English Conversation Course

Wait wha..? We’ll go briefly through the history of games consoles, starting from the 70’s (good times) up until 2000’s. I’ll put some pictures this time I promise. 70’s!!! and before http://www.cordoba.com.ar/Doctasearch/servicios-para-eventos/sonido-musica-iluminacion During the 50’s and 60’s we started with the very basic games and even simpler consoles. Games like pong on the oscilloscope anyone? http://www.ipixel.com.sg/blog/tag/evolution/ This game was called “Tennis for Two” developed in 1958 which simulated simple game of tennis. It was created by William Higinbotham. This was the first ever game that used graphical display. But this was more of a game to watch. Not really a lot of people could play this. The computer was displayed in Brookhaven National Laboratory and people literally lined up just to play this for few minutes. Booooooring I know… Let’s jump to something better. Magnavox Oddyssey! It was world’s first commercial home video game conso...

What is the credit crisis? The founding fathers of the US wanted to create a “flawless” financial system that would not allow private interests to impact on fiscal policy. Nowadays we can call it worldwide financial fiasco involving the best investment advisors in the world. What they created is so amazing, so smart, but also really difficult to comprehend. Dictionary Few explanations just to make things easy from here on out: 1)        Sub-prime mortgages – basically it means giving loans to people who might have difficulty maintaining the repayment plan. These loans have higher interest rates, poor quality collateral in order to compensate for higher credit risk. 2)        Collateralized debt obligations – or CDOs, are a structured financial product that gathers cash flow-generating assets and “repackages” these assets into product that can be sold further to investors. 3)      ...

Info What can happen in 60 seconds? Below there are lists of things that happen every day every, every minute: 20.000+ new posts on Tumblr 13.000+ iPhone application downloaded 100+ questions asked on answers.com 600+ new videos on YouTube 70+ new domains registered 60+ new blogs created with 1.500+ new posts 168 million e-mails sent 694.445 new search queries 1.700+ Firefox downloads 695.000+ Facebook status updates with 79.364 new wall posts and 510.000 new comments 50+ WordPress downloads 6.660+ new pictures uploaded to flick 100+ LinkedIn accounts 320+ new twitter accounts and 98.000+ tweets 370.000+ minutes of voice calls on Skype 12.000+ new ads posted on craigslist 13.000+ hours of music steamed on Pandora 450 Windows 7 CDs sold 2.6 million CDs made and 1.820 TB od data created 232 computer get infected by malware 710 computers get sold and 555 of them with Intel CPU 81 iPads sold and 945 iPhone sold 11 Xbox sold 18 Amazon Kindle Fire sold 3...

Context         NSA, The National security Agency is one of the largest of the US intelligence organizations in terms of personnel and budget. NSA operated under DOD jurisdiction and report directly to Director of National Intelligence. Formed in 1952 as armed Forces Security Agency. With all the fuzz about NSA constantly watching, I’ll show you just the tip of the iceberg 1952 - President Truman Establishes the National Security Agency (NSA) 1973 - Supreme Court Rules Warrants Are Required for Domestic Intelligence Surveillance 1975 - Senate "Church Committee" Investigation Uncovers Illegal Domestic Spying by NSA, Recommends Reforms 1978 - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Signed Into Law, Protecting Americans from Domestic Spying 2000 - NSA's Expresses Desire to "Live on the Network" In a report about the NSA's mission for the 21st Century, the agency notes: "The volumes of routing of data make indexing and processing ...