In 2001 we started a GSM-operator on Compaq Server (it was before they were bought by HP) with whole 1Gb(!) of RAM and 2x10Gb SCSI disks.
It served up to 70K of subscribers, call center with 30-40 employees, payment systems integration, everything.
Next was 8 socket Intel server. We were never able to saturate it's CPUs - 300 Mhz (or was it 400 ?) bus was a stopper. It served 350-400K of subscribers.
And next: we changed architecture and used 2 servers with 2 socket Intel CPUs again but that was time when Ghz frequencies appeared on market. We dreamed about 4xAMD server. We came to ~1 mln of active subscribers.
Nowadays: every phone has more power than it was those servers.
Typical react application consumes more resources than billing system.
Gigabyte here, gigabyte there - nobody counts them.
I understand motivation for remix of "Let it be" - McCartney was very dissatisfied with "wall of sound" by Spector.
And it's already done.
But "Sgt. Pepper" - I think the only motivation is to try squeeze a little bit more money from fans.
My hope is that sometime in future we will get a remix of Metallica "Justice for All" with bass on it.
But Hetfield already stated that they don't plan to do that:
> "And why would you change that? Why would you change history? Why would you all of a sudden put bass on it? There is bass on it, but why would you remix an album? You can remaster it, yes, but why would you remix something and make it different? It'd be like… I don't know. Not that I'm comparing us to the Mona Lisa, but it's, like, 'Uh, can we make her smile a little better?!' You know?! Why?"
I don't see anything wrong in measuring gallons per mile and measuring in yards and other non-metric systems when it's something local. Maybe it's convinient if you live somewhere where everybody accustomed to that.
It's when I see articles about space exploration with miles and pounds - it feels wrong.
In Soviet Union considerable part was in cooperation. And more in Stalin era then later.
Citing Russian wikipedia:
> By the end of the 1950s, there were more than 114 thousand workshops and other industrial enterprises in its system, where 1.8 million people worked. They produced 5.9 % of the gross industrial output, for example, up to 40 % of all furniture, up to 70 % of all metal utensils, more than a third of upper knitwear, almost all children's toys. The system of commercial cooperation included 100 design bureaus, 22 experimental laboratories and two research institutes.
China is capitalism all the way now.
IDK about North Korea but they don't seems like a "communist country" for me.
It was absolutely the same in Soviet Union.
I still remember formula from my childhood: 3 empty bottles (10 kopeks each) + 3 kopeks = 1 full bottle of lemonade (33 kopeks).
I think it was a good thing, less glass garbage at least.
> You usually return them at shops that sell them, even if you haven't bought them at this exact shop.
It seems that such things needs some central regulation, they did not survive in pure capitalism