Well, you're perfectly right. Anyway Italy had a difficult history after that, and not a peaceful evolution like other countries enjoied. First, centuries of domination from almost all the other european powers, from middle age to 19th century. Then finally half a century of united Italy. Then a dictatorship and two world wars. And they were not "easy" wars, like the modern technologic ones. Basically half Europe was destroyed. Then reconstruction, thanks also to american help, and some really good decades where Italy was among the most powerful countries in the world. Now, down again, this time for the world-wide crysis, but also the fault of our recent governments and of italian mentality, I admit.
My great-uncle (who lived in Rome) told me that when the alleys entered Rome after the second war, and after having bombed quite a lot, an American or English general saw the half-destroyed colosseum (as it's actually been for centuries) and said "my God, what have we done!".
If I was an irritable Italian (maybe I am a bit) I would reply with a famous line: "your ancestors were painting their faces when ours were building aqueducts and sewers."
It's not nostalgy, or being Nazi/communist/gay, as is usual when one's opinion is different from yours, it's how much you want to "change the past". Earthquake is not an event tied to human evolution and civilization. An "uninteresting" battle of barbarians instead is part of history, in my opinion, and should not be discarded because previous events were cooler.
What do you mean? Rebuilding it as it was originally? But then it would not be original anymore! There's a reason ancient monuments are kept as they are. Yes of course all monuments desperately need to be better preserved, especially here in Italy. But the Colosseum, for example, lacks much of its external walls because in the centuries after Romans its stone blocks were "stolen" to build other things, before a culture of preserving the past was fully developed. Anyway, nobody would think of rebuilding it, because even as it is, it is a testament of the past history.
I entended my phone's battery life, and its speed and responsiveness, by uninstalling or disabling all (almost) the apps that have background processes always in execution. See under Settings -> Applications -> Running. You should really invest some time for finding alternative apps that don't rely on background processes for ads and the like, or recognize you don't need them installed all the time.
By trial and errors, you may find that it's only one or two apps that occupy the most resources. I suspect some programmers don't really know what "background" means. For me it totally was a weather app, shipping with the phone.
I'm afraid if one of the pilots wants to crash the plane, no policy, no matter how strict, can prevent it. He could simply strike the other one in the head, for example.
Anyway the certainity of what happened is still not definitive, let's not depict him as a murderer or a terrorist until then.
Wasn't Intel announcing ga.as. as their new technology some weeks ago, for their sub-10 nano chips? I guess they must have solved the cost problem, too.
Do professionals in that field use something more than "traditional" PCs? Like clusters, or the like? Or today's PCs have filled the gap, like they replaced the workstations of the past?
Just curious, what are the minimum hardware specs to use those programs decently? I suspect for professional video 90% of cost is the hardware, not the software.
I don't understand how those things work, how come documents are still leaking after years of Snowden's escape? Can't the world know everything at once? Does he sip them for better suspense? Or did they forget to revoke his password?
Sweden has a population of less than 10 million, like many other northern European countries, and those countries have strong economies and optimal wellfare, including universities and everything related, arguably because less pepole means more per capita resources.
These are some topics I've always been curious about, just for the sake of knowledge, and not to endorse them in any way, and that I never looked up, not even on wikipedia, for fear of being "flagged" or whatever:
- pipe bomb construction. Is really that easy to build one as they do in movies? Should I be worried that any psychopath could build one?
- mein kampf. What was going on in that man's mind?
I could think of many other ones... And consider that I don't even live in America.
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Well, you're perfectly right. Anyway Italy had a difficult history after that, and not a peaceful evolution like other countries enjoied. First, centuries of domination from almost all the other european powers, from middle age to 19th century. Then finally half a century of united Italy. Then a dictatorship and two world wars. And they were not "easy" wars, like the modern technologic ones. Basically half Europe was destroyed. Then reconstruction, thanks also to american help, and some really good decades where Italy was among the most powerful countries in the world. Now, down again, this time for the world-wide crysis, but also the fault of our recent governments and of italian mentality, I admit.
My great-uncle (who lived in Rome) told me that when the alleys entered Rome after the second war, and after having bombed quite a lot, an American or English general saw the half-destroyed colosseum (as it's actually been for centuries) and said "my God, what have we done!".
If I was an irritable Italian (maybe I am a bit) I would reply with a famous line: "your ancestors were painting their faces when ours were building aqueducts and sewers."
It's not nostalgy, or being Nazi/communist/gay, as is usual when one's opinion is different from yours, it's how much you want to "change the past". Earthquake is not an event tied to human evolution and civilization. An "uninteresting" battle of barbarians instead is part of history, in my opinion, and should not be discarded because previous events were cooler.
What do you mean? Rebuilding it as it was originally? But then it would not be original anymore! There's a reason ancient monuments are kept as they are. Yes of course all monuments desperately need to be better preserved, especially here in Italy. But the Colosseum, for example, lacks much of its external walls because in the centuries after Romans its stone blocks were "stolen" to build other things, before a culture of preserving the past was fully developed. Anyway, nobody would think of rebuilding it, because even as it is, it is a testament of the past history.
Light goes slower than c in any medium different from vacuum. Some objects can go faster than light in that medium (but not faster than c of course).
So many names in summary/article. Is it SPARC architecture? ARM architecture? Or a different one?
What about RAM? Hard disks? Network chips?
Of course I'm not an expert, but a plane already has tens of mission-critical computers in the cockpit. Why not use them?
Piu' lo mandi giu'...
By trial and errors, you may find that it's only one or two apps that occupy the most resources. I suspect some programmers don't really know what "background" means. For me it totally was a weather app, shipping with the phone.
Is like the change I have in my pocket. They payed to keep doing whatever they want.
And what about the locked door? May be the action of a semi-conscious man, but... too many coincidences.
Anyway the certainity of what happened is still not definitive, let's not depict him as a murderer or a terrorist until then.
Wasn't Intel announcing ga.as. as their new technology some weeks ago, for their sub-10 nano chips? I guess they must have solved the cost problem, too.
Do professionals in that field use something more than "traditional" PCs? Like clusters, or the like? Or today's PCs have filled the gap, like they replaced the workstations of the past?
Just curious, what are the minimum hardware specs to use those programs decently? I suspect for professional video 90% of cost is the hardware, not the software.
I don't understand how those things work, how come documents are still leaking after years of Snowden's escape? Can't the world know everything at once? Does he sip them for better suspense? Or did they forget to revoke his password?
Uri Geller?
I'd really want a guy named like that in charge of my experimental lab :-)
Energy conservation is paramount when you run on batteries, not for a charger connected to the power socket. Anyway I found it dumb too.
Sweden has a population of less than 10 million, like many other northern European countries, and those countries have strong economies and optimal wellfare, including universities and everything related, arguably because less pepole means more per capita resources.
These are some topics I've always been curious about, just for the sake of knowledge, and not to endorse them in any way, and that I never looked up, not even on wikipedia, for fear of being "flagged" or whatever:
- pipe bomb construction. Is really that easy to build one as they do in movies? Should I be worried that any psychopath could build one?
- mein kampf. What was going on in that man's mind?
I could think of many other ones... And consider that I don't even live in America.
Moreover, I think this issue is one of the most critical ones for the future of the world as we know it.
I suggest everyone buy a Kyocera phone as his next phone. Time to fight patent trolls with our wallets.