Politics, ships, art,and cyclones

Politics, ships, art, and cyclones

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Venus and Anchises by William Blake Richmond, a new featured picture.

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 1 June 2014 through 7 June 2014. Anything in quotation marks is taken from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.

Featured articles

Five featured articles were promoted this week.

Russian battleship Peresvet in 1901

This photograph of a marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) is a new featured picture.

This fine diagram of the structure of a supercell thunderstorm by prolific diagram creator Kelvinsong reached featured picture status this week.

The 1990–91 South Pacific cyclone season is a new featured topic. Here we see the unfortunately named Cyclone Joy in 1990. After its landfall in Queensland, Australia, about 30% of the state was the subject of a disaster declaration.

• 1880 Democratic National Convention (nominated by Coemgenus) "The 1880 Democratic National Convention met June 22 to 24, 1880, at the Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio and nominated Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania for President and William H. English of Indiana for Vice President in the United States presidential election of 1880." "Hancock and English were narrowly defeated in the race against Republicans James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur that autumn."
• Kronan (nominated by Peter Isotalo) "Kronan, also called Stora Kronan, was a Swedish warship that served as the flagship of the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea in the 1670s. When built, she was one of the largest seagoing vessels in the world... After four years of service, the ship foundered in rough weather at the Battle of Öland on 1 June 1676: while making a sharp turn under too much sail she capsized, and the gunpowder magazine ignited and blew off most of the bow structure." "Its exact position was rediscovered in 1980 by the amateur researcher Anders Franzén, who had also located the 17th-century warship Vasa in the 1950s. Yearly diving operations have since surveyed and excavated the wreck site and salvaged artifacts, and Kronan has become the most widely publicized shipwreck in the Baltic after Vasa. More than 30,000 artifacts have been recovered, and many have been conserved and put on permanent public display at the Kalmar County Museum in Kalmar."
• Sega CD (nominated by Red Phoenix) "The Sega CD, released as the Mega-CD... in most regions outside North America, is an add-on CD-ROM device for the Sega Genesis video game console designed and produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles. The add-on was released on December 12, 1991 in Japan, October 15, 1992 in North America, and 1993 in Europe. The Sega CD lets the user play CD-based games and adds extra hardware functionality, such as a faster central processing unit and graphic enhancements. It can also play audio CDs and CD+G discs." "By the end of 1994, the add-on had sold approximately 2.7 million units worldwide, compared to 29 million units for the Genesis sold by that time. In 1995, Sega began shifting its focus towards its new console, the Sega Saturn, over the Genesis and Sega CD. The Sega CD was officially discontinued in 1996. Retrospective reception to the add-on is mixed, praising the Sega CD for its individual offerings and additions to the Genesis' functions, but offering criticism to the game library for its depth issues, high price of the unit, and how the add-on was supported by Sega."
• Greed (nominated by Deoliveirafan) "Greed is a 1924 American silent film, written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague, ZaSu Pitts as his wife Trina Sieppe and Jean Hersholt as McTeague's friend and eventual enemy Marcus Schouler. The film tells the story of McTeague, a San Francisco dentist, who marries his best friend Schouler's girlfriend Trina. Shortly after their engagement, Trina wins a lottery prize of $5,000. Schouler jealously informs authorities that McTeague had been practicing dentistry without a license and McTeague and Trina become impoverished. While living in squalor, McTeague becomes a violent alcoholic and Trina becomes greedily obsessed with her winnings, refusing to spend any of it despite how poor she and her husband become. Eventually McTeague murders Trina for the money and flees to Death Valley. Schouler catches up with him there for a final confrontation." "Greed was a critical and financial failure upon its initial release, but by the 1950s it began to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made; filmmakers and scholars have praised it for its influence on subsequent films."
• Russian battleship Peresvet (nominated by Sturmvogel 66) "Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) was the lead ship of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again in the Siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami... Partially rearmed, Sagami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1912. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine."

Featured lists

One featured list was promoted this week.

• Ralph Richardson, roles and awards (nominated by SchroCat) "Sir Ralph Richardson (1902–1983) was an English actor who appeared on radio, film, television and stage. Described by The Guardian as "indisputably our most poetic actor", and by the director David Ayliff as "a natural actor ... [who] couldn't stop being a perfect actor", Richardson's career lasted over 50 years. He was—in the words of his biographer, Sheridan Morley—one "of the three great actor knights of the mid-twentieth century", alongside Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud." "After seeing a production of Hamlet starring Frank Benson, Richardson decided to become an actor and made his stage debut, playing a gendarme in The Bishop's Candlesticks in December 1920." "Richardson won many awards for his performances on stage and screen... including a BAFTA award for The Sound Barrier; an Evening Standard Award for Home, which he shared with John Gielgud; and a special Laurence Olivier Award. His final film, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes—for which he received further critical plaudits and award nominations—was released after his death."

Featured pictures

Springtime by Claude Monet

Tower in the Taman Sari, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Twelve featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Venus and Anchises (created by William Blake Richmond, nominated by Hafspajen) Anchises is the father of Aeneas, hero of The Aeneid. Venus was his lover, and Aeneas' mother. This painting by William Blake Richmond is a gorgeous , glowing depiction of mortal and goddess, Venus springing out from the painting in a blaze of light colours over a much darker background.
• Tower, west gate and east gate of Taman Sari (created and nominated by Chris Woodrich) Taman Sari is a partially-ruined royal garden and palace complex in Indonesia, dating from the 18th century, originally hosting elabourate hydraulic works to fill complicated systems of pools and fountains.
• Alaskan parchment scrip (prepared and nominated by Godot13 from the collections of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution) Alaskan parchment scrip was a currency in use in the Russian colonies in North America, originally printed on parchment, later on seal skin and walrus hides. It was a form of company currency, only redeemable at company stores, and came about due to the Russian-American Company being given a legal monopoly over the Alaskan fur trade.
• Structure of a Supercell (created by Kelvinsong, nominated by EuroCarGT) A supercell is a type of thunderstorm marked by the presence of a deep, constantly rotating updraft in the centre known as a mesocyclone. This structure creates a large area of possibly extremely severe weather which can dominate the local weather patterns for up to 20 miles (32 kilometres).
• The Art of Painting (created by Johannes Vermeer, nominated by Hafspajen) A complex allegorical work showing what is believed to be the artist, Johannes Vermeer in his studio, the various objects are arranged to form allegorical commentaries, such as a map of the Netherlands with a crease between the north and south, representing the division of the Netherlands between the Hapsburgs and the Seven Provinces.
• Springtime (created by Claude Monet, nominated by Armbrust) Springtime is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet depicting his first wife, Camille Doncieux, beneath a lilac bush, reading.
• Marsh frog (created by Marie-Lan Nguyen, nominated by Pine) The marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) is the largest frog native to Europe.
• WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, and SwanCrystal (created by Evan Amos, nominated by Chris Woodrich) A Japan-only handheld gaming system, noted for its technical accomplishments, and for having, for a time, managed to win a significant, albeit minor, portion of the handheld market from the then-ubiquitous Gameboy.

Featured topics

One featured topic was promoted this week.

• 1990–91 South Pacific cyclone season (nominated by User:Hurricanehink and Jason Rees) The 1990–91 South Pacific cyclone season was a particularly inactive one, with only three named cyclones, Cyclone Sina, Cyclone Joy, and Cyclone Lisa (which did not make landfall and does not have its own article). With two good articles, a featured article, and a featured list, this is one of the smaller featured topics, but covers the subject well.

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  Swedish warship Kronan, the subject of a featured article.
  
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  Johannes Vermeer's The Art of Painting, a featured picture
  
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  Alaskan parchment scrip issued by the Russian American Company, a featured picture
  

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New smell-o-scope reveals Titan’s smell

Using data from the Cassini
spacecraft, a team led by Joshua
Sebree, assistant professor at the
University of Northern Iowa, in the
US, has developed a new recipe
that captured the key ‘flavours’ of
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
The researchers mixed the two most
common gases in Titan—nitrogen
and methane—and then added
benzene and other chemicals. After
many attempts they managed to
develop a mixture that matched the
spectral signature registered by
Cassini.
“This is the closest anyone has
come, to our knowledge, to
recreating with lab experiments this
particular feature seen in the Cassini
data,” told Sebree to Gizmodo ’s
Jesus Diaz.
Titan sort of reeks of farts mixed
with methane. Melissa Trainer, who
works at NASA’ Goddard Centre,
explained that this moon smells of
aromatics, a subfamily of
hydrocarbons. Benzene belongs to
this family, and Trainer thinks it has
a “sweet, aromatic, gasoline-odour.”
The technique used is somewhat
similar to the process candy
manufacturers go through to create
flavours, explained Graham
Templeton at Geek , and can be
used to smell other planets.
Scientists will keep on using this
recipe to compile a list of planetary
smells and come up with what
Templeton described as an extra-
terrestrial smell profile.

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Why the Inside of a Camel's Mouth Looks Like a Sarlacc Pit

Why the Inside of a
Camel's Mouth Looks
Like a Sarlacc Pit
If you can get over the whole spitting
thing , camels are pretty cute—at least
until they open up their mouths. It's
like staring into the Sarlacc pit from
Return of the Jedi . What are those
little fleshy things? What purpose do
they serve? What is going on here?
The things in the camel's mouth are
oral papillae, and they're totally
normal, says Luis Padilla, Director of
Animal Health at the St. Louis Zoo.
"Papillae are projections or raised
structures found in different parts of
the mouth, internal cheeks, and
tongues of some species," he says.
"There are many kinds of papillae.
Most have simply a mechanical
function, but some have a sensory
function, either positional sensation or
they may have taste buds on them. In
ruminants, the ones on the cheek and
esophagus can be extremely large, as
what you see in the picture."
When the papillae's function is purely
mechanical, Padilla says, they're
usually cone- or triangular-shaped,
and work in conjunction with the
tongue and the muscles of the mouth
to help manipulate food in one
direction, typically toward the stomach
(which means that a camel's mouth
has more in common with the Sarlacc
pit than just looks!). Camels need
those big papillae because of what
they're eating. "Swallowing chewed
leaves and sticks without some sort of
mechanical assistance can be hard,"
Padilla says. "The papillae are sort of
firm—they can be partially keratinized
—and can feel almost like plastic. In
the areas where they are keratinized,
the papillae protect the cheek and
mouth from getting scratched,
abraded, poked, perforated, or
injured." Though all camelids have
papillae, size and shape can vary, and
they can be affected by the animals'
health, according to Padilla. "Blunting
of the papillae or ulcerated papillae
are signs of certain disease
conditions," he says.
Many different kinds of animals have
papillae, including humans. "There are
lots of tiny papillae in the human
mouth, especially on the tongue,"
Padilla says. "Humans and most
primates do not have papillae as big
as camels’ or other ruminants’.
Because of our masticatory
adaptations and diet, we don’t really
need them to keep food flowing in
one direction on the lining of our
cheek or esophagus." (Also important
to note: "Taste buds sit on top of a
specialized kind of papilla," Padilla
says, "but not all papillae are taste
buds.")
But look inside the mouths of many
fish-eating birds, reptiles, and fish,
and you'll find varying types
of papillae. "There are actually about
10 to 15 types of papillae based on
their shape, location, and function,"
Padilla says. "These papillae are so
large and elaborate in some species—
like penguins or sea turtles—that once
you put something in their throat, it
can be sort of difficult to pull it
back." And they're not just found in
the mouth; Padilla says papillae can
be found in some other parts of the
gastrointestinal system, including the
stomach, esophagus, and rumen of
certain species; depending on the
animal, and the location of the
papillae, proportions and firmness
vary. Sea turtles, for example, have
pretty soft papillae.
Back to camels, though—there's one
more thing Padilla wants to point out
about that mouth. "In some of the
photos [on the Internet], you see the
really impressive canine teeth of some
male camels," he says. "These can
be pretty dangerous."

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Architecture Matters: Design Considerations for SoC FPGAs

Architecture Matters:
Design Considerations
for SoC FPGA
While top-level specifications give you
some highlights of a particular device,
they often don’t provide insight into
the workings of the inner device. How
the elements interact together and
with the rest of your system can
determine success or challenge with
your design. When choosing an SoC,
you should select one that is
architected with your system
requirements in mind.
Embedded processor expert Todd
Koelling examines the key design
considerations for working with SoCs.
Read "Architecture Matters When
Choosing the Right SoC FPGA"
article to explore:
What are the advantages of multiple
memory controllers?
Why does memory protection belong
in the DRAM controller?
What does your parity or error
correction code (ECC) actually cover?
How many masters do you have and
are they all treated equally?
Other SoC information
Building a product with a strong
architecture is key to ensuring that
your system design meets its
performance requirements now and
into the future. With Altera SoCs for
embedded systems, you begin with a
solid foundation that brings your
design:
Improved system performance
through a higher hard processor
system (HPS) to FPGA bandwidth
interconnect, hardware acceleration,
and increased memory performance
Increased reliability through error
correction code (ECC) and memory
protection that help protect systems
against potential hardware or software
errors and warm/cold CPU reset that
initiates without affecting or
reprogramming the FPGA
More flexibility through hardware
differentiation, system boot and
configuration options, and multiple
hardened memory controllers
Lower system cost through single-
chip integration, integrated PCIe®
controller, and no power off
sequencing
Increased productivity through our
FPGA-adaptive debugging tool with
unmatched target visibility, control,
and productivity.
Path for the future through our
roadmap for high-end, mid-range, and
low-end applications, forward
migration of software, and products
with average life cycles of 15 years or
more.
These devices include additional hard
logic such as PCI Express® Gen2,
multiport memory controllers, error
correction code (ECC) , memory
protection and high-speed serial
transceivers. ARM-compatible
software with unmatched target
visibility, control, and productivity
using Altera's exclusive FPGA-
adaptive degugging are also features
that are included.
Silicon devices that integrate CPUs
with programmable logic fabric have
become a major trend in computing
acceleration and embedded
processing. In systems using these
chips, seeming details of the silicon
architecture can actually have a major
influence on the system performance
and ease of design.
Why Altera ?
Altera SoCs integrate an ARM-based
hard processor system (HPS)
consisting of processor, peripherals,
and memory interfaces with the FPGA
fabric using a high-bandwidth
interconnect backbone. It combines
the performance and power savings of
hard intellectual property (IP) with the
flexibility of programmable logic.
Reducing system power, cost, and
board size by integrating discrete
processors and digital signal
processing (DSP) functions into a
single FPGA
Improving system performance via
high-bandwidth interconnect between
the processor and the FPGA
Differentiating your end product by
customizing in both hardware and
software
Developing ARM-compatible software
with unmatched target visibility,
control, and productivity using Altera's
exclusive FPGA-adaptive debugging
Read More at http://www.electronicsforu.com/newelectronics/articles/altera/default.asp

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Strange Double Helix Cloud Spotted in Russia

Strange Double
Helix Cloud
Spotted in
Russia
Photograph by Mutant @ netall.ru
On December 24, 2012, a strange
double helix cloud was spotted just
outside Moscow, Russia. A series of
amateur photographs were
submitted to a Russian site called
netall.ru (scroll down to Dec. 24) on
the morning of the occurrence.
While it is not entirely known what
caused such a phenomenon, there
is a fairly extensive investigation
under way on the website
metabunk.org which believes it to be
some kind of contrail.
Photograph by donskoi92 @ netall.ru
Contrails or vapour trails
are long thin artificial
clouds that sometimes
form behind aircraft. Their
formation is most often
triggered by the water
vapour in the exhaust of
aircraft engines, but can
also be triggered by the
changes in air pressure in
wingtip vortices or in the
air over the entire wing
surface. Like all clouds,
contrails are made of
water, in the form of a
suspension of billions of
liquid droplets or ice
crystals. Depending on the
temperature and humidity
at the altitude the contrail
forms, they may be visible
for only a few seconds or
minutes, or may persist for
hours and spread to be
several miles wide.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Photograph by donskoi92 @ netall.ru
The images were
submitted the following
day to Reddit by
aphexsm , who believes it
has something to do with a
local liquid propellant
rocket engine manufacturer
called NPO Energomash
which is a design bureau
based in Khimki, a city
just northwest of Moscow.
Photograph by Natalya @ netall.ru
The strange cloud has
drawn many comparisons
to the double helix
structure of DNA, one of
the three major
macromolecules that are
essential for all known
forms of life (along with
RNA and proteins).
Sources
- netall.ru Photo of the Day for
December 24, 2012
- metabunk.org: Moscow Spiral
Contrail / Helix Cloud – Theories
- aphexsm on Reddit
- Wikipedia: Contrail
- Wikipedia: NPO Energomash
- Wikipedia: DNA
If you enjoyed this
post, the Sifter
highly recommends:
15 Incredible Cloud
Formations
Capturing a Tornado as it
Forms
Indoor Clouds by
Berndnaut Smilde

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Your dog can't

YOUR dog can't tell you when it's
sick, but maybe this gadget can. A
smart collar studded with wireless
sensors can now monitor the vital
signs of man's best friend and alert
the owner as soon as it starts feeling
under the weather.
The device, developed by PetPace in
Burlington, Massachusetts, keeps
track of temperature, pulse and
respiration, as well as activity patterns
and the number of calories burned.
While the dog plays, eats and sleeps,
software compares this information
with other breed-specific data. If an
animal's statistics deviate in a way
that indicates a possible problem, an
alert is sent to the owner's
smartphone and to the vet.
Many pets instinctively hide their
symptoms when they are sick, so the
collar could help detect health issues
early on, says Asaf Dagan, chief
veterinary scientist at PetPace. The
smart collar ensures that "your pet's
disease, pain or discomfort will not go
unnoticed", he says.
Because the device works in real
time, vets have more information on
which to base their diagnoses. They
can also keep track of how the animal
responds to treatment, Dagan says.
The collar costs $150 plus $15 per
month for the monitoring service.
This article appeared in print under
the headline "Smart collar brings
poorly pooches to heal"

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Your dog can't

YOUR dog can't tell you when it's
sick, but maybe this gadget can. A
smart collar studded with wireless
sensors can now monitor the vital
signs of man's best friend and alert
the owner as soon as it starts feeling
under the weather.
The device, developed by PetPace in
Burlington, Massachusetts, keeps
track of temperature, pulse and
respiration, as well as activity patterns
and the number of calories burned.
While the dog plays, eats and sleeps,
software compares this information
with other breed-specific data. If an
animal's statistics deviate in a way
that indicates a possible problem, an
alert is sent to the owner's
smartphone and to the vet.
Many pets instinctively hide their
symptoms when they are sick, so the
collar could help detect health issues
early on, says Asaf Dagan, chief
veterinary scientist at PetPace. The
smart collar ensures that "your pet's
disease, pain or discomfort will not go
unnoticed", he says.
Because the device works in real
time, vets have more information on
which to base their diagnoses. They
can also keep track of how the animal
responds to treatment, Dagan says.
The collar costs $150 plus $15 per
month for the monitoring service.
This article appeared in print under
the headline "Smart collar brings
poorly pooches to heal"

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HP’s new technology rethinks computer architecture

The Machine is six times more
powerful than existing
computational devices.
Image: HP/Engadget
HP has unveiled a new machine that
has the potential to revolutionise
computing and cope with the massive
amounts of data generated by mobile
devices and the Internet of things
(a network composed of household
appliances, cars, vending machines
and many other devices).
The Machine is designed to cope with
tonnes of information by using
clusters of special-purpose cores
that are more efficient than
generalised cores. It is wired with
photonics instead of copper wires,
meaning it consumes 80 times less
energy and is much faster.
According to HP, it can handle 160
petabytes of data in 250
nanoseconds.
The Machine is six times more
powerful than existing servers.
However, the first models powered
by this technology won’t be
commercially available until 2018.

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Radar Echos

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Summary
Time domain diagram showing both
transmitted pulses and received
echoes.
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Future technology

                    Future technology 
is beyond the reality of science and technology. Future technology is completely and essentially different with high-tech, the latest technology and cutting-edge technology. The latter represents just an advanced human invention created and been able to master and use recently. Future technology emphasizes human expectations or unforeseen things, which have not yet been invented or used. Only in a certain period, human beings maybe master and use future technology. Where is the development of future technology? How will the future technology exist? We look at several aspects to think about the future development of technology. Of course, this is inseparable from our current life. Future technology largely focus on implementing real-time scenario. It shapes different fields like medical technology, business technology, educational technology and green technology with suitable applications.

Screen world[edit]

The ubiquitous screen will profoundly change the people, culture and business^{[citation needed]}. The impact of screen media and interactive window has not been released. We can imagine that the touch screen will play a much more important role in our life. The touch screen can bring us to have perfect communications with the real world. With the development of the science and technology, it will make a great convenience in our daily life. We can use a multifunctional screen device to deal with our daily schedule. It can tell us the weather and give us an advice about the dress when we get up a new day. We can use the device to control our washing machines, to prepare a healthy breakfast.

After breakfast, we sit in our cars and tell the vehicle systems our destination, the car will then take us there itself. During our work we will have a TV meeting with classmates in some other places. What surround us are many high-tech devices with a touch screen. It makes a great improve in our work efficiency. After the work, we can choose to play a virtual game. The touch screen will give us a real experience and we can control the game role with our whole body. As the touch screen can take a great communication with our idea, we will surround by many more screen. The huge influence will bring us a much more convenient life.

Further natural interaction[edit]

Touch, voice, somatosensory is still the preliminary stage of human-computer interaction. There will be many surprising applications waiting for us, such as when you look at the screen the screen is in fact can see you, know your status, and constantly optimize learning, providing more in line with your service. Technology evolved as a living entity is in duty bound to weaken the ability of human rejection. We know the computer will be more and more intelligent, and the intelligence will be reflected in the human-computer interaction. Beyond our reality, future interaction will be much more actual and useful. The machine can give us 3-D virtual scene simulating the real surroundings, and then we can take what we need.For example, we will not need to spend much time in choosing the clothes. An interactive machine can give us a 3-D virtual scene, where we can choose various clothes. Future interaction will have much more emotion and intelligence.

Big data stream[edit]

In the future, people will live in a communicative society. We can get what we want from the social net. We like to share with the whole world, and then endless data between people, things and things will "float" around us. Their integration and convergence will change our living conditions. The share tide and future interaction will bring us a large date to process. The information society will process more and more data, and we need efficient instruments to deal with the big data. What will the big data bring us? Big data represents our past. It records what we have experienced. If we deal with the big date effectively, we will solve many potential problems. Through integrating and analyzing the big date, we can make new value.

Access rather than ownership[edit]

The concept of possession has changed. We will not need to buy any book, any music and any general device. Digitization prefers access right to the concept of ownership. In the future, the service will be concentrate. Many people will not have to possess almost everything. We use a portable device to get music, videos, books and many others from the Internet. As for the users, it cost much less money and take us little time to get what we want. So it is very convenient.

Value shift[edit]

We will not get the harvest value by mass copy and selling copies. Value will not exist in copies themselves, but rather the satisfaction of customer value. Such as cellphones do not need money, but date flow gets money. The value is not to create value in kind, but rather to create a "communication" user value. We will not have to pay for the electric charge, net cost, and device outlay apart. We use everything, and we pay for the service once. We will not need so many facilitators, and the service become simple. The value exists in our satisfaction

External links[edit]

• http://www.vrp3d.com/article/overseasnews/867.html
• http://itechfuture.com/
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
• http://itechfuture.com/category/technology-devices/
• http://www.askci.com/news/201302/04/0415171359431.shtml
• http://www.futuretechnology.nl
• http://www.forbes.com/intelligent-technology/

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winRAR510

1.  WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility. It can create archived files in ZIP or proprietary RARformat,^[4] and unpack many archive file formats. WinRAR runs under Microsoft Windows in GUI mode. There are command-line versions, called "RAR" and "UNRAR" (released since autumn of 1993),^[5] available for Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows console mode, and MS-DOS.
   From version 5, a new archive format, RAR5, is supported, incompatible with the previous one, but also using file extension.RAR.^[6] With the introduction of RAR5, the older format is referred to as RAR4. The new version can open and create RAR4 archives, but older versions do not support RAR5 archives.
   The software is distributed as a shareware and anyone may use it during a test period of 40 days at no charge.^[7]
   While archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, Rarlabs supply as copyrighted freeware the source code of the UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.^[8]
2. FEATURES:
3. Pack (create) or validate (test) RAR and ZIP archives.
4. Unpack ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, EXE, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, RAR, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, and 7z archives.^[9][10]
5. Multithreaded compression
6. The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.^[11][12]
7. Data redundancy is provided in the form of recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
8. Support for advanced NTFS file system options
9. Unicode in file names.
10. Archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 256-bit key.^[13]
There was a portable version of WinRAR called WinRAR Unplugged, which did not require installation or create dependencies on the host computer.

Version history[edit]

• Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.^[5]
• Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995 as 16-bit Windows 3.x application.
• Version 2.00 was released on September 6, 1996.
• Since version 3.00 (May 2002), the new RAR3 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR.
• Since version 3.50 (August 2005), WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes and support Windows XP x64.^[14]
• Since version 3.60 (August 2006), WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple, dual-core, or Hyper-threading-enabled CPUs.
• Since version 3.70 (circa January 2007), WinRAR features support for Windows Vista.^[15]
• Since version 3.80 (September 2008), support for ZIP archives, which contain Unicode file names in UTF-8.^[16]
• Since version 3.90 (May 2009), WinRAR adds support Windows x64 natively and support Windows 7. Also it enhanced support for multithreading.^[17]
• Version 4.00 (March 2011) speeds up decompression by up to 30%. Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT are no longer supported; the minimum Windows version required is Windows 2000.^[18]
• Since version 4.10 (January 2012) WinRAR removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows to create multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include Unicode file names.^[19]
• Since version 4.20 (June 2012) Compression speed in SMP mode has been increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used. Also, Windows 2000 compatibility was removed.^[20]
• Since version 5.00 (September 2013) the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. This new format features a maximum 1 GB dictionary (only in 64-bit version), better multicore support, it removes multimedia, text and itanium binaries special compression algorithms.^[21]
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