Fundamentals of Life

Fundamentals of Life

• Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain after a long season of drought. On the day of the prayers all the villagers gathered, but only one boy brought an umbrella in his hand.

THAT'S FAITH

• A happy father spent time playing with his one year old son. He threw the baby boy high into the air and caught him time after time. The baby giggled with joy because he knew he would definitely be caught..

THAT'S TRUST

• Every night we go to bed with zero assurance that we are going to wake up the next morning. However, we never fail to set the alarm.

THAT'S HOPE

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Lessons In Life

I’ve learned-
that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.

I’ve learned-
that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I’ve learned-
that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.

I’ve learned-
that you should never ruin an apology with an excuse.

I’ve learned-
that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you’d better know something.

I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do.

I’ve learned-
that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I’ve learned-
that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I’ve learned-
that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I’ve learned-
that you can keep going long after you can’t.

I’ve learned-
that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I’ve learned-
that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I’ve learned-
that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

I’ve learned-
that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I’ve learned-
that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I’ve learned-
that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I’ve learned-
that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down will be the ones to help you get back up.

I’ve learned-
that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.

I’ve learned-
that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

I’ve learned-
that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

I’ve learned-
that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I’ve learned-
that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.

I’ve learned-
that your family won’t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren’t related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren’t biological.

I’ve learned-
that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you are to learn to forgive yourself.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

I’ve learned-
that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I’ve learned-
that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.

I’ve learned-
that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.

I’ve learned-
that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

I’ve learned-
that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.

I’ve learned-
that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

I’ve learned-
that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

I’ve learned-
that the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

I’ve learned-
that it’s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people’s feelings, and standing up for what you believe.

I’ve learned-
that people will forget what you said, and people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

By Omer B. Washington

Computer and Internet Related Fun Facts.

Who knew that...

•  On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
• The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
• MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
• While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
• There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
• Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
• Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
• Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
• Hewlett Packard ( the HP pioneer) was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

Read more at : http://www.funfactz.com/computer-facts/random-computer-facts.html

The Computer Evolution

Take a look at how traditional computers looked like till the year 1982. After which on wards, computers typically look like what we come across now.

The Complex Number Calculator (1939)

Z3 Computer (1943)

MIT Whirlwind Computer (1951)

UNIVAC 1 (1951)

LINC  -Labarotary Instrumentation Computer (1962)

PDP-8 (1965)

HP-2115 (1966)

HP-35 (1972)

Commodore PET ( 1977)

Commodore- 64 (1982)

 

Source : http://www.computerhistory.org

The origins of a modern day computer.

Computers : A Brief Pre-history

The first use of the word "computer" was recorded in 1613, referring to a person who carried out calculations, or computations. The word continues till today with the same meaning often used as well. However, from the end of the 19th century, the word began to take on its more familiar meaning to people nowadays, which is a machine that carries out computations. 


The first computers did not have electrical circuits, monitors or memory. The abacus, an ancient Chinese adding machine, is one of the original computing machines, used as early as 400 B.C. It can't do many of the computations that a modern electronic calculator can do, but it in the right hands it can make calculating large sums as easy as moving beads around. Famous mathematicians such as Leonardo da Vinci and Blaise Pascal invented more sophisticated calculators using gears and punch cards.

Read more: A History of Computers for Kids | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_7982362_history-computers-kids.html#ixzz27s0bVhc1