well before reading further just guess what this will be for.....apprehensions about my future?my life?my career???
well now i'll try to act a little 'geeky'....
the apprehension is about GOOGLE...
the company going private and growing into becoming the default page of most of the people...(iam referring to countries like spain --- 99%search traffic being through google....same being the case with India).
from being just a search engine to becoming a part of every netizen....in some way or the other, it is an integral part of our lives.
in the past year i have become so dependant on google that i have told my roommate several times that instead of having normal exams we should have open-google exams.
i use their talk servers.
i use their blogging facility.
i use their search facility.
i use their social-networking facility.
i use their vedio sharing facility.
i use their photo-sharing facility.
i use their google-earth.(and wonder what's google mars?????but google space sounds exciting).
i use google desktop.
i know a bit about google labs,google spreadsheets...............( i dont want to tax my memory to fill the entire page.)
the point i am making is that it's all over.
and the newest areas where it is coming is 'digital library' ,'entertainment','media','radio(now that was freaky)' and yes magazines...
iam not saying that currently its not like everybody's best friend....it helps us in some way or the other....always being around...
but then i have had a few arguments with my roommate on this.....
imagine one morning you get to know google has started to charge you for every search that you make.
for every packet you send through their servers...be it from talk,you-tube,vedios,earth etc etc.
(then how worse is MS????....it charges me for all the services it provides...sorry linux fans....and yes windows is much easier...the way google is).
i'll not talk about all that data that they store to streamline your search or all the cookies that they store(i recollect it is 21 years!!!).....because then they can be legally charged.
but yes imagine that you have to ask google to read some book.....???
as soon as i have to search something i type google(which is missplelt) and yet it magically opens google. and even if google charges money my fingers will involuntarily type GOOGLE.....
google works on the 80-20principle (and thats the most attractive thing about google)..........
but google has worked its magic so that their customers defy the same.
Friday, October 5
Friday, September 28
D C atastr O phe
I will never forget this exam......none of my batch mates would.....
it needs to be told ....it's how people become engineers....
It's 10:30 am.
DCO (digital communications) mid semester exam.
Students pray to God that the paper they get is the toughest in their life.
They all know it is got to be tough , the only thing they are sure of . They 'exactly ' do not know the syllabus, most of them didn't attend that class , the professor had announced it to be optional.
But they recollect that whatever they knew from hearsay about the course was not there in the course......that is what they had been told to them by the PROFESSOR.
There is Fourier transform which is sure to transform their grade cards , there is Fourier series , a series of lost battle , convolution which is CONVOLUTION , the name says it all.
The rest i am not sure of.
Mr. X enters the class.
Takes the answer sheet.
Writes his name on it at the invigilators table.
Demands his sheet to be signed.
Leaves.
No need to catch a glimpse at the paper.
Kewl.
Till the time everybody is contemplating the same they have the questions in front of them.
A wave of shock and awe settles down.
Every body is staring.
1....2.....3....4...5...10....minutes
i wondered if we were playing the 'who stares the longest game'.
every body stares at the topper.
He himself is staring at people.
One smiles, the other, total B.Tech smiles.
We congratulate each other......nobody is going to pass and hence relatively everybody is passing. Thank You PROFESSOR for making such a paper.
its 15 minutes.
5 guys get up.
The MSCLIS guys are wondering how the hell BTech people finish their paper so early.
10 guys get up.
20 minutes and nearly all the guys are out ....to the canteen or to their room to play Counter Strike.....wonder what they are countering and wonder what they are striking.
The only guys who stay back are enjoying the cool air of the air of the air conditioner.
X was smarter.....
it needs to be told ....it's how people become engineers....
It's 10:30 am.
DCO (digital communications) mid semester exam.
Students pray to God that the paper they get is the toughest in their life.
They all know it is got to be tough , the only thing they are sure of . They 'exactly ' do not know the syllabus, most of them didn't attend that class , the professor had announced it to be optional.
But they recollect that whatever they knew from hearsay about the course was not there in the course......that is what they had been told to them by the PROFESSOR.
There is Fourier transform which is sure to transform their grade cards , there is Fourier series , a series of lost battle , convolution which is CONVOLUTION , the name says it all.
The rest i am not sure of.
Mr. X enters the class.
Takes the answer sheet.
Writes his name on it at the invigilators table.
Demands his sheet to be signed.
Leaves.
No need to catch a glimpse at the paper.
Kewl.
Till the time everybody is contemplating the same they have the questions in front of them.
A wave of shock and awe settles down.
Every body is staring.
1....2.....3....4...5...10....minutes
i wondered if we were playing the 'who stares the longest game'.
every body stares at the topper.
He himself is staring at people.
One smiles, the other, total B.Tech smiles.
We congratulate each other......nobody is going to pass and hence relatively everybody is passing. Thank You PROFESSOR for making such a paper.
its 15 minutes.
5 guys get up.
The MSCLIS guys are wondering how the hell BTech people finish their paper so early.
10 guys get up.
20 minutes and nearly all the guys are out ....to the canteen or to their room to play Counter Strike.....wonder what they are countering and wonder what they are striking.
The only guys who stay back are enjoying the cool air of the air of the air conditioner.
X was smarter.....
Thursday, September 6
Monday, September 3
LONER!!
Well it was only yesterday that i realized that people my age are lonely , they are experiencing the negative energy around them....they miss the company of like-minded people , and the people who care for them.
They know that being a loner will not help them, rather infect in them the parasite which will take control of them but they do not still venture into the right path and excuse themselves by holding onto the same reasons.
It is not that they do not have people around them.....they have people with whom they can roam around , impress the opposite sex , they can have food , they can smoke a ciggerate or drink a beer , spend most of their day , they can share a room for a year or 2 or 3,
yet they feel the loneliness , the void in the relationship.
They cannot reflect to the other person who they actually are , their inner self.
They will never talk 'I feel' or 'I believe'.........it always will be some other person!
Someone said that a person learns 25% with himself but 25% in his group.
Is it worth living a life of a loner? compromising on the 25% which could have been his....
had only he shun his fear of being cheated?
and the fear of being dumped in life......only again to survive in this world as a loner.
They know that being a loner will not help them, rather infect in them the parasite which will take control of them but they do not still venture into the right path and excuse themselves by holding onto the same reasons.
It is not that they do not have people around them.....they have people with whom they can roam around , impress the opposite sex , they can have food , they can smoke a ciggerate or drink a beer , spend most of their day , they can share a room for a year or 2 or 3,
yet they feel the loneliness , the void in the relationship.
They cannot reflect to the other person who they actually are , their inner self.
They will never talk 'I feel' or 'I believe'.........it always will be some other person!
Someone said that a person learns 25% with himself but 25% in his group.
Is it worth living a life of a loner? compromising on the 25% which could have been his....
had only he shun his fear of being cheated?
and the fear of being dumped in life......only again to survive in this world as a loner.
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