Friday, June 6, 2008

Xp-err--hence

I am a person who has been growing along with microsoft products... first it was dos and then the advanced version of dos in which i played games like paranoid... dave... and then came windows 3.1... i was calling it wow... its amazing... those days it used to take around 20 minutes for the system to boot... but it was ok... was introduced to few more amazing features like wordpad... paint... and then came mac... i learned manythings using mac.... and then windows 95...98... and then xp...
we all know xp is great and also for its errors too...
Actually! just for the title i had to write such a boring stuff... i was about to blog on something else which is even more boring... well lemme do it...
It was early in the morning and it was today like getting all things rite... the way in which the day unfolded was interesting. The first thing was to get the presentation done for a meeting in the first half of the day... had everything on place and when i went to the place... it was like oops... there was no need of meeting at all.... as they had freezed on things just a day before... i tried my level best to convince them for the presentation... i was working almost a month for this presentation... Well! they cut a sweet sorry for me to taste it when i left that place... it was approaching 1 in the noon and this one was also an important meeting as well... almost everything had been done and they had freezed on us... so the day was to get the documents done and contract signed... yet again it was so unfortunate as they had someother issues and they had to go up with someone else... and they too gave me a sweet sorry for me to taste... i had two more meetings that day... and those were also important... It was approaching 4 in the evening... and it was time for me to get things rite and move forward for the meeting... went to the place and waited for an hour and at last they turned up... the result was a bit different... they said due to other priorities they have put this project on hold and they might be taking it again after couple of months... now the last one... it was scheduled at 8:30 in the nite.... it was with a vip guy... this time the project was half way through and was payment time... thought should be a cool game... went there and was waiting... waiting... it was 9:30... and this guy turned up and gave peanuts... and thats the way the cookie crumbled....
Well! the four meetings had different outputs and initially i thought nothing went rite... took things together on that night and thought should get things done... did a small research and analysis stuff...
Well! in the second meeting on the day the reason the people said was due to some issues they had to go with someone else even though we were freezed... actually that was helpful for me to find the gateway for the first meeting... thought once someone is freezed... still things can change... afterall its a business world... laid a good foundation and in three days time the destiny was changed... the guy who made me to taste a sweet sorry in the first meeting three days later he did that for someone else and we were in...
now for the second meeting... when something is freezed then it has to be that way... so... yet again laid a foundation there for the gateway and within a week time destiny changed yet again... we were in again...
for the third meeting... have laid a foundation and waiting for the result... for this last meeting the guy who gave me peanuts... gave him back the same... and then he realised and released.

Actually! that day made me to realize... that no day is bad day... Its only that we need to have the mindset to learn from things... Just in case if things had gone smoothly on that day... then i wouldn't have learned things... sometimes in life whatever we learn from the tough times are of great value when we want to taste success...
well! thats it for now... thanks for dropping in to read...

Saturday, May 3, 2008

When i ran out of thoughts

I had my lunch and i am feeling drowsy, had a heavy meal. Thought the best thing would be to scribble something in the blog... Got it. I am gonna write straight without reading it and lvng it to you all. thanks for dropping to read a crap stuff... your on ur way to waste your time...
for all those who want to be creative or who think they are creative like me... then here is something which we need to understand... every individual is creative... and it is something which keeps changing from time to time by the use of technology and other related damn things... i guess we are approaching a state of creative exploitation... the purpose of creativity is to enhance something... actually what happens is... Well! i guess i gonna change my topic now... am running short of words to write...
Well! actually few days back i was moved highly by seeing a sexy girl wearing a sexy top with a sexy skirt and if i had to define her she is the acronym of sexy... when i went close to her, she turned towards me... and luckily i got some topic and few words to catch her attention... well called her out for dinner i felt so good when she nodded her head in the same sexy style... when we went for the restaurant it was all set for a blasting romance... just before it was about to start my brother was kicking my ass as it was already 9 in the morning...
I guess this should do for now... thanks for dropping to read... please be as harsh as possible as my language is worst and the presentation is poor... and please only comment on how more worst i can make it.

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Our Intelligence. No BIG Mystery

We who live in the 21st century suffer from a breathtaking conceit regarding our ancient human ancestors. We believe that the poor dears were ignorant little children, occasionally making a breakthrough discovery to move the train of human knowledge along (some even going so far as to believe that aliens were responsible for it all rather than people) but by and large, seeing the ancients as a dirty, doltish bunch of superstitious ignoramuses with no indoor plumbing and an unhealthy reliance on the mystical in their everyday lives.
This ignores the facts of archeology which paint a much different picture. About 50,000 years ago, our ancestors created art on the walls of caves outside of Lascaux, France that rivals in realism and talent anything that Renaissance painters could do. The Polynesians populated the Islands of the Pacific by crossing expanses of ocean that wouldn’t be duplicated by Europeans for thousands of years. Going the Polynesians one better, it is still a mystery how people from Southeast Asia managed to make it to New Guinea 50,000 years ago.
The Egyptians moved blocks of stone weighing tens of thousands of pounds with little more than levers and rope (the block and tackle pulley system was waiting to be discovered). By sheer brute strength, they carved and maneuvered these stones, stacking them so perfectly that the tolerances achieved would make a modern engineer jealous.
The irrigation system invented by the Mayans was so sophisticated that nothing comparable would be seen until the 19th century. The Mayans also made an unbelievable leap of knowledge by coming up with the concept of zero in mathematics; as counterintuitive in its own right as the invention of quantum mechanics.
And then there were the Greeks. What we know about this astonishing culture has piqued our curiosity and excited our admiration since Medieval times. It’s what we don’t know about them that may, in the end, prove to be even more incredible than anything we could have imagined.

While scientists now know pretty much what the Antikythera mechanism did, we still don’t really have a good idea of what it was for. Possible practical uses for the device include:
- Astrology was commonly practiced in the ancient world. In order to create an astrological chart, the configuration of the heavens at a particular point of time is needed. It can be very difficult and time-consuming to work this out by hand, and a mechanism such as this would have made an astrologer’s work very much easier.
- Calculating solar and lunar eclipses.
- Setting the dates of religious festivals connected with astronomical events
- Adjusting calendars, which were based on lunar cycles as well as the solar year
This new research indicates that the Antikythera mechanism could predict eclipses to the hour of their appearance as well as the orbits of at least Venus and Mars.
The Antikythera mechanism featured wheeled gears whose sophistication and exactness wouldn’t be seen again until the watchmakers of the middle ages. What this device hints at is the probability that much human knowledge and many technological leaps were lost to history following the fall of Greek civilization. Why didn’t this kind of knowledge pass to new generations of humans so that they could build upon and improve what was already done?
Roman stupidity probably had something to do with it, an empire always more willing to plunder and destroy rather than save and study – except that which could assist them in their conquering. And the fall of that empire which plunged the Europe into the so-called “dark ages.” Of course, while barbarians were running wild in Europe, Muslim culture was in full flower, making their own scientific advances. The Muslims, in fact, admired the Greeks immensely and much of what we know of them is largely given to us by Muslim scholars who saved what they could following the great upheavals in Europe.The Antikythera mechanism reminds us that the human capacity for making great leaps forward in knowledge is not something limited to modern technological man. Throughout the history of our species, these astonishing breakthroughs have occurred in every culture and during every epoch proving that we really are quite clever when we put our minds to it.