Elbrus gets Moscow Government backing

Elbrus will get government funding for the manufacture of its E2K processor from the Moscow Government. We'll be having a special look into the E2K's architecture as soon as I get a free weekend -- it's really interesting.

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History lesson: religion and language

[Chomsky]

Serbs use the cyrillic character set because of the prominence of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Kosovar Albanians are mainly Serbs who were converted to Islam when the Ottoman Turks invaded that area in 1400. The common religion is one of the main factors for Russia's opposition to NATO.

This is a long-standing conflict that is over 500 years old. Sad that people can't forgive and forget after that long of a time. I wonder how long it will take for the world to forgive the US for all that is has done in this century?

Notice that I said Russia's opposition to NATO, not their support for milosevich. Russia knows that he's a maniac, but they also understand the political power play that NATO is perpetrating right now. NATO control of eastern europe is a vast shift in the balance of power, and is not something that Russia likes. What happens if inter-cultural fighting happens within one of Russia's provinces? Will NATO go in there also?

Ironic, isn't it, that the breakup of the Soviet Bloc destabilized these countries that have many cultures and nationalities in them.

Why Moscow?

[Arandir]

Is the chip that worthless that the only way they can get people to invest in it is to appropriate tax-payer funding through the Russian government? I don't think that computer chips are a public-works type of commodity that needs such a funding mechanism. Perhaps I'm just an old fashioned individualist with an irrational distrust of governments.