Corporate Carbon Lobby is believed to spend more than 1 billion dollar in lobbying to ensure that no real action would be taken to lower carbon burning and production of green house gases. The lobbyist must be jubiliant after failed Copenhagen talks where Governments failed to make any serious committments and allocation of funds.
They also regularly ridicule environmentalists in mainstream media and show them as crazy scientists who have gone mad with climate fever.
China and India had told richer nations to combat climate change and only fair burden should be placed on under developed countries as the bigger chunk of climate atrocities belong to developed countries.
iPad has made its debut in the market with flash colors and is already been a success. It seems that after iPhone everything launched by Apple is a success no matter if world requires it or not. Even without including estimated revenues from iPad, Apple is already on a bumpy profit line and second quarter seems to be far more profitable with iPad revenues and launch of new iPhone model.
Other companies like Microsoft, Dell and Asus has jumped into the bandwagon of Tablet PCs after the sensational tablet PC from Apple, the iPad. It seems that Asus is going to be second best company to launch a tablet PC that can offer a real competition to our beloved Apple iPad.
This new tablet PC is going to be named as Eee Pad right after popular netbook series of EeePC. The device will run google’s Android on Nvidia Tegra Processor and costs between $479 and $510 with an expected launch in couple of months.
Dell is working on an Android based tablet to compete with hp’s Windows 7 based Slate.
By the end of this year, we are going to see lot of Tablet PCs and this really gonna be a fun.
Finally, Shoaib Malik has divorced Ayesha Siddiqui by signing the divorce papers and officially ended his marriage. Ayesha got a nominal sum of 340 dollars as Haq Mehar probably.
The divorce came just days ahead of his marriage with Indian Tennis super star Sania Mirza which is scheduled on 15 April, 2010. Shoaib Malik started an affair with Ayesha on phone back in 2001 and Pakistan cricket team had a pretty decent dinner at Ayesha’s house in hyderabad, the birth city of Saniya Mirza to-be wife of Shoaib Malik. Ayesha accused Shoaib that he dumped her after his team mates judged her as overweight.
Saniya Mirza has won WTA tour title and she is the only indian to accomplish this dream.She broke her childhood engagement just few months ago before this planned wedding. Currently, she is recovering from a wrist injury that has cost her ranking to slip from 27 to 90. Shoaib Malik is also experiencing a year long ban for discipline and match fixing.
There is lot of hype and sensationalization over this sporting marriage between two arch rival south asian nations.
I have kate Winslet after a long long time in April People Magazine. She has definitely changed a lot and i was not able to recognize her even with her name written under her picture. She is really slim now but it has taken the charm and tenderness from face and looks.
She is in New York to shoot HBO’s Mildred Pierce and Sam Mendes is also staying close to her but no with her. They have a son Joe, and a daughter Mia from Kate’s previous marriage. It is speculated that Kate wants to flee NY for England desperately but its seems an overdriven speculation.
I hope that Kate Winslet would be back in a great movie like Titanic because i have not seen any masterpiece from her since Titanic whereas Leonardo Dicaprio has starred in many beautiful films after Titanic.
Although USA Today report suggests that the gender gap on campus is stable -- about 57% female and 43% male -- not worsening but infact its widening and getting worse.
Some reports predicts that it would be 59% female and 41% male by 2018. The reasons for this decline are many and quite opposing. Lets first start with reasons favoring women achievements and their higher proportion in graduate degrees.
Historically, majority of the women were not provided equal oppurtunities to get primary education let higher education alone. Education was deeply connected to earning and is still very much related to earning till now although earning is not the only objective of education. In the twentieth century, ground realities plus mindset changed and women were given more chances to educate themselves and earn independently. If I am asked to mention a single event that provided an oppurtunity to women in US to get a big share in jobs then i can name First World War without giving a second thought. Males were forced to join the army and women were forced to join the labor force to keep the earning wheel running. They also got the right to vote for their hard work and sacrifice to earn and take care of the house in absent of young men.
Although males want the reports from different departments to be broken down in different fields but no break down of degrees can change the fact that women have achieved a milestone which is going to stay in near future.
On October 23, 2001, Apple held a press conference in Cupertino, California,the birth place of Apple to announce a new product ----the first non computer product released by Apple since the ill fated console gaming system, Pippin, and the first such product produced since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company. Web based rumor sites were rife with speculation information manager? An advanced console computing ultimate crock pot?
Steve Job introduced Apple’s first portable music player, iPod which disappointed the audience at the conference who were expected a hifi computing gadget from Apple, Mp3 player was not on their speculative list.
“It has a lot of capacity to store music, ample battery,aesthetically appealing, ease of file transfer and very easy to use but we were not expecting a mere MP3 player after so much hype in the media and at that too at such a high cost. $399,are you kidding?
This was the initial response from the audience but Apple made a very intelligent move by awarding every attendant a free iPod ath the end of the event.
The trick worked as almost every review appreciated the beautiful slim design, soft rich sound and easy navigation through its menus. Price was criticized but iPod was rated best among the lot. Apple sold 125,000 of them in the first 60 days.
Release 2 and the Second Generation:
In march 2002, Apple released a second iPod model that featured 10GB hard drive costing $499---$100 more with additional features as the ability to keep contacts on your iPod, music scrubbing, on-board equalization.
On october 17, 2002, a new generation was announced with new prices and higher capacity model. New features included calendar information, a new touch-sensitive scroll wheel, redesigned earbuds that fil smaller ear canals more comfortably, support for Audible.com content. Apple also welcomed PC users into the iPod fold by issuing models compatible with Windows.
List of iPod Models
Classic:
First Generation with 5,10 GB released on 23 Oct 2001
Second Generation with 10,20 GB released on 17 July 2002
Third Generation with 10,15,20,30,40 GB released on 28 April 2003
Fourth Generation with 20,40 GB released on 19 July 2004
Fifth Generation with 30,60,80 GB released on 12 Oct 2005
Sixth Generation with 80,120,160 GB released on 5 Sep 2007
Mini:
First Generation with 6 GB released on 6 Jan 2004
Second Generation with 4,6 GB released on 22 Feb 2005
Nano:
First Generation with 1,2,4 GB released on 7 Sep 2005
Second Generation with 2,4,8 GB released on 12 Sep 2006
Third Generation with 4,8 GB released on 5 Sep 2007
Fourth Generation with 4,8,16 GB released on 9 Sep 2008
Fifth Generation with 8,16 GB released on 9 Sep 2009
Shuffle:
First Generation with 512 MB, 1 GB released on 11 Jan 2005
Second Generation with 1,2 GB released on 12 Sep 2006
Third Generation with 2,4 GB released on 11 Mar 2009
Touch:
First Generation with 8,16,32 GB released on 5 Sep 2007
Second Generation with 8,16,32 GB released on 9 Sep 2008
Third Generation with 32,64 GB released on 9 Sep 2009
I have to look for top web hosting companies every now and then, either for myself or for my friends. Now, i have decided to create a blog post for top web hosting companies to avoid searching again and again for web hostsing sites. Below is the list of few top Web Hosting Companies in 2010(the ranking changes every year and its better to check the latest reviews). Here is the list of top 10 web hosting companies gathered from different ranking sites.
$4.58/month for 24 months, $5.50/mon for 12 months
Unlimited hosting space and data transfer
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited mySQL databases
Free Domain
ShopSite Online Store
Google WebMaster Tools
LiveChat with Customer Support
Best Support in Industry
Money Back Guarantee 30 Days
Although sites claims $3.95/mon but if you apply for a free domain it quotes $4.95/mon for 24 months and $5.95/mon for 12 months for most of the sites.
We can lot of hand carrying devices coming out in the market in the name of E Readers from Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble. Amazon Kindle was a real success after many unsuccessful attempts to build a good E-reader. iPad has added a stiff competition to Amazon Kindle and other E-readers including Soney E-reader and B&N Nook.
Apple is likely to transform the way we do everything from reading the newspaper, sending emails, listening music to preparing business presentations.
IPAD OVERVIEW
It can viewed as an oversized iPod touch with a modified interface. Its features include the ability to browse the web, check email,listen to music and edit photos.Apple also launched onary iBookstore for the device which will serve up books from atleast five major publishers.
According to Apple
A magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price Starting at $499.
It has built-in 802.11n to take advantage of the Wi-Fi networks. It also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR to connect to devices like wireless headphones or Wireless Keyboard. A model with 3G is expected soon.
It comes with a choice of 16GB,32GB,64GB of flash storage and battery life of 10 hours.
It also comes in with a headphone jack and builtin microphone.
ACCESSORIES
Popular iPad accessories are iPad keyboard dock that combines a dock for charging iPad with a full size keyboard. There is also iPad case,USB power adapter and iPad Camera connection kit.
COST
Prices range from $499 with 16GB to $829 for top 3G wireless enabled model
SPECS
1.5 pounds
1GHz
10 hours of battery life and month of battery standby.
Speaker
Microphone
Accelerometer
Compass
Headphone jack
16 to 64GB of flash storage
Bluetooth
Softwares
iPad will run only softwares downloaded from Apple App Store. It will run almost all third party applications that run on iPhone. iPad comes with the following applications:
The Living Walls are also known as “Vertical Gardens”,”Garden Murals”,”Plant Canvases” in modern era. Conventionally, by vertical gardens, planting a tall tree or training a vine to create a living wall comes to mind but things have changed in last two decades.
Vertical gardening is especially useful where there is shortage of space but not of imagination. These living walls look beautiful with their green leaves, colorful vegetables vertically erected on front of houses. These Vertical Gardens or Living Walls can be grown on any type of wall inside or out with or without soil. These Living Walls are becoming very popular due to their natural beauty and natural air purification.
Group Editing is now becoming increasingly important as more and more people are interacting online and most of the time not sitting under one roof. To work on a document, the slowest format is to edit a copy and then send it to one or more persons who are willing to work on the same document and then wait for them to edit it and give you a green signal to edit it.
Wikipedia can be used to edit public documents that are copyright free.
Google Docs is one service that can be used to group edit a document.
CompareMyDocs.com is a free service that displays the original document with colored blocks with collaborators suggestions which can be accepted or rejected alongwith hiding or showing the comments. The service is still in beta and only works for simple documents without images and hyperlinks.
Nowadays, Cell Apps are getting attention in every tech magazine and it seems that you are either dumb or too naive if you don’t know a good deal about Apps.
Ihone took the lead in making Apps popular followed by blackberry. Iphone has now more than 100,000 Apps with a great number of downlaods , more than 1 billion. Although Android is quite new as compared to Iphone and blackberry but it is catching quite quickly and already has more than 17,000 Apps and lot more to come in coming days. Essential Android Apps varies with your taste and preferences but i think following Apps are more or less popular with all users(you can disagree but not much :) ).
Astrid:
A nice file manager and todo list for those who find it hard to remember things. It syncs smoothly with Remember the Milk.
Its really hard to get lost with google Maps in your hands even if you are on foot.
YouTube:
PreInstalled YouTube App on all Android phones
Quick Search Box:
Right on the main screen is quick search box on Android phones wheren you can search contacts,Apps and Google by typing or speaking.
Google Voice
Have just one number for all the world with Google voice. Record messages in voice and text, free SMS and cheaper international calls.
Google Contacts:
All Google contacts in gmail are automatically synced with your Android phone which is really a great relief.
Amazon:
Shopping can be made very easy through this App. Products scan(photo or barcode) are remembered so that it can be bought later.
Pac Man
Pac Man, historical and one of the most famous game is a must for game lovers
Astro
Astro is an Android Task manager to kill useless background application to run the phone at top speed. Astro is also a pretty good file manager.
Facebook:
A must have Apps on every smart phone, so how can you miss it on Android. Does not need any intro or does it ?
Flixster:
Flixster is all about movies, whats being played in the theatres, reviews and ratings. Every movie lover need to have it.
FxCamera:
Free camera application with photo effects like Polaroid, Fish eye etc.
Goggles:
In my view this a revolutionary Appf or visual search. It can show information about books, buildings, places,business cards and even art work.
There are many more Google applications(Google Calendar, Google Finance,Gogole Earth, Google Shopper,Google Talk, Google Buzz,Gmail) and third party Applications that i like to mention but i think its enough for one post.
A briefer history of time is an update version of the earlier book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking with Leaonard Mladinow. A Brief history of time was best seller for 237 weeks on the London Sunday Times and it was a miraculous success for a book that was written to deal with one of the most challenging and abstract issues in modern physics.
A Briefer History of Time is briefer than the first book and some of the technical discussion has been left out for the sake of readability and briefness. It deals with the recent progress in String Theory , Unified theory or Theory of Everything. It also includes observations made by COBE(Cosmic Background Explore Satellite) and Hubble Telescope.
The book starts with the discussion of Universe, its expansion, scientific theories about universe, Newton’s Universe, Relativity, curved spaces, expanding universe,big bang, black holes, evolution of the Universe, Quantum gravity, worm holes and Time travel, force of nature and the unification of physics.
One of my friend is studying Molecular biology in lahore and Molecular Biology according to her is as follows:
The field of molecular biology studies macro molecules and the macro molecular mechanisms found in living things, such as the molecular nature of the gene and its mechanisms of gene replication, mutation, and expression.
The field of molecular biology arose from the convergence of work by geneticists, physicists, and structural chemists on a common problem: the structure and function of the gene.
In the early twentieth century, although the nascent field of genetics was guided by Mendel's law of segregation,the actual mechanisms of gene reproduction, mutation and expression remained unknown. aik The techniques of molecular biology enabled numerous other fields to go molecular. The study of cells was transformed from descriptive cytology into molecular cell biology. Molecular evolution developed as a phylogenetic method for the comparison of DNA sequences and whole genomes.
The term Molecular Biology was most probably invented by Warren Weaver in late 1930.
In plain words, its the branch of biology that studies life at Molecular level which is mainly concerned with the systems of cell, including DNA,RNA,proteins and their interactions.
The church has not declared any leader after the conviction of Warren Jeffs who is sentenced for ten years or life in prison.
The church is believed to be led by prophets who are guided by the God. The church has suffered a lot due to raids and arrests in twenty first century followed by prosecutions in Texas.
The prominent doctrines of FLDS church are Plural marriage and placement marriage, dress, property onership, home schooling, temple worship.
Avatar, another top notch movie by James Cameron after Titanic rocking US box office for the 6th straight week. Excellent Mind connection, Superb graphics, outclass story, beautiful romance, Inhuman Monetary Military mingling, Tragic sufferings, Belief powers, Exquisite forest and village life and extra ordinary direction.
The Database Engine is the core service for storing, processing, and securing data. The Database Engine provides controlled access and rapid transaction processing to meet the requirements of the most demanding data consuming applications within your enterprise.
Use the Database Engine to create relational databases for online transaction processing or online analytical processing data. This includes creating tables for storing data, and database objects such as indexes, views, and stored procedures for viewing, managing, and securing data. You can use SQL Server Management Studio to manage the database objects, and SQL Server Profiler for capturing server events.
Two noteable sites and and their description in the post is as follows:
PlanbookEdu.com – This is a site for school teachers, designed to make their lesson planning easier. It originally launched in January of 2003 and the new version was re-launched this past July. There are currently over 3000 registered users, with 171 paying $20/year for premium features. That works out to $3420 for 2008. In 2007 there were 84 paying users ($1680). The only marketing I did this past year was sending an email to the registered users announcing the new version.
RSStalker.com – This site gets approximately 50 hits a day from actual users…and over 50k hits a day from various RSSaggregators. Once a user has setup their feed there is no reason to go back to the site. If they buy a product using a link in the feed I get a commission from Amazon. In 2007 RSStalker sold 1049 items, generating $68,368.62 in revenue for Amazon and $3,358.20 in commission for me. The 2008 numbers are very similar: 1070 items, $76,875.06 revenue, $3,675.17 commission. Not much growth, but considering the economy that’s not too bad. Plus in 2007, two orders of 30 iPods each accounted for almost $700 in commission.
Having a great English vocabulary doesn't just mean that you can understand lots of words and phrases: it also means that you can use these words and phrases and that you can remember them when you need them.
This is the difference between an active and a passive vocabulary. Generally, most people's passive vocabulary is far bigger than their active vocabulary, and the secret is to try and "activate" passive knowledge.
There are a number of ways that you can activate your passive vocabulary in English, ranging from simple five-minute activities to longer periods of study. Most activities work best if a) you have a good English dictionary, and b) you keep a vocabulary notebook.
Good English dictionaries
A good English dictionary should be up-to-date (no more than five years old!) and should be easy to understand. Make sure that the definitions are written in clear English. Pictures also help you to understand some words. I strongly recommend the Longman range of dictionaries, as there is good coverage of spoken and written English, British and American English, as well as clear example sentences.
Vocabulary notebooks
When you come across a new English word or phrase, make a note of it! Look up the meaning in the dictionary, making sure you are aware of any grammatical information. (For instance, if you are looking up a verb, check to see if the verb can be used in a passive form, if it is followed by any particular preposition, and so on.) Check also for the pronunciation and use of a word. Is it particularly formal or informal, or used in certain word partnerships? For example, we say "do housework", but "make an effort".
When you find a new word, check to see if you can use it in other ways. English is a flexible language – nouns, verbs and adjectives often share the same stem. For example, a house, to house, housing policy, and so on.
When you write down your new word in your notebook, try to include an example sentence in English.
Some people find it helpful to organise notebooks into themes. So rather than having a list of words without any obvious connection, you divide your notebook into themes, with one page containing words to do with the house, another page with words to do with jobs, and so on.
Quick English vocabulary booster activities
1. An English word a day
Choose a new word or phrase from your notebook and try to use it as often as possible in one day. Think of situations where you would need to use it, and write down a couple of example sentences. Go back to this word or phrase after a week, to make sure you still remember it.
Some people find index cards useful. You can write down the word on the card and carry it around with you for a day, taking it out of your pocket whenever you have a moment and trying to put it into a sentence.
2. Review
The next time you have a spare couple of minutes, flick through your notebook. You'll be surprised how much comes back to you! Choose a page where you have already stored a number of words and expressions, cover the page, and try to remember what you wrote. Then look at the page and see how many you remember.
3. One word at a time
When you read a page of a book or newspaper, decide you will only look up one word in a dictionary. When you write it down in your notebook, also make a note of any synonyms (words that mean the same) or the opposite of the new word.
4. English word building
Take a prefix (such as "en", or "pre") and make a list of all the words that can follow. (For example, encircle, enclose, enlist; prenatal, premature, pre-war.) Here are some more prefixes you can use: dis, il, im, ir, pro, anti, de, un, con, re
Longer English vocabulary learning activities
1. Read
Read something that interests you. It could be a newspaper, a novel, a magazine, or even an English "graded reader" (a simplified book). Working page by page, underline the words or phrases that you don't know. Look up only those that are important for understanding, or which are repeated. Use a good dictionary, and make a note in your English vocabulary notebook.
2. Blitz
Focus on a theme, such as sport. Divide one page of your notebook into three columns. In the first column write down as many sports as you can think of. In the second, write down all the equipment you need for the sport. In the third, write down the scoring systems. You might end up with something that looks like this:
tennis racquet, ball, net umpire, love, linesman
football pitch, ball, goal posts referee, offside, penalty
You can use this method for many different themes: houses (rooms of house, furniture, styles); jobs (names of jobs, places where these jobs are done, characteristics of the job) and so on.
3. Word association
Write a key word in the middle of a page and draw a bubble around it. Then draw lines out from this word connected to smaller bubbles. In the smaller bubbles you can add words associated with the main word.
For example, you could write "email" in the middle of a page. Then the smaller bubbles could contain words such as "write", "compose", "receive", "delete", "reply" and so on.
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