First Putin's government pushed "GLONASS" system, an alternative to GPS. Oh, it still doesn't work and nobody expects it ever will.
Then, Putin's government pushes "Nanotechnologies" thingy, which brings as many results as "glonass" push and becomes one of the popular jokes.
They also push for "brand new" and "deadly as hell" "Bulava" rocket, which keeps exploding "because of sabotage" and because, "when so many factories are involved in producing it, it's absolutelly impossible to control it's quality" (not a joke, they've really said that)
Last, but, not least, russian government decides to dethrone USA as "supercomputers creator", by creating "supercomputers" using CPUs produced by US companies.
192x-195x Stalin's era: RAPID groth of the economy, turning russian empire from agricultural developing country into nuclear superpower
195x - 196x Khruschev's era: still RAPID groth of the economy (two times higher than in the west, about 10%), first "Sputnik", Gagarin etc
196x - 198x Brezhnevs's era: STAGNATION, in early 80th USSR became dependent on the income oil/gas exports. Economic reforms are STOPPED. It counts only how much you produce, not how much of that is sold. Hence, factory management cares only about the amounts, not the quality
198x - 199x Gorbatchov's era: being pressured by:
a) low oil prices
b) results of Brezhnev's mismanagement
c) Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
loses power to Eltsin, who, apparently, tries to break old USSR and create new one, but fails.
What would Russia be today, if not communists? Another Nigeria?
Where did 192x-196x sustained RAPID growth come from, if the system was so ineffective? (and have in mind, most of that time USSR was fighting either civil wars, or WWII or the cold war)
Associating walkman with something that big and that old.
My tape walkman was much smaller, nearly of the size of the tape.
Modern walkmen are superior to ipod nano-s in all ways (except, maybe, design, which is a matter of taste): price, features, kit earphones, no itunes bundling,
You can buy engines from Id or Valve.
Even if you don't, for instance, Blizzard, has team of about 80 developers, with at least 4 ongoing projects (i.e. roughly 20 per (mega) project):
World of Warcraft
Starcraft II
Diablo III
Unnamed MMO
For comparison, designer team, that works ONLY ON CINEMATICS has 85 members. (!)
EU spends about 800 million euros annually on translating legislative docs. Yet they are reluctant to spend less than that on a fusion project that could solve looming grave energy problems. (The times, when we run out of oil aren't that far away.)
The only basis for that ruling that I've found was a judicial ruling dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries, during the Crusades, you'll note. Christian convert faces death penalty in Afghanistan http://www.rawa.org/convert.htm
The Guardian, Mar.20, 2006
Since when do you need to be more intelligent to beat someone into submission? Yes, there was Roman Empire, but there was Mongol Empire too, remember? Wandals in Rome, were they more intelligent than romans? Give me a break...
Could you guys elaborate what is so great about iTunes? As having to use this weird program was one of the reasons why I've returned Ipod Touch 2nd gen and got Sony Walkmen, which didn't have any "great" programs that I absolutely had to use, no problem to copy stuff from more than one PC and, gasp, folder support.
Most likely, the pin architecture has changed again, rendering the socket they've got unsuitable for that new processor...
Well look at upgrades my PC got:
1) I've changed P4 + Motherboard to AM2 + Athlon 64 x2 (2.1Ghz, easily OCable to 2.7), keeping the case, HDD, DVD drive, power supply
2) 6 month later I've upgraded my graphic card (ATI 1950) and put in second HDD.
3) One year later I've bought yet another graphic card (ATI 4850) and a new power supply.
4) A few month later I've bought a DVB-S2 card and turned my PC into HTPC.
5) I felt my old case was too noisy, so I bought a new case (Antec p182)
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First Putin's government pushed "GLONASS" system, an alternative to GPS. Oh, it still doesn't work and nobody expects it ever will.
Then, Putin's government pushes "Nanotechnologies" thingy, which brings as many results as "glonass" push and becomes one of the popular jokes.
They also push for "brand new" and "deadly as hell" "Bulava" rocket, which keeps exploding "because of sabotage" and because, "when so many factories are involved in producing it, it's absolutelly impossible to control it's quality" (not a joke, they've really said that)
Last, but, not least, russian government decides to dethrone USA as "supercomputers creator", by creating "supercomputers" using CPUs produced by US companies.
Very strong weeds smoke they...
Look at the real picture:
loses power to Eltsin, who, apparently, tries to break old USSR and create new one, but fails.
What would Russia be today, if not communists? Another Nigeria? Where did 192x-196x sustained RAPID growth come from, if the system was so ineffective? (and have in mind, most of that time USSR was fighting either civil wars, or WWII or the cold war)
I wonder how do I download Opera, if Windows ships with no browser... ^^
Well, fake or not, it also states that Maelstrom comes next... ;)
Erm, so what's wrong with not having to lvl 1-55 for the fiftienth time?
Associating walkman with something that big and that old. My tape walkman was much smaller, nearly of the size of the tape. Modern walkmen are superior to ipod nano-s in all ways (except, maybe, design, which is a matter of taste): price, features, kit earphones, no itunes bundling,
You can buy engines from Id or Valve. Even if you don't, for instance, Blizzard, has team of about 80 developers, with at least 4 ongoing projects (i.e. roughly 20 per (mega) project): World of Warcraft Starcraft II Diablo III Unnamed MMO For comparison, designer team, that works ONLY ON CINEMATICS has 85 members. (!)
EU spends about 800 million euros annually on translating legislative docs. Yet they are reluctant to spend less than that on a fusion project that could solve looming grave energy problems. (The times, when we run out of oil aren't that far away.)
And if I gpg/pgp the email, what then?
Then they'll sue you for that. Unauthorized use of encryption software is illegal in, for example, France.
The only basis for that ruling that I've found was a judicial ruling dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries, during the Crusades, you'll note.
Christian convert faces death penalty in Afghanistan http://www.rawa.org/convert.htm The Guardian, Mar.20, 2006
Since when do you need to be more intelligent to beat someone into submission? Yes, there was Roman Empire, but there was Mongol Empire too, remember? Wandals in Rome, were they more intelligent than romans? Give me a break...
I don't trust manufacturers that have "Fn" button in place of "Ctrl".
So if I develop for Windows, I dare not criticize Microsoft?
Could you guys elaborate what is so great about iTunes? As having to use this weird program was one of the reasons why I've returned Ipod Touch 2nd gen and got Sony Walkmen, which didn't have any "great" programs that I absolutely had to use, no problem to copy stuff from more than one PC and, gasp, folder support.
Hm, does it work only in US? I don't see anything similiar to that in Germany.
Most likely, the pin architecture has changed again, rendering the socket they've got unsuitable for that new processor ...
Well look at upgrades my PC got: 1) I've changed P4 + Motherboard to AM2 + Athlon 64 x2 (2.1Ghz, easily OCable to 2.7), keeping the case, HDD, DVD drive, power supply 2) 6 month later I've upgraded my graphic card (ATI 1950) and put in second HDD. 3) One year later I've bought yet another graphic card (ATI 4850) and a new power supply. 4) A few month later I've bought a DVB-S2 card and turned my PC into HTPC. 5) I felt my old case was too noisy, so I bought a new case (Antec p182)
Critical mass for plutonium-239 is about 10kg. That's about 10cm ball. Which makes such rifles quite possible.