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August 02 IBM to Use AMD Processors in New Servers (PC Magazine)SAN FRANCISCO - IBM, the world's largest technology services company, on Tuesday is announcing new server computers giving businesses access to computing power typically used by universities and large corporations.
The five systems, set to be unveiled at a New York briefing on Tuesday, use microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which has been making inroads against industry leader Intel Corp. The systems promise more computing power but are more energy-efficient and generate less heat than earlier machines. They also cost less than comparable high-performance systems, IBM said. The announcement is a boost for AMD as it hopes to maintain momentum against a raft of new chips from Intel. Dell Inc., the world's biggest personal computer maker, in May said it planned to use AMD's Opteron processors in high-end server computers by the end of the year, ending a 22-year exclusive relationship with Intel. "Opteron offers a very high level of performance that is being adapted more and more for mainstream business applications," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Research in Hayward, California. AMD Chief Executive Hector Ruiz is scheduled to attend the New York briefing, along with Bill Zeitler, head of IBM's systems and technology group. International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, New York, faces tough competition in the server market from Hewlett-Packard Co., the leading global server vendor by revenue in the first quarter, according to market researcher IDC. Both companies had about 28 percent of the worldwide server market in the first quarter, but IBM's revenue share fell 3.6 percent while Hewlett-Packard's share was little changed. Sun Microsystems Inc. grew the fastest of the major vendors, with a 5.8 percent revenue gain and 10.8 percent of the global server market, IDC said in May. IBM started using Opteron processors in 2003, but sold them mainly to high-performance users such as universities and research centers, King said. The systems also have been used by large insurers for sophisticated risk modeling and loss simulations, he said. "What's happened in the last two years is there's been an increasing intersection of high-performance computing and commercial business applications," King said. Businesses can put the new IBM systems to use in an array of applications, from intensive data processing to running Web sites, King said. They are also suited to delivering video and television over the Internet. IBM expects to start selling the new servers in the third quarter, when it will also announce pricing. May 18 Apple moves all laptops to Intel
March 01 Microsoft plans iPod media rival
حقيقة الرافضةمع الأسف الشديد انه يوجد من مسلمي هذا العصر من يجهل حقيقة الرافضة، فيعدهم إخوانا، ويحسبهم أنصارا، ويطمئن لهم، ويأمن جانبهم، ويصدق أقوالهم وادعاءاتهم، ويعتقد أن الفرق بيننا وبينهم، فرق خفيف ويسير، وأن الخلاف معهم ليس إلا على أمور فرعية فقهية، وربما خدع البعض بما يجري من محاولات للتقريب بين أهل السنة وطائفة الرافضة، طائفة الرفض والشر
والحقيقة المرة هي أن الرفض قد أطل على كل بلد من بلاد الإسلام وغيرها، بوجهه الكريه، وكشر عن أنيابه الكالحة، وألقى حبائله أمام من لا يعرف حقيقته، مظهرا غير ما يبطن، ديدن كل منافق مفسد ختال، فاغتر به من يجهل حقيقته, وخدع به من لا يعرف عقيدته، بل إن الرافضة في هذا العصر، قد صار لهم حكم ودولة، وسلطة وقوة، فأظهروا بالأقوال حرصهم على الدين، وعلى نصرة المستضعفين من المسلمين وحاولوا التقرب لأهل السنة، والتودد إليهم، وجهدوا في سبيل كسب ودهم وثقتهم، وإخفاء الحقيقة عنهم، حقيقة مذهبهم، وعقائدهم، ومكرهم وخداعهم، وحقدهم الأسود على أهل السنة
ومن أجل هذا الخطر المحدق، والأمر المقلق، وجب التنبيه والتحذير، وكذا التعريف ببعض عقائد القوم، وأقوال أئمة السلف الصالح فيهم، لئلا يغتر بهم من لا يعرفهم، ولكي يفيق ويستيقظ من كان مخدوعا بضلالاتهم، وكذبهم ومكرهم وخداعهم.
Just want every friend to read it I just copied it from http://www.islamway.com/ January 28 The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis has received a $600m (£337m) boost from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.The campaign, backed by more than 400 organisations worldwide, aims to treat 50 million people in the next 10 years. Launching the plan with UK Chancellor Gordon Brown and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr Gates said it was a "chance to save 14 million lives". Mr Gates has already committed $300m to the programme, but the total cost of the plan will be $56bn over 10 years. On Thursday, Mr Brown had told parliament that the UK would contribute £41.7m ($75m) to tackle tuberculosis in India, as part of the new plan to fight the disease. The programme was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "Every 15 seconds somebody dies of TB, avoidably, preventably," said Mr Brown. Global epidemic Innovations in finding treatments for diseases like TB had to be assisted by finance ministers around the world providing innovative ways of financing such programmes, he said. Mr Brown and Mr Obasanjo pledged to push for making the fight against TB a priority for the G8 group of industrialised countries and the African Union respectively. "The Global Plan is fundamental for Africa, where tuberculosis was declared an emergency by 46 countries in 2005," Mr Obasanjo said. Marcus Espinal, in charge of the TB programme of the World Health Organization, predicted that "we will break the back of the global TB epidemic". With 15 diagnostic tests and 28 new medicines in development, it should be possible to revolutionise the treatment of tuberculosis, shrink treatment time and beat drug resistance, he said. A tuberculosis vaccine could be developed by 2012, he predicted. Mr Espinal said it was poignant that the programme was launched in Davos, once famous around the world for its TB sanatorium and setting for Thomas Mann's book The Magic Mountain. The plan aims to implement one of the United Nations' Millennium Goals, which called for a halt in the spread of TB and progress in reducing incidences of the disease by 2015. The Global Fund hopes to spend about $47bn on TB treatment and control, and $9bn on research and development. December 21 Company Says Clerk Urinated Into SodaA convenience store worker has admitted urinating into a soda bottle, causing a customer who drank from it to become violently ill, his bosses say. Publix Super Markets spokesman Dwaine Stevens said the accused employee, who works at a Pix Convenience Store in Deltona, was suspended after the company learned of the incident this week. An internal investigation is being completed. Lab tests done by Publix on the contaminated Mountain Dew confirmed the soda contained urine, Stevens said. The supermarket giant owns the Pix chain. "It is an isolated incident done by one of our associates," Stevens said. "Whatever measure is necessary, it will be executed and the employee will be dealt with." Publix has not filed a criminal complaint but the option has not been ruled out, Stevens said. The victim, a foreman with a Daytona Beach construction company, became suspicious of the drink after he chugged the beverage last week, his attorney, Daniel Newlin, said "He vomited three or four times afterward," said Newlin, who did not release his client's name in order to protect the man's privacy. Newlin said that upon the advice of an infectious-disease doctor, the victim was being tested for diseases such as gonorrhea and hepatitis C. "We're hopeful that the person who did this wasn't carrying any sexual, or otherwise, virus that could cause him harm," Newlin said. "Unfortunately, the doctors were very concerned." November 09 HD DVD YA ABA GAHLHD DVD (High Definition Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical media format which is being developed as one standard for high-definition DVD. HD DVD is similar to the competing Blu-ray Disc, which also uses the same CD sized (120 mm diameter) optical data storage media and 405 nm wavelength blue laser. HD DVD is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, and (most recently[1]) Microsoft, and Intel, and may be non-exclusively backed by four major studios: New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros..
Overview: HD DVD has a single layer capacity of 15 GB and a dual-layer capacity of 30 GB. Toshiba has announced a triple-layer disc is in development, which would offer 45GB of storage. This is smaller than its primary competitor Blu-ray Disc, which supports 25GB for one layer, 50GB for two and 100GB for four, but HD DVD proponents point out that multi-layer Blu-ray discs are still in development. The surface layer of an HD DVD disc is 0.6 mm thick, the same as DVD but thicker than the Blu-ray Disc's 0.1 mm layer. The numerical aperture of the optical pick-up head is 0.65, compared with 0.6 for DVD. Both formats will be backwards compatible with DVDs and both employ the same video compression techniques: MPEG-2, Video Codec 1 (VC1, based on the Windows Media 9 format) and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
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November 02 Xbox 360 Games Will Not Use HD-DVDJapan's chief of Xbox operations, Yoshihiro Maruyama said that while a version of the Xbox 360 console which can read HD-DVD discs is a possibility, the next-generation DVD standard will never be used for games on the platform. His comments were made to Enterbrain's Famitsu Xbox magazine in an interview, where he expanded on a statement made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates back in June regarding the potential for a HD-DVD enabled Xbox 360. His statement could be reasonable considering that that Microsoft couldn't change the media it's shipping games on halfway through the life cycle of a console, leaving owners of the DVD version unable to play HD-DVD games. The Xbox 360 will be equipped with a DVD drive by Toshiba. October 30 Wisconsin cat sails to FranceAPPLETON, Wisconsin (AP) - When Emily the cat went missing a month ago, her owners looked for their wandering pet where she had ended up before - the local animal shelter. This week, they learned Emily sailed to France. Lesley McElhiney now figures her cat went prowling around a paper warehouse near home and ended up in a cargo container that went by ship across the Atlantic Ocean and was trucked to Nancy, a city in northeastern France near the border with Germany. Employees at a French lamination company found her in the container, checked her tags and called Emily's U.S. veterinarian, John Palarski. "It probably had access to food and water," Palarski said. "I doubt if it went three weeks without it. There must have been a lot of mice on the boat." "Even if it was in the cargo department, you would assume there was water down there. She had to have something." Palarski faxed the cat's vaccination records to French authorities to help remove her from quarantine but the family is wondering exactly how they will retrieve the pet. Emily will need a health certificate from France to return home and she will have to go through quarantine again on entering the United States, Palarski said. "The only thing we can think right now is buying a plane ticket," McElhiney said. "She already cost us some the first time we got her from the humane society. She's getting to be an expensive little thing." October 28 Tropical Cloud 'Dust' Could Hold The Key To Climate ChangeScientists at the University of Manchester will set off for Australia this week to undertake an in-depth study of tropical clouds and the particles sucked up into them to gain further insight into climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer.
The research will take place in Darwin, Australia as part of a major international field experiment to study transport by tropical thunderstorms and the type of high-altitude clouds they produce. Manchester's research will focus on the analysis of tiny particles, known as aerosols, which determine cloud properties. Aerosols include materials like desert dust, sea salt and other organic materials which are drawn up into the clouds from the earth's surface. These particles control the physics of the clouds and can have a dramatic effect on the climate. The aim of the experiment is to gain a better understanding of the kind of aerosol particles and gases which are injected by the storms into the Tropical Tropopause Layer, a poorly-understood region of the atmosphere sandwiched between the main tropical weather systems and the stratosphere above. Data will be collected by two planes carrying high-tech monitoring equipment at different altitudes through a series of storms over a four month period. The data will then be used to create computer models of the clouds and the chemicals contained within them. Professor Geraint Vaughan, of the University's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, who will lead the study, said: "The tropics drives global atmospheric circulation, so it is extremely important for us to understand how atmospheric processes operate there. "Deep thunderstorms are a major feature of tropical weather, but their overall effect on the transport of material to high levels is poorly understood. This is important because it helps determine the composition of the stratosphere and the kinds of clouds which form high in the atmosphere." He added: "If we can understand the nature and composition of these clouds, we will be able to use this information to help predict future climate change." The research is being undertaken as part of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) £1.6 million ACTIVE project. The research team will use the Australian Egrett aircraft and the NERC's Dornier aircraft to measure chemical and aerosol which are drawn into and expelled from tropical storms. The measurements will be interpreted using cloud-scale and large-scale modelling to distinguish the contribution of different sources to the Tropical Tropopause Layer. October 25 Xbox 360s plan to intergrate everything"In an interview with IGN, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Chief Architect J. Allard said he wants to work with competitors on the XBox 360. From the interview: 'I'm pro consumer on this one to the end,' says Allard. 'Anybody in my company who thought this was a bad idea to plug in Sony or Apple devices into this thing, I ended that conversation pretty quickly. This is the right thing to do for consumers. Once they invest $500 in their digital media library, you can't ask them to go buy a 360 music player and a 360 digital camera, and a 360...NO! They got their stuff. They're going to want to plug it in. We're going to be open here, guys. And if anything, I wish we could be more cooperative with the other companies that are doing those things. And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360," I'm on it. I think it would not be in anybody's interest to say, we're not going to work with 360. It's good for them, it's good for us, and it's good for consumers.'" October 24 Your Brain Cells May 'Know' More Than You Let On By Your BehaviorWe often make unwise choices although we should know better. Thunderstorm clouds ominously darken the horizon. We nonetheless go out without an umbrella because we are distracted and forget. But do we? Neurobiologists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies carried out experiments that prove for the first time that the brain remembers, even if we don't and the umbrella stays behind. They report their findings in the Oct. 20th issue of Neuron
"For the first time, we can a look at the brain activity of a rhesus monkey and infer what the animal knows," says lead investigator Thomas D. Albright, director of the Vision Center Laboratory. First author Adam Messinger, a former graduate student in Albright's lab and now a post-doctoral researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md. compares it to subliminal knowledge. It is there, even if doesn't enter our consciousness. "You know you've met the wife of your work colleague but you can't recall her face," he gives as an example. Human memory relies mostly on association; when we try to retrieve information, one thing reminds us of another, which reminds us of yet another, and so on. Naturally, neurobiologists are putting a lot of effort into trying to understand how associative memory works. One way to study associative memory is to train rhesus monkeys to remember arbitrary pairs of symbols. After being shown the first symbol (i.e. dark clouds) they are presented with two symbols, from which they have to pick the one that has been associated with the initial cue (i.e. umbrella). The reward is a sip of their favorite fruit juice. "We want the monkeys to behave perfectly on these tests, but one of them made a lot of errors," recalls Albright. "We wondered what happened in the brain when the monkeys made the wrong choice, although they had apparently learned the right pairing of the symbols." So, while the monkeys tried to remember the associations and made their error-prone choices, the scientists observed signals from the nerve cells in a special area of the brain called the "inferior temporal cortex" (ITC). This area is known to be critical for visual pattern recognition and for storage of this type of memory. When Albright and his team analyzed the activity patterns of brain cells in the ITC, they could trace about a quarter of the activity to the monkey's behavioral choice. But more than 50 percent of active nerve cells belonged to a novel class of nerve cells or neurons, which the researchers believe represents the memory of the correct pairing of cue and associated symbol. Surprisingly, these brain cells kept firing even when the monkeys picked the wrong symbol. "In this sense, the cells 'knew' more than the monkeys let on in their behavior," says Albright. And although behavioral performance is generally accepted to reliably reflect knowledge, in fact, behavior is heavily influenced -- in the laboratory and in the real world -- by other factors, such as motivation, attention and environmental distractions. "Thus behavior may vary, but knowledge endures," concluded Albright, Messinger and their co-authors in their Neuron paper. The other co-authors are Larry R. Squire, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine, and Stuart M. Zola, director of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. October 21 XBOX unexpected holiday gift.When Microsoft's Xbox 360 is released in December, PC users will get an unexpected holiday gift. A cross-platform gaming controller called "Xbox 360 Controller for Windows" will also be released. The separately sold controller will be compatible with both the Xbox 360 and the PC. The controller's included nine-foot break-away USB cable and Windows drivers will allow users to enjoy the force-feedback vibration and familiar buttons on their PCs. The Xbox 360 Controller for Windows will retail for about $40. October 19 Windows Update to Support XboxMicrosoft today announced at the DigitalLife conference in New York City the availability of a new software update for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The update Rollup 2 will enable customers to stream digital music, videos, photos, and standard and high-definition television and movies from Media Center PCs to any television in their home via the Xbox 360 gaming system. Microsoft's update to the Media Center Edition of Windows will add the capability to stream digital media - music, videos, photos television and movies - from Media Center PCs to any television or device via Xbox 360. Company executives discussed plans to build the software earlier this year. Microsoft already allows customers to stream media through devices it calls Media Center Extenders, and it has in the past sold a kit to make Xbox work with Media Center PCs. But the new software will make Xbox a peer in such arrangements and will for the first time include the ability to stream high-definition content. Xbox 360 consoles with special Media Center Extender technology will ship later this year. The move could help promote sales of both Xbox and Media Center PCs, as Microsoft continues to link its products into a larger home entertainment plan, which still relies on the PC. "The strategy here is quite simple. We want to create an environment based on Windows that will give consumers...the ability to take their content to any device that was connected back to a Windows PC. (Adding) the Xbox 360 is just the next evolution of that vision," said Brad Brooks, senior director of product management in Microsoft's Windows client division. "In past extender experiences, we haven't been able to bring over the full navigation, 3D graphics and (user interface) experience on a Media Center. With an Xbox 360 you get all of that," he said. The software update, called Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, will support external DVD changers, so that users can manage up to 200 movies through Media Center interface, Brooks said. Media Center-supported DVD changers will be available beginning this year. In addition, a new feature, called Away Mode, adds a consumer electronics-like on-off function to Media Center PCs. Away Mode enables the system to silently perform unattended tasks ? such as recording TV shows and streaming content to Media Center Extenders ? in a low-power mode that makes the PC appear off. Away Mode will be available on select new Media Center PCs in upcoming months from partners Acer, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Gateway, HP, Phillips, Samsung and Shuttle. Microsoft will also add new DVD-burning capabilities and will add support for additional high-definition TV tuners. Updates to the Sonic Solutions DVD burning engine will improve the performance and capabilities of DVD burning in Media Center Edition. Consumers will be able to convert high-definition TV shows to standard definition and burn to a DVD all in one step, as well as burn to a DVD from other PCs on their home network. Update Rollup 2 adds support for one more HDTV tuner, meaning it will support up to four tuners: two analog and two ATSC high definition. U.S. customers will be able to use two NTSC (analog) capture boards and two ATSC (digital) capture boards. This will enable personal video recording of two shows at the same time, broadcast as either ATSC digital TV (480p) or high-definition TV (720p/1080i). Microsoft also plans to announce new deals with content providers to develop programming available to Media Center users. New to the list are: additional MTV and VH1 content, along with MTV Overdrive and a broadband video channel; the AOL Pictures digital photo service and AOL Radio featuring XM; the Akimbo Service, which offers more than 5,000 programs from the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery, as well as Major League Baseball playoff games; and two gaming services: Game xStream and Discover Games. The software update will be available as a free download for Media Center users on Friday from the company's Windows Update site. New PCs with the updated software installed should arrive at retailers by this weekend September 16 Nokia introduces visual radioSORRY THE LAST BLOG WAS EMPTY SO HERE IT IS FROM NOKIA
 Nokia Mobile Phones will showcase its Nokia 7700 Media Device during this weeks MIDEM music trade show in Cannes. It is Nokia's first dedicated media phone, a new type of device with a completely new look, and bursting with properties, Finish daily Helsingin Sanomat reports. The Nokia 7700, already announced last year, is the first mobile phone that can receive digital TV transmissions, using the new DVB-H standard. But Nokia's presence at MIDEM has to do with another service it hopes to introduce to the music industry, called Visual Radio. With Visual Radio the listener will not just receive the FM sound signal, but also images and text on the LCD handset display screen. If a radio station is playing a number by Finnish band The Rasmus, then up on screen there might be an image of the band's singer Lauri Ylönen, and the name of the song or its current chart listing. As part of a pilot network in the Greater Helsinki area researchers are currently examining how well video and audio can be streamed to mobile devices, such as Nokia's newest device. Full test transmissions with video are scheduled to start in the autumn. That venture is a collaboration between Nokia and the commercial TV broadcasters MTV3 and Nelonen, telecoms operators Radiolinja and TeliaSonera, and the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Meanwhile, Kiss FM (part of SBS Broadcasting) has already started testing Visual Radio in Helsinki and its affiliate Radio City (classic rock) may soon follow. In the future, the radio transmissions would still be free, but listeners would have to pay for the visual content. September 12 Visual radioAugust 24 Intel Reveals Details of New CPU DesignOn the next generation of Intel CPUs. I feel like a blonde bimbo reading this über geek stuff -- I have no clue what the article is going on about, but I'm inexplicably getting hot at the same time. Kind of like reading a refrigerator manual in French to a trailer park bimbo. This dual-core CPU design will, as we've reported, support an array of Intel technologies, including 64-bit EM64T compatibility, virtualization, enhanced security, and active management capabilities. Intel says the new chips will deliver big improvements in performance per watt, especially compared to its Netburst-based offerings. (...) The first implementation of the architecture will not include Hyper-Threading, but Intel (somewhat cryptically) says to expect additional threads over time. I don't believe that means HT capability will be built into silicon but not initially made active, because Intel expressly cited transistor budget as a reason for excluding HT. On the memory front, the new architecture is slated to have the ever-present "improved pre-fetch" of data into cache, and it will also include what Intel calls "memory disambiguation." That sounds an awful lot like a NUMA arrangement similar to what's found on AMD's Opteron, but I don't believe it is. This feature seems to be related to a speculative load capability instead.. August 09 Bob Novak Curses, Storms Off CNN Set Bob Novak lost it during a debate with James Carville on CNN. In the midst of a discussion about Katherine Harris's Senate prospects, the following exchange took place:Novak: Just let me finish what I’m going to say, James, please. I know you hate to hear me — Carville: He's got to show these right-wingers that he's got a back bone, ya know? Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. You show 'em you're tough… Novak: You know I think that’s bullshit. And I hate that. Just let it go. Novak then pulled off his mike and stormed off the set, prompting CNN to suspend him indefinitely. |
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