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POPSTouch Screen Back in 1998/99, myself and a co-worker were brainstorming on computing ideas. We came up with an idea for a computer screen that would act like a kiosk of sorts, for the elderly. Realizing that there was a need to keep in touch and up to date with technology, it 'felt right' to bring something like touch screen for the elderly or those that could not type, into age (pun intended). Our idea was to set up these kiosk style monitors in senior assisted/non-assisted homes; on campus clubhouses, etc so anyone could send email and play a few games. Easy stuff that would not be intimidating or difficult to learn. Idea blown away when presented to our employer as not 'marketable enough.' About 3 weeks ago, I walked into Sam's Club; the computer section. A round table was set up with HP Touchscreen monitors. Curios, I walked over to inspect and could not get close enough except to watch. Persons much older than myself standing around the table, playing games by touching the scre
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POPSEvolution An excerpt from Raymond Kurzweil's "The Law of Accelerating Returns". 2001.
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POPS45th Mersenne Prime Revealed As for the next prime number record waiting to be crunched, the EFF will award $150,000 to the first person or group who discovers a prime with at least 100 million digits and $250,000 for a prime with at least a billion digits. You can download the GIMPS distributed computing software and join the hunt here .
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POPSIBM CloudBurst This is what the big and not so big companies are needing to secure a safe business procedure and have optimized solutions in some of its aspects.
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POPSEconomists Search for New Definition of Well-Being
"GDP has increasingly become used as a measure of societal well-being and changes in the structure of the economy and our society have made it an increasingly poor one," Stiglitz told the news agency Bloomberg in a recent interview. "So many things that are important to individuals are not included in GDP." In the model they unveiled last week in Paris, the academics recommend including other factors, such as sustainability and education. Significant Shortcomings Even the inventor of the gross domestic product measure, the late Russian-American economist Simon Kuznets, was aware that the classic method of computing GDP had significant shortcomings. "The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income," he said in 1934. This is because the growth rate says nothing about the distribution of wealth in a country, the state of health of its citizens or their life expectancy. The number provides no information about the cleanliness of rivers or the amo
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POPSIBM CloudBurst Answers to cloud computing questions. A blog on cloud computing and IBM CloudBurst. This site aims to ‘uncloud your mind’ to help you arrive at the truth about cloud computing. You can start by asking anything about the topic, and we will provide the best answer using the most current information.
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POPSCloudburst… have you encountered such a thing? Answers to cloud computing questions. A blog on cloud computing and IBM CloudBurst. This site aims to ‘uncloud your mind’ to help you arrive at the truth about cloud computing. You can start by asking anything about the topic, and we will provide the best answer using the most current information.
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POPSUncloud This is a very helpful test coz it gives us an idea of what cloud computing is and what it is not.
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POPSHacking :The Next Generation With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures,...
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POPSWill Azure Beat Chrome Windows Azure, codenamed “Red Dog” is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. It was launched by Microsoft in 2008. It is currently in Community Technology Preview. Commercial availability for Windows Azure will likely be at the end of calendar year 2009.Google and Amazon have their infrastructure already setup for the cloud computing software therefore Microsoft also jumping on the bandwagon. The new operating system provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manages Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.
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