Oh gods.... I'm not overly sentimental (I think), but I've almost cried over humanities' fate after reading the abstract..
This.. clown (it's the nicest epithet I can think of, since it imples at worst an improper attempt at joke) is called a researcher.. He or she comes daily to his/her work (I assume) to this Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY and probably even wears some sort of white labcoat (when not busy with composing doctorate about exciting new uses for those holes and buttons which exist on the front of his/her coat.. ("You just wait till I tell you what happens if you combine the two! You'll never guess! I'll call the process "Tais' button-hole pairing bond" and win a Nobel!")
Honestly, I can't understand how THIS could happen anywhere.. I'm just sad now...
Actually there has been made and flown a nuclear-powered version of "The bear" - Tu-9something strategic bomber, it just didn't go into mass production.
Crap!.. When I saw that it was 'near Notre Dame' I thought that it's in Paris and I could fly there to attend, but then I noticed prices in dollars.. Apparently I'll never fulfill my dream of sitting through one of those events, feeling superior just because I attended primary school...
I'm very sorry that it is this way, but it's absolutely true.
Russian police is the worst criminal organisation in the country - no exceptions since they "police" their ranks very efficiently and you do not get higher than a trainee cadet if your superiors sense some moral backbone in you.
I know this because I have a friend who has an elder brother working in Moscow police.
While reading through suprisingly ignorant comments on _new_ tech of launching an ICMB from submerged position (this is slashdot, we are all supposed to be armchair warriors with underdeveloped muscle tissue and oversized brains filled with data on weaponry we would never, ever see unless its on youtube) and replies of ppl putting the record straight I just want to add this little nugget of information here:
In 199something (don't remember, but it was a crappy year in Russia - lost of bad news, the story got lost and resurfaced only in 2002 I think) Russian submarine has successfully launched ITS ENTIRE PAYLOAD in quick succession (as in several seconds between missiles) from submerged position - quite a feat of technology as well as personel training, since when launching more than one ICBM in quick succession one must take into account subs' weight change after the first missile leaves (it begins to surface), uneven wight distribution as pumps begin to fill ballast tanks with water to compensate just when the second missile fires, actual RECOIL begins to matter too - it's not much of a problem when you fire just once, but it becomes one if the sub's being shaken just as another missile is attmepting its launch..
So all in all - ICBMS from under water = old news.
Cheers
Experimental set-up raises a few questions
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Ants That Can Count
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I'm not being too serious here, but, even though these are just ants, wouldn't it be wrong to assume that I didn't arrive home with my legs cut off beneath the knee because of the resulting leg length?
I mean even though ants a just insects they are really complex mechanisms and there might be some form of damage reaction other than shorter steps after a partial limb loss - like general weakness and reduced desire to go anywhere at all?
Still, desert-roaming ants on stilts (I'm guessing that's how they've increased leg length) sound very much like new overlords we should better bow to ASAP..
It is open space, surrounded by more open space. In the middle there used to be a very nice-looking city (with green trees and everything) with pleasant population and no crime at all.
Which is not surprising, since it was populated by engineers of all kinds, scientists and service personnel serving under official jurisdiction of MoD and ever watchful eye of KGB.
And of course it has been lavishly funded by the government.
What you see now is the result of Yeltsin's era typical neglect of everything that does not bring money or (heaven forbid!) might do something to restore some national pride in citizens of Russian Federation.
Now situation is getting marginaly better, but still it's more along the lines of "ok, here's your salary for the last 6 months and you can reasonably expect the next one to be on time" rather than "there, we've just finished 2 hectare recreational winter garden for your children to play while you work in these new labs, 100% equipped with everything a scientist might need"..
That's sad, since paraphrasing what someone from The Three Musketeers said, commenting on Mazarini's stringiness compared with previous cardinal's approach to financing important projects "You don't do great things on economy budget".
(I took the quote from memory (which is in Russian), paraphrased it and translated it into English - therefore I freely admit that the result may be as far from the original as the moon - so please spare me your wrath, oh Dumas lovers out there!)
The general idea (though it is not said officially) as I understand it is to get us our own cosmodrome which
1. comes cheaper with no rent to pay and 2. can never be denied us whatever the political situation in the world is
while being as close to the equator as we can manage it - Plesetsk is too far to the north.
I think once it's built and fully operational (that is manned flights begin to launch from there) we might drop Baikonur option - or perhaps turn it into museum.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K....
I was good at school, so my dad bought me 48K version, instead of 16K one - oh, happy memories...
FlashOS
it seems it's almost done anyway..
Oh gods.... I'm not overly sentimental (I think), but I've almost cried over humanities' fate after reading the abstract..
This.. clown (it's the nicest epithet I can think of, since it imples at worst an improper attempt at joke) is called a researcher.. He or she comes daily to his/her work (I assume) to this Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY and probably even wears some sort of white labcoat (when not busy with composing doctorate about exciting new uses for those holes and buttons which exist on the front of his/her coat.. ("You just wait till I tell you what happens if you combine the two! You'll never guess! I'll call the process "Tais' button-hole pairing bond" and win a Nobel!")
Honestly, I can't understand how THIS could happen anywhere.. I'm just sad now...
Actually there has been made and flown a nuclear-powered version of "The bear" - Tu-9something strategic bomber, it just didn't go into mass production.
Crap!.. When I saw that it was 'near Notre Dame' I thought that it's in Paris and I could fly there to attend, but then I noticed prices in dollars.. Apparently I'll never fulfill my dream of sitting through one of those events, feeling superior just because I attended primary school...
True.
I'm very sorry that it is this way, but it's absolutely true.
Russian police is the worst criminal organisation in the country - no exceptions since they "police" their ranks very efficiently and you do not get higher than a trainee cadet if your superiors sense some moral backbone in you.
I know this because I have a friend who has an elder brother working in Moscow police.
Sad..
While reading through suprisingly ignorant comments on _new_ tech of launching an ICMB from submerged position (this is slashdot, we are all supposed to be armchair warriors with underdeveloped muscle tissue and oversized brains filled with data on weaponry we would never, ever see unless its on youtube) and replies of ppl putting the record straight I just want to add this little nugget of information here:
In 199something (don't remember, but it was a crappy year in Russia - lost of bad news, the story got lost and resurfaced only in 2002 I think) Russian submarine has successfully launched ITS ENTIRE PAYLOAD in quick succession (as in several seconds between missiles) from submerged position - quite a feat of technology as well as personel training, since when launching more than one ICBM in quick succession one must take into account subs' weight change after the first missile leaves (it begins to surface), uneven wight distribution as pumps begin to fill ballast tanks with water to compensate just when the second missile fires, actual RECOIL begins to matter too - it's not much of a problem when you fire just once, but it becomes one if the sub's being shaken just as another missile is attmepting its launch..
So all in all - ICBMS from under water = old news.
Cheers
I'm not being too serious here, but, even though these are just ants, wouldn't it be wrong to assume that I didn't arrive home with my legs cut off beneath the knee because of the resulting leg length?
I mean even though ants a just insects they are really complex mechanisms and there might be some form of damage reaction other than shorter steps after a partial limb loss - like general weakness and reduced desire to go anywhere at all?
Still, desert-roaming ants on stilts (I'm guessing that's how they've increased leg length) sound very much like new overlords we should better bow to ASAP..
It is open space, surrounded by more open space. In the middle there used to be a very nice-looking city (with green trees and everything) with pleasant population and no crime at all.
Which is not surprising, since it was populated by engineers of all kinds, scientists and service personnel serving under official jurisdiction of MoD and ever watchful eye of KGB.
And of course it has been lavishly funded by the government.
What you see now is the result of Yeltsin's era typical neglect of everything that does not bring money or (heaven forbid!) might do something to restore some national pride in citizens of Russian Federation.
Now situation is getting marginaly better, but still it's more along the lines of "ok, here's your salary for the last 6 months and you can reasonably expect the next one to be on time" rather than "there, we've just finished 2 hectare recreational winter garden for your children to play while you work in these new labs, 100% equipped with everything a scientist might need"..
That's sad, since paraphrasing what someone from The Three Musketeers said, commenting on Mazarini's stringiness compared with previous cardinal's approach to financing important projects "You don't do great things on economy budget".
(I took the quote from memory (which is in Russian), paraphrased it and translated it into English - therefore I freely admit that the result may be as far from the original as the moon - so please spare me your wrath, oh Dumas lovers out there!)
The general idea (though it is not said officially) as I understand it is to get us our own cosmodrome which
1. comes cheaper with no rent to pay and
2. can never be denied us whatever the political situation in the world is
while being as close to the equator as we can manage it - Plesetsk is too far to the north.
I think once it's built and fully operational (that is manned flights begin to launch from there) we might drop Baikonur option - or perhaps turn it into museum.