A New Maze Game.

Play this game. its nice. quite fun.

Play Now.

what do you mean by download/downloading?

You might wonder what a silly post this is. Everyone knows what a download is. Whenever you “download” a song/video/game/file from a site is known as, well, download. Right?naah, wrong! Every single bit that you TRANSFER from a remote computer to your computer, that’s called download and the process is called downloading. And that includes surfing the internet, too. Because, data IS stored on your computer while you browse through sites.

I though of posting this as many of my friends think that they are only charged for downloading stuff. And to clarify in MTNL’s words, “Data Download includes file/ programmes download, E-mail receiving & its attachments, Browsing Web sites/Surfing, Chatting , on line games, Videos and Songs etc i.e. any data received on your Computer from Internet is treated as download.”.

ps:Login here, and look at the bottom of your Account Information, the fourth point. You’ll understand what i mean.

Amen.

Wallpapers

Yep, finally we have the wallpapers section! Yay! I was planning since quite a long time to upload a few good images that i had, but didn’t have time. Told mj to do it but that lazy creature is busy watching Wall E. Nice movie though. Yesterday he feel asleep while we were watching it! Nothing new in that, he slept at our big New Year’s Eve party. Insomniac.

Anyway, check out the cool wallpapers I’ve been collecting till now. Though my collection is not that big, but still there are a few nice ladies’ pictures that I have. Yeah, clothed.

Funny Inside Man dialogues

Saw inside man recently. Though I give the movie a 6.5 on a scale of 10, I found some of the dialogues genuinely hilarious. Here’s a few:

Cops interrogating one of the female hostages…

Cops:What do you have on underneath?

Hostage- Excuse me?
Cops- Underneath your painter’s coat?

Cops: – What do you have on underneath?
Hostage- Clothing.

Cops: Could you show us, please?

Cops: You see, there’s just you and one other woman that fit the physical description of the female suspect.

Hostage-What’s that?

Cops: It’s your height, your age, and your…

Cops: Your cup size.

Hostage-So, I violated Section 34 double-D?

——————-

(Steve is the guy inside the bank keeping the hostages)
Cops:Well?
Is this the President of Albania?

Steve- Speaking.
Cops- Pretty funny.

Steve- You shouldn’t eavesdrop on people.
Cops- Well, you better get used to it, pal.

Cops-There’s not gonna be much privacy
where you’re going.

<i>You’re damn right.</i>

This time next week,
I’ll be sucking down piña coladas

in a hot tub with six girls
named Amber and Tiffany.

Cops-More like taking a shower with two guys
named Jamal and Jesus, if you know what I mean.
And here’s the bad news, that thing you’re sucking on,
it’s not a piña colada.

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

Familiar with these? Yeah, these are the images that appear on gmail when you enter your email id/password incorrect for more than 3 times. You see similar “images” while downloading stuff from rapidshare and posting links on orkut. These are called CAPTCHA images. Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. As the name goes, it aims at developing tests (in the form of images) so as to prevent…Read More >>

unplugged – Our new technical blog

Hey ya!yep, we have our new blog for all the technical writings, unplugged. All future technical writings will be put on unplugged from now on. Go ahead, check out our first post there! Go there>>

Wah kya site hai!wah kya site hai!

Evolving To WordPress.com

WordPress…AMAZING…blogspot…eh,what?

Dude!WordPress.com is way too awesome than blogger.com! Here, there are plenty of things that you can do, and much much more page-space than blogger! Excuse me for putting exclamations, but its hell lotta exciting! In every page blogger has just two column design, and so much less space to add stuff. (No, the excitement didn’t end! I just that thought that it might be annoying to see “!” again and again!;-).) Though I’ve just created my account, I can hardly wait to start blogging! The first job is to export all my blogger stuff here. Blogger is just obsolete. Happy Reading!;-)

Lazy to work? Rent someone to do your work!

It’s Sunday morn, rainy outside, and your friends want to go out and party. But, you have to work. How boring. Watching outside the window and then getting back to work and wishing if there was a way. And here it is! Rent someone to do the work. Simple. Fast. Easy.

Need to rent a coding expert? Choose the perfect coder from over 10,000 at Rent A Coder.com

Rent-a-coder lets you rent someone (maybe in totally different continent or someone who lives right next to you) for your work. For FREE. Yes, free. You don’t need to pay anything for registering. Once you register, there are thousands of coders, designers, writers, etc waiting for some work to do. The process is simple, you lay out the description of your work, select the Max Bid, category, etc. And you are done! Within no time, coders will bid on your job. For so much less than you thought, its nothing compared to having fun with your family. You choose whom you wish to give the job to. Once you are done with that, grab your coat and head to the streets. The coder/designer will do the rest, and when you reach the deadline you set, the job will be done by that time! Sweet, eh? Go ahead, click the link below and post your work.

And that’s not all. There are plenty of other sites that offer you their service. For example, Buy Developers. They have programmers/designers for all sorts of needs. Be it web, php, .net, asp, SEO (Search Engine Optimization;define)Another such place is Efactory at work . Simply log on, and see what it has for you. Enjoy.

F1- Pumping adrenaline or backstabbing our future right in the face?

Vrrrrrrroooooommmmm!!!!

Actually thats not much of a good way to start as the cars never vrroom… they just zoom past you! It’s fun to watch those babes burning the roads at supersonic speeds(hehe)!Captivatin’- yes! Pumping adrenaline- yes! Money- yes! Pit babes- HELL YES! And fame and lotsa money for the racers. A perfect sport I must say.
On the flip side though, is it really THAT perfect?
Unfortunately no. And you don’t realize this until you see movies like An Inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow and the kind. No one- includes environmentalist like me- notices the disasters it causes while we’re watching it. But F1 actually takes much more than what it gives. Lets analyze.

An average F1 car runs at 280-300km/h (174-186mph). To me it’s more like a satellite going into orbit with escape velocity!lol! And with mind friggin, head throbbing accelerations bet you wanna get behind the wheel sometime! Fun isn’t it? Not to me.
Why, you ask. I have reasons- plenty of them. First comes the mileage. A 5th grader knows what that is how it matters. Most cars out there in the market for normal non-millionaires like me average about 10-15km/l(20-30mpg is American average). Wanna guess the number for F1 cars? Don’t even try. Believe it or not, it is a meager 1.3km/l(3.1mpg US- 3.8 mpg UK)!!!75 liters for every 100 kms!Shocking ain’t it? Thats about 10 times the fuel your car would use!

An air conditioner dispenses about 6000 – 20000 BTU/h(definition), or 100-333BTU/min. These figures are dangerous and the results are already visible (all the stuff you hear about global warming). If 20000’s dangerous, what about 100,000BTU? 5 times? Let me say it more clearly. If 20000 BTU/h ’s dangerous, what about 100,000 BTU/min? Simply said, an F1 car heats up the earth 1000 times more than your cooling unit every minute! If that weren’t enough to get you off your seat, consider how much oxygen an F1 engine subtracts from the atmosphere. 650 liters per second!!! I don’t have the human average but it’ll definitely be only a rounding error when compared.
Scientists around the world go ga-ga over green house emissions by industries. No one notices formula one, each of whose cars is a greenhouse gas plant.

All in all, F1 is no more interesting to me. I see every formula one event as a smoke fest. Each of the fest’s cars is a factory in itself, only much more polluting and devastating than the real ones. Wonder if the F1 guys out there are preparing to leave for the moon on their F1 jets someday when they’re done destroying the Earth…

Vedic Math -I

Calculating vulgar fractions like 1/19, 1/29, 1/49

Sūtra (formula or aphorism) – “By one more than the previous one”

Let us deal with the case of finding the decimal equivalent of a fraction whose denominator ends in 9. For sake of simplicity of explanation, let’s solve for 1/19, although the method works for any number ending in 9.

Obviously the number is a recurring decimal. Solving it by current method, we have:

Therefore we have:

where the part under the bar is the recurring part of the fraction.

That was way time consuming. 18 solid steps! That cannot be done mentally at all! Also, there’s a high probability of error in the calculation steps.

That’s where the magic steps in. Guess how many steps you need to go thru to do the above calculation using Vedic math? 15? 12? 10? 5?

Nah… If it were that many, why would it be magic? You can do it in a one-step calculation.

Here’s how you can do it using Vedic math:

Amazing, innit?

Here’s how to do it:

Explanation: The formula (Sūtra) used is called “by one more than the previous one.”

i) Penultimate digit of the denominator is 1. Accordingly, “one more than the previous one” is 2.

ii) The preposition “by” in the name of the method (the Sūtra) means either multiplication or division. (The method I show here is using multiplication. I haven’t presented the one using division. Request in a comment if you want that too)

The modus operandi

We’ll use multiplication by “one more than the previous one”. For reasons we don’t need to know right now, the last digit of the recurring number will invariably end in 1. So we start with our answer’s last digit as 1. We ‘develop’ the answer by multiplying leftward by the number “one more than the previous one”, in this case, 2. Don’t take the following as the actual number of steps as this is just the explanation of the single step I’m talking about.

i) We put down 1 as the rightmost digit.

Answer

1

ii) We multiply that by 2 and put it down as the immediately preceding digit. Thus we have, 1×2 =2.

2 1

iii) We multiply that 2 by 2 and put 4 down as the next previous digit.

4 2 1

iv) We multiply that 4 by 2 and put 8 down as the next previous digit.

8 4 2 1

v) We multiply that 8 by 2 and get 16 as the result. But this has two digits. We therefore put the 6 down immediately to the left of the 8 and keep 1 on hand to be carried.

6 8 4 2 1

vi) Multiplying 6 by 2, we get 12. Adding the previous carry, we get 13. In the same fashion as above, we use the 3 in the answer and keep the 1 as a carry digit.

3 6 8 4 2 1

vii) 3×2=6. 6 added to the carry digit are 7, producing no new carry digit. So we put down 7 in the answer and continue.

7 3 6 8 4 2 1

viii-xviii) We follow until we reach the 18^th digit and find that the whole 18 digits start repeating.

Thus, the answer looks like this:

Try doing it now yourself in a single step. Isn’t it easy?

I know it was. Lets reduce the “work” further by 50%!

Have a look at this:

0 5 2 6 3 1 5 7 8

9 4 7 3 6 8 4 2 1

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

That is, if we divide the recurring number in 2 numbers, the sum of each pair of the corresponding digits is 9. That means after putting down the first 9(half) digits, we already have the other 9!

But how do we know that we have reached half the number of the digits in the number? That’s simple too.

Number of digits of the recurring decimal = denominator – numerator

Therefore, 19-1 = 18. We could have stopped at the 9^th digit and put down the remaining as compliments!

Example 2:

1/29

The recurring number is of 29-1 = 28 digits. That means regular method requires 28 steps.

By our method, the first 28/2=14 digits are

Using the complements, the rest of the number is

0 3 4 4 8 2 7 5 8 6 2 0 6 8

Therefore, our answer is:

That’s not even one 1/10^th of the space and time required by conventional methods!!

Coming up:

How I (and now you) can calculate big numbers like 879 x 999, 697 x 997, 999999997 x 999999997 in < 30 seconds