a post by Justin, filed in Uncategorized, game, internet on April 25th, 2008. Read the full post »
Sorry that is has been such a slow month but I finally have a new article to post. It’s about a great website that I have learned about called Freerice.com. This website was first created by a man in Indiana who wanted to help his son study for his SAT. So he created a website to help him study his vocab. But now millions of people are visiting the site everyday to study their vocab, or just for fun. But the best part about the website is that when you get a word correct, the website donates 20 grains of rice to a country that is in need of food. And with millions going to the website each day, there is tons of rice being donated to needy countries. So if you’re one of those people who like to help the needy, or you just need to study for a test, go to www.Freerice.com
a post by Jeff, filed in science, technology on April 11th, 2008. Read the full post »
Cern, the birthplace of the Web, is now working on a project that will make the Web obsolete. This magnificent project is “the grid”, which supposedly is nearly 10K times faster than a typical Broadband connection, thus making the Web obsolete.
The grid project was started seven years ago by researchers at Cern. By using fiber optic cables, a “grid” is produced around the world. First, Cern is connected to eleven other centers, which then will be connected to smaller centers worldwide. Such a grid would be more organized than the Web which looks like this.
Almost like a parallel Web, the grid will provide a connection with the rest of the world as well as what we currently enjoy on the Web. Although it might be slow to become as common place as the Web, virtually anyone can hook up to the grid. It also will be extremely fast because of the high-tech fiber optic cables and routing centers that will ensure the usage of up-to-date material, thus preventing any temporization of data flow.
Ian Bird, the leader of the gridding project believes that the grid would be so fast and safe that users would entrust all of their data to the internet. This ideology of keeping information online so that it can be accessed online, ‘cloud computing’, is not new. In fact, there are many website that allow online storage, with
XDrive being one of the most convenient to use.
In fact, according to TimesOnline.co.uk, the grid could also transmit holographic images, play multiplayer games with many other players without lagging, and speed through the web with tremendous speed.
To all who had really slow internet connections or lagging servers, the grid is the savior! So if you wish to connect to the grid, starting counting down because it’s coming out after Summer ends!
a post by Josh F., filed in Other, science, technology on April 11th, 2008. Read the full post »
a post by Josh F., filed in Computer, Websites, internet, science, technology on April 11th, 2008. Read the full post »
New research in computer science has shown that information is always being lost on the web. Some of the loss of information can be attributed to problems with the server or end host. However, these cyber black holes have been found to be a common occurence. Read the rest of this entry »
a post by Alec, filed in Computer, funny, internet, piracy, program, technology on April 1st, 2008. Read the full post »
I almost thought it was a joke when I first heard about this! However, this a true story. France Sony BMG got caught using pirated Microsoft software on its servers. That isn’t the worst part though. Guess how Sony got caught? They actually called Microsoft tech support and gave them their illegal key. Can you believe these fools at Sony BMG? After they install root-kits on peoples computer and crack down and P2P and music-sharing college students they use pirated software on THEIR OWN servers. Stupid French. However they only got a fine of $450,000 which is like pocket change to a massive corporation like Sony when they are charging college students $5,000 for sharing a couple of songs.
I have two words for Sony BMG:
EPIC FAIL!
