Maverick Flying Car
The Maverick Flying Car is not something that you can merely see in the sci-fi (science fiction) movies, as you will see them in the skies of the United States or England during the next 12 months. It features an integrated ground and aerial controls, making it a cool personal mobility that can be used in two modes. The Maverick Flying Car is also built with a unique wing deployment system, which provides lift when the propeller generates thrust.But to drive such a car, you have to own both a civilian driver’s license and an S-LSA/E-LSA certification. So have you been ready for it?
History Behind brand names....
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patchesto code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server - thus, the name Apache.
Jakarta
(project from Apache)A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web serverhandling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room atSUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat
The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name forthe JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompsonas a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wifeBonnie).
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C'which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time RickMascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU
A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project RichardStallman liked the name because of the humor associated with itspronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The GnuSong' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursiveacronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree thatstood outside his window, the programming team had to look for asubstitute, as there was no other language with the same name. Javawas selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of thecoffee that the programmers drank.
LG
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system, which hereplaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to uploadit to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus adirectory called Linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the nameFreax. (Linus's parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winnerLinus Pauling).
Mozilla
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replaceMosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-KillerGodzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it wasre-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap(with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. Helost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the betaversion of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his RedHat if found by anyone!
SAP
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4ex-IBM employees who used to work in the'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
SCO
(UNIX)From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.
UNIX
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information andComputing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project,Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler versionof the OS. They needed the OS to run the game Space War that wascompiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating andComputing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.
Xerox
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry'(as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailingwet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
3M
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining thematerial corundum used to make sandpaper.
Mercedes
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple
Computers It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three monthslate in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call hiscompany Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest abetter name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote asmall integral object.
Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. Itstands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of informationthe search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100zeros. After founders Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and LarryPage presented their project to an angel investor, they received acheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from acomputer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with thebusiness plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names endingin 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included! the letters"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It wasinitially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether thecompany they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard orPackard-Hewlett.
Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'MooreNoyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they hadto settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditationof Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted toMICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft! , the '-'was removed later on.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company startedmanufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the timewas called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project forthe CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the projectwas called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers toall questions or something such). The project was designed to help usethe newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually wasterminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started andbring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMSengine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' aslang used ! by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym forStanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built amicrocomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy tomanufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop aUNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive inappearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yangand David Filo selected the name because they considered themselvesyahoos.
Jakarta
(project from Apache)A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web serverhandling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room atSUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat
The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name forthe JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompsonas a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wifeBonnie).
C++
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C'which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time RickMascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU
A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project RichardStallman liked the name because of the humor associated with itspronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The GnuSong' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursiveacronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree thatstood outside his window, the programming team had to look for asubstitute, as there was no other language with the same name. Javawas selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of thecoffee that the programmers drank.
LG
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system, which hereplaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to uploadit to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus adirectory called Linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the nameFreax. (Linus's parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winnerLinus Pauling).
Mozilla
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replaceMosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-KillerGodzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it wasre-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap(with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. Helost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the betaversion of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his RedHat if found by anyone!
SAP
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4ex-IBM employees who used to work in the'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
SCO
(UNIX)From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.
UNIX
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information andComputing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project,Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler versionof the OS. They needed the OS to run the game Space War that wascompiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating andComputing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.
Xerox
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry'(as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailingwet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
3M
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining thematerial corundum used to make sandpaper.
Mercedes
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple
Computers It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three monthslate in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call hiscompany Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest abetter name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote asmall integral object.
Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. Itstands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of informationthe search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100zeros. After founders Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and LarryPage presented their project to an angel investor, they received acheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from acomputer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with thebusiness plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names endingin 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included! the letters"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It wasinitially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether thecompany they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard orPackard-Hewlett.
Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'MooreNoyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they hadto settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditationof Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted toMICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft! , the '-'was removed later on.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company startedmanufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the timewas called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project forthe CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the projectwas called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers toall questions or something such). The project was designed to help usethe newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually wasterminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started andbring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMSengine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' aslang used ! by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym forStanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built amicrocomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy tomanufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop aUNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive inappearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yangand David Filo selected the name because they considered themselvesyahoos.
World's smallest diamond ring detects photons
Australian scientists have created the world's smallest diamond ring, not to grace the finger of a fiancee, but to help researchers who are developing quantum information processing.
The ring -- 5 microns in diameter and 300 nanometers thick --is a component in a device for producing and detecting single photons, or particles of light.
Set in different states, photons can carry information. In ordinary digital computers, information is stored in bits, which can have a value of either "1" or "0" (just as a light switch can only be "on" or "off"). The order of 1's and 0's indicates a certain piece of information.
But these photons, called qubits, can hold a value of 1 and 0 at the same time, which could expand the possibilities for information storage.
The new development, announced at the March meeting of the American Physical Society in New Orleans, was made by scientists at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
The ring -- 5 microns in diameter and 300 nanometers thick --is a component in a device for producing and detecting single photons, or particles of light.
Set in different states, photons can carry information. In ordinary digital computers, information is stored in bits, which can have a value of either "1" or "0" (just as a light switch can only be "on" or "off"). The order of 1's and 0's indicates a certain piece of information.
But these photons, called qubits, can hold a value of 1 and 0 at the same time, which could expand the possibilities for information storage.
The new development, announced at the March meeting of the American Physical Society in New Orleans, was made by scientists at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
German Scientists develop Non-Inflammable Battery
Mobile phone battery is always a matter of concern as cases of battery explosions are increasing. As a remedy to it, German scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC have developed a lithium-ion battery, which is non-explosive.
This newly developed battery is based on a polymer electrolyte, which is non-flammable unlike liquid electrolyte in conventional cell phone batteries.
The polymer used in the battery is derived from Ormocer group of substances - a compound with silicon-oxygen chains that forms an inorganic structure to which organic side chains become attached.
“We have succeeded in replacing the inflammable organic electrolytes with a non-flammable lymer that retains its shape,” said ISC team leader Dr. Kai-Christian Möller. “This considerably enhances the safety of lithium-ion batteries. What’s more, because it is a solid substance, the electrolyte cannot leak out of the battery.”
Researchers will present their work at Hannover Messe happening on April 21 to 25. However, it will take 3-5 years to incorporate such inflammable batteries in mobile phones.A car that could give Nano competition
Oreva Super, an electric car which could just be the country's first one lakh car, made by the Ajanta Group, a Saurashtra-based clockmaker, is planning to give serious competition to the Tata Nano.
Though the Oreva Super was in the pipeline for a while, sources say production at its plant inKutch recently moved into top gear.
As the Nano shifted from Bengal to Gujarat last week, the Oreva Super was heading for a showroom inRajkot
Company officials refused to speak on camera but theRajkot
"This is the first model out on display. I can't share any more details about it as we have been asked to be tight-lipped for sometime. It is just a fabulous car and very economic in these days of rocketing fuel prices," said Yogesh Tank, Oreva Automobiles,Rajkot
"Obviously, it's pricing is so strategic that it will compete with Tata's Nano," he added.
Not surprisingly, the Oreva is already generating plenty of interest even though a commercial rollout, first inGujarat and then across the country, is at least two months away.
"I just tried my hands on this car. It gives great feel and it is adequate for a family like mine, two adults and two kids can be easily accommodated," said Vijay Nathwani, corporate executive, Rajkot.
"People like us now can really afford to buy a car and whether Nano comes or not and whenever, this car is ready. I am just waiting to buy it the day the start sales," Nathwani added.
Even before Ratan Tata has set up the Nano shop inRajkot
Though the Oreva Super was in the pipeline for a while, sources say production at its plant in
As the Nano shifted from Bengal to Gujarat last week, the Oreva Super was heading for a showroom in
Company officials refused to speak on camera but the
"This is the first model out on display. I can't share any more details about it as we have been asked to be tight-lipped for sometime. It is just a fabulous car and very economic in these days of rocketing fuel prices," said Yogesh Tank, Oreva Automobiles,
"Obviously, it's pricing is so strategic that it will compete with Tata's Nano," he added.
Not surprisingly, the Oreva is already generating plenty of interest even though a commercial rollout, first in
"I just tried my hands on this car. It gives great feel and it is adequate for a family like mine, two adults and two kids can be easily accommodated," said Vijay Nathwani, corporate executive, Rajkot.
"People like us now can really afford to buy a car and whether Nano comes or not and whenever, this car is ready. I am just waiting to buy it the day the start sales," Nathwani added.
Even before Ratan Tata has set up the Nano shop in
Malaysia’s Police Car: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
Wow man! According MotorTrader report: Kuala Lumpur, the Royal Malaysian Police have bough 25 units of high-powered Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution cars for catching criminals ~ especially in cases of carjacking, kidnapping and hijacking, these criminals often use modified turbo charged cars to escape. PDRM (Polis Di-Raja Malaysia) will be sending off their Evo drivers for some special training so that can be able to make full use of the car’s performance. This Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10 Polis car is powered by 2.0l turbocharged engine which produces 280 horsepower. Better think twice before you speed, the police now have their turbocharged ride. The above is the spyshot of the PDRM EVO 10, read the rest for another pic.
Meet The Man Who Uses Onions To Power His iPod...
Owen Louis, 21 from
Owen, was worried about the amount of electricity his MP3 player used, so he decided to use the vegetables to power up his device.
Owen Louis' technique involved boring two holes in an onion, soaking it in an energy drink (like Gatorade) then sticking a USB cable into it, and device enables him to charge his iPod for an hour.
Metro.co.uk quoted him as saying, "I was watching TV with my laptop on and my iPod playing and thought, 'How much electricity must I be using?'A friend showed me the experiment as a laugh but I thought it was the greatest thing I have ever seen, and do it religiously every day."
This unique method is a foolproof way of staying green as the onion decomposes and the drink bottle can be recycled once finished with. However the only problem is one would have no control over how long it may work for and it can be really messy and smelly
Almost all vegetables could power iPods as they contain ions, which react with energy drinks to create a charge. A research states that simple, low-power batteries can be made using common household ingredients such as a copper coin, a lemon and a galvanized nail. Several lemon batteries hooked up in series can produce enough electricity to light a small LED.
Nokia's new Morph concept phone
Nokia's new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user's needs, a far cry from today's solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or tablet form, and nanotech cleverness means it would even clean itself. Developed in cooperation with
Nokia and University of Cambridge
New York, US and Espoo, Finland — Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA's official website.Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces.
Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC
Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering's Nanoscience Group at the
The partnership between Nokia and the
Elements of Morph might be available to integrate into handheld devices within 7 years, though initially only at the high-end. However, nanotechnology may one day lead to low cost manufacturing solutions, and offers the possibility of integrating complex functionality at a low price.
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