A real shooting star - Presidential or Parliamentary system?

I was about to start campaigning for a system of government. The country needed my help in deciding so I had to stop and while getting ready for the voting we have "a real shooting star" discovered.





And they leave a comparison:



So, have you decided now which system is the best?

[The above is the debate I have presented so that you can decide which system is best. Do you not agree that the above debate is better than what they have been doing on public media?]

Magnetic avalanches (Go Wireless - Avoid Data Loss)

Magnetic avalanches occur when the polarity of a molecular nanomagnet is changed suddenly and sufficient energy is released to cause a chain reaction that changes the polarity of the other molecular nanomagnets in a crystal.

I first read the title from a syllabus written down for some diploma students I was to teach "data structures". I had no idea what it meant in relation with Data Structures for Software Engineers.

New research brings models of magnetic avalanches much closer to reality, helping physicists understand both why they happen and why they don't run out of control, wiping disk drives clean.

Correcting even a single typo in an e-mail means changing dozens of bits of information. For each bit, a magnetic head grazes a tiny patch of your disk drive, forcing its polarity, or "spin," to align up or down--the magnetic equivalent of a one or a zero. The patch's polarity in many magnetic materials changes in a haphazard series of large and small jumps that physicists liken to an avalanche--though Deutsch's research shows it often behaves more like an explosion or runaway fire.

So, the scientists know how to stop avalanches on the disks. But still we lose data due to magnetic avalanches.

Now this is one of the better reasons for us to go for inventions which store bits in digital format with an electricity supply like that of a wireless charger. Obviously it will be faster than a spinning disk and moving armature to access the sectors of the storage media.


References:
Magnetic Avalanche - Dynamic Combustion
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/120196/magnetic-wobbles-cause-disk-failure.html
Wobbly Polarity Is Key To Preventing Magnetic Avalanches On Disk Drives

Why Surface Computing matters

Is this the next best thing we were looking for?

Computers that can take dimensions of our clothes when we just walk into the shop and robots to hand in the shopped items... What is next?

Three things are surprising about Ballmer's announcement. First, Microsoft was able to keep the project a secret. Second, the first product will ship as early as this year. Third, Microsoft adds to the existing research on third-generation user interfaces the concept of recognizing objects.

Pundits, the press and users -- including me -- have been hard on Microsoft lately. And for good reason. Flaccid Vista sales and confusing Vista versions, high prices, lame initiatives like the Ultra Mobile PC and a general lack of innovation have given the company an increasingly bad reputation.

But Surface is a spectacular home run. The secrecy, the implementation, the rollout plan, the early marketing all impress.

Surface appears to give Microsoft an early lead in the next generation computing platform, and, significantly, it thrills partners like Intel and others. Surface craves massive computing power. It guarantees another decade -- or two -- of global demand for ever-newer, bleeding-edge hardware. And even though Microsoft will build the initial hardware itself (using partner components, of course), it's likely that the company will extend the platform to PC makers like Dell and HP.

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