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  1. Re:Radeon outlasts ATI on It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand · · Score: 1

    I don't have a good feeling about playing with brands.

    The most painful one for me was the "Borland -> Inprise -> Borland" thing which ruined my beloved Delphi and other programming environments.

    I used Turbo C, Turbo Pascal and Delphi from their V1.0 and watching them being ruined by the ugly "Inprise" name was painful. Before you say I know it was more than that but anyway that brand changes were among the big management mistakes.

  2. Re:Left out the best part on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    How much do you know about Iran?

    I have researched Iranian military for more than a thousand hours. I am aware that their claims are sometimes bloated, but when you see Cowsar anti-ship cruise on its wings with your eyes, it is time to suspect there is something.

    I guess I am in the wrong place for such a discussion.

  3. Re:Left out the best part on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    How are you so sure? They mentioned it has optical and inertial navigation along with radio control.

    Your standard is calling cruise like missiles a V1. Have you heard of AGM-86? It is also a V1? Tupolev 141/143 were V1s?

    A "bomb dropper!!!!!" can use anti-ship (like those two Cowsar cruise missiles shown in the videos) and anti-air missiles? Ships and planes move and a GPS navigation system cannot target an object which does not have a fixed location.

    What is a "Bomb dropper!!!" anyway? A bomber airplane is also a bomb dropper. So what?

    You make stupid statements and then you want to support it with your zero information. You do not even bother yourself to research the available information.

  4. Re:First Strike or Deadman Switch? on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    It is recoverable and the section at the top contains a Parachute, that's why it is being called a UAV.

    It can carry at least 2 anti-ship Cowsar cruise missiles, Anti Air missiles or smart bombs. It also includes optical and inertial navigation.

    Go back to your starcraft and do not worry about real things.

  5. Re:Oh, the timing of this on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    Like they did in Lebanon? They could not win a paramilitary force and small force called Hizballah! let alone a million size force with 10 years long of war experience.

  6. Re:V-1 with turbojet on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    All the US and Russian cruise missiles look like V1.

    V1 did not carry Anti-Ship cruise missiles (this one has been shown carrying 2 Cowsar missiles), it could not do Anti Air missions using AA missiles and it could not drop smart bombs.

    More important it could not return to base and land using Parachute.

    You can like their progress to stone age but it does not change the fact.

  7. Re:Standing and fighting is for glass makers on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    Cruise missiles do not return to base (and land with parachute). They do not carry anti-ship cruise missiles, AA missiles and smart bombs.

  8. Re:Left out the best part on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 1

    All the cruise missiles are inherited from V1. By your standards, even US and Russian cruise missiles are like V1.

    Besides, could V1 return to the base? Could it carry anti-ship cruise missiles, AA missiles and smart bombs?

  9. Re:Where's The Graph ... on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    Just 1 person I know is running a Linux (fedora) on his main PC/Laptop.

    And he is a dick head which never had a girl friend until he became 31. Yes, 31 years old.

    BTW I started using Linux (on servers mostly) around 15 years ago and I am a researcher in a CS department of a major university. I have also been a *nix developer for a few years. We use Linux/Solaris/Unix distros on servers but I personally gave up on using Linux for my main PC a 2 years ago.

  10. Re:Eh... on Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones · · Score: 1

    Apple did not have multitasking a few months ago and it did not prevent it from becoming a success. WP7 has multitasking but it is not available for 3rd party apps. It still can run music in the background while browsing the internet.

  11. Re:Exactly on Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones · · Score: 1

    I want it. Microsoft is one of the most successful companies in US history. I am not an American but I think every American can be proud of that.

  12. Re:Ehr, no. on Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones · · Score: 1

    Then who has the talent? :D

    Hallo, they own 80% of the PC software market.

  13. Re:Great... on Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones · · Score: 1

    Because "windows 7" is a totally different thing. Now if you call it Windows7 phone, one might think it is the same Windows7 small sized for phone.

  14. Re:That could work like the xbox on Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones · · Score: 1

    Kindle itself does not produce profit for Amazon. It is also subsidized.

  15. Re:See who's publishing in your areas of interest on Finding a Research Mentor? · · Score: 2, Informative

    In ISI web of knowledge it is possible to categorize papers by publishing year. You can then select the last 4-5 years and then download a list of all those papers (if you have endnote or endnote web you can even download most of the papers).

    You can for example search on specific terms, and then limit to a time period, number of citations and other criteria and hopefully get a very good starting point for reading and literature review.

  16. Re:See who's publishing in your areas of interest on Finding a Research Mentor? · · Score: 1

    And then you mostly get a lot of junk papers along with the others. Later if someone looks into your reference list he will either cry or laugh!

    ISI paper is not good because of that beautiful label. It is because it helps you identify good research papers and journals.

    I would not however ignore conferences specially the good ones. It will help a researcher to find new ideas being worked on. I just say starting a research from mostly junk, unfinished and not very well evaluated works might not be as useful.

  17. Re:See who's publishing in your areas of interest on Finding a Research Mentor? · · Score: 1

    I second that. It is a great tool.

    If you know how to use it, It can prepare you a list of the most useful papers for a litrature review too.

  18. Re:Publish it on Piratebay instead on ATM Vendors Threaten, Stop Research Presentation · · Score: 1

    If you want to hurt people and jeopardize their life (economic or whatever) by being selfish, every government has the right to avoid that.

  19. Re:Ooh, ooh! on Wikipedia Offers a Book Creator · · Score: 1

    yes, you could. If you like.

    But i suggest you to visit a porn website instead. It is as easy as visiting wikipedia. BTW you need to install a PDF creator extension on your PC which is as smallas 2Mb.

  20. Re:Will it become real?? on Microsoft Shows Off Future Product Tech · · Score: 1

    We are clone of a monkey!

  21. Re:To serve what on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am more than fine with that. But the question that what it is going to serve remains there.

    We need to see what applications can be run on such a server? By focusing on idle power we are talking about an application server which is being used a limited period of the day? Or a server which is rarely used?

    Otherwise, even a mobile phone can be used as a server. In fact we used mobile phones as grid computing nodes in our lab (which serve computing power to the grid). But it was just something to prove such a crazy idea is possible but not practical necessarily)

  22. To serve what on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ARM based servers are coming to serve what?

    ARM is not even that suitable for a PC. On a server you need multiple fast cores and good I/O. Which of these are provided by an existing ARM CPU?

    In my opinion if there are 10 fields that ARM can be used , this one is the worse.

  23. Re:What, why? on Israel Repeals iPad Ban · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And are we going to discuss this matter for each of the 188 countries or at least 50 of them?

    How important is the small market there that this is being discussed all over the internet?

  24. Re:Abstract says it all on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone has added an x-rated photo titled "Example of pushing limits". Did you added it to the Auzi monstrous! wiki?

    I managed to take a snapshot of your crime :) http://i43.tinypic.com/11mgtvr.jpg

    (See the history if you cannot see it)

  25. Re:Oracle might have already lost on Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You proved my point being a rude and impolite person. The words you refer to me are MOST LIKELY describe yourself better than me.

    Besides, you have eye sight problem. Otherwise the word "likely" means the same as those words you mentioned.