Just watched Google chromebook video.
Bit surprised to see for the first time (may be I don’t aware of any previous attempts) Google’s public satire on Microsoft.
Watch the video 0.34-0.38sec’s. The voice says : “No Desktop – No Rolling Hills of Green”.
Clearly the first thing that comes to mind is “Windows signature default Desktop Background”. Is it intentional or have I been too picky?
After watching Dr Adam Rutherford’s BBC program The Gene Code, I can see the future workflow of Indian Matrimonial Agencies.
Just give you a bit of background Adam talks about an Indian study that shows certain genes behave differently in specific Indian caste people. This is because most of the Indian people marry within their caste, the chances of carrying their distinct qualities to the offspring is high.
The Future Workflow of Indian Matrimonial Agencies:
1. Get grooms blood sample along with other bio-details
2. Get the genome sequencing done. By this time there will be ‘n’ number of gully sequencing centers providing the sequencing service for Rs1000.
3. In-house bioinformatician does the similarity search against bride’s ‘caste based reference genome’
4. If Brides ‘caste specific genes’ exist:
If there is a strong evidence: go ahead with marriage, but check for susceptibility to future disease.
Else: No Marriage. There will be no further pipeline to deal with Distant Relationships. Poor boys.
A new group of brokers emerge to assist grooms to get thier genomic data modified for a price. Well, dont know how Anna Hazare will respond {:-)
This could also be used as an alternative method to find out same caste people, if Indian government abandons the caste system. Instead of ‘what caste you are’, People may ask ‘what are your family genes’? Of course it only works until Inter-caste marriages are not much popular in the population.
Also, imagine what would happen to those Indian cinema’s famous caste/vamsam based dialogues?, hilarious..
The hero says “Hum ‘BRCA1,BRCA2” kaandhan se hain“
{ Just for fun… }
Comments:
@Vasu : Take it a notch further … The sequencing centres will have Bolt ON (perfect family package) that will check that the bride has a Pharma and therapeutic angle to provide genetic medications that express (or suppress) the transcription enhancers that will coordinate with the variations that help in grooms liking to cricket, guitar or kishore kumar … or nappy changing.
@Vasu: Ironically, the database that contains the India specific caste compatibility variations is going to be much bigger than the UK10K DB, that only gully Seq centres should handle and they will customise it well I presume. – Specialised sequencing canters for each caste may be
Jonathan Rosenberg: Rules to success : Source : GOOGLE VIDEOS
In his quarter century of working in Silicon Valley at such companies as Apple, @Home, and Google, CMC Alum Jonathan Rosenberg has had ample opportunity to watch successful people in action. He will share his observations on what makes great people tick and draw conclusions on how a liberal arts education can arm the next generation of leaders. His talk will include a set of “rules” that promise to be excellent preparation for any student who plan at some point to enter the real world.
Here is the video:
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
Great Technology – Must Watch http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
The Digital Economy Bill plans to disconnect people from the internet if they’ve merely been accused of filesharing, or if anyone sharing their connection has been so accused. This is a breach of our human rights, and must be opposed.
No-one should be disconnected from the internet or otherwise punished for illegal filesharing unless they’ve been found guilty in a criminal court. Nor should anyone be punished merely for sharing a connection with an illegal filesharer; collective punishment is an infringement of human rights, and a war crime.
Normally, politicians care more about vested corporate interests than they do about mere citizens, but we’re lucky in the timing of this, because there has to be a general election within the next 8 months. There are roughly 7 million filesharers in the UK; if we all make our voice heard, they have to care what we think, at least until the election is over.
MaTelugu Talliki
Artist: Tanguturi Suryakumari
Source: www.youtube.com
Tanguturi Suryakumari Singing at the rangaraya Medical College Old Students Association Reunion in Birmingham in 1985
Its not only the voice – but the sincerity n pride in her voice that I like.
This hymn calls for the consecration of our bodies to His service. The video is a tribute to the selfless sacrifices of the many missionaries who have toiled for the spread of the gospel in the Telugu region.
Translation of first line – Here is my body, use it for thy glory.
