Both channels are legally obliged to carry 20-30% of nynorsk or dialect programming. NRK probably has more nynorsk programming, TV2 has more dialect. I can understand if danes or swedes find TV2-dialects more understandable than the syntethic nynorsk spoken at NRK.
Just call Norwegian (both forms), Danish and Swedish Scandinavian. It's practically the same language. Our languages are so similar our countries should work together to bring spelling and pronounciation closer together again.
Nynorsk should be abolished. I applaud Microsoft for not giving in to the special interest groups which want to balkanize the Norwegian language.
Norway's legal definition of illegal hacking has long been "to break a protection" to gain access. it seems to me this is what the prosecution is going after. And Jon Johansen seems to be vulnerable to two such breaches: - Breach of protection by getting authentication codes out of Xing DVD player - Breach of protection by distributing an unauthorized program that breaches the DVD protection codes
My personal opinion: - He might very well be found guilty. - This makes Økokrim look stupid. I have little respect for them. They should use their resources on real computer crimes.
I read the wired article on the fiber optic link around the globe just before I went to thailand and malaysia. And I did see a lot of fresh new manholes along the roads of southern thailand. It had to be part of the overland stretches. My girlfriend didn't care about going to any of the landing sites though.:-)
Nowadays I'm much more prepared for tech tourism. First, I've got a Gramin handheld GPS, so I have better chances of reaching just the right location.
Second, there are lots of information available on tech holy sites on the net. Aerial and satelite photos even.
If submarine cable landing sites are your thing, then Cryptome has some interesting pages: http://cryptome.org/cable-eyeball.htm htt p://cryptome.org/eyeball.htm
If telecom and internet exchange buildings in new york is more your thing, then they've got that as well: http://cryptome.org/nytel-eyeball.htm
Still, more could be done to encourage tech tourism. More organized tours for accidental tourists, maybe.
ObNorwegian tech tourism site is: the Troll offshore natural gas platform in the north sea. Troll A - the world's tallest concrete platform measures 472 metres from the top of the flare boom to the bottom of the skirts. Total weight is 1050000 tonnes. The Troll A platform is located 65 km from shore in 303m water depth.
English is germanic language. Seems you are not only ignorant USian, but a kraut too (according to your own definition).
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RISC is a design philosophy. Not a hard instruction count or limit.
Furthermore, design philosophies has evolved a bit since the purist days. Speed is more useful than a philosophically correct processor, after all.
In many ways, this is similar to microkernels and monolithic kernels. Microkernels can be larger than some monolithic kernels, but it's the philosophy of how you organize the thing that's important, not the number of bytes/instructions.
Unix filesystems lags terribly. They don't store the MIME-type. They don't store the preferred app to open a file in. They don't store metadata like the artist and song name if the song happens to be an mp3. They don't have the ability to add gps postion metadata on my digital camara photos. Searches are horribly slow. All unices use different directory conventions. You can't uninstall apps by just moving its icon to the trash (except on osx). App preferences are stored in all sorts of different ways (except on osx).
Linux is a nice remake of a legacy os, but is hardly the future.
The open source community needs a good object storage to base a more futureproof os on. Badly. (And a way better UI than XWindows can give us.)
Disposable phones are perfect for a terrorist, drug dealer, or other criminal. Simply go to Wal-Mart ot Target, pay cash for the phone and the minutes, and leave. Or have one of your "associates" do the purchase so that you're not on the store cameras. Currently, someone has to use a credit card and pay some money to sign of for service--that's not difficult to do but does present some barrier.
Bah. In this country, go to any 7-Eleven, gas-station, grocery store or whatever, and pick up a crap mobile with prepaid airtime for 50-100 euro. If you are asked to sign a contract, you probably won't be asked to show an id.
If terrorists can hijack planes, if criminals can steal a car, they most certainly can get hold of a mobile phone.
OODB technology was old when I first learned about it 10 years ago. But I'm certain it's the future.
I'm not sure you should wrap an old OS, API and apps around such a new idea. You _could_ do it, but it won't be optimal.
UNIX is _the_ poster child for flat files. Everything should be flat files. I'm afraid UNIX is in big trouble trying to compete with this new beast. I don't think UNIX can or should make the change.
It's time to start thinking about UNIX2. Start again from scratch. Everything is objects. New rules apply.
I learned object oriented programming when I learned Simula. (It must have been in 1991. I had only programmed in pascal and basic before that.) It's a lovely language. A great language for learning the principles of programming in general and object oriented programming specifically. (Java is probably the next best thing, though.)
I never really liked the book - "Object Oriented Programming With Simula" by Kirkerud - we used to learn Simula though. Too disorganized and lacked an alphabetic reference of all the imperatives in the language.
And it's been difficult to find good simula compilers lately. Even in the good old days of sun3, the sc compiler didn't support 8 bit (binary) files properly, and I had to turn to pascal and c.
And while I respect the scientific effort Kristen Nygaard has made, I can't stand his political views. He's a leading opponent of the European Union in Norway.
I think we have a few problems down here to solve, before we go fu*king up other planets.
We need to go to other planets before our problems down here get out of hand.
As far as he is concerned, every country on your list is an enemy. Although, maybe i can see him colonising - the way he would see it is America 0w3ning the universe.
Let's leave this planet before people like Bush and bin Laden manages to fk it up completely.
Start again with a near fresh, utopic start in a new world, with new values.
It's time to think about going to Mars. It's time to start building the right tools for that job.
In ten or twenty years, it's time for each and every one of us to do our duty for humankind, and volunteer for a one way trip to Mars.
Humankind needs to hedge its bets, and spread our spores to other worlds.
There will be huge costs for our society, and huge personal sacrifices for the first settlers, but it's an investment (the first of many) we as a race can't afford to not make.
Bush should make NASA join forces with.eu (ESA),.ca,.au,.nz,.za,.jp,.br,.ru and other friendly countries and make this a true collective effort.
It's my job to try to keep current, and avoid hubris. It's my job to try to do thing properly, and build a solid construction.
Yet I'm always afraid when code ships.
Accidents will happen. There will be errors. I try to not make them in the first place, and to weed them out afterwards by testing my stuff properly, but errors will ship in every project.
It's a humbling job.
But at least I know my job is difficult. And take precautions. A lot of people in the business don't care that much. Either because they don't have proper training and experience, or because they think they are immortal programming gods.
I believe in compulsory code reading in front of colleagues, mayby even managers and customers. Constant peer pressure which will force developers to do things properly. I've been involved in projects which has talked about code reading, but it rarely actually happens.
To patent something, it is supposed to be a real discovery, not something anyone with the tools of the trade would find out anyhow.
With gene sequencing machines becoming more and more common, I don't see that DNA sequences can be called real discoveries anymore. (And probably hasn't been the last few years.) Finding DNA sequences is an almost mechanical operation which shouldn't be awarded with patents.
But then again, the patent system has become so fucked these days, who cares? The patent system has to be reinvented, and all the obvious patent squatters must pay for their sins.
Let the biotechs patent actual medicins based on genetic research, not the genes themselves, because that would be stealing.
And I can't help thinking that New York has been through too much already, and it's not fair that Microsoft should take a jab at them also. But New Yorkers will never allow themselves to be stopped by some northwestern...
Hmmm, "New Work", not "New York"...
Well, what's the news in Microsoft stopping work getting done anyway?
They just sold their operations in Denmark, they are pulling out of Norway and trying to sell their small operations there, and they never got as many customers as they forecasted in Sweden. Their original parent company Framfab has posted spectacular losses. Bredbandsbolaget had to pull out of the swedish UMTS 3g mobile phone network Orange due to lack of money.
Bredbandsbolagets business model seems basically unsound, a ticking dot-com business model bomb. They spent way too much on laying fiber to home users, they charged very little for the connection, and they still don't have the additional services they promised a year ago, like video on demand and ip-telephony. And the speed outside their own network is not so great, I've been told.
On the positive side, Jonas Birgerson's enthusiasm for broadband caught on in Scandinavia, specially in Sweden, and kick-started the internet- and broadband boom in this part of Europe. But the reign of the fleece and shorts dot-com CEO is no more, and reality has caught up with the wishful thinking. A fool and his money is soon venture capital.
Bredbandsbolaget locked customers into their service. (They actually lost tens of thousands of users in Oslo, just because of warnings from norwegian OBOS that Bredbandsbolaget's service would make future broadband competition difficult.) It's not anythink like the ISP-agnostic MAN-service which Citylink seems to offer in NZ, which seems to increase the competition in that market.
Well, I can't claim any insider knowledge, but I bet that all kind of crap goes on within the MS development teams that we never hear about.
Read "Show Stopper" by G Pascal Zachary. It's about Dave Cutler's lead of the development of Windows NT. Apparently he was quite good at verbal abuse. And he had special "prizes" for developers who managed to fk the nightly builds.
Seems to me that Linus needs to decide whether Linux is his pet hobby project, or a community effort.
This is basically CS202: Learning that in computer science, a lot of projects quickly grow so large, you can't do it all yourself. You need to cooperate with and trust other people. A hard lesson to typically anti-social CS types who likes to do it all themselves.
Multicast/streaming is of little use for downloading files, unless you include code to correct errors, and resubmitting erred parts. Besides, multicast doesn't really work well across the entire internet.
Akamai could help. They have lots of servers located near the edges of the internet. The ISPs hosting these servers would probably welcome less costly traffic to upstream providers, and instead get the files to the customers from a server on their own network.
Neighbourhood nets are cool, and are a good idea. All new buildings/home areas being developed should come with a community network.
The problem is that very few knows how to set up the reouting and upstream connectivity properly technically and cost-efficiently, as it requires almost the knowledge of a how to become a small ISP.
And those who do know how to do it (like me) don't really want to be responsible for it, to get angry calls from $LUSERS when something don't work. And they don't want the financial risks.
It shouldn't be much work to set up a community network. And if administrators of community networks pool together, it should be humanly possible to do the support and emergency fixes too.
I am a programmer. I do it for a living. I make a living because people can't just take what I make and sell it without my knowledge, without paying me. These people make a mockery out of my livelyhood.
We care about companies breaching GPL-licenses, and we should care about these people breaching the commercial software world's licences.
Asia will never get a software industry of their own if they continue this way, and will be doomed to producing cut-throat priced commodity hardware for the rest of the world.
I hope Adobe makes it real hard to use their programs on computers where the clock is set to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Beijing time, or the internet connection reveals they are connected to.sg,.my or.cn ISPs.
If they can't pay for commercial saftware, they'll just have to settle for GPL'ed alternatives!!!
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Both channels are legally obliged to carry 20-30% of nynorsk or dialect programming. NRK probably has more nynorsk programming, TV2 has more dialect. I can understand if danes or swedes find TV2-dialects more understandable than the syntethic nynorsk spoken at NRK.
Just call Norwegian (both forms), Danish and Swedish Scandinavian. It's practically the same language. Our languages are so similar our countries should work together to bring spelling and pronounciation closer together again.
Nynorsk should be abolished. I applaud Microsoft for not giving in to the special interest groups which want to balkanize the Norwegian language.
Norway's legal definition of illegal hacking has long been "to break a protection" to gain access. it seems to me this is what the prosecution is going after. And Jon Johansen seems to be vulnerable to two such breaches:
- Breach of protection by getting authentication codes out of Xing DVD player
- Breach of protection by distributing an unauthorized program that breaches the DVD protection codes
My personal opinion:
- He might very well be found guilty.
- This makes Økokrim look stupid. I have little respect for them. They should use their resources on real computer crimes.
I read the wired article on the fiber optic link around the globe just before I went to thailand and malaysia. And I did see a lot of fresh new manholes along the roads of southern thailand. It had to be part of the overland stretches. My girlfriend didn't care about going to any of the landing sites though. :-)
t p://cryptome.org/eyeball.htm
Nowadays I'm much more prepared for tech tourism. First, I've got a Gramin handheld GPS, so I have better chances of reaching just the right location.
Second, there are lots of information available on tech holy sites on the net. Aerial and satelite photos even.
If submarine cable landing sites are your thing, then Cryptome has some interesting pages:
http://cryptome.org/cable-eyeball.htm
ht
If telecom and internet exchange buildings in new york is more your thing, then they've got that as well:
http://cryptome.org/nytel-eyeball.htm
Still, more could be done to encourage tech tourism. More organized tours for accidental tourists, maybe.
ObNorwegian tech tourism site is: the Troll offshore natural gas platform in the north sea. Troll A - the world's tallest concrete platform measures 472 metres from the top of the flare boom to the bottom of the skirts. Total weight is 1050000 tonnes. The Troll A platform is located 65 km from shore in 303m water depth.
English is germanic language. Seems you are not only ignorant USian, but a kraut too (according to your own definition).
RISC is a design philosophy. Not a hard instruction count or limit.
Furthermore, design philosophies has evolved a bit since the purist days. Speed is more useful than a philosophically correct processor, after all.
In many ways, this is similar to microkernels and monolithic kernels. Microkernels can be larger than some monolithic kernels, but it's the philosophy of how you organize the thing that's important, not the number of bytes/instructions.
Not in the long term, it doesn't.
Sure, it's great for those with broadband, but what about those who don't have broadband?
Yeah, and what about those without a cd-rom drive|electricity|computer|etc? That's so unfair.
Unix filesystems lags terribly. They don't store the MIME-type. They don't store the preferred app to open a file in. They don't store metadata like the artist and song name if the song happens to be an mp3. They don't have the ability to add gps postion metadata on my digital camara photos. Searches are horribly slow. All unices use different directory conventions. You can't uninstall apps by just moving its icon to the trash (except on osx). App preferences are stored in all sorts of different ways (except on osx).
Linux is a nice remake of a legacy os, but is hardly the future.
The open source community needs a good object storage to base a more futureproof os on. Badly. (And a way better UI than XWindows can give us.)
Disposable phones are perfect for a terrorist, drug dealer, or other criminal. Simply go to Wal-Mart ot Target, pay cash for the phone and the minutes, and leave. Or have one of your "associates" do the purchase so that you're not on the store cameras. Currently, someone has to use a credit card and pay some money to sign of for service--that's not difficult to do but does present some barrier.
Bah. In this country, go to any 7-Eleven, gas-station, grocery store or whatever, and pick up a crap mobile with prepaid airtime for 50-100 euro. If you are asked to sign a contract, you probably won't be asked to show an id.
If terrorists can hijack planes, if criminals can steal a car, they most certainly can get hold of a mobile phone.
What's the point about disposable mobiles anyway? It's just more pollution. Less quality. It's just plain idiotic.
There should be a big fee on disposable mobiles to cover the recycling costs of the stuff.
Plus mobiles are terminals which do a lot more than voice telephony. This trend will only accellerate in the years to come.
OODB technology was old when I first learned about it 10 years ago. But I'm certain it's the future.
I'm not sure you should wrap an old OS, API and apps around such a new idea. You _could_ do it, but it won't be optimal.
UNIX is _the_ poster child for flat files. Everything should be flat files. I'm afraid UNIX is in big trouble trying to compete with this new beast. I don't think UNIX can or should make the change.
It's time to start thinking about UNIX2. Start again from scratch. Everything is objects. New rules apply.
Who wants to be Linus this time?
I learned object oriented programming when I learned Simula. (It must have been in 1991. I had only programmed in pascal and basic before that.) It's a lovely language. A great language for learning the principles of programming in general and object oriented programming specifically. (Java is probably the next best thing, though.)
I never really liked the book - "Object Oriented Programming With Simula" by Kirkerud - we used to learn Simula though. Too disorganized and lacked an alphabetic reference of all the imperatives in the language.
And it's been difficult to find good simula compilers lately. Even in the good old days of sun3, the sc compiler didn't support 8 bit (binary) files properly, and I had to turn to pascal and c.
And while I respect the scientific effort Kristen Nygaard has made, I can't stand his political views. He's a leading opponent of the European Union in Norway.
I think we have a few problems down here to solve, before we go fu*king up other planets.
We need to go to other planets before our problems down here get out of hand.
As far as he is concerned, every country on your list is an enemy. Although, maybe i can see him colonising - the way he would see it is America 0w3ning the universe.
Let's leave this planet before people like Bush and bin Laden manages to fk it up completely.
Start again with a near fresh, utopic start in a new world, with new values.
It's time to think about going to Mars. It's time to start building the right tools for that job.
.eu (ESA), .ca, .au, .nz, .za, .jp, .br, .ru and other friendly countries and make this a true collective effort.
In ten or twenty years, it's time for each and every one of us to do our duty for humankind, and volunteer for a one way trip to Mars.
Humankind needs to hedge its bets, and spread our spores to other worlds.
There will be huge costs for our society, and huge personal sacrifices for the first settlers, but it's an investment (the first of many) we as a race can't afford to not make.
Bush should make NASA join forces with
You're probably right.
I'm a developer. It's my job.
It's my job to try to keep current, and avoid hubris. It's my job to try to do thing properly, and build a solid construction.
Yet I'm always afraid when code ships.
Accidents will happen. There will be errors. I try to not make them in the first place, and to weed them out afterwards by testing my stuff properly, but errors will ship in every project.
It's a humbling job.
But at least I know my job is difficult. And take precautions. A lot of people in the business don't care that much. Either because they don't have proper training and experience, or because they think they are immortal programming gods.
I believe in compulsory code reading in front of colleagues, mayby even managers and customers. Constant peer pressure which will force developers to do things properly. I've been involved in projects which has talked about code reading, but it rarely actually happens.
To patent something, it is supposed to be a real discovery, not something anyone with the tools of the trade would find out anyhow.
With gene sequencing machines becoming more and more common, I don't see that DNA sequences can be called real discoveries anymore. (And probably hasn't been the last few years.) Finding DNA sequences is an almost mechanical operation which shouldn't be awarded with patents.
But then again, the patent system has become so fucked these days, who cares? The patent system has to be reinvented, and all the obvious patent squatters must pay for their sins.
Let the biotechs patent actual medicins based on genetic research, not the genes themselves, because that would be stealing.
I read: "Microsoft Stops New York To Fix Bugs".
And I can't help thinking that New York has been through too much already, and it's not fair that Microsoft should take a jab at them also. But New Yorkers will never allow themselves to be stopped by some northwestern...
Hmmm, "New Work", not "New York"...
Well, what's the news in Microsoft stopping work getting done anyway?
They just sold their operations in Denmark, they are pulling out of Norway and trying to sell their small operations there, and they never got as many customers as they forecasted in Sweden. Their original parent company Framfab has posted spectacular losses. Bredbandsbolaget had to pull out of the swedish UMTS 3g mobile phone network Orange due to lack of money.
Bredbandsbolagets business model seems basically unsound, a ticking dot-com business model bomb. They spent way too much on laying fiber to home users, they charged very little for the connection, and they still don't have the additional services they promised a year ago, like video on demand and ip-telephony. And the speed outside their own network is not so great, I've been told.
On the positive side, Jonas Birgerson's enthusiasm for broadband caught on in Scandinavia, specially in Sweden, and kick-started the internet- and broadband boom in this part of Europe. But the reign of the fleece and shorts dot-com CEO is no more, and reality has caught up with the wishful thinking. A fool and his money is soon venture capital.
Bredbandsbolaget locked customers into their service. (They actually lost tens of thousands of users in Oslo, just because of warnings from norwegian OBOS that Bredbandsbolaget's service would make future broadband competition difficult.) It's not anythink like the ISP-agnostic MAN-service which Citylink seems to offer in NZ, which seems to increase the competition in that market.
Well, I can't claim any insider knowledge, but I bet that all kind of crap goes on within the MS development teams that we never hear about.
Read "Show Stopper" by G Pascal Zachary. It's about Dave Cutler's lead of the development of Windows NT. Apparently he was quite good at verbal abuse. And he had special "prizes" for developers who managed to fk the nightly builds.
Seems to me that Linus needs to decide whether Linux is his pet hobby project, or a community effort.
This is basically CS202: Learning that in computer science, a lot of projects quickly grow so large, you can't do it all yourself. You need to cooperate with and trust other people. A hard lesson to typically anti-social CS types who likes to do it all themselves.
So now we can look forward to much better picture quality of Bin Laden's capture and hanging...
Could some form of broadcast or streaming help?
You can't broadcast to the entire internet.
Multicast/streaming is of little use for downloading files, unless you include code to correct errors, and resubmitting erred parts. Besides, multicast doesn't really work well across the entire internet.
Akamai could help. They have lots of servers located near the edges of the internet. The ISPs hosting these servers would probably welcome less costly traffic to upstream providers, and instead get the files to the customers from a server on their own network.
Neighbourhood nets are cool, and are a good idea. All new buildings/home areas being developed should come with a community network.
The problem is that very few knows how to set up the reouting and upstream connectivity properly technically and cost-efficiently, as it requires almost the knowledge of a how to become a small ISP.
And those who do know how to do it (like me) don't really want to be responsible for it, to get angry calls from $LUSERS when something don't work. And they don't want the financial risks.
It shouldn't be much work to set up a community network. And if administrators of community networks pool together, it should be humanly possible to do the support and emergency fixes too.
I am a programmer. I do it for a living. I make a living because people can't just take what I make and sell it without my knowledge, without paying me. These people make a mockery out of my livelyhood.
.sg, .my or .cn ISPs.
We care about companies breaching GPL-licenses, and we should care about these people breaching the commercial software world's licences.
Asia will never get a software industry of their own if they continue this way, and will be doomed to producing cut-throat priced commodity hardware for the rest of the world.
I hope Adobe makes it real hard to use their programs on computers where the clock is set to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Beijing time, or the internet connection reveals they are connected to
If they can't pay for commercial saftware, they'll just have to settle for GPL'ed alternatives!!!
bi-lingual != knowledge of a second language