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Do you bring your mobile device to the bathroom? You may suffer from Nomophobia!

On 2012/11/30   /   IT Matters, Technology   /   28 Comments

Newspapers are out! Mobile devices are in! Do you ever bring your mobile device into the toilet, washroom, bathroom, water closet, loo, latrine, restroom, lavatory, the john, your “office”, the “facility”, the crapper… whoa, I deviate! (As an aside, Thomas Crapper did exist and was a plumber,

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The Supercomputer Race vs The Human Brain

On 2012/11/28   /   IT Matters, Technology   /   18 Comments

There is a list updated twice a year with the Top 500 supercomputers in the world. Along with this, it’s a constant race to see who can nab that number one spot. Titan and Sequoia seem to be the top 2. As of June of 2012, Sequoia

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What does Google have to do with a hundred Zeroes?

On 2012/11/14   /   IT Matters, Technology   /   20 Comments

In 1938 a mathematician asked his 9 year old nephew to describe a really big number, and Googol was the answer. This is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. In 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google) were searching for Googol to see if it

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So How Many Servers Does it Take to Run the Google Empire?

On 2012/11/12   /   IT Matters, Technology   /   29 Comments

Much of the newer generation does not know what life was like BG (before Google). Anytime you have a question, you “google” it. What kind of infrastructure is required to answers all of those questions. 10,000 servers? 100,000 servers? A half million servers? It has been estimated

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Daylight Savings Times, it’s a love/hate thing

On 2012/11/05   /   IT Matters, Technology   /   15 Comments

Daylight Savings Time (DST) was first thought of in the 1700 and 1800s however was first implemented during the first World War. They were using it as a way to conserve coal during the war. What does DST do for us? In a nutshell, the idea is

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Is Mankind Doomed on a Path to Cybernetic Implants?

On 2012/11/02   /   IT Matters, Technology   /   22 Comments

We live in technologically exponential times! The current generation never experienced life without the Internet or cell phones. Not too long ago, you had to use a modem to “dial in” and connect to the Internet. It sounds exactly like a fax machine screeching in your ear.

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