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Fri, 12 Jan 2007

Winter in Russia.


One year ago temperature in Moscow was 2 degrees higher than in Antarctica, it was the coldest winter in the history (with instrumental measurements). Now we have about +/-1 degrees Centigrade - the hottest winter in the history.

Winter is a time of planned Matrix update. To get calculation resources for garbage collection, Matrix shortens light day, removes leafs from trees, and paints sky into uniform gray colour. This reduces picture calculation. Previously Matrix covered the whole surface with uniform white snow, but with new powerfull servers it is not needed anymore. One says, that after next upgrade there will not be any need for dedicated winter at all.

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