Nonsense. Component looks great, I've tried it with 480p, 720p and 1080p and the image quality is indistinguishable from HDMI.

Microphone in the kinect. Just speak "channel 34" or, even better, "CNN sports".

Any further questions?

We had 4.7GB DVD-Rs when HDDs were around 20 GB. a 4:1 ratio.

Today, we have 500GB HDDs while bluray media is 25GB. a 20:1 ratio, soon to be 40:1 or more.

The speed needed to burn enough data has stagnated while data volumes have ballooned immensely.

By 2020, SSDs will come in multiple TBs. As a rule of thumb, today's internet will fit in a laptop's storage in 2042. The same is true today with 1982's internet.

The professor only says good news when he has bad news so all of you have it backwards!

I think paying $360/year to read it on my iPhone and iPad is an absolute bargain.

Who's with me?

So basically, openGL is to direct3d what the gimp is to photoshop.

Because sexy Apple products make computer geeks sexier by extension. Steve Jobs is personally invested in the grand mission of helping neck-beards get laid.

In return, we give Apple insane coverage. Simple really.

Your DVDRs wouldn't do those kids any goods. You'll need to buy a much more expensive 2.5" HD for them to stock the (up to 43GB) games.

No, the Killer app are the delicious controls that will allow non-casual games to be played.

Battery life remains a huge problem though.

I think it's understood that Saudi laws are crazy, what with the hand cutting and the sex segregation and whatever else goes with some of their stifling, barbaric tribal traditions.

If you ask any arab about Saudi Arabia, they'll tell you that the only good things about current Saudi Arabia are money and dates.

SMS is the worst way of interacting facebook that I can imagine. This will be at best a last recourse in extreme situations.

Female genital mutilation is rare and certainly not common in muslim society. Please provide a reliable cite if you persist in your shocking claim.

In fact, body mutilation of any kind is forbidden by Islam. The body is supposed to be God's creation and vandalizing it is bad (goes the reasoning).

Oh, and if the current SSD trends continue, we will inevitably purge our boxes of magnetic disks completely.

The coding revolution is bound to slowly follow, as drives reach GBps and millions of random iops and SSD closes in on RAM, the AI will awake. That's when we all defeat it and enslave the robots. SWEET SWEET ROBOSLAVERY!

Raw fiber to the home has enormous implications we are not capable of imagining.

  Wiring efforts should accelerate and government regulation should be copied from countries like Sweden, Japan and South Korea to ensure maximum bandwidth and minimum latency, worldwide.

It just makes sense. There cannot be a long-term loss in this investment. Lay fiber everywhere. Construct a fractal grid-net over the planet and get as close as possible to the speed of light. between any 2 given points.

  Everybody is in favor of it. What follows will be free sound/video calls and videoconferencing across computers and smart-phones. Inevitably.

What will also follow is distributed computing, as latencies grow lower. As reliability increases, more efficient ways to treat data will emerge, which will greatly increase efficiency. The positive pressure of multi-coring our way forward under the GHz limits will increase the importance of distributed code (but for how long?) so we basically need a very fast, very reliable internet to use our cpu cycles more efficiently.

Probably preaching to the choir here...