Unreachable, unimaginably hot and yet ever present. The sun is the source of all life on earth. It's little wonder many cultures still revere it as a deity. For 4.5 billion years the sun rises every morning on the horizon. But what do we really know about the heavenly ball of fire which provides us with light and warmth? This documentary shows with impressive pictures the thrilling story of the creation of the sun, it's influence on our well-being, and how we could use it's power to change the future on earth dramatically.
Our lives are ruled by the clock. Time is precious and we never seem to have enough of it. Recently, scientists have been trying to find a way for all of us to become
"In conjunction with Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront in the EU, Amazon Web Services customers can now locate their storage, distribution, and compute in Europe, better allowing them to achieve low latency to their European customers and to meet EU data storage requirements when applicable,” said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2 as Amazon.com today announced that it has extended Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Europe.
It appears that Sun is killing off its Sun Grid proto-cloud, the almost four-year-old Solaris 10-based utility computing platform offering grid compute time by the hour, only to replace it with some other form of cloud. Exactly what remains cloudy. The struggling company has a new cloud computing unit under SVP Dave Douglas, several hundred dedicated engineers and a cloud CTO, Lew Tucker, the guy who built Salesforce.com’s AppExchange marketplace, working on the vision.
A documentary film exploring the rapidly growing federal debt and its implication for the United States and its citizens. America is faced with the challenges of an ever-expanding government and military, increased foreign competition, and obligations it is finding more and more difficult to honor. Pretty amazing graphs too.
Documentary that explores how mankind came to understand the Universe and its origins in the Big Bang, from the earliest people who looked up at the sky and wondered about its nature to modern physicists.
For over two millennia, India has been at the centre of world history. But how did India come to be? What is India? These are the big questions behind this intrepid journey around the contemporary subcontinent. In this landmark series, historian and acclaimed writer Michael Wood embarks on a dazzling and exciting expedition through today's India, looking to the present for clues to her past, and to the past for clues to her future.
SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo attracted more than 40 sponsors and exhibitors with over 1,200 preregistered delegates. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing.
There's a new release of OpenSolaris out – OpenSolaris 2008.11 – out a whole three weeks before the end of 2008. There was a 2008.05 release, aka Project Indiana, in May but that wasn’t as commercial or production-oriented as this one. Both run only on x86 machines, not Sun's own Sparc chip – at least not yet. New features in 2008.11 include Time Slider, a Gnome GUI that makes Sun's not-for-the-uninitiated Zettabyte File System (ZFS) functionality, like instant data snapshots, available to all users.
I’ve only got one thing I want to ask Santa Jobs for, and it ain’t a Red Rider BB Gun. All I want from Apple is a more open platform. Sure, the odds are slim as long as they remain dominant. That’s why I’m not asking them to completely open source the iPhone. I’m just asking them to crack the door and let the breeze in.
Ancient Carthage was home to Hannibal; one of the greatest generals in history. He crushed the Roman legions like a force of nature at the battle of Cannae. However, his greatest triumph was also the beginning of the end for the once mighty city state.
This programme delves into the fascinating world of the ancient Maya. More than two thousand years ago, the astronomers and timekeepers of this ancient civilisation predicted that the world would come to an end on December 21, 2012. We explain how and why they arrived at this stunning conclusion.
In this scintillating episode of Decoding the Past, we explore one of the key scriptures of world religion, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. This twelve hundred year old document was kept secret in one of the worlds most remote regions for many years. Many religious leaders and historians claim that the mysterious text holds the key to life after death.
The Roman Empire was born almost 3000 years ago in central Italy. 800 years after its founding it encompassed the entire known world & lasted just over 1000 years. However, the empire didn't so much fall, but slowly evolved into a new European culture.
In this programme we discover why alien visitors choose the craft shapes they do (flying saucers are very popular models!), and learn how they overcome the effects of Earths atmosphere and how they defy gravity and cancel inertia.
The Reich Underground (British Discovery Channel) delves deep inside Hitler's vast underground housing, secret tunnels, gold/artwork/weapons/ammo storage and bomb shelters
The king of what later became Romania send two of his sons as a ransom to the Ottoman court where they grew up and were educated. One of them came back to his father and became later Vlad The Impaler.
"The Battle of Midway," directed by John Ford, provides a relatively brief account of the Japanese attack of American ships at Midway atoll. The film is comprised mostly of authentic footage from the battle, with dramatic narration by Henry Fonda.
2,500 years ago Persia was a great empire; regarded as the forerunner of the Roman Empire. However in spite of its size & strength it had an adversary that would seal its doom. Persia's nemesis was a smaller empire - Macedon; ruled by Alexander The Great.
A 2007 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the end of the Second World War onwards.
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man" 7th episode of a series (and the last for now) which monitors the development of numerous individuals throughout their life. They're now 49 years old.
"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man".The 6th of the series it revisits the members of this social project with all it's participants now 42 years old.
"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man". The fifth in a series which follows the devlopment of 14 individuals from different backgrounds in the UK. In this episode they're revisited at the age of 35.
"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man". The fourth in a series which follows the devlopment of 14 individuals from different backgrounds in the UK.