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)