How Rains Affect Cloud Computing
Mr Vishwabandhu Gupta – a retired income tax commissioner, is trying to explain the concept of “cloud computing” to the reporter and how rains / thunder-storms can disrupt web services that depend on the cloud. Mr Gupta’s logic is that your computer makes a connection to the cloud (the “physical cloud” that turns into rain) [...]
Is your computer “male” or “female”?
1. Open Notepad 2. Type the following line in notepad: CreateObject(“SAPI.SpVoice”).Speak”I love you” 3. Save file as: computer_gender.vbs ……4. Run the file. If you hear a male voice, you have a boy If you hear a female voice, you have a girl (: Note: Turn on the speaker before running the file. Write watever you [...]
31 Of The Worst Predictions
1. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. 2. “Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.” — Popular Mechanics, 1949 [...]