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Re: Vem vill bli miljonär?

Oleg — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:14:21 -0000

den här är ju för det första sjukt gammal, kommer ihåg att jag såg det här för över 5 år sedan. sen är det såklart inte fejk, ni är så efterblivna.

Re: Moscow Metro: Part 2 | Windows to Russia!

Oleg — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:23:00 -0000

Deineka mosaics on Mayakovskaya

Re: Moscow Metro: Part 2 | Windows to Russia!

Oleg — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:36:00 -0000

apropos, I live in the St.Petersburg and take the Metro every day;)

Re: Moscow Metro: Part 2 | Windows to Russia!

Oleg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:30:00 -0000

Rotus, perhaps you are interested in the photo, from my visit to Moscow in October 2007 http://www.dvoechnik.ru/98

Re: Moscow Metro: Part 2 | Windows to Russia!

Oleg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:33:00 -0000

В Москве? Очеь приятно! С удовольствием загляну к вам еще. Кстати, было бы интересно почитать ваши заметки о Петербурге.

И, конечно, я всегда рад вас видеть у меня на dvoechnik.ru :)

До встречи!

Re: Moscow Metro: Part 2 | Windows to Russia!

Oleg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:34:00 -0000

ничего, что я по-русски? ;)

Re: Главное - миф - БлоGнот

Oleg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:55:40 -0000

Про itunes store тоже миф. В России и на Украине им воспользоваться для покупки музыки нельзя. Усилий больше, чем просто платить с кредитки не предлагать - торренты проще.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Joox.net - Get It While You Can

Oleg — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:45:33 -0000

All Joox.net does is gather links to content from the official Divx.com Stage6 service.
So in fact the content is stored on divx.com servers.
Have more fun at: stage6.divx.com

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Turbo Laptop With Push Button Overclocking

Oleg — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:10:29 -0000

The turbo button overclocks the machine by 20%. And yes, overclocks.
This might be handy if you want that extra gaming power while not on the go...

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » OhGizmo Voice Post: My Beef With The New YouTube Ads

Oleg — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:08:15 -0000

I won't call you selfish. Just tell you to use another video site. So far it has been granted to you absolutely free. A lot of your revenue has been generated due to being able to embed said videos.If you don't like their approach, go somewhere else. There are plenty of free alternatives.
I don't see why the data that they stream and pay for and even let you embed in any way gives you a vote on whether ads are included.
If you on the other hand hosted the videos and had the data transfer cost, then you would have everything to say.

Just my 2 cents.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » OhGizmo Voice Post: My Beef With The New YouTube Ads

Oleg — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:09:31 -0000

Oh yeah... and one more thing. Wait with the beef until you actually meet the problem.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Windowherbs Pots Designed For The Urban Gardener

Oleg — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:50:38 -0000

Just my words. From ooking at the hi-res pics at the ZO site, these will definetely fall down. The sun dries out suction cups in no time.
Oh yeah and most herbs don't really like being so much in the sun. It'll toast them.
Good idea but: Back to the drawing board.

Re: Klipsch Speakers Cost $15,000 and Don’t Even Include Topless Models

Oleg — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:48:47 -0000

LOL
Audiophiles!

Now THERE'S a laugh :P

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Windowherbs Pots Designed For The Urban Gardener

Oleg — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:59:09 -0000

AFAIK the suction cup that comes with you MIO GPS is the kind that has a lever to create a vacuum. These work brilliantly and do not dry out / lose their vacuum. The sucups on this product look exactly like the ones that are stuck on cheap IKEA crap that you can't really stick anywhere 'cause they're made of some soft but not soft enough plastic.
The whole gardener thing discussion I think is perhaps out of our league.

By the way: thank you for a very good site Andrew :) I read it almost daily.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Escape Flatland With Tactile 3D

Oleg — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:55:53 -0000

ROFL! That is plain stupid! He's the freakin' demonstrator yet it still takes him 10x the time it takes me to copy somthing from one folder to another.
And he even makes extended use of keyboard shortcuts and search functions to navigate that mess of a UI,
Back to the drawing board mister! :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Special Edition Electrolux Ultrasilencer Vacuum

Oleg — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:14:32 -0000

Actually all us science types will tell you that it's only additive colors that combined give white. Additive color is what you have on monitors etc. But on a "real life" thing the colors are actually subtractive, which means that if you add all colors you get "black".
:)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Special Edition Electrolux Ultrasilencer Vacuum

Oleg — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:15:20 -0000

Oh and by the way both my wife and I can clap with one hand :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Kloss DeLighTable: A Delightable Light Table

Oleg — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:21:03 -0000

Look at the surface reflections and you'll be able to tell that this is not "touch sensitive" but a color-shifting lamp with an acrylic tabletop covered in oil and then some plastic or rubber covering. It is a very nifty idea and should be easy for anyone to reproduce.
Let's all start copying the concept :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » OGCC Day 8 - Newspaper Fireplace ‘Log’ Maker

Oleg — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:00:14 -0000

Must say I completely agree with stef.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Classic NES Controller Backpack

Oleg — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:32:40 -0000

"But here we are some 8 years later" ? Don't you mean 18 years later? :-D LOL

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Tomato D-18 USB HD

Oleg — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:36:02 -0000

LOL! I though the exact same thing. :)

Re: Buffalo SHD-UHRS 100GB External SSD

Oleg — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:04:27 -0000

Two more EEEs will only get you 4 more available GB :-p

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » ChiliPad Mattress Is Cool Stuff, Hot Stuff

Oleg — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:38:24 -0000

Must say I don't mind when both temperature scales are mentioned. But I'm fully impressed with how nerdy the above correction of Evans writing is.
Still if he chooses to follow it that's fine. But it sure was funny to read :) I figure you meant well. It just sounded like a raised finger from some 4th grade teacher :D

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Fishtank Friday: AquaDom

Oleg — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:57:15 -0000

Salt water aquariums don't need cleaning of the glass iirc.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » In Europe, Light Grows On Trees

Oleg — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:02:47 -0000

Gotta say thaqt I find them rather beautiful. I just love the organic design. And they're surely a lot nicer than regular steel street lights.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Chinavision Dentacom Reveals Why It’s Called “Bluetooth”

Oleg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:45:28 -0000

Ahem! Jutland is definitely not Germany thank you very much :) Jutland is the part of Denmark connected to Germany yes but it's not Germany. Jutland is the mainland of Denmark whereas Funen and Sealand are the two major islands.
There has been disputes through time as to how much of the most southern part of Jutland was danish or german but in general terms Jutland is most certainly danish.

Oh and the runes are old norse runes and not germanic ones if I'm not mistaken ;)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » A Simple Design For Carrying Coffee

Oleg — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:07:43 -0000

Ehr... We have those at all festivals in Denmark where they're used to carry 5 plastic glasses of beer/soda/etc.
Hard to see anything revolutionary in that there? Same concept...
Meh...

Re: История с сайтом bandera.ru: разъяснение владельцев домена | AIN 2.0

Oleg — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:41:34 -0000

banda.ru

Re: Neon Indian – 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)

Oleg — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:44:25 -0000

Friends please! Help me. I dont know English. What about song 6669? Text of song/

Re: Neon Indian – 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)

Oleg — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:45:23 -0000

please//write me the text//all song

Re: "The Largest Assault on Democracy and Freedom in this Country": Rep. Shimkus on Cap-and-Trade

Oleg — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:59:37 -0000

40 mil. deaths from DDT ban - gosh!

I remember me reading the paper about how many people were taken into Stalin's labour camps. The figures range 300.000 - 100 millions, depending on whose research you are reading. 300.000 figure is supported by nostalgic Soviets - this figure is not big deal, they say, since, per capita, this is less than the number of prisoners in US today.

The funny thing, though, is how those guys who supported 100 million figure got it. They took USSR official DAILY statistics on how many people were behind the bars over the period of, say, 10 years and simply added the numbers of prisoners for each day over the examined period of time. That is, if some guy served, say, 10 years - that is, ~3650 days - this would translate into 3650 prisoners in the final statistics acquired by this method of calculation.

The paper concluded with poking fun of the "100 mil." researchers by taking the same official USSR statistics and summing up numbers of prisoners behind the bars for each HOUR over the period of 10 years. The figure was colossal. I don't remember it, but it's in billions.

One should be very cautious with statistics. Even when it comes from worthy source. Let alone the sources such as one where the figure of 40 mil. deaths from DDT bas was acquired from - Steven Milloy's site.

Re: It’s Official: Only 1,411 Tigers Left In India's Forest Reserves

Oleg — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:07:47 -0000

They are doomed. Even if the poaching is sorted out, habitat loss is not stop-able for the decades to follow.

Re: Scientists Name Top 25 Environmental Threats of the Future

Oleg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:54:26 -0000

I think it's not about nano-tech is inherently dangerous, but that the risks are underestimated by governments, people, etc. and overlooked.

Which is true, at least for me. I have a friend working in the field of nano-tech, with some sort of nano-powders (I'm not very good at this, so I didn't go into specifics). Surprise, but he is against nano-technologies, at least for now. Says we are unprepared to tackle consequences and don't have a safeguard mechanism tuned up specifically for nano-tech.

As an example, he cites some powders he works with as very penetrative as to human body. They enter your body and never leave it. How do they get there? With water, for example. Or you inhale it somewhere. How do these powders get into environment? Well, all the garbage, fuel floating in rivers, mercury and lead in Antarctic were not intended to end up there either.

Re: Do You Know What You Eat? Greenpeace's Ads Against Genetically Modified Organisms

Oleg — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:47:09 -0000

"This is why most don't take environmentalists seriously: they claim science is good and then ignore it when it supports something that scares them."

Kyle, science is not that easy to understand as you would wish it to be. Sometimes something is so obvious, that you need science only to rigorously prove what is already undisguised to man in the street without any science. Sometimes things are so complex that it takes decades and more for science to clarify.

So, if science says biofuel is bad for food prices and it is correct prediction that doesn't mean that gmo is safe, if science today says so (though it doesn't). It may take time. My mom worked with mercury with bare hands while learning chemistry in school - it was scientifically approved and mercury was shown to possess no harm to health. Yet now things are otherwise.

Just remember that we don't have 100% honest crystal ball, which produces completely unbiased research immediately we are puzzled with some nature's mystery. It takes time. And what is more important, people are behind science. We call them scientists, but not every one of them has scientific honesty and no ties with corporations.

Re: Survey: Is It Real or Photoshopped?

Oleg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:37:59 -0000

Photo looks a little bit strange. Nevertheless, even if this particular photo is photoshopped, I'm ready to believe in orangutans hunting fish with spears.

If you look for videos on YouTube about orangutans, you'll find out how intelligent these species are.

And, actually, this is not the first time, when primate uses spear to hunt flesh. A year ago, it seems to me that chimps were reported to sharpen one end of the pole with the help of teeth, thus making spear, and hunt smaller monkeys (bush-babies, if I'm correct).

No surprise at all for someone who follows wildlife news. :)

Re: Norwegian Wind Power Could Become Europe's Battery

Oleg — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:45:22 -0000

These Northern Europe countries... I'm fascinated with every aspect of their living. A good example to follow.

Re: Survey: Can GMOs Increase Our Food Supply?

Oleg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:20:40 -0000

Look what green revolution did to environment! And despite propelling the idea of feeding the poor, as we see today, it hardly put third world countries population out of misery. So, the mere comparing of gm-food with green revolution, though not intended, gives me shivers.

Also, gm-technologies might bring so much change to eco-systems we haven't seen yet and which we can't even imagine by now. While environmentalism is about preserving eco-systems. Promoting gm-tech and being environmentalist are mutually exclusive.

Though, there can be an exception, if they are grown in vertical farms (or whatever, just so that they are isolated from the natural eco-systems).

Re: Michele Bachmann: Caribou have Coffee Klatches 'Round the Alaska Pipeline

Oleg — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:28:15 -0000

Neil,

you confuse ANWR and NPR-A (National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska).

ANWR is a wildlife refuge, it was created to give animals shelter, not to set aside exploration of oil.

Harsh conditions are not argument either. Life exists everywhere. In sands of Sahara, on ice of Arctic.

Re: Being Green Isn't Cool Anymore. Was it Ever?

Oleg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:37:30 -0000

About David Cameron - it's stupid to claim he grows his vegetables and stays in UK for holidays because of financial crisis. He is super-rich. Give him 10 more financial crises straight one after another, he will still be easily able to fly every destination he would like to enjoy.

It turned trendy to announce environmentalism is dead. I hear this like every year since 2000 or somewhat. Yet all those environmental funds seem to collect record tons of money.

Re: \"The Largest Assault on Democracy and Freedom in this Country\": Rep. Shimkus on Cap-and-Trade

Oleg — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:59:37 -0000

40 mil. deaths from DDT ban - gosh!

Re: http://ukrainets.blogspot.com/2009/07/idioteka-polish-toilet.html

Oleg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:20:27 -0000

Рщ чщмуж не можна стоячи?
:)

Re: http://www.ilanbresler.com/2008/07/great-minds.html

Oleg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:45:00 -0000

Funny! :) Nice Title! Great ... :)