Explosive Fire at Sidoarjo Lapindo Muds Made ALLAH Sign
Subhanallah, the explosive fire at Sidoarjo Lapindo Muds made ALLAH Sign in Arabic letters (Lafzul Jalalah). The explosive on the Pertamina Gas Pipeline was happened on November, 22 2006.
This picture was taken by one of the PU workers (Department who assigned to manage the muds flood) who was near by the explosive. Samuel Johnson Sutanto the workers of the TimNas (National Team) take the picture using Sony Pocket Camera. He wasn’t realize that the picture he take was made the ALLAH Sign in Arabic Letters, he just take picture of the explosive from the Muds Bank near by the explosive location. Some of his friends told him that that pic really looks like ALLAH Sign in Arabic letters. He assured that the picture was original and have no modification on it.
Explosive Fire
Tiny chips flash memory advance
Samsung flash chip
Flash memory chips are used in MP3 players and digital cameras
Electronics giant Samsung has shown off what it claims is the world's most powerful chip for use in memory cards.
The 64 gigabit (Gb) chips could be used to make 128 gigabyte memory cards, commonly used in MP3 players, capable of holding the equivalent of 80 DVDs.
The chips are built using circuits with a minimum feature size of just 30 billionths of a metre (nanometre).
Rival firm Toshiba has said it is also working with similar technology. Both firms will release products in 2009.
Flash advance
Flash memory is a so-called non-volatile computer memory, primarily used in memory cards, USB drives and MP3 players.
Non-volatile memory retains information even when there is no power to the device.
Samsung said there was currently "exploding demand" for flash memory as a storage medium in a range of applications.
The new chips are designed to be used in a specific type of memory known as NAND flash.
NAND is one of two types of flash memory and offers higher storage and faster speeds than the cheaper NOR flash.
NOR is commonly used in low-end applications where smaller memory capacity and slower speeds are acceptable, such as in cheaper mobile phone handsets.
Samsung has said that a single chip could be used in an MP3 player capable of holding 18,000 songs.
Combining 16 chips would allow 128GB devices, the company said, making Flash a rival to hard drives.
"This has the biggest storage capacity of a single memory chip ever developed in the world," Kwon Hyosun of the firm told AFP.
Toshiba announced its plans to use 30nm technology earlier this month.
"Our goal is to gain an edge over rivals by supplying the most advanced chips before anyone else," a spokeswoman for Toshiba said at the time.
(BBC News)
Sony T2 Comes with a Whopping 4GB of Internal Memory
With point and shoot models overcrowding the market, Sony's new T2 is offering a feature that will certainly appeal to a large number of consumers. The Cybershot T2 has no less than 4GB of internal memory, more than most users will ever need. Regular point and shoot cameras have about 16MB or 32MB of internal memory, but Sony's T2 model probably sets a new record with the 4GB.
Moreover, the unit comes with an Album function for automatically indexing and arranging the images. The T2 has a Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom lens and 8.1 megapixels of resolution, from this point of view, the unit being a classical point and shoot model. Moreover, the model comes with a large 2.7-inch Clear Photo touchscreen display.
In a way, it's a good thing that the T2 only has 8.1 megapixels, as opposed to the latest 12MP competitors, since small sensors in cameras such as this one have a better performance with fewer photosites.
On the other hand, the lens is not such a stellar display of advanced technology. The Carl Zeiss has a 3x optical zoom with a focal range of 38-114mm and a disappointing maximum aperture ranging from f/3.5 to f/4.3. It would have been nice to be able to open up the aperture to f/2.8, at least at the wide end.
This is compensated by Sony with the Super SteadyShot optical stabilization technology that allows for slower than recommended shutter speeds to be used.
Other features include Sharemark technology and Picture Motion Browser Portable software for easy blogging and web uploads, Full HD output and PhotoTV HD display mode, on-screen ‘scrapbook’ photo arrangements, an all-metal body and ISO ranges from 80 to 3200. Don't forget the slightly ridiculous "smile shutter", which "automatically detects and captures a person smiling without the need to press the shutter". Sony says that "if there are several people in the frame, you can select the primary subject for the camera to watch by touching the screen. A sequence of up to six smiling shots can be taken without the need to manually press the shutter."
The Cyber-shot T2 will be available starting December 2007 for around $350.
(softpedia.com)
Hitachi Introduces World's Most Energy-efficient Desktop HDDs
Hitachi goes very green by implementing features to greatly reduce hard disk drive power consumption in the latest Deskstar line
It's rare to find hard disk drive manufacturers focusing on anything other than increasing the speed and capacity of its products because those are the two features consumers look for in hard disk drive products. Hitachi has taken another approach to improving its hard drives by developing drives with reduced power consumption; specifically up to a 40 percent decrease in consumption.
Hitachi introduced the Deskstar P7K500 line of desktop hard disk drives today which contain a number of technologies to reduce power consumption. The first technology Hitachi has implemented in the P7K500 line is the HiVERT technology for a more efficient conversion of voltage. This technology has been borrowed from the Travelstar line of laptop drives along with the more power-efficient profile which allows the drive to handle power saving features better than traditional desktop drives and more like today's mobile drives.
Hitachi has also implemented its Advanced Power Management capabilities which have given the Deskstar line more efficient power handling when idle for generations now. The last feature is Hitachi's patented load/unload technology explained below:
The Deskstar P7K500 line will come in capacities of 250GB, 320GB, 400GB, and 500GB. The technical details are listed below.
Hitachi plans to launch the new P7K500 line during this last quarter of 2007 in mass quantities. Pricing information has not yet been released but we're thinking numbers won't be too much higher than current Deskstar models with similar capacities.
(dailytech.com, 22/10/2007)
