Indeed, especially as the technological base needed for asynchronous delivery on a subscription basis has been just about completely laid out. Heck, it can even deliver the same RSS items.
How about "valiant horseback warriors with strong values"? That's what the Scythians are usually famed for. Also, the Scythians are sometimes seen as a kind of predecessors of Slavs. You said "Eurasian" without giving much thought of it, didn't you?
1. Legal imported CDs are available at computer stores and large (or specialized) music stores, at least in large cities. 2. That's probably because housing utility costs are comparatively low and other regular payment schemes, like insurance, have not taken up yet. Thus, the people with lower incomes mostly spend money to buy food and things. I purchased most of my CD collection, in large part legal full-priced imports, while being a student working at an underpaid job. 3. Most local software-selling companies use various copy-prevention techniques, like hardware keys. Many do resort to affordable pricing, though. 4. Bootleg localizations are mostly crimes against humanity. This is especially true of games. 5. Erm... This is an issue how exactly? Nobody seems to care about lyrics around here. And I did buy Panjabi (well, sorta) songs because I like them:P
Odd that you use the present tense, because that era is gone. Plastic bags are sold everywhere at a small change and given away for free in the better stores.
How does the Russian music business operate? Do Russian artists sell CDs through the same networks, or do they make their living from performances?
They do sell CDs, at prices comparable to that of the pirated stuff (usually a little higher, but nothing close to an order of magnitude). I don't know how much the artists and the labels profit from that, but judging by some recent lawsuits regarding violations of royalty contracts to the tune of thousands dollars, there is some dough going around.
Including all those C subtleties when dealing with two dimensional arrays. So I write C as if it's Pascal, with none of that pointery elegance.
Generally, you wouldn't need pointers (nor want them, for the sake of clarity and validity) when you do arrays in loops. A modern optimizing compiler will take care of that for you.
Still, with multidimensional arrays, it's useful to understand how they are laid out in memory, so as to avoid going "against the grain" of cache locality.
One thing is a class of, say, Globals, referred as such thoughout the program. It's clean and good. What I said about is IConstants, "implemented" by every class that references the constants.
Static Import, actually promotes bad coding habits IMHO Ever seen bogus base classes or interfaces used to declare a bunch of constants? Those guys apparently missed static imports badly, if only to make their bad habits a bit more elegant. Bad coding is possible in every language.
What is it? Hordes of classes, all alike, auto-instantiated in memory? Noooooo!
The Java 5's generics have actually struck a good balance between syntactic sugar and resource usage considerations. Plus they translate onto standard bytecodes, so your provider's J2SE 1.4 deployment may run your generic classes (if you're careful with other novelties, that is).
Don't forget you can use XMPP as a transport for basically anything, and this WS-thing is certainly no exception. There is even an experimental JEP on transporting SOAP over Jabber.
Actually, nothing prevents you from implementing typesafe unboxed collections of primitive types in Java (or even natively via RMI). Of course, these collections can't be generic, and using them through normal collection interfaces will still incur boxing/unboxing. But if speed is an issue, even uglier things have to be done routinely.
it's currently ruled by rebel islamic militants. They're not so much rebel and even less islamic. Abkhazia is national authonomy that claims its independence, yet unrecognized in the world. Most of its inhabitants have been granted Russian citizenship, there are (unofficial) transport links between Russia and Abkhazia. Talks occur now and then in Abkhazia about joining the Russian Federation, to no avail.
Yes, and that's why it has evoked a nation-wide scoff immediately. There is virtually no self-respecting user in Russia who would buy this Crippled Edition, or keep it if it comes pre-installed.
They specced out C++ ABI and libraries this time. This is a nice addition, since many developers prefer C++ in spite of considerable rifts between it and the Unix culture. At the time LSB 1.3 was written, there was no open C++ ABI standard, and the issue was left dangling. There is such an ABI now, and g++ supports it fully. In fact, the entire LSB 2.0 C++ spec is written around libstdc++ from gcc 3.x.
all of Nokia's phones look like an alien has designed them
My feelings too. Nokia should hire designers who smoke less crack and are able to overcome their wild creativity so as to refrain from making the keypad something other than a fucking rectangular 4x3 key array plus some navigation buttons. Occasionally, however, they do create a damn good model, such as Nokia 6230. I drooled for it... only to find out that Sony Ericsson T630 has pretty much the same features at 2/3 the price.
My wife's dad worked there to contain the aftermath. Thankfully, he didn't have to do anything that dangerous, and he's still in good health. Actually, the "liquidators" are recognized with honors, and they are entitled to benefits from the government by a special law; they undergo regular health inspections, therapy and stuff. That engineer's position, however, is more ambivalent. People still can be found who are quick to blame everyone who worked there at the time of the accident.
Would you say things have improved since soviet times?
More likely, the system proceeded to deteriorate since then, among all the populist whines about "keeping up our universal public healthcare". To get treatment that's anywhere good, you generally have to turn to private clinics, get private insurance (above the mandatory "insurance" tax that keeps that ugly system afloat) or bribe the doctor in the "public" hospital.
However, one's mileage may vary. I have my own born daughter who is 8 months now (so I feel for your baby and wish him good), and the local public out-patient clinic for children gives her all she needs for her sound health; we've only chosen to get a paid vaccination elsewhere. But this is Moscow; drive 100km away and I'm certain the horror will be abound.
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Indeed, especially as the technological base needed for asynchronous delivery on a subscription basis has been just about completely laid out.
Heck, it can even deliver the same RSS items.
"Kliper", eh? I'm sure any resemblance to the McDonnell-Douglas Delta Clipper is purely coincidental.
It's not coincidental, in the sense that both refer to a word of longer history than both countries' space programs taken together.
XMPP permits signing, too. Having this, it's the same deal as it is in real life: you don't trust sensible information to strangers.
Time to switch to XMPP (AKA Jabber) and its
End-to-end encryption extension.
How about "valiant horseback warriors with strong values"? That's what the Scythians are usually famed for.
Also, the Scythians are sometimes seen as a kind of predecessors of Slavs. You said "Eurasian" without giving much thought of it, didn't you?
Hah, my old wooly sweater accumulates charge enough to kill small rodents!
Skif just seems like a particularly wimpy name for a "laser space battle station".
Skif means "Scythian" in the native tongue.
Do we live in different Russias, or what?
:P
1. Legal imported CDs are available at computer stores and large (or specialized) music stores, at least in large cities.
2. That's probably because housing utility costs are comparatively low and other regular payment schemes, like insurance, have not taken up yet. Thus, the people with lower incomes mostly spend money to buy food and things. I purchased most of my CD collection, in large part legal full-priced imports, while being a student working at an underpaid job.
3. Most local software-selling companies use various copy-prevention techniques, like hardware keys. Many do resort to affordable pricing, though.
4. Bootleg localizations are mostly crimes against humanity. This is especially true of games.
5. Erm... This is an issue how exactly? Nobody seems to care about lyrics around here. And I did buy Panjabi (well, sorta) songs because I like them
Odd that you use the present tense, because that era is gone. Plastic bags are sold everywhere at a small change and given away for free in the better stores.
Food? Britney Spears? Hmmm... You put it at a new angle for me.
How does the Russian music business operate? Do Russian artists sell CDs through the same networks, or do they make their living from performances?
They do sell CDs, at prices comparable to that of the pirated stuff (usually a little higher, but nothing close to an order of magnitude). I don't know how much the artists and the labels profit from that, but judging by some recent lawsuits regarding violations of royalty contracts to the tune of thousands dollars, there is some dough going around.
Including all those C subtleties when dealing with two dimensional arrays. So I write C as if it's Pascal, with none of that pointery elegance.
Generally, you wouldn't need pointers (nor want them, for the sake of clarity and validity) when you do arrays in loops. A modern optimizing compiler will take care of that for you.
Still, with multidimensional arrays, it's useful to understand how they are laid out in memory, so as to avoid going "against the grain" of cache locality.
"In Capitalist America, nubile faux-lesbian rock groups ignore YOU!"
You forgot the "faux-" ahead of "rock".
One thing is a class of, say, Globals, referred as such thoughout the program. It's clean and good.
What I said about is IConstants, "implemented" by every class that references the constants.
Static Import, actually promotes bad coding habits IMHO
Ever seen bogus base classes or interfaces used to declare a bunch of constants? Those guys apparently missed static imports badly, if only to make their bad habits a bit more elegant.
Bad coding is possible in every language.
What is it? Hordes of classes, all alike, auto-instantiated in memory? Noooooo!
The Java 5's generics have actually struck a good balance between syntactic sugar and resource usage considerations. Plus they translate onto standard bytecodes, so your provider's J2SE 1.4 deployment may run your generic classes (if you're careful with other novelties, that is).
Don't forget you can use XMPP as a transport for basically anything, and this WS-thing is certainly no exception. There is even an experimental JEP on transporting SOAP over Jabber.
Actually, nothing prevents you from implementing typesafe unboxed collections of primitive types in Java (or even natively via RMI). Of course, these collections can't be generic, and using them through normal collection interfaces will still incur boxing/unboxing. But if speed is an issue, even uglier things have to be done routinely.
it's currently ruled by rebel islamic militants.
They're not so much rebel and even less islamic. Abkhazia is national authonomy that claims its independence, yet unrecognized in the world. Most of its inhabitants have been granted Russian citizenship, there are (unofficial) transport links between Russia and Abkhazia. Talks occur now and then in Abkhazia about joining the Russian Federation, to no avail.
Yes, and that's why it has evoked a nation-wide scoff immediately.
There is virtually no self-respecting user in Russia who would buy this Crippled Edition, or keep it if it comes pre-installed.
Yogurt? That's a corrupt Western influence.
He must have been drinking kefir.
They specced out C++ ABI and libraries this time.
This is a nice addition, since many developers prefer C++ in spite of considerable rifts between it and the Unix culture.
At the time LSB 1.3 was written, there was no open C++ ABI standard, and the issue was left dangling. There is such an ABI now, and g++ supports it fully. In fact, the entire LSB 2.0 C++ spec is written around libstdc++ from gcc 3.x.
all of Nokia's phones look like an alien has designed them
My feelings too. Nokia should hire designers who smoke less crack and are able to overcome their wild creativity so as to refrain from making the keypad something other than a fucking rectangular 4x3 key array plus some navigation buttons.
Occasionally, however, they do create a damn good model, such as Nokia 6230. I drooled for it... only to find out that Sony Ericsson T630 has pretty much the same features at 2/3 the price.
My wife's dad worked there to contain the aftermath. Thankfully, he didn't have to do anything that dangerous, and he's still in good health.
Actually, the "liquidators" are recognized with honors, and they are entitled to benefits from the government by a special law; they undergo regular health inspections, therapy and stuff.
That engineer's position, however, is more ambivalent. People still can be found who are quick to blame everyone who worked there at the time of the accident.
Would you say things have improved since soviet times?
More likely, the system proceeded to deteriorate since then, among all the populist whines about "keeping up our universal public healthcare". To get treatment that's anywhere good, you generally have to turn to private clinics, get private insurance (above the mandatory "insurance" tax that keeps that ugly system afloat) or bribe the doctor in the "public" hospital.
However, one's mileage may vary. I have my own born daughter who is 8 months now (so I feel for your baby and wish him good), and the local public out-patient clinic for children gives her all she needs for her sound health; we've only chosen to get a paid vaccination elsewhere. But this is Moscow; drive 100km away and I'm certain the horror will be abound.