Some Most Interesting Facts About Facebook

Amidst so many things said and heard, we has collected some crazy & interesting facts about Facebook that have made the company a treat for the readers.





Whether you are a user of Facebook or not, it’s always there and millions upon millions of people use it every single day. When Facebook IPO came, Facebook share was priced in open market for about $38 a share, bringing the totaled value of the company to a whopping $100 billion.



Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg makes about $67 every second totaling around $650K every week? Or what if Facebook was a country – with over 900 million users, FB would be the 3rd largest country in the world after China and India, basically crushing the US which is home to only 300+ million. In such a short amount time, this website has become an extremely strong force in today’s society and it only looks to go up after the IPO.

Some Interesting Facts About Facebook

• Facebook’s Worth would be more than eBay, Yahoo, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga and Pandora combined, when it goes public.
• Facebook has 901 million monthly active users, with 526 million who use Facebook at least once a day as of March, according to Facebook’s fact page.
• Countries that block Facebook include China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
• Eminem has the most popular celebrity page on Facebook with over 57 million likes, beating Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
• In 2011, Zuckerberg became a vegetarian, according to his Facebook timeline history.
• The company that’s been valued at over $100 billion dollars was started from Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room in Harvard. Yep, that part of the movie is true.
• Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian co founder of Facebook has renounced his US citizenship and is now investing billions in startups at Singapore.
• About 60 percent of the voting power at Facebook is controlled by Zuckerberg.
• The big shot media company Viacom had offered to acquire Facebook, but was rejected by Mark Zuckerberg.
• After agreeing to an acquisition offer from Yahoo while it was led by Terry Semel, Facebook stepped down from the deal when there were talks of lowering the offer price.
• The Microsoft CEO, steve Ballmer had offered to buy Facebook. Steve has invested $240 million in Facebook till date.
• Of all the incredible talents that Zuckerberg is bestowed with, his greatest and what seems to be his favorite is Firing People.
• Facebook interviewed Yahoo executive Ellen Siminoff, Apple veteran Bud Colligan, and former OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan for the position of COO which is now held by Sheryl Sandberg.
• Steve jobs had to cancel the presentation that he had offered Facebook for the iphone application in 2008. Jobs, who had expected Zuckerberg to do the presentation was disappointed by the audition of the engineer who was selected by the Facebook CEO.
• Maintaining his reputation of having a a bad fashion sense, Zuckerberg wore a hoodie to the meeting with wall street investors.
• In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg took CEO lessons to improve his managerial skills.
• Mark Zuckerberg is said to be a big time Glee fan.
• One of the reasons for Facebook to be so mobile friendly is that Mark Zuckerberg is a huge fan of Blackberry.
• In 2010 Zuckerberg switched to iphone from Blackberry, apparently, because his thumbs were hurting.
• The employees at Facebook seem to be getting bored as Zuckerberg won’t agree to work on weird projects like driverless cars.
• Mark Zuckerberg promises to code every day of the year 2012.
• The CEO never consulted his board before starting his negotiations with the $1 billion acquisition Instagram.
• Facebook had started looking for overseas investors when it was not getting any attention from domestic investors during the housing crisis.
• The Like Button was originally named the Awesome button by the Facebook engineers.
• Facebook’s valuation is four times that of Google when it went public.
• In 2009, after being charged by the government for changing user privacy settings, Facebook agreed to 20 years of FTC privacy audits.
• The Zuckerberg family spent $85,000 to keep running Facebook during its first Californian summer.
• Before starting YouTube, founder steve chen had worked for a few weeks at Facebook.
• To drop the “the”, Sean Parker helped the company buy the domain name Facebook.com for $200,000.
• Mark Zuckerberg had initially resisted to the idea of including photo sharing. Sean parker had convinced him to include what is the most used feature of the website.
• Engineers at Facebook are paid more than any other in Silicon Valley.
• The young billionaire recently married to his long time girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Mrs Zuckerberg, who is of Chinese-American descent, had inspired her new husband, 28, to learn Chinese some time ago.
  

TOP 107 COMMAND PROMPT TRICKS

Hello Friends. Here Are A Few Commands For You  All To Know...

To Those Who Didn't Know HowTo Use Here It Is:

START<RUN<CMD

         (OR)

START<SEARCH<CMD

And Then Type These Commands According To Your Requirement.

HERE ARE THOSE:

1. Accessibility Controls - access.cpl

2. Accessibility Wizard - accwiz

3. Add Hardware Wizard - hdwwiz.cpl

4. Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl

5. Administrative Tools - control admintools

6. Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl

7. Bluetooth Transfer Wizard - fsquirt

8. Calculator - calc

9. Certificate Manager - certmgr.msc

10. Character Map - charmap

11. Check Disk Utility - chkdsk

12. Clipboard Viewer - clipbrd

13. Command Prompt - cmd

14. Component Services - dcomcnfg

15. Computer Management - compmgmt.msc

16. Control Panel - control

17. Date and Time Properties - timedate.cpl

18. DDE Shares - ddeshare

19. Device Manager - devmgmt.msc

20. Direct X Troubleshooter - dxdiag

21. Disk Cleanup Utility - cleanmgr

22. Disk Defragment - dfrg.msc

23. Disk Management - diskmgmt.msc

24. Disk Partition Manager - diskpart

25. Display Properties - control desktop

26. Display Properties - desk.cpl

27. Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility - drwtsn32

28. Driver Verifier Utility - verifier

29. Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc

30. Files and Settings Transfer Tool - migwiz

31. File Signature Verification Tool - sigverif

32. Findfast - findfast.cpl

33. Firefox - firefox

34. Folders Properties - control folders

35. Fonts - control fonts

36. Fonts Folder - fonts

37. Free Cell Card Game - freecell

38. Game Controllers - joy.cpl

39. Group Policy Editor (for xp professional) - gpedit.msc

40. Hearts Card Game - mshearts

41. Help and Support - helpctr

42. HyperTerminal - hypertrm

43. Iexpress Wizard - iexpress

44. Indexing Service - ciadv.msc

45. Internet Connection Wizard - icwconn1

46. Internet Explorer - iexplore

47. Internet Properties - inetcpl.cpl

48. Keyboard Properties - control keyboard

49. Local Security Settings - secpol.msc

50. Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc

51. Logs You Out Of Windows - logoff

52. Malicious Software Removal Tool - mrt

53. Microsoft Chat - winchat

54. Microsoft Movie Maker - moviemk

55. Microsoft Paint - mspaint

56. Microsoft Syncronization Tool - mobsync

57. Minesweeper Game - winmine

58. Mouse Properties - control mouse

59. Mouse Properties - main.cpl

60. Netmeeting - conf

61. Network Connections - control netconnections

62. Network Connections - ncpa.cpl

63. Network Setup Wizard - netsetup.cpl

64. Notepad - notepad

65. Object Packager - packager

66. ODBC Data Source Administrator - odbccp32.cpl

67. On Screen Keyboard - osk

68. Outlook Express - msimn

69. Paint - pbrush

70. Password Properties - password.cpl

71. Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc

72. Performance Monitor - perfmon

73. Phone and Modem Options - telephon.cpl

74. Phone Dialer - dialer

75. Pinball Game - pinball

76. Power Configuration - powercfg.cpl

77. Printers and Faxes - control printers

78. Printers Folder - printers

79. Regional Settings - intl.cpl

80. Registry Editor - regedit

81. Registry Editor - regedit32

82. Remote Access Phonebook - rasphone

83. Remote Desktop - mstsc

84. Removable Storage - ntmsmgr.msc

85. Removable Storage Operator Requests - ntmsoprq.msc

86. Resultant Set of Policy (for xp professional) - rsop.msc

87. Scanners and Cameras - sticpl.cpl

88. Scheduled Tasks - control schedtasks

89. Security Center - wscui.cpl

90. Services - services.msc

91. Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc

92. Shuts Down Windows - shutdown

93. Sounds and Audio - mmsys.cpl

94. Spider Solitare Card Game - spider

95. SQL Client Configuration - cliconfg

96. System Configuration Editor - sysedit

97. System Configuration Utility - msconfig

98. System Information - msinfo32

99. System Properties - sysdm.cpl

100. Task Manager - taskmgr

101. TCP Tester - tcptest

102. Telnet Client - telnet

103. User Account Management - nusrmgr.cpl

104. Utility Manager - utilman

105. Windows Address Book - wab

106. Windows Address Book Import Utility - wabmig

107. Windows Explorer - explorer.

ZeroN system holds a ball wherever you place it, in mid-air

People who saw the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact might remember a scene in which Roy Scheider, while describing the orientation of the spaceship that he’s aboard, picks up a pen and places it in mid-air in front of himself. While that effect was actually accomplished using a sticky-sided pen and a very clear plate of glass, the same sort of thing is now actually possible – if you’re in the right place, and positioning the right object. The place is MIT’s Media Lab, and the object is a small plastic-coated spherical magnet called ZeroN. Users can physically place it anywhere within a specified three-dimensional block of “anti-gravity space,” then watch as it stays in place when they let it go. It can also move through the air on its own, and even function as a virtual movie camera.




The ZeroN system was created by Media Lab research assistant Jinha Lee in collaboration with Dr. Rehmi Post of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and the Media Lab's Prof. Hiroshi Ishii.

Above its open-air anti-gravity space sits an electromagnet, that can be moved vertically and horizontally via a three-axis motor controller. To the side is a stereo infrared motion-tracking system made with two stock Sony PS3 Eyecam cameras, along with a video projector. A second projector and third camera sit beneath a horizontal translucent screen, that is located on a tabletop underneath the anti-gravity space.

As the user reaches into the space with the ZeroN ball in their hand, the motion-tracking system keeps track of where it is. It relays this information to the motor controller, which moves the electromagnet accordingly. When the user lets go, the magnet will be in such a position that its magnetic field holds the ball in place, right where the user left it. If they then reach in and reposition it, the electromagnet will move with it, to keep it hovering in its new location.

Along with simply keeping the ZeroN where it was left, however, the system can also record its movements and then play them back. This means that the ball could be guided through an aerial routine by hand, let go, and then proceed to repeat that routine on its own.

While these may sound like fascinating parlor tricks, the technology has many potential applications. Using the side-mounted projector, for instance, images can be projected onto the surface of the ZeroN. They will not only stay with it through 3D space, but will also rotate with it as it spins in place. This feature could allow it to be labelled, then used to help visualize physics problems – instead of simply thinking the problems through or looking at two-dimensional computer models, physicists could actually reach in and manipulate models of objects such as electrons by hand.

It could also be used in the field of astronomy to act as a rotating model of a planet, orbiting around a static model Sun.

In fact, it could even play the part of the Sun. If an object is placed on the translucent bottom screen, the bottom projector can be instructed to create a digital virtual shadow for that object on the screen. As the ZeroN is moved above the object, the direction and length of its shadow will change, as if the ZeroN is the Sun.



Additionally, the ZeroN can be assigned the role of a movie camera. In this case, after it has been moved over a grouping of physical models placed below it, a 3D fly-over animation of those objects can be generated, “shot” as if the ZeroN were the camera. This could prove particularly useful to architects, who want to record virtual aerial shots of their hand-built models.

World's most expensive camera sells at auction for €2.16 million (US$2.77 million)

The Viennese WestLicht Photographica Auction House continued its stellar run of success with its 21st Camera auction in just its eleventh year as an auction house, when it recently broke its own world record for the fifth consecutive time by selling one of the original Leica 0-series cameras for €2,160,000 (US$2.77 million), including the buyer’s premium.

Only 25 of these cameras were produced to test the market in 1923, two years before the commercial introduction of the Leica A. Bidding started at €300,000 ($385,276).

In last year's auction, a Leica from the same 0-series from 1923 sold for €1,320,000 ($1,695,216), so with another of the 25 originals coming across the auctioneer's block, a record was in the cards before the event even started.

With bids coming from the room, by phone and over the internet, the price of the camera kept climbing past the world record and finally stopped at €1.8 million ($2.3 million), with the hammer falling to an anonymous bidder.

WestLicht Photographica Auctions' previous record was a Daguerreotype Giroux, the first-ever commercially produced camera which changed hands in May 2010 for €732,000 ($940,183).

Gasoline-powered diesel-like engine could boost fuel economy by 50 percent

With both gasoline and diesel engines having their own particular advantages and disadvantages, automotive component manufacturer Delphi is looking for a best-of-both-worlds solution with a gasoline-powered engine that uses diesel engine-like technology for increased fuel efficiency. According to MIT’s Technology Review, such an engine has the potential to increase the fuel economy of gasoline-powered cars by 50 percent and give hybrid vehicles a run for their money in the fuel economy stakes.

Gasoline engines use spark for ignition while diesel engines rely on the heat of compressed air to ignite the fuel. There have been numerous attempts to develop gasoline-powered engines that use compression ignition, it has been difficult to provide the level of control needed under a variety of loads – idling, accelerating, cruising, etc.

Known as gasoline-direct-injection compression ignition, Delphi's approach reportedly overcomes this problem by "combining a collection of engine-operating strategies that make use of advanced fuel injection and air intake and exhaust controls." This includes injecting gasoline in timed bursts to reduce noise and maximize the speed at which fuel is burned.

Delphi has already built a single-piston test engine to demonstrate the technology and is now commencing testing of a multicylinder engine that would be closer to a production engine. Estimates resulting from simulations of how a midsize vehicle would perform with such an engine indicate that the new engines have the potential to improve the fuel economy of gasoline-powered cars by as much as 50 percent.

Mark Sellnau, the engineering manager of advanced powertrain technology at Delphi, told Technology Review that gasoline-direct-injection compression ignition engines could also be used in hybrid vehicles to further improve efficiency – although he’s unsure whether this would be worth the added cost.

EBDI ethanol engines surpass gasoline engine efficiency

February 6, 2009 Automotive technology specialist Ricardo has revealed the development of technology that optimizes ethanol-fuelled engines to a level of performance that exceeds gasoline engine efficiency and approaches levels previously reached only by diesel engines. The technology, called Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection (EBDI), takes full advantage of ethanol’s best properties – higher octane and higher heat of vaporization – to create a renewable fuel scenario that is independent of the cost of oil.





Ricardo's combination two and four stroke motor


“Developing renewable energy applications that can lead to energy independence is a top priority at Ricardo,” said Ricardo Inc President Dean Harlow. “We’ve moved past theoretical discussion and are busy applying renewable energy technology to the real world. The EBDI engine project is a great example because it turns the gasoline-ethanol equation upside down. It has the performance of diesel, at the cost of ethanol, and runs on ethanol, gasoline, or a blend of both.”

EBDI solves many of the challenges faced by flex-fuel engines because it is optimized for both alternative fuels and gasoline. Current flex-fuel engines pay a fuel economy penalty of about 30 percent compared to gasoline when operated on ethanol blends such as E85. The EBDI engine substantially improves ethanol’s efficiency, and performs at a level comparable to a diesel engine.

“In real-world terms, these efficiencies mean that EBDI can reduce the actual cost of transportation when compared to fossil fuels, and it does it with a renewable resource – ethanol,” said Rod Beazley, director of the Ricardo Inc Gasoline Product Group. “The combination of technologies we’re applying to the EBDI engine make the most of ethanol’s advantages over other fuels, which include a higher octane rating and a higher heat of vaporization. Without getting too technical, this means we can use a high level of turbocharging to achieve the high cylinder pressures that ethanol enables. Add in some other advanced technologies such as direct injection, variable valve timing, optimized ignition and advanced exhaust gas recirculation, and we’re squeezing out more power than is possible with gasoline.”

The prototype EBDI is a 3.2-liter V6 engine that ultimately could serve as a replacement for a large gasoline or turbo-diesel engine in a large SUV. The first firing of the engine & initial development is currently taking place and will be installed into a dual-wheel pick-up truck demonstration vehicle later this year. Beazley emphasized that the technology is very scalable. Applications could reach far beyond the automotive and light-truck industry. “Imagine agricultural equipment that, in effect, burns what it harvests – corn, sugar cane or some other renewable substance. It could mean tremendous cost savings across many industries.”

The EBDI project represents a technical collaboration with Behr, Bosch, Delphi, Federal Mogul, GW Castings and Honeywell, to further the advancement and commercialization of this highly promising technology.

Work on this research project has been carried out at the Detroit Technology Campus of Ricardo Inc.

Amazing Pencil vs. Camera Art by Ben Heine

BEN HEINE (born June 12, 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory coast) is a Belgian multidisciplinary visual artist. He is best known for his original series “Pencil Vs Camera“, “Digital Circlism” and “Flesh and Acrylic”.

Pencil Vs Camera

A talented illustrator and photographer, Ben Heine has put together an amazing ongoing project called ‘Pencil Vs Camera’. His creative thinking combines both art and pictures portraying two different things within the same scene.
Ben creates a strong perspective for the viewer by expertly matching the lines of the background scenery. These visual impacts have become a favorite among artists and photographers.
Here are some of the precious collection of ‘Pencil Vs Camera’. If you want to check his complete magic collection, you can visit his website BEN HEINE.

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

The source of all the images is here. You can check all the ‘Pencil vs. Camera’ collection of this amazing person.

Top 10 Best Illusions You Will Ever Find

This is a list of my 10 all time favorite optical illusions. I hope you find them as fascinating as I do. Just check them below one by one and you will really like this.

1. Lilac Chaser illusion

Lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. It consists of 12 lilac (or pink or magenta-like), blurred disks arranged in a circle (like the numbers on a clock), around a small, black, central cross on a grey background. One of the disks disappears briefly (for about 0.1 second), then the next (about 0.125 second later), and the next, and so on, in a clockwise direction. When one stares at the cross for about 20 seconds or so, one first sees a gap running around the circle of lilac disks, then a green disk running around the circle of lilac disks, then a green disk running around on the grey background, the lilac disks appearing to have disappeared or to have been erased by the green disk.

2. Jastrow illusion

The Jastrow illusion is an optical illusion discovered by the American psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1889. In this illustration, the two figures are identical, although the lower one appears to be larger.

3. Motion Illusion

One type of motion illusion is a type of optical illusion in which a static image appears to be moving due to the cognitive effects of interacting color contrasts and shape position. To properly view this effect, click the image above to see the full sized version.

4. Jesus Christ illusion

• Relax and concentrate on the four small dots in the middle of the picture for about 30 seconds.
• Then take a look at a wall near you (any smooth, light colored surface), you will see a circle of light developing.
• Start blinking your eye a couple of times and you will see a figure emerging.
• What do you see? … JESUS CHRIST …

5. Super Cyan illusion

Stare at the white dot in the centre of the red circle, and whilst continuing to do so move your head forward and backwards. For the best effect you should stare at it for 2 minutes. You will see a ring of super bright cyan appear around the red circle, and the clever part… this is a colour monitor can not actually produce!

6. Real drawings of impossible situations

These are always cool to look at, a situation that would be impossible in the real world which can be created on paper with relative ease. Baffling!

7. Two Faces illusion

How many faces you can see here. 1 or 2?

8. Face in the Tree

9. illusion in the sea

How many faces you can see above.

10. Color Blindness Test

             
You may not have considered this an optical illusion, but of course it is… at least for some people. You should see 20 in the first image & 21 in the second image. If you don’t see all of these though then you are colour blind!

Very true laws:

1) Law of Queue: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.8-|

2) Law of Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy tone.=-c

3) Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.:s

4) Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.:/

5) Law of the Alibi: if you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. X_X

6) Bath Theorem: When the body is immersed in
water, the telephone rings.:|

7) Law of Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to
be seen with.:$

8) Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will. :O

9) Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. >:/

10) Theatre Rule: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last. *...*

11) Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will
last until the coffee is cold. ~o)

12) Law of Proposal : After u accept a proposal you will get a better one.:'(

TAKE TIME TO READ. It's worth reading it. Trust me :)

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )



Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.

The Prindiville Lamborghini Aventador J Concept

Here's something you don't see every day - it's a concept based on a concept, and it comes from London coachbuilder Prindiville. Prindiville's eight-only Limited Edition Lamborghini Aventador is already on sale, and it's so keen to get its hands on the Aventador J Concept which Lamborghini showed in Geneva in March, that it has released this concept based on the original concept.



Power is up from 700 to 805 bhp thanks to an ECU remap and a new titanium exhaust, and the top speed will be over 220 mph (350 km/h).



Prindiville Design has extensive experience in carbon fiber manufacture and construction techniques for the automotive, aeronautic and marine industries and every panel, from the front bumper to the rear diffuser and rear wing is reshaped and lightened. Although no figures are available, Prindiville believes the reworked J would be considerably lighter due to many original panels being replaced in carbon fiber. With an extra 105 bhp plus a lot less weight, the Prindiville Aventador J will be an extraordinary performance car, but the chances are that we'll never see it.



The original Lamborghini Aventador J - of which there is only one - sold privately for EUR2.1 million (US$2.75 million) and there is no guarantee another will be produced, or that production might ever happen.

The Prindiville Aventador's disk brakes have been replaced with an even more expensive high-performance grippers and ceramic disks that are claimed to be equally at home on the road and the track.



There's also a completely adjustable suspension system and as might be expected from a car reconstructed by coachbuilders, the quality of its workmanship is likely to be superb.



The interior panels and air vents of the Prindiville Aventador J are milled from aluminum, and a five-inch LCD TV screen offers access to the Prindiville entertainment system which includes a DVD player, satellite navigation, and bespoke software featuring maps, setups, and telemetry of many international race circuits.

Although Prindiville Design produces enhanced versions of the Ferrari 458, Range Rover Evoque, Lamborghini Murcielago, Land Rover Defender and Lamborghini Aventador, it also has visual tuning components for a wide range of other supercar and prestige models, including Porsche, Bentley and BMW, as well as other Lamborghini, Ferrari and Range Rover models.

Prindiville Design also produces tailor-made luggage to fit a selection of top-end supercars and indeed, with its extensive experience in carbon fiber manufacture and construction techniques for the automotive, aeronautic and marine industries, can produce entire one-off cars to a customer’s specific requirements.

3.2 billion-pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera comes a step closer to reality

Although the pixel count for consumer cameras continues to rise, they will all pale in comparison to the 3,200-megapixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera.



Although the enormous astronomical camera has yet to be built, last week the U.S. Department of Energy gave its approval for the project to proceed to the next phase of development.

A cut-away view of the LSST camera, with a person for scale 

This means that a detailed engineering design can begin, along with a production schedule and budget. If everything goes according to plan, construction on what will be the world’s largest digital camera should begin in 2014.

The three-mirrored camera will be an essential part of the telescope, needless to say, surveying the entire visible night sky twice every week.

 

The LSST camera's lens-changing system

 It will take over 800 panoramic images every night, gathering about 6 million gigabytes of data a year. Its light-gathering power will be amongst the highest in the world, allowing it to image faint celestial objects using relatively short exposures.

It was designed at the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory, which describes what the camera will be doing as “equivalent of shooting roughly 800,000 images with a regular eight-megapixel digital camera every night, but of much higher quality and scientific value.”

A total of 189 sensors and over 3 tons (2.7 tonnes) of components will be tightly packed into its cylindrical body. Work has already begun on the telescope’s 8.4-meter (27.5-foot) primary mirror, at the final site of the observatory on the Cerro Pachón ridge in northern Chile.

Plans for the LSST include studies on things such as dark energy and dark matter, detection of near-Earth asteroids, and analysis of the structure of the galaxy. Data will be available to anyone with internet access.
Source: SLAC via Dvice

 Article Summary:
Although the pixel count for consumer cameras continues to rise, they will all pale in comparison to the 3,200-megapixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera. Although the enormous astronomical camera has yet to be built, last week the U.S. Department of Energy gave its approval for the project to proceed to the next phase of development. This means that a detailed engineering design can begin, along with a production schedule and budget. If everything goes according to plan, construction on what will be the world’s largest digital camera should begin in 2014.