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...
You were and are quite right in my opinion.
The single most powerful weapon at the U.S's disposal is the internet. Since the U.S has the most influence on the internet and the most content out there, it follows that simply encouraging other countries to ramp up broadband penetration via subsidies, foreign aid and such makes the cultural values embedded in the media produced flow like a torrent (no pun intended). Video, text, audio, decentralized communication and publishing are the tools of soft power for the united states.
More internet = more american influence. The taliban understood this very well.
I'm speaking as an arab-american. I've lived this stuff so I know it works.
If you want to keep playing online while a custom firmware is released. All that is necessary is to plug in this as the primary DNS in your PS3 network settings:
67.202.81.137
And ta-daa, we're back online with 3.55.
As a chrome user, let me offer a couple of compelling reasons:
Adblock plus
Segmented downloading (downthemall)
It makes perfect sense. When docked AND plugged in, the cores can be turbo boosted with a doubling of the Ghz. Bam, double the speed, fast enough to compete with a budget laptop.
When it's unplugged, the cores are underclocked again, and battery life is good.
Of course, such phones would be expensive and the dock will eat up some mainboard/battery space.
But we would need a universal dock to make such devices convenient enough. If there are terminals everywhere for you to plug your cellphone into, your cell will become your backup laptop.
Yes I agree. His living conditions are hellish. I hope no one here argues it doesn't amount to torture.
In fact, it is long-term torture, lasting for close to a year now.
The man has yet to be sentenced. He should not be punished, especially not by long-term torture, in the interim.
Minimum security is plenty to hold him.
Decades behind bars is a horrible sentence. Almost as much as execution.
What we at Sony try to say is that the PSP2 is as good running a 720p game as a PS3 running a 1080p game. That is to say the PSP2 is 50% as powerful.
Of course, that's still impossible, everybody knows that. What we really mean is that the psp2 can run the kind of games that the PS3 runs, so the power of the psp2 is "in the ballpark", basically it's 25% the power of a PS3, kindof.
I hope this clarifies it for you.
For the video conference feature I chose to write my own codec to avoid all these "politics", sure, it's re-inventing the wheel, but screw it, I want my product to just work...
You're joking, right? Please tell me you are joking and not insane!
And France's Minitel! Don't forget Minitel!
To those of you who are not familiar with Minitel, it's like the internet only extremely horrible. I don't recommend googling it.
Basically, quantum computers could do magic on encryption, probably, in the future, possibly in 20 years?
Also possible: flying cars, cold fusion and immortality.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
