Actually, many people were nervous about the reunification and many professional people fled to Canada, Britain and the US the got foreign passports.
One thing you have to remember is that in China, there is no rule of law. If you make a nuisance of yourself, you'll just disappear. In Hong Kong, the British Common Law system still applies, although it's getting eroded constantly. Recently its been revealed that many laws don't apply to the offices of the National (i.e. Chinese) Government, even if they apply to the HK government.
It's going to turn into a typical corrupt Chinese city eventually.
I live in HK and it's still very easy to get pirated software and VCDs. There's been a clampdown of late and getting Microsoft products is more difficult (it might take 20 minutes instead of just picking it up off the shelf) but games are eaily obtainable.
There are now large fines for businesses using pirated software, but not for individuals. Personally, I think that's fair.
A lot of Chinese have net access, but many sites are blocked by firewalls at the few gateways in and out of the country. Sites that are blocked include CNN, BBC, most newspapers, babelfish(!) and *anything* to do with the Falun Gong.
China essentially has its own internet with gateways to selected outside sites.
You are not required to use the GPL if you develop an application for Linux. Now if you modify and existing GPLd app, then yes, you must GPL the results, but it's quite possible to run proprietary apps on Linux.
Anyway, much of this software will be inhouse accounting/inventory/etc software and not of much interest to the 'Linux Community'.
There's been a recent flap in the news here in East Asia about Japanese History Textbooks for students which make light of Nanking, Korea and other Japanese behaviour during their colonial phase.
Some Japanese veterans have gone, almost as pilgrims, to places like Nanjing and the Phillipines to atone, but the official line remains unrepentant.
If they did admit guilt, then they would lose a lot of face and for the Asian mindset, that's worse than dying.
BattleStar Galactica was, in a nutshell, a search for a lost tribe of humanity. This tribe had left man kind ages before and settled in a far arm of the galaxy.
The lost tribe being Terran humanity of course. When the intrepid crew of the BG finally found earth, they shot all the script writers and we got Galactica: 1980 (or similar, those brain cells were put out to pasture long ago).
This, of course, parallels the lost tribe of Israel, although in the Torah, the Jews don'y fly starfighters and the goyim have more than one eye.
Were there religious overtones in BG? Very slight, if there were. It certainly wasn't deeply allegorical to anything.
Heh, I remember playing it with crazy hillbilly banjo music once - very surreal. It was really good with a CD of Gregorian Chants in.
The original soundtrack was by Trent Reznor, though, and it was superbly atmospheric. much better than Q2.
Visual Fortan is ludicrously expensive. This twit persuaded the company to buy it, despite the fact that everything he does is a command line app written in what looks like F77.
dave
Re:I am afraid it is you who are mistaken
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Of course, to perfectly simulate the effect of having real musicians in your living room, your expensive stereo will drink all your beer, snort coke, throw your television in the swimming pool and take advantage of your wife.
Lots of people still use FORTRAN for modelling of various things.
A consultant I have to work with has this habit of writing little routines in FORTRAN and then giving them to me to "just put into the Visual Basic program". Then he looks at it after I've converted it and asks questions like "what's this 'mainWindow.txtOutput.Text' for? This is all to complicated!"
The twit wants me to write a GUI in FORTRAN. *rollseyes*
If you have more than one computer in the house, then it's probably a good idea to have one internet connection which is shared by all computers. This way, you can have a proxy server on your gateway machine which logs all outgoing activity.
This is more reliable than looking through a browser cache, which will not cache some pages. If your kid has somehow gotten into a secure website, those pages won't be cached.
This way is somewhat like the telephone, in that she can use it all she wants, but when lots of long distance stuff turns up on the bill, you'll know about it.
The good thing about squid logfiles over browser caches is that you know if she's spent a lot of time at a particular site. If you logs show two seconds and goatse.cx and then back to/., you know she's just gone "Eeeeuuuuuuwwwww!" and gone back to what she was reading. If, on the other hand, she's spent hours at kkk.org or some other extremist site, then you need to talk with her.
Personally, I wouldn't be worried too much about pr0n if it's not too extreme, but hate stuff, well, that would worry me.
It's completely bloody useless in Lynx. Frames everywhere, javascript navigation.
If they had limited time and budget, why didn't they design a nice simple page? Why go to all the time and trouble of reinventing the wheel (or the scrollbar) when you can make a simple design which works on all browsers?
At least they didn't use Frontpage.
dave
Here in Hong Kong, broadband (in the form of DSL) is not always-on. It's generally a metered service with hourly rates. There are one or two companies which provide always-on connections, but they start getting expensive, especially if you want a fixed-ip.
dave
Re:Wood... ho hum. What about stone?
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Reinforced concrete would be the easiest to do.
You'd to make a formwork for the base and sides. (I'd leave one long side open and put glass on it, or maybe perspex.)
For something the size of a PC case, I doubt you'd require reinforcing, which is generally only required when the concrete may be subjected to tensile forces rather than compressive forces. (spot the civil engineer, huh?)
However, to improve shielding, a chickenwire mesh would serve as adequate reinforcing and as a faraday cage.
Mixing the amount of concrete would be easy, and doable by hand. You'd want to keep the amounts of gravel down to keep it a very smooth mix. It'll take at least seven days to dry and preferable a month before you start attaching things to it. The precise details of attaching motherboards and such to a concrete base, I'll leave to others.
Bristol University in the UK regularly makes concrete canoes as part of their Civil Engineering training, and I think they use the chicken wire mesh to keep the flexibility in the concrete. The real problem with a concrete canone is not the weight but the lack of flexibility.
dave
Also, you can automate your patching under *nix and patch many machines without leaving your desk. This is more complicated under NT.
In addition, if you patch an app under *nix, you probably just need to restart that app, not do a reboot.
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They've got some very nice beers of their own, actually.
Try some Tsingtao or Harbin sometime. ah wai "hic"
Actually, many people were nervous about the reunification and many professional people fled to Canada, Britain and the US the got foreign passports.
One thing you have to remember is that in China, there is no rule of law. If you make a nuisance of yourself, you'll just disappear. In Hong Kong, the British Common Law system still applies, although it's getting eroded constantly. Recently its been revealed that many laws don't apply to the offices of the National (i.e. Chinese) Government, even if they apply to the HK government.
It's going to turn into a typical corrupt Chinese city eventually.
ah wai
I live in HK and it's still very easy to get pirated software and VCDs. There's been a clampdown of late and getting Microsoft products is more difficult (it might take 20 minutes instead of just picking it up off the shelf) but games are eaily obtainable.
There are now large fines for businesses using pirated software, but not for individuals. Personally, I think that's fair.
dave
A lot of Chinese have net access, but many sites are blocked by firewalls at the few gateways in and out of the country. Sites that are blocked include CNN, BBC, most newspapers, babelfish(!) and *anything* to do with the Falun Gong.
China essentially has its own internet with gateways to selected outside sites.
ah wai
Why would you machine or drill it?
You make this by making a mould from with the formwork and your reinforcing bars then pour in the concrete. Shape it when it's wet and let it set.
We never had concrete canoes when I was a civil eng student, but we did have bridges made out of spaghetti. Lets see a spaghetti canoe contest!
dave
You are not required to use the GPL if you develop an application for Linux. Now if you modify and existing GPLd app, then yes, you must GPL the results, but it's quite possible to run proprietary apps on Linux.
Anyway, much of this software will be inhouse accounting/inventory/etc software and not of much interest to the 'Linux Community'.
dave
There's been a recent flap in the news here in East Asia about Japanese History Textbooks for students which make light of Nanking, Korea and other Japanese behaviour during their colonial phase.
Some Japanese veterans have gone, almost as pilgrims, to places like Nanjing and the Phillipines to atone, but the official line remains unrepentant.
If they did admit guilt, then they would lose a lot of face and for the Asian mindset, that's worse than dying.
dave
Blake's Seven may be returning:
see: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0004/10/features/featur es5.html
dave
BattleStar Galactica was, in a nutshell, a search for a lost tribe of humanity. This tribe had left man kind ages before and settled in a far arm of the galaxy.
The lost tribe being Terran humanity of course. When the intrepid crew of the BG finally found earth, they shot all the script writers and we got Galactica: 1980 (or similar, those brain cells were put out to pasture long ago).
This, of course, parallels the lost tribe of Israel, although in the Torah, the Jews don'y fly starfighters and the goyim have more than one eye.
Were there religious overtones in BG? Very slight, if there were. It certainly wasn't deeply allegorical to anything.
dave "by your command"
Anyone remember the original? Intruder Alert! Get That Humanoid!
dave "feeling old"
Heh, I remember playing it with crazy hillbilly banjo music once - very surreal. It was really good with a CD of Gregorian Chants in.
The original soundtrack was by Trent Reznor, though, and it was superbly atmospheric. much better than Q2.
dave
In *this* universe, 40+10 is 50.
dave
They're rail guns, not beam weapons. They fire slugs of metal at enormously high speeds attained with (waves hands) magnetic effects.
Assault weapons with grenades are used in Half-life, quite possibly the best first-person shooter ever.
dave
Yeah, I had to write a GUI in FORTRAN as part of my degree work in the 1980's.
That's why i don't ever want to do it again.
dave
Visual Fortan is ludicrously expensive. This twit persuaded the company to buy it, despite the fact that everything he does is a command line app written in what looks like F77.
dave
Of course, to perfectly simulate the effect of having real musicians in your living room, your expensive stereo will drink all your beer, snort coke, throw your television in the swimming pool and take advantage of your wife.
dave "on four. Four!"
Lots of people still use FORTRAN for modelling of various things.
A consultant I have to work with has this habit of writing little routines in FORTRAN and then giving them to me to "just put into the Visual Basic program". Then he looks at it after I've converted it and asks questions like "what's this 'mainWindow.txtOutput.Text' for? This is all to complicated!"
The twit wants me to write a GUI in FORTRAN. *rollseyes*
dave
If you have more than one computer in the house, then it's probably a good idea to have one internet connection which is shared by all computers. This way, you can have a proxy server on your gateway machine which logs all outgoing activity.
/., you know she's just gone "Eeeeuuuuuuwwwww!" and gone back to what she was reading. If, on the other hand, she's spent hours at kkk.org or some other extremist site, then you need to talk with her.
This is more reliable than looking through a browser cache, which will not cache some pages. If your kid has somehow gotten into a secure website, those pages won't be cached.
This way is somewhat like the telephone, in that she can use it all she wants, but when lots of long distance stuff turns up on the bill, you'll know about it.
The good thing about squid logfiles over browser caches is that you know if she's spent a lot of time at a particular site. If you logs show two seconds and goatse.cx and then back to
Personally, I wouldn't be worried too much about pr0n if it's not too extreme, but hate stuff, well, that would worry me.
dave
Hmmm, squid runs on my FreeBSD machines. I bet it'll work on OSX machines as well.
dave
Rubbish, absolute rubbish. The problem is people *EXECUTING* unknown scripts or executables. Sending data files backwards and forwards is fine.
dave
It also solves the problem of your students being able to write any files at all so that they lose all their coursework when they reboot.
dave
It's completely bloody useless in Lynx. Frames everywhere, javascript navigation.
If they had limited time and budget, why didn't they design a nice simple page? Why go to all the time and trouble of reinventing the wheel (or the scrollbar) when you can make a simple design which works on all browsers?
At least they didn't use Frontpage.
dave
Here in Hong Kong, broadband (in the form of DSL) is not always-on. It's generally a metered service with hourly rates. There are one or two companies which provide always-on connections, but they start getting expensive, especially if you want a fixed-ip.
dave
Reinforced concrete would be the easiest to do.
You'd to make a formwork for the base and sides. (I'd leave one long side open and put glass on it, or maybe perspex.)
For something the size of a PC case, I doubt you'd require reinforcing, which is generally only required when the concrete may be subjected to tensile forces rather than compressive forces. (spot the civil engineer, huh?)
However, to improve shielding, a chickenwire mesh would serve as adequate reinforcing and as a faraday cage.
Mixing the amount of concrete would be easy, and doable by hand. You'd want to keep the amounts of gravel down to keep it a very smooth mix. It'll take at least seven days to dry and preferable a month before you start attaching things to it. The precise details of attaching motherboards and such to a concrete base, I'll leave to others.
Bristol University in the UK regularly makes concrete canoes as part of their Civil Engineering training, and I think they use the chicken wire mesh to keep the flexibility in the concrete. The real problem with a concrete canone is not the weight but the lack of flexibility.
dave
Also, you can automate your patching under *nix and patch many machines without leaving your desk. This is more complicated under NT.
In addition, if you patch an app under *nix, you probably just need to restart that app, not do a reboot.
dave