AFAIK the Orthodox also include the apocrypha. Blame Martin Luter for including it in a separate part of this translation of the Bible (probably couldn't be assed to translate the entire thing in one volume) and maybe the Jews because it actually isn't in their Ancient Testament (whoops). Allegedly the earliest copies are in Greek.

Heck I dunno.

Supposedly the angels, also created by God, are immortal too. Calling them gods is extreme. They are supposedly supremely powerful but still servants of God. Although since they possess free will they can rebel. As that other dude you talked about.

What I find a lot more fascinating is the story about angels from the sky killing a Dragon. Since this matches more or less Japanese myth as well. For the story to spread that far it must be pretty old.

Well the Ark of Noah episode is actually a rather blatant ripoff of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Well perhaps ripoff is too strong a word since the Jewish people allegedly also migrated from Mesopotamia and the story was probably transmitted orally along the ages. It's in Summerian and Akkadian myth.

It is called a retcon. God does it all the time. Stan Lee at Marvel did it all the time.

I thought that architecture from Tera had been cancelled long enough. Never heard about much sales from it. It was interesting but if you read the description of what it does and think about how a modern GPU works you will see you are probably much better off buying COTS GPUs.

The current Cray probably only keeps the logo of the original Cray. There was an additional purchase besides Tera that is not listed there.

Nothing a large enough database cannot fix.

It is correct that is was hard for the Soviet Union to support a theocratic state like Iran for ideological reasons. But despite intermittent reports I have heard of no major weapons sales to Iran.

The Soviet Union at one point supplied Egypt, Syria and Iraq in their fight against Israel. While Israel, which used to be supplied by the French and British, later lost that support and got US support instead. Egypt eventually dropped out of the Soviet sphere after the Camp David accords so now they are an US weapons consumer since they basically get them for free. Iraq was more of a mixed bag as they buy all kinds of hardware since Saddam fell. Syria is the one still only having Russia as a weapons supplier. There are reports of the rebels having access to Chinese small weapons bought with Saudi and Qatari money but if the Chinese actually support the Syrian opposition it makes little sense as they have current oil interests in Iraq and would be better served by a stable government there. It is probably just the usual problem of the Chubese selling too many weapons to too many people.

You don't get it. Iran was never a major weapons client of the Russians. In the time of the Shah their major supplier was the US/UK and ever since they have dealt with a motley collection of rotting equipment. Iraq was the state being supplied by the Soviet Union back during the Iran/Iraq war while the Iranians used previous stock, weapons dropped by Iraqi soldiers, or whatever. The major weapons clients of Russia have been India, Venezuela and China to a degree.

Syria is a strategic matter of having some degree of control over that area of the Mediterranean they are not a particularly large or rich country so they will never be a major weapons client.

In other words their future is being a patent troll. As usual.

Motorola and IBM were screwed by Apple more than they screwed Apple. Back when Apple opened up the Mac clones market a lot of competitors showed up which increased the demand for PowerPC chips. As a result it was profitable to sell PowerPC to the desktop back then. Once Apple killed the Mac clone business the demand for PowerPC chips fell off a cliff. Did you ever think one vendor with less than 10% of the market could sustain two chip vendors like IBM and Motorola? I would not be surprised if they sold a lot more PS3s than Macs. Let alone the XBox360s and Wiis.

Once they lost the console deals the justification to run the fact decreased. But I still think they were fools for doing it. Their mainframe division makes them a lot of money and the only reason they are not killed there by mainframe emulation software running on commodity server is because the hardware they produce is faster at some tasks. If they stop developing the hardware for a long time the emulators will catch up and their cash cow will end.

Then again I did not hear what are their plans for their chip design division.

What is wrong with having dealings with Syria? The regime is dictatorial and is a de facto monarchy but I never heard of them treating their citizens like North Korea does or having an enforced state religion like in Iran. In fact I cannot think much bad I can say about Iran that does not happen even worse in Saudi Arabia.

Or concrete for that matter. They even "lost" the way to manufacture it to reinvent it centuries later.

India has been and is the major client of Russian weapons in the world. At one point, after the Sino-Soviet split, the Russians did not sell any weapons to the Chinese and today they still give preferential access to India. Like the aircraft carrier, the nuclear submarine, T-90 tanks, etc.

India is considered by the Russians a strategic partner and counterweight against other forces in the region namely China and Pakistan. Iraq also used to be a strategic partner at one point. Syria still is.

I remember people using Glide -> DirectX/OpenGL translation layers on Windows several years back to run UltraHLE and things like that.

So I doubt it is that hard.