Interesting piece to read....

Hand-written vs. Typed composition

On typing

Typing is fast, easy, and convenient. The sensation of my fingertips pressing on the keys is glorious, almost like touching something milky, soft and warm....But sometimes typing feels hasty, like I am writing too fast more words than I should write. The impulse to press enter, space bar and break the paragraph, and move on to the next, without actually finishing the current, is strong, and sometimes maddening.

Typing brings about a sense of urgency, a desire to finish everything and do it fast. When I have a word count to reach, and time is pressing, that is good. But when I struggle to put my thoughts in order and say exactly what I mean, it’s not...

On handwriting

Handwriting is slow, beautiful, and graceful. When I handwrite I think on paper. My handwriting is intelligible, rounded and curvy like a girl’s, so reading it later is not a problem. But sometimes handwriting is too slow. When I am a brimming with ideas, I feel the pen is holding me back.

The words do not write themselves fast enough, and I have to queue ideas, and my thumb begins to hurt, and I fret on my chair because ideas spark faster than they can be queued, and sometimes the terrible happens, and one of the queued ideas vanishes like a pretty girl in the night and I try to catch her and to hold her, to make her stay a little longer, but she is already gone and I am only groping at thin air… Heartbrake. Something lost that will never return. Paper, pen, you’ve let me down, so I will let you down. Back to typing...:)

I hope you all loved reading this...just as I did and hence its here for all to read and enjoy...:)

Girl attitude!!

 School and college days hold the best of our memories... Like all I have many such interesting memories... this particular one I could call it as...Girl Attitute!!


My college had a huge beautiful lake right in front of the entrance gate...and the beautiful Aravalis at the back side. It has a huge sprawling campus, built during the Britishers time everything was beautifully planned.. right from the auditorium to the botanical garden, the agricultural fields, where we were given practical classes on agriculture. It wouldnt be fair, not to mention the big workshop of woodwork, sheet and metals work deptt. These were the classes we students enjoyed the most. And these are a rarity in most of the institues even today... The main building was too vast..spreading into various wings...all aorund it was the campus road...which had a ridge line running along it througout.

It was a co-education college with almost all students as hostellers. there were seven boys hostel and just one girls hostel. this was due to the fact  that in those days, very few girls were sent away to study and live in a hostel. I was one of the fortunate few. In the beginning of the first year we had a rigorous session of ragging everyday, we were asked to gather in one of the lecture theatres where the seniors would have a lot of fun at our cost. 

Most of the students who came to the college were from nearby small towns barring a few of us were from the Metro city. There was a niche between these groups. Most of the girls were from big cities and from affluent families. The boys on the other hand were mostly from rural areas and lacked the basic etiquettes when with the girls. So we usually ignored and avoided these dehatis, thats what we called them. Due to this we were called the snob group and were supposed to be unapproachables, considered to have a lot of attitude and were often the target of the seniors during the ragging. They would never miss a chance to eve tease us when we were alone. As a result none of the girls could walk out alone. Moreover they would follow us wherever we went into the town, which was kind of scary.  It was getting difficult to handle them The Dehatis on the other hand acted smart and showed off whenever they had the slightest opportunity. One day three boys on one bike, on seeing a us started showing stunts on their bike..and accidentally fell into the ridge which ran along the road.  It was almost 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide.  Instantly all the girls stood there in a shocked state and I found myself running at top speed to help. I reached the top where I could see them all toppled on each other and the bike had one of them below it.  I extended my hand and started to help pulling at one of them, soon the other girls too came by and in no time we could pull them all out of the ditch. They were all hurt real bad with blood oozing out of their limbs and shoulder. One boy had a fracture in his leg. His leg was lying as if it had no life..tilted on one side in a peculiar angle from the rest of his body.  The other boys shirt was stuck into the handle due to which he almost got strangled and was out of breath. Those days we didn't have the cell phones and there was just one landline phone in the whole hostel. I immediately got a girl to run and call for help from the hostel and also got her to call for the campus doctor with the ambulance. And within an hour all of them were attended to and safely sent to the hospital. I was awarded the prestigious gallantry award. But more than the award I received a yet memorable and special place in the hearts of each one of those DEHATIS. Not only did their attitude change but they now smiled and waved respectfully as if to salute me and wish me whenever I was around. My gesture to reach out and help made a positive impact on the otherwise notorious gang of boys. They treated me as a special person and considered me as their buddy and never troubled any girl from that day onwards. Me and my group were the envious lot and they always came to our rescue whenever we needed them. College life was fun and a real growing up experience for us all. We all still value those years and consider it our best.

The lesson learnt here is that one must always be ready to help. We usually stand and watch not understanding what to do and become mere spectators. Timely action can change someones life.
With a little act of help life can get so easy.

Make a difference!!!

Once while having supper at a nearby joint  I happened to witness an interesting incident which i would like to share. Its about how an attitude of a member of a family can make a difference to the whole family. 

There was this family sitting on the table beside us. On the table next to us was seated a family with 4 very young kids and probably it was their first time out to a restaurant....As we waited for our order to flash, they were already served with all what they had ordered. It was shahi paneer, dal makhani and nan..or something of the sort. Now, as the lady tried feeding the three little children hovering around her with a yet younger baby in her lap, the husband on inspecting the dishes was pretty much angry at the dal makhani served to them. I guess it had gone cold. He asked for the manager to come and ushered to his wife, not to let the children eat. Now the young children were propbably very hungry and couldnt sit quiet and kept nudging at their mother to let them eat. The mother on the other hand couldnt bear to see her children hungry hence was trying to bite secretly into the tray of naan and quietly offering these to her little ones...who looked at her once and then at their father just to assure themselves that yes "he wasnt aware of the act and that they could enjoy it quietly..." but at the same time she was quite afraid of her husbands anger hence didnt dare give them a morsel while he was looking their way.... The manager came and the husband complained about the stuff not being good or cold or something of the sort..I wasnt actually interested in the reason of their argument but was watching these little kids with their mom trying to somehow eat a little of what they found to be very delicious.... Ultimately the father won and the manager had to replace the plate of dal makhani. On taking a bite the husband was still not satisfied by the stuff and therefore demanded a replacement again. The manager now was in a fit of rage...and he too was a person with the same kind of attitude, he didnt naturally replace it this time.  All this while the argument was taking place the children, kept secretly trying to take a piece or two of the naan when their fathers eyes were the other way. And by this time the kids had all started eating a little bit of whatever was served and were pretty much enjoying the food. The lady too seeing the order being replaced was content and had just extended her hand to serve her kids and husband when the man started murmuring at her and saying stuff not to be said in public to the manager. He was basically very annoyed at something which he himself didnt know. Now all this time we had already finished eating and it was pretty late. Suddenly the man picked up one of his kids and shouted at his wife to leave everything as such and come behind him. Quite reluctantly they all followed the man...looking back again and again till they were out of the restaurant....In his egoistic attitude the man not only went away hungry himself but his kids too were forced to go hungry, leaving the table with all the food as such. I still cannot forget the look on those hungry eyes...they were probably planning the dinner out all day and were starving by this time.... My heart went out to them...and I kept wondering how the sensless man let his children go hungry when the food was already served and they found no problem with it. They would have probably eaten it wihtout any complaint and would have relished it for times to come... It was beyond the time of night to find food anywhere else. I thought about the poor mother, she would have to go home and cook food for the six of them and by the time she was done, most of her kids would have gone off to sleep....HUNGRY!!!

I just have one thought and a feeling even today that I should have intervened and given some sense into that fellows mind. I could at least have tried. I regret not having taken the action then and there instead of sitting and watching all that was going on. Later on my way back home I asked my friend as to why did that man behave the way he did... Was it because his wife had forced him to take them all out for dinner and this annoyed him to the extent of such a behaviour in public so that she might never ask him to take them out again ever or was it actually the brief argument with the manager that annoyed him so much that he wasnt bothered of his children going hungry. There was just a smile on her face and she said..." FORGET IT..." 

I still am unable to understand as to what was going on in that persons head....to make him act the way he did... Had he been smart he would have quietly eaten whatever he liked and let his children eat as well who were actually ready to savour what ever was served to them. His attitude could have changed the whole situation... And also my attitude could have actually made a difference!!!!

ROBOTIC LIMBS

ONE STEP CLOSER TO EFFICIENT ROBOTIC LIMBS

A device that would allow paralyzed people to use their thoughts to move robotic limbs fluidly and realistically is now one step closer to reality.

A team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital led by Ziv Williams have found two groups of cells in one area of the monkey brain that allow the animals to remember a sequence of two movements at once. The team was then able to program a computer to interpret those brain patterns, in turn moving a cursor on a screen in the planned sequence.

The development is an improvement over current brain-machine interfaces, which focus on translating a single thought into a single movement in an external device.

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Most real-world actions are multi-faceted. When planning to take a sip from a cup or play a song on a piano, for example, people imagine the fluid behavior, not each individual movement required to get it done.

To bring technology closer to the goal of fluid and efficient movements, the researchers trained two male rhesus monkeys to move a cursor on a computer screen to two targets that had previously flashed in front of them, one after the other. During each round, the researchers recorded activity in 281 neurons in two areas of the prefontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning complex actions.

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You can read this article on the below mentioned link as well.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/one-step-closer-to-efficient-robotic-limbs-121114.html#mkcpgn=emnws1

"IF YOU CAN MOVE IT YOU CAN USE IT"

This is a video which tell us about the close brush of our planet MOTHER EARTH with the huge asteroid..it is based on this fact that the astrologers predicted the DOOMSDAY....enjoy watching...

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Differences between Resistive and Capacitive Touchscreen

Smartphone and Tablet PCs have revolutionized the way we communicate. More and more users today look for the feature rich electronic gadgets that have a touch screen.

Many of us who like to know more about these gadgets before buying them, often come across the touch screen as made with either “Resistive” or “Capacitive” technology.

What are the differences between resistive and capacitive touchscreen?

Technically, very little.

Essentially both resistive and capacitive touchscreen are based on two layers of screen material.When you press on the top layer it makes a contact with the lower layer by your touch. This contact leads to registering as a “location” on the lower screen. It is how this contact is created at the lower screen that dictates the differences between the Resistive and Capacitive screen.
 

Differences between resistive and capacitive touchscreen

• The resistive touchscreen consists of two thin layers of transparent, conductive film on the screen which measures the change in resistance in between the two layers occurring by pressure of your touch.
• A capacitive touchscreen, on the other hand, measures the changes in the electrical signal between the transparent grid between the user’s finger and the screen.
• Resistive screens react to pressure. Hence it is possible that a number gets dialed or a function activated accidentally by any pressure while carrying the phone in your pocket, whereas in devices using capacitive screens this is not possible since they react to conduction and need to be touched  with anything that conducts electricity (like human hand).
• Resistive touchscreens are cheaper, and do not support multi-touch. Hence features like “pinch to zoom” are not possible on them. You need to press down as you operate a resistive touchscreen.
• Resistive touchscreens might require recalibration as they tend to drift over time, though this is a simple operation. On the upside, you can use a stylus to operate the touchscreen very accurately. However, while dragging the cursor across the screen a definite sluggishness may be noticed.
• A capacitive screen, on the other hand, is smoother to operate because it just requires the presence of your finger, and not pressure. The flip side of this is that you cannot use a stylus unless it is made of conducting material.  You also cannot operate a capacitive screen while wearing ordinary gloves.
• A resistive screen is pressure-sensitive, so that applications may distinguish between a light and a heavy touch. A capacitive screen just knows “finger present” and “finger absent”. Hence the thumb rule – “resistive is best for a stylus, capacitive is best for finger-only operation”.

While these are the essential differences between resistive and capacitive touchscreen, it would be pertinent to know that most of the new touchscreen mobiles and other gadgets available in the market these days are equipped with capacitive touchscreen or something more superior to that.

So which is it to be for you?