Monday, September 15, 2003
The average wired adult will spend 5.3 percent of the rest of his or her life online, according to research firm Cyber Dialogue, based on an extensive survey of Internet users. The study's results showed that the average adult online today will spend a total of 23.5 months of his or her life online. That’s 17,500 hours.
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Internet access in the country of Burma is restricted by anti-modem laws. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term. Public typists work at typewriters charging about 14 cents per page. On a good day, a public typist earns about $3.50.
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There are three sets of letters on the standard typewriter and computer keyboards which are in alphabetical order, reading left to right. They are f-g-h, j-k-l, and o-p.
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Thomas Edison, "the Wizard of Menlo Park," established an "invention factory," the first industrial research laboratory, with the hope of producing a new invention every ten days. In one 4-year period, he obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
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Without using precision instruments, Eratosthenes measured the radius of Earth in the third century B.C., and came within 1 percent of the value determined by today's technology.
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Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only 14 years old
(CodeKit.com)
A computer on a chip that today costs $10 is equal in performance to systems costing $100,000 three decades ago.
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A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
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Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but before they became P.C. technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called "Breakout."
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It was recently reported that the technology contained in a single Game Boy unit in 2000 exceeded all the computer power that was used to put the first man on the Moon.
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You can’t use a U.S. computer monitor in Australia because the colors would be wrong. The magnetic field of the earth pulling the electron beams hitting the cathode tube to a position relative to its position in the magnetic field.
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The most common uses of computers on the job in 1996 were: Bookkeeping and invoicing (45 percent), word processing (44 percent), communications (39 percent), analysis/spreadsheets (36 percent), and data bases (35 percent).
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Motion pictures and technology...”(It) is destined to revolutionize our educational system and...in a few years will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.”
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Clarke’s Law of Revolutionary New Ideas -
All new ideas go through three stages.
1. It’s Crazy- don’t waste my time.
2. It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing.
3. I always said it was a good idea.
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Future Change...
The amount of data that can be placed on a microchip doubles every 18 months.
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Future Change...
The amount of information in the world is doubling every 18 months.
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The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
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There’s no place like home.com
(Anon)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to use the Net and he won’t bother you for weeks.
(Anon)
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
(George Foreman)
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Internet access in the country of Burma is restricted by anti-modem laws. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term. Public typists work at typewriters charging about 14 cents per page. On a good day, a public typist earns about $3.50.
(CodeKit.com)
There are three sets of letters on the standard typewriter and computer keyboards which are in alphabetical order, reading left to right. They are f-g-h, j-k-l, and o-p.
(CodeKit.com)
Thomas Edison, "the Wizard of Menlo Park," established an "invention factory," the first industrial research laboratory, with the hope of producing a new invention every ten days. In one 4-year period, he obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
(CodeKit.com)
Without using precision instruments, Eratosthenes measured the radius of Earth in the third century B.C., and came within 1 percent of the value determined by today's technology.
(CodeKit.com)
Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only 14 years old
(CodeKit.com)
A computer on a chip that today costs $10 is equal in performance to systems costing $100,000 three decades ago.
(CodeKit.com)
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
(CodeKit.com)
Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
(CodeKit.com)
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but before they became P.C. technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called "Breakout."
(CodeKit.com)
It was recently reported that the technology contained in a single Game Boy unit in 2000 exceeded all the computer power that was used to put the first man on the Moon.
(CodeKit.com)
You can’t use a U.S. computer monitor in Australia because the colors would be wrong. The magnetic field of the earth pulling the electron beams hitting the cathode tube to a position relative to its position in the magnetic field.
(CodeKit.com)
The most common uses of computers on the job in 1996 were: Bookkeeping and invoicing (45 percent), word processing (44 percent), communications (39 percent), analysis/spreadsheets (36 percent), and data bases (35 percent).
(CodeKit.com)
Motion pictures and technology...”(It) is destined to revolutionize our educational system and...in a few years will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.”
(CodeKit.com)
Clarke’s Law of Revolutionary New Ideas -
All new ideas go through three stages.
1. It’s Crazy- don’t waste my time.
2. It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing.
3. I always said it was a good idea.
(CodeKit.com)
Future Change...
The amount of data that can be placed on a microchip doubles every 18 months.
(CodeKit.com)
Future Change...
The amount of information in the world is doubling every 18 months.
(CodeKit.com)
The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
(CodeKit.com)
There’s no place like home.com
(Anon)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to use the Net and he won’t bother you for weeks.
(Anon)
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
(George Foreman)
