Poland was somehow able to send over a booth or two to Iraq. Yes, I know it's only 2000+something soldiers, but the USA spends a lot more money on the war than Poland.
But if the games are targeting "Quantity sales at lower volume" in the low income countries, then they should be affordable to everybody.
They are. The trick is, not to buy them when they hit the market, but one-two years after, when they appear bundled with magazines or in some 'Games Classics' collections. The price drops by a factor of 3-5 or more. After all, if you can't afford to buy a fresh game, you surely can't afford to buy hardware it needs, can you?
This is debatable. How can you define land ownership when you have no law? It is purely customary and defined by our laws. Indians, for example, did not believe one can actually own land.
another approach would be to use have some import/export tool that transforms the real (efficient) format into some text format (possibly xml) to allow for easier exchange an manipulation. that would be to use xml as it was really intended: to exchange data, not to use it internally in the core of systems.
This is not different from editing the binary file with a specialized program. Being able to edit the text file means being able to do small corrections without regenerating the file (important when the latter is impossible/takes too much time), or when the program you use to create the file doesn't work the way you indent.
Then, you'll just LOVE Linux : you see, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard specifies very clearly where files go on a Linux distribution : binaries (executables) in/usr/bin, libraries in/usr/lib, data files in/usr/share/{programname}, and so on. The menus also have been unified between KDE and GNOME. Not to mention that package management makes it a lot easier to know what your package has really installed, and you'll be sure to find your configuration and documents in your home directory. No more nightmares finding them in C:\Program Files\Foobar\Obscure\Path\Name\You\Would\Never\Hav e\Thought\Of. Linux makes managing your software a breeze:-)
Sadly, the grandparent is right in this aspect. What you wrote applies to GPL programs shipped with the distro only. Commercial software (Acrobat Reader, Mathematica) installs into/usr/local/$somedir and that's it. The most you can expect is some links created in/usr/local/bin. I'd like to see a Mathematic.rpm package conforming to FHS, but that's just a dream.
1) Standard control panel through EVERY distro & desktop environment.
A KDE control panel looks (almost) the same in every distro. You can't have a similar control panel for two different pieces of software (KDE v. GNOME).
Either allow banditism and not punish it, or have unfriendly relations with western countries ( I know Russia is especially blamed by Europian countries for Chechenya but their blames does not help. if they actually could resolve the problems - that would be much better. But when complains do not help... then it is wise to skip them
For God's sake, if you want to fight crime, why don't you use police force? You're sending conscripts there, instead. The West has nothing against fighting crime, it's about the human rights abuses which occur in Chechenya. Making people disappear, raping women and demanding money for the privilage of burying your son is a way of fighting crime??? Pulling out == pulling out the army. Just what Lebyed did. You can make a "sanitary cordon" around the republic,
screen everybody going in and out, start negotiating with Maschadov, help him introduce rule of law in Chechenya. The USA is bashed for doing far less crimes in Iraq that Russia did in Chechenya. Don't get offended, this is sad truth.
to get all moneys off the people by the mean of harsh inflation ( shock therapy)
In Poland, "shock therapy" (a rather biased name for the set of economic reforms administered in 1990) was meant to curb inflation, not to increase it. Poland had some market infrastructure in place, since first pro-market reforms were introduced in 1988 (small business only).
Why it [privatization] succeded in Poland I'm not aware... but heard of big loans and many help from western countries.
We sold many companies to foreing capital which had enough expertise to run them properly, not to domestic cronies with political connections (of course, such things happened too, only on smaller scale) like Russians did. It payed off. Poland, too, had economy less geared towards cold war effort than Russia, which made for smoother landing. AFAIR Russia has quite large foreign debt too, created after 1989, so the West lent it money too. Financial help for Poland consisted mainly of forgiving loans made in the 70' by the Gierek cabinet.
I'm not aware of cutting benefits other than YUCOS case
I remember reading recently they are planning to take away veterans' and students' benefits, like free metro tickets for students in Moscow. Many other companies than Yucos did not pay taxes too, somehow they are not molested. Perhaps because their owners show no interest in politics?
Russians would like to have good relations with west. Still it is not possible to call them worm till now.
Pull out of Chechenya and wait for the phone calls.
I think the hardships faced by the USSR citizens after 1989 were caused by the degree to which communism pervaded Soviet society. Polish people always had this attitude "we have certain rights, and the government must gives us this and this", while the Russians go more along the "let's be happy we've got what we've got, and don't ask for more". Putin is cutting down people's benefits and still his popularity soars. This makes it at the same time easier to carry out economic reforms (no strikes, only bureaucracy resistance), but also makes it easier to deprave people of their benefits and effectively rob the state of its infrastructure.
Or: "Bush-Cheney collaboration is now trying to prove that another, formerly widely considered as stable form of democracy, is in reality meta-stable, and can be made to decay into mixture of theocracy and nazism..."
The same with public health care. Sometimes you have to wait for the operation so long, that you can die three times in a row before the surgeons get to you.
I'm rather pro-public health care, but let's not be blind to its disatvantages.
Don't be fooled. They gave this man a good treatment, but he belonged to the happy few. Many people in Soviet Russia who got sick because of Chernobyl weren't treated at all, weren't even informed their health was in danger. The authorities waited a few days before informing the society about the catastrophe, and people in Ukraine were going for walks with their children just when the fallout was the heaviest.
For some picture of Soviet health care, you can read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. Try to find some decent (non-propaganda) statistics of infant mortality rate in the USSR, for one. In Poland, the average life expectancy increased and infant mortality rate dropped substantially after the transition from communism to capitalism. I would be very surprised if it was different in the Soviet Union.
An often-cited example of a good and swift action against the fallout damage in 1984 is the wide-spread dosage of Lugol's fluid (a water solution of iodine (I) in potassium iodine (KI)) to children, which saved them from the worst. What is not so often spoken of, that this was not the communists government's initiative; the doctors had to persuade the authorities to let them carry out the action. I did not hear about such an action carried out in the Soviet Union.
BTW, Lukashenko is now encouraging people to settle in the areas of Byelaruss deserted because of the fallout.
Not over the past couple of years -- the original corruption problems with reiserfs, although pretty severe, are well in the past now.
Great! Now let's just wait a few years until "original corruption problems with reiserfs 4" are well in the past, too, and we can start using it. This attitude should be applied to all new filesystems. I understand downloading a fresh build of mozilla, but I'd be more conservative with choosing a filesystem.
I consulted my professor (he's a General Relativity guy, but works in quantum field theory, too) and he said that he sees no reason for the increase, as long as you stick to linear electrodynamics.
This 'negative energy' argument would be valid in classical mechanics, where the decrease of potential energy gives increase in kinetic energy (since their sum is conserved).
I did an arXiv search (which IMHO is better suited for scientific lookups than google) and found only one article referring to the concept. Not a lot for a theory sound enough to be brought up on slashdot? The articles is written by the authors of the concept themselves and was published in 1999. It does not give the impression of being written by proffessional scientists (no academic affiliation) and the authors base the concept on another hypothesis of their own (stuffed in the lengthy appendix). This concept is just a hypothesis, not a proven scientific theory. The authors explicitly state that their postulate violates Special Relativity. Special Relativity is not a Bible, but you really should think twice before attempting to tear it down. I did not read the article line by line, and I am by no means an authority on the subject, but I think I have enough evidence to say that the concept in question (of the increase of light speed between plates) is risky and presenting it as a fact to the general public is, in my opinion, dishonest.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, most of the buddy-buddy relationships with other communist countries were scratched and it turned into "every man for themselves".
Russia still charges cheaper (or is tolerant on payment delays) gas to Byelaruss and probably Ukraine, too. That's because they see both countries as belonging to their sphere of influence, contrary to the North Korea.
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Well, if you cannot understand books by reading them and need help... do you really deserve to pass?
He should read the book by himself, that's certain, but reading other people's analyses is OK, as long as he (the reader) does his own thinking and adds something of his own to the analysis (and does not steal other people's ideas). It should be, in my opinion, required at the university level to compare your opinions with those already published by the professional literature critics.
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Poland was somehow able to send over a booth or two to Iraq. Yes, I know it's only 2000+something soldiers, but the USA spends a lot more money on the war than Poland.
What about SCO?
One step closer to nearly unlimited bandwidth, faster then light transmission(instant), using no wires or electromagnetic medium.
None of the above.
But if the games are targeting "Quantity sales at lower volume" in the low income countries, then they should be affordable to everybody.
They are. The trick is, not to buy them when they hit the market, but one-two years after, when they appear bundled with magazines or in some 'Games Classics' collections. The price drops by a factor of 3-5 or more. After all, if you can't afford to buy a fresh game, you surely can't afford to buy hardware it needs, can you?
Without law of any kind there is still property.
This is debatable. How can you define land ownership when you have no law? It is purely customary and defined by our laws. Indians, for example, did not believe one can actually own land.
another approach would be to use have some import/export tool that transforms the real (efficient) format into some text format (possibly xml) to allow for easier exchange an manipulation. that would be to use xml as it was really intended: to exchange data, not to use it internally in the core of systems.
This is not different from editing the binary file with a specialized program. Being able to edit the text file means being able to do small corrections without regenerating the file (important when the latter is impossible/takes too much time), or when the program you use to create the file doesn't work the way you indent.
I disagree. Storing vector data in text files has tha advantage that in extreme case, I can always edit the file with just a text editor.
Then, you'll just LOVE Linux : you see, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard specifies very clearly where files go on a Linux distribution : binaries (executables) in /usr/bin, libraries in /usr/lib, data files in /usr/share/{programname}, and so on. The menus also have been unified between KDE and GNOME. Not to mention that package management makes it a lot easier to know what your package has really installed, and you'll be sure to find your configuration and documents in your home directory. No more nightmares finding them in C:\Program Files\Foobar\Obscure\Path\Name\You\Would\Never\Hav e\Thought\Of. Linux makes managing your software a breeze :-)
/usr/local/$somedir and that's it. The most you can expect is some links created in /usr/local/bin. I'd like to see a Mathematic .rpm package conforming to FHS, but that's just a dream.
Sadly, the grandparent is right in this aspect. What you wrote applies to GPL programs shipped with the distro only. Commercial software (Acrobat Reader, Mathematica) installs into
1) Standard control panel through EVERY distro & desktop environment.
A KDE control panel looks (almost) the same in every distro. You can't have a similar control panel for two different pieces of software (KDE v. GNOME).
Either allow banditism and not punish it, or have unfriendly relations with western countries ( I know Russia is especially blamed by Europian countries for Chechenya but their blames does not help. if they actually could resolve the problems - that would be much better. But when complains do not help... then it is wise to skip them
For God's sake, if you want to fight crime, why don't you use police force? You're sending conscripts there, instead. The West has nothing against fighting crime, it's about the human rights abuses which occur in Chechenya. Making people disappear, raping women and demanding money for the privilage of burying your son is a way of fighting crime??? Pulling out == pulling out the army. Just what Lebyed did. You can make a "sanitary cordon" around the republic, screen everybody going in and out, start negotiating with Maschadov, help him introduce rule of law in Chechenya. The USA is bashed for doing far less crimes in Iraq that Russia did in Chechenya. Don't get offended, this is sad truth.
to get all moneys off the people by the mean of harsh inflation ( shock therapy)
In Poland, "shock therapy" (a rather biased name for the set of economic reforms administered in 1990) was meant to curb inflation, not to increase it. Poland had some market infrastructure in place, since first pro-market reforms were introduced in 1988 (small business only).
Why it [privatization] succeded in Poland I'm not aware... but heard of big loans and many help from western countries.
We sold many companies to foreing capital which had enough expertise to run them properly, not to domestic cronies with political connections (of course, such things happened too, only on smaller scale) like Russians did. It payed off. Poland, too, had economy less geared towards cold war effort than Russia, which made for smoother landing. AFAIR Russia has quite large foreign debt too, created after 1989, so the West lent it money too. Financial help for Poland consisted mainly of forgiving loans made in the 70' by the Gierek cabinet.
I'm not aware of cutting benefits other than YUCOS case
I remember reading recently they are planning to take away veterans' and students' benefits, like free metro tickets for students in Moscow. Many other companies than Yucos did not pay taxes too, somehow they are not molested. Perhaps because their owners show no interest in politics?
Russians would like to have good relations with west. Still it is not possible to call them worm till now.
Pull out of Chechenya and wait for the phone calls.
I think the hardships faced by the USSR citizens after 1989 were caused by the degree to which communism pervaded Soviet society. Polish people always had this attitude "we have certain rights, and the government must gives us this and this", while the Russians go more along the "let's be happy we've got what we've got, and don't ask for more". Putin is cutting down people's benefits and still his popularity soars. This makes it at the same time easier to carry out economic reforms (no strikes, only bureaucracy resistance), but also makes it easier to deprave people of their benefits and effectively rob the state of its infrastructure.
Wow! Reminds me our First Secretary's speeches... scary.
The United States of America is better then every other nation so long as each and every citizen does their part to keep the government in check.
After World War II, saying "we are better than any other nation" seems kinda scary to me.
Or: "Bush-Cheney collaboration is now trying to prove that another, formerly widely considered as stable form of democracy, is in reality meta-stable, and can be made to decay into mixture of theocracy and nazism..."
You're missing an important point, which is that so far there haven't been any reports of corruption with Reiser4.
Because it did not enter wide-spread usage as yet. Did anybody carried out some sort of stress test of the filesystem?
The same with public health care. Sometimes you have to wait for the operation so long, that you can die three times in a row before the surgeons get to you.
I'm rather pro-public health care, but let's not be blind to its disatvantages.
Don't be fooled. They gave this man a good treatment, but he belonged to the happy few. Many people in Soviet Russia who got sick because of Chernobyl weren't treated at all, weren't even informed their health was in danger. The authorities waited a few days before informing the society about the catastrophe, and people in Ukraine were going for walks with their children just when the fallout was the heaviest.
For some picture of Soviet health care, you can read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. Try to find some decent (non-propaganda) statistics of infant mortality rate in the USSR, for one. In Poland, the average life expectancy increased and infant mortality rate dropped substantially after the transition from communism to capitalism. I would be very surprised if it was different in the Soviet Union.
An often-cited example of a good and swift action against the fallout damage in 1984 is the wide-spread dosage of Lugol's fluid (a water solution of iodine (I) in potassium iodine (KI)) to children, which saved them from the worst. What is not so often spoken of, that this was not the communists government's initiative; the doctors had to persuade the authorities to let them carry out the action. I did not hear about such an action carried out in the Soviet Union.
BTW, Lukashenko is now encouraging people to settle in the areas of Byelaruss deserted because of the fallout.
Not over the past couple of years -- the original corruption problems with reiserfs, although pretty severe, are well in the past now.
Great! Now let's just wait a few years until "original corruption problems with reiserfs 4" are well in the past, too, and we can start using it. This attitude should be applied to all new filesystems. I understand downloading a fresh build of mozilla, but I'd be more conservative with choosing a filesystem.
To avoid redundancy, here is my reply to the post supposedly explaining I am mistaken.
Someone mod him down, he's posting on a topic he knows "something" about but not enough about.
I know enough not to be fooled by Oil Snake peddlers.
Hiss, hiss.
I consulted my professor (he's a General Relativity guy, but works in quantum field theory, too) and he said that he sees no reason for the increase, as long as you stick to linear electrodynamics.
This 'negative energy' argument would be valid in classical mechanics, where the decrease of potential energy gives increase in kinetic energy (since their sum is conserved).
I did an arXiv search (which IMHO is better suited for scientific lookups than google) and found only one article referring to the concept. Not a lot for a theory sound enough to be brought up on slashdot? The articles is written by the authors of the concept themselves and was published in 1999. It does not give the impression of being written by proffessional scientists (no academic affiliation) and the authors base the concept on another hypothesis of their own (stuffed in the lengthy appendix). This concept is just a hypothesis, not a proven scientific theory. The authors explicitly state that their postulate violates Special Relativity. Special Relativity is not a Bible, but you really should think twice before attempting to tear it down. I did not read the article line by line, and I am by no means an authority on the subject, but I think I have enough evidence to say that the concept in question (of the increase of light speed between plates) is risky and presenting it as a fact to the general public is, in my opinion, dishonest.
the entire thing is under an attributions-required OSI-approved Creative Common license, and is available in .sxw (OpenOffice.org Writer)
A guide to set up OpenOffice comes in OpenOffice-only format...
Yeah, I know they have PDF too. But what if somebody has troubles running X? Theh should have a plaintext version, too.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, most of the buddy-buddy relationships with other communist countries were scratched and it turned into "every man for themselves".
Russia still charges cheaper (or is tolerant on payment delays) gas to Byelaruss and probably Ukraine, too. That's because they see both countries as belonging to their sphere of influence, contrary to the North Korea.
Well, if you cannot understand books by reading them and need help... do you really deserve to pass?
He should read the book by himself, that's certain, but reading other people's analyses is OK, as long as he (the reader) does his own thinking and adds something of his own to the analysis (and does not steal other people's ideas). It should be, in my opinion, required at the university level to compare your opinions with those already published by the professional literature critics.
Superconducting: The magnets proposed are revolutionary because they will be at 2 kelvin. Fermilab operates at 70+.
AFAIR DESY has been using liquid helium-cooled magnets in HERA already.