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Monday, January 2, 2012
Modern Microprocessors contain as many as 10 million transisters.
At the beggining of 1995 there were 24 million users on the Internet, of those 17 million were based in America. The Internet has doubled in size each year since it was invented in 1988.
The fastest computer in 1993, the CM-5, could perform 131 billion operations per second. With a pocket calculator this number of operations would take 41 000 years.
IBM employs 220 000 people.
Microsoft employs 16 140 people.
Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990.
Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight SimulatorMySpace reports
over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
At the beggining of 1995 there were 24 million users on the Internet, of those 17 million were based in America. The Internet has doubled in size each year since it was invented in 1988.
The fastest computer in 1993, the CM-5, could perform 131 billion operations per second. With a pocket calculator this number of operations would take 41 000 years.
IBM employs 220 000 people.
Microsoft employs 16 140 people.
Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990.
Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight SimulatorMySpace reports
over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
Here are some more Facts..!!!
1)128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.
2)Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
3)Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!
4)Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-
A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
A human hair is 4000 microinches.
5)When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months.
6)Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
7)David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
2)Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
3)Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!
4)Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-
A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
A human hair is 4000 microinches.
5)When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months.
6)Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
7)David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
Some MoreComputer Facts ..!!!
1).The servers r in denmark.The software is from Estonia.The domain is registered in Australia & the corporation is in south pacific island.Ths Kazaa the p2p software.
2).Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.
3).The four largest software makers in the world are:-
(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.
(4)Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-
Arranged according to the speed:-
1. Bluegene/L DD2 Beta-system(IBM).
2. Columbia (NASA).
3. Earth Simulator (NEC).
4. MareNostrum(Barcelona Supercomputer Center).
5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
6. ASCI Q(Los Alamos National Laboratory).
7. System X(Virgina Tech).
8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).
9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster(Naval Oceanographic Office).
10. Tungsten(National Center For Supercomputing Applications).
5). According to university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year.
6).Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of about 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths of an inch apart.
7).One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire state building.
2).Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.
3).The four largest software makers in the world are:-
(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.
(4)Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-
Arranged according to the speed:-
1. Bluegene/L DD2 Beta-system(IBM).
2. Columbia (NASA).
3. Earth Simulator (NEC).
4. MareNostrum(Barcelona Supercomputer Center).
5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
6. ASCI Q(Los Alamos National Laboratory).
7. System X(Virgina Tech).
8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).
9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster(Naval Oceanographic Office).
10. Tungsten(National Center For Supercomputing Applications).
5). According to university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year.
6).Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of about 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths of an inch apart.
7).One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire state building.
some of kool tech facts:-
(1). An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
(2). Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.
(3). If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures
one for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
(4). The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
equipment corporation.
(5). Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.
(6). The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
(7). Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
(1). An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
(2). Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.
(3). If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures
one for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
(4). The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
equipment corporation.
(5). Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.
(6). The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
(7). Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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POWER..........
POWER OF KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
1. The desire for power inherent in man.
2. Distinctions and disparities lead to the idea of superiority both on the individual and national level.
3. Mental power superior than physical power.
4. Knowledge attained by man gave him the power to rule over the elements that govern life.
5. All the discoveries and inventions of man, the manifestation of the power of knowledge.
6. Discipline, order and economy form the basis of the power given by knowledge
7. ‘Balance’ is the cardinal virtue of good sense.
8. Knowledge must mellow in wisdom which is the mark of culture and humanity.
9. The quest of knowledge should lead to the realization of the Truth.
