Beauty of Numbers!

Last updated on: June 12, 2006 at 10:31 pm By Desh Kapoor

Just sent by a friend. Enjoy! 1 x 8 + 1 = 9 12 x 8 + 2 = 98 123 x 8 + 3 = 987 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321 1 x 9 + 2 = 11 12 x 9 + 3 = 111 123 x 9 + 4 = 1111 1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111 12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111 123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111 1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111 12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111 123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111 9 x 9 + 7 = 88 98 x 9 + 6 = 888 987 x 9 + 5 = 8888 9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888 98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888 987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888 9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888 Read more

Supreme Wisdom

Last updated on: June 12, 2006 at 5:33 pm By Desh Kapoor

To commit no wrong, even against one's enemies, Is said to be supreme wisdom. Only the forgetful plot another's ruin; others remember That virtue itself devises a plotter's downfall. Read more

Contentment

Last updated on: June 12, 2006 at 5:12 pm By Desh Kapoor

If we're looking for outer conditions to bring us contentment, we're looking in vain. Read more

Immoral Non-Violence and Rahul's Ravana!

Last updated on: June 12, 2006 at 7:17 am By Desh Kapoor

One of my favorite writers on the web - Rahul Pandita - narrates his time in Kashmir.. his last months and days that he spent in his "home". He refers to a terrorist - Bitta Karate - who killed uncountable Pandits.. and is still alive in the Indian Jail.. only to be - probably - let free by a stupid Indian politician .. or worse still BECOME ONE! He ends his post by thinking out loud of taking up a gun someday. His thought of the gun is met by pleas from readers and commenters to persuade him against it! Read more

Screen Saver

Last updated on: June 12, 2006 at 6:34 am By Desh Kapoor

Berkeley System develops one of the first computer screensaver programs in 1989. The screensaver is designed to prevent image burning on monitors when a computer is left running or unused for long periods. Berkeley's After Dark product includes its most famous screen saver - the Flying Toasters - which features art deco styled chrome toasters with bird-like wings, flying in formation across the screen. Read more

Chinese and Spielberg

Last updated on: June 11, 2006 at 6:02 am By Desh Kapoor

Chinese walks into a bar in America late one night and he saw Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to him, and asks for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says, "You Chinese people bombed our Pearl Habour, get outta here." The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbour, it was the Japanese". "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, you're all the same," replied Spielberg. In return, the Chinese gives Spielberg a slap and says, "You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship." Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me." Read more

Time of Brahma, the Twin Paradox and Theory of Relativity!

Last updated on: June 11, 2006 at 5:57 am By Desh Kapoor

In Srimad Bhagwata there is a story where a King takes his daughter to the "abode" or "plane" of Brahma - the creator so that He could help with the search for her husband. They wait for Brahma for a few moments and when he talks to them he says "King when you go back to Earth everything would have changed. None that you knew would be existing anymore. While you have been here a few moments, several thousand years have passed by back there on Earth!" Is this because the "plane or abode" of the creator was only to be inhabited at a higher speed - much higher than the speed of light? I was reading "The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga"- where this incident is mentioned. And the suggestion that the author makes is that much as the Vedic scriptures are replete with the "Voyages" to Moon or Sun or various planets and inter-galaxy imagination - while other civilizations elsewhere on this planets did not even know if Earth went around Sun or the vice versa! - is it possible that "Mind" could have been a vehicle for transportation. Often at speeds many times that of light? The speeds and vibrational energy of a "place" could be achievable by sheer application of mind. Read more

Harley Davidson on Indian Roads?

Last updated on: June 10, 2006 at 9:02 pm By Desh Kapoor

In 1995 when I was doing some analysis of how much would be the steel consumption in India. At that time two major consulting firms (McKinsey and KPMG) had come out with predictions and forecasts of that magical figure based on some assumptions. One of the assumptions or criteria was the size of the Indian car market - which is a big consumer of steel in a country. What amused me the most was that the biggest segments amongst the cars will be the family sedans - like Camry or Corolla. Until then, Maruti 800 the small car was the King of the road. As I was reading the report, I looked outside my window at the road below and burst into laughter!! I thoughts these analysts were either smoking pot or had dug up tunnels to the airport which they used to travel in and out of India. To understand the "future" and dominance of the bigger cars ALL one had to do was go out to the road.. and no matter how sophisticated your predictive model, you would get a good reality check!! It took sometime for Hyundai to realize this mistake and come out with Santro - and only then it could sell enough cars to remain viable!! Read more

Knowledge is Aggregation of Opinions

Last updated on: June 10, 2006 at 8:32 pm By Desh Kapoor

What is the difference between Opinion and Knowledge? As I started to think about it - really speaking Knowledge is but an aggregate of lots of opinions! Knowledge is but an estimation of "a truth" regarding the Observed. And nothing has expressed this more beautifully than the Hiesenberg's Uncertainty Principle! The accuracy by which you measure the position of an electron is inversely proportionate to it probability of your success. Until there is a "distance" between the Observer and the Observed, the "knowledge" of the Observed is but just that - a PROBABILITY of the EXACT situation. Read more

UNIX

Last updated on: June 10, 2006 at 6:19 pm By Desh Kapoor

Bell Labs programmers Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson develop the UNIX operating system in the spring of 1970. UNIX uses many of the time-sharing and file-management features previously developed with the Multics project at Bell. The Bell Labs Patent Department is the first group to use the UNIX operating system. Read more

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