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Ted talk: Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

About this Ted talk:

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

 

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Ted-Talk: The surprising science of motivation

I just found this really interesting ted talk from Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation.

Here the description from http://ted.com/talks to the video:

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

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Isn’t that amazing? What do you think? – Please comment.

Video: Dilbert – The Fact and The Infomercial

If you have ~ 40 minutes time free and want to have some fun, then I suggest you to watch these 2 awesome funny videos. The first one is called Dilbert: The Fact. It is from the makers of the Dilbert Slider at http://dilbert.com

 

and olso this one: Dilbert – The Infomercial

Talk by Bill Gates on the need to get to CO2 zero

If you are interested in modern technologies, climate change, nuclear power or how the feature power-solutions will look like, then you should watch this really good talk by Bill Gates:

About 2012-Supernova: Give me my 90 minutes wasted time back!!!

Warning: If you are going to watch the movie 2012-Supernove: DO NOT watch it – can cause serious Brain-damage ;-)

Another film jumping on the 2012 bandwagon. But, like a zillion other disaster movie buffs I watch them, and whether a block buster or a z grade I usually enjoy them. Until now!!!! Boy could this movie have used a rewrite, some good actors and a decent budget.

Lets start off with the tri-partisan team supposedly saving the world in a top security bunker with top of the range computers which in actual fact looked like you local warehouse with computers from the Amstrad days! We had a Chinese, kungfu, save my country at the expense of everyone else, female scientist, who, incidentally can fly the shuttle! A vodka swilling Russian scientist who looked a lot like a mad

Einstein, who also could fly the shuttle and a good old USA scientist out to save the world even if it meant throwing himself into the face of death… of course! and of course he can pilot the shuttle, all of them wearing overalls and motor bike helmets… oh, and i have seen enough of the shuttle over the years on TV to know what the inside of it looks like and trust me, I have never seen anything like what they were supposedly flying… And when they got to the space station they were the only ones on it. Where were all the other scientists while this was going on? Are we to believe that the world at large trusted 3 scientists to save us… no contact with any world leaders, or any one for that matter.

In the middle of all this we have tornado’s, lightning storms, earth quakes, even a lecherous farmer and just about anything else that could be thrown at the poor wife and daughter of the American scientist who are just trying to get to safety while their man tries to save the world.

I kept watching this hoping it would get better… BUT IT DIDN’T.

There are some movies that are so bad you have to watch them, but this doesn’t even fit in that category. It is just plain bad. I guess its the best you can do with a budget of $3.50. And with that I would want $2.00 change. Don’t waste your time with this one. SciFi channel… shame on you!!!!

Download free ebook : Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been latest buzz in the way storage and services are provided. Many IT giants like Google, Microsoft are working in development of Cloud Services. While Google has been working with Chromium OS, Microsoft has plans with Windows Azure. To make IT-Pros & Users more familiar about cloud computing MS has released a free ebook on Cloud Computing.

An industry shift towards cloud computing discuss basics of cloud computing, importance of it from business point of view, technology related & Much more. This half a MB ebook can be downloaded from here : Ebook Cloud-Computing

Merry Christmas around the World!

Afrikaans: Geseënde KersfeesAfrikander: Een Plesierige KerfeesAfrican/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-LedeatsAlbanian:Gezur KrislinjdenArabic: Milad MajidArgentine: Feliz Navidad Read the rest of this entry »

Impact On Your Bandwidth Will Be Minimal, … or not?

How often do we see these visitor-counters getting higher even faster by every new startup that crawls the web about how minimal it’s impact will be?

Every one of them claim it but when you add them all together the bot traffic is quickly exceeding the human traffic.

Who the heck - am I kidding?, on most sites the bots clearly out number the humans in pages read on a daily basis.

First we put the big search engines on top of the heap with Google, Yahoo and MSN crawling the crap out of your servers daily. Just the three of these guys can easily read as many pages as 10K visitors a day. Then Read the rest of this entry »