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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Elon Musk: The Real Life 'Iron Man'

A wise man once said that History is nothing but life story of a few Great Men. If you look closely at the history, you'll realize it holds true. What We read as history is simply a story of Journey and actions of a few Great Men.

If We take this logic a step further, We can say that Even the Present We are living was created by a few Great Men. The "Social Media addicted" live We are living was created a few Men. The Phones and the feature We can not live without were also created by a few Great Man.

And taking the same logic even another step forward, We can agree that Future is being created by another Few Great Men.

In our Times We have a lot of Great Men, One of the Few living people who created our present word would be Bill Gates and people whole helped pave in the age of Computers, Internet and Technology.

I am dedicating this article to another Great Man who helped create the present and is the One intent on changing and improving our Future. If you are not aware, his name is Elon Musk. His story, achievements and dreams are so great that the character of Tony Stark was inspired by him. Here's a great video that will introduce you to Elon Musk.




If you are not the one into spending data and/or watching videos, Here's a great article on one of My favorite websites "Wait Bu Why".

Please leave your comments to know what you feel.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Fan of Thrones. A Post of Ice and Fire



To say Game of Thrones is The Biggest Thing on Television right now will not be an Overstatement. Not just TV, it’s also one of the Biggest things on Internet and it’s source for a LOT of Memes, Fan-Pages, Forums, Wikis and Blogs. I can go on and on explaining the reach & impact of the show but I’m sure you already have an idea. It’s everywhere and it’s Huge. And ironically, a huge chunk of the Viewers who have taken GoT to the levels it’s on now, watch the show through channels that do not benefit the creators i.e. by illegal Downloads. Despite that Show creators and HBO are able to continuously increase scale of the show. I’m sure it should be one of The most expensive Television show.
The reason I’m writing this post about Game of Thrones is simple I’m a HUGE Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire Song and simply wanted to write about it (For those of you who do not know it yet, the show is based on a book series and the name of the series is A Song of Ice and Fire). So I’ll write this post about My journey from being introduced to this TV series to the point that I’m a Big enough fan to sit and write this post.
I was a slacker compared to a lot of fans, while book readers have been fans since 1996 and TV fans joined in 2011  I joined the clan in the beginning of 2015. I saw the name of the series and I knew it has huge fan base. I also saw name of the show in Emmy but I wasn’t interested. I knew GRR Martin, the writer of the book series if being compared to the Great  JRR Tolkien (I always find it weird how similar names they have). But even that didn’t fascinate Me enough.



I watched the first season of the show only when  a friend of mine who was also a huge Tolkien fan asked Me to try it. So,  I borrowed the first season  and was immediately impressed. Initially I felt as if GRR Martin has taken every single aspect of Fiction and Fantasy and turned Game of Thrones into one huge & hot multi-cuisine soup. But slowly and steady I was hooked. So by the time it was time for Season Five to air, I was up to date with the rest of the TV series fan world and I had become a banner-man for the show.  Became such huge fan that I started researching everything available from fan theories to myths and lore of Westros. I even started reading the book. On top of that I became such a huge fan that I started introducing people to the series. And every single one of them is now him/herself is a huge fan of the series. Because no doubt, it’s Amazing!

 I still remember the time I saw the Red Wedding. Man!! I was deeply stunned when the episode ended I was lost for a few moments. I was also shell-shocked when I saw Ned Stark’s death. There are many many more moments that were so well written and executed that made Me go crazy for the show.

There have been many moments that made you feel something in your guts and there were moments that made you feel ecstatic. Be it Tyrion’s Court-room monologue or The Mountain vs Viper trial by Combat or the Battle of Hardhome. They were all so engaging and entertaining. 

There were character developments that seemed natural over the seasons but made you change your options back and forth. And there were other moments that felt so sad and yet so so crucial for the over-all (Freshest, Saddest and one of the Best HOLY SH*T moments : Hold The Door).

I must say,  HBO & the Creators have done an amazing job in depicting most of the elements of the Book in a great manner. They have created many elements with such perfection that the parts they screwed (Best example Dorne) can be forgiven.



At the time of this post’s publishing, Six episodes have been aired of the Sixth season and we are now heading towards the end of the series. As per the comments made by HBO and the creators of the show Eigth season will be the Last Season. They even made statements that hinted that after Season Six, it will be all about tying the lose ends and ending the story. But I must the journey they have taken us on has been something that I personally has never experienced before.  So I’ll not be acting too smart and giving out statements for the show. All I’ll say is

To HBO  : Great Job HBO, May the Old Gods and the New bless you with a lot of subscriptions and Loads of Money.

To Weiss & Benioff, the Creators of the Show : You did justice to the words of GRRM. You gave body to the soul He Created.


To GRRM Martin : Respect Sir! You are now a inspiration for writers the way Tolkien was for you.

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I know none of the people I listed above will ever read this words, but I did My Part. In words of an Amazing Actor, Bryan Cranston : You can only do your part. Rest is all out of your control.  So don’t even think about it.


And in words of Steve Rogers (My Favorite Fictional Hero who could be a double agent now. Damn!) “I’m with you till the end of the line”

Thursday, January 28, 2016

The Most Awesome Mysteries of The World

Our World, no-doubt, is Wonderful and in parts Extreme in every sense.  It's full of object, places, phenomenon and stories that make us feel the emotions that are positive and it's full of almost equal objects, stories and places that make us feel negative. In this post I'm going to focus on just one thing. The objects, places, stories and/or phenomena which are mysterious. They make us wonder. There are many stories and objects that majority of the population is familiar with. Then there are local stories that each city & country has.

You can also do a quick Google search and get loads of list full of mysteries. There are Mysteries like The Zodiac Killer, Nazca Lines, Easter Island heads, Loch-ness Monster and hundreds more. I'm going to list just Five in this post. After reading the list if you feel any other story should have been on the list, the only two possible reasons for that story not being here is that either I'm not aware of that story or I feel these stories are more Awesome. In both the cases I'd love to hear from you.

So Here are The Five Most Awesome Mysterious of The World:

      #1 : UFOS, Aliens on Earth & Conspiracy Theories
This is the Most wide spread Mystery on Our Planet. UFOs have been reported all over the Globe. And there are So So Many Conspiracy Theories that I could post dozens of post with list of these theories and I'll still be left with more to list. By definition an unidentified flying object, or UFO is any flying object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. Culturally, UFOs are associated with claims of Aliens and/or government-related conspiracy theories; Although the term UFO was coined in 1953 but unidentified objects in sky have been mentioned throughout the history. The oldest is mention of a ship that "shone forth from the sky" can be found in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri, is a monumental history of ancient Rome
Celestial phenomenon over the German city of Nuremberg
on April 14, 1561 as printed in an illustrated news notice
in the same month

Here's a Comprehensive list of all the major UFO sightings throughout the history.

The Most prevalent Theories are Ancient Alien Theory and what I like to call The Man in Black Theory.

As per The Ancient Alien theory, there are many recorded instances of Alien contact & visits that have been either misinterpreted or been covered-up. Believers of these theories believe that proof of these theories are written in all the major religious books. As per them, history and religious books are filled with stories and proof of aliens who were technologically superior and hence were taken as Gods by ancient humans. 

They claim the reason many gods have been defined to be different from humans and/or part animal, living away from humans and having super-powers is because they were aliens.

The most quoted "Proofs" by believers of Ancient Alien Theory are here:

* Ships mentioned in Bible in Book of Ezekiel mostly called The Spaceships of Ezekiel
* Flying vehicles mentioned in many Hindu scriptures,  
* "Helicopter hieroglyphs", at Abydos, Egypt, which are argued to depict flying craft
* Story of Anunnaki (inhabitants of the planet Nibiru) mentioned in ancient Sumerian texts

This theory was made famous, most notably, by Eric Von Deniken in his book Chariots of Gods.
There are others who believe Aliens still visit Earth and are in contact with Many Government, They claim there are secret organizations such as Majestic 12 who are responsible for covering up incidents of Alien/UFO sightings. They quote Rosewell Incident and UFO sightings as an example. Few other examples of UFO sightings are "The Phoenix Lights" of Arizona and 1976 Tehran UFO incidents.

Just an example that shows how deep these theories have penetrated the population, In the U.S., an opinion poll conducted in 1997 suggested that 80% of Americans believed the U.S. government was withholding such information.

    #2 Kryptos
Unlike other Mysteries that are unanswered, this has slight exceptions. This is One Mystery It's 100% Man-Made and intentionally designed to be a Mystery. I came to know about it when I read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

As per the Wikipedia description: 

Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn that is located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears. Of the four messages, three have been solved, while the fourth remains as one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world.



The name Kryptos is taken from a Greek word which means Hidden. Yes! The name itself means Hidden. 

The most prominent feature is a large vertical s-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll, or piece of paper emerging from a computer printer, half of which consists of encrypted text. The characters are all found within the 26 letters of the standard Latin alphabet, along with question marks, and are cut out of the copper. The main sculpture contains four separate enigmatic messages, three of which have been deciphered.The Three solutions are:

Solution One:
BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION

Solution Two:
IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ? ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO

Solution Three:

SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER BUT PRESENTLY DETAILS OF THE ROOM WITHIN EMERGED FROM THE MIST X CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING Q ?

The Fourth message is yet to be deciphered. I'm personally waiting for the day when it is deciphered. Until then it will stay one hell of an Awesome Mystery for the world.

      #3 Voynich Manuscript
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The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system.  Some of the pages are missing, with around 240 still remaining. The text is written from left to right, and most of the pages have illustrations or diagrams. The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II, but No one has yet succeeded in deciphering the text, and it has become a famous case in the history of cryptography.

Much of the early history of the book is unknown, though the text and illustrations are all characteristically European. In 2009, University of Arizona researchers performed radiocarbon dating on the manuscript's vellum. The vellum has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance.

Around 1912, the Collegio Romano was short of money and decided to sell some of its holdings discreetly. Wilfrid Voynich acquired 30 manuscripts, among them the manuscript that now bears his name. He spent the next seven years attempting to interest scholars in deciphering the script while he worked to determine the origins of the manuscript.

Many books and articles have been written about the manuscript. The manuscript has also inspired several works of fiction. Most noticeably it was used in Assassin’s Creed games.

In the game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the player can collect pages of the Voynich Manuscript as they traverse the game's world. In the game it's revealed that the manuscript was written by the Precursor Race, a species of highly advanced humanoids that created the human race before being destroyed by an apocalypse.

In its sequel Assassin's Creed: Rogue, it is revealed that the manuscript is the key to activate a powerful artifact known as Precursor Box, which shows a map that details the location of temples made by the Precursor Race. 

The "Book" has texts and illustrations.  Because the text cannot be read the illustrations are conventionally used to divide most of the manuscript into six different sections. Each section is typified by illustrations with different styles and supposed subject matter, except for the last section, in which the only drawings are small stars in the margin.

The overall impression given by the surviving leaves of the manuscript is that it was meant to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about the book's origins, the contents of its text, and the purpose for which it was intended. However, the purpose and meaning of this manuscript is a long way from being understood. 

      #4 The Wow Signal
The Wow Signal is perhaps "THE" closest proof we have of a possible ET Intelligence and yet it's still a mystery. one of the most awesome mysteries of course. 

The so-called "Wow Signal" was a radio signal that was received in 1977 by Radio Astronomer Jerry R. Ehman while working on a SETI project at the now defunct Big Ear radio telescope, operated by Ohio State University. 

While working on the radio telescope je spotted a surprising vertical column with the alphanumerical sequence “6EQUJ5” that had been recorded at 22:16 EST. With a red marker, he wrote "Wow!" in the margin of the printout and encircled the sequence. From that time on this signal is called "The Wow Signal". 


In words of an article published by National Geographic Magazine:

More than three decades later, the Wow Signal, as it has come to be known to SETI researchers, remains both the first and best potential evidence of communication from extraterrestrials, and one of the most perplexing mysteries in science.  Over the years, Ehman and colleagues worked to rule out other explanations—such as satellites, aircraft or ground-based transmitters on Earth. But by the same token, researchers have yet to prove that it actually is message from space. “It’s an open question.” Ehman told the Columbus Dispatch in 2010. Or as the late science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once put it in a 1997 interview with New Scientist magazine, “God only knows what it was.”

The original printout of the Wow! signal, complete with Jerry Ehman's famous exclamation, is preserved by the Ohio Historical Society.

      #5 SS Ourang Medan


The SS Ourang Medan was a ship which, according to various sources, became a shipwreck in Indonesian waters after its entire crew had died under suspicious circumstances. Skepticism exists about the truthfulness of the story, suggesting that the ship may have never actually existed, but has become something of a legend.

According to stories, which have become something of a Legend, two American vessels navigating the Strait of Malacca, City of Baltimore and Silver Star, among others, picked up distress messages from Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.

A radio operator aboard the troubled vessel sent the following Morse code message: "S.O.S. from Ourang Medan * * * we float. All officers including the Captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. Probably whole of crew dead * * *." A few confused dots and dashes later two words came through clearly. They were "I die." Then, nothing more. 

When Silver Star crew located and boarded the apparently undamaged Ourang Medan in a rescue attempt, the ship was found littered with corpses (including the carcass of a dog) "[s]prawled on their backs, the frozen faces upturned to the sun with mouths gaping open and eyes staring, the dead bodies resembled horrible caricatures", with no survivors and no visible signs of injuries on the dead bodies. A fire then broke out in the ship's No. 4 cargo hold, forcing the boarding parties to evacuate the Dutch freighter, thus preventing any further investigation. Soon after, Ourang Medan was observed to explode and sink.

There are Three Main Theories about what happened.

Many believe unsecure hazardous cargo, such as potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin or even wartime stocks of nerve agents was  being smuggled in the ship which somehow came in contact with Sea-water. which then caused the crew to succumb to asphyxia and/or poisoning. Later, the sea water would have reacted with the nitroglycerin, causing the reported fire and explosion.

Others believe undetected smoldering fire or malfunction in the ship's boiler system might have been responsible for the shipwreck. Escaping carbon monoxide would have caused the deaths of all aboard, with the fire slowly getting out of control, leading to the vessel's ultimate destruction.

And lastly, majority of Mystery hunters believe the ship may have, for some reasons, been attacked by UFOs or Ghosts.

There’s a possibility that accounts of, among others, the date, location, names of the ships involved, and circumstances of the accident might have been inaccurate or exaggerated, or that the story might be completely fictitious. But no doubt it is one of The Most Awesome Mysteries of the World.
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So Here you have it!

Five of The Most Awesome Mysteries in The World!

No doubt there are hundreds of more mysteries around the world that are equally if not more mind-blowing. But personally these are The most awesome ones as per Me. There's a fair chance I may not be aware of a few. If you are aware of a few other Unsolved Mysteries that you feel deserve to be termed Awesome, please do let Me know and I will be more than happy to amend the list for you.

Hope you enjoy reading it. 

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Questions No one can answer!!


Are We or Are We Not Alone in This unfathomably huge Universe?

And This Unfathomably huge Universe itself, is it Alone?

If You are a Thinking kind of person like us, We are sure you have pondered over One of  These or many other similar questions that take us beyond the edge of knowledge we have.

We May not be able to answer these questions no matter how much we think. But the time spend thinking about these questions, is not being wasted. That time gives us The feeling of Wonder, Mystery and make us understand the opportunities We have to explore.

Here's a TED video, that won't answer these questions, but. Will at least give Scientific voice to your thoughts.



Don't feel bad if you never had these questions. Watch this video and these ideas will haunt you, like they haunt us.


And if you had these or similar questions in our minds, we'll, the questions will remain unanswered still. But, you will be able to better understand the questions. 


If nothing else, These questions at the least give you a reason to stop for a minute, take a break from your lives for a minute and think about our place. 
And while we are on this topic, I'd like to end my post with this Simple yet So Deep and Powerful message shared by a simple comic strip. 

     Calvin and Hobbes Look Out Into the Stars and Ponder Infinity.

Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
Hobbes: How so?
Calvin: Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what        people do all day.

Monday, January 11, 2016

2016! The Year of Movies!


2015 was, without a sliver of doubt, A Huge year for Movies! We, the fans, got a lot of good movies to watch and the Moviemakers made bucket loads of money. How much money? Well, A LOT of Money. Think about it, For the first time in history, Five Movies grossed more than A Billion Dollars in a single year! The Last Movie of 2015 to cross the Billion-Dollar Mark, also was the one that earned the most.

Now as 2015 has gone and we have just entered 2016, it’s very likely that we have entered a year that could very well prove to be “THE BEST” year for the movies. Having said that, I must also state that When I say best year, I’m not saying in terms of the artistic achievement and breakthroughs. It’s purely based on the fact that this year will, for sure, be a year that will keep coming at us with One Blockbuster after Another. And fans of every single Genres can be assured that they will have something to enjoy.


If you look at the release calendar of the year and make a list of all the movies that are most awaited and are set to set the Box-Off you will see one common thing, We Know Them! Yes! One way or another we know their stories or their ideas. Think about it, We Know Man of Steel who will face our Dark Night. We know our Captain America. We even know Dory and how she forgets. And the ones that are new, we know either know the fictional world/universe they come from or what they are.

Take for example the fact that We don’t know how will Jared Leto’s Joker will be. But we know he is Joker after all, and that is sufficient in itself. You can say we don’t know Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but we know Hogwarts and all their Houses will be there to help us. We don’t know who the hell Rouge one is but we know they will for sure be in a Galaxy Far Far Away.



For the sake of simplicity The Major movies of the year can be categorized in Three categories. Below are the Categories and My picks from each of them.

1 : Movies based on Comic Characters:

These are basically Marvel & DC Movies.  Coincidently or not, both of the studies will have their Superheroes fighting against each other in their Main Ventures. As we all know Batman will face off Superman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Captain America will be doing the same with Mr Stark in Captain America: Civil War.

While Marvel & DC are busy pitting their heroes against each other, 20th Century FOX has decided to pit their heroes against the First Mutant in X-Men: Apocalypse. Judging by the trailers this one as well as Deadpool seems to be Awesome. We’ll also meet Gambit, Suicide Squad and Doctor Strange.
On a little lighter side we’ll have The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun



2. Reboots, Sequels & Prequels :

Hollywood has never shied away from any opportunity to cash-in on a by making sequels/prequels and reboots. The only way this year is different is in the way that studios are more aggressive. This year we’ll have sequels, prequels and reboots everywhere. The first name that should be on this list is no doubts Ben-Hur, the Legendary classic. Aftre this list is very long. Ghostbusters, Jumanji, Independence Day: Resurgence, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Kung Fu Panda 3. The list goes on and one on and on.

My Pick : Ben-Hur


And the Last Category : Adaptation: 

After achieving success in their own forms, many characters and stories are set to hit silver screen.  Adapting Books and Games into movies is not new, but this year for the first time a Movie will hit the theaters based on a mobile game! Yes The Angry Birds will hit theater this year. Also we’ll see Professor Langdon solve his way out the Inferno.
Also jumping out of Gaming consoles would be Assassin's Creed and Warcraft

Not to miss girls will be going mad for Fifty Shades of Black

My Pick : Inferno




So, in a nutshell, This year is gonna be heavy on Our pockets J

If you want to know about every Movie that is going to come out it Here’s the link for you

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Social networks

My this post is about social Networking site & specially Facebook, so before anything else I want you all to know following facts (If you know it already then that's good ).

*In America facebook is the second most popular site, second only to Google.

*Facebook was started by 3 Guys Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin moskovitz, in 2004. Now it has 400million users and about 70% of FB users are outside of USA. Mark zuckerberg himself has an page on Facebook.

*If Facebook.com was declared an country and its users citizens of Facebook, then the population of FACEBOOK country will be the 3rd   highest in the world, i.e. second only to China &; India.

*In 2008 FB had revenue of $300million.
If you want to get latest news & happenings related to Facebook visit www.allfacebook.com.
Facebook as you all may know is a Social Networking Site,and there is no need to say it is very very popular as well as successful (that's why its founder Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire). Facebook is not the only social networking site out there, in fact there are more than 100 such sites, but it is the most popular and successful one.Other notable social networking site are Myspace, LinkedIn, Orkut and Twitter etc. 
If you want to get the list of other such sites CLICK HERE

I am sure you all have heard of Twitter.com , This is a website that has shown tremendous growth, registered twitter accounts have grown more than 1500% (it means there are 1500 times more account) in last year. Now almost everyone is on twitter be it news channels, celebrities, magazines almost everyone. As you may have seen tweets are being shown on news channels.

 
According to me the most important reason behind the Gigantic success    of  social networking sites is the fact that we humans are social animals. it is  our basic necessity to communicate and socialize, and these sites let us  do exactly  that, we can stay in touch with our friends, we can find our old friends who are no longer in touch with you or you can make new friends from any part of the world.As Internet brought the world closer and made it smaller it was  Social Networking sites gave us a tool to get in touch with some otherwise unreachable people, For example now you can easily create an Twitter account and after that you can read know what your favorite Actor is feeling or thinking right NOW.

 Basically all social networking website let user communicate with other users in a more interactive & personal way other than that they also  let users do some or all of these things as well,

1:-They lets users create & maintain  online profiles that can be viewed by other users .
2:-  users can become  friend, fan or follower (whatever the term may be) of other users.
3:-User who are friends can create groups or communities where like minded guys/gals can meet.
4:-users can upload photos, music and videos.

Although all the social networking sites provide same services we all know that there are some which are liked my most(like Orkut in India & Brazil and facebook in the whole world), the reason of this is not very hard to understand if you youself try out few of them you will find some of them to be better than others.

Social networking sites are not just for fun there are infinite possibilities of what can be done one fine example was the My Obama campaign.
But the most important thing these sites do is that they bring people together & gives people a channel to stay in touch noi matter where they or we are.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

How to translate whole websites, (its Great fun.)

Suppose you need to know  the meaning of a word from some language what you'll do? After all you can't get dictionary of all the languages and what if you have to know the meaning of a complete sentence?
Well Google can help you , just use "Google Translate", using this you can also translate any website or blog in language of your choice.
In case you don't know it I'll show you Step wise how:-

1 Log on to Google.
2 Click on TRANSLATE option on left side on top.

3 In the box "Translate from" select the language that you word or sentance belongs ton and in the box "Translate to " select the language in which you wnat the word to be translated.

4 If you want to translate a website or a blog everything else is same you just have to type the URL/ Web adress and hit ENTER.

Click here to translate".

Use it once and you will realise that how fun it is. But this is a lot  more than just a "FUN" service, Google Translate gives internet users the power to read any websites in the language of their choice. There are a lot of good websites/Blog that are in languages other than English and Also There are a lot of internet users who are not very good in English Therefore this service can offer a lot.  Although the traslations done by Google translate are not 100% correct and the software used by Google to do all this translation needs to improve a lot
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

GOOGLE GOOGLE EVERYWHERE BUT What it is?




Just think about it a company which offers almost all its products and services for free and does not spends money on advertising or brand promotion, is one of the highest earning companies in the world. Well we’re talking about GOOGLE. Yes Google the search engine (search engine means a site used to search the internet).
In this article I will share with you some the information I have about Google. After reading it if you want to know more or know more in details just leaves a comment.I will be writing about Google in detail in coming posts.


Google is a company based on INNOVATION and TECHNOLOGY and they have proved that you can indeed make money without being evil(Its their motto along with " Don't Be Evil).Google's officially stated mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The name of the company shows the ambitions of Larry & sergey, one Google means a number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The right spelling of this number is GOOGOL(most people don't know this but now you do).

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. At that time they were studying for their PhD s in Stanford University (California,USA). Before Google there were many( more than 10) search engines already available and they used different methods to index or search the internet but they all had one problem i.e. the results were not indexed on the basis of their relevance. How big this problem was here is an example to show:-

If you searched the word INKTOMI on one of the search engines in use those days INKTOMI, the engine could not find any appropriate results, not even itself!

Larry and sergey had an idea to solve this problem they developed a special algorithm called “PageRank” to generate search results.
What PageRank does? Basically it gives a relevancy score to each web page and then it arranges the web pages on the base of their score. Google just like any other search engine uses programs called spiders or crawlers, they search the internet to bring the results (Google has a large index of keywords & of locations where words can be found). After that those results are index according to their pagerank score.


Initially Google was launched on website of Stanford university with the address……………. .
It became a instant hit and the popularity was rapidly increasing as whoever used it was really impressed and suggested it to their friends( this is how it got worldwide popularity).
Larry and Sergey wanted to sell their search engine, so that they could complete their studies , but all the big-search-engines of that time were not interested(all them must be regretting their decision).

At last on the advice of Yahhoo! Co-founder David Filo, Larry & Sergey launched Google as a company in 1997.The Domain name Google.com was registered on September 15, 1997.
After launching the search engine as a company Larry & Sergey applied another innovative idea of not placing ads on their homepage instead they used a newer idea of selling KEYWORDS so that they could earn money without being evil.

On September 7, 1998 Google went public & just like the company itself shares of the company have only went up.since then Google has launched many new products and services and acquired many others and is now one of the biggest companies in the whole world.

Google has is a role model for all the new start-ups and entrepreneurs.The most important thing that Google has proved is that YOU CAN MAKE MONEY WITHOUT BEING EVIL.




Sources :-The Google Story, How Google changed the world, Wikipedia.org/wiki, news articles.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

"2012 " The MOVIE

The movie that gave news channels a long lasting breaking news ( at least for Hindi ones) has released , and it is doing very well. It opened at number one with an estimated $65 million on its first weekend in US and $160 million in foreign markets, totaling $225 million worldwide.

The director of the movie Roland Emmerich who is well known for making disaster movies that are filled with great visual effects effects and involving concepts like world-in-trouble and like Independence Day, Day after Tomorrow and Godzilla, has given us this one which has it all ,after all its about our worlds end yaar..

The story revolves around( apart from DOOMSDAY of course) Jackson Curtis ( john cusack) with his family , a Russian billionaire his son & girlfriend, Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) scientific advisor to the President and few other people who fit in either to help our hero or to die a visually spectacular death like a weird RJ /conspiracy theorist, Helmsley’s papa , a Chinese lama , a Chinese worker , President & his daughter & few others. Although there are few characters that are supposed to give the background of main characters and a little emotions, but almost all the characters lack the depth and relations of the movies central family is not very well justified, I felt a resemblance

with the family of Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds.

In the movie the reason behind all this catastrophe are solar flairs that trigger some action or reaction (that I don’t understand) which result in earth’s core heating up , increasing temperatures , super tsunamis and eventually major part of land falling (literally) in the water and a change in our geography due to cruste displacement. An Indian scientist discovers it and a visiting friend who is also scientific advisor to the President takes this info to US. There without any discussions and trouble president agrees to raise this topic in G8 meeting. Next thing they show is that CHINA is building some modern day Noah’s arks and golden tickets of life are being sold at just ONE BILLION EUROS.

Our protagonist who is a writer cum limo driver gets to know about all this thanks to a weird conspiracy theorist and kids of his boss. What follows next are efforts of john cusack to reach CHINA in a journey filled with beautiful visual effects, some comedy, and a lot of destruction this group they narrowly escape multiple catastrophes and finally after many twists and turns and close shaves reach their destination. This journey comprises the major part of the movie.

While our hero is busy traveling some other stories including a love story bloom start developing.

The strength of the movie are its visuals (awesome), and the movie is full on entertainer.

I must say that ,despite some scientific inaccuracies and and lack of character depth,

This disaster movie is a must watch ,you will surely enjoy it , but I think this one of those movies that deserves to be seen on big screen.

LAST WORD:-

A certain critic said that this is the “mother of all disaster movies “ and I guess he was 95% right.