I am wrong. I just looked up Venus through the English->Greek dictionary, and it came back as Afroditi. I guess Venera is the plural of Latin Venus, and not Greek as I have speculated.
Here is the dictionary link: http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
BEHEPA - Russian spelling of Venera, is the Russian word for Venus. I am sure this word is not indiginous to Russian language and most likely came from the Greeks. Venus is Latin. I don't think your analogy for genus/genera applies here.
In RH9 they screwed up the KDE panel, the Icons look really bad when you set the panel size to "small". This bug was not in vanilla KDE. They also insist on changing all the KDE panel contents every time I log in. I have four Linux boxes at home running on NFS/NIS. When I log in to RH9 on the server, it does something to my Desktop customizations. I then log in to RH7.3 in my room and the vanilla KDE is screwed up because RH9 has "upgraded" me to their KDE flavour.
The solution appeared to me to upgrade all four boxes to the same level, and I was pissed off enough at RedHat to have gone to SuSE instead. Why? Because their KDE does not suck as much, and because all of their system configuration tools are written in Qt, which makes them consistent with the rest of the desktop.
I know that this is getting off topic, but I also would like to mention that SuSE is cheaper (the Pro version), comes with great documentation, and supports ALSA. Also, RH9 did not recognize my TV card on setup, but SuSE did - more points for SuSE. And another thing - SuSE employes KDE coders, so I would rather compensate them by purchasing the SuSE Linux.
Yeah, I was not sure either. I've been a RedHat user almost from the start (RH 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3). I hand built KDE-3.1 on RedHat 7.3 from CVS, and was happy with it.
A while ago I upgraded to RH9, nearly tore my hair out after seeing what they did to KDE, and promptly switched to SuSE 8.2 professional (plus got a cool T-shirt from SuSE).
I have long ago decided that if the stories are true I would let my wallet speak for me, and I believe RedHat 7.3 was the last RedHat I will ever have paid for. I am a SuSE user from now on. I wish RedHat better luck with GNOME, but I have made my choice, and it is KDE. Honestly, I wish RedHat would not support KDE at all instead of making changes to it that will never be accepted back into the KDE source tree, it's just a waste of effort that could be better spent on GNOME.
Plasma stealth is nothing more than a rumor. The latest MiG is prototype I.42. As far as I know it is an underfunded and already obsolete design that is nowhere near Mach 3 capable. It is unclear how the plasma shield can be maintained in the air currents over the fuselage. It is unclear how the plasma shield defeats the radar. It is also unclear how plasma (hot ion gas), can be concealed from the infrared heat seekers.
The only MiG that is Mach 3 "capable", is MiG-25, only due to the fact that the engines did not have an RPM speed limiter and tended accelerate uncontrollably when the plane exceeded Mach 2.83. As a result, a short flight at Mach 3 rendered the engines unusable, so I would not call this an operational Mach 3 capability, more like a last-hope capability.
Anyway, if you are looking for a Russian airplane design to be impressed by, try Su-37 Super Flanker, or the S-37 prototype (newly dubbed Su-47), also known as "Golden Eagle". S-37 looks like a klingon bird of prey;-)
Well, since I am Russian, I would like to take the opportunity to mention that Atlas 5 is powered by RD-180 engines, derived from the Russian RD-170 engines. I am proud.
So, how long do you think until he adds a reasoning mechanism to ALICE? You know, something to allow her to analyze own responses, allow her to add new patterns and templates to the database, rate "stuff" on the Good/Evil scale, give ALICE a purpose to exist, etc... I think if he adds even more recursion, she will be even more human-like, (even if slow). Also, I think her pattern-template database should be language neutral, so that she does not just recognize English syntax/vocabulary. English language should only be a front-end to an AI, not its core. An ideal AI should learn the language, just like the humans do , be it English or Chinese.
After looking through the benchmark results and noting how large the difference is for the Monte-Carlo algorithm between gcc and icc, it seems that this may be caused the underlying standard C library that gcc is using. Perhaps the GNU version of drand48 is being more "random" by using some "random" system function of the kernel (or glibc), whereas icc may be unaware of these more-random system/glibc functions and substituting something of its own instead (which may be faster but probably not-as-random as the gcc version).
Why is VoIP illegal in India? Seems silly, they can't really force you to use a conventional phone, right?
Paul.
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"Mir" is an actual word in Russian. It means "peace". It also means "world". It is a little scary to see words "peace" and "world" in combination with words "crash" and "burn". Is this the end of the world everyone was expecting ? Well, maybe. Who knows what that space-hardened fungus will do once it reaches earth. Will it thrive in the pacific ocean, or will it all burn up on re-entry?
Anyway, I wish they had kept MIR in orbit, and made a museum of it or something. Why crash it into Earth ? Couldn't it be parked somewhere in between Earth and Moon where it would not be affected by the gravity of both bodies ? I think MIR should have been declared a national monument and kept intact somehow.
Oh well, too late now. Maybe they will fish out a few pieces and make a museum out of that, at least that way one would not have to go into orbit to visit the "museum".
Paul.
They have done this before, submerged ;-)
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Actually, it would be interesting to see if a sort of package encapsulation is possible (analogous to IP tunnelling). So, I am quiet sure that UPS and FedEx both have offices in Moscow. They could encapsulate my package and send it to Moskow, where it would then be opened and my package inside would be routed to the final destination. Cool idea, maybe I should tell them?
On the other hand this is probably illegal according to the Russian law, right?
Change your login name from Anonymous Coward to Arrogant Cynical Coward, it suits you. In any case, offering your wonder bread to me will do you no good, talk to MirCorp. By the way, if you think Russia is so poor, tell that to the G8, because they seem to think otherwise and have declined to write of the debts of the Soviet Union.
Styopa? Stepan maybe, Stephan? I can't claim I've got all of the above, but none the less -
No-one will die on MIR. Not unless they nail themselves into forehead with a space age nail-gun. Mir has an escape capsule docked at all times. Russia has excellent relaunch capability in case they need to send up a rescue crew. MIR can be upgraded to prolong its life indefinetly.
Besides, space exploration imlies a certain amount of risk and adventure, that's why regular Joes dont get to be cosmonauts. The guys who crashed the resuply ship into MIR may have had their pants full, but at least they've got an experience of a lifetime that they'll be telling their grand kids about and that movies will be made from. And the station is still up there, alive.
I don't mind ISS, but as a multinational project it is bound to have it's problems. Russia can avoid these problems because it has a station of its own. If the national priorities on the ISS will collide, at least Russia will have something to fall back to.
Ok, threatenning to shoot down Russian property from orbit - real funny. Try it.
I am Russian, and I am sick of hearing American yahoos talking about MIR space station as if it was US property. It's not, so stop telling us what to do with it. We like it the way it is - an independent space station vs. an international space station under the committee rule. We like Freedom too, and you simply cannot be as free as you might want with a project like ISS, because it is owned by several nations, not by one, which implies that decisions are not made by one but by many, and those decisions do not always agree.
Having MIR in orbit gives us more options and keeps Russians, especially the engineers who built it, happy and proud. What many Americans are proposing is to take that away from us. Sorry, but we must disagree.
X is a protocol. It needs to be expanded to take advantage of the new hardware. It's network transparency is a big win. And just for that I would keep it.
> I missed something. What Russian space tech does > the US need to catch up on? > > "a very good safety record. There have been some > near disasters, a crash and a fire"
1. Russians have the ability to put a sattelite into an orbit launched from a submerged submarine.
2. Russian engine R-180, a descendant of the R-170 rocket engine will power future US rockets.
3. The Russian space shuttle is the only space shuttle capable of unmanned landing.
4. The Mir space station is not in as bad of shape as you suggest, nothing a bunch of duct-tape rolls could not fix. That technology they can by from US;-)
5. Key components of the International Space Station are those which were originally destined for Mir-2.
I wish you better luck in this catch-up game... I am all for progress, I just don't like these pissing contests, they wind me up for the rest of the day.
I have AccelX 5.0.2 for Linux. It crashes on the SiS 5598 chipset at random. XFree86 3.3.5 at least stays up. I would not mind their add compain if it was completely, but I have examples of the contrary. XawTV has fits starting up under AccelX running on S3Virge/DX, something about their implementation of DGA is screwy. And the PS/2 MS IntelliMouse on my server works for only minutes at a time, then the mouse pointer shifts to the corner and any mouse movement results in random pointer movements and button presses. I had to go back to XFree86.
The only reason US emerged with the strongest economy in the SECOND half of the 20th century, was that it was relatively untouched by WWII, did not have to rebuild itself from scratch. Go back to any history book, or just watch PBS once in a while. If you did not know, WWII was what brought the US economy out of the Great depression. It's not about political systems. It's about who had a head start when countries started to rebuild themselves after WWII.
Hey man, what's your problem with the war in chechnya? Do you know what chechen muslim extrimists do to the russian soldiers or western visitors they capture/take hostage. They chop off their fingers, and broadcast that on the TV. Then they chop off their heads, and broadcast that to, or at least they used to until the TV station was taken out a few days ago by an Su-24. If the poor captive is lucky he will be shot or hanged before being tortured. They blew up four appartment buildings in russia in the middle of the night when people were still asleep in their beds, killing over 300 civilians. Sounds to me that the war in Chechnya is not an act of desperation, rather it is well justified.
Oh, "Russia is Collapsing" is bullshit. Something that is collapsing is going to collapse, Russia will hold up, just watch. US has only 50 years worth of natural resources available, once they will be exausted (or rather preserved), US will be buying from Russia and paying for it's recovery.
As far as stunts go - I doubt highly that a military sponsored "stunt" as this would be conducted so poorly as to leave traces of it's origin. Oh, and saying that Russian Academy of Science has ties with the military is redundant. As far as I know the same is true of every US science/engineering college worthy of its title.
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I am wrong. I just looked up Venus through the English->Greek dictionary, and it came back as Afroditi. I guess Venera is the plural of Latin Venus, and not Greek as I have speculated.
Here is the dictionary link:
http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
Paul.
BEHEPA - Russian spelling of Venera, is the Russian word for Venus. I am sure this word is not indiginous to Russian language and most likely came from the Greeks. Venus is Latin. I don't think your analogy for genus/genera applies here.
You say Venus de Milo, I say Venera Milosskaya.
Paul.
In RH9 they screwed up the KDE panel, the Icons look really bad when you set the panel size to "small". This bug was not in vanilla KDE. They also insist on changing all the KDE panel contents every time I log in. I have four Linux boxes at home running on NFS/NIS. When I log in to RH9 on the server, it does something to my Desktop customizations. I then log in to RH7.3 in my room and the vanilla KDE is screwed up because RH9 has "upgraded" me to their KDE flavour.
The solution appeared to me to upgrade all four boxes to the same level, and I was pissed off enough at RedHat to have gone to SuSE instead. Why? Because their KDE does not suck as much, and because all of their system configuration tools are written in Qt, which makes them consistent with the rest of the desktop.
I know that this is getting off topic, but I also would like to mention that SuSE is cheaper (the Pro version), comes with great documentation, and supports ALSA. Also, RH9 did not recognize my TV card on setup, but SuSE did - more points for SuSE. And another thing - SuSE employes KDE coders, so I would rather compensate them by purchasing the SuSE Linux.
Paul.
Yeah, I was not sure either. I've been a RedHat user almost from the start (RH 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3). I hand built KDE-3.1 on RedHat 7.3 from CVS, and was happy with it.
A while ago I upgraded to RH9, nearly tore my hair out after seeing what they did to KDE, and promptly switched to SuSE 8.2 professional (plus got a cool T-shirt from SuSE).
I have long ago decided that if the stories are true I would let my wallet speak for me, and I believe RedHat 7.3 was the last RedHat I will ever have paid for. I am a SuSE user from now on. I wish RedHat better luck with GNOME, but I have made my choice, and it is KDE. Honestly, I wish RedHat would not support KDE at all instead of making changes to it that will never be accepted back into the KDE source tree, it's just a waste of effort that could be better spent on GNOME.
Paul.
Plasma stealth is nothing more than a rumor. The latest MiG is prototype I.42. As far as I know it is an underfunded and already obsolete design that is nowhere near Mach 3 capable. It is unclear how the plasma shield can be maintained in the air currents over the fuselage. It is unclear how the plasma shield defeats the radar. It is also unclear how plasma (hot ion gas), can be concealed from the infrared heat seekers.
;-)
The only MiG that is Mach 3 "capable", is MiG-25, only due to the fact that the engines did not have an RPM speed limiter and tended accelerate uncontrollably when the plane exceeded Mach 2.83. As a result, a short flight at Mach 3 rendered the engines unusable, so I would not call this an operational Mach 3 capability, more like a last-hope capability.
Anyway, if you are looking for a Russian airplane design to be impressed by, try Su-37 Super Flanker, or the S-37 prototype (newly dubbed Su-47), also known as "Golden Eagle". S-37 looks like a klingon bird of prey
Well, since I am Russian, I would like
to take the opportunity to mention that
Atlas 5 is powered by RD-180 engines,
derived from the Russian RD-170 engines.
I am proud.
Paul.
I think this guy is pretty cool.
So, how long do you think until he adds a reasoning mechanism to ALICE? You know, something to allow her to analyze own responses, allow her to add new patterns and templates to the database, rate "stuff" on the Good/Evil scale, give ALICE a purpose to exist, etc... I think if he adds even more recursion, she will be even more human-like, (even if slow). Also, I think her pattern-template database should be language neutral, so that she does not just recognize English syntax/vocabulary. English language should only be a front-end to an AI, not its core. An ideal AI should learn the language, just like the humans do , be it English or Chinese.
Paul.
I was not making any excuses for GCC, I was just offering a possible explanation, thank you for pointing out that I was wrong.
After looking through the benchmark results and noting how large the difference is for the Monte-Carlo algorithm between gcc and icc, it seems that this may be caused the underlying standard C library that gcc is using. Perhaps the GNU version of drand48 is being more "random" by using some "random" system function of the kernel (or glibc), whereas icc may be unaware of these more-random system/glibc functions and substituting something of its own instead (which may be faster but probably not-as-random as the gcc version).
Paul.
Wow, you make it sound as though USSR had no successfull lunar missions at all. Here is a link to the NASA web page with details on the USSR lunar missions: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarus sr.html
My favorites are the Lunokhod missions:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1970-095A.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1973-001A.html
And a few other cool looking unmanned landers:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1976-081A.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1970-072A.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1966-006A.html
Well, he may be a bit trollish, but I think you misunderstand. He was pointing out that the N1 was not the only moon project that USSR had.
s sr.html
Here is a link to the NASA web page that describes all of USSR lunar missions:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunaru
Why is VoIP illegal in India? Seems silly, they can't really force you to use a conventional phone, right?
Paul.
"Mir" is an actual word in Russian. It means "peace". It also means "world". It is a little scary to see words "peace" and "world" in combination with words "crash" and "burn". Is this the end of the world everyone was expecting ? Well, maybe. Who knows what that space-hardened fungus will do once it reaches earth. Will it thrive in the pacific ocean, or will it all burn up on re-entry?
Anyway, I wish they had kept MIR in orbit, and made a museum of it or something. Why crash it into Earth ? Couldn't it be parked somewhere in between Earth and Moon where it would not be affected by the gravity of both bodies ? I think MIR should have been declared a national monument and kept intact somehow.
Oh well, too late now. Maybe they will fish out a few pieces and make a museum out of that, at least that way one would not have to go into orbit to visit the "museum".
Paul.
Here is an article from 1998.
Actually, it would be interesting to see if a sort of package encapsulation is possible (analogous to IP tunnelling). So, I am quiet sure that UPS and FedEx both have offices in Moscow. They could encapsulate my package and send it to Moskow, where it would then be opened and my package inside would be routed to the final destination. Cool idea, maybe I should tell them?
On the other hand this is probably illegal according to the Russian law, right?
Change your login name from Anonymous Coward to Arrogant Cynical Coward, it suits you. In any case, offering your wonder bread to me will do you no good, talk to MirCorp. By the way, if you think Russia is so poor, tell that to the G8, because they seem to think otherwise and have declined to write of the debts of the Soviet Union.
Styopa? Stepan maybe, Stephan?
I can't claim I've got all of the above, but none the less -
No-one will die on MIR. Not unless they nail themselves into forehead with a space age nail-gun. Mir has an escape capsule docked at all times. Russia has excellent relaunch capability in case they need to send up a rescue crew. MIR can be upgraded to prolong its life indefinetly.
Besides, space exploration imlies a certain amount of risk and adventure, that's why regular Joes dont get to be cosmonauts. The guys who crashed the resuply ship into MIR may have had their pants full, but at least they've got an experience of a lifetime that they'll be telling their grand kids about and that movies will be made from. And the station is still up there, alive.
I don't mind ISS, but as a multinational project it is bound to have it's problems. Russia can avoid these problems because it has a station of its own. If the national priorities on the ISS will collide, at least Russia will have something to fall back to.
Ok, threatenning to shoot down Russian property from orbit - real funny. Try it.
I am Russian, and I am sick of hearing American yahoos talking about MIR space station as if it was US property. It's not, so stop telling us what to do with it. We like it the way it is - an independent space station vs. an international space station under the committee rule. We like Freedom too, and you simply cannot be as free as you might want with a project like ISS, because it is owned by several nations, not by one, which implies that decisions are not made by one but by many, and those decisions do not always agree.
Having MIR in orbit gives us more options and keeps Russians, especially the engineers who built it, happy and proud. What many Americans are proposing is to take that away from us. Sorry, but we must disagree.
X is a protocol. It needs to be expanded to take advantage of the new hardware. It's network transparency is a big win. And just for that I would keep it.
It means:
Several glasses of vodka. For the health! (The last sentence is a literal translation, it has no meaning in English).
> I missed something. What Russian space tech does
;-)
> the US need to catch up on?
>
> "a very good safety record. There have been some
> near disasters, a crash and a fire"
1. Russians have the ability to put a sattelite
into an orbit launched from a submerged submarine.
2. Russian engine R-180, a descendant of the R-170
rocket engine will power future US rockets.
3. The Russian space shuttle is the only space
shuttle capable of unmanned landing.
4. The Mir space station is not in as bad of
shape as you suggest, nothing a bunch of duct-tape
rolls could not fix. That technology they can by
from US
5. Key components of the International Space
Station are those which were originally destined
for Mir-2.
I wish you better luck in this catch-up game...
I am all for progress, I just don't like these
pissing contests, they wind me up for the rest of
the day.
Pavel.
I've used ATI MACH64 FB driver before (back in 2.1.13X I think). Do you have a different chipset?
I have AccelX 5.0.2 for Linux.
It crashes on the SiS 5598 chipset at random.
XFree86 3.3.5 at least stays up.
I would not mind their add compain if it was
completely, but I have examples of the contrary.
XawTV has fits starting up under AccelX running
on S3Virge/DX, something about their
implementation of DGA is screwy. And the PS/2
MS IntelliMouse on my server works for only
minutes at a time, then the mouse pointer shifts
to the corner and any mouse movement results in
random pointer movements and button presses. I had
to go back to XFree86.
The only reason US emerged with the strongest economy in the SECOND half of the 20th century, was that it was relatively untouched by WWII, did not have to rebuild itself from scratch. Go back to any history book, or just watch PBS once in a while. If you did not know, WWII was what brought the US economy out of the Great depression. It's not about political systems. It's about who had a head start when countries started to rebuild themselves after WWII.
Hey man, what's your problem with the war in chechnya? Do you know what chechen muslim extrimists do to the russian soldiers or western visitors they capture/take hostage. They chop off their fingers, and broadcast that on the TV. Then they chop off their heads, and broadcast that to, or at least they used to until the TV station was taken out a few days ago by an Su-24. If the poor captive is lucky he will be shot or hanged before being tortured. They blew up four appartment buildings in russia in the middle of the night when people were still asleep in their beds, killing over 300 civilians. Sounds to me that the war in Chechnya is not an act of desperation, rather it is well justified.
Oh, "Russia is Collapsing" is bullshit. Something that is collapsing is going to collapse, Russia will hold up, just watch. US has only 50 years worth of natural resources available, once they will be exausted (or rather preserved), US will be buying from Russia and paying for it's recovery.
As far as stunts go - I doubt highly that a military sponsored "stunt" as this would be conducted so poorly as to leave traces of it's origin. Oh, and saying that Russian Academy of Science has ties with the military is redundant.
As far as I know the same is true of every US science/engineering college worthy of its title.