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Comment Changing priorities -- shift to propjets in US (Score 1) 613

by myNameIsNotImportant on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:45PM (#34770824) Attached to: First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter

It appears as though the priorities are shifting towards airplanes that are cheaper & more suitable for asymmetrical fighting: http://www.economist.com/node/17079443.

Comment Clear writing (Score 1) 205

by myNameIsNotImportant on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:49PM (#34565760) Attached to: NSS Labs Browser Report Says IE Is the Best, Google Disagrees

According to Google not only didn't the report use Chrome 6 for the tests where as the current version is Chrome 8

dude, really? couldn't you have said it without using a double negative?

Comment Sun (tm)? (Score 1) 220

by myNameIsNotImportant on Monday August 02, 2010 @06:47PM (#33117226) Attached to: The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth

Why would Oracle do something like this?!?!?

Comment I'd say.... (Score 4, Interesting) 674

by myNameIsNotImportant on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @12:16PM (#28013073) Attached to: MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX

still pretty slim, as it absolutely sucks at handling long documents, it doesn't work eliminate white space all that well (think multiple columns, where it matters the most), and its backwards compatibility is not exactly industry-leading. tex, however, is good at all of the above.

Comment Re:MATLAB on OS X won't suck now? (Score 1) 230

by myNameIsNotImportant on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @05:31PM (#27928625) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

I'm afraid you're right. Had it not been for MATLAB's tremendous mindshare (existing code) in academia/engineering co.'s, I doubt they would sit as pretty right now.

Next time I have to rearchitecture code/start anew, I'm sticking with scipy. Octave is great, but... yeah, as you say, not a real option (it's not drop in replacement, and if I have to rewrite code, I might as well pick a proper language).

Comment MATLAB on OS X won't suck now? (Score 2, Interesting) 230

by myNameIsNotImportant on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @12:12PM (#27923295) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Maybe now that QT is LGPL, Mathworks will finally transition MATLAB on OS X out of X11 and make it behave like a proper OS X app. ...One can dream....

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