Tech Advice

There are a few things i just done understand with marketing . You sell stuff . When it comes to tech stuff , face it , guys like me follow the market and products and technology like a lion stalking deers . We literally have orgasms when we buy a gadget or a computer / peripheral . Its a religion . We have Flame Wars , fan boy fights and online parades to show our love for gadgets . Seriously , now that maintaing a girlfriend is very expensive most of us have spent more time cuddling our laptops and gadgets than the time spent with our mothers . We live and breathe Silicon .

Seriously why the heck would you salesman brag about technology in front of us ?
Dont get me wrong . I am NOT arrogant of my knowledge . I do not know everything . But you dont understand it completely . Buying a laptop is like choosing a wife. you gotta love her , pamper her , get work done by her , make her happy so that you can lead a comfortable life .

I want my laptop to be mine . I dont care if it has 4 GBBEEE RAM . I know it, thats why i purchase one from you . I know it has 1 GB graphics card . So does DELL , SONY , Toshiba and others. What is its core clock , memory clock , shader clock ?? Do you have any idea ?

I do . let me tell you what i need for i am the customer and know the tech specs involved . all you name is the price and perks i might get . Why do you have to lose your honour in front of me ? Seriously , most of you cannot even spell Radeon
correctly . You tell me it runs at 1333 MHZ as advertised and i ask you what its CAS latency and operating Voltage is . Have an answer for that ? probably not

This is much more of a pain in the ass if you wanna buy assembled desktops .
Core i7 2600K ??
Sir the core i5 is a lot cheaper and better sir , it also has turbo core and hyperthreading .
So has all Intel Processors released since circa 2008. I need an i7 . Do you have one ?
I need a Gigabyte x58-ud3h
"Sir there is no board like that ."
Ass hole tell me you dont have one .
Do you have the sapphire 6850 Graphics card ?
first question : is it 512 MB or 1 GB graphic card sir ??
1 GB
"sir i have a 8600 GT < circa 2006 > graphics 1 GB that is awesome . its super fast."
What part of a gpu runs on a graphic processor and not on memory dont you understand ?

Seriously the next time i come in , listen to me and get me WHAT I NEED . for the guy in blue jeans with studs and an IPod , give him suggestions .
I still rock old school speakers and know what gadget i want .

Transformers 3 - The role model of all mind-blowing entertainers

Recently i have been lamenting quite a bit about the state of movies on my facebook . The last few films i have been to really didnt make a cut and were mildly interesting. I expected nothing better in Transformers . After Transformers 2 i thought there was nothing much left in the Transformers Universe to get excited about .

Boy was i wrong .

Transformers 3 is everything an action packed entertainer is . Dont expect fantastic plots or serious acting . Tr 3 is for blowing your minds out with SLO-MO action scenes . And by slow motion i mean REAL slow motion . The film looks like its been shot in a planet with 4 million G . Time slows down so much that you can probably see a mosquito take a leak . It has the perfect ingredients Love , hate , jealousy , comedy ,action , sentiment , desperation , hope , betrayal . Never before in recent times has a melange of emotions portrayed so well on a screenplay . Megan Fox's absence hasnt proved to be a damper and i would go as far as to say that it has actually increased the films appeal as it doesnt have to rely on skinshow to sell itself .

Visuals : The one that is worth watching for . Trs 3 comes a very close second and in some place exceeds Avatar. Not only is the 3d good , the scenes are stunning.
You dont get the feeling you are watching Earth . Its a mixture of Inception , True Lies , Terminator and many other Apocalyptic post war/plague movies .At one scene , Shia jumps onto a flying plane that shoots down the villains to save his heroine , just like Arnold Schwarzengger does in True Lies .

Though the second half feels dragged sometimes , it never distracts you as you are not made to watch nonsense off-topic scenes . The final battle goes on for an hour ; the way IT IS MEANT to be . Optimus Prime acts as a saviour , appearing at the right time to save the hero : Sam Archibald Witwicky . It is not Prime's movie . Sam is the real hero . LaBeouf has done a fantastic job and has made his fans happy with his performance .John Turturro has really saved the film with his more than minor role in the movie .
Rosie Huntington Whiteley is definitely an improvement over Megan Fox. She has the skills than just the skin .

The plot is thin. The characters arent strong and the acting isnt perfect. You wont find that worrying you . You will be immersed in the films beauty, those beautiful locales , THE STUNNING GRAPHICS and the awesome action . It reminds you why action movies are still the greatest blockbusters in the world and why the sound of guns and roar of engines still pump adrenaline in the heart of action fans.

Kudos to Michael Bay and the team for making a legendary movie . The role model of all action movies there ever will be .

Autobots Roll out and watch it in theater . its worth the wait .Forget such a things as Transformers 2 ever existed . That was for nOObs . This is for the real hot blood in you .

Green Loontern

Ever been to a movie and feel like walking out and trashing the director yet couldn't cause you spent a buckload for the ticket just because of the 3D moniker ?? Green Loontern would perfectly fit the bill in this case . Honestly after watching tons of Vijaykanth and Vijay movies sink at the box office i thought no one else would release movies with zero imagination , plot or acting skills. But fear not , now Hollywood joins the legion of stupid film makers . An occasional spiderman or Harry Potter can be tolerated . Green Loontern takes the loyalty of comic book fan base to the extreme and shreds apart the story. Kiilowog , Sinestro all could have played a fantastic role .Killowog was the epitome of monstrosity and coolness. Sinestro, with his ability and character could have been given a better role where he becomes the villain at least helping create a base for a sequel . Do they use it to their advantage ? No . Heck , its easier for then to have a single hero , an arrogant machoistic guy , give him powers he doesnt know how to use , give an inspirational speech and saves the day at the end with the girlfriend in one hand and the villain at his feet. Surely an evil power capable of devouring planets in minutes could survive the heat of a sun AND defeat a single green lantern . Instead he bowls over like a twig in a Hurricane . The heroine is safe and sound and Oa is totally undamaged . Give me a break . Not even cheesy one liners can save the movie.

I am superhero sci-fi movie freak . I love superhero movies and after a taste of Nolan's dark knight movies every other superhero seems comical on-screen like a joker .Granted not all movies have a story as complex as batman's and not all directors capable of twisting the mind like Nolan , but still they could have just made something different .

At then end what might have been a fun , cool movie just fizzles out . Not even the Green Lantern Corps could have saved this movie from certain doom . Next time you wanna kill a supervillain forget Low Orbit Ion cannons or laser rifles . A Blu-Ray of this movie will do that ten times over.

AMD's new graphics architecture

Ok this time this article is actually based on technology ,

AMD or advanced micro devices is making a major change to its Graphic processor (GPU) design . Gone are the days of pipeline stuff ILP instruction. This one makes it more similar to a set of parallel independent processing units (SIMD) if you prefer . Read about it here in the link below

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-preview-amd-architects-for-compute

Note : what AMD have done here isnt revolutionary. Nvidia had changed their graphics architecture similar to this way back in 2009 called the "Fermi" architecture . Both of the companies have realised that moving away from VLIW and into SIMD processing is the future for a better balance of Gaming / Computational abilities

< again read the above mentioned article > . Its a bit of a drab , but for those really interested in all this stuff like hardware , parallel processing etc etc , it will be fun .

And for guys / girls wanting to know what Fermi is

http://techreport.com/articles.x/17815

again another excellent article.

Money is everything to an Indian

Currency , Coins, Gold . Three things that can corrupt any individual . especially ones in a country riddled with perpetual poverty . Like genetic characteristics , poverty runs across generations in India .You can classify people on how long they have been poor in India . So pathetic is the gap between the poor and rich that some of the lowliest lives are ready to sell their organs for a pittance , sacrificing his life for the filthy rich just to get a fill of his stomach .

What causes this ? The Indian money-minded mentality

Marriage alliances are not based on Love or understanding between the couple . The guys parents select the girl whose father is a rich man , is willing to give tonnes of gold in dowry and a car and a house and every god damned thing a guy is supposed to earn in his life for free .The girl must be preferably a single child so that her father would give up everything including his underwear for his son-in-law.

Even the girls are not Heavenly Angels either. They live off their boyfriends in college days ,eating at his expense , getting expensive gifts and changing boyfriends after burning through his pockets like napalm on paper . They then marry off a guy working in America or Europe , cause you know , there is more money to burn when you convert Dollars to Rupees .

The Indian Lust of Gold : Nobody loves golds better than Indians . Thats why you see women on advertisements wearing tonnes of gold jewelry costing lakhs . Who said India is a poor country ? Rob any one of these middle class aunties and you will have enough gold to live off happily for the next 20 years.Wherever you go you see models dressed with more gold than fabric . Akshaya Tritiya : The south Indian or whole Indian not sure festival where every goddamned husband / man / bachelor is screwed over by women for buying gold on that auspicious day .

what do you think God is you loggerheads ?? A goldmine you own ? to shower gold on you perpetually ?? Ever heard the story of Midas and his golden touch ?? remember what happened to him ?

The sky aint the Limit : I will eat until i fill the belly of the guy next to me :No one is sufficient with having enough . A taste of developed technology and comfort of the developed countries has left a deep desire in the Indian mind to enjoy them even at the expense of his fellow country men . The Karunanidhi family had enough money to buy Africa entirely lock , stock and barrel . yet they chose to rob the country of a chance to earn Billions through the auction of the 2g spectrum . And the Congress policy ? Bribe and let bribe . Rob the country blind and give me half . i will protect your ass irrespective of any atrocity and will even award you a Bharat Ratna for your historical exploits of the most pathetic nation-state.

Cowardice : face it . head to head we are not even cockroach crap against giants like China or US or Germany . Our actual incomes lies in the hands of guys and girls who sit in front of terminal with headphones in a placed called Bangalore . We cant fight of a single guy who has come from Pakistan to kill as many of us . We got our butts kicked by the Chinese when they did not even have a proper army or economy to feed themselves . We are the laughing stock the entire UN .

what do we do to hide the frustration ? Build better stuff and turn into a superpower ?? Nah. thats for hardworking people like the Japanese. We beat our fellow brethern , assault our sisters ,kill unborn kids , tear through the very social fabric of the country we live in for the name of Religion .

Ego : No way we would learn from smaller countries to manage poverty . I wont listen to the Americans either for my "CULTURE IS SUPERIOR TO THEM " .

ignore the interests of my citizens . Who gives a shit about the farmer that tolls his life producing food for me that i eat in excess and go to a Gym that charges through the roof to get me back in shape. I am no philanthropist to think about the welfare of my own brothers , let alone my countrymen .

Status in the society : The richer I am , the more I am respected. Though all i own is a BMW 525 d i still show off like i own the goddamned roads of the world . in front of illiterate farmers and clerks my BMW will look like the Chariot of God .

ever wondered why there are too many clerks and MBA aspirants in India ?? We love money so much that we would even give up our brains and reasoning ability just to touch money all day and fondle it and cuddle it like a new born baby .

Ultimately its money that drives an Indian . Teach a man to fish and he will never have to beg for the rest of his life . Show an Indian a currency note and he will produce them in tonnes for the rest of his life .

The modern Teen

I am a modern teen in India. By Modern i define myself as a cool guy which iteratively means i listen to the latest songs , have opinions on stuff i dont know and revolt against all established morals and practices . I dont know what those words mean but to me everything is in for a change and i am one of the next generation of the SuperPower .

Now that i have defined myself i have to show myself as to what i am . How do I do it ? Its simple . I simply follow the 10 commandments of a modern Teen

1) Modern looks require expensive dresses . they must be branded , torn and "IN" < I dont know what that means , still its "IN"> . My parents may or may not have the money to afford them , but my friends wear them and the media endorses it with Priyanka Chopra . I gotta get some of them even if i have to sell my kidneys for them. They signify that i follow youth politics on MTV extensively .

2) I must show rebellion at all times , even if the thing i rebel against is very helpful to me .

3) My vocabulary must not contain more than 10 words . Complicated words are boring . Words end with as many exclamation marks as they can. The shorter the better . And they must not exceed the list of word : " LOLZ....!!!" , "Awesum ,oosum, Yeah ! , Kewl ,@ hum , w r u,m txting," .

And i must make fun of guys who post with good grammar and of nerds and geeks who post in pseudo geek-jargon by trolling them with comments like " U luzer , U suckz , I Roxxx " etc etc

4)Hanging Out : My entire life depends on hanging out . I spend almost all my time with my friends except when at the Loo . We must bicker and chat like old hags all the time . Hanging out with a group as big as it can shows that I am well respected in my gangz of Cool Dudes . All sentences must include "Yo" and "woz up " to signify a gangster attitude.

5)Music : Rap and Pop . I dont know what the heck the guy sings in those songs . But they are cool cause its what most listen to. It might be full of swear words and Baby , Nigga , other racist slurs and sexual jibes . But i dont care cause i dont understand most of the time what he says.Hip-Hop is my life and I am gangsta for life .

In order to prove my allegiance to Rap and Pop i occasionally troll people who listen to other types of music. I troll HeadBangers as Goth Shit , classical Music listeners as Pussy shit . All other genre are stupid with shit at the end .

6)Intelligence : Yo dont need brains to survive in this world . I mean look at me ! I have never done anything commendable or used my brain to achieve solutions . I listen to MTV ! I rebel by listening to MTV . I show my intelligence by copying quotes of sites and uploading them as status updates on facebook or tweet them. I mean , who gives a damn as to who said it originally . By posting them i show class and ooze of brains . Studies are long way from me . whats in the textbook is enough . I am here to enjoy life , not to use to make the world a better place.

7)Photos on facebook : Publicity matters a lot . It is essential for me to take 20,000 pictures of mine in the same dress with different poses in all the angles contorting my body and take as many shots of my butt and body . The picture can be devoid of any talent as long as it covers my face .

8)Sports : OK. I follow sports to an extent . Its in my blood and i have enough brains to hold the statistics of my favorite player with ease . If there is one thing i love , its sports be it anything .

9)Movies : Anything with Katrina , Priyanka Chopra , Kareena and their respective Boyfriends ROCKZ in my opinion . And thats all i can say for any movie that releases .My frontal lobes are severly under-developed to appreciate the tonnes of Good cinema made in the art and even in the mainstream world . All i give a damn is for item songs . And yes i have "LIKED" the page where President Katrina has petitioned for a Best item song category at the National Film awards .

10)Scientific Outlook : Global Warming must be stopped . Plastic must be banned . oh wait ! even my toothbrush is polycarbonate . what do i brush my teeth with ? Human hair ? Who cares . I support the enviroment by planting more trees even if they dont have enough water in a poisoned soil . I drive a car at all times , even if its to go to a bathroom. I cant walk , my low hip pants wont allow it .

Ultimately , PALZ and ROKRZ , this is how i define myself as a modern Indian. With a billion more like me truly we can become the laughing stock of the Chinese and the Western World . we dont need to give a damn about the country , but as long as we post "LIKES " on the INDIA is OOSUM page in facebook we are being politically correct and are a perfect SuperPower's next GENERATION or GEN X!!!LOLZ !! , because you know shortened words are the norm ,

The amazing state of Indian braodband

Indian ISP's never get one thing straight. The modern Indian is educated , tech savvy and frankly there are enough geeks in this country to know that all Hacking in Hollywood is fake . They still dont understand that most of us are not satisfied with just checking our mails. We blog , troll , drool over pictures and watch tonnes of videos be it IPL highlights or MITOCW lectures . In such a situation what do we still have -> Capped Data Plans .

512 Kbps broadband was popular in when broadband was getting popular in our country. Content was in SD , not even 480 p , no IPL , nothing HD . Bandwidth seemed sufficient . Fast forward to 2011 , everything is in HD , even Kali Mark Soda ads . Students unable to put their lives in the hands of the modern faculty of India want to expand their horizons and learn from teachers in the best universities across the world .

With a 1 GB cap on bandwidth , it would be one costly price to pay .

ISP completely miss the point . I dont need a 40 Mbps connection with a 10 GB cap that will be obliterated in 10 min. Give me 2 Mbps of Unlimited Plans .I dont want to login to a webpage every time i turn on my computer to access broadband . I just want the modem to do it all by themselves . And oh , next time please give me a cable modem that looks like one not something like a Kindergarten Candy Box. Charge me 2000 bucks for it , i dont give a damn but make it worthwhile. Let me adjust its settings . We aint so dumb .

Really , this kind of locking in/ dumbing down stuff by ISPs and manufacturers seem like an insult to the country that produces more Engineers than its rice output in 5 years. Give me Unlimited Plans . And by Unlimited i mean NO CAPS , not the Fair Usage policy stuff that a lot use to again restrict unlimited plans .

please ISPs listen to us . we know you are greedy . We know that the lack of broadband literacy among us is making you milk us dry . Have a heart and give us some Unlimited Plans at a nominal price .

From a guy that depends on the internet to satisfy all his senses , physical and mental