Itelmen appeared on the territory of Kamchatka more than 15 thousand years ago. In translation, “Itelmen” means “living here.” It is a small number of people, who numbered only 17 thousand people in the XVII century. Itelmens have long been considered the best anglers and hunters. Over time, the area became populated by other peoples, and a mixture of cultures started. And at the end of the 18th century, the Itelmens practically ceased to exist as a separate people, mixing with the Russians. Today, only about 2.5 thousand Itelmens live in the Kamchatka Territory. There are several reasons for the…
Author: Daniel
Mobile applications that do not need to store at least some amount of persistent data are few and far between. The use of databases is an essential aspect of most applications, ranging from applications that are almost entirely data driven, to those that simply need to store small amounts of data such as the prevailing score of a game. The importance of persistent data storage becomes even more evident when taking into consideration the somewhat transient lifecycle of the typical Android application. With the ever-present risk that the Android runtime system will terminate an application component to free up resources,…