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Technical Notes

Full-Page Zoom in Browsers

The implementation of full-page zoom (FPZ) in Internet Explorer 7 is likely to change the way webpages are viewed — especially so given Opera's near identical functionality & the introduction of FPZ in Firefox3/4?

Full-page zoom is likely to become seen as normal, as it is consistent with a familiar paradigm encountered in PDF-readers, MS-Office, etc. Traditional full-width fluid page designs (see example) often do not zoom well, necessitating horizontally scrolling.

The TeraFLOPS Chip

Really truly fast, just got cheap & tiny.

Intel's new 'teraflops' computer chip performs calculations as quickly an entire super-computer centre. The 'teraflops' chip (containing 100 million transistors) can perform about a TRILLION calculations per second whilst consuming only the energy of a 65w light bulb.

A decade ago, the first similarly powerful supercomputer (ASCI-Red) used nearly 10,000 PENTIUM-PRO processors, occupied 600 sq metres & consumed more than half a mega-watt of electricity.

The images on right show: close-up of the 'teraflops' chip (die), the chip deployed, and, the ASCI-Red supercomputer.