It’s not often you hear the words End of the World , Black Hole , Flying Saucer and Loch Ness Monster in the same utterance, so my interest was piqued when I heard exactly that on BBC’s The One Show tonight. Apparently, the Large Hadron Collider , a gargantuan particle accelerator in a 27Km tunnel straddling...
Microsoft has launched its World Wide Telescope project , a free downloadable education/science application from Microsoft Research. This interesting project brings together lots of disparate data sources and also references another technology that I am deeply involved in, ASCOM (or, Astronomy Common...
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Via David Overton , there's a preview of Microsoft's " SeaDragon " technology which is a way to do deep zooming on images over the Internet and streaming exactly the right amount of data into the browser for whatever zoom level you're at. The effect is sort of like Google Earth...
SanDisk is now up to 72Gb with the SSD SATA 5000 - directly equivalent to what many servers have in the form of SAS or SCSI drives, which come in 74Gb capacity. However, imagine how many of these little cards (5mm thick x 1.8 inches wide) you can fit into the space of a standard 3.5" hard drive...
I was watching the Bill Gates keynote at CES the other day when one of the presenters gave a demo of Windows Live Photo Gallery stitching together a mosaic of images into a single panorama. I have a few panoramic images so I thought I'd give it a go, and I am so impressed with it! I decided to give...
In February, while discussing Tape vs. Hard Drive backup, I speculated that if [wikipedia:Moore's Law] continued to hold, then magnetic media would be obsolete within 5 to 6 years. Then, in April, I blogged about the new 32Gb solid state memory drive being supplied in some laptops and revised my...