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For public buildings, that includes commercial ones must comply with the ADA (American Disability Act) Accessible Design, but in residential homes (family homes, town homes, and patio homes) it's much more lenient.
News on China's scientific and technological development.
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For public buildings, that includes commercial ones must comply with the ADA (American Disability Act) Accessible Design, but in residential homes (family homes, town homes, and patio homes) it's much more lenient.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The bar is now lowered? When light sunny California rain runs in the walls, I believe that's inexcuseable if there's suppose to be this American standard of high quality. Plus if it was okay, then why did the homeowners win their class action lawsuit?
Red___Sword
Junior Member
Guys, guys, do we derailed the topic again?
The video is another piece of 远大集团 BOARD GROUP's work, on top of the 2010 show which built a similiar hotel in 15 days - this one have a higher engergy efficiancy and better light, air usage. That's why they used the title "History REWRITE".
Board Group's awesomeness is not its building team's working speed, but the "Sustainable Building" concept, they make the otherwise-politican's-mouth-piece of "Save our planet" and "Go green" into reality and most important - affordable.
This is the closest Chinese version of Apple Inc. - They sell visions, and the means to realize it.
The video is another piece of 远大集团 BOARD GROUP's work, on top of the 2010 show which built a similiar hotel in 15 days - this one have a higher engergy efficiancy and better light, air usage. That's why they used the title "History REWRITE".
Board Group's awesomeness is not its building team's working speed, but the "Sustainable Building" concept, they make the otherwise-politican's-mouth-piece of "Save our planet" and "Go green" into reality and most important - affordable.
This is the closest Chinese version of Apple Inc. - They sell visions, and the means to realize it.
RedMercury
Junior Member
"Socialist apartment creation"? We got a real live one here. If you hate Chinese so much, why are you even on this forum?
Red___Sword
Junior Member
Oh you have no idea how SDF has became popular these days...
Popular forums get the attention from all walks of life, right?
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
China, South Korea Taking Lead in New Technologies PDF Print E-mail
Written by Our Correspondent
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The west, Japan begin to lose their exclusive lead
The development of so-called "frontier technologies" -- previously the exclusive territory of the United States, Europe and Japan -- is no longer exclusive. China and South Korea have joined the list, with Korea excelling in displays and stem cell technology and China taking the lead in biotechnology and energy, according to a new report by the Seoul-based Samsung Economic Research Institute.
The ability to innovate and develop new technologies is crucial for national leadership.
According to a paper by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Reifer of the University of California at Riverside: "New lead technologies have long been important causes of the rise and decline of hegemonic core powers in the modern world-system."
"Political and military power is sustained and facilitated by competitive advantages in the production of highly profitable goods," Chase-Dunn and Reifer write. "Rising (world leaders) manage to innovate new profitable modes of trade and production that allow them to finance political and military advantages over other states. Thus the sequence of new lead technologies and their distribution across potentially competing core states is an important subject of study for understanding both the past and the future of hegemonic rise and fall."
The Samsung institute gathered opinions from experts and conducted a poll on the Internet to select 10 promising technologies. The main evaluation criteria were innovation, market prospects and the potential to be commercialized within three years. They found that software and materials technologies are leading innovation.
Of the 10 new technologies, Samsung found, nine are based on software and materials. Second, the focus has shifted from suppliers to consumers, prompting aggressive attempts to drastically improve user convenience or create new uses.
Although software and services lead the technology parade, the displays capture the imagination. These are flexible displays called AMOLED technology, which allows for the development of notebook computers that can be rolled up like a magazine and digital books like Kindle that are not fragile. Electronic newspapers are in the works whose pages can be turned over like paper, according to the report.
"All of these will be realized in a new world of flexible displays," the report says, enabling their commercial production this year -- in 2012 -- for wider use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet personal computers.
Among software and services, an HTML5-based application or "app" is being developed that can be used with different operating systems and can be used in various devices, including PCs, televisions, and smartphones. Currently, for games and other apps, they have to be developed separately for as many as 10 different operating systems. The new HTML-5 app will make it possible to develop just a single version.
By combining web-based apps with cloud computing, both the hardware and software industries can transform into service-based businesses, the report says. It includes a package service which provides Google’s office programs and Samsung’s Chrome-powered notebook in a bundle with a monthly fixed payment.
The second promising technology is big data analytics, which infers relations or patterns by analyzing vast amounts of unstructured data.
"This technology has high growth potential, as production of information is expected to surge at least 40 percent a year with the increasing popularity of smartphones, social media, and high-speed wireless communications like Long Term Evolution. Also, big data is useful for companies to improve management efficiency as it can help perform scientific decision making. According to research, high-performing companies use big data analytics technology more than twice as much as low-performing companies do."
The next generation of speech recognition has seen accuracy soar from 20 percent to 90 percent, according to the report. Cloud servers will replace terminals to deal with speech recognition. Thanks to this improvement, speech recognition is expected to be adopted in more areas including TVs and cars. Ford and KIA recently released vehicles equipped with a system that allows drivers to control audio devices verbally.
AMOLED technology, which allows for flexible displays with superb color quality, will be adapted this year for use in 40 inch or larger TVs, replacing LCD and PDP televisions. Previously AMOLED technology was used for screens in smartphones. Now, however, they have been developed for much larger screens. They are ultra-thin and light.
Next is healthcare, including stem cell technology, which was pioneered by US scientists. However, the country deliberately ceded development of stem cell technology during the years of the presidency of George W. Bush on religious grounds over the question of whether taking stem cells contained in unfertilized ova represented taking human life despite the fact that conception had not occurred.
Stem cell treatment allows for the regeneration of damaged organs by injecting cultured stem cells obtained from the patient’s body into damaged tissue. The development of adult stem cell research, which does not use stem cells from unfertilized ova, is "relatively free of ethical issues and has now seen significant advancement," the report says.
Pharmicell, a Korean company, has already become the first in the world to commercialize stem cell therapy for myocardial infarction in 2011. The therapy regenerates patients’ damaged heart muscles. It is expected to be developed for commercial purposes in Korea this year.
The seventh on the top 10 list, the report says is intelligent imaging technology, which helps to detect illness early through processing and analysis of medical images. It has reduced errors in breast cancer diagnosis by 20 percent. Expectations are running high also for development of new technologies including virtual endoscopy and virtual surgery simulation.
The eighth is microneedle patches, which have an array of microscopic biodegradable needles which dissolve into the skin, delivering medications into the body. Patches are currently under clinical trials. When commercialized, people who have issues with needles or who suffer from diabetes will be one of the largest beneficiaries. As no medical training is required to use the patches, they are expected to contribute greatly to preventing pandemics like avian and swine influenzas, the report says.
Lastly, in the general technology field, large capacity lithium air batteries are attracting attention as next-generation batteries. Their solid-state battery design reduces the risk of explosion, while their metallic lithium offers higher energy density than lithium compounds. IBM has developed lithium air batteries since 2009 and plans to unveil trial products by 2013. Among Korean companies, Samsung SDI and LG Chemical are developing next-generation batteries.
The tenth is small nuclear reactor technology. As these reactors do not use cooling water, they are highly reliable in preventing radiation leaks even in an emergency. China is leading the commercialization of pebble-bed reactors with technologies it acquired from the US and Germany, which had suspended research due to public opposition. When small nuclear reactors are developed, new demand will be created for ship engines, aircraft, and low-orbit spacecraft.
Written by Our Correspondent
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The west, Japan begin to lose their exclusive lead
The development of so-called "frontier technologies" -- previously the exclusive territory of the United States, Europe and Japan -- is no longer exclusive. China and South Korea have joined the list, with Korea excelling in displays and stem cell technology and China taking the lead in biotechnology and energy, according to a new report by the Seoul-based Samsung Economic Research Institute.
The ability to innovate and develop new technologies is crucial for national leadership.
According to a paper by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Reifer of the University of California at Riverside: "New lead technologies have long been important causes of the rise and decline of hegemonic core powers in the modern world-system."
"Political and military power is sustained and facilitated by competitive advantages in the production of highly profitable goods," Chase-Dunn and Reifer write. "Rising (world leaders) manage to innovate new profitable modes of trade and production that allow them to finance political and military advantages over other states. Thus the sequence of new lead technologies and their distribution across potentially competing core states is an important subject of study for understanding both the past and the future of hegemonic rise and fall."
The Samsung institute gathered opinions from experts and conducted a poll on the Internet to select 10 promising technologies. The main evaluation criteria were innovation, market prospects and the potential to be commercialized within three years. They found that software and materials technologies are leading innovation.
Of the 10 new technologies, Samsung found, nine are based on software and materials. Second, the focus has shifted from suppliers to consumers, prompting aggressive attempts to drastically improve user convenience or create new uses.
Although software and services lead the technology parade, the displays capture the imagination. These are flexible displays called AMOLED technology, which allows for the development of notebook computers that can be rolled up like a magazine and digital books like Kindle that are not fragile. Electronic newspapers are in the works whose pages can be turned over like paper, according to the report.
"All of these will be realized in a new world of flexible displays," the report says, enabling their commercial production this year -- in 2012 -- for wider use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet personal computers.
Among software and services, an HTML5-based application or "app" is being developed that can be used with different operating systems and can be used in various devices, including PCs, televisions, and smartphones. Currently, for games and other apps, they have to be developed separately for as many as 10 different operating systems. The new HTML-5 app will make it possible to develop just a single version.
By combining web-based apps with cloud computing, both the hardware and software industries can transform into service-based businesses, the report says. It includes a package service which provides Google’s office programs and Samsung’s Chrome-powered notebook in a bundle with a monthly fixed payment.
The second promising technology is big data analytics, which infers relations or patterns by analyzing vast amounts of unstructured data.
"This technology has high growth potential, as production of information is expected to surge at least 40 percent a year with the increasing popularity of smartphones, social media, and high-speed wireless communications like Long Term Evolution. Also, big data is useful for companies to improve management efficiency as it can help perform scientific decision making. According to research, high-performing companies use big data analytics technology more than twice as much as low-performing companies do."
The next generation of speech recognition has seen accuracy soar from 20 percent to 90 percent, according to the report. Cloud servers will replace terminals to deal with speech recognition. Thanks to this improvement, speech recognition is expected to be adopted in more areas including TVs and cars. Ford and KIA recently released vehicles equipped with a system that allows drivers to control audio devices verbally.
AMOLED technology, which allows for flexible displays with superb color quality, will be adapted this year for use in 40 inch or larger TVs, replacing LCD and PDP televisions. Previously AMOLED technology was used for screens in smartphones. Now, however, they have been developed for much larger screens. They are ultra-thin and light.
Next is healthcare, including stem cell technology, which was pioneered by US scientists. However, the country deliberately ceded development of stem cell technology during the years of the presidency of George W. Bush on religious grounds over the question of whether taking stem cells contained in unfertilized ova represented taking human life despite the fact that conception had not occurred.
Stem cell treatment allows for the regeneration of damaged organs by injecting cultured stem cells obtained from the patient’s body into damaged tissue. The development of adult stem cell research, which does not use stem cells from unfertilized ova, is "relatively free of ethical issues and has now seen significant advancement," the report says.
Pharmicell, a Korean company, has already become the first in the world to commercialize stem cell therapy for myocardial infarction in 2011. The therapy regenerates patients’ damaged heart muscles. It is expected to be developed for commercial purposes in Korea this year.
The seventh on the top 10 list, the report says is intelligent imaging technology, which helps to detect illness early through processing and analysis of medical images. It has reduced errors in breast cancer diagnosis by 20 percent. Expectations are running high also for development of new technologies including virtual endoscopy and virtual surgery simulation.
The eighth is microneedle patches, which have an array of microscopic biodegradable needles which dissolve into the skin, delivering medications into the body. Patches are currently under clinical trials. When commercialized, people who have issues with needles or who suffer from diabetes will be one of the largest beneficiaries. As no medical training is required to use the patches, they are expected to contribute greatly to preventing pandemics like avian and swine influenzas, the report says.
Lastly, in the general technology field, large capacity lithium air batteries are attracting attention as next-generation batteries. Their solid-state battery design reduces the risk of explosion, while their metallic lithium offers higher energy density than lithium compounds. IBM has developed lithium air batteries since 2009 and plans to unveil trial products by 2013. Among Korean companies, Samsung SDI and LG Chemical are developing next-generation batteries.
The tenth is small nuclear reactor technology. As these reactors do not use cooling water, they are highly reliable in preventing radiation leaks even in an emergency. China is leading the commercialization of pebble-bed reactors with technologies it acquired from the US and Germany, which had suspended research due to public opposition. When small nuclear reactors are developed, new demand will be created for ship engines, aircraft, and low-orbit spacecraft.
escobar
Brigadier
January 12 – Revenues from online ads in China grew 57.3% to ¥51.19 billion in 2011, surpassing revenues from newspaper ads, according to iResearch.
January 11 – China had 505 million netizens as of the end of 2011 and the number is expected to hit 700 million by the end of 2016, iResearch predicted.
January 11 – Revenue from China's online gaming market rose 34% to ¥44.6 billion in 2011, including ¥1.7 billion from mobile gaming, which surged 86.8%, according to iResearch.
January 6 – Turnover of China's third-party payment market amounted to ¥2.12 trillion in 2011 and is projected to reach ¥3.84 trillion in 2012, ¥6.41 trillion in 2013 and ¥9.94 trillion in 2014, according to Analysys International.
January 5 – Revenue from China's gaming industry is projected to total ¥115.8 billion in 2011, according to the Ministry of Culture.
January 5 – Revenue from China's mobile internet market is expected to reach ¥85.1 billion and the number of users is expected to reach 430 million in 2011, Analysys International predicted.
December 29 – China has become the world's third largest digital market with 500 million netizens, 60 billion web pages and 95 million sold smartphones, according to VivaKi, a consultancy owned by France's Publicis Groupe. Chinese netizens spend an average 18.3 hours on the internet every week, VivaKi added.
December 27 – China will increase spending on broadband infrastructure to improve connectivity and lower expenses, according to Miao Xu, the minster for industry and information technology. There were 155 million broadband users by the end of November 2011.
December 27 – Using telecommunications services in China has been 5.5% cheaper in 2011 compared with a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
December 27 – The number of 3G service users in China will increase to 230 million – up from the current 118 million – by the end of 2012, and 90 million will use handsets priced under ¥1,000, China Unicom Ltd (NYSE: CHU, SHA: 600050, HKG: 0762) predicted.
December 26 – The number of active microblogging users in China will amount to 254 million by the end of 2011, up 150.7% from a year earlier, Analysys International predicted.
December 26 – Revenue from China's online gaming market will rise 20.7% from a year earlier to ¥55.7 billion in 2011 and to ¥69.9 billion by the end of 2014, Analysys International predicted.
December 22 – Revenue from China's telecommunications services grew 15.6% year on year to ¥1.07 trillion in the first 11 months of 2011, where revenue from mobile services was up 13.6% to ¥651.91 billion, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The number of 3G service subscribers has grown by 71.68 million to 118.73 million in the year through November.
December 22 – Revenue from China's online gaming market was up 8.5% quarter on quarter and 22.5% year on year to ¥9.51 billion in Q3 2011, according to Analysys International.
December 20 – The amount of transactions paid via mobile devices in China is expected to surge 149.4% to ¥48.14 billion in 2011 and to exceed ¥200 billion by the end of 2013, iResearch predicted.
December 16 – Ad revenue from China's online video sites rose 95% year on year, to ¥1.94 billion in Q3 2011, and is projected to be ¥6.2 billion for the whole of 2011, according to iResearch.
escobar
Brigadier
Having surpassed its 12 million smartphones sales target last year, ZTE is expecting this figure to double in 2012 as it continues its expansion plans in foreign markets, including the United States.
In a statement Wednesday, the China-based telecoms equipment and phone manufacturing giant said its 2011 smartphone sales figure reflected a 400 percent year-on-year increase and it expects sales numbers this year to double, driven by increased market share in Europe, North America, Brazil and Japan.
Last December, ZTE unveiled its plans to crack the U.S. market by launching LTE (long term evolution) and high-tier smartphones, which it anticipates to be its biggest market by 2015.
"ZTE US is proud of its work in 2011," said Cheng Lixin, CEO of ZTE USA and president of North America region. "We had a strong year in which we grew our presence in the United States in large part by launching a number of quality, affordable devices, many of which now bear the ZTE brand name."
"In 2012, we look forward to continuing to grow as a telecommunications leader in the U.S. market and making today's latest technologies more accessible to American customers," Cheng added in the statement.
ZTE said 2012 will see the company expand its smartphone portfolio with "new handsets running the latest operating systems". It also plans to drive LTE adoption by launching a full series of LTE handset products including smartphones, hotspots, tablets and fixed station products.
"In 2012, ZTE will put additional resources into developing LTE devices, which are very important as we increase market share across the world," He Shiyou, executive vice president and head of the terminal handset division, said in the statement. "ZTE will also develop middle- to high-end handsets and work with our partners worldwide to create flagship and series products that meet customers' demands."
Market analyst IDC reported in October that ZTE was the world's fourth largest handset maker in the third quarter of 2011, with 19.1 million shipments representing a nearly 58 percent increase year-on-year, overtaking Apple's 17.1 million shipments.
escobar
Brigadier
If not for the deafening noise they made, one might have mistaken the nine mainframes positioned in a circle in east China's National Supercomputer Center for employee lockers.
The three-meter-tall machines are actually part of a single working unit -- the Sunway-Bluelight Supercomputer, installed in the supercomputer center in east China's city of Jinan.
The cutting edge tool is being used by China's marine scientists to monitor ocean circulation. Dr. Song Zhenya, a researcher from the First Institute of Oceanology (FIO) under the State Oceanic Administration said the Sunway can substantially boost China's ocean monitoring capabilities through the use of "vortex ocean simulation," a high-definition marine forecasting model defined by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"Its marvelous calculation abilities will allow us to unearth more clues in regards to what is happening in our planet's climate," said Song, citing the ocean as a primary indicator of the world's climate.
Aided by the Sunway, scientists have been able to increase the accuracy of their climate simulations, Song said.
Pan Jingshan, assistant director of the National Supercomputer Center, said the Sunway allows scientists to simulate water movement more than 5,500 meters below the ocean's surface.
China finished building the Sunway-Bluelight Supercomputer last September, just one year after the debut of the Tianhe-1A, which was known as the world's fastest computer before being surpassed by Japan's K computer in June 2011.
The Sunway performs about one-thousand-trillion calculations per second, ranking it among the 20 fastest supercomputers in the world.
Steve Wallach, a consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the most impressive part of the computer is the fact that "most of the technology, especially the microprocessors, was homegrown."
"This is very different from the Tianjin system, which uses Intel and nVidia CPUs," Wallach said.
Liang Jun, deputy director of the National Center for Parallel Computer Engineering Research, said the center's computer engineers optimized the Sunway's CPU structure in order to "better apply the unique core algorithm used in climate forecasting."
Pan said the supercomputer uses "dense packaging" technology to combine 1,024 16-core CPUs, equaling the computational capacity of a total of 200,000 servers.
The Sunway is about 74 percent as fast as the Jaguar Supercomputer in the United States, which ranks third in the world, although the Sunway is less power-hungry, Pan added. The Sunway's power consumption is just 1 megawatt, much lower than the Jaguar's 7 megawatts.
The supercomputer's temperature can be decreased by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius without a single cooling fan, thanks to a unique liquid cooling system, Pan said.
Supercomputers are a must for countries that wish to have a credible say regarding issues such as climate change and disaster relief, Pan said.
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The Chinese Sunway BlueLight supercomputer, which was built with domestically produced microprocessors and is capable of performing around one-thousand-trillion calculations per second, has officially gone into operation at the National Supercomputing Center in east China's city of Jinan, the center said Thursday.
The computer was installed in September 2011 and underwent a three-month-long trial operation period before going into official use, making China the third country in the world to be capable of producing a supercomputer with domestically produced processors after the United States and Japan, according to the center.