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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): FIFA and the World Cup

2014-06-11T09:12:00.001+05:30

Hilarious SWA Flight attendant- In Mid Life Crisis MUST meet Ellen and J...

2014-04-15T04:28:00.001+05:30

Devyani khobragade's cheap and corrupt act

2013-12-17T18:47:00.001+05:30

A very regrettable act by Indian diplomat Devyani khobragade in US. She was sent over as in Indian representative, her actions are supposed to reflect Indian values. What does she do over there?

She hired a maid from India on pretext of paying 4500 per month while she paid her meager amount of 600 per month.That right there shows her corrupt mind and cheapness of her character. She's at fault and should be punished irrespective of she being a woman or mother. Her defense is that she can't afford so much money for a nanny. You can't steal an iPad on the pretext of not having enough money, you just don't buy it.

I'm more saddened by the actions of government rather than her. The Indian government has been taking few steps in support of someone who has degraded Indian values as seeks help just because she's a woman and mother. She should be punished either by Indian or US government and she deserves it. The news channels have been asking for sympathy as she was kept with drug addicts; it's a jail and what else did she expect?

Consular immunity as shouted by our journalists and government is readily accessible on Wikipedia as such:

Consular immunity privileges are described in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 (VCCR).[1][2] Consular immunity offers protections similar to diplomatic immunity, but these protections are not as extensive, given the functional differences between consular and diplomatic officers. For example, consular officers are not accorded absolute immunity from a host country’s criminal jurisdiction, they may be tried for certain local crimes upon action by a local court, and are immune from local jurisdiction only in cases directly relating to consular functions.

Vienna convention consular immunity is provided at the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Consular_Relations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consular_immunity

HTML5 Web storage

2013-07-28T00:14:00.002+05:30

Currently, these are the important forms of storage systems present in the browsers.

Cookies
Web Storage
Indexed database API
Web SQL Database

Cookies:

A very tiny amount of storage used by websites to store important information. Generally, this is used to store tracking or authentication data.

Examples are

Cookie to track user’s browsing habits by third-parties

Cookies to evaluate if the user has already been logged into website

Web storage:

It’s a simple mechanism to store larger amounts of data. The CURD operations are performed over a key/value persistence system. Also known as localStorage system.

Pros

Really simple API.
Already available in all major new browsers.

Cons

No query language, schemas, really nothing you'd normally call a database. So it wouldn't scale well where you need to impose organization on a larger data set.
They didn't put transactional safety into the standard. I don't think I can sleep at night with an app running that might have race conditions and then have the risk of corrupt data.
Closing an app would lose the entire data. Hence, this storage mechanism can’t be used for developing HTML5 based native apps.

Indexed Database (IDB) :

IndexedDB is an API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. IndexedDB basically provides a simple flat-file database with hierarchical key/value persistence and basic indexing.

IndexedDB provides separate APIs for synchronous and asynchronous access. The synchronous API is intended to be used only inside of Web Workers but it isn't implemented by any browser yet. The asynchronous API works both within and without Web Workers.

Pros :

Pretty similar to NoSQL

Cons :

Not yet available in most new browsers.

Web SQL Database

Web Sql is basically sqlite embedded into the browser. It's one of the most useful form of HTML5 web storage.

Pros :

Fast and pretty feature-rich sql implementation (besides select/insert/update/delete, you can do joins, inner selects, etc).
Advantageous for developing ios and Android apps as the storage persists even after the application is closed.

Cons :

Available in Chrome and webkit-based browsers (Safari, etc.) but not Firefox or IE.
The W3C Working Group has put a hold on the standard since they say they want at least two independent implementations of the standard, and there's only one so far, since everybody is using sqlite.

Useful links

Developing and native packaging for Sencha Touch applications

2013-07-26T23:40:00.001+05:30

REQUIRED PROGRAMS

Java
Sencha Touch
Ruby
Compass and Sass
node.js
Sencha Cmd
Android SDK
Cordova

Java
Version: No particular version is required; Latest stable version is preferrable
URL : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Note: Android SDK requires Java
1. Download and install a Java Run-time Environment or JRE
2. The JRE version must be at least JRE 6, JRE 7 is best.
3. Set the JAVA_HOME path on your respective operating systemcls

Sencha Touch (ST)
Version: 2.1.*, Previous apps were built over ST2.1
URL: http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/
Download URL: http://cdn.sencha.com/touch/sencha-touch-2.2.1-commercial.zip
1. Download the appropriate version of Sencha touch bundle from the url.
2. Unzip the downloaded archive
3. The 'sencha-touch-' directory consists of 'touch-', a container of the sencha touch install, examples and documentation.

Ruby
Version: Ruby 1.9.3 is required (Ruby 2.0 is not supported).
URL: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
Note: Compass and SASS use Ruby.
[Windows]
Download Ruby 1.9.3 from rubyinstaller.org. Download the RubyInstaller .exe file and run it.
[Linux]
1. Install distro-specific RVM [Ruby Version Manager]
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
2. Install Ruby 1.9.3
rvm install 1.9.3
rvm use 1.9.3
rvm rubygems latest

Compass and Sass
URL: http://compass-style.org/install/
Note: Sencha uses Compass and Sass to develop CSS content.
1. Open terminal / command line on your system.
2. Enter the command 'gem install compass'. This will install the Compass and Sass

Node.js
Version: Latest stable version is preferred; using 0.10.13
URL: http://nodejs.org/
Node.js is requried by Sencha cmd to build the applications
Note: node.js requires python.
[Windows]
1. Download and run the .msi installer
[Linux]
1. $ wget
2. $ tar.gz $ tar -xvzf
3. $ cd
4. $ ./configure
5. $ make # takes approx. 5-10 minutes
6. $ sudo make install

Sencha Cmd
URL: http://www.sencha.com/products/sencha-cmd/download
1. Download appropriate Sencha Cmd version.
2. Unzip the Sencha Cmd zip file and save the path in environment.
3. [Linux only] Run the sencha cmd run file using command
./SenchaSDKTools-.run --mode text
4. Save the sencha SDK path in environment variables
5. To verify installation, open terminal/ command line and type 'sencha'. This would give help page of sencha.

Android SDK
Version: api-7 is required by Sencha Touch
URL: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
1. Download the appropriate version of Android SDK for your platform.
2. Install SDK and download required Android platforms
3. Save the android installation directory path in environment variables

Cordova
Version: Currently packaging using 2.8.0
URL: http://cordova.apache.org/#download
Note: Phonegap is an extended feature set of cordova platform
Note: Cordova installation requires node.js to be installed
[Windows]
1. Download the latest version of Cordova
2. Unzip the cordova installation and unzip the required version (Android) platform
3. Set the cordova unzipped directory path into environment variables
[Unix\ Linux]
1.npm install -g cordova

Working with Sencha app

Creating a Sencha application
1. Verify Sencha Cmd is installed
2. We are using ST2.1, not latest 2.2. Latest ST build comes along Sencha Cmd tools
3. Make sure you have the required ST SDK
4. Create sencha app from command using command
sencha generate app app_name /path/to/app
sencha --sdk-path /path/to/specific/sencha/sdk generate app app_name /path/to/app
5. You have app created with the specified or default Sencha version in the specified directory

Converting from Sencha touch application to native android application

There are two different ways to package a sencha touch application to native application. Theya are
1. Cordova native packaging
2. Sencha native packaging

Cordova native packaging
1. Develop the Sencha touch application independently
2. Add cordova.js into resources/js of Sencha application and also add reference of it in app.json
3. Get the sencha touch production build using the command
'sencha app build production'
4. Create a new cordova application (Not in the previous sencha application directory) using command
'cordova create '
where,
- Name of the application like DriveTime
- Package name of the application like com.rr.drivetime
- Physical path of the application on disk
5. Add android to the required cordova application using command
'cordova platform add android'
'cordova build'
which, creates an android folder with the android project structure.
6. Create an Android project over cordova application.
i. Open eclipse
ii. Go to 'File'->'New'->'Project'->'Android Project from existing code'
iii. Select the 'android' directory in the cordova app created above
7. Create a 'www' folder in the 'asssets' directory of the android project
8. Copy and paste the production build created in (3) into the 'www' folder.
9. Deploy the project to device using adb, installed part of Android SDK

Sencha native packaging
1. Develop the sencha application.
2. Go to the sencha application path
3. Add cordova.js to 'resources/js' folder
4. Add cordova.js reference to js category in app.json file
5. Complete the packager.json file [Android sdk, device to install, application name, package name, 'key']
6. Build the native package of the application using Sencha Cmd using command
'sencha app build native'
7. The above step produces a 'apk' file. You can deploy or distribute this apk to devices.

Nenu, na modati vimana anubhuti

2010-12-30T16:52:00.002+05:30

Hi readers! don't get surprised to see the title in pure telugu, just out of feeling of missing my home I had typed it in telugu. Well, for as long as my journey is concerned I had the best experience on air. I had to face what it would have taken approx. 4/5 flight journeys.
---Chennai---
My flight from Chennai to Delhi was an domestic flight and I had to change to international flight from Delhi to Chicago. All of those who have booked their flights in Air India, just get your ticket checked before you start your journey including the allowed baggage for your tickett. I had a thirty minutes drama at the chennai airport before they allowed the extra baggage; regular baggage limit is 2 pieces. Well, the entire airport crew and staff are a bunch of ignorant fools who don't even know where the security check goes on in their airport esepecially Air India staff, A-holes, they don't know the offer which has been displayed right on their homepage and the comic part was they were using unix. OMG! he had to check each and every command right in he manual. Somehow luckily I did board my first flight, the experience was exciting to see the entire city which i roamed in cars dimnish itself beneath us.

---Delhi---
Delhi airport was much grander than the Chennai airport and the goodness was there was a fusion of modernity and Indian tradition in the architecture. GMR rocked yaar!. The moment I did checked in for my flight, they said the next twist in the story and that was "sorry sir! Your flight has been delayed by 9 hours and the time of departure is tomorrow morning at 9 subject to weather conditions". Well, the relief was they said they would provide accomodation at free of cost but I had to wait for 2 hours right in airport and with so many cancelled flight, the airport has become much worse than the Bihar railway station. I was enquiring at the Air India counter over my accommodation and he was quite reckless, so I did scold "Jaffa bathuku ni dobba!" and suddenly a lady who was co-enquiring about herself turned back. She's a software engineer in IBM and had a chat with her right till next day morning my boarding. The next morning I was quite busy in my breakfast that I missed my bus to the airport. Somehow I did catch some vehicle and went to airport only to find out that my flight has been delayed by an hour.

---Chicago---
I was so excited seeing US from such high altitude. Chicago airport is large enough to fit in 2/3 Chennai airports. As soon as I entered into Chicago, it was my port of entry so I had some regular check and verification. Now, I had another twist in my story and that was I had to re-schedule my flight and since it was the responsibility of Air India, he did it for me at free of cost. And as I was about to check in my baggage, he blatantly said that he wouldn't allow the third baggage and I had to pay a 100$ fine, OMG! Adugu pettina muhurtam bagunatlu ledu. Due to some intelligence and stroke of luck, I escaped my fine. Security check at Chicago airport not the regular kinda check up, it's an out and out body scanner and can you imagine a 200-300 meters waiting queue in united states!! To my stroke of misfortune, even the flight here which has been scheduled at 0820pm is delayed by 0130hrs. Finally, after a long 33-hour journey turning into 42-hour journey and a series of mishaps, I did reach my destination wherein I'll be having to spend next 2 years.

Time Magazine's quote on Sachin - ad3572@gmail.com - Gmail

2010-03-12T18:50:00.000+05:30

Time Magazine's quote on Sachin:

" When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy.It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will."

A Bit of Physics Humour

2009-11-24T20:53:00.000+05:30

Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, related the following story:
“Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.
I read the examination question: “Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.”
The student had answered: “Take the barometer to the top of the building,attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building.”
The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course and certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this. I suggested that the student have another try. I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics.
At the end of five minutes, he hadn’t written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on. In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which read: “Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch.
Then, using the formula x=0.5*a*t^2, calculate the height of the building.”
At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit. While leaving my colleague’s office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were.
“Well,” said the student, “there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building.”
“Fine,” I said, “and others?”
“Yes,” said the student, “there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and his will give you the height of the building in barometer units.”
“A very direct method.”
“Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g [gravity] at the street level and at the top of the building.
From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated.”
“On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession”.
“Finally,” he concluded, “probably the best,” he said, “is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent’s door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: ‘Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer.”
At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.
The name of the student was…
Neils Bohr
The Nobel Prize winner in Physics 1922

An excellent discussion of whether there exists god or not!!!!!!

2009-11-03T05:42:00.000+05:30

Hi friends this is a very interesting happening in one of the great personalities of india.

You Must Read It

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem
science has with God, The Almighty.
He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof:
So you believe in God?

Student:

Absolutely, sir.

Prof :

Is God good?

Student:

Sure.

Prof:

Is God all-powerful?

Student:

Yes..

Prof:

My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is
this God good then? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof:

You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?

Student:

Yes.

Prof:

Is Satan good?

Student:

No.

Prof:

Where does Satan come from?

Student:

From....God. ..

Prof:

That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student:

Yes.

Prof:

Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student:

Yes.

Prof:

So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof:

Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things
exist in the world, don't they?

Student:

Yes, sir.

Prof:

So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof:

Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world
around you.
Tell me, son...Have you ever

seen God?

Student:

No, sir.

Prof:

Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student:

No, sir.

Prof:

Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever
had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student:

No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't..

Prof:

Yet you still believe in Him?

Student:

Yes.

Prof:

According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your
GOD doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, son?

Student:

Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof:

Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student:

Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof:

Yes.

Student:

And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof:

Yes.

Student:

No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student:

Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat,
white heat, a little heat or no heat..
But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero
which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold . Cold is only a word we use to describe the
absence of heat.We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy . Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student:

What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof:

Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student :
You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have
low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof:

So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student:

Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed..

Prof:

Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student:

Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and
then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept
of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't
even explain a thought.. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never
seen, much less fully understood either one.To view death as the opposite
of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a
substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of
it.
Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
monkey?

Prof:

If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I
do.

Student:

Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument is going.)

Student:

Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot
even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching
your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in
uproar.)

Student:

Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student

: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it,
touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the
established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says
that you have no brain,sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face
unfathomable. )

Prof:

I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student:

That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that
keeps things moving & alive.

Student was none other than......... .
...
.. APJ Abdul Kalam, the former president of India .

Google.....................................

2008-08-19T21:40:00.006+05:30

Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

1995 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007
1995 - 1997
Back before Google? Aye, there's the Rub.
According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was among a group of students assigned to show him around. They argued about every topic they discussed. Their strong opinions and divergent viewpoints would eventually find common ground in a unique approach to solving one of computing's biggest challenges: retrieving relevant information from a massive set of data.
By January of 1996, Larry and Sergey had begun collaboration on a search engine called BackRub, named for its unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website. Larry, who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego™ bricks, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines. Afflicted by the perennial shortage of cash common to graduate students everywhere, the pair took to haunting the department's loading docks in hopes of tracking down newly arrived computers that they could borrow for their network.
A year later, their unique approach to link analysis was earning BackRub a growing reputation among those who had seen it. Buzz about the new search technology began to build as word spread around campus.
1998
The search for a buyer
Larry and Sergey continued working to perfect their technology through the first half of 1998. Following a path that would become a key tenet of the Google way, they bought a terabyte of disks at bargain prices and built their own computer housings in Larry's dorm room, which became Google's first data center. Meanwhile Sergey set up a business office, and the two began calling on potential partners who might want to license a search technology better than any then available. Despite the dotcom fever of the day, they had little interest in building a company of their own around the technology they had developed.
Among those they called on was friend and Yahoo! founder David Filo. Filo agreed that their technology was solid, but encouraged Larry and Sergey to grow the service themselves by starting a search engine company. "When it's fully developed and scalable," he told them, "let's talk again." Others were less interested in Google, as it was now known. One portal CEO told them, "As long as we're 80 percent as good as our competitors, that's good enough. Our users don't really care about search."
Touched by an angel
Unable to interest the major portal players of the day, Larry and Sergey decided to make a go of it on their own. All they needed was a little cash to move out of the dorm — and to pay off the credit cards they had maxed out buying a terabyte of memory. So they wrote up a business plan, put their Ph.D. plans on hold, and went looking for an angel investor. Their first visit was with a friend of a faculty member.
Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, was used to taking the long view. One look at their demo and he knew Google had potential — a lot of potential. But though his interest had been piqued, he was pressed for time. As Sergey tells it, "We met him very early one morning on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto. We gave him a quick demo. He had to run off somewhere, so he said, 'Instead of us discussing all the details, why don't I just write you a check?' It was made out to Google Inc. and was for $100,000."
The investment created a small dilemma. Since there was no legal entity known as "Google Inc.," there was no way to deposit the check. It sat in Larry's desk drawer for a couple of weeks while he and Sergey scrambled to set up a corporation and locate other funders among family, friends, and acquaintances. Ultimately they brought in a total initial investment of almost $1 million.
Everyone's favorite garage band
In September 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control, as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation's staff of three. The office offered several big advantages, including a washer and dryer and a hot tub. It also provided a parking space for the first employee hired by the new company: Craig Silverstein, now Google's director of technology.
Already Google.com, still in beta, was answering 10,000 search queries each day. The press began to take notice of the upstart website with the relevant search results, and articles extolling Google appeared in USA TODAY and Le Monde. That December, PC Magazine named Google one of its Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998. Google was moving up in the world.