firsts

Firsts...

 Computer Game: Spacewar
 Registered Domain : symbolics.com

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Metcalfe's Law

- Metcalfe's Law is expressed in two general ways:

1) The number of possible cross-connections in a network grow as the square of the number of computers in the network increases.

2) The community value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users increase.

The original statement from Robert M. Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, was apparently (according to one source):

"The power of the network increases exponentially by the number of computers connected to it. Therefore, every computer added to the network both uses it as a resource while adding resources in a spiral of increasing value and choice."

Metcalfe's Law is often cited as an explanation for the rapid growth of the Internet (or perhaps more especially for the World Wide Web on the Internet). Together, with Moore's Law about the rate at which computer power is accelerating, Metcalfe's Law can be used to explain the rising wave of information technology that we are riding into the 21st century.

India IT performance for the yr 05-06

Indian software and backoffice industry generated $23.6 bln in fiscal 2005-2006 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- India's software and backoffice services industry recorded 33% growth in export revenue to $23.6 bln in the year to March 2006. This included $6.3 bln from services like call centres, payroll processing, claims management and high-end financial analytics. Including the domestic market, the sector expanded 31% on year to $29.6 bln. Overall software and services [...]

Life vs. Blogs....v2

Well if you remember my earlier blog on life vs blogs, i had said that blogs don't let to edit things once blogged. Although this was true for first generation blogs, now days all blogger sites allow editing. I guess they realised that we being humans are so error prone that we always need that second chance. So much for comparison between life and blogs. :-(