Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Rediff does it again !
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:42 No CommentsDear Rediff Team
Being a widely used web portal of good repute, I do not see any reason why you should allow blunders like the following to happen, especially on the homepage! Moreover, earlier, I had observed this.
A suffering surfer
Pawan Jain
First ever issue with GMail
Sunday, July 20, 2008 23:43 No CommentsGoogle just doesn’t seem to get its counting correct. It was with Orkut communities (there were, and I believe there still are, those famous “Showing 1-10 of 5″, “Showing 1-20 of 0″ kind of bugs in orkut community threads pages, and the eternal wrong counting errors of number of friends), now I see it with [...]
Computer Science and Toilet Paper
Friday, July 4, 2008 14:43 No CommentsThough it is very famous and well known (even works for me), that the best ideas come in the washroom, a place where you are invariably alone. Having said that, I have to accept that I could never have thought of this:
Yikes. We never realized that you had to be a computer scientist to use [...]
Unreliable Reliance
Saturday, March 15, 2008 15:06 3 CommentsI stay in the financial capital of India. I am a subscriber of Reliance India Mobile. I need it because it offers me a highly favorable tariff plan. I am a victim too. Of their poor network. Poor network everywhere in a city like Mumbai. Unthinkable but true. Yes true.
Now that was a new style [...]
So, what about the Nano?
Monday, January 14, 2008 11:08 No CommentsSo, as the curtains unveil the smallest car in India, and the most economical car in the world, everyone wants to have one. This is the first time this has happened in the car industry – where a large set of Indians can actually think of owning it. The obvious and the most interesting reason [...]
My latest possession : The Small Wonder
Saturday, April 15, 2006 9:11 1 CommentIf you happened to click on the title of this post, you must have come to know what I am going to talk about. Now you are going to click on it right?
It was all Sony in the mind before I came across this cute little thing. Now I feel it could never have been [...]
How’s that!!
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 17:35 2 CommentsImpressive isn’t it? Well as my partner puts it in his own words.. “This is the beauty of Ray Tracing”. What you see in the image is the scene you will get when you have two white light sources(one placed near top left and one placed near bottom right), and the objects as shown in [...]
Ray Tracing Rocks!!
Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:50 No CommentsYou just had a look at my first ray traced image. This is what I am doing in my present assignment in my course in Computer Graphics. You can see 2 spheres, well, one of them appears as an ellipse because of perspective view from eye, which does not affect the shape of the first [...]
Compu Corridor Cricket…
Friday, March 10, 2006 20:57 No CommentsSleepless again. But this time a weekend.. So banta hai yaar!!
Wing cricket has long been a tradition of Jwala since many years. It feels great to live it when we play wing cricket at 1 am with this cool breeze blowing and touching us as it crosses the wing from one balcony to other.
Rules of [...]
The iPod dilemma
Friday, March 10, 2006 20:51 No CommentsIsn’t it amazing when someone for the first time in life gets to feel: This is my hard earned money, and I’ll use it as I feel like.. No obligations
To do or not to do? To buy it or not to buy? Is it worth the investment? Is it value for money? Should I wait [...]