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Break Down Rules !!!

Finally...!!!

Well Well Well, ladies and gentleman, bhayiyo our behano.

Finally the day has come!!! The day for which i have been waiting ever since 4 years right after my EAMCET counselling.

The day which gave my parents, my brother, my bhabhi, my friends, my well wishers…the loads of happiness.

The day which gave me loads of self satisfaction. Before you imagine something else, i will jus tell u what it is…its the day when i have cleared all four interviews of oracle.

Well it may not be among the greatest achievements for a student, but for me it really is. There is a valid reason for it. I haven’t studied in a great school, not a great rank in EAMCET, not from premier institutes like IIT's or IISc's and haven’t got great percentage either. But still i have managed to do get into a big product development company...

Its time for celebrations…my next post will be my interview experience from round 1 to round 4. Keep visiting dis space…

Would you like to know if your mobile is original or not ?????

Press the following on your mobile*#06# and the-international mobile equipment identity number appears. Then check the 7th and 8th numbers:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7 th	8 th	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Phone serial no.	x	x	x	x	x	x	?	?	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

If the Seventh & Eighth digits are 02 or 20 this means your cell phone was assembled in Emirates which is very Bad quality

If the Seventh & Eighth digits are 08 or 80 this means your cell phone was manufactured in Germany which is fair quality

If the Seventh & Eighth digits are 01 or 10 this means your cell phone was manufactured in Finland which is very Good

If the Seventh & Eighth digits are 00 this means your cell phone was manufactured in original factory which is the best Mobile Quality

If the Seventh & Eighth digits are 13 this means your cell phone was assembled in Azerbaijan which is very Bad quality and also dangerous for your health.

Determining if an integer is a power of 2

Ever wondered how to find if an integer is a power of 2 in a single statement,
this is a piece of code 4 u...

unsigned int v; // we want to see if v is a power of 2
bool f; // the result goes here

f = (v & (v - 1)) == 0;

Note that 0 is incorrectly considered a power of 2 here. To remedy this, use:

f = !(v & (v - 1)) && v;

This is how it works...

Case 1: Let v = 10 ,v - 1 = 9

Lets test v & (v-1)==0

v = 1010, v = 1001

1010 (v)

& 1001 (v-1)
------
1000 v & (v-1)(8 in decimal form)
------
v & (v -1) == 0 -> 8 (which is treated as true)== 0(false)

Hence, false is returned and 10 not a power of two.

Considering the alternative

!(v & (v - 1)) && v

!(8) && 10 -> 0 && 1 -> 0(Remember, any number greater than 0 in C is considered
as true and its negation is false i.e. 0 as '!' is
a logical operator.)

Case 2: Let v = 8 ,v - 1 = 7

Lets consider v & (v-1)==0

v = 1000, v = 0111

1000 (v)
& 0111 (v-1)
------
0000 v & (v-1)(0 in decimal form)
------
v & (v -1) == 0 gives 0 == 0 Returns true

Hence 8 is a power of two.

Considering the alternative

!(v & (v - 1)) && v

!(0) && 8 -> 1(true) && 1 (true)-> 1(true)(Remember, any number greater than 0 in C considered as true and its negation is false i.e. 0 as '!' is a logical operator.)

Hence 8 is a power of 2.

Punctuation Matters!!!




...it really matters..isn't it???

Indian 'Thriller' - Chiranjeevi Song Getting World Wide Popularity

Well most of the people who either belong to Andhra Pradesh or ever heard of Tollywood know about Chiranjeevi, The Megastar. Well there is a movie of him called 'DONGA' released in late 80's in which there was a song whose video was copied from Micheal Jackson's 'Thriller'. You can check dis out here

And dis video in YouTube became so popular that it got
Views: 4,348,504 | Comments: 8990 | Favorited: 23000 times

Due to its popularity in YouTube, there came a subtitle version of it too...

Due to its increasing popularity, people started making their own videos of this very old telugu song imitating Chiranjeevi Dance Steps in it..

A Comedian Version of it..

Last but not the least, a group of people gave a small performance too based on dis..
Watch out for the cheer from the crowd..


I always wished Indian Cinema should get international recognition but never dis way ;-)

14 year old crashes his dad's new 50 grand car minutes after its bought

This is the story of an happy father and an over enthusiastic son. When happiness, love together encourages over enthusiasm, this is what going to happen

How Hard Disk Works???

Ever wondered who actually the read/write, Copy/Paste, Format operations are performed in the Hard Disk??? Check dis out..

RGV ki (D)AAG - Movie Review By Rajeev Masand

Check out dis video of Rajeev Masand in anger reviewing the movie RGV ki (D)AAG

Dilbert - The Fact

Part1

Part2

Part3

Can anyone tell me what this is or what language it's from? If you paste this character and begin typing, all of your text is transformed into right-to-left format. Bizarre! U can start trying this one right away by pasting this character in your address bar...

read more | digg story

PIL against Rahman, Mittal for ‘slighting’ Anthem

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Madras High Court against music composer A R Rahman and AirTel Chairman Sunil Mittal on the charge of dishonouring and commercialising the National Anthem.

On Independence Day, the Anthem, sung by 35 persons to the music set by Rahman, was telecast in some TV channels. J Mohanraj (55), a retired inspector of Chennai, has filed the PIL seeking stay on the sale of CDs and telecast of Rahman’s version and direction to the Government to confiscate the CDs.

“It has been stipulated in the anthem code that the longer version of the anthem should be sung in 52 seconds. But, these singers have violated the code by rendering the anthem for 98 to 110 seconds, Mohanraj told this website’s newspaper.

Second, when this “remix” was telecast, viewers were in various positions and thus unable to pay respect due prescribed. This amounts to dishonouring the anthem, V Manikandan, legal counsel said.

Further, the anthem has been “tampered with” for commercial benefits in the garb of patriotism. “Rahman has handled the anthem as if it were a cinema song,” Mohanraj added.
* Due credits to the original source

This is the recent news i came across...!!! I don't want to talk much about dis issue. But if i come across the retired police officer who filed petition against Rahman, i will show him the below picture and ask

Mr. Mohandas... "Could u please help me in searching ur PIL filed against these two??? "

"Respect True Intentions Instead Of Verifying Everything Against The Rule Book....!!!"

Dilbert Series

I have found the old famous Dilbert Series in YouTube. Iam posting one of its episode here.. Njoy..for those who are new to Dilbert Comics, this is the small desc from Wikipedia

"Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an title character. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items. Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award[1]" and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip. Dilbert appears in 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.

Dilbert - The Name

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Windows is Free...!!!

This post is inspired from at article by Dave Gutteridge. You can find the original article here. You might have wondered Windows is known for not being free software, then why the title says windows is free? Well though Windows is priced around 15k bucks in India, I wonder how many home users really buy the original software. The money to Microsoft mostly comes from Corporate and PC Manufacturers who bundle their software along with their pc's or laptops. Well coming to my experience, when I first saw computer and start realizing what a computer is, I never knew that windows actually cost. I started using my computer in my 10th standard. At that time all I knew was windows is a operating system and its cd costs 100 rupees in the computer shop. I have seen every one in our town buying assembled pcs with so called inbuilt windows, which actually is a pirated one. It took about 1 year for me to realize that iam using a pirated version of windows and there is a concept called original software which costs more than the rate to which my computer wala sells to everyone.

Pirating proprietary software became such an easy task that many don’t even bother to know what the actual cost of the software is. I myself downloaded many softwares from the internet with out even bothering about their true price. For a common computer user, the difference between pirated and open source software is that the first need a crack to be downloaded and the second doesn’t need any of such kind.

When one don’t even think of buying a stolen laptop or wrist watch or any other item , why don’t anyone give a second of thought before buying or downloading pirated software?

Its jus bcoz we know that the original owner of the stolen thing is loosing something and we choose not to be responsible for it. But in case of softwares, everyone knows Microsoft is a giant company, bill gates is the richest man in the world, Microsoft doesn’t loose anything if I use pirated windows or I refrain from using windows coz it gets its money no matter what i do.

Another factor which attributes to this piracy-free concept, which I think Dave has missed out in his article is softwares including songs, copyrighted videos and pictures are not real physical entities. They are the things which appear in the computer and disappear when u switch off ur computer. Even in the real world, if a manufacturer has a power to replicate his product without any extra cost or if any other individual has the power to make copies and distribute his Benz car to his kith and kin and if u r given a cover so that no one can see ur real identity and u can hide the things which u steal whenever u feel like, I bet many would prefer stealing the Benz car instead of going for a Maruti, or stealing a Nike shoe instead of going for a normal local made shoe. As this doesn’t happen in real world, piracy of Benz car or a Nike shoe is never found.

I feel there must be mapping the virtual world inside the computer to the real world in order to avoid piracy or any other illegal activities.One has to be tracked of his activities on the net like he is in the real world. One cannot make multiple or fake profiles in the real world, but it’s the computer world, its common. If one knows all the activities he does on the net attribute to his profile, he thinks 1000 times before doing a wrong thing on the net including using or downloading pirated software. The reality concept can be attributed even to the software companies. The number of copies they sell should be proportional to the pricing of the product. The more number of copies, the lesser the price.

Take an example of a Benz car. The brains needed to design and develop a Benz car are more or less equivalent to that of preparing high quality Windows like software. But most of the price which a consumer pays is the costs incurred due to manufacturing of the new car but not the technology developed to build the new car. Here the estimated purchasing effect the original price of the product. This is not the case with soft wares. One builds the software, creates a license for it and sells it to any number of customers with almost negligible cost of replication.

So finally I want to conclude that, the concept of piracy in the software and computer field is not really a piracy unless the manufacturing of the software is really made mappable to manufacturing done in the real world. To all the readers who reached till here, I would like to thank for patiently listening to my thoughts.

ILLOGICAL!!!

Students secures lower grades in the externals, after looking at the mark sheet he asks professor.

Student : "Can you answer any question ? " .

Professor: "Surely I must. Otherwise I would not be a professor!"

Student: "Great, well then I would like to ask you a question. If you can give me the correct answer, I will accept my mark as is and go. If you however do not know the answer, I want you give me an "A" for the exam. "

Professor: "Okay, it's a deal. So what is the question?"

Student: "What is legal, but not logical, logical, but not legal, and neither logical, nor legal?"

Even after some long and hard consideration, the professor cannot give the student an answer, and therefore changes his exam mark into an "A", as agreed.

Afterwards, the professor calls on his best student and asks him the same question.
He immediately answers: "Sir, you are 63 years old and married to a 35 year old woman, which is legal, but not logical. Your wife has a 25 year old lover, which is logical, but not legal. The fact that you have given your wife's lover an "A", although he really should have failed, is neither legal, nor logical."

Have ever seen a small image with a string normally found in sign up forms to distinguish a human from a robot or a computer program...Well now there is another ironic idea that would probably work quite well. Anti- Captcha...!!!

The idea is that only a robot would be stupid enough to enter all that crap when you ask it, so you can reliably filter for humans. Patents pending.