The Scale of Scale
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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 PMHardy 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]
A Sense of Scale
A Sense of Scale
01/16/2004 01:04 PMA 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
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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.
SCALE 3x Next Weekend!
SCALE 3x Next Weekend!
02/06/2005 01:09 AMThe speakers include: Kevin Foreman (General Manager Helix Project -
Real Networks), Jon "maddog" Hall (Linux International), Larry McVoy
(CEO - BitMover), Marc Hamilton - (Sun Microsystems) , and...
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Can The Internet Scale Up?
Can The Internet Scale Up?
12/22/2003 02:55 PMCarnegie 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 PMWe 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.
IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale
IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale
08/13/2004 06:17 PMAt 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.
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 AMThis 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....
Scale Model Web Sites
Scale Model Web Sites
01/28/2004 01:12 AMWhen 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...
CRM software on a smaller scale
CRM software on a smaller scale
04/12/2004 04:52 PMInfoWorld writer reviews ACCPAC and Maximizer, both aimed at small and
midsize companies.
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 ...
InfoWorld: IT Myths (#6 - IT Doesn't
Scale)
InfoWorld: IT Myths (#6 - IT Doesn't
Scale)
08/20/2004 08:31 AMFrom
PHPEverywhere:
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.
1/5 Scale Sherman Tank
1/5 Scale Sherman Tank
03/16/2003 07:18 AMterrorists 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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Web-scale bookmark manager
Web-scale bookmark manager
06/17/2004 02:15 AMHyperlinkomatic 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.
LinkHumongoid 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]
IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x
IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x
02/07/2005 01:23 AMSlashdot Feb 6 2005 10:23PM GMT
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.
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Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations
Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations
05/15/2004 05:41 AMSlashdot May 15 2004 9:51AM GMT
Swiss scale down e-government plans
Swiss scale down e-government plans
06/03/2004 10:29 AMZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 2:13PM GMT
Speakers and Sponsors Join SCALE 3x
Speakers and Sponsors Join SCALE 3x
12/17/2004 06:44 PMMany new speakers have been added to the SCALE 3x lineup:
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Scale Model B-52 Eats Dirt
Scale Model B-52 Eats Dirt
09/07/2004 06:46 AM
Remember that awesome scale-model B-52 with real working
jet engines? Yeah, it sort of crashed. But hey, at least there's a
video! (Thanks, Gecko!)
Read -
B-52 Flight Video (WMV) [TeamBananaUK]
Related
Flying Jet-Powered Scale Model Concorde
[Gizmodo]
Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica [Gizmodo]
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 PMSGI 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.
SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs
SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs
07/18/2004 12:02 PMDo Mesh Networks Scale? Two Views
Do Mesh Networks Scale? Two Views
07/06/2004 03:22 PMThe head of a mesh company argues mesh networks don't scale -- and one
of the folks behind an open-source mesh software project examines the
argument: MeshDynamics sells a multiple-radio solution for mesh
networking, and the head of the firm wrote a brief article explaining
why single-radio mesh networks can't work beyond a very small
deployment. I asked Sascha Meinrath of the CUWiN project for his
feedback on Francis daCosta's comments. Sascha writes: While I do
think that Francis daCosta brings up some potential pitfalls to
wireless mesh networks, the doomsday picture he presents is based on a
flawed understanding of how mesh networking topographies work. I'll
explain below: deCosta wrote: 1- Radio is a shared medium and forces
everyone to stay silent while one person holds the stage. Wired
networks, on the other hand, can and do hold multiple simultaneous
conversations. 2- In a single radio ad hoc mesh network, the best you
can do is (1/2)^^n at each hop. So in a multi hop mesh network, the
Max available bandwidth available to you degrades at the rate of 1/2,
1/4, 1/8. By the time you are 4 hops away the max you can get is 1/16
of the total available bandwidth. This problem exists only when all
tranceivers within a mesh topography "see" each other. And herein is
the flaw in the argument. Within a mesh network Request To Sends
(RTSs) do silence nodes within range; however this degradation moves
in waves--so if part of a mesh consisted of 7 nodes (of which G is
connected to the Internet): A----------------->
------B-----------------> ------------C-----------------> | Internet
Connection Here's what would happen. A would pass a packet to B; when
B passed a packet to C, A couldn't talk--thus the 1/2 reduction in
throughput; when C passed it to D, the same problem would occur for
both A & B (thus a 1/4 throughput); likewise for D to E (because D
would silence A, B, & C), thus a 1/8th throughput. However, when E
passes a packet to F, A is unaffected, when F passes a packet to G,
both A & B are unaffected. Thus, in this solution, throughput
would theoretically max out at 1/8th (which is probably still much
more throughput than the average Internet connection--where the usual
bottleneck resides). What this really points to is the need for power
control in radios (which is something that CUWiN wants...
Phishermen attack on a viral scale
Phishermen attack on a viral scale
08/10/2004 10:58 AMScam email levels rise dramatically
Sybase Database, Tools Scale Up
Sybase Database, Tools Scale Up
08/16/2004 01:00 AMSybase expands the capabilities of its DBMS and development tools to
ease application integration.
Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture
Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture
04/28/2004 01:21 PMCharles 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.
Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab
Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab
02/01/2005 10:05 PMAccording 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.
FMORG, a small scale MORPG
FMORG, a small scale MORPG
12/08/2003 06:03 PMJust Added!!
Scale of African slavery revealed
Scale of African slavery revealed
04/23/2004 02:47 AMHuman trafficking is a problem in almost all African countries, says a
report by the UN Children's Fund.
Personal Touch, Grand Scale
Personal Touch, Grand Scale
03/14/2005 05:23 PMHow does a salon extend the comforting intimacy of a one-to-one
relationship to the largest possible number of potential customers?
“That’s the secret of growing any salon business,” says
Manuel Benevich — a secret to which his $3.5-million Gary Manuel
Salon, voted the “Best Salon” by readers of Seattle
magazine, seems privy. [Mar 09, 2005]
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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(Via
ZZZ)Bush to scale back on re-election ads
Bush to scale back on re-election ads
04/15/2004 02:23 PMThe Torino Impact Hazard Scale
The Torino Impact Hazard Scale
12/25/2004 05:00 PMTorino Impact Hazard rating of
4
neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale.html
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Large Scale Collaborative Editing
Large Scale Collaborative Editing
10/30/2003 02:45 PMAn 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 ...
"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 PMNetIQÂÂ’s Chariot Goes
Internet-Scale
NetIQÂÂ’s Chariot Goes
Internet-Scale
07/04/2004 06:00 AMEntmag.com - Sun Jul 4, 09:33 am GMT
Scale and move photos in books in iPhoto
5
Scale and move photos in books in iPhoto
5
02/05/2005 10:14 PMI'm sure others will discover this soon enough by accident as I did,
but I haven't seen in mentioned anywhere else yet...
If you double-click a photo on a book page, a slider will appear above
the photo, allowing you to scal...
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