Saturday, June 23, 2007

Yogi B and NAkshatra

Few songs are nice. If you are interested then click here to download their songs.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia, an awesome game has three sequels, “The sands of time”, “Warrior within” and “The two thrones”. I am at present playing “Warrior within” because “The sands of time” is not working in my system coz my system does not support that game but supports the other two.

“Warrior within” is really a cool game. Give it a try. The graphics is good, music is good and the moves made by the prince is really cool. Its worth playing. here are some pictures from the game “Warrior within”.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

HP 7 Lands

I think mostly everyone would have finished reading The last book of Harry Potter series. The final book was not as expected. I expected her to tell what happened to harry and others after the dark lord died. She didnt mention what happened to the death eaters after the dark lord was killed by the boy who lived. She just stopped it without any proper ending. The epilogue was even worse. I expected her to tell what was harry’s profession at least in the epilogue. But there also she failed to tell what was the profession of harry and others.

I was reading The Hindu dated August 1, 2007 on the next day and came across the following (sorry for posting this so late. I’m very lazy and was busy with symposiums conducted by other colleges). So the profession of harry and others is given below.

->Harry was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.

->His wife Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. But she left the team to raise her three children-James, Albus and Lily-while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
->Ron Weasley joined her brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes.

->Hermione Granger, Ron’s wife furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house-elves, in the Department for the Regulation and control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. their children names are Rose and Hugo.

-> Luna Lovegood becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

These informations were given by J.K. Rowling herself in her chat with Dainel Radcliffe.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Quiz ;)

So I start the QCT series with this quiz. Hope most of the questions wont be boring. I’ll post the answers in a post with the title as QCT 1 Answers and the scores of those who answered them in the comments. Cheers and all the best. Here I am posting 8 questions. I’ll try to keep ten in most of the posts.

1. Nokia released two premium multimedia handsets recently. Can you name them? (Both are N series and it was mentioned in The Hindu few days back).
2. X is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US$28.48 billion as of 2006. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it designs and sells networking and communications technology and services under five brands, namely X, Linksys, WebEx, IronPort, and Scientific Atlanta. Initially, X manufactured only enterprise multi-protocol routers but gradually diversified its product offering to move into the home user market with technologies such as VoIP while also expanding its offering for corporate customers. Identify X.
3. A _______ is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. The term is used to distinguish from rotary-wing aircraft, where the movement of the wing surfaces relative to the aircraft generates lift. _________ are called airplanes in North America, and aeroplanes in Commonwealth countries and Ireland. ________ include a large range of craft from small training and recreational aircraft to large airliners and military cargo aircraft. (All the blanks are the same).
4. _________ magazine was a monthly fiction magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month which lasted well into the 1930s. It was edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930. The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in __________ with illustrations by Sidney Paget. (Both blanks are the same)
5. ________ is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the ________ of E. (Both blanks are same)
6. X is an imaging touch screen and 3D display for gesture-based interaction. It was developed by Microsoft Research employee Andrew D. Wilson and made known to the public in late 2005. The technology was licensed to Eon Reality in July of 2006. X can both record and project simultaneously, and due to its 3D capabilities can be used almost as a mirror. It can capture a high definition image of anything placed up against the screen. This image is then displayed in 2D. Identify X.
7. ____________ (Codename: Milan), is a forthcoming Multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at D5 conference, and is expected to be released by commercial partners in spring 2008. Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, and public entertainment venues.
8. X is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing. X work by manipulating electrical signals which appear as sound when they are used to drive audio amplifiers. These tones are generated by electrical circuits which may work by manipulating a signal through a series of oscillators and filters in an analog circuit, or may perform mathematical manipulation of signals using a microprocessor and digital signal processing, or by a combination of both methods. Identify X.