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Chinese websites call for large-scale
weekend protests against Japan (AFP)

Chinese websites call for large-scale
weekend protests against Japan (AFP) 04/14/2005 01:50 AM
AFP - Chinese anti-Japanese websites and Internet discussion forums called for a second wave of massive protests against Japan this weekend in cities across the country.

Hardy Instruments Introduces A Dual
Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module

Hardy Instruments Introduces A Dual
Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module 12/24/2004 12:14 PM
Hardy Instruments' Dual Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module is a PLC style module for use with Allen-Bradley® MicroLogix™ 1500 and CompactLogix™ controllers. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

The Scale of Scale

The Scale of Scale 04/13/2005 08:15 AM

Two awesome bon mots in a fant astic post by Jeff Jarvis:

"Scale doesn't scale anymore."

and

"Aggregation is the new scale."

This is what I was talking about five years ago, when I described syndication as an over-arching business model in a Harvard Business Review article. At that point, although we had blogs and RSS, the other precursors for the revolution Jeff ably describes weren't yet in place. Now they are.

Ever since I started Supernova, I've tried to explain why decentralization was such a critical trend. Now it seems that lightbulbs are going off in many places. As Jeff summarizes:

"The old days of big players in the economy collecting consumers, audience, distribution, manufacturing efficiency, buying power, or capital in the grip of centralized control are waning. That used to be the way to find efficiency and size. That used to be the way to scale. But they are being foiled by our new distributed world. And they are being replaced by a more efficient means of finding size and efficiency."

Exactly.

Can The Internet Scale Up?

Can The Internet Scale Up? 12/22/2003 02:55 PM
Carnegie Mellon has just taken $7.5 million NSF money to look at ways to build the next generation of the internet. The article here includes some interesting quotes from Carnegie Mellon professor Hui Zhang, going against the popular theory that the internet can continue to scale the way it's been built - saying that the complexity of growing this system and keeping it running are becoming overwhelming. From the article, it sounds like he's suggesting we go back to a circuit-switched style network where connections are point to point rather than just tossing everything into the cloud and letting the routers figure it all out. This certainly seems to go against the way many people believe the internet should work, and would lend itself to a much more controlled internet (which governments and certain corporations might like), but sounds like it would be much less useful for actually innovating and getting stuff done.

The Scale of Horror

The Scale of Horror 12/28/2004 02:51 PM
We use the word "disaster" too casually, but some events warrant the word. That's the case with the simply horrific scale of death and destruction in south Asia from the earthquake and tsunamis. The tens of thousands who will have died when the counting ends are the immediate tragedy. But their numbers are dwarfed by literally millions of people whose lives have been turned inside out by this disaster. They must be the world's focus now. We must all do what we can to help. As noted, I've sent some money to the Red Cross. I'm making another donation today, this time to Doctors without Borders, an organization I've praised here before. There are many others doing valuable work. (Here are some helpful links.) The people of south Asia need us, right now, and these organizations are the best quick way for us to do something useful. Please, please give generously.

A Sense of Scale

A Sense of Scale 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
A visual comparison of various distances. From the height of the Shuttle's typical orbit to the distance Earth travels in one second .. website showing reletive scales

falstad.com/scale
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IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale

IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale 08/13/2004 06:17 PM
At one time or another, nearly every kind of information technology has been judged and found wanting. The failures are often summed up in that most damning of epithets: ?It doesn?t scale.? The reason, of course, is that at one time or another, for one reason or another, every kind of information technology has failed to scale.

Making RSS Scale

Making RSS Scale 09/06/2004 10:26 AM
I've been meaning to write about this since I saw a one-page article on the subject of RSS clogging websites' bandwidth in NewScientist back in June. But it wasn't until I saw this Slashdot story on the same subject that I knew I had to get my thoughts down. A lot of sites are suffering from a big problem — they are being systematically hammered by RSS newsreaders for new material at regular intervals. When I first came across RSS around two years ago and did some reading up on it, it sounded like another interesting protocol for a nonproblem. I wondered what was wrong with just refreshing a "What's new?" page. (I have a natural scepticism towards new and exotic protocols.) Nonetheless, after RSS established a niche in the realm of informing us, rolling news style, of new network content, I recognised its usefulness in this situation. I did still feel that its design was suboptimal, no matter how many thousands of bloggers now relied on it.

It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale

It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale 11/20/2003 12:40 AM
This sounds like the biggest toy train set in the world: Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. use Wi-Fi to remotely control their engines in trainyards. You can't make this stuff up. Less amusing and more interesting, the company wants to look into opening up their private microwave network to public cellular and data communications as a way to provide service in underserved areas....

Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica

Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica 05/28/2004 09:12 AM

This B-52 is a scale model, but it is powered by tiny real turbine engines. It also flies in the air.

More pictures and movies at the ScaleRCHelis forum.
Read [ScaleRCHelis via BoingBoing]

Web-scale bookmark manager

Web-scale bookmark manager 06/17/2004 02:15 AM
Hyperlinkomatic is a new web-based bookmark manager that tries to scale up your favorites list to something that can cope with the modern, ginormous web. Link

InfoWorld: IT Myths (#6 - IT Doesn't
Scale)

InfoWorld: IT Myths (#6 - IT Doesn't
Scale) 08/20/2004 08:31 AM
From PHPEverywhere:

1/5 Scale Sherman Tank

1/5 Scale Sherman Tank 03/16/2003 07:18 AM
terrorists will blast you open and run you down with tanks .. Man builds son scale working tank .. pics and construction timeline .. the 1/5 scale Sherman tank .. Panzer .. tank

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Tipping the scale on scaling

Tipping the scale on scaling 07/03/2004 01:20 PM
PHP vs. Java: the war continues, this time in terms of which language scales best. Of course, most of the people who make this distinction don’t even know what scaling means—or, at least, don’t agree on the meaning of the terms. My perspective is that George, of all, got ...

Scale Model Web Sites

Scale Model Web Sites 01/28/2004 01:12 AM
When you think scale models, you probably think about railroading, right? You probably don't think about doll houses, ships, wargaming, or paper models. Now you can think about all of...

Off-scale food photoshopping

Off-scale food photoshopping 05/07/2004 03:35 AM
Today's Worth1000 contest: photoshop foodstuffs to that they appear comically large or comically small. Link

Siemens Scale by Porsche

Siemens Scale by Porsche 09/13/2004 04:38 PM

Is it just me, or does it seem like F.A. Porche is designing everything these days, like laptops, and hard drives, and - oh hey - a kitchen scale. This Siemens-built scale looks nice enough, but nothing special, so it sort of dilutes the brand cachet, doesn't it? It's like that damn Ferrari laptop that Acer makes - if it weren't for the nice red paint job on that thing (well, and the badge) you'd never know it had a thing to do with Ferrari.

Oh, you guys need a code, don't you. There's one in this post.

IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x

IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x 02/07/2005 01:23 AM
Slashdot Feb 6 2005 10:23PM GMT

CRM software on a smaller scale

CRM software on a smaller scale 04/12/2004 04:52 PM
InfoWorld writer reviews ACCPAC and Maximizer, both aimed at small and midsize companies.

Yet Another Weekend Is Upon Us...

Yet Another Weekend Is Upon Us... 04/15/2005 01:10 AM

... so, what have you done this week for the goodness of the world? :-)

Not Everyone Has a Bad Weekend

Not Everyone Has a Bad Weekend 09/26/2004 05:18 PM

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IE Weekend

IE Weekend 04/19/2004 05:50 AM

I didn't do anything except work this weekend on an IE toolbar for a client.  Much of the time was spent on pushing pixels around to try this look and that effect.  Still, it's not state of art GUI because Win32 alphablending functions are not supported on all the platforms.  I won't be doing much animation either.  Just no time and no room.

Thankfully, the visuals are mostly done and I can move on to messing with IE's COM objects and events.  Lots of joy there (eyeroll).  I would rather design new technologies and lead special teams on hot projects but being a consultant means having to do what clients ask for.  I sure hope rest of you had a better weekend than me.

What a weekend!

What a weekend! 04/19/2004 11:05 AM
My wife scored some new office furniture at a warehouse sale. The deals where unbelievable so you can guess what...

No weekend

No weekend 05/28/2004 05:06 AM
You know... I have nothing planned for the weekend (except for the optional regular events). It feels so strange - I don't think I've had a zero weekend for months. Rest will do some good, I'm sure.

Though, knowing myself, I'll probably end up coding some sorely missed JSPWiki stuff regardless of the weather; sitting in a dark room and becoming generally obsessed with finally releasing 2.2 :-)

Weekend fun

Weekend fun 07/31/2004 07:10 PM
Been having a stag party. Not mine, though, contrary to some rumors. Pretty much traditional stuff, except that a) I have not slept since Friday (39 hours up straight I think - I opted for quality time with Outi over sleep, I think I'm going for my record here), and 2) the weather has been tossing some surprises our way. Suffice to say that we have been very wet.

Sleep now.

So like, what did we do this weekend?

So like, what did we do this weekend? 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
Well, for one we went to a wedding in sweden… My mothers cousin, who lives near stockholm got married.. On...

Wow, A Weekend!

Wow, A Weekend! 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Amazing. I just spent a weekend without touching the computer for longer than 15 minutes. This is a rare thing...

This weekend...it better be!

This weekend...it better be! 12/05/2003 11:20 PM
Ow my ass. I didn't think I was going to take a spill on a double toe today. And I...

Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture

Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture 04/28/2004 01:21 PM
Charles C. Mann has written a new Wired article that offers an intriguing overview of the latest research into automated, open ocean aquaculture. Robot caretakers would manage giant, floating fish farms that would drift between continents. This approach could eliminate problems of previous attempts at large-scale aquaculture which relied on fixed pens near the shoreline which produced huge amounts of pollution, lowered the values of shorefront real estate, and frequently failed due to overcrowding of the fish. For more information on this new project, visit the University of New Hampshire Open Ocean Aquaculture Project website.

Swiss scale down e-government plans

Swiss scale down e-government plans 06/03/2004 10:29 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 2:13PM GMT

The Torino Impact Hazard Scale

The Torino Impact Hazard Scale 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Torino Impact Hazard rating of 4

neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale.html
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New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to
1,024 CPUs

New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to
1,024 CPUs 07/15/2004 05:16 PM
SGI is building an Altix supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that the agency plans to use for weather-data analysis, simulations of black-hole collisions and large-scale events in the evolution of the universe.

"New Near Earth Object has a 4 on the
Torino scale!"

"New Near Earth Object has a 4 on the
Torino scale!" 12/25/2004 11:30 PM

Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations

Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations 05/15/2004 05:41 AM
Slashdot May 15 2004 9:51AM GMT

Large Scale Collaborative Editing

Large Scale Collaborative Editing 10/30/2003 02:45 PM
An anonymous reader writes "3D17.org is a website designed to allow large-scale collaborative document editing. Unlike tools like Wiki, any changes made to a ...

Bush to scale back on re-election ads

Bush to scale back on re-election ads 04/15/2004 02:23 PM

Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab

Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
According to a BBC News article, nanotechnology researchers at the University of California's NanoSystems Institute in Los Angeles have created tiny robots powered by living muscle tissue. The scientists took heart cells from rats and combined them with tiny silicon and plastic "skeletons". The muscle cells attach to the specific points on the hardware and begin to grow and function as muscles, moving the two-footed cyborgs around. Are the tiny robots alive? Professor Carlo Montemagno, one of the researchers, says, "They're absolutely alive. I mean the cells actually grow, multiply and assemble - they form the structure themselves. So the device is alive." For more, see also an older article in New Scientist.

Scale of African slavery revealed

Scale of African slavery revealed 04/23/2004 02:47 AM
Human trafficking is a problem in almost all African countries, says a report by the UN Children's Fund.

Attogram scale can weigh viruses

Attogram scale can weigh viruses 04/15/2004 01:10 PM
This new scale can detect mass differences of an attogram (10^-18 grams)

"The nanoelectromechanical device used by Craighead and colleagues consists of an oscillating cantilever made from a small wafer of silicon 4 microns long and 500 nm wide. When a small particle is absorbed onto the wafer, it alters the frequency at which the wafer vibrates. The team was able to monitor this change by measuring laser light reflected off the wafer, which then allowed the mass of the particle to be calculated."

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