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There was also an interesting article about this in the Washington Post's TechNews section yesterday.

duh?!? THAILAND is not all about prostition ( yes, i admit that it has been famous in such way recently ). you still can think about THAILAND in many other ways... how about THAI food? or THAI goverment that fully supportopensource

The BBC's website kicks the shit out of CNN's. They've got a nice low graphics version.

I stopped using CNN for my main news source in favor of BBC (well, and Google Headlines) some time ago. CNN is really awful.

I thought it was kind of funny at the time, how many people who live in the US are using the BBC because most of the major US news sites are bad.

technews.com is where I go for tech business news, though.

In less than 24 hours, a bill moved at lightning speed through all of congress. Thursday night just before midnight, the Senate okayed your rights to be minimized, and then on Friday The House of Representatives agreed -- just in time to knock of for lunch. technews.com, has the story about that, then follows up here about the revisions they had to all agree on. and just like that, you are now being watched by Big Brother. "In the climate today we're more concerned about security than personal privacy," says Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla), like a ridiculous line fFrom The Onion. Meanwhile, here's an interesting article about Russ Feingold (D-Wis), who is out there fighting for you and me. (btw, I reference technews a lot because no-one else seems to care about all this, yet. to argue with Congress now would probably be Un-American.)

In less than 24 hours, a bill moved at lightning speed through all of congress. Thursday night just before midnight, the Senate okayed your rights to be minimized, and then on Friday The House of Representatives agreed -- just in time to knock of for lunch. technews.com, has the story about that, then follows up here about the revisions they had to all agree on. and just like that, you are now being watched by Big Brother. "In the climate today we're more concerned about security than personal privacy," says Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla), like a ridiculous line fFrom The Onion. Meanwhile, here's an interesting article about Russ Feingold (D-Wis), who is out there fighting for you and me. (btw, I reference technews a lot because no-one else seems to care about all this, yet. to argue with Congress now would probably be Un-American.)

http://www.technews.com/news/00/159086.html

"The speed increase is thanks to subtle a twist on the solid-state memory technology that has driven computers for almost for decades. The technology is known as interlocked pipelined CMOS (complimentary metal oxide semiconductor) and will allow memory chips to reach speeds - in theory, at least - of between 3.3 gigahertz (GHz) and 4.5 GHz, using conventional silicon transistors. "

"The key to the new technology is a distributed "clock" function. In computer chips, the clock paces the speed of the circuits. Standard designs use a centralized clock to synchronize the operations of an entire chip, ensuring that all operations run at the same interval, or cycle. The clock waits for all the operations on a chip to finish before starting the next cycle, so the speed of the entire chip is limited to the pace of the slowest operation. To increase the speed, the IBM researchers decentralized the clock, using locally generated clocks to run smaller sections of circuits. Infineon says that it is working closely with IBM's New York Fishkill research operation on developing MRAM technology still further, with the intention of allowing the memory chips to function like bubble memory, which retails the computer data, even when power is removed from the chipset. "



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