People's, Hopes & their frustrations

I am sick of people trying to compare themselves with me (indirectly) about how comparatively good or screwed their job/paycheck is.

I can only advice you guys "Comparing should be done only with your inner-self not with anyone outside in this world and also get a life. Enjoy your life doing what you love not by doing what others love. Have a sense of what you are talking. Stop judging peoples you don't have that qualification.

 

Food for thought

When you get to my age ... you will realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much. – John Cleese

Things learned in past 4 months.

1)No body gives a shit until its affecting their shit.

2)Even if your business plan is upside wrong it can still run fine.

3)More the success more the relatives.

4)It's not about the intelligence its all about hard work.

5) Fools are always confident about themselves but wise peoples are not.

6)The more you learn about this world the more creepiness you'll find in this world.

7) Every "why" have to settle on a level\frame work because we dont have a deep understanding of things.

8)People's are more happy in their virtual reality but it takes a whole new level of strength to be happy outside of it.

9)Don't worry about what people will think they don't do it very often.

10)Millions dollars in the pocket gets more respect in this world then having a big heart.

11)People's will glorify shit also if it makes them looks good.

12) Never go after popular science go after the science you love most.

 

 

Things I am reading today & new look of posterous

First of all the new look of posterous is looking more clean & neat but they too are following the social interaction thing,Let's see how it will go!!


Business Basics for Engineer's
Must Read if you too find a hard time understanding terms like Share,Equity & other blah blah

The Egg
Found this awesome story via hacker-news while reading one electron universe theory by Richard Feynman.

Power of small Batches
I am still not convinced that productivity is increased while working individually.

Fred Hates It
Still to read Looking good

Also Boltzmann Brain

Pygamesssssssssss

Was thinking of getting started with Django today but kind of got bored after reading upto its 3rd Chapter, Maybe will try it after sometime.

                 On further wandering online found Pygames [A Game module in python for creating video games] & started learning from its tutorial  right now. Its 1 am now if i get bored now i will definetly go to sleep then.

 


P.S:Those who are getting

error:No available video device while initiating pygame try entering this in your IDLE/Command line:

os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'
pygame.display.init()
pygame.mixer.init()

My current Specification on which i get this error is:Windows XP,Python 2.6

Pointer for newbie Scheme User's

So I had finally convinced my self to study the religious book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and found there are video lectures available for that Mit Rocks.

The language they had used is Scheme (an obscure dialect of lisp) which initially is looking awesome to me.The search for a compiler/IDE of scheme is an frustrating experience.Majority of them are no longer supported & there aren't good tutorials for getting started.But after some good amount of googling found this awesome newbie article on DrScheme which started me instantly.

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034s/drscheme/

 

Hail MIT.

Material that changes shape

Yeah you had heard it right remember in the movie Batman Begins when Morgan freeman introduces the Batman to the concept of this kind of material for using it in Bat-wings.It's the same technology however in primary stage.

                                                                                                                   This is made up of electroactive polymers which basically converts electrical forces (in the range of Kv ) to mechanical forces.Only Direct current is employed for obvious reasons.The material is made up of various layer as seen in figure.

Electro-active-polymers

 

Electro-active-polymers

There are other researches working on similar things but this one stands out.

 

Source: http://caad-eap.blogspot.com/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XGVMXCxBNA

looking forward for AI

The world is buzzing with advancements in cloud computing,quantum computing etc. etc. But the thing i am looking forward for is Artificial intelligence (altough quatum computing also).
                                     Just think of a day when an computer with AI get infected with an virus of its own intelligence.It would be awesome to see who will win.

Quick pointer for installing openbsd on Amd Processor's

While Installing openbsd 4.9 on my amd phenom II x4 955 B.E the cd didnt boot it just halt after displaying this

 

cpu at mainbus 0:not configured

Some digging & googling came with this solution.
When the system starts booting stop the automatic booting process by pressing any key.Now enter

Boot -c
Disable acpi

which basically disable all the acpi crap to get you running with the installation process which is given on their site if you dont know.