The article shows how resources which normally have to be ‘looked up’ by the developer writing extra lines of code, can be instead injected into the code using annotations and support from the container. App servers such as Oracle App Server 10g 10.1.3 and JBoss 4.0.1 currently support this functionality, but expect it to be supported in all app servers once we get to Java EE5.0 runnning on Java 5.0 within the next year or so.
WD Raptor 10,000 rpm IDE drive – with a transparent case?
The Western Digital Raptor IDE hard drives are probably the fastest IDE drives out there currently, with 10k rpm, 5ms seek speed, and Serial ATA 150 transfer.
Up until now they only shipped in 36GB and 74GB capacities, but WD now also have a 150GB drive… with a transparent window so you can see the platters spinning and the drive head moving. How cool is that. Presumably you’ll need a transparent PC case also, or at least a window…
CES 2006: Gates demos Vista
Bill Gates showed off some of Vista’s new features yesterday during his opening keynote at CES 2006. Some of the features he demo’d did not sound that earth shattering, and in particular new features like the Sidebar sound suspiciously like Google Desktop.
Other interesting announcements:
- Gates also mentioned a partnership with DirecTV to allow subscribers to download content to Windows PCs, XBox 360 and other Windows media devices in the ‘Plays for Sure’ range of products.
- The Treo 700w was announced, running Windows Mobile operating system, instead of Palm OS (which Treo’s have been using up until now – consumers can now either choose Windows Mobile, or the Palm flavour)
CES 2006 – starts tomorrow Jan 6 – where is the Atom Chip 1TB RAM Laptop??!
CES is one of the largest consumer electronics shows, and it opens tomorrow in Las Vegas.
There is always a bunch of new gadgets that get announced by all the major vendors at the show, plus some additional surprises.
The big thing I’m looking for announcements on this year is anything from the company called ‘Atom Chip’, who earlier last year announced they would be appearing at a booth at the show to demonstrate their supercomputer of a laptop. They claim to have developed ‘Quantum-Optical non-volatile RAM’ which allows them to build a laptop with 1TB of RAM, and 2TB of non-volatile secondary storage. This is quite impressive if it is true, but was dismissed at the time it hit the news websites as a hoax. Well if they are at CES then hopefully we’ll find out whether this is for real or not – if it is real then it certainly sounds impressive.
Interesting to note – if you go out to their website and look at the specs of the ‘non volatile memory laptop’, the specs seem to have decreased slightly… now its 100GB RAM and 256GB storage – still impressive, none the less.