Oh yes, sometimes it's so funny to see a Russian word in a semi-incorrect form somewhere in an English text.
For example, plural from "skazka" (fairy tale) is "skazki". But a sentence like "he told us five skazki" sounds very strange, because word "skazki" should be in genetive case ("skazok").
The same also applies to Greek and Latin, since these languages also have grammar cases.
Well, 9/11 terrorists were associated with Afghanistan's government (Osama bin Laden and other talibs) and certainly had a chain of command. So I still can't see why destruction of WTC is not a valid military action.
However, it all becomes clear if we just assume that deliberately killing civilians (like in Hiroshima, Gulf War economic bombings and 9/11) is NOT a valid military act.
As far as I remember, Osama bin Laden proclaimed Jihad long before 9/11. So technically they were at the state of war with USA, and they even had the courtesy to warn you about it.
WTC buildings were the "economic targets" (remember Gulf War?), so their destruction was a legetimate war act. 3000 dead people are just a small collateral damage.
Yet, catalysts are usualy poisoned (it's a chemical term, BTW) by impure reagents, that's why you can't use cheap petrol with catalytic converters in your car. And I don't think you'd find pure reagents in polluted air of a city.
Besides, catalysts can also accelerate synthesis of OHTER pollutants. For example, some titanium compounds (titanium acetate, AFAIR) are catalysts in syntesis of dioxins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxin).
Yes, investments in astronomy are usually well worth it. For example, CCD sensors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_devic e) were first developed and perfected as a replacement for photographic plates used in telescopes.
C++ has indeed a steep learning curve, but C++ still has lots of advantages: low memory overhead (even modern Java/C# collectors have LOTS of overhead) and fast execution speed.
It's still impossible to create a snappy application with complex GUI in Java/C# - even the leaders in UI-performance like Eclipse and IDEA are slower than mostly-native VisualStudio (I don't argue about their feature sets right now).
In fact, most of Java/C# people underestimate power of C++. For example, it was long time taken for granted that _runtime_ reflection is neccessary to implement easy-to-use serialization library and RMI (Remote Method Invocation) facility.
C# people boast that their language has built-in delegates support. And here is implementation of multicast delegates in C++: http://boost.org/doc/html/signals.html
Long-distance trailers should have been replaced by a network of railroads long ago, because trailers is one of the most inefficient methods fot long-distance transport.
Diesel locomotives (except shunting ones) are mostly replaced by electric locomotives in Europe (and even in Russia). BTW, electric locomotives use regenerative brakes since day one.
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Oh yes, sometimes it's so funny to see a Russian word in a semi-incorrect form somewhere in an English text.
For example, plural from "skazka" (fairy tale) is "skazki". But a sentence like "he told us five skazki" sounds very strange, because word "skazki" should be in genetive case ("skazok").
The same also applies to Greek and Latin, since these languages also have grammar cases.
Yes, usually it's true. However, there are pure beta-emitters: tritium, calcium isotopes and some others.
Energy of beta-decay is not not high enough to produce gamma-rays, but some X-ray radiation may be produced.
"ifdown eth0" while working through SSH is my best one.
Well, 9/11 terrorists were associated with Afghanistan's government (Osama bin Laden and other talibs) and certainly had a chain of command. So I still can't see why destruction of WTC is not a valid military action.
However, it all becomes clear if we just assume that deliberately killing civilians (like in Hiroshima, Gulf War economic bombings and 9/11) is NOT a valid military act.
As far as I remember, Osama bin Laden proclaimed Jihad long before 9/11. So technically they were at the state of war with USA, and they even had the courtesy to warn you about it.
g e_crisis , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage _crisis and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budyonnovsk_hospital_ hostage_crisis
For instance, your press persistantly writes about Chechen "rebels" and "combatants" (almost never calling them "terrorists"), even during http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hosta
So why do you call 9/11 a _terrorist_ attack?
But was a single plant _worker_ executed for this crime?
Yes, and people in WTC were working towards strengthening USA economic, so they were a valid military target. Right?
After all, you bombed oil plants in Iraq during the Gulf War. How WTC is different?
Well, how many people live in Sachara desert or on Antarctida continent?
And for less extremal conditions: how many people live in northern Siberia or in Alaska?
Well, "mamushka" is an affectionate diminutive from "mother" in Russian.
Sounds like a good name.
Soay itself if completely tasteless, so what you taste is synthetised aromatizers.
Bullshit (literally). Meat may be easily contaminated by contents of bowels, and there are pretty active and resistant bacteria in bowels.
Besides, there's a lot of bacteria even inside the uncontaminated meat, but hydrochloric acid in your stomach usually protects you from them.
And what about some tapeworms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenia_solium) that leave eggs in muscle tissue?
Methane moleculas are excited by UV-radiation, and excited molecula of methane can react with two O2 moleculas producing CO2 and H20.
WTC buildings were the "economic targets" (remember Gulf War?), so their destruction was a legetimate war act. 3000 dead people are just a small collateral damage.
Just a hint: that's what USSR did in the fifties...
Oh yes. MSDN subscriber download seems to be ./ed...
Yet, catalysts are usualy poisoned (it's a chemical term, BTW) by impure reagents, that's why you can't use cheap petrol with catalytic converters in your car. And I don't think you'd find pure reagents in polluted air of a city.
Besides, catalysts can also accelerate synthesis of OHTER pollutants. For example, some titanium compounds (titanium acetate, AFAIR) are catalysts in syntesis of dioxins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxin).
Yes, investments in astronomy are usually well worth it. For example, CCD sensors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_devic e) were first developed and perfected as a replacement for photographic plates used in telescopes.
Obviously, Lebedev was busy drinking vodka with his bear on Red Square (two blocks away from his studio) to write more FAQ entries :)
I know, I write lots of Java code myself (server-side applications, mostly). Java and C# work fine for these types of software.
:) There's a great demand for small memory footprint fast client applications.
But fortunately, not all software is server-side
C++ has indeed a steep learning curve, but C++ still has lots of advantages: low memory overhead (even modern Java/C# collectors have LOTS of overhead) and fast execution speed.
l and http://www.codeproject.com/threads/RMI_For_Cpp.asp ! It appears it's possible to implement serialization and RMI in pure C++ without lots of hassle and with full _typesafeness_!
It's still impossible to create a snappy application with complex GUI in Java/C# - even the leaders in UI-performance like Eclipse and IDEA are slower than mostly-native VisualStudio (I don't argue about their feature sets right now).
In fact, most of Java/C# people underestimate power of C++. For example, it was long time taken for granted that _runtime_ reflection is neccessary to implement easy-to-use serialization library and RMI (Remote Method Invocation) facility.
But look at this: http://boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/index.htm
C# people boast that their language has built-in delegates support. And here is implementation of multicast delegates in C++: http://boost.org/doc/html/signals.html
C++ has even some functional programming support: http://boost.org/doc/html/lambda.html and http://boost.org/libs/spirit/doc/phoenix.html
Even such features as pure C++ BNF grammar or FSM automaton are possible.
And so on...
IMNSHO, C++ is now the most powerfull language in the world (only Lisp has a comparable number of supported features).
This parrot can be a good C programmer! Maybe even better than those chimps.
Well, I live in Russia near the Ural mountains. So "bad weather" means -30C (-22F) with snowstorm :)
BTW, I live 2 kilometers from my work so it's a nice 30 minute walk in summer. And not-so-nice walk in winter.
No, but trains have to slow down before turning or when going downward, and moving train has A LOT of kinetic energy.
> and probably be much more pleasant
Only if the weather is good...
Long-distance trailers should have been replaced by a network of railroads long ago, because trailers is one of the most inefficient methods fot long-distance transport.
Diesel locomotives (except shunting ones) are mostly replaced by electric locomotives in Europe (and even in Russia). BTW, electric locomotives use regenerative brakes since day one.