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Monday, November 25, 2013

BMW 7 Series


BMW 7 Series

BMW 7 Series

The BMW 7 Series is a line of full-size luxury vehicles produced by the German automaker BMW. Introduced in 1977, it is BMW's flagship car and is only available as a sedan or extended-length limousine. The 7 Series traditionally introduces technologies and exterior design themes before they trickle down to smaller sedans in BMW's line

BMW 7 Series

Overview
Manufacturer	BMW
Production	1977–present
Assembly	Dingolfing, Germany^[1] Santiago Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina^[2]^[3]^[4] Chennai, India
Body and chassis
Class	Full-size luxury car
Body style	4-door sedan
Layout	FR layout
Chronology
Predecessor	BMW New Six

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Suzuki Intruder 800


Suzuki Intruder 800

Suzuki Intruder 800

The Suzuki VS Intruder is a series of cruiser type motorcycles. The Intruder family was introduced in 1985 and was in production until 2005 when Suzuki replaced it with the Boulevard range. In Europe, the Intruder name remains in use for certain of the Boulevard machines.

VS750

The model with 747 cc engine capacity was produced specifically for the US market between 1985 and 1991. The engine is a four-stroke, water-cooled, OHC, 45-degree V-twin^[2] producing a maximum of 55 HP at 7,500 rpm with a compression ratio of 10:1, giving the bike a top speed of 165 km/h. Each cylinder has its own Mikuni carburetor.

Hayabusa

hayabusa

Hayabusa

Hayabusa (はやぶさ^?, literally "Peregrine Falcon") was an unmanned spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.
Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, colour, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010.
The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, MINERVA, which failed to reach the surface.

Instruments
A computer rendering of Hayabusa above Itokawa's surface
Operator	JAXA
Mission type	Asteroid sample return
Launch date	9 May 2003
Launch vehicle	M-V
Mission duration	7 years, 1 month and 4 days
Current destination	Returned to Earth on 13 June 2010
COSPAR ID	2003-019A
Mass	510 kg (dry 380 kg)
AMICA, LIDAR, NIRS, XRS

Wikipedia

Wikipedia (

ⁱ/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or

ⁱ/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.3 million in the English Wikipedia, are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone having access to the site.^[4] It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa, and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide.^[5]^[10]
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.^[11] Sanger coined the name Wikipedia,^[12] which is a portmanteau of wiki (a type of collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick")^[13] and encyclopedia.
Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia-building and the presence of a large body of unacademic content have received extensive attention in print media. In 2006, Time magazine recognized Wikipedia's participation in the rapid growth of online collaboration and interaction by millions of people around the world, in addition to YouTube, Reddit, MySpace, and Facebook.^[14] Wikipedia has also been praised as a news source due to the rapid update of articles related to breaking news.^[15]^[16]^[17]
The open nature of Wikipedia has led to concerns about the quality of writing,^[18]^[19] the amount of vandalism,^[20]^[21] and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information,^[22] though a 2005 investigation in Nature showed that the science articles they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopædia Britannica.^[23]

The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from several writing systems
Screenshot [show]
Web address	Wikipedia.org
Slogan	The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Registration	Optional, but is required for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages in English Wikipedia and uploading files
Available language(s)	276 active editions (286 in total)
Users	Over 71,000 active editors^[1]
Content license	CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0 Most text also dual-licensed under GFDL, media licensing varies.
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger^[2]
Launched	January 15, 2001 (12 years ago)
Alexa rank	6 (October 2013)^[3]
Current status	Active

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Youtube

Youtube

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to reopen social media website YouTube in Pakistan, the incumbent government has devised a mechanism to filter or permanently remove the objectionable material from the tube and to some extent from the internet too, sources said on Wednesday.
Following the advice of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has devised a mechanism to permanently block, remove or to filter the intolerable material from the YouTube, Internet, computer and even from cell phones. And, a decision to this effect would be taken by the Inter-provincial Committee, which is likely to be summoned during the next week, the sources said, adding that filtration would took place with the help of the filters of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL).
Sources quoting mechanism of filtration of the unbearable material said that PTA would be responsible to filter the unpleasant material from the Internet in future. Under the filtration process around 4000 URLs would be removed with the filters of PTCL. In 2012, a desperate government to quell simmering protests appeared after the release of anti-Islam amateur film, “Innocence of Muslims”, had blocked YouTube in Pakistan.
The then Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf issued directives to the information technology ministry to immediately block YouTube across Pakistan. In addition, former Interior Minister Rehman Malik weighed in with another threat to Google Inc, the company that owns YouTube: remove the anti-Islam material, or visas of Google officials would be cancelled. He also said he will approach Interpol for the arrest of those involved in the film.
Besides, the Supreme Court had earlier directed the PTA to block 934 links to the movie on YouTube and the Internet. It also ordered the PTA to prevent similar material from being displayed on such websites in the future.

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos.^[4] The company is based in San Bruno, California, and usesAdobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.^[5]Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users at least 18 years old. YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion in November 2006 and now operates as a Google subsidiary.^[6]


Screenshot of YouTube's homepage
Type	Subsidiary of Google, limited liability company
Foundation date	February 14, 2005
Headquarters	901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
Key people	Salar Kamangar (CEO) Chad Hurley (Advisor)
Industry	Internet
Parent	Independent (2005–2006) Google (2006–present)
Slogan(s)	Broadcast Yourself (2005–2012)
Website	YouTube.com (see list of localized domain names)
Written in	Python^[1]
Alexa rank	3 (October 2013)^[2]
Type of site	Video hosting service
Advertising	Google AdSense
Registration	Optional (Only required for certain tasks such as uploading videos, viewing flagged videos, viewing flagged comments, liking videos, adding videos to playlists and commenting on videos)
Available in	54 language versions available through user interface^[3]
Launched	February 14, 2005
Current status	Active

Facebook

Facebook

FACE BOOK

Facebook has agreed to purchase Onavo, a Zionist data compression developer for mobile applications, Facebook confirmed Monday.

Both companies have not disclosed the sum of the deal. However, according to financial daily the Calcalist the purchase cost more than 100 million U.S. dollars.

Under the agreement, Onavo's office would remain in Tel Aviv, a move which will give the Zionist entity its first Facebook research and development center.

Founded in 2010, Onavo develops data compression technologies and mobile analytic utilities applications. It uses data from millions of users in order to rate the popularity of other applications.

Onavo is based in Palo Alto, California and employs 40 workers, 30 of whom work in the occupied territories of Palestine. So far it raised 13 million dollars from Sequoia Capital, Magma Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures and Motorola Mobility Ventures.

This is the third large acquisition by the world's largest social network company in the Zionist entity. In 2012 it purchased Face.com, a face recognition company, for 100 million dollars, and in 2011 it purchased Sanptu, a mobile application developer, for 70 million dollars.

Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some American university administrations to help students get to know one another.^[7]Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.^[8] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to students of the University of Harvard, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high school students, and eventually to anyone ages 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.^[9]

Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users,^[10]of which 8.7% are fake.^[11] According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.^[12] Facebook (as of 2012) has about 180 petabytes of data a year and grows by over half a petabyte every 24 hours.^[13]


Screenshot of Facebook main page on August 1 2013
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: FB
Foundation date	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.(February 4, 2004)
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Area served	United States (2004–05) Worldwide (2005–present)
Founder(s)	Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes
Key people	Mark Zuckerberg (Chairman and CEO) Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
Industry	Internet
Revenue	$5.1 billion (2012)^[1]
Operating income	US$ 538 million (2012)^[2]
Net income	US$ 53 million (2012)^[2]
Total assets	US$ 15.10 billion (2012)^[2]
Total equity	US$ 11.75 billion (2012)^[2]
Employees	5,299 (June, 2013)^[3]
Subsidiaries	Instagram
Website	facebook.com
Written in	C++ and PHP^[4]
Alexa rank	2 (October 2013)^[5]
Type of site	Social networking service
Registration	Required
Users	1.15 billion (active March 2013)^[6]
Available in	Multilingual (70)
Launched	February 4, 2004
Current status	A