russia has the most natural resources than any other country in the world and a highly educated population
The latter gradually trickles out as the thorough but rigid Soviet educational system slowly crumbles apart, and a bit too profit-oriented establishments emerge instead. There is still too much political resistance to establish any kind of a modern educational system here. Add to that a brain drain the size of one small city per year, and the circumstance that for every educated professional, there is a vodka guzzling prole, a corrupt anything-for-a-fee "public servant", a teeth grinding armchair patriot with a persecution complex about anything concerning Russia in the world... The potential of becoming a larger version of Nigeria becomes very real.
It is known (although ignored in strict radiation regulations) that the same dose received in short time is much more harmful than the dose received during longer times.
Tell that to the people who live downstream of the Mayak plant.
That's an underinformed comment. Saratov is a major Russian city on Volga (and that always meant something). Altai is a region in Russia, about the mountain range with the same name. Granted, the latter is relatively backwater. And I, too, feel sympathy for the winners who are far from the usual suspects (who scored well too).
One thing I'd like to see in the libraries developed for cross-toolkit use: if you're doing it in C, do it well and use Glib as a basis. It's a good cross-platform runtime support library with no extra dependencies, and it won't spoil the purity of your Qt or Xfce code by pulling in a Gtk+ main loop or something. It's sad to see Freedesktop libraries avoiding a Glib dependency in the core library for political reasons, reinventing the set of wheels that Glib provides and adding a -glib compatibility layer on top of it. Leave the "it came out of GNOME, so it can't be good" rhetoric to/. fanboys.
Well, the results are mixed. It seems to render my pr0n^H^H^H^Hvideo files without the quirks and sudden crashes that the version based on GStreamer 0.8 used to have. Seeking works fine. On the other hand, no easy DVD playback as of now, and that's confirmed by a look at the source. They're probably waiting for a usable DVD navigation plugin port for GStreamer 0.10, which didn't happen yet. So, if you watch DVDs a lot, use the Xine-based build.
My sister is going through this right now, with her POS Motorola V300 which she had for two years. The inner cable got flakey, and the phone is going to flip out any day. She's going to buy herself a candybar phone as a replacement.
If I were to program games on Cell, I'd rather not use a dumbed down all-in-one compiler. This is the kind of an easy solution for a complex problem that's never going to work well. And programming a heterogeneous, asynchronous, memory-asymmetric architecture is complex.
Let there be an SPE compiler that produces "tasklets": bits of SPE code plus some positioning information, such as location of DMA areas. The compiler may be for some specialized vector-friendly language to match the units' instruction set well. Then, make a library for the main CPU to facilitate deployment of SPE tasklets, handle synchronization, DMA area management, dynamic unit allocation and so on. You'll be amazed how many programmers turn out ready to work in this model.
If someone just wants to port existing code, well, there is a whole POWER core there, AltiVec and all! Is it too weak?
My prediction is that XHTML 2.0 will more likely establish itself first in scenarios other than the classic web (and Web 2.0, for that matter). Now, whenever an XML application designer has a need to spec "rich text"-like embedded payloads, they consider XHTML as the most natural candidate. Look at this XMPP extension proposal for an example. The modular nature of XHTML 2.0 adds versatility: you can lock down your next-gen instant p2p hyperblog protocol to use a safer and saner subset of XHTML and have schemas at hand to verify it.
You are one of those people whose knowledge of history is taken entirely from recent propaganda speeches.
Dude, at least some of my knowledge comes directly from my grandma, whose family house once got a watch tower built right before its door (it couldn't open wide anymore!) as part of a penal labor camp. Of course, this annexed a large part of the family's plot of land as well — remember, there was no such thing as private land for Bolsheviks. Later, some NKVD grunts basking in their power used the house's wall for target practice, what do you mean kids live there! I've seen the bullet holes and the damage done to build that magnificent camp installation, with my own eyes. During and after the war, the grandma was left alone with four kids, without any help from supposedly "people's" government, working all day for a meager wage and no hope to feed her family. She had to give some of her children out to an orphanage for a time, which then was marginally better than leaving them die of hunger.
I bet the leftie academics at your uni didn't tell you about such things, eh?
I'm in no way a left-leaning moonbat. In fact, I'm afraid for Ukraine because I think that the influence of the Orthodox Church will be too eroded if Ukraine aligns with the West.
That makes you... wait for it... a right-leaning moonbat!
Russia has a lot to atone for, and you are not even trying...
Don't take this stupid troll for the voice of Russia whole. I feel for the hunger victims and the purged, were they in Ukraine, Russia or Poland. In a sense, one might say that Russia too was occupied by a hostile force, but... oh well.
Can the problem be solved using in-game mechanism? For example, each act of handing out/dropping/selling an item for an unreasonably low price detracts from the player's "suspicion karma" value, which then slowly recuperates. When the karma drops below a certain threshold, the player becomes persona non grata, open for anyone to kill for an in-game reward and loot. This shouldn't be a problem for legitimate users, but a gold farmer would bust their karma very fast in order to make a profit.
Why, I improved my English noticeably while playing MUDs.
Seriously though, MUDs are much much better in this respect than graphical MMORPGs, due to copious amounts of descriptive text you HAVE to understand and be able to read quickly (just try keeping up with scrolling lines during a pitched battle).
I think Mono is OK in GNOME as long as it's used to run applications at the top of the dependency stack. GNOME can live without Beagle if it must, but any pivotal library or service, such as GnomeVFS, should still be implemented in C, if only for fear of sudden patent complications.
For example even double buffering (never mind any fancy graphics manipulation) is still an extension for chrissake! In 2005!
So what's exactly your problem with its being a discoverable extension? Maybe by 2015, it will be utterly obsolete, like many extensions have become now, and dropped by most then-modern X servers. As opposed to remaining as unused cruft that got stuck in the core protocol.
Sure, but you only need one person to earn you that $10 affiliate fee for the pornsite or the poker to pay for the domain.
Yes, but email spammers draw this gullible person from a pool of hundreds of thousands. If IM spam controls are maintained early in the system's adoption, the SPIMmers may not get the sucker base to break profit.
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russia has the most natural resources than any other country in the world and a highly educated population
The latter gradually trickles out as the thorough but rigid Soviet educational system slowly crumbles apart, and a bit too profit-oriented establishments emerge instead. There is still too much political resistance to establish any kind of a modern educational system here.
Add to that a brain drain the size of one small city per year, and the circumstance that for every educated professional, there is a vodka guzzling prole, a corrupt anything-for-a-fee "public servant", a teeth grinding armchair patriot with a persecution complex about anything concerning Russia in the world... The potential of becoming a larger version of Nigeria becomes very real.
You seem to have a peculiar grudge against Russia, or why should you post this redundant comment in several threads?
In South Korea, dying in your own bed is only for old people.
Man, I wish more people would read your post.
It is known (although ignored in strict radiation regulations) that the same dose received in short time is much more harmful than the dose received during longer times.
Tell that to the people who live downstream of the Mayak plant.
As the newswires have it, Saratov got gold, Jagiellonian and Twente shared silver with Altai Tech.
That's an underinformed comment.
Saratov is a major Russian city on Volga (and that always meant something). Altai is a region in Russia, about the mountain range with the same name. Granted, the latter is relatively backwater. And I, too, feel sympathy for the winners who are far from the usual suspects (who scored well too).
One thing I'd like to see in the libraries developed for cross-toolkit use: if you're doing it in C, do it well and use Glib as a basis. It's a good cross-platform runtime support library with no extra dependencies, and it won't spoil the purity of your Qt or Xfce code by pulling in a Gtk+ main loop or something. It's sad to see Freedesktop libraries avoiding a Glib dependency in the core library for political reasons, reinventing the set of wheels that Glib provides and adding a -glib compatibility layer on top of it. Leave the "it came out of GNOME, so it can't be good" rhetoric to /. fanboys.
...adopted the same color scheme, citing exactly the same reasons.
The second one is the magnificent Airliners.net.
You must be speaking of Totem, the media player.
Well, the results are mixed. It seems to render my pr0n^H^H^H^Hvideo files without the quirks and sudden crashes that the version based on GStreamer 0.8 used to have. Seeking works fine. On the other hand, no easy DVD playback as of now, and that's confirmed by a look at the source. They're probably waiting for a usable DVD navigation plugin port for GStreamer 0.10, which didn't happen yet. So, if you watch DVDs a lot, use the Xine-based build.
My sister is going through this right now, with her POS Motorola V300 which she had for two years. The inner cable got flakey, and the phone is going to flip out any day. She's going to buy herself a candybar phone as a replacement.
If I were to program games on Cell, I'd rather not use a dumbed down all-in-one compiler. This is the kind of an easy solution for a complex problem that's never going to work well. And programming a heterogeneous, asynchronous, memory-asymmetric architecture is complex.
Let there be an SPE compiler that produces "tasklets": bits of SPE code plus some positioning information, such as location of DMA areas. The compiler may be for some specialized vector-friendly language to match the units' instruction set well. Then, make a library for the main CPU to facilitate deployment of SPE tasklets, handle synchronization, DMA area management, dynamic unit allocation and so on. You'll be amazed how many programmers turn out ready to work in this model.
If someone just wants to port existing code, well, there is a whole POWER core there, AltiVec and all! Is it too weak?
I'm wondering too... Any chance it's IMPS AKA Wireless Village?
I'm amazed at how immature some of my /. friends' friends can be.
My prediction is that XHTML 2.0 will more likely establish itself first in scenarios other than the classic web (and Web 2.0, for that matter). Now, whenever an XML application designer has a need to spec "rich text"-like embedded payloads, they consider XHTML as the most natural candidate. Look at this XMPP extension proposal for an example. The modular nature of XHTML 2.0 adds versatility: you can lock down your next-gen instant p2p hyperblog protocol to use a safer and saner subset of XHTML and have schemas at hand to verify it.
Whoa. There is a Russian idiom to describe people like you: "khot' kol na golove teshi." I believe this translates to 'dickhead'. Have a nice day.
You are one of those people whose knowledge of history is taken entirely from recent propaganda speeches.
Dude, at least some of my knowledge comes directly from my grandma, whose family house once got a watch tower built right before its door (it couldn't open wide anymore!) as part of a penal labor camp. Of course, this annexed a large part of the family's plot of land as well — remember, there was no such thing as private land for Bolsheviks. Later, some NKVD grunts basking in their power used the house's wall for target practice, what do you mean kids live there! I've seen the bullet holes and the damage done to build that magnificent camp installation, with my own eyes. During and after the war, the grandma was left alone with four kids, without any help from supposedly "people's" government, working all day for a meager wage and no hope to feed her family. She had to give some of her children out to an orphanage for a time, which then was marginally better than leaving them die of hunger.
I bet the leftie academics at your uni didn't tell you about such things, eh?
That makes you... wait for it... a right-leaning moonbat!
Russia has a lot to atone for, and you are not even trying...
Don't take this stupid troll for the voice of Russia whole.
I feel for the hunger victims and the purged, were they in Ukraine, Russia or Poland. In a sense, one might say that Russia too was occupied by a hostile force, but... oh well.
Can the problem be solved using in-game mechanism?
For example, each act of handing out/dropping/selling an item for an unreasonably low price detracts from the player's "suspicion karma" value, which then slowly recuperates. When the karma drops below a certain threshold, the player becomes persona non grata, open for anyone to kill for an in-game reward and loot. This shouldn't be a problem for legitimate users, but a gold farmer would bust their karma very fast in order to make a profit.
Why, I improved my English noticeably while playing MUDs.
Seriously though, MUDs are much much better in this respect than graphical MMORPGs, due to copious amounts of descriptive text you HAVE to understand and be able to read quickly (just try keeping up with scrolling lines during a pitched battle).
I have that with my Opteron for months now.
Oh, you mean cold fusion...
I think Mono is OK in GNOME as long as it's used to run applications at the top of the dependency stack. GNOME can live without Beagle if it must, but any pivotal library or service, such as GnomeVFS, should still be implemented in C, if only for fear of sudden patent complications.
For example
even double buffering (never mind any fancy graphics manipulation)
is still an extension for chrissake! In 2005!
So what's exactly your problem with its being a discoverable extension?
Maybe by 2015, it will be utterly obsolete, like many extensions have become now, and dropped by most then-modern X servers. As opposed to remaining as unused cruft that got stuck in the core protocol.
Sure, but you only need one person to earn you that $10 affiliate fee for the pornsite or the poker to pay for the domain.
Yes, but email spammers draw this gullible person from a pool of hundreds of thousands. If IM spam controls are maintained early in the system's adoption, the SPIMmers may not get the sucker base to break profit.