Physicalization, a rather ill-chosen name coined in 2009 that refers to the practice of placing multiple physical machines in a rack unit, is starting to become a viable alternative in some server scenarios. Although according to Moore’s Law, increasing integration exponentially reduces costs, some jobs that require lots of I/O bandwidth can be made less...
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Another year goes by and another edition of “The Best of the Best Free Portable Applications” sees the light. This year you will find most of the same portable apps that were already featured in 2011. One notable change however is the absence of Chrome, that although started the year very strong, it later...
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During the 1980s the percentage of women in the United States in both computer science education and the information technology workforce reached record numbers, with 37.1% of Computer Science degrees being awarded to women in 1984. However these numbers have declined ever since. By 1990 the percentage had gone down to 29.9%, and by...
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In his dialogue ‘The Republic‘, the Classical Greek philosopher Plato tells us the story of the ‘Ring of Gyges‘, a magical artifact that granted its owner the power to become invisible. Gyges is thus able to seduce the queen, murder the king, and take over the kingdom. Plato uses this story to argue the...
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