Is that a good DEAL????

MICROSOFT is planning to bye YAHOO…..this is not my Falsetto!!!

Week ago I read this news on CNNMoney.com, and I was thinking "is that going to be a good deal…??"

And it was really a bad feel for me from Yahoo mails and Yahoo messenger since last week…that made me to think is that a good deal ??

Yahoo messengers’ last week behavior ….

We use it for our internal project communication….really it helps a lot, no doubt about that….but do you think that if you are giving something for free, you should not care about it…..???
Last week….within our team, all were not able to log in to yahoo messenger at the same time….only if one logged out the other can loggin….offf.
Then the other problem….I was able to send the message but the recipient was not getting that…..huh.

Yahoo mail this week behavior…..

Trying to send a 5 line mail to my friend’s id…..it was bouncing left and right….damn
Telling ID dose not exit….bull sit…and the very next day I was able to send on the same ID…..Finally.

Here I am not trying to tell that because of these two minor problems yahoo is not a good company.

I feel Yahoo is a Rocking company like Google but.....

I like its “Do You Yahoo” he he he

But why it is planning to merge ???

Now the merging with Microsoft….can still Yahoo’ens will say “Do You Yahoo” ??? I doubt !!!!

But anyways why Bill Gates so afraid of Google….???

Is that the reason he is planning to acquire the Yahoo.
And then their employ will say “Do You MicroYahoo”….he he he.

But “MicroYahoo” sounds even smaller that Yahoo in computer terminology(Micro).

Isn’t is ???

But Anyways here what I got something which finally convinced me “Why Bill wants Yahoo”…….

(FORTUNE Magazine) – MICROSOFT WAS ALREADY MONTHS INTO A MASSIVE project aimed at taking down Google when the truth began to dawn on Bill Gates. It was December 2003. He was poking around on the Google company website and came across a help-wanted page with descriptions of all the open jobs at Google. Why, he wondered, were the qualifications for so many of them identical to Microsoft job specs? Google was a web search business, yet here on the screen were postings for engineers with backgrounds that had nothing to do with search and everything to do with Microsoft's core business--people trained in things like operating-system design, compiler optimization, and distributed-systems architecture. Gates wondered whether Microsoft might be facing much more than a war in search. An e-mail he sent to a handful of execs that day said, in effect, "We have to watch these guys. It looks like they are building something to compete with us."
He sure got that right. Today Google isn't just a hugely successful search engine; it has morphed into a software company and is emerging as a major threat to Microsoft's dominance. You can use Google software with any Internet browser to search the web and your desktop for just about anything; send and store up to two gigabytes of e-mail via Gmail (Hotmail, Microsoft's rival free e-mail service, offers 250 megabytes, a fraction of that); manage, edit, and send digital photographs using Google's Picasa software, easily the best PC photo software out there; and, through Google's Blogger, create, post online, and print formatted documents--all without applications from Microsoft.

While Google was launching those products--all of them free--Microsoft has been trying in vain to catch up in search. It has spent about $150 million on its search project, code-named Underdog. But Google and lately Yahoo keep leaping ahead with innovations like local-area search complete with maps and satellite photos, ways to search inside a video file, and search designed for cellphones.
Simply put, Google has become a new kind of foe, and that's what has Gates so riled. It has combined software innovation with a brand-new Internet business model--and it wounds Gates' pride that he didn't get there first. Since Google doesn't sell its search products (it makes its money from the ads that accompany its search results), Microsoft can't muscle it out of the marketplace the way it did rivals like Netscape. But what really bothers Gates is that Google is gaining the ability to attack the very core of Microsoft's franchise--control over what users do first when they turn on their computers.
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt all say that any talk about supplanting Microsoft is ludicrous. But the idea that Google will one day marginalize Microsoft's operating system and bypass Windows applications is already starting to become reality. The most paranoid people at Microsoft even think "Google Office" is inevitable. Google is taking over operating system features too, like desktop search. There are fewer uses for the START button in Windows now that Google's desktop search can locate any program, document, photo, music file, or e-mail on a computer.
All of which helps explain why inside Microsoft, the battle with Google has become far more than a fight over search: It's a certifiable grudge match for king of the hill in high tech. "Google is interesting not just because of web search, but because they're going to try to take that and use it to get into other parts of software," says Gates as he leans forward in his chair, his body coiled as if he could spring to his feet at any second. "If all there was was search, you really shouldn't care so much about it. It's because they are a software company," he says. "In that sense," he adds later, "they are more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with."

Employees jumping from Microsoft to Google

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft's Google-fighters. So bad that one left abruptly last week, and another decided this week to switch teams.
Vic Gundotra, a general manager for platform evangelism at Microsoft and a 15-year employee, has agreed to join Google after first spending a year working on charitable endeavors, Business 2.0 has learned.

"Mr. Gundotra has resigned from Microsoft and entered into an agreement with Google," Google spokesman Steve Langdon wrote in an emailed statement. "He will not be a Google employee for one year and intends to spend that time on philanthropic pursuits. We are uncertain what precise role he will play when he begins working for Google, but he has a broad range of skills and experience which we believe will be valuable to Google."Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla confirmed Gundotra's departure and says that the executive has a noncompete agreement with Microsoft preventing him from working for a competitor for one year after leaving the company.

Brain Drain: Another Microsoft exec jumps to Google

Conclussio : if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Soo TRUE.

Big name Big task…..Yeh!!!

Yes I am talking about “Ronaldo Luiz Nazario da Silva” means yours’ and mine the only one RONALDO “9” yeh….

Why I am so happy ?????

Because he wears “9” and “9” is my Lucky number…….

Only occasionally can the bare facts and figures of a player’s career convey the sheer talent that they possess. Ronaldo Luiz Nazario da Silva is quite simply one of the greatest strikers in the history of world football, capable of leaving an entire team for dead with his darting runs and dribbling ability, voted FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions and already a double FIFA World Cup™ winner. These honours are merely the tip of the iceberg in the record-breaking career of the man they call ‘The Phenomenon’.

Having been a member of the FIFA World Cup-winning Brazil squad in 1994, the prodigiously talented teenager joined Dutch side PSV Eindhoven in the same year. In only two years at the club, he scored 54 goals in a mere 57 games – an incredible average of just under a goal every game….Gosh Gosh and Gosh,

In 2002, he moved back to Spain with Real Madrid and the then Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gambled on the forward’s return to form and fitness by calling him up to Brazil’s FIFA World Cup squad. No one could have predicted a better outcome. Not only had Brazil won their fifth FIFA World Cup, but the ‘Phenomenon’ was the tournament’s top scorer, netting eight goals in only seven games. Only Pele has netted as many goals for Brazil in the competition’s history – both players having scored 12 times.

And this time Ronaldo was looking to surpass that figure as well as overhaul Gerd Muller’s long-standing 14-goal record as top scorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup. And he has done that wooooooooo…

Ronaldo inscribed his name into football's history books on Tuesday 27th June 2006 by scoring a record-breaking 15th FIFA World Cup™ goal to take him clear of Gerd Muller as the tournament's all-time top marksman.

Targeting for XX / XX / XXXX

“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”

Hmm sounds good.....

I believe ,

"Achieving less is not the shame but aiming less is the shame."

So here I GO.....

My Number: ONE

My Number : TWO

My Number : THREE

Wondering for XX / XX / XXXX....this is DD / MM / YYYY.

But that is with me :)

2 Years.....hmmm

Hey completed 2 years of my first job on 14-Jun-2006…..wait it looks very small.

Hey completed 731 days of my first job….Opps again looks small

Hey completed 17544 Hr of my first job….Nop again looks small

Hey completed 1052640 Mints of my first job….O’man its still looks small

It will be small only so forget that…..

Day before Yesterday I received a mail from Team HR , congratulating me for my completions of two year in MASCON, and looking forward to continue with us for long period.

So here I am with 2 years of experience..……

And here is my Googly google who gave me this gift on completion of my 2 years.



Some one has searched “award winning story on appraisal” in google yesterday and he gets

“HEY THANKS FOR COMING: Award winning story!!!!!” as the first result.

And then he/she says “hello this is Justin” “I m from Mumbai” on my blog messsanger.

I must thank him/her for this gift.

Googly you ROCK

I must thank people who helped me lot in starting of my job carrier….

Here I go….

• Raghvendra Rao Ijjada (My first PM and he was the one who took my technical interview in the college)
  
  Hey Raghav,
  Thanks for recruiting me and taking me into your team , which was considered as the HOTEST team of MASCON for Lucent Technology.
  The Team called DataBlitz , full of IIT’ns.
  As a fresher that was the best offer I have got…..
  Thank You Very Much Raghav.

• Team Members:(DataBlitz)
  
  Hey Champs,
  Ganesh, Prabha(BiG B), Prem, Anna, Venkat , Kishore , Takshak ,Mallik
  Gopal , Pravin , Vinay,Sekhar
  Ganga,Shanti,Chaitra,Aruna,Sujatha,Arpana
  Thank you all for your support and help you all have given me those days.
  You all really deserve more than whatever I am trying to give from this post.
  Wish you all the very best….Keep rising and rocking.
  And hello…keep forgiving me whenever I forget to call on your birthdays considering my true wishes are always for you all…...

• All Friends,
  
  Hey Buddies,
  Thanks a lot for everything you all have done for me.
  Keep rocking…..and keep going.
  Without you people I would not be what I am. Keep forgiving me when you feel i am behaving like a rude.I could not find the thing in this real world which you people really deserve....coz that is beyond the love....Wish you all the very Best.

• HeyGoogle , without you I am no where in this game. I really mean it.
  Thank you for your unlimited support.
  I can bet….if you stop your search engine most of the people including me will have a real tough time to complete the task in the provided time frame.
  So the only way I can thank you is…..appreciating your application which helps me in my daily life.
  
  Google Suggest,
  Hey I stopped using google.com for my search.Now I use google suggest.
  It save my lots of time from the previous google search.
  
  Google Notepad,
  I still remember the date “5/15/06” when I found this into your lab.
  This is really very helpful….
  Before that I use to copy some things from net and save into a file, whatever I get important for future reuse. And the only problem which I was facing was to keep putting that doc in my and my friends mails.
  But those days gone when you have given me this Google notepad.
  Its amazing man….thanks a lot for this.
  
  Google Lab,
  I love your lab.
  Whenever I feel tired from my work , I just come to your lab.
  It works as a boost for me.
  
  Google Group,
  This is one think which impressed me very fast.
  Now from the google search result page I directly jump to the google group links.
  It gives exactly what I need.
  
  Gmail,
  The best thing I liked in this is to forwarding my all mail to my office mail account. Which saves my time to explicitly go their and check my mail.
  
  Google Calendar,
  This is also very useful. If you do not want to get kicked by your friends if you forget to wish them on their birthday. Then use this to remind you.
  
  Boss…this list will not stop…coz your google video, your white papers , your APIs , opps ...all rocks man …..
  
  So let my finish this by saying thanks for your last but not least application the Google Blog which allowing me to write this.
  Sorry google I am not liking your Orkut yet……..May be because I am not giving my time in that.

Boss that fellow has 8 Years of Experience…..

Best utilization of available resources….that is what we are called ENGINEERS :)

People say ALL Software Engineers becomes DUMP after 7-10 years…..So they are no more Engineers after 7-10 Years….

People say because they think these are the work we do after 7-10 Years:

• mail check….
• mail forward with FYI….
• draw some graph in Excel….
• draw some project plan…..
• feel good factor that is roam in the office and check how SE and SSE are struggling and remember our own time and feel good and just give a dirty smile on them…..
• attend the bull-sit status meetings and throw some ideas….
• become mentors for some body and DUMP the ideas..….
• suggest to read “this novel that novel” “this book that book” …..
• come late, go early……
• do sign on leave applications……
• increase some one salary the way you want….
  

And this list just goes on and on……

I say….people who think like this are all NUTS.
Because ALL Software Engineers are not like that…..some are Engineers forever.

Example :

Today morning I was using one stove for my BF into the kitchen…….my roomy came into the kitchen to prepare his BF.
He took match stick from the match box and used my stove to burn that match stick and the best thing he did was..he burnt that match stick to the wrong side..the side which is used to hold the match stick…and he burnt the second stove , then he used his thumb to off the light and he kept the match stick in the match box…..

WOOOO that was really AWESOME……
I was like WOW.... we can use this match stick next time, coz it is still unused…..

Boss that fellow has 8 Years of Experience…..

Just 1-0 ????? Wooff

What happend to Brazil's R's.............

The very first match and they are not playing like Brazil.....

What happen to all R.......Robinho, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho , Renato Ze Roberto

But thanks to KAKA.......

Look at the History of Brazil..........

First International:
Argentina 3 - 0 Brazil (Buenos Aires, Argentina; August 20, 1914)

Largest win:
Brazil 9 - 0 Colombia (Lima, Peru; 23 March 1957)

Worst defeat:
Argentina 6 - 1 Brazil (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5 March 1940)

World Cup Appearances:
18 (First in 1930) Best result Winners, 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002

Copa AmericaAppearances:
31 (First in 1916) Best result Winners, 1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2004

World Cup Record:
11930 - Round 1
1934 - Round 1
1938 - Third place
1950 - Runners-up
1954 - Quarter-finals
1958 - Champions
1962 - Champions
1966 - Round 1
1970 - Champions
1974 - Fourth place
1978 - Third place
1982 - Round 2
1986 - Quarter-finals
1990 - Round 2
1994 - Champions
1998 - Runners-up
2002 - Champions
2006 - Qualified

Brazil are ranked number 1 in the world and thats no supprise, the team have won the world cup a massive 5 times since they were first formed, never failed to gain entry to the finals. Such a strong team to beat and feared by many opposing teams. Brazil are the only team to qualify for every world cup since they were formed.

But this time ?????? who knows......

Current Players:

Goalkeepers: Dida, Julio Cesar
Defenders: Cafu, Cicinho, Edmilson, Gilberto, Juan Lucio, Roberto Carlos, Roque Junior
Midfielders: Emerson, Gilberto Silva, P.Juninho, Kaká, Renato Ze Roberto
Forwards: Adriano, Julio Baptista, Ricardo Oliveira, Robinho, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho

1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6

Wow here comes Nadal again……

Rafael Nadal……my new favorite since last year when he beat Federer in last year's French Open semi-final.

Yesterday with a 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 victory over the Swiss star in the French Open final, the irrepressible Spaniard retained his title and became the first man to beat Federer in a Grand Slam final.

The match was Federer's first defeat in eight Grand Slam finals and his status as the world's best player is now under serious threat from Nadal.

Tennis is a non-contact sport but Nadal makes it feel like one. He has the presence of a clay court colossus, with biceps like cannonballs and a venomous look in his eye.

Well done Nadal, Cheers for You…….

!!!!Need H E L P to R U N my "The Da Vinci Code Project"!!!!!

It was 12th May, I was having dinner to one of my colleague house….I found a book on his table named “The Da Vinci Code”….
My first thinking abt that book was quiet interesting :-)

Idea of this Project:

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The=The
Da Vinci=Some programmer name
Code= C or C++ or JAVA

So I thought wow I found some novel which is something related to computer science.
I got so excited to read that book……then just turned around the pages and could not found any type of code syntax(c , c++,java) :) Then I thought what the hell there is no code….and it has 604 pages….quite interesting :)

However my colleague asked “how is it” I said wow quite interesting (Hindi:-man me bola kya bolun ise ki “you are dam reading code without a single line of code”) I just kept that book as it is haven’t discussed anything about this with anybody and came back to home and had a good sleep :-)

Then next day was Saturday and as usual I was watching news on my favorite news channel CNN-IBN….and guess what….channel was talking about the movie “The Da Vinci Code” Freak ?????? what the hell?????

I just switched off the TV and ran to my colleague house to grab that book first,
And I was so quick that I left my flat key inside and shut the door that was automatic lock and so I was without key…this was the first core dump (improper memory use) of my project “The Da Vinci Code”.

Anyways , I ran and asked my college “can I have this book for some day”….he got surprised and said sure sure… you would have taken it yesterday only(Hindi: phir maine man me bola …to chup kar yar yaha meri halat kharab hai book of code without a single line of code…..khud to padh ke bakara bana hoga aur ab mai bane wala hun)….

Anyways I got the book…called my made to get the extra room key…she is so sweet and caring she came and opened the room….

Now I just opened the first page of the book and I got surprised after reading “The Da Vinci Code in theaters worldwide on 19th may 2006” Opppps for me…(Hindi:kya ye C,C++,java ab theater me dikyayenge)

Then I moved to index page to find something interesting….there I found some chapter talking about “Mona Lisa”….Freak what the hell is this book called “code” talking about………… is that the reason of controversies J (book of code without a single line of code) :)

Above was all the idea about the project “The Da Vinci Code”----Pramod

Requirement gathering and Analysis of my “The Da Vinci Code”

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Then the Google helped me a lot to gather the requirement and to understand about the project “The Da Vinci Code” .
And these are the things which made me crazy about my project “The Da Vinci Code”

* The Da Vinci Code is a mystery/detective novel by American author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday Fiction. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in print (as of May 2006) and has been translated into 44 languages.

** Dan Brown's novel was a smash hit in 2003, even rivaling the sales of the highly popular Harry Potter series.

*** The book concerns the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentagram drawn on his stomach in his own blood. The interpretation of hidden messages inside Leonardo's famous works, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, figure prominently in the solution to the mystery.

And finally I got the Idea about “The Da Vinci Code”
The mystery of “Da Vinci”

(Da Vinci self portrait.)

Detailed design and Implementation of my “The Da Vinci Code”
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It took a good time to identify the main module but it was quite intresting. I got my first module(which will contain the main() method) of my project “The Da Vinci Code”.

And the module was “Da Vinci” :)

And here are the submodules :

The first Run of my project “The Da Vinci Code”

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Now I got my project implemented and it can run on three platforms :

Book : Windows
Theater : Solaris
VCD/DVD : Linux (open source “pirated CDs”)
But I confused on which platform I should run first….:)
Any Idea…….:)

Hope you enjoyed my “The Da Vinci Code” project life cycle..... :-)

Imagining a day without Microsoft !!!!!!!

Microsoft makes the trains run on time

"Be careful what you wish for," writes Ephraim Schwartz in Infoworld to begin his short thought piece on what the world would be like if Microsoft and its monopoly disappeared. It's a possibility that seems these days at least conceivable given the arrival of rich Web-based applications, and the rhetoric from people like Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff who regularly proclaims the end of Microsoft-style packaged software. (Certainly, the protesters from Free Software Foundation who showed up at Microsoft's developers conference this week in hazmat suits might not shed a tear.)Schwartz asked a cross-section of tech gurus for their opinion on the subject, and while some were delighted by the prospect, others suggested we don't realize how good we have it. "Panic in the streets" is the most likely outcome, said Tony Meadow of software maker Bear River Associates.The debate got picked up this morning on Digg, where most readers rejected the premise entirely. "The strawman this article sets up is utter crap," writes Digg user "cazabam," who scoffed at the notion that Microsoft's disappearance would catapault us into the technological Dark Ages."The only point that this article successfully proves is that MS has acquired lock-in not only at the software level, but also in mindset." For his part, however, Schwartz concludes (spoiler alert): "If Microsoft didn't exist, we'd have to invent it."

curtesy CNNMoney.

Leme take a diff................

My Designations.....

14 June 2004

Pramod Kumar Singh
Software Engineer Trainee


14December 2004

Pramod Kumar Singh
Software Engineer

24May 2006

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Its WOW time for me...............

-more responsibilities
-more expectations from me

In every thing i just need to put "more" to fulfill this "senior".....isn't it.

Microsoft and Google go mano-a-mano

Microsoft switches to own online ad broker service and cuts former ad service - Yahoo's Overture - in bid to better compete with Google in massive online ad market.

Microsoft's launch of adCenter is part of the world's largest software maker's push to better compete with Internet rivals Google (Research) and Yahoo (Research) in a U.S. online advertising market estimated to be worth around $15 billion.

Advertisers bought pay-per-click ads on MSN search through Yahoo's Overture service until last year, but adCenter handled an increasing percentage of those transactions during testing in recent months.

AdCenter will be initially limited to paid search, but Microsoft envisions the service being a one-stop shop for online advertising across many of the company's software platforms including Xbox games and mobile phones.

OKey...........So With that in mind, what could Google go after?

Michael Cohen, director of research with Pacific American Securities, thinks Google should stick to do what it does best: search.

"Here's a company that has the ability to raise cash and do anything they want. But I think they'd be ill-served if they didn't stick to their core strategy," Cohen said.

To that end, Google is said to have recently bought the rights to new search technology that allows users to view answers to search queries without having to leave for another Web site.
Still, Google is clearly broadening its scope beyond search. Google once noted on a corporate Web page about its philosophy that it did not "do horoscopes, financial advice or chat." Yet, Google now does two of those three things. (We're still waiting for the Google horoscope beta.)
As such, Bill Tancer, general manager of global research with Hitwise, an Internet research firm, thinks Google needs to make more deals in social networking. He said Google's biggest threat will not come from search engines like Yahoo! (Research), Microsoft's (Research) MSN or IAC/Interactive's (Research) Ask.com but from MySpace, the social networking site owned by News Corp (Research).

"Google's core business is helping people consume information on the Web. As we see Google grow out its content offerings such as finance and maps, I think they'd have to make a serious play into more social and user-generated content," he said.
Google already has some presence in this area - web log tool Blogger, photo sharing software service Picasa and social networking site, Orkut, for example. But Tancer thinks Google needs to make an even bigger splash.


Google's ultimate goal is to be more competitive with Microsoft on several fronts, the company has a long way to go. Google had nearly 5,700 employees at the end of last year, up from about 3,000 at the end of 2004. Microsoft has about 61,000 workers worldwide.

A new way to Google? clickhere

Award winning story!!!!!

There was a contest in to write a fictional story for 500 words max which wud start with the line "On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway tracks leading to the Bangalore station".....

Here it is.....

On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway tracks leading to the Bangalore station. At once I was held back to see someone in that position during midnight with no one around. With curiosity taking the front seat, I went near the body and tried to investigate it. There was blood all over the body which was lying face down. It seemed that a ruthless blow by the last train could have caused the end of this body which seemed to be that of a guy of around my age. Amidst the gory blood flow, I could see a folded white envelope which was fluttering in the midnight wind. Carefully I took the blood stained envelope and was surprised to see the phrase "appraisal letter" on it. With curiosity rising every moment, I wasted no time in opening the envelope to see if I can find some details about the dead guy. The tag around the body's neck and the jazzy appraisal cover gave me the hint that he might be a software engineer. I opened the envelope to find a shining paper on which the appraisal details where typed in flying coolers. Thunders broke into my ears and lightening struck my heart when I saw the appraisal amount of the dead guy!!!!! My God, it was not even, as much as the cost of the letter on which the appraisal details were printed.... My heart poured out for the guy and huge calls were heard inside my mind saying "no wonder, this guy died such a miserable death"... As a fellow worker in the same industry, I thought I should mourn for him for the sake of respect and stood there with a heavy heart thinking of the shock that he would have experienced when his manager had placed the appraisal letter in his hand. I am sure his heart would have stopped and eyes would have gone blank for few seconds looking at the near to nothing increment in his salary.

While I mourned for him, for a second my hands froze to see the employee's name in the appraisal letter... hey, what a strange co-incidence, this guy's name is same as mine, including the initials. This was interesting. With some mental strength, I turned the body upside down and found myself fainted for a second. The guy not only had my name, but also looked exactly like me. Same looks, same built, same name.... it was me who was dead there!!!!!!!! While I was lost in that shock, I felt someone patting on my shoulders. My heart stopped completely, I could not breathe and sprung in fear to see who was behind......... splash!!! Went the glass of water on my laptop screen as I came out of my wild dream to see my manager standing behind my chair patting on my shoulder saying, "wake up man? Come to meeting room number two. I have your appraisal letter ready"

Curtsey... "Darshan"

What if a debugger could allow you to simply step BACKWARDS......?

Debugging Backwards in Time ..........WoW

Instead of all that hassle with guessing where to put breakpoints and the fear of typing "continue" one too many times......
What if you could simply go backwards to see what went wrong?
This is the essence of the "Omniscient Debugger"
-- it remembers everything that happened during the run of a program, and allows the programmer to "step backwards in time" to see what happened at any point of the program.
All variable values, all objects, all method calls, all exceptions are recorded and the programmer can now look at anything that happened at any time.

Kudos to "Bil Lewis"

Check out the presentation video here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3897010229726822034&q=engedu+debugging

After Google Earth & Moon Its Time For Google Mars.........

My endless fascination with anything involving the exploration of mars, has been fed recently by the advent of Google Mars.

GOOGLE + NASA OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooops....there is no limit.....
Generally we say there is no limit to THINK,
But with above combination I say there is no limit to IMPLEMENT.

You may remember when Google Moon was launched last July to commemorate the first lunar landing. Now, the same team which brought you Google Moon, Google Earth, and Google Local have launched Google Mars to commemorate the birth of Percival Lowell, an astronomer who was known for his interest in Mars and its canals.

The ability to "zoom in" on a piece of Mars, tantalizingly close, and sure to get closer as we get closer to the day an actual human lands there, appeals to a very basic part of who I am.

I still hope to see a human walking there during my lifetime.

This is what the developer of Google earth has to say abt Google mars:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/mars-attracts.html

And this is not the End from Google.......It is Just "Google Galaxy Starts with Mars "

Google is one step closer to announcing a Google Galaxy (Universe/Solar System) product.

GoogleMercury .com .net .org .info
GoogleVenus .com .net .org .info
GoogleJupiter .com .net. org .
GoogleSaturn .com .net .org .info
GoogleUranus .com .net .org .info
GoogleNeptune .com .net .org .info
GooglePluto .com .net .org .info

Google why donnt you just stop doing such things... It make me so excited to join you.......And you know how tough you are......

Its Tooooooooo Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig

The logistical challenge of building the Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger jet, is every bit as awesome as the plane.

Start with a piece of equipment requiring millions of parts and complex technology. Add to that the aircraft's outsized dimensions -- about 50% more floor space than a Boeing 747 and a wingspan more than 10 meters longer.

Then, to make things really complicated, manufacture the wings in England, the tail in Germany, the fuselage in France and Spain -- and move these gargantuan pieces to yet another location to put them together.

Now Lookout the Interiors.....

The ultimate in luxury: The A380 is the ultimate in luxury. It has three decks: the top two for passengers and the lower one available for a medical centre, shopping or a fast-food franchise.
This is the Airbus design for a first-class bed. The aircraft will also have new features like spas, casinos, gyms, bedrooms, and duty-free shops. Some airlines also plan to fix staterooms with beds, showers, a water feature, a double-width staircase between decks, and luxurious, book-lined club-style bars.


More comfort than ever before: The A380 has bigger seats and more space between them.
It is also more fuel efficient -- burning 1.3 gallons per passenger per 100 miles, which the company says is comparable to the fuel economy of a small turbo-diesel car.
The A380 will fly on the busiest routes. Singapore Airlines will be the first to fly the A380 in mid-2006 on high-traffic routes, especially to London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney.

All aboard a jet plane! This is what an A380 library, a shopping kiosk, a communication center would look like.
The plane also has a fitness centre. Some airlines even plan to have a swimming pool on board and will also do away with the traditional trolley service during meal times and will have self-service food counters for its passengers.
The aircraft will have more space for in-flight sales and it could have a duty-free shop onboard.

A cut above the rest: The staircase that takes you from one deck to the other too is tastefully done. To date as many as 13 customers have made orders for 139 A380s. These include 11 airlines, one express cargo carrier (FedEx, 10 aircraft) and one leasing company (ILFC, 10 aircraft). The airlines include Emirates, (43 aircraft, plus 2 leased planes); Lufthansa (15 aircraft), Qantas (12 aircraft), Singapore Airlines (10 aircraft), Air France (10 aircraft), Virgin Atlantic (6 aircraft), Malaysia Airlines (6 aircraft), Thai Airlines (6 aircraft), Korean Air (5 aircraft), Etihad (4 aircraft) and Qatar Airways (2 aircraft).

High-tech bar: This how the bar and chill-out lounge in the A380's first-class will look like.
Airbus is 80 per cent owned by European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., a consortium formed in 2000 by France's Aerospatiale Matra, Germany's DaimlerChrysler Aerospace and Spain's Construcciones Aeronauticas SA. The rest is held by Britain's BAE Systems Inc. EADS has a dual leadership structure, with a French and a German as co-CEOs. Noël Forgeard is the company's CEO.

Boeing 747 vs Airbus 380
Boeing 747 Airbus 380 (Rs)
Seating Typical 416 (max 524) Typical 555 (max 840)
Internal cabin width 6.1 m 6.58 m
Length wing to wing 64.4 m 79.8 m
Length nose to tail 70.7 m 73 m
Width 19.4 m 24.1 m
Flight range 13,450 km 15,000 km
Cruising speed 0.855 Mach 0.85 Mach

Will your PC keep pace with Vista?

Its delay in Vista......
http://news.com.com/Vista+delay+could+add+up+to+Mac+sales/2100-1016_3-6052959.html

Will your PC keep pace with Vista?http://news.com.com/Will+your+PC+keep+pace+with+Vista/2100-1016_3-6050116.html

Fw: simple puzzles....... try to solve in seconds.....

The title of this blog is a subject part of a mail which i got today as a forwarded mail.....

Look at the title of this blog "simple puzzles...."

Think again.....got something......

HA HA HA.....this was my reaction just reading the subject......

If it is Simple then it is not Puzzles and if it is Puzzles then it is not Simple......he he he :)

I mean , how "Simple" is dare to stand so close to "Puzzels" .....he he he

Anyways here is the contents of that mail........have fun :)

Below are four (4) questions. You have to answer them instantly. Youcan't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?

Let's find out just how clever you really are.
Ready?
First Question: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person.
What position are you in?
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Answer:If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong!
If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
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Second Question:If you overtake the last person, then you are...?>
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Answer:If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again.
Tell me, how can YOU overtake the LAST person?!

You're not very good at this are you?

Third Question:Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30.
Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the>total?
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Answer:Did you get 5000?
The correct answer is actually 4100.Don't believe it? Check with your calculator!
Today is definitely not your day. Maybe you will get the last question>right?

Fourth Question:Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini,4. Nono.
What is the name of the fifth daughter?

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Nunu? NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question again

Forward this to the "SMART PEOPLE" in your life!

he he he he he.......coooooooooooooooooooool

Open Source Developer Survey

Dear All,

IDC, an independent world-wide market research company, is conducting a worldwide survey to get a developer's perspective on open source software incollaboration with several large IT vendors, including ourselves.

They encourage our participation in this survey regardless of what role we may play in the software development life cycle, and whether we are anindividual contributor or a manager.

The results of this survey will be made available in a variety of forms to information technology vendors. Please be assured that the information we provide is intended to be used only in aggregation with the answers of other respondents.

If you complete the survey and provide your email address, all of the following incentives will be made available to you.

- Access later to a pre-selected IDC publication

- Access to a selected subset of this survey's results when they become available

The survey is Web-based, and is opened for six weeks starting February 20, 2006.

Click here to take the survey.....

http://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=7z7,i7zy,1dm0,m2f,j3z8,3vge,6z1d

Why I know Google will do an office suite and a desktop OS in 2006....

Let's look at the facts:



1. 99.9% of Google revenue comes from Adsense. 2. Google search is not necessarily the most efficient carrier of Google Adsense (content based websites and applications are very good at carrying Adsense as well)
3. Google is doing projects like Google Pack, GTalk, Orkut, and GMail that have NOTHING to do with indexing the worlds data--these projects are all carriers for Adsense.
4. Google has built the largest grid computing networking in the world with hundreds of thousands of computers--extending this to a desktop OS would be a cake walk.
5. Google has hired folks who worked on Open Office.
6. GMail's WYSIWYG is 90% of Microsoft Word. Everyone and their brother is making web-based word processors and spreadsheets today.
7. Google is about to launch a calendar according to reports. That's a no brainer since they have contacts and email already.
8. Most folks are fine with web-based applications now. AJAX has made web-based email competitive with desktop email--case is closed on that issue.
9. Google's server network is the only one in existence that could handle a hosted office suite--GMAIL has proven that.
10. Google is getting involved in the light $100 laptop project--which is really close to the Google Desktop concept.
11. Bill Gates himself said that there will be a huge market for advertising-based software, and Microsoft is making a web-based version of Office a major priority.
12. Tech CEOs lie through their teeth all the time--they have to. Steve Jobs said that he would never make a video iPod for two years--then he did. I would task Eric's comments that they are not interested in making a desktop OS, Office Suite, etc. with a grain of salt. If they were interested--and i know they are--they would never tip their cards.

Now, I don't think Google will make a PC. I think Google will.... :)

Nokia at 3GSM World Congress 2006

Friends,

This is from Nokia developers Newsletter.....

http://europe.nokia.com/3gsm