1   | Tablets vs. traditional notebooks submited by musidelas in Hardware |
The advantages and disadvantages of tablet PCs are highly subjective measures. What appeals to one user may be
exactly what disappoints another. The following are commonly cited opinions of the tablet PC platform:
Advantages
• Usage in environments not conducive to a keyboard and mouse such as lying in bed, standing, or handling with a
single hand.
• Lighter weight, lower power models can function similarly to dedicated reading devices like the Amazon Kindle.
Source: http://www.touchscreen-phone.org/2010/08/tablets-vs-tradi...
Quantum Computing Reaches for True Power + The Pioneers of QC
Among other important tasks of quantum photonics there is a problem of building an interface between atoms and light photons. Joint think-tank of physicists from Russia and United States studies how single photons interact with quantum objects and has already built a prototype device for transferring information from an atom to a photon. The device is an integrated chip in an artificial atom with a fibre port. The simplest application of future device is a memory cell, as for more complicated things, this device can become a single-photon transistor, working on the level of individual quanta, for building complex logic systems..
Online Databases that Define Our Planet
Back in April, we looked at an ambitious European plan to simulate the entire planet. The idea is to exploit the huge amounts of data generated by financial markets, health records, social media and climate monitoring to model the planet’s climate, societies and economy. The vision is that a system like this can help to understand and predict crises before they occur so that governments can take appropriate measures in advance. There are numerous challenges here. Nobody yet has the computing power necessary for such a task, neither are there models that will can accurately model even much smaller systems. But before any of that is possible, researchers must gather the economic, social and technological data needed to feed this machine
Are You living in a computer simulation?
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
How to Speed Up Internet Connection and Mozilla Firefox + free tools
Sometimes speeding up Internet is a simple question of upgrading your plan or changing your service provider. However, sometimes even users who are paying for high speed Internet access can experience surprisingly slow Internet connection. Fortunately, there are ways to speed up Internet without having to change your ISP or buying a more powerful computer. Here are some tips on how to speed up your Internet connection without too much hassle.
The internet as a metaphor for God?
In her ground-breaking study of human identity in the age of the Internet (Life on the Screen), Sherry Turkle reports that numerous computer users she has interviewed talk of their online experience in spiritual terms. In these narratives people tell her that computer networks “resonate with our most profound sense that life is not predictable. They provoke spiritual, even religious speculations.” She cites one interviewee who concludes: “To me, it’s God coming together with science, and computers have made it all possible.”
