So many stars and still that Great Silence. Not a single, not even remotely meaningful signal.
When one looks at ancient neolithic art on stones or on animal bones, a meaningfulness, an intelligence is immediately visible. Not a slightest doubt when one sees it.
But billions of stars and not a single radio message. Not even a more or less complicated rhythm. Just background noise.
Outlook has to be installed on a computer, but a web-based application dose not.
A web-based application works in Firefox, Safari, IE, Chrome, etc., on desktops, laptops, net-books, Linux boxes, etc.
No need for an army of tech-support boots on the ground. N need to care about hardware which users use. Use whatever you want, just know your login and password.
If one need a graphics' editor, - go ahead install what you need.
Just changing business dress-code from heavy suites to shorts and t-shirts, business style certainly. Allowing people to dry clothings outdoors on special dryers.
All is needed is a development of a new modern business style fashion and outdoor driers which look esthetically acceptable. It seems to be doable and relatively law-cost tasks.
Lenin lived for many years in Geneva and in Zürich. He was a revolutionary.
After Great French Revolution of 1789 people also changed a lot of things. For example, the metric system of measurements, which is used all over the world now. They also wanted to change an hour to 100 minutes, a year to 10 months, but this did not work out.
I would say that Russian alphabet resembles ancient Greek one. At least, I was surprised that, knowing Russian, I could read names on ancient Greek stones.
Vladimir Lenin wanted to switch to Latin alphabet, but did not have enough time for this. He died in 1924, 4 years after the end of the Civil War.
English language and Latin alphabet are OK, are fine. But I enjoy ti read and watch movies in Russian too. It is not possible to compare. These are two different worlds.
I prefer to read a book in a language it was written on; the same about movies.
Usually, if someone starts to write in Russian language by Latin letters on a forum, it ends in a ban. No one does it anymore.
It is quite possible to transport urgent mail inside a city or shoot aerial videos with a light unmanned automatic quadrocopter. The problem is the battery, or the lack of a silent micro turbine.
I do not see a point of putting a man in such a dangerous environment if it can be done by a robot.
A country is not something monolithic. It consists of different people, with different views and agendas. More than that, sometimes people do something good, another time - bad.
Julian Assange is the leader of a world movement for freedom of expression. He is an inspiration to many around the world. This movement is loosely coupled via Internet.
What we see in Egypt, in Moscow, in Virginia, etc. is the direct result of his work.
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are the first western dissidents. They continue the humanity's work of freedom and truth together with such courageous people as Natan Sharansky, Andrey Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
American and Australian people be proud that mother-nature sent them this time to those parts.
I know that aerial videos are often interesting and revealing about an area. Why did not they make such a video on landing? We could see the Gale crater, Mount Sharp ourselves from above, with our own eyes, in high quality, in color. USB stick weighs about 10 grams (1/3 ounces).
Such videos could cause a real interest in society to exploration.
Why "Troll"? It would be a good marketing step to send an effective HD video and photos immediately on landing.
In this universe everything is marketing and selling. Everything. Since money was invented in Mesopotamia about 5000 - 6000 years ago.
The HD color camera weighs about 3 ounces (100 grams). 99% of people will never pay attention to the "Curiosity" anymore. But it had its chance on landing. The whole world was watching. I've heard people were saying on seeing first black and white blurry photos: "This is it?", "My phone makes better pictures."
And then complaints that they do not get enough money for missions.
Yes the percentage of sulfate in rocks is important, but we want to see HD color images and HD videos from Mars. Real time. Not when someone important decides to release a black and white photo.
And if it is a corrupted official who is listening? Who gets an information that one parts for a month for a business trip from home?
Probably in your country there are no corrupted officials who spend their working days listening to conversations. But the corruption does exist in many places.
Why not to use both programs? We are often influenced by the magic of the figure 1. But dualism is a good principle, which is also widespread in the nature.
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You have not been in Moscow for a while. Here it is: http://www.moninoaviation.com/g6a.html
International Committee of the Red Cross was created in Geneva, Switzerland, http://www.icrc.org/ by Henry Dunant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dunant and other nice people.
Geneva Conventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions were accepted, well, in Geneva.
It is sort of a good serious place.
Actually GIMP 2.8.2 is quite good. I work with it almost daily.
So many stars and still that Great Silence. Not a single, not even remotely meaningful signal.
When one looks at ancient neolithic art on stones or on animal bones, a meaningfulness, an intelligence is immediately visible. Not a slightest doubt when one sees it.
But billions of stars and not a single radio message. Not even a more or less complicated rhythm. Just background noise.
Could it be that we see sort of a mirage?
Fibre is from plastic. It is similar to a fishing line. Not like copper cable, which is very expensive.
Yes, vinyl disks are still in use. And CDs too. But I would say the standard is MP3 and the likes. The same is about dial up, ADSL, and fiber optic.
Why to worry about, say, vinyl disks' issues? 45 or 33 rpm, nobody really cares, except some connoisseurs of retro.
By 2014 a fiber-optic Internet access will be a norm, and the question of bandwidth will be irrelevant.
We do not have dial-up now, do we?
There are ERP (enterprise resource planning) where this issue is solved. For example, www.openerp.com
Outlook has to be installed on a computer, but a web-based application dose not.
A web-based application works in Firefox, Safari, IE, Chrome, etc., on desktops, laptops, net-books, Linux boxes, etc.
No need for an army of tech-support boots on the ground. N need to care about hardware which users use. Use whatever you want, just know your login and password.
If one need a graphics' editor, - go ahead install what you need.
Just changing business dress-code from heavy suites to shorts and t-shirts, business style certainly. Allowing people to dry clothings outdoors on special dryers.
All is needed is a development of a new modern business style fashion and outdoor driers which look esthetically acceptable. It seems to be doable and relatively law-cost tasks.
Programming is the Latin of the 21st century. It is not only about a speed, but also about the empathy, good style and taste in using a language.
Here is an article where it is described in the first lines, but is it in Russian. You may translate it in English via, say, Google Translator:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F
Lenin lived for many years in Geneva and in Zürich. He was a revolutionary.
After Great French Revolution of 1789 people also changed a lot of things. For example, the metric system of measurements, which is used all over the world now. They also wanted to change an hour to 100 minutes, a year to 10 months, but this did not work out.
I would say that Russian alphabet resembles ancient Greek one. At least, I was surprised that, knowing Russian, I could read names on ancient Greek stones.
Vladimir Lenin wanted to switch to Latin alphabet, but did not have enough time for this. He died in 1924, 4 years after the end of the Civil War.
English language and Latin alphabet are OK, are fine. But I enjoy ti read and watch movies in Russian too. It is not possible to compare. These are two different worlds.
I prefer to read a book in a language it was written on; the same about movies.
Usually, if someone starts to write in Russian language by Latin letters on a forum, it ends in a ban. No one does it anymore.
GEN H-4 - Smallest One-Man Helicopter http://www.likecool.com/GEN_H-4--Transportation--Car.html
OK. Creative.
Gay-Pride parade near the embassy? With dressed up people on trucks.
South American New Year carnival?
It is quite possible to transport urgent mail inside a city or shoot aerial videos with a light unmanned automatic quadrocopter. The problem is the battery, or the lack of a silent micro turbine.
I do not see a point of putting a man in such a dangerous environment if it can be done by a robot.
No one, not for any money wans to wash dishes in restaurants or clean public toilets.
If the problem solved in robust and realistic way, there would be the billions' market for such robotized devices.
A quadrocopter can fly without a man on top, be telecommand. In this case it will be light and safe to fly in a city.
The problem is the battery. What is needed is the miniature silent gas turbine, so that it can fly not 10 minutes, but 2 hours.
A country is not something monolithic. It consists of different people, with different views and agendas. More than that, sometimes people do something good, another time - bad.
Dissidents of 70s were always persecuted for crimes, but never for their publications. Sometimes also for mental illness.
Any society is built on a generally accepted set of lies. That is why the truth is painful.
Julian Assange is the leader of a world movement for freedom of expression. He is an inspiration to many around the world. This movement is loosely coupled via Internet.
What we see in Egypt, in Moscow, in Virginia, etc. is the direct result of his work.
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are the first western dissidents. They continue the humanity's work of freedom and truth together with such courageous people as Natan Sharansky, Andrey Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
American and Australian people be proud that mother-nature sent them this time to those parts.
I fly Ardrone2 http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ quadrocopter. It can record HD video on USB stick during flight.
I know that aerial videos are often interesting and revealing about an area. Why did not they make such a video on landing? We could see the Gale crater, Mount Sharp ourselves from above, with our own eyes, in high quality, in color. USB stick weighs about 10 grams (1/3 ounces).
Such videos could cause a real interest in society to exploration.
Why "Troll"? It would be a good marketing step to send an effective HD video and photos immediately on landing.
In this universe everything is marketing and selling. Everything. Since money was invented in Mesopotamia about 5000 - 6000 years ago.
The HD color camera weighs about 3 ounces (100 grams). 99% of people will never pay attention to the "Curiosity" anymore. But it had its chance on landing. The whole world was watching. I've heard people were saying on seeing first black and white blurry photos: "This is it?", "My phone makes better pictures."
And then complaints that they do not get enough money for missions.
The first impression is important. All know that.
Then why Curiosity's first images are of worse quality than those of "Lunokhod 1" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1 in 1970?
Yes the percentage of sulfate in rocks is important, but we want to see HD color images and HD videos from Mars. Real time. Not when someone important decides to release a black and white photo.
And if it is a corrupted official who is listening? Who gets an information that one parts for a month for a business trip from home?
Probably in your country there are no corrupted officials who spend their working days listening to conversations. But the corruption does exist in many places.
Why not to use both programs? We are often influenced by the magic of the figure 1. But dualism is a good principle, which is also widespread in the nature.