Archive for February, 2009

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Intel Core i7 (part 3)

The outcome of all of this is that a solo Core i7 processor supports a total of eight threads, which makes for an appealing looking Task Manager window. Because of the resource sharing involved, obviously, Hyper-Threading won’t likely double performance, even the best-case scenario. The change... ->

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Feminism and Popular Culture (part 1)

Like many of the twentieth century’s major political movements, feminism’s origins reside in the broad social changes associated with modernity. Although women’s subordination (along with that of many categories of men, too) had been fairly uniform across traditional cultures, it h... ->

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Leadership Makes a BIG Difference (part 1)

Knowledge acquisition, the first goal of successful leadership, has been a subject of inquiry since the ancient Greek philosophers. In more recent history, the study of knowledge acquisition has been explored mainly through two perspectives of psychology: (1) the cognitive perspective, which focuses... ->

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Effect of air pollution on humman health (part 4)

that provides blood to the heart.  This disease consists of angina and heart attack which has common symptoms of pain or pressure inside the chest. In contradiction to angina, the symptoms arising due to heart attack do not lessen with rest and may cause permanent damage to the heart. Smoking, irr... ->

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Frankenstein (part 3)

Frankenstein is finally a novel about atonement. Victor is punished for his overreaching by the deaths of his loved ones. Among these is Justine Moritz, a family servant who is put to death for the murder of Victor’s youngest brother William, who was actually killed by the creature, a fact that Vi... ->

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Intel Core i7 (part 2)

The Core i7 can get to main memory very speedily, too, thanks to its integrated memory controller, which eliminates the chip-to-chip "hop" required when going over a front-side bus to an that north bridge. Again, this is a recognizable page from AMD’s pattern, but Intel has raised th... ->