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Khan Academy - The new age learning

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Don’t miss this site and videos.... (Famous Educational Site - Featured in Economic Times). This site has various very good tutorials on Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and many more subjects.

Whats Khan Academy?
Answer: http://www.khanacademy.org/about

Over 2400 videos

Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.

"I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him."

—Salman Khan (Sal)

How do I Start?
Answer: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/getting-started

I want to know more.....
Answer: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq

What are different ways to access Khan Academy?
1. Android Mobile or Tablet – has a separate application available
2. Iphone or Tablet - has a separate application available
3. Youtube (on Mobile/Tablet/PC)
4. Khan Academy site as given above.
5. PCs / Media Center PC / HTPC using XBMC, Boxee
First four are the best and easiest ways to access the videos and that too on the move….

Independent Kashmir - A myth and against the wishes of People of Kashmir

Kashmir issue is not a Muslim issue.. its an issue relating to the common public of Kashmir be it from any religion. Also it is an issue relating to innocent ppl who have currently migrated from Kashmir due to prolonged unrest in the region.

Also it is an issue of enemy countries trying to gain control over the best part of India to make entry easy into India for themselves. They do not have any interest in the welfare of the People of Kashmir. POK and people of POK are the best living examples of it.

The People of Kashmir do not want Independent Kashmir coz they know that their neighbouring enemy countries will never let them be Independent.

Kashmir has always been, is and will always be the part of India. Its better to be with a country to which it actually belongs ..i.e. India. India the country of self restraint, self respect, self sustained, Most secularist country in the world. The choice of People of India and in specific from the people of India, People of Kashmir have made the correct choice by not asking to separate Kashmir.

Even today westerners are amazed by the fact that how such a vast country with such diverse culture and religion can peacefully remain as a United India!! India even after many instances of Terror Attacks is a CASE STUDY for western countries to understand the values, ethics and teachings from India.

I recommend reading the article on BHARAT TANTRA @ http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/bharat-tantra-prequel-to-modern-history/ (this might probably help understand reason for current state of affairs)

I think its the HIGH TIME for the people of Kashmir to Get Up, Unite and Ask its Local Government to think beyond Religion. Religion is one "Hindustani" meaning Indian, what is different is way of life i.e "Hindu" "Muslim" "Sikh" "Isahi" and others.

Its time for them to ask their Local Government and put pressure on Central Government to take strong action against the Terrorists within and outside the Kashmir who are affecting the Peace of Their and Ours Beloved Kashmir.

Stop thinking the Local Government will act on thier own....put pressure on Local Government to act and think and speak beyong Religion. Also Local Kashmirs should stop helping and being with the wrong people...do not support them even if it means to say on their face that what they are saying or doing is wrong.

I would conclude by saying "Apna kaam khudh ko karna chahiye, apne balbute pe... Doosoro ke Kandho pe to Jaanaaze hi nikalte hai.."

Ek chotti si naukri ka talabgaar hu main!! (Kishore Kumar)

Frnds just came across this beautiful, simple, peaceful and classic song from Kishoredaa's movie... just loved it....



Also thinking that storyline of the movies in past esp in black&white era were more contextual wth the economic, social and political scenario existing then. These movies would ...educate & make people aware of the conditions and also suggest some path ahead...



Well for now you may keep all the tentions aside and just enjoy this which has a little sad part to its also...but is simple and beautiful enjoyable song..See More

Coconut Water

‘It’s a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood. It’s the fluid of life, so to speak.’

1. Coconut Water is More Nutritious – Less fat and NO cholesterol!
2. Coconut Water is More Healthy – Much lower calories
3. Coconut water is naturally sterile — Water permeates though the filtering husk!
4. Coconut water is the very stuff of Nature, biologically Pure, full of Natural Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to ward off fatigue… and is the next wave of energy drinks BUT natural!’, according to Mortin Satin, Chief of the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organization.
5. Coconut water contains more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks (117 mg) and most energy drinks..
6. Coconut water has less sodium (25mg) where sports drinks have around 41mg and energy drinks have about 200mg!
7. Coconut water has 5mg of Natural Sugars where sports and energy drinks range from 10-25mg of Altered Sugars.
8. Coconut water is very high in Chloride at 118mg; compared to sports drinks at about 39mg.

Data is based on a 100ml drink

[Author: Unknown / Source: Email Received]

Has anything change? Will anything change?

Have a look at what’s have changed in 20 years - or you can say in 15 years!!


20 years back – School bag.
Today – Office bag.

20 years back – A notebook
Today – HP Note book

20 years back – Hero Ranger
Today = Hero Honda

20 years back – Half Pants
Today – Full Pants

20 years back – Playing with plastic cars running on battery
Today – Playing with metal car running on petrol

20 years back – Scared of teachers and exams!
Today – Scared of Bosses and targets

20 years back – Wanting to be the class topper
Today – Wanting to be the employee of the month

20 years back – Quarterly Exams
Today – Quarterly results

20 years back – Annual Exams
Today – Annual appraisals

20 years back – Pocket Money
Today – Salary

20 years back – Eagerly Waiting for Diwali crackers
Today – Eagerly waiting for Diwali Bonus

20 years back – Craving for the latest toy in the market
Today – Craving for the latest gadget in the market

So did you realize nothing has changed.

Socialism

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.


That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

What a profound short little paragraph that says it all :

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

[Author: Unknown / Source: Email Received]

Winmo: Edit Registry to force ask install location for applications

Even the most advanced Windows Mobile come with very limited device memory even if the supplementary storage runs into GBs (upto 32 gb in costlier handsets).

Now due to this its very easy to run out of device memory if the applications are not installed on External Storage but are instead installed on the main memory.

This could lead to serious problems like device performance being slow, non-functioning of basic functions like receipt of SMS and the likes (trust me you wouldnt like to be in such a situation).

But the case is such that quite a few device out there in market are not configured to ask the location where the application be installed unless the application is programmed to ask the same. Luckily I found my Omnia I900 to be already configured to ask install location.

In such case you can configure your device to Force "Ask Install Location" by editing your Mobile Registry (using Registry Editor like Total Commander) in following mannar:

To Enable:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\apps\Microsoft Application Installer\fAskDest = 1 (DWORD decimal)


To disable again:
HKLM\Software\apps\Microsoft Application Installer\fAskDest = 0 (DWORD decimal)

Please note:
1. That some applications do not support being installed on the Storage Card and may behave unpredictably, including crashing, so you may need to change it back to 0 to install such applications.
2. Also that some applications do not support the installation on Storage Card and thus the application might not show the option even if the option is set on at "1". This will mostly happen in case of Microsoft Applications and Other Advance Applications.

Tests available on Samsung Omina (Windows Mobile)

These are the tests available on pressing code: *#0*#

Test the Colours on Screen: Red, Green and Blue
Test Sound: Melody
Test Vibration: Vibration
Test Dimming: Dimming
Test Main Camera (back): Megacam
Test Front Camera: CIFcam
Test Touch Sensitivity: Touch

Other Tests:
LightSensor
Sleepmode
Mouse

Google Sidewiki

Today browsing through the buzz I came across one more Google Service which is not yet popularly known its called Google Sidewiki.

It seems to be a fun application if more and more people start using it. Not that its an innovative idea (I think similar service existed as an Firefox addon earlier) but what makes it exciting for me is the fact that now its backed by Google. It means that more and more people will have access to it and it has a potential to become widely used application.

One has to install the Chrome Extention to use Sidewiki and then one can read the inputs/articles of other people on the visited webpage. One can post his or her comments on the webpage to his Blog, Twitter etc there by providing easy of publishing.

What I find missing was the fact that one has to click the Sidewiki icon and then also click "Read Entries" to read if any other user entries exists on the visited vebpage. I think it shhould detect and give automatic indication that the user comments on the page exists. Just realised it does give an indication that the sidewiki entries exists for the page however as per my observation the indicator comes little late..may be my net connection.. early to say...

To understand the working methodology of Google Sidewiki visit http://www.google.com/sidewiki/

So start using Sidewiki and let me know your views...

(PS: This is my first blog entry using Sidewiki)
in reference to: http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index-chrome.html#tbbrand= (view on Google Sidewiki)

The Success Mantra of Google Buzz!!

Power of Google Buzz lies in its capability to even pull the non-twitter users to its Buzz Service.

Consider this that there are many people not using twitter... why... they dont want one more social service network to join... or say any other reason.

On the other hand the people using Twitter will be unable to stop themself from using Buzz. They cant even stop themslves from linking there Twitter account and other networks to Buzz... so Buzz will have loads of activity from its inception... This will attract the other users who dont use Twitter but will use Buzz for its easy accessibilty from Gmail.

So say if 1 Twitter user is able to pull say 5 non-twitter user... buzz ends up having 6 users... The Success Mantra of Google Buzz!!

http://www.google.com/buzz

We also have Human Rights

We also have Human Rights.

We need better and improved transport system too here in Mumbai. Where we can travel with Dignity without touching the Body of other persons travelling. See the status of Mumbai Suburban trains, how OVERCROWDED they are. It is the MOST INHUMAN CONDITION to travel in. I CALL FORWARD THE FIVE STAR ACTIVIST who come forward in the name of human rights to fight for Terrorist like Mohd. Afzal but are not concerned for the Human Rights of Lakhs of People travelling in Mumbai Local Trains. WE PAY TAXES BUT DONT GET FACILITIES. ITS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION.

I also call forward the Five star activist Medha Patkar to also fight for the people of Mumbai who are helpless to fight for their rights while toiling day and night for their bread earning in Mumbai.

TATA NANO - 1 Lac Car - People's Car

http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/jan/10slide1.htm

http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-31335720080110

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/autoindia/tata-cheap-car.asp

Click above links for pics and full story.

But is 1 lac car practical....

What is Total Cost:
Company Cost 1 lac + VAT + Transport Chgs + "Any New Tax that govt may come up with - say - Conjestion Tax"

What you get:
Basic Suspension, Non - AC, No Power Steering, No Power windows, 20 km/ltr mileage

Who will be interested:
Two wheeler owners, Senior citizen, Teenagers/ youngsters, Womens (ofcourse, they might not like two wheelers but Car yepp), all those who want to save money.

Issues:
Traffic - Imagine in Mumbai you take your car out of your house and you are in Traffic... Best of luck current Car owners.
Parking Charges - Expect them to rise as you will have no space to Park.
Parking in Buildings - He he ... existing car owners will fight to fix their parking area.
Fuel Prises - Set to rise as govt. will want to reduce the use of such cars.

Why this will happen:
Because govt. failed to provide better public transport in a even in a city like Mumbai. (also pune, ahmedabad, mysore, banglore, noida, hyderabad....)

Big Questions:
India - Country with population of 100 cr - Huge market - Huge demand for 1 lac Car - Will Tata be able to supply that much quantity?
OR one has to wait years for delivery just like one used to wait for MTNL Connection, Bajaj Scooter, Fiat Padmini car few years back !!

Time will answer them....till then.....

Hats Off:
To Mr. Ratan Tata and his Group for this innovatively priced Car.... its a Volkswagen...Peoples Car...
It may make competitors run for their money...
It may make government to run for improving infrastructure...
It will make people run to book the car.... I m already in a queue to book one... he he...

Thanks to Congress

Borrowed for 20 years? Pay for 38
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=138727

- Interest rate Hikes
- Fuel Rate Hike (Petrol, Deisel, Electricity, LPG)
- Electricity Rate Hike
- Reservations on basis of Caste and Creed
- Office of Profit Bill so that MP/MLA can occupy mulitple offices of Profit in Government.
- Tax - FBT, Service tax increase, Sec. Trans Tax ...
- No Progress in Tracking down the Terrorist responsible in Bombay (oops...Mumbai) Blast.
- Harrasment of Businessmen in Delhi by demolishing their shops even though Government employees only allowed these people to operate illegally in past no action on those Government employees.
- Bad shape of Local Roads and ineffective controls to avoid Floodings in Mumbai (Congress is a Local Government in Maharashtra).
- Trying to Pull down the effectiveness of RTI Act. (Though Mr. Anna Hazare has helped in avoiding the amendments by doing Hunger Strike)

Taj Mahal - I will some time visit this monument.
Jatin