Pleo A Robot To Love

You might think this is a cute toy. Actually this is a glimpse of tomorrows world.Can you believe in a robot pet that begins life by hatching? Which can have emotions and character according o the environment that he lives. Well, start believing Pleo is a robot pet dinosaur which can grow in your house. It has clear infant & Juvenile stages in its life. His awareness of the environment is unbelievable, it can respond or change its behavior according to the environment. It has its own fears, its explores ,understands, responds to the touch & your voice. From the reviews, its hard not to get emotionally attached with it. check the video, its movements and agility is quite surprising. This is what its makers got to say about his drives

Pleo's natural disposition is alert and inquisitive. He ambles about with a bright eye, swaying tail, and leisurely pace, content to explore the sights, sounds, shapes, and textures of his world—and that, of course, includes you.

Have a look inside its sensors.This is something which can make a kid go wild, a grownup flabbergasted. But comes with a hefty price tag of over$349, but its better than giving your kid a toy gun (or a cat that shit every where). At least he'll learn to love. I was disappointed with the sonys failure, Aibo the famous robot dog. It looked too robotic, maybe thats why it failed. Pleo has a bright future.

Why open source Sucks!

Have you ever realized how much development occurred because of commercial software companies? Development of software industry, internet market, game industry, virtual worlds, movies all these things are because of commercial software industry, not because of open source. Is open source going to be the future of the computer industry? I don’t think so; even if it does it wouldn’t be a bright future.I believe that there should be a balance between Open Source and Commercial Softwares. I personally believe in a future where people can buy softwares close to the price of books.

There are some people who talk highly about open source; most of them hate commercial software and the wealth they have massed from it. They consider themselves as Gods and they all want to crush the evil Microsoft. Anyone who utters a word against OSS is regarded as supporter of evil; most of them don’t even have the courage of saying “Vista is Superb”. But they all have windows installed in their machines. Ask them why open source? They would say, it’s the fastest, safest & strongest, which is totally wrong.

Most academics don’t want to talk in favor of Microsoft or commercial software’s, specially in front of open source guys, unless you can stand that sneering look which say “Oh, a guy with limited computer knowledge”. This could be true because honestly speaking Open Source mostly suites experts, and that’s the fucking problem. Computing wouldn’t be this easy without companies like Microsoft, which managed to invest huge sums in hiring innovative people like Sabeer Bhatia who invented hotmail.

But In my point of view open source could cripple software industry and its development in many ways. When you look at the humanitarian perspective open source software could be seen as a very good thing, most of the people in third world countries doesn’t have money to buy Widows Vista for 399$. Is this the answer? Give it free and Fuck Microsoft! One thing open source world doesn’t realize is that windows actually works, just double click on a program to install click next, next , agree, finish, that’s all, no need to worry about it afterwards. No need to spend 10 hours reading documentations before installing something.

Those who criticize windows have one strong argument in common, security flaws and virus threats. Do you ever think that a virus writer or hacker will get what he wanted from writing program for Linux? He wants to see his virus on the news, to cause lot of damage, for people to talk about it. To achieve this he has to write a virus for an operating system which is widely used, which is windows.

Most open source software’s collapse at the end simply because they don’t have enough money or resources to plan themselves for the future. The best way to sustain the development of the industry is to reduce the price of commercial software, not to give it free. The best example is Google. They have developed a way to offer lots of free services while earning considerable amount of money for future researches and developments. Free means, no money, lack of resources, no innovation and no progress.

Let’s say that Ubuntu became so famous that nobody wants to buy windows anymore, what will happen to the future of the computer industry? We will be stuck with a technology which has a development speed of a snail. Microsoft spent many years and millions of dollars, 1000’s of software engineers to jump from Windows XP to windows Vista. In my point of view Vista is an Excellent Operating System. How long it would take open source community develop something like that?

Let’s look at fundamental issues of Open Source software

1. Bad User Interface Design- If you have ever used Linux you’ll experience the troubles that you might go through unless you have some good knowledge in computers. The problems with open source programming I s that they only think about programming but not about user friendliness or the interface. Ubuntu tries to copy windows XP, but still need lots of improvements in other areas.

2. Bad Documentation-Most of the time the documentation is written in a way that only experts can understand. When you use open source software, if you encounter even a simple problem, you may have to read through 100 of documents and user forum until you find a solution. I installed Ubuntu once and internet was not working, it took me one week to find the solution, many would have already given up.

3. Give us what they want- This is the main disadvantage of open source software projects. Can we play video games in Linux or Ubuntu? Ask this question from an Open Source guy, he will immediately answer “We don’t play games”.

4. Slow development rate- Since so many developers may join and leave the project, it may take a lot of time for a new guy to join the ongoing project and contribute efficiently. This may have a huge impact on the future of the project. There are millions of lines of coding; it could break down on its own weight. ( Check the speed of windows XP vs Red Hat Linux)

5. Refusing to learn from commercial software’s- Most of the open source software guys has strong tendency to refuse to learn anything from commercial rivals. Hence face lots of compatibility problems.

6.Nobody to take responsibility-If some one found a security hole in windows Vista, it would be on the news because there is some one to take responsibility, and there will be an immediate action taken from Microsoft. But if it happens in Open Source software, it’s just a coding glitch, that’s all, no urgency to correct it, that’s obvious; they don’t get paid for that.

Google Sky -200 million galaxies on your desktop

Google announced their new add on to Google earth ,Google Sky, which give a user a chance to brows through distant stars in three dimension. It includes 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies , impressive, specially for star gazers. To use this feature you need to install Google earth, once its installed you can easyly become a digital astronomer. More than 1 million images from NASA Hubble telescope is used to bring out this feature,lets give it a try, astronomy has never been easy. Here is a screen shot.

How to backup your blogger blog

If you want to keep a back up of your blog in your computer, there is cool software to do it [only for blogger and still Beta]. Backing up your data is one of the most important things in this digital age, don’t regret later for not spending few minute in doing that. Don’t think your blog is safe with your host, they can change their policies anytime they want, they usually do, remember what happened to yahoo photos. There are other possibilities, you may accidentally delete your blog, some one could steal your password or you may want to host it somewhere else, this is the answer.

First you need DOT Net framework in you computer for this software to work. So download and install .net framework,(.NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package) then go to codeplex blogger back up page to download the backup software, it has a very user friendly interface,quite easy to use(http://www.codeplex.com/bloggerbackup), it took only 5 minute to backup my data, do it today, no regrets tomorrow.

Google bomb

Google bomb

A Google bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions.[1] Because of the way that Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner. Google bomb is used both as a verb and a noun. The phrase "Google bombing" was introduced to the New Oxford American Dictionary in May 2005.[2] Google bombing is closely related to spamdexing, the practice of deliberately modifying HTML pages to increase the chance of their being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a misleading or dishonest manner.

The most recent Google bomb is when you search for "miserable failure" in Google most web pages give up results related to Georoge W Bush.Google announced that they manipulated their algorithm to lessen their effects.

Chips push through nano-barrier

BBC NEWS | | Chips push through nano-barrier:

"Chips push through nano-barrier 45 nanometre test wafer New materials have had to be developed to shrink the transistors The next milestone in the relentless pursuit of smaller, higher performance microchips has been unveiled.

Chip-maker Intel has announced that it will start manufacturing processors using transistors just 45 nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide.Shrinking the basic building blocks of microchips will make them faster and more efficient.

Computer giant IBM has also signalled its intention to start production of chips using the tiny components.'Big Blue', which developed the transistor technology with partners Toshiba, Sony and AMD, intends to incorporate them into its chips in 2008.Intel said it would start commercial fabrication of processors at three factories later this year.

Critical leaks

The development means the fundamental 'law' that underpins the development of all microchips, known as Moore's Law, remains intact.The proposition, articulated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, states that the number of transistors on a chip could double every 24 months.After more than 10 years of effort, we now have a way forward Tze-chiang Chen, IBM The new Intel processors, codenamed Penryn, will pack more than four hundred million transistors into a chip ha"