42-inch Nexus S stomps into Best Buy, terrifies shoppers and demos interactive Gingerbread UI (video)

<div><img alt="" border="1" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/12/12-26-10-giantnexuss.jpg" vspace="4" /></div><br /> This isn't Google TV, though we can see why you'd ask. No, this monster is merely the world's largest <i>fully-functional</i> Nexus S handset. Presently on display in a Best Buy store in San Carlos, California, the enormous Android is equipped with a 42-inch multitouch screen, rigged to a real Nexus S that does all the processing. There's a working camera, internet access and the whole Android 2.3 user interface to explore, though it does look a mite difficult to navigate in the video below. Did we mention there's a video? Stop reading, hit the break, and get on with the show!<br /> <h6></h6><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/26/42-inch-nexus-s-stomps-into-best-buy-terrifies-shoppers-and-dem/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>

42-inch Nexus S stomps into Best Buy, terrifies shoppers and demos interactive Gingerbread UI (video)

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How to Detect Differences in Very Large SAS Tables

<P>Write a PROC SQL statement. Remember that all statements in SAS are followed by a semicolon. Your initial line should look like this: </P><P>PROC SQL;</P><P>Provide a title for the results table in the second line of your statement, such as 'Results Table.' Be sure the name of the table is in single quotation marks. You don't need a semicolon at the end of this line since it's part of an SQL statement.</P><P>Select all the data from the first table in the third line. The third line might read, "Select * From Table1." The asterisk tells SAS to select all fields from the first table. You don't need quotation marks or a semicolon.</P><P>Type "EXCEPT" in the fourth line. Again, you don't need quotation marks or a semicolon.</P><P>Select all the data from the second table in the fifth line. The fifth line might read, "Select * From Table2." Again, you don't need quotation marks but you do need a semicolon since you're concluding your SQL statement.</P><P>Type "QUIT;" in your sixth and last line. You'll need a semicolon but no quotation marks. Run the program. Your output should show a list of records that don't match.</P>

How to Detect Differences in Very Large SAS Tables

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Can Websites Compress Their Files So Their Bandwidths Aren't So Large?

<P><a a="" available="" compress="" free="" is="" of="" software="" their="" title="#jsArticleIntroImageCredit rel=thinbox><IMG title=" to="" variety="" webmasters="" website="" who="" wish=""></A></P><br /><P>A variety of free software is available to webmasters who wish to compress their website files. A wide variety of optimization tools are available for webmasters looking to reduce bandwidth by compressing the files on their website. Depending on the type of file, you may be able to achieve a 90 percent reduction rate with compression which, in turn, will save a tremendous amount of bandwidth.</P><br /><P></P>FirebugFirebug is a Web development tool that not only inspects HTML and offers a JavaScript debugger but also shows what files can be compressed on the website. Only available as an extension for Firefox, Firebug is free open-source software. Once installed, Firebug can be opened from the "Tools" drop-down menu. The webmaster should click on "Analyze Performance" and wait for a detailed report as to what the development tool recommends regarding compression of files and images.GzipGzip is another open-source software application that provides file compression. The free program can be downloaded from the Gzip website, which offers detailed instructions as to how to set up and operate the software.OthersAdditional compression software is available, including 7-Zip, IZArc, WinRAR, PeaZip and the Unarchiver. References <A" href="http://getfirebug.com/whatisfirebug" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Get FireBug: What is FireBug</A> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gzip: GNU Gzip</A> <a href="http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020314.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">15 Seconds: Web Site Compression</A>

Can Websites Compress Their Files So Their Bandwidths Aren't So Large?

A variety of free software is available to webmasters who wish to compress their website files. A wide variety of optimization tools are ava...

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Large Hadron Collider creates its own mini Big Bang

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///classifications/images/LHC-200-200.jpg"> <br /><P>The Large Hadron Collider has achieved one of the greatest things ever in particle research, it has managed to recreate its very own mini Big Bang – the incident which lead to the creation of the universe 14 billion years ago.</P><br /><P>In a section of the LHC (to give the particle pusher its hip-hop name) known as Alice, scientists managed to smash together lead ions to create the not-very-big Big Bang. </P><br /><P>We're picturing this experiment in much the same way a child would smash two Lego toys together to see what the effects were, but we have a sneaking suspicion that more thought may have gone into it.</P><br /><P>This is because the Alice experiment involves around 1,000 physicists and engineers from 100 institutes in 30 countries.</P><br /><P>Of which Britain contributes eight physicists and engineers and seven PhD students from the University of Birmingham.</P><br /><P><STRONG>The force is strong with this one</STRONG></P><br /><P>Dr David Evans, a member of the UK team from the University of Birmingham, who probably now has something of a god complex, said about the experiment: "We are thrilled with the achievement. The collisions generated mini Big Bangs and the highest temperatures and densities ever achieved in an experiment.</P><br /><P>"This process took place in a safe, controlled environment generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs with temperatures of over 10 trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun. </P><br /><P>"At these temperatures even protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, melt resulting in a hot dense soup of quarks and gluons known as a quark-gluon plasma."</P><br /><P>Quark-gluon plasma sounds a lot like Midi-chlorians to us, as Evans explains: "The Strong Force not only binds the nuclei of atoms together but is responsible for 98 per cent of their mass.</P><br /><P>"I now look forward to studying a tiny piece of what the universe was made of just a millionth of a second after the Big Bang."</P><br /><P>The experiment's 'highest temperatures ever on Earth' boast was short-lived, though, due to Katie Waissel's freezing cold reception on the<EM> X Factor</EM> counteracting the extreme heat.</P><br /><P>Or not.</P>

Large Hadron Collider creates its own mini Big Bang

The Large Hadron Collider has achieved one of the greatest things ever in particle research, it has managed to recreate its very own mini B...

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Large Hadron Collider creates its own mini Big Bang

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///classifications/images/LHC-200-200.jpg"> <br /><P>The Large Hadron Collider has achieved one of the greatest things ever in particle research, it has managed to recreate its very own mini Big Bang – the incident which lead to the creation of the universe 14 billion years ago.</P><br /><P>In a section of the LHC (to give the particle pusher its hip-hop name) known as Alice, scientists managed to smash together lead ions to create the not-very-big Big Bang. </P><br /><P>We're picturing this experiment in much the same way a child would smash two Lego toys together to see what the effects were, but we have a sneaking suspicion that more thought may have gone into it.</P><br /><P>This is because the Alice experiment involves around 1,000 physicists and engineers from 100 institutes in 30 countries.</P><br /><P>Of which Britain contributes eight physicists and engineers and seven PhD students from the University of Birmingham.</P><br /><P><STRONG>The force is strong with this one</STRONG></P><br /><P>Dr David Evans, a member of the UK team from the University of Birmingham, who probably now has something of a god complex, said about the experiment: "We are thrilled with the achievement. The collisions generated mini Big Bangs and the highest temperatures and densities ever achieved in an experiment.</P><br /><P>"This process took place in a safe, controlled environment generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs with temperatures of over 10 trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun. </P><br /><P>"At these temperatures even protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, melt resulting in a hot dense soup of quarks and gluons known as a quark-gluon plasma."</P><br /><P>Quark-gluon plasma sounds a lot like Midi-chlorians to us, as Evans explains: "The Strong Force not only binds the nuclei of atoms together but is responsible for 98 per cent of their mass.</P><br /><P>"I now look forward to studying a tiny piece of what the universe was made of just a millionth of a second after the Big Bang."</P><br /><P>The experiment's 'highest temperatures ever on Earth' boast was short-lived, though, due to Katie Waissel's freezing cold reception on the<EM> X Factor</EM> counteracting the extreme heat.</P><br /><P>Or not.</P>

Large Hadron Collider creates its own mini Big Bang

The Large Hadron Collider has achieved one of the greatest things ever in particle research, it has managed to recreate its very own mini B...

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