That's because Russians make stuff that *just works*. Might not be so polished; but cheap and reliable... AK-47, T-34, IL-2, Soyuz, etc. It runs on kerosene FFS.
I kind of thought training was what schools specialize in.
A few bucks for a few guys to get the kinks out, and a couple workshops for the CS teachers, vs. licences for the whole country... I just can't see it.
How else can you beat free software? Not like labour is terribly expensive in RU; So I can't see installing being expensive. Schools should have plenty of bright young hackers to install it too...
No, it covers almost all of earth. A few years ago you would be more correct though.
It's short a few satellites for whole world coverage right now. Now that Russia has oil dollars running in, the whole world should be back up in a year or so... they've been launching satellites quite frequently the last few years.
Here is a map of current coverage.. basically everywhere except Antarctica. map A few pieces are missing here and there, but it's a far cry from "just russia".
Why don't they just throw a $0.50 EEPROM on the SMBus, with a string consisting of "APPLE INC" on it, and deny machines that don't have this..?
That's how I'd do it. Not that you can't get around this either, but it would require work... Of course they would have to phase this in on hardware now, and on OS releases in several years.
I guess I don't see the fascination with OSX in the first place though.
I guess I'm not the only one that read that as "proba dva":-)
It's Serbian too, but probably from latin or so? Wherever English picked it up from, I assume...
I think most other slavs would use sond* / zond*; 'proba' is valid in Russian, but i think 'zond' would be first choice.
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All of my 300A's ran fine at 450MHz with the crappy stock heatsink...
That's because Russians make stuff that *just works*. Might not be so polished; but cheap and reliable... AK-47, T-34, IL-2, Soyuz, etc.
It runs on kerosene FFS.
I kind of thought training was what schools specialize in.
A few bucks for a few guys to get the kinks out, and a couple workshops for the CS teachers, vs. licences for the whole country... I just can't see it.
True, but in Russia, Last I checked, a decent IT job pays maybe $500/mo. (2-3x more in Moscow).
That's what... 2 or 3 windows licences?
Special price == free || getting paid?
How else can you beat free software?
Not like labour is terribly expensive in RU; So I can't see installing being expensive. Schools should have plenty of bright young hackers to install it too...
No, it covers almost all of earth. A few years ago you would be more correct though.
It's short a few satellites for whole world coverage right now. Now that Russia has oil dollars running in, the whole world should be back up in a year or so... they've been launching satellites quite frequently the last few years.
Here is a map of current coverage.. basically everywhere except Antarctica.
map A few pieces are missing here and there, but it's a far cry from "just russia".
What good is a group of yes men?
Oh I didn't realize you had the EU in there. There would still be incessant arguing, then.
Russia already has one, GLONASS
They'll take my Black Russian from my cold dead hands.
Unless one of them winds up like Agilent.
Ridiculously expensive and world famous? Kinda sounds like socal.
Just because you don't hear about the EU fining european companies, doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
Say via http. with buttons, or text or something. Oh wait.
Is there a webpage with a big "turn off generators" button?
Seems to me this should be a physical access, big red button type thing, no?
routerstation is a router board made by ubiquiti
http://www.ubnt.com/products/rs.php
Looks a fair bit more powerful than say, a wrt54G, so I'm doubting this will run on one..?
I don't seem to recall tftpd being difficult to set up?
My western electric model 500 supports a phonebook push just fine... it comes in the mail once a year.
I don't understand how you'd use the phone with the phonebook *on* it though? How would you pick up the handset?
now get off my lawn.
What's exceptionally comical is that indie bands, burning CDs of themselves - still pay the levy to big music... wtf?
I do think it's made burning dubs de facto legal though...
They could have Lucas electrics.
My car has an 8kB EPROM, so most of those 100M lines must be comments.
Mind you, it is 20 years old.
A "floored" engine can produce more kinetic energy than the braking system can dissipate.
That would be incorrect.
Maybe if you just press lightly on the brakes for miles, and overheat em... but if you're going 60MPH and punch both pedals, the car will stop.
I wasn't aware that Europe == EU.
Why don't they just throw a $0.50 EEPROM on the SMBus, with a string consisting of "APPLE INC" on it, and deny machines that don't have this..?
That's how I'd do it. Not that you can't get around this either, but it would require work... Of course they would have to phase this in on hardware now, and on OS releases in several years.
I guess I don't see the fascination with OSX in the first place though.
I guess I'm not the only one that read that as "proba dva" :-)
It's Serbian too, but probably from latin or so? Wherever English picked it up from, I assume...
I think most other slavs would use sond* / zond*; 'proba' is valid in Russian, but i think 'zond' would be first choice.
Block unauthorized copies from receiving patches, and unauthorized copies have more malware.
Who'dda thunk it?
Courier. I like to pretend I'm reading a typewriter printout.