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Personal Supercomputers
ENIAC with 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints (Info Courtesy: Wikipedia) had far less processing power than today’s desktops/laptops. 50yrs from now, probably the same kind of comment would be made about today’s PCs. Check out this article which talks about the 80 core processor which Intel is developing – A Teraflop chip of the size of a postage chip!
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18219&ch=infotech
A miraculous blogstory: how to get 120,000 visitors in one day?
118,000 readers and more than 6000 feedreaders – ONE DAY!
Yet another way to catalog useable content
Yet another way to catalog useable content. eDotte is built through public participation. Content added to eDotte is searchable and its grouped under categories for easy access. With eDotte you can keep track of useable content you found and also catalog it so that other people can use it.
Money Quotes
One says that money doesn’t buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.
Sacha Guity
All progress is based upon the universal desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
Money is the wise man’s religion.
Euripides
Where there is a will, there’s prosperity around the corner.
W.C. Fields
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold Glasgow
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
Thomas Macaulay
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty
I don’t meet competition. I crush it.
Charles Revson
The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them.
Laing Hancock, Australian millionaire
You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don’t give a thought to what it costs.
J.P. Morgan
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
George Bernard Shaw
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
George Bernard Shaw
I don’t care how the poor live; my only regret is that they live at all.
George Moore
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
Cornfield’s Law
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; the real vice is making losses.
Winston Churchill
Computer Science Open Courses with Lecture Video from OCW Search
opencontentonline.com gives a nice and simple search for open courses made available by universities like MIT,UTAH,TUFTS etc.Some of them contain video lectures also.The site also gives u the option for searching through the courses with audios only.Only issue i found is atleast 4 characters must be entered for the search to work.
SAPI
In case you’re a PHP beginner and you’ve been wondering what that SAPI directory and the dlls within it are for, here is a short description – SAPI helps PHP and your WebServer to talk to each other. For example, Apache and PHP talk using the dll file – php4apache2.dll
Check the below link for some more details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Application_Programming_Interface
Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani
Inspiring Article on Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani – one of India’s smartest visionaries.
http://www.india-seminar.com/2003/521/521%20paranjoy%20guha%20thakurta.htm
getClass Vs instanceOf
Comparison of getClass() method Vs instanceOf operator
