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Metrics
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
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photoacoustic detection, which uses a laser to make cells vibrate and ultrasound techniques to pick the sound of cancerous cells.
only ten melanoma cells in a blood sample
DNA Computer
“It’s similar to the invention of the first microchips with hundreds of logic gates.”
The system needs between 2 and 30 minutes to compute each move and a second machine is required to translate the fluorescent signals generated each time into a move in the game.
A DNA logic gate consists of a strand of DNA that binds to another specific input sequence. This binding causes a region of the strand to work as an enzyme, modifying yet another short DNA sequence into an output string.
What Web Numbers are Real ?
the impression that online advertising is the most dependably trackable ad medium of all time
Independent traffic analysis becomes more important advertising flow online and the threat of “click fraud,”
Spend time on site
Ajax isn’t the only technology that’s upending traditional Web measurement.
RSS, lets people sign up to have news articles, blog posts, or audio interviews from their favorite sites sent directly to their computers. But since they aren’t surfing around, none of the sites gets credit for the page view.
Part II
widgets don’t direct you back to Meebo’s site, they don’t show up in the Meebo traffic figures.
Example, an Italian shopping mall site can achieve higher ranks than financial sites for the phrase “home equity loan.” A search at Google for “home equity loan” lists an Italian shopping site on the first page of results, although there are hundreds of sites dedicated to consumer finance and that are authorities on home equity loans.
Google and Alexa will give higher credence to an Italian shopping site simply because it has more visitors, although the bulk of those visitors are not seeking a home equity loan.
8000 alleged file sharers are facing legal action, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Users 17 different countries BitTorrent, eDonkey, SoulSeek and WinMX
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. This international version of the MPAA
Spyware Upfront ?
Battlefield 2142 to Bundle Spyware?
Mandatory spyware, browser views and targeted ads
Is it better upfront and in the open
Market may decide
TiVo – the benefits of product so strong
Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox
Google in Shipping container ?
Robert X Cringley speculated
We’re talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig.
Sun – Datacenter in 20 fT steel box
needs of customers who are running out of space, power and cooling,
fast, cost-effective datacenter deployments
Other than
Production
Distribution
Storage
Use
Greenhouse gasses
Hydrogen economy great solution
90 years for petroleum economy
But good summary tradeoffs
Target date 2040
Numbers
5 x uranium production
2x coal production
$3 / Gallon Gas Equivalent
Natural gas
Coal
Wind, biomass, nuclear
Google Campus to Become Solar-powered
1.6 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power 1,000 California homes.’ This will make Google’s Mountain View campus the largest solar-powered office complex in the United States.”
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