Well, no, not really. It started with George Hotz's dumps, which was a combination of hardware glitching + program running in OtherOS. If not the OtherOS, it wouldn't even be possible!!!
Before that PS3 system was very obscure, hence next to nothing was happening.
More to it, dumps, once analyzed, revealed epic mistakes in the encryption scheme (they used a static, instead of random number in crypto), which lead to Sony's private keys becoming public which lead to PS3 being hacked wide open.
However I wouldn't count with this happening again. It could well be that current gen consoles won't be hacked even in 10 years.
Actually, no, it wasn't Stalin's. In Stalin's era USSR was developing faster (actually, like 4+ times faster) than the West. He started with retrograde agricultural country and ended up with a nuclear superpower. Hitler's economy was insanely good too. And hell, yeah, we know about the price for both cases, no need to remind.
As far as USSR's economic growth goes, in Khruschev times it was still more than healthy, twice faster than the West. However , in Brezhnev's era at some point in 70th it simply stopped growing. Let alone that most of the grows was done at the cost of the quality (higher number of lower quality machines). In 1978 Soviet Union didn't grow even according to the official statistics.
Chernobyl? 200 thousand square kilometers affected. Then, maybe that happened because it's a former communist country, right. Is Japan, perhaps, industrial enough? Fukushima, cough?
The REAL negative thing about nuclear power is, that it's too damn RISKY to run the damn things. Benefits are not worth it (for many people, including me), THAT'S why it's being shut down in many countries.
There ARE better alternatives, in the first half of 2014 30% (thirty percent, yep) of electricity in Germany was generated using renewable sources (mainly wind, biogas and solar). (up from 6.3% in 2000)
They don't plan to stop at it either, current goals in Germany: Renewable electricity - 40 to 45% by 2025, 55 to 60% by 2035, and 80% by 2050
There are countries which are far ahead. For instance Sweden was at 50% back in 2005.
I'm glad you didn't mention iPad. Remember the expensive devices Microsoft was pushing in late 90th?
For me, and I'm pretty sure for most owners of the pocket PC's in early 2000-s transition from "Pocket PC" => "Pocket PC + Phone" was more than obvious. The only thing that was missing, was cheap enough tech. Apple was not the only company working on it.
Multi-touch => pitch to zoom and the likes is obvious too, we had that back in 90th.
Musk, however, managed to create electric car market, when car manufacturers were saying, nah, maybe a decade later.
Less than a half of "South Ossetia" was within joint Russo-Georgian peacekeeping forces mandate, so very kind of Russians to stop at the borders of entire "South Ossetia" a "country" with whopping 35 thousand population, which was offered wide autonomy and vice-president position with veto rights by Georgian authorities.
About 27 thousand Georgian internally displaced persons certainly appreciate the kindness of Russians.
I'm pretty sure they've also welcomed recent bulldozing their houses on "liberated" territory, it's certainly was done just to build new, more comfortable houses for them and not to cement ethnic cleansing.
Or, say, Abkhazia, with pre-war population 97 thousand Abkhazians and 246 thousand Georgians, no wonder Georgians wanted to flee the territory to let it become Russian protectorate.
Putin cannot use nukes in the Ukraine, even Russia's skilled propaganda machine won't be able to justify it. He can't stop the West from arming Ukraine. He can't prevail militarily in a county with 46 million people, which used to have 1 million men army back in USSR times, if it gets support from the West.
'Cause this very statement, which will piss off even its European allies like Germany/France/Italy isn't irrational enough... A couple of days ago he insulted Kazakhstan ("it was never a state"), the only former USSR republic he never had tensions with.
Putin is simply trying to re-create Soviet Union (according to him, its collapse was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of XX" you know), which isn't possible if Ukraine "goes West".
He's just yet another war veteran, who suffered mentally from the lost war syndrome and managed to come into power. We have seen them about 85 years ago. His actions are as "Machiavellian" as those of Adolf Aloisovich back then.. Aloisovich didn't have nuclear weapons though, so let's see, how this turns out.
Note that there is nothing that makes JIT compilers generate slower code. On the opposite: JIT compiler can gather profiling data, and improve code over time. (e.g. knowing which branch would be taken most of the time) what static compiler can not.
Inherent "slowness" and "memory hungriness" comes from the automatic memory management (garbage collection) and additional runtime type/boundary checks. Also a bit because of "write once run everywhere" (e.g. sin/cos functions are like 100 times slower than in C/C++, because CPU's features aren't used, to get exactly the same result on all platforms)
From my personal experience, Java's speed was on par with C/C++ code, while having much bigger mem footprint.
Let's remember recent changes in EU (50=95 years)
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Reality: in EU copiright on Elvis Presley's work was about to expire. (original term was 50 years) Viola, it's 95 years now.Justifications:
1) Not a guaranteed lifetime income (yikes): "McCreevy said that, with longer life expectancy, 50 years of copyright protection did not give artists a guaranteed lifetime income." 2) Poor european performers would suffer: "'If nothing is done, thousands of European performers who recorded in the late 1950s and 1960s will lose all of their airplay royalties over the next 10 years', McCreevy said. " 3) Why are composers better than performers: "'I have not seen or heard a convincing reason why a composer of music should benefit from a term of copyright that extends to the composer's life and 70 years beyond, while the performer should enjoy 50 years, often not even covering his lifetime', McCreevy said."
And last, but not least: "The proposals (to increase copiright from 50 to 95 years) were widely welcomed by the music industry." From: http://www.elvis.com.au/presle...
My point is: NONE of the arguments are in line with the original intent. None of the big players wants the system to drastically change either. Unless serious part of electorate starts to care, things are not going to change.
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Well, no, not really.
It started with George Hotz's dumps, which was a combination of hardware glitching + program running in OtherOS.
If not the OtherOS, it wouldn't even be possible!!!
Before that PS3 system was very obscure, hence next to nothing was happening.
More to it, dumps, once analyzed, revealed epic mistakes in the encryption scheme (they used a static, instead of random number in crypto), which lead to Sony's private keys becoming public which lead to PS3 being hacked wide open.
However I wouldn't count with this happening again. It could well be that current gen consoles won't be hacked even in 10 years.
Witcher 3 (was released on gog.com), Dreamfall released a couple of weeks ago.
How well they'll do remains to be seen, though.
Actually, no, it wasn't Stalin's.
In Stalin's era USSR was developing faster (actually, like 4+ times faster) than the West. He started with retrograde agricultural country and ended up with a nuclear superpower.
Hitler's economy was insanely good too.
And hell, yeah, we know about the price for both cases, no need to remind.
As far as USSR's economic growth goes, in Khruschev times it was still more than healthy, twice faster than the West.
However , in Brezhnev's era at some point in 70th it simply stopped growing. Let alone that most of the grows was done at the cost of the quality (higher number of lower quality machines). In 1978 Soviet Union didn't grow even according to the official statistics.
Then how is Earth 6000 years old? Isn't it what Bible states?
http://creation.com/6000-years
She speaks Cantonese.
She has close relatives who speak only Mandarin (and Zuckerberg wanted to communicate with them).
So it makes perfect sense to call her Chinese in this context.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/2...
Oh yeah. We saw how well things fly without vB, cough, Vanguard rocket, cough
None of them was even remotely at Von Braun's level.
Ok, it might be cheap, but "safe", seriously?
Chernobyl? 200 thousand square kilometers affected. Then, maybe that happened because it's a former communist country, right.
Is Japan, perhaps, industrial enough? Fukushima, cough?
The REAL negative thing about nuclear power is, that it's too damn RISKY to run the damn things. Benefits are not worth it (for many people, including me), THAT'S why it's being shut down in many countries.
There ARE better alternatives, in the first half of 2014 30% (thirty percent, yep) of electricity in Germany was generated using renewable sources (mainly wind, biogas and solar). (up from 6.3% in 2000)
They don't plan to stop at it either, current goals in Germany:
Renewable electricity - 40 to 45% by 2025, 55 to 60% by 2035, and 80% by 2050
There are countries which are far ahead. For instance Sweden was at 50% back in 2005.
I'm glad you didn't mention iPad. Remember the expensive devices Microsoft was pushing in late 90th?
For me, and I'm pretty sure for most owners of the pocket PC's in early 2000-s transition from "Pocket PC" => "Pocket PC + Phone" was more than obvious.
The only thing that was missing, was cheap enough tech.
Apple was not the only company working on it.
Multi-touch => pitch to zoom and the likes is obvious too, we had that back in 90th.
Musk, however, managed to create electric car market, when car manufacturers were saying, nah, maybe a decade later.
Lower crime rates, mandatory health insurance, larger middle class.
Well, yeah, but it's still a valid concern.
Weightlessness is a major problem, muscle atrophy, skeleton deterioration, both at rapid rate.
So Porsche, which sells about 80 000 cars annually, is "a fringe brand"? Seriously?
What makes F35 better or faster than F22?
Less than a half of "South Ossetia" was within joint Russo-Georgian peacekeeping forces mandate, so very kind of Russians to stop at the borders of entire "South Ossetia" a "country" with whopping 35 thousand population, which was offered wide autonomy and vice-president position with veto rights by Georgian authorities.
About 27 thousand Georgian internally displaced persons certainly appreciate the kindness of Russians.
I'm pretty sure they've also welcomed recent bulldozing their houses on "liberated" territory, it's certainly was done just to build new, more comfortable houses for them and not to cement ethnic cleansing.
Or, say, Abkhazia, with pre-war population 97 thousand Abkhazians and 246 thousand Georgians, no wonder Georgians wanted to flee the territory to let it become Russian protectorate.
No, it it doesn't necessarily end with "healthier content" unless you consider "dead" to be a healthy state.
Care to name all those "small countries" which are "broke anyway" dear friend?
Putin cannot use nukes in the Ukraine, even Russia's skilled propaganda machine won't be able to justify it.
He can't stop the West from arming Ukraine.
He can't prevail militarily in a county with 46 million people, which used to have 1 million men army back in USSR times, if it gets support from the West.
No, NATO didn't.
USA, Great Britain and... cough... Russia did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Isn't Kiev still a pre-dominantly Russian speaking city?
Exactly what makes Poroshenko a "nazi"?
'Cause this very statement, which will piss off even its European allies like Germany/France/Italy isn't irrational enough...
A couple of days ago he insulted Kazakhstan ("it was never a state"), the only former USSR republic he never had tensions with.
Putin is simply trying to re-create Soviet Union (according to him, its collapse was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of XX" you know), which isn't possible if Ukraine "goes West".
He's just yet another war veteran, who suffered mentally from the lost war syndrome and managed to come into power. We have seen them about 85 years ago. His actions are as "Machiavellian" as those of Adolf Aloisovich back then.. Aloisovich didn't have nuclear weapons though, so let's see, how this turns out.
It's called "hydro power plant" and it is already used as "battery" e.g. in UK.
(they literally pump water up, in non peak hours)
If gog.com (DRM free forever,, offline install) DOES support refund, why can't Valve?
In 1939 the west thought Hitler would stop in Czech Republic...
In 2008 the West thought Putin would stop in Georgia...
Note that there is nothing that makes JIT compilers generate slower code.
On the opposite: JIT compiler can gather profiling data, and improve code over time. (e.g. knowing which branch would be taken most of the time) what static compiler can not.
Inherent "slowness" and "memory hungriness" comes from the automatic memory management (garbage collection) and additional runtime type/boundary checks. Also a bit because of "write once run everywhere" (e.g. sin/cos functions are like 100 times slower than in C/C++, because CPU's features aren't used, to get exactly the same result on all platforms)
From my personal experience, Java's speed was on par with C/C++ code, while having much bigger mem footprint.
Reality: in EU copiright on Elvis Presley's work was about to expire. (original term was 50 years)
Viola, it's 95 years now.Justifications:
1) Not a guaranteed lifetime income (yikes): "McCreevy said that, with longer life expectancy, 50 years of copyright protection did not give artists a guaranteed lifetime income."
2) Poor european performers would suffer: "'If nothing is done, thousands of European performers who recorded in the late 1950s and 1960s will lose all of their airplay royalties over the next 10 years', McCreevy said. "
3) Why are composers better than performers: "'I have not seen or heard a convincing reason why a composer of music should benefit from a term of copyright that extends to the composer's life and 70 years beyond, while the performer should enjoy 50 years, often not even covering his lifetime', McCreevy said."
And last, but not least: "The proposals (to increase copiright from 50 to 95 years) were widely welcomed by the music industry."
From: http://www.elvis.com.au/presle...
My point is: NONE of the arguments are in line with the original intent.
None of the big players wants the system to drastically change either. Unless serious part of electorate starts to care, things are not going to change.