Well, I can use my telescope to look through the windows from a distance. So it's OK if I put such telescope to look into your windows and then upload images to a public site?
BTW, curtains won't help, I have an infrared camera.
Actually, it was called "Game SDK" and it was posed as a successor to WinG (a patch to Win32s which allowed direct access to bitmaps). Game SDK was the only way to get a decent graphics performance on Windows and it did not require to know details of different SVGA implementations.
First, MGU is not the best university for technical sciences (MPTU and IFMO are the best ones).
Yes, you *can* get through a Russian university programm without learning anything. But still it will require a fair amount of work (or even bigger amount of money for bribes).
As for a narrow skillset... As a CS-student I was taught: descriptive geometry and technical drawing, all sorts of math (algebra, calculus, differential equations, topology, analytical geometry, complex calculus, functional analysis, statistics and probability theory), astronomy, chemistry, biology, history, Russian linguistics.
PS: I studied in UDSU (Udmurt State Technical University).
Well, most industries and research institutes in Russia are "in the middle of nowhere" by European/USA standards. That's because the european part of Russia alone is bigger than all countries of West Europe put together.
During the WWII a lot of research universities were evacuated to Saratov from Ukraine, Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg). And some universities stayed there when the war was finished.
BTW: Saratov is located in the European part of Russia and it's not "a middle of nowhere" for Russians. Something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadan is:)
Well, here's safety information for common table salt:
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/S3338.htm Inhalation: May cause mild irritation to the respiratory tract. Ingestion: Very large doses can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and prostration. Dehydration and congestion occur in most internal organs. Hypertonic salt solutions can produce violent inflammatory reactions in the gastrointestinal tract. Skin Contact: May irritate damaged skin; absorption can occur with effects similar to those via ingestion. Eye Contact: Causes irritation, redness, and pain. (For salt concentrations greater than the normal saline present.) Chronic Exposure: No information found. Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions: No information found.
We can use natural Uranium (i.e. Uranium-238) in breeder reactors (see Wikipedia) to produce fissionable Plutonium-239.
Breeders and fast neutron reactors required to 'burn' Pu-239 are much more complex than common U-235 slow-neutron reactors, but they are certainly possible and economically feasible.
Currently only Russia has a working breeder reactor, but France, Japan and China are also showing much interest in this direction.
Irelevant to the discussion at hand. You imply that the wearing out of the magnet is due to it releasing energy. This is also false. The life of a magnet is due to the material its made of, and the enviroment it is in -- heat, shock, external magnetic forces all affect its life. Not how much "energy" you get from it.
We'll just move the filings away and drop them again... oh, wait, that will take the same amount, or more, energy as we get out.
No. You can move them 'sideways', this requires _less_ energy (and demagnetises your magnet a bit). That's because magnetic field is a vortex field. If you repeat this process backwards you will lose some energy ang remagnetize your magnet a bit.
Magnetic field, on the other hand, is rotational. So there are move trajectories which generate net gain or loss. That's why it's possible to magnetize or demagnetize magnets. And of course, law of conservation of energy and momentum holds so you can't get free energy out of magnets.
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Well, I can use my telescope to look through the windows from a distance. So it's OK if I put such telescope to look into your windows and then upload images to a public site?
BTW, curtains won't help, I have an infrared camera.
Don't worry, we've slashdotted their server already :)
Actually, it was called "Game SDK" and it was posed as a successor to WinG (a patch to Win32s which allowed direct access to bitmaps). Game SDK was the only way to get a decent graphics performance on Windows and it did not require to know details of different SVGA implementations.
Try LightAlloy: http://www.softella.com/index.en.htm - you'd like it.
A well-known Russian author (Sergey Lukyanenko) offers free access to the full texts of his books one year after their publication.
Well, my favorite music band ( http://dartz.spb.ru/ ) has all its songs in public access ( http://music.lib.ru/t/the_dar/alb4.shtml ) and earns money from concerts.
So it's quite possible to earn money not only from CD sales.
That's easy: a song in Russian with one author from Latvia. You won't be able to write author's name in Latvian.
Besides, there are about 6 Russian codepages: Win1251, KOI8-R, CP866, ISO, MacCyr, GOST-Cyr. What codepage are you going to use?
You won't believe this, but it is EXACTLY the way computer games are published in Russia.
For example, a _LEGAL_ copy of localized (without English content so it is not playable without the knowledge of Russian) Doom3 costs about $5 here.
Why? Because the other alternative is to "sell" your software for $0.
AOMP3 does pay royalties to ROMS. Madonna and Brittney Spears can come and get their share of royalties from ROMS.
They don't like the price? Well, tough luck...
Remember the last time when SUN made a public-available demo of their grid-computing thingy.
I wonder how much time it... Oh wait, their server is already down.
One word: FAR ( http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en )
It can do almost everything: http://www.farmanager.com/reviews.php?l=en
PS: No, Midnight Commander/XNC/Krusader/Deco doesn't have a fraction of features of FAR.
First, MGU is not the best university for technical sciences (MPTU and IFMO are the best ones).
Yes, you *can* get through a Russian university programm without learning anything. But still it will require a fair amount of work (or even bigger amount of money for bribes).
As for a narrow skillset... As a CS-student I was taught: descriptive geometry and technical drawing, all sorts of math (algebra, calculus, differential equations, topology, analytical geometry, complex calculus, functional analysis, statistics and probability theory), astronomy, chemistry, biology, history, Russian linguistics.
PS: I studied in UDSU (Udmurt State Technical University).
Well, most industries and research institutes in Russia are "in the middle of nowhere" by European/USA standards. That's because the european part of Russia alone is bigger than all countries of West Europe put together.
:)
During the WWII a lot of research universities were evacuated to Saratov from Ukraine, Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg). And some universities stayed there when the war was finished.
BTW: Saratov is located in the European part of Russia and it's not "a middle of nowhere" for Russians. Something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadan is
There's a simple solution: just nuke the world to hell and create a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
:)
That should work according to Futurama
PS: don't tell Bush about it.
Hm... In Russia and Germany you can buy a front-loading washing machine for about $250.
And then you'll only need to attach a gun (hint: http://slashdot.org/hardware/04/12/02/007253.shtml ?tid=216&tid=103 ) to UAV to be able to kill a suspect immediately on the scene of a crime.
Just keep physical-to-logical sector mapping table in controller.
Well, here's safety information for common table salt:
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/S3338.htm
Inhalation:
May cause mild irritation to the respiratory tract.
Ingestion:
Very large doses can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and prostration. Dehydration and congestion occur in most internal organs. Hypertonic salt solutions can produce violent inflammatory reactions in the gastrointestinal tract.
Skin Contact:
May irritate damaged skin; absorption can occur with effects similar to those via ingestion.
Eye Contact:
Causes irritation, redness, and pain. (For salt concentrations greater than the normal saline present.)
Chronic Exposure:
No information found.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
No information found.
We can use natural Uranium (i.e. Uranium-238) in breeder reactors (see Wikipedia) to produce fissionable Plutonium-239.
Breeders and fast neutron reactors required to 'burn' Pu-239 are much more complex than common U-235 slow-neutron reactors, but they are certainly possible and economically feasible.
Currently only Russia has a working breeder reactor, but France, Japan and China are also showing much interest in this direction.
Well, energy stored in rare-earth metal magnets is in range of kilojoules and it can be released quickly enough.
Well, then why do hard disk drives work?
No. You can move them 'sideways', this requires _less_ energy (and demagnetises your magnet a bit). That's because magnetic field is a vortex field. If you repeat this process backwards you will lose some energy ang remagnetize your magnet a bit.
What you say is true for electric field, however.
No. Electrets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electret ) never wear out because electric field is conservative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrotational_vector_f ield ). That means if you move a charge in a closed loop than net energy gain/loss is zero (and this doesn't depend on move trajectory of the charge).
Magnetic field, on the other hand, is rotational. So there are move trajectories which generate net gain or loss. That's why it's possible to magnetize or demagnetize magnets. And of course, law of conservation of energy and momentum holds so you can't get free energy out of magnets.
Well, USA did wipe some states from the political map. So what?