Light goes slower than c in any medium different from vacuum. Some objects can go faster than light in that medium (but not faster than c of course).

So many names in summary/article. Is it SPARC architecture? ARM architecture? Or a different one?

What about RAM? Hard disks? Network chips?

Of course I'm not an expert, but a plane already has tens of mission-critical computers in the cockpit. Why not use them?

Piu' lo mandi giu'...

I entended my phone's battery life, and its speed and responsiveness, by uninstalling or disabling all (almost) the apps that have background processes always in execution. See under Settings -> Applications -> Running. You should really invest some time for finding alternative apps that don't rely on background processes for ads and the like, or recognize you don't need them installed all the time.

By trial and errors, you may find that it's only one or two apps that occupy the most resources. I suspect some programmers don't really know what "background" means. For me it totally was a weather app, shipping with the phone.

Is like the change I have in my pocket. They payed to keep doing whatever they want.

And what about the locked door? May be the action of a semi-conscious man, but... too many coincidences.

I'm afraid if one of the pilots wants to crash the plane, no policy, no matter how strict, can prevent it. He could simply strike the other one in the head, for example.

Anyway the certainity of what happened is still not definitive, let's not depict him as a murderer or a terrorist until then.

Wasn't Intel announcing ga.as. as their new technology some weeks ago, for their sub-10 nano chips? I guess they must have solved the cost problem, too.

Do professionals in that field use something more than "traditional" PCs? Like clusters, or the like? Or today's PCs have filled the gap, like they replaced the workstations of the past?

Just curious, what are the minimum hardware specs to use those programs decently? I suspect for professional video 90% of cost is the hardware, not the software.

I don't understand how those things work, how come documents are still leaking after years of Snowden's escape? Can't the world know everything at once? Does he sip them for better suspense? Or did they forget to revoke his password?

Uri Geller?