After AMD:Intel's Next Big Battle!

Intel, The worlds largest computer chip maker anounced on November 12th that it would pay $1.25 billion to resolve allegations by Advanced micro devices(AMD) that its larger rival competes unfairly in the market for computer chips.



On one hand, the agreement lets Intel and AMD move past the conflict that's put the companies at legal loggerheads for years, and it may help Intel resolve ongoing antitrust tussles U.S. regulators, But a more important benefit of the agreementis that it letsIntel turn attention to what may become an even greater headachein the coming years: the challenge posed by ARM Holdings (ARM.L), maker of the technology used in chips running in a widening array of mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone.

Source: httphttp://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2009/tc20091112_556616.htm

Nokia Vs. Apple!

Recently, the cellphone company Nokia has filed a lawsuit against Apple because people are saying that the iPhone is violating 10 different patents owned by Nokia, the cellphone company. Nokia sayas that the technologies, ranging from speech coding to security to wireless data transmission have been included in every iPhone when they first came out.

The law suit states the issues faced by an old fashioned patentand trademark system trying feebly to adapt. theat which new technologies are developed has left things like patent & copyright law in the dust & exposed weaknesses in those systems which need to be corrected to me et the needs of the Internet era.

Coincidentally, this is the week that Apple relased its latest quarterly financial details which showed record Mac and iPhone sales driving record quarterly profit and helping apple stock to reach a new all-time high. Nokia may be hoping to both steal some of Apple's thunder and capitalize on the apperent influx of cash Apple has.

My Blog Response

In my science class we did a lab on plasticity. This lab included the following materials:

• Water
• A measuring cup (glass or plastic)
• Cornstarch.

What we exactlly did in this lab is first, poured the cornstarch in the measuring cup. Next we poured in the water in the measuring cup. After that we played with the cornstarch, as i learned that if you keep rolling it into a ball with your hands it will stay as a solid but if you don't it will turn into a liquid and it will harden just like the earths core.

My personal reflection on this lab :
I realy think that the lab is really fun and it is very hands on. I personally think this the most fun lab that we have so far, the reason i say this is because when i was younger when we learned about earth we didnt do anything but watch a movie. But this time my science class watched a movie and did a lab on earth, the movie was ok but the lab was really fun.

My Blog Response

On Wednesday (5/27/09), me and my science class did a lab on on isostasy. In my opinion i think the lab is basically on how much weight can water hold before the object in it sinks and how far under it sinks. The materials we used in the lab are :

• Two wooden blocks (one smaller, and one larger)
• A small bin filled with water
• Water (fill the bin half full)
• 20 pennies.

First we filled the bin half full with water. Next put the smallest wooden block in the water. After that put three pennies on the wooden block. Then measure how far down the block goes under water.Next take the objects out and put in the Bigger wooden block in the water. Shortly after that put the smaller wooden block and all the pennies on the blocks then measure how far down the blocks and pennies and go under water.

My personal reflection on this lab :

I personally did like this lab but not as much as the other one though. The reason for that is this just doesnt seem that fun and exciting, i asy its not as exciting because there really nothing interesting in this lab. But dont get me wrong this lab was alright , just not as fun as the plastiscity lab.

October Sky Blog

The movie October Sky was about four young teenagers who wanted to fly rockets into the air. One of the main chracters Dad wanted all four of them to work in the mine which he owns. However they continued on with there dream, and eventually entered a national science fair but only one of them could go. while at tha science fair the presenter of there project gets robbed, but they don give up immidiatly he calls his friends and tells them about this unfortunate event so he takes a bus ride back to his home town to get new parts. He shortly returns to the fair and gets first place in the science fair, also he gets a scholarship to a college.

Blog response to Popty

the disease im responding to called "Fragile X Syndrome". basically when you get this disease you really can't get rid of it, there is no cure for this disease. Fragile can simpily be inherited by a family of people suffering from fragile x disease. the side affects are

• mental impairment
• can affect the behavior & memory of the person.

there is a treatment for this disease, for more information go to

• http://www.fragilex.org/html/what.htm
• http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/fragile_x_syndrome.cfm
• http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/599/main.html

***Cri du chat

Cri du chat is a disease and when your born with it these are the side affects

• A high pitched voice that sounds like a cat meowing
  
• Low birth weight
• Grow problems
• Unusual facial features.

And no there are no treatments for this disease, and it is also rare to get it but it happens to all ethnic backrounds, and also it most likely to happen to more females than a male.