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Big quakes effects on big buildings

Researchers from California and France have used 3-D supercomputer simulation tools to evaluate the damages that strong earthquakes along the San Andreas faults would cause to earthquake-resistant buildings in Southern California. For this simulation, they've put two 18-story buildings designed according respectively to the 1982 and 1997 Uniform Building Code...

Tags: rupture

Blog posts 2006-08-13

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How dangerous is computing to your health?

How dangerous is computing to your health?...Eat healthy, exercise often, and take time off to disconnect. Simple rules to live by! ]:)Back problemsSeveral years ago I felt like there was a knife in my back. It kept getting worse so I visited a chiropractor. As soon as I told him...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, computer, computing, health care, Preventive Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

(Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)

(Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)safely ignited in space?How did toxic fuel get safely ignited in space? Space is a vacuum with no oxygen to enable combustion.RE: (Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)Just wondering, can anyone explain to me how spaceship/satelite propels itself in space when there is nothing...

Tags: combustion, missile, oxygen, satellite, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

What your disk drive isn't telling you

What your disk drive isn't telling youNo safe havenIt seems that our data simply have no safe place to reside anywhere. Hard disks are unsafe, DVD's are unsafe disk rot.....Come on, industry, give us a safe, reliable and enduring storage medium. How hard can it be?Greetz, Pjotr.Broken main page link,...

Tags: Storage, HARD DISKS, disk, disk drive, SCSI, RAID, file system

Discussion threads 2008-02-18

Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity

"If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...

Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007With all due respectsIt's good and rather funny to see them get caught with their knickers down. Hopefully the network will apologize to the attendees sure they will or at least show the outing on one of the news shows.more due respectYou're...

Tags: Undercover NBC Dateline

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Facebook: The social Web utility company

The suspense is nearly over. In about an hour, Facebook will lift the veil on its plans to turn its social networking site into a platform with what is hopes becomes a pervasive ecosystem. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls this latest interation of the service a "social utility," which...

Tags: General, Social networking, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-24

IBM System z9 eFUSE Applications and Methodology

IBM System z9 is the first zSeries product to use electronic FUSEs eFUSEs. The blowing of the fuse does not involve a physical rupture of the fuse element, but rather causes electromigration of the silicide layer, substantially increasing the resistance. The fuse is ''Blown'' with the application of a higher-than-nominal...

Tags: Fuse, Laser, IBM Corp., eFUSE

White papers 2007-02-13

Zune screen cracks - Fact or fiction?

Yesterday Engadget ran a piece about a possible flaw in the design of Microsofts Zune PMP:Interesting news on the Zune front: a friendly tipsters buddy works at a Microsoft call center and handles Zune-related issues. Apparently theyve received numerous reports of the Zune screen cracking for no apparent reason, after...

Tags: Microsoft, Gadgets, Microsoft Zune, battery

Blog posts 2007-02-01

What's the deal with Vista Service Pack 1?

What's the deal with Vista Service Pack 1?Superb double-speak......[i]"We're planning in a more predictable way"[/i] By not telling us the plans!?You couldn't make this up. Since when did any company enlighten their customers by making the words mean the precise opposite of their dictionary definitions?Oops! Silly me! I forgot about...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SP1, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, service pack, Mary Jo

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Battery recall could go beyond Dell notebooks

It seems that the recent battery recall by Dell could only be the tip of the iceberg as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has decided to review all Sony made lithium ion (Li-Ion) notebook batteries.Following Dell's recall of 4.1 million notebook battery units because of fears that they could...

Tags: battery, notebook

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Portable device could save soldiers' lives

Portable device could save soldiers' livesYet another bit of Star Trek technology?[b]If, for example, an ultrasound detects a rupture to an internal blood vessel, medical professionals can use the technology to focus a beam of high-intensity sound waves on the rupture so that the blood coagulates. That prevents the patient...

Tags: portable device

Discussion threads 2006-07-20

Trade groups pick sides in EU-Microsoft battle

Trade groups pick sides in EU-Microsoft battleLaugh? I nearly had a rupture!Jim Predergast must have been misquoted. He should have said[i]"This development makes it clear that successful American companies will not be able to bullsh*t local legislators and their entire global business strategy may be need to involve trading honestly...

Tags: analysis, piracy, job

Discussion threads 2006-07-12

The great Singularity debate

Saturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus. Very orderly and probably not very comfortable for the panelists who don't...

Tags: Kurzweil, Singularity

Blog posts 2006-05-13

To curb greenhouse gases, put them underground

To curb greenhouse gases, put them undergroundNit pickingNatural reserves of petroleum and gas are held in the pore spaces of sedimentary rock. Not caves. Yeesh.Of the 25 GT released, 7 GT remain in the atmosphere, per year, and the total will continue to increase steadily.The method has also been tested...

Tags: greenhouse gase

Discussion threads 2005-11-21

SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?

SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?Blatant piece of FUDI can see the potential for some real fallout over the KDE vs. Gnome issue, but that last paragraph is pure FUD. The author doesn't even know who Novell is planning to tap to replace Mantel...maybe they will bring...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., SuSE, Mantel, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-11-10

SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?

The departure of two high-level SuSE contributors from Novell begs the question of whether this latest twist in the Novellization of SuSE is yet another personality clash, or an outright schism between the community-oriented SuSE heritage and the command-and-fumble corporate Novell culture. If the apparent split in philosophy over...

Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE

Blog posts 2005-11-10

SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?

The departure of two high-level SuSE contributors from Novell begs the question of whether this latest twist in the Novellization of SuSE is yet another personality clash, or an outright schism between the community-oriented SuSE heritage and the command-and-fumble corporate Novell culture.If the apparent split in philosophy over the role...

Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE

Blog posts 2005-11-10