Wednesday, October 31, 2012
China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processor
China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors
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Election results correctly predicted by computer 60 years ago
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: A printout of the UNIVAC prediction of the 1952 presidential prediction.
Why Manhattan Is the Worst Place for a Data Center — and the Best
Why Manhattan Is the Worst Place for a Data Center — and the Best
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New 5MP Camera Chip sensor could be smartphone game-changer
New 5MP Camera Chip sensor could be smartphone game-changer
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Hands-On The Google's Nexus 4
I’ll refrain from making sweeping judgments for now, but the Nexus 4
managed to make a strong impression during the few brief moments we
shared together.
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The new MAX 24 MP sensor inside the Leica M could possibly alter the product roadmaps and strategies of several camera companies
Image Sensors World called it "the most advanced process node among the full frame sensors vendors".
Low Cost Full Frame CMOS Camera Systems
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Low Cost Full Frame CMOS Camera Systems
Camera
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Date Announced
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Resolution
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MSRP*
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Sony Cyber-shot RX1
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Sep 12, 2012
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24.3 Mp
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$2800
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Nikon D600
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Sep 13, 2012
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24.3 Mp
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$2099 (body only)
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Canon EOS 6D
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Sep 17, 2012
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20.2 Mp
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$2099 (body only)
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CCD vs CMOS sensors
Global vs rolling shutter.
PDF.
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| Feature | CCD | CMOS |
| Signal out of pixel | Electron packet | Voltage |
| Signal out of chip | Voltage (analog) | Bits (digital) |
| Signal out of camera | Bits (digital) | Bits (digital) |
| Fill factor | High | Moderate |
| Amplifier mismatch | N/A | Moderate |
| System Noise | Low | Moderate |
| System Complexity | High | Low |
| Sensor Complexity | Low | High |
| Camera components | Sensor + multiple support chips + lens | Sensor + lens possible, but additional support chips common |
| Relative R&D cost | Lower | Higher |
| Relative system cost | Depends on Application | Depends on Application |
| Performance | CCD | CMOS |
| Responsivity | Moderate | Slightly better |
| Dynamic Range | High | Moderate |
| Uniformity | High | Low to Moderate |
| Uniform Shuttering | Fast, common | Poor |
| Uniformity | High | Low to Moderate |
| Speed | Moderate to High | Higher |
| Windowing | Limited | Extensive |
| Antiblooming | High to none | High |
| Biasing and Clocking | Multiple, higher voltage | Single, low-voltage |
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Good tax Heavens
Photos taken with Google's Nexus 10
| Dimensions: | 2048 x 1536 pixels |
| File Name: | IMG_20121026_044712_0.jpg |
| File Size: | 836.54K |
| Camera: | Nexus 10 |
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Some comments are like: amazing. However, from the picture available EXIF data (above) it is obvious that picture size is taken at only, 3.1M pixels. Future camera however could hit 12M pixel size but you will need some finger work enlarging to see all pixels available.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Licence to kill: Who aproves the killings?
We can't kill all ours enemies !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: But, why with so strong army we do have so strong enemies and weak economy, instead of just opposite? Because believe me or not, no one asked for it.
Revealed: Everything on Google at its Android event on October 29
Revealed: Everything on Google that will unveil at its Android event on October 29
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 10 inch Nexus seems a big next thing.
Come in: Light on Google's Lenoir NC data center
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Win7 + SP2 = Win8: The End of Win 7 patching on February 2013 !
No more patches support after that date ! Why? Obviously, you have Win 7 SP2 quietly renamed to Win 8 !!!!
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: February? WTHF? Well, it is extremely important to sell of old Win 7 based computers during the Christmas. Win 8 certificated boards will support UEFI instead of 30 years venerable backward compatible BIOS.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: February? WTHF? Well, it is extremely important to sell of old Win 7 based computers during the Christmas. Win 8 certificated boards will support UEFI instead of 30 years venerable backward compatible BIOS.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Doomsday missile
Boeing's new missile CHAMP otherwise known as the Counter-electronics
High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project. It automatically
disables PCs and other electronic devices as it soars through the skies,
using a burst of powerful radio waves—and it was successfully tested last week.
"This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare. In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.... [W]e made science fiction science fact."
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: What about response option when enemy keeps their version of that projectile (CHIMP) underground and when OUR the first troops or aircraft arrive , launch it and left US without GPS, tablets, computers, radio devices. Even watches, unless they are completely mechanical ! ALone in the middle of the battlefield AND in front of the blood thirsty enemy.
Someone missed the fact that enemy control computers are shielded in Faradey's cage, and immune to microwaves (remember only an aluminum foil in your microwave oven !) Proof? Well , after the mission, CHAMP are heading back to their base !.
However, here is a remedy: If that missile can trough the backdoor disable all enemy equipment, that is another story !
"This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare. In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.... [W]e made science fiction science fact."
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: What about response option when enemy keeps their version of that projectile (CHIMP) underground and when OUR the first troops or aircraft arrive , launch it and left US without GPS, tablets, computers, radio devices. Even watches, unless they are completely mechanical ! ALone in the middle of the battlefield AND in front of the blood thirsty enemy.
Someone missed the fact that enemy control computers are shielded in Faradey's cage, and immune to microwaves (remember only an aluminum foil in your microwave oven !) Proof? Well , after the mission, CHAMP are heading back to their base !.
However, here is a remedy: If that missile can trough the backdoor disable all enemy equipment, that is another story !
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
NAND hits the 10nm bottom !
SAN can't see any scaling down beyond 14nm !
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Friday, October 19, 2012
First computer passed Turing AI test !
Dear Author,
Thank you for your contribution to the Advances in Pure Mathematics (APM). We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript:
ID : 5300285
TITLE : Independent, negative, canonically Turing arrows of equations and problems in applied formal PDE
AUTHORS :Marcie Rathke
has been accepted. Congratulations!
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Look at the certificate above ! University of Southern North Dakota :)
Thank you for your contribution to the Advances in Pure Mathematics (APM). We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript:
ID : 5300285
TITLE : Independent, negative, canonically Turing arrows of equations and problems in applied formal PDE
AUTHORS :Marcie Rathke
has been accepted. Congratulations!
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Look at the certificate above ! University of Southern North Dakota :)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Religion vs IQ
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Did anyone investigate hardware based religion and IQ relation?
Nissan steer-by-wire cars set for showrooms by 2013
Nissan steer-by-wire cars set for showrooms by 2013
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Liquidpiston-unveils-its-ultra-efficient-small-diesel-engine
LiquidPiston unveils its ultra efficient, small diesel engine
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IBM claims first with Hadoop data security suite
Google's Spanner
Spanner is Google’s scalable, multi-version, globally- distributed, and synchronously-replicated database. It is the first system to distribute data at global scale and sup- port externally-consistent distributed transactions. This paper describes how Spanner is structured, its feature set, the rationale underlying various design decisions, and a novel time API that exposes clock uncertainty. This API and its implementation are critical to supporting exter- nal consistency and a variety of powerful features: non- blocking reads in the past, lock-free read-only transac- tions, and atomic schema changes, across all of Spanner.
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Server adoption cycle
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PQI WiFi card alone without microSD, costs $50
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
20 years later: Billion people now own a smartphone
Why Google and Amazon could end up cooking their own chips ?
Why Google and Amazon could end up cooking their own chips
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Pirate cloud
The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from
several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move
will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually
invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure.
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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age —
a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the
kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir,
North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture
factories. Now it’s the home of a Google data center.
There are 49,923 servers operating in the Lenoir facility
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There are 49,923 servers operating in the Lenoir facility
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15mm Ultrabook design details
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Google's Nexus 7 32GB Wifi tablet !
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X86 gains server , but gains losses in PC market
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Is a Wireless Data Center Possible?
