i actually defelop software for a pocket pc phone (small truck telematics with help of gps navigation).
it is a htc himalaya (better known as o2 xda II) http://www.my-xda.com/
windows ce mobile 2003 phone edition os 320x240 display 64k colors 64 mb ram 400 mhz arm sd card slot bluetooth tri band phone with gprs camera and so on and so on
and this even not the latest htc device. the latest one (sold as t-mobile mda III) has got integrated keyboard and w-lan.
you really can play music and video on it, or even play music in the background and work with it. or have a gps navigation in the background and the to-do list in the foreground and switch seamless between them.
multitasking and hardware power, that's where palm lacks.
the only two problems of the pocket pcs are quite short battery times and the somewhat instable operating system.
second, my granddad was a major in the soviet army (anti-aircraft forces) has told me about that thing back then. he said they have seen that u-2 coming and only waited for the plane being in a good position. anyway, anti-aircraft missiles never hit directly, they explode when they are near enough to an aircraft to make damage. some old sidewinders were an exception, they had problems with their proximity sensors and would explode when they directly ram the aircraft.
third, ussr lost the cold war basically because of the total corruption.
anyway, many technologies of the ussr were far behind the us technologies. the only reason, why ussr could achieve amazing things lesser tech was because of many brilliant and dedicated people working for the defence industry (and that for very little money)
first, the tubes were nearly perfected in the ussr (mainly because they were used there for military devices long after the rest of the world has switched to transistors)
second, the tubes simply aren't made for being overdriven. as the cpus aren't made for being overclocked. if you want to achieve both - cool better. some fans in your amp would help your tubes last much longer.
that what was in the ussr was not marx' communism but an abomination, made by lenin and made even worse by stalin.
if you would read marx carefully, you would see, that he was right back then, in the beginning of the 20th century. and while he is not that correct now, as he was correct back then, his works have still lot of truth in them.
face it, if not his works, and the resulting selfconsciousness of the workers at the beginning of the 20th century, you would be basicly a slave of a company you are working for.
anyway. a human is a social being. it cannot survive alone. okay, some lone wolves can, but they are not the majority. for a human, a small community is absolutely needed. and if you live in a small community and don't do anything for the common good, you soon will be abandoned and probably would lost all your property if there is a fire in your house one day.
it is actually in your mutual interest to work for the common good. in a really big community you also work for the common good - if you pay taxes.
chechnya could be conquered for years. but there are two major problems
1) corruption. there are lots of people on both sides who earn real money off the ongoing war. i know some russian special forces people who fight in chechnya. they are always held back instead of going in and do something because it would end the war too fast in that case.
2) it is a civil war. you cannot do carpet bombing and such in a civil war on your own land. and without a massive air support, the equipment on both sides is pretty much the same.
actually wrong. stalin was in the communist party, but there he was a quite conservative one. after lenin died and stalin got the power, one could see, that he was truly nationalistic (communists are internationalists).
he put lots of his fellow countrymen (georgians) into high position (for example beriya as nkvd - the organisation that later became kgb - chef) and decimated lots of different ethnic groups living in ussr (jews, tarars, germans, chechens...)
in case of stalin, political compass is wrong. he was no different than hitler at all. all his "socialistic" reforms were just for gaining control over the people.
if i buy used, the guy who has sold the used cd now has money to go out and buy a new cd. if i don't buy used (speak don't buy a cd at all) this guy wouldn't have enough money to buy a new one. and this helps the artist how?
same thing with used games and so on. the money spent on used things usually goes circulating.
no, it isn't bullshit. often, triclosan is used as the antiseptic in such soaps. this chemical is very alike to antibiotics and bacteries can and will build up a resistance to it, too. should any antibiotica be used which works the same way, the bacteria would be resistant to that.
antibiothics are often broadband so they not only kill bacteria which cause the illness but also the bacteria human body needs (like the ones in the digestive tract).
bacteriophages on the other hand kill only special bacteria strains. so we can cure the illness but leave the good bacteries safe.
this is actually the biggest problem, yes. there is a possible way to overcome the problem, though.
in ussr, antibiotica were scarce. so the scientists there developed advanced bacteriophages
it is actually not brain dead. you read pascal source more or less like a human language. a semicolon is like a full stop in an english sentence. after it begins a new sentence.
just think about it: how do you would rather write?
a) if something happens do something, else do nothing
b) if something happens do something. else do nothing.
which one makes more sense? for me it is a because a thought stays together.
i am originally from estonia (now from germany) and i say you write bullshit, former neighbour.
what the russian soldiers do is mostly the revenge for the chechen gruels.
kurad! there are too many stupid nationalists in former baltic countries and all they do is sitting on their arses and hating russians and worshipping their ansestors fighting for the waffen ss instead of just living and working peacefully and productively with russians.
pride or not, as long as you get your work done you get the money. that's how i see it. at my job i am often just sitting there and surfing. my colleagues are a bit suspicious about it and my boss is, too. but i get my job done, on time or even faster. and that's what i get money for. maybe it is a legacy of me being grown up in the ussr.
what you describe in turkmenistan is absolutely the same legacy.
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i actually defelop software for a pocket pc phone (small truck telematics with help of gps navigation).
it is a htc himalaya (better known as o2 xda II)
http://www.my-xda.com/
windows ce mobile 2003 phone edition os
320x240 display
64k colors
64 mb ram
400 mhz arm
sd card slot
bluetooth
tri band phone with gprs
camera
and so on and so on
and this even not the latest htc device. the latest one (sold as t-mobile mda III) has got integrated keyboard and w-lan.
you really can play music and video on it, or even play music in the background and work with it. or have a gps navigation in the background and the to-do list in the foreground and switch seamless between them.
multitasking and hardware power, that's where palm lacks.
the only two problems of the pocket pcs are quite short battery times and the somewhat instable operating system.
how it is first?
such things are already there for quite a while, not very bright, though
just search for led e27 in google. here is the first hit:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/MR16_specs.htm
i mean exactly that. it is like saying "i am a proud to be a male person"
you can only be proud of something you achieve by yourself. everything else is false pride.
already happened:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9568
and how exactly can you be proud of something you didn't achieve yourself?
p.s. pride goeth before a fall.
first, heinlein imho writes lots of bullshit
second, my granddad was a major in the soviet army (anti-aircraft forces) has told me about that thing back then. he said they have seen that u-2 coming and only waited for the plane being in a good position. anyway, anti-aircraft missiles never hit directly, they explode when they are near enough to an aircraft to make damage. some old sidewinders were an exception, they had problems with their proximity sensors and would explode when they directly ram the aircraft.
third, ussr lost the cold war basically because of the total corruption.
anyway, many technologies of the ussr were far behind the us technologies. the only reason, why ussr could achieve amazing things lesser tech was because of many brilliant and dedicated people working for the defence industry (and that for very little money)
first, the tubes were nearly perfected in the ussr (mainly because they were used there for military devices long after the rest of the world has switched to transistors)
second, the tubes simply aren't made for being overdriven. as the cpus aren't made for being overclocked. if you want to achieve both - cool better. some fans in your amp would help your tubes last much longer.
except of the smooth transition into overdrive, which solid state devices lack.
i am a russian and i was born in the ussr.
that what was in the ussr was not marx' communism but an abomination, made by lenin and made even worse by stalin.
if you would read marx carefully, you would see, that he was right back then, in the beginning of the 20th century. and while he is not that correct now, as he was correct back then, his works have still lot of truth in them.
face it, if not his works, and the resulting selfconsciousness of the workers at the beginning of the 20th century, you would be basicly a slave of a company you are working for.
anyway. a human is a social being. it cannot survive alone. okay, some lone wolves can, but they are not the majority. for a human, a small community is absolutely needed. and if you live in a small community and don't do anything for the common good, you soon will be abandoned and probably would lost all your property if there is a fire in your house one day.
it is actually in your mutual interest to work for the common good. in a really big community you also work for the common good - if you pay taxes.
chechnya could be conquered for years. but there are two major problems
1) corruption. there are lots of people on both sides who earn real money off the ongoing war. i know some russian special forces people who fight in chechnya. they are always held back instead of going in and do something because it would end the war too fast in that case.
2) it is a civil war. you cannot do carpet bombing and such in a civil war on your own land. and without a massive air support, the equipment on both sides is pretty much the same.
actually wrong. stalin was in the communist party, but there he was a quite conservative one. after lenin died and stalin got the power, one could see, that he was truly nationalistic (communists are internationalists).
he put lots of his fellow countrymen (georgians) into high position (for example beriya as nkvd - the organisation that later became kgb - chef) and decimated lots of different ethnic groups living in ussr (jews, tarars, germans, chechens...)
in case of stalin, political compass is wrong. he was no different than hitler at all. all his "socialistic" reforms were just for gaining control over the people.
this is bittorrent
bullshit.
if i buy used, the guy who has sold the used cd now has money to go out and buy a new cd. if i don't buy used (speak don't buy a cd at all) this guy wouldn't have enough money to buy a new one. and this helps the artist how?
same thing with used games and so on. the money spent on used things usually goes circulating.
if you look at many math professors at us universities you will see that many of them are either japanese or russian, some are german.
so instead of going to usa the people would go to europe, russia or japan for education.
so much for lucky talent wise.
neither suicide nor depression could be avoided with smoking.
matter of fact everything addictive makes people more nervoes.
dude, gnu.org is fud.
freeware is software which is free as in beer (gratis).
free software(tm) is gpl licensed software.
most wiki implementations are freeware. but not all of them are free software(tm).
for example flexwiki is licensed under cpl, qwikiwiki has a bsd licence and so on.
because gpl doesn't mean that the software is freeware.
there is enough commercial gpled software.
both explanations (his and yours) are correct.
no, it isn't bullshit. often, triclosan is used as the antiseptic in such soaps. this chemical is very alike to antibiotics and bacteries can and will build up a resistance to it, too. should any antibiotica be used which works the same way, the bacteria would be resistant to that.
no, you got it wrong.
antibiothics are often broadband so they not only kill bacteria which cause the illness but also the bacteria human body needs (like the ones in the digestive tract).
bacteriophages on the other hand kill only special bacteria strains. so we can cure the illness but leave the good bacteries safe.
this is actually the biggest problem, yes. there is a possible way to overcome the problem, though. in ussr, antibiotica were scarce. so the scientists there developed advanced bacteriophages
it is actually not brain dead.
you read pascal source more or less like a human language. a semicolon is like a full stop in an english sentence. after it begins a new sentence.
just think about it: how do you would rather write?
a) if something happens do something, else do nothing
b) if something happens do something. else do nothing.
which one makes more sense? for me it is a because a thought stays together.
i am originally from estonia (now from germany) and i say you write bullshit, former neighbour.
what the russian soldiers do is mostly the revenge for the chechen gruels.
kurad! there are too many stupid nationalists in former baltic countries and all they do is sitting on their arses and hating russians and worshipping their ansestors fighting for the waffen ss instead of just living and working peacefully and productively with russians.
because the cell phone screen is too small to do anything real?
i prever the opposite solution. why a cellphone when my pda can do its job?
pride or not, as long as you get your work done you get the money. that's how i see it. at my job i am often just sitting there and surfing. my colleagues are a bit suspicious about it and my boss is, too. but i get my job done, on time or even faster. and that's what i get money for. maybe it is a legacy of me being grown up in the ussr.
what you describe in turkmenistan is absolutely the same legacy.