GigaTeraPetaExa

Sunday, February 17, 2002

The Sri Lankan government has opened access on A9 -- the parts under their control. A9 is the main highway between the south and Jaffna, and the government and LTTE had fought bitterly to control it in recent years. Supplies will travel more freely to the embargoed Tamil areas than they have in many years. The rebels seem likely to reciprocate by opening up their part of the highway.
Just keep knocking on wood...
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Individual channels:

AbbeNormal

Kilo- means 1000
Mega- means a million
Giga- means a billion
Tera- means a trillion
Peta- means a quadrillion
Exa- means a quintillion

What are the implications of even Peta-hertz processors, or Exabyte hard drives? Will we last long enough to see it, and will it help us to stop destroying ourselves?

That only shows the weblog entries, in order first posted. This includes new entries and changes in the whole wiki, including weblog entries:

These use the AbbeNormal:JavaScriptRssViewer. There's also a built-in Radio verb xml.rss.view.RssBox (see Radio discussion or docs).

This uses radio.macros.viewFavoriteWeblogs to show recently-changed weblogs in my 'favorites' list:

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