I highly disagree with your statement. Kharkiv may have been one of the largest tank factories when the USSR existed, but today Kharkiv is a shell of a former self. For example, Thailand had signed a contract to purchase 50 of Ukraine's latest T-84 "Oplot" tanks. The Kharkiv factory was producing those tanks at the rate of between 0 and 5 tanks per year. Facing the prospects of waiting for decades for the tanks that they ordered, Thailand is now talking to the Chinese tank manufacturers to order more tanks. In the recent years, Kharkiv has been exporting a whole lot of tanks, but those were basically refurbished T-72 tanks equipped with 5TD (T-64 engines) of which Ukraine had plenty in its storage deports. But as I mentioned, Kharkiv's record of producing brand new tanks has been relatively poor.
On the other hand, we can now say that many versions of Russia's T-90 tank were the most exported tank of the 21st century. India purchased more than one thousand T-90 tanks (some to be assembled in India), Algeria ordered several hundred, and Azerbaijan bought a hundred with options for more (those are the biggest T-90 orders that come up to my mind right now).
Please keep your political propaganda to yourself. The former poster had a very good point about those old Soviet munitions. The media does not report it, but such fires and blasts have happened many times in the recent years within Russia itself. So that was a good point IMO. In reality, we probably will never find out the truth about what happened there.
I follow Russian news, and I can tell that there is a massive fire and blasts like this one in Russia on a regular basis. I don't know if this reflects more on the poor governance in that part of the world or on the fact that many of those munitions are long past their prime. Have a look at these rusted grenade shells (pictures from Ukraine):
To be honest, I doubt we will ever find truth about what happened there. On one hand, this ammo depot is located in the region that borders Russia and Ukraine's pro-Russian separatist region of Donbass, and therefore, we can assume that there is a good chance that the fire was set off as an act of sabotage by Russians or by Ukraine's rebels.
On the other hand, considering the extremely poor, inept, and corrupt governance that all of Ukraine (including its military) have experienced in the last 25 years, I wouldn't discount the possibility that ammunition depot fire was set off by an accident.
Either way, this incident has produced pictures that rival the December of 2016 pyro-accident in Mexico.
It has been proven that unmanned exploration of space, as in sending telescopes, unmanned probes, and robots into space can produce major contributions to space sciences at a tiny fraction of the cost of sending humans into space. We don't need humans in the space because it's ridiculously expensive and robots can do the humans job in space just fine.
Intel has had >4 core CPUs but the affordable stuff for consumers has all been 4 core / 8 thread with the rest of the die given over to GPUs that nobody who needs high performance graphics wants anyway.
You're making it sound like AMD hasn't been doing the same. For the past four years, all their new consumer CPUs were quad-core APUs with an integrated GPU, while the GPU-less AMD FX processors have been nearly abandoned.
Another problem with Samsungs is that they are normally carrier locked and come with carrier bloatware. As a result, a typical Samsung phone has about one hundred more, impossible to delete, apps installed than a typical Oneplus or Nexus or Pixel. Being loaded with carrier bloatware crap also means incredibly slow update process because the updated ROM must be tested by the carrier.
There were reasons to upgrade to 5X. Great and accurate display. Better camera. Larger capacity battery. Its stock OS is Nougat that's updated every month. On the other hand, those improvements couldn't justify the hefty price increase for the phone with very limited storage and only 2GB on RAM. The Nexus 5X wasn't well received originally, but when I saw some online retailers selling 32GB model for under 250USD, I couldn't resist and got one for myself.
Oneplus proved that a cheap or affordable device can come with flagship level hardware and features. We're living in a kind of a smartphone bubble where a typical iPhone costs well under 300USD to manufacture, and yet retails for 650USD plus. I don't know why the Android flagship phones need to be just as expensive. Perhaps the Android phone manufacturers have bought into the myth that in order to be taken seriously, their phone must cost as much as the iPhone.
So my next reasonably priced device will be a OnePlus or Hauwei.
That's exactly my thought too. This seems like the trend now among the refugees from the Nexusland. I have had already very good experience with Oneplus One. This thing was built like a tank. It just refuses to die after being dropped and developing dents on its body. It is still surprisingly fast ans responsive smartphone with great battery, and with good community support.
The smartphone gossip at the beginning of each year has become very mundane and boring. Despite being promised a "game changer", We know that every new flagship phone will come with an identical latest gen snapdragon SoC, it will have a large high resolution display, plenty of RAM and storage, and they all will look the same.
Let's begin by saying that the stock ROMs on certain devices have become very adequate. I own a Nexus 5X and a Moto X Pure smartphone, and their stock ROMs are basically a pure Android experience. The software is already lean without any carrier bloat. Everything works fine, except for the times when google's rushed updates may sometimes introduce a new bug. I also run a stock Samsung ROM on my Galaxy Tab S tablet.
On the other hand, there is a considerable cost to using a third party alternative ROM like Cyanogenmod. For one, those third party ROMs don't always support hardware as well as the stock. If you had read release notes for something like a Cyanogenmod release, you had surely run into statements like "limited camera functionality" or "fingerprint sensor, etc".
Another issue with third party ROMs is that some software builders actively block or sabotage them. For example, the AT&T's Uverse streaming service will detect whether you have a rooted or third party ROM and stops working. The Netflix goes only up to 480p resolution on a non-stock ROM. "Fixing" this probably involves editing build.prop and hiding your root, but I haven't tried it recently.
You have a good point. Just look at how long the Brits have tried meddle in the American affairs. Nearly a century after the American Revolutionary War, the Brits were helping the Confederate separatists in 1860s, and in 1812 they outright invaded.
The history of Ukraine and Russia are so intertwined that they both claim that their origins are traced to the medieval state of Kievan Rus. (That is, Kiev, the modern capital of Ukraine at one point was the capital of all "Rus"). The word Ukraine itself is a Russian word that literally means "borderland". You know how closely two people's related to each other when they can still be seen bickering about whether Gogol was a great Russian or Ukrainian writer. At the same time the ownership of massive amount of territory in the South East Ukraine has very murky origins (it used to be land controlled by Crimean Tatars before conquered by Russian Empire in 18th century) and probably like half of all Ukrainians either identify themselves as Russians and Russian speakers. It's pretty much guaranteed that these two states are going to take a long time to settle all of their disputes. So you can't really trace parallels between Ukraine and a lot of other European countries, even though they are rattled by Russia's actions.
What "advanced stuff"? Please. As the baby boomer generation of the CS professors is dying out or being retired, the LISP is going away with them. LISP brought a few cool ideas into the programming world, such as functions as first class citizens or other elements of functional programming to the masses, but none of that justified compulsive teaching of LISP for like a half of century. It's quite telling when you observe that LISP is being used in the academia for DECADES and yet it just doesn't stick with its students in the real world. Something is wrong with it.
Let's face it. Your argument is kinda weak because every president elect has always been the world's biggest target regardless of how much of the popular vote the pres won (for the curious, the presidential candidates must always spend resources to optimize their electoral college votes because that's what counts, unlike the useless popular vote). The president's smartphone is always locked down and provided by the government IT specialists regardless of what his previous preferences were. Just last year, when the Samsung Galaxy S7 was "the thing", Obama was handed a "locked down" Galaxy S4 because this is how it works. The commander in chief must always be using a tested and locked down device.
Scheme is now almost a history in college classrooms too. It was common back when MIT, Berkeley, and other top CS programs used SICP in their introductory courses. Now that many of those schools have dropped SICP and replaced it with a Python based course, the LISP now is on much weaker footing in the college instruction.
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Like you said, nothing could go wrong. Just take a look at how well the ammo was stored:
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/25...
I highly disagree with your statement. Kharkiv may have been one of the largest tank factories when the USSR existed, but today Kharkiv is a shell of a former self. For example, Thailand had signed a contract to purchase 50 of Ukraine's latest T-84 "Oplot" tanks. The Kharkiv factory was producing those tanks at the rate of between 0 and 5 tanks per year. Facing the prospects of waiting for decades for the tanks that they ordered, Thailand is now talking to the Chinese tank manufacturers to order more tanks. In the recent years, Kharkiv has been exporting a whole lot of tanks, but those were basically refurbished T-72 tanks equipped with 5TD (T-64 engines) of which Ukraine had plenty in its storage deports. But as I mentioned, Kharkiv's record of producing brand new tanks has been relatively poor.
On the other hand, we can now say that many versions of Russia's T-90 tank were the most exported tank of the 21st century. India purchased more than one thousand T-90 tanks (some to be assembled in India), Algeria ordered several hundred, and Azerbaijan bought a hundred with options for more (those are the biggest T-90 orders that come up to my mind right now).
Please keep your political propaganda to yourself. The former poster had a very good point about those old Soviet munitions. The media does not report it, but such fires and blasts have happened many times in the recent years within Russia itself. So that was a good point IMO. In reality, we probably will never find out the truth about what happened there.
I follow Russian news, and I can tell that there is a massive fire and blasts like this one in Russia on a regular basis. I don't know if this reflects more on the poor governance in that part of the world or on the fact that many of those munitions are long past their prime. Have a look at these rusted grenade shells (pictures from Ukraine):
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/25...
To be honest, I doubt we will ever find truth about what happened there. On one hand, this ammo depot is located in the region that borders Russia and Ukraine's pro-Russian separatist region of Donbass, and therefore, we can assume that there is a good chance that the fire was set off as an act of sabotage by Russians or by Ukraine's rebels.
On the other hand, considering the extremely poor, inept, and corrupt governance that all of Ukraine (including its military) have experienced in the last 25 years, I wouldn't discount the possibility that ammunition depot fire was set off by an accident.
Either way, this incident has produced pictures that rival the December of 2016 pyro-accident in Mexico.
Have a look:
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/25...
My LG Nexus 5X is running the stock Nougat firmware, with no root or any mods, and it does occasionally reboot itself, maybe once a couple of weeks.
In fact, there is no mechanical HDD with full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080) either.
What are you talking about. A flagship phone must have a 4K screen and 10 core SoC.
What's the point of sending humans to Mars when all conceivable tasks and benefits can be accomplished by robots at a fraction of cost?
It has been proven that unmanned exploration of space, as in sending telescopes, unmanned probes, and robots into space can produce major contributions to space sciences at a tiny fraction of the cost of sending humans into space. We don't need humans in the space because it's ridiculously expensive and robots can do the humans job in space just fine.
Intel has had >4 core CPUs but the affordable stuff for consumers has all been 4 core / 8 thread with the rest of the die given over to GPUs that nobody who needs high performance graphics wants anyway.
You're making it sound like AMD hasn't been doing the same. For the past four years, all their new consumer CPUs were quad-core APUs with an integrated GPU, while the GPU-less AMD FX processors have been nearly abandoned.
Nah. It's Snowden's own decision. It turned out that the Russian political asylum health insurance does not cover the gender change surgery.
Another problem with Samsungs is that they are normally carrier locked and come with carrier bloatware. As a result, a typical Samsung phone has about one hundred more, impossible to delete, apps installed than a typical Oneplus or Nexus or Pixel. Being loaded with carrier bloatware crap also means incredibly slow update process because the updated ROM must be tested by the carrier.
There were reasons to upgrade to 5X. Great and accurate display. Better camera. Larger capacity battery. Its stock OS is Nougat that's updated every month. On the other hand, those improvements couldn't justify the hefty price increase for the phone with very limited storage and only 2GB on RAM. The Nexus 5X wasn't well received originally, but when I saw some online retailers selling 32GB model for under 250USD, I couldn't resist and got one for myself.
Oneplus proved that a cheap or affordable device can come with flagship level hardware and features. We're living in a kind of a smartphone bubble where a typical iPhone costs well under 300USD to manufacture, and yet retails for 650USD plus. I don't know why the Android flagship phones need to be just as expensive. Perhaps the Android phone manufacturers have bought into the myth that in order to be taken seriously, their phone must cost as much as the iPhone.
So my next reasonably priced device will be a OnePlus or Hauwei.
That's exactly my thought too. This seems like the trend now among the refugees from the Nexusland. I have had already very good experience with Oneplus One. This thing was built like a tank. It just refuses to die after being dropped and developing dents on its body. It is still surprisingly fast ans responsive smartphone with great battery, and with good community support.
The smartphone gossip at the beginning of each year has become very mundane and boring. Despite being promised a "game changer", We know that every new flagship phone will come with an identical latest gen snapdragon SoC, it will have a large high resolution display, plenty of RAM and storage, and they all will look the same.
Sound's like you have been buying wrong devices. A typical Google Nexus or Motorola device has a pretty lean ROM that's pretty close to stock Android.
Let's begin by saying that the stock ROMs on certain devices have become very adequate. I own a Nexus 5X and a Moto X Pure smartphone, and their stock ROMs are basically a pure Android experience. The software is already lean without any carrier bloat. Everything works fine, except for the times when google's rushed updates may sometimes introduce a new bug. I also run a stock Samsung ROM on my Galaxy Tab S tablet.
On the other hand, there is a considerable cost to using a third party alternative ROM like Cyanogenmod. For one, those third party ROMs don't always support hardware as well as the stock. If you had read release notes for something like a Cyanogenmod release, you had surely run into statements like "limited camera functionality" or "fingerprint sensor, etc".
Another issue with third party ROMs is that some software builders actively block or sabotage them. For example, the AT&T's Uverse streaming service will detect whether you have a rooted or third party ROM and stops working. The Netflix goes only up to 480p resolution on a non-stock ROM. "Fixing" this probably involves editing build.prop and hiding your root, but I haven't tried it recently.
You have a good point. Just look at how long the Brits have tried meddle in the American affairs. Nearly a century after the American Revolutionary War, the Brits were helping the Confederate separatists in 1860s, and in 1812 they outright invaded.
The history of Ukraine and Russia are so intertwined that they both claim that their origins are traced to the medieval state of Kievan Rus. (That is, Kiev, the modern capital of Ukraine at one point was the capital of all "Rus"). The word Ukraine itself is a Russian word that literally means "borderland". You know how closely two people's related to each other when they can still be seen bickering about whether Gogol was a great Russian or Ukrainian writer. At the same time the ownership of massive amount of territory in the South East Ukraine has very murky origins (it used to be land controlled by Crimean Tatars before conquered by Russian Empire in 18th century) and probably like half of all Ukrainians either identify themselves as Russians and Russian speakers. It's pretty much guaranteed that these two states are going to take a long time to settle all of their disputes. So you can't really trace parallels between Ukraine and a lot of other European countries, even though they are rattled by Russia's actions.
What "advanced stuff"? Please. As the baby boomer generation of the CS professors is dying out or being retired, the LISP is going away with them. LISP brought a few cool ideas into the programming world, such as functions as first class citizens or other elements of functional programming to the masses, but none of that justified compulsive teaching of LISP for like a half of century. It's quite telling when you observe that LISP is being used in the academia for DECADES and yet it just doesn't stick with its students in the real world. Something is wrong with it.
Let's face it. Your argument is kinda weak because every president elect has always been the world's biggest target regardless of how much of the popular vote the pres won (for the curious, the presidential candidates must always spend resources to optimize their electoral college votes because that's what counts, unlike the useless popular vote). The president's smartphone is always locked down and provided by the government IT specialists regardless of what his previous preferences were. Just last year, when the Samsung Galaxy S7 was "the thing", Obama was handed a "locked down" Galaxy S4 because this is how it works. The commander in chief must always be using a tested and locked down device.
I am personally glad our new president wasn't part of the iSheep sect.
Scheme is now almost a history in college classrooms too. It was common back when MIT, Berkeley, and other top CS programs used SICP in their introductory courses. Now that many of those schools have dropped SICP and replaced it with a Python based course, the LISP now is on much weaker footing in the college instruction.