As a fascist gangsta corporate programmer, I think you are surely right. Everybody knows, there are no liberal-minded people in Russia. Only brainwashed Ivan Dragos that are marching on the Red Square, guided by Putin the Dictator's steel hand.
And its a shame that Slashdot doesn't support UTF-8, so I cannot post some scary cyrillic sentence to puzzle you all.
That's all fun and games, but why are there no new products in the Internet Table line? C'mon, it's been almost 2 years since N810. The OS lives while the hardware was abandoned? Weird.
Almost every technology we have today would get you burned for witchcraft in 1857. Automated factories, mobile phones, television, airplanes, nukes... all the magic from a pre-industrial revolution viewpoint.
Dude, spot a difference: you are mostly talking about electronics. That's miniaturization. Far space exploration is not about it: it is about extreme energies, speeds and reliablity. Miniaturization saves resources, outer space needs LOTS of them.
Airlanes are more like it, but see what? Planes evolved during about 100 years, and then suddenly STOP! no more efficiency increase. The technology has reached its limit: advancing it further is too damn costly for anyone. No one has resources to do this. Not cost-effective.
And then spaceships. First space sci-fi's were written at the dawn of XX century. First satellite was launched by Soviets almost 50 years ago (don't forget to celebrate!). And - what? 50 years has passed and humanity was able only to land a couple of robots at Mars? Yes, it's pretty crowdy on Earth's orbit. Satellites are useful But going further is hitting the wall: not cost-effective anymore. Cold war is over, space race is over. People on earth has found more pleasant occupations: smacking those "bad" oil-owning countries, enforcing lousy copy protection on new digital mediums, manufacturing glittery expensive gadgets with names beginning with small "i" letter, and so on.
The magic wands that are being designed now will help with electronics. Let's all pray that those wands will help to solve energy crisis - that would be their primary occupation in the next 1000 years. But forget about outer space. Human civilization is pretty busy surviving on the comfy Earth surface. It simply doesn't have enough resources for sending spaceships to stars.
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Ah, I see.
The project I have worked on used neither WinForms nor unmanaged code, so C# made a very good impression on me.
Very interesting. What didn't you like about .Net?
As a fascist gangsta corporate programmer, I think you are surely right. Everybody knows, there are no liberal-minded people in Russia. Only brainwashed Ivan Dragos that are marching on the Red Square, guided by Putin the Dictator's steel hand.
And its a shame that Slashdot doesn't support UTF-8, so I cannot post some scary cyrillic sentence to puzzle you all.
That's all fun and games, but why are there no new products in the Internet Table line? C'mon, it's been almost 2 years since N810. The OS lives while the hardware was abandoned? Weird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Rhino
Almost every technology we have today would get you burned for witchcraft in 1857. Automated factories, mobile phones, television, airplanes, nukes ... all the magic from a pre-industrial revolution viewpoint.
Dude, spot a difference: you are mostly talking about electronics. That's miniaturization. Far space exploration is not about it: it is about extreme energies, speeds and reliablity. Miniaturization saves resources, outer space needs LOTS of them.
Airlanes are more like it, but see what? Planes evolved during about 100 years, and then suddenly STOP! no more efficiency increase. The technology has reached its limit: advancing it further is too damn costly for anyone. No one has resources to do this. Not cost-effective.
And then spaceships. First space sci-fi's were written at the dawn of XX century. First satellite was launched by Soviets almost 50 years ago (don't forget to celebrate!). And - what? 50 years has passed and humanity was able only to land a couple of robots at Mars? Yes, it's pretty crowdy on Earth's orbit. Satellites are useful But going further is hitting the wall: not cost-effective anymore. Cold war is over, space race is over. People on earth has found more pleasant occupations: smacking those "bad" oil-owning countries, enforcing lousy copy protection on new digital mediums, manufacturing glittery expensive gadgets with names beginning with small "i" letter, and so on.
The magic wands that are being designed now will help with electronics. Let's all pray that those wands will help to solve energy crisis - that would be their primary occupation in the next 1000 years. But forget about outer space. Human civilization is pretty busy surviving on the comfy Earth surface. It simply doesn't have enough resources for sending spaceships to stars.
Not directly related to your problem, but just FYI...
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html - D language, free, memory-managed and compiles to native code. Perhaps worth checking out.