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Friday, July 20, 2007

Pollution in China - pic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jul/18/china.pollution?picture=330216042

McDonald’s Strange Menu Around the World

http://www.trifter.com/Practical-Travel/Budget-Travel/McDonalds-Strange-Menu-Around-the-World.35517

Fitzy's Wicked Pissah Webcast 7/20/07

It's a Van Damme Friday


Faster File transfer

Aria using FastTCP to speed up transfers

Aria, a new product from California-based startup FastSoft, speeds up the transfer of any large file over the Internet, without requiring hardware or software on the receiving end. According to Dan Henderson, FastSoft's vice president of product and market development, a 700-megabyte movie file that takes 50 minutes to download regionally via a cable-modem connection can be downloaded in 34 minutes if the sender uses Aria. Overseas transfers show a bigger difference, with the same 700-megabyte movie taking nearly eight hours to download from Asia via a cable modem, and about 45 minutes with Aria.

Caltech researchers designed FastTCP, the algorithm behind Aria, to improve on Reno(Normal TCP protocol). In academic trials, Henderson says, FastTCP has set data-transfer records, transferring data at a sustained rate of 101 gigabits per second. That's equivalent to transmitting the contents of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19073/

Higher Capacity Flash memory.


Metal nanocrystals can more than double memory capacity

Flash memory is in nearly every handheld gadget, from digital cameras to iPhones. Now Nanosys, a startup based in Palo Alto, CA, says it has found a material that can double the capacity of flash memory found in conventional chips by adding self-assembled metal nanocrystals to the flash manufacturing process. Nanosys, which has shown that the tiny particles of metal are compatible with today's manufacturing processes, has deals with flash makers Intel and Micron Technologies and expects that metal nanocrystals will be in products as early as 2009.
The new technology could be a boon to the rapidly growing flash industry. The capacity of electronic memory has steadily increased over the years, tracking with Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip will double every two years. However, the dimensions of individual memory cells in flash chips are only shrinking in the horizontal direction, and not the vertical direction, due to material and physical constraints.

This day in Tech


July 20, 1969: One Small Step for man ... One Giant Leap ... for mankind


Shanghai Maglev train 267 mph- solid

http://www.windingroad.com/videos/

Go to June videos and choose Chinese Maglev train

Chismillionare is amazed at why we can't get this built stateside?