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DATSUN Owner’s Workshop Manual [ 1971-1976 ] == :]
July 13th, 2009 / 7 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
someone is anXious abt modding his horsepowa..
SPARC64 VIIIFX = world’s pWnin’ Processor.
May 15th, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Fujitsu opened this year’s Fujitsu Forum conference by kicking Intel squarely in the groin, debuting a new processor that’s 2.5 times faster than anything the CPU giant has on offer, and one third as power-hungry.
Called the SPARC64 VIIIFX (sexy codename: “Venus”), this eight-cored slab of processor can crunch a staggering 128 gigaflops (128 billion calculations per second) . This is amazing, but irrelevant to most of us—in case you haven’t already guessed from the processor’s size and Fujitsu’s proud emphasis on its floating point calculation abilities, the Venus is destined to be clustered in supercomputers when it eventually ships, not plugged into your next custom PC build.
Fujitsu held the title of the world’s fastest CPU ten years back, but has since then been floating in the backwaters of Intel.
It looks to be used in a supercomputer at Institute of Physical and Chemical Science, RIKEN, Japan. The intended peak performance of this supercomputer was not mentioned, but tens of thousands of Venus processors is just waiting to be used before the computer will go online before the end of 2010.
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Space boomerang video – old but c00l
April 23rd, 2009 / 3 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: A video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that the objects [i.e: Boomerang] do, in fact, come back – even in the microgravity environment of the space station.
Aerodynamics expert David Caughey of Cornell says that is just what is expected – the looping paths are the result of uneven forces on the curved devices by the air they travel through – not the influence of gravity.
Words of Science originated from Scifi.
April 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
In no particular order:
1. Robotics. This is probably the most well-known of these, since Isaac Asimov is famous for (among many other things) his three laws of robotics. Even so, I include it because it is one of the only actual sciences to have been first named in a science fiction story (”Liar!”, 1941). Asimov also named the related occupation (roboticist) and the adjective robotic.
2. Genetic engineering. The other science that received its name from a science fiction story, in this case Jack Williamson’s novel Dragon’s Island, which was coincidentally published in the same year as “Liar!” The occupation of genetic engineer took a few more years to be named, this time by Poul Anderson.
3. Zero-gravity/zero-g. A defining feature of life in outer space (sans artificial gravity, of course). The first known use of “zero-gravity” is from Jack Binder (better known for his work as an artist) in 1938, and actually refers to the gravityless state of the center of the Earth’s core. Arthur C. Clarke gave us “zero-g” in his 1952 novel Islands in the Sky.
4. Deep space. One of the other defining features of outer space is its essential emptiness. In science fiction, this phrase most commonly refers to a region of empty space between stars or that is remote from the home world. E. E. “Doc” Smith seems to have coined this phrase in 1934. The more common use in the sciences refers to the region of space outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.
5. Ion drive. An ion drive is a type of spaceship engine that creates propulsion by emitting charged particles in the direction opposite of the one you want to travel. The earliest citation in Brave New Words is again from Jack Williamson (”The Equalizer”, 1947). A number of spacecraft have used this technology, beginning in the 1970s.
6. Pressure suit. A suit that maintains a stable pressure around its occupant; useful in both space exploration and high-altitude flights. This is another one from the fertile mind of E. E. Smith. Curiously, his pressure suits were furred, an innovation not, alas, replicated by NASA.
7. Virus. Computer virus, that is. Dave Gerrold (of “The Trouble With Tribbles” fame) was apparently the first to make the verbal analogy between biological viruses and self-replicating computer programs, in his 1972 story “When Harlie Was One.”
8. Worm. Another type of self-replicating computer program. So named by John Brunner in his 1975 novel Shockwave Rider.
9. Gas giant. A large planet, like Jupiter or Neptune, that is composed largely of gaseous material. The first known use of this term is from a story (”Solar Plexus”) by James Blish; the odd thing about it is that it was first used in a reprint of the story, eleven years after the story was first published. Whether this is because Blish conceived of the term in the intervening years or read it somewhere else, or whether it was in the original manuscript and got edited out is impossible to say at this point.
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Super LoiLoScope MARS
April 11th, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Japanese firm intros GPU-accelerated consumer video editor
Consumer-oriented video transcoders that take advantage of GPU acceleration are all well and good, but what if you want to do some video editing, too? The folks at LoiLo were probably trying to fill that gap when they came up with Super LoiLoScope Mars: this $69 video editor has a novel, user-friendly interface for HD video editing, and it features extensive GPU acceleration—both for the editing and encoding processes.
For folks more interested in the technical aspect, Nvidia’s press release includes a handy run-down of Super LoiLoScope Mars’ key features:
GPU accelerated H.264 encoding Movie output up to 10x faster with NVIDIA CUDA™ enabled GPUs Editing & playback of AVCHD HD movies at full HD resolution (1920×1080) Magnet output which enables output of multiple movies at once A simple new interface for saved projects Faster image editing A Search button for original files of thumbnails Support for 9 languages, including: Japanese, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and simple Chinese. Support for MP4, iPod, PSP, AVCHD, mp4 for Blu-ray, and Youtube HD movie formats
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Beware of teh CADIE — g00gle’s HOAX {1-4-2009}.
April 1st, 2009 / 6 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE)
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.
caught while reading, looked fishy, searched and here it is. lolz, enJoy teh Bluff.
more @:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google’s_hoaxes#CADIE
NEC Ending [to Quit] their PC Sales by July – 2009.
March 30th, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
NEC is killing their PC Sale by this Year’s endin’ July. Japan’s NEC Corp will halt production and sales of personal computers in the Asia-Pacific region around July, a spokesman said on Saturday, in a move that would see it pull out completely from the loss-making PC business overseas.
NEC, which has the top PC market share in Japan, last month signaled a withdrawal from the PC business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East amid slumping demand and tough competition.
NEC has warned it would post a net loss of 290 billion yen ($2.96 billion) for the business year ending this month, and is accelerating restructuring efforts, which include pulling out from weak businesses and cutting more than 20,000 jobs worldwide.
Competition with rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc has been fierce and NEC sold its retail PC business in Europe in 2006.
NEC sells about one-sixth of its annual global sales of 3 million PCs outside Japan.
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