OpenOfice works great with all my files, in fact if it had exchange/templates it would be on par with MS Office 2003.
OpenOffice looks awful with cyrillic fonts (sometimes text lays over text and totally unreadable) and sometimes crashes when I try to open some documents. Unfortunately it's not ready for our market yet.
>1) Lengthy refuelling time
There's a fairly simple solution to that problem, and it's the same one we use for portable electronics - when the batteries are dead, swap them out for a new set.
There is no way to determine quality of the new battery set. If you visit rural area and swap there you have serious chances to run into dying set that could hold only half of the normal amount...
Of couse, if you swap them only in your home it's not a problem, but then you can't drive far away. Otherwise you need recharging stations and quality problem. Who will be last unfortunate owner of the battery set when it goes belly up?..
Why use complicated mechanics to break shells when you can pump air into the box with nuts, let the air to leak into nuts and then suddenly relase it, so the air will break shells at once? This technology is used to clear small nuts...
Sometimes antivirus scanners can't help. We can't install antivirus software on user computers (most of them) because people use old dos application that crawls under any realtime protection. So the only defense is unix antivirus software filtering mail (users are separated from internet, only mail and squid work), and sometimes viruses leak in anyway -- stupid users bring their own diskettes, sometime they use their laptops which got infected earlier while they were connected to their home ISP, sometimes virus gets there before update arrives, some months ago it got there at 15:20, but antivirus db was released around 15:14, db was fetched at 15:10 (every ten minutes) and I can't poll 'em every minute! Six minutes is a very small gap, but it was enough. But it was rare situation, usually someone brings their home laptop or something. Once they brought virus burned on CD with some presentations and it was handed to out big wigs...
While it's scary and surely will trigger arms race (and I as Russian will have to pay more taxes to our government to keep up with that, most probably developing asymmetrical answer, say some 100 megaton charges hidden in the ocean near U.S. coast... huge tsunami will wipe out whole coast at once, and we'll need only one submarine to plant these charges), sitting there and not researching is plain stupid. I worked with one weapon designer several years ago and he said once that if you design something it's useless to hide it in the safe, because similar ideas will independently pop up around the world. No conspiracy, no spies. Simply that's how progress works.
It is the keyboard we are for more likely to find ourselves disposing of as voice recognition gets rapidly better and better. Of course, I highly doubt that we will actually get rid of it either as many people find that they think better with the keys than with their voice and because so many programs, including games, have learned to take such advantage of the tremendous variety of input the keyboard offers.
Forget this. It looks like you never tried to use voice recognition. Latest versions of Dragon software are extremely accurate. 98% accuracy with my horrible accent, and 99-100 for native english speakers. BUT. If you try to use it more than one hour you WILL croak like raven. Surf the web around -- it's much easier to kill you vocal cords than to get RSI.
BTW try to read aloud C or perl code. Try it, really. No need to dictate to Dragon, just read aloud two or three pages of you program. If you want to dictate program you'll need a very wordy language (no, not cobol) and such language doesn't exist now and nobody with keyboard would want to work with it.
Really, scary. Things that small can be produced in huge quantities (like billions of mobile phones arond, old and new). Automated production lines, plastic stamped frames, etc.
Now image the same thing with a gun and human detector -- infrared, motion recognition, shape recognition, AND BLOODY NETWORKED with several thousands others in single launch!
Instant weapon of mass killing while perfectly legal under current international law, and available only to high-tech and economically powerful country, i.e. U.S...
Given the current trend of messing around the world this is going to be the next method of killing people around and forcing american policy without risking american lives.
every bomb, whether dropped or not, has collaterol damage: the citizens of the nation that decided to spend tax dollars on weapons of mass destruction rather than on meaningful social programs. don't take it from me. eisenhower said it first:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Bullshit. Nation that doesn't want to feed its own army will feed foreign one.
I use SSH from my palm + motorola t260 and it's almost perfect combo. Unfortunately, GPRS is exceptionally slow (2000-3000 ms average ping time) and GPRS drains phone battery quickly, but it's enough to kill/restart process or shutdown a server. I see no sense in making phone-only terminal without full keyboard.
Now what if someone get scared while driving such chair in the middle of the crowd and the chair starts uncontrollably rolling back and forth hitting people?
There's no need to rewrite your site, just direct any visitor to this splash page. If they don't choose to use the cookies, they don't get to use your site.
Sounds a bit harsh, but speaking as a Web developer, if you're working with a non static site it's simply too much of a pain to produce a good site. It's not impossible, it's just a huge pain. Almost all users will accept the restriction of cookies.
You are simply wrong. Non-static pages without cookies are very easy to implement, just look at Zope's cookieless session manager. Similar programming style can be adapted to any tool, not only Zope.
Now only if some webmasters cared about catching whole audience at all...
I've heard a lot of people saying that worktime will shrink, everyone will be happy, etc everytime a high-tech breakthrough appears. That's not the case. Look into the past. People had to work hard to produce food to feed themselves. Now what? Little percentage of the population (modern farmers) produce more than all people of the Earth can consume yet we still have to work hard to buy that food. Little has changed, only medical conditions... we will punch keys/fix and monitor robots/clear rooms/whatever the same 12 hours/day as farmers of the past did.
It was developed to distribute UNPOPULAR content. But unpopular means unpopular, i.e. something that most of the people do not support. That means that content is rarely accessed. Now remember that Freenet as whole keeps POPULAR pages, dropping everything else...
That's why Kazaa, Gnutella and Co suck like hoover when it comes to rare music. I collect ballroom music, and it's very, very difficult to find ballroom music compared with dead Napster and AudioGalaxy:( The same will plague Freenet -- it will keep only popular "unpopular" files, erhm. Even if someone inserts ballroom files somewhere it's highly unlikely that I would find such a page beyond the typical p2p horizon...
Technologists are particularly prone to the delusion that the company cannot run without them. In truth, everyone in an organization is expendable. If you are not expendable, that really means you are doing a bad job and they are probably better off in the long term without you anyways.
In theory... in practice things differ sometimes. Once management in our company tried to remove head of IT department and head sysadmin on the grounds that they refused to install microsoft solution (actually some accounting crap working under ms sql written for small companies, not for big trade houses) instead of proven novell servers with fast btrieve databases. I was considering walking out too because the jerk hired instead of them knew nothing about unix and internet but demanded a lot of bullshit, others were grumbling.
Well, the company (big company, about 500 people at that time) worked only one week. ONE. Then everything went into disorder. New guys did not know how to handle Definity (thus they could not even simply change internal phone numbers, yes, documentation was on the shelves in the same room), their microsoft solution was calculating some reports for hours where previous system was doing the same job in seconds, then they managed to crash backup server ("it's slow, something wrong with irq, we must fix it"), then the main server died. All backups were there, dat-40 on the shelf... company came to the screeching halt.
In two days after that everyone were back, invaders kicked out and company owners learned a hard lesson: it would cost obscene money to replace existing system.
people in our ballroom dance club tend to leave their mobile phones on the table near CD player. For some strange reasons they think that their phone will be more safe in the heap of phones than in the dress room... anyway. When someone forgets to turn off their phone CD player started to skip (we had three different models) and once one of them was shut down completely, trainer had to turn it off and on.
Now if this shit happens with common stuff than these phones could place enough interference on non-shielded aircraft componens. Of couse proper way is to shield them, but it's almost impossible, it's cheaper to scrap airplane completely.
in early 90s. The idea was to build it from common 286 parts and TV than to buy very expensive imports. There was a guy who soldered convertors vga -> tv. I studied several foreign fruit machines and all of them were taking some money in the long run, so when I wrote mine I made similar algorithm. It could eat money for a long time, then give away a lot, but its internal account was steadily growing. A year or two after I left that company they implemented networked version where owner could alter all parameters on they fly, as he thinks it must be -- may be that guy is getting too angry, it's time to give him some money back?
Note that it isn't illegal here in Russia (gambling area is not regulated at all). And I think that anyone who gambles is total, complete idiot and deserves robbery at any gambling place.
moderated groups are fine. Bright example is rec.guns -- high traffic and very good content. Aggressive moderation is the answer to the spam (you need good moderators tho).
Well, we see the answer why people of Iraq are fighting everywhere, blitzkrieg failed and all-out partisan war looms ahead. U.S. are loosing information war and loosing quickly, 50% because of such messages in press. It doesn't make sense to surrender to people who will take and sell their oil, only 0.5% of population will be allowed to clean american workers shoes and other won't have anything except continuous "humanitarian aid" (read death to local production, you can't compete with something free).
Back to GSM vs CDMA topic, it's way better to use NMT. Screw the weight, design and "harmful radiation" reasons, these exist only in over-fed western consumers, but NMT requires way less base stations. Yes, it can't handle as much subscribers as GSM/CDMA, but most of Iraq population won't be able to afford mobiles for a long time, and base station price is the main concern. Note that while GSM rules in Moscow, St. Petersbourg and other big cities (I use GSM motorola T260) NMT covers whole Russia and that's the main concern of anyone of importance if he wants to be connected everywhere.
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...is that his war made one thing clear to ANY country: EVERY ONE HAVE TO OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Perod. Before attack on Iraq everyone played game "nuclear is bad". Now everyone will play game "let's copy '50 technologies underground". Theory is widely known and it's not that difficult actually, any coal-fired powerplant could have secret levels with breeder reactor.
I've played Baldur's Gate, and it's pretty decent, but how much better is an actual D&D game?
Some years ago when we were playing our game master said "table RPG compared with computer games are like real women compared with GIF files". When you play table RPG like (A)D&D, GURPS or whatever, your imagination works, and it's always more colored, more creative and much, much more flexible than any computer game in the world.
Saddam is _not_ going to disarm peacefully. All the UN circus acts and smoke shows are not going to change that fact. We (US and the coalition of 20+ countries that support us) _are_ going to war. Irregardless of whether or not you and I agree over that course of action, you have to agree that _any_ nonviolent attacks (CYBER) that will shut down radar installtions and missile batteries, or otherwise protect our soldiers lives has merit.
I never cease to be amazed at how people in US firmly believe in the propaganda from official media outlets. They don't have immunity for it and they will learn it in the hard way as we did. Anyway.
Forget human rights crap. US never cared about them when it was against their interests.
Proven amounts of oil are shrinking everywhere in the world except Iraq and Saudi and these countries will account for 50% of world oil reserves during nearest decades. It's well-known fact, but you ignore obvious facts.
First, US worked hard to lure Iraq into attacking Kuwait. Note that everything started when Kuwait started draining neighbor Iraq fields and US signalled that Iraq can handle that situation (they were loosing serious money) with military force. The rest is known, but note that previously independed Kuwait is now US colony after war. If you want to force them to do something, you can order US troops who can swiftly deal with stubborn official and his loyal forces. Today we ignore that fact that US occupied Kuwait, turned it into the colony that can't have its own will and now Kuwait is under almost direct US rule. If things get tough Kuwaits oil will go directly to US at no cost except troops upkeep.
But at that time it was impossible to invade Iraq because UN won't allow it. Now they are used to US driving its forces arond the globe, kurds are prepared for rebellion and US can split Iraq, taking oil fields and leave everything else to afghan-like chaos.
Then comes Saudi. Remember that most terrorists at 9/11 were Saudis? It will take some heavy propaganda, but their country will be invaded by US soon -- may be 10 or 20 years.
Then... as oil production becomes too energy consuming to be profitable humanity will have to find alternative energy source. The only one alternative viable power source is nuclear and US can't allow other countries rely on it because once it becomes common energy source you won't be able to control ALL reactors and other countries will start getting nuclear arms and thus immune to things that are going in Iraq (some lousy rockets without much brains but with simple nuclear charges will wipe all your carriers and bases and no sane neighbor country will allow you to build bases anymore on their territory and let carriers visit their waters). Thus whole world crisis is needed where other countries will suffer enough to be unable to build nuclear plants. Remaining plants could be bombed as Israeli did with Iraq plant, that's why such huge money are dumped into stealth bombers.
When oil supply start going down humanity will have "methane pause", there are a lot of methane available (but not much), and currently about 93% of methane fields are in Russia. That's why I will go and vote even for communists or facists if they support upkeeping serious amounts of nuclear weapons able to wipe US. It's the only way to keep US at the bay, because as soon as they feel able to shoot down most our missiles and withstand nuclear blasts from these who come through new missle shield they WILL attack. Eh? You start saying something about human rights? Well, when Khasavurt accord established slavery regime in Chechnya with US help HALF OF MILLION russians were expelled, many thousands were killed. This fact got ZERO attention in US. Compare that with chechen refugees who got featured everywhere. Compare that with expelled Albanians (most of whom were in Kosovo because they sneaked there some decades before) -- they were useful. That's why I will support government that cares about MY nation and not abstract "human rights" which get bent at US will.
We as human race have to assemble and disarm US before they bring down civilisation.
Well, I exaggregated a little. But this is where real interests lie. Governments may be different, be it "democracy", dictatorship, republic or something else, but geopolitical interests remains the same, no matter who acts as face of the country. It even doesn't matter what he says. Look who gets the profit.
There are hundreds of millions of people in the world who can write passable English. Many of them are poor (India might have more English speakers than any other country in the world), many would be willing to review English text for a low wage and flunk the bits that are incomprehensible. There are American / British / etc people who have been forced into early retirement and would work at this for very little money.
So why do the Japanese (especially) inflict incomprehensible product manuals on the world? When they could get them checked for maybe $1 per page for an entire product line?
WHY do all american movies feature russians with such heavy accent saying something that real russian won't ever say because it's SO unnatural while there are hundreds of thousands russians in U.S.? Why they can't hire some native speakers for secondary roles or at least ONE consultant?
can't install it on my main production servers. Why? Because it STILL does not have locales. And without locales cyrillic doesn't work in mysql, zope and other applications:( OpenBSD makes a great private net forwarder in remote locations tho.
Actually, nothing works like a charm after death of audiogalaxy. Alas. Try to search for "Klaus Hallen". I collect ballroom music, and it's kinda impossible to find on Gnutella and very difficult on Kazaa. Yet I got many _thousands_ of hits from Audiogalaxy every time I searched, and most of my collection comes from there. It's simply impossible to compare. Unfortunately, all systems like Kazaa, Gnutella and even Freenet have one very bad thing in common: horizon. Only popular things are easy to find because of it.
What we need is not improved Gnutella, but rather improved Freenet that gives 99% chances to find keys while protecting publishers. There will be no need in exchange programs (any music exchange program is a fix for the situation where any website with music is lawkilled as soon as it becomes popular). If you could publish freesite with themed mp3's thematical collections will spring up and it will be waay more efficient that searching for "slow foxtrot" all time, always getting same few same hits...
Communication blimp is not a problem, but powering it is. You need a lot of power for all transmitters. Solar power would not be enough -- you can't have many batteries on board because of their weight and i doubt that it's enough to power everything at the day. So... there are only two choices:
Every day or two dirigible flies towards comm blimp and refuels it. No big deal, but a lot of fuel. And the tanker has to be manned. And blimp engines must be exceptionally durable. And...
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OpenOffice looks awful with cyrillic fonts (sometimes text lays over text and totally unreadable) and sometimes crashes when I try to open some documents. Unfortunately it's not ready for our market yet.
There is no way to determine quality of the new battery set. If you visit rural area and swap there you have serious chances to run into dying set that could hold only half of the normal amount...
Of couse, if you swap them only in your home it's not a problem, but then you can't drive far away. Otherwise you need recharging stations and quality problem. Who will be last unfortunate owner of the battery set when it goes belly up?..
Why use complicated mechanics to break shells when you can pump air into the box with nuts, let the air to leak into nuts and then suddenly relase it, so the air will break shells at once? This technology is used to clear small nuts...
Sometimes antivirus scanners can't help. We can't install antivirus software on user computers (most of them) because people use old dos application that crawls under any realtime protection. So the only defense is unix antivirus software filtering mail (users are separated from internet, only mail and squid work), and sometimes viruses leak in anyway -- stupid users bring their own diskettes, sometime they use their laptops which got infected earlier while they were connected to their home ISP, sometimes virus gets there before update arrives, some months ago it got there at 15:20, but antivirus db was released around 15:14, db was fetched at 15:10 (every ten minutes) and I can't poll 'em every minute! Six minutes is a very small gap, but it was enough. But it was rare situation, usually someone brings their home laptop or something. Once they brought virus burned on CD with some presentations and it was handed to out big wigs...
While it's scary and surely will trigger arms race (and I as Russian will have to pay more taxes to our government to keep up with that, most probably developing asymmetrical answer, say some 100 megaton charges hidden in the ocean near U.S. coast... huge tsunami will wipe out whole coast at once, and we'll need only one submarine to plant these charges), sitting there and not researching is plain stupid. I worked with one weapon designer several years ago and he said once that if you design something it's useless to hide it in the safe, because similar ideas will independently pop up around the world. No conspiracy, no spies. Simply that's how progress works.
Forget this. It looks like you never tried to use voice recognition. Latest versions of Dragon software are extremely accurate. 98% accuracy with my horrible accent, and 99-100 for native english speakers. BUT. If you try to use it more than one hour you WILL croak like raven. Surf the web around -- it's much easier to kill you vocal cords than to get RSI.
BTW try to read aloud C or perl code. Try it, really. No need to dictate to Dragon, just read aloud two or three pages of you program. If you want to dictate program you'll need a very wordy language (no, not cobol) and such language doesn't exist now and nobody with keyboard would want to work with it.
Really, scary. Things that small can be produced in huge quantities (like billions of mobile phones arond, old and new). Automated production lines, plastic stamped frames, etc.
Now image the same thing with a gun and human detector -- infrared, motion recognition, shape recognition, AND BLOODY NETWORKED with several thousands others in single launch!
Instant weapon of mass killing while perfectly legal under current international law, and available only to high-tech and economically powerful country, i.e. U.S...
Given the current trend of messing around the world this is going to be the next method of killing people around and forcing american policy without risking american lives.
every bomb, whether dropped or not, has collaterol damage: the citizens of the nation that decided to spend tax dollars on weapons of mass destruction rather than on meaningful social programs.
don't take it from me. eisenhower said it first:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Bullshit. Nation that doesn't want to feed its own army will feed foreign one.
I use SSH from my palm + motorola t260 and it's almost perfect combo. Unfortunately, GPRS is exceptionally slow (2000-3000 ms average ping time) and GPRS drains phone battery quickly, but it's enough to kill/restart process or shutdown a server. I see no sense in making phone-only terminal without full keyboard.
Now what if someone get scared while driving such chair in the middle of the crowd and the chair starts uncontrollably rolling back and forth hitting people?
There's no need to rewrite your site, just direct any visitor to this splash page. If they don't choose to use the cookies, they don't get to use your site.
Sounds a bit harsh, but speaking as a Web developer, if you're working with a non static site it's simply too much of a pain to produce a good site. It's not impossible, it's just a huge pain. Almost all users will accept the restriction of cookies.
You are simply wrong. Non-static pages without cookies are very easy to implement, just look at Zope's cookieless session manager. Similar programming style can be adapted to any tool, not only Zope.
Now only if some webmasters cared about catching whole audience at all...
I've heard a lot of people saying that worktime will shrink, everyone will be happy, etc everytime a high-tech breakthrough appears. That's not the case. Look into the past. People had to work hard to produce food to feed themselves. Now what? Little percentage of the population (modern farmers) produce more than all people of the Earth can consume yet we still have to work hard to buy that food. Little has changed, only medical conditions... we will punch keys/fix and monitor robots/clear rooms/whatever the same 12 hours/day as farmers of the past did.
That's why Kazaa, Gnutella and Co suck like hoover when it comes to rare music. I collect ballroom music, and it's very, very difficult to find ballroom music compared with dead Napster and AudioGalaxy :( The same will plague Freenet -- it will keep only popular "unpopular" files, erhm. Even if someone inserts ballroom files somewhere it's highly unlikely that I would find such a page beyond the typical p2p horizon...
In theory... in practice things differ sometimes. Once management in our company tried to remove head of IT department and head sysadmin on the grounds that they refused to install microsoft solution (actually some accounting crap working under ms sql written for small companies, not for big trade houses) instead of proven novell servers with fast btrieve databases. I was considering walking out too because the jerk hired instead of them knew nothing about unix and internet but demanded a lot of bullshit, others were grumbling.
Well, the company (big company, about 500 people at that time) worked only one week. ONE. Then everything went into disorder. New guys did not know how to handle Definity (thus they could not even simply change internal phone numbers, yes, documentation was on the shelves in the same room), their microsoft solution was calculating some reports for hours where previous system was doing the same job in seconds, then they managed to crash backup server ("it's slow, something wrong with irq, we must fix it"), then the main server died. All backups were there, dat-40 on the shelf... company came to the screeching halt.
In two days after that everyone were back, invaders kicked out and company owners learned a hard lesson: it would cost obscene money to replace existing system.
people in our ballroom dance club tend to leave their mobile phones on the table near CD player. For some strange reasons they think that their phone will be more safe in the heap of phones than in the dress room... anyway. When someone forgets to turn off their phone CD player started to skip (we had three different models) and once one of them was shut down completely, trainer had to turn it off and on.
Now if this shit happens with common stuff than these phones could place enough interference on non-shielded aircraft componens. Of couse proper way is to shield them, but it's almost impossible, it's cheaper to scrap airplane completely.
in early 90s. The idea was to build it from common 286 parts and TV than to buy very expensive imports. There was a guy who soldered convertors vga -> tv. I studied several foreign fruit machines and all of them were taking some money in the long run, so when I wrote mine I made similar algorithm. It could eat money for a long time, then give away a lot, but its internal account was steadily growing. A year or two after I left that company they implemented networked version where owner could alter all parameters on they fly, as he thinks it must be -- may be that guy is getting too angry, it's time to give him some money back?
Note that it isn't illegal here in Russia (gambling area is not regulated at all). And I think that anyone who gambles is total, complete idiot and deserves robbery at any gambling place.
moderated groups are fine. Bright example is rec.guns -- high traffic and very good content. Aggressive moderation is the answer to the spam (you need good moderators tho).
Back to GSM vs CDMA topic, it's way better to use NMT. Screw the weight, design and "harmful radiation" reasons, these exist only in over-fed western consumers, but NMT requires way less base stations. Yes, it can't handle as much subscribers as GSM/CDMA, but most of Iraq population won't be able to afford mobiles for a long time, and base station price is the main concern. Note that while GSM rules in Moscow, St. Petersbourg and other big cities (I use GSM motorola T260) NMT covers whole Russia and that's the main concern of anyone of importance if he wants to be connected everywhere.
...is that his war made one thing clear to ANY country: EVERY ONE HAVE TO OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Perod. Before attack on Iraq everyone played game "nuclear is bad". Now everyone will play game "let's copy '50 technologies underground". Theory is widely known and it's not that difficult actually, any coal-fired powerplant could have secret levels with breeder reactor.
Some years ago when we were playing our game master said "table RPG compared with computer games are like real women compared with GIF files". When you play table RPG like (A)D&D, GURPS or whatever, your imagination works, and it's always more colored, more creative and much, much more flexible than any computer game in the world.
I never cease to be amazed at how people in US firmly believe in the propaganda from official media outlets. They don't have immunity for it and they will learn it in the hard way as we did. Anyway.
Forget human rights crap. US never cared about them when it was against their interests.
Proven amounts of oil are shrinking everywhere in the world except Iraq and Saudi and these countries will account for 50% of world oil reserves during nearest decades. It's well-known fact, but you ignore obvious facts.
- First, US worked hard to lure Iraq into attacking Kuwait. Note that everything started when Kuwait started draining neighbor Iraq fields and US signalled that Iraq can handle that situation (they were loosing serious money) with military force. The rest is known, but note that previously independed Kuwait is now US colony after war. If you want to force them to do something, you can order US troops who can swiftly deal with stubborn official and his loyal forces. Today we ignore that fact that US occupied Kuwait, turned it into the colony that can't have its own will and now Kuwait is under almost direct US rule. If things get tough Kuwaits oil will go directly to US at no cost except troops upkeep.
- But at that time it was impossible to invade Iraq because UN won't allow it. Now they are used to US driving its forces arond the globe, kurds are prepared for rebellion and US can split Iraq, taking oil fields and leave everything else to afghan-like chaos.
- Then comes Saudi. Remember that most terrorists at 9/11 were Saudis? It will take some heavy propaganda, but their country will be invaded by US soon -- may be 10 or 20 years.
- Then... as oil production becomes too energy consuming to be profitable humanity will have to find alternative energy source. The only one alternative viable power source is nuclear and US can't allow other countries rely on it because once it becomes common energy source you won't be able to control ALL reactors and other countries will start getting nuclear arms and thus immune to things that are going in Iraq (some lousy rockets without much brains but with simple nuclear charges will wipe all your carriers and bases and no sane neighbor country will allow you to build bases anymore on their territory and let carriers visit their waters). Thus whole world crisis is needed where other countries will suffer enough to be unable to build nuclear plants. Remaining plants could be bombed as Israeli did with Iraq plant, that's why such huge money are dumped into stealth bombers.
- When oil supply start going down humanity will have "methane pause", there are a lot of methane available (but not much), and currently about 93% of methane fields are in Russia. That's why I will go and vote even for communists or facists if they support upkeeping serious amounts of nuclear weapons able to wipe US. It's the only way to keep US at the bay, because as soon as they feel able to shoot down most our missiles and withstand nuclear blasts from these who come through new missle shield they WILL attack. Eh? You start saying something about human rights? Well, when Khasavurt accord established slavery regime in Chechnya with US help HALF OF MILLION russians were expelled, many thousands were killed. This fact got ZERO attention in US. Compare that with chechen refugees who got featured everywhere. Compare that with expelled Albanians (most of whom were in Kosovo because they sneaked there some decades before) -- they were useful. That's why I will support government that cares about MY nation and not abstract "human rights" which get bent at US will.
We as human race have to assemble and disarm US before they bring down civilisation.Well, I exaggregated a little. But this is where real interests lie. Governments may be different, be it "democracy", dictatorship, republic or something else, but geopolitical interests remains the same, no matter who acts as face of the country. It even doesn't matter what he says. Look who gets the profit.
So why do the Japanese (especially) inflict incomprehensible product manuals on the world? When they could get them checked for maybe $1 per page for an entire product line?
WHY do all american movies feature russians with such heavy accent saying something that real russian won't ever say because it's SO unnatural while there are hundreds of thousands russians in U.S.? Why they can't hire some native speakers for secondary roles or at least ONE consultant?
can't install it on my main production servers. Why? Because it STILL does not have locales. And without locales cyrillic doesn't work in mysql, zope and other applications :( OpenBSD makes a great private net forwarder in remote locations tho.
Actually, nothing works like a charm after death of audiogalaxy. Alas. Try to search for "Klaus Hallen". I collect ballroom music, and it's kinda impossible to find on Gnutella and very difficult on Kazaa. Yet I got many _thousands_ of hits from Audiogalaxy every time I searched, and most of my collection comes from there. It's simply impossible to compare. Unfortunately, all systems like Kazaa, Gnutella and even Freenet have one very bad thing in common: horizon. Only popular things are easy to find because of it.
What we need is not improved Gnutella, but rather improved Freenet that gives 99% chances to find keys while protecting publishers. There will be no need in exchange programs (any music exchange program is a fix for the situation where any website with music is lawkilled as soon as it becomes popular). If you could publish freesite with themed mp3's thematical collections will spring up and it will be waay more efficient that searching for "slow foxtrot" all time, always getting same few same hits...