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- Nanosecond
- (1) One billionth of a second. Used to measure the speed of logic and memory chips, a nanosecond can be visualized by converting it to distance. In one...
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- Intel powers up plans for low-power chips
- Intel powers up plans for low-power chipsThe speed race is over. The power race is on.Speed will be important as ever, it is just that if you can consume less power, you spend less for the speed. But, for my laptop, I just want 16 hours of batter life so...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, power consumption, Intel Corp., CPU, nanosecond, GHz CPU, chip
- Discussion threads 2005-08-23
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- Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
- In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world's most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10. Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on September 10. ...
- Tags: CERN, Tunnel, Particle, Beam, LHC, Team Management, Leadership, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator
- News items 2008-08-26
- Self-healing ceramics for nuclear safety
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL researchers have used supercomputers to simulate how common ceramics could repair themselves after radiation-induced damages. This is an important discovery because 'materials that can resist radiation damage are needed to expand the use of nuclear energy.' These ceramics, which are able to handle high-radiation doses,...
- Tags: Oxygen, Atom, Defect, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- PS3 gamers are real world heroes
- Quick, are gamers socially impaired, violence prone losers or technically hip, socially conscious good guys? The numbers don't lie: Sony Playstation3 participation is 30x that of Windows machines in Stanford's disease fighting Folding@home project. And PS3s provide 80% of the TFLOPS this project uses. ...
- Tags: DNA, Protein, Sony PlayStation 3, Gamer, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- How lasers cut flesh
- Lasers might be at the cutting edge of surgery, but scientists still don't know much about how laser lights interact with living tissue. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University have investigated how ultraviolet lasers are cutting living tissues. As you could have guessed, 'the effect that powerful lasers have on actual...
- Tags: Plasma, Laser, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- Google Transit now public
- Google Transit has moved out of Google Labs and officially into Google Maps. It makes public transit directions an option, including cost and time, as well the cost differential versus driving for some areas. If you extrapolate from Google Transit, at some point in the future...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Transit, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- OpenBSD hit by 'critical' IPv6 flaw
- OpenBSD hit by 'critical' IPv6 flawIt still isYou can still make that claim. Remember, "Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!" That still makes for a very good arguement of being one of the most secure operating systems.My faultI posted on...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NETWORKING, BSD, OpenBSD, IPv6, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-03-14
- When will Google Local reap $39 billion local ad sales opportunity?
- When will Google Local reap $39 billion local ad sales opportunity?I can't believe you have to ask "when"Google will reap a huge chunk of the $39 billion market once they have become the de facto standard, and not one nanosecond before. If they charged for it now, they would...
- Tags: ad sales opportunity, Google Local, Google Inc., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Rich Internet Applications I couldn't live without
- Rich Internet Applications I couldn't live withoutNew RIA perhaps Web 3.0 in Town?Hi All,On the 2nd of January a posting was added to theserverside.com in a out of the way discussion group. It gave a simple link to a simple page that had some images of a new RIA.Within a...
- Tags: rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2007-01-05
- Memory storage for light-based computers
- In a brief article, Japanese scientists cage light, The Register reports that scientists working for NTT have used photonic crystals to trap light by over one nanosecond. In fact, light was trapped inside a wavelength-sized micro-cavity, delaying its transmission. So the apparent speed of light was reduced by a factor...
- Tags: Semiconductors, storage, computer, NTT Corp., photonic crystal
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- A terabyte of data on a regular DVD?
- This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida UCF. This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers of a single disc. The system uses lasers to compact large amounts of information onto...
- Tags: laser, wavelength, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Testing Scada Networks
- Testing Scada NetworksThat scares you?SCADA also controls the placement of control rods in a nuclear power plant. They are also being used in Eastern Europe nuclear plants.http://www.sztaki.hu/sztaki/projects/html/g2paks.htmlAnd this classic in the US.http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767Just hope they have decent security.This is embarrassing...Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA reduced to two simple paragraphs is...
- Tags: Enterprise software, Microsoft OS, network, SCADA system, SCADA, Programmable Logic Control
- Discussion threads 2006-11-21
- Fixed-mobile convergence switch race begets a Ferrari-Hummer hybrid
- So I got the weirdest voice mail of my life today. Now, we've all heard about boards of directors leaking to the press. But have you ever heard of a telecom switch dialing up an industry analyst all by itself and -- I swear, it sounded just like Stephen Hawking...
- Tags: voice, voicemail
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Media misses the mark: HP is treating Patricia Dunn with kid gloves
- The mainstream media, and sad to say, most of the blogosphere, are getting this story of Patricia Dunn's "ouster" from the chairpersonship of Hewlett-Packard completely wrong.First, the quickest of backgrounders: Dunn is front and center in a full-blown scandal that has involved HP using investigators using shady "pretexting" practices to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Google alliances do not come with 'non-compete' clauses
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has become a member of Apple’s Board of Directors to help “guide Apple in the years ahead.”Apple describes the function of its Board of Directors:It is the paramount duty of the Board of Directors to oversee the CEO and other senior management in the competent and...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-31
- Google Checkout vs. eBay Pay Pal: Where is the competition?
- Google’s much hyped Google Checkout is not turning out to be the eBay PayPal killer that was speculated at launch less than two months ago.Google planned on users flocking to “Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout,” but the touted “checkout option that makes buying across the web...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Checkout
- Blog posts 2006-08-20
- Freescale goes to market with magnetic memory
- Freescale goes to market with magnetic memoryDaja Vu.. its the 1960's and 70's all over again !!!Big deal. I was using magnetic core in the 70'sI guess nobody remembers magnetic core memory. The good old days when 4K of memory was the size of a refrigerator, LOL.That is a...
- Tags: Freescale, memory, core memory
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
- Survey: The meaning of the Net neutrality decision
- Survey: The meaning of the Net neutrality decisionBad.It's bad for the Net.Mitch RatcliffeSoftware entrepreneur, blogger, investorOle MossbackVERY BADWe lose freedom and privacy. United Corporations of America gain power and money.Very badIt will serve to strengthen monopolies and will benefit the cable/phone companies at the expense of pretty much everyone...
- Tags: Web site development, Net Neutrality, Web, survey
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
- Google CEO promises Google Checkout 'nanosecond' purchase cycle
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt, PH.D in computer science, proudly unveiled Google Checkout today by touting it as a service to “make it easier and faster for people to buy products.” As quoted in The New York Times, Schmidt said:The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Clocking the movements of atoms
- With their special microscopes, scientists and engineers involved in nanotechnologies have been able to 'see' atoms for a while. But they couldn't clock these atoms' response to events which typically occur in nanoseconds. Now, U.S. physicists have found a way to clock the movements of atoms at the nanometer scale....
- Tags: atom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Blog posts 2006-05-20
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