while googling around, i found charts that review blog software… Hmmm nice chart if u havo your own site and would like to add blog feature.
Actually, This chart is a companion to the article “Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?,” published July 14, 2005 in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review. Do note that this chart reflects only standard features of the tools’ installation, and not every possible extension, plug-in modification… or hack.
To see the chart, click here
Blog software comparison chart
July 24th, 2006 by ierdha in Speak 'm Up · 1 Comment
The world’s first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715)
May 21st, 2006 by ierdha in Heritage Ideas · No Comments
In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world’s first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design, the only place to go was down — in size that is. The Intel 4004 chip took the integrated circuit down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think (i.e. central processing unit, memory, input and output controls) on one small chip. Programming intelligence into inanimate objects had now become possible.
The History of Intel
In 1968, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore were two unhappy engineers working for the Fairchild Semiconductor Company who decided to quit and create their own company at a time when many Fairchild employees were leaving to create start-ups. People like Noyce and Moore were nicknamed the “Fairchildren”.
Bob Noyce typed himself a one page idea of what he wanted to do with his new company, and that was enough to convince San Francisco venture capitalist Art Rock to back Noyce’s and Moore’s new venture. Rock raised $2.5 million dollars in less than 2 days.
The name “Moore Noyce” was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so the two founders decided upon the name “Intel” for their new company, a shortened version of “Integrated Electronics”.
Intel’s first money making product was the 3101 Schottky bipolar 64-bit static random access memory (SRAM) chip. In late 1969, a potential client from Japan called Busicom, asked to have twelve custom chips designed. Separate chips for keyboard scanning, display control, printer control and other functions for a Busicom-manufactured calculator.
Intel did not have the manpower for the job but they did have the brainpower to come up with a solution. Intel engineer, Ted Hoff decided that Intel could build one chip to do the work of twelve. Intel and Busicom agreed and funded the new programmable, general-purpose logic chip.
Federico Faggin headed the design team along with Ted Hoff and Stan Mazor, who wrote the software for the new chip. Nine months later, a revolution was born. At 1/8th inch wide by 1/6th inch long and consisting of 2,300 MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) transistors, the baby chip had as much power as the ENIAC, which had filled 3,000 cubic feet with 18,000 vacuum tubes.
Cleverly, Intel decided to buy back the design and marketing rights to the 4004 from Busicom for $60,000. The next year Busicom went bankrupt, they never produced a product using the 4004. Intel followed a clever marketing plan to encourage the development of applications for the 4004 chip, leading to its widespread use within months.
The Intel 4004
Intel 4004 - The Chip
The 4004 was the world’s first universal microprocessor. In the late 1960s, many scientists had discussed the possibility of a computer on a chip, but nearly everyone felt that integrated circuit technology was not yet ready to support such a chip. Intel’s Ted Hoff felt differently; he was the first person to recognize that the new silicon-gated MOS technology might make a single-chip CPU (central processing unit) possible.
Hoff and the Intel team developed such an architecture with just over 2,300 transistors in an area of only 3 by 4 millimetres. With its 4-bit CPU, command register, decoder, decoding control, control monitoring of machine commands and interim register, the 4004 was one heck of a little invention. Today’s 64-bit microprocessors are still based on similar designs, and the microprocessor is still the most complex mass-produced product ever with more than 5.5 million transistors performing hundreds of millions of calculations each second - numbers that are sure to be outdated fast.
The Pioneer 10 spacecraft used the 4004 microprocessor. It was launched on March 2, 1972 and was the first spacecraft and microprocessor to enter the Asteroid Belt.
Blogging, it’s or is it fun ?
May 10th, 2006 by ierdha in Speak 'm Up · 1 Comment
Wrote something about anything is actually fun, eventhough at first it drive me crazy… but after i tries… yea, it’s fun but it’s still not fun also? how come? well, the ‘not fun’ part is when i know what i’m trying to tell but i don’t know how to wrote it.
But, the fun part is when it’s done… and that’s delightful. Maybe i must wrote more often, as long as i have the time. Or at least i tried to spare it.
My friend (gora)who always intimidating me for blogging… said to me that blog is born every second, count each day with new community, new person who try to reveal something of their life, to share part of their routine. And be part of Blogosphere…
How about it? interest? nowadays many site that providing free blog. Such as blogger.com, edublogs.org, friendster, and many more. But if interesting in creating your own blog but don’t wanna get busy with it, use blog template such as wordpress. And you’ll get lots of nice template. Uuuhhh… I like it…
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Havefunblogging
1st - The Announcement
May 3rd, 2006 by ierdha in Speak 'm Up · 1 Comment
First of all, i finnaly create this blog. why? ask Mr Gora if you want to know why… He always enfore me, but i think that was a good idea.
So I decided to create one.
Words is easy to say, but hard to wrote it. I never imagine, that to post one short blog post could take some time… Maybe I need a lot of practice. Like proverb said, “Learning by doing”. Or maybe “Doing by learning”??
Many people said that learning or studying is “one knowledge” and teaching is “another knowledge”. Why?? because teach need more “know” than studying or learning.
I never had time for blogging. Coding, design, analysis and many technical things that stuck my head, or slack when I free. Actually I possess many things to be written. Short article, Tips and trick, Hints, problem solving, or my idea. Just wait and see….
Kept - Hello there!
May 1st, 2006 by ierdha in Speak 'm Up · 2 Comments
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is a default first post so the first thing you will probably want to do is edit or delete it and then you can start blogging!
However you will need your login and password for that so while you are waiting, please feel free to check out some of the latest updated edublogs.org blogs, swing by the edublogs.org forums (a great place to ask if you have any questions or requests!) or just email all your colleagues telling them how wonderful edublogs.org is and that they must get an account
Welcome aboard! We hope you have a great blogging experience!
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I Kept this default post coz it’s unique.