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North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the Wind’
- Shivetya 13y agoI like the fact it has a TV tuner! The extendable antennae might be a bit wonky, but I would love to use my tablet to pick up radio and/or tv. there is no guarantee of internet connectivity in an emergency so I am curious why no tablets that I have seen offer similar?
- JonSkeptic 13y agoIt's a cool idea. If I'm not mistaken, the FCC is now allowing some development and use of the old TV bands. I'd love to some creative use of it from the open source community. http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/projects/tvbanddevice/ http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/projects/tvbanddevice/
- killme 13y agoI think in Japan and South Korea, a lot of smartphones(and perhaps tablets) allow TV reception.
- Jongseong 13y agoIn South Korea at least, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is built into a lot of phones and portable media devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcastin... But this requires special DMB signal transmission, which I doubt North Korea has. I would think the antennas would be for analog TV reception.
- sbarre 13y agoWhen I was in Japan in 2008, my friend's cell phone screen could rotate out 90 degrees (into a traditional 16:9 TV-looking layout [1]) and he could watch quite a few TV channels on it that way. This wasn't something he was paying for, it was just part of his base plan apparently.. [1] http://images.gizmag.com/hero/9604_8070843257.jpg http://images.gizmag.com/hero/9604_8070843257.jpg
- kalleboo 13y agoIt's called 1seg and is part of the Japanese digital terrestrial OTA TV network (the regular digital OTA broadcasts contain a low-bandwidth stream for mobile devices to pick up). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg
- djcapelis 13y agoThe article also links to this product review of the tablet by 38 North which is a fascinating read: http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SamjiyonProductReview_RFrank102213-2.pdf http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SamjiyonProduc... (PDF) It is interesting to see how things happen in that country. It is such a strange environment for technology infrastructure and skills it is really interesting to see how they handle it and what ends up getting produced there.
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- pilsetnieks 13y ago> And sometimes, North Korean officials meeting with U.S. envoys have been known to quote from the novel during negotiations. I can only imagine those negotiations: - Mr. Supreme Leader, you must recall your troops from the DMZ or we will stop all medical and food aid! - Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
- wehadfun 13y agoI thought it had Microsoft Word which I thought was very interesting.
- devx 13y agoI doubt it. I think it was a mistake on QZ's part, maybe from bad translation. It must've been some other free office suite.
- smikhanov 13y agoThere's still something that looks like a legit copy of Fieldrunners (judging from the icon on page 3 in the PDF[1]) — I wonder if DPRK government actually licensed it from Subatomic Studios. [1] http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SamjiyonProductReview_RFrank102213-2.pdf http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SamjiyonProduc...
- wil421 13y ago"particularly useful for understanding how modern capitalism spread to all of the United States" because it shows how the exploitation of black slaves was the economic foundation of the American colonies and describes the Civil War as "a struggle between the bourgeoisie of the north and the landowners of the south." This sounds like North Korea's reality warp field but I dont think its too far off in a sense.
- anigbrowl 13y agoMarxism was quite a clever philosophy for its time but it remains rooted in the 19th century because its adherents are so doctrinaire that they're unwilling to revise its tenets in the face of new information.
- steveklabnik 13y agoGiven that Marxism _has_ changed over time, I'm not sure you can make this assertion. Of course, ANY group has people that hold onto an 'original' form of an idea, but they don't represent the majority.
- anigbrowl 13y agoMarxists seem excessively concerned with orthodoxy to me, as a whole. Mind you this is sort of unavoidable when a philosophy is named after a person. I have some sympathy with analytical and structural Marxism, but almost all the Marxists I encounter in person are of the more orthodox class warfare variety.
- dragonwriter 13y agoMarxists who aren't concerned with orthodoxy generally self-identify as "Socialists" rather than Marxists, even -- perhaps especially, given the degree to which Marxism as a label has become associated with Leninism and its descendants -- their approach to socialism generally follows Marx as opposed to other socialist thinkers.
- xacaxulu 13y agoAnd default background image of Dennis Rodman high-fiving Kim Jong-un!!!
- mathattack 13y agoI suspect that among the current generation of tablet buyers, it's more well known than in the US.