Thursday, October 08, 2009

Do Indians really have talents for a Nobel Prize ?

Well, I have been asking this question myself for many years.
Do we really have talents in our mother land India ?
Now, dont try to open YouTube and pull some videos.

Lemme put it this way,
we were so proud, to be an indian, isnt it?
we have a history of 5000 years or say 10000 years in the past. (who knows for sure?)
yeah, sure who can fix the number for that qn....

but, my million rupees question is... if and when we are having the world's oldest civilization, one of the world's best and richest culture, multi-diversity, being a sub-continent and for now it would be some 100 crore population.
yeah, when all these mind blowing stuffs we have, why we as indians never contributed any great inventions to the world. like the europeans scientists and research scholars.

Do we really have brains and brainy's with us?

Are we capable of facing the world? or Are we just a kind of scavengers and modern money slaves?
Why we never even discovered anything like madam curie?
why we never proved anything like E=MC square.?
Why we never thought the way how wright brothers visioned.?

But, we have two things in common for all the 100 crore pityful humans.
1. We always complain, and we seldom change. We demand it but when it happens we provoke.
2. We enjoy if someone of us, did something great but by his/her own without others help.

I beleive i dont have to speak for the 1st point. As we all knew that very well.

When it comes to the 2nd point, its the strongest of the two.

Take for example, Abhinav Bindra. hope you still remember the name.
the name which got a gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

This guy was way over rich that he could afford for his training and travel all by himself. his gold is completely and only "HIS". its not the nations.
India as a nation did nothing except waving the hands for bindra while the flight takes off.

When he comes back with a gold. he became the true indian citizen. is it?

And the saddest part is the nobel prize winner Mr. Venkat Ramakrishnan.
Well, I appreciate this guys work.
But, do you really think that nobel prize belongs to us. To an Indian?
Are you sure it does?

I dont think so and I dont agree either.

He is an American Citizen. And it was the country America who gave all the facilities, funding and the greatest motivation for him to pursue his career.
And that brought him to nobel prize.

So, better stop rejoicing for someone who unfortunately a born indian but actually an american getting a nobel prize.

If you appreciate him for his research,. i bow down to you.
but if you feel happy that an indian prized for nobel. you better wake up.
I am not against NRI's (i myself an NRI in fact)

I just feel disappointed why when we have everything thats possible but not doing anything in the right way to achieve the right thing?

--- This is my first genuine post written completely and directly from my mind ---
--- Sorry, if it looks like a casual email style to a friend. ---
--- now, i understand the difficulty and talent of blog writing ---




Friday, September 25, 2009

Firefox Hidden Secrets

Just Type the url's written below in new tab and hit the enter, see the effect.

1. chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul
It SHOWS Dancing Firefox.

2. chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
It Opens another Firefox inside a tab in the the existing Firefox window.

3. chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
It Opens the Options dialog box inside the Firefox tab.

4. chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
It Opens the “Book Marks Manager” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

5. chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul
It Opens the History Panel in the Firefox tab.

6. chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
It Opens the “cookies window” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

7. chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
It Opens the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.

8. chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
It Opens the “About Firefox” Dialog box inside the tab.

9. chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml
It A scrolling list of names. The one’s who we must thank for creating Firefox

Saturday, August 29, 2009

விநாயகனே! வினை செய்பவனே – வேழ முகத்தோனே; வீண் வம்பனே !!!



விநாயகன், பிள்ளையார், கணபதி, கணேசன் இப்படி பல்வேறு புனைப் பெயர்களில் இருக்கிற கலவர நாயகன் தமிழகத்திற்கு எப்போது வந்தார், என்பது பெரும் விவாதமாகத்தான் இருக்கிறது.

மதவாதிகள், ஜாதிய அபிமானிகள் தங்கள் மதத்தை, ஜாதியை, கடவுளை மிகப் பழமையானவர், பழமையானவை என்று சொல்லிக் கொள்வதில் எப்போதும் பெருமை கொள்வார்கள்.

அப்படித்தான் விநாயகனை வழிபடுகிற, வழிபட பரிந்துரைக்கிற இந்து கண்ணோட்ட ஆய்வாளர்கள், தமிழறிஞர்கள், 5 நூற்றாண்டு என்றும் இல்லை அதற்கு முன்பே 2 நூற்றாண்டிலேய வந்து விட்டார் என்றும் பெருமை பட்டுக் கொள்கிறார்கள். (’கடவுள் கொண்டுவரப்பட்டவர்‘ என்பதை அவர்களே ஒத்துக் கொள்கிறார்கள்)

சைவசமயத்தின் கட்டுக்கதையான பெரியபுராணத்தை சேக்கிழர் எழுதுவதற்கு காரணமாக இருந்தது, சுந்தரரின் பாடல்தான் என்று சொல்கிறார்கள். சுந்தரருக்கு அது எப்படி தெரியும் என்றால், அவருக்கு ஒரு கல்லு பிள்ளையார் அந்தக் கதையை சொன்னதாக ‘விட்டலாச்சாரியார்‘ பாணியில் விளக்கம் சொல்லியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

ஆனால் பிள்ளையார் வட இந்தியாவில் இருந்து தமிழகத்திற்கு வந்தவர் என்பதை எல்லோரும் ஒத்துக் கொள்கிறார்கள்.

வட இந்தியாவில் ஏன் முதலில் விநாயகன் அவதரித்தார் என்பதை தெரிந்து கொண்டால் அவர் தமிழகத்திற்கு எதற்காக வந்தார் என்பதையும் புரிந்து கொள்ள முடியும்.

மகாவீரரின் சமணமும், அதன் பிறகு புத்தரின் எழுச்சியும் பார்ப்பன வேதங்களை, வேத மதத்தை அதன் ஜாதிய கண்ணோட்டத்தை பொத்தல் ஆக்கியது. ‘பிறப்பால் எவனும் உயர்ந்தவனும் இல்லை, தாழ்ந்தவனும் இல்லை‘ என்று இந்து மத அல்லது வேத மத எதிர்ப்பாக வீறு கொண்டு நின்றது பவுத்தம். புத்தருக்கு பிறகும் அவரின் சீடர்களால் இந்தியா முழுக்க இந்த அலை ஓயாது பார்ப்பனியத்திற்கு எதிராக அடித்துக் கொண்டே இருந்தது.

அதன் தாக்கத்தால்தான் தமிழகத்து திருவள்ளுவரும்,

பிறப்பொக்கும் எல்லா உயிர்க்கும் சிறப்பொவ்வா

செய்தொழில் வேற்றுமை யான்.


என்று வேத மதத்தின் மீது காறி உமிழ்ந்தார்.

பவுத்ததின் இந்த அலை, பார்ப்பனியத்தை நிலை குலைய வைத்தது. பார்ப்பனியத்தை காப்பதற்காகத்தான் பெருமாள் பத்து அவதாரங்களை எடுக்கிறார். சிவன் மனித உருவம் (பார்ப்பன) கொண்டு பக்தர்களுக்கு காட்சி தருகிறார்.

ஆனாலும் பெருமாலும், சிவனும் வீதியில் இறங்கி பக்தர்களோடு நெருக்கமாக இருக்க ஆகம விதிகள் இடம் தரவில்லை. அப்படி இடம் தருவதாக மாற்றிக் கொண்டால், பிறகு அவர்களின் மீதுள்ள ஒரு பயம் கலந்த பக்தி அற்றுப் போகும்.

அல்லது பார்ப்பனர்களின் தலையீடு இல்லாமல் நேரடியாக கடவுளை வழிபட வேண்டிய முறை உண்டாகும் என்பதால், பவுத்தத்தை எதிர் கொள்ள அதுவரை இல்லாத முறையில் ஒரு புதிய ஜனரஞ்கமான கடவுள் தேவைப்படுகிறார்.

அதன் பொருட்டு பவுத்ததிடம் இருந்து இந்து மதத்தை மீட்க, தோழமையான, யார் வேண்டுமானாலும் தொட்டு உருவாக்க, வழிபட, எங்கு வேண்டுமானாலும் வைத்து புழங்க, நிறுவ ஒரு கடவுளாக உண்டாக்கப்பட்டவர்தான் விநாயகர்.

அதனால்தான் விநாயகர் அரசமரத்தடியிலும் அமர்ந்திருக்கிறார். அரசமரம் என்பது புத்தருக்கு உரியது. அரசமரத்தின் இன்னொரு பெயர்தான் போதி மரம்.

விநாயகர் என்ன காரணத்திற்காக உண்டாக்கப்பட்டாரோ அதை அவர் சிறப்பாக நடத்தி முடித்தார்.

(சைவர்களிடமும் வைணவர்களிடமும் பேதமிருந்தாலும் அவர்களிடம் விநாயகனை வழிபடுவதில் மட்டும் ஒரு ஒற்றுமையை பார்க்க முடியும்.)

அதன் பிறகு எப்போதெல்லாம் தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட மக்கள், பின் தங்கிய மக்கள் ஜாதிய ஒடுக்குமுறையை கண்டித்து இந்து மதத்தில் இருந்து வேறு மதத்திற்கு குறிப்பாக இஸ்லாம் மதத்திற்கு மாறுகிறார்களோ அப்பொதெல்லாம் விநாயகர் அவர்களை போய் தடுத்தாட் கொள்வார்.

அதனால்தான் தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட மக்கள் குடியிருப்பு பகுதிகளில் விநாயகர் சிலை வைக்க அவர்களுக்கு அதிக முன்னுரிமை தருகிறார்கள். அதை இஸ்லாமியர்கள் வீதிகளில் ஊர்வலமாக இழுத்துச் சென்று கலவரம் செய்வதற்கு அவர்களையே பயன்படுத்துகிறார்கள்.

தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட இந்துக்களின் குடியிருப்புகளின் வழியாக செல்ல மறுக்கிற இந்துக் கடவுள்களின் ஊர்வலம், இஸ்லாமியர்களின் குடியிருப்புகள் வழிபாட்டுத் தளங்களின் வழியாக விநாயகனின் ஊர்வலம் கட்டாயம் சென்றே ஆக வேண்டும் என்று இந்துவெறியர்கள் அடம்பிடிப்பதின் உள்நோக்கம் கலவரத்தை மனதில் கொண்டே.

விநாயகன் தீண்டாமையையும், பார்ப்பனியத்தையும் பாதுகாப்பதற்காக ‘தோழமையோடு‘ எந்த கலவரத்தையும் செய்யத் தயாரானவன்.

விநாயகன் வினை தீர்ப்பவன் அல்ல. வினை செய்பவன்.


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- credit goes to Mathimaran from http://mathimaran.wordpress.com/

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Make Firefox Run Faster - Give a Push

Firefox is cool, and the best

A Genius can always work overtime and never can fail your satisfaction.


so, give your Firefox a push in faster browsing.


If you are a broadband or faster user. Then the tips below are for you. provided you are a firefox fan.


Steps:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining,
network.http.proxy.pipelining,
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

Alter the entries as follows:

2. Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.

3. Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it.

This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]

4. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

5. Try to reduce the browser history to 3 or maximum 5 days.

6.
Firefox's slow loading could be due to the auto update. Disabling the auto-update feature could lead to improved loading time. For disabling update go to Tools--> options -->advanced --> Update and uncheck all the selections and click OK. (Make sure that you update manually atleast once a week)

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Tips:

  • Alternately, you could install Fasterfox, an extension which does some of this automatically, and makes tuning easier.
  • For more information on Firefox Tuning see the Firefox Tuning sticky thread at the independent MozillaZine forums.
  • Also the MozillaZine Knowledge Base on Network entries in about:config and what they do.
  • You can also run Firefox in your RAM (no reading from the HD means faster Firefox) by following this article.
  • If you have problems like slow down, pages not loading or images loading weird, just undo the tweaks in about:config
  • You can also do this in the Internet explorer browser, In opera an alternative is: go to opera:config and go to performance. Then change the max number of connections to 32


Friday, August 14, 2009

Bhuvan - India's Google Earth


Google Earth’s got some competition now — from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which today unveiled its beta version of Bhuvan (meaning earth in Sanskrit).

A web-based tool like Google Earth, Bhuvan promises to give better 3-D satellite imagery of India than is currently being offered by the US-based software giant plus a host of India-specific features like weather information and even administrative boundaries of all states and districts.

The application can be downloaded from http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

The tool would offer pictures of the globe, just like Google Earth, and navigable in the same way but currently has the best resolutions over the Indian sub-continent. It allows users to fly from space to street level, grab, spin and zoom down to any place.

It also provides tools for measuring, drawing, saving, printing and visualizing thematic information. The resolutions currently on offer are good enough to view a vehicle moving on a road quite clearly.

Bhuvan currently only offers images taken between one and three years ago even over India. It combines satellite imagery from various sensors onboard IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) satellites and transposes them on a 3-D globe. As it keeps updating its database with more recent and higher resolution images, Bhuvan eventually promises to offer real-time data and images.

Incidentally, Indian authorities have had some problems in the past with Google Earth’s depiction of certain parts of the country. Recently, Google Earth admitted that it had mistakenly shown some areas in Arunachal Pradesh as part of Chinese territory and promised to correct the maps soon. The Indian government had earlier pulled up Google Earth for showing some sensitive and strategic defence locations on its maps.


“Bhuvan, an ambitious project of ISRO was started to take Indian images and thematic information in multiple spatial resolutions to people through a web portal through easy access to information on basic natural resources in the geospatial domain. Bhuvan showcases Indian images by the superimposition of IRS satellite imageries on 3D globe. The degree of resolution showcased is based on the points of interest and popularity, but most of the Indian terrain is covered upto at least 5.8 meters of resolution with the least spatial resolution being 55 meters from AWifs Sensor.

Bhuvan Features

  • Visualise 2D and 3D image data along with rich thematic information on Soil, wasteland, water resources etc.
  • Fly to locations ( Flies from the current location directly to the selected location)
  • Heads-Up Display ( HUD) naviation controls ( Tilt slider, north indicator, opacity, compass ring, zoom slider)
  • Navigation using the 3D view Pop-up menu (Fly-in, Fly out, jump in, jump around, view point)
  • 3D Fly through (3D view to fly to locations, objects in the terrain, and navigate freely using the mouse or keyboard)
  • Drawing 2D objects (Text labels, polylines, polygons, rectangles, 2D arrows, circles, ellipse)
  • Drawing 3D Objects (placing of expressive 3D models, 3D polygons, boxes)
  • Snapshot creation (copies the 3D view to a floating window and allows to save to a external file)
  • Measurement tools (Horizontal distance, aerial distance, vertical distance, measure area)
  • Shadow Analysis (it sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain)

How to Download & Install Bhuvan?

Register here. Download the Bhuvan plugin from here (its actually Skyline’s terraexplorer plugin) and Microsoft’s DirectX.

In order to install the plugin, you need to have the administrator privilege in your machine. The product works only in IE and is quite buggy to start with.

All said and done, the product is very well timed – we are close to celebrate India’s independence day and Bhuvan is one crown that ISRO will be known for in the coming years.

What’s your opinion?



Friday, July 17, 2009

Twitter Too . . . For Hackers

Hackers are getting more creative in targeting certain companies and Twitter has recently discovered the consequences of such an attack. About a month ago, an administrative employee at twitter was targeted and her personal e-mail was hacked, according to a blog post today by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. The hacker used information in the e-mail account to access this employee’s Google Apps account, which contained a wide variety of Twitter documents from ideas to financial details. Today TechCrunch said it had received 310 confidential Twitter documents in a zip file from the hacker who calls himself Hacker Croll.

In the last few years, security experts have seen an increase in the amount of highly-targeted attacks. Unlike, say, massive spam campaigns designed to get employees to divulge personal information like bank accounts, these types of attacks involve hackers targeting anywhere from one to five employees within a company. The motive is to steal confidential information that the hacker will use to make a profit, says Patrik Runald, chief security advisor at F-Secure, a security firm. The types of organizations frequently targeted in these attacks are defense contractors, governments and non-profits with ties to Tibet, he says.

Many times, as in the Twitter incident, the target of the attack involves employees who are not in the executive suite because those employees often have access to information hackers can use, whether it’s blueprints or large databases of customer information. For example, at defense contractor Northrop Grumman, hackers often try to target the computers of employees in the contracts department because of their knowledge of the marketplace, said Tim McKnight, chief information security officer at the company in a recent interview with BusinessWeek.

After the Twitter incident first became public, some speculated about the quality of Google’s security but Biz Stone absolved Google Apps in his blog post. “This attack had nothing to do with any vulnerability in Google Apps which we continue to use,” he wrote. Instead, he wrote, the incident underscored the need for choosing strong passwords.

The best passwords have more than 8 or 9 characters and are comprised of alphanumeric characters, a combination of letters and numbers, says John Pirc, a former cybersecurity specialist for the CIA and current executive with IBM Internet Security Systems. But really, he says, this is a people issue in that employees often don’t practice good password safety and may use the same password for many different applications.

Yet, the incident does underscore some risks involved with cloud computing in the enterprise. Some have called for better security mechanisms. “With the Twitter data, hackers were able to take a password and log on anonymously from anywhere,” says Rich Marcello, president of the systems and technology business at Unisys. Now Unisys is working on a higher level of security that would essentially cloak the data that comes into its cloud and only users within certain communities logging in from certain locations would be able to see the information. It’s akin to how only certain characters who are members of a specific group in Harry Potter are able to physically see the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. “If you can do that, even if there’s a password issue, there’s no way hackers can make any sense of the data,” says Marcello.

Companies also need to think about the kinds of information they’re putting in the cloud. While e-mail collaboration may be available over the Internet from reputable service providers with good track records in security, some applications are better left behind the firewall, says Dennis Quan, director of autonomic computing at IBM, who suggests private clouds for applications dealing with classified or confidential information.

“Part of the beauty of cloud computing is that users don’t need to understand the ins and outs of the technology they are using,” says Quan, adding, “This simplicity is great for consumers but can be dangerous for enterprises and governments.”

- From http://bit.ly/fFZ9i


Thursday, July 16, 2009

Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus


Handwriting:


Men: To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just chicken scratch.

Women: Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot the "i" with circles or hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in the "b" and "g". It is a pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she's dumping you, she will put a smiley face at the end of the note.


Groceries:

Women: A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

Men: A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the express lane.


Relationships:

Women: When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

Men: A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know that there's always a chance for us." This is known as the "I Hate You / I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need.


Sex:

Women: They prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay.

Men: They prefer 30-40 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place part of the foreplay.


Maturity:

Women: They mature much faster than men. Most 17-year old females can function as adults.

Men: Most 17-year old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school romances rarely work out.


Magazines:

Men: Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body.

Women: Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.


Bathrooms:

Men: A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

Women: The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items.


Shoes:

Women: When preparing for work, a woman will put on a wool suit, then slip on Reebok sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks. When a woman gets to work, she will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her feet are under the desk.

Men: A man will wear the same pair of shoes all day. Let's not talk about how many days he'll wear the same socks.


Cats:

Women: Women love cats.

Men: Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.


Children:

Women: A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.

Men: A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.


Dressing Up:

Women: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.

Men: A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.


Laundry:

Women: Women do laundry every couple of days.

Men: A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants (the ones that were hip about eight years ago) before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the Laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the Laundromat. This is a myth perpetuated by reruns of old episodes of "Love American Style."


Eating Out:

Men: When the check comes, each man will each throw in $20 bills, even though it's only for $22.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.

Women: When the girls get their check, out come the pocket calculators.


Mirrors:

Men: Men are vain and will check themselves out in a mirror.

Women: They are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, bald guys' heads.


Menopause:

Women: When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of these changes varies with the individual.

Men: Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction - he buys aviator glasses, a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for a Porsche.


The Phone:

Men: Men see the telephone as a communication tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people.

Women: A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours.

Richard Gere:

Women: Women like Richard Gere because he is sexy in a dangerous way.


Men: Men hate Richard Gere because he reminds them of that slick guy who works at the health club and dates only married women.

Madonna:

Same as above, but reversed. Same reason.


Toys:

Women: Little girls love to play with toys. Then when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest.

Men: Men never grow out of their toy obsession. As they get older, their toys simply become more expensive, silly and impractical. Examples of men's toys: little miniature TVs. Car phones. Complicated juicers and blenders. Graphic equalizers. Small robots that serve cocktails on command. Video games. Anything that blinks, beeps, and requires at least 6 "D" batteries to operate.


Cameras:

Men: Men take photography very seriously. They'll shell out $4000 for state of the art equipment, and build dark rooms and take photography classes.

Women: Women purchase Kodak Instamatics. Of course, women always end up taking better pictures.


Locker Rooms:

Men: In the locker room men talk about three things: money, football, and women. They exaggerate about money, they don't know football nearly as well as they think they do, and they fabricate stories about women.

Women: They talk about one thing in the locker room - sex. And not in abstract terms, either. They are extremely graphic and technical, and they never lie.


Movies:

Women: Every actress in the history of movies has had to do a nude scene. This is because every movie in the history of movies has been produced by a man.

Men: The only actor who has ever appeared nude in the movies is Richard Gere. This is another reason why men hate him.


Jewelry:

Women: Women look nice when they wear jewelry.

Men: A man can get away with wearing one ring and that's it. Any more than that and he will look like a lounge singer named Vic.


Conversation:

Men: Men need a good disagreement to get talking. For instance, "Wow, great movie." or "What are you, nuts? No REAL cop would have an Uzi that size."

Women: Women, not having this problem, try to initiate conversations with men by saying something agreeable: "That garden by the roadside looks lovely." "Mm hmm." Pause. "That was a good restaurant last night, wasn't it?" "Yeah." Pause. And so on.


Leg Warmers:

Women: Leg warmers are sexy. A woman, even if she's walking the dog or doing the dishes, is allowed to wear leg warmers. She can wear them any time she wants.

Men: A man can only wear leg warmers if he is auditioning for the "Gimme the Ball" number in "A Chorus Line."


Friends:

Women: Women on a girls' night out talk the whole time.

Men: Men on a boy's night out say about twenty words all night, most of which are "Pass the Doritos" or "got any more beer?"


Restrooms:

Women: Women use restrooms as social lounges. Women who've never met will leave a restroom giggling together like old friends. Women also go to the restroom in packs, at least two women at a time excuse themselves to use the restroom.

Men: Men use restrooms for purely biological reasons. Men in a restrooms will never speak a word to each other. And never in the history of the world has a man excused himself from a restaurant table by saying, "Hey, Tom, I was just about to take a leak. Do you want to join me?"

- From www



Tuesday, July 14, 2009

How Big is our Web ?

We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.

So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer.

We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.

To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.

As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.


- from official google blog



Friday, July 03, 2009

A Strange Coincidence !!!

On August 7 , 2009

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Amaze your friends, be the first to tell them

At 12hr 34 minutes and 56 seconds on the 7th of August this year, the time and date will be...

12:34:56 07/08/09


This will never happen in your life again??!!!!

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

'STRESSED' spelled backwards! is 'DESSERTS'

Can't eat pork,

Swine flu...



Can't eat chicken,

Bird flu.



Can't eat Beef,

Mad cow....



Can't eat eggs,

Salmonella.




Can't eat fish,

heavy metal poisons in their waters.




Can't eat fruits and veggies,

insecticides and herbicides.


Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!






I believe that leaves Chocolate and ice cream!!!!!!!!





Monday, April 27, 2009

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Living In Space

1 Nearly every astronaut experiences some space sickness, caused by the wildly confusing information reaching their inner ears. In addition to nausea, symptoms include headaches and trouble locating your own limbs. Just like college, really.

2 And those are the least of your worries. In weightlessness, fluids shift upward, causing nasal congestion and a puffy face; bones lose calcium, forming kidney stones; and muscles atrophy, slowing the bowels and shrinking the heart.

3 At least you’ll be puffy, constipated, and tall: The decreased pressure on the spine in zero-g causes most space travelers to grow about two inches.

4 Lab rats sent into space during midpregnancy, while their fetuses’ inner ears are developing, spawn some seriously tipsy babies.

5 No humans have yet been conceived in space, so we can only imagine.

6 So that’s what it takes: A 2001 study showed that astronauts who snored on Earth snoozed silently in space.

7 But astronauts sleep less soundly; 16 sunrises a day throws a major wrench into their circadian rhythms.

8 And Ziggy played guitar. At the start of the workday on the space shuttle, mission control in Houston broadcasts wake-up music, usually selected with a particular astronaut in mind. On the all-work, no-play International Space Station, crews wake to an alarm clock.

9 If you are ever exposed to the vacuum of space without a suit on, don’t hold your breath: Sudden decompression would cause your lungs to rupture.

10 In addition, water on the tongue, in the nose, and in the eyes would boil away. This actually happened in 1965, when a space suit failed during a NASA experiment and the tester was exposed to a near vacuum for 15 seconds.

11 Contrary to Hollywood, though, you wouldn’t explode. Lack of oxygen in the blood is what would kill you, but it would take about two minutes.

12 More explosion paranoia: Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space-tourism company, reportedly considered barring women with breast implants due to fears that they might blow up.

13 John Glenn found it hard to choke down his food, but not because of the lack of gravity: Early astronauts relied on aluminum tubes of semiliquid mush, food cubes, and dehydrated meals.

14 Today astronauts can spice up their meals with salt and pepper—in liquid form. Sprinkled grains would float away, tickling noses and clogging vents.

15 Missing something? Those vents on the space shuttle and International Space Station serve as the lost and found, sucking up anything that’s floating about unsecured.

16 The shuttle commode requires that astronauts align themselves precisely in the dead center of the seat. A mock-up of the shuttle toilet, complete with built-in camera, is used to train them how to position themselves.

17 NASA tried building a bathroom into its space suits—a fitted condom attached to a bladder for men, a molded gynecological insert for women—but gave up and passed out diapers to all.

18 Returning astronauts report extreme difficulty moving their arms and legs right after touchdown, one reason why they call landing “the second birth.”

19 But some long-duration cosmonauts report that the hardest thing to readjust to about life on Earth is that when you let go of objects, they fall.

20 Better just to stay up there? Eighteen people have died on space missions, but never in space—always on the way up or the way down.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the
ball into the woods.
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog
in a trap.

The frog said to her, 'If you release me from this trap, I
will grant you three wishes.'
The woman freed the frog, and the frog said,
'Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your
wishes.

Whatever you wish for, your husband will get ten times of it!' The woman
said, 'That's okay.'

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most
beautiful woman in the world.
The frog warned her, 'You do realize that this
wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world,
an Adonis
whom women will flock to'.
The woman replied, 'That's okay, because I will
be the most beautiful woman and he will have eyes only for me.'
So, KAZAM-
she's the most beautiful Woman in the world!

For her second wish, she
wanted to be the richest woman in the world.
The frog said, 'That will make
your husband the richest man in the world. And he will be ten times
richer than
you. '
The woman said, 'that's okay, because what's mine is his and what's
his is mine.'
So, KAZAM- she's the richest woman in the world!

The
frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, 'I'd like
to have a
mild heart attack.'

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't
mess with them.

Attention
female readers:
This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue
feeling good!

Male Readers: Continue Reading. . . .
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The man had a heart attack ten times
'milder' than his wife!!!

Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.

Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show

PS: If you are a woman and are still reading this; it only goes to
show that women never listen!!!


Monday, January 26, 2009

What can other leaders learn from Obama?

By Louis Perron

The world is fascinated as Barack Obama officially takes power as president of the United States. Politicians and candidates around the globe have carefully observed the campaign
and quite a few want to be like him.

However, one can easily look silly when copying American campaign techniques. This does not mean that one cannot get inspiration from the Obama success, however. After all, there are some obvious parallels between the U.S. and Japan. Both countries are in deep economic problems and both have a very unpopular incumbent. So what tools, strategies and tactics out of the Obama toolkit would really work in Japan? How can Japanese politicians convince, mobilize and sell like Obama?

Some observers think that the impressive thing about the Obama campaign is how it used the Internet and other new technology—8,000 Internet groups and 1.5 million Internet volunteers are indeed impressive. But that’s only one part of the story. Politicians often think that a campaign means to produce things such as TV spots, leaflets or websites. In reality, however, a campaign can and should be seen as a series of decisions regarding the message, the strategy, fund-raising and products. The Obama campaign made these decisions early on and implemented them with great discipline. That’s the real secret of his success.

Politicians often think of a message as a slogan, in most cases nothing more than an empty motherhood statement. However, a good message is more than a slogan yet less than a party program. It’s the reason we give people to vote for one side and not for one of the other sides. In the case of Obama, this was the message: “Barack Obama will bring the change that America desperately needs. He will get the economy going again, not only for Wall Street but also for Main Street. In concrete terms, this means tax cuts for 95% of Americans and expanded health-care. John McCain on the other hand will continue the failed policies of George W Bush. It’s time for a new hope and to leave the divisiveness behind us. Yes, we can!”

Every ad, every speech, everything that the campaign produced communicated that message. It was then summarized in a catchy slogan: change we can believe in and change we need. There was probably no one left in the country who did not know what Obama stood for.

This methodology can be translated everywhere in the world. Of course, in Japan, the content of the message would be different and communicated in a much more implicit and subtle way. Based on my experience in Asia, how something is said and what is not said is as important as what is said. But the tool is nevertheless the same. Everywhere in the world, a party or candidate needs to communicate to voters a reason that is short, believable, relevant and showing contrast.

The Obama message as stated above is all of that. In a setting with an incumbent, the election is basically a referendum over the incumbent. What an incumbent like Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso needs to do is to communicate to voters what he has done and what he plans to do for them in the future. Vulnerable incumbents that end up surviving all show aggressive differences with the challenger. George W Bush in 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2004 and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994 are only a few examples.

The message in such as setting is basically that: no matter how bad things are now, they will get worse with the challenger. As for the challenger, he needs to do two things in terms of message: 1) make the case that the incumbent needs to be replaced, and 2) make voters comfortable with the idea of change. Obama and other successful challengers around the world in the past 20 years such as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva did exactly that. Change was defined as improving current conditions and not as a paradigm shift of values. Obama had an entire series of measures to achieve that: he counterbalanced his call for change with optimistic rhetoric, made repeated, passionate calls for unity, he focused on the economy and he nominated a moderate, senior vice president.

What’s impressive in the case of Obama is the coherence, with which he defined himself and the discipline, with which the message was communicated. In my personal experience, European and Asian politicians focus too much on products and funds, and not enough about message, strategy and discipline. As we have seen, the strategy paid off for Obama.

Dr des Louis Perron is a political consultant in Switzerland, Germany, U.S., Eastern Europe and Asia (contact lperron@perroncampaigns.com).

Weather News launches Global Sea Ice Information Website

TOKYO —

Weathernews has launched a website which provides global unified sea ice information. The Global Ice Center is available at http://weathernews.com/GIC/.

The Global Ice Center has been collecting and monitoring global sea ice data, including ice concentration, ice thickness and ice drift, since its opening in July 2008, in order to provide unified global sea ice information to shipping companies.

The Global Ice Center’s information covers such data as sea ice concentration, thickness and drift over not only the Arctic Sea, but also the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Recently, sea ice data from the Global Ice Center was utilized in a successful and safe voyage through the Baltic Sea by an LNG tanker operated by one of the world’s major shipping companies.

In the near future, Weathernews plan to provide historical sea ice data, such as the first day of freezing, the first day of melting, the average rate and the largest amount of sea ice area.

Weathernews hopes the Global Ice Center website will support shipping vessels across the world, and contribute to the safe passage of vessels that brave the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean.


JCN

Thursday, January 22, 2009

What you are thinking? Check Out Here !!!








Please follow the instructions below carefully. Go through each step first before pressing the below button, or you'll only ruin everything!


  1. Think of a number between 1 and 10.


  2. Multiply the number by 9.


  3. Add the digits of your result.


  4. Subtract 5 from your new number.


  5. Find the letter that corresponds to your number, if 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, etc.


  6. Think of a country that begins with your letter.


  7. Write down the name of that country.


  8. Think of an animal beginning with the second letter of your country.


  9. Think of the color of that animal.


  10. Write down the animal and its color.


  11. Think of an animal that begins with the last letter of your country.


  12. Think of a fruit that begins with the last letter of this second animal.


  13. Write down the fruit and the animal.




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Download Windows 7 Beta Today

Windows 7 Beta


Greetings and welcome,

I hope you are as excited as I am to try out the beta of Windows 7. IT Professionals now have a place of their own to download the Windows 7 Beta. In addition, see the new features that make everyday tasks faster and easier, make your PC work the way you want it to, and make new things possible. And you won't want to miss Mark Russinovich on Channel 9 going Inside Windows 7. For a good one-stop blog for IT Pros to get the latest Windows 7 info, bookmark the Springboard Series blog.

Also, as Steve Ballmer announced at CES, TechNet Plus subscribers can download the Windows 7 Beta now from Subscriber Downloads. For subscribers having difficulties accessing Windows 7 product keys, be aware that the Windows 7 Beta has a built-in 30-day grace period for installations before product keys are required. Customers with this issue should continue to download and install Windows 7 Beta without the product key and then check back later when this issue is resolved.

If you've been deploying Windows with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), you can deploy the Windows 7 Beta with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta. Join the Beta now. MDT 2010 is the next version of the solution accelerator for operating system and application deployment. New features like flexible driver management, optimized transaction processing, and access to distribution shares from any location simplify deployment and make your job easier.

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Note: Remember, you must have a hotmail / windows live ID. And, also a secondary pc with high end specifications to test the beta product.
Source: Technet