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Helium leads to geothermal energy resources

When we think about alternative sources of energy, we often forget the potential of geothermal energy resources. In fact, it has been estimated that accessible geothermal energy in the U.S. represents 90 quadrillion kilowatt-hours or 3,000 times the country's total annual energy consumption. So far, it has been difficult and...

Tags: Earth, Researcher, Fluid, Energy, Arizona State University, Energy Resource, Web Site Development, Productivity, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-02

Ready for a virtual beer?

If you're attending SIGGRAPH 2007 next week in San Diego, don't miss a demonstration done by Australian and South Korean researchers. They will pour virtual beer during the conference. They say that 'the physics of bubble creation in carbonated drinks like beer is complex,' but add that their fluid special...

Tags: Fluid, Beer, Bubble, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-04

Plasma Pong (exe)

Plasma Pong is a variant of the popular PONG game, with a high tech twist--it uses computational fluid dynamics to drive the environment. As the game starts you will have to duke it out against the opposing paddle, using the fluid as your weapon. You can shoot plasma out of...

Tags: Paddle, Fluid, Plasma Pong, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-05-10

New Egenera blades get liquid cooling

New Egenera blades get liquid coolingGreat!We just get done pushing the water-cooled dinosaur mainframe out of the server room, with it's associated high costs, and roll in the low-cost servers with their air-cooled efficiencies, only now to look at... water cooling them? Yeah, right.A small physics question hereThe processors...

Tags: Blade servers, Mainframes, Servers, Utility computing, Financial services, benefit, Egenera Inc., blade, waste heat, fluid

Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Why study colloids on the ISS?

Colloids are simply fine particles of solids, liquids, or gases suspended in a fluid. And you can find colloidal systems almost everywhere in nature and in industrial processes, such as in butter, milk, aerosols or paints. All of these substances are examples of colloidal dispersions or suspensions. But that's on...

Tags: phase separation, BCAT-3, Colloids

Blog posts 2005-10-04

Additional Resources

Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft

The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales

SaaS vendor quits browser to boost salesNo slant here...Maybe I'll start writing articles on the companies I have investments in so I can improve my positions. This site just keeps going from bad to worse.Rave Webinars & Free TrialsI'm a consultant with Entellium and would encourage anyone interested in checking...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Java development tools, Phil, webinar, software-as-a-service, SaaS company, Web browser, sales

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Offshore outsourcers turn cautious

The three primary publicly traded offshore outsourcing companies have turned cautious about the future even as their financial results remain strong. Among the worries--a weak dollar that's hurting revenue and margins, economic uncertainty, murky IT budgets and a concentration of financial services and retail customers. Meanwhile, CIOs...

Tags: Revenue, Wipro Technologies, Financial Service, Outsourcing Company, Net Income, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Rave Plus: Customer Relationship Mngmt. Software (exe)

Rave Plus is the newest member of Entellium's new Customer Relationship Management product line. Designed for companies with sales teams of one to five representatives, Rave Plus is perfect for companies that are starting to define and automate their sales process. Rave Plus offers a fluid, intuitive user interface which...

Tags: Software, Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator, CRM, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-16

EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)

On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about all the search happenings this week--Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga--as well as the Viacom vs. Google lawsuit. It was a busy week on the search front. Adobe kicked off the...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Viacom Inc., Podcasts, Games, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Conferences as conversation starters

Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...

Tags: Web, Industry, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

GNU XaoS (exe)

XaoS allows you to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. This capability makes XaoS great for exploring fractals, and its just plain fun. Fractals are incredibly complex and beautiful images that are created from simple mathematical formulas. If you don't anything about fractals, don't...

Tags: GNU, Fractal, GNU XaoS

Software downloads 2008-06-24

Updated the HTC Touch Diamond and Advantage X7510 with new firmware

As regular readers know, I posted a couple of articles on my experiences with the HTC Touch Diamond here and here are my latest two. For the most part, the device I have had has been a great performer with a fluid TouchFLO 3D experience, as shown in several of...

Tags: ROM, High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Firmware, HTC Touch, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-23

MIT students making solar power realistic

MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

GNU XaoS (dmg)

XaoS allows you to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. This capability makes XaoS great for exploring fractals, and its just plain fun. Fractals are incredibly complex and beautiful images that are created from simple mathematical formulas. If you don't anything about fractals, don't...

Tags: GNU, Fractal, GNU XaoS

Software downloads 2008-06-19

PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer

Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...

Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-10

TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly

TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...

Tags: Transportation Security Administration, F'ing

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

TouchFLO 3D, FM radio, YouTube and text input methods on the HTC Touch Diamond

TouchFLO 3D, FM radio, YouTube and text input methods on the HTC Touch DiamondCan't decide between this and the HTC Touch ProI just have to decide how important a keyboard is to me personally but I'm getting one of these 2 devices. HTC has once again shown us where Apple...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Apple iPhone, HTC Touch, HTC Touch Diamond, Apple Inc., TouchFLO 3D, TouchFLO, FM-radio, 3D, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Robofish teams of underwater robots

Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...

Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-07

What we do know about Windows 7

Since Microsoft still isn't willing to talk -- or even comment on any of the information its own employees already have discussed publicly -- about Windows 7, I thought I'd make a list of the many things that are known already about Windows 7 (beyond the 2010 due date). ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-27