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First time

2012-02-16T22:23:00.001+02:00

This is my first time to use the iPhone to blog

عظم الله اجركم

2011-08-19T05:53:00.003+03:00

As I expected, the webOS devices announced dead officially, but much faster than I would imagine. Click the title for more

Android vs iOS

2011-08-17T17:04:00.000+03:00

Crazy infographic is here, click the title

3D Printing

2011-08-14T16:31:00.000+03:00

[Video] 3D Printer

AMD and others quit benchmark group due to 'Intel bias'

2011-06-24T11:21:00.001+03:00

"The heart of our complaint is this: the SYSmark benchmark is not only comprised of unrepresentative workloads (workloads that ignore the importance of heterogeneous computing and, frankly, favor our competitor’s designs), but it actually generates misleading results that can lead to very poor purchasing decisions," AMD's chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau wrote in a blog post.

Click the title for the details

LinkedIn, for 3 Billion Dollars

2011-06-12T07:06:00.002+03:00

Still remember when Ahmed Kilani, invited me to the place ... I, then, expressed my feelings towards this "just another human network" thing. While it truly is, its value is nearly 3 Billion Dollars now. I truly dont understand how those business get to this level of income and hence worth ! Click the title for more on this

A step in mass storage technology

2011-06-10T09:22:00.001+03:00

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has built a solid state storage system that they claim outperforms state-of-the-art flash memory products. The new system, know as Moneta, uses phase change memory, a technology that some predict will replace the NAND flash memory used in nearly every solid state drive (SSD) today. The UCSD prototype will be on display this week at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego

Skype protocol reversed engineered

2011-06-03T23:32:00.001+03:00

Efim Bushmanov has decided he wants to open source the Skype protocol. The researcher claims to have already achieved the reverse engineering part.

Click the title for more

Cray's first GPU based Supercomputer

2011-05-27T13:38:00.001+03:00

GPU based computing will soon be the trends ..

Strategic Plan Workshop 2011

2011-05-26T10:44:00.002+03:00

Visio Via slate

2011-05-22T06:54:00.002+03:00

I don't like it, but Natalie Del Conte has become Natalie Morris

Anyway, click the title to see her talking bout the Visio slate on cnet

Google kills the newspaper archiving project

2011-05-21T07:32:00.002+03:00

Google kills the project through which it it intended to archive the world news over time, click the title for the full story

Apple & Religion

2011-05-21T01:19:00.002+03:00

Neuroscientists in Britian have found that Apple imagery activates the same parts of the brain in Apple fanboys that religious imagery does in followers of that religion. In heated arguments on the Internet, some users sometimes say that Apple is like a cult, and it seems there might be at least some truth to that. And a recent BBC TV documentary, Secrets of the Superbrands, looked at why technology brands have become so popular. The first episode was focused on Apple, but it will move on to other companies, like Twitter, Facebook, and possibly even Microsof

Click the title for more about this

Slates

2011-05-11T07:33:00.002+03:00

What I was think in te early 1990's while in the united states, glad to have lived to see it although had no stake

3D transistor, a real thing now

2011-05-06T16:24:00.001+03:00

As the designated enforcer of Moore's Law, Intel has consistently found a way to keep its two-year process shrink cadence on schedule. This time it's with three-dimensional semiconductors, by "re-inventing" the transistor with its new 3D Tri-Gate technology. Intel will begin churning out the Tri-Gate silicon in its upcoming "Ivy Bridge" processors, the 22nm shrink of the current generation 32nm Sandy Bridge processors. Intel maintains the 3D transistor technology will only add 2 to 3 percent to the cost of manufacturing the wafers, so system costs should take only a minor hit.

Click the title for the full story

iPad anatomy

2011-03-17T10:31:00.002+02:00

My new Internet connection @ home, real difference

2010-12-20T05:21:00.002+02:00

Basel, Switzerland

2010-10-31T12:19:00.002+02:00

From Adiago Hotel in Basel, Switzerland, I walked through the Germany and France and had a nice one hour walk in each; no check points no police no nothing. Great feeling with no borders. The picture is for an old german side check point, empty just like teh Switzerland check point few meters away. Although Switzerlan is not part of the European Union

50 cent & 200 million dollars

2010-10-15T18:00:00.011+03:00

50 cent is making a deal that is 400 million times his value, he would have made 400 millions dollars if his name was "buck",

Amazing computing power; 10 PFLOPS

2010-09-28T16:05:00.006+03:00

A supercomputer with 80,000 processors to peak 10 PFLOPS, based on the Fujitsu's Sparc64 VIIIfx processor, an eight-core, 2.2GHz chip built on a 45-nanometer manufacturing process. Click the title for full article

Playing ... the wrong way

2010-09-01T13:20:00.002+03:00

Click the title to see how a golfer started this fire in Irvine, CA

Mars, what is next ...

2010-08-20T14:20:00.003+03:00

The ChemCam will fire a laser from the rover toward rock and soil targets up to 9 meters away, vaporizing materials from a 1 millimeter area and analyzing the atomic composition of the targets' surfaces. The vaporized material, a plasma of hot gas made of free-floating ions and electrons, will be analyzed by the onboard spectrograph.

ATM Technology, the good, the bad and the ugly

2010-07-16T11:02:00.005+03:00

We are all aware of the good here; can get money on the spot with ease, and the bad is almost known too as we all drain our accounts fast, but the ugly is that somebody else will do that for you! ... click on the title to see how to protect yourself against high-tech theft

SONY introduces the 3D HD TV

2010-06-17T22:57:00.002+03:00

We have seen it in Disney World in the early 90's, and it's in the bedroom, click the title for a demo

Las Vegas, Nevada - USA

2010-06-04T13:39:00.003+03:00

How do you know this picture was in the stripe ? Las Vegas, Nevada - USA

CNet ...

2010-04-10T07:27:00.002+03:00

I like CNet, and i have been a fan for over a decade, I dont buy until I check the reviews both of teh Editors and teh Customers. But the truth is that they always get me in a dilemma; in every review they make you appreciate it and hate it at teh same tiem; like this notebook has a great performance and great batter life and great screen colors but stupid touch pad they nobody can work with! are you going to but then? i am lost, really

The USA Code

2010-03-21T06:10:00.001+02:00

Because teh USA has a solid code, look what a racial statement of a boy in shopping at Walmart has done to teh whole country at avery level. A lot more than this happens everyday in a very place in the .... and people dont even notice. Click the title for the story

Browsing fast ....

2010-03-08T04:38:00.006+02:00

With higher browing speeds and freedom to do that from everywhere, the world looks smaller and smaller everyday

Bill Gates

2010-01-26T06:03:00.006+02:00

Genius, rich and philanthropist ... I agree that I often times used bad words against him (only for windows ealier than 7), but I truly respect him; he is devoting his time and wealth to help people; mostly in Africa, from vaccines to circumcision that reduce AIDS spreading rate.
I wonder why our rich are stupid money dumpsters; if it is up to me, i would appoint him King of Egypt.
Click the title for the full interview on CNET.

Made in China ? ! ..... YES

2010-01-22T09:37:00.002+02:00

W e always ask: made in China ? ! as a gesture of saying: what ?
Now China is building a petascale supercomputer with home-grown processors, this how nations plan for the next generations. The Arabs, who once lead the world in science and innovations, can hardly build small scale computers, we only buy what others make, so the Hadeeth Shareef hits us as we eat form what others grow and wear what others make, and hence we are of no good. The 4 PFLOPS daemon will be ready by mid 2010 and will host around 12,500 cores (782 chips with 16 core each). Click the title for more.

Apophis might hit us ...

2009-12-31T14:41:00.002+02:00

Apophis is an asterid with nearly 270 meter diameter flying around us with a 1in 37 chance to hi the earth in 2029. What do you think you should do. NASA says chance to hit the earth is so slim and getting even slimmer. The Russian space Agency is thing of a space rocket to knock it off course, just like Hollywood's "Deep Impact" . Read more by clicking the title

Fastest Train

2009-12-27T09:51:00.004+02:00

China has announced a claim of hosting teh fastest train network, top speed of 395 km/ and average of 355 km/h, while japan's average is 243 km/h and France's is 277 km/h. Spain is a country know of holding a record but teh news do not state theirs. Click the title for full tstory

Faces ....

2009-12-14T20:08:00.003+02:00

Look at the picture and try to locate the faces, how many do you see? normally, you can locate up 9 in seconds. If you find up to 11 then you are doing good and if you can find the 13 faces, then you have a good sense of seeing (some claim that seeing 11 means smart and 13 genious ... dont know what this has to do with that)

AI: the worthless past

2009-12-12T08:33:00.004+02:00

The AI has been going wrong for long; it's to correct the path. The software models have offered little over more than 40 years, and its time to consider a real solution; a hardware one . Click the title for details

Software Research

2009-12-04T06:15:00.004+02:00

Software is lagging and it takes a hardware firm to trigger it; Intel manycore products (up to 100 so far; breaking the TFLOPS performance barrier of a single chip) will push the software makers and the academia to explore ways of making use of huge number of cores on a chip and figure out new applications.

Click the title for more details

Brain Simulation

2009-11-19T20:51:00.003+02:00

IBM Unveils Biggest Brain Simulator Yet

Scientists and engineers at IBM revealed yesterday that they have created the largest brain simulation on a supercomputer to date. The number of neurons and synapses in the simulation exceed those in a cat’s brain; previous simulations have reached only the level of mouse and rat brains. The cortical simulator, called C2, runs on Dawn, a Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Click teh title for more on this

Wndows 7 ...

2009-10-29T11:23:00.004+03:00

Microsoft Technet newsletter says

Here are some interesting facts about Windows 7:

Millions have provided input on what they want to see in an operating system.
Windows 7 saw the largest beta testing program in the history, with 8 million testers worldwide.
We received product instrumentation and usage data from millions of PCs in more than 200 countries.
Tens of thousands of people have signed up to host a Windows 7 Launch Party.
27 new TV ads were developed for Windows 7 across the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany and Australia.
Weight reduction of new Genesis Windows 7 packaging: 56 percent.
Percent improvement in Windows 7 Ecometrics score over Windows Vista: 50 percent.
Windows 7 is available at more than 45,000 retailers around the world

Please pay attention to number 6 .... isn't this great?!!!! can Apple do that? their OS package has been light for long and they screwed up every chance for reduction

At last, 3D Digital Camera

2009-10-04T18:37:00.005+03:00

Fujifilm has finally made available a digital camera with two lenses, so you can capture 3D still and images and videos; and see them without special software or glasses

Click the title for details

It is even faster now

2009-09-29T22:36:00.004+03:00

May be because I have not used my 3G SIM card for a while, it has gained some strength ... this is my wireless broadband speed on teh go ... 4.75 Mbps (7.2 Mbps Max)

Google 10^100 project

2009-09-25T10:15:00.003+03:00

Google has started the voting process to give 10 Million US Dollars to the winning idea, click the title to read about the project and vote for one.
Most of the ideas are great, I voted for creating a genocide monitoring and alert system, although making educational content online free was a top idea ....
Please do your part and vote ... it is easy

The only 2 major choices ...

2009-09-22T08:49:00.005+03:00

I thought switching to Apple would solve my computing problems ... turned out just another choice

802.11n Wi-Fi standard finally approved

2009-09-12T16:56:00.003+03:00

It took the IEEE 7 years to approve the new standard in wireless networking, and it is not a draft anymore.

Maybe this is why some countries don't have standards and don't even believe in standards; it is a time consuming process. It seems that the Americans, British, French, German, Japanese and ... don't care about time

Click the title for details

Khalid Bin Al Waleed (Abu Suleiman)

2009-09-10T22:10:00.004+03:00

This is what Khalid Bin Al Waleed (Abu Suleiman) has said before he died, and his statement was written on his tomb
I am just wondering what any Muslim Chief of Staff today would dare write on his tomb, let alone the rulers

An answer to an old question

2009-07-31T17:34:00.004+03:00

I have always asked: why do we swing our arms and legs in opposite directions when we walk? I thought maybe to balance the body, but french researchers have recently offered an answer to this question. Click the title for details

Yazeed Graduation Newspaper

2009-07-07T23:05:00.002+03:00

تهنئة

2009-06-27T09:43:00.010+03:00

حصل

الدكتور يزيد تيسير محمد الدوس

على درجة البكالوريوس في الطب والجراحة

من كلية الطب في جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا الأردنية

جوهرة الجامعات الأردنية

فالف مبروك دكتور يزيد

Yazeed T. M. Eldos, M.D.

What i do ....

2009-06-12T10:45:00.001+03:00

This is what I do for living, I mean for dying ...

MS Vista ...

2009-06-01T19:13:00.009+03:00

Using my Wi-Fi at KSU, I surf too fast; if I need a file, I would rather get it from the Internet, because my hard disk under MS Vista is a bit slower

I think it's time for microsoft to release Windows 10 ... (of course after 7, 8 and 9 but before I go for a Mac)

Funny ...

2009-05-22T17:59:00.003+03:00

Steve Jobs: I bought a CRAY to help design the next Apple.

Seymour Cray: Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3.

For those who are not familiar with names, Steve is the founder of Apple and Seymour is the founder of Cray and then most popular supercomputer Architect.

Speed Test

2009-04-20T06:40:00.004+03:00

I am too busy to do anything, and have nothing to post, so this my UMTS Internet connection speed test, on the date and time shown

My dreams come true

2009-03-07T14:02:00.004+02:00

Kindle from Amazon ....

Back in the year 1992, and while working on my Ph.D. at UAH, the idea of a technology replacing the hefty books came to miy mind, it was something like this little fellow with some era-specific difference; like wireless data connections, as it was not invented or even visioned at that time, and the missing things like colors and annotations and copy/patse functions ... which must be coming soon.

Click the title of this post to play a video and appreciate the work I have not finished

TURKEY ... thanks

2009-02-18T18:11:00.009+02:00

لندعم المنتج التركي، ولنقدر لتركيا المسلمة موقفها الشجاع في الوقوف إلى جانب الأهل في فلسطين، والذي برز في اكثر من موقف كان منه موقف السيد رجب الطيب اوردغان في دافوس، حيث وجه صفعة قوية لرئيس الكيان الصهيوني. كذلك موقف الوفد تركيا الإغاثي الذي كان أول الوفود التي وصلت الى غزة بعد إنتهاء العدوان

لنقف ضد محاولات الصهيونية والغرب وأتباعهم للنيل من تركيا التي كانت وستظل إن شاء الله قلعة من قلاع الإسلام

Ph.D. Positions available ... (Men & Women)

2009-01-26T20:16:00.009+02:00

If you hold a Ph.D. in one of the areas below, and would like to work in Saudi Arabia, then please send me your resume to any of the the contacts below:

Computer Engineering
Software Engineering
Computer Science
Information Systems
Information Technology

jobs-cces@ksu.edu.sa , teldos@ksu.edu.sa , eldos@eldos.net , eldos@ieee.org

or call for more information 00 966 59 946 3949 (Dr. Taisir Eldos)

إحذر هذه المواقع

2009-01-09T12:15:00.004+02:00

الروابط التالية هي لمواقع إسلامية الشكل وفيها لغط فأحذرها، حرب من يهود على المسلمين بكل ما أوتوا من سلاح
وكان من فضل الله أن حجبت السعودية ودول الإمارات هذه المواقع، ونأمل أن تحذوا بقية بلاد المسلمين حذوهم

http://www.answering-islam.org/
http://www.aboutislam.com/
http://www.thequran.com/
http://www.allahassurance.com/

Tahani Fadwa

2009-01-06T17:18:00.026+02:00

د. تيسير الدوس، د. بتول الدوس ، د. يزيد الدوس

ومكين الدوس وأسيل قيسية

يهنئون العزيزة الغالية

فدوى

بمناسبة حصولها على درجة الماجستير في الاقتصاد الإسلامي من جامعة اليرموك، فألف مبروك وعقبى الدكتوراة

Defend Islam

2008-12-31T20:01:00.006+02:00

The following sites are among the many Jewish supported site to spread fake information about Islam. Thanks to the governments of KSA and UAE (and hopefully others yet to come) for banning them. Please do not rely on them and check authentic sources

Please click to see the content, so you can avoid when you come across while you search

http://www.answering-islam.org/
http://www.aboutislam.com/
http://www.thequran.com/
http://www.allahassurance.com/

Good Job Fadwa

2008-12-25T09:47:00.014+02:00

Yesterday, Wednesday Dec. 24th, 2008, was one of my happy days; it was the birthday of my son Makeen who was born 1989 (He spent the whole night out, but I am sure I will see him the other day) and it was the day his cute mother got her Master Degree in Islamic Economy from Yarmouk University

Fadwa defended her thesis titled "Quality Management In the Islamic Banks". The panel had the following professors:

Dr. Imad Barakat, Chairman (Chairman, Department of Islamic Economy, Yarmouk University, Irbid - Jordan)
Dr. Reyad Al Momany, Co-chairman (Dean, College of Finance and Administration, International Islamic University, Amman - Jordan)
Dr. Sa'ed Al Hallaq, Member (Chairman, Department Of Economy, Yarmouk University, Irbid - Jordan)
Dr. Kamal Al Hattab, Member (Former Chairman, Department of Islamic Economy, Yarmouk University, Irbid - Jordan)
Dr. Najah Abu Al Fotooh, Member (Visiting Professor, Yarmouk University, Irbid - Jordan)

Taisir, Batool, Yazeed, Makeen, Aseel, Nuha, some friends, department professors and some Ph.D. candidates attended the defense

Shoezophrenia

2008-12-19T16:51:00.002+02:00

A new severe psychiatric disorder has been reported by Shoemaker Jr., M.D. in the US. Not to be confused with the well known less sever disorder "Schizophrenia", this one so rare, and only presidents are prone to. Symptoms include seeing people hitting you by shoes wherever you go, even in countries you seem to consider safe havens.

New Weapon

2008-12-18T18:56:00.003+02:00

The Pentagon is planning to launch a new military project with hefty funding to design and test Anti-Shoes Weapon System (ASWS)

Deadline is so tight, the weapon has to be ready for use before Bush steps down the oval office ...

Click the title for more information ...

Hajj

2008-12-13T07:18:00.003+02:00

All praise be to Allah, I am back from Mecca after performing Hajj
It was not as hard as I thought; the modern arrangements made the 5 Millions look like only 500 Thousands.

Asif Ali, another Musharaf

2008-09-06T23:07:00.007+03:00

The Pakistanis did not want to be ruled by a man in the military, and America responded by sending a new one.

Asif Ali (12 years in prison for corrupt) is the new president; a new American agent with civilian dress this time, I am afraid he has paid the price (staging the slaughter of his wife, to become Shahida) so gets the office by people's votes. Get more by clicking the title

I am afraid we have to grow up ...

High Tech Tire (Click)

2008-08-29T04:40:00.004+03:00

At last, tires are getting a focus; I have always hoped for this kind of thing, I have always doubted the pressure and the general state of my tires, and also doubted the opinion of the shops workers who possibly wanted to sell new ones. Read more on the new tech from Pirelli

Musharaf: down & out

2008-08-18T16:49:00.006+03:00

That's it .....Musharaf, who claims to be of Pakistan, is gone !!!
He received a "safe passage" to some country, thanks to USA, UK & KSA (as they care about Paksitan !!!!! they do care about others, too)
He had to leave because he does not belong to Pakistan. On Nov. 25th, 2007, I wrote something about Musharraf, and here is the link

http://eldosblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/rudd-versus-musharraf.html

Cameras (Click)

2008-05-02T19:55:00.003+03:00

I like the technology when it is reasonable; a camera with face detection allows a novice to shoot (maybe another novice) with his face in the middle of the picture, while smile shutters allow shooting when people smile to the camera, no cheese no nothing.

I like that, but what if we live in a place where people don’t smile? Whether it is their nature, war, poverty or disaster! The earth is mostly of this kind of people, those who have one or more of those “blessings”

Click the title above to see a clip of how a cute boy makes the camera shoot

Lego (Click)

2008-04-30T20:50:00.005+03:00

Lego ? is this real or what ? I am afraid it is "what"
Imagine yourself getting few basic hadrware modules of your choosing, downloading pieces of software modules over the net and ... having a gadget in an hour or so ! isn't this great ? this is an emerging technology, it is real and is going to be more popular and affordable soon

Income & Tax (Click)

2008-04-12T18:22:00.004+03:00

I have come to know some numebrs regarding the income and tax of the top offices in the US.

President G. Bush and his wife, Laura, paid $221,635 in federal taxes on an adjusted gross income of $923,807 for the year 2007, including $400,000 as president salary $150,000 advance received by his wife for the children's book she co-authored with her daughter, Jenna.

Vice President D. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, had an adjusted gross income of $3.04 million in 2007. They owed $602,651 in federal taxes on that income; paid $466,165 through withholdings and estimated tax payments, and will pay the remaining $136,486 upon filing their tax return.

I am eager to knwo what the numbers are around the world! I mean how the other presidents get their money, how much they get and how much they pay as tax (if they ever do).

Memory Nanotechnology (Click)

2008-04-12T16:59:00.002+03:00

IBM scientists are working on a new solid-state memory technology that aims to combine the best attributes of flash, like having no moving parts, and the low cost of hard drives for an inexpensive form of nonvolatile memory that will be stable and durable.

It nanotechnology that stores information in thousands of atoms in magnetic nanowires. Electrical charge causes data to move swiftly along a U-shaped pipe (hence the name "racetrack") that allows 16 bits of data to be read or written trough a single transistor in less than a nanosecond, without moving the atoms. Cells don’t wear out like the flash memory or magnetic pets, and the capacities will even exceed that of the magnetic disk. So, more capacitive, cheaper, longer life and even less power demand, but few years of wait to be commercialized. Click the title to see it on YouTube.

The Internet ...

2008-04-04T12:06:00.005+03:00

Joseph Weizenbaum summarizes his critical perspective on technology, he said:

“The Internet is like one of those garbage dumps outside of Bombay. There are people, most unfortunately, crawling all over it and maybe they find a bit of aluminum, or perhaps something they can sell. But mainly it’s garbage.”

After the article appeared in New York Times 1999, he wrote a letter to the Times:

“I did say that, but I went on to say: There are gold mines and pearls in there that a person trained to design good questions can find.”

This is the Internet; look at the forums, blogs and trash can like websites that you have to see when you surf unless you design good quesuions to discard most of that.

UAH ! I missed you

2008-03-29T20:10:00.006+03:00

I missed my school; 12 years ago I left the University of Alabama in Huntsville after 6 years of peaceful and happy life with my family, where I received my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. As a space grant college, UAH has always been granted generous support from NASA, SDI, DARPA, Boeing and many other high tech organizations and institutions.

The picture shows UAH undergraduate students float in a microgravity environment aboard a NASA DC-9 aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico. UAH is one of a handful of universities that sends student teams to conduct experiments in a zero gravity environment. The plane performs parabolic maneuvers at 35,000 feet above sea level, creating 20 or 25 seconds of weightlessness.

Moussa Castle (Click)

2008-03-24T10:45:00.022+02:00

Moussa (known as the architect) is a success story; the now 74 years old man (with a hat) from Deir El Qamar, th seat of the Lebanon governer in the past, had a dream of building a castle and his fellow student made fun of him and so did a girl he loved; he was a poor kid while she was born to a man of wealth. He took the challenge and built the castle by himself in 41 years, and his effort had the UNESCO list his site as an international heritage. A museum inside the castle displays the life in Lebanon in that era (1960's). The pictures below show a teacher giving a lesson (what a lesson ? !), and a men and women carry normal daily activities. Click the title to visit the website of Moussa. (Google Earth: Lat 33.7006 and Lon 35.5835)

3 Years Blog

2008-03-23T10:36:00.009+02:00

I have started blogging around 3 years ago as a proof of life; i.e. to make a presence only. I thought of it then as a way to help pass some new tech stuff to my students. Now, it is my way of speaking loud; I say my word regarding things and events around us, like the 10 lives worth phone.

I receive only few comments (silly, most of the time) because I have never wanted that; no labels, no hidden keywords or anything that promotes the site. But I have to admit it; it bugs me to the bone to see a silly blog making a big fuss. After all, blogging is a footprint that everyone should try to make as wide as possible, to raise awareness regarding serious issues of our life.

An iPhone (Click)

2008-03-21T15:32:00.007+02:00

This is a real iPhone, but with prince cut diamond; original price is 400 USD and the diamond is for just 176,000 USD more; a total 176,400 USD.
A hungry human (or huwoman) in Africa needs only 30 USD per month to survive; this phone is worth the life of 10 persons (African class of course). I don't buy such a phone, even for a 50% discount. Luckily, there is a cheap alternative; the Motorola phones with diamons are sold for only 10,000 USD; designed with the poor rich in mind.

The Power of 0.9 (Click)

2008-03-20T22:37:00.008+02:00

The C8051F9xx is a new low cost low power 8-bit MCUs operated at 0.9 V, with 64 Kbytes of flash, 4 Kbytes of SRAM housed in 4mmx4mm package t. This means a true single-cell battery solution. The device has a typical sleep-mode current of less than 50 nA and active-mode current is as low as 170 µA/MHz and total of 65 mW of power consumption.

Also have a 10-bit 300-ksample/s A/D converter, a smart RTC, and hardware enhanced UART, SPI and SMBus serial ports, and cost only 2 USD when buying 10,000 pieces. At 25 MHz operating frequency, it can deliver up to 25 MIPS due to the novel pipelined architecture. Click the title for a chance to win a development kit.

Languages ...

2008-03-20T10:50:00.009+02:00

All we need from languages, is a way to communicate with others, and theoretically one is good enough. However, largely dispersed nations of the ancient times has resulted in more and more dialects and languages, to the degree they are so numerous now. On the other hand, as the nations are getting closer to each other, languages are facing a risk; Over 50% of the world's 6000 languages are endangered, and one language disappears on average every two weeks.

The UNESCO reports show that 96% of the world's 6000 languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population, and 90% of the world's languages are not represented on the Internet. Many of these languages are not well established; numbers show that 80% of the African languages have no orthography.

The UNESCO decided to promote and safeguard endangered languages and linguistic diversity as an essential part of the living heritage of humanity, through its Endangered Languages Program. But I believe, with all respect to the nations heritage, that focusing on fewer languages, and promoting learning these languages is far better, and will get nations closer to each other and provide better communication through the Internet and future technologies. The question is: who will give up his language for the sake of others to stay?, and the answer is simply another question: should the English or Arabic disappear to promote a poor language spoken by few thousands and had no literature ?

1500 years ago ...

2008-03-17T13:49:00.016+02:00

The world's most important and blessed event has already happened; that was 1500 years ago, when prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) was born in Mecca. Now, nearly 1.5 Billion followers is the count and it's rising by the will of Allah. Those who don't join are absolutelty the losers as we consider the iternal life. Muslims look weak and behind today, but will one day be stronger as they were once, and will have true Omar, Ali, Othman, Khalid, Mo'tasim and Salah, just to name few ... . Peace & Prayers be upon you our prophet as we observe your birthday Thursday 20/3/2008

Tower & Power (Click)

2008-03-13T19:12:00.013+02:00

A tower and a well placed set of mirrors to focus the light energy on the tower top, where a steam turbin generates electricity. Spain and Abu Dhabi are the places for this rare technology, click to read more

Gaza? Call later (Link Removed)

2008-03-11T12:54:00.014+02:00

If you care about human being, regardless of their skin color, gender, religion, nationality, .... then check out this link, to see what the "the state of Israel" is doing to people who can hardly afford basic life, and yet they claim that they possess weapons and rockets, while only some of them could get primitive weapons (some are home made) to defend themselves and their dignity ...

Gazzans ... we are sleeping now, please call later ! or call Al Nasir Salah Edeen, Al Mo'tasim, Khalid Bin Alwaleed ... for emergency. Click the title for more, a website in many languages tells true stories, not the media polished stuff

CeBIT Tech Raid (Click)

2008-03-07T05:52:00.006+02:00

Thank God we don't make any products here in Jordan; 51 gadgets vendors were caught in patent rights violation raid at the CeBIT Tech Fair in Hanover-Germany.

I have been to this world class fair in the 1987 ...
there was no raid at that time (because there were no MP3, MP4, Cell Phones, ... at that time); as reports says 180 policeman and custom officials carried out the raid, and out of the 51 patent violating vendors 24 from China, 12 from Taiwan, 3 from Hong Kong ....and of course not even a single one from the Arab world, we always stay on the safe side and don't risk our future by trying the manufacturing business. Read the AP reports ....

New Autos

2008-03-04T07:15:00.008+02:00

A concept car for the future, especially in Jordan where the fuel prices has reached the skies ...
Unfortunately, there is only one color ... the red, which possibly hides the risk of even higher taxes ....
It is like saying: wherever you go ... we are with you !

Zenith: Your Money !

2008-02-27T22:45:00.022+02:00

The swiss watch maker claims that its Defy Xtreme, can survive ...., well, maybe they wanted to say .... "doomsday"?, but who cares about time then? .... For me, doomsday starts by paying 500,000 USD for such a thing . Click the title for more details and see where where your money will go if you buy it; maybe 1,000 Feet under water.

Hardly noticed that

2008-02-17T18:09:00.007+02:00

What a miserable world ? !

In a blink of an eye, 80 people dead and 70 wounded in Afganestan (Ah, may be tha's why !!!)), and we hardly pay attention to that. Numbers are possibly not less in numerous places around the globe.

Click the title to read if you still care, and be careful because your place might be the next.

Constitution of Turkey دستور تركيا

2008-02-07T19:52:00.002+02:00

404 out of 550 members of the Turkish parliment voted for a constitutional change that says "no one can be denied the right of education", This means the girls in Muslim Turky can now attend universities wearing vales. We are are so happy with this victory against the evil.

صوت 404 من أصل 550 نائب في البرلمان التركي لصالح تعديل الدستور، بإضافة عبارة تفيد بأنه لا يمكن حرمان أحد من حقه في التعلم، وبذلك تتمكن الفتيات التركيات المسلمات من دخول الجامعات مرتديات الحجاب الإسلامي، وللعلم فقد تلقت بنتا السيد رجب طيب أردوجان، رئيس الوزراء، تعليمهن الجامعي في أمريكا بسبب هذا الحظر، كما أن زوجته أمينة وزوجة فخامة الرئيس د. عبدالله جول خير النساء ترتديان الحجاب، فمباركة عودة تركيا لجادة الصواب

NO ! to 11 Millions (Click)

2008-02-05T22:15:00.001+02:00

Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the brain behind the "Brain Age" Nintendo game, just loves to work; he used the proceeds to help fund $6.5 million in construction projects on Tohoku's campus. He says: I just love to work and if you like money gout out and get it ...

I love work too, but I love money three ...., read to pay respect (or get pissed off !)

Microsoft Beer (Click)

2008-02-04T14:53:00.001+02:00

Beer Free World ... toward that, Bill Gates of Microsoft buyes 392 Million USD worth of Beer (I mean shares in a Beer Company), in a step people think he will screw it up to the extent that people will quit it.

He hopes it works, and they dont switch to something worse, read more

Not again ... !

2008-02-03T21:24:00.001+02:00

I am afraid that Ship Master (yeah, the drunk ...) is going to make a record number of damages to the submarine optical fibre, after FLAG in Alexandria and FLAG in Dubai, ...

The Iternet is so slow again; My 512 Kbps connection is struggling; down to 10 Kbps ...

Egypt; an influential country in the middle east

2008-02-02T15:21:00.002+02:00

Jan. 30, 2008: the internet services were widely disrupted in the Middle East and in the Indian subcontinent following damage to the SEA-ME-WE 4 (near Marseille, France) and FLAG (near Alexandria, Egypt) cables in the Mediterranean Sea. Problems were reported in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. The news did not mention Jordan as part of the list; its peopele have been suffering to full addiction, even long before the damage, and after it was fixed (thanks to Orange Jordan).

Network outage graphs suggest that the two breaks occurred at 0430 and 0800 UTC. FLAG was damaged by a ship anchor in Alexandria, Egypt. And on Feb 1st, 2008, FLAG was reported damaged about 100 Km from Dubai.

This suggests that the ship speed is nearly 130 Km/h; too fast for a big ship knowing that the record world water speed is 511 Km/h (this is of course if we assume it was the same ship !)

A girl's letter bounce (Click)

2008-01-30T06:21:00.001+02:00

Unlike my Orange outgoing mail server, which bounces good deal of the email letters almost immediately and without reason, a letter from a 6-year girl sent into the skies was returned after 15 years and by a fish, suggesting that a fish is better than an orange (this is truly against my belief as a vegetarian)

Shirahige is now 21-year university student, and the link has more

Kindle's style ...

2008-01-27T19:32:00.007+02:00

Foldable bracelet and time machine in style, walk to energise it, and get proud of that ..

A man or not ? (Click)

2008-01-27T11:49:00.001+02:00

About 15 years ago, people of the Arab world saw Saddam Hussein on the moon ... and the mindful peple left think that way. Our enemies like our ignorance ... don't they?

And now some people think that this is a man on Mars. NASA says no, it is just a small rock shaped by the wind to resemble a man ...

Consider the slide show using the link below ... and see other anomalies

And now, the BATTERY (Click)

2008-01-26T15:32:00.001+02:00

To me, the most disappointing quality of a notebook (of course along with the speed, memory, size, heat, and everything ...) is the battery life. An hour or two for most notebooks, and possibly three for the ultra portable less powerful ones, is not enough for anything; to me a presentation or two would eat it.

A researcher at Stanford came up with an idea that extends the battery life to nearly 10 times. Silicon nanowires instead of the classical graphite material is the secret. For more read below please.

Gaza & Exodus (Click)

2008-01-24T17:08:00.001+02:00

Read the news of the Gazan trying to escape to neighboring Muslim country of Egypt ...
And don't get the news wrong; the media is trying to show that the Egyptian leaders (who are good Muslims and want to help the brothers in Gaza) look bad

I mean the helmeted riot police were beating the hoods of the Egyptian cars helping Gazan cross the border only to make sure the cars are strong and reliable and good for the job

And sealing the border was not at all meant to force the Palestinians to surrender to Israel, No !, they just wanted them to stay in land because otherwise the Israelis would take it

And, making them die of hunger is just to train the next generation on how to become defend their believes

Read the link ... but don't get me wrong ! please

I said: no moving parts (Click)

2008-01-20T08:45:00.001+02:00

And they seem to be listening ...

Never thought that "no moving parts" will extend to this application. Iy would be pretty exciting to see an enmanned an extremely small vhicle flying around with plasma thrsuster.

DARPA and Oklahoma State Univetsity reported, click for more

Apple's Air ...

2008-01-16T11:37:00.002+02:00

Like only few, I waited long on Apple to tell us wether the rumors ere true ! And now, its name, thickness, weight and even feature are truly surprsing. A top ultra-portable that makes sense and one can use (on top of the impression it makes).

Go to apple site for features and prices

eSATA ? welcome to the club

2008-01-15T06:55:00.000+02:00

Cannt hide it; I get happy with computer products getting rid of the power cable, which typically means two things: less intermingling wires and less power consumption hence greener life.

eSATA, the fastest connectivity today, will join the USB and FireWire in supporting external hard drives and others without a special power cable

However, we have to pray that this does not mean at all that the future devices will become powerless

The right thing ... is now in

2008-01-08T09:36:00.002+02:00

One of my persisting old dreams was a solid state mass storage replacing the heavy, bulky, slow, unreliable, power consuming and ugly electromagnetic hard disk. The thing started with small flashes and now Intel is is offering a solution with reasonable starting capacity targeting mobile applications at this time.

Features: tiny 12 x 18 x 1.8 mm chip scale package, 4 GByte, PATA interface, making it attractive for mobile products, read speeds of 40 MBytes/s and write speeds of 30 MBytes/s, power usage of 300 mW active and only 1.1 mW in sleep mode, 3.3v I/O and control voltages and operates from 0° to 70° C. Price is $50.

At last ... the keyboard gets something

2008-01-05T00:17:00.000+02:00

The keyboard is possibly the least changing part of computers.
A new keyboard with small OLED display beneath every key displaying its function has been available since 2005. The price tag of 470 USD is possibly the reason behind its diminished popularity; after all the computer itself does not cost that much now

The advantage of such a programmable keyboard is it can easily switch between different layouts, different languages, and even between cases of the same layout and language; for example when caps lock or num lock are pressed. Better yet, it can implement the applications keys on the fly.

click the link for a demo ...

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

2008 is just another year

2008-01-02T01:05:00.000+02:00

The first day of 2008 is over ...
I just did not feel a bit of difference ...
Just bad news of killing everywhere; 50 killed in a church in Kenya, 40 killed in an attack on a funeral in Iraq, ....
let us hope that 2009 will be a better year, and wait 365 days

2007 ... Bye, no return

2007-12-31T23:38:00.000+02:00

We are only minutes away from the end of 2007

We hope that 2008 will bring us all happiness and properity

We pray to Allah to grant us all the wishes

Living ...

2007-12-31T10:15:00.000+02:00

Which part of the earth you prefer ?
Lets talk sones and daughters !
Everyone's little efforts counts at the end; dont smoke, tune your car, encourage environment friendly industries and discourage the others ....

Pakistan !

2007-12-31T00:23:00.000+02:00

Pakistan ! the home of the scientists, thinkers, loyal people, ... ? is it out of good men in 2008 ?
Seems that what I have said about Nepal is true ?
Son of Benazir Bhutto, a 19-year old student with no political experience, is appointed symbolic leader of the party, and her Husband Asif Zardari, also known as "Mr. 10%", an 8-year prisoner of corrupt charges appointed active leader... try to guess where Pakistan is headed ...when those play the dirty power game