And what happens to the contributions of people from those "so called enemy countries"?!!
And who is allowed (ethically) to tag people of different countries as Enemy etc. as a whole?
US does things that Angola (just an example) does and for sure Angola does things that US does not!
OpenGL does not do everything Direct3D does, unless you mean drawing graphics. Author does not lie but covers up weaknesses of OpenGL and mislead. besides who says TFA or any other group/company cannot lie.
BTW I only use OpenGL (and that's because I develop for scientific purpose and some people in my field prefer *nix).
If there is one thing MS is not good at, it is marketing. besides whole governments, universities and organizations have been marketing Linux and other open source OS. Why it has not worked?
Obviously because normal people are not comfortable with Linux and other *nix OS. I personally have started using Linux (as a network admin) 13 years ago. But I was never comfortable using it for my everyday work (i.e. my personal computer).
Every time I tried to use it for everyday work, I came to a hardware I owned which was not supported under Linux, weak GUI interface, lack of required software and many more.
Iranians are a nation and they are not terrorists because another nation(s) claim so.
If by terrorist you mean people (countries) which kill other people (from their own or other countries) for unjust reasons, then you can list more eligible countries.
Iran has never started a war in last 150 years.
Another country has started/participated in more than 50 wars and has killed millions (including those killed by atomic bombs!).
What is a "rogue state" and what is its difference with US?
I guess a rouge state is a country which has not started/participated in about 50 wars in recent history and has not been able to kill millions of people. And for sure they have not used atomic bombs on people (because only a non-rouge!! state has done it).
Correct.
A few years ago everyone was saying N.Korea is ahead of Iran in missile technology. 8 months ago Iran put their first locally built small satellite into orbit with their locally developed 2 stage rocket (9th or 10th country to do so, and the fact that it is 2 stage means it is considerably powerful and they can still enhance it by adding a 3rd stage). 2 months after that N.Korea tried to do the same with their 3 stage rocket but failed.
Now can you tell which country is helping the other?
Iran has designed 2 reactors and owns almost full fuel cycle. The first locally designed (of course by benefiting from other designs) is a 50MW heavy water reactor and the other is a 250MW power generating reactor.
You know everyone would say Iran is not able to put a satellite into orbit and they did it 8 months ago. Before that everyone would say N.Korea provides the technology to Iran. N.Korea tried to put its satellite into orbit 3 months after Iran and they failed.
They have already designed two reactors and one of them is being completed (50MW) in 2 years. The other 250MW reactor's design has been completed and designs are approved by a company in Switzerland.
Iran currently has 3 million university students (you may be able to calculate how many graduates are already out) of which 60% are women. In some countries in middle east women do not even go to university. You can easily observe the difference in the case of Iran.
Besides you lack to mention India and N.Korea have already built and tested their nuclear bombs. India has done it decades ago and they even have very small battle field nukes.
OMG! Laptop of a U.S citizens was hit!
ah, someone talked about Palestinians being hit by bombs and bullets. Forget it!
Did the US owner of the Laptop became unhappy?!
Wrong. There were maybe a handful of Americans within Iran during the revolution. The Iranians did all that to each other.
Did what to each other during the revolution?
Khomeini was not known by 95% of the people in Iran 2 years before revolution until he went to France and western media started to cover him and bring his voice to Iranian. When the airports during the revolution were closed it was France government which allowed Khomeini to embark the airplane and forced Shah's regime to allow it to land in Tehran airport.
In my opinion, shah was replaced by Khomeini because it was believed islam can counter communism better than Shah. The same strategy was used in Afghanistan. Taliban was trained by the US to counter communists in Afghanistan.
Did you opposed the overthrow of Saddam? Which presidents did all this? Did you know that the US changes presidents from time to time?
No I didn't. I know the president changes but I also know it does not remove the wrong doings of previous presidents.
Wrong. The US hasn't started ANY wars in living memory. Not one. We've joined two after being attacked. But we didn't start either of those and we tried to stay out of them. Since then we learned that isolationism and cruel indifference don't work.
World believes you!
Don't worry, i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how multiculti you are. She'll be impressed.
Girls in the Campus already know. Both those in my lectures and outside. You do not need to bother yourself. And you are not as funny as you think.
The national democratic government of Mosadiq was brought down by US using a Coup and Shah was returned to the country and then to power. You need to know history before you start to troll.
I have seen at least 30-40 polls with more than 10,000 answers. Besides last time people voted and votes were counted correctly almost 85% voted to Khatami.
What does the education level have to do with the opposition to the government? I have seen people who never completed primary school oppose the government as vehemently as anarchists with doctorates and people who have never completed primary school wave a flag just as well as doctoral grads working for the establishment.
I was answering to the person who said Iranian people will kill each other to support or fight the government. I was saying they are not the typical lower educated barbarian who kill each other for nothing.
You need to differentiate militia and government related (i.e. IRGC) from people. They know if the regime changes they will be prosecuted and punished. They might do anything to protect the regime.
Then who shot Neda Soltan? The problem with illegal guns is that only honest people obey the law.
By Basij militia which is in fact a government organization. So the gun belongs to government.
It's time for Iranians to stand up and accept the responsibility for their own acts.
They did in the previous revolution. That's just the clerics hijacked it.
Europeans and US gave them weapons etc (including chemicals for illegal chemical warfare)
Not true, at the time of the Iran-Iraq war, Iran had American weapons, Iraq had Soviet weapons.
Mirage F1 and 2000s and other weapons, Bombs and Chemicals, Satellite intelligence of Iranian movements, political support, embargo on Iran and finally direct involvement of US army in the support of Iraqi army at the end of Iran Iraq war (in Umul-qasr and the other Isalnd) were examples of direct support of US and west.
The Iranians are responsible for their current regime, trying to blame that on the U.S. is great rhetoric but wrong. Islam has always groped for power.
Trying to blame a whole religion is rhetoric. If you want to use this wrong method you should also remember that believers to Christianism have killed more than believers to any other religion. Do you remember world war I&II and Vietnam's wars and many others? However this type of reasoning is totally flawed.
The tyrants who now run Iran have finally gotten their chance to show Islam's true colors. Read about what they did to the Ba'Hai after the revolution.
1- Ba'Hais in Iran are less than a few thousand. 2- More believers of Islam (several hundreds times) have been hurt by Iranian regime than Ba'hais. How this discussion relates to Iranian people?
Current Iran does start wars, the last Israeli-Lebanon war started because their dogs in Lebanon decided to listen to their Iranian masters.
This is another subject. But I guess last war in Lebanon was between Israel and a big group of Lebanese people who defend their country against Israel (which you call dogs). Their country was bombed heavily and the whole infrastructure was harmed. How it makes them Iran's dogs? if you reason this way then you are going to make 80% of the world , dogs of the others. Nations don't fight for other nations. They fight for themselves.
Again this has nothing to do with Iranian people.
Bringing up the the fact the U.S. used nukes is entirely out of context. The result of not using them would have been many more thousands of American and Japanese deaths....
On the other hand, the current Iranian regime has threatened that if they get them, they will nuke Israel.
This does not change the fact that no one other than US has used nukes.
Show me where and who (in Iran) has threatened to use Nukes on Israel. You build facts?
Whitewashing the Iranian regime is nice academic play, but that is all it is.
No one does. I don't. I differentiate between Iranian regime and Iranian people. As I do between US (Bush government for example) and its people.
Comment: A large percentage of the people support the government
Answer: Yes, 15%-18%. In every single poll on the internet I have seen almost the same number. And no, they (people) won't kill each other for it. People in Iran do not have gun and it is illegal to have it. Besides Iranian society is considered an educated community (3.5 million are in universities from which 60% are women).
Comment: The Iranians created this horrible society. It is none of our business unless they attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
Answer: No they didn't. US did a coup in Iran 40-50 years ago and overthrow their national democratic government and returned the dictator "Shah" to power. people were forced to act more aggressive to put the Shah away. An aggressive act of revolution caused more aggressive opinions.
Then a war was exposed to Iran by Iraq (Sadam) which killed almost 1million Iranians. The war was supported by most Arab countries + Europeans + USA. Arabs paid Iraq by oil and cash (around 200 billion) and Europeans and US gave them weapons etc (including chemicals for illegal chemical warfare). 50,000 Iranians are effected by chemicals provided by Europeans to Sadam.
The same Sadam used those weapons against same Arab countries a few years later.
About your comment on Nukes I should say, USA is the only country which has both built and used nukes. US has started around 50 wars in recent history. Iran has never started any war in last150 years or more.
You want to condemn the 7000 years old culture of Iran which has the oldest history of Human rights and has been one of the cultural roots of the human being and then support your own culture and people which have started almost 50 wars (in which more than 10 million are killed) ??? have you looked at the mirror recently???
For your information my social network website (with 1 million members, sometimes 7000 concurrent users and 150 million page views per month) runs on 2 servers (dual quad). One is Apache, the other is MySQL. The whole website uses pure PHP (with zend framework) + MySQL and some Javascript (ajax).
I consider it a serious job by the way, and I'll never switch to Postgres (last time we tested we would need at least 3 DB servers instead of our current 1 server to handle the same load).
And ubuntu 9.1 is service pack for 9.0 and 9.0 is for 8 and so on...
Mac 10 is service pack for 9 , 9 for 8....
What's your point? You expected MS to rewrite the whole OS every time?
3.5 branch has been terrible for me on Windows 7. 30-40% of the time, when I try to open right button menu, only an empty menu appears!! If I can guess the location of the menu choice I need, and then click there I am in luck!! What a crap!
In addition the address bar search is quite slow and sometimes I wish it was not there!
And more importantly, every single plugin is able to crash the whole browser! (including adobe flash, adobe acrobat, adobe whatever!!!)
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And what happens to the contributions of people from those "so called enemy countries"?!!
And who is allowed (ethically) to tag people of different countries as Enemy etc. as a whole?
US does things that Angola (just an example) does and for sure Angola does things that US does not!
OpenGL does not do everything Direct3D does, unless you mean drawing graphics. Author does not lie but covers up weaknesses of OpenGL and mislead. besides who says TFA or any other group/company cannot lie.
BTW I only use OpenGL (and that's because I develop for scientific purpose and some people in my field prefer *nix).
I have a question!
Do you know what happens if a single missile comes does on Dubai City? I mean just one.
If you don't know let me tell you. It becomes a city of spirits and buildings. That easy. No one ever again will bring his money to that city.
BTW I have been in there and I know very much about UAE, its economy, government and everything else.
Windows is garbage... and 90% of the people are stupid to pay and use garbage...
Who's speaking?
Why is that they don't come with ubuntu? (they came for a while on Dell for example)
Perhaps because people don't want them. Very simple market rule. Demand!
If there is one thing MS is not good at, it is marketing. besides whole governments, universities and organizations have been marketing Linux and other open source OS. Why it has not worked?
Obviously because normal people are not comfortable with Linux and other *nix OS. I personally have started using Linux (as a network admin) 13 years ago. But I was never comfortable using it for my everyday work (i.e. my personal computer).
Every time I tried to use it for everyday work, I came to a hardware I owned which was not supported under Linux, weak GUI interface, lack of required software and many more.
Can you tell me why people pay $$$ to buy windows? Are they crazy?
Obviously it is better in a considerable amount of things. Otherwise no one would pay for it.
And you need to know 90% of the people (or more) do not think the way you do.
Terrorists don't build reactors!
Iranians are a nation and they are not terrorists because another nation(s) claim so.
If by terrorist you mean people (countries) which kill other people (from their own or other countries) for unjust reasons, then you can list more eligible countries.
Iran has never started a war in last 150 years.
Another country has started/participated in more than 50 wars and has killed millions (including those killed by atomic bombs!).
What is a "rogue state" and what is its difference with US?
I guess a rouge state is a country which has not started/participated in about 50 wars in recent history and has not been able to kill millions of people. And for sure they have not used atomic bombs on people (because only a non-rouge!! state has done it).
There are several suspected countries mentioned in this book:
http://books.sipri.org/files/books/SIPRI97AlBeWa/SIPRI97AlBeWa.pdf
However Muslim countries are targeted by west more than others because of political issues.
Correct. A few years ago everyone was saying N.Korea is ahead of Iran in missile technology. 8 months ago Iran put their first locally built small satellite into orbit with their locally developed 2 stage rocket (9th or 10th country to do so, and the fact that it is 2 stage means it is considerably powerful and they can still enhance it by adding a 3rd stage). 2 months after that N.Korea tried to do the same with their 3 stage rocket but failed.
Now can you tell which country is helping the other?
Iran has designed 2 reactors and owns almost full fuel cycle. The first locally designed (of course by benefiting from other designs) is a 50MW heavy water reactor and the other is a 250MW power generating reactor.
You know everyone would say Iran is not able to put a satellite into orbit and they did it 8 months ago. Before that everyone would say N.Korea provides the technology to Iran. N.Korea tried to put its satellite into orbit 3 months after Iran and they failed.
They have already designed two reactors and one of them is being completed (50MW) in 2 years. The other 250MW reactor's design has been completed and designs are approved by a company in Switzerland.
Iran currently has 3 million university students (you may be able to calculate how many graduates are already out) of which 60% are women. In some countries in middle east women do not even go to university. You can easily observe the difference in the case of Iran.
Besides you lack to mention India and N.Korea have already built and tested their nuclear bombs. India has done it decades ago and they even have very small battle field nukes.
OMG! Laptop of a U.S citizens was hit! ah, someone talked about Palestinians being hit by bombs and bullets. Forget it! Did the US owner of the Laptop became unhappy?!
Wrong. There were maybe a handful of Americans within Iran during the revolution. The Iranians did all that to each other.
Did what to each other during the revolution? Khomeini was not known by 95% of the people in Iran 2 years before revolution until he went to France and western media started to cover him and bring his voice to Iranian. When the airports during the revolution were closed it was France government which allowed Khomeini to embark the airplane and forced Shah's regime to allow it to land in Tehran airport. In my opinion, shah was replaced by Khomeini because it was believed islam can counter communism better than Shah. The same strategy was used in Afghanistan. Taliban was trained by the US to counter communists in Afghanistan.
Did you opposed the overthrow of Saddam? Which presidents did all this? Did you know that the US changes presidents from time to time?
No I didn't. I know the president changes but I also know it does not remove the wrong doings of previous presidents.
Wrong. The US hasn't started ANY wars in living memory. Not one. We've joined two after being attacked. But we didn't start either of those and we tried to stay out of them. Since then we learned that isolationism and cruel indifference don't work.
World believes you!
Don't worry, i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how multiculti you are. She'll be impressed.
Girls in the Campus already know. Both those in my lectures and outside. You do not need to bother yourself. And you are not as funny as you think.
The national democratic government of Mosadiq was brought down by US using a Coup and Shah was returned to the country and then to power. You need to know history before you start to troll.
Wonderfully accurate source.
I have seen at least 30-40 polls with more than 10,000 answers. Besides last time people voted and votes were counted correctly almost 85% voted to Khatami.
What does the education level have to do with the opposition to the government? I have seen people who never completed primary school oppose the government as vehemently as anarchists with doctorates and people who have never completed primary school wave a flag just as well as doctoral grads working for the establishment.
I was answering to the person who said Iranian people will kill each other to support or fight the government. I was saying they are not the typical lower educated barbarian who kill each other for nothing. You need to differentiate militia and government related (i.e. IRGC) from people. They know if the regime changes they will be prosecuted and punished. They might do anything to protect the regime.
Then who shot Neda Soltan? The problem with illegal guns is that only honest people obey the law.
By Basij militia which is in fact a government organization. So the gun belongs to government.
It's time for Iranians to stand up and accept the responsibility for their own acts.
They did in the previous revolution. That's just the clerics hijacked it.
Not true, at the time of the Iran-Iraq war, Iran had American weapons, Iraq had Soviet weapons.
Mirage F1 and 2000s and other weapons, Bombs and Chemicals, Satellite intelligence of Iranian movements, political support, embargo on Iran and finally direct involvement of US army in the support of Iraqi army at the end of Iran Iraq war (in Umul-qasr and the other Isalnd) were examples of direct support of US and west.
The Iranians are responsible for their current regime, trying to blame that on the U.S. is great rhetoric but wrong. Islam has always groped for power.
Trying to blame a whole religion is rhetoric. If you want to use this wrong method you should also remember that believers to Christianism have killed more than believers to any other religion. Do you remember world war I&II and Vietnam's wars and many others? However this type of reasoning is totally flawed.
The tyrants who now run Iran have finally gotten their chance to show Islam's true colors. Read about what they did to the Ba'Hai after the revolution.
1- Ba'Hais in Iran are less than a few thousand. 2- More believers of Islam (several hundreds times) have been hurt by Iranian regime than Ba'hais. How this discussion relates to Iranian people?
Current Iran does start wars, the last Israeli-Lebanon war started because their dogs in Lebanon decided to listen to their Iranian masters.
This is another subject. But I guess last war in Lebanon was between Israel and a big group of Lebanese people who defend their country against Israel (which you call dogs). Their country was bombed heavily and the whole infrastructure was harmed. How it makes them Iran's dogs? if you reason this way then you are going to make 80% of the world , dogs of the others. Nations don't fight for other nations. They fight for themselves. Again this has nothing to do with Iranian people.
Bringing up the the fact the U.S. used nukes is entirely out of context. The result of not using them would have been many more thousands of American and Japanese deaths.... On the other hand, the current Iranian regime has threatened that if they get them, they will nuke Israel.
This does not change the fact that no one other than US has used nukes. Show me where and who (in Iran) has threatened to use Nukes on Israel. You build facts?
Whitewashing the Iranian regime is nice academic play, but that is all it is.
No one does. I don't. I differentiate between Iranian regime and Iranian people. As I do between US (Bush government for example) and its people.
Comment: A large percentage of the people support the government
Answer: Yes, 15%-18%. In every single poll on the internet I have seen almost the same number. And no, they (people) won't kill each other for it. People in Iran do not have gun and it is illegal to have it. Besides Iranian society is considered an educated community (3.5 million are in universities from which 60% are women).
Comment: The Iranians created this horrible society. It is none of our business unless they attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
Answer: No they didn't. US did a coup in Iran 40-50 years ago and overthrow their national democratic government and returned the dictator "Shah" to power. people were forced to act more aggressive to put the Shah away. An aggressive act of revolution caused more aggressive opinions.
Then a war was exposed to Iran by Iraq (Sadam) which killed almost 1million Iranians. The war was supported by most Arab countries + Europeans + USA. Arabs paid Iraq by oil and cash (around 200 billion) and Europeans and US gave them weapons etc (including chemicals for illegal chemical warfare). 50,000 Iranians are effected by chemicals provided by Europeans to Sadam.
The same Sadam used those weapons against same Arab countries a few years later.
About your comment on Nukes I should say, USA is the only country which has both built and used nukes. US has started around 50 wars in recent history. Iran has never started any war in last150 years or more.
You want to condemn the 7000 years old culture of Iran which has the oldest history of Human rights and has been one of the cultural roots of the human being and then support your own culture and people which have started almost 50 wars (in which more than 10 million are killed) ??? have you looked at the mirror recently???
Oh really?! I did not know databases can be adjusted! You are very wise man! I wish I was a bit wise like you.
For your information my social network website (with 1 million members, sometimes 7000 concurrent users and 150 million page views per month) runs on 2 servers (dual quad). One is Apache, the other is MySQL. The whole website uses pure PHP (with zend framework) + MySQL and some Javascript (ajax). I consider it a serious job by the way, and I'll never switch to Postgres (last time we tested we would need at least 3 DB servers instead of our current 1 server to handle the same load).
And ubuntu 9.1 is service pack for 9.0 and 9.0 is for 8 and so on... Mac 10 is service pack for 9 , 9 for 8 ....
What's your point? You expected MS to rewrite the whole OS every time?
And then Redhat's version 20 is still their version 5? Every OS is evolution of its previous version. Stupid meaningless rants...
3.5 branch has been terrible for me on Windows 7. 30-40% of the time, when I try to open right button menu, only an empty menu appears!! If I can guess the location of the menu choice I need, and then click there I am in luck!! What a crap! In addition the address bar search is quite slow and sometimes I wish it was not there! And more importantly, every single plugin is able to crash the whole browser! (including adobe flash, adobe acrobat, adobe whatever!!!)
Women do the exploit very much better. Why not cats?