Thursday - Farewell Concorde
Blog A study claims that there is no theoretical reason preventing a working space elevator -- at its most basic, a cable connecting a geostationary satellite to earth with cars crawling up and down. The cable has to be incredibly strong -- the required...
[April 11, 2003, 17:02]
Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors
Blog As the basic mechanisms of atomic bonding were unravelled in the last century, it became clear that there were other theoretical states based on carbon's ability to form a a hexagonal honeycomb structure.
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
Hacking nature - news from the silicon/carbon interface
Blog That ubiquitous bacterium, E coli, has been hacked about and can now convert glucose to isobutanol to within 15 percent of theoretical maximum yield. Biofuels are controversial and with good reason: the industrial farming of crops to turn into fuel...
[September 14, 2008, 14:45]
A New Virtual Reality
Blog It’s not too hard to see the theoretical appeal of virtualisation. A typical virtual machine environment brings significantly reduced hardware, energy and space costs - in terms of power and cooling alone, virtual servers are reckoned to be 700-800...
[July 8, 2009, 11:01]
Portable memory makes the 'inflation basket'
Blog Every year the "inflation basket" - the theoretical shopping basket of standard products that can be used to measure inflation - gains and loses a few items. It's a good indicator of where we're at, societally speaking, and this year one of the...
[March 19, 2008, 11:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I can see the theoretical attraction, but I've got reservations. Thursday 28/10/2004 Podcasting. Does it get you hot? The idea is that ordinary people like you and me produce a little radio show on their computers, send it out over the blogosphere...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
To kill a mobile OS
Blog It was an interesting theoretical discussion. Way back in the last millennium, when I was previously focused on Mobile phone application development a representative from Nokia came to one of my Tech Ed Chalk and Talk sessions to discuss the...
[January 5, 2010, 17:42]
USB 3.0 external hard drive: Buffalo DriveStation HD-UX3
Blog USB 3.0 (or 'SuperSpeed USB' if you must use the marketing handle) takes the USB standard from the theoretical 480Mbps throughput of version 2.0 to 4.8Gbps — a tenfold increase. Hot on the heels of the first certified USB 3.0 product to become...
[September 28, 2009, 15:59]
A new spin on battery technology
Blog That this was counterintuitive is what lead to our theoretical understanding of what was really going on. Researchers at the Universties of Miami, Tokyo and Tohoku have discovered a new form of battery.
[March 12, 2009, 12:21]
Wi-Fi Security Is No Longer Secure
Blog Brute force decryption of the WPA and WPA2 systems using parallel processing has been on the theoretical possibilities horizon for some time - and presumably employed by relevant government agencies in extreme situations - but the use of the...
[October 13, 2008, 8:56]
Internet advertising surpasses TV
Blog But it seems to me that while in a theoretical world, that might well be true, in a world where there is £x to spend on advertising and the advertisers want to get the greatest return for their investment, they want to highly target their ads.
[September 30, 2009, 8:40]
Google boss thinks Paris is hot!
Blog In a press conference that lasted over an hour - including a very extensive QA - Schmidt said the Google wanted to get closer to being able to answer theoretical questions such as “Where should I go to college?
[June 19, 2007, 15:20]
Snow Leopard Server: a first take
Blog Full 64-bit memory addressing means that applications can process data sets bigger than 4GB in RAM; and as you add more RAM (up to a theoretical 16TB), the OS scales to support more simultaneous processes, threads and IP connections.
[August 25, 2009, 11:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Although impeccable from a theoretical point of view as a mechanism for filtering intelligence through the crucible of money, it was seen as incompatible with a government who equates all things terrorist with Satanic intrigue and godless...
[August 1, 2003, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No man may know how many or what they are, but advanced theoretical studies indicate it's probably between two and ten. How about this for a story? asks Tom Espiner, boy detective. He's looking at a piece on a trade website talking about how...
[May 5, 2006, 18:50]
Spintronics - new physics just keeps pouring out
Blog Once we've got a theoretical hook into it, there'll be plenty more to play with that doesn't need XMCD. Innovation, eh? Does it really mean just another smartphone with a slightly whizzier interface? Yet another x86 processor that makes servers go...
[June 7, 2009, 17:24]
Two takes on reality
Blog But to imply that either was in some way an answer to the complaints of the European Commission - that mobile phone companies are grotesquely overcharging for roaming, with profit margins almost impossible to calculate without major developments...
[July 16, 2008, 1:47]
iPass: We like embedded 3G now
Blog It's all a bit like what 3's been saying recently: mobile broadband technology has already hit the point where advertisements pushing faster (theoretical) speeds means not a lot at all. About half a year ago I had a chat with some folks from iPass...
[May 22, 2008, 16:57]
