Our economy has always been close to failure. Nothing new. We could do better and have more liberal government if some other countries did not try to flood our land with spies and put military threats around our borders.
True, the USSR was not a paradise, but your parts also had its share of skeletons in closets. Your democracy was founded by people who could be slave owners, at least some historians claim that there is evidence of this. In our country we also had a serfdom, but that regime was overthrown and annihilated by the revolution.
You had the segregation up to 60s, and it was ended, as I heard Kennedy said, to stop criticism from the USSR.
I would not even start to talk about how millions of undocumented people are treated.
I would say your country and my parts are not ideal yet, there is still a lot of work to do. And in both cases a l-o-o-o-t of space for improvement.
The one who lives in a glass castle shall not start first throwing stones. What happened to a good man, who did invent the Internet, who did win most votes?
I am Russian and I can tell that people do not kiss women at work. On the contrary, when Russians work in France they usually uncomfortable that french kiss each other 2-3 times at every meeting.
Still in USSR there was an idea to ban even handshakes after the Cold War's NATO started to develop biological weapon which transmits via handshakes.
"People in Russia expects that women kiss them at work", - what a stupid and untrue notion.
It can be a part of the organized effort. I am Russian, I worked in many Russian teams, and I never saw that people were trying to harass women.
But if one reads western media the impression would be opposite. Every day in western cities, like in any large city, happen thousands and thousands rape crimes, but what we see in media, - that Russians raped women during the end of WW2, this case, ans so on and so forth.
Russia has got a lot of territory, a lot of resources, and there is an organized mass Machiavellian effort to destabilize Russian federation, it became already well known secret. I think this French chick is just part of it.
I installed it on XP, 3200 MHz. Firstly, it was 250 MB download, then it asked to install.Net 3.5 SP1, it was 74 MB download, then after clicking about 10 times on OK of different questions, it finally installed.
I started it from Start menu, it crashed. I rebooted PC, started it again, it crashed again. I uninstalled it. 1 hour of my time lost on this thing.
Did you MS people go insane? Why just not let me download a file of 300 MB, if you need this size, and let me start it? Like, say, Mozilla or Gimp do. Why I always have to OK-answer on countless meaningless questions? Why it installs so long? What is this installation checking something endlessly, it is your OS after all?
In theory yes, but in practice people install Limewire and Torrents where one would expect it less of all. USS Hartford was built in the last century. Certainly the computers had to be upgraded since then. If they were upgraded, say, in 2005, still they are already obsolete for downloading and storing movies.
Can you imagine how boring it is to serve on a battle ship? It is interesting only in movies. If they can download movies they download them. And if their PC is like mine it could be frozen sometimes by a file with a strange codec or Trojan downloader instead of a movie.
What I would also check, if I were an investigator, if sailors did not install Torrent or Limewire on the ship computer and did not download movies at the time of collision. Such things are taking a lot of resources and bandwidth as files are of enormous size. It can cause computer system to freeze.
If there was a fog at that time being on the bridge does not influence much. What is needed is a radar or emitting good old 4 seconds horn sound every minute.
On a boat which costs 1,000,000,000 could be a radar with alarm which costs about 750. I am sure there were more radar systems on them than one.
I cannot imagine why these boats could collide at all. I guess it was a virus or trojan in the Win32 NT Military Edition system or it was overwhelmed by spam.
As military ships are becoming more and more like floating computers, the malware and spam are turning into ominous issues.
We also had nicely sounding historical measurements, all European countries had them, and all differed. But in the 19th century most of the world decided to use a unit - meter, one ten-millionth distance from the equator to the north pole (or 10000 kilometers from the equator to the north pole). That's it.
1 kilometer is 1000 meters. There is no nautical kilometer, British kilometer, geographical kilometer, just kilometer. One and for all.
Introducing metric system was not easy in Eurasia either. Some people were trying to built political careers on defending historical systems, speculating on pseudo-patriotism. Sometimes guillotine or Gulag ended arguments, regrettably. Still in the end we got it right. We have got unified scientific system of measurements.
A talk about "change" is not enough. Real change is needed. The good first step could be the metric reform in the USA.
I still claim that it is impossible to make safe dynamic technological system with the imperial system of measurement, or even worse, with a mixture of Imperial and Metric systems.
An engineer would know that after some level of complexity things become often unpredictable, that is why testing and debugging is half of a development.
But when one throws into it measurements which relate to one another as crazy figures like 158.9871, or when an engineer is to be constantly aware that there are not only US gallons, but UK gallons too, that there are several kinds of a mile, with different length(!), and so on and so forth, it is asking for trouble, no, it is begging for trouble.
I know at least several loud cases when an obsolete system of measurements was the reason behind a technological catastrophe. We do not hear about smaller daily catastrophes, which do add to the fabric of economical life.
The US engineers do their best, trying hard, but they are not Gods. Sooner or later, when their systems become complex enough it all will begin to fall down, like a proverbial house built not on the rock, but on a sand. The system of measurement is the foundation on which we built.
If one does not want that his movies or songs are transmitted via networks just do not put them into a digital format. There will be no these movies and songs in the digital world, but nature does not like an emptiness, there will be other instead.
It is like getting into Airbus 380's cockpit and complaining that you cannot find the gaz pedal. GIMP is a complicated software for doing complicated things. If you want to give a child possibility to draw circles find something simpler.
I use GIMP www.gimp.org daily. I have to handle about 300-400 photos per week. Sometimes more. I have got a choice of any graphic software, but GIMP just rocks.
It can be adjusted for very fast work, and its algorithms are clear and magical. It is one of the best machines on Earth. I see it also like sort of a poem written in code. I would like to thank the developers, artists and documenters of GIMP (2.6.5 already):
* Spencer Kimball
* Peter Mattis
* Henrik Brix Andersen
* Nicola Archibald
* Hans Breuer
* Simon Budig
* João S. O. Bueno Calligaris
* Seth Burgess
* Stephane Chauveau
* Zbigniew Chyla
* David Costanzo
* Jay Cox
* Kevin Cozens
* Karine Delvare
* Daniel Egger
* Pedro Alonso Ferrer
* Piotr Filiciak
* Shlomi Fish
* Sylvain Foret
* Gerald Friedland
* Daniel Richard G
* GG
* Saul Goode
* David Gowers
* Dov Grobgeld
* Michael Hammel
* Robert Helgesson
* Kristian Jantz
* Róman Joost
* Geert Jordaens
* Aurimas Juska
* Øyvind Kolås
* Robert L Krawitz
* Eric Lamarque
* Tobias Lenz
* Frederic Leroy
* Adrian Likins
* Tor Lillqvist
* Kjartan Maraas
* John Marshall
* Loren Merritt
* Chris Mohler
* Chris Moller
* Tim Mooney
* Adam D Moss
* Michael Natterer
* David Neary
* Sven Neumann
* Martin Nordholts
* David Odin
* Robert Ögren
* Akkana Peck
* Nils Philippsen
* Ari Pollak
* Raphaël Quinet
* Maurits Rijk
* Clarence Risher
* Stefan Röllin
* Guillermo S. Romero
* Michael Schumacher
* Peter Sikking
* Ted Shaneyfelt
* Jernej Simoni
* Manish Singh
* Mukund Sivaraman
* William Skaggs
* Kevin Sookocheff
* Jakub Steiner
* Nathan Summers
* Owen Taylor
* Patrice Tremblay
* Helvetix Victorinox
* Matthew Wilson
* Karl Günter Wünsch
* Yoshinori Yamakawa
Artists
Contributing icons, cursors, brushes, gradients, patterns, etc.
* Lapo Calamandrei
* Paul Davey
* Karl La Rocca
* Andreas Nilsson
* Carol Spears
* Jakub Steiner
* William Szilveszter
Documenters
Contributing documentation
* Marco Ciampa
* Dust
* Ulf-D. Ehlert
* Alessandro Falappa
* Jakub Friedl
* Michael Hammel
* Julien Hardelin
* Róman Joost
* Hans de Jonge
* Semka Kuloviæ-Debals
* Manuel Quiñones
* Nickolay V. Shmyrev
* Axel Wernicke
Special thanks to Jernej Simoni for Windows installer.
Yes, maybe after careful quality viewing the strategists will realize that what Eurasia needs is not bombings, but tunnels under the mountains, like they deed already between Italy and Switzerland, speed trains, and data cables.
Eurasia is the way largest and most populated continent, but it is sort of split in several parts by mountain barriers. This isolation of several regions causes in there poverty, ignorance, backwardness. Bombings will only exacerbate these issues in the long run.
I wonder if it is possible to hack into such a dirigible system and feed a faked stream to its home base? Or predator and the likes. This would be revolutionary, - turning military robots against their owners.
I see the world where a hacker may become its supreme ruler. Some serious mathematics should be involved in it though.
About 20000 people are murdered in the USA each year, more than 10000 are murdered in the UK. Just by doing simple statistics there should be the journalists among these tens of thousands hapless people. Or at least bloggers. People are being shot practically every day as guns are omnipresent.
Still only 1 or 2 names of killed journalists are in the media spotlight. Exactly those who were killed literally in close proximity to the Kremlin buildings.
When the resources were practically free of charge no one cared for Russia. Nowadays when people in South America, Africa and Asia got education en mass and realized that they can have money in exchange for oil, natural gaz, metals, crops, etc., the resources are not dirt cheap anymore. Russia with its immense resources is becoming interesting again, even to the former Soviet republics.
The Soviet Union was founded and run by the Georgian (Stalin, Beria), Ukrainian (Khrushchev, Brezhnev), Baltic (Dzerzhinsky, the father of the red terror) political elites. These republics have separated (with additional territories) when oil cost USD 3.- per barrel. Now they realize that they have made a mistake, because Russian are becoming rich now and they - poor. Like Jack in "LOST" they say: "We should go back". They want again to rule Eurasia. That is why it is so loud.
Red Baltic Riflemen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Riflemen , Georgian, Ukrainian and Baltic political elites, lead by the Georgian Ioseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin), Ukrainians Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Pole-Lithuanian Felix Dzerzhinsky were the founders and ideological force of the Soviet Union.
Red Baltic Riflemen, among which there were a lot of Estonians, killed about 2 million Russian peasants, who revolted against the communist collectivization. Here is the map of the Red Baltic Riflemen battles against Russian peasants in 1917-1920 http://www.russia-talk.com/latyshi.htm
What we see now in Georgia, Ukraine and Baltic states is the nostalgia of the political elites to return back from the small agrarian backwater republics to rule again the Eurasia.
They cannot do this. Try to understand their position too. The industrial countries are situated geographically in the places where there are no resources. But they do need the access to cheap resources in immense quantities. Otherwise hundreds of millions of skilled, well educated people will not be able to live on such small piece of land, which we call the 1st Industrial World. Have a look at this: http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/africa_in_perspective_map.jpg
At the same time the satellite TV, the Internet, and some other developments bring education to the parts, which were less developed historically. People in these parts can now themselves organize their society, production, distribution, etc.
But what will the 1st World industrial civilization do? It is only natural that their try to protect their livelihood, namely the access to the cheap resources. They need tools for this.
It is an effective tool to destabilize young societies, which indeed still make a lot of mistakes understandably. But they seem to get it already. A new way should be found. Instead of destabilizing and trying to impose the governance, a chance should be given to the co-development. At least it will reduce the problem of illegal immigration into the 1st World.
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I saw already 2 times that people use a set up when the data is sent to the projector. This way the picture is on the wall, not on a TV or computer screen.
They connect to the projector whatever data source they have got: computer with a downloaded show, DVD box, etc. This way the equipment is really compact and mobile. From a small notebook and projector one can get a huge picture size. I cannot imagine an LCD that big.
I see the future in projectors and portable wearable glasses-screens. Whatever box with whatever media file one connects to it is another story.
This way the computer and the TV get rid of the bulky part - the LCD screen. So a home movie center can become the size of the MP3 player plus a paperback-size projector. Or computer can be the size of MP3 player plus foldable keyboard, plus glasses-screen. It can be a mobile phone at the same time. One can have a powerful computer about all the time. For example, while jogging one receives an urgent phone call. The keyboard is unfolded, the glasses-screen is put on, 3G is connected, and the work starts wherever place it is, say, on a bench in the park.
Why not? Some people see the real world through glasses all the time, why we cannot see a digital word via glasses? Including watching movies. Who listens to podcasts via usual sound systems? People use headphones instead, and the headphones go through immense innovation. Why we should watch movies on usual screens? We could also have more portable and personal devices.
I lived in Russia for 17 years, even more in Ukraine. Now I work in the West. I do not have exact figures, but I am convinced that the figure should be close to 100% of cracked Windows installations.
Most of these PCs are not updated due to the relatively recent Windows authenticity check. The most widespread browser is still IE6(!) in the RuNet.
Anybody, anybody, can install and run bots on these PCs. I do not exclude that these cyber attacks are carried out from Russian IPs by people who want to make bad image of this country. I saw PCs with several bots, viruses and trojans "happily" coexisting.
It is easy to say that Russian government is responsible, but the real picture is much more messy.
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But how implement a session without a cookie file?? No shopping basket then?? No keeping a choice until the next visit??
I realize that there is more liberty in your parts. Our society will move that direction too.
I like to watch the US movies, like LOST, Prison Break, etc.
Our economy has always been close to failure. Nothing new. We could do better and have more liberal government if some other countries did not try to flood our land with spies and put military threats around our borders.
True, the USSR was not a paradise, but your parts also had its share of skeletons in closets. Your democracy was founded by people who could be slave owners, at least some historians claim that there is evidence of this. In our country we also had a serfdom, but that regime was overthrown and annihilated by the revolution.
You had the segregation up to 60s, and it was ended, as I heard Kennedy said, to stop criticism from the USSR.
I would not even start to talk about how millions of undocumented people are treated.
I would say your country and my parts are not ideal yet, there is still a lot of work to do. And in both cases a l-o-o-o-t of space for improvement.
The one who lives in a glass castle shall not start first throwing stones. What happened to a good man, who did invent the Internet, who did win most votes?
Always welcome, Mister McCain.
Still in USSR there was an idea to ban even handshakes after the Cold War's NATO started to develop biological weapon which transmits via handshakes.
"People in Russia expects that women kiss them at work", - what a stupid and untrue notion.
But if one reads western media the impression would be opposite. Every day in western cities, like in any large city, happen thousands and thousands rape crimes, but what we see in media, - that Russians raped women during the end of WW2, this case, ans so on and so forth.
Russia has got a lot of territory, a lot of resources, and there is an organized mass Machiavellian effort to destabilize Russian federation, it became already well known secret. I think this French chick is just part of it.
I started it from Start menu, it crashed. I rebooted PC, started it again, it crashed again. I uninstalled it. 1 hour of my time lost on this thing.
Did you MS people go insane? Why just not let me download a file of 300 MB, if you need this size, and let me start it? Like, say, Mozilla or Gimp do. Why I always have to OK-answer on countless meaningless questions? Why it installs so long? What is this installation checking something endlessly, it is your OS after all?
Can you imagine how boring it is to serve on a battle ship? It is interesting only in movies. If they can download movies they download them. And if their PC is like mine it could be frozen sometimes by a file with a strange codec or Trojan downloader instead of a movie.
What I would also check, if I were an investigator, if sailors did not install Torrent or Limewire on the ship computer and did not download movies at the time of collision. Such things are taking a lot of resources and bandwidth as files are of enormous size. It can cause computer system to freeze.
On a boat which costs 1,000,000,000 could be a radar with alarm which costs about 750. I am sure there were more radar systems on them than one.
I cannot imagine why these boats could collide at all. I guess it was a virus or trojan in the Win32 NT Military Edition system or it was overwhelmed by spam.
As military ships are becoming more and more like floating computers, the malware and spam are turning into ominous issues.
1 kilometer is 1000 meters. There is no nautical kilometer, British kilometer, geographical kilometer, just kilometer. One and for all.
Introducing metric system was not easy in Eurasia either. Some people were trying to built political careers on defending historical systems, speculating on pseudo-patriotism. Sometimes guillotine or Gulag ended arguments, regrettably. Still in the end we got it right. We have got unified scientific system of measurements.
I still claim that it is impossible to make safe dynamic technological system with the imperial system of measurement, or even worse, with a mixture of Imperial and Metric systems.
An engineer would know that after some level of complexity things become often unpredictable, that is why testing and debugging is half of a development.
But when one throws into it measurements which relate to one another as crazy figures like 158.9871, or when an engineer is to be constantly aware that there are not only US gallons, but UK gallons too, that there are several kinds of a mile, with different length(!), and so on and so forth, it is asking for trouble, no, it is begging for trouble.
I know at least several loud cases when an obsolete system of measurements was the reason behind a technological catastrophe. We do not hear about smaller daily catastrophes, which do add to the fabric of economical life.
The US engineers do their best, trying hard, but they are not Gods. Sooner or later, when their systems become complex enough it all will begin to fall down, like a proverbial house built not on the rock, but on a sand. The system of measurement is the foundation on which we built.
Yeah, professionals built Titanic, a hobbyist an Arc.
If one does not want that his movies or songs are transmitted via networks just do not put them into a digital format. There will be no these movies and songs in the digital world, but nature does not like an emptiness, there will be other instead.
It is like getting into Airbus 380's cockpit and complaining that you cannot find the gaz pedal. GIMP is a complicated software for doing complicated things. If you want to give a child possibility to draw circles find something simpler.
It can be adjusted for very fast work, and its algorithms are clear and magical. It is one of the best machines on Earth. I see it also like sort of a poem written in code. I would like to thank the developers, artists and documenters of GIMP (2.6.5 already):
* Spencer Kimball * Peter Mattis
* Henrik Brix Andersen * Nicola Archibald * Hans Breuer * Simon Budig * João S. O. Bueno Calligaris * Seth Burgess * Stephane Chauveau * Zbigniew Chyla * David Costanzo * Jay Cox * Kevin Cozens * Karine Delvare * Daniel Egger * Pedro Alonso Ferrer * Piotr Filiciak * Shlomi Fish * Sylvain Foret * Gerald Friedland * Daniel Richard G * GG * Saul Goode * David Gowers * Dov Grobgeld * Michael Hammel * Robert Helgesson * Kristian Jantz * Róman Joost * Geert Jordaens * Aurimas Juska * Øyvind Kolås * Robert L Krawitz * Eric Lamarque * Tobias Lenz * Frederic Leroy * Adrian Likins * Tor Lillqvist * Kjartan Maraas * John Marshall * Loren Merritt * Chris Mohler * Chris Moller * Tim Mooney * Adam D Moss * Michael Natterer * David Neary * Sven Neumann * Martin Nordholts * David Odin * Robert Ögren * Akkana Peck * Nils Philippsen * Ari Pollak * Raphaël Quinet * Maurits Rijk * Clarence Risher * Stefan Röllin * Guillermo S. Romero * Michael Schumacher * Peter Sikking * Ted Shaneyfelt * Jernej Simoni * Manish Singh * Mukund Sivaraman * William Skaggs * Kevin Sookocheff * Jakub Steiner * Nathan Summers * Owen Taylor * Patrice Tremblay * Helvetix Victorinox * Matthew Wilson * Karl Günter Wünsch * Yoshinori Yamakawa
Artists
Contributing icons, cursors, brushes, gradients, patterns, etc.
* Lapo Calamandrei * Paul Davey * Karl La Rocca * Andreas Nilsson * Carol Spears * Jakub Steiner * William Szilveszter
Documenters
Contributing documentation
* Marco Ciampa * Dust * Ulf-D. Ehlert * Alessandro Falappa * Jakub Friedl * Michael Hammel * Julien Hardelin * Róman Joost * Hans de Jonge * Semka Kuloviæ-Debals * Manuel Quiñones * Nickolay V. Shmyrev * Axel Wernicke
Special thanks to Jernej Simoni for Windows installer.
Eurasia is the way largest and most populated continent, but it is sort of split in several parts by mountain barriers. This isolation of several regions causes in there poverty, ignorance, backwardness. Bombings will only exacerbate these issues in the long run.
Borrowing another trillion from China?
I see the world where a hacker may become its supreme ruler. Some serious mathematics should be involved in it though.
About 20000 people are murdered in the USA each year, more than 10000 are murdered in the UK. Just by doing simple statistics there should be the journalists among these tens of thousands hapless people. Or at least bloggers. People are being shot practically every day as guns are omnipresent.
Still only 1 or 2 names of killed journalists are in the media spotlight. Exactly those who were killed literally in close proximity to the Kremlin buildings.
When the resources were practically free of charge no one cared for Russia. Nowadays when people in South America, Africa and Asia got education en mass and realized that they can have money in exchange for oil, natural gaz, metals, crops, etc., the resources are not dirt cheap anymore. Russia with its immense resources is becoming interesting again, even to the former Soviet republics.
The Soviet Union was founded and run by the Georgian (Stalin, Beria), Ukrainian (Khrushchev, Brezhnev), Baltic (Dzerzhinsky, the father of the red terror) political elites. These republics have separated (with additional territories) when oil cost USD 3.- per barrel. Now they realize that they have made a mistake, because Russian are becoming rich now and they - poor. Like Jack in "LOST" they say: "We should go back". They want again to rule Eurasia. That is why it is so loud.
Red Baltic Riflemen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Riflemen , Georgian, Ukrainian and Baltic political elites, lead by the Georgian Ioseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin), Ukrainians Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Pole-Lithuanian Felix Dzerzhinsky were the founders and ideological force of the Soviet Union.
Red Baltic Riflemen, among which there were a lot of Estonians, killed about 2 million Russian peasants, who revolted against the communist collectivization. Here is the map of the Red Baltic Riflemen battles against Russian peasants in 1917-1920 http://www.russia-talk.com/latyshi.htm
What we see now in Georgia, Ukraine and Baltic states is the nostalgia of the political elites to return back from the small agrarian backwater republics to rule again the Eurasia.
At the same time the satellite TV, the Internet, and some other developments bring education to the parts, which were less developed historically. People in these parts can now themselves organize their society, production, distribution, etc.
But what will the 1st World industrial civilization do? It is only natural that their try to protect their livelihood, namely the access to the cheap resources. They need tools for this.
It is an effective tool to destabilize young societies, which indeed still make a lot of mistakes understandably. But they seem to get it already. A new way should be found. Instead of destabilizing and trying to impose the governance, a chance should be given to the co-development. At least it will reduce the problem of illegal immigration into the 1st World.
They connect to the projector whatever data source they have got: computer with a downloaded show, DVD box, etc. This way the equipment is really compact and mobile. From a small notebook and projector one can get a huge picture size. I cannot imagine an LCD that big.
I see the future in projectors and portable wearable glasses-screens. Whatever box with whatever media file one connects to it is another story.
This way the computer and the TV get rid of the bulky part - the LCD screen. So a home movie center can become the size of the MP3 player plus a paperback-size projector. Or computer can be the size of MP3 player plus foldable keyboard, plus glasses-screen. It can be a mobile phone at the same time. One can have a powerful computer about all the time. For example, while jogging one receives an urgent phone call. The keyboard is unfolded, the glasses-screen is put on, 3G is connected, and the work starts wherever place it is, say, on a bench in the park.
Why not? Some people see the real world through glasses all the time, why we cannot see a digital word via glasses? Including watching movies. Who listens to podcasts via usual sound systems? People use headphones instead, and the headphones go through immense innovation. Why we should watch movies on usual screens? We could also have more portable and personal devices.
Most of these PCs are not updated due to the relatively recent Windows authenticity check. The most widespread browser is still IE6(!) in the RuNet.
Anybody, anybody, can install and run bots on these PCs. I do not exclude that these cyber attacks are carried out from Russian IPs by people who want to make bad image of this country. I saw PCs with several bots, viruses and trojans "happily" coexisting.
It is easy to say that Russian government is responsible, but the real picture is much more messy.