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This is a question for kvs & sepheronx: whats your thoughts of the world impact and influence of Russian designed file-compression software, such as 'WinRAR' designed by Eugene Roshal, and '7-zip' designed by Igor Pavlov?

magnumcromagnon wrote:This is a question for kvs & sepheronx: whats your thoughts of the world impact and influence of Russian designed file-compression software, such as 'WinRAR' designed by Eugene Roshal, and '7-zip' designed by Igor Pavlov?

They are commonly used but nothing earthshaking. These products highlight the legacy of the USSR in regards to mathematical
education and capability. It's not just for nerds, it's for everything from ICBMs to consumer software.

kvs wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:This is a question for kvs & sepheronx: whats your thoughts of the world impact and influence of Russian designed file-compression software, such as 'WinRAR' designed by Eugene Roshal, and '7-zip' designed by Igor Pavlov?

They are commonly used but nothing earthshaking.   These products highlight the legacy of the USSR in regards to mathematical
education and capability.   It's not just for nerds, it's for everything from ICBMs to consumer software.

Here's a case were Russia could engage in asymmetrical warfare, Russia could end all copyright cooperation with the EU/US, and not allow extradition of filesharing personel, Russia could organize a escape for Kim Dotcom of Megaupload fame and relocated him to Russia, where his 'cause célèbre' status will allow him to be a beacon for all the filesharing networks to transfer to Russia.

Having a powerful country to protect the filesharing community will bring support and sympathy towards Russia from the commoner-class of the West, while simultaenously causing serious financial harm to the Russophobic media conglomerates in the West to the tune of hundreds of billions of Dollars in any given year. Theoretically speaking Russian media may get hurt some by the 'filesharing-friendly' atmosphere in Russia, but the overwhelming majority of filesharing-caused loss of revenue affects Western media conglomerates not Russian ones.

Russia closer to the completion of the project "Breakthrough": another step

Russia: Scientists make revolutionary breakthrough in 3D 'organ printing'

Russian scientists demonstrated a revolutionary step by using a 3D 'bio-printer' to produce a thyroid gland, using cells from a mouse, in Skolkovo on Wednesday.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Here's a case were Russia could engage in asymmetrical warfare, Russia could end all copyright cooperation with the EU/US, and not allow extradition of filesharing personel, Russia could organize a escape for Kim Dotcom of Megaupload fame and relocated him to Russia, where his 'cause célèbre' status will allow him to be a beacon for all the filesharing networks to transfer to Russia.

Having a powerful country to protect the filesharing community will bring support and sympathy towards Russia from the commoner-class of the West, while simultaenously causing serious financial harm to the Russophobic media conglomerates in the West to the tune of hundreds of billions of Dollars in any given year. Theoretically speaking Russian media may get hurt some by the 'filesharing-friendly' atmosphere in Russia, but the overwhelming majority of filesharing-caused loss of revenue affects Western media conglomerates not Russian ones.

great idea! free stuff is always appreciated . wont be surprised if this sort of thing is turned a blind eye on at the least in russia- commie values are still alive and well at least in internet

Not really relevant but

Russian Microwave Oven, 1941

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/davydov_index/60378694/423981/423981_600.jpg

Russian Laptop, 1991

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/davydov_index/60378694/423482/423482_600.jpg

Russian mobile phone, 1957

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/davydov_index/60378694/424572/424572_600.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10926220_1467888433471752_1374834641614174943_n.jpg?oh=acfbceed7e378f3f27d2d3c549c3caaf&oe=55AC8BDD&__gda__=1437683895_3e4f8b4ad83f2485b64c6600ec07f6d6

Russian computer mouse, Soviet Era

http://doseng.org/uploads/posts/2012-12/1354590299_01.jpg

sepheronx wrote:

KomissarBojanchev wrote:What's the status of carbon nanotube production? If they haven't built even a single strand then they're in severe technological industrial backwardness. That's because Carbon nanotubes will be the king of materials  in the future, being completely unmatched in strength and flexibility to anything you can dig from russia's soil. It will be used in every6thing from construction material to armor.

In conclusion, russia should stop concentrating on 20th century stuff like mining, since all lab grown materials will beat it.

Metamaterials like graphene should also be top priority. Western corporations also have a lead in them and they will be extremely vital in building future computer hardware.

That stuff is horrendously over expensive and is still barely used because of that. Hence why so many enterprises still invest a lot in metals like Titanium. Russia has been working on carbon material for ages and carbon nanotubes (lol) are probably one of vatious projects. Rusnano are the ones involved in their development.

Then invest in technologies to make it's production cheaper. Those oil and gas profits ought to go somewhere else than more drilling or oligarch pockets or russia will find itself a nasty surprise when it becomes evident to the oil sucking billionaire fossile feul tycoons that things like titanium are technological dinosaurs which will become utter shit against nano, metamaterials and graphene.

KomissarBojanchev wrote:

sepheronx wrote:

KomissarBojanchev wrote:What's the status of carbon nanotube production? If they haven't built even a single strand then they're in severe technological industrial backwardness. That's because Carbon nanotubes will be the king of materials  in the future, being completely unmatched in strength and flexibility to anything you can dig from russia's soil. It will be used in every6thing from construction material to armor.

In conclusion, russia should stop concentrating on 20th century stuff like mining, since all lab grown materials will beat it.

Metamaterials like graphene should also be top priority. Western corporations also have a lead in them and they will be extremely vital in building future computer hardware.

That stuff is horrendously over expensive and is still barely used because of that. Hence why so many enterprises still invest a lot in metals like Titanium. Russia has been working on carbon material for ages and carbon nanotubes (lol) are probably one of vatious projects. Rusnano are the ones involved in their development.

Then invest in technologies to make it's production cheaper. Those oil and gas profits ought to go somewhere else than more drilling or oligarch pockets or russia will find itself a nasty surprise when it becomes evident to the oil sucking billionaire fossile feul tycoons that things like titanium are technological dinosaurs which will become utter shit against nano, metamaterials and graphene.

They are not and wont. Titanium byproducts are in demand, not to mention titanium alloys modified. Nanotechnology is being pushed by Russia and we are always hearing of new alloys being made through Steel byproducts modified. Russia is also one of the largest carbon fiber manufacturers. But Titanium has a massive use as well. Talk of all these synthetic materials have been going on for ages, especially in regards to replacing metals, and it hasnt. There is a reason Titanium valley is being worked on and major world wide enterprises like boeing are involved.

Construction began on a pilot plant for the production of fuel for the world's first experimental fast reactor with a heavy liquid metal coolant. The project is named "Breakthrough".

http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/60707/


This is for the BREST-300 lead-cooled fast reactor. Some info in English below
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Design-completed-for-prototype-fast-reactor-0209147.html

Cyberspec wrote:Construction began on a pilot plant for the production of fuel for the world's first experimental fast reactor with a heavy liquid metal coolant. The project is named "Breakthrough".

http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/60707/


This is for the BREST-300 lead-cooled fast reactor. Some info in English below
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Design-completed-for-prototype-fast-reactor-0209147.html

This is the safest design possible. Lead boils at 1740 C so the chance of any meltdown is basically zero. There
is so much passive cooling capacity that the fuel assembly cannot overheat under any operating regime. Since
the cooling is very effective the fuel assembly cannot lose its geometry and experience any neutron cascade from
a more compact distribution of the fuel. At Fukushima the water cooling pressure was lost, the fuel assemblies
overheated, released huge amounts of hydrogen which exploded in the process of meltdown in a feedback
loop of more heat release by increased conglomeration.

Molten sodium vat reactors such as the BN series are good as well, but it is possible to reach a state where the
sodium boils off and a meltdown occurs. With molten lead this is no longer an accessible state.

Definately safer. Also little waste as well compared to older designs.

Nice

In Moscow begin sea trials of a new kind of urban transport - elektrobusa

Viktor wrote:Nice  

In Moscow begin sea trials of a new kind of urban transport - elektrobusa

Title is misleading, probably because it's machine translated.
Should be testing first use of it in Moscow, not new kind of urban transportation.
A London firm claimed that it used electrobuses as far back as 1907.

JSC "NIIPP" is developing a multi-channel integrated planar receiving and transmitting modules of the AESA technology based on LTCC-ceramics

http://www.niipp.ru/catalog/detail.php?ID=245

Cyberspec wrote:JSC "NIIPP" is developing a multi-channel integrated planar receiving and transmitting modules of the AESA technology based on LTCC-ceramics

http://www.niipp.ru/catalog/detail.php?ID=245

Good find, I'll '+1' this post when I get the chance...what I find interesting is that it's claimed to be 'low-cost' all relatively speaking, I wonder if it's cheap enough to be included in 'low-cost' upgrades of older radars?

Not sure which thread to post in,
but since "Silicon Valley" is often used for software, and there is another thread for Microprocessors, I'll post here:

Russian and Finnish sources are reporting that Finnish company Jolla is agreeing with Russian government and IT companies (incl. Yandex)
to deepen cooperation aiming to co-develop future versions of their smartphone/tablet OS "Jolla",
based on Linux and opensource work of Nokia (also able to run Android apps non-natively),
with Russian gov apparently keen to involve other global partners from Brazil, India, South Africa
(as well as China, who along with Russia already has existing investments in Jolla)

Jolla has yet to find large scale adoption of it's OS by global manufacturers, so a partnership like this makes alot of sense.
The major Russian investor in Jolla is oligarch Grigory Berezkin, Chinese involvement seems thru the "China Fortune" investment company.

Prixel, a russian startup, has developed a way to cheaply reproduce masterpieces. Using wide-format ultraviolet printers, layer by layer, they can perfectly replicate the brushstroke of the original piece.

http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/prixel-wants-you-own-van-gogh-3d-printing-captures-fine-art-details

https://prixel.ru/en/



I'm thinking about purchasing one. I don't really like Van Gogh's style, but damn, that Starry Night replica is amazing.

Nice

More than 30 universities and companies will be engaged in the creation of artificial intelligence in Russia

Agency of Strategic initiatives proposed to VVP to build techno-parks for youth instead of Pioneer´s palaces

IMHO extremely good idea, to enable tech trainings for youngsters to prepare engineering wqorkforce to innovative industries.

http://rusnovosti.ru/posts/375596

In Russia will create a network of parks for vocational guidance of pupils. They will be counterparts of the Soviet palaces of pioneers. The children will be able to see the real industrial production, as well as to try out several different professions. The project was developed by a governmental Agency for strategic initiatives, and it was supported by Vladimir Putin, "Kommersant"writes.

The only outstanding question of funding is still unknown, even the approximate cost of the realization of the idea. However, the pilot pitches this year will begin work in four regions: Tatarstan, Altai Krai, Moscow oblast and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous district.

I'd love to see basic/intermediate programming languages included in the school's curriculums. That would build a solid foundation for future employment.

Neutrality wrote:I'd love to see basic/intermediate programming languages included in the school's curriculums. That would build a solid foundation for future employment.

My youngest son started at 8 with Scratch programming so even young kids can...Besides programming real mechanics or material engineering is equally important . touch gears, grease mechanisms, assembling and dismantling of engines or electrical motors...sometimes even more spares is left after reassembling of engine

In EU they seem prefer Jihadschulen and immigrants with no cultural links to local population instead of education of own citizens. Sad but true

mutantsushi wrote:Not sure which thread to post in,
but since "Silicon Valley" is often used for software, and there is another thread for Microprocessors, I'll post here:

Russian and Finnish sources are reporting that Finnish company Jolla is agreeing with Russian government and IT companies (incl. Yandex)
to deepen cooperation aiming to co-develop future versions of their smartphone/tablet OS "Jolla",
based on Linux and opensource work of Nokia (also able to run Android apps non-natively),
with Russian gov apparently keen to involve other global partners from Brazil, India, South Africa
(as well as China, who along with Russia already has existing investments in Jolla)

Jolla has yet to find large scale adoption of it's OS by global manufacturers, so a partnership like this makes alot of sense.
The major Russian investor in Jolla is oligarch Grigory Berezkin, Chinese involvement seems thru the "China Fortune" investment company.

Like Optogan Jolla Finnish company funded by Russian money. Was that really that bad in Russia for entrepreneurs that they opened companies in foreign jurisdictions?

ROSTECH INCREASES THE LEVEL OF CYBERSECURITY


http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/press-centre/all/#!goskorporaciya_rosteh_povyshaet_uroven_kiberbezopasnosti

The Corporation continues to implement cyber security strategy, under which the company "RT-inform" has signed cooperation agreements with the four leaders of the market of means of information security: Check Point Software Technologies Russia, "Kaspersky Lab", the "Group information security (Group-IB) and the company "Security Code".¨


ha ha ha Check Point for Russian IT security? not better prepare reports directly to Mossad without funding R&D for Israeli companies 1as intermediaries? Would not be cheaper?




ROSTECH INTENDS TO PRODUCE COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT ON THE DOMESTIC PROCESSORS

http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/press-centre/all/#!rosteh_nameren_proizvodit_oborudovanie_svyazi_na_otechestvennyh_processorah

Rostec intends before the end of 2017 to start the serial production of telecommunications equipment in the domestic processors. Based on it is expected to create a secure communications network for state bodies.

A subsidiary of Rostech United instrument Corporation will start production of more than 40 species of domestic equipment to build trusted networks of communication and transmission of data, reported Kommersant General Director OPK Alexander Yakunin at the conference "IT in the service of the military-industrial complex". "Most of this equipment will be built on the basis of new domestic chips "Elbrus" and "Baikal" on 28-nanometer manufacturing process, their development is in the final stage," – said Yakunin. Total investment in the development of equipment in 2015-2017 will be not less than 10 billion roubles.

Telecommunication equipment will focus on the civil sector (government agencies and Telecom operators. The MIC has already released the IP-PBX "Alexandrite" and carrier class routers. "This technique is fully developed by Russian specialists, is based on domestic technological solutions and BY precluding the opportunity to "spy" bookmarks and covert eavesdropping of data," – said Yakunin. At the end of the summer research Institute "Zoom", a part of the OCM plans to submit for certification a router with the function of detecting and preventing network intrusion, the module estimates the link quality and the load balancer and the firewall. In the future, the market should appear designed MIC system analysis and control traffic (DPI), switches and routers aggregation, the base station 4G for critical facilities and devices 5G, network operating system "Scale" self-Assembly based on Carrier Grade Linux.

Rostech already have a project on import substitution of oil and gas equipment for which the Corporation established a joint venture with United engineering Corporation.

Here are real, honest and provable info:

SKOLKOVO exceeded revenue plan
A unique robot that will help in teaching students, presented at TPU
Nust "MISIS" received five awards for the best invention at an International exhibition
Tomsk scientists have invented a fitogeli for plant protection
Russian scientist has developed a way to predict the harvest with an accuracy of up to 5 percent
In the Russian Federation has developed a new method of aircraft painting
Tomsk company "Plasmatreat" develops a unique plasma sterilizer

These are so far in June.  Yeah, science in Russia is dying.......... Not.

Let us add:

New IT effort expected to make reliance on imported design software “history”

Finns to build advanced biotech park at Skolkovo
Russian and French developers pool efforts in composite-focused R&D

so there is clearly development going on, in the research and development (R&D requires science and engineering) and other countries are still involved.

What this garbage all sounds like is this NGO, since the owner fled already like a coward and clearly a crook, is probably getting backup from usual suspects to just start on with this bullcrap.

Great thing is, these so called "protestors of specialists" sided with a guy who was egged in Siberia.