DailyApps » random http://dailyapps.net One of the leading Technology Blogs in India. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:12:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dubai Building World's Most Futuristic Arch Bridge http://dailyapps.net/2008/02/dubai-building-worlds-most-futuristic-arch-bridge/ http://dailyapps.net/2008/02/dubai-building-worlds-most-futuristic-arch-bridge/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:08:28 +0000 Karthik Kastury http://dailyapps.net/2008/02/dubai-building-worlds-most-futuristic-arch-bridge/ Read The Rest →]]> dubai1

Dubai may well be the City of dreams in the future. It continues to grow at a pace that surpasses the whole taken as a whole, and Dubai is building up onto its own mini universe. And combine that with an architecture, that is more like its from the next century only adds to the sheer beauty of Dubai.

The bridge that you are seeing in the picture above is going to be the world’s largest and tallest Arch bridge. Envisioned by the New York Architect Firm Fxfowle , it starts construction from next month. Here are some statistics of this amazing masterpiece of Engineering.

  • It’s one mile long and 670 feet tall.
  • It will have 12 lanes for traffic.
  • It will cost 817 million dollars.
  • The design has Sheikh Mohammed’s official stamp of approval.
  • The bridge will carry more than 2,000 vehicles per hour in each direction.
  • A metro line will run across the middle.
  • Construction begins in March, with a slated completion date of 2012

This project surely looks to hot to ignore. I’m just beginning to wonder if this is the coming of tomorrow. I can’t wait to see this project become a reality. Here are some mockups of this project :

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[Via io9]

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First, there were the Seven Wonders of the World. Then there was a New Seven Wonders list, voted on Internet-style. That got us thinking: What are the seven wonders of the IT world? Here’s a look at seven of the biggest, most extreme and most unusual computers and projects. By the way, do you have a vote for an eighth wonder?

Well this is the introduction to the amazing post made by CIO that

  • Computer Closest to the North Pole : Webcam #1

Who’s in charge: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory takes care of this floating eye at the top of the world.

  • Computer farthest from Earth: NASA’s Voyager 1 satellite

Distance from Earth: Voyager is three times farther away than Pluto. That’s to say at least 4 billion kilometers, times three.

  • World’s most intriguing data center: Google

Location: The Dalles, Oregon, on the banks of the Columbia River, 80 miles east of Portland.

  • World’s largest scientific grid computing project: The E-sciencE II (EGEE-II) project

Helps power: Large-scale scientific research projects in fields from geology to chemistry—for example, will analyze data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator being built to help investigate details around the Big Bang and related physics questions.

Powered by: 65,536 dual-processor computer nodes.

  • Smallest PC to run Windows Vista: OQO, Model 02

The package: OQO’s Handheld PC checks in at 5.6 (wide) by 3.3 (high) by 1 (deep) inches.

  • Biggest Paradigm Change in Enterprise Software: Linux kernel

Created by: Linus Torvalds, in 1991, helping open-source developers collectively craft a viable alternative to Microsoft operating systems. The Linux kernel contains 8.2 million lines of code, with approximately 86 lines added every hour

Number of developers: Total since 1991 is unknown; 3,200 developers for the kernel as of release 2.6.22.

Via CIO

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So here are the milestones that were reached this week :

See, the amazing growth of these companies is a sign that things are growing faster than ever before on the Internet today.

Via CyberNet News

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International Friendship Day is celebrated annually, on the first Sunday of August, in several countries. Wikipedia

Well tomorrow is friendship day and as a blogger I just thought i should link to some of my blogger friends. Having these friends around while blogging is of great help to me. They Help me discover new content to write on my blog and are a big source of motivation.

So here are some of the Bloggers for whom I have great admiration,

So go ahead and link to your favorite blogger friends, because life is all about friends. At the same time I am tagging all the people whom I have listed above to spread the love.

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