Jembatan Terpanjang di Dunia Bisa Hubungkan 3 Kota Sekaligus

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Jembatan terpanjang di dunia selesai dibangun di Cina setelah empat tahun pengerjaan. Jembatan sepanjang 42,5 kilometer yang memiliki persimpangan tersebut menghubungkan tiga kota di Cina. Jembatan itu menghubungkan Kota Qingdao di sebelah timur Provinsi Shandong dengan Distrik Huangdao. Panjang jembatan tersebut mencapai 42,5 kilometer atau sekitar delapan kali lebih panjang dari jembatan Suramadu di Jawa Timur, Indonesia, yang memiliki panjang 5,4 kilometer.

Jembatan bernama Qingdao Haiwan tersebut dibangun dua tim berbeda yang mengerjakan sejak 2006. Pembangunan selesai pada Senin (27/12). Jembatan menghubungkan tiga kota pantai di Provinsi Shandong. Salah satu teknisi mengatakan, “Contoh dari komputer dan perhitungannya semua sangat bagus. Tapi Anda tidak bisa bersantai sampai kedua sisi menyatu. Kerenggangan beberapa sentimeter saja bisa memicu bencana.” Jembatan Qingdao Haiwan menyisihkan jembatan Lake Pontchartrain Causeway di Louisiana, Amerika Serikat. Lake Pontchartrain Causeway memiliki panjang 38,42 kilometer.

Jembatan terpanjang ini dibangun salah satu tujuannya ternyata hanya untuk menyingkat jarak tempuh 20 menit dari 2 kota yang berhubungan

Anda bayangkan saja hanya untuk menyingkat waktu 20 menit, mereka bayar dengan harga yang sangat mahal dan ini menandakan betapa sangat berharganya waktu bagi mereka untuk pembangunan negeri. Sedangkan di ibukota kita Jakarta jarak 1 km bisa ditempuh 30 menit bahkan 1 jam lebih tidak mendapatkan perhatian serius. Bagaimanakah daya saing kita dimasa depan bila begini?

Inilah Tips mempercepat RAM komputer tanpa restart

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Terkadang, komputer kita bakal menjadi lambat setelah beberapa lama dipakai. Apalagi kalo kita banyak menggunakan software yang berat2 seperti Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Sony Soundforge dsb. Biasanya setelah kita pakai aplikasi tersebut, komputer kita terasa lambat. Kemungkinan itu terjadi karena masih ada bekas data yang tersimpan dalam RAM, sehingga komputer kita pun jadi lambat. Salah satu cara untuk membersihkan RAM adalah dengan merestart komputer terlebih dahulu. Tapi kayanya ribet banget ya?
Gue punya cara yang lebih simpel yang bisa dilakuin oleh semua kalangan, awam maupun mahir. Perhatikan caranya di bawah ini:

1. Klik kanan mouse di desktop, pilih New – Shortcut.

2. Ketik %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks pada kolom isian yang muncul.

 

3. Klik Next.

4. Beri nama shortcut tadi, nama yang dapat diberikan bebas sesuai keinginan kamu, atau kamu lewat aja, namanya otomatis jadi rundll32.exe.

5. Klik Finish.

Kapan aja komputer kamu terasa lambat, klik shortcut yang udah kamu buat tadi untuk membersihkan RAM. Sebetulnya prinsip kerjanya mungkin sama aja kaya RAM Booster atau aplikasi sejenisnya, tapi gag kalah ko seperti software2 lainnya.

Selamat mencoba, semoga bermanfaat.

Foto-Foto Perayaan Tahun Baru Di Berbagai Negara

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The world has already begun to welcome 2011, as the New Year has been entered by people living on some Pacific islands, Australia and Asia. As the Earth revolves today, bringing the rest of us into the year 2011, I'll be updating this entry, to show people all over as they ready themselves, celebrate and welcome the New Year. 2011 will be observed as the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac, a year with attributes of gentleness, persistence and luck. Happy New Year everyone! (41 photos so far)

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the New Year January 1, 2011. Local authorities planned for over 1.5 million people to crowd the Sydney Harbour foreshore and welcome in the new year under the massive fireworks display. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)

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Members of Sao Paulo's Commerce Association release balloons with the colors of the Brazilian flag to celebrate the end of the year in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) #

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Children wear bear furs during New Year ritual dances in Comanesti, Romania on Sunday Dec. 30 2010. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #

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The Times Square New Year's Eve Ball is tested they day before New Year's Eve December 30, 2010 in New York City. The 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball will descend a 141-foot tall flagpole to mark the beginning of 2011. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #

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New Year's wishes for 2011 are tacked on the Carnival Cruise Lines Wishing Wall at the Times Square Visitors Center in New York, December 20, 2010. The slips of paper with people's wishes on them will be included in the confetti that will fall from the tops of buildings around the Square on New Year's Eve. (REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine/Carnival Cruise Lines) #

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Men dressed as Vikings lead the torchlight procession as it makes its way to Princess Street for the start of the New Year celebrations December 30, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thousands of people joined in the torchlight procession, followed by the burning of a Viking long ship. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #

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Thousands gather for the torchlight procession in Edinburgh which starts the New Year celebrations December 30, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #

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Zoo owner Manny Tangco holds up a rabbit and a tiger cub while surrounded by local children at the Malabon Zoo in Malabon, in northern Metro Manila, Philippines on December 28, 2010 to illustrate the shift from the "Year of the Tiger" to the "Year of the Rabbit". (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A man has his beard trimmed in the shape of the number 2011 to welcome the New Year inside a barbershop in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on December 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Amit Dave) #

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Faithful pour cider on a statue of Yemanja, Goddess of the Sea, during a ceremony that is part of traditional New Year's celebrations on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday Dec. 29, 2010. Yemanja is from the African Yoruban religion brought to America by West African slaves. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #

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Performers from the Guo Guang Opera Company pose after their rehearsal for a new program titled "Pan Jin Lian", to be performed on New Year's Eve, at the National Theatre Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan on December 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Pichi Chuang) #

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A woman holds an offering of fruits as shamans perform a ritual for good luck for the new year in Lima, Peru on December 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mariana Bazo) #

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Men driving on an open vehicle are splashed with water thrown from an office building in Montevideo's old district in Uruguay on December 31, 2010. Ripped pages from calendars and water from buckets or in balloons are typically launched from office windows in this neighborhood to celebrate the end of year. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A pyrotechnic crew installs fireworks atop Seattle's Space Needle on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, in preparation for the New Year's firework show. (AP Photo/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) #

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A child wears a pair of 2011 glasses during New Year Eve celebrations in Hong Kong's Times Square December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) #

Update 1: Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and more

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Fireworks explode above Singapore's financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year celebrations Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) #

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Women in rabbit costumes pose in front of the Tokyo Tower which is illuminated to celebrate New Year after a countdown event at the Zojo-ji Buddhist temple in Tokyo January 1, 2011. The year of 2011 is the Year of The Rabbit on the Chinese zodiac calendar. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) #

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People release balloons as the Tokyo Tower is illuminated to celebrate New Year at a countdown event at the Zojo-ji Buddhist temple in Tokyo January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) #

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Fireworks light up the sky near the landmark Petronas Twin Towers during new year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur on January 1, 2011. (KAMARUL AKHIR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A military helicopter hovers in the sky as the last rays of the final sunset of the year falls on the ruins of a tomb in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) #

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Revelers wave during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Hong Kong's Times Square on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) #

Update 2: India, Austria, Dubai and more

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A Taiwanese performer plays a drum during the New Year's eve ceremony, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. The events marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, Taiwan's official name, after a revolution led by Sun Yat-sen toppled China's last Qing dynasty. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) #

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The number 2011 is written in the air with a sparkler in front of Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral) during New Year's Eve celebrations in Vienna, Austria on December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner) #

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Daniela Calito from Los Angeles waits in Times Square for the evening's New Year's Eve celebrations to begin in New York December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) #

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An Indian woman in traditional dress dances during festivities to welcome the new year in the village of Narlai, Rajahstan, India, late Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) #

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John and Anne Pham wear Santa hats as they pose for a holiday photo with their granddaughter Amanda Pham in front of the downtown Los Angeles skyline, on December 31, 2010 at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles, California. Unusually low temperatures have brought the snow level down to between 2,000 and 2,500 feet (610 and 762 meters) in the surrounding mountain areas. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) #

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People dance on a decorated street on New Year's Eve, in Bangalore, India, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. India increased security in major cities across the country on Tuesday after receiving information that a Pakistan-based militant group was planning an attack over New Year's weekend. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) #

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Fireworks explode over Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, celebrating the new year in Dubai January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah) #

Update 3: Pakistan, Moscow and more

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In this time exposure photograph residents use sparklers to welcome 2011 during the New Year's festivities in Manila, Philippines on on January 1, 2011. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images) #

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People gather at Sofia's main square in Bulgaria to celebrate the new year January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov) #

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Pakistanis watch the New Year fireworks in Karachi on January 1, 2011. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Tourists use sparklers to write 2011 for a photograph in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of people celebrate the beginning of the New Year 2010 in the German capital. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer) #

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Pakistanis welcome the New Year in Karachi on January 1, 2011. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Fireworks explode over St. Basil Cathedral at Red Square during New Year's Day celebrations in Moscow, Russia on January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky) #

Update 4: Berlin, Tehran, London and more

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People gather to celebrate New Year's Eve at the Red Square in Moscow on January 1, 2011. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Fireworks illuminate the Quadriga sculpture atop the Brandenburg Gate during a New Year's Eve party in Berlin, January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz) #

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A Christian girl lights a candle before a New Year mass at Saint Serkis church in central Tehran December 31, 2010. New Year is celebrated by the Assyrian and Armenian minorities in Iran, where a majority of its citizens are Muslim. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl) #

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Revellers celebrate the New Year on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. Visible in background is the Arc de Triomphe. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) #

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Lebanese crowds watch fireworks on New Year's Eve in the heart of central Beirut at midnight on January 1, 2011 as New Year revellers around the planet began welcoming 2011 in a blaze of fireworks and parties. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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The people of Hamburg celebrate the new year with fireworks at Landungbrueken on January 1, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany. (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) #

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Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on January 1, 2011 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

10 Candi Paling Mewah Di Dunia

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Ada banyak candi di muka bumi ini. Tapi tentunya ada beberapa yang merupakan terbaik dari yang terbaik. Sebagai contohnya, nih dia ada 10 candi paling mewah yang ada di dunia. Check This Out !!

1. Tiger’s Nest Monastery


Tiger’s Nest Monastery, perched precariously on the edge of a 3,000-feet-high cliff in Paro Valley, is one of the holiest places in Bhutan. Legend has it that Guru Rinpoche [wiki], the second Buddha, flew onto the cliff on the back of a tigress, and then meditated in a cave which now exists within the monastery walls.

The monastery, formally called Taktshang Goemba, was built in 1692 and reconstructed in 1998 after a fire. Now, the monastery is restricted to practicing Buddhists on religious retreats and is off-limits to ordinary tourists.
2. Wat Rong Khun

Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, Thailand is unlike any Buddhist temples in the world. The all-white, highly ornate structure gilded in mosaic mirrors that seem to shine magically, is done in a distinctly contemporary style. It is the brainchild of renowned Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat.

Actually, the temple is still under construction. Chalermchai expects it will take another 90 years to complete, making it the Buddhist temple equivalent of the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain!

3. Prambanan

Prambanan is a Hindu temple in Central Java, Indonesia. The temple was built in 850 CE, and is composed of 8 main shrines and 250 surrounding smaller ones.

Nearly all the walls of the temple are covered in exquisite bas relief carvings, which narrate stories of Vishnu’s incarnations, adventures of Hanuman the Monkey King, the Ramayana [wiki] epic and other legends.

Though not the biggest temple in Indonesia (Borobudur is larger - see below), Prambanan makes up in beauty and grace for what it lacks in size.
4. Shwedagon Pagoda

No one knows exactly when the Shwedagon Paya [wiki] (or Pagoda) in Myanmar was built - legend has it that it is 2,500 years old though archaeologists estimate that it was built between the 6th and 10th century.

Now, when people say "golden temple" they usually mean that the structure is golden in color. But when it comes to the Shwedagon Pagoda, golden literally means covered in gold! In the 15th century, a queen of the Mon people donated her weight in gold to the temple. This tradition continues until today, where pilgrims often save for years to buy small packets of gold leafs to stick to the temple walls.

As if all that gold wasn’t enough, the spire of the stupa or dome is covered with over 5,000 diamonds and 2,000 rubies (there’s even a 76 carat diamond at the very tip!). And oh, the temple housed one of the holiest relics in Buddhism: eight strands of Buddha’s hair.
5. The Temple of Heaven

The Temple of Heaven [wiki] is a Taoist temple in Beijing, the capital of China. The temple was constructed in 14th century by Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (who also built the Forbidden City) as his personal temple, where he would pray for good harvest and to atone for the sins of his people.

The Temple’s architecture is quite interesting: everything in the temple, which represents Heaven, is circular whereas the ground levels, which represent the Earth, are square.

6. Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple [wiki] was built in 1234 CE to honor the founder of Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhism, a priest named Honen, who fasted to death in the very spot. At one point in time, the complex had 21 buildings but due to earthquakes and fire, the oldest surviving building is from the 17th century.

Visitors to the Chion-in Temple must first pass through the largest gate in Japan: the two-story San-mon Gate. The temple bell is also a record setter: it weighs 74 tons and needs 17 monks to ring it during the New Year celebrations.

Another interesting feature of the Chion-in Temple is the "singing" floor of the Assembly Hall. Called a uguisu-bari or nightingale floor, the wooden planks were designed to creak at every footstep to alert the monks of intruders!
7. Borobudur
In the 19th century, Dutch occupiers of Indonesia found a massive ancient ruin deep in the jungles of Java. What they discovered was the complex of Borobudur, a gigantic structure built with nearly 2 million cubic feet (55,000 m³) of stones. The temple has nearly 2,700 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues.

Until today, no one knows for sure when and why it was built, nor the reason for its complete abandonment hundreds of years ago. Some scholars believe that Borobudur is actually a giant textbook of Buddhism, as its bas reliefs tell the story of the life of Buddha and the principles of his teachings. To "read," a pilgrim must make his way through nine platforms and walk a distance of over 2 miles.
8. Golden Temple

The Harmandir Sahib (meaning The Abode of God) or simply the Golden Temple [wiki] in Punjab, India is the most sacred shrine of Sikhism. For the Sikhs, the Golden Temple symbolizes infinite freedom and spiritual independence.

The site of the Temple began with a small lake that was so peaceful that even Buddha came there to meditate. Thousands of years later, Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism also lived and meditate by the lake.

Construction of the Golden Temple began in the 1500s, when the fourth Guru of Sikhism enlarged the lake that became Amritsar or Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, around which the temple and the city grew. The Temple itself is decorated with marble sculptures, gilded in gold, and covered in precious stones.
9. The Temple of Srirangam

The Temple of Srirangam (Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple [wiki]), in the Indian city of Tiruchirapalli (or Trichy), is the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world (Ankor Wat is the largest of all temple, but it is currently non-functioning as a temple - see below).

The temple is dedicated to Vishnu, one of three Gods in Hinduism. Legend has it that a long time ago, a sage rested and put down a statue of Vishnu reclining on a great serpent. When he was ready to resume his journey, he discovered that the statue couldn’t be moved, so a small temple was built over it. Over centuries, the temple "grew" as larger ones were built over the existing buildings.

The temple complex is massive: it encompasses an area of over 150 acres (63 hectares) with seven concentric walls, the outermost being about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long! The walls demarcate enclosures within enclosures, each more sacred than the next, with the inner-most enclosure is forbidden to non-Hindus.

The Temple of Srirangam is famous for its gopurams or entrances beneath colorful pyramids. The temple has 21 gopurams total, with the largest one having 15 stories and is nearly 200 feet (60 m) tall.
10. Angkor Thom, and Bayon

Last but definitely not least is the largest temple in history and the inspiration to countless novels and action movies of Hollywood: Ankor Wat.

Angkor Wat [wiki] was built in the early 12th century in what is now Cambodia. The world famous temple was first a Hindu one, dedicated to Vishnu. In the 14th or 15th century, as Buddhism swept across Asia, it became a Buddhist temple.

The Western world’s got a glimpse of Angkor Wat when a 16th century Portuguese monk visited the temple and eloquently described it as "of such extraordinary construction that it is not possible to describe it with a pen, particularly since it is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of." His words still rang true today.

Tourists visiting Angkor Wat usually also visit the nearby ruins of Angkor Thom and Bayon [wiki], two fantastic temples that serve as the ancient capital of