Biggest Lies in History

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington. Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects. In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered. Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

How Valentine's Day Works

Esther Howland, the woman who produced the first commercial American valentines in the 1840s, sold a then mind-boggling $5,000 in cards during her first year of business. The valentine industry in the United States has been booming ever since. Today, over 1 billion valentine cards are sent in this country each year -- second in number only to Christmas cards, according to the Greeting Card Association. (The happy day is also celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia.) Around 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. In addition to cards, there are millions of boxes of chocolates and bouquets of roses purchased (mostly by men) for the February 14 holiday. When did the Valentine's Day frenzy begin? Scholars tell slightly different versions of the history of this popular holiday. In this article, we'll look at that history, with its Roman and Christian roots, as well as holiday traditions that have developed over the years. We'll also check out some old valentines and some new ones. Launch Video Discovery News: The Skinny on Smooching

History of Electronics

The early history of electronics is closely tied to experimentation with the Crookes tube, a type of vacuum tube developed by Sir William Crookes, an English physicist and chemist. While performing experiments with a Crookes tube, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, a German physicist, discovered X rays in 1895. In 1897, Ferdinand Braun, another Germany physicist modified the Crookes tube to make the first oscilloscope, an instrument that produces a visual image of an electric signal. Interest in improving the reception of radio waves led to the invention of the vacuum-tube diode in 1904 by Sir John Fleming, an English electrical engineer, and to the invention of the vacuum-tube triode in 1907 by Lee De Forest, a United States inventor. The invention of the triode was a key event in the history of electronics, since it was the first electronic amplifier. During World War I there was an increased interest in developing radio and electronics, and by 1920 the development of vacuum tubes and circuits employing them had advanced to the point where their superiority over all other devices used in radio transmitters and receivers was apparent. Regular commercial radio broadcasting in the United States began in 1920, and the demand for household receivers soon made electronics an important industry. Certain technical limitations in the operation of electron tubes were overcome with the development of the pentode in 1929. The advances being made at this time helped lead to the development of television; the first regular television broadcasting began in 1936, in London. During World War II, emphasis was placed on the development of electronics for military use. Radar was greatly improved and in 1944 the first large electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was built. The main purpose of the computer was to speed up the calculation of tables of data for aiming artillery. The electronics industry emerged from the war as a major industry. Its growth following the war continued as television manufacturing entered a boom period and military programs demanded more advanced electronic technology. In 1948 William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter H. Brattain of Bell Telephone Laboratories developed the first transistor, a forerunner of the bipolar junction transistor. During the early 1950's the technology was developed to mass-produce transistors. The advantage of semiconductor devices over electron tubes created a demand for techniques to further reduce the amount of space required for electronic components. An important step toward miniaturizing electronic components was the introduction of the integrated circuit in the early 1960's. The techniques necessary to fabricate such circuits were pioneered by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments in 1959. During the 1970's and 1980's the size of the components of integrated circuits continued to be reduced and the number of components that could be produced on each chip grew rapidly. With increasing miniaturization, the capabilities of the electronic circuits and the speed at which they could perform their functions greatly increased. Each advance helped reduce the cost of producing electronic products. Through the 1980's and into the 1990's, the variety of products being built with electronic components increased, and the use of electronic control devices led to greater automation. Microelectronics led to the development of new technologies, such as digital audio recording; to the introduction of new products, such as personal computers; and to the reduction in the size of portable telephones and many other electronic products.

Basic Electronic Components

Some basic components of electronic circuits are active components; they can increase the power of an electrical signal because they are powered by a source of electricity separate from the electrical signal. Transistors and oscillators are examples of active components. Other components are passive components; they help give a circuit its electrical characteristics, but do not require a separate source of electric power for their operation. Passive components include resistors, inductors, and capacitors. Resistors are important in controlling the voltage in different parts of a circuit. Capacitors temporarily store electric charge and help oppose voltage changes in a circuit. Inductors store energy in magnetic fields and help oppose changes of current. Active components in turn are divided into two fundamental groups: (1) semiconductor, or solid-state, devices; and (2) electron tubes. The operation of semiconductor devices depends on the behavior of electrons in a semiconductor, a material whose ability to conduct electricity is between that of a conductor and that of an insulator. Most electronic devices in use today are semiconductor devices. The operation of electron tubes depends on the behavior of electrons moving through a vacuum or gas inside a closed container. The most common semiconducting material used in electronics is silicon to which small amounts of certain other chemical elements have been added. The addition of these elements, a process called doping, improves the degree to which a semiconductor's ability to conduct electricity can be controlled. Doping is used to produce either of two types of semiconductors: n-type or p-type semiconductors. An n-type semiconductor contains a large number of electrons that are free to move through it. A p-type semiconductor contains a large number of holes, sites into which an electron can move. When an electron from a nearby atom moves into a hole, it leaves a hole at its former position; this action is the same as if the hole moved from one point to another. (When a free electron moves into a hole, the electron ceases to be free and the hole ceases to exist.) Both free electrons and holes are charge carriers—that is, under the influence of a voltage, they give rise to a flow of electric charge. The operation of most semiconductor devices depends on the electrical properties of a pn junction, the boundary between an n-type semiconductor and a p-type semiconductor. The electrical properties of a pn junction are discussed later in this section under the subtitle Semiconductor Diodes. Various kinds of protective cases are used to house semiconductor devices. These cases are made of metal, plastic, or a ceramic material. Wires or pins that project from the case provide electrical connections to other parts of an electric circuit. An electron tube is essentially a sealed hollow enclosure in which the movement of electrons can be carefully controlled. The enclosure is typically made of glass and contains various metal parts called electrodes for producing and regulating a beam of electrons. An electron tube from which all gases have been removed is called a vacuum tube. In most types of vacuum tubes, one of the electrodes must be heated to emit electrons. (This emission is called thermionic emission.) The most important types of vacuum tubes are the cathode-ray tube and the X-ray tube. Such vacuum tubes as the triode, the pentode, and the vacuum-tube diode were once important, but they have been almost entirely replaced by comparable semiconductor devices that are smaller and more durable. In addition, vacuum tubes consume much more electric energy than semiconductor devices because they require electrical heating for thermionic emission. In some electron tubes, the enclosure is filled with a gas such as mercury vapor or neon. Such gas tubes are important sources of light. They include fluorescent lamps, neon lamps, and electronic flashtubes.

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Start 8 One of the things about not having a Start button on the desktop that is so frustrating to many early adopters is that the very first public test release of Windows 8 actually had one! It still re-directed you to the Start Screen that we see today, but the button was there for anyone who wanted to use it. Start 8 took that one step further, and implemented an experience that gently blends the Windows 8 Start Screen and the UI that every Windows user is already familiar with. Apps, using the same icons that are generated in the Start Screen, populate the Start 8 menu. Everything about the UI meshes very well with the rest of the Desktop UI, right down to the use of flat colors and simple animation. It also offers all of the same functionality that was available on the Start menu in Windows 7, including the Control Panel and shut down functions. In my opinion, Start 8 is what traditional Windows PC users would expect from the next version of Windows. Start 8 has a free 30 day trial, but is available for $4.99 on the Stardock website. ViStart When Windows Vista came pre-loaded on PC’s, there were several companies that offered the ability to downgrade back to XP almost as an apology for including the OS on their products. ViStart looks and feels almost exactly like that for Windows 8, only it’s designed to work as far back as XP. Everything about the UI looks like the classic style Aero Glass experience out of the box, with open theme tools available so third parties can release custom UI’s for the program. If you were to install ViStart on a Windows 8 system before handing it to them, the user would have a difficult time telling you that they were using Windows 8. Unfortunately, even on a high end system, there were points in which ViStart lagged out or crashed altogether. At one point, a complete reboot was required in order to restore ViStart to a functional state. ViStart is completely free, but the quality is not great. To make matters worse, their installer includes a lot of pre-selected options to install unrelated third party software that many users would likely glaze over during installation. Pokki If you’re going to re-invent the wheel and bring back the Start menu, you might as well do it with some style and make sure yours stands out, right? Pokki is more than an unusual name, it’s a completely fresh take on a Start Menu. Pokki’s UI creates a self contained user experience that allows you to be as simple or as complex as you like. Your Start Menu can be just an application launcher, it or can be the launchpad for your twitter feed, the portal for your email, and a quick launch dock for your favorite apps. Pokki takes the Desktop experience and adds notifications, just like you would expect in your mobile experience. As a Start button replacement it is a cool animated tool, but it is also designed to work well with touch. It takes all of the features of Windows 8 and bundles them up in a tool that is much easier for someone who has never seen Windows 8 to understand. Of course, if you’re just looking for a Start replacement, Pokki serves as a quick and pleasant to use menu that grants access to shut down as well as file management and Control Panel. I would have expected to pay for Pokki, and was surprised to see that it was not only free, but requires the least effort to install and use out of the batch of Start replacements that were tested. These options should be more than enough to quench your thirst for a Start menu in Windows 8. And, don’t forget, some PC vendors are including Start menu-like tools with their Windows 8 systems in an effort to differentiate their offerings and satisfy users who miss the operating system’s most prominent feature.

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Easily the most dramatic change made to the latest version of Windows was the decision to remove the Start button from the bottom left corner of the operating system’s Desktop view. While the change makes a lot more sense on a touch screen device, the choice to just flat out remove a staple of the OS has caused some coping issues with long time Windows users. . If you’re using a mouse and keyboard, and are somehow unfamiliar with the Windows key on your keyboard, reaching the Start screen from the Desktop is a two step process. And then when you get to the new Metro-ified Start screen, it might not be what you want — those live tiles are great for new and social, but those aren’t always what you are looking for. Fortunately, there are no shortage of software developers that have stepped up to the task of rescuing the Start button and it’s menu options from the depths of Windows 8. Power 8 Because the Start Menu itself has changed quite a bit over the years, there’s a lot of flexibility to be had when developing a replacement for it. Power 8 is specifically designed for Windows 8, making sure to offer the Start button with tools and features that play well with the rest of the new OS. The first thing you see when you open Power 8 is a list of programs, with the ability to pin them quickly to your taskbar. Over time, you would probably be less likely to use the Power 8 button for everything, since your applications would all be pinned to the taskbar for rapid access. There’s also a file manager UI baked into Power 8 that does a good job of letting you quickly navigate your file system without having to double click through a bunch of folders to get what you want. This would appeal to anyone who stores a lot of content locally and wanted a fast way of accessing things that were buried deep within other folders. Power 8 also includes one click access to things like the shutdown, hibernate, and lock screen functions, which aren’t quite so accessible in the stock configuration of Windows 8 with a mouse and keyboard. Power 8 is available for free, with the source code available to anyone who contributes to the project. Start Menu 8 If we were handing out awards for the neatest looking Start button icon replacement, Start Menu 8 would win it. The software is designed to be as flexible as you need when setting up your own personalized start menu. You could almost use Start Menu 8 as a complete fullscreen replacement for the desktop, though that is certainly not the intended purpose. Start Menu 8 includes a somewhat unique feature, in that it allows the computer to boot straight to the desktop to give the whole experience a feel that is much more like “traditional” Windows experiences. The design is such that you should never feel the need to use the Windows 8 Start screen at all. Your programs, settings, and folder system are all accessible here, as well as all the Control Panel features and screen controls. Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from using the Windows 8 Start screen and switching between the two experiences is pretty simple. Pressing the Windows key on the keyboard will still return you to the new Windows 8 Start, which neatly allows yout o contain both experiences. Start Menu 8 is available for free, but there are no shortage of hooks in the program to try and get you to upgrade to the pro version. Classic Shell Some users have been unhappy with the Start Menu for a lot longer than others. The team at Classic Shell have been implementing their own version of the Start Menu since Windows Vista. With that much time comes a lot more in the way of enhanced features and stability when faced with unique situations. It’s also translated in 35 different languages and offers a wealth of documentation for using the advanced features. Everything about the UI for Classic Shell can be modified. The default UI reminds me of early Windows XP, even Windows 2000 in some areas. Every part can be skinned, themed, and altered to look however you like. The settings for this start menu are incredibly granular and even allows for control over the animations as you move from menu to menu. For Windows 8, you can do away with the Modern UI entirely with Classic Shell and come about as close as possible to completely reverting to a Windows 7 or earlier workflow. Of course, if you still wanted to take advantage of things like Windows Store and the apps that go along with it, Classic Shell makes that easy. Classic Shell is free, and from what I can tell by browsing their website, very well supported by the community should you encounter any problems.