The advertised site exists indeed. Apparently, it is some sort of humorous product that only north americans understand.
Still, for $99 CAD, it feels rather expensive for such purpose.
Does it count as fulfilling the obligations required by the GPL if you make your source code freely available and downloadable but your entire country is behind a firewall and no one can access it?:)
Since North Korea is a sovereign nation, I dont think that they have to abide by US copyright laws...
Assuming this information is correct, it seems that North Korea has signed the Berne Convention, so they have to respect copyrights.
You're right: they're not obliged to follow any US laws. But if they do not follow the terms of GPL they have no right to use the software. ...that unless they get a permission from the copyright holder to use that under different terms.
It is not in the header, the 8-bit version field is in every single page. As according to the post a page is mostly 64K due to a strange length encoding, you send the version very, very often. I don't see any reason, why the version would have to change in the middle of a file in any case. And honestly, would you write a decoder taking that into account, if the probability of stumbling onto such a file was currently 0 (due to there being only one version) and very, very low in the future? That means it just adds to the size of the file.
I think the idea of sending such redundant data is to allow decoding from any point of the stream (think of internet radio, for example... are they going to compress the data for each user connected?).
Does is have to be a hard drive? The Apple IIe was a wretched computer with awful software, but it had a floppy controller that was possibly the cutest electronic device ever made. It's been an awfully long time, but my recollection is that it was built from a handful -- six or eight -- of TTL chips and that not only COULD one control exactly what was written where in software, one HAD to control what was written where in software.
I don't think that's much different from PC-like floppy drives, the difference being that the (x86) PC had a floppy controller which limited read/write to sectors and MFM coding.
Amiga diskette drives were almost the same as the PC ones (except for the disk-detection signal, which you could hack and convert a PC drive to an Amiga one), and Amigas wrote pretty much whatever you wanted into the disk (AFAIR the modulation was software based) and not even the index signal was used (except when r/w FAT disks).
You will need a reasonably sized HD, like this one where ones and zeros occupy a space of about postage stamp size.
I saw one of those once (actually a bigger model, _physically_ bigger I mean), in a university IT garbage room.
The thing suffered a head crash, deep enough you could easily feel it with your fingers. I wonder how horribly it sounded when that happened.
Those were the days...
Actually, I can see some group of people benefiting from the LHC being shut down until recently.
A buddy of mine, who lived many years ago in Geneva, shared with me how the electricity there was noticeably below specs (voltage-wise) every time the previous CERN accelerator was online. Who knows whether or not that changed. But until recently it was quite cold in most of Europe...
No biggie.
Now, if you measure the power frequency and it drops to ~40Hz and the days seem longer than usual, then start to worry.
To spoil your joke, if an element was named after China, I don't think this would be a big problem. For example, Americium is Am, and the USA's ISO country code is US.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
A very romantic notion sure, but although it worked for Gandhi, 99 times out of 100 you will NOT win. It's not a rule that works in general, and it's extremely dangerous to become cocky that things will work out for you in the end.
Seems to present IE completely equitably with the other browsers. They show in random order with similar sized logos and all (...)
I'm impressed.
I was expecting Microsoft to manage to fool the European Comission presenting a "technically correct" solution which, somehow, still favoured Internet Explorer.
That's really weird. There must be a loophole in all this.
Except 10Base-2 is 50ohm coax, while TV coax (which is probably what he has) is 75ohm. Nope, not going to work.
yes it does. you impedance match the ends with baluns.
I did that a LOT back in the day of 10base2 when the office owner would not pony up for running wires.... yet he paid 2X that for baluns and impedance matching...
So, assuming the cables are for TV and are OK, you'll need 50/75ohm baluns _and_ 10Base-T to 10Base-2 transceivers at each end. For 10Mbps ethernet.
Too much trouble. Better buying an 802.11 access point or, even better, installing new cat5e cables (cat6 if you want 10Gbit ethernet support).
Just what the world needs. *Another* IM service. I suppose I can see Facebook's reasoning for doing this. . . they want to be a complete 'social' solution, and don't want to be reliant on MSN, AOL, Google, or anyone else for their IM service. I suppose, all things considered, that at least opening it up with XMPP is fairly 'enlightened' of them, but it really seems like the whole 'genre' of Instant Messaging platforms has been one big cluster-f**k since day one. If email worked like IM, we'd all have to have 10 email accounts.
Well, XMPP itself is an attempt to standardize that mess.
If Facebook does not talk with other XMPP servers, it's their own fault. Google Talk does, and many other XMPP account providers aswell.
Obama is using diplomacy to get other countries to do what we want, while Bush used more or less thinly veiled threats. Whether or not that's better is debatable, but at least in theory it will give other countries more of a choice in the matters.
I'm not sure if there is a boundary between "diplomacy" and "veiled threats". Sometimes it seems that "veiled threats" is actually one of the tools of diplomacy.
While I do not condone threat in foreign relations, I'm skeptical it is not part of the repertoire of the so-called diplomacy.
Obama is using diplomacy to get other countries to do what we want, while Bush used more or less thinly veiled threats. Whether or not that's better is debatable, but at least in theory it will give other countries more of a choice in the matters.
Microsoft Windows is not a new product. If you don't know that it can't be counted on to work like a normal computer, that doesn't just mean you're not technical. It means you have been living under a rock for 20 years.
Strange, under my rock, Windows XP/2003 work well, I rarely have to restart my computers and when I do it is usually because of a hardware problem, long power outage (long enough to discharge UPS batteries) or because I am installing some software that needs a reboot.
C'mon, don't be like that. You're ruining the moment.
Be a nice guy and let we Linux/BSD/etc users laugh at the cost of your OS, okay?
Interesting picture.
Pluto is already so small, I suspect that its smaller satellites (Nix and Hydra) are about the size of a golf ball, if that large.
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The advertised site exists indeed. Apparently, it is some sort of humorous product that only north americans understand.
Still, for $99 CAD, it feels rather expensive for such purpose.
You've mentioned interesting points, but paper has a limitation: its bit density for reliable storage is awful.
Does it count as fulfilling the obligations required by the GPL if you make your source code freely available and downloadable but your entire country is behind a firewall and no one can access it? :)
Since North Korea is a sovereign nation, I dont think that they have to abide by US copyright laws...
Assuming this information is correct, it seems that North Korea has signed the Berne Convention, so they have to respect copyrights.
...that unless they get a permission from the copyright holder to use that under different terms.
You're right: they're not obliged to follow any US laws. But if they do not follow the terms of GPL they have no right to use the software.
That in theory.
It is not in the header, the 8-bit version field is in every single page. As according to the post a page is mostly 64K due to a strange length encoding, you send the version very, very often. I don't see any reason, why the version would have to change in the middle of a file in any case. And honestly, would you write a decoder taking that into account, if the probability of stumbling onto such a file was currently 0 (due to there being only one version) and very, very low in the future? That means it just adds to the size of the file.
I think the idea of sending such redundant data is to allow decoding from any point of the stream (think of internet radio, for example... are they going to compress the data for each user connected?).
Does is have to be a hard drive? The Apple IIe was a wretched computer with awful software, but it had a floppy controller that was possibly the cutest electronic device ever made. It's been an awfully long time, but my recollection is that it was built from a handful -- six or eight -- of TTL chips and that not only COULD one control exactly what was written where in software, one HAD to control what was written where in software.
I don't think that's much different from PC-like floppy drives, the difference being that the (x86) PC had a floppy controller which limited read/write to sectors and MFM coding.
Amiga diskette drives were almost the same as the PC ones (except for the disk-detection signal, which you could hack and convert a PC drive to an Amiga one), and Amigas wrote pretty much whatever you wanted into the disk (AFAIR the modulation was software based) and not even the index signal was used (except when r/w FAT disks).
You will need a reasonably sized HD, like this one where ones and zeros occupy a space of about postage stamp size.
I saw one of those once (actually a bigger model, _physically_ bigger I mean), in a university IT garbage room.
The thing suffered a head crash, deep enough you could easily feel it with your fingers. I wonder how horribly it sounded when that happened.
Those were the days...
Now as for TFA, this sounds like a PEBKAC problem to me.
What's a "ryevkas"?
(ok, nobody won't get the joke)
Actually, I can see some group of people benefiting from the LHC being shut down until recently.
A buddy of mine, who lived many years ago in Geneva, shared with me how the electricity there was noticeably below specs (voltage-wise) every time the previous CERN accelerator was online. Who knows whether or not that changed. But until recently it was quite cold in most of Europe...
No biggie.
Now, if you measure the power frequency and it drops to ~40Hz and the days seem longer than usual, then start to worry.
To spoil your joke, if an element was named after China, I don't think this would be a big problem. For example, Americium is Am, and the USA's ISO country code is US.
I'm sorry to spoil your patriotic pride, but Americium was named after the continent in contrast to Europium.
:)
Polonium, though, was indeed named after a country, Poland.
And Copernicium is named after Nicolaus Copernicus. Go Poland!
A very romantic notion sure, but although it worked for Gandhi, 99 times out of 100 you will NOT win. It's not a rule that works in general, and it's extremely dangerous to become cocky that things will work out for you in the end.
We've been winning so far. ;)
I'm probably the Nth person to quote this, but it's so fitting:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Iceweasel is a strictly Debian fork, Seamonkey is the good old Mozilla browser and it was always multiplatform.
I'm not sure Iceweasel could be even called a fork from Firefox (in the usual sense at least).
Here you may read about.
Seems to present IE completely equitably with the other browsers. They show in random order with similar sized logos and all (...)
I'm impressed.
I was expecting Microsoft to manage to fool the European Comission presenting a "technically correct" solution which, somehow, still favoured Internet Explorer.
That's really weird. There must be a loophole in all this.
I use a PS2 to watch 720p and 1080i video and it can do AC3. I can play from DVD or USB stick. I can buy those for, what $50 on eBay?
Is the PS2 portable and viable as a generic computer?
Except 10Base-2 is 50ohm coax, while TV coax (which is probably what he has) is 75ohm. Nope, not going to work.
yes it does. you impedance match the ends with baluns.
I did that a LOT back in the day of 10base2 when the office owner would not pony up for running wires.... yet he paid 2X that for baluns and impedance matching...
So, assuming the cables are for TV and are OK, you'll need 50/75ohm baluns _and_ 10Base-T to 10Base-2 transceivers at each end. For 10Mbps ethernet.
Too much trouble. Better buying an 802.11 access point or, even better, installing new cat5e cables (cat6 if you want 10Gbit ethernet support).
It depends on the code quality.
40k lines of spaghetti, undocumented code may be a nightmare.
1M lines of good and documented code may be even easy to deal with, depending on what you're going to do.
Just what the world needs. *Another* IM service. I suppose I can see Facebook's reasoning for doing this. . . they want to be a complete 'social' solution, and don't want to be reliant on MSN, AOL, Google, or anyone else for their IM service. I suppose, all things considered, that at least opening it up with XMPP is fairly 'enlightened' of them, but it really seems like the whole 'genre' of Instant Messaging platforms has been one big cluster-f**k since day one. If email worked like IM, we'd all have to have 10 email accounts.
Well, XMPP itself is an attempt to standardize that mess.
If Facebook does not talk with other XMPP servers, it's their own fault. Google Talk does, and many other XMPP account providers aswell.
is to require reciprocity. That goes for access to financial data as well as travelling/airline data.
Though slowly, it seems that other countries are getting fed up with certain US policies.
Your comment reminded me of this incident few years ago.
How's Obama any different than Bush?
Obama is using diplomacy to get other countries to do what we want, while Bush used more or less thinly veiled threats. Whether or not that's better is debatable, but at least in theory it will give other countries more of a choice in the matters.
I'm not sure if there is a boundary between "diplomacy" and "veiled threats". Sometimes it seems that "veiled threats" is actually one of the tools of diplomacy.
While I do not condone threat in foreign relations, I'm skeptical it is not part of the repertoire of the so-called diplomacy.
How's Obama any different than Bush?
Obama is using diplomacy to get other countries to do what we want, while Bush used more or less thinly veiled threats. Whether or not that's better is debatable, but at least in theory it will give other countries more of a choice in the matters.
Microsoft Windows is not a new product. If you don't know that it can't be counted on to work like a normal computer, that doesn't just mean you're not technical. It means you have been living under a rock for 20 years.
Strange, under my rock, Windows XP/2003 work well, I rarely have to restart my computers and when I do it is usually because of a hardware problem, long power outage (long enough to discharge UPS batteries) or because I am installing some software that needs a reboot.
C'mon, don't be like that. You're ruining the moment.
Be a nice guy and let we Linux/BSD/etc users laugh at the cost of your OS, okay?
Hmm... I'll stay using Linux.
It seems that Windows is not much user-friendly yet.
It looks like an interesting OS, perhaps in 1 or 2 years I'll try Windows again.
Uh... That's not a Rorschach test.
if you grant me the other seven dwarves are planets: eris, makemake, haumea, sedna, orcus, 2001OR10, and quaoar
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/EightTNOs.png
Interesting picture.
Pluto is already so small, I suspect that its smaller satellites (Nix and Hydra) are about the size of a golf ball, if that large.
Programmer: "Oh Hi, Mr. Balmer! Hey, I thought you might like this cool innovation we're working on for the next Windows!"
It's not "programmer", it's "developer" (the man likes that word).