George Robert Stibitz (April 20, 1904 – January 31, 1995) is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his 1930s and 1940s work on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.

Born in York, Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor’s degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his master’s degree from Union College in 1927, and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1930 from Cornell University.

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Analogy : an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others, drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; “the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain”; “the models show by analogy how matter is built up”

An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity. A process of reasoning whereby two entities that share some similarities are assumed to share many others.

It becomes really funny when students are involved. Here are a few worst analogies ever written in a high school essay : » Read more: It was like ????

Billy Bob’s pregnant sister was in a terrible car accident and went into a deep coma.

After being in the coma for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.

The doctor replies, “Ma’am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine and your brother came in and named them.”

The woman thinks to herself, “Oh no, not my brother… he’s an idiot!”

Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, “Well, what’s the girl’s name?”

“Denise,” says the doctor.

The new mother says, “Wow, that’s a beautiful name! I guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise.”
Then she asks, “What’s the boy’s name?”

“Denephew.”

One dark night in the small town of Garfield , NJ , a fire started inside the local sausage factory. In a blink the building was engulfed in flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.

When the first volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the sausage company president rushed to the fire chief and said, “All of our secret sausage recipes are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will donate $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out and delivers them to me.”

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The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, “Well, I’m off now. The man should be here soon.”

Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale.

“Good morning, Ma’am”, he said, “I’ve come to…”

“Oh, no need to explain,” Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, “I’ve been expecting you.”

“Have you really?” said the photographer. “Well, that’s good. Did you know babies are my specialty?”

“Well that’s what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat.”

After a moment she asked, blushing, “Well, where do we start?”

“Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there.”

“Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn’t work out for Harry and me!”

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The boss had to fire somebody, and he narrowed it down to one of two People, Debra or Jack.

It was an impossible decision because they were Both super workers. Rather than flip a coin, he decided he would fire the first one who used the water cooler the next morning.

Debra came in the next morning with a horrible hangover after partying all night. She went to the cooler to take an aspirin.

The boss approached her and said: “Debra, I’ve never done this before but I have to lay you or Jack off.”

“Could you jack off?” she says. “I feel like shit.”

A skinny little white guy goes into an elevator, looks up and sees this HUGE black guy standing next to him. The big guy sees the little guy staring at him looks down and says: “7 feet tall, 350 pounds, 20 inch private, 3 pound testicles, Turner Brown.”

The white man faints and falls to the floor. The big guy kneels down and brings him to, shaking him. The big guy says: “What’s wrong with
you?”

In a weak voice the little guy says, “What EXACTLY did you say to me?”

The big dude says: “I saw your curious look and figured I’d just give you the answers to the questions everyone always asks me….. I’m 7 feet tall, I weigh 350 pounds, I have a 20 inch private, my testicles weighs 3 pounds each, and my name is Turner Brown.”

The small guy says: “Turner Brown?!…Sweet Jesus, I thought you said, “Turn around”.

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally del eted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, fromWindows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.

Undelete Plus works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.

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Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust,
state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment. Feedreader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports all major RSS/ATOM formats.

Feedreader offers advanced, cutting-edge capabilities, including the most comprehensive podcasting support available today, as well as unique smartfeed technology that puts the information you need right at your fingertips.

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CreateInstall Free Edition is a freeware flexible builder of professional installations. Building installation projects are surprisingly easy with its simple user interface. The resulting installation files can be compressed into end user friendly installations.

Features include ´Licensing´, ´Uninstalls´, ´Registry Entries/Extracts´, ´INI Files´, ´Multi-Directory Deployment´, ´Shortcut and Menu Creation´.

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