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Submission + - Invisible tanks?

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cadeon

on Friday November 16, 2007 @11:59PM

cadeon writes: "Well, we don't have flying tanks yet, but the UK isn't too far from invisible ones. New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence. In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

If these things work anything like the Stealth Tanks in Command and Conquer, then war has officially became scary."

Submission + - Linux still doesn't make it on the desktop (pcworld.com)

Submitted by cadeon on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @01:10AM

cadeon writes: Michael Gartenberg writes about how Linux still isn't viable for end users or organizations, due to it's lack of hardware support and inability to run critical, irreplaceable business applications like Microsoft Office. He goes on to mention the office suites available for Linux, but casts doubt on their interoperability.

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