tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75120125275399462052024-02-07T00:37:58.460-08:00Simple FactsPraneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-48314893422157500612011-06-19T12:01:00.000-07:002011-06-19T12:22:30.056-07:00DAD, You are the BEST!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The many long hours of discussions we’ve had about life, politics and religion is second to none. I love those days. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Once again you made me realize that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Love is the key to all healing and completely changed my perception about kin. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I always wish I could be you and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The best compliment I ever had was "You are just like your DAD".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="quote" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><b>My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>- Jim Valvano</i></span></blockquote></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-32209558028228905642011-04-10T07:16:00.000-07:002011-04-10T07:16:42.729-07:00Engineering Experiences - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">The first few people I met changed my opinion entirely. They made me fearless, actually careless of the JNTU grading system. And they became my friends forever. The strangest thing in campus was that every new people you met became your close friend. It was as if we had started new civilization we all became part of, and every year many new faces were added to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">8 years back, I was a different person, shy and serious. I was hoping to find people of my type. But then I met Satish, Srinu, Revanth, Anil, Gopi, Doondee, Gowtham, Sudheer, Rakesh, Kranthi, Anwar, Kiran and Lal. They were all very different from what I was but they made life full of fun and laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">Even today when I remember the night when we discussed about the C party and how to tackle principal AppaRao , a smile appears instantaneously. The night when my father was called to the college to discuss about my attendance. The day when we bunked the college and went to ATHADU movie . The list of incidents is endless.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">And now we were scattered to different corners of the world. But, thanks to those good moments, most of us became good friends, and still are in touch. And so, the size of our civilization kept increasing, now if I look back, I see a change in me, I am much happier, satisfied with life then I was before, I have learned a lot, about things I never really expected Engineering is supposed to teach, about smiling at worst circumstances, about laughing at yourself just to give smiles to people you love.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">I live hoping to keep meeting people like them, because they are the reason that I am smiling today.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Being a follower of cricket, I vividly remember the match on 23rd March 2003.. And no Indian wanted history to repeat on 24th Mar 2011... Though the toss was not won by India, we had to bowl first..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Once again, nervousness..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Though Pointing scored a ton, the bowlers were able to control the score.. And for a change, there was some life in the fielding.. The first inning of the play was not so strenuous to watch though..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With 261 to chase, like million Indians, I had hopes that we would win.. (Hope is a good thing- shawshank redemption)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sense of optimism is an absolutely essential necessity for any future success. That’s true not just at the individual level; collective optimism is as indispensable for national success. However, misplaced optimism grounded on delusions of grandeur can ensure failure through misalignment of priorities and mis-allocation of limited resources. So it is not out of plain crotchety contrariness but rather out of welfare concerns that one must take a dispassionate look at reality to base one’s expectations on, and to chart out a course of action. The balance sheet must include an accurate account of current assets and liabilities — not just future expected earnings grabbed out of the thin air of wishful thinking. I find that balance missing in many of the reports that are generally published by the main stream media and which land in my inbox enthusiastically forwarded by the “mera bharat mahan” brigade.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><br />
</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: justify;">It is tiring to read yet another article how India is going to be (if it is not already) a “super power”. Or that by such-and-such date, India’s GDP will be growing at some particular rate. Growth rates are meaningful only when understood in the context of the base on which they are computed.</div></span><br />
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Bloomberg reported recently “<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-16/india-to-top-china-as-fastest-growing-economy-by-2015-morgan-stanley-says.html" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank">India to Top China as Fastest Growing Economy by 2015</a>.”</div><blockquote style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: justify;">India may overtake China as the world’s fastest growing major economy by 2015, as the South Asian nation doubles infrastructure investment and adds six-fold more workers than its northern neighbor, Morgan Stanley said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">India’s growth may accelerate to 9.5 percent between 2011 to 2015, Morgan Stanley economist Chetan Ahya said in an interview from Singapore today. India’s gross domestic product has expanded at an average 7.1 percent over the decade through the third quarter of 2009, compared with 9.1 percent in China, which surpassed Japan as the second-largest economy last quarter.</div></blockquote><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">So what? Over the last decade, the growth rate of my wealth has been significantly higher than the growth rate of Bill Gates’ wealth.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">I have never understood that fascination that some people have with aggregate measures. Here’s one example from a few months ago published in Rediff: <a href="http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/dec/17/slide-show-1-india-to-be-top-economic-superpower-by-2030.htm" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank">India to be top economic superpower by 2030: Survey</a>.</div><blockquote style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Indian economic tiger is set to roar and become the most important economy in the world by 2030, says a survey. . . India is already moving up the economic league tables as the 12th largest economy in the world, as per the World Bank.</div></blockquote><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Why should it matter to anyone’s well-being how large India’s economy is? Per capita measures are more meaningful than aggregates. Let me put it this way. Take any of the small developed economies such as Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, etc. They will never become an economic (or any other sort of) super power on this side of eternity. But given a choice I would rather have a Swiss per capita income than the per capita income of “economic super power” India now or even in some mythical future when it becomes the “largest economic power.”</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Allow me to locate India in the present global context a little more realistically. The picture that emerges is not as rosy as as the newspapers would have your believe. There’s a very sensible reason for a reality check, which I will go into presently.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullreport.pdf" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank">The Global Competitiveness Report 2009-10</a> published by the World Economic Forum ranks India in the 89th place out of 133. India is listed in the group “The First Stage of Development” — per capita income less than $2,000 — in the company of such countries as Burundi, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique, Uganda, Zimbabwe, etc. Those countries are not in any danger of becoming superpower any time soon.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">I suspect that those countries in the “Stage 1″ of development share more than just low per capita income. I think “per capita” corruption would be another tie that binds.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">We Indians of course can take some comfort that India is not as economically backward as, say, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Unfortunately, that is not quite true.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Newsweek has an interesting interactive infographics titled “<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/content/newsweek/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank">THE WORLD’S BEST COUNTRIES: A Newsweek study of health, education, economy, and politics ranks the globe’s true national champions.</a>”</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">I checked out how India fared relative to Pakistan. Why? Because Pakistan really sets a very low bar and I wanted to see how far above India sails over it. Anyway, you be the judge. I state here some of the numbers that you will find if you were to click on the many little drop-down list in the graphics.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">India is ranked 78 overall (in the Newsweek study); Pakistan comes in at 89. No surprise there.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">In the “Education” sector, India’s literacy rate is higher at 61.4% (Pakistan 50.4%), but surprisingly India’s average years of schooling is 10.3 — lower than Pakistan’s (13.2).</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Life expectancy is marginally higher in India: 56 years (55 years). Here are “Quality of life” indicators:</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/content/newsweek/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="503" src="http://www.deeshaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BestCountries.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="BestCountries" width="283" /></a></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><em>{Click on image to go to the source page.}</em></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Note that the per capita incomes are not too different. But income inequality (GINI) is worse in India: 36.8 (31.2). Not just that, 75.6% of Indian’s live on less than $2 a day, as compared to 60.3% in Pakistan.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">We all know that Pakistan has been under military dictatorship for almost all its existence. That is not conducive to economic growth. Couple that with the burden of Islam, and it is easy to see why Pakistan is essentially a basket case.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">But how do you explain India’s basket-case-ness? Consumption per capita in India, $632, is lower than in Pakistan ($789). Manufacturing as a percentage of GDP is 14.7% in India; it is 34.1% in Pakistan. It takes 7 years to resolve insolvency, only 2.8 years in Pakistan. It takes 30 days to start a new business in India; it takes 20 days in Pakistan.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Here’s another graphic on “Economic Dynamism.”</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/content/newsweek/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="488" src="http://www.deeshaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BestCountries2.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="BestCountries2" width="281" /></a></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">The reason for India’s basket-case-ness is because for almost all of its existence since 1947, it has been under Nehruvian socialism. Nehru gave India the so-called “Nehru rate of growth” and his clan made sure that India stuck to that growth rate.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">There were two brief episodes of hope: PV Narasimha Rao ditched Nehruvian stupidity. His reward for freeing India? He has been erased from the history of India by Nehru’s clan. Then there was Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He carried on the liberalization of India that PVNR started. But as bad luck would have it, the incompetent came back to power and Mr Manmohan Singh (fake prime minister but real toady to <a href="http://www.deeshaa.org/2010/06/02/edvige-antonia-albina-maino-aka-sonia-gandhi/" style="color: #7c8cc5;" target="_blank">the Italian Sonia Maino</a>) is presiding over India’s back slide into Nehruvian stupidity.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">In summary, India’s present condition is not significantly different from Pakistan’s. Pakistan has the curse of Islam and military dictatorship. India has the curse of Nehruvian socialism and Congress mismanagement. The future of the two nations could be different, however. The Indian voter has the opportunity to kick the Congress out lock stock and barrel. But I will not go into that right now.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><strong>What’s the Point?</strong></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Why am I raining on someone’s parade? Actually, I am interested in seeing India progress beyond where it stagnates today. Major mistakes were made by powerful people that led to this awfully miserable situation. How did India come to have about 800 million desperately poor people? Why do just 8 of India’s poorest states have more poor people in them than the poor people in 26 poorest countries in Africa?</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Why are half of India’s children below 5 years of age malnourished? Childhood malnourishment causes mental retardation. What is going to be the future of these over 100 million children? How will they ever get out of poverty?</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">India had an estimated 200 million poor people when Nehru took over the ruling of the country. Since that fateful day, India’s poverty has deepened and widened. How many hundreds of millions of Indians have died prematurely after living lives of untold misery since Nehru took over as the dictatorial authority?</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Surely all that has to be laid at the feet of the Nehru-Gandhi clan — people whose names are attached to thousands of institutions, roads, ports, airports, government schemes, buildings . . . It is heart breaking to see that the very people who dragged India to its knees and strangled its very life breath consider it their birth-right to continue to misrule India.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">When will India wake up? How will it wake up?</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">This is important because unless we understand that mistakes were made, we are unlikely to know what to do to repeat them. Unless we get the people who did this to India out of power, there can be no hope for India. Note the operative word “we”: it is we who have to get these blood-sucking parasites out of power.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">I would like to go into that tomorrow. And I will argue that ultimately we, the people, are to blame. And therefore we have to fix the problem.</div></span>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-71657479180697095112010-12-30T03:45:00.000-08:002010-12-30T03:45:47.125-08:00HADOPI law knocked off<div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September last year saw the passing of France’s controversial three-strikes ‘Hadopi’ law which allows the music industry to track down repeated copyright infringers with the ultimate goal of decreasing the country’s piracy rate especially concentrating on peer to peer transfers(Torrents).</span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under the new law alleged copyright infringers will be reported to a judge once they have received three warnings. The judge will then review the case and hand down any one of a range of penalties, from fines through to severing the Internet connection of the infringer.</span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proponents of the new law claimed that the law would convince millions of people to stop downloading copyrighted content through file-sharing networks. Most critics, however, doubted the effectiveness of the system and pointed out that there are many ways to <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/six-ways-file-sharers-will-neutralize-3-strikes-100102/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 82, 135); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">circumvent the law</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5dohBJL09e5VS-RncBYzspXSofEowTVGFtbXnrPlEUf83xtqnAtGjKFaBJfQ0EaBzQjxNiyiD2OmGDMlgDfPx9k2juQjWZZfEV9ftzYE8s9OFBa7TvymzrcdlnA_ymGr_Q9x6u3uEHHw0/s1600/hadopi+logo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5dohBJL09e5VS-RncBYzspXSofEowTVGFtbXnrPlEUf83xtqnAtGjKFaBJfQ0EaBzQjxNiyiD2OmGDMlgDfPx9k2juQjWZZfEV9ftzYE8s9OFBa7TvymzrcdlnA_ymGr_Q9x6u3uEHHw0/s1600/hadopi+logo.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">And now French Parliament took a decision to terminate this law after examining the recent reports </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">which states that instead of reducing piracy levels, the piracy rate actually went up by 3%.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Hip Hip HURRAY :)</span></span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-10372787461550335002010-11-18T11:14:00.001-08:002010-11-18T11:23:24.322-08:00Faux Parisian<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who have lived in Paris know: we are endowed with a magical power.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you’ve been a Parisian (or a faux Parisian), you automatically have the ability to cast a spell over any Stranger you subsequently encounter, simply by</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Well, when I lived in Paris…”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I used to live in Paris, so…”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In Paris (I used to live there)…”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“…reminds me a little bit of Paris, but…”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRq6JLlLEJqGw5gwOk-nQXmwh8V6AVQTvaBAhpMu3_4sLyfOOD_zck1mk2Q0P4F3c5yxXPCijKMXa2Oly9fSKRGoow73ztYwXt7o5PB0n3TlLF86JCanIT52o5GJ-Zc1_ULi9bn3UpfiW/s1600/paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRq6JLlLEJqGw5gwOk-nQXmwh8V6AVQTvaBAhpMu3_4sLyfOOD_zck1mk2Q0P4F3c5yxXPCijKMXa2Oly9fSKRGoow73ztYwXt7o5PB0n3TlLF86JCanIT52o5GJ-Zc1_ULi9bn3UpfiW/s320/paris.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, you will sound slightly (or completely) pretentious. But more importantly, you will elicit a distinct blend of jealousy and awe from whomever you are addressing, because quite simply, you have lived their dream. In fact, you have lived the dream of millions. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this moment, I fell in love with Paris. Ah, l’amour.</span></span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0Paris, France48.8566667 2.350987148.7437227 2.1175276000000003 48.9696107 2.5844466tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-66517918014550794162010-10-06T04:40:00.000-07:002010-10-06T04:52:18.962-07:00IPhone vs Android<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;">I just want to discuss the main reason why Android </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183840/IDC_boosts_2010_smartphone_shipment_projections_by_10_" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">will overtake the iPhone in sales this year</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;">, according to an IDC forecast released Tuesday. IDC predicts that by year's end, Android will have a 16 percent market share worldwide, compared with the iPhone's 15 percent. Symbian will continue to lead with 40 percent, and the BlackBerry platform will hold on to second place with about an 18 percent share, IDC said. Steve jobs call for "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/steve-jobs-android-porn/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Go get an Android device if you want to watch porn</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">,</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;">" should not be a reason I guess. Let's dig into the reasons which prevent you from choosing iphone. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRn6oTbKPMHR716EjCQyxZbuTwVylJ5870274cdRiLoWa4Kon07r0SiqGrEo-tahjuFB7G4WY7dkddD6AvaKXmJis4zGgJolI4sbnhgqK__JPw9qZEMXvjTeXE_kwMBYM162xQtYD2f9B/s1600/195090-android-iphone-admob_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRn6oTbKPMHR716EjCQyxZbuTwVylJ5870274cdRiLoWa4Kon07r0SiqGrEo-tahjuFB7G4WY7dkddD6AvaKXmJis4zGgJolI4sbnhgqK__JPw9qZEMXvjTeXE_kwMBYM162xQtYD2f9B/s320/195090-android-iphone-admob_original.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br />
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Safari only reflows text with double tap and I like to choose the font size of the text as my eyesight isn't great.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">3. Safari does not have kinetic scrolling so you have to swipe ten times instead of a single finger flick.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">And the list goes on and on...<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">And why I prefer android <o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">1. Android offers FULL multi-tasking, not some ripped up save state multi-tasking which isn't multi-tasking at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">2. Android allows file transfer over Bluetooth - any file. iOS on any device does not and has not since the first device.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">3. You don't need iTunes to move music/video to and from the device and...<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">4. Most important is that Android doesn't have a lying Chief Executive Officer.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"></span></span></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 36px; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;">The future is tough to predict, especially when it involves something as dynamic as technology. I may be wrong in my assumptions and in my high hopes for Android.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 25px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> More than half the Indian population doesn't use proper sanitation. According to a recent UN survey, roughly 366 million people had access to improved sanitation. That's less than our mobile penetration: more than 545 million cell phones are now connected to service in India's emerging economy. Clearly, we prefer cellphones to toilets. </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> When was the last time an Indian protested against the lack of toilets in a country of more than one billion population and a GDP of 3.526 trillion. We have been so sanitized that we are no longer troubled by how close we are to garbage and waste in public spaces.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> don't mind co-existing with crap. Our tolerance level for rubbish is high compared with first world countries.When i was a child living </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">in kapileswarapuram(a remote village in South India) i used to pass through a stretch of road which was used as an open toilet by hundreds of people, I am very sure that even now they are very busy unloading at the same place the only difference i can think of is they may be talking on a mobile phone (after all India is developed and they can afford to have a mobile).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Or consider the 9000 passenger trains of the Indian Railways carrying over 2 million passengers a day. They don't even use proper sanitation system but using the technique of Catch and Throw (just like exception handling in Java).What are these but dumping machines throwing people crap at over 100 km per hour across the length and breadth of the country, can u believe that they don't even think of changing the system? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Even the purest of all Ganges the holy river -where you can find the half</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> burnt corpses drifting in the river, in transit to heaven. If god exists (?) on the banks of Ganga i am sure he would opt to stay in a better place.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hygiene is not at all a part of the 'quality of life' we are thriving for ...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-19589016989184178822010-09-14T08:29:00.000-07:002010-09-14T08:52:04.498-07:00Multitasking myth in iPhone<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no doubt that “<b>multitasking</b>” is one of the best features of iOS 4. But I would like to call it an excellent task switching than using the word multi tasking . Unfortunately, many people have a misconception abt it.So let's dig in.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On your desktop, multitasking means that any application or process can run at the same time as another. Technically, there’s no reason why the same can’t be done on a mobile device. However, from a more practical point-of-view, there is one good reason why you don’t want this: a running app uses energy that decreases your battery life. Running fewer apps means you can listen to music longer, make more phone calls, or call up Maps at the end of the day to find a place for dinner.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in iPhone when you double-tap on the home button and start another application, the previous application is “paused”(popped out) and put into a state where it’s not running but can be restarted quickly. A part of the freezing process also reduces the amount of memory being used: allowing more applications to fit in the queue stack.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next time you tap on the app’s icon, it is “jumped out”(pushed in) and put back on your iPhone’s screen while the previous app is frozen. This process is repeated each time you launch an app.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't believe me then chk urself by listening to Pandora and the iPod apps at the same time! :)</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-64605142739193608212010-08-24T04:40:00.000-07:002010-08-24T05:02:59.854-07:00BlackBerry vs Indian Government<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problem that India have had with BlackBerry email is that it’s too secure. Understandable,as we know democracy is to regulate many aspects of their citizens’ lives. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now somewhere the press started reporting that the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> that US Government actually has access to encrypted BlackBerry email, So India - started to say: “Hey, we want that too!”(they don't even have a regulation on normal text messaging n voip . what the hell they gonna do with the encryption key)</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I want to clarify that the US Government does not have the ability to spy on encrypted BlackBerry email.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, look at this </span><a href="http://na.blackberry.com/eng/ataglance/security/features.jsp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">BlackBerry architecture diagram</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. BlackBerry is a very secure system, when used with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). The entire content of every packet exchangedbetween a BlackBerry device and its BES is encrypted with a symmetric key (usually </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">AES</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, sometimes </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Triple DES</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) that’s only known to the device and the BES. Each device has a separate key. Keys can be created and exchanged entirely within the corporate firewall, without ever being sent over the public internet (there’s also an exchange mechanism using </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">PKI</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - a method that’s widely used and secure even outside of BlackBerry) . Both AES and TDES are secure enough that the NIST has approved them for use by the US government in sending classified information. There are no known substantive attacks to AES. </span></div></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If thats the issue of National Security ,India should also ban the voip services (skype n google) :) </span></span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-35644087268694512002010-07-26T08:25:00.000-07:002010-07-26T08:32:29.892-07:00Blackberry's DNA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ll start with a confession - I never used a BlackBerry in the past,but now my company has been focused on developing some Blackberry products. I’ve picked 5 things that I really </span></span></span><em style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">really</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> miss about d probably they’ll be the reasons that I go back to BlackBerry for day-to-day use soon). I think most of these are known to most people, but I’ve omitted a few things that are commonly thought of as BlackBerry’s advantages - I’ll explain why at the end of the article.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="more-274" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.28571; margin-bottom: 0.583333em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Push Email</span></span></span></h3><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, iPhone does push email too, but BlackBerry does it better. You can sync an Exchange account with your iPhone and get push email, but only one. I’ve always got a minimum of 2 accounts I want to keep up to date with - currently 5 - but even with 2, I’d have to choose a preferred one (or consolidate everything through one account, which isn’t an option).</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.28571; margin-bottom: 0.583333em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Multiple Email Accounts</span></span></span></h3><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Handled beautifully by BlackBerry. I can view the inbox for each account separately, but never do. BlackBerry lets me view all emails from all accounts in one place, and keeps track so that when I reply it comes from the right account.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s more! I can have separate signatures for each account (really really irritating missing feature on iPhone), and when I compose a new email to a contact, the BlackBerry usually guesses correctly which account I want to send it from - probably based on some analysis of past correspondence.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Email is part of BlackBerry’s DNA - it’s initial killer app was email, and the business and devices were built around that, and it shows.</span></span></span></div></div><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.28571; margin-bottom: 0.583333em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. The Keyboard</span></span></span></h3><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="keyboards" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-277" height="200" src="http://www.thinkingblackberry.com/wp-content/uploads/keyboards.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="keyboards" width="420" /></span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nothing to say ..</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. The notification light</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, this thing:</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="bbled" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-275" height="296" src="http://www.thinkingblackberry.com/wp-content/uploads/bbled.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bbled" width="500" /></span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amazingly simple, but I really miss it. I’m used to glancing down at my device to see if anything new had come in - or looking at it lying on a table. iPhone doesn’t have an LED indicator for new email, so I can’t do that. Again, email is part of the core DNA of BlackBerry, all the way down through the hardware, and this shows it.</span></span></span></div></div><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.28571; margin-bottom: 0.583333em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Total integration - email, calendar, contacts, notes, tasks</span></span></span></h3><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is probably a bunch of things, but I’ll put them all together here. BlackBerry just delivers a better experience when going between all the above applications. It syncs them more readily, makes it easier to link calendar entries to notes to tasks to contacts, etc. It’s difficult to quantify but the overall experience is just smoother - obviously this is based on years of development and user feedback from RIM. It’s core to the BlackBerry experience and they still do it better than iPhone (even with it’s super slick UI)</span></span></span></div></div><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.28571; margin-bottom: 0.583333em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px;">Conclusion</span></h3><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">u should write your self ..</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christopher Nolan, the British-born director of “Memento” and of the two most recent Batman movies, appears to believe that if he can do certain things in cinema—especially very complicated things—then he has to do them. But why? To what end? His new movie, “Inception,” is an astonishment, an engineering feat, and, finally, a folly. Nolan has devoted his extraordinary talents not to some weighty, epic theme or terrific comic idea but to a science-fiction thriller that exploits dreams as a vehicle for doubling and redoubling action sequences. He has been contemplating the movie for ten years, and as movie technology changed he must have realized that he could do more and more complex things. He wound up overcooking the idea. Nolan gives us dreams within dreams (people dream that they’re dreaming); he also stages action within different levels of dreaming—deep, deeper, and deepest, with matching physical movements played out at each level—all of it cut together with trombone-heavy music by Hans Zimmer, which pounds us into near-deafness, if not quite submission. Now and then, you may discover that the effort to keep up with the multilevel tumult kills your pleasure in the movie. “Inception” is a stunning-looking film that gets lost in fabulous intricacies, a movie devoted to its own workings and to little else. </span><br />
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</div>Read more: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/26/100726crci_cinema_denby#ixzz0uWJ21OhY" style="color: #003399;">http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/26/100726crci_cinema_denby#ixzz0uWJ21OhY</a></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-30969442380774708342010-07-16T10:21:00.000-07:002010-07-16T10:48:27.699-07:00Apple's Marketing Flaw...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> So, does your iPhone 4 work? or planning to buy an iPhone go ahead don't worry about the reports on </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">poor testing, out of touch management blah blah blah.because i don' think iPhone4 will be a great turning point to Apple as it is not an </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">game-changing innovation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> .</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The mantra of todays economic renegade</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> isn't about building slightly better stuff, but</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">making stuff better </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . From a larger economic perspective,Apple failed to prove itself as a revolutionary company as it stack in third world countries is very very less.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> If I sound like I'm</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>harshing on Apple</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">— I'm not. Apple's perhaps one of the economy's most radical companies and one of its most explosive out performers. Here's the point: It's</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not good enough to create jobs, meet the needs of tomorrow's generations and taking social responsibility. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lets go into the flashback. When Steve Jobs was searching for his own replacement after his first tenure as Apple's CEO,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he audaciously said to the front-running candidate, then-Pepsi CEO John Sculley:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?" Now it's my turn to ask Steve </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"do you really want to spend the rest of your life selling slicker gadgets,movies and songs or do you want take this chance to change the world radically for the better? here world means majority of the people</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i> As i read Capitalism is </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> about building revolutionary companies, countries, and economies but Apple is busy in building user apps :)</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</span></span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-48582036925213023532010-07-09T07:28:00.000-07:002010-07-09T07:30:16.583-07:00My Own Private India<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As i am scanning some articles , i found this abt immigration in america .. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the law passed, when I was a kid, a few engineers and doctors from Gujarat moved to Edison because of its proximity to AT&T, good schools and reasonably priced, if slightly deteriorating, post–WW II housing. For a while, we assumed all Indians were geniuses. Then, in the 1980s, the doctors and engineers brought over their merchant cousins, and we were no longer so sure about the genius thing. In the 1990s, the not-as-brilliant merchants brought their even-less-bright cousins, and we started to understand why India is so damn poor.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the complete article of Joel Stein: </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1999416,00.html#ixzz0tCAW6B38" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1999416,00.html#ixzz0tCAW6B38</a></span></span></div></span>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-9478346254042258402010-07-09T07:23:00.000-07:002010-07-09T07:23:34.254-07:00Cliché but true ...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Vulnerability comes from fear of loosing. Fear of loosing comes from an obsession for valuing. Obsession for Valuing comes from your own personal perception of values. And Perception of values come from a lack of core understanding and lack of core understanding comes from lack of decision making in moving on in life. And lack of decision making comes from a fear of result. And fear of result comes from a desperation for success. And desperation for success comes from fear of failure. So as long as you don’t value Success you won’t fear Failure and when you don’t fear failure you will become Invincible.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ahhhhh..!!!… Ramu u made my day :)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is more inspiring than Ayn Rand Philosophy ..</span></span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-6970566907340932932010-07-07T08:03:00.000-07:002010-07-07T08:03:38.139-07:00Narayana Murthy's Letter on Working Late ..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
To: Dear All,<br />
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It's half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on... PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing... and who's at work? Most of them??? Take a closer look...<br />
All or most specimens are??-something male species of the human race... Look closer... again all or most of them are bachelors...<br />
and why are they sitting late? Working hard? No way!!!<br />
Any guesses???<br />
Let's ask one of them...<br />
Here's what he says... "What's there 2 do after going home... here we get to surf, AC, phone, food, coffee... that is why I am working late...<br />
importantly no bossssssss!! !!!!!!!!!<br />
This is the scene in most research centers and software companies and other off-shore offices. Bachelors "time-passing" during late hours in the office just bcoz they<br />
say they've nothing else to do... Now what r the consequences. .. read on... "Working"(for the record only) late hours soon becomes part of the<br />
institute or company culture. With bosses more than eager to provide support to those "working" late in the form of taxi vouchers, food vouchers and of course good<br />
feedback,(oh, he's a hard worker... goes home only to change..!!). They aren't helping things too... To hell with bosses who don't understand the difference between "sitting" late and "working" late!!!<br />
Very soon, the boss starts expecting all employees to put in extra working hours. So, My dear Bachelors let me tell you, life changes when u get married<br />
and start having a family... office is no longer a priority, family is... and that's when the problem starts... becoz u start having commitments at<br />
home too.<br />
For your boss, the earlier "hardworking" guy suddenly seems to become an "early leaver" even if u leaves an hour after regular time. .. after doing<br />
the same amount of work.<br />
People leaving on time after doing their tasks for the day are labeled as work-shirkers. ..<br />
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Girls who thankfully always (its changing nowadays... though) leave on time are labeled as "not up to it". All the while, the bachelors pat their<br />
own backs and carry on "working" not realizing that they r spoiling the work culture at their own place and never realize that they would have to<br />
regret at one point of time.<br />
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* So what's the moral of the story?? *<br />
* Very clear, LEAVE ON TIME!!!<br />
* Never put in extra time " *unless really needed *"<br />
* don't stay back un-necessarily and spoil your company work culture<br />
which will in turn cause inconvenience to you and your colleagues.<br />
There are hundred other things to do in the evening...<br />
Learn music...<br />
Learn a foreign language...<br />
try a sport... TT, cricket..... ....<br />
Importantly Get a girl friend or gal friend, take him/her around town...<br />
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* and for heaven's sake net cafe rates have dropped to an all-time low<br />
(plus, no fire-walls) and try cooking for a change.<br />
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Take a tip from the Smirnoff ad: *"Life's calling, where are you??"*<br />
Please pass on this message to all those colleagues and please do it before leaving time, don't stay back till midnight to forward this!!!<br />
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PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY SIT LATE IN THE OFFICE DON'T KNOW TO MANAGE THEIR TIME. </span>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-75850683312798475852010-06-20T03:57:00.000-07:002010-06-20T04:01:47.545-07:00Apple Product vs Apple Stock<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What if, instead, of buying an iPad, the latest iPhone, or other Apple gadgets, you used that same money to buy two, three shares of Apple stock? Question posted in Alltop .</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I`m a loyal mac user from 2008. </span><span class="name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking kelly's view into concern </span></span><strong class="name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you had bought an Apple Power Book G3 250, it was originally priced at $4300. And today in stock value, that would actually be $190,000.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes... $190,000. And that original iPod that Kelly just had to have in 2001, when Apple stock was going for just nine bucks a share? But now apple stock value is already giving warning bells bcoz of its inconsistency .So if i have $2000 I will go pick a macbook pro other than buying an apple share at its all time high.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a customer i m unhappy with the drastic fall in the resale value of apple products.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Prof. Randy Pausch passed away early in the morning on July 25, 2008, at his home in Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Jai, and his 3 children, Logan, Dylan and Chloe. You helped me in knowing the value of life . Rest in Peace Randy.</span></span></span><br />
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(will redirect you to Google videos)Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-82069430388525304082010-06-03T15:54:00.000-07:002010-06-03T15:54:38.195-07:00Emotional Commerce with a Perfect Tag..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today when i am thinking about a name for my new e-commerce site. I was scanning some greek mythological words bcoz the client is from greece . I was stuck in a anomalous situation where even well known names sounded lousy to me . So i thought of writing my strange ideas in the form of a blogpost. Words are what differentiate us from every other species. Words are where the emotion and value is. The numbers are only achieved when the words that precede them are thoughtful. It’s the right (correct?) side of the brain that matters. And finally business is catching on. I am so excited that we are outsourcing the left side of our work to the power of Moores Law. Which means us humans can get back to the stuff that matters. Love, design and nurturing. We can leave the manufacturing and piece work to the machines and microchips. And instead we can innovate and humanize what we do to earn a living.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivfkpSmOaw8otd3STwvf2Neaoir2WPkI4Pu2ly9kwbZCbbLb87ylZgPKsyd4gB0hWyYsIQQ5QvdzbN4SF3NxcyhIrNc8b1KViL7wfbvZb5fc2mYqQGp2xTlJpP7PVbiXrs7j3yO9k84TSA/s1600/words_expressions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivfkpSmOaw8otd3STwvf2Neaoir2WPkI4Pu2ly9kwbZCbbLb87ylZgPKsyd4gB0hWyYsIQQ5QvdzbN4SF3NxcyhIrNc8b1KViL7wfbvZb5fc2mYqQGp2xTlJpP7PVbiXrs7j3yO9k84TSA/s320/words_expressions.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">Welcome to the new world of title driven commerce and maintaining the right emotional bank account (trust levels) .</span></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-59699246107640095212010-06-03T08:59:00.001-07:002010-06-03T09:10:50.966-07:00Link Prefetching with Firefox ..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #55554e; font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You add a line like this to your page:<br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #55554e; font-family: monospace; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px;">sry i cant use the link tag here , use link tag with the htmlpage ,image or anything as if u link a stylesheet.</span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #55554e; font-family: monospace; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px;"><link href="page2.html" rel="next"></link></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><link href="page2.html" rel="next"></link></code></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then the browser automatically downloads page2.html in a background process as soon as the user’s computer is idle. When the user finally clicks a link to page2.html, the browser serves it from the cache, and so it loads significantly faster.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Link prefetching is currently only supported by Firefox. But since Firefox is the second most popular web browser in the world, you can noticeably decrease load times for a significant chunk of your users just by adding one line of code to your HTML. Pretty cool, huh?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are some ways you could use link prefetching:</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* Anytime you split content across multiple pages, as in large articles, online tutorials, image slideshows, etc.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* On your homepage to preload whatever page your users tend to click on next. (That could be the “features” page on a product site or your most recent entry on a blog.)</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* On a search engine to prefetch the top result.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can also use it for static content using the prefetch rel:</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><code style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><link href="/images/big.jpeg" rel="prefetch"></link></code></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A couple other interesting points:</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* Link prefetching will probably pop up in Opera, Chrome and Safari soon, and in Internet Explorer sometime around 2020.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* If this becomes popular it has the potential to skew logs and stats. Consider what happens when a bunch of prefetch requests are made to one of your pages, but the user never actually visits the page. The server (or stats package) doesn’t know the difference.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To clear this up, Firefox sends along an HTTP header, <code style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">X-moz: prefetch</code>, but you need some logic on the server side to detect it.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.175em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn more about link prefetching and see other examples, see the article about it on Mozilla’s site:<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/link_prefetching_faq" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #889800; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/link_prefetching_faq</a></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-64071227172771347292010-05-31T07:14:00.000-07:002010-05-31T07:14:23.431-07:00Mac makes #Rails easy<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
Rails 3 documentation is finally out for Mac OS X Dictionary.app. If you're not sure what this is about, please have a look at my previous posts . Download your copy of <a href="http://f.priithaamer.com/dictionary/Ruby%20on%20Rails%203.0.0b3.dictionary.zip" style="color: black;">Rails 3 Dictionary here</a>.<br />
<div class="articlebody" style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><div>Currently it is generated from Rails 3.0.0 beta 3 version. I will post the updates once the new Rails 3 versions roll out.</div><div><img alt="Dictionary in Textmate" height="412" src="http://priithaamer.com/photos/rails3-dict-textmate.png" width="538" /></div><div><h3 style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -1px;">Installation instructions</h3><div>Unzip downloaded file into <span style="font-weight: bold;">~/Library/Dictionaries</span> folder if you want to keep this dictionary only for yourself. You may need to create this folder if you haven't installed any dictionaries before.</div><div><div><br />
</div><div>To make it available for all users, drop the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ruby on Rails 3.0.0b3.dictionary</span> folder into <span style="font-weight: bold;">/Library/Dictionaries</span> folder.</div></div></div></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-68872480773389097622010-05-09T14:05:00.000-07:002010-05-09T14:20:51.180-07:00Happy Mothers Day...<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To the person, whom I love dearly..</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I was just drifted away today morning with all my childhood thoughts and those very special days with you MOM!!!</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-How you used to wait outside for me during my board exams and be the first one to know how I performed on all those exams... Love you mom for waiting there during those difficult exam times...</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-For your patience when i always used to complain abt everyone(relatives , teachers).</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-u r the only one Supported me when i failed to secure a good rank in EAMCET(Engineering Entrance) Thanks amma ..</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-u r the only one waiting for my phone call each and every day ( BOSS won't expect calls on weekends )...</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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I think I will go for an entirely original approach to this topic. You see, if you were on Twitter, you would've noticed, that there are two kinds of people when it comes to IPL. </span><br />
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1. Those who are Cricket fanatics and ALWAYS talk about the IPL. Sometimes too much . Including those who watch it on YouTube at a 5 minute delay like my friend and hate the rest of the tweets at home for spoiling the suspense; and,<br />
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2. Those who hate everything about IPL and thinks that basically, you're just a dick out to rip off everybody and make a lot of money, and screw over every Indian in the process. These are the people who sign into Twitter only after games get over, or have successfully made use of filters so that they don't see anything with the tag #IPL.<br />
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Now, I don't belong to either category. See, I like watching cricket. I like it when Yusuf Pathan blasts a 37 ball 100, or Warne flights the ball and makes an idiot out of the batsman.<br />
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But, I should tell you, the IPL sucks for me too at times. I will tell you the reasons why:<br />
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1. Why the heck does it last so long?<br />
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2. I like using the terms 'Catches', 'Sixes', and 'Awesome'. Your puppet doll commentators, for some reason insist on using 'Karbon Kamaal Catch', 'DLF Maximum' and 'Citi Moment of Success' instead of their better substitutes. The retards!<br />
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3. How do you guys manage to squeeze in an ad while the spinner takes his run-up?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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As conclusion, I'd also like to politely request you to take a look at the English Premier League. It's obviously bigger than the IPL in terms of viewership. But there are no Barclay's Super Goals or a Nike Super Duper Tackle in the EPL now is there?<br />
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See Mr. Modi, I know you like money. I do too. But we all gotta draw the line somewhere, don't we?? whats ur comment Mr Tharoor :)</span>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-84634470069503409762010-04-17T06:32:00.000-07:002010-04-17T06:32:20.622-07:00Planning to buy an electric car by French Govt<div class="post-body entry-content" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">French Govt have announced that , The Branded new 50k electrical automobile-vehicles are going to be launched in PARIS . Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo have confirmed this source to the press meet on Tuesday.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BovPYXu8gks6_Ak-qiWkaTg1kFnsohyphenhyphencEiF91lQfK6og3bTgnES6V2-bZBIV-6ilf5YD6tBQpFBXrPuYzNbrreXY_fN1dn3-WXkxfZ-6GVGxl2J8aVAHpNIBbw3iwQmFDenuuyZNWwA/s1600/rest-in-peace-gms-ev1-electric-car1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BovPYXu8gks6_Ak-qiWkaTg1kFnsohyphenhyphencEiF91lQfK6og3bTgnES6V2-bZBIV-6ilf5YD6tBQpFBXrPuYzNbrreXY_fN1dn3-WXkxfZ-6GVGxl2J8aVAHpNIBbw3iwQmFDenuuyZNWwA/s320/rest-in-peace-gms-ev1-electric-car1.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="320" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A tender to accommodate the cars to a accumulation of 20 at atomic partly state-owned companies is to be able in the upcoming future. These companies consists Air France, activity supplier EDF, and the state-owned abuse arrangement.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition, Paris will offer a benefit of 5,000 euros ($6,800) to all private individuals who going to buy an electric auto by the year 2012.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Borloo additionally said that 12 French cities and urban centers accept committed themselves to establishing a arrangement of recharging stations. Motorway blow stops and bazaar esplanade places will be answerable to accommodate accessories to recharge electric-car batteries</span></div></div>Praneel PIDIKITIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976563078217453182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512012527539946205.post-15866394868660376592010-04-13T23:23:00.000-07:002010-04-13T23:27:27.299-07:00LEAD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t believe leadership is about your accomplishments or credentials. It’s about your presence. It’s what’s inside that makes you stand out. Leadership is often defined by how others view you.</span></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="more-3123" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s not easy to be an effective leader. You know you have experience and knowledge – others see it as arrogance. You think you are contributing in a real and meaningful way – others see it as butting in. You think you are enabling others – others see you as ignoring them. You just can’t win.</span></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leadership does not need to be complex or complicated to be effective. In fact, when you keep your leadership practices simple, you are more apt to practice them on a daily basis. You can effectively LEAD with four strategies: Listen, Encourage, Act, and Delegate..</span></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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