Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I frequently get into this sort of argument over lunch table. Best illustrated in the pic here.SourceSimilar links: That's what is Science, Why am I no-believer ?If you liked the cartoon, watch this :
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
I was watching this movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, last weekend. Hugely entertaining and informative at the same time. Purely made for geeks. Sorta spoof but not far from the real story.All about the historical battle between Microsoft and Apple over the War of PCs and OS.You get to watch ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
We all know about IPv4 and IPv6. But that doesn't lead us to think about previous versions.There were versions likeTCPv1TCPv2Later it was split into TCP and IP in 1978 as TCPv3 and IPv3Finally we arrived at TCP v4 and IPv4
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
I saw another post about this confusion of bits and bytes, and was not convinced with the representation. So trying to illustrating here my way.The Internet connection speed is measured in bits.Megabits (Mb) or Kilobits (Kb).1 Mbps connection = 1,000 KbpsIt is not the same as Megabytes (MB) or Kilobytes ...
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
My Second visit to Ranga Shankara in a span of just one month. This time around with my parents over the weekend.Play : Chidmbara Rahasya, directed by Prakash BelawadiThe story is sourced from KP Poorna Chandra Tejaswi’s novel by the same name.Initial part of the play is intriguing with a ...
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I never had a good feel or the measure of the strength of electric current. Had questions like what’s the power of a current when they say 1A, 100 A or say 200 mA and so on. You don’t get a pictureI was reading Floyd’s Electrical Fundamentals this morning. Very ...
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Any ball tossed up on earth’s surface returns with an acceleration of 9.6 m/sec2.Throw it any number of times. I mean ANY.It returns with the same acceleration.That is consistency.And it is measurable.That’s what is Science all about. Consistently measurable with the same accuracy.Anything which is immeasurable, or not yet understood ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This is what it read in Businessline's supplement this morning.I quote two lines. Every job on this planet is boring and monotonous, if you don't understand the science behind it.So very true.But let me take some time to talk about history than science.Be it Iraq crisis, India's Satelite Program, New ...
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Saturday I was there at Koramangala ezone and Jayanagar with my friend Aju, who was buying his notebook.What one should look for buying a notebook.Here's list of things from top of my head- Core Duo processor( Intel or AMD, choice is yours. AMD powered ones are little cheaper.64 bit processors ...
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
I read the review of this book couple of days back.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.I faintly remember the exact words which appealed me in the review. I did a look up on the net.This is what sums up the theme of the book in Dawkin’s words.“I am hostile to ...
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