What should we build a factory?

construct a plant for the production of solar cells, which said Viktor Yanukovych. ? . There are other options?.

No one knows for how much power it is targeted, and what technology will be manufactured solar panels?.

Father and child

Passage: SMS in the inbox, a script to download videos, links, and intellectual garbage killer technical forums

SMS Backup. for android sms'ok creates a backup, the name speaks for itself. The most interesting thing - the ability to synchronize messages with GMail. You will have the label ... It is convenient to search and storage, especially if you frequently change the firmware on your device. By the way, the application, other advantages open ( code is available. on github'e. ), So that worry about the private data should not be.

The next member of the competitive program - a script on Perl. get-flash-videos. He wrote about it in Google, blog readers, I think, too, are interested in.
Clips longer than fifteen minutes, I prefer to watch on your TV. Channel for online broadcasting a wide enough. Unfortunately, the popular video - hosting browser-based representation of cultivated. On vimeo of the content is available for download, but it is more the exception than the rule. What impresses is this script? . Second, unlike other scripts, working time,. get_flash_videos. adapt to changes and continuously updated. Therefore, I advise to use the latest version of the. repository. on github'e.

Dmitry Konischev. in the shared GReader'e. Article. of layfhakera of Service. Summify. The developers talk about smart aggregator of news from twitter, facebook, and Google Reader. With the adjustable frequency you will receive e-mail digest of the hottest news. Frankly, the miracle did not happen. No supernormal news service for the compilation does not shine. Basically it checks all links on the amount of rassharivaniya in facebook and twitter mentions in. In the end, only to leave connected twitter. Now every day I got a letter with the most popular articles, flashing by in the film. A chance to miss anything from the category of investigative intrigue and sharply reduced.

Agitating Canonical Ubuntu users search for answers to troubling questions on the site. askubuntu. com. The resource is made by analogy with. Stack Overflow. : There is karma, the ratings of answers, etc.. In my opinion, these sites are subject to gradually displace the usual forums. Forums are good for discussion and communication. If a person came with a technical matter, received a comprehensive answer, but he will feel the benefit. Came from a search engine for information stumble on a pile of messages. The solution is drowning in a dozen or specifying abstract cues. In. Stack Overflow. and those with him the answers are filtered participants. The most common solution to get the highest rating, it is exempt from the additional expenditure of time.
I also liked the use of ... The most delicious and juicy products get to the top of the list. It is convenient to find quality programs in a particular category. Look. popular Topics. Many noteworthy. For example:.

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  Launcher'y for Unity.
  


• 
  Comparison of programs for backing up.
  


• 
  Popular native games for Ubuntu.
  

Translated Search

As you probably know, we strive to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. However, come to us for information users from around the globe, and the information they are looking for, unfortunately, not always available in their native language. Therefore, some time ago, our developers have decided to combine. Google Translator. with the search, resulting in birth function '. Translated Search. '(Cross Language Information Retrieval, or CLIR).

How it works: we take your request and translate it into another language, you can choose, and then produce the translated search query, and then show you the results in two languages ​​- in fact, to which the request was transferred, and automatically . That is, if you wanted to know about. wineries in Bordeaux. You can search by moving a request to the French, and the results are read in Russian.

More clearly, it looks like this:.

This function is used in the Google- search. When our system finds that the translated search results for your search may be a good addition to the grant received, we will show a link to them at the end of the page with the results. typing a query. [ lens for camcorder sony]. You can use this link here:.







More recently we have started a change that for some queries will not only display a link to the results of perevedonnomu request, but also show some results of translated titles right here:.







While machine translation is not perfect, in most cases you will be able to understand the basic idea of ​​the pages, without the aid of an interpreter who could not read.

A little bit about the contest

www. spomoni. com. on the right. Hooray! .

My contest. for dinner, too, has caused great interest. ).

Competition Maula glanders and just tore to pieces ksapu on purchasing options. The most interesting - not even interested in who wins, I wonder how many will get Maul bekov. And how many of these remain bekov.

While kicking the smoking room at the Council of Europe, found the competition for the best slogan.

And the people - a venturesome by nature. ).

Yesterday, a fan won 318 thousand. Euro put to the account of the match Russia -Sweden.

If you look at the vote on the right, who believed that Russia will win in this match was more than disbelieving. But here's what it will be more - a little faith. Wait and see. But I mentally put a candle for our team. Guys just have to believe in themselves. And we in them. And then everything will. While rushing, we must take all of this life. And Russia has now sporting a pret. Support!.

The unusual advertising campaign in Murmansk - ' Behind the Glass '

During this period, ' the glass ', or rather the ' outside ' will live Murmansk DJ, who will communicate with the outside world using markers and special plate.
Komsomolskaya Pravda writes. :.

To join the project, many commercial organizations that will provide youth the Internet and other communication. Therefore, it will be blogging and go live in one of the Murmansk radio as a DJ Lenin. In addition, young people will not only eat and sleep, but also to compose music. Even the plan to release a mix of what he do during that time.
We feed him four times a day. Murmansk is one restaurant has agreed to help in this.

And all this action organized by ...

Terms of reference for the designer...

Did not fail the working table. It must always remain pristine as a mountain peak. It helps to feel above the routine of working and to keep a clear mind and good spirits.

Karim Rashid, 50 Commandments.

introduction.

Designer creative profession, and, like any creative person, the designer would not like any bureaucracy. And yet, the designer is not free an artist and he has to somehow organize its production process. This ordering helps him master and fortunately the only document with which the designer faces in the process of ordering - Terms of Reference ( TOR in the future ).

Probably for any solid design studio (Design department, the advertising agency ), which formed a harmonious relationship ... But here personally from my own experience I can say that none of the four firms completely different profile, in which I worked ( RA outdoor advertising, offset printing, Full-service design studio), there was no interaction between the competent manager and designer . The two offices of the documentation on the project as such was absent in the other two forms of TK was in its infancy, and the number of managers are able to make out even a primitive TK tends to zero....

Thus, I am infinitely happy for those designers who do not have this problem and I do not recommend them to spend time reading. Those, who like me, they say, ...

What is TK.

In our case, TK - a document intended for the designer, which describes the requirements applicable to the project, as well as information relating to the activities of the customer or the properties of the product, which is the focal point of the project.

TK has four main functions:.

1. 
   Organizational.
   


2. 
   Information.
   


3. 
   Communication.
   


4. 
   Legal.
   

The organizational function of TK.

Work will only be effective when in the space surrounding this work is the order of. The procedure is the pivot on which are strung the entire process. In only one rod designer - TK. With it you can organize all the work and turn it from a creative chaos in the creation of a consistent.

Why keep all the information in your head, where it can easily be lost when you can put it side by side on a table in a neat pile and pull out small portions? . The work turned into a simple queue. With this scheme of work, you no longer need to spend effort on the secondary for the designer stuff, and all the time you can devote that does not require ordering - creativity.

The information function of TK.

Based advantage over other forms of TK to provide information on the project - its structuring. You know exactly what you will gather from the TK is the information that you as a designer is interested, it is in the form in which it will be easier for you to just accept and it is in the quantities in which it will be necessary to fulfill the order.

Another plus - intelligently composed of TK may be the only source of information necessary to complete the project. These are small orders, for which verbal contact a client and designer are not required. Designer to fend for themselves exhausting communion with trifles, will release a significant amount of time, which is useful for more important things.

TK in order to fully meet its information mission, it must be focused on a specific task. Fortunately or unfortunately, but the work of the designer is not as versatile as it seems at first glance ( remember how many stitches in your price list? ) And is divided into several types of sequences of actions that require a standard input. Steps for development, for example, the logo and in Russia and in Africa the same. Information required for its development is also required is always one and the same. And if the input data sample, so they can provide the designer in the model as. So, instead of one form of TK can be done several - one for each type of design work that will ensure the relevance of information.

Communication function TK.

article. ... describes in detail the process of project approval by the customer. It also mentioned the role of TK in the process. Indeed, TK can be set in the right direction in the work of a designer and as a consequence contribute to the early adoption of the layout. Any design problem can be solved in different ways, and the less information in the hands of the designer, the more he is free to choose the solution, the more chances to do what the client did not accept. More composed TK helps the designer to ...

Legal function of TK.

Customers have a bad property - to suffer short-term memory loss. Sometimes they just forget about their initial demands to the model, and in the process of work or, worse, expose new approval requirements. ... Dr.. ) Leaves you with an opportunity to shift the cost of reworking the layout to the client's wallet. Since costs are often quite significant, the very existence of TK will make your dream a lot stronger, and the availability of customer's signature on that TK will save you from loss of nerve cells, which are known to be recovering, but slowly.

Next time - all sorts of errors at the stage of ordering. Errors are different, but the cause is usually one - sloppy ordering. The absence of TK is often a reason to dump the blame on the designer.

Who's to blame?.

After all is said, I think few people doubt that TK ... But the situation is something of this not getting any better. In order to TK included (in full form!) In the production process for each designer, it is necessary, as is done for centuries here in Russia, to identify the guilty and to begin to deal with them. Guilty, we have two - it is ( surprise! ), designers and managers. Or rather the lack of initiative in the first and second innate laziness.

Managers can understand. It is easier to go to the designer when you ( the manager ), it is convenient to tear it ( the designer ) to work on fast ... It is very easy in the absence of documentation in the event of any emergency, say, ...

Have fun again: sit -eighth cup of tea in a pouring, waiting, when the working day is over, and now uses a designer and started to ask you about something, and immediately becomes so warm at heart, and once you understand how you want people to. No, I certainly can understand managers, designers, there is forgiveness.

What should I do?.

As Gandhi was fond of saying, ... Take the initiative - make a form of TK for the basic services provided by your office and give their managers. Once the new forms of TK will join in the production process (and it will take some time):.

1. 
   Refuse to accept orders without TK.
   


2. 
   Refuse to accept orders without a carefully drawn up TK.
   

A good remedy for laziness - pasted the command piston. Therefore, in the event of conflict on this basis (and they are inevitable ), do not be afraid to blow them up to ... In most cases, the authorities will be on your side, for the illiterate ordering is the failure of the job descriptions of managers, office, threatening loss.

In the case where such a document as TK in the office, in principle, there is no need to first of all raise the issue at the planning meeting on its introduction. Honestly, can not imagine a situation where the bosses can say anything against innovation, with so many obvious advantages.

Who needs to register TK?.

It all depends on the type of the firm, which determines the flow of orders and their size. If order flow is large and small orders themselves ( offset printing, printing, etc. Dr.. ), The ordering manager must deal with. If you are working on vip- client, a small stream, and solid projects (large design studios, branding agency), then clearly communicate with clients and thus fill the TOR should be a designer or art director. This extreme cases, but in life there are plenty of intermediate situations, so the job descriptions of managers and designers should be formed depending on the level of services provided by the company at this stage of its development. Can a hybrid situation where the design of TK can do as designers and managers.

electronic TK.

Everything described above - is the ideal situation, when communicating with the customer, so to speak, face to face. However, there are still ways of obtaining such orders as e-mail and ICQ.

Ordering via ICQ should be avoided. ICQ client relaxes and the flow of information from it is free, uncontrolled and timeless. If communication with the customer is in electronic form, try to move it to the plane -mail. The letter - it's almost the document and the appropriate attitude.

In an email, in turn, has its own quirks: to set the client did not receive in the form of a letter ... This form, first of all, to the client save time, t. to. it will not have to worry about the content and scope of information it must provide. The customer simply fills a certain form and sends it back. Before the designer of the same task is to make the form so that the person on the other end there were no difficulties in filling.

The duties of a person responsible for accepting orders must include check received from customer forms. If TK is no question, it is printed (!), Signed and transmitted to the designer.

It should be remembered that even at run- scheme of the electronic TK, they have one weak spot - they have not been signed by the client, and therefore do not perform their legal functions, as mentioned above.

Applications and additional materials on the project.

The form of TK should be only a paper. In addition to the notorious legal aspects, it's just easier. Anyway, many projects can not do without the additional paper-based materials, which must somehow be systematized. In this case TK is a cap for such materials, protecting them from loss or mixing with materials from other projects.

Applications should be teasing to TK, and their presence is mentioned in the relevant section. Location of electronic materials necessary for the project also must be described in the relevant section of TK.

Example Terms of Reference.

Below is an example of the form of TK to develop a logo, which I use. This form is my design, so you can use it, not wanting to disturb anyone's copyright: refine, edit and create on its basis forms for other services.

The form ( like the entire article) does not purport to, and is only a model, whose purpose - to show the main sections of TK needed to obtain complete information on the project.

Technical specifications for logo design.

Service information.

• 
  Date of placing the order.
  


• 
  Name of place an order.
  


• 
  signature.
  


• 
  Name of Company Representative.
  


• 
  Position of the Company.
  


• 
  The coordinates of the representative of the Company.
  


• 
  signature.
  


• 
  Deadline.
  

applications.

• 
  Address of the Company's Internet site.
  - Other links.
  


• 
  Brendbuk or corporate identity elements used in the present.
  - The names of attached files.
  


• 
  Annexes to the TK.
  - Mark on the paper-based applications.
  - File names of electronic applications.
  

These two sections are common to any type of service and are present in each TK. All points of the first section are required.

Company Information.

• 
  name.
  


• 
  career.
  


• 
  competitive advantage.
  


• 
  consumers.
  


• 
  Partners, suppliers.
  


• 
  competitors.
  


• 
  Goals and objectives ( development prospects of the Company for the foreseeable future).
  


• 
  Additional information about the Company ( not included, for some reason in the previous paragraphs).
  

Information about product ( service ).

• 
  name.
  


• 
  description.
  


• 
  competitive advantage.
  - Unique Selling Proposition.
  


• 
  Price segment of the market.
  


• 
  Target Audience.
  


• 
  competitors.
  


• 
  additional information.
  

Sections of the need for an overall picture of the client. They must be present if you are drawn to a new customer or old customer with a new product.

Information on existing corporate style.

• 
  logo.
  - Mark the attached file.
  


• 
  Corporate colors.
  - In the Pantone or CMYK.
  


• 
  proprietary fonts.
  - Mark the fonts supplied.
  


• 
  Graphic elements, images, characters.
  - Mark the attached files.
  


• 
  The modular grid.
  - Mark the attached files.
  


• 
  Other elements of corporate identity.
  - Mark the attached files.
  

As in the previous section, it must be present if you are drawn to a new customer or you have not worked for a long time with the old. But in this type of work it is also necessary if the logo is not developed from scratch in the case of redesign or adjustment of corporate identity.

Information on the design logo.

• 
  name.
  


• 
  The status bar in the logo.
  


• 
  Suggestions for color scheme.
  


• 
  Suggestions for the design style (classical, contemporary, grunge, humorous, and m. Dr.. ).
  


• 
  Examples of successful logos (according to the client).
  


• 
  Use of the logo ( note the use of the most frequent ).
  - Business Documentation.
  - Printing.
  - Internet.
  - Outdoor Advertising.
  - Transport.
  - TV.
  - Packaging.
  - Drugoe__________.
  


• 
  Additional information useful for designing a logo.
  

The core of TK. All items are highly desirable to fill. Really only need one - the name of.

conclusion.

Design - this is the order. The designer will only be the bearer of this order when the order will be in his head. If the head designer of the chaos and mess caused by the illiterate organization of the production process, is largely a result of the impact on. So before you take on the global improvement of the surrounding space - start with your desktop.

SOURCE: http://www. eldesign. ru/write/designer/article02 /.