The biggest reason Russia may be behind in some IT fields has nothing to do with the capability of the professionals in Russia and everything to do with the tariffs imposed on IT related products such as computers and other types of electronics.
In response to Putin's critics... The best thing that happened to the non raw material dependent economy of Russia was the 1998 monetary crisis. Unfortunately, as many posters have pointed out Russia's heavy reliance upon oil and gas exports in recent years has undone much of the competitive gains made by Russian business that survived that crisis.
I'm not a huge Putin fan, but Russia did heavily invest in infrastructure such as roads and communication lines through out the country during his tenure as president.
Actually the Tsar Bomb's purpose and it's deployment was to show that the Soviet Union could design a bomb with no upper limit, and to push the US into a defacto above ground test ban. Of course one could say the same thing about China and their recent satellite shot.
I stopped shopping at Wal*Mart for groceries when I realized that they would overcharge almost everytime on goods such as apples or tomatoes etc... Pretty much anything that doesn't have a barcode has a good chance of being improperly entered into the register. That and the prices on the store floor for such goods are different than those in their computers anyways.
You know of course that this sort of crap comes from some security insignificant Certification and Accreditation crap. Passwords expire in 90 days check. User is automatically logged off in 20 minutes, check. Completely ignore the actual security of the system, while documenting all the insignificant crap that is required by the C&A, check.
Arkaein, You are quite correct and if the operating system that you currently use is adequate for your needs (which most are) then there is little reason to try FreeBSD. Personally, I believe there are only two really good reasons to try a new operating system. 1) You have to because of work, school or some other obligation or 2) You have a friend or colleague that you respect mentions that they impressed with another operating system for reasons that both make sense to you and would reduce the amount of time you spend solving inane problems relating to an OS (installing software, library problems, maintainance, and security).
Having a friend or colleague around to show you the 'way' of an OS is the only way to truely accept a system.
I'm currently using Rails for a project at work using PostgreSQL as my DB. Everything works fine with PostgreSQL in place of MySQL except sequence names. Rails assumes that a person creating a table will use something like (id serial primary key, foo..). the serial keyword creates a sequence that is something like tablename_fieldname_seq. I wanted to have plural table names but singular sequence names. No way to change it by default. Also rails assumes one table one sequence. The Oracle abraction for active record has a way to specify the sequence name, but the postgres one doesn't I hope that this will eventually be rectified.
It seems some people are confusing Stable and Release branches. 5.0 Release will not be a Stable branch according to Release Engineering. The stable branch will emerge around 5.1 or 5.2. Just something to keep in mind.
Why doesn't Dom Lachowicz create an account on one of the alternative *paypal like* sites mentioned before so we can replace the money, which was lost. This whole unfortunate episode can be used to remind us of our obligations to the open-source software that we use. This doesn't really change the business practices of paypal or offer any form of justice, but at least it solves the current funds problem....Waiting for a slashback
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The biggest reason Russia may be behind in some IT fields has nothing to do with the capability of the professionals in Russia and everything to do with the tariffs imposed on IT related products such as computers and other types of electronics.
In response to Putin's critics...
The best thing that happened to the non raw material dependent economy of Russia was the 1998 monetary crisis. Unfortunately, as many posters have pointed out Russia's heavy reliance upon oil and gas exports in recent years has undone much of the competitive gains made by Russian business that survived that crisis.
I'm not a huge Putin fan, but Russia did heavily invest in infrastructure such as roads and communication lines through out the country during his tenure as president.
Actually the Tsar Bomb's purpose and it's deployment was to show that the Soviet Union could design a bomb with no upper limit, and to push the US into a defacto above ground test ban. Of course one could say the same thing about China and their recent satellite shot.
I stopped shopping at Wal*Mart for groceries when I realized that they would overcharge almost everytime on goods such as apples or tomatoes etc... Pretty much anything that doesn't have a barcode has a good chance of being improperly entered into the register. That and the prices on the store floor for such goods are different than those in their computers anyways.
You know of course that this sort of crap comes from some security insignificant Certification and Accreditation crap. Passwords expire in 90 days check. User is automatically logged off in 20 minutes, check. Completely ignore the actual security of the system, while documenting all the insignificant crap that is required by the C&A, check.
Arkaein,
You are quite correct and if the operating system that you currently use is adequate for your needs (which most are) then there is little reason to try FreeBSD. Personally, I believe there are only two really good reasons to try a new operating system. 1) You have to because of work, school or some other obligation or 2) You have a friend or colleague that you respect mentions that they impressed with another operating system for reasons that both make sense to you and would reduce the amount of time you spend solving inane problems relating to an OS (installing software, library problems, maintainance, and security).
Having a friend or colleague around to show you the 'way' of an OS is the only way to truely accept a system.
I'm currently using Rails for a project at work using PostgreSQL as my DB. Everything works fine with PostgreSQL in place of MySQL except sequence names. Rails assumes that a person creating a table will use something like (id serial primary key, foo ..). the serial keyword creates a sequence that is something like tablename_fieldname_seq. I wanted to have plural table names but singular sequence names. No way to change it by default. Also rails assumes one table one sequence.
The Oracle abraction for active record has a way to specify the sequence name, but the postgres one doesn't I hope that this will eventually be rectified.
This cracker round up is a sign I'm certain!
It seems some people are confusing Stable and Release branches. 5.0 Release will not be a Stable branch according to Release Engineering. The stable branch will emerge around 5.1 or 5.2.
Just something to keep in mind.
Why doesn't Dom Lachowicz create an account on one of the alternative *paypal like* sites mentioned before so we can replace the money, which was lost. This whole unfortunate episode can be used to remind us of our obligations to the open-source software that we use. This doesn't really change the business practices of paypal or offer any form of justice, but at least it solves the current funds problem. ...Waiting for a slashback