Some good videos
Shashi tharoor at TED talks: India's Soft power
Some beyond GOOOOOD...
It is expected from bharatkumar...
- clerk - heart attack scene
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Right To Education: Quantity over quality?
Right To Education: Quantity over quality?
The thing I like most about this law is that there is a time limit of 5 yrs time to fulfill its promise. that's a rarity in India...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Unitary method
One of my friend took a 40 inch LCD to India(from singapore).
The delhi custom police did not know the equivalent price of the same in India... (there is no need for the same, but they want to know to ask for euquivalent bribe). But the custom people knew the price of 32 inch and also the equivalent bribe(=X Rs). So they aksed my frined X + 500 Rs per extra inch as bribe... :)
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Compilation of status messages
1. Democracy: Neighbours Envy, Owners Pride.
2. Please dont send any mails praising 10dulkar.
3. Singabore.
4. If only tendulkar can perform like Jaisurya, he deserve to continue playing.
5. Anyone can code.
6. logic is nuthing.
7. The longer i live, the better I used to be.
8. Why is Hockey our National Game
9. In their white dress, Indian hockey team resembles German football team.. However unlike European Aryans, they are not playing to their name...
8. Why is Hockey our National Game
9. In their white dress, Indian hockey team resembles German football team.. However unlike European Aryans, they are not playing to their name...
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Food for thought
Money Minded:
She is a considered to a person who bargains a lot... even for a penny.
Or he is the person, who will mind if someone makes a fool of him for 100 Rs, but wont mind for 2 Rs...
Success of Marriage:
In India, the success of relationship is measured by its longevity. Kinda strange. We hardly have any divorce, so why do we really bother about it.
Investment Adv:
Most of the Investment/Insurance adv shows female advising the male counterpart why and where to invest... How unreal but how effectively it (the ad) serves its purpose...
Bhag kar shadi karna:
You either believe in Love marriage and ready to elope if required, or you don't believe in Love.
Should 10dulkar retire:
Of course.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Chinese Diwali
Gong Xi Fa Cai
(pronounced as "gong si fa chai" -> wishing you prosperity)
Chinese New Year is their festival of prosperity. Chinese New year is the start of New Year as per their calendar. It is a 15 day festival. Sometimes called as Lunar new year, it celebrates, like in India, the beginning of the spring.
New Year Eve reunion
Family members get together for a reunion dinner. Debt are cleared off. Brooms are put away.
In traditional household, one cannot broom for entire during these days, incase you sweep your luck away… (Weird funda)
Yu Sheng
The raw fish salad served as appetizer during reunion dinner. People use their chopsticks to toss the ingredients in to the air and make loud auspicious wishes. The higher you toss the greater your fortune.
Two Oranges
Chinese usually give two oranges as gift on New Year. It symbolizes Good Health and Long Life.
(pronounced as "gong si fa chai" -> wishing you prosperity)
Chinese New Year is their festival of prosperity. Chinese New year is the start of New Year as per their calendar. It is a 15 day festival. Sometimes called as Lunar new year, it celebrates, like in India, the beginning of the spring.
New Year Eve reunion
Family members get together for a reunion dinner. Debt are cleared off. Brooms are put away.
In traditional household, one cannot broom for entire during these days, incase you sweep your luck away… (Weird funda)
Yu Sheng
The raw fish salad served as appetizer during reunion dinner. People use their chopsticks to toss the ingredients in to the air and make loud auspicious wishes. The higher you toss the greater your fortune.
Two Oranges
Chinese usually give two oranges as gift on New Year. It symbolizes Good Health and Long Life.
Red Packets
Called hongbao -> gift envelop. Its red in color, color of good luck. Chinese keeps a sum of 8 or many 8. This is because 8 sounds similar to Chinese term for prosperity. The number 4 is considered unlucky num, as it sounds like homonym for death.
New Clothes
Obviously they are Red color cloth.
No White or black..
Sweets
Love letter and Pineapple tarts.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
the number 1
Pythagorus believed that "Every thing in the world is made of units or whole numbers"
even music -> where the perfect harmonics tones sound much better than other. Higher harmonics are just combination of 2 or more harmonics. The lowest unit was 1. But later when worked on triangles he realised that his hypothesis was not true.
Arithmetic and Writing
In ancient time man started marking a line for 1. but he did not know how to count for a long time. Then instead of marking they started to keep a conical shaped clay piece. Every piece represents One of something. The use of conical piece was the invention of Arithmetic. Now people have some ones or many ones. When they exchange these pieces it either results in an addition or subtraction operation. Sometimes they used to keep these pieces in a bigger pot to remember the count of something. They also make the equal number of impression from the outside so as to know how many pieces are inside. Then someone realised that the pieces are not required. If they make impression on some sheet for each count it will serve the purpose. This leads to first CA, who keeps the record of things in a book. This also invented WRITING.
Other Numbers
When humans started living in the society, they required to distribute the food and other materials. This made them to invent other number. The first civilization to start using the bigger number were form India. They invented the symbols for 1 -9, which unfortunately are known as Arabic numbers.
From Counting to measuring
To build road and building, we require exact measurement. The need to exactly measure the lenght leads to the invention of ruler. First ruler was equal to the length of arm of some person. Replicas of such ruler were made and used for construction purpose. The first rules was used by Egyptians.
The Zero
The first written document of zero could be found on the wall of a temple in Gwalior. It dates back to 11Th BC. Indians not only invented zero, they invented the digit numbers. By combining different numbers Indians were able to write any number, no matter how big or small was it.
This gave the Indian astrologers edge over the others. They are the first to discover that earth revolves on its axis, and it moves around the sun much before Copernicus. They also calculated the diameter of earth (with only 1% variation).
The number system moves from India to middle east (Iraq). The Muslim law system requires a better number system as many of its law requires to precisely calculate the share. The middle east took the match to new heights with the discovery of algebra, quadratic equation, logarithms...
Indian Numeral Vs Romans
The roman numerals were used by all the Europe as it was under roman control. The other side of Mediterranean sea was using Indian numbers. Fibonacci learned the India numerals from middle east and took them to Europe. It took some time for the Europeans to start using Indian system as they found it little difficult. Also the number ZERO was not clear and was looked with suspicion. They used to call it Cifar. The word Cypher (meaning suspicious) originates it roots from this. But the Indian number system proved much better in calculating exact values especially the interest. With the Capitalism on advance, India system was excepted.
The Binary Numbers
In 16th century, Leibeintz wanted to build a mechanical calculator to get rid of the human error. He realized that we really don't need 10 different numerals to count. All we need is only 1 and 0. He build a binary mechanical calculator. Although he didn't worked much on that. It was only in 1944 that the first calculating m/c was built on binary system. Only this time it was electronic m/c.
even music -> where the perfect harmonics tones sound much better than other. Higher harmonics are just combination of 2 or more harmonics. The lowest unit was 1. But later when worked on triangles he realised that his hypothesis was not true.
Arithmetic and Writing
In ancient time man started marking a line for 1. but he did not know how to count for a long time. Then instead of marking they started to keep a conical shaped clay piece. Every piece represents One of something. The use of conical piece was the invention of Arithmetic. Now people have some ones or many ones. When they exchange these pieces it either results in an addition or subtraction operation. Sometimes they used to keep these pieces in a bigger pot to remember the count of something. They also make the equal number of impression from the outside so as to know how many pieces are inside. Then someone realised that the pieces are not required. If they make impression on some sheet for each count it will serve the purpose. This leads to first CA, who keeps the record of things in a book. This also invented WRITING.
Other Numbers
When humans started living in the society, they required to distribute the food and other materials. This made them to invent other number. The first civilization to start using the bigger number were form India. They invented the symbols for 1 -9, which unfortunately are known as Arabic numbers.
From Counting to measuring
To build road and building, we require exact measurement. The need to exactly measure the lenght leads to the invention of ruler. First ruler was equal to the length of arm of some person. Replicas of such ruler were made and used for construction purpose. The first rules was used by Egyptians.
The Zero
The first written document of zero could be found on the wall of a temple in Gwalior. It dates back to 11Th BC. Indians not only invented zero, they invented the digit numbers. By combining different numbers Indians were able to write any number, no matter how big or small was it.
This gave the Indian astrologers edge over the others. They are the first to discover that earth revolves on its axis, and it moves around the sun much before Copernicus. They also calculated the diameter of earth (with only 1% variation).
The number system moves from India to middle east (Iraq). The Muslim law system requires a better number system as many of its law requires to precisely calculate the share. The middle east took the match to new heights with the discovery of algebra, quadratic equation, logarithms...
Indian Numeral Vs Romans
The roman numerals were used by all the Europe as it was under roman control. The other side of Mediterranean sea was using Indian numbers. Fibonacci learned the India numerals from middle east and took them to Europe. It took some time for the Europeans to start using Indian system as they found it little difficult. Also the number ZERO was not clear and was looked with suspicion. They used to call it Cifar. The word Cypher (meaning suspicious) originates it roots from this. But the Indian number system proved much better in calculating exact values especially the interest. With the Capitalism on advance, India system was excepted.
The Binary Numbers
In 16th century, Leibeintz wanted to build a mechanical calculator to get rid of the human error. He realized that we really don't need 10 different numerals to count. All we need is only 1 and 0. He build a binary mechanical calculator. Although he didn't worked much on that. It was only in 1944 that the first calculating m/c was built on binary system. Only this time it was electronic m/c.
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