ePAPER

This is a new concept under rigorous research these days by major electronics companies. What this envisions is making use of molecule to make visual patterns.. Ever wondered what is happening with so many people with spectacles these days. This is a direct result of the current display technology - TV or computer screen let us read/see stuff by light from a artificial light source. Now this ePaper thing is the best alternate to this possible. What it means is that the display made by this is just like a paper in the way in which light comes to you. There is no illumination source. The light that falls on every object is what is reflected and lets you see the display, What this means is that the next generation will be chiefly spectacles free.
How it works. Well the display needs to display a message. Now the screen is divided into pixels as in any other display. This message that we want to display can be made by joining dots made by arrangements of black and white on the pixels. Once we get the pattern, the problem lies in how to make the pattern in that color. The answer is in some special chemical characteristics. The front side is colored black and the back is white. These chemical molecules form the pixel and chemicals are turned in a way that the effect is the display of the message. Now basic ebook readers on the technology are out on the market for a while. The next step is obviously color. This is also at a good stage. We can extend the technology to colors by using three chemicals displaying blue, red & green. Now the next step is display rate. The rate here at present is more suitable for reading texts and other static data as the refresh rate is not adequate. We need to get the refresh rate to enough so that video display is possible. That's the day you break your specs. On second thought you will still need them - just the next generation won't.

The Old v/s the New

Ever felt inferior to something or someone ? Well I am as a human being.. The old generation is more close to what a human was supposed to be like. I know there can be no definition of a human brought in if it's humanity's characteristics that themselves are being debated upon. Well but we definitely can define what human race was meant to be. The human race was the most intelligent species from the beginning of it's existence. So basically achieving intelligence was not the principle goal it was after - already being richly endowed. What humans didn't have was passion, brotherhood and emotions. This is what civilization has taught the race over the years. As progress is the goal of any object living or dead (manifest this progress in whichever way as may seem suitable) so this new discovery of brotherhood compassion and passion was the way to humanity's goal. But we see today that the goal has been forgotten - the only goal today is to be better. We want better than what we have - better than ever. Humans today are more like machines than ever - of course we find the comparison to machines absurd because in our evolution machines have also evolved and we see no likeness in us. We aren't there yet, but what about the future - as the way things are turning out to be we will become more mechanical in the choices we make in life, emotion is being stifled within our hearts as we gain more intellect, sense and knowledge. Knowledge that helps us rule the world. But the knowledge that at the same time has deprived us the mastership of our own souls !

Book Review Chariots of Gods - Erick von Daniken Part II

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Ever wondered about ancient calendars? The modern science with astronomical observations and knowledge was developed mainly in the last century or so. The ancient civilizations somehow had their own means of knowing their stars. The calendars by every civilization had 12 months. It is understood that a year is a standard period of time as the earth makes one complete revolution and different civilization may have independently come to the same standard. But why 12 months? Lunar calendars make sense of 12 months as they correspond to 12 rotations of the moon about the earth. But what about others. they somehow chose to divide a year in the same 12 parts .! Also we see that the stories in the myths sometimes draw a lot in common in different civilizations - plagiarism ?! The Noah of ark is the Manu in Hindu myth. Moses receiving knowledge from God in a mountain and Prophet receiving his set of rules from Allah.. The birth and life of Jesus and Horus of Egyptian myth is almost exactly similar if you discount the names and places....Well there are loads of similar examples given in the book. They basically seem to point to one explanation. Have you wondered how all children seem to know rhymes like Baba black sheep, Old man Donald etc.. well they are the standard rhymes taught in schools across the world. Well the myths that we now regard as ancient history may well be stories that the aliens brought with them (which may or may not actually be true in their home planet) and taught them to different tribes that they were with. The tribes relying mainly on memory made certain twists in these stories and the end product came out to be 90% same and 10% local touch. !

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CONSPIRACY GONE TOO FAR ?

There are now loads of material that expose glaring proofs of conspiracies and if they are to be believed almost all the men in power have sold their soul to some shady characters .. but what i do not understand is what goal do these shady characters have. They as we are told aim to eventually enslave the whole race - but that certainly is not going to happen in a hurry at least the work of fleecing 6 billion people is not to be accomplished in one person's lifetime. So are these people very kind fathers who are chalking out an empire of slaves for their children and descendants ? I do not think so.. The temptation to uncover a major scandal has made these conspiracy theorists to go to senseless lengths... After all they are also attention whore as are the politicians . the only difference is these have no power .. !~

CANCER A GONER SOON?

Good news - cancer may soon be conquered. Ya there have been treatments before and they mostly resulted in relapses. Also there have been news of wonder drugs by the dozen that have claimed to cure cancer - but that was mostly quack stuff. Now science has finally won the first battle against the disease. Scientists in UK have managed to cure a patient of skin cancer (with no relapses) by grafting immune cells that fight the cancer cell in a petri dish. They cloned these immune cells which were far too less in the patients body and released them in numbers large enough to fight off the cancer cells and eventually clear the cancer growth from the patient. Other than the patient and his pals others can be happy at this because the cure was not a one time lucky thing - this is the gaining of a foot hold in the battle. The success of the cure gives us the direction to proceed!! The answer has been found.

DIVIDE AND RULE - THE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Has it ever occurred to you that what religion, patriotism, wealth and colonialism have in common. It's divide and rule. The same policy has worked for the things people most vehemently support and for the things people most disgustingly hate. The reason perhaps is that the same people are behind all of these and rather colonialism is a much more honest effort as it show's the evil in it out in the open while each of these other efforts seek mind control of the general public as means to accomplish their goals.
The easiest way to defeat an individual is to make him lose confidence, doubt his every action and that of his fellow people and make him conscious of the world around him. This is what exactly what the modern world has made man into. Why has the world suddenly become a bad bad place infested with bad elements..? The only reason is that propagandists have managed to succeed unhindered. The massive conspiracy against mankind itself .. !

LOGIC OF AN AGNOSTIC

So my take on this whole religion issue is that of a hardcore agnostic. We hardly are affected by whether the story is true or false .. if and only if we stop caring about it. Else we risk making a fool of ourselves by a bunch of very clever people - Which may the religious leaders or atheist propaganda pushers. So what seems more logical is to not indulge in speculation and go on to live your life and do yourself some good. Not believing religion to be fake will not make you ignorant. And not believing in religion will not make you immoral. What will make you immoral is the deeds that you do. Just consider that XYZ is the true religion - it has the real God etc ..if we do not accept this and go on with our life, what will be the consequence. Ever heard of an honest man who does not indulge in sycophancy ? well that is what you will be... you do not need to lick the boot of God even if he exists.. Make ample use of the life provided to you to do good to yourself, your family and others if possible. Well sure religion as a whole gives instructions which are considered to help you towards goodness ( but that is not for sure in all cases.. religious fanatics are there to prove this wrong) but that does not mean that you can't do it on your own. It's something like the private tuition mania today - the child can learn on his own given the opportunity to experiment. So can you find your own conscious and morality if only you go out and experiment and not rely on the theological rules that chain you rather than free you. Experience the freedom of being an agnostic - the freedom of deciding your own right and wrong ! You are your own God.

GOOD GETS PUNISHED HERE

No good deed goes unpunished.. never thought it could ever be used for a politician - but seems like our dear PM is such a poor poor fellow who is getting marginalized for doing his job with the determination and grit that any post-1990 PM ever has. Though he may not have the clout, the free hand that might be needed for the job but he still has managed to do a decent job for over 4 years. What is admirable is that he has maintained his views and fought (alas in vain) for his ideas - a battle he knew there was no winning. The nuclear deal is one thing he has been very enthusiastic about. But the CPM has managed to keep the deal from happening till date and threatens to pull down the government in case it goes ahead. The fact that CPM is opposed to taking an initiative is an understatement - in fact they come out with full force against any one who attempts to take a step forward. Any argument against this opinion falls flat in the face of the situation in west bengal. The rising of petrol prices that PM managed to coerce everyone into agreeing is the final blow that will see the government being routed in the next round of elections. So the government is bad/incapable because the world economy is in turmoil ??! When will Indians grow up to be sensible and not act like children. Mommy didn't buy me chocolate - she is bad!! Kind of funny is that China has today announced a hike of 16-18% in fuel prices .. much larger than the Indian hike. Though economics is not my area but even a baboon can see that when prices are pointing to the north pole any measure that can bring down demand will indeed help. And the fuel price hike by the two most populous nations is indeed an immensely helpful step. Perhaps other countries may follow suit. !

Book Review: Nightfall - Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov - never heard the name, well most people haven't. He is perhaps the Shakespeare of sci-fi only not so famous. The whole robot concept is his idea. The three laws and everything have been so perfectly imagined that it can almost be said that Asimov either knows to travel in time or has somehow managed to write a manual for the scientist to work on development ! Anyways amongst Asimov's works Nightfall is considered the best. It is the story of a planet with 6 suns. The people have never been without sun light their entire life and the most dreadful thing they can imagine is to be in darkness. Well there is a eclipse that occurs every 2000 years that somehow manages to keep the planet in darkness for hours. This destroys the perfect world - the sanity of people is destroyed and most go back to being cave men. The way in which the human psyche has been presented in this work is simply amazing - to imagine a world quite so different from ours and being able to see the differences that will occur in such altered conditions is a most difficult task that Asimov has managed better than anyone of us can hope for.

VIRTUALIZATION

Latest buzzword doing circles these days. Well it deserves all the attention. It's a wonderful new technique. What is entails is make your desktop with the operating system installation/files and settings as a single file which may be accessed at any terminal within the network. The central server allows you to create virtual machines. In these machines the good thing is they can be accessed from terminal having any physical configuration (to a limit). So what's the use of this. Well the easy migration removes the down time to almost zero Once your terminal has any technical difficulties you just switch to a new. While for this we generally need a redundancy plan to survive any technical problems - here a few standby terminals do the same work. Also a single machine runs a single operating system in a simple PC. So we need say 20 terminals for 20 operations. But in case of a virtual machine concept we can have the same operations in about 6-8 terminals. A terminal generally has an average 20% usage and a peak of 50%. But all operations do not show peak usage at the same time. So we put 3-4 operations in each terminal. When any process seems to show peak usage some process is shifted to another terminal which is under lower stress. Thus we have maximum utilization of resources. The hardware and power cost savings are considerable. This is more prominent is data warehousing units. The efficiency levels can be boosted by up-to 40-50%

Book review: Chariots of GOD? - Erick von Daniken Part I

It's a very famous book from the 80s - also a rather esoteric theoretical book presenting revolutionary ideas with sensible and very logical points. The central idea is that human development was aided by more advanced aliens. The possibility of finding life on other planets is not debated against - rather whether we can find them or not is. Ever wondered why the ancient people have glimmers of technology that are yet not development by our modern science. For example the Ashoka pillar in delhi which has not rusted even after thousands of years, or how did egyptians manage to build monstrous pyramid when they had no modern machines or about the technology of the Incas. One explanation given here is that aliens made all these wonderful marvels on earth and taught them to humans but we have lost them now. Same with techniques of combat like karate. The techniques were not easy for earlier civilizations to have discovered - they couldn't even properly use it. Aliens landed on earth in their space-crafts which the rustic people took to be magnificent creatures and on receiving their guidance/kindness praised them as gods. The 'gods' mated with the humans and they have half gods or humans with advanced genes which helped mankind evolve into a more developed species. These half gods were sent to further breed and help advance the evolution of humans by centuries. They were to be made kings of sorts and control the people as they had superior genes. The mythology stories quote things like a Brahmastra in the repertoire of Arjuna (who was a god son) - couldn't it easily have been a nuclear weapon of the most advanced kind. The fact that an arrow fired by him became 10-20 arrows could suggest a splinter bomb type of arm. The fact that Arjun never missed a shot could be more attributed to his target lock gun. The solar eclipse by Krishna may have been a covering of the sun by the gigantic ship at the behest of the commander aka Krishna. The story of god sons - the five pandavas points to interbreeding between gods and humans. They were sent there to rule and guide the development of the humans. Thats what pandavas actually did. The book states such and more logical examples from each and every civilization and mythologies. The whole concept of different religions is another big fallacy. How could the world have been created by the gods of each religion - God the father from Christianity, Allah and the Brahma and others all involved in building the earth. If gods are such good buddies why are religions fighting. And if it was the work of a single god are 3-4 billion people wrong ?? Well more interesting is the possibility that each of these gods are the leaders of the squads sent to each region. One to the middle east, one in india and one in europe were probably the best squads - that why their religions are the most famous now.
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Reservation Raj

So Rajasthan government shows that it's as useless as we thought it was and more. After a month long standoff the Gujjar have prevailed. Their demand - inclusion of Gujjar in the ST category giving them a 5% reservation in education/government jobs. Well seeing the power they seem to wield any one but them deserve a reservation quota (if such a quota ever made any sense). First of all let us think why are such quotos supposed to be in existence. They were created long time back during 1950s when the weaker sections needed encouragement to come up. Well it made some sense back then. They were supposed to be slowly phased out as the communities grabbed the opportunities such provided and gained a place in the society. Well rather than phasing them out our ever profiteering politicians realized they had a gold mine in here. Promise a ticket to this pampering quota and get the whole communities votes. Who cares whether what the consequences will be - it won't be there to haunt him within his 5 year term for sure. Well such being the principles of our 'leaders' the country boasts of almost 50% quota now. And if (rather when) the gujjar demands are met the quota may climb upto 68% !!! Well the only message that the government is sending to the poor general folks out there is that they dont need us. General category people have enjoyed too much of India so far and now they either hand over india to sc/st or better still leave India !
Reservation basically means to put in some folk based on their community. But wait a second - that strangely sounds more and more like discrimination - only difference is discrimination is targeted against a specific set of people and reservation is targeted against all sets of people other than the SC/ST. While the need to encourage the weaker sections cannot be argued against, the methods can be. Well, is putting 10 people in IIT for example help the community or providing free education to 100 children at the primary and secondary level ?? For once politicians (who btw are the best mathematicians around) have grabbed the wrong line in the numbers game. Give the poor kids an incentive to study and let the general people ( who have actually build the india as we know it) enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than playing robinhood teach communities to share.! God.. this is so sounding like a lesson in primary school - but guess most folks in parliament have never been there ..!!

PROGRESS

It's only natural that we wish to move up a few notches from where we begin with... progress is but natural . but then what is special in that? Special is the guy who begins from the bottom and still has the guts to dream about reaching the top deserves to be called something. So does that mean that greatness is the birth right of the underprivileged? Well not really because there is no limit at the top .. sky does not really have a roof does it !!However high you begin with you still have room to take a big jump. The only reason that the sky is limitless is so that you are never short of dreams come what may.

DYNASTIC DEMOCRACY v/s MONARCHY

The fact that dynastic politics still exist in India .. makes me rethink about the whole democracy thing..maybe Indians do not deserve / want democracy.. sounds insulting right.. well it should because such is the state of affairs..
So so many are willingly ready to lay their loyalties in the feet of their leaders' families..also we all know that the person in power will definitely abuse his power (unless he is a bollywood hero) to get the best of stuff for his folk.. and yes lots of money..but why do we hate the idea of monarchy ??
the ruler attains power by hereditary.. then monarch abuse their power unhindered..he is not answerable to anyone for his actions
wat else ..he takes in money by taxes and lavishly spends it .. nothing else coming to my mind..oh he may not have the capability to rum the country.. well it's better if capabilities of our MPs and ministers are left unevaluated...
well what among these is different with democracy w.r.t India..inheritance is given .. too many examples ..
about abuse of power.. well believe u me there is not a crime that a politician will not get his folks off for...should someone ever dare to catch him..
about the money.. well there is limit to money one can spend.. but when you start hoarding ..there's no limit.. tat way politicians though may sometimes not be able to spend millions in public ..but end up siphoning off and hoarding billions .
Basically as i see it democracy is just a veil of respectability that the common man buys at a huge price to feel better !!

MEANING OF LIFE?

What is the meaning of life? Why are we always fighting the world to be alive. Maybe not always literally but to gather the necessities and after that the luxuries. Why all this when you know where you are going to end up. What does all this add up to - we do not take anything with us to wherever we go after life. Why not make the time we are given on this earth count for something other than this fake race to get everything. Why go for fleeting things when you can do something that stays with you forever. Your good deeds, even the smallest deed that you do without any self interest in it will always be with you. This is the way you can stay alive even after your body is no more, a smile that you bring to the face of another man in suffering will give you something that even the most lavishly living people can never experience - a feeling of having achieved something.

WHY IS LOVE SO?

If love is the most beautiful thing in our life then why is the thing we know least about. how is it that it makes even the most surefooted person confused? why is it difficult for us to know what love is? is the language we speak so inadequate that love can not even be defined in it? why does it give so much pain, why does it make you feel so helpless so powerless. specially when you can not come out with your love. the problem as i see it here is that people do not realise how much they are lucky to have someone to love them. they make not share the same love but they can respect the person who loves them so dearly. but the usual response people give is cutting off their old friendship as well if they don't share the same feelings.

Is there a answer to the pain of love? Or is it supposed to hurt? But the pain is nothing compared to the happiness it fills you with - it makes you realise who you are.

LOVE

Why is it so difficult to say to someone that you love her? Why is love seen as a demand, a chain? Rather it is the only thing that sets you free. Why can't an expression of love be seen as just what it is - a honest expression of your feelings. It is merely letting her know what your feelings for her are. When you say i love you to someone it does not mean that you are asking her to reciprocate and love you back, just a wish that she would. If it is true love you will wait for her to arrive at the place that you are i.e. be in love with you. Why cant it be seen as the promise to be there for her come what may?

WHAT USE IS GOD?

What do we need GOD for....does praying/offering sacrifices/fast do anyone any good....i guess not..even if we consider a hypothetical GOD..has he made all this world to give his vanity a boost.. i don't think so..certainly his only wish would be that people on this earth are good. and if there is no GOD tat shud not stop anyone from being good..
so why do we need a religion to make us good.. people who are not good can never be made any different by religion..can they..?
so y all this debate over a question which doesnt even matter...be good do good of your as well as others and sleep peacefully leave this religious fighting for opportunists n politicians....

join the religion of goodness whose only GOD is your good deeds...

You know the problem is not that there are too many religions ..it's that they are doing the wrong things..manipulating people and all..
life is not a military parade..we dont need to confirm to any particular order..people can choose to follow watevr they feel is good...
so even if we have 6 billion religions of goodness i think its more welcome than one single religion of the kind we have now...