Trumpet Winsock wasn't exactly a problem, every computer magazine with a cd had it and Netscape Navigator 1.0 on it. But I had to download the Internet Access Kit and the PPP driver for OS/2 Warp at some BBS.
Aah, what a time. Back then IBM WebExplorer was a decent browser and MSIE was not even in planning.
"If you make something that any idiot can use, only idiots will use it." This quote is very true in the case of iPod. I'll rather take a flashy gadget with OVER 9000 features.
Not really. Many scientists and engineers worked straightly out of the gulag in first place so it was rather the fear of losing the little privileges they still had over normal prisoners.
Some dialog was strange, but there are hell of a lot of priceless quotes
"It's getting faster. I swear they are evolving right before my eyes. If you see something this big with eight legs coming your way, let me know. I have to kill it before it develops language skills."
or
"I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut your head off and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favours come at too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
Yeah. And the only reason the terrorists haven't done anything yet is the sheer amount of available targets - so many that they cannot decide which one to aim for first:rolleyes
Different times, different measures. The East Slav population was far far smaller than the current American population (the total Slav population even nowadays is smaller) and a warrior ruling class had pretty good prospects of fucking good looking commoners;-) Also, back then it wasn't an empire yet, only two or three towns of some Chud (aka Finn) and Slav tribes - two thousand people at most - ruled by Scandinavians so I estimate a lot of more Viking blood, certainly more than Mongolian, even after two centuries of occupation.
That is not entirely correct. Russia was founded by and ruled by vikings (Rørik, who built the city of Holmgård - nowadays Great Novgorod - and started the first Russian king dynasty). His fellow vikings were the first ruling class and even today very common Russian first names have got scandinavian roots (like Oleg/Olga - Helge/Helga or Igor - Ingvar)
Well, a right wing nutjob has normally got a very limited circle of acquaintances - other right wing nutjobs. So it wonders not that they think the same.
Well, I can speak only for myself but although I love programming, when I came home from work (when I was still employed) I was tired and didn't want to do any more work at home. It was time for my other hobbies then - maybe playing a little guitar, maybe watching the fishes in my fishtank for a while, reading some good SF, cooking a nice meal, whatever. 8 hours spent on one hobby is more than enough.
Frankly, if the only hobby and joy of your life is programming, it only shows that your horizon is pretty narrow if you know what I mean.
Russia was losing the war anyway and the population was starving. Lenin has done what he had to do - cut the loss. It was crazy for Russia to get involved in the First World War in first place with its weak army, weak agriculture and even weaker industry. FFS even the Japanese have beaten the Russian army a couple of years before WW1.
Cold war was inevitable right after communists came to power (Red Scare and the Allied intervention into the Russian civil war was the start of it) and had nothing to do with WW1.
Well, you are more insightful than you thought you are. Lenin came to power most of all because he promised to withdraw from the First World War, something the provisional government of Kerensky also promised but never did.
Lenin delivered his promise early 1918 by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ceding a huge chunk of the Russian Empire territories (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and parts of Armenia - a quarter of the former imperial population and industries) in the process.
Shortly after he pretty much destroyed the whole standing army, so by the definition Lenin would deserve a peace price, had not a civil war erupted after the October Revolution in 1917.
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Trumpet Winsock wasn't exactly a problem, every computer magazine with a cd had it and Netscape Navigator 1.0 on it. But I had to download the Internet Access Kit and the PPP driver for OS/2 Warp at some BBS.
Aah, what a time. Back then IBM WebExplorer was a decent browser and MSIE was not even in planning.
A quite nice country, actually. Used to have a lot of amber at the seashore.
... while Estonians had their meteorite crater for nearly three thousand years :-b
"If you make something that any idiot can use, only idiots will use it."
This quote is very true in the case of iPod. I'll rather take a flashy gadget with OVER 9000 features.
And if I say "1st of April, 2010"?
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You sure nerds know the difference?
German railways were much more efficient and cost effective (also much cheaper and better maintained) before privatization.
Not really. Many scientists and engineers worked straightly out of the gulag in first place so it was rather the fear of losing the little privileges they still had over normal prisoners.
It was AFAIR the Lexington, a Hyperion-class cruiser. No rotating sections on this class of ships.
Some dialog was strange, but there are hell of a lot of priceless quotes
"It's getting faster. I swear they are evolving right before my eyes. If you see something this big with eight legs coming your way, let me know. I have to kill it before it develops language skills."
or
"I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut your head off and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favours come at too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
Yeah. And the only reason the terrorists haven't done anything yet is the sheer amount of available targets - so many that they cannot decide which one to aim for first :rolleyes
"What's with these new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact!"
Different times, different measures. The East Slav population was far far smaller than the current American population (the total Slav population even nowadays is smaller) and a warrior ruling class had pretty good prospects of fucking good looking commoners ;-)
Also, back then it wasn't an empire yet, only two or three towns of some Chud (aka Finn) and Slav tribes - two thousand people at most - ruled by Scandinavians so I estimate a lot of more Viking blood, certainly more than Mongolian, even after two centuries of occupation.
That is not entirely correct. Russia was founded by and ruled by vikings (Rørik, who built the city of Holmgård - nowadays Great Novgorod - and started the first Russian king dynasty). His fellow vikings were the first ruling class and even today very common Russian first names have got scandinavian roots (like Oleg/Olga - Helge/Helga or Igor - Ingvar)
Well, a right wing nutjob has normally got a very limited circle of acquaintances - other right wing nutjobs. So it wonders not that they think the same.
By that logic, so is China, India, pretty much the whole Middle East, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and so on.
most of people read some book.
Well, I can speak only for myself but although I love programming, when I came home from work (when I was still employed) I was tired and didn't want to do any more work at home. It was time for my other hobbies then - maybe playing a little guitar, maybe watching the fishes in my fishtank for a while, reading some good SF, cooking a nice meal, whatever. 8 hours spent on one hobby is more than enough.
Frankly, if the only hobby and joy of your life is programming, it only shows that your horizon is pretty narrow if you know what I mean.
Russia was losing the war anyway and the population was starving. Lenin has done what he had to do - cut the loss. It was crazy for Russia to get involved in the First World War in first place with its weak army, weak agriculture and even weaker industry. FFS even the Japanese have beaten the Russian army a couple of years before WW1.
Cold war was inevitable right after communists came to power (Red Scare and the Allied intervention into the Russian civil war was the start of it) and had nothing to do with WW1.
Are you sure about that?
CANDU is a heavy water reactor but it can run even on natural uranium.
Well, you are more insightful than you thought you are. Lenin came to power most of all because he promised to withdraw from the First World War, something the provisional government of Kerensky also promised but never did.
Lenin delivered his promise early 1918 by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ceding a huge chunk of the Russian Empire territories (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and parts of Armenia - a quarter of the former imperial population and industries) in the process.
Shortly after he pretty much destroyed the whole standing army, so by the definition Lenin would deserve a peace price, had not a civil war erupted after the October Revolution in 1917.
It happens. Even Nokia had some QA problems of entire handset series.
Has it ever occurred to you that your hardware and not your software might have been broken?
Dude, get your facts straight. The games of 2014 will be held in Sochi, not Moscow. Sochi is 1200 km away from Moscow, at the Black Sea.