World Learers, attention please ....

NO for Torture

President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. Read details here

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/20/bush.terrorism.ap/index.html

Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_terrorism

Apple Shuffle: 2 prices

The well known MP3 player of Apple, the Shuffle, is now offered with two prices for the same size and quality. Which one to go for ? check the two sites below, as one is for 79 $ while the other is for only 10,000 $

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=C85D28DC&node=home/ipod/ipod_shuffle

http://www.bornrich.org/entry/ipod-shuffle-dipped-in-real-18-carat-gold/

Wearable Power

The Pentagon (US Department of Defense) pushes for wearable power; a source to drive the soldier gadget for 4 days at less than 4 kgs of weight, to support the many devices of today’s technology. Read details for the competition.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9741122-1.html

Software Patent Applications: Peer Review

How can one guarantee the blindness in this case?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office begins an unprecedented experiment this week that will allow you (yes, you!) to review software patent applications. The USPTO is hoping the wider community of programmers and engineers will do a better job of spotting bad claims and thereby prevent innovation-killing legal tussles. Read in the spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun07/5275

LED Based Sand Timer

In the past, people had no access to atomic or electronic precision clocks, so they used sand timers and other things (maybe just counting their eye blinks even before that). Now we have presice electronic timing elements and LEDs, and we are making sand timers with LEDs, now which way we are headed, forward or backward. Clecik belo to see it (or buy it if you wish)

http://livesciencestore.com/56833.html

I am not at all againt this though, I am just aksing

Attention Students: Semester in Sea

I like that, and for 17 to 30 KUSD ? ! wow, a whole semseter in sea
Let us "see" what we are going to "see". Cleck he link for slide show

http://news.com.com/2300-1033_3-6190123-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

What is your connection speed?

Many software vendors had words about the web-based software in the past, as away to control the piracy (they would say: to stay up to date) and now Adobe is taking it seriously. You can hardly run those hefty software packages from your drive, and now you need to be patient, because you have to wait for some parts to come from the Internet site. Read here
http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9692372-2.html?tag=nl.e729

Google for traffic info

Google has added traffic info to its maps, far from being full coverage and full use, but a good start. Read this on webware (link below)
http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9692556-2.html?tag=nl.e729

Tera FLOPS in your next PC

Intel fabs 80-core teraflop processor, its a concept for the 32 nm era (maybe few years to come), 3.1 GHz and 20 MB SRAM on each core. Read here
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/26/intel_teraflop_processor/

Japanese boffins show off 512-core chip, 500 MHz cores on a 300 Million transistor 17 mm x 17 mm die, promise 2 TFLOP in 2008. Read here
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/japan_512-core_co-pro/

Google is the best company to work for

Google receives 3,000 job applications aday, that is 1,000,000 a year, why? Google is being called the Utopia by some, its people feels more than home, want to know why? see this at YouTube link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHu3hXSl7M4

Aha, nvidia goes 64-bit !

Guess why ! your next graphic card will offer supercompouting processing power, hundreds of GFLOPS per card. Read the story
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/16/nvidia_cuda/

A new superjumpo; Airbus 380

German made superjumpo that can carry 853 passengers (all couch version) and 555 in 3 classes with feel-home luxury is in the sky. Read here

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/02/07/airbus.a380.reut/index.html

A fine; for using high tech gadget this time

The new yorker will pay a $100 fine for using the cell phone or the iPod while crossing the street; the public safety guyes think they might get distracted. Well, the poor new yorkers might have to visit a thirld world country where they learn how to smoke cegarrite, talk over the cell, chat with a friend setting beside, listen to the radio (and possibly reading the newsaper just to avoid reading the street signs), all at once while driving. by the way this is all free and you might get a free cigarrete. Read about the iPod ban here

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/07/nyc.ipod.reut/index.html

Intel's 45 nm process is around the corner

Ten years ago, the manufacturing process was expected to reach 70 nm by 2008, Intel will be ready for the 45 nm in 2008. It will be making in a year what was planned to be made after 6 years from now. Read more on the new step
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9681475-1.html?tag=more

Killer Tie

Gotta watch when you meet a man with a Tie, you might be taped while you talk left and rigth. Read about this

http://www.spycatcheronline.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=486

crossbar on chip

At last, the crossbar enters the chip, read it as it comes out of the inventor; HP

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2005/jan-mar/crossbar.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Can't hide anymore .....

Camero, a company out of Israel that has developed a camera that can "see" things through solid walls. Read it here

http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.html?keyword=Ultrawideband+Israel+X-Ray+Camera&tag=keyword

MacWorld Conference 2007

Steve Jobs, thanks for the iPhone concept; it’s time for many vendors to rest

Steve Jobs, your clicker did not respond at the end of the keynote speech! Why? Look at it; do you see the Apple logo on it? still wondering?

Bill Gates, the PC & Windows package is “not working”, it is not capable of catching up. Sorry, no more choices, get yourself a Mac

While I was watching Steve on the stage on my PC, the XP started the screen saver because it thinks watching a video is no activity, unless you keep monkying with the mouse and the keyboard, and the great Windows logo appeared on the screen. well, I started monkeying with the mouse as a reaction (because we have to react, why would buy the Windows then?) and the screensaver swiftly disappeared (in less than 5 seconds, thanks to the windows managing a 3 GHz Pentium, 1GB DDR2 and 128 MB NVIDIA Video accelerator). However, the poor XP did nothing after that until few tens of seconds later and Steve is back (problem is that I can not afford not see Steve that long)

Well, that maybe is not a good reason to dam a PC. Actually, I was thinking of buying a MacBook, and asked a friend of mine who is a Computer Engineering Professor and Cray Supercomputer Architect is a Dell fan, he said many of his colleagues there have MacBooks and they are extremely satisfied.

double-sided LCD

Samsung has just announced that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung's new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different pictures or sets of visual data simultaneously on the front and back of the same screen. Full story from Samsung is below, click

http://samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20070104_0000309294

Happy New Year

I wish everyone a happy new year
May Allah almighty make it a positive life turn for everyone, epecially those who can not find food or place to live