India's New Export: Video Games: "Kali is appearing in the forthcoming Emperor Ashoka (pronounced 'Ah-shoke,' with the 'a' silent), which recreates battles from the life of a legendary Indian king who lived in the third century B.C. The game allows players to engage in bloody historic battles based in ancient temples and other antique environments. Some mythical creatures are also thrown in -- in addition to Kali, there are gargoyle-like interpretations of the voluptuous female statues that adorn sacred buildings in India, who come alive and fight."
The Dilbert Blog: "All I ask from life is that I be slightly less miserable than the people who hate me. I call that winning."
Humans can be surprisingly bad at making logical choices, especially when decisions involve too many factors for our puny brains to comprehend at once. The process of making a big, hard decision can involve lots of teeth-gnashing, gazing off into space, fear of regret and visions of the worst case scenario. But it doesn?t have to be that way.1.Make a weighted pros and cons list2.Create a grid analysis of multiple criteria3.Calculate expected value of every outcome4.Trust your gut..Read it in detail.....
Read about decision theory in Wikipedia
The Best Of 2005
It was a vintage year for innovative leadership, creative ideas, and terrific products
Best Leaders
In corner offices, design shops, ad agencies -- these executives were ahead of the pack
Best Ideas
A clutch of concepts -- from the whimsical to the life-altering -- that came to the fore and could shape the future
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Web, Web & Web!!
There are some links which could help some webdesigners!! I have just found them, Didn't use them yet..............try them!!
Cute display of basics of a webpagePhotoshop for better colour schemesFonts & FontsPixel fontsCSS for Bar Graphs
The 5 Investment Must-Haves [Fool.com: Commentary] December 8, 2005: "And while we're on the subject of things we don't understand -- satellite radio, anyone? -- how about nano-stem-fuel cells? Companies like WorldSpace, Altair Nanotechnologies, ViaCell, and Ballard have two things in common: They're all 'hot' stocks and they're all losing money hand over fist."
Google, like I.B.M., says that it is forging a corporate culture in which success depends on performance.
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Meals of all kinds, painstakingly prepared by company chefs, are free at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., a modern corporate campus known as the Googleplex. Other amenities there include children's day care, doctors, dry cleaning, laundry, a gym, and basketball and volleyball courts. Maternity or paternity leave is 12 weeks at 75 percent of full pay. There is also up to $500 available for takeout meals for the entire family after a newborn arrives, courtesy of Google. Shuttle buses (with wireless Internet access for working while commuting) ferry employees to the Googleplex from throughout the Bay area.
And the big perk: the company's engineers are given 20 percent of their time to pursue their own ideas instead of company assignments.
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Yahoo said a new version of its Yahoo Messenger text, voice and video communications software to be introduced in the next few days will include "Phone Out," with low per-minute charges for calls from computers to phones, and "Phone In," a low-cost subscription service for phone callers to call computer users.....
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It's very similar to the names used by skype..... skype out & skype in...but, why we care if we get better quality with cheaper price...
Creative is introducing their new Zen Vision:M, an answer to Apple’s 5G iPod, and what an answer it is. We know it gets old hearing every new player get compared to Apple’s flagship offering, but can you seriously blame us here? The specs are vaguely familiar, with a 2.5-inch screen at 320x240 resolution and a 30GB hard drive, though thankfully Creative squeezed in 4 hours of video playback, doubling Apple’s endurance on at least video.
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After Cisco Systems and Intel, Now Microsoft pouring a billion $ in India!! Every week we read some news like this...some big company pouring money, not leass than a $1b, to india. Last week Broadcom was looking for soem alliances in India and it is ready to spend it's $2b!! What makes India so attractive now? It's growing economy? growing Engineers? some thing...difficult to figure out....But one thing is sure
"India is the Country of this century"!!!
Google
can do many interesting things than you could imagine. Find the list of them
here...
Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google.
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India's globe-trotting Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is paving the way for what could become the cornerstone of his unique brand of oil diplomacy during a trip to Beijing in January, 2006. Aiyar plans to sign a broad memorandum of understanding with Ma Kai, chairman of China's state energy policy planner, the National Development Reform Commission, that would have the competing Asian giants join hands in their quest for energy resources.
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Interesting picture by BusinessWeek showing how the tech industry revolves around Google.
Market capitalisation:
Google $120b
ebay $65b
Yahoo $60b
Texas Instruments $53b
SONY $36b....
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Free e-books!
God's Debris, (may be for the next flight)
The book by Scott Adams (the guy who makes DILBERT cartoons)
You may get it
here.....The other one...It is about "loosing weight by stress & poor nutrition" by John Walker. I'm not sure whether I would read or not...(i'm giving here since it's free). Get it
here......
If you are sick with your windows start up times....it's really a nice guide to revamp your system!! Without buying any software.
more.....There are many tools which you could use to make your system better. Find the
here....
Have a look at this CNET review on comparing the performances of AMD & INTEL Processors......(only have a look in case you didn't buy any intel PC in the last 6 months)
These 100 things could help. If you read them without any pressure/stress!! (I don't know where they got it from. Don't come to me fighting your copy rights).
Worth reading!!The best ones are:
Say 'no' more often
Ask for help
Don't try to know all the answers
Learn to whistle!
How would you survive in "A Car With No Brakes"...."A Volcanic Eruption"...."A Fall Through Ice" ....worth reading (click on the title)
The problem with paranoid parents
"So children are never bored, they never learn how to fill their own time, they never discover things for themselves. I am in favour of children being bored. In fact I think we need a Boredom Tsar (I suggest my old geography teacher)."
Read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4419160.stm
Isn't he right? At least I'm convinced that he is right! Definitely, it wouldn't save the world after reading it...so do it if you have extra free time!
