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2^43,112,609 -1: Distributed computing finds largest prime yet

GIMPS â€" the distributed computing Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search â€" has found and confirmed the largest prime number ever: 243,112,609-1. It has 13 million digits and gives the GIMPS project a $100,000 award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Science News reports. Because 243,112,609-1 has...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Prime, Distributed Computing, Mersenne, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-28

Prime95 24.14 (Windows)

Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible...

Tags: Prime, GIMPS, Mersenne, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-08-09

Primer 1.6 (Mac)

Primer lets you find a list of primes or twin primes, a single prime or set of twin primes, check the primality of a number, find a number's prime factorizaion, and has two functions related to Goldbach's conjecture.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Prime, Conjecture, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-06-09

Additional Resources

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon (Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon)

I Want It More than Everrrrr! Awesome! Verizon is Best Service! :DI was going to wait, but this phone looks totally ready for prime time!Moto has put out some of the toughest phones out there and no other single phone has even approached the numbers of Razr out there! Still...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Communications Inc., phone, Revisiting, Motorola Droid, Motorola Inc., Moto

Discussion threads 2009-11-07

Math Ref Free for iPhone 2.1.2 (Mobile)

Math Ref Free for iPhone gives you about 350 of the many helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples. The current categories in the free version are algebra, geometry, trigonometry, series and sequences, derivatives, integration, prime numbers, and Greek alphabet.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Happy Maau Studios, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Math Ref for iPhone 2.1 (Mobile)

Math Ref for iPhone is a math reference application that includes over 1,000 helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples of the equations, and concepts. Current main categories include algebra, geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, series and sequences, derivatives, integration , table of integrals, vector calculus, differential equations, discrete, physics, prime numbers,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Algebra, Happy Maau Studios, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Stainless 0.75 (Mac)

Stainless is a multi-process browser for OS X Leopard. Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we've been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mesa Dynamics, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient

RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Diablo II Update Patch 1.12a (Mac)

In Diablo II, players return to a dark world plagued by evil forces. After possessing the body of the hero who defeated him, Diablo resumes his nefarious scheme to shackle humanity into unholy slavery by joining forces with the other Prime Evils, Mephisto and Baal. Players face a new series...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Player, Blizzard, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Diabetes can be kept at bay

move your ass, lazy americanswalk, run, practice sports and you won't get diabetes.except type I that is geneticThey don't have the incentives ...when they keep getting free handouts that progressives love so much from the big fat@ss government. Free health care, free lunch, free everything and then of course they...

Tags: diabetes, Wall St., progressive, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

With Motorola Droid, Verizon puts doubts about Google Android platform to rest [review]

Motorola's Droid made a big splash when it debuted in a Verizon teaser ad during prime-time across the country and slammed America's favorite smartphone, Apple's iPhone. Now that it's finally been fully revealed, it's clear that the Droid has become the yardstick by which all Android smartphones are to be...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Smart Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc., Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Mobile Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Firefox hit by multiple drive-by download flaws

Thank god I am still using 3.0.xxxI still don't understand why the need to make all things software larger and more featured. Also I will never understand why people rush to use the latest larger, bloated package...Bigger is always better......that's why we're fat! =DIE still more secure than FF...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, JavaScript, NoScript, Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

SAP regaining its mojo?

Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative

This "commercial" spoof is much betterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-22EpQOm8c:)2010: Year of Linux!!!*snickers*Dawson, you're such a tool.AwesomeNot a fan of South Park but that was hilarious.Chrome OSChrome OS isn't vaporware. It's actively developed, and you can download the beta here:http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Chrome-OS-50930.shtmlI had hopes Google was going to push out something special, kind of like...

Tags: Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, netbook, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

Vista is still alive here..."Vista definitely improved"Vista-preinstalled SP1/SP2 Just Works, so I have no immediate plans to upgrade to Windows 7. Right now, I don't want to tempt fate.I don't see why people get all emo over Vista's UAC. It doesn't bother me.Yes, everyone says that Windows 7 is better...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-24

Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all

If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Gartner leaves SOA off 'top ten' list - again

Gartner just issued its Top 10 Technology list for the year ahead, and guess what's missing? Once again, service oriented architecture got sacked by the sages of Stamford. SOA proponents, however, can take cold comfort that just as was the case last year, SOA is the underpinning...

Tags: Enterprise Mashup, Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Copenhagen may not see any real agreement on greenhouse gases

That's the conclusion of Britain's lead environmental official. He thinks the barriers to reaching agreement on how to pay for reduction of emissions is too high a hurdle to overcome in less than fifty days. The British Prime Minister already tried scolding fellow heads of state. That got...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Greenhouse Gas, Agreement, Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-20

NPR and Livio partner for Wi-Fi radio device

Is Internet access free?If this is similar to the Kindle where streaming from the Internet is free, I would purchase this for my father-in-law for Christmas. RE: NPR and Livio partner for Wi-Fi radio deviceThis is not the first of its kind as claimed in the article. I have...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, NPR, radio, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2009-10-20