Five facts:
-Almost one year ago the population of Austin, Texas was 757,688 people.
-1.2% of the population in Austin is Chinese.
-Only 2.5 percent of the population comes from Italy.
-39.4% of the population has never been married.
-The Austin area code is (512)
If NASA is sending humanoid robots to space to do our work for us there, it seems as if it’s only a short amount of time until they are here on Earth performing simple tasks for us. Maybe at first as a small feature in a store, then eventually maybe evolving to being able to assist in such situations. It doesn’t seem that out of the question if our technology is already this advanced.
The Nobel Prize is “an annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace.” People get Nobel Prizes for doing something outstanding in either Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Medicine, Literature, Economics, or Peace, and being nominated by a well known scientist or professional in one of the above fields.
Winners:
(1906) Theodore Roosevelt- Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
(1919) Thomas Woodrow Wilson – Founder of the Société des Nations (League of Nations)
(1964) Martin Luther King Jr. – Campaigner for civil rights.
100 Ways to Save the Environment is a website that lists 100 practical ways that we can all change our behaviors to better the environment that we live in.
Ways to Help the Environment is a website that gives ideas to how small children can manage to help save the environment, so it’s not just up to the adults.
50 Ways to Help the Planet is another website that lists 50 practical ways to help the environment by changing simple things around the household or in your every day life, things such as not preheating the oven, and changing your light bulbs to cheap but energy efficient light bulbs.
“Google Transliteration” – This website allows you to type in phonetically what you hear from someone speaking another language and if you have identified the language it is, Google will translate it into English for you. This seems pretty convenient seeing as how, for most translators, if you know how to spell it in the language, you probably speak it, thus negating the need for a translator… unless you’re just really good at guessing.
Aardvark – Aardvark is like Ask.com, but SO much better. Ask.com used to be this awesome site where you could type in any question and it would give you an “instant answer,” but really it was just a cleverly disguised search engine. Aardvark sends your question out onto the internet so that another person can answer it for you; kind of like a more efficient version of yahoo answers.
Gesture Search – This application is for anything that has a touch screen from what I can tell. It seems fairly efficient seeing as how most people have trouble scrolling down some screens or making their fingers fit the touch screen buttons. What Gesture Search does is it lets you draw a letter anywhere on your screen and it will bring up a search list of everything that includes that letter, making it much more efficient to find everything.
1. 11, not really.
2. Different people have different definitions of what a carbon footprint entails.
3. Most people use a significant amount of carbon dioxide in their every day life.
1. What was the original name of Michael Dell’s company? — PCS Limited
2. How much money did he have to start the company? — $1000
3. What was the speed of the 8088 processor that was in the “Turbo PC?” — 8 MHz
4. When did the company change its name? — 1988
5. When did Dell start selling computers on the internet? — 1996
6. What company did Dell buy in 2006? — Alienware
7. What was Dell’s gross sales in 2007? — $687 Million
8. What’s the name of the guy who started the company? — Michael Dell
