Yeah. I'm working on prototyping some hardware ideas I have and it would cost me orders of magnitude more money to develop for USB instead of the serial port. Serial ports are extremely simple, reliable and straightforward to develop things for. The same goes for parallel ports. USB and Firewire have about 150 layers of engineer crap wrapped around them and you can't talk to a computer through them using regular mid-range microcontrollers, because they're not fast enough to clock onto them. Yeah, there are controllers with USB built-in but they're bigger and more expensive. The USB guys should've created an entry-level mode for simple devices.
This is basically exactly my own experience with Dvorak. I use the Norwegian Dvorak layout, which is basically the same as regular US Dvorak with added characters, and a few punctation keys moved 'round as a result. It was a headache for maybe the two first weeks, but now I'm entirely fluent in it. It's hard to describe, but Dvorak has this fluent feel to it when you type that Qwerty lacks. Sometimes it feels like you're playing the keyboard as an instrument. I think it's the even hand alternation that does it, and the fact that you mostly stay on the home row. Dvorak feels better for me and the pro-Dvorak science just serves to back that up.
Isn't it unreasonable to expect that a Linux distribution ships with Flash and Java? Let me give you some news: Windows XP doesn't ship with Flash and Java either, and any simple Linux player beats Microsoft's WMP bloatness.
I do upload limiting as well. But compared to a speed of 0 for download, even 0.5 kB is massive upload. I want to see a BitTorrent client that acts fairly and goes "Hey! If ain't getting any then nobody else is either!"
Haha, your D-link crashes too? Yeah. Mine's started doing that as of recently. I have to walk to it and pull the plug on it to get it to respond again. Those things run ARM processors.
Well. Yes. Massive leeching already happens. The bad thing about BitTorrent is that it often tends to eat absolutely every smitherine of your upload bandwidth, and even worse, give you a lousy download speed in return. Torrents with many seeders seem to give you the highest speed. Most leechers don't have the proper open ports, unfortunately.
I don't know how Opera will implement BitTorrent but their existing browser has a download manager in a window, with a list of all downloads. If you have to explicitly 'end' a torrent in that list, it would encourage leaving torrents open.
I should've said, although I thought people would understand it was implied, that maybe other browsers will take after Opera, and the threshold will be lowered that way.
I have to say: Why didn't anyone think about this before? This is a needle sharp idea from the brains at Opera. I applaud them for it. Most BitTorrent clients already look like browser download windows to begin with. Integrating it like this is very very clever and will surely lower the threshold for using BitTorrent. It could be argued that this makes it harder for existing BitTorrent clients to compete. Time will show.
Not proud. I suspect that I've been fed the same "easy for the public to understand" music as everyone else. There's much more classical music out there than what you find on those "Best of" albums, but as you know, availability is key.
About "classic" vs "classical" it's probably from Norwegian. "Classic" "Klassiker". "Classical music" "Klassisk musikk". "Klassisk" is more similar to "Classic" than it is to "Classical" and "Klassiker" is more similar to "Classical" than "Classic", as you can see, which is probably why I made that mistake.;)
As somebody else pointed out, it seems that Norway's phone system isn't IP-based but ATM-based. I don't know much about ATM but it's digital. That's for sure. They're in the process of switching to VoIP, though.
Okay. Some guy told me that each node in the Norwegian phone system has an IP address. I don't know much about ATM, except that it's digital. Does it have numeric addressing?
As I've understood it, Norway's POTS is all IP-based down to every single local exchange, with analog/ISDN to each house, and I imagine that's pretty much the case in USA and other developed countries too. The step to VoIP from that isn't too huge...
Yeah. This is interesting, to be off topic for a second. Communism basically has a lot of bad PR. It makes sense that no ordinary politician fights for communism. Firstly, communism is very anti-government. Imagine an ad in the paper that goes "We have a free position as leader of a communist state. Good pay but short-term. We're having trouble filling this position due to the fact that you'll lose your job if you're successful. If you're an altruistic politician please contact us."
Joseph Stalin wanted to keep his job. Politicians are the worst people you could put to work for communism if you view everything in that context. Politicians seek power and money and communism is really about the opposite of that.
What the United States and other countries should really be opposing is *facist states*. I basically think communist states turn into facist states because they're run by politicians.
If I could experiment, I'd set up a board of people from various layers of society. People with no criminal record and perhaps educated in the proper fields. Serving on the board would be mandatory, but hopefully most people would want to influence the future of their country, so this would be viewed as positive. Lists would be kept of eligible people, filtered out by a rule set specified by law. Maybe the board could have a fixed number of elected representatives, but not too many, as politics is all about populism and after seeing democracy in action for a while, I don't sincerely believe that people know what, or who, are best for them.
If your grandparents were moving today, then I guess some would say it's a bad decision, but remember that Norway was a developing country before the war. Only when oil was discovered in the North Sea in the late 20th century did Norway enjoy it's current riches.
I think you should do a bit of research before you speak. Firstly, we probably have something like a few dozen telecom companies. Telenor, Netcom, Sense, etc. That the only tech we have is DVD Jon is a pretty ridiculous thing to say. Firstly, we invented GSM then sold it to somebody else (god knows why). Don't software companies count as tech? We got plenty of those: Trolltech (QT), Opera (the browser), Kelkoo (later purchased by Yahoo), etc. For tech in hardware, Chipcon are making Zigbee chips. Tandberg makes video conferencing equipment. There are also numerous systems in the oil and marine sectors that are being sold abroad, and I know of at least one airport runway tracking system developed in Norway.
Yeah, Nobel was Swedish but the peace prize comittee is in Norway. And the Scream has been stolen before and been returned, unless they burned it this time, like the papers are speculating. It's a tad trollish to say it's gone. It's irrefutable that Munch painted it and it's still part of Europe's cultural history.
I don't see much tech coming out of Denmark, so what you really mean is that Sweden is ahead of the rest of Scandinavia in that sector... But I don't know. There's plenty of funding available for all sorts of tech startups. I just don't think Norway has that same Americanized corporate culture that Sweden has, and I'm a bit glad about that, actually.
I did check my facts. That's how I confirmed my information. Apparently those rankings change pretty fast. Norway is now second to the US. Still, it's a pretty good GDP/capita ranking. And yeah. I gambled a bit when I said we control your oil prices.
No, we're not part of the EU. We're part of the European Economic Area, which means it's a one-way relationship. We follow EU regulations in return for some favourable trade agreements. Thus what I'd describe as a half-hearted EU membership.
We give out the Nobel peace prize because Alfred Nobel, indeed a Swede, said it should be given out by Norway. To be more specific, the Nobel Peace Prize comittee is Norwegian.
I know that Luxembourg has the highest GDP/capita. It was on the top of the list in the chart I used as reference. I'd like to add that at one point, Norway indeed ranked higher than the US, but this has since changed (the chart I looked at wasn't dated).
It's not work vs bread. It's our welfare system. Post-war Norway was built by the Labor party. Norway protects it's citizens from birth to death. Medical care is mostly free; the government insures you get help. Any random person without a job can apply for money and get it pretty easily (social security). Wages are really high; true, taxes are too, but this gives us good buying power abroad. Crime rates in Norway are really low; stats show that most people are happy with their jobs; our birth rates are low, and so on. Norwegians are really spoiled, I'd say. I just wish the government would buff up the muncipal economy instead of putting all that money in the oil fund.
Maybe our broadband isn't cheap (though it can get real good in urban areas, down to $40 for a few megabits), but it sure is available. In tiny coast and fjord towns here in Finnmark, there's broadband access, per radio dish.
Never said we were *the* best, and if I did, I didn't mean that. I just said we're *among* the best and that we beat the USA. Altough we don't beat you by GDP/capita, I bet we live better than you on average. We don't really have Harlem's. There's no separate black person's culture here. People aren't allowed to have guns in the same way you do. Norway is much, much safer. Oh, did I mention that all schools are free? You need to start buying books after the 10th grade (for college, university) but you can get a scholarship or later, a loan from the government for that.
I did check my facts. That's how I confirmed my information. Apparently those rankings change pretty fast. Norway is now second to the US. Still, it's a pretty good GDP/capita ranking. And yeah. I gambled a bit when I said we control your oil prices.
No, we're not part of the EU. We're part of the European Economic Area, which means it's a one-way relationship. We follow EU regulations in return for some favourable trade agreements. Thus what I'd describe as a half-hearted EU membership.
We give out the Nobel peace prize because Alfred Nobel, indeed a Swede, said it should be given out by Norway. To be more specific, the Nobel Peace Prize comittee is Norwegian.
I know that Luxembourg has the highest GDP/capita. It was on the top of the list in the chart I used as reference. I'd like to add that at one point, Norway indeed ranked higher than the US, but this has since changed (the chart I looked at wasn't dated).
It's not work vs bread. It's our welfare system. Post-war Norway was built by the Labor party. Norway protects it's citizens from birth to death. Medical care is mostly free; the government insures you get help. Any random person without a job can apply for money and get it pretty easily (social security). Wages are really high; true, taxes are too, but this gives us good buying power abroad. Crime rates in Norway are really low; stats show that most people are happy with their jobs; our birth rates are low, and so on. Norwegians are really spoiled, I'd say. I just wish the government would buff up the muncipal economy instead of putting all that money in the oil fund.
Maybe our broadband isn't cheap (though it can get real good in urban areas, down to $40 for a few megabits), but it sure is available. In tiny coast and fjord towns here in Finnmark, there's broadband access, per radio dish.
Never said we were *the* best, and if I did, I didn't mean that. I just said we're *among* the best and that we beat the USA. Altough we don't beat you by GDP/capita, I bet we live better than you on average. We don't really have Harlem's. There's no separate black person's culture here. People aren't allowed to have guns in the same way you do. Norway is much, much safer. Oh, did I mention that all schools are free? You need to start buying books after the 10th grade (for college, university) but you can get a scholarship or later, a loan from the government for that.
We have very little to complain about, basically.
Technically, we didn't do that voluntarily, as you say. Besides, the factory was sabotaged by Norwegian resistance men that came back from refuge in Britain. They escaped Norway by hitching a ride with innocent-looking fishing vessels. They were trained for the mission at a secret facility in Scotland, then flown back to Norway and dropped onto the tundra by parashoot. It likely foiled Hitler's plans of making nuclear weapons.
Ah! Yes. Edvard Grieg, the composer. He composed In the Hall of the Mountain King and Morning Mood. Then there's that god awful Norwegian black metal. Didn't it just have to be us bloody vikings that invented it? *sings* Spam, spam, wonderful spam...
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Yeah. I'm working on prototyping some hardware ideas I have and it would cost me orders of magnitude more money to develop for USB instead of the serial port. Serial ports are extremely simple, reliable and straightforward to develop things for. The same goes for parallel ports. USB and Firewire have about 150 layers of engineer crap wrapped around them and you can't talk to a computer through them using regular mid-range microcontrollers, because they're not fast enough to clock onto them. Yeah, there are controllers with USB built-in but they're bigger and more expensive. The USB guys should've created an entry-level mode for simple devices.
This is basically exactly my own experience with Dvorak. I use the Norwegian Dvorak layout, which is basically the same as regular US Dvorak with added characters, and a few punctation keys moved 'round as a result. It was a headache for maybe the two first weeks, but now I'm entirely fluent in it. It's hard to describe, but Dvorak has this fluent feel to it when you type that Qwerty lacks. Sometimes it feels like you're playing the keyboard as an instrument. I think it's the even hand alternation that does it, and the fact that you mostly stay on the home row. Dvorak feels better for me and the pro-Dvorak science just serves to back that up.
Russian caviar, maybe. Regular caviar is cheap and you get it on tubes. School kids have it on their sandwitches in Norway. :P
Isn't it unreasonable to expect that a Linux distribution ships with Flash and Java? Let me give you some news: Windows XP doesn't ship with Flash and Java either, and any simple Linux player beats Microsoft's WMP bloatness.
Aha, sorry, so that's not your current occupation then, hehe. ;)
I do upload limiting as well. But compared to a speed of 0 for download, even 0.5 kB is massive upload. I want to see a BitTorrent client that acts fairly and goes "Hey! If ain't getting any then nobody else is either!"
Haha, your D-link crashes too? Yeah. Mine's started doing that as of recently. I have to walk to it and pull the plug on it to get it to respond again. Those things run ARM processors.
Do you own/run that ISP Empire.net or do you just work there? Never used DECnet myself. I was only born in 1983. ;)
Scary devil monastery?
Well. Yes. Massive leeching already happens. The bad thing about BitTorrent is that it often tends to eat absolutely every smitherine of your upload bandwidth, and even worse, give you a lousy download speed in return. Torrents with many seeders seem to give you the highest speed. Most leechers don't have the proper open ports, unfortunately.
I don't know how Opera will implement BitTorrent but their existing browser has a download manager in a window, with a list of all downloads. If you have to explicitly 'end' a torrent in that list, it would encourage leaving torrents open.
I should've said, although I thought people would understand it was implied, that maybe other browsers will take after Opera, and the threshold will be lowered that way.
I have to say: Why didn't anyone think about this before? This is a needle sharp idea from the brains at Opera. I applaud them for it. Most BitTorrent clients already look like browser download windows to begin with. Integrating it like this is very very clever and will surely lower the threshold for using BitTorrent. It could be argued that this makes it harder for existing BitTorrent clients to compete. Time will show.
Not proud. I suspect that I've been fed the same "easy for the public to understand" music as everyone else. There's much more classical music out there than what you find on those "Best of" albums, but as you know, availability is key.
;)
About "classic" vs "classical" it's probably from Norwegian. "Classic" "Klassiker". "Classical music" "Klassisk musikk". "Klassisk" is more similar to "Classic" than it is to "Classical" and "Klassiker" is more similar to "Classical" than "Classic", as you can see, which is probably why I made that mistake.
As somebody else pointed out, it seems that Norway's phone system isn't IP-based but ATM-based. I don't know much about ATM but it's digital. That's for sure. They're in the process of switching to VoIP, though.
Okay. Some guy told me that each node in the Norwegian phone system has an IP address. I don't know much about ATM, except that it's digital. Does it have numeric addressing?
As I've understood it, Norway's POTS is all IP-based down to every single local exchange, with analog/ISDN to each house, and I imagine that's pretty much the case in USA and other developed countries too. The step to VoIP from that isn't too huge...
Yeah. This is interesting, to be off topic for a second. Communism basically has a lot of bad PR. It makes sense that no ordinary politician fights for communism. Firstly, communism is very anti-government. Imagine an ad in the paper that goes "We have a free position as leader of a communist state. Good pay but short-term. We're having trouble filling this position due to the fact that you'll lose your job if you're successful. If you're an altruistic politician please contact us."
Joseph Stalin wanted to keep his job. Politicians are the worst people you could put to work for communism if you view everything in that context. Politicians seek power and money and communism is really about the opposite of that.
What the United States and other countries should really be opposing is *facist states*. I basically think communist states turn into facist states because they're run by politicians.
If I could experiment, I'd set up a board of people from various layers of society. People with no criminal record and perhaps educated in the proper fields. Serving on the board would be mandatory, but hopefully most people would want to influence the future of their country, so this would be viewed as positive. Lists would be kept of eligible people, filtered out by a rule set specified by law. Maybe the board could have a fixed number of elected representatives, but not too many, as politics is all about populism and after seeing democracy in action for a while, I don't sincerely believe that people know what, or who, are best for them.
They're unknown to me, at least. I don't collect classic music but as a member of the general public I don't know who they are.
By Babelfish itself, I suspect. XD
? BabelFish says Natural Donkey Cat.
If your grandparents were moving today, then I guess some would say it's a bad decision, but remember that Norway was a developing country before the war. Only when oil was discovered in the North Sea in the late 20th century did Norway enjoy it's current riches.
I think you should do a bit of research before you speak. Firstly, we probably have something like a few dozen telecom companies. Telenor, Netcom, Sense, etc. That the only tech we have is DVD Jon is a pretty ridiculous thing to say. Firstly, we invented GSM then sold it to somebody else (god knows why). Don't software companies count as tech? We got plenty of those: Trolltech (QT), Opera (the browser), Kelkoo (later purchased by Yahoo), etc. For tech in hardware, Chipcon are making Zigbee chips. Tandberg makes video conferencing equipment. There are also numerous systems in the oil and marine sectors that are being sold abroad, and I know of at least one airport runway tracking system developed in Norway.
Yeah, Nobel was Swedish but the peace prize comittee is in Norway. And the Scream has been stolen before and been returned, unless they burned it this time, like the papers are speculating. It's a tad trollish to say it's gone. It's irrefutable that Munch painted it and it's still part of Europe's cultural history.
I don't see much tech coming out of Denmark, so what you really mean is that Sweden is ahead of the rest of Scandinavia in that sector... But I don't know. There's plenty of funding available for all sorts of tech startups. I just don't think Norway has that same Americanized corporate culture that Sweden has, and I'm a bit glad about that, actually.
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I did check my facts. That's how I confirmed my information. Apparently those rankings change pretty fast. Norway is now second to the US. Still, it's a pretty good GDP/capita ranking. And yeah. I gambled a bit when I said we control your oil prices.
No, we're not part of the EU. We're part of the European Economic Area, which means it's a one-way relationship. We follow EU regulations in return for some favourable trade agreements. Thus what I'd describe as a half-hearted EU membership.
We give out the Nobel peace prize because Alfred Nobel, indeed a Swede, said it should be given out by Norway. To be more specific, the Nobel Peace Prize comittee is Norwegian.
I know that Luxembourg has the highest GDP/capita. It was on the top of the list in the chart I used as reference. I'd like to add that at one point, Norway indeed ranked higher than the US, but this has since changed (the chart I looked at wasn't dated).
It's not work vs bread. It's our welfare system. Post-war Norway was built by the Labor party. Norway protects it's citizens from birth to death. Medical care is mostly free; the government insures you get help. Any random person without a job can apply for money and get it pretty easily (social security). Wages are really high; true, taxes are too, but this gives us good buying power abroad. Crime rates in Norway are really low; stats show that most people are happy with their jobs; our birth rates are low, and so on. Norwegians are really spoiled, I'd say. I just wish the government would buff up the muncipal economy instead of putting all that money in the oil fund.
Maybe our broadband isn't cheap (though it can get real good in urban areas, down to $40 for a few megabits), but it sure is available. In tiny coast and fjord towns here in Finnmark, there's broadband access, per radio dish.
Never said we were *the* best, and if I did, I didn't mean that. I just said we're *among* the best and that we beat the USA. Altough we don't beat you by GDP/capita, I bet we live better than you on average. We don't really have Harlem's. There's no separate black person's culture here. People aren't allowed to have guns in the same way you do. Norway is much, much safer. Oh, did I mention that all schools are free? You need to start buying books after the 10th grade (for college, university) but you can get a scholarship or later, a loan from the government for that.
We have very little to complain about, basically.
I did check my facts. That's how I confirmed my information. Apparently those rankings change pretty fast. Norway is now second to the US. Still, it's a pretty good GDP/capita ranking. And yeah. I gambled a bit when I said we control your oil prices. No, we're not part of the EU. We're part of the European Economic Area, which means it's a one-way relationship. We follow EU regulations in return for some favourable trade agreements. Thus what I'd describe as a half-hearted EU membership. We give out the Nobel peace prize because Alfred Nobel, indeed a Swede, said it should be given out by Norway. To be more specific, the Nobel Peace Prize comittee is Norwegian. I know that Luxembourg has the highest GDP/capita. It was on the top of the list in the chart I used as reference. I'd like to add that at one point, Norway indeed ranked higher than the US, but this has since changed (the chart I looked at wasn't dated). It's not work vs bread. It's our welfare system. Post-war Norway was built by the Labor party. Norway protects it's citizens from birth to death. Medical care is mostly free; the government insures you get help. Any random person without a job can apply for money and get it pretty easily (social security). Wages are really high; true, taxes are too, but this gives us good buying power abroad. Crime rates in Norway are really low; stats show that most people are happy with their jobs; our birth rates are low, and so on. Norwegians are really spoiled, I'd say. I just wish the government would buff up the muncipal economy instead of putting all that money in the oil fund. Maybe our broadband isn't cheap (though it can get real good in urban areas, down to $40 for a few megabits), but it sure is available. In tiny coast and fjord towns here in Finnmark, there's broadband access, per radio dish. Never said we were *the* best, and if I did, I didn't mean that. I just said we're *among* the best and that we beat the USA. Altough we don't beat you by GDP/capita, I bet we live better than you on average. We don't really have Harlem's. There's no separate black person's culture here. People aren't allowed to have guns in the same way you do. Norway is much, much safer. Oh, did I mention that all schools are free? You need to start buying books after the 10th grade (for college, university) but you can get a scholarship or later, a loan from the government for that. We have very little to complain about, basically.
Technically, we didn't do that voluntarily, as you say. Besides, the factory was sabotaged by Norwegian resistance men that came back from refuge in Britain. They escaped Norway by hitching a ride with innocent-looking fishing vessels. They were trained for the mission at a secret facility in Scotland, then flown back to Norway and dropped onto the tundra by parashoot. It likely foiled Hitler's plans of making nuclear weapons.
Ah! Yes. Edvard Grieg, the composer. He composed In the Hall of the Mountain King and Morning Mood. Then there's that god awful Norwegian black metal. Didn't it just have to be us bloody vikings that invented it? *sings* Spam, spam, wonderful spam...