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- Southern grid net adds supercomputers
- What can the combined efforts of more than 24 Southern universities do with the ability to do 10 trillion calculations per second? For starters, they can trace the shape of star systems millions of miles away, better predict hurricanes, magnify the inner workings of the tiny molecules in prescription drugs,...
- Tags: Southern, grid
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
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- I... B... Wha?
- The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia -- which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...
- Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Rating Booster (zip)
- Rating booster is a new program developed by a computer science student at the University of Southern California. It's main aim is to do what none of it's competitors do, and that is Boost your traffic ratings and Video stat ratings. Where Tube increaser falls short, Rating Booster kicks in,...
- Tags: Computer Science, Video, Site, MicroAtlantic, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- "Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin Hack
- "Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin HackDon't go calling him a "Republican"...The true Republican Party was shot between the eyes in the aftermath of FDR's New Deal; the carcass staggered on for another three-plus decades, when it was put out of its misery by Nixon's "Southern Strategy" that whipped up...
- Tags: MSM, O'Reilly, Taft, Bill O'Reilly, Bush Administration
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- Southern Edison gets green light, some moolah for smart metering program
- The good news: Southern California Edison just got $1.63 billion in funding approved by the California Public Utilities Commission for its smart metering program, which is called Edison SmartConnect. The not so good news, if you live in California: The money will come in the form...
- Tags: Southern California Edison, Edison, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- A Failure To Not Communicate
- The preliminary findings of the investigation of last week's commuter train crash in Southern California: Text-messaging was involved, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is a wreck that should make us think, about how much we need to communicate.. by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Tags: Southern California, Wreck, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the leastArctic Ice can not effect sea level"What If All the Ice Melts?" Myths and Realities (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Physics)http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html[b]"[i]Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01 % Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change...
- Tags: ice, Arctic, RealClimate.org
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash
- Positive train control" technology - already in use in some parts of the country -- could have avoided last week's fatal train crash in southern California, the Federal Railroad Administration pronounced yesterday. PTC includes GPS and digital communications to enforce speeds and monitor movements. Twenty-five people were...
- Tags: California Public Utilities Commission, PTC, LA Times, Monitors & Displays, Government, GPS, Federal Government, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics
- The successful start-up of the Large Hadron Collider represents not just a huge victory for particle physics but also a victory for Europe. Once upon a time there was a brain drain from Europe to the U.S. – not only Albert Einstein in the 30s but also Wehrner von...
- Tags: Europe, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
- It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...
- Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray
- Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- AMC Pagan Daybook 3 (exe)
- AMC Pagan Daybook 3 is a calendar to keep track of the days of the week, the ancient and modern tides and the pagan festivals and observances that fall on each day of the year. Far more interesting than a conventional calendar, it's something unique to put in the Startup...
- Tags: Screensaver, Alchemy, Alchemy Mindworks, AMC Pagan Daybook 3, Pagan Daybook 3
- Software downloads 2008-08-21
- Google.org invests in geothermal
- Google.org is investing $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a technology that drills miles down into the earth to get that nice, hot granite under the surface, Tom Zeller reports on the dot-earth blog at the Times. As Zeller notes, $10 million ain't a lot in this...
- Tags: Geothermal Energy, Google.org, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?
- The race is on. We humans are trashing large patches of the ocean, says an American researcher. Our cast-off, washed-away chemicals are creating oceanic dead zones. Latest dead zone discoveries have been in the more oceanic, less populated Southern Hemisphere. America's own prize dead...
- Tags: Ocean, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Second guessing at 3AM
- Second guessing at 3AMIt's 3 AM...A crisis is happening somewhere in the world. It's 3 AM, and a phone is ringing at the White House. Who do you want answering that phone?...Couldn't resist. :)hey murph here a conceptDeep down inside what your guts telling you.This morning when you...
- Tags: Roman
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- The LA earthquake
- The LA earthquakeThe quake was downright puny5.4 is hardly even noteworthy. I couldn't believe all of the news coverage it garnered. Must have been a slow news day.RE: The LA earthquakenah. not just a slow news day. but it is an earthquake and in LA. if that hit east of...
- Tags: Katrina, earthquake
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- New ranking of the most solar-friendly utilities
- Not surprisingly, California-based utilities boast the highest percentage of solar-sourced power integrated into their electricity portfolios, according to a new report released by the Solar Electric Power Association. Southern California Edison and Pacific, Gas & Electric emerged as the utilities with the largest overall solar capacity by...
- Tags: Hawaii, Capacity, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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