FIFA 2010 Group Stages

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Windows XP - Hidden Brian Eno Ambient Mix on Windows Xp

There is a hidden music track inside Windows XP that is very hard to find but worth it. It is really relaxing ambient music to be on your computer to, here are the steps...1. Click start and right click "My Computer" and click "Explore"2. Click Tools on the top of the window and click "folder options"3. In folder options click "view"4. In the advanced settings box, scroll down and check and uncheck the following... Click "Show Hidden Files and Folders" under the hidden files and folders box. Uncheckmark "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" (you'll get a warning that files required to run the system will be displayed so as soon as you view the egg id suggest you go back and undo the changes)5. Now, go to start, right click "My computer" and click "Explore", now, click Local Disc C then click WINDOWS 6. Click "system32"7. Click the folder "oobe"8. Click "images"9. Now for the coup de gras! In "images" click "title" and prepare to hear the awesome music! (It should open in Windows Media Player)

Ribbons Vista

This one is pretty cool
Go to start menu, then all programmes, then accessories, then command prompt.
When the screen comes up type in "ribbons.scr /p65552" (without the quotes) you should also try these ones too.
"aurora.scr /p65552" (without the quotes)
"bubbles.scr /p65552" (without the quotes)
to close these screens you will then require to open the task manager (Ctrl, Alt and delete keys at the same time and close the programs in end task.)
These are all I could find for now but when I find more I will add them.

Free cell

Wanna win a Free cell game instantly?? Start a new game and Hold down Ctrl + Shift + F10 during game play. Then you will be asked if you want to Abort, Retry or Ignore. Select Abort, and then move any card to win the game.

Assasin's creed

COMPLETION BONUSES:
Successfully complete the game. When the Memory Blocks are played again in Story mode you can kill anyone without penalties. Additionally, you will be able to use Eagle Vision at any time regardless of Synchronization levels inside of the Animus.

DEFEATING THE MASTER:
When fighting the Master he will take away your ability to use radar and make it difficult to see. This also allows him to hit you once and kill you. Lock on to him and use a throwing knife against him. This will take away his power to blind you and make him easier to kill.

The first part is simple. Take your sword out, as you will be fighting all your previous assassination targets. They are fairly easy to kill. Only one counter is required to kill each of them. For the second part, as soon as Al Mualim releases you, use your Eagle Vision. The real Al Mualim is the one in yellow. Focus your attacks on him. In the third part, Al Mualim takes away your synchronization bar and radar, allowing him to kill you in one hit. Take out your throwing knives. Look for the Piece of Eden in his hand. Once you see him, throw a knife at him. Thenm just counterattack/grab break him. Keep repeating this until he says, "Damn you Altair!" Finish him off with your hidden blade, or keep attacking him with your sword until he is dead.

Quotes-John Prebble

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

List of Mechanical engineers

B
Joseph Cyril Bamford - Founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant, and especially backhoes
Keith Black - American high performance automobile engineer.


C
André Citroën - automobile


D
Rudolf Diesel - inventor of the diesel engine
Keith Duckworth - designer of the Cosworth DFV


E
John Ericsson - Inventor of Ship Propeller[1]


F
Harry Ferguson -Three-point_hitch
Henry Ford - automobile
Yuan-Cheng Fung - biomechanics


G
Emile Gagnan - underwater apparatus
Henry Laurence Gantt - Gantt chart
John Josiah Guest - iron production


H
James Harrison - pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration
Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison
Hero of Alexandria - ancient
August Horch - automobile


I


J
Matthew Jacobs - Toolmaker and machinery maker.
Taylor Jones-Pioneer in recent engineering technologies


K
Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion
Anil Kumble - Indian cricketer


L
Frederick Lanchester - automobile and aviation
Leonardo Da Vinci


M
Ma Jun - 3rd century China, invented the South Pointing Chariot, mechanical puppet theaters, chain pumps, improved silk looms, etc.
Elijah McCoy
Andrew Meikle - threshing machine and windmill sails
James Morgan - Applied Materials CEO
Thomas Midgley, Jr. - He developed tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)


N
Bill Nye - (The Science Guy)


P
Charles Algernon Parsons - steam turbine inventor
Ferdinand Porsche - automobile and German tank designs


R
William John Macquorn Rankine - fatigue and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam engine theory.
Richard Roberts - machine tool and machinery maker.
Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint
Osbourne Reynolds - prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics


S
Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter
Javagal Srinath - former Indian cricketer and ICC match referee
George Stephenson - Railway Engineer and Founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Robert Stephenson - Railway Engineer
Su Song - 11th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism (see Yi Xing below) and chain drive to operate his astronomical clock tower
John H. Sununu - Presidential Chief of Staff
Dr. Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics


T
Dr. Andy Thomas - Australian Astronaut
Nikola Tesla - Serbian Physicist, Electrical and Mechanical Engineer


U


V
Boris Vian - writer


W
James Watt - Scottish inventor of the Watt steam engine that fundamentally changed the Industrial Revolution and considered by many in the discipline as the father of modern mechanical engineering.
Samuel T. Wellman - various inventions used in the steel industry
Eli Whitney - cotton gin
Joseph Whitworth - mechanical
Ludwig Wittgenstein - aerospace engineer turned philosopher
Nathaniel C. Wyeth - inventor, chemical engineer
Felix Wankel - Inventor of the Wankel Rotary Engine


X


Y

Yi Xing - 8th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism in operating a water-powered armillary sphere


Z

Zhang Heng - 1st century-2nd century China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere, and the first seismometer device to detect the direction of earthquakes

Quotes About Engineers

“A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was.”

“The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history”

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible

There are three possible roads to ruin - women, gambling and technology. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technology

-Georges Pompidou
Sunday Telegraph 1968.

Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

-Marcel Pagnol
Critiques des Critiques

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." —Confucius

"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." —Charles Darwin

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." —Charles Darwin

"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering—that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good." —L. Sprague DeCamp (1963)

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." —Thomas Edison

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." —Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" —Albert Einstein

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity." —Albert Einstein

Four Engineers and a Broken Car

There are four engineers travelling in a car; a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer and a computer engineer. The car breaks down. "Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We'll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again", says the mechanical engineer. "Well", says the chemical engineer, "it sounded to me as if the fuel might be contaminated. I think we should clear out the fuel system." "I thought it might be an grounding problem", says the electrical engineer, "or maybe a faulty plug lead." They all turn to the computer engineer who has said nothing and say: "Well, what do you think?" "Ummm - perhaps if we all get out of the car and get back in again?"

Why Engineers Don't Write Recipe Books

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
532.35 cm3 gluten
4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
4.9 cm3 refined halite
236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)


To a 2 litre jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/&degF-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2 litre reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous.
To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460&degK oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown.

How to trade Forex

STEP 1:

The step 1 defines certain concepts and terms of Forex Trading-

Quotes are a vital part of the foreign exchange trading, as Forex trading is done in terms of quotes. Therefore, comprehending these quotes is the first important step.

Firstly, in a Forex quote, the currency listed first is known as the Base currency. For example, we have EUR/USD. Here, EUR is the Base currency.
Secondly, the base currency has always the value 1. In other words, the rate of other currency is calculated against 1 pt of the Base currency. For example, we have EUR/USD where EUR is the Base currency. Then 1 EUR = 1.2323 USD or the value of one currency against the other in the pair.
Thirdly, when dealing in terms of quotes, prices are expressed in terms of Pips. Pips can be defined as “percentage in points” and are mostly the fourth decimal point i.e. 1/100th of 1%.

Also used while trading through quotes, are two significant terms known as Bid and Ask. These two terms are responsible for making trading quote, a two-sided quote.
Bid can be defined as ''The price at which the base currency is sold concurrently buying the counter currency. Ask can be defined as “The price at which the base currency can be bought concurrently selling the counter currency''

STEP 2:

Step 2 illustrates the other key features of Forex trading which are namely, the leverage and the Margin. These two are immensely important in attracting the interest of the traders as they enhance the trading power of the investors.

The leverage is the ratio of the deposited amount to the amount that can be traded. Leverage enables the investors to deposit a small amount of money but still trade for a much larger amount. This way, investors can trade easily, utilizing less money to deal.

Margin, therefore, is the minimum amount required to be deposited before an investor starts trading. This can also be known as the initial amount with which the Forex trading account can be opened.

A detailed Example below illustrates exactly how Forex trading is done-
Supposing the current bid/ask price for EUR/USD is going by the rate of 1.5027/30, giving you the option to buy 1 euro with 1.5030 US dollars or sell 1 Euro for 1.5027 US dollars. Now, if you feel that the Euro is underrated against the US dollar, you would opt on buying Euros, selling your dollars at the same time. So you buy 100,000 euros by paying 150,300 dollars. You can then start analyzing the market, waiting for the exchange rates to rise.
As predicted, the rates begin to rise and then you decide a favorable rate at which you plan to sell your Euros to get a hefty profit. Supposing the Euro rises to 1.5090/93. Now, to realize your profits, you sell 100,000 euros at the current rate of 1.5090, and receive $150,900.
You bought 100k Euros at 1.5030, paying $150,300. You sold 100k Euros at 1.5090, receiving $150900. That's a difference of $600 or in other words, you successfully earned a profit of $600.
Return on Investment = $600

Always learn a lesson from the Forex Indicators, keep a watch, think long term and then take a step.

STEP 3:

MarketForex does e-trading using high end MarketForex softwares. Easily accessible and user friendly, they have a simple operating process. For instance, the currency pair to be bought or sold can simply be dealt with, by clicking on the sell or the buy key, placed in front of that currency.
After the deal to be done is selected, a quote is then displayed by the software, making it easier for the user to keep track of the records. Also, MarketForex software provides some attractive powerful features such as account details of the holder, like balance, leverage and margins, along with stop/limit orders.
The trader also has the option of selecting various other currency pairs for trading purposes. Before investing always analyse the forex market with various types of forex analysis.

What is Forex?

The largest financial market in the world, Foreign Exchange market, Forex or FX market, all the terms are used to describe the business of trading of the world's various currencies, with more than $2 trillion changing hands every day. Being an international foreign exchange market, Forex is a market where money is sold and bought freely. FOREX was launched in the 1970s, to become the biggest liquid financial market today, dealing in more than hundred times the daily trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

FOREX is a perfect market to invest in, as it is free from any external control and free competition. Mostly, all Forex trading are tentative and unlike the stock market trading, the Forex market is not conducted by a central exchange, but on the “interbank” market, which is thought of as an OTC (over the counter) market. The trading takes place between the two dealers, either over the telephone or through Internet, all over the world. The major trading centers are the ones at Sydney, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and New York, making Forex a 24-hour market.

Forex Trading requires the employing fundamental as well as technical analyses. These analysis help a trader to foresee and determine the development in the price trends of currencies, based on which, he attempts to predict market changes and make profits. Fundamental analysis can be said to use techniques to analyze the value of a state’s currency with the help of its economic indicators, quality markets and political events and associations. Political stability also influences the exchange rate at Forex. Its not just that Forex Trading is intutive, rather its technical

While Technical analysis engages the study of patterns of price trends and movements, making it easier for the trader to predict the path of the future developments in the Forex market. The primary data for a technical analysis are values, be it the highest or the lowest values, the price of opening and closing in a definite period of time, and the amount of transactions taking place. Any factor, be it economic, political or psychological, having little or some influence on the value or the price, has already been measured by the market to be included in the price. We offer some very useful Tips for New Forex Traders.

Forex Market

For the last three decades Foreign Exchange market, - briefly Forex or FX, had integrated into the world's biggest financial market. The volume of daily transactions is about 1-3 trillion of US dollars. The trading instruments on this market are the currencies of different countries, so the fluctuation of currency's rates allows to gain a real profit.

Of course monetary assets of different countries exchanged since the term money appeared as well as an idea to obtain profit from currency's rates difference. Now it is not a new idea, but the transformation of foreign exchange market to the modern stage with an opportunity to conduct conversional operations of such volumes arose only after an introduction of floating rates regime by the state-members of IMF. Within this regime's framework the rate of one currency to another is defining only by the supply and demand on the market.

Presently Forex market is a global telecommunication network of banks and different financial organizations. It does not have any fixed trading place and time restrictions - the trade starts on Monday morning in New Zealand and closes on Friday evening in USA

The advantages of Forex market are:

Round-the-clock trading access: the ability to trade for 24 hours a day;

Liquidity: the market works with a huge money and gives the customers complete freedom to open or close their position of different volume;

Leverage: an ability to use leverage. It decreases requirements to the sum of the initial deposit (margin trade). So in case you deposit 10 000 USD into your account you'd have an opportunity to work with 1 000 000 USD (leverage 1:100);

Objectivity: no exterior regulated structures, so the currency's rate is establishing in accordance with current supply and demand on the market;

Globality: everyone can become a market participant irrespective to the living place, as trading requires only your skills and Internet access.

At present mostly all the operations on the market are conducting only to obtain profit. With the development of Internet and other means of communication this sector of the financial markets becomes more accessible and attractive for the investors of different levels.

Forex Market offers Opportunity and Information

The forex market is what is called an international exchange currency market, where currencies are exchanged on a daily basis. There are five forex market centers around the world ' New York, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Zurich. One does not need to be on the trading floor, so to speak to be involved in the forex market. Today, forex trading can be done from home on a computer.

The forex market itself is basically a worldwide connection of traders, who make investment moves based on the price of currencies, or their values relative to other currencies. These traders constantly negotiate prices with other traders resulting in the fluctuation or movement of a currency's value. The value of a currency on the forex market also corresponds with supply. If there is greater demand for the Euro, let's say, then there will be less supply of it on the forex market, which means, in time, it will make a Euro more valuable compared to let's say the dollar. In short, in this forex market situation, one Euro would yield more dollars, subsequently weakening the dollar as well. Analyzing the forex market's fluctuations allows investors to make predictions on how a currency will move in relation to another currency. They then can make predictions and buy and sell currency accordingly.

While some people view the forex market as a place to see what their exchange rate will be when they travel abroad, others view it as an opportunity to make great gains in their financial planning and future.

Forex Money Making

How to make money from forex is a good question !

"Foreign Exchange Market or" Forex "or" FX "is the largest financial market in the world with a daily circulation of more than a $ trillion Foreign Exchange Market is a complex interchange, which trades large sums of money, by actors in the market at a rate set at a certain date, in a certain time, in order to change (conversion) of currencies against each other.

Market was formed in the '70s, when international trade switched from the system fixed courses at floating rates system.


Forex does not have a physical location or a hub and other financial market but operate with banks, corporations and individuals all over the globe 24 hours of 24, except on weekends.

General keyboard Shortcuts

Press To
1)CTRL+C - - - - > Copy.

2)CTRL+X - - - - > Cut.

3)CTRL+V - - - - > Paste.

4)CTRL+Z - - - - > Undo.

5)DELETE - - - - > Delete.

6)SHIFT+DELETE - - - - > Delete selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin.

7)CTRL - - - - > while dragging an item Copy selected item.

8)CTRL+SHIFT - - - - > while dragging an item Create shortcut to selected item.

9)F2 - - - - > Rename selected item.

10)CTRL+RIGHT - - - - > ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word.

11)CTRL+LEFT - - - - > ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word.

12)CTRL+DOWN ARROW - - - - > Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph.

13)CTRL+UP ARROW - - - - > Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph.

14)CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys - - - - > Highlight a block of text.

15)SHIFT with any of the arrow keys - - - - >Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text within a document.

16)CTRL+A - - - - >Select all.

17)F3 - - - - >Search for a file or folder.

18)ALT+ENTER - - - - >View properties for the selected item.

19)ALT+F4 - - - - >Close the active item, or quit the active program.

21)ALT+SPACEBAR - - - - >Opens the shortcut menu for the active window.

22)CTRL+F4 Close the active document in programs that allow you to have multiple documents open simultaneously.

23)ALT+TAB Switch between open items.

24)ALT+ESC Cycle through items in the order they were opened.

25)F6 Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop.

26)F4 Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

27)SHIFT+F10 Display the shortcut menu for the selected item.

29)CTRL+ESC Display the Start menu.

30)ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name Display the corresponding menu.
Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu Carry out the corresponding command.

31)F10 Activate the menu bar in the active program.

32)RIGHT ARROW Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu.

33)LEFT ARROW Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu.

34)F5 Refresh the active window.

35)BACKSPACE View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

36)ESC Cancel the current task.

37)SHIFT when you insert a CD into the CD-ROM drive Prevent the CD from automatically playing.