PowerShell Team Blog

PowerShell Team Blog: "On Monday VMWare offically released their PowerShell cmdlets in a ship vehicle called the VMWare Infrastructure (VI) Toolkit"

How Fast Can Humans Go? - TIME

How Fast Can Humans Go? - TIME: "Bolt's step was 1 ft. longer, allowing him to cover 100m in 41 steps. The other athletes needed, on average, 47"

What Is Google App Engine? - Google App Engine - Google Code

What Is Google App Engine? - Google App Engine - Google Code: "Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users."

Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it | High Scalability

Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it High Scalability: "Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales."

NBC's $1 billion Olympic "research lab" good, not great

NBC's $1 billion Olympic "research lab" good, not great: "BCOlympics.com served 72 million video streams as of this weekend in addition to 1.2 billion web pages. That's pretty darn good for only a couple weeks of coverage, and compared to the 2.2 million video streams total from the Athens games, it's downright explosive. And it wasn't just NBC that benefited online from Olympic coverage—Yahoo came out on top, too, thanks to a number of hot Olympic stories and photo galleries over the last two weeks, according to data from Nielsen Online."

ScaleMP pools x86 servers to vie with high-end systems and clusters

ScaleMP pools x86 servers to vie with high-end systems and clusters: "vSMP Foundation Embedded, which has been on the market for 18 months and can utilize up to 16 x86 systems to create a single shared-memory system with between four and 32 processors (or up to 128 cores) and up to 1 TB of RAM."

IDF: SSD Myths and Hardcore Gamers - Tom's Hardware

IDF: SSD Myths and Hardcore Gamers - Tom's Hardware: "IDF: SSD Myths and Hardcore Gamers"

WARNING: Satan is Using Olympics Volleyball to Get Young Boys to Masturbate!

WARNING: Satan is Using Olympics Volleyball to Get Young Boys to Masturbate!: "From this day forward any member of our congregation caught watching Olympic volleyball or even mentioning Olympic volleyball will be asked to pack their belongings and find a place to live where your filthy, sinful, disgusting, depraved masturbation lifestyle is accepted!'"

Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map : Gustavo Duarte

Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map : Gustavo Duarte: "Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map"

The mythical bitmap index

The mythical bitmap index: "you have that the compressed size of a bitmap index is at most proportional to the size of your table! Irrespective of the number of distinct values!"

Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny: The New Yorker

Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny: The New Yorker: "“To do great work, you have to have a pure mind. You can think only about the mathematics. Everything else is human weakness. Accepting prizes is showing weakness.”"

Intel thinks big with solid-state drives | Nanotech: The Circuits Blog - CNET News

Intel thinks big with solid-state drives Nanotech: The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "Initially, Intel will have 80GB and 160GB solid-state drives based on multilevel cell (MLC) technology for the consumer and notebook markets, and 32GB and 64GB drives based on single-level cell (SLC) for the enterprise market. In 2009, Intel expects to have MLC drives with capacities up to 320GB.
MLC allows drive makers to build higher-capacity drives at lower cost but is not as fast as SLC nor inherently as reliable. Though SLC solid-state drives are used currently in some ultralight laptops, in most cases they will be replaced by MLC drives in future laptop models."

Our Electric Future — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

Our Electric Future — The American, A Magazine of Ideas: "We live in a world where just about everything—from a hairdryer to the Internet—runs on electricity. A big exception is the transportation sector"

IBM launches 'Green Sigma' business consulting | Green Tech - CNET News.com

IBM launches 'Green Sigma' business consulting Green Tech - CNET News.com: "IBM on Monday detailed its 'Green Sigma' consulting practice for reducing energy and water usage at businesses by using networked sensors and data analysis software."

Quantum Physics Gets "Spooky" -- Berardelli 2008 (813): 3 -- ScienceNOW

Quantum Physics Gets "Spooky" -- Berardelli 2008 (813): 3 -- ScienceNOW: "there 'really is an intrinsic connection between entangled particles, not that some signal passes quickly between them when an observation is performed.'"

Neowin.net - AMD Readies Shanghai to Battle Nehalem

Neowin.net - AMD Readies Shanghai to Battle Nehalem: "According to AMD Senior Vice President Randy Allen, the chip will ship in Q4 2008, and his company will be ready with its server products before Intel. 'They [Intel] won't be factoring our 45-nanometer Shanghai product and be making shipments of that by the end of the year,' Allen said.

However, despite much talk about how Shanghai will be competing against Nehalem, there was a notable absence of details about Shanghai during Allen's press conference, held on the eve of the Intel Developer's Forum, including specifics on performance improvements. AMD has previously said Shanghai will contain 6MB of Level 3 cache compared with the 2MB of L3 cache in the company's current crop of quad-core Opteron processors."

Intel, Facebook Sign Infrastructure Solutions Agreement - MarketWatch

Intel, Facebook Sign Infrastructure Solutions Agreement - MarketWatch: "Intel has a wealth of software engineering expertise as well as such tools as Intel VTune(TM) and Intel Thread Checker to help companies improve application performance on multi-core Intel processors. Since Facebook's applications are mostly built on open source technologies, the companies believe that some of the insights from this collaboration may be contributed back to the open source community, benefiting other companies that use similar underlying technologies."