This is evidenced by the results of a recent case study. As it turned out, the Argentines spend in front of ' box ' six hours a day, whereas the world average is 3 hours 12 minutes. The norm of working time in Argentina, as a rule, equal to 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day, respectively, plus two days off - Saturday and Sunday. With two weekends it turns out that more Argentines are watching TV than working.
According to the survey, much of his free time, citizens pay television in the rest of the day they work, go shopping and have lunch. Five percent of respondents listen to radio, two percent of respondents read and the same climb on the Internet. It is striking that in contrast to watching TV, playing sports, obviously, is not included in the list of daily activities Argentines. It is therefore not surprising that according to the Ministry of Health, more than 53 percent of the country's inhabitants are overweight. Doctors strongly advise fellow citizens often exercise to eat more vegetables and fruits, but Argentineans still prefer to spend time on the couch watching television. According to statistics, more than 80 percent of Argentines pay for the additional cable and satellite channels to be able to watch more programs and films.
Very popular in the country are locally produced TV series, friends and Russian audience, as well as various entertainment shows. It is noteworthy that the events taking place in the evening air such programs are not only subject of conversation in the workplace, but the main themes of newspapers and radio. Each channel has been fighting for rating among viewers, in every way trying to lure them to his side, which, as you can see, they can be good.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Argentines spend more time watching TV than working
Saturday, April 28, 2012
How does the search work?
Once Google has said that the secret to the stunning performance of its search engine lies in the use of conventional gray pigeons, which in fact was an April Fool's joke once.
It is estimated that during 2007, Google processed 37 billion monthly searches, while Yahoo! - 8,5 billion queries, a Microsoft - 2,2 billion. Today, the vast majority of people to search for.
Information is drawn to the Internet, and often many times a day. Yet few people understand how it works search engine.
In a simplified form of the algorithm for its looks like this.
step 1. Enter a word or set of words in the search box, and finds them in the car she had created a database, establishing communication with them. From the beginning, Larry and Sergey goal was to maintain in its database all the Web pages. The company and to this day does this, and also covers many other sources of information.
step 2. The machine begins to search, with search engine uses its three key elements. Here they are.
a. The so-called ... Instead, he sends out thousands of web pages the search query by keywords. Usually it is called ...
2. Index - a huge database that stores all the words are found, and.
3. Query processing system, which gives the user the results.
It is clear that the above rough scheme does not explain exactly how unique Google search technology. This is a - jealously guarded by professional secrecy. It is true that. Larry Page. The author of the original ideas, yet gives us some clues for understanding what actually.
Soon after he settled at Stanford, Larry began to consult regularly on his doctoral thesis with the supervisor Terry Winograd, discussing the direction of research. ... - The problem we have seen is to collect all links and analyze them, and then decide whether you can find what ever application of this. As a result, we came upon a way to rank web pages in order of importance, starting from the number of references to them are present on other pages. And then realized that on the basis of this principle, you can create a more effective search engine. They took and made it ...
On the Google page you can find a more detailed explanation:.
Instead of relying on the help of editors or how often a word appears on a webpage, Google ranks every web country with PageRank... Revolution PageRank evaluates all of the sites linked to this web page, and awards them the importance, in part based on sites . Through analysis of the content of Web pages, Google can determine which sites are for those who are most interested in this information, ...
As already mentioned, a program that does the Google search engine 's unique compared to all others, Larry called his name. The idea behind it is similar to that which operates in academic research. The bottom line is that the importance of scientific publications is determined by how many times it referred to a solid academic publications. The more often referred to colleagues in their work on this publication, the more significance and relevance, it becomes.
And on the corporate page of Google explained how this process is complicated:.
PageRank relies on the democratic nature of the web, using a system of reference as an indicator of the value of a single page. Instead of counting direct links, PageRank considers a link from page A to page B as a vote for Page B by Page A. Then the number of votes received determines the importance of PageRank of the page. PageRank evaluates the importance of each page, taking part in the voting. Upon receipt of votes from the pages of more importance is becoming more valuable reference. Search engine Google, like other systems that also analyzes the content of the page on which the one or the other link. The search engine Google analyzes not only the entire contents of the page. but also the content of neighboring web pages to ensure that the results most closely match the user's request.
But this is only part of the protocol. No matter how hard it is to imagine, but the PageRank for objective assessment of the significance of web pages allows for more than 500 million variables and three billion of the terms and yet manages to give the result of a second. Still, the search algorithm is significantly simplified.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The sun at its zenith
A bet on solar power will allow Ukraine to revive the production of high- silica products. The small village of Crimean Okhotnikov can now safely claim to be the most innovative, not only in Ukraine but also Europe. By the end of the year there will be to build a solar power plant, which will be one of the largest such plants in the world. In July of this year under the ... The total plant capacity should reach 80 MW. It will house nearly 160 acres of land and will consist of 360 thousand. ground-based modules.
solar opportunities.
Construction of the plant is important for Crimean region that, despite the great potential for development of alternative energy sources, is still a power-hungry. Until recently, up to 90 % of electricity supplied from the outside. The plant will produce 100 thousand. Megawatt hours of electricity per year. This is sufficient to provide an energy of about 20 thousand. households. And also reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Ohotnikovskaya power - until the first major project in the alternative energy sector in Ukraine. At the same time, the world's solar power industry is booming. According to forecasts of International Energy Agency, 2050 PV should provide 20-25 % of global electricity production. Among the countries - the leaders in the implementation of solar energy the first place for several years in Germany. It accounts for about 27 % of the global solar power market. Up to 13 % of global consumption provide the U.S..
Prior to 2011 in the Ukrainian energy balance of the share alternativki was negligible - less than 1 % - although formally opportunities for its development than in the same German. ... - Background to the development direction of alternative energy, especially solar, you are similar to Bulgarian, and the potential for much more ...
Ukraine recently turned his attention to this promising and innovative industry. To encourage development of renewable energy two years ago, Parliament passed a law on ... Now, manufacturers can expect to return on large-scale projects in the industry. Forms and methods to support the implementation of alternative energy set. In countries that have embarked on the development of this innovative industry, investors can expect a compensation for interest on loans. It also introduces regulations for mandatory implementation of alternative energy sources in housing.
Batteries for growth.
However, the states take care of not only the introduction of plants that produce ... To promote a so-called ... Prerequisite for obtaining a ... For Canada and Turkey, for example, the figure is 60%. In Ukraine, this rule also has. On January 1, 2012 the quota would be 15 %, from January 1, 2013. - 30 %, and from January 1, 2014 - 50%. Thus, as expected by experts, legislative requirements will form the basis for the development of its own high-tech engineering and other branches of industry.
Ukraine in this direction at all may be one of the world's top players. About 90% of all produced in the world of solar cells made from silicon. Therefore, the prospects of solar energy associated with the development of new low-cost technologies for producing polycrystalline silicon for photovoltaic reflectors. Production of large quantities of electronic polysilicon and solar grade in the world until recently provided only a dozen companies from six countries: USA, Japan, Norway, Germany, Italy and China. The Celestial Empire in the last three years, dramatically increase their production capacity.
In Soviet times, Ukraine was one of the world's leading silicon industry, and provide ... He was released Zaporozhye semiconductor plant ( in the past - in the Zaporozhye Titanium-Magnesium Works ) and the Donetsk Chemical- Metallurgical Plant (now - Chemical Metallurgical plant of Mariupol metallurgical combine them. Illich ).
In the early 1991 Zaporizhia semiconductors provide a little more than 2% of global consumption. But in the second half of the 90 plant is actually mired in debt and has come to a complete abandonment. The importance of restoring the silicon industry is constantly told, from the beginning of the two thousandth - even have made a priority in the various laws.
Bet on the market.
In October of 2008 with the filing was approved by the Ministry of Industrial Policy Concept of the State target scientific and technical program ... In it, in particular, the projected increase in the deficit of this material on the world market over the next 10-15 years. And in 2009, was adopted by the program itself. The main problem that she had to decide was the virtual absence in Ukraine production of pure silicon. Focus on the development of the state made of silicon, realizing also the importance of developing innovative industries.
In past years, Ukraine's GDP is strongly dependent on global demand for metal producers. The development of new export-oriented industries - such as titanium and silicon production, shipbuilding, aircraft construction - make Ukraine less vulnerable to fluctuations in world prices.
The situation changed after the launch of the updated line in the Zaporozhye plant of semiconductors. Today the company is in the process of commissioning. In the project of modernization of the Austrian company ... Investment project pretends to be one of the largest in the last decade - it is assumed that the investment will exceed it? 1 billion. ... - This is the feedstock for the production of solar cells, mono-and multisilicon with further obtaining the plates and the production of solar cells ...
So in the near future Ukraine can become a full player in the global solar market. In addition, the project will make the country a great leap forward in terms of innovation. After a huge potential for years of independence, Ukraine has not actually used. Back in 1992, Ukraine ranked ninth in the world in terms of innovation. Now - 90.
Power of Money | Victoria Smirnova | August 2011, (№ 317).
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
25 supporters of Ahmadinejad arrested for connection with the jinn
The conflict between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei has peaked.
On charges of having links with the jinn associates were arrested the next president, himself a secular leader faces impeachment, says newspaper. py.
Iranian opposition exiles and the media on Friday reported the resignation of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been almost a month, a leading heavy hardware war with the spiritual leader ( Rahbar ), the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Recent rumors have coincided with news of the persecution of the new environment in the leadership of Ahmadinejad.
On the eve been arrested at least 25 the staff of the Iranian president, including former Chief of Staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaye, the retired a few days earlier. All of them accused of witchcraft.
Later, the newspaper Etedaal recovered, adding that the number of those arrested were ... British The Guardian, citing Iranian news site Ayandeh, says that officials have been accused of having links with the jinn, and one of them, Abbas Ghafari, called ... The chief prosecutor of Tehran Abbas Jafari Dolatbadi confirmed that Ghafari accused of witchcraft. Under Sharia law the act is punishable by decapitation.
We also learned about the arrest of a close Abbas Rahim Mashaye Amirifara, head of the presidential administration, management of Cultural Affairs. He was charged with another offense - issue permits for the removal of the film ... Conservative theologians have declared the film blasphemous, because no one can predict the actions of Allah. Amrifar appear before the Special Tribunal for Clergy.
Ahmadinejad staggered positions after losing in a serious game hardware, the latest round of which began April 17. Then the president asked to resign minister of information (the so- called head of Iran's secret service ), Heidar Moslehi.
Ayatollah Khamenei's decree of April 27 Moslehi was returned to the post, and through the public humiliation of the president - Rahbar published the letter addressed to Moslehi, not Ahmadinejad, in which he said the return of the portfolio head of Intelligence. In response, the President gave a uniform boycott of their duties, twice appeared at the meeting of the government and refusing to go to the holy Shiite city of Qom. The strike lasted Ahmadinejad just over a week.
Conservative clerics previously supported the ... More than 300 public figures, scholars and members of parliament signed a petition calling for Ahmadinejad does not contradict Rahbar, at the same time hinting at the possibility of impeachment.
Last Saturday, the President received the delegation, persuaded him not to contradict the will of a Rahbar. The conflict between Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei seems to be settled was last Sunday, when the secular head of state came after a 11-day absence from the meeting of the government. But the split is preserved. Ahmadinejad has not commented on the fate of Moslehi, who was absent at the government session.
Pro-government on-line edition of the Alef, which controls close to the conservative clerics MP Ahmad Tavakkoli on Monday again accused the president's entourage in the ...
On Wednesday, Ahmadinejad again, skimp on their duties, not appearing for the first time in many years, at an evening organized by Rahbar in commemoration of the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammed 's daughter Zahra.
Arrest Mashaye Rahim as the main troublemaker can neutralize the conflict. ... Many of the opposition, or fall into disgrace leaders spent years under house arrest. ...
According to Iranian news agency Mehr, in the Majlis began preparations for the impeachment of President.
In support of this step has already collected 90 signatures of deputies. Once the petition to sign at least a quarter of the 290-seat parliament, it will be given to the speaker, Ali Larijani. According to Pavlov, impeachment or some public battles can be avoided, ... But if the irreconcilable positions, the impeachment is quite likely, says expert.
... Malashenko crisis relates not so much by external circumstances, many of which had already begun the fight for the presidency and post- Rahbar, which under some circumstances can take Khamenei and not for life. ...
Discuss.