KANK -- live or die at the box office
Sunday, August 13, 2006
We saw Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna(KANK) today,The movie is a good exploration of extra marital relationships. The elaborate sets, the foreign locales, the Jazzzy star cast, the lovely songs, the elaborate song and Dance sequences, the engaging dialogues , the wirtty repartee etc. Some would rate it as Karan Johar’s best movie till date and it would be surprising if it does not turn out to be a super duper hit.
I am a mechanical engineering student and being an engineering student of NIT Calicut it's really very hard to digest this kind of movie.we have sessionals from day after tommorow and still went 4 d movie. some of my frndz r still blaming me for insisting them 2 watch the movie... anyway leave tht.My question is what we are going 2 gain/loose frm d movie ??? actually thr is no anser 4 us(jo hardin hazaro ladkiun ke piche bhagta hai).actually we are not married people and we exactly don't know what is the real relationship b/n a wife and a husband .. 'n we don have any idea abt extra marital relationships... Actually hum log har baat dil pe nahi lete,,, bas haat mein lete ...
Choosing the correct spouse and the correct occupation are the two biggest decisions of one’s life. Karan johar said in an interview in the context of this movie that ”What happens if you find the right person at the wrong time after meeting the wrong person at the right time?”
Dev (Shah Rukh Khan) - whose career falls apart after an accident that leaves him handicapped for life - and Maya (Rani Mukherjee) who struggles to come to terms with her inner self after she realises that she cannot have children.Dev's wife, Rhea (Preity Zinta), is a modern career-driven girl, while Maya's husband Rishi, (Abhishek Bachchan), is everything that is classy and urbane.
The movie explores the depths of human emotions, the dark corners of every personality. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna takes an interesting turn when Dev meets Maya and sparks fly.
The new found relationship soon creates complications between the two couples. It also causes them to put their lives and their marriages into perspective and face life as they had never done before.
In the movie Salam Namaste(which also explores marital compatability), a question is posed to Saif Ali khan, "Kisiko jaanne ke liye kitna waqt chahiye"?He replies,”Wasie tau ek mulakat kafi hai. Warna puri zindagi kum hain”
The film answers one of the hardest questions of life - 'What do you do when you meet the love of your life and you're married to someone else?'
Here all character is really good.they hav done their job very well.SRK is really matured here.Abhishek,Rani,Preity are also damn good.But i didn't understand why Mr.Bachhan just signed this type of movie ??
He is just like a naughty old man.
On the whole movie thr is only 1 dialoge which is best suited for him."LEAVE my son", a dying man(Mr. Bachhan) tells his daughter-in-law from a hospital bed."You don't love him. By staying with him you are denying him of someone else's love and yourself of true love. These unfulfilled relationships won't make anyone happy."
Still thr is some confusion with the movie ... i don't know Why doesn’t Rani like Abhishek Bachchan.She is mad or what ?????
"Mohabbat aur maut - donon bin bulaye mehmaan hote hain..." goes one of the dialogues in the film. Whether this film will live or die at the box office is the big question.
Soft Drinks should be BANNED
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
These soft drinks like Coca Cola, Pepsi etc. were recently in the news for having found pesticides in them which are far above the safe level of consumption. Actually these pesticides are in the water table bcoz of the excessive use of them in the farms and other areas. Companies shud need to check these levels and equip themselves wid the best water treatment plants. Although i hv heard that there are no such rules to check the quantity of pestisides in the soft drinks in other countries bt here in INDIA we need these rules as the water here contains a lot of these harmul chemicals. There was a wide spread protest against the presence of these chemicals in the soft drinks all over India. Even the schools have been banned frm serving these aerated drinks in the canteen. I dont know much bout other countries but they should also start looking at this as this is the future of human health.
Personal DNA test
This is just another interesting thing i saw long back from Ashwins post n thought of posting it here....U can test yourself thru a series of questions to judge wat kind of a personality you are...
More than the test, the UI's and controls used to fabricate this test is awesome..
I was rated as a Free-wheeling leader....
Follow the link to take the test: click here
More than the test, the UI's and controls used to fabricate this test is awesome..
I was rated as a Free-wheeling leader....
Follow the link to take the test: click here
Windows Vista challenge
Microsoft has rolled out a new challenge in accordance to its Vista release........U have to code applications for the Vista using their Beta release which u can download here.
For registration: Click here.
Microsoft's new Operating System codenamed "Singularity"
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Contrary to popular opinion, Windows is not the only operating system in which Microsoft is investing.
The Microsoft Research team has built from scratch a 300,000-line, microkernel-based operating system (OS) that has no roots in Windows.
That OS, code-named "Singularity," is slowly but steadily gaining visibility. The Microsoft Research team behind the project recently posted to the Web a 44-page technical research report about Singularity. Company officials discussed the project publicly at the June USENIX conference. And earlier this week, Microsoft's Singularity effort got some attention on Slashdot.
"What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?" reads the opening of the Microsoft research report.
That was the question the Singularity team set out to answer two years ago.
"Singularity is not Windows. Every line of code was written from scratch," said Galen Hunt, a senior researcher with Microsoft Research who is helping to spearhead the Singularity project.
Hunt said Singularity is the largest cross-group project inside of Microsoft Research, involving about 35 researchers across the systems and networking, compiler, testing and other research teams.
Like all Microsoft Research projects, Singularity has no definitive commercialization trajectory. Microsoft could opt to commercialize it as is, embed elements of it in other products or simply rely on the learnings from the project to inform other efforts at the company.
Already, however, the Singularity work is generating ideas for the architectural team inside Microsoft's Core Operating System Division (COSD), and the Microsoft security team, Hunt said. COSD has been doing work to reduce dependencies among the different subsystems that comprise Windows. The security team has been wrestling with federated identity and distributed system challenges.
"We have an idea of how to minimize dependencies when writing an OS from scratch," Hunt said. "That's a technology transfer idea."
Singularity also could, hypothetically, act as the host operating system for something like Microsoft BigTop. BigTop is the code-name for a still-unannounced internal Microsoft distributed-systems infrastructure project.
Ultimately, all or parts of Singularity would most likely find a place in the embedded OS space, the server OS market, or both, Hunt said.
Singularity also is a proof of concept regarding the viability of managed code. Singularity is not the first OS written entirely in managed code, Hunt acknowledged. He bestowed that title on "Cedar," developed by Xerox PARC.
But the OS is currently written entirely in a combination of Microsoft's C# programming language, as well as a derivative of C#, which the team is calling "Sing#." (Sing# is a derivative of Spec#, which is a derivative of C#.) The ultimate goal is to write the OS entirely in Sing#, Hunt said.
While Singularity does rely on Microsoft's C#, it is not making use of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR) or the Java virtual machine. Instead, the team is relying on "Bartok," a Microsoft-Research-developed compiler and run-time environment.
That OS, code-named "Singularity," is slowly but steadily gaining visibility. The Microsoft Research team behind the project recently posted to the Web a 44-page technical research report about Singularity. Company officials discussed the project publicly at the June USENIX conference. And earlier this week, Microsoft's Singularity effort got some attention on Slashdot.
"What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?" reads the opening of the Microsoft research report.
That was the question the Singularity team set out to answer two years ago.
"Singularity is not Windows. Every line of code was written from scratch," said Galen Hunt, a senior researcher with Microsoft Research who is helping to spearhead the Singularity project.
Hunt said Singularity is the largest cross-group project inside of Microsoft Research, involving about 35 researchers across the systems and networking, compiler, testing and other research teams.
Like all Microsoft Research projects, Singularity has no definitive commercialization trajectory. Microsoft could opt to commercialize it as is, embed elements of it in other products or simply rely on the learnings from the project to inform other efforts at the company.
Already, however, the Singularity work is generating ideas for the architectural team inside Microsoft's Core Operating System Division (COSD), and the Microsoft security team, Hunt said. COSD has been doing work to reduce dependencies among the different subsystems that comprise Windows. The security team has been wrestling with federated identity and distributed system challenges.
"We have an idea of how to minimize dependencies when writing an OS from scratch," Hunt said. "That's a technology transfer idea."
Singularity also could, hypothetically, act as the host operating system for something like Microsoft BigTop. BigTop is the code-name for a still-unannounced internal Microsoft distributed-systems infrastructure project.
Ultimately, all or parts of Singularity would most likely find a place in the embedded OS space, the server OS market, or both, Hunt said.
Singularity also is a proof of concept regarding the viability of managed code. Singularity is not the first OS written entirely in managed code, Hunt acknowledged. He bestowed that title on "Cedar," developed by Xerox PARC.
But the OS is currently written entirely in a combination of Microsoft's C# programming language, as well as a derivative of C#, which the team is calling "Sing#." (Sing# is a derivative of Spec#, which is a derivative of C#.) The ultimate goal is to write the OS entirely in Sing#, Hunt said.
While Singularity does rely on Microsoft's C#, it is not making use of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR) or the Java virtual machine. Instead, the team is relying on "Bartok," a Microsoft-Research-developed compiler and run-time environment.
"We have developed a working kernel, as originally conceived," said Hunt. "Now we can build a lot of components on top of it."
Will Google Talk Be a Failure?
Although it has excellent voice capabilities, Google Talk, in its current form, doesn?t stand a chance against competitors, such as AOL IM, Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger. The last two have already responded to Google Talk by launching two new versions.
MSN Messenger has reached version 7.5, and Yahoo Messneger with Voice has introduced version 7.0.0.437.
For the users used to emoticons, funny animations, games and the possibility to access from the IM client?s interface services and applications, Google Talk is more like an exotic curiosity that goes against the trend.
The public expects their IM clients to offer more and more communication features, not some spartan interface, which doesn?t even have an integrated search field or a button that allows access to the Blogger.
Google has chosen to promote Google Talk as an extension to Gmail. If you have a GMail account, you also have access to Google Talk, but that?s not enough to grab market share from AOL, Yahoo and MSN.
Google Talk, integrated in Google Desktop, is an interesting service, but I don?t see the users giving up on their emoticons and going for Google Talk just because it has better voice support than Skype. If the next version doesn?t come with some changes, Google Talk has little chances of causing problems to Skype.
If Google had in mind to make Google Talk a product for the fanatic GMail users and for those who IM means only voice, then it has successfully achieved that objective, but if Google Talk wants to become mainstream, then its journey has just begun.
What's it going to be: Windows Vista or Linux? Or Mac OS X?
The main problem for OS?s seems to be these days the transparency of the window margins and, bottom line, who copied whom. Are we talking about Gates' staff "borrowing" from Jobs? Or Microsoft engineers - from Cupertino-based company?
The naked true is that the new version has nothing spectacular to say. Except maybe for the Aero Glass, new directory types, the new search features (another point on the dispute agenda between Windows Vista and Mac OS X), a new view over users accounts and some helpful network functions for the Windows presentations support. But they say the "magic" stuff is going to amaze us as the second beta version comes out. So, hold you're breath!
I'm aware of the Microsoft fans imminent disapproval, but I'm afraid Windows Vista is nothing but an upgraded Windows XP with a transparent appearance.
After all, what's so great about Windows Vista? Oh, maybe the 2.4 GB, which I believe stands for a record for a non-gaming beta. The rest is kind of hazy. Let's just hope Beta 2 will bring some light into the whole thing.
Anyway, this editorial isn't about the quality of the new Windows Beta 1. Still, it is a beta, so we'll have to take it accordingly. It's more a question of "transparency" of the new transparent Windows Vista, opposed to the other OSs on the market.
Mac OS X has taken the most advantage of the break Windows decided to take for introducing the latest version of its OS. The break itself together with the transparency means Microsoft has just did a huge favor to its competitor.
At least 20 people I know were sincerely amazed when hearing there are some things called Macs out there, and all because they have heard about Aero Glass transparency and its presumptive Mac OS X "roots". Meanwhile, about 10 of them actually got their hands on the Mac thing or even turned "switchers". "Irelevant!!" Microsoft or even Apple fans might say, but this doesn't just make the whole thing fade away. It is out there, regardless of the number of "emigrants" with Mac destination.
Altogether, the comparison with Windows Vista (Longhorn at the time) has been "dissected" in every cover-article, before or after the spring launch of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. And while everybody was paying attention to Linux threat, Windows found itself having to face Mac OS X.
After all, it's Linux I'm talking about. What's the impact of Windows Vista on this specific OS? Unlike Mac OS X, Linux hasn't managed to take any advantage on the long lasting vacation Microsoft sent its operation system on until 2006. We all kept hearing about Linux server innovations...But not a word from desktop area.
The lack of unified distribution, or even better, the presence of dozen distributions is the first thing that comes to everybody's mind when talking of the Linux desktop failure. Or maybe "failure" it's too hard word describing the situation. Let's say "low rate of adoption".
Though, this expression also falls under some amendments. When establishing whether an OS is successful or not, the analysts prefer to judge based on the Western and American market and also on companies opinion.
If we are talking about an OS easily adopted by a high number of companies, from America mostly, then we have a ?successful" one. But many seem to forget about the emergent markets like India, China or South America, where Microsoft isn't such a big deal due to its price policy. And they all prefer Linux.
Even at this point, Windows Vista can still be the big opportunity Linux has been waiting for to come in first after years of performance. I know the transparent Windows Vista bars are pretty cool and all, but I seriously doubt that the users would be calmed down by the esthetic appearance when seeing their computers under virus attack. And I honestly don't think that the virus makers will stop doing what they do best just because Windows Vista looks nice.
Some sites have announced not so long ago that Mac OS X runs on PC. Even so, this OS will be forever attached to Mac hardware, so Linux remains the only serious competition for Windows. Firefox success should give some serious thinking to all responsible for Linux development. Bottom line, what does Firefox have to top Internet Explorer? Well... stabilitty, safety and ..oh, yes, it's free! And Linux has all that to offer also.
How long or how much does it take for Linux to make it? A little, and not only technically speaking. We have to credit Linux as the safest and most secure OS. Topping that, it runs on almost any configuration (even if some elements installing can give you headaches) and has applications for most of fields.
Actually, there are only three things missing: an easier using method, support and marketing. Windows has the advantage of offering its users wizards for almost anything, while Linux can't help you too much with that. You still have to roam all over Internet to find some not contradictory opinions. As a Open Source, Linux has the advantage of being a free service. On the other side, you have no one to call if something goes wrong, and for a new user is even harder. If you decide to use Linux and don't know much about installing and administrating, you have a good chance to fail and join some forum you can't understand and, finally, to give up.
Windows Vista should do us the honor of running its final version on our computers in 2006 so that gives Linux plenty of time to fight the battle of its life for becoming mainstream.
The question is: Has Linux enough power, knowledge and resources to take full advantage of this unique opportunity?
Source: eWeek.com
