Super-Speed Internet on Old Phone Lines !!!

New Tech Could Allow Super-Speed Internet on Old Phone Lines !!

Gigabit internet is fast and amazing. But that ""Download entire movies in mere seconds!"" line gets real old if you, like the vast majority of the country, don't have access to those lightning fast fiber lines. But thanks to a new approach from Alcatel-Lucent, your creaky old copper phone lines might be good enough. That's a really big deal if it actually works.

Alcatel-Lucent is currently in the process of perfecting a new standard called G.fast that turbocharges existing phone lines offering fiber-like speeds over twisted copper. The new technology simply broadens the range of frequencies available on the cooper lines and cuts down on interference, enabling data to fly. Over a distance of 200 meters, it can send data as fast as 1.1 gigabits per second, though that speed drops to 500 megabits at 300 feet. This is sort of like strapping a jet engine on the back of your rickety old Volvo and driving from DC to New York in 30 minutes instead of four hours.

For now, the technology works best over the distance from the telephone pole to the house which would help internet service providers clear a serious logistical hurdle when it comes to bringing ultra high speed internet into America's homes. You see, it's much easier to install fiber optic cables along the main lines instead of having to replace the wiring at every single house. As Stefaan Vanhastel, Alcatel-Lucent's director of marketing, told the Technology Review, ""Fiber-to-the-home is obviously the most suitable technology, but you are installing new infrastructure, which requires a new installation in every home. If you want to cover an entire country, it will take 10 or 20 years to do that.""

Who wants to wait 10 or 20 years just to be able to download movies in seconds instead of hours? We can barely wait the 10 or 20 minutes it takes a damn Seamless order to get here. Luckily, Alcatel-Lucent's new technology is in the testing stages and is expected to get the green light from the International Telecommunications Union by 2015. So the next time the cable guy comes to your house and offers to clear out all that copper wiring, just say no. You can use that! Just don't let a meth head steal your internet. [Technology Review]

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THE YEAR 2014  !  or earlier ?? 

One sunny day  in June 2014, an old man approached 7 RCR New Delhi  residence of  India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. 
  He'd been  sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the guard and  said, 
  "I would like  to go in and meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.   "

The Guard looked  at the man and said, "Sir, Manmohan Singh is no longer Prime  Minister  and no longer  resides here."

The old man said, "Okay," and walked away.

The  following day the same man approached the The Lodge and said to the same  Guard, 
  "I would like  to go in and meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.   "

The Guard again told  the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday,
  Manmohan Singh is  no longer Prime Minister and no longer resides here."

The man thanked  him and again just walked away.

The third day the same man approached  the The Lodge and spoke to the very same Guard, 
  saying, "I  would like to go in and meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.  "

The Guard,  understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and  said, 
  "Sir, this is  the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Manmohan Singh.  
  I've told you  already that Manmohan Singh is no longer the Prime Minister and no longer resides  here. 
  Don't you  understand?"

The old man looked at the Guard and said, "Oh, I understand. I just  love hearing it."

The Guard snapped to attention, saluted, and said,  "See you tomorrow, Sir.”

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Minimalistic Playing Cards

JOE DOUCET’S IOTA: IT’S ALL IN THE CARDS

How low can you go? Or more precisely, how minimal can a design be and still function as a usable and attractive deck of playing cards? For Iota designer Joe Doucet the answer is – very low!

These elegant and sleekly designed cards do away with overdressed kings and queens and oversized hearts and spades in favor of a quiet elegance more suitable to our contemporary, light-filled decor. Oh, and it’s a great deal for today’s Modular Man (hint: Father’s Day is coming up!).

Joe Doucet is an award-winning, widely exhibited designer whose portfolio encompasses furniture, electronics, jewelry, fashion, toys, environments and architecture. Among his clients are BMW, Braun, Hugo Boss, Lexon, Moët & Chandon and Target. He currently holds more than forty patents for his designs and inventions.

A COLORFUL DATA VISUALIZATION OF PI - For all the Math geeks out there !

THE ART OF PI – A COLORFUL DATA VISUALIZATION

Calling all data geeks! Using Circos, a circular visualization software popular in Genomics, Cristian Ilies Vasile and Martin Krzywinski have created these vibrant representations of π, φ and e. First Cristian Ilies Vasile had the idea of connecting each digit of π to its successive digit with links to the position of the numerically corresponding segments. Martin Krzywinski added to Vasile’s visualization “by showing the transition probabilities for each digit across bins of 10 digits” and did this for φ and e as well for the first 1,000 digits, followed by the first 2,000 digits.

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Next, Krzywinski created a lovely distribution plot of the numbers using red-yellow-blue Brewer palette to map their digits and plot them on an Archimedean spiral. For more details of the project, check out Martin Krzywinski’s website.

Above: Progression of the first 10,000 digits of π by Cristian Ilies Vasile
Below: Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski

Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of π, φ and e by Martin Krzywinski

Close-up of the progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of φ by Martin Krzywinski

Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of e by Martin Krzywinski

Progression and transition for the first 2,000 digits of e by Martin Krzywinski

Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of π by Cristian Ilies Vasile

Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of φ by Cristian Ilies Vasile

Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of e by Cristian Ilies Vasile

Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of the accidental similarity number by Cristian Ilies Vasile

Distribution of the first 13,689 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski

Distribution of the first 3,422, 13,689 and 123,201 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski

Distribution of the first 3,422 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski

Distribution of the first 123,201 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski

Via: mkweb.bcgsc.ca

Bharathi Antarctic research station built from shipping containers...

The Bharathi Antarctic research station (Photo: bof artchitekten)

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India's National Center For Antarctic And Ocean Research has commissioned a brand new research station, which has been installed in the Larsmann Hills section of northeast Antarctica. The 2,500 sq m (27,000 sq ft) Bharathi Indian Polar Station was constructed using shipping containers, and allows scientists to conduct their work in safety, despite the punishing local weather conditions.

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Bharathi is India's third permanent base in Antarctica. Owing to the rules laid out in the Antarctic Treaty System, the facility is designed so that it can be completely disassembled and removed from the frigid landscape without leaving a trace.

Like Britain's Halley VI research station, Bharathi's remote location requires it to be self-sufficient for long periods of time, and able to withstand extremes in weather which include wind gusts of 200 mph (321 km/h), and temperatures reaching minus 40°F (minus 40°C).

To help meet this challenge, the building was set on stilts and its outer facade shaped (with the aid of a wind tunnel), into a form said to help forestall the buildup of snow drifts.

Bharathi comprises three floors, built using 134 shipping containers which were interlocked and covered by an insulated skin and outer shell. The containers were first prefabricated in Germany, before being shipped via Antwerp and Cape Town, and quickly assembled on-site during the short Antarctic summer of late 2011 into 2012.

The third floor features a terrace and air-conditioning system, while the second floor houses the residential quarters, with 24 single and double rooms. Alongside these are a kitchen, dining room, library, fitness room, offices, lounge, and even an operating theater.

It's all business on the ground floor, as here lie the laboratories, storage areas, assorted technical spaces, and workshop. During Antarctica's summer, Bharathi will be home to roughly 47 researchers, while in the harsher winter months this number will fall to 24.

Bharathi's energy is provided by a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit, which is powered by stockpiles of kerosene. There are actually a total of three CHP units on site, so as to ensure that an untimely mechanical failure doesn't leave the residents in dire straits.

While in operation, the CHP unit produces surplus heat, and this is sufficient to warm the building. Project partner bof artchitekten told Gizmag that wind power is also being considered as a possible future addition, but solar power was ruled out due to the long Antarctic winter's dearth of sunlight. The building is additionally outfitted with its own fresh water treatment system.

Along with bof artchitekten, the design and construction of the Bharathi Indian Polar Station included IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH and and m+p consulting. Planning began back in 2009, and it was eventually fully completed earlier this year.

The Zip Tie !!

The Zip Tie Makes Looking Good Easy

Tuesday, July 30 2013

For those who still can't figure out how to tie a tie, here's the Zip Tie – the reinvented classic necktie! Hand made in California of 100% Merino wool felt, the Zip Tie is just as simple to wear as a zip-up jacket. Looking good made easy!