No word from ET (yet) but some useful data that could help solve one the great mysteries about star formation The Allen Telescope Array, a few hundred miles north of San Francisco, is one of the world’s most unusual and innovative radio telescopes. When completed, the facility will consist of 350 dishes , each just 6 metres in diameter. This provides it with a huge angle of view of some 2.5 degrees, some 17 times larger than its nearest rival
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First Results From The Allen Telescope Array
About a month ago, a friend of mine revealed that his bank account had been compromised and that an unknown person or persons had conducted a foreign telegraphic transfer to wire a significant amount of cash he had deposited in one of the country’s leading….. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros
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A mysterious object that ejects dust like a comet but orbits like an asteroid could be a new class of object in the Solar System In 1996, astronomers identified an extraordinary object orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the region best known for its asteroids. And yet this body, called 133P, defied description: it had the orbit of an asteroid and yet was emitting dust like a comet
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The Puzzle Of The Half Comet-Half Asteroid
The absence of alien probes visiting the Solar System places severe limits on the number of advanced civlisations that could be exploring the galaxy. The Fermi Paradox focuses on the existence of advanced civilisations elsewhere in the galaxy. If these civilisations are out there–and many analyses suggest the galaxy should be teaming with life–why haven’t we seen them
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Fermi Paradox Points To Fewer Than Ten ET Civilisations
A series of mysterious observations of objects within the Solar System could indicate the existence of exotic new physics. At the end of the 19th century, astronomers discovered that the perihelion of Mercury, its closest point to the Sun during its orbit, was slowly advancing in a way that could not be explained by Newtonian physics. The anomaly was small, so tiny that most believed that a simple explanation would soon be found.
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The Puzzle of Astronomy’s Unexplained Anomalies
Improving the resolution of MRIs without increasing rf field strengths is an important breakthrough Magnetic resonance imaging is an extraordinary tool but it has important limitations. For example, the spatial resolution of this technique is not generally good enough for breast imaging. Of course, the spatial resolution can be improved with higher strength fields.
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Metamaterial improves resolution of MRI scans
Mathematicians have discovered how to divide a cake fairly among three people Mathematicians love a good cake so it is hardly a surprise that the problem of how to cut and apportion a Victoria sponge, say, has severely exercised them. Today, cake lovers will be excited to hear of another significant breakthrough. The problem is this: how do you cut a cake and divide it fairly among n people when each person may have a different opinion of the value of each piece?
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The surprisingly complex art of cake cutting
A couple of weeks ago, the Malaysian government ignited a controversy when it reversed a five-year-old government policy that sought to teach Science and Math in the English language at primary and secondary schools, and reverted back to teaching the two subjects in the national….. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions
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One step forward, two steps back?
The way data centers devour resources could be dramatically reduced by embracing “virtual cloud” computing. And Wikipedia may be the perfect testbed The popularity of cloud computing is rising faster now than at any time in the past. And it’s no wonder; using services and applications based on the internet rather than on your own computer makes sense when links are so fast and reliable.
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Community Clouds Could Prevent Data Centers Destroying the Planet
DATE: July 21st, 2009 I came across an interesting article by KPMG on how the Indian firms have been slow in their penetration of the Chinese markets ( LINK ) . Granted that the markets in China are some of the toughest markets for anyone, be in Indian firm or Western firms to establish a presence in, it still brings about an interesting point on how global truely are the Indian outsourcing firms ? Based on the recent earnings by the Indian outsourcing firms – TCS, Infosys ,looks like these firms have managed to weather the economic storm and with prudent cost management have managed to stabilize.
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Can the Indian outsourcing firms be ever global ?
New terahertz detecting technology could make “intimate” body-search-at-a-distance cameras as cheap and easy as conventional video shots Terahertz radiation fits into the electromagnetic spectrum between the infrared and microwaves and can be used for all manner of extraordinary things: medical imaging–terahertz waves can penetrate a short distance beneath the skin and so spot tumours; surveillance–terahertz waves pass through most types of clothing allowing “intimate” body searches at a distance and even real-time spectroscopy in which molecules are identified by the way they reflect short pulses of terahertz waves. So how best to create and detect terahertz waves? We’ll leave the creation aside and talk in this post about the detection of terahertz waves for real-time video images.
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Terahertz Transistor Could Usher in Era of Cheap Surveillance Video Cameras
If a strange excess of positrons hitting Earth are created by dark matter, then the way that the moon blocks these impacts could help confirm the idea. The earth is constantly bombarded by high-energy positrons and electrons. These bombardments generate showers of secondary particles that light up our skies at night, if you have the right equipment to see ‘em: so-called imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.
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Cosmic Ray Moon Shadow Could Reveal Dark Matter
While Manila is home to most business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, the Philippines’ Queen City of the South, otherwise known as Cebu City, has been bolstering the country’s outsourcing industry as well. Cebu City is the second largest city in the Philippines, which means that there’s a great deal of labor pool that is yet untapped. The city is an antithesis of Manila: Cebu is embellished with tranquil waters and lush green hills.
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Philippine Cities Making Strides in Outsourcing
In several posts over the last couple of months (see Continue Reading below for four of them), I have mentioned that now is the perfect time for smaller firms to approach in-house counsel at larger corporations for business. Some of those reasons include: Rates are more reasonable; In-house lawyers are more cost conscious; More flexibility when it comes to alternative fees; Greater value from partners vs. inexperienced associates in larger firms; Fewer conflicts of interest problems; and Some BigLaw partners are moving to smaller firms
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Some Thoughts About Pitching In-house Counsel for Business
Reid Trautz, one of the blogosphere’s pioneers at Reid My Blog , has a helpful piece in the current issue of the ABA’s GPSOLO Magazine where he shares a “few management ideas that, through a small investment of time , can have the biggest impact on clients, office productivity, firm profitability, and your quality of life.” Many of them would apply no matter what size your firm. His main point is that with all the pressures on lawyers today – billing, business development, family demands/desires, managing your practice, and personal self-time – some simple management ideas could keep the best of us from burning out. Specifically, Trautz provides his ideas in five areas: Client Service, Financial Management, Marketing, Technology, and Office Systems and Processes.
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Simple , But Smart Ideas to Improve Your Practice
Some stuffed shirts try to ram a knee-jerk reaction to customer-data threats down your throat but you’re not having any of it but the conversation’s not going so well until all of a sudden the CFO steps up and supports you and as a team you unstuff the shirts and put them back on their hangers and get the company back on track and then head to the cafeteria for lunch where you of course will pick up the tab and life is good for at least a couple more hours right?
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Business Technology: A Trip To The Cafeteria–With The CFO!
In Part 2 of our three-part series, as you try to determine which technology vendors are tactical suppliers versus those that are strategic business partners, consider this: Do they talk only about scalability and manageability and reliability, or do they talk about nimbleness and agility and opportunity? Do they emphasize their ability to help you maintain competitive advantage, or do they help you conceive and build new and more-valuable competitive capabilities for the future?
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Business Technology: IT Transformation: Two Companies That Get It
Small- and medium-sized businesses today have unprecedented opportunities to become deeply engaged in global business by aligning themselves closely with large organizations that are eager to have smaller partners work with them around the world on the condition that those partners follow tightly proscribed requirements for technology standards, business processes, product and service quality, and speed.
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Businesses Technology: Killer Businesses, Hubs of Commerce, And The IW Fall Conference
Would you be ready if an absolutely strategic customer told you it wants you to be a major supplier for an enormous new product-development project, but you’ll have to switch immediately and completely to the customers’ software for planning, purchasing, design, review, and manufacturing? Not to mention some new customized features that will be rolled out for the very first time with this project?
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Business Technology: One Question Remains: Will You Be Ready?