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Outrageous... words fail me.

Civilization is far, far away from Kenya. They're stuck into the middle-ages

Excellent guys, thank you!

@Oscar2 : You are correct, and I hadn't realized that.

Do those cheap smart phones (1,440 in the 7-11 come with SIM cards I wonder?

Do you need to show your passport to purchase them?

Cheers

I beg to differ from Rotweiler's reply: yes, most of the phones sold at 7/11 do come with a bundled SIM, some call time and internet megs and they're usually simlocked to the operator (that's why they're so cheap).

Yes, you do need to show your passport if the bundle includes a SIM card. Not if it doesn't but I can't recall having seen a naked phone sold at 7/11.

Instead of denial, why not passing this idea to TAT for a new tourist attraction?

Usually you can bet that an error 500 is nothing wrong on your side.

It's the server.

Back to the topic of that Chinese supercomputer, in the light of another (now locked) thread started on the subject.

It's just a matter of piling up tens of thousands of cells each containing one of their multi-core (260 cores) RISC processors.

This paper gives some insight: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/sunway-report-2016.pdf

Although the overall computing power obtained is impressive, I see no real technological breakthrough there. The Sunway processor itself has nothing that makes it like a generation ahead of a Xeon Phi CPU (see table 4 in the paper) and the interconnects... well, PCI-E hardly is rocket science.

In the end, it's really the amount of floor space and electrical power you can get...

Right after the Chernobyl catastrophe, we in France were told by our government that the winds loaded with radioactive dust had stopped right at the German border and did not enter the country. With support from "experts" from government-owned meteorological agency.

Many, many accepted the blatant lie. Only months if not years later the truth was told.

I'm sure that's a trick that the PM would reuse, with extra support from astrologists, and help from some mysterious high-tech (and expensive) "devices" planted at the border to keep the nukes away. And a recommendation to wear extra amulets.

How come this woman got off virtually scott free? Is there no justice in Thailand, or does it mean that if your powerful and rich, the law doesn't apply?

Naive question of the day

Try guessing...

Hint: both.

The government is concerned with flooding in the city during the rainy season and has instructed the City Hall to install more water pumps to drain out excess water from roads while traffic police were instructed to try to speed up traffic flow and to help repair or tow away malfunctioned cars.

Copy/paste from last year's statement, isn't it?

Real art in distorting truth and putting words in Ban Ki-moon's mouth. He must be fuming with rage now.

I have daughters. If one of them did such a crime, I would do everything in my power to keep them out of jail and wouldn't give a toss what foreigners on a web forum thought.

Do you have any children? If so, would you not do the same?

The point of a real justice system is that your feelings would be irrelevant to the judgment and you would not be able to influence it apart from paying for a top notch lawyer.

Alas, we are not in such a situation in Thailand and I'm sure that dad's feelings have been of the utmost importance.

Newspeak lessons.

Time to re-read 1984, I think. Thailand gets closer to the book every day.

Err... the topic was about IT capabilities, not slave unskilled workforce for factories.

Aren't we drifting a bit here?

@Thaiphuket: how about a "Don't use a silly bold and enormous font" button?

I'm sure that the exact place this happened and especially one element in the surrounding background has raised the interest the authorities have taken in the video and why they consider it especially image-damaging.

Slippery slope indeed, this thing can be conveniently twisted to hold students arbitrarily, like e.g. university students wishing to demonstrate against the junta. There's nothing that says this is limited to students of technical schools.

"But they were preparing to fight". Sure.

PR panic... feeling the heat!

LTE and 4G are the same thing, you know?

I don't do 4G because I don't have a capable phone while in Thailand, but as far as 3G goes, my first choice would be AIS, then DTAC, then last one True.

In my own private experience only (not claiming anything beyond this), AIS has the best coverage and best bandwidth.

Well, if you feel like responding, you're probably not any higher on this scale.

Anyway, I'm outta here.

OK, I'll make Godwin's law work once again.

Just like Claus von Stauffenberg (Google for it if you don't know), this Brit's name might become history.

Trump is dangerous. The guy is a maniac. How on Earth can someone imagine him at the controls of the US nuclear weapons? the very idea sends a chill down my spine.

How an interesting thread with people exchanging useful tips, feedback and opinions is derailed into childish bickering

TVF at its worst.

I think that you get what you pay for in China.

Plenty of very cheap workforce, plenty of companies building cheap stuff meaning crap produced and robots who learn the Microsoft, Cisco etc. certification books by heart but have precisely zero ability for structured thinking and creativity. I've worked with these, I know them.

On the other hand, given unlimited funding (i.e. state-funded), I'm sure that the Chinese are able to do things at least at good as the best we can do in the West.

You may actually be surprised at the "cheap" work force. Many Chinese companies in labour intensive industries are actually relocating to Africa because labour costs are on the rise!

I know - but not much in the IT sector, I think.

OK, I'm sorry to drag the 90 Day Thing up again but it would be instructive to know what went wrong with my effort if others have succeed this week.

My reporting day is the 30th June so I'm in the acceptable window.

My first attempt was on the 16th.

Tried on the 17th and twice today

I've done it successfully twice before so I know which buttons to push

Used a PC with Win10 and IE (AKA Edge), Chrome, and Firefox. My connection is solid (and quick)

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Not sure that's relevant to you but just a heads-up, Edge is not IE. It's a completely different browser with a new rendering engine.

If you want to run IE from W10, you need to type "Internet Explorer" in the search box and start it from there.

You can pin it to the desktop for further access.

More ways, right from the horse's mouth (MS): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_internet-insider_ie/how-to-locate-and-open-internet-explorer-in/4b067f8b-a0dc-4fba-9e63-00fb14ea82e8

The Biz class on the A380s is fantastic, as someone mentions above not worth the money to travel 1st ( unless someone else paying - company ).

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+1 to this. They've upgraded me once for free, possibly because I had just subscribed to their frequent flyer program or just because economy was overbooked and being a member I was shortlisted for an upgrade and got lucky. Don't know.

Anyway, you never travel the same again once you've experienced it. Must be real close to what first class is on many airlines I guess. That was a great experience, alas unique... hoping to upgrade again using my miles but it will take a while because they're not too generous.

Where I (sometimes) live in central Thailand, there are many kids raised by their grandparents indeed.

But the real reason for this is that their parents have gone where jobs are is i.e. mostly Bangkok.

They don't want to take their children with them for many excellent reasons (e.g. poor living conditions in Bangkok, pollution, criminality, messy schools), so they're left with the grandparents. Money does flow from Bangkok, although not always as regularly as the grandparents would like.

Don't judge too fast.

What's wrong with frogs?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

I've sometimes seen fieldmice (hope that's the correct word?) being sold, they really look like big rats but I've been told that they're clean because they live in the fields. Never tried eating them although some of my Thai friends have tried to convince me.

You know that whole ''well it's a field rat so it's clean'' is B.S./ Rats eat everything ,anywhere. Feces ,(animal and human), other dead animals, rotted decaying meat, each other...etc.Not to mention the diseases they're infected with both city and ''field''.

Technically that's not a rat. The French word we use is "mulot" and Google Translate gave me "field mouse".

Thais call this "nou" juste like a mouse.

It's bigger than a mouse, though.

Can anyone explain why a monk would want access to the internet? They are supposed to have left such things behind.

Really? considering the number of men in saffron robes you can see shopping in just every IT or smartphone mall, I think that not many of them have.

This story, if true, and especially the reported words of the monk is revolting. How can the novices have any respect for Buddhism after this?