December 2006 – Page 2

Use google to convert USD (US Dollars $$) to Indian rupees – INR

The Indian rupee is the official currency of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India. The most commonly used symbol for the rupee is Rs, RS, INR

The Indian rupee is subdivided into 100 paise. India has been one of the earliest issuers of coins in the world.

You can convert USD to Indian rupees using Google search engine. No need to visit any other web site. For example convert 100 USD to Indian rupees or vise versa

=> Go to www.google.co.in
=> Type ‘query 100 usd in INR‘

=> You can conert Indian rupees to USD with query ‘10000 INR in usd‘

You can also convert to other currency such as euros 10000 INR in euros.

This is called Google currency conversion feature. This is built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button.

IBM to introduce faster memory for mobile devices

Researchers at IBM, Macronix and Qimonda are hoping their new phase-change random access memory (PC-RAM) will take over from the Flash memory widely deployed for non-volatile memory in mobile consumer devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, PDAs and MP3 players.

The new alloy, a ‘doped germanium-antimony’, could run as much as 500 times faster than conventional Flash-based memory. Be a whole new world for portable storage devices. And we may see a real-world prototype as early 2008.

From the article:
Working at two IBM labs on the east and west coasts of the USA, the scientist produced prototype 3Ã—20nm PC-RAM devices that were able to switch more than 500 times faster than Flash memory. These comparisons are being made with Flash cell direct write times (NAND ~ milliseconds, NOR ~ microseconds), rather than the speeds available with parallel architectures. Flash data writing rates can go above 10MB/s with parallel architectures. PC-RAM is a true random-access memory that does not need to be erased first, unlike Flash.

Power consumption for the writing operation was also less than 50% that of Flash. The device size is equivalent to that targeted for Flash in 2015 on the industry roadmap (22nm node).

The 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower

Don’t miss out the best meteor shower of the year peaks this week on Thursday, Dec. 13th and 14th, 2006.

A meteor shower, also known as a “meteor storm,” is a celestial event where a large number of meteors are seen within a very short period of time. These meteors are small fragments of cosmic debris entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speed, leaving a streak of light that very quickly disappears. Most of the small fragments of cosmic debris are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all fragments are burnt up and never hit the earth’s surface.

“It’s the Geminid meteor shower,” says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, Alabama. “Start watching on Wednesday evening, Dec. 13th, around 9 p.m. local time,” he advises. “The display will start small but grow in intensity as the night wears on. By Thursday morning, Dec. 14th, people in dark, rural areas could see one or two meteors every minute.”

More information about The 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower available at NASA’s website.

How to build wealth – just follow these 10 rules

These are 10 rules for building wealth

Fumbling when it comes to investing? Don’t panic. There are easy ways to get your money to work for you.

=> Start early
=> Use your 401(k)
=> Keep it simple
=> Don’t try to beat the market
=> Don’t chase trends
=> Make saving automatic
=> Go heavy on stocks
=> Hold down fees
=> Ditch credit card debt
=> Defer taxes

10 Rules for Building Wealth / FORTUNE

Javascript tutorial step by step – A beginners guide

Javascript is a scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming. The language is best known for its use in websites as client-side JavaScript. JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally renamed to JavaScript.

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language with a syntax loosely based on C. Like C, the language has no input or output constructs of its own.

Why should a webpage author use JavaScript in addition to HTML?

* Javascript adds user interactivity.
* Javascript enhances visual displays.
* Javascript allows client-side user form validation.
* Javascript provides more seamless integration with user plug-ins.
* Javascript allows access to some system information that HTML does not.

Why would you want to learn to program in JavaScript when there are so many canned scripts available for cutting and pasting into your own pages. Here are a few good reasons:
* Sometimes you want to customize a canned program to make it unique.
* Some functions that you want to accomplish have not been written yet.
* Many scripts are browser-centric (notably MSIE) or out of date.
* JavaScript is cross-platform. You can write programs that work on Windows, MacIntosh and Linux systems.
* Application users do not have to bother with downloading a JavaScript application, they just access your webpage. And version control is simple as there is one active version — the one on your website.
* The JavaScript language syntax is similar to that of C and Java so it makes a great starting point on a programming career.
* No proprietary development system is required. A simple editor is all that you need to write Javascript code. A browser is all that is needed to run JavaScript.
* JavaScript code is open source and freely available.

This guide try to answer all of the above questions and it will teach javascript step by step.

Who owns the worlds half the wealth?

BBC World Service reports that – Richest 2% own ‘half the wealth’ and rest all of us fight in 50%. No wonder the people at the top of the tree are enjoying the best things in life.

“Wealth” has come to mean an abundance of items of economic value, or the state of controlling or possessing such items, and encompasses money, real estate and personal property. In many countries wealth is also measured by reference to access to essential services such as health care, or the possession of crops and livestock.

Report findings

=> The report, from the World Institute of Development Economics Research at the UN University, says

=> The poorer half of the world’s population own barely 1% of global wealth

=> The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth(
Wealth is heavily concentrated in North America, Europe and some countries in the Asia Pacific region, such as Japan and Australia.

=> These countries account for 90% of household wealth.

Read rest of Richest 2% own ‘half the wealth’ report…

Download complete here

Boost immune system with low calorie diet

The immune system protects the body from infection by pathogenic organisms. It is composed of a complex constellation of cells, organs and tissues, arranged in an elaborate and dynamic communications network. The immune system is, in its simplest form, a cascade of detection and adaptation, culminating in a system that is remarkably effective.

The immune system protects the body from infection by creating and maintaining barriers that prevent bacteria and viruses from entering the body. If a pathogen breaches the barriers, and gets into the body, the innate immune system is equipped with specialized cells that detect, and often eliminate, the invader before it is able to reproduce, potentially causing serious injury to the host.

However according to new study low calorie die can boost your immune system. An extremely low-calorie diet slows the aging of the immune system in an elderly population of rhesus monkeys, according to research at the National Institute on Aging. A similar immune boost has already been observed in rodents on the calorie-restriction diet, and the monkey results–the first in primates–are an important step in determining whether such a diet could also strengthen the immune system in humans

The rhesus monkeys on a calorie-restriction diet in the study have significantly more young T cells–an important component of the immune system–and these T cells can proliferate vigorously, says Janko Nikolich-Zugich, senior scientist at the Oregon Health and Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, who led the research. In addition, these monkeys have lower levels of the inflammatory immune compounds that can cause cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease in humans.

See video of NASA’s International Space Station

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nation’s public space program. NASA is widely regarded as being in the forefront of space agencies worldwide.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a manned research space facility that is being assembled in orbit around the Earth. It is a joint project between five space agencies:
=> The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States)
=> The Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA, Russian Federation)
=> The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, Japan)
=> The Canadian Space Agency (CSA, Canada)
=> The European Space Agency (ESA, Europe)

Did you know?

=> Space tourism and weddings are two soruce of making money for ISS. Yuri Malenchenko was the first person who was married in space.
=> There have been four space tourists to the ISS, each spending ca. US$20 million; they went there aboard a Russian supply mission.

Now you can watch this video which is a tour of the International Space Station:

Month: December 2006