The sheer amount of data going in and out require a lot of efforts to scan through it. I'm system administrator in the company with 350+ users and newly appointed bosses tend to order me to give them access to incoming/outgoing mail. Well, I give it to them. Then they don't read it, because it difficult to read about half of gig/day... I bombard them with messages about disk space and in two months disable this feature until new boss is appointed:)
Of couse if you hire special people just to read others mail that's another story, but such system is going to be damn expensive.
I'd say "it always risks faults". Actually, shortages were a particular failure of the Soviet Union. It would have been possible to raise prices somewhat to balance the supply and demand, which would instantly eliminate shortages, like it happens in market economies by design. But it was a politically difficult decision and it wasn't done when it could have helped. When the government finally "liberated" the prices, it was too late - Soviet Union was destroyed, the planned economy lied in shambles and hyperinflation soared.
Well, this was NOT the source of the hyperinflation. Virtual money ("beznal") that were allowed to be real money were. In Soviet economy these money were more like resource allocation quotas than the realy money and suddenly huge amount of these virtual money flowed into the economy. Imagine what whould happen if U.S. authorities will suddenly run printing press creating hundreds times more $$ than today exist in the world and dump these into the U.S. economy. Chaos.
The Center on Policy Attitudes released a report on the different realities between Bush and Kerry supporters called "The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry Supporters". The summary of it is that Bush supporters haven't seen the world lately. It's kinda disturbing when you realize about half of the US are in that group. A super majority believe there were WMD in Iraq or programs to produce them; and - get this - a majority believe that the world is either indifferent to who become the next US president or hopes for another Bush term!
As many Russians do, because Bush does damage to US as much as Gorbachev did to USSR.
Light aircraft have a small radar signiture, and can slip by relatively easily. You might recall the German kid who flew a small plane right into Red Square in Moscow
That guy flew there because fucking nobody wanted to take the responsibility and order pilots to shoot him down. At that time politics mattered more than safety of the country... it was a problem of high command, not a small radar signature.
It won't work. You just shifted the load
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Here is the problem. You think that by passing traffic jams around the city and landing there in the center will solve your problem. NOT. These jams happen because too much cars around, and if you implement such railway you will simply shift traffic jams from roads to railway station, either to the source station or to the destination one. Either you keep railway traffic low enough to keep city's small streets able to cope with traffic and your source station will have a long-long-long queue (not better than regular traffic jam) or you will have all city streets around your destination station jammed forever (and railway stopped as you could not unload cars).
i>I'm sorry, but if these data handling functions are business critical, then you need a proper database (sql, basically) combined with proper data in/out.
There are a lot of things in the world that must be done properly, but let's face the fact: there are shitloads of such macroses and they DO work. So if you want businesses to move to another office program you HAVE to provide them this compatibility no matter what you purists think about program design.
With a minimum of profanity, PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY YOU'D WANT NON-VOLATILE RAM if it's going to be erased on boot anyway?
I'd want non-volatile ram for instant on-off like my Palm does without fear of loosing memory when battery goes dead. Instant power-on/power-off != reboot.
One of the most common programming errors is a memory-leak. Can you imagine what would happen if you couln't reboot the Windows machine to clear the memory for another few days?
Why everyone automatically assumed that memory can't be cleared upon reboot?! WTF???!! What you were smoking today? It's fucking RAM guys! BIOS could clean it for you during reboot. Or operating system could do it before loading itself.
DJB doesn't like man pages, so he doesn't use them. He thinks documentation should be in HTML format instead. The fact that man pages are an established standard apparently doesn't make any impact on him.
Okay, but let's take cdb. Its "documentation" contains seven lines:
cdb 0.75, beta.
20000219
Copyright 2000
D. J. Bernstein
cdb home page: http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Installation instructions: http://cr.yp.to/cdb/install.html
And what if you've got to use it somewhere without internet connectivity?:(
Another reason is that tinydns, daemontools and other DJB's utilities are very inconsistent. Try to get -h output from these utilities or read man page. Something like man svc! Or may be svc -h? Ooops. This is standard drill for any unix utility. To read documentation for these you have to search the net! AFAIR tcpserver gives short description of its arguments but no man page anyway. And DJB knows how to write man pages, he did it for qmail for example. Fuck.
Lockers??! Exactly what kind of locker are you envisioning that can hold a full tool cabinet of hand tools, various handheld power tools, a table saw, a band saw, etc.? This sounds more like a U-Haul storage unit.
Why you need a TABLE SAW and a BAND SAW in apartments?! You don't have to build fences around, fix your barn or build a chicken coop! Everything you need in apartments could be stored there, in a box.
The problem with this is that people actually like to have more living space, and don't like apartments. I hate apartments. I lived in them through college, and for several years afterwards. They suck. The neighbors are assholes, they make too much noise, their dogs crap all over, the stupid kids vandalize your car, car theft is rampant, there's a shortage of parking (esp. for guests), people steal your parking space, neighbors set their apartment on fire and it burns down the whole unit, etc. And that's in the "upscale" apartment I used to live in. My girlfriend used live in a lower-class apartment complex with regular gunshots, people driving by with loud music late at night, etc. Since she was single, she got a Mossberg 590 shotgun and carried it from the apartment to her car and back, and any time she was outside. Someone tried breaking in to her apartment once, but took off when they heard her charging the weapon. Now why would anyone with money want to go back to that?
If shit like this happens in U.S. it doesn't mean that it will happen when the bulk of population migrates to apartments. What you described is unheard of in apartments here, in Moscow. There are more than 10 millions who live in flats and more than half of them uses subway. Actually if I'm in a hurry I drive to closest to my home subway station, park there and use subway. It's much faster than going through the traffic. Parking space is a problem, but not a Problem. The same applies to all cities in Russia. And not only Russia, but many countries in Europe as well.
In other words, apartments != high crime area, apartments != non-comfort home and apartments != home for poor.
Even rich people here prefer expensive apartments in expensive buildings with moderate amount of apartments. Land around Moscow is cheap, yet almost nobody settles there.
So it's just a cultural difference, U.S. population perceives apartments as inferior type of home, that's all.
By the way, I cringe at the prospect of cleaning 1000 sq ft house... cleaning dust alone makes the task daunting.
Cars can move at much higher speeds since human reaction times are removed from the chain. Right now, if you're in a line 100 cars long, it takes at least 50 seconds from the time the first car in line moves before the 100th car gets moving. With this technology, when the first car moves, all the cars move. When the first car stops, all the cars stop.
No way. I won't trust someone else's onboard computer for things like driving. What if he did modify his software, or it's simply faulty, etc, etc...
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Synthetic fuel.
Repeat after me, Synthetic Fuel. It's made from coal. The technology is mature, Germans fought during WWII using it. The only problem is that there is no guarantee of prices going down! Last synthetic fuel factory in Germany was closed in sixties being unable to compete with ultra-cheap arab oil. When investors will be sure that prices will stay high we'll see factories popping around the world.
Actually, what worries me is that the RIAA/MPAA could try to cite that all private encryption are being used to infringe on their copyright, therefore making non-corporate encryption = evil. Then again, I'm paranoid about shit like that, so take this with some salt on the slippery slope.
I don't think it would happen because encryption is used widely right now. Banking, online orders, etc. It would be nearly impossible to separate encrypted banking traffic from p2p one. Of couse you could do some traffic pattern analysis, but it doesn't guarantee anything. And certainly doesn't prove anything. "Look, Judge, this user's encrypted traffic has a very suspicious profile!"
AFAIK the US are not really interested in more "humanitarian" behaviour of landmines. The Ottawa convention [gol.com] has not been signed by a few "rogue states", including the US, Russia, China, India, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. If you don't like that company, write to your representative.
Landmines are not really meant to kill soldiers after all, they know what they look like and where they might be - they are often even designed not to kill, but to mutilate. A dead is buried, a mutilated child will be a burden for society for all his life. Fill a country with landmines, as both Soviets and US-backed Mujaheeddins did in Afghanistan, and you have cursed the country for generations.
Self-destructing mines are not going to be accepted - these days the Geneva convention is used to wipe Rumsfeld's arse, and frankly a proposal for a more expensive and on-purpose less effective weapon is not going to get through.
I'm told that mine production is not even that lucrative business. They have children mutilated with landmines that look purposefully like toys, only to make a few pennies more. Some motherfuckers.
Speaking of Cambodia, these people [emergency.it] know something.
Actually it's the same idea that lies behind lowering caliber to 5.45/5.56. Because it takes two soldiers to transport wounded, thus lowering amount of fighters on the front line. So don't blame it on "rogue states", it's standard military thinking that lowered calibers during XIX and XX centuries. The same applies to mines.
UPS systems also use AGM (absorbed glass mat) lead acid batteries. Don't smell any farts coming out of your UPS, do you?
Once I had a lot of electricity problems at home so I took at work an UPS and brought it home. My boss told me that it will smell. After some hours of work it really did smell. Not much, but enough to turn this fucker off and bring it back. My boss told me "I told you so"... heh.
Now, I'm against terrorism in Israel (and also against the hard-line Likud land grabs, for that matter), but I'm not convinced the Chechens are not freedom fighters in their fight against the Russians as much as were the Afghans who fought the Soviet invasion in 1979.
You've got all your information from US propaganda. The situation there is quite different than they tell you.
First of all, chechens were a minority living in hill area (only hill area) until USSR formed. Flat part of Chechnya is actually Russian land, Kossaks lived there. During USSR period several lands were transferred to Chechnya -- soviet rulers cared only about ease of management.
Second. When they decided to break up they did ethnic cleanising. They expelled more than half million of Russians, killed tens of thousands and FUCKING NOBODY in the west gives a fuck. Why? Because it's in west's geopolitical interests to maintain hot spot there.
Third. They HAD their independence. Between first and second chechen war they had more than two years. Eltsyn was forced by the west to accept surrender and chechens were left alone after the first war. And almost everyone was convinced that if chechens want their independence then they can have it, we'll just maintain tight border. But chechens created massive slave trade and kidnapping operations all around the region, thousands of people were kidnapped, many were killed who could not pay the ransom. It was on such big scale that it even touched me, one of my relatives was kidnapped (about 200 km from Cechnya), brought to Chechnya and then killed when ransom wasn't paid (it was impossible to find $50000 for all of us when average salary of $200/month is good). Later chechens assembled an army (quite serous) and attacked Dagestan (this is a part of Russia adjacent to Chechnya). Their leaders did not speak about independence. They alredy had it. They spoke about all muslims killing all non-muslims. They spoke about expanding shariat rule. But people of Dagestan are quite culturally different from chechens and caused serious resistance themselves, helping our army. The war in Dagestan and explosions of buildings in Moscow where chechens killed several hundreds of innocent people were final things that made us say "ENOUGH!".
Fourth. Their region has nothing to produce and sell. There is a lilttle amount of oil, enough to produce domesic fuel, but not enough to warrant a pipe or even railroad transportation. This region always was subsidised by USSR! If isolated from Russia 3/4 of them would die from hunger (Russia is sinking incredible amounts of money and food there to feed whole region).
This is one of the finest examples of american and european hypocrisy. They care about liberties and freedom only as long as it suit their own political and economic interests.
Because this technology is still at infancy while old proven things like synthetic fuel from coal is known for a long time. Germany used synthetic fuel during WWII almost everywhere because all real oil went to Kriegsmarine. Last synthetic fuel factory in Germany was closed in sixties because it could not compete with extremely cheap oil from Middle East. And you don't need to change car engines, nor fuel infrastructure.
Does it work in rain? Obsession with high technology could be bad sometimes...
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The question from the orginal conversation was "has anyone used a wenkel rotary (it has a low weight to power ratio) in a plane?" Why/Whynot.
Reliability problems (this was solved only recently).
High fuel consumption.
High motor oil consumption (you have to mix oil with fuel).
Turbine and turboprop are simpler and cheaper in long run, because rotary engine is still combustion engine with lots of engine parts and harmful vibrations.
2) Iraq had something like the 3rd largest army in the world back in 1991, which the US effectively neutralized in a month or so. Again, airpower is king. The country isn't large or exceptionally modern, but it was quite a military foe.
US did not neutralize Iraq army. US bought a way in. A donkey with the sack of gold opens any fortress. US was delayed by few Iraq solders who did not abide superior's order not to fight for several days. Then they walked in safely because Iraq commanders ordered everyone NOT to fight. They did not like Saddam, they were bribed by US. But then US made a huge mistake -- they disbanded Iraq army, essentially leaving best people of Iraq without job (and as result without food and money) and started to messing with internal politics without respect for anyone except the US itself. That's why Iraq is rebelling now and things are getting worse and worse... and no matter how's strong your military force winning against guerillia means genocide of population.
On other hand US is wielding enormous propaganda machine, far better than USSR's one and it's quite possible to feed the public with a reason why genocide is neccecary that they will eat.
Helmet material doesn't matter really, except that kevlar helmet is lighter and easier to carry. Helmets are made to protect you from splinters, not from bullets. There is no helmet in the world, kevlar or steel that can stop a bullet. Actually even if you make a helmet that CAN stop a bullet (from titanium) then the energy from the bullet will transfer to the helmet and snap your neck with 100% guarantee. Feeling better?
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Of couse if you hire special people just to read others mail that's another story, but such system is going to be damn expensive.
Well, this was NOT the source of the hyperinflation. Virtual money ("beznal") that were allowed to be real money were. In Soviet economy these money were more like resource allocation quotas than the realy money and suddenly huge amount of these virtual money flowed into the economy. Imagine what whould happen if U.S. authorities will suddenly run printing press creating hundreds times more $$ than today exist in the world and dump these into the U.S. economy. Chaos.
Otherwise I would not know great Tom Lehrer's songs :)
As many Russians do, because Bush does damage to US as much as Gorbachev did to USSR.
That guy flew there because fucking nobody wanted to take the responsibility and order pilots to shoot him down. At that time politics mattered more than safety of the country... it was a problem of high command, not a small radar signature.
Here is the problem. You think that by passing traffic jams around the city and landing there in the center will solve your problem. NOT. These jams happen because too much cars around, and if you implement such railway you will simply shift traffic jams from roads to railway station, either to the source station or to the destination one. Either you keep railway traffic low enough to keep city's small streets able to cope with traffic and your source station will have a long-long-long queue (not better than regular traffic jam) or you will have all city streets around your destination station jammed forever (and railway stopped as you could not unload cars).
I did the same thing in small company that was plagued by spyware. Now it's clean and quiet...
There are a lot of things in the world that must be done properly, but let's face the fact: there are shitloads of such macroses and they DO work. So if you want businesses to move to another office program you HAVE to provide them this compatibility no matter what you purists think about program design.
I'd want non-volatile ram for instant on-off like my Palm does without fear of loosing memory when battery goes dead. Instant power-on/power-off != reboot.
Why everyone automatically assumed that memory can't be cleared upon reboot?! WTF???!! What you were smoking today? It's fucking RAM guys! BIOS could clean it for you during reboot. Or operating system could do it before loading itself.
Okay, but let's take cdb. Its "documentation" contains seven lines:
cdb 0.75, beta.
20000219
Copyright 2000
D. J. Bernstein
cdb home page: http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Installation instructions: http://cr.yp.to/cdb/install.html
And what if you've got to use it somewhere without internet connectivity? :(
Another reason is that tinydns, daemontools and other DJB's utilities are very inconsistent. Try to get -h output from these utilities or read man page. Something like man svc! Or may be svc -h? Ooops. This is standard drill for any unix utility. To read documentation for these you have to search the net! AFAIR tcpserver gives short description of its arguments but no man page anyway. And DJB knows how to write man pages, he did it for qmail for example. Fuck.
Why you need a TABLE SAW and a BAND SAW in apartments?! You don't have to build fences around, fix your barn or build a chicken coop! Everything you need in apartments could be stored there, in a box.
If shit like this happens in U.S. it doesn't mean that it will happen when the bulk of population migrates to apartments. What you described is unheard of in apartments here, in Moscow. There are more than 10 millions who live in flats and more than half of them uses subway. Actually if I'm in a hurry I drive to closest to my home subway station, park there and use subway. It's much faster than going through the traffic. Parking space is a problem, but not a Problem. The same applies to all cities in Russia. And not only Russia, but many countries in Europe as well.
In other words, apartments != high crime area, apartments != non-comfort home and apartments != home for poor.
Even rich people here prefer expensive apartments in expensive buildings with moderate amount of apartments. Land around Moscow is cheap, yet almost nobody settles there.
So it's just a cultural difference, U.S. population perceives apartments as inferior type of home, that's all.
By the way, I cringe at the prospect of cleaning 1000 sq ft house... cleaning dust alone makes the task daunting.
No way. I won't trust someone else's onboard computer for things like driving. What if he did modify his software, or it's simply faulty, etc, etc...
Repeat after me, Synthetic Fuel. It's made from coal. The technology is mature, Germans fought during WWII using it. The only problem is that there is no guarantee of prices going down! Last synthetic fuel factory in Germany was closed in sixties being unable to compete with ultra-cheap arab oil. When investors will be sure that prices will stay high we'll see factories popping around the world.
I don't think it would happen because encryption is used widely right now. Banking, online orders, etc. It would be nearly impossible to separate encrypted banking traffic from p2p one. Of couse you could do some traffic pattern analysis, but it doesn't guarantee anything. And certainly doesn't prove anything. "Look, Judge, this user's encrypted traffic has a very suspicious profile!"
Actually it's the same idea that lies behind lowering caliber to 5.45/5.56. Because it takes two soldiers to transport wounded, thus lowering amount of fighters on the front line. So don't blame it on "rogue states", it's standard military thinking that lowered calibers during XIX and XX centuries. The same applies to mines.
Once I had a lot of electricity problems at home so I took at work an UPS and brought it home. My boss told me that it will smell. After some hours of work it really did smell. Not much, but enough to turn this fucker off and bring it back. My boss told me "I told you so"... heh.
You've got all your information from US propaganda. The situation there is quite different than they tell you.
First of all, chechens were a minority living in hill area (only hill area) until USSR formed. Flat part of Chechnya is actually Russian land, Kossaks lived there. During USSR period several lands were transferred to Chechnya -- soviet rulers cared only about ease of management.
Second. When they decided to break up they did ethnic cleanising. They expelled more than half million of Russians, killed tens of thousands and FUCKING NOBODY in the west gives a fuck. Why? Because it's in west's geopolitical interests to maintain hot spot there.
Third. They HAD their independence. Between first and second chechen war they had more than two years. Eltsyn was forced by the west to accept surrender and chechens were left alone after the first war. And almost everyone was convinced that if chechens want their independence then they can have it, we'll just maintain tight border. But chechens created massive slave trade and kidnapping operations all around the region, thousands of people were kidnapped, many were killed who could not pay the ransom. It was on such big scale that it even touched me, one of my relatives was kidnapped (about 200 km from Cechnya), brought to Chechnya and then killed when ransom wasn't paid (it was impossible to find $50000 for all of us when average salary of $200/month is good). Later chechens assembled an army (quite serous) and attacked Dagestan (this is a part of Russia adjacent to Chechnya). Their leaders did not speak about independence. They alredy had it. They spoke about all muslims killing all non-muslims. They spoke about expanding shariat rule. But people of Dagestan are quite culturally different from chechens and caused serious resistance themselves, helping our army. The war in Dagestan and explosions of buildings in Moscow where chechens killed several hundreds of innocent people were final things that made us say "ENOUGH!".
Fourth. Their region has nothing to produce and sell. There is a lilttle amount of oil, enough to produce domesic fuel, but not enough to warrant a pipe or even railroad transportation. This region always was subsidised by USSR! If isolated from Russia 3/4 of them would die from hunger (Russia is sinking incredible amounts of money and food there to feed whole region).
This is one of the finest examples of american and european hypocrisy. They care about liberties and freedom only as long as it suit their own political and economic interests.
Because this technology is still at infancy while old proven things like synthetic fuel from coal is known for a long time. Germany used synthetic fuel during WWII almost everywhere because all real oil went to Kriegsmarine. Last synthetic fuel factory in Germany was closed in sixties because it could not compete with extremely cheap oil from Middle East. And you don't need to change car engines, nor fuel infrastructure.
Does it work in rain? Obsession with high technology could be bad sometimes...
Reliability problems (this was solved only recently).
High fuel consumption.
High motor oil consumption (you have to mix oil with fuel).
Turbine and turboprop are simpler and cheaper in long run, because rotary engine is still combustion engine with lots of engine parts and harmful vibrations.
US did not neutralize Iraq army. US bought a way in. A donkey with the sack of gold opens any fortress. US was delayed by few Iraq solders who did not abide superior's order not to fight for several days. Then they walked in safely because Iraq commanders ordered everyone NOT to fight. They did not like Saddam, they were bribed by US. But then US made a huge mistake -- they disbanded Iraq army, essentially leaving best people of Iraq without job (and as result without food and money) and started to messing with internal politics without respect for anyone except the US itself. That's why Iraq is rebelling now and things are getting worse and worse... and no matter how's strong your military force winning against guerillia means genocide of population.
On other hand US is wielding enormous propaganda machine, far better than USSR's one and it's quite possible to feed the public with a reason why genocide is neccecary that they will eat.
Helmet material doesn't matter really, except that kevlar helmet is lighter and easier to carry. Helmets are made to protect you from splinters, not from bullets. There is no helmet in the world, kevlar or steel that can stop a bullet. Actually even if you make a helmet that CAN stop a bullet (from titanium) then the energy from the bullet will transfer to the helmet and snap your neck with 100% guarantee. Feeling better?