Better buy Boris Grebenschikov Aquarium CD "Chaos, the Sister". It's title song "500" really tells it all. This is not a typical album for BG, athough the coolest one I have heard yet (IMHO).
For the broader public I am translating the news into English. At the moment of posting I am still in the process, but hope to put it in a readable form soon. The first snapshot is already available there (produced by Babelfish)
Just a year or so Russian Ministry of Education approved a deal to Microsoft, not to local educational system developers. It was a normal case with a rumors of bribery wich usually turns out to be true.
Today we see that technological superiourity and the development model of Linux opens the doors even in Russian political system.
I am happy for Russia, and you know, we have a lot of smart people who will contribute back to Linux soon.
They couldn't organize the means of production because everybody was lying about everything. It was a game of fake numbers, and when you do that, you get crap for answers.
The real problem here is, there is no real value for anyting in a socialistic economy. Only big "customers" like military have a say on what do they really need and what is relatevely more valuable for them. This fundamental flaw screwes up the whole accounting. Stalin had managed to get out of the industry what he needed for the war, but as soon as the cold war started, where not only the military resources mattered, socialism lost. Lost because it was desorientated by military valuation approach and not by the free market one.
What is the actual cost of greenhouse gases, for instance? If you create a marketplace mechanism to solve that problem, you will probably end up creating wealth, and people would stop doing the stupid things they do now because it doesn't cost them anything.
Has he ever heard about the Kioto Protocol and that G.W.Bush has just denonced US signature, done by G.Klinton?:-)
1. Bavaria is mostly CDU/CSU state, and this parties actually were about to support the US with the war. (just today they won state parlament elections with overwhelming 60% majority (next nearest about 20%) 2. It does totaly make sense to pay less to foreign company for the product and give this money to the locals who will support the system. 3. As to the other distros, as I understand they do not really make much effort to become certifyied for enterprise scale applications. SuSE and Mandrake did.
Well, while I could not find a "near-field for dummies" link anywhere, let me explain it to you myself.
Far-field and Near-field are just two simplified formulas, describing one electromagnetic field in different regions. But as we can use what we can describe, these notions are now routinely refered to as objects.
Basically the term comes from the approach to a problem of a wave propagation equation with constraints (e.g. difraction on a piston for Maxwell equation, but not limited to). Often the solution is much easier to formulate if one wants to know the field properties quite far from the source. Quite far means more than couple of wavelenghs. For most practical cases it holds true. (e.g. broadcasting radiowaves). This is "far-field".
But what happens in the immediate vicinity of the source? There is analytical solution as well, and it is called "near-field". It dissapears very quickly with the distance from the source, that is why we do not have to take it into account while dealing with "common" far-field waves.
Recently there were found application of this field in Microscopy, and it seems Data Transmission is following. The whole thing about this field is that it does not propagate far, so the energy is contained in a limited volume. In Microscopy one can get better resolution. For the data transfer it means that field density in that volume is relatively higher compared to the "far-field" mode of radiation.
But once again, this are mathematical objects to describe (electromagnetical) field. These objects came into existance because of the particular structure of the field equation.
"Getting to know people from the opposite sex would be nice,
Salsa, Tango, or whatever is there for you, could be a keyword. You do not need to be a womanizer to nicely spend some time dancing. More to that, learning salsa is even geeky. Man really have to think and plan how does he want his partner to move, otherwise it won't work. It's not just jumping around to the music:-)
Wrong. If we make it hard for terrorist groups to communicate, we break them down. They cannot carry out plans as quickly if they must communicate by horseback courier (see also: Taliban).
Where is Osama bin Laden? Where is Saddam Husein? Where are the Chechen rebels leaders who live and commit acts of terror on the chechen territory where is no privacy for civilists whatsoever?
What do you think about hundreds of suspected talibs on US military base on Guantanamo who are detained with no regard to the basic human rights there? (See various human rights watch reports on this topic) What would you say about recent news that US Government faked the evidences which cleaned the way to Iraq war? They had all the possible technology intelligence there, did not they?
And at the end, what has brought chechen nation into such a state that their women opt for terror killing themself to revenge for their men and children killed by russian army? Answer is - neglection of any right from basic human to sophysticated constitutional ones.
These people do not care about the speed of delivery. Civilians dissapear in Chechnya every day only to be found dead in couple of cases or not to be found ever since for majority of cases. It apparently does not matter if they die today or tomorrow. Do not forget, we talk here about SUICIDE bombers. Thus, I consider you point about the speed completely irrelevant.
Again, I think you mix the problem of fast communication with the problem of communication. Such terrorists do not need that much information to be exchanged once the ammunition is there and they are set up for action. And so it will not change the balance of power if you make impossible fast communication for such suicide bombers. You will, though, significantly limit the liberties of other people by taking away their right to communicate freely and secure.
The history of KGB and their deeds are not the ones to ignore in this particular Moscow case. This are the same people that have been repressing russian population during communists times.
This decision was officially (I've read it in Russian press) explained to enable FSB (new KGB name) eavesdrop in realtime. They can eavesdrop even with the encryption turned on, but only offline.
This is exactly the situation that show us how political goals should not be pursued with technological means. Hardly this thing will change the situation in Chechnya, and those chechenian women that SUICIDED themself couple of days ago causing tens of civil deaths would have certainly found the way to do it without the cellular phone.
My WAN provider was using 802.11b for MAN range links in Moscow. Than I would install wired Ethernet to bring the connection to private housenholds, usually apartments in huge blocks of flats. We had up to 8Mbps over 10 to 30 km. Compare it to ADSL five years ago:-)
We used directed anntennaes and a proprietary "token ring like" protocol to manage MAN WiFi network radio-discipline.
The whole spectrum was to license from government and a couple of companies has bought off the licenses for the whole Moscow area and than would resell them to anybody.
So if you wanted to install new wifi access point, you would do that, test it and than pay one of these companies for the sub-license, so to say.
Of course there were guys who would just install their stuff and do not tell anybody. That would work if they did not advertize.
My advice - if you have this licensing stuff, do as this companies in Moscow did, get some money (from investors ?) and buy out the licenses for the hot spots at least.
Who cares how or if they replace you? You're leaving. Unless this is some sort of bluff to make the company cave in
Yeah! Here should have been a full stop.
Now the new sentence starts: is there a some sort of bluff to make the company cave in?
I do not think so. My scenario - company will let you go, will bring in consultants and fire your boss after or even before the consulting team finaly gets on track. Than they will start looking for new permanent employees.
I do not think it will bring much to you, you will be out anyway by then.
Well, it might be actually introducing Munich in there, but in a new role, who knows... now when high precision munition is finding its way into computer games:)
Well, once, my post, my higly informative and from very cutting edge of technology post was rejected by Slashdot. (now look at my homepage where I am from:)
I would suggest these certain guys at that certain place could build a viable business (in Russian terms) for next couple of years. It is only that they were enthusiastic morons and have let FBI people get their passwords by collecting scancodes once this "hackers" were in USA. Well, they came into USA for a business development mission, but that was a wrong decision, wich did not fit to their business modell at all (stay out of reach of the authorities in the target country).
So I might suggest there are more consistent and successful "businessmen" out there now, who do not come to USA for a roadshow.
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Naprimer "Othod na sever" :-)
Better buy Boris Grebenschikov Aquarium CD "Chaos, the Sister". It's title song "500" really tells it all. This is not a typical album for BG, athough the coolest one I have heard yet (IMHO).
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For the broader public I am translating the news into English. At the moment of posting I am still in the process, but hope to put it in a readable form soon. The first snapshot is already available there (produced by Babelfish)
Pora uze, tvoiu-to matj, umom Rossiu ponimajt!
A lozung "Mozhno tolko veritj" nadolgo sleduet poheritj!!!
There is still a supported working PT-DOS, developed in my University for govermental and military use (even for sattelite systems).
150+ mln. people in the world understand Russian, guess how many among them read and post to slashdot?
Uchitesj ponimat i lubit russkii yazyk, yazuk velikih uchenyh i khudozhnikov!
In Russia all MS products de facto cost $3 for 650MB for companies smaller than 50 employees. People just buy them on the flea-markets.
:-) It could work for Munich, Germany, but not for Moscow, Russia.
So I do not see Ballmer in Moscow any time soon with such mission.
These are great news.
Just a year or so Russian Ministry of Education approved a deal to Microsoft, not to local educational system developers. It was a normal case with a rumors of bribery wich usually turns out to be true.
Today we see that technological superiourity and the development model of Linux opens the doors even in Russian political system.
I am happy for Russia, and you know, we have a lot of smart people who will contribute back to Linux soon.
They couldn't organize the means of production because everybody was lying about everything. It was a game of fake numbers, and when you do that, you get crap for answers.
:-)
The real problem here is, there is no real value for anyting in a socialistic economy. Only big "customers" like military have a say on what do they really need and what is relatevely more valuable for them. This fundamental flaw screwes up the whole accounting. Stalin had managed to get out of the industry what he needed for the war, but as soon as the cold war started, where not only the military resources mattered, socialism lost. Lost because it was desorientated by military valuation approach and not by the free market one.
What is the actual cost of greenhouse gases, for instance? If you create a marketplace mechanism to solve that problem, you will probably end up creating wealth, and people would stop doing the stupid things they do now because it doesn't cost them anything.
Has he ever heard about the Kioto Protocol and that G.W.Bush has just denonced US signature, done by G.Klinton?
1. Bavaria is mostly CDU/CSU state, and this parties actually were about to support the US with the war. (just today they won state parlament elections with overwhelming 60% majority (next nearest about 20%)
2. It does totaly make sense to pay less to foreign company for the product and give this money to the locals who will support the system.
3. As to the other distros, as I understand they do not really make much effort to become certifyied for enterprise scale applications. SuSE and Mandrake did.
hm....maybe they are smarter than we (think)!!
Certainly!
Well, while I could not find a "near-field for dummies" link anywhere, let me explain it to you myself.
Far-field and Near-field are just two simplified formulas, describing one electromagnetic field in different regions. But as we can use what we can describe, these notions are now routinely refered to as objects.
Basically the term comes from the approach to a problem of a wave propagation equation with constraints (e.g. difraction on a piston for Maxwell equation, but not limited to). Often the solution is much easier to formulate if one wants to know the field properties quite far from the source. Quite far means more than couple of wavelenghs. For most practical cases it holds true. (e.g. broadcasting radiowaves). This is "far-field".
But what happens in the immediate vicinity of the source? There is analytical solution as well, and it is called "near-field". It dissapears very quickly with the distance from the source, that is why we do not have to take it into account while dealing with "common" far-field waves.
Recently there were found application of this field in Microscopy, and it seems Data Transmission is following. The whole thing about this field is that it does not propagate far, so the energy is contained in a limited volume. In Microscopy one can get better resolution. For the data transfer it means that field density in that volume is relatively higher compared to the "far-field" mode of radiation.
But once again, this are mathematical objects to describe (electromagnetical) field. These objects came into existance because of the particular structure of the field equation.
Quite a view. Right?
Really, moderating this thing as a troll is unfair.
Only if the brewing timing is right. Use my teatimer(written in Java) to make sure you do not miss the right moment.
No not 500% increase, only handing and shipment from US, that's it. Stupid, though, all the taxes and profit going to US, not to UK.
"Getting to know people from the opposite sex would be nice,
:-)
Salsa, Tango, or whatever is there for you, could be a keyword. You do not need to be a womanizer to nicely spend some time dancing. More to that, learning salsa is even geeky. Man really have to think and plan how does he want his partner to move, otherwise it won't work. It's not just jumping around to the music
--
And remember:
Wrong. If we make it hard for terrorist groups to communicate, we break them down. They cannot carry out plans as quickly if they must communicate by horseback courier (see also: Taliban).
Where is Osama bin Laden? Where is Saddam Husein? Where are the Chechen rebels leaders who live and commit acts of terror on the chechen territory where is no privacy for civilists whatsoever?
What do you think about hundreds of suspected talibs on US military base on Guantanamo who are detained with no regard to the basic human rights there? (See various human rights watch reports on this topic)
What would you say about recent news that US Government faked the evidences which cleaned the way to Iraq war? They had all the possible technology intelligence there, did not they?
And at the end, what has brought chechen nation into such a state that their women opt for terror killing themself to revenge for their men and children killed by russian army? Answer is - neglection of any right from basic human to sophysticated constitutional ones.
These people do not care about the speed of delivery. Civilians dissapear in Chechnya every day only to be found dead in couple of cases or not to be found ever since for majority of cases. It apparently does not matter if they die today or tomorrow. Do not forget, we talk here about SUICIDE bombers. Thus, I consider you point about the speed completely irrelevant.
Again, I think you mix the problem of fast communication with the problem of communication. Such terrorists do not need that much information to be exchanged once the ammunition is there and they are set up for action. And so it will not change the balance of power if you make impossible fast communication for such suicide bombers. You will, though, significantly limit the liberties of other people by taking away their right to communicate freely and secure.
The history of KGB and their deeds are not the ones to ignore in this particular Moscow case. This are the same people that have been repressing russian population during communists times.
This decision was officially (I've read it in Russian press) explained to enable FSB (new KGB name) eavesdrop in realtime. They can eavesdrop even with the encryption turned on, but only offline.
This is exactly the situation that show us how political goals should not be pursued with technological means. Hardly this thing will change the situation in Chechnya, and those chechenian women that SUICIDED themself couple of days ago causing tens of civil deaths would have certainly found the way to do it without the cellular phone.
My WAN provider was using 802.11b for MAN range links in Moscow. Than I would install wired Ethernet to bring the connection to private housenholds, usually apartments in huge blocks of flats. We had up to 8Mbps over 10 to 30 km. Compare it to ADSL five years ago :-)
We used directed anntennaes and a proprietary "token ring like" protocol to manage MAN WiFi network radio-discipline.
The whole spectrum was to license from government and a couple of companies has bought off the licenses for the whole Moscow area and than would resell them to anybody.
So if you wanted to install new wifi access point, you would do that, test it and than pay one of these companies for the sub-license, so to say.
Of course there were guys who would just install their stuff and do not tell anybody. That would work if they did not advertize.
My advice - if you have this licensing stuff, do as this companies in Moscow did, get some money (from investors ?) and buy out the licenses for the hot spots at least.
Who cares how or if they replace you? You're leaving. Unless this is some sort of bluff to make the company cave in
Yeah! Here should have been a full stop.
Now the new sentence starts: is there a some sort of bluff to make the company cave in?
I do not think so. My scenario - company will let you go, will bring in consultants and fire your boss after or even before the consulting team finaly gets on track. Than they will start looking for new permanent employees.
I do not think it will bring much to you, you will be out anyway by then.
Well, it might be actually introducing Munich in there, but in a new role, who knows... now when high precision munition is finding its way into computer games :)
This evil German things like militarism, discipline are Prussian, while Bavaria hates them.
Come on, give us a break!
Well, once, my post, my higly informative and from very cutting edge of technology post was rejected by Slashdot. (now look at my homepage where I am from :)
I would suggest these certain guys at that certain place could build a viable business (in Russian terms) for next couple of years. It is only that they were enthusiastic morons and have let FBI people get their passwords by collecting scancodes once this "hackers" were in USA. Well, they came into USA for a business development mission, but that was a wrong decision, wich did not fit to their business modell at all (stay out of reach of the authorities in the target country).
So I might suggest there are more consistent and successful "businessmen" out there now, who do not come to USA for a roadshow.