[dba-Tech] "Take a sad song and make it better..." - Web browsers' testing automation with Selenium WebDrivers from LucidChart.com :)

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Shamil:

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From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 8:26:20 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] "Take a sad song and make it better..." - Web browsers' testing automation with Selenium WebDrivers from LucidChart.com :)

 Hi Jim --

...they did a very good job. (It seems that the site is a little resource hungry but that should be expected with that panel of data that is continually being updated in real-time.

This site is done by #1 Russian design studio -   http://tinyurl.com/kxtxv   - .

...love the work...especially the helicopter. My youngest daughter worked at a graphic company, for a contract doing similar renderings and "blow apart designs". 

I don't have stats how many software is pirated here currently, I doubt that it as large as 70% - all/most of the computers (desktop, laptop,...) one can buy here in the computer shops have preinstalled OEM OSes AFAIK.

...It is as I suspected but I had to ask as your informed opinion clarifies certain misconception that others may hold. The comments that are being presented on many western main-stream media are suspect, to say the least. (I could say a lot more but DBA-tech is not the appropriate venue.)

>>> In Russia, when you buy a new computer, does it not come preloaded with Windows?
Jim, it's funny, look:

-  http://tinyurl.com/877jjsu  - this local company has 15 000 000 buying customers every year - do you think they use/setup pirated software/OSes on the computers they sell?

...Aside: Some of those price, after being converted look very well priced...I wonder if they deliver abroad? ;-) Example: In Russia Windows 10 professional costs $200CAN but here, in Canada it costs $250CAN...and it appears that everything else is a good 25+ percent cheaper as well. (If it is any consolation, it appears the US/Saudi oil sanctions have hurt us worse than in Russia.)

There are a few more like that, which I suppose supply 90+% percent of computers to the local Russian market.

NB/FYI: Shopping infrastructure for consumers goods is similar here to what you have there. All the same main brands. The shopping (mega-)malls, supermarkets, boutiques etc. are looking very similar. All the same new models coming the same time you're getting them there... it's a small World :) (I mean the main brands - of course you still have a lot larger nomenclature of consumer goods but it all/most of it is available here via Internet shopping if needed. Delivery would be costly, for sure, but it's usually affordable.)

...Thank you for the clarification as it does put things into real perspective.
 
Thank you.

-- Shamil

>Tuesday, October 27, 2015 9:43 AM -06:00 from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
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>Hi Shamil:
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>I have looked at the site and to say the least it is very well written. The graphics are great...less boxy than is the standard today. I can see the code tracks my computer, OS, browser, my language as British. It uses maps graphics very well. There is a lot of features in the site that I will explore. :-)
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>All my major sites were internal ones so sophisticated security was not an issue...and graphics were little more than icons, button and standard government/company images. I can understand why your site is not one that should be exposed, to the general public, on the web...too much confidential personal information. 
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>I do not mean that you should go and work for the government, not as an employee (I would not wish that on anyone). It is that I have found, governments and larger companies will pay a lot more to an external contractor than to any employee. :-)
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>That is too bad but moving to Linux is not a operation to be taken lightly. I have been lead to believe that 70 percent of all software that runs in Russia has been pirated...is this true??  I do not necessarily believe the comments from Microsoft as to that percentage but doesn't the new Windows10 eliminate the possibility of pirated software, at least their latest OS?  In Russia, when you buy a new computer, does it not come preloaded with Windows?
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>Jim

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