How will the computers be in 2019?

Here is a video by Microsoft explaining how the computer world might be in then years

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Amazing, don't you think?

Trip to the Pyrenees

Today is 11th January and I’m nervous because me and my friends are going to travel to the Pyrenees this afternoon. The travel lasts 3 hours, approximately, but I think that this is worth.When we arrived in Barcelona we travelled by bus to the Pyrenees. We first caught the skis and the boats in a French shop and after that we went to Queixans to ate our dinner, lasagne, at finally we went to the cabins. We’re going to tidy our things but I didn’t find my suitcase’s keys. I’ve to broke my suitcase!

I got up and I remember that I was in The Pyrenees and I was wearing like a diver. We ate our breakfast a delicious croissant. Daneira, Sheila, Alberto, Jose Carlos and me going in the other bus to the ski station. Alberto fell and knocked Monica, she went to the hospital and the people say that she broken her arm. We’ve lunch in the station and in the night we “ate” vegetables.

On the 13th I was furious because when I got up I found other keys and this open my suitcase’s padlock. I went with the 10 group with Martin to the ski class. At the afternoon I saw Jesus come up prohibited track. Jesús, Saúl, Efrén and me came up to this track and in the half Efrén fall and knock me. I come up walking and two “funny” Germans say me: “Can we help you?” I said yes and I realized I’m in front of a enormous mountain, the Germans said me caught my hand and when we start ski they push me and me roll. The teachers saw me but they thought that I was a machine. They punish the persons that this day skis in prohibited tracks.We after did ice skating where me fall, again.

Fourth day in the Pyrenees, I’m tired but me and my friends are eating the famous croissant. We went to the Masella; some people say that this station is the best. We ski all the day and in the afternoon we going to Puigcerda and buy a lot of things.

Three days to the return, We went to les Angles again, but I think that today is different because I think that Martin is going to include me in the 12 group but he call me “púas”, I didn’t understand this. Alberto and Sheila were punishing again because they didn’t take notice of the teachers. In the afternoon we were going to the termas. This night we’re going to do the “Pringles & Aquarius Operation”.

Last day to Ski, Alberto and Sheila couldn’t ski and they tried Knock Jose and me with snow balls, Pepa fell and had sprained her knee. In the afternoon we travelled to Barcelona by bus and saw some of the most importants places on Barcelona. In the night Jose shut himself in the bathroom and he couldn’t pen this it was only some minutes but when he went out, he is scared.

On the last day Pedro Alberto, Efrén, Pedro Manuel… got up with toothpaste in their face, the teachers are going to see the cams to find the guilty one. We going to the airport and came into the aeroplane, I think this was the final of a fantastic travel.

Fama

Fama is a TV program on four channel very interesting, a lot of people watch this program every days because it's very active. It consist in a group of girls and boys dancing, but they dance very good... every days many people talks about the program of the last day. In this school people dance streetdance, liric and funky.Girls and boys form couples, they rehearse a choreography and they exhibit it for the teachers, on Wednesday teachers choose the best. Every weeks two persons left the dance school, because six teachers ( dancers of course) choose the worst of all and then people who watch this program send a sms to save his favourite. In the class a lot of people watch this program and they like it because music and dance are very important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qt9LAunx8g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOCc9sqvIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU7SBPjOwPY

How many transistors on a CPU?

As mentioned today in class:

The current AMD dual-core Athlon Processor has 154-233 Million transistor. An Intel Pentium D has 230 million transistors.

In the early 90's the pentium III had 100,000 - 10 million transistors.

In the early 80's the Intel 8086 had 5000-100,000 transistors.

And this is how the interior of a CPU looks like:

Impressive, isn't it?

The Hangman Cheat Challenge

Do you remember the Hangman game?

Think of an English word, write the number of letters and try to beat the machine in this easy online game. I still haven't been able to do it!


If you can beat the machine, you can write your word in the comments. Have fun at hangmancheat.com

Your plastics assignment

Hello people!

Already in 2009, and still waiting for Pablos's report on the trip to the Pyrinees.

This is only a reminder about the plastics activity we did today in the class. I sent you the questions by e-mail and you can go to this page to find out the answers.



Please write the answers in an OpenOffice Writer document and e-mail it to me. The deadline is next Monday, 2nd of February

See you!

Obama's oath

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/obamas_oath_faithfully_misspok.html


If you pay attention to the video, you'll notice that the adverb "faithfully" was mispoken.