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Vladimir Putin to Michael Dell: 'We don't need help. We are not invalids.'
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I find Putin's evil-genius approach to politics to be entertaining, frightening, and quintessentially Russian.
Michael Dell is just a businessman, not a tech guru. His only achievement is making obscene amounts of money. He can't even help me, much less Russia.
Michael Dell is just a businessman, not a tech guru. His only achievement is making obscene amounts of money. He can't even help me, much less Russia.
Putin is a character from James Bond movie. Dell is like, nobody in particular.
It's a pretty low pedestal. I can't recall the source of this quote, but someone once said that if you make enough money, people will line up to call you a genius.
Edit: Found it.
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
-George Bernard Shaw
In the interests of accuracy, it should perhaps be noted that Putin did not say: "We don't have limited mental capacity", but simply "we don't have limited capacity". The "mental" was inserted by somebody with too much imagination.
He obviously didn't go too far over the line, or Putin would have had him poisoned or shot in the head. Either way, I think I'd catch the next flight out.
The Russians have usually found a way to get things done even if it takes a couple of tries. And they historically tend to go with simple and sturdy design wise albeit not sturdy enough in the nuclear field.
As has been pointed out they have consistent launch capability for low Earth orbit even though the hardware is derived from 1960s designs. Hey, it works.
When they got wind of the SR 71 Blackbird they designed the Mig 25 to intercept it. Although not quite as fast (? actually the 71 top speed was classified) it beat any other front line military aircraft in top end. Not having the alloys to work with they were made largely of stainless steel, which was heat resistant but heavy. So the engines were huge and the range was short.
But let's face it, networking is not rocket science.
edit: Mig 25s were made mostly of a corrosion resistant nickel alloy with a similar chromium content to stainless steel.
As has been pointed out they have consistent launch capability for low Earth orbit even though the hardware is derived from 1960s designs. Hey, it works.
When they got wind of the SR 71 Blackbird they designed the Mig 25 to intercept it. Although not quite as fast (? actually the 71 top speed was classified) it beat any other front line military aircraft in top end. Not having the alloys to work with they were made largely of stainless steel, which was heat resistant but heavy. So the engines were huge and the range was short.
But let's face it, networking is not rocket science.
edit: Mig 25s were made mostly of a corrosion resistant nickel alloy with a similar chromium content to stainless steel.
Surprisingly, thanks to the need to build a rocket big enough to carry the then-very large nuclear warheads the Russians possessed, the result was the R-7 rocket, which was a gigantic rocket by 1957 standards and was technically an amazing achievement, given it was much bigger than the Atlas rocket then in development at the same time.
Actually, the MiG-25 was designed to intercept the then-planned North American B-70 Valkyrie bomber, so a plane that could cruise over Mach 2 and short-dash to Mach 3 was mandatory. That's why the Mikoyan OKB went to using the metals you mentioned for the plane, since it had to resist the heating effects of sustained Mach 2+ operations. Interestingly, the MiG-25 was better served as a high-speed high-altitude reconnaissance plane, where the Russians would fly them along the border of their own country at cruising at Mach 2.5 and 65,000 feet to see military installations along their own borders. The Syrian Air Force also used these recon MiG-25 versions, but alas, they flew them deep into Israeli territory and a small number were shot down by Israeli F-15's.
But getting back on topic, you see a lot of Russian influences in both MacOS X and Windows, given that Russians and Russian ex-patriates living in the USA have contributed a lot to these operating systems (I believe the Russians have contributed a lot to Linux, too).
What folks forget is though the face of the system has changed in Russia it is still ran by a bunch of communists.
Putin is a communist.
Same goes for China.
Putin is a communist.
Same goes for China.
Soviets, really. They aren't the same as communists from a political science perspective. Putin isn't any more of a communist than Uncle Joe Stalin was.
Not Soviets either,the Soviets as a political force only operated for a few years after the revolution. In a technical sense they'd be authoritarian state capitalists.
Please tell me you're not serious.
And BTW, Dell is like Lex Luthor in the old Superman films.
Concur
I'm with Ahmed on this one democracy means you get a choice between 2 gimps every 4 years that's it the rest is an illusion. I have always never voted i would love to see a zero turn out one day !
I'm down with the royals they built this world including Russia.
I'm with Ahmed on this one democracy means you get a choice between 2 gimps every 4 years that's it the rest is an illusion. I have always never voted i would love to see a zero turn out one day !
I'm down with the royals they built this world including Russia.
And the Lockheed A-12 and what became the SR-71. Not that it matters but the B-70 was canceled before any production Mig 25s were built, even though it had been a stimulus.
Yeah, it is ironic that the Soviet lag in nuclear warhead reduction technology led to their having to build huge rockets that had an easy time lifting Sputnik 1.
Russians shouldn't have any problem in the IT end of things anyway.