Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

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A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2007-08-25

北京奧運數位化

奧運跟電腦，有什麼關係?

在接受 CNET 採訪時，作為奧運電腦資訊系統整合商的 Atos Origin (源訊) 執行副總裁 Patrick Adiba 表示：「最關鍵的是在 2008 年 8 月 8 日當天，一定要開幕。這個時間不能更改。我們必須準備好，沒有第二次機會。」

據瞭解，他們設計的系統早在這個月就進入測試期，直到明年為止。不僅測試期長，參與的人數也很龐大，預計最終將會達到 4000 人以上，包括志工。

相較以往，北京奧運會館地域的廣泛，超過任何一次。就場地而言，Adiba 說：「雅典最遠不過是在中心場館 70 公里以外，而北京奧運館卻很分散，北京、天津、青島、甚至香港，場館之間距離遙遠，源訊作為整合商需要做的就是不管場地在哪裡，提供的服務都必須是同一水準。」

除了官方技術贊助商，源訊還與眾多不同的軟體和應用供應商建立了合作關係，「眾多技術合作夥伴的產品需要統籌安排，而他們公司規模不一，文化背景各異，這給總整合商帶來很大的挑戰。」

新技術層出不窮雖是電腦資訊產業的一大特點，但「奧運會不是炫耀技術的舞臺，源訊在奧運會上都是使用已經得到證明的技術。雖然也使用新的技術，但新技術必須是可靠的、已經獲得驗證的。」

源訊早在 2001 年，就從中國選派了 14 個工程師，參與雅典和都柏林奧運專案，現在他們已成為北京奧運電腦專案的重要成員。

問及承包奧運專案的財務盈虧，Adiba 表示：「總地來說好處更多，我們不能單純針對合約的數額，還要看知名度，及業務、客戶的增加。」

源訊最早參與奧運會是 1992 年的巴賽隆納奧運會，當時只是作為西班牙本地的一個供應商。2002 年鹽湖城的冬季奧運會，源訊正式成為奧運會全球合作夥伴，從此這家不太出名的法國電腦資訊整合商開始伴隨奧運會征戰五湖四海，足跡遍佈亞洲、美洲和非洲。

在鹽湖城冬季奧運之前，IBM 公司一直是奧運電腦資訊整合商，鹽湖城是源訊的第一次奧運會。在雅典和都柏林之後，奧運會對源訊在當地的業務都產生了很大的影響。以希臘為例，源訊在希臘辦事處的員工總數從十幾個人擴大到現在的 200 人。

Source: CNet、 ZDnet
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