Even if you mostly program in other languages eventually you need to interface with some system function or legacy library and you *will* need to use C.
The HRE was not a country per se it was a confederation. Plus guess who helped break up the Habsburg dynasty. The Habsburgs had at one point the throne of Spain and today the rulers of Spain are from the Royal House of Bourbon. Guess where that dynasty comes from...
Well the Soviet Union had a lot more strategic depth to it than France. The logistics chain was much smaller to attack France. I mean Hitler invaded Ukraine just fine and that is about the same size as France.
The failure was due to organizational problems more than anything else. Claims that the Nazis had superior weapons in the Battle of France are plain bullshit. The French and British had more weapons and better weapons. However it was not easy to fight under a non-unified command and the armored corps were spread thin. While the Germans were under air cover because the front was close enough to German airfields.
The French government could have retreated to North Africa along with the Navy and in fact there were plans to do so. However there are other countries which capitulated after losing their capital before.
And when you've got lots and lots (and lots) of men, who all have to be fed and housed and clothed, but no minesweeping equipment - what better way to clear a minefield than to order your troops to march across it in close formation?
IIRC they used the penal battalions for that not regular troops.
Yes Zhukov was a brilliant general. You just have to read about the Battle of Khalkhin Gol where he had less troops than the Japanese (but better hardware). There losses were much different. He basically saved the Soviet Union twice. First by knocking Japan out of the field and then Germany. He relieved Moscow from being encircled and the knocked the Germans back all the way to Berlin. Had he not been pressured into speeding things up all the time by Stalin I think he could have had much smaller losses in the Eastern Front than what happened.
If you really want to know there are rumors that Egypt has passed Soviet hardware to China some decades back. So you can guess the rest. But that was after the Sino-Soviet split.
There are trade sanctions against selling latest generation chip manufacturing tools to certain states including China. I do not think even Intel would try to challenge that.
You would be wrong. Lithography has not been advancing as fast as it used to be. For example the light sources have not improved at all for like a decade. Today the advances are made by fiddling with more complex masks and immersion fluids and crap like that.
China has already been trying to crack into this market with SMIC and the like. This is like adding fuel to the fire.
You have to read Vladimir Putins PhD thesis title and synopsis. This is hardly something new. The Soviet Union used to pay for anti-nuclear protestors in Europe and even gave the Jackal weapons that were later used in a terrorist attack against the SuperFenix fast breeder reactor in France.
Of course Russia is interested in having less competition. Competition would mean a lower oil price and thus less profits for them. Even if the people doing the fracking have less profit than they would have. As for the sales to China once the amount of possible clients is reduced enough the clients start having more leverage over price negotiations. One big reason why they did not bother with China before was that they insisted on paying a low price for the oil and natural gas. Once they stopped having someone else to sell it to the low price ceased to be a problem. Or did it? They have to build a long new pipeline to sell natural gas for less than they sold to Europe where the pipeline has been long paid for. I think you can see what the problem is here.
The value of the ruble has been sliding down a whole lot. It will be increasingly harder for regular Russians to buy imported stuff.
"Normal" is nonsense. There are plenty of places on Earth where there is much higher naturally occurring background radiation than the supposedly mandated limit, which depends from country to country, and plenty of people live there just fine.
The fact is the long term health effects of radiation exposure are not that well known. What is suspected is that some radiation exposure actually reduces the risk of cancer as people on radiation therapy could tell you. Too much radiation exposure and you become at risk of getting cancer from it.
Saxony used to have Uranium mines (see the Wismut page in Wikipedia). So are you sure it is Chernobyl radiation or just runoff from underground rivers that cross the uranium deposits that occur naturally over there?
I was just reinforcing the concept. No argument here.
It is a good thing the Chinese are building the AP1000 because at this rate the US will not be building a reactor like that any time soon. Plus as we saw with Fukushima nuclear reactors should be made passively safe and the alternative to not having nuclear reactors in a lot of places is increased energy costs and economic misery. There is more than one report than Japan slumped back into their long economic depression in a large part because of the added energy costs of coal imports since the shut down of their nuclear power plants.
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C used to be close to machine language when people had PDPs and VAXes. Not now. Something like OpenCL is much closer.
Even if you mostly program in other languages eventually you need to interface with some system function or legacy library and you *will* need to use C.
The HRE was not a country per se it was a confederation. Plus guess who helped break up the Habsburg dynasty. The Habsburgs had at one point the throne of Spain and today the rulers of Spain are from the Royal House of Bourbon. Guess where that dynasty comes from...
Well the Soviet Union had a lot more strategic depth to it than France. The logistics chain was much smaller to attack France. I mean Hitler invaded Ukraine just fine and that is about the same size as France.
The failure was due to organizational problems more than anything else. Claims that the Nazis had superior weapons in the Battle of France are plain bullshit. The French and British had more weapons and better weapons. However it was not easy to fight under a non-unified command and the armored corps were spread thin. While the Germans were under air cover because the front was close enough to German airfields.
The French government could have retreated to North Africa along with the Navy and in fact there were plans to do so. However there are other countries which capitulated after losing their capital before.
And when you've got lots and lots (and lots) of men, who all have to be fed and housed and clothed, but no minesweeping equipment - what better way to clear a minefield than to order your troops to march across it in close formation?
IIRC they used the penal battalions for that not regular troops.
Yes Zhukov was a brilliant general. You just have to read about the Battle of Khalkhin Gol where he had less troops than the Japanese (but better hardware). There losses were much different. He basically saved the Soviet Union twice. First by knocking Japan out of the field and then Germany. He relieved Moscow from being encircled and the knocked the Germans back all the way to Berlin. Had he not been pressured into speeding things up all the time by Stalin I think he could have had much smaller losses in the Eastern Front than what happened.
Mythical uh. You do know Bin Laden used to be in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet Union with the backing of the USA right?
As for 9/11 conspiracies that's something else.
If you really want to know there are rumors that Egypt has passed Soviet hardware to China some decades back. So you can guess the rest. But that was after the Sino-Soviet split.
Sounds brilliant, except for the fact he could actually have family still living in Egypt.
Does not show you the inside of the carrier now does it?
I advise him to move and change his name. Seriously.
I have been hearing that for over a decade now. Plus they used to call this soft x-rays in the 1960s and it went nowhere back then as well.
At this rate there will be EUV production lines nowhere.
There are trade sanctions against selling latest generation chip manufacturing tools to certain states including China. I do not think even Intel would try to challenge that.
You would be wrong. Lithography has not been advancing as fast as it used to be. For example the light sources have not improved at all for like a decade. Today the advances are made by fiddling with more complex masks and immersion fluids and crap like that.
China has already been trying to crack into this market with SMIC and the like. This is like adding fuel to the fire.
You have to read Vladimir Putins PhD thesis title and synopsis. This is hardly something new. The Soviet Union used to pay for anti-nuclear protestors in Europe and even gave the Jackal weapons that were later used in a terrorist attack against the SuperFenix fast breeder reactor in France.
Of course Russia is interested in having less competition. Competition would mean a lower oil price and thus less profits for them. Even if the people doing the fracking have less profit than they would have. As for the sales to China once the amount of possible clients is reduced enough the clients start having more leverage over price negotiations. One big reason why they did not bother with China before was that they insisted on paying a low price for the oil and natural gas. Once they stopped having someone else to sell it to the low price ceased to be a problem. Or did it? They have to build a long new pipeline to sell natural gas for less than they sold to Europe where the pipeline has been long paid for. I think you can see what the problem is here.
The value of the ruble has been sliding down a whole lot. It will be increasingly harder for regular Russians to buy imported stuff.
Like Stalin used to say cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people. That's why.
It reduced unemployment when it was implemented. Who is it to say unemployment wouldn't be even higher if they had an enlarged working period?
Before or after taxes?
You need to read more about the end of the Roman Empire. And Vikings. Namely Great Britain during Canute.
"Normal" is nonsense. There are plenty of places on Earth where there is much higher naturally occurring background radiation than the supposedly mandated limit, which depends from country to country, and plenty of people live there just fine.
The fact is the long term health effects of radiation exposure are not that well known. What is suspected is that some radiation exposure actually reduces the risk of cancer as people on radiation therapy could tell you. Too much radiation exposure and you become at risk of getting cancer from it.
You can't exaggerate the risks of nuclear to much.
What? You mean like the China Syndrome? That wasn't an exaggeration? Hah.
Saxony used to have Uranium mines (see the Wismut page in Wikipedia). So are you sure it is Chernobyl radiation or just runoff from underground rivers that cross the uranium deposits that occur naturally over there?
I was just reinforcing the concept. No argument here.
It is a good thing the Chinese are building the AP1000 because at this rate the US will not be building a reactor like that any time soon. Plus as we saw with Fukushima nuclear reactors should be made passively safe and the alternative to not having nuclear reactors in a lot of places is increased energy costs and economic misery. There is more than one report than Japan slumped back into their long economic depression in a large part because of the added energy costs of coal imports since the shut down of their nuclear power plants.
It has little to do with age and a lot to do with experience at performing that actual task or similar tasks.
NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel do care. That's most of the hardware that matters today. Even Samsung uses Linux in their products a lot.