Lego (Click)

Lego ? is this real or what ? I am afraid it is "what"
Imagine yourself getting few basic hadrware modules of your choosing, downloading pieces of software modules over the net and ... having a gadget in an hour or so ! isn't this great ? this is an emerging technology, it is real and is going to be more popular and affordable soon

Income & Tax (Click)

I have come to know some numebrs regarding the income and tax of the top offices in the US.

President G. Bush and his wife, Laura, paid $221,635 in federal taxes on an adjusted gross income of $923,807 for the year 2007, including $400,000 as president salary $150,000 advance received by his wife for the children's book she co-authored with her daughter, Jenna.

Vice President D. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, had an adjusted gross income of $3.04 million in 2007. They owed $602,651 in federal taxes on that income; paid $466,165 through withholdings and estimated tax payments, and will pay the remaining $136,486 upon filing their tax return.

I am eager to knwo what the numbers are around the world! I mean how the other presidents get their money, how much they get and how much they pay as tax (if they ever do).

Memory Nanotechnology (Click)

IBM scientists are working on a new solid-state memory technology that aims to combine the best attributes of flash, like having no moving parts, and the low cost of hard drives for an inexpensive form of nonvolatile memory that will be stable and durable.

It nanotechnology that stores information in thousands of atoms in magnetic nanowires. Electrical charge causes data to move swiftly along a U-shaped pipe (hence the name "racetrack") that allows 16 bits of data to be read or written trough a single transistor in less than a nanosecond, without moving the atoms. Cells don’t wear out like the flash memory or magnetic pets, and the capacities will even exceed that of the magnetic disk. So, more capacitive, cheaper, longer life and even less power demand, but few years of wait to be commercialized. Click the title to see it on YouTube.

The Internet ...

Joseph Weizenbaum summarizes his critical perspective on technology, he said:

“The Internet is like one of those garbage dumps outside of Bombay. There are people, most unfortunately, crawling all over it and maybe they find a bit of aluminum, or perhaps something they can sell. But mainly it’s garbage.”

After the article appeared in New York Times 1999, he wrote a letter to the Times:

“I did say that, but I went on to say: There are gold mines and pearls in there that a person trained to design good questions can find.”

This is the Internet; look at the forums, blogs and trash can like websites that you have to see when you surf unless you design good quesuions to discard most of that.