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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Aging, Aging !
Fire : Abu Dhabi
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Indian Medallions...
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Food for Thought !
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Apple vs. Google
"We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business," Jobs told Apple employees shortly after the public introduction of the iPad, according to a Google insider. "Make no mistake: Google wants to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's co-founders, have openly expressed admiration for Jobs. In a statement, Schmidt concurred. "I continue to believe, as many do, that Steve Jobs is the best CEO in the world today, and I admire Apple and Steve enormously," he wrote. But business is different.
The ads run by service provider Verizon for the Droid put the rivalry in perspective:
"Everything iDon't ... Droid Does."
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A fox, a Hound and other market tales
| Originally posted in the Washington Post by Daniel GreenbergThese traditional Tales from The Market have been handed down and treasured for generations. Each story has outstanding analytics and has been rated AAA ("a super-good read") by Shotzy's Tale Rating Service..........One of the wise elders from the town of Greenwich tells this first tale, introducing us to the magic of The Market. A fox and a hound waited in a copse outside of a farmer's henhouse. "Ooh, I can hear those chickens clucking from here," said the hound. "Let's go in there and snatch them all!" "Not so fast," said the fox. "If we take them all at once we can't ever return. But if we take just one, then perhaps the farmer won't notice and we can keep coming back night after night to get more." "That's a good idea," said the hound. The two entered and went to work quickly. The fox grabbed as many chickens as he could, emptying the henhouse. "Hey," said the hound. "I thought you said we were going to take only one chicken." "That is what I did," said the fox. "I limited myself to one chicken." "Forgive me, my friend," said the hound, "but that is not accurate. I saw you take at least seven chickens." "The one chicken was my limit," said the fox. "And the other six?" "Ah," said the fox with a smile. "The other six were the bonus I gave myself for staying within my limit. And a very nice bonus it was indeed." The moral of this story? In The Market, a bonus doesn't count. That's why they call it a bonus. * * * The mouse king needed a ride to the other side of the river, so he called on a large alligator for help. "Can you take me to the other side of the river?" the king asked. "I will pay you $20 billion from my coffers." "That's a lot of money, even if it is in mouse dollars," said the alligator. "I'll take your offer." So they set out on the river, which was very shallow, allowing the alligator to crawl more than halfway across. Then they hit a deep spot and started to sink. "Help!" cried the king. "I can't swim." "Neither can I," said the alligator. "But you're an alligator," said the king. "Surely all alligators can swim." The alligator explained that he had once been able to swim. But the river was so shallow and so rich with fish to eat that he had grown plump and lost the skill. "What do we do now?" cried the king. At this point the subjects of the king who were watching from the river bank recognized what was happening. Many began paddling furiously to the sinking alligator. They used their little mouse legs to prop him up and propel him to the other side. Most did not survive the task. When he was safe on the other side, the mouse king asked, "Why did you accept my offer if you couldn't swim?" The alligator said, "I will be honest. I did it for the money. I figured we would somehow make it to the other side. And sure enough, we did make it. You see, I was right." "But what about all of my subjects who drowned in the river?" asked the mouse king. The alligator shrugged. "Hey, risk is a part of every transaction," he said. With that, they went to dinner at the restaurant on the other side of the river and shared a very nice bottle of wine. And forgot about the whole thing. |
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
MyPictures from recent US Trip ( Part 2)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Demographics of American Newspapers
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country, or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
12. The Minneapolis Star Tribune is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something in which to wrap it.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to
try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction,
which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more
than half of all species on the planet.
Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or
by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where there were
a series of super volcanic eruptions that lasted around 1.5 million years.
The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico,
Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a
15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub i
n what is now Mexico was the culprit.
"We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the cause of the
KT extinction. This triggered large-scale fires, earthquakes measuring more
than 10 on the Richter scale, and continental landslides,
which created tsunamis," said Joanna Morgan of Imperial College London,
a co-author of the review.
The asteroid is thought to have hit Earth with a force a billion times more powerful
than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.Morgan said the
"final nail in the coffin for the dinosaurs" came when blasted material flew
into the atmosphere, shrouding the planet in darkness, causing a global
winter and "killing off many species that couldn't adapt to this hellish environment."
Scientists working on the study analysed the work of palaeontologists,
geochemists, climate modellers, geophysicists and sedimentologists
who have been collecting evidence about the KT extinction over the last 20 years.
Geological records show the event that triggered the dinosaurs'
demise rapidly destroyed marine and land ecosystems,
they said, and the asteroid hit "is the only plausible explanation for this".
Peter Schulte of the University of Erlangen in Germany,
a lead author on the study, said fossil records clearly
show a mass extinction about 65.5 million years ago --
a time now known as the K-Pg boundary.
Despite evidence of active volcanism in India, marine and land ecosystems only
showed minor changes in the 500,000 years before the K-Pg boundary,
suggesting the extinction did not come earlier and was not prompted by eruptions.
The Deccan volcano theory is also thrown into doubt by models of
atmospheric chemistry, the team said, which show the asteroid impact
would have released much larger amounts of sulphur, dust and soot in a
much shorter time than the volcanic eruptions could have, causing extreme darkening and cooling.
Gareth Collins, another co-author from Imperial College, said the asteroid impact
created a "hellish day" that signalled the end of the 160-million-year reign
of the dinosaurs, but also turned out to be a great day for mammals.
"The KT extinction was a pivotal moment in Earth's history, which
ultimately paved the way for humans to become the dominant
species on Earth," he wrote in a commentary on the study.
Qurm Beach, Muscat.....
Qurm Beach at Muscat on a cloudy evening.....
The picture quality is not so good as I used my Blackberry phone camera
RSK
Friday, March 5, 2010
MyReview: Karthik Calling Karthik
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Neck Exercise
.......for all Computer Addicts
A doctor advises his patients to exercise their neck by just reading this message.
In the end, all patients go home happily without asking the doctor for any medications. 'It is very effective,' said the doctor.
'All my patients never come back to me again............