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Coming soon: superfast internet - Times Online

• THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have
  now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature
  films within seconds.
  


• Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid
  technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using
  desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.
  
  “It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their
  information online and access it from anywhere,” he said.
  


• Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic
  internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already
  introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called
  dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users
  trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would
  give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five
  seconds rather than the current three hours or so.
  


• “Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could
  evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could
  become the main way we communicate.


• “Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as
  well as science,”


• “It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their
  information online and access it from anywhere,”


• “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have
  the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me
  cannot even imagine,”


• the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit
  holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands
  of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a
  local call.
  


• At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection,

Upon determining this value and typing the corresponding URL http://7427466391.com into a web browser, a potential Google employee (or curious MathWorld news story reader) is taken to a web page congratulating him (or her) and providing instructions for the second level of the puzzle, which involves finding the next term of the following sequence:

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MathWorld News: Mathematica's Google Aptitude

• All I can say is "dang!"

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Embedded Systems Design - Embedded.com

• A million lines of code printed out would be 18,000 pages. That's a stack six
  feet tall (on typical 20 pound paper). Ironically, the listing weighs in at 180
  pounds while the actual operating code is mass-free; it'll live in a fraction of
  a gram of silicon. Like DNA, code's human-readable description requires
  tremendously more mass than its actual instantiation.
• A million lines of code is not ten times more than 100,000. It's well-known that
  schedules grow faster than the code. Barry Boehm estimates the exponent is
  around 1.35 for embedded software. So the schedule for developing a million
  lines of code is 22 times bigger than for 100,000 LOC.

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