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Quotes & Information about Computers!!!

Quotes & Information about Computers!!!

Stupid quotes:

“I knew then (in 1970) that a 4-kbyte minicomputer would cost as much as a house. So I reasoned that after college, I’d have to live cheaply in an apartment and put all my money into owning a computer.”

-[Apple co founder Steve Wozniak]

“A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming”.

-[Henry Spencer, Canadian computer programmer and author of The 10 Commandments for C Programmers]

Did u Know!!!

» About 85% of microwave radiation emitted by a cellphone is absorbed by your head.

» According to research by Sprint, about 2/3rds of cellphone users use their backlights as torches.

» South Korean teenagers on average text an astounding 200,000 times a year. That is 60.1 messages EVERY

» Day.

» People view fifteen billion videos online every month.

» The first GPS satellite was launched in 1978.

» This is known as the Hermann-grid illusion, and experts don’t have an explanation for the dark spots that appear in the grid.

he The cellphone is actually a very complicated radio that communicates with the cell tower in the area.

» 130 million cell phones each year go into retirement.

» Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

» The annual revenue for the telephone industry is $210 billion, almost 8 times that of television and 23 times the revenue of radio.

» The original name of the telephone was the harmonic telegraph.

» Alexander Graham Bell originally wanted the greeting for the telephone to be “Ahoy” but Thomas Edison

» voted for “Hello,” a word he coined in 1877.

» The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobiles 112.

» Recycling 100 million phones would recover 3.4 metric tons of gold—gold that would not have to be mined.

» The busiest telephone exchange was by BellSouth at the 1996 Olympic Games, where 100 billion bits of information were transmitted per second.

» The first product to have a bar code on its package was Wrigleys chewing gum.

» The average person’s left hand does 56 percent of the typing.

» Your mobile battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don’t have a charger. Many Nokia phones come with a reserve battery. To activate the battery, key-in *3370# your cell will restart with this reserve and your instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

News to Be Remembered!!!

The first 1 GB hard drive was sold in 1950s, weighed 250 kg and cost about $40,000. Imagine carrying that bad boy in your back pack!

A typical fibre-optic cable five thousandths of an inch thick can carry up to 2.5 billion bits of data per second, or 32,000 simultaneous telephone calls.

Infosys was the first Indian company to release its annual report in CD-ROM format.

In computer slang, an ordinary, postal mail is called snail mail.

When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the fi rst two months.

Windows 95 can officially run on a 386DX at 20MHz with just 4MB of RAM.

The first digital camera was designed by a Kodak engineer by the name of Steven Sasson. It weight 3.6 kg and was the size of a toaster.

The Japanese version of MS Office has a character you can’t find in any other version. The ‘Office Lady’ is a virtual assistant that bows and serves tea.

The Windows 95/98 logos were created with Freehand on a Macintosh

The term ‘petabit’ is used in discussing possible volumes of data traffic per second in a large network.

Intel’s Flying Pentium Ads and the ‘Intel Inside’ logo were made on an Apple Macintosh.

The computing for the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was done by the Intel 4004 microprocessor.

RDF (Resource Definition Framework) is a set of rules for creating descriptions of information available on the World Wide Web.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for client- server communication that sends and receives information ‘on top of’ HTTP.

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is a technology that enables a computer motherboard to switch itself on (and off) based on signals arriving at the computer’s network card.

A ‘blue-bomb’ is a technique for causing the Windows operating system of someone you are communicating with

to crash.

David Bradley wrote the code for the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] key sequence.

The name Epson for the popular brand of printers was coined when the subsequent models of their first printer Electronic Printer 101 were called ‘Sons if electronic Printers’.

A CD-RW disk can, in general, be-written about a thousand times. In contrast, a hard disk can be written over virtually an unlimited number of times.

When desktop scanners were first introduced, many manufacturers used florescent bulbs as light sources.

CD-ROM XA (Compact Disk-read-only memory, extended architecture) is a modification of CD-ROM that

defines two new types of sectors that enable it to read and display data, graphics, video, and audio at the same time.

In 1938, Claude Shannon first showed that electronic switching circuits could perform logical operations.

The CVAX is a chip used as a DEC Micro VAX II microprocessor. A message was inscribed on the chip, in Russian, which said, “VAX, when you care enough to steal the very best”!

A modern quarter inch square silicon chip has the power of the 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.

Andrew Grove, former Chairman, Intel Corporation, was flooded with over 120 names to choose from for its latest processor. He finally settled on ‘Pentium’.

Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor and Federico Faggin designed the Pentium Chip that was launched on March 22,

1993.

Intel’s code name for its effort to make the one GHz microprocessor was codenamed Project Foster.

Intel’s project on the first processor to use the new 64-bit architecture was under the code name Merced.

Bits & Bytes!!!

TECH ONE-LINERS:

Windows contains FAT.

Use Linux – you won’t ever have to worry about weight.

Programming is an art form that fights back.

Unix is user-friendly. It’s just very selective about who its friends are.

The best way to accelerate a Mac is at 9.8 m /sec^2.

The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.

Do you remember when you only had to pay for windows when *you* broke them?

Programmers don’t die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

There can never be a computer language in which you cannot write a bad program.

If you can’t beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

Why do they call this a word processor?

It’s simple, ... you’ve seen what food processors do to food, right?

Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Google Goggles:

One of the biggest downsides of being in the iPhone camp rather than the Android camp is not getting early access to some of the cooler mobile things Google is working on. One of those is Google Goggles, a visual search feature that launched last December for Android. Now, almost a year later, it’s finally here for the iPhone as well.

As they’ve announced on their Google Mobile Blog today, Google has placed Google Goggles for the iPhone as a feature inside of their Google Mobile app on the device. That app, which already allows you to search via text and via voice, now is even more powerful.

Check It Out:

Says Google:

In the new version of Google Mobile App just tap on the camera button to search using Goggles. Goggles will analyze the image and highlight the objects it recognizes — just click on them to find out more.

Google notes that Goggles is still a Labs project as they continue to perfect it. They say that it works well for things such as landmarks, logos, and products, but not so well yet for animals or food — they’re working on that.

I’m not seeing the latest update to the Google Mobile app in the App Store just yet, but Google says it should be rolling out throughout the day. It’s a free download.

Detecting Pulse Rate using a Webcam!!!

MIT-Harvard graduate student Ming-Zher Poh has demonstrated a system that can extract accurate pulse measurements from ordinary low-resolution webcam imagery.

The system measures slight variations in brightness produced by the flow of blood through blood vessels in the face. Public-domain software is used to identify the position of the face in the image, and then the digital information from this area is broken down into the separate red, green and blue portions of the video image.

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