Monthly Archives: February 2005

Simply Bill Gates!!

Less Known Facts – about Bill Gates

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won’t even bother to pick it up bcoz during the 4 seconds he picks it, he would’ve already earned it back.

3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion dollars, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$ 5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7. If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.

But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he goes to heaven.

Last but not the least : The Best One !!

9.If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupted in 3 years!!!!!!!!

Note: This came to me as a forwarded message and thus I am not responsible if any of the facts are wrong. But definitely the last fact should not be wrong!!

My own little browser

After MSIE,Netscape,Firefox,Opera I launch my browser.Of course the thing is not that advance but looks sweet.The name of the browser is D- browser i.e Doortouniverse_Browser.Takes seconds to download and install.The downloaded file is a zipped one which needs to be unzipped first using any uncompressing software.I have inserted a feature for resizing so that people can navigate the websites comfortably according to their screen resolutions.You can also visit the website Doortouniverse and click the blue link named as D-BROWSER to download it.

People can download it here
D-Browser

HUH?

HP CEO Carly Fiorina steps down
Source: IANS.

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New York, Feb 9: Carleton S. Fiorina has stepped down as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard company, it was announced officially.

Better known as Carly Fiorina one of America’s most high profile woman executives, however, suggested she had been fired.

“While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP’s strategy, I respect their decision. HP is a great company and I wish all the people of HP much success in the future,” Fiorina was quoted as saying by HP’s website.

“The board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company today (Tuesday) announced that Carleton S. Fiorina has stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Robert P. Wayman, HP’s chief financial officer, has been named chief executive officer on an interim basis and appointed to the board of directors. Patricia C. Dunn, an HP director since 1998, has been named non-executive chairman of the board, also effective immediately,” the company said.

“Carly Fiorina came to HP to revitalise and reinvigorate the company. She had a strategic vision and put in place a plan that has given HP the capabilities to compete and win. We thank Carly for her significant leadership over the past six years as we look forward to accelerating execution of the company’s strategy,” Dunn said on behalf of the board.

Fiorina had frequently run into differences with the company board, especially HP’s acrimonious takeover in 2002 of Compaq Computer Corporation. The board had strongly objected to the takeover but Fiorina went ahead nevertheless.

Google India Code Jam 2005

Google’s looking out for employees for its R&D center at Bangalore and is organising a programming competition all over South East Asia to find the best people. The first prize is Rs.3 lakhs. Although people 18 years or older are eligible to recieve the prize, age is not a limitation for registration, which is free. Programs can be coded in C++ or Java. Since the gcc compiler is being used, I recommend people familiar only with the Borland Turbo C++ compiler we use to go through this page to get familiar with the slight differences. I would suggest all programmers who know C++ to register, especially the ones in 11. You should go and try out the practice problems before the competition, the qualifications rounds of which will be conducted online on 27th Feb.