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  1. Re:Last Java 6 public update on Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update To Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2

    How about expecting the new software's company to support their newly sold software (and update it to support 7) instead of asking Oracle to support its many years old free software?

  2. Re:Arab Spring on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    That is definitely better than the average for the middle east which is the worst region in the world overall.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

    Says who? A western website.
    With what methodology? A methodology based on western values.

    Not that I believe M.E. has better situation. I just think many western countries just have illusions of democracy.

  3. Re:There's no app for that on Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use "ManicTime" to track my time. It gives almost accurate account of what I have done on my PC. I have created a few categories and assigned websites / applications/ documents to those groups.

    At the end of the day I can see how much I have spent on work, academic job, entertainment and unidentified. The awareness (of my exact performance) has caused me to focus more and improve the situation. There are other applications similar to ManicTime (I forgot the name) which can additionally block the websites categorized as "entertainment" for example.

    One inportant note is that some of the existing applications upload all your actions to a website and a server side software does most of the job. These applications are the most horrible thing for the privacy. They record all web page you visit, all applications your run etc. I selected ManicTime from among a dozen because it is 100% client side everything.

  4. Re:Arab Spring on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 2
  5. Re:Arab Spring on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    For example Turkey has been a staunch ally since the Truman Doctrine and has the highest Democracy Index in the region excluding Israel.

    That was a joke , right? Israel and Turkey? Democracy?

    "Turkey 'world leader' in imprisoned journalists, IPI report says": http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=ipi-report-declares-turkey-world-leader-of-imprisoned-journalists-2011-04-08

  6. Re:What is a browser anyway? on Pixel Picture Clearer? Google Ports Office-Substitute To Chrome OS, Browser · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I created a web based ERP system in last 3 years and I feel that with every cell of my body.

    JavaScript is not suitable for large scale development, even with frameworks (We use JQuery). It is difficult to introduce structure into it, it does not handle typed variables well and several other shortcomings. It was not supposed to be used for large scale serious applications in my opinion.

    Html itself is a messy language (if at all).

  7. Re:Translation on Pixel Picture Clearer? Google Ports Office-Substitute To Chrome OS, Browser · · Score: 1

    An IBM Selectric typewriter is more usable than a dumb terminal outside the cloud.

    Haha! That was a funny summary of an offline Chrome OS.

  8. Re:Yeah but... on Microsoft Kinect 2.0 Specifications Leak, Includes Support For USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Kinnect is a sensor, you mean Xbox 720 perhaps...

  9. Re:Brain Interface on First Bionic Eye Gets FDA Blessing · · Score: 1

    These kind of solutions would only work if blindness is not related to the nerves carrying information to brain. So still some of the blind would be out of luck with these.

  10. Re:No thanks on AMD Next-Gen Graphics May Slip To End of 2013 · · Score: 1

    The OP looks for open source drivers.

  11. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Tell us about your qualifications?

    RQ-170, F-22 and F-35 all use fair amount of composites in their body. Building smaller models and mock ups is not rare in aerospace industry.

  12. Re:Hosting Providers on MySQL 5.6 Reaches General Availability · · Score: 1

    They will possibly not risk. There are tens of customers with hundreds of websites and possibly thousands of applications. They will possibly be worried that changing to something else might break customer software and create a support nightmare for them.

    Their policy would be: "Why change something that works!"

  13. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Don't bother to give your reasons, because you have no such thing.

  14. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    It is a Garmin transponder.

  15. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    It is a low altitude attack aircraft just like Su-25 and A-10. Neither Su-25 nor A-10 has a radar.

  16. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Farsi only uses the alphabets and it is 95% different from Arabic (just some words have entered Farsi from Arabic).

    The alphabets have been different but they have been changed after Arabs attacked Iran several hundreds years ago.

  17. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Are you forced to talk about something you don't have knowledge about? Intakes are aerodynamically wrong?

    Like this:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/DARPA_USAirForce_HaveBlue.png

    Or this?
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/F-117_Nighthawk_Front.jpg

  18. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    English does not belong to America?

  19. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    What a classy comment.

    All the equipments belong to real planes, not military though.

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2gmNiznAYPk/UQ_kVG4GxUI/AAAAAAAABQY/UIRwfGrF0cY/s1600/Kahir313_Kokpit.png

  20. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 4, Informative
  21. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    For the 1,000,000th time, most airforces in the world use English as their technical language. That includes Iran. All Iranian pilots and even technicians pass English courses.

  22. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    They are all basic airplane gauges and equipments (mostly from Garmin).

  23. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    I read 500knots not 250.

  24. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    because it IS a presentation mockup like any of these:

    http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2667/pavillion22so.jpg [imageshack.us]
    http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/bobro15/NAA-FX-2_zps79959a9a.jpg [photobucket.com]
    http://i50.tinypic.com/2yl7cs8.jpg [tinypic.com] (the one in front)

    Building smaller RC models and mockups is not rare.

  25. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    The technical language of Iranian Airforce is English. Every pilot and technician is taught English and documentation is done in English.