There's no way Putin could want non-Western Ukraine because term West lost its past meaning as countries opposed to Soviet Union. Russia has re-aligned with cold war West now and can arguably be considered part of it. Besides, Ukrainian and Russian are off-shoot of same original people. There's no way Europe and US wouldn't treat them as another kind of Russian since it's kinda true. There would be no point for them to take a side here other than to troll Soviet Union, which doesn't exist anymore.
Don't worry. It's only matter of time before average salary and working conditions will become even worse than in most other countries and immigration stops. It's a self-regulating process, you see:P
Besides, cost of living in US is higher so it's only matter of time before those immigrants figure out that they're being ripped off and will become as demanding as the rest of americans.
Maybe, but several thousands years has passed and culture of original Egyptian was destroyed by multitude of invaders. For example, they lost their original language and are mostly Muslim due to being conquered by Arabs at some point. A minority of them are Christian and only to Christian Egyptians the word 'Copt' applies. Neither of those are original Egyptian religions obviously. And probably they can't claim ancestry either due to thousand of years of interbreeding with said invaders. That's assuming ancestry matters even. On the other hand Egypt due to being ancient world power have influenced to some degree pretty much all other nations. It's just too selfish of those very distant relatives of original Egyptians to monopolize this topic of research. It goes against the interest of Humanity as the whole.
It's more to do with game development culture than windows. Game developers are traditionally inclined to use every complicated hack or undocumented api for minuscule performance gains, or just to feel clever. They consider games to be a separate kind of software with its own set of rules requiring different development and packaging practices than any other software. In practice those rules amount to being a cowboy coder and feeling good about it. I think they subconsciously their work 'just a game' and thus not serious software which justifies any amount of NIH and hacks in their eyes.
Over its history Egypt changed hands so much that whatever people ended up there in modern time may end up being related to Tutankhamun even to lesser degree than, say, British.
Calling them pro-west is meaningless. There are many definitions of 'west'. More properly they're nationalists and they're not afraid to use force, even against local law enforcement.
Defacing websites isn't war. It's a joke. Nobody in his right mind would hold anything of remotely strategic value accessible from internet and attackable. Only official websites can be targeted which is a waste of time strategically.
However, despite years of being joined and with time to all become on happy family that work well together, once given the chance, they not only separated, but almost all of them put out feelers and looked at joining the EU and NATO. NATO, whose only real point is to protect people from Russia. In the European family of nations, it really does seem like Russia is the drunk uncle who likes to abuse his wife and kids and gets mad when they try to move out and go to a shelter.
Not countries themselves but only their leadership. That's all theater to paint Russia as old soviet bogeyman to justify their positions of power. EU and NATO are not in strict opposition to Russia, it's not Soviet Union ffs, just another post-soviet state. It could as well end up in NATO eventually. I just think that we could be better off with only one post-soviet state rather than several ones like we did. There were many horrible things done as part by Soviet regime, but it not in any way can be considered purely Russian. Personnel from all republics participated. Stalin for example is ethnic Georgian. Communism transcends nationalities.
The thing is that most of them weren't. Some originally joined Russian Empire completely voluntarily like Georgia. Some didn't even have a state when those territories were colonized and have them now simply because they weren't exterminated like American natives. Some are failed conquerors of Russia themselves, like Poland and Lithuania. Most post soviet countries are artificial. Some of peoples that stayed within Russian Federation have more claims to sovereignty than those states. Making them independent was pointless. Many of them got even worse regimes than the past soviet one. Russian Federation happens to be one of more democratic ones. I think all of them would be better off staying in the same state and building their post-soviet future together.
No, they were started by Putin trying to build a third Russian Empire on the ruins of Soviet Union. At this point the hope for Russia, the region and perhaps the world is that old age does its job before he can cause irreparable damage.
The truly sad thing is that it's saber-rattling like this that keeps Russia from assuming the place its size, population and natural resources would otherwise entitle it to. No one wants to deal with people who renege on their deals and send in the military the second they get - or manufacture - an excuse. Why do you think Ukrainians hated the very thought of "closer ties" - also known as chains - with Russia enough to revolt?
That's a cute theory based on complete ignorance of current situation. Just look at the consequence: Georgia is still independent and many Ossetians were saved from getting killed. I'd say Russia did a better job at avoiding being imperialist than, say, US. Honestly, I'm a world citizen, and I'm for complete abolition of separate states. For now I think the less separate states there is the better. Especially those run by petty national radicals like Georgia and Ukraine. Partition of Soviet Union was a joke, most of its people was against it.
Well, as a Russian citizen I don't consider the government to be in any way imperialist. Both Ukraine and Georgia issues are started by blatant cases of cultural imperialism. There was outright attempt of genocide in Ossetia. Ukraine isn't better. All former soviet republic countries are ruled by former soviet statesmen who want to justify their positions by encouraging local nationalism. Country borders are in many ways artificial because they were set during soviet times when there was no plans to make them independent states. Crimea itself was part of Russian 'Soviet Republic' in the past and later was passed to Ukraine to make the map look more beautiful or something. All ethnic russian people that ended up on territory of Ukraine due to those shenanigans are target of 'ukrainization' efforts by ukrainian nationalists. There's no other way to stop those radicals than armed force it seems.
It's a myth that IDEs increase productivity. Maybe they can allow you to pump out code faster, but you want to write as few code as possible anyway. Most of time you should spend thinking on how to write as few code to accomplish your objective as possible, not actually writing code.
The thing is it's very hard to determine whether project is or isn't pointless. There's always non-obvious reasons to have it around, maybe as research project, maybe it'll end up linux killer after all, maybe it just will result to some ideas reused in other kernel projects. There's no way YOU would know better than people actually contributing to it. When you're saying that it's pointless you're just randomly guessing.
So called 'permissive licenses' are a joke. Clauses in them are utterly useless. While GPL aims to prevent the use of copyright for destructive purposes. If such prevention is unneeded for various reasons then you're better off skipping 'permissive' licenses in favor of WTFPL which at least doesn't pretend to be something serious.
Not playing along with established metagame does NOT make the game boring, on the contrary it makes it more interesting. If such non-convetional strategies aren't to the designer's liking he wouldn't allow them in the first place.
I believe that developers should be paid for developing software, but nonetheless think that copyright should be abolished. I consider GPL to be a vigilante subversion of copyright, the more proper way would be abolition of copyright and patents. They lead to rent seeking behavior and money streams from sales of licenses attracts non-technical people to management positions which operate their business as pure money making machines driven by marketing. The actual software engineering quality suffers because marketing is more efficient at producing more sales and can whitewash poor engineering.
It's important to understand that copyright and patents are complete bullshit and do more harm than good. People can only be paid for job they do, not for nonsensical 'intellectual property'.
No real wealth is involved. Of course you can buy that ship with $5000 of real money, but it's hardly a good idea to do so. You can earn it in game instead. As far as RL economy is concerned it's just donation of arbitrary amount of money to CCP.
1. Can you use money to manage use of organs? I think no. Due to their scarcity only qualified medical personell can decide where to allocate them, not market forces that would happily let 90 year old rich men to get organ transplant at expense of everyone else.
2. Can we allow people to sell their own organs? No, because they'll sell them to get an iPad or something.
I have heard that all of those toolkits suck for some people for various reasons. And GTK accomplished what it set out to achieve too. So you're just showing double standard to GTK here. Personally I ever used Qt for any more or less serious GUI work and I'm kinda tired of their preprocessor hackery. Maybe I seriously should check out wxwidgets then.
Qt and wxwidgets aren't particularly good at blending in with native apps either. Qt5 have dropped any use of native widgets beside for backwards compatibility afaik. All gui toolkits suck in different ways. Qt doesn't appeal to pure C programmers because it's C++, personally I don't particularly like it as C++ programmer because it doesn't use the language to its full potential and employs hacks like MOC. But it's the only more-or-less complete cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit atm.
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There's no way Putin could want non-Western Ukraine because term West lost its past meaning as countries opposed to Soviet Union. Russia has re-aligned with cold war West now and can arguably be considered part of it. Besides, Ukrainian and Russian are off-shoot of same original people. There's no way Europe and US wouldn't treat them as another kind of Russian since it's kinda true. There would be no point for them to take a side here other than to troll Soviet Union, which doesn't exist anymore.
Then it must with Tatarstan and not Ukraine :P
Don't worry. It's only matter of time before average salary and working conditions will become even worse than in most other countries and immigration stops. It's a self-regulating process, you see :P
Besides, cost of living in US is higher so it's only matter of time before those immigrants figure out that they're being ripped off and will become as demanding as the rest of americans.
Maybe, but several thousands years has passed and culture of original Egyptian was destroyed by multitude of invaders. For example, they lost their original language and are mostly Muslim due to being conquered by Arabs at some point. A minority of them are Christian and only to Christian Egyptians the word 'Copt' applies. Neither of those are original Egyptian religions obviously. And probably they can't claim ancestry either due to thousand of years of interbreeding with said invaders. That's assuming ancestry matters even. On the other hand Egypt due to being ancient world power have influenced to some degree pretty much all other nations. It's just too selfish of those very distant relatives of original Egyptians to monopolize this topic of research. It goes against the interest of Humanity as the whole.
It's more to do with game development culture than windows. Game developers are traditionally inclined to use every complicated hack or undocumented api for minuscule performance gains, or just to feel clever. They consider games to be a separate kind of software with its own set of rules requiring different development and packaging practices than any other software. In practice those rules amount to being a cowboy coder and feeling good about it. I think they subconsciously their work 'just a game' and thus not serious software which justifies any amount of NIH and hacks in their eyes.
Over its history Egypt changed hands so much that whatever people ended up there in modern time may end up being related to Tutankhamun even to lesser degree than, say, British.
Calling them pro-west is meaningless. There are many definitions of 'west'. More properly they're nationalists and they're not afraid to use force, even against local law enforcement.
And at the time of Russian Empire too! In fact russians, ukrainians and tatars all are invaders there.
Defacing websites isn't war. It's a joke. Nobody in his right mind would hold anything of remotely strategic value accessible from internet and attackable. Only official websites can be targeted which is a waste of time strategically.
However, despite years of being joined and with time to all become on happy family that work well together, once given the chance, they not only separated, but almost all of them put out feelers and looked at joining the EU and NATO. NATO, whose only real point is to protect people from Russia. In the European family of nations, it really does seem like Russia is the drunk uncle who likes to abuse his wife and kids and gets mad when they try to move out and go to a shelter.
Not countries themselves but only their leadership. That's all theater to paint Russia as old soviet bogeyman to justify their positions of power. EU and NATO are not in strict opposition to Russia, it's not Soviet Union ffs, just another post-soviet state. It could as well end up in NATO eventually. I just think that we could be better off with only one post-soviet state rather than several ones like we did. There were many horrible things done as part by Soviet regime, but it not in any way can be considered purely Russian. Personnel from all republics participated. Stalin for example is ethnic Georgian. Communism transcends nationalities.
The thing is that most of them weren't. Some originally joined Russian Empire completely voluntarily like Georgia. Some didn't even have a state when those territories were colonized and have them now simply because they weren't exterminated like American natives. Some are failed conquerors of Russia themselves, like Poland and Lithuania. Most post soviet countries are artificial. Some of peoples that stayed within Russian Federation have more claims to sovereignty than those states. Making them independent was pointless. Many of them got even worse regimes than the past soviet one. Russian Federation happens to be one of more democratic ones. I think all of them would be better off staying in the same state and building their post-soviet future together.
No, they were started by Putin trying to build a third Russian Empire on the ruins of Soviet Union. At this point the hope for Russia, the region and perhaps the world is that old age does its job before he can cause irreparable damage.
The truly sad thing is that it's saber-rattling like this that keeps Russia from assuming the place its size, population and natural resources would otherwise entitle it to. No one wants to deal with people who renege on their deals and send in the military the second they get - or manufacture - an excuse. Why do you think Ukrainians hated the very thought of "closer ties" - also known as chains - with Russia enough to revolt?
That's a cute theory based on complete ignorance of current situation. Just look at the consequence: Georgia is still independent and many Ossetians were saved from getting killed. I'd say Russia did a better job at avoiding being imperialist than, say, US. Honestly, I'm a world citizen, and I'm for complete abolition of separate states. For now I think the less separate states there is the better. Especially those run by petty national radicals like Georgia and Ukraine. Partition of Soviet Union was a joke, most of its people was against it.
Well, as a Russian citizen I don't consider the government to be in any way imperialist. Both Ukraine and Georgia issues are started by blatant cases of cultural imperialism. There was outright attempt of genocide in Ossetia. Ukraine isn't better. All former soviet republic countries are ruled by former soviet statesmen who want to justify their positions by encouraging local nationalism. Country borders are in many ways artificial because they were set during soviet times when there was no plans to make them independent states. Crimea itself was part of Russian 'Soviet Republic' in the past and later was passed to Ukraine to make the map look more beautiful or something. All ethnic russian people that ended up on territory of Ukraine due to those shenanigans are target of 'ukrainization' efforts by ukrainian nationalists. There's no other way to stop those radicals than armed force it seems.
It's a myth that IDEs increase productivity. Maybe they can allow you to pump out code faster, but you want to write as few code as possible anyway. Most of time you should spend thinking on how to write as few code to accomplish your objective as possible, not actually writing code.
You know, sports like football are just games too, only not not software-assisted.
The thing is it's very hard to determine whether project is or isn't pointless. There's always non-obvious reasons to have it around, maybe as research project, maybe it'll end up linux killer after all, maybe it just will result to some ideas reused in other kernel projects. There's no way YOU would know better than people actually contributing to it. When you're saying that it's pointless you're just randomly guessing.
So called 'permissive licenses' are a joke. Clauses in them are utterly useless. While GPL aims to prevent the use of copyright for destructive purposes. If such prevention is unneeded for various reasons then you're better off skipping 'permissive' licenses in favor of WTFPL which at least doesn't pretend to be something serious.
Not playing along with established metagame does NOT make the game boring, on the contrary it makes it more interesting. If such non-convetional strategies aren't to the designer's liking he wouldn't allow them in the first place.
I believe that developers should be paid for developing software, but nonetheless think that copyright should be abolished. I consider GPL to be a vigilante subversion of copyright, the more proper way would be abolition of copyright and patents. They lead to rent seeking behavior and money streams from sales of licenses attracts non-technical people to management positions which operate their business as pure money making machines driven by marketing. The actual software engineering quality suffers because marketing is more efficient at producing more sales and can whitewash poor engineering.
It's important to understand that copyright and patents are complete bullshit and do more harm than good. People can only be paid for job they do, not for nonsensical 'intellectual property'.
No real wealth is involved. Of course you can buy that ship with $5000 of real money, but it's hardly a good idea to do so. You can earn it in game instead. As far as RL economy is concerned it's just donation of arbitrary amount of money to CCP.
All patents must be abolished. They only encourage rent-seeking behavior.
1. Can you use money to manage use of organs? I think no. Due to their scarcity only qualified medical personell can decide where to allocate them, not market forces that would happily let 90 year old rich men to get organ transplant at expense of everyone else.
2. Can we allow people to sell their own organs? No, because they'll sell them to get an iPad or something.
I have heard that all of those toolkits suck for some people for various reasons. And GTK accomplished what it set out to achieve too. So you're just showing double standard to GTK here. Personally I ever used Qt for any more or less serious GUI work and I'm kinda tired of their preprocessor hackery. Maybe I seriously should check out wxwidgets then.
Yes. They should include at least Islam's and Hinduism's viewpoints :P
Qt and wxwidgets aren't particularly good at blending in with native apps either. Qt5 have dropped any use of native widgets beside for backwards compatibility afaik. All gui toolkits suck in different ways. Qt doesn't appeal to pure C programmers because it's C++, personally I don't particularly like it as C++ programmer because it doesn't use the language to its full potential and employs hacks like MOC. But it's the only more-or-less complete cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit atm.