Dont trust that Internet will always work
Never knew such things can happen.. Suddenly many many people stop getting disconnected from many many other people. Internet has become so critical now, that such things can possibly cause havoc!
Never knew such things can happen.. Suddenly many many people stop getting disconnected from many many other people. Internet has become so critical now, that such things can possibly cause havoc!
I dont know much about this -- but seems like the DEC had the best of the microprocessor designers.. The high flowing companies like Sibyte, Cavium, and now PA Semi, (and many others in the middle) had people from DEC.
His one discussion with some other bigshot, might be a good read for people interested in Processor VLSI.
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=75
This film on ifilm is extremely hilarious. Would make sense if you have seen the film The Shining (1980)/:
It was designed by ps260, who have an extremely well made flash on their website.
iTalk is for adding voice recording functionality to an iPod.
I was reading its page: iTalk - Griffin Technology: and in the list of Top 5 uses of iTalk, Griffin Technology sneaks in this very funny one. Ofcourse, that sure is one way to use it, (and even I might use it that way), but is still funny:
- record your next disagreement - then play it back and prove you were right!
This CNET article talks about a very interesting piece of information -- chip designers sometimes put drawings of various things (cartoon characters, gods, animals, etc) on chips, and the drawings are very thing -- less than 1 mm, generally in a few thousand nanometers. The images can be found on the web page, rightly called Silicon Zoo:
Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo.
The Rediff Interview/ Dr Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak is a well known authority on Ancient Indian History, as seen by his histroy page.
This is a very nice blog: its 5-6 authors constantly keep finding good blog posts from MANY desi blogs throughout the day.
You can subscribe to its RSS.
Landed up here from desipundit's main author patrix's own personal blog:
which is an excellent blog by itself.
This article:
Benefit of Team Work: Sam Pitroda
may seem trivial, but I now think that it consists of excellent practical wisdom; and something that I have experienced in my recent time in the US.
It is a must read for Indians. (and especially Indians in the US will be able to appreciate it completely.)
It is no unknown fact, that immigrants and their kids do very well in the US.
Immigrants' Kids: Nation's Brainy Superstars
I think, somehow the "work-hard" ethic (remanant of adverse societal conditions back in their home countries) combined with the richness and individual opportunity of the United States (which is now more in a have-fun and self-express ethic) results in a winning combination.
We say so much that India is ahead in Chess. In the top 100 players of the world, India has already 3 in.
But, we Indians are unaware that US is actually 3rd in Chess, while India is 15th. And US has around 5 players in the top 100.
A man designs an apparatus to breathe in water by using water separated from water.
George Dantzig, had solved two unsolved mathematics/statistics problems, mistaking them as homework problems.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: College (The Unsolvable Math Problem)
Interesting Story.
Trevor Blackwell made his own Segway - with great description of how he built it.
Amazing...!
Cryonics: Alcor Life Extension Foundation attempts to preserve the human body after death by doing cryppreservation, in the hope that future technology will be able to repair the human body back to normal health. It has already 50+ patients cryopreserved, and 500+ alive customers.
This Technology Review article talks about a man's claims that biological immortality will be achieved within our life times.
4 excellent articles on how China (and India) is underbidding the US on price..!
http://businessweek.com/magazine/toc/04_49/B39110449china.htm
There is a smaller editorial article in the same businessweek issue which sums up things:
http://businessweek.com/magazine/toc/04_49/B39110449china.htm
How can such an excellent magazine (if u want to subscribe to One magazine, subscribe to businessweek) give such excellent articles away for free on their website?
This seems a good way to start doing some time pass.
http://indianbloggers.blogspot.com
You can read various Indians' blogs from various parts of the world.
Some UCLA Geophysicist had predicted in April 2004 that an earthquake atleast of power 6.4 will strike Southern California before Sept 5, 2004.
Hmm, did the prediction work?
The list of worthwide significant earthquakes shows only one significant earthquake in california in this year, which is the one that occurred on September 28.
Well, if this one is considered as the earthquake he predicted, the prediction went wrong for many reasons
Another earthquake prediction gone awry.
what the heck,
Yahoo! Search's page (http://search.yahoo.com) is now almost a mirror of Google. (http://google.com).
I would have thought of Yahoo as one of the last companies that would run out of ideas and just copy pages from another website!! (well they have a different search engine itself from Google though)