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The upside: we could all become wealthier in nanoseconds or less!

The downside: our stupid and incompetent 'the Grid' service providers with their greedy charges

The Internet could soon be made obsolete. The
scientists who pioneered it have now built a
lightning-fast replacement capable of
downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical
broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to
send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue
from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics
centre that created the web, the grid could also
provide the kind of power needed to transmit
holographic images; allow instant online gaming
with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer
high-definition video telephony for the price of a
local call.
David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow
University and a leading figure in the grid project,
believes grid technologies could “revolutionise”
society. “With this kind of computing power,
future generations will have the ability to
collaborate and communicate in ways older
people like me cannot even imagine,” he said.
The power of the grid will become apparent this
summer after what scientists at Cern have
termed their “red button” day - the switching-on
of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new
particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the
universe. The grid will be activated at the same
time to capture the data it generates.
Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid
computing project seven years ago when
researchers realised the LHC would generate
annual data equivalent to 56m CDs - enough to
make a stack 40 miles high.
This meant that scientists at Cern - where Sir Tim
Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 - would no
longer be able to use his creation for fear of
causing a global collapse.
This is because the Internet has evolved by
linking together a hotchpotch of cables and
routing equipment, much of which was originally
designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks
the capacity for high-speed data transmission.
By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated
fibre optic cables and modern routing centres,
meaning there are no outdated components to
slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers
already installed are expected to rise to 200,000
within the next two years.
Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the
grid project, said: “We need so much processing
power, there would even be an issue about
getting enough electricity to run the computers if
they were all at Cern. The only answer was a
new network powerful enough to send the data
instantly to research centres in other countries.”
That network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now
built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern
to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far
East, Europe and around the world.
One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton
laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.
From each centre, further connections radiate out
to a host of other research institutions using
existing high-speed academic networks.
It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the
grid system – so that any student or academic
will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid
rather than the internet from this autumn.
Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed
computing project, said grid technology could
make the internet so fast that people would stop
using desktop computers to store information
and entrust it all to the internet.
“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing,
where people keep all their information online and
access it from anywhere,” he said.
Computers on the grid can also transmit data at
lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing
heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance
of thousands of other computers around the
world. The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen
screen” experienced by internet users who ask
their machine to handle too much information.
The real goal of the grid is, however, to work
with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most
elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in
theory but never yet found, the Higgs is
supposed to be what gives matter mass.
The LHC has been designed to hunt out this
particle - but even at optimum performance it will
generate only a few thousand of the particles a
year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such
a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge
capacity busy for years to come.
Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly
available to domestic internet users, many
telecoms providers and businesses are already
introducing its pioneering technologies. One of
the most potent is so-called dynamic switching,
which creates a dedicated channel for internet
users trying to download large volumes of data
such as films. In theory this would give a
standard desktop computer the ability to
download a movie in five seconds rather than the
current three hours or so.
Additionally, the grid is being made available to
dozens of other academic researchers including
astronomers and molecular biologists.
It has already been used to help design new
drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne
disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year.
Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m
compounds - a task that would have taken a
standard internet-linked PC 420 years.
“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in
business and society as well as science,” Doyle
said.
“Holographic video conferencing is not that far
away. Online gaming could evolve to include
many thousands of people, and social
networking could become the main way we
communicate.
“The history of the internet shows you cannot
predict its real impacts but we know they will be
huge.”

Chiboy, i dey believe you! No mind these ppl. Those lr doublers. Mtchew! One scammed me back then with a fake software 'cos i was naive. Well, we have learnt and evolved.

dmcdad: Ehen? E make sense wella?

Over sense dey worry am. If we no fit beat am, we fit use am make money well from fellow gamers. *winks*

Eis. E don do. Abro, abeg dump these girls come make we play ps3 together. I wan get pes 2013. Omo, na d bomb!

Op, frontpage magician.
No matter wetin u write, no matter how irrelevant, it must find its way to the frontpage.

I have an idea. Let all those of you top tacticians join a game world in an online soccer management simulation game and test our mettle. Let's petition the NFF/NPL to be involved and grant at least an annual honorary managerial position in a top nigerian club to the top tactician and see how it goes. You never can tell.

Depilot: @Sanmi:
2 key points for you:

1. Be very careful of 419.
In Nigeria today many 419ers prefer to pick on fresh blood journey just come like yourself. I'm not saying everyone is 419 and out there to get you, I'm just advising you to be smart and watch out.

2. The best way to discover a lucrative business in Nigeria that is also compatible to your life-style is to come on down and taste the water. Give yourself up to 5 months to really understand the system. If you don't take time out to first understand the system, you will be a lost soul for a very long time.

For someone who has been gone for 10 years and doesn't want to work for anybody, here are some business ideas:
1. Gas and Oil
2. Importing goods from China
3. Importing cars and trucks
4. Importing car and truck parts
5. Getting all kinds of Contract work (construction, information technology, commercial maintenance etc)
6. Bar and restaurant
7. Farming
8. Tent and chair rental

I hope this helps.

Best answer today.

Here is one basic or fundamental formula:
resource transparency+ quality roads and infrastructure+ free education/internet access+ constant electricity

equals...

limitless Nigerians

360command: I am 360command.

Salute sir. He is 360command. Confident.

Shaw007: All thz Ppl here shouting "they are 2 lazy . . . they can't thInK . . .there are Lots of business ideas".are either stILL students or are just being Unrealistic with themselves. . .with the Kind of resources this country has,theres ntn wrong if every average graduate gets employed,at least 2 get the ball rolling,is that 2 much 2 ask for?? Infact let the money mismanagement and every stops,if the situatIon wud not lighten. . .Even if they want 2 start their Own business. . Is that how easy the money is circulatIng?? Abeg make we hia word Jor,i say no more!!

True.

Pergrace:

Grin. The most used smiley on nairaland. Nigeria, the world's happiest people.

Yomieluv: he created an antivirus,yet he allowed a virus to get to his brain to shoot someone.
He's now the virus,while the police is now the Antivirus.

Under the influence of alcohol, I put it to you that your explanation resembles the game, 'pacman'.

solidbroda: Bullsh*t!!! As if all d guys in here don't wanna be sugar daddies too. There is something in younger women that you will crave for when u grow older. Younger girls increase life span for a Man. Well, its very certain I'm gonna be one. Even, if my daughter has a ripe friend and up to age, I can also be her sugar daddy!! What's thr. Let's Enjoy our Heaven here. Its sure for no one that we will make heaven. Heaven is here. Let's f*ck the young while we old too and make heaven here on earth!

I have access to younger girls n I don't touch them. Go tie a milestone to ur neck n drown urself.

Julieccentric: While some old fool services your daughter, preferably your best friend.

#think before you type.

Don't mind him. Not everyone can be like him. Satanic dumskulls always think that everyone must be like them.

Galaxydon1: This is money, i bet yo anybody that kidnaps this man, His generation will say bye bye to poverty. I blame my papa. His mates where busy making money and his was enjoyin life in congo, now he has put us in poverty. God pls make me to be richer than dangote i promise to spend the money wisely not on women and alcohol. I don't want to be like my dad. I ve seen poverty and poverty has seen me. Abeg

Even though I should not interfere in ur family problems but I just gotta ask u 2 not b stupid. A good son would cover his father's unclothedness. Then, God bless u. Oh God, forgive me too if I ever insulted my family when I think they were not topz. Just having them is the greatest treasure there is. So am I to them.

danduchi: It's a welcome development....These banks have used this medium to make (b)unnecessary profit(/b) and still charge for monthly ATM maintenance.More monetary policies should be made in the banking sector.WELDONE Sanusi and pls,#1000 note should not be implemented.

Unnecessary profits? Really? More like unnecessary charges, but actual profits. Not the inflated end of the year types.

Infotail, I really don't wanna burst thy balloons but soon blackboards would totally or completely give way to white boards. In the future, even the white boards would be replaced with digital boards and light pens.

informatix: Beware of FRAUD. NL. Isn't the place to learn biz. Every state have it's own local skill aquisition centers and local Smedan office. Visit them and you'l find all you need i dont know any business you start without money?.

Well, everything is relative. It is with a true business that scammers use to bait the greed of their victims. Learn to read between the lines, bro.

[quote author=F.K.O]car wash shouldnt be on that list.to start it you will need up to N100,000.
Its expensive 2 start but its a very good investment.[/quote]True talk, F.K.O. I was about to say the same thing, but thought, maybe again, he just meant the close to the stream with bucket plus detergent type of car wash.

omotola1: First time to see a thread from Business Forum make FP.
*Un-follows instanta*

Truly what we need. Not things like 'why doesn't my BF/GF luv me?' Like who gives a heck? We should all mind our business.

lovetterrison: First to comment dancing gana stlye

what do u gain when u r d first to comment? Or is this just a case of liking to suffer oneself? There is always a change on a thread even in 10 years. Those who really need it then would still find it.

webizone@yahoo.com

Me too.

Maybe he is one. He just wanted to give us a heads up.

Researchers are genetically modifying
ordinary mice, like the one shown here, to make
them far more sensitive to explosives.
Scientists are engineering a real-life Mighty Mouse
that will scurry through fields sniffing out hidden
landmines thanks to olfactory superpowers.
The researchers, at Hunter College of the City
University of New York, have genetically
engineered the animals to be 500 times better
equipped than their normal counterparts to sniff
out landmine explosives. They hope that these
"hero mice" could warn of buried bombs.
Hidden landmines are a deadly reality in nearly 70
countries globally, and detection and removal are
expensive and dangerous. Currently, metal
detectors, radar, magnetometers, and sniffer
dogs are used to search for them.
A Belgian organization called APOPO already uses
giant African pouched rats as a cheaper way to
sniff out landmines. The rats are not genetically
modified, but their sense of smell is sharp
enough to detect TNT. The bomb-sniffing rats are
taught to scratch the ground when they detect a
hidden mine (fortunately, they are small enough
not to set off the explosives). While the furry
minesweepers are effective (with two handlers,
they can cover a field in one hour that would take
two full days for metal detectors), they need nine
months of training to become reliable, a process
that costs around 6,000 euros per rat.
The genetically engineered mice, however, are so
sensitive to TNT that encountering the molecule is
likely to change their behavior involuntarily, so
they would need little to no training. Charlotte
D'Hulst, a molecular neurobiologist at Hunter
College who presented her work at a meeting of
the Society for Neuroscience, used genetic
modification to ensure that the mice have 10,000
to 1,000,000 odor-sensing neurons with a TNT-
detecting receptor compared with only 4,000 in a
normal animal, "possibly amplifying the detection
limit for this odor 500-fold," she says. Each odor-
sensing neuron in a mouse's nose is spotted with
one kind of odor receptor. Usually, each specific
receptor is found in one out of every thousand
odor-sensing neurons, but about half the scent-
detecting neurons in D'Hulst's mice have the TNT-
detecting receptor.
This particular odorant receptor was originally
identified by Danny Dhanasekaran, a molecular
biologist at the University of Oklahoma College of
Medicine. Dhanasekaran says that a given odor is
usually detected by a handful of different kinds of
odorant receptors, which helps natural noses
more easily and accurately discern smells.
However, by engineering a great abundance of
one receptor that detects TNT, D'Hulst and
colleagues "could enhance the sensitivity of the
system so it can be easily used in operations to
detect landmines," says Dhanasekaran, who is
continuing to look for other TNT-type receptors.
D'Hulst hopes this overwhelming dedication to
just one odor will provide an easy way to know
whether or not the engineered mice have
encountered TNT. Recent research suggests that
sudden and intense stimulation of the olfactory
system will trigger seizures, she says. "We can
only hope that our mice will show a seizure
behavior ... upon detecting landmines. We won't
have to work with food rewards; we will
probably use some radio signaling system. A
chip implant may track, report, and record their
behaviors." The researchers still need to test the
mice in behavioral studies.
Roger Hess, director of field operations for Golden
West Humanitarian Foundation, a charity that
develops technologies to aid landmine removal,
says that while this mine-sniffing method could
show promise, it would still depend on detection
of trace vapors from the mine. The release of the
odor from the ground can depend on soil and
water conditions, and the trace of an explosive
could be several meters away from where the
mine is actually buried, he says. The technique
will also not work for mines that have no gaps
for the scent of explosives to escape.
"Due to the risk of missing an item, a secondary
method would need to be employed," he says.

amosy007: Torrents ofcoz..

And they will have to upgrade to 4g for beta speed


I dnt tink any of our shitty ISP can provide such..
But on a more serious not
comcast 250gb cost around 30usd and u will be charged extra 5dollars if u use more that in a month..
Why cant we have sumtin like that in naija legitmately

Limitations through suffering.

PStylish: I lost all respect for the EPL today.

It's just a comedy show. Nothing serious.

The winner of the league may have already been anointed.SMH.

Liar! Tomorrow when they play again, u will be there.

[quote author=Afro_Blue]@ op great truth info site



http://whatreallyhappened.com/


he linked this story today ...



"I am sick to death at the notion of another proxy war, billed as an extension of the US's "war on terror", which is really a war against the Mali people, who have the gall to be sitting over some mightily prized gold reserves the West wants to expropriate for itself.

And I am willing to make a rather cynical, but probably accurate, prediction: this proxy war will go just as well as has the war in Afghanistan, and probably for a longer period of time."
M.R.


African Union: Western Nations to Bankroll Mali Invasion
Britain, Others Expected to Fund African-Led War


http://news.antiwar.com/2012/10/26/african-union-western-nations-to-bankroll-mali-invasion/[/quote]Glad I saw it and glad I could help.

Thank you miss engrish, sorry english.