As promised here’s a picture of my new pc for gaming (and serious development) as it left the factory.
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June 28, 2007
As promised here’s a picture of my new pc for gaming (and serious development) as it left the factory.
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Well a guy put a digital camera inside a cardboard box and rigged it so that it would snap a photo every ten seconds through a small hole in the box. Then he sent the box through the mail. It recorded a total of 6994 images and he made a movie with them. Read article [...]
Georgia Brown of Hampshire, England, has a 152 IQ and is the youngest member of MENSA. She’s two years old. Brown’s parents noticed how clever she was after she started crawling at five months, walking at nine, and chatting with people by the time she was eighteen months old. From the BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6229738.stm
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The first supercomputer capable of crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every second has been announced by IBM.
This is roughly equivalent to the combined processing power of a 2.4-kilometre-high pile of laptop computers.
Blue Gene/P will be capable of a peak performance of 3000 trillion calculations, or floating point operations, per second (3 petaflops). But [...]
The Wellington Arms pub in Southampton is fighting back against a smoking ban in England by becoming the official embassy for the Caribbean island of Redonda. If the loophole works, then the pub will be considered “foreign soil” and the ban can’t be enforced.
Redonda is a “one mile square remnant of the cone of an [...]