IEEE's Technology Winners & Losers of 2006 77
eldavojohn writes "As far as technologies go, there are clear winners and clear losers. This month's IEEE Spectrum issue contains an interesting list of winners and losers from 2006. Among the winners are a new radio technology, IP phone networks & memory technologies along with ethanol from sugarcane. Among the losers are tongue vision, LEDs in clothes, a flying car and ethanol from corn."
Brazil in the news... (Score:4, Insightful)
Ethanol is cheap and it's very common here.
The only problem comes from the use of natural gas, since most of it comes from Bolivia, and we're having some problems with their new government claiming that Petrobras (government-owned Brazilian oil) has no right over their natural gas.
And of course... we're also self-sufficiency in petroleum.
Winner: Multicore (Score:5, Insightful)
We can do this by multithreading in a single process, which the latest release of PMD [blogs.com] does. This is kind of complicated, although using a good concurrency library certainly helps. Or we can separate concerns, like moving the user interface into a separate process like we do with indi [getindi.com]. Either way, no sense in leaving CPU power on the table...
Re:Virtual chickens (Score:5, Insightful)