The Million Dollar Laptop

UK-based bespoke luxury goods creator Luvaglio has created the first million dollar laptop. That's what the first of their luxury laptops will sell for. Full details of the laptop have not been released at this point, but it is known that it incorporates a 17" wide LED lit screen with a specially designed anti-reflective glare coating for clear and brighter image, 128GB of Solid State Disk space and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop, and also acts as security identification.

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XE-BIO - Latest Technology

Non Contact In-liquid Imaging and Ion Conductance Microscopy
XE-Bio is a powerful 3-in-1 nanoscience research tool that uniquely combines industry’s only True Non-Contact AFM with Ion Conductance Microscopy (ICM) and inverted optical microscope on the same platform. The modular design of the XE-Bio allows easy exchange between non-contact AFM and ICM. Designed for non-invasive in-liquid imaging, the combined imaging capability of AFM, ICM, and inverted optical microscopy makes the XE-Bio ideal for imaging biological samples, such as living cells, in dynamic conditions. Moreover, ICM can be adapted to enable a host of powerful applications in nanoscale electrophysiology.
Powerful 3-in-1 Nanoscale Research Tool with Modular Platform

-> True Non-Contact Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)

->Ion Conductance Microscope (ICM)

-> Inverted Optical Microscope

Ultimate AFM Resolution by True Non-Contact ModeTM

-> 10 times larger Z-scan bandwidth than a piezotube

-> Less tip wear for prolonged high-quality and high-resolution imaging

-> Minimized sample damage or modification

-> Immunity from parameter-dependent results observed in tapping imaging

-> Single molecule Force-Distance spectroscopy with automated data analysis

Non-invasive In-liquid Imaging by ICM

-> Monitoring ion channels of single living cells

-> Unique functional capability of targeted localized stimulation

-> Enable nanoscale patch-clamping for electrophysiology

-> Environmental chamber for temperature, pH, and humidity control

Fully Integrated Inverted Optical Microscope

-> Compatible with phase contrast and DIC imaging

-> Also compatible with fluorescence microscopy

-> Advanced image overlay functions

Intel Latest Server Processor

Intel Xeon processor 7500 series

Designed for maximum performance and reliability, these massively scalable 2-way to 256-way, 64-bit multi-core servers are designed to provide exceptional scalable performance and mission-critical class reliability for your most data-demanding applications and virtualization projects.

THE MAIN FEATURE WHICH SHOW HOW ITS TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN OTHERS

8-core processing
With Up to 8 cores and 16 threads per socket with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology◊, the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series offers increased performance with 45nm manufacturing technology and increased headroom for multi-threaded applications and data demanding applications
Enables improved virtualization performance, increasing system utilization

Intel microarchitecture codename Nehalem
Boosts performance on multiple applications/user environments and data demanding workloads, while enabling denser data center deployments through improved performance-per-watt
45nm hi-k process technology enables larger on-die cache for better performance, and reduced transistor gate leakage for greater energy efficiency

24 MB of L3 cache
Increases efficiency of cache-to-core data transfers, maximizing main memory to processor bandwidth
Reduces latency by storing larger data sets closer to the processor, reducing the number of trips to main memory

Intel Quickpath Interconnect
High-speed (up to 25.6 GB/s), point-to-point connections between processors, and between processors and the I/O hub
Outstanding memory performance and flexibility to support leading memory technologies
Tightly integrated interconnect reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) with design-scalable configurations for optimal balance of price, performance, and energy efficiency
Enables scaling of processors from 2- to 8-sockets, and higher with use of third-party node controllers

Quad channel integrated memory controller and Intel 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer technology.
Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect results in 8 times the memory bandwidth of prior generations
Intel 7500 Scalable Memory Buffers are used to achieve the highest memory capacity per socket for an X86 architecture
Up to 16 memory slots per processor socket
Support for up to 16GB DDR3 DIMMs
Up to 1Terabyte of memory with 16GB DIMMS in a 4-socket system (up to 2 terabytes in an 8-socket system)

Mission Critical RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
Over 20 new RAS features (3x vs. prior generation) designed to protect data integrity, increase system availability and minimize downtime.
Machine Check Architecture Recovery (MCA Recovery) allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal memory errors. First time in X86 architecture (previously only seen in RISC, Itanium-based systems, and mainframe class systems)
Other RAS features include Intel® Scalable Memory Interconnect (Intel® SMI) lane fail-over and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing which enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operation to keep running

Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)
A suite of processor hardware enhancements that assists virtualization software to deliver more efficient virtualization solutions and greater capabilities including 64-bit guest OS support
Intel Virtualization Technology FlexPriority optimizes virtualization software efficiency by improving interrupt handling
Intel Virtualization Technology FlexMigration enables Intel Xeon processor 7400 series-based systems to be added to the existing virtualization pool with single, two, or 4+ socket Intel Xeon processor-based servers

Intel 64 architecture
Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems

Solar Powered Plane To Fly Non-Stop For A Day

Solar power plane which is first developed at Dec 2008 is now taken a new height. 7 July 2010 is the day in when the aircraft took off from swiss airbase in the early hours to make history by flying round the clock.

This should be the great day of all goes well as said by chief Bertrand Piccard, who made the first non-stop round the world flight in a balloon more than a decade ago.
Solar Impulse has become the first plane in the history of solar aviation to make the longest and highest flight reaching top speeds of 75 mph.The epic flight over the Swiss skies was fueled by solar energy harnessed by 12,000 solar cells covering the plane’s 208ft long wingspan, which powered four electric motors driving the wing mounted propellers. Solar-powered HB-SIA prototype airplane has four lithium-ion batteries to store solar energy during the day and has been built from super light-weight but extremely strong carbon fiber material. Cruising at a maximum speed of 75 mph the plane can reach maximum altitude of 39,000 ft.

According to the team co-founder Bertrand Piccard, “the first 24-hour test flight proves that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft indefinitely”.While the team aims to fly around the world, for now they have proven that emissions free travel is definitely possible.

Germany v/s Argentina report

As of know all the world knows the result of GERMANY v/s ARGENTINA match at FIFA 2010 .
I m sharing some information about the match. The match which can shows its class in a different level , but failed to do so because of one team outclass other in the most humilated ways. Yes the team which shows its class is GERMANY no doubt . From start to the end its all about the statistics which the players play. Germany player use different strategy and win the game. What went wrong with the Argentina is the most common question asked by everyone. Well in my opinion the only thing wrong is that they are not using there all players to attack the germans, they only think of there star player to start the attack and due to this they lost most of there chances. For a team who has shown there class from the starting match shows this kind of game, this shows that there has no backup plan to counter the german defence. This shows lack of knowledge, information on other team. What went good for Germany is not just early goal but collabrated play by all players from the midfield to the attacker . Germany shows outplays Argentina from start till the end, not because they have good attack but its because they have much better defence. Germany defence shows class as we can see they not just let Argentina player to score a single goal but also plays better mind tactics too make opposition teeam to play offside. By this way they appear to be more smarter.
It's not that only germany play better football, Argentina also strike well starting from 2nd half, but couldn't achieve what they want and German star player BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER plays fast counter to close the match. The counter attack starts from Bastian and KLOSE makes it look so easy for others to see the result. Below are the pics of the match the moment where argentinians looks astonished by the result.

Match stats show some amazing result. Argentina has the possesion of the ball by 54% overall and also havemore shots on goal than Germany. This shows that the argentinian never thought of loosing game till the end and played like the best team should play. They also made more corner to penetrate german defence but all fails till the end.

The result of the game is 4-0 as germany wins the game and the ticket to move on to semi final.

Germany {Mueller 3, Klose 68, 89, Friedrich 74} 4- Argentina 0

Scope of a Project

Executive Summary
JINA system is a hotel management system which not only has the basic
functions (check-in and check-out) commonly focuses in the traditional hotel
management system, but also has something different from the traditional hotel
management system.
In the traditional hotel management system, reservation is done by hotel,
therefore agents are used to send fax which include the guest’s name, room type,
check in and check-out dates to hotel for making a room booking, then agents must
wait until hotel send back a fax to confirm the booking. This will make the daily
work inefficiently.
In JINA hotel management system, similar to the traditional hotel management
system, it can handle the check in and check out. And the housekeeper can update the
room situation any time so that receptionist can search the available room for guests
easily. Besides this, housekeeper, cashier and laundry staff can also update the
various charges to the guests’ folio. But the selling points in JINA hotel management
system are reservation and web booking. In reservation, agents can do the
reservation themselves, they only use to send the booking information to the
database, so that they do not need to send the fax and wait for the confirmation all the
time. This not only makes their daily works to be done more smoothly, but also
reduce the use of paper-based documents. Web booking is a common way of booking
nowadays. In the JINA system, guests can use their e-mail and password to make
their own account. This account can let guests to see how many booking they had
made before, room rate on weekday, weekend and public holiday. Besides these
basic functions, guests can have some specific discount if they had made room
booking over specific times which depend on the hotel strategy.

Background
Winning Company is a traditional hotel, which has no any computer system to
handle the daily work. It has 10 floors with 100 rooms, besides these, it also has
health center, casino, sauna, nightclub, Chinese and European restaurant. There are
about 500 employees in the hotel, about 350 of them are housekeeping and waiters
and the rest are in the other departments: reception, reservation, accounting, personal
department, Food & Beverage department, sales department and the engineering
department. And the 150 of the employees will include the directors and managers.

Operation
For the reservation department, when they receive the fax or phone call from
agent, they can only mark down the booking by hand in the record book. And for the
reception department, when a guest come to check in, they can only check the record
book which pass from reservation to find whether the guest has made the booking or
not. When a guest wants to check out, receptionists need to sum up the room rental
with the 10% service charge and 5% tourism tax. Cashiers in Food & Beverage
Department and the staffs of the Laundry Department need take the guest bill to
Front Office all the time because they can’t transfer the total amount of the bill
through the computer. The housekeepers in Housekeeping Department, they can
only update the room situation by telling the receptionist using telephone. All these
working processes make the daily work inefficiency.

Problems
1. In the reception department, the booking records are often duplicated or lost.
2. If a walk in guest comes to check in, receptionists may just give him a room but
which may be already blocked or unclean.
3. A walk in guest’s name may be the same as the others; receptionists may
misunderstand that this guest has already made the booking and give him a room.
4. Because receptionists are used to check the booking records all the time, so it
will make the daily work inefficiently especially in the peak period.
5. After confirming the guest the booking, receptionists will search an available
room, but the room situation can not be always updated by housekeeper.
6. Receptionists will request all guests to pay the deposit when they check in; also
they will pay the deposit back to the guests when they check out. But they can’t
print a report to check whether the cash or credit cards on hand are correctly or
not.
7. When handling the check out process, if cashiers and laundry staff forget to take
the bill to the Front Office, receptionists are unable to check those miscellaneous
charges, so as to cause the loss.
8. Customers are difficult to get the hotel information at any time they want,
especially the overseas guests.
9. Managers need to send the memo about the update room rate to each
departments and agents all the time because they can’t update the rate by using
computer.

Functional Requirement
Counter
1. Check in
Arrival list:
• The receptionists check a table including the list of the customers who will
arrive on that day, if it had many booking on that day, supervisor need to
increase more staff to work on that day.
• Search: receptionists can search the guest booking by ID card number
• ID Check: Check whether the guest is an agent guest or walk in guest.
Room Assignment:
• Walk-in guest – before customer check in, receptionists need to check the
condition of the room.
• Check out all the available rooms.
• Room styles: type of room (single, double) and environment of room (good or
bad view).
• Customer information entry – receptionists need to record the information of
all guests.
• Check customer information: receptionists can use this function to check the
database, if any record matches the customer; receptionists can use this record
to enter directly.
• Creates customer profile: if no any record matches the customer, receptionists
can create a new customer profile.
• For who have made reservation, their names will be in the arrival list,
receptionists only need to check whether the room is clean or not, and then
assign an available room to the guest.
• Customer information entry – because already had the records of customers,
so staff only need to use the function of check customer information to
confirm customer information.
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2. Check out
Departure list:
• Receptionists can check the list of departure on the current day, if it had many
check out guest on that day, supervisor need to increase more staff to work on
that day.
• Receptionists can search the guest folio for check out by using room number.
Room checking:
• When a guest requests to check out, housekeeper will check whether the room
has any damage or usage in the mini bar, if yes, housekeepers will update the
folio about extra charge and mark the room unavailable.
Payment receipt:
• After customer check out, receptionists will print a payment receipt about
room price to customer. (May include extra charge, e.g. charge of telephone,
laundry fee etc.)
Agent
Guest information maintenance:
• If a new guest comes to book a room; user can create a new customer profile.
• If the guest has his/her own customer profile that means this guest has made
room booking several times before, then users can retrieve the guest
information and continue make a new booking directly.
Registration:
• Users can see the quota.
• Users can enter the guest information, room type.
• Users can depend on the guest request to set booking type (one night, one
week, one month or package).
• After the guests confirm the booking, users can set the payment depend on the
guest.
Modification/ Cancellation:
• If a guest want to modify some details in their booking, or cancel the booking.
Users can load the booking from the system and do the modification or
cancellation.

Administrative Management
Pricing: Set up the price for different king of charge.
• Room price: Manager can consider different kind of room to set different
price.
• (Such as single, double … etc.)
• Room service price: Set up the price of different kind of room service.
• (Such as room Bread, extra bed … etc.)
• Deposit: Set up how much the customers need to pay for the deposit.
Modify the room price: Users can change the room for different case.
• Discount rate for agent: Modify the discount for agent.
• Discount rate for online reservation: Manager can make a discount for some
walk-in customers who reservation on Web
Get report: It can let the manager get different information of the hotel.
• Room chart: It can let the manager get the room properties in real time, so that
he can easily handle some extra booking in sudden.
• Statistics: Manager can accord some information to take a statistic. It can let
manager have more information to consider how to modify the price.
• (Such as the rate of live, which kind of room is the most famous… etc.)
Housekeeping Management
Update Information and Folio:
• Housekeepers can use this system to update the room situation for telling
receptionists which rooms are clean and update some extra charges to the
guest folio.
Web-Based Services
Check room information:
• Online checks room price, and room type etc.
Online reservation:
• With the room information, customer can press one button beside that
information to go to reservation page for reserve online, at that time; guests
can select check in date, check out date, number of room and number of
person etc.
Create & edit customer profile:
• A member profile is created for each of our guests so that our concierge can
serve you better. With your unique email address and password, you will be
able to review and update this at anytime.
• No need to re-enter your personal information every time you book the room.
• When customer login, he/she can view, modify or cancel a reservation.