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Posted on: Apr, 27th 2011
Because of the close of the last factory of typewriter (Godrej and Boyce), I'm going to talk about the distribution of the keys on a computer keyboard, because they have inhereted the distribution of its keys. This is a fateful contribution to the computer world, do you want to know why? Don't left of read the rest of:
Why that position of the keys?
Why that position of the keys?
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Posted on: Dec, 28th 2010
An investigation team of the laboratory of computational synthesis of the University of Cornell have developed a food printer. They want that one day, will be something common in the kitchen of any person. Surprise yourself with the rest of:
The food printer
The food printer
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Posted on: Jul, 20th 2010
Not a lot of time ago has been resumed one of my favourite series, Futurama, realized by Matt Groenning, the creator of the Simpson.
Between the scriptwriters of Futurama are involved several scientist that provides continuously references to the science. In this post I'm going to explain the cryptography used in the series for code some alien inscriptions. Read more of:
The Futurama code: First part
The Futurama code: First part
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Posted on: Dec, 3rd 2011
Are you thinking in buy a storage device and are you are doubting between a solid state disk (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD)? Do you want know the advantages and disadvantages of each technology? Read all about of:
SSD vs HDD: comparison of technologies
SSD vs HDD: comparison of technologies
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Posted on: May, 29th 2011
Over two hundred years ago, in 1779, Christian Kartzenstein did 5 whistles that made blew the vowels artificially. Few years after, in 1791, Wolfgang von Kemplelen presented his "Acoustic-Mechanical Speech Machine" that we could consider the first voice synthesizer because it could produce isolated sounds and some sound combinations. Finish reading:
The first voice synthesizer
The first voice synthesizer
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Posted on: Mar, 15th 2011
The same as others disciplines as mathematics, the informatics don't have Nobel prize. So a equivalent award, had to be invented in computer science, called Turing prize, in honor to Alan Turing, that did important contributions to the computer science in the beginning of it. Don't stop reading the rest of:
Turing prize (the Nobel of the computer science)
Turing prize (the Nobel of the computer science)
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Posted on: Jan, 11th 2011
According to the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), the organization that assign the IP addresses, in February of 2011 all the IP addresses will be occupied. The solution to this problem is being implanted, approximately from the year 2000 and will follow implanting during a lot of years more. This consists in replace all the software and hardware that use the IPv4 protocol to another that use the IPv6 protocol. Read more of:
What will happen when the IPv4 addresses will be exhausted?
What will happen when the IPv4 addresses will be exhausted?