Nope. Inferior cost-free tools usually make inferior commercial ones unsellable.
For example, Eclipse IDE has not killed IntelliJ IDEA because IDEA is a f*ing great IDE. VIM has not killed TextMate on Macs, GIMP has not killed Photoshop.
I looked at UNA and I'm completely underwhelmed. It's a mediocre tool at best.
Smuggling enough pre-made TATP is certainly possible (I used to wonder why nobody tried to do it before the attempted London bombings).
However, it's not any different from smuggling, say, C4 or any other type of explosives. You just need to build detectors for this type of chemical and look for suspicious items using X-rays and metal detectors.
They generally sell $20-$30 software (though it's not a big difference, I agree). It's not worth it to steal such software for most of people.
However, your argument works both ways, if your software costs $$$$ then there also will be more incentive to _crack_ it. And so far, I do not know ANY copy-protection system which can't be cracked. And I've seen cracked software which used absolutely paranoid copy protection systems.
I used to work at a provider in Russia (which was actively building its networks, BTW). We had costs of about $2 per user per month for ongoing network service (not counting bandwidth). Do the math yourself...
Also, if a company can't provide enough service for its subscribers then it should divert some of the profits for building new capacity.
Python and Ruby are not going to push Java away. For one thing, they are SLOW which automatically disqualifies them in a lot of areas (like high-performance computing). Also, Python interpreter is STILL single-threaded.
Besides, JVM can serve as a platform for many languages. My favorite one is Scala (which is now often deemed as a 'Java killer').
Yes, they still work in kernel mode. That's not going to change in the near future.
Windows Vista has additional fault-tolerance - it can restart a failed graphics driver (or fall back to a VGA/VESA driver). However, in practice it doesn't always work as advertised.
You see, if it was 'just a relocation' than a public outcry about it from a Russian-speaking population would have been enough to stop it. It was destruction of a _symbol_ and Estonians themselves understand it quite well.
You see, Estonia is openly Russophobic - a quarter of Russians live there as 'aliens' (without rights to vote, etc.) even though they were born in Estonia (while it was a part of USSR). It was another reason the destruction of the memorial had such a great effect.
Another interesting fact: a purely _voluntary_ boycott of Estonian goods which followed the destruction of the memorial resulted in e450 million loss for Estonia. That's just to give you some perspective about feelings of Russians.
Estonians destroyed the war memorial by moving the statue to another place. Also, it was done several days before the May 9 ("Victory Day") to add even more insult.
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Nope. Inferior cost-free tools usually make inferior commercial ones unsellable.
For example, Eclipse IDE has not killed IntelliJ IDEA because IDEA is a f*ing great IDE. VIM has not killed TextMate on Macs, GIMP has not killed Photoshop.
I looked at UNA and I'm completely underwhelmed. It's a mediocre tool at best.
Smuggling enough pre-made TATP is certainly possible (I used to wonder why nobody tried to do it before the attempted London bombings).
However, it's not any different from smuggling, say, C4 or any other type of explosives. You just need to build detectors for this type of chemical and look for suspicious items using X-rays and metal detectors.
They generally sell $20-$30 software (though it's not a big difference, I agree). It's not worth it to steal such software for most of people.
However, your argument works both ways, if your software costs $$$$ then there also will be more incentive to _crack_ it. And so far, I do not know ANY copy-protection system which can't be cracked. And I've seen cracked software which used absolutely paranoid copy protection systems.
I know several shareware authors, they say that any protection more complex than a basic license key check does not make any difference in sales.
People who buy software do not generally search for cracks/keygens.
That's generalization, and as most generalizations it is also incorrect. It's disproven by existence of orphanages in Russia (and Ukraine).
BTW, I'm Russian currently living in Ukraine.
So? The first e-mail messages also were nothing close to anything we have now.
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelegraph was invented in 1861.
This morning I was wondering what has happened with Darklyrics.com
Turns out they were hosted on ThePlanet!
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.darklyrics.com
I used to work at a provider in Russia (which was actively building its networks, BTW). We had costs of about $2 per user per month for ongoing network service (not counting bandwidth). Do the math yourself...
Also, if a company can't provide enough service for its subscribers then it should divert some of the profits for building new capacity.
However, Bell Canada shows a growing profit:
http://teleclick.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/wireless-services-drive-46-increase-in-bell-canada-profit/
They ARE being paid billions by their customers.
Maybe they meant it to be 'rocket-propelled grenade'?
Use larger fonts.
1280x1024 is about 200 dpi which produces incredibly good and easy-to-read fonts.
Nope. I mean 'high-performance computing' as in: "100 nodes in a cluster, doing hard statistical computations using MapReduce from Apache Hadoop".
Yesterday.
Java works just fine for a lot of folks - it's slower than C++ but it's easier to implement some things in Java (GC helps a lot).
Sorry, but this article presumes too much.
Python and Ruby are not going to push Java away. For one thing, they are SLOW which automatically disqualifies them in a lot of areas (like high-performance computing). Also, Python interpreter is STILL single-threaded.
Besides, JVM can serve as a platform for many languages. My favorite one is Scala (which is now often deemed as a 'Java killer').
ANTLR is about 16 years old, so it's going to stay for a long time now.
Yes, they still work in kernel mode. That's not going to change in the near future.
Windows Vista has additional fault-tolerance - it can restart a failed graphics driver (or fall back to a VGA/VESA driver). However, in practice it doesn't always work as advertised.
Abysmal USB stack, super-extra-SLOW filesystem, a lot of idiotic things in network stack, some very ugly API.
And mandatory code signing, of course.
The current fortune cookie ("User hostile.") at the end of the page is somehow very fitting...
West-Siberian plain (and most of the southern Siberia) is fine.
Northern Siberia, however, is hell. I always wished for army-style chemical protection suite when I worked in Siberian tundra.
Would you be offended or would you consider it a good real-estate deal?
Or another example: what if someone decides to build a brothel on the site of WTC towers?
"It doesn't even look like it's really about WWII memorials, that was over six decades ago now, now it's just a bitter grudge."
You don't UNDERSTAND the impact of WWII. Jews still talk about the Holocaust and Russia lost 6-8 times more people in that war.
You see, if it was 'just a relocation' than a public outcry about it from a Russian-speaking population would have been enough to stop it. It was destruction of a _symbol_ and Estonians themselves understand it quite well.
You see, Estonia is openly Russophobic - a quarter of Russians live there as 'aliens' (without rights to vote, etc.) even though they were born in Estonia (while it was a part of USSR). It was another reason the destruction of the memorial had such a great effect.
Another interesting fact: a purely _voluntary_ boycott of Estonian goods which followed the destruction of the memorial resulted in e450 million loss for Estonia. That's just to give you some perspective about feelings of Russians.
No.
Estonians destroyed the war memorial by moving the statue to another place. Also, it was done several days before the May 9 ("Victory Day") to add even more insult.
You also need a cause to wage a guerrilla warfare for it.
As for tools - they are easy to get. And there's a surprising number of people who can use it.
Well, I think I'm well outside the reach of US-hired goons (I'm in Ukraine). ...wait... Someone's knocking at my door.