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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

BRAIN & MIND

HOW THE MIND WORKS FOR THE BRAIN FOR MANY, WHILE ITS THE MIND THAT SHOULD BE INCHARGE.

Know the difference between your brain and mind. Know the difference between your emotional intelligence and your regular intelligence. Know the difference between emotional intelligence education and regular intelligence education. Learn how to put your brain to work for you and not the other way arround.

http://knol.google.com/k/sajid-khan/brain-mind/2whdi0jnjfq1x/67

American Depository Receipts

A depository receipt is a security that represents ownership in a foreign security.

They provide opportunity for investors in a country to trade or transact on their domestic stock exchanges a security whose underlying is a foreign security. They have the benefit of trading the instrument through their familiar broker in the same way they trade their country's securities.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/american-depository-receipts/2utb2lsm2k7a/175

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Licenses Google Knol and Wikipedia

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/19/0031248&from=rss


Content on Wikipedia is published under the GNU Free Documentation License -- when you click any of the "edit" links in a Wikipedia article and begin typing in new content, you're agreeing to submit your content under the terms of the GFDL. When you publish on Knol, on the other hand, your options are to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License (CC-BY-NC), or a traditional "All Rights Reserved" copyright model. Both the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution licenses are popular with content creators who want to give content altruistically "to the world" -- these licenses all allow content to be redistributed freely without modification. The main difference is in the rights that they grant to people who want to create derivative works (modifying or expanding on the original work).

The GFDL is intended as a "viral" license -- if you take a work that is published under the GFDL, and publish a derivative work created from that, your derivative work must also be published under the terms of the GFDL -- that is, also allowing other users to redistribute your work freely and create derivative works from it as well. If a site mirrors Wikipedia articles without including the terms of the GFDL, Wikipedia encourages users to send notifications to those sites pointing out that they're violating Wikipedia's copyright, and if necessary to escalate the matter to their Web hosting provider for noncompliance. You can mirror Wikipedia all you want, and even put put ads all over your mirror site, but you cannot change the terms.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licenses, on the other hand, allow users to create derivative works and publish them under almost any terms they want, including an "All rights reserved" model, provided that they give attribution to the author of the original work.

Section 5.5 of Knol's Terms of Service explicitly states that GFDL content cannot be re-published under a CC-BY license

Focus of Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineers have to focus on human efficiency and system efficiency in the design of integrated systems and they can look for a leadership role in the systems design due to their broad learning curriculum.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/focus-of-industrial-engineering/2utb2lsm2k7a/2#

A Successful Angel Investor Presentation: The Last 5 Minutes

http://knol.google.com/k/gary-whitehill-jr/a-successful-angel-investor/2jd7v2pvhdqtc/6#

by Gary Whitehill Jr.
Due Diligence Analyst/ VP of SalesNew York City, NY