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
Camera
Date Announced
Resolution
MSRP*
Sony Cyber-shot RX1
Sep 12, 2012
24.3 Mp
$2800
Nikon D600
Sep 13, 2012
24.3 Mp
$2099 (body only)
Canon EOS 6D
Sep 17, 2012
20.2 Mp
$2099 (body only)

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CCD vs CMOS sensors

Global vs rolling shutter.
PDF.
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

A hole $21 trillion deep
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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.

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 !

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 :)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Religion vs IQ

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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

IBM claims first with Hadoop data security suite
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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

 Billion people now own a smartphone
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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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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

Tablet is not the end state of computing: Intel 
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Is a Wireless Data Center Possible?

Yes, why not?

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