Teju's Scribbles

What Dreamworks character are you?

I stumbled on this site which showcased the life of people. It is a beautiful concept so I am posting it here.

Young me Now me

“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

Discover Magazine reports that despite the average person shaking hands nearly 15,000 times in a lifetime, one in five (19 per cent) admit they hate the act of the handshake and are unsure how to do it properly.

MeeGo is coming to BMW,GM and many other car brands. GENIVI Alliance has announced the open source
operating system (OS) MeeGo as the basis of their next reference release for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI).

GENIVI is a non-profit industry alliance with founding members BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA, Visteon and Wind River.

MeeGo is a brand new species of OS. It's a result of collaboration between Nokia and Intel. MeeGo will provide the base for the upcoming GENIVI Apollo release. In-Vehicle

When using multiple class names for an element, IE6 will ignore all but the last of class names:
For example while in the following code, newer browsers applies class1 & class2 for elements, IE6 will apply only class2

A fix for this issue can be done by using IE6 CSS expressions as follows

AJAX and JavaScript have become the backbone of the Internet "Applications" that we see on the web. But the problem that for any Application to run it needs to download the full JavaSript code. So as the application size increases so does the amount of time taken for the page to load. One workaround for this problem is to load JavaScript into the browser on demand, when needed.

Binary stars are commonly pairs of stars, which revolve around a common centre of mass. In the pair the brighter star is called the “primary” star and the other is called the “companion” star. Many binary stars can be detected by the naked eye; they are called “visual binaries”. Visual binaries are pair of stars which are having orbital periods of several centuries or millennia and therefore have orbits which are uncertain or poorly known.

Is game technology only for entertainment or do they have use in real life?

At first they do seem to be very different from reality but in fact it has influenced many domains like medicine, education etc.

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