Bluetooth in communication?

Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCS, printers, digital cameras and video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.

Bluetooth was named after a late tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark and Norway. He is known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including now Swedish Scania, where the Bluetooth technology was invented), and Norway.Bluetooth likewise was intended to unify different technologies, such as computers and mobile phones.

The Bluetooth specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Bluetooth is a standard and communications protocol primarily designed for low power consumption, with a short range (power-class-dependent: 1 meter, 10 meters, 100 meters) based on low-cost transceiver microchips in each device. Bluetooth enables these devices to communicate with each other when they are in range. The devices use a radio communications system, so they do not have to be in line of sight of each other, and can even be in other rooms, as long as the received transmission is powerful enough.

Resorts and Tourism

A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. A resort is not merely a commercial establishment operated by a single company, although in the late twentieth century this sort of facility became more common. Such a self-contained resort attempts to provide for all or most of a vacationer's wants while remaining on the premises, such as food, drink, loding , sports, entertainment and shopping. Some resorts in Nepal are Gokarna Forest Golf Resort, Godawari Village Resort in Nepal, etc.

The term "resort" sometimes is misused to identify a hotel that does not provide the other amenities required of a full resort. However, a hotel is frequently a central feature of a resort, such as the Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island, Michigan. Towns that contain resorts—or where tourism or vacationing is a major part of the local activity—are often called Resort towns.

Why is Space Tourism So Expensive?

Space tourism is becoming increasingly popular and some people hope it will become the next big attraction and maybe the ideal family vacation, sometime in the near future.

So popular, in fact, that the ticket prices are skyrocketing. This phenomenon is not so much linked to the burning desire of the world's billionaires to see the Earth from outer space, but rather to the poor exchange rates for the US dollar. For now, only the Russian Soyuz space shuttle can send people to the station, but other companies are announcing their intention to do that in a few years.

Since the dollar is losing ground to the Russian ruble, the price of a space trip has expected to increase from $25 million earlier this year to between $30 million and $40 million for trips planned in 2008 and 2009.

Motels and Hotels?

The word MOTEL (portmanteau of "motor" and "hotel" or "motorists' hotel") referred initially to a single building of connected rooms whose doors face a parking lot and/or common area or a series of small cabins with common parking. Their creation was driven by increased driving distances on the United States Highway system that allowed easy cross-country travel.

Typically, It is an 'I'- or 'L'- or 'U'-shaped structure that included rooms, an attached manager's office, a reception which usually takes up the space of one guest room and perhaps a small diner. Postwar motels sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching neon signs which employed pop culture themes that ranged from Western imagery of cowboys and and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic symbols.

The motel began in the 1920s as mom-and-pop motor courts on the outskirts of a town. They attracted the first road warriors as they crossed the United States in their new automobiles. They usually had a grouping of small cabins and their anonymity made them ideal trysting places (or the "hot trade" in industry lingo).

MOTELS differed from HOTELS in their emphasis on largely anonymous interactions between owners and occupants, their location along highways (as opposed to urban cores), and their orientation to the outside (in contrast to hotels whose doors typically face an interior hallway). Motels almost by definition included a parking lot, while older hotels were not built with automobile parking in mind.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

RHEL is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted towards the commercial market. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. All of Red Hat's official support for various versions, all of Red Hat's training and the Red Hat Certification Program center on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform are available.

New versions of RHEL are released every 18 to 24 months. When Red Hat releases a new version of RHEL, customers may upgrade to the new version at no additional charge as long as they are in possession of a current subscription (i.e. the subscription term has not yet lapsed).

Red Hat's first Enterprise offering (Red Hat Linux 6.2E) essentially consisted of a version of Red Hat Linux 6.2 with different support levels, and without separate engineering.The first version of RHEL to bear the name originally came onto the market as "Red Hat Linux Advanced Server". In 2003 Red Hat rebranded Red Hat Linux Advanced Server to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" (RHEL) AS, and added two more variants, RHEL ES and RHEL WS.

Originally, Red Hat based RHEL on Red Hat Linux, but using a much more conservative release cycle. Later versions leveraged technologies from Federo which is a community distribution and project that Red Hat sponsors. Roughly every third version of Red Hat Linux(RHL) or Fedora forms the basis for a version of RHEL.

• RHL 6.2 → RHL 6.2E
• RHL 7.2 → RHEL 2.1
• RHL 9 → RHEL 3
• FC 3 → RHEL 4
• FC 6 → RHEL 5
• Fedora 9 → RHEL 6 (projected)

Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs and media centers. Windows 3.1, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 2000 Professional , Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP are some previous versions of Microsoft Windows.

Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename "Longhorn". Its development was completed on November 8, 2006; over the following three months it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers, and retail channels. It was released worldwide to the general pubilc on January 30, 2007.

Windows Vista contains hundreds of new and reworked features; some of the most significant include an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed Windows Aero, improved searching features, new multimedia creation tools such as Windows DVD Maker, and completely redesigned networking, audio, print, and display sub-systems.Microsoft's primary stated objective with Windows Vista, however, has been to improve the state of security in the Windows operating system.

The Wonderful World of Plastic Money

Nowadays, a choice of many different types of “plastic” are available. The cards often have similar features, so it is sometimes difficult to know which card is right for you.

Here’s a listing of most types of plastic and their basic features.

Credit Card
This is the card that started it all. Essentially credit cards allow you to borrow money against a specified credit limit and you typically have a grace period during which to pay back credit card charges without paying interest. Some credit cards also allow you to withdraw cash from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), but it is important to note you are also borrowing that money (unlike when you use an ATM card).

ATM Card (Also known as a Cash Card)
Typically, this card allows you to use an ATM to withdraw money from either your savings or checking account. Since you are taking money out of your own account, you don’t pay interest on it. Some cards will also allow you to transfer funds between accounts or make deposits at selected machines. In addition, you may be able to use your ATM card to make purchases at certain stores.

Check Card (Also known as a Debit Card)
The check card allows you to make purchases at most stores, with the amount of purchase being subtracted from your checking account. Again, you don’t pay interest on the transactions because you are withdrawing money from your checking account. Often financial institutions will establish a line of credit for you so, in the event you need more money than is found in your checking account, you can dip into your line of credit. You will have to pay interest on funds withdrawn from your line of credit. Many times you can also use a check card to get cash advances at selected ATM machines.

Smart Card
This card is the newest entry into the world of plastic and is intended to reduce the amount of paper currency you have to carry. The card uses an embedded microchip to “store” cash value and each time you use it, the purchase amount is subtracted from the cash stored on the microchip. When you start running low of stored cash, you can use a relatively small number of ATMs and smart card machines to transfer money from your savings or checking account onto the smart card. Smart cards have seen limited use (mainly on college campuses and at events such as the last Olympics), but there are companies working to make these cards much more available to the general public.