Brinks's Observation
No armored car loaded with bags of money ever turned over and spilled its load in the street, in a good neighborhood.
Two items of late that would interest me.
- Google's new email service - Gmail
Google's new email service - as many of you would have already read in the papers, is one that will come up soon, and with its 1 GB of storage space, it will pose serious competition to the current dominators Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. Its other features including search within mail and grouping of mails as part of conversation would sure turn a few heads. Their exact quotes :
Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly recalls any message an account owner has ever sent or received. That means there's no need to file messages in order to find them again.
When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the replies to that email as well, so users can view a message in the context of a conversation. There are no pop-ups or banner ads in Gmail, which places relevant text ads and links to related web pages adjacent to email messages.
I estimate that when they start the service, a million users will probably sign up in the first day itself. What say???
- Breaking the 5 Ghz barrier
This was an article I came across recently while going through the pages of Tom's Hardware guide.
What do you think is the speed of the processor that is under the hood of the system you are using to read this ? 1.4Ghz? , 2 Ghz. Can it be more than 3.4 Ghz (thats the fastest processor that Intel has released. Using AMD. Then it cannot possibly go above 2.4 Ghz.
How much do you think your processor can be overclocked? (i.e. raising the speed of the processor). Probably a few 100 Mhz, thats it.
Then you must read this article, wherein they push a Pentium 3.2 Ghz processor past the insurmountable (until this) 5 Ghz mark, creating a new speed record for processors for Desktops (though I doubt if this setup can ever be used as a desktop :-) - See the picture below)
It uses a liquid nitrogen based cooling system in order to cool the processor and a compressor (similar to that of the refridgerator) to cool the motherboard. The processor consumes about 96 amperes of current at peak operation (For a comparison - remember ur AC - that consumes less than 15 Amperes).
Enjoy the week.
