synced or so I think and that might cost. Actually, I once formated a flash drive with a journaling (ext3 or ReiserFS) and is was awfully slow. I was probaly wrong about the problem with the amount of possible erase cycles, because usually, there is a translation layer implemented, that ensures evenly distributed writes.
If anything, a log based filesystem would be optimal,... I don't know of any filesystems that actually do this right now.
JFFS and JFFS2 are a log-structured file system, however, you are right in that they are not widely used.
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They were in there selling it just before the fall.
Seems like that must have been completely slipped my awareness at that time. What we had was: U880 (Z80 rip-off) systems with CP/M, K1810WM86 systems (exact clone of the 8086 from Russia) with a "modified" MS-DOS (certainly not sold by MS), and later with DCP, a MS-DOS Clone. (See here (German, sorry) or here (also in German) for a history of computers in the GDR). And if we had this software like this then the USSR had it too and wouldn't spend precious convertible money on a product from Microsoft.
Of course you are right in that MS is selling where it can sell something, but that was not my point.
In fact, MS over the last 2 decades sold it into East Germany ...
Just in case it slipped your awareness, it is now nearly 2 decades that East Germany as a country vanishes from the world and became a part of what is now called Germany.
...a form of currency...
The Federation doesn't have currency. IIRIC in STIV when they are on earth of the 1970s they have to learn that they need currency. It's with the Ferengi that currency comes back into the ST world, and the Ferengi represent capitalism quite well: Make money.
There you go.
There you go - never heard a startup sound since.
Nonsense. Marijuana grows ALL OVER THE US.
Sorry, i was looking from the perspective of someone who lives in a city and wants to grow the good stuff in his flat. I know some of my friends tried, and the plants where very small. Here in Germany I havent seen any hemp growing on the roadside (at least not anymore) - too many people know what it looks like and so does the police.
Of cource, given the right equipment you can always try this
Actually, making wine is very easy - you need little equipment (a big carboy and a relief valve), sugar, water, some fruits to give it taste, and a warm place. After properly setting up everything you can literally forget it until the fermentation is finished. Growing weed is a lot more work, it needs light and you need to take care of the water levels all the time.
It is somewhat different. I remember very well the days back, when NVidia announced they would provide open source drivers, because I specifically bought a NVidia card then (something TNT2 or so). However, all they provided was an unreadable source code blob and no hardware specifications whatsoever. In the next iteration they started to provide binary only drivers. That was, when I made the switch to a Matrox Millenium G400 - a decent 3D card at that time.
ATI, on the other hand gave out specifications up until the R200 (or R100) series. IIRC, someone even sponsored the development of open source ATI drivers. - Therefore, implementing support for the R300 series is something that doesn't have to be done from scratch.
Implementing NVidia drivers, OTOH, would have needed complete reverse engeneering from day one on. Therefore, the DRI people decided that they will not support NVidia.
One might also point out that the current NVidia drivers (8xxx) also do not support xorg-7.1; version 9xxx is supposed to fill that gap.
Suspected cybercriminals could also have severe limitations imposed on their financial dealings, requiring them to use "notified financial instruments" such as credit cards and bank accounts, and limit the amount of cash they can carry.
Thank you for your input.
But, how does getting an abortion physically harm you? How does it "punch you in the nose" so to speak?
Well, that's s simple one - it's all about control. With the right to abortion in place, a man can't control whether a woman will bear "his" child. To some men not having that kind of control is "a punch in the nose". You might want to read Pauls Auster's Moon Palace - where this topic also plays a role at some point.
not in a bash script nor in Pascal ...
bistromathics is the answer. Finally, they understand ...
... underrated or overrateds, which don't ever seem to be used.
Actually, I use "underrated" quite often - since these two can not be meta-moderated. In a sense one might moderating something as "overrated" if it seems to be plain wrong.
Protected Video Path" (PVP) support, including HDCP.
... why do they never listen.
World Cup 2006 'abused for mega-surveillance project'
NATO surveillance planes to patrol World Cup
Erich Mielke would be happy.
Who talks about watching it - when you live in a city where five games take place (Leipzig) then it gets crammed down your throat. I could bear with the football games and the fans, but the hype is just intolerable.
If people started identifying with their government ...
...
It's the other way around: the government should identify itself with the people who elected it, but it seems these times are long gone
There is no need to by RAM from Apple. When I bought by G4 Powerbook, and RAM-Upgrade from Apple would have cost me 800 Eur or so - instead I bought two Kingston 1GB SO-DIMM modules for 140 Eur each (at that time) and they work just fine.
There is a suspend as part of the vanilla kernel. I'm using it for quite some time now. Hibernate works on my Laptop, but only if I don't use the binary only nvidia drivers (Geforce2 Go) - and it works on my desktop system too - here even with the nvidia drivers (Geforce 6600) and SMP/Hyperthreading enabled (needs CPU hotplug enabled too). I'm using the hibernate scripts ( (apt-get install | emerge) hibernate) and the /sys/power/state method.
Suspend to RAM is not working on my desktop system though.
How many Mac users today run anti-virus software?
I installed ClamXav, since it was required that an anti-virus program was installed on my laptop, befor I could plug it into the company net.
Firstly, East Germany came to your computer as DDR-RAM, now we are in the US school system ... All Your Base Belong To Us!
... and besides, it is a common misconception that East Germany was communist - we called it socialist, and even that one might argue.
Seriously, the East German School system was one of the better ones. Actually, Finnland, which scores amongst the best in the PISA-Tests took a good look at East Gerrmany and learnt a lot.
And FAT is better?
... I don't know of any filesystems that actually do this right now.
Well, with FAT, the write cycles don't have to be synced. With journaling, at least some of the writes need to be synced or so I think and that might cost. Actually, I once formated a flash drive with a journaling (ext3 or ReiserFS) and is was awfully slow. I was probaly wrong about the problem with the amount of possible erase cycles, because usually, there is a translation layer implemented, that ensures evenly distributed writes.
If anything, a log based filesystem would be optimal,
JFFS and JFFS2 are a log-structured file system, however, you are right in that they are not widely used.