The theory of “management” has made a lot of progress in analyzing the behavior of managers, in studying the reasons for their successes and failures, in systematizing knowledge about how to develop their strong qualities and deal with weak ones. We pay special attention to foreign theorists. Ask your boss what to read on this topic or ask him to name his “favorite book.” You will probably hear the names Goldratt, Adizes, […]
I see that the public liked the first, historical part of my story, and therefore it’s not a sin to continue. High-speed trains, like the TGV, no longer rely on pneumatic braking. Today we will talk about modernity, namely, what approaches to creating braking systems for rolling stock are used in the 1st century, which will be entering its third decade in just a month. XNUMX. Classification of brakes […]
After two and a half years of development, the release of the Bochs 2.6.10 emulator is presented. Bochs supports emulation of CPUs based on x86 architecture, from i386 to current x86-64 models of Intel and AMD processors, including emulation of various processor extensions (VMX, SSE, AES, AVX, SMP, etc.), typical input/output devices and peripheral devices (emulation of video card, sound card, Ethernet, USB, etc.). […]
My previous article on Habr about life in Scotland found a very big response from the Habra community, so I decided to publish here another article about emigration, which I previously published on another site. I've been living in the UK for over two years. Initially, I moved here on a work visa, which imposes certain restrictions on the holder: you can only work […]
Due to the constant increase in the level of development of information technology, every year electronic documents are becoming more convenient and in demand in use and are beginning to dominate over traditional paper media. Therefore, it is very important to pay timely attention to protecting the content of information not only on traditional paper media, but also on electronic documents. Every major company that […]
The most interesting thing that has happened to writing over the past couple of decades is the so-called “network literature.” Several years ago, writers had the opportunity to earn money through literary work without the mediation of publishing houses, working directly with the reader. I talked a little about this in the article “Product Writers”. On this occasion, one can only repeat after the son of a Turkish citizen: “A dream came true […]
This is a selection of events that will be held with the support of ITMO University in the next few months. There will be festivals, seminars, competitions, “winter schools” and even stand-up comedy. Photo: Product School / Unsplash.com Yandex Scientific Prize named after Ilya Segalovich When: October 15 - January 13 Where: online Senior students, graduate students, as well as scientific supervisors who […]
Version 7.0 of the SU2 project, an open source solver for the Navier-Stokes equations, has been presented. List of changes: new nonlinear iteration controller to improve robustness and convergence; improvements for the calculation mode with lift force fixation (Cl=const); new features for Discrete Adjoint; report on the quality of the computational mesh; the ability to “dry run” to check the functionality of the input files; modification for the SST turbulence model; changes in […]
The release of the MAT2 0.10.0 utility has been introduced, designed to remove metadata from files in various formats. The program solves the problem of residual data settling in documents and multimedia files, which may be perceived as undesirable for disclosure. For example, photos may contain information about location, time taken, and device, while edited images may contain information about the type of OS and programs used […]
The head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, spoke about plans for 2020 and beyond in an interview with GamesRadar. The company aims to leverage its growing number of internal studios to release more games on PC and Xbox. “We feel really good heading into 2020,” he says. — We have a goal: to be [...]
Jeremy Soller, founder of the Redox operating system written in the Rust language, spoke about the successful use of Redox on the System76 Galaga Pro laptop (Jeremy Soller works at System76). The already fully functional components include keyboards, touchpad, storage (NVMe) and Ethernet. Experiments with Redox on a laptop have already made it possible to improve the performance of drivers, add HiDPI support to some […]
Remedy Entertainment's latest game, Control, is a Metroid-inspired action-adventure set in a rather unusual setting, which the game describes as paranormal. Speaking with VentureBeat, studio writer Sam Lake discussed the project. In an interview, Lake said that the setting of Control was inspired by the literary genre new weird. It began in the 1990s and developed into a series of novels […]
