the new Iphone rocks.. except for the no-3G and a meagre 2.0 MP cam.. but therz WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.. Engadget had a gr8 live blog from Stevie J's key note.. Steve sure did rock . And Apple Computers is jus Apple Inc.
But I always wondered the emergence of wireless competition between 3G n Wimax .. sure and 3G - 4G is a wonderful technology.. but to get it to user level wud surely take time... but cant the same be made available with WiMax technology.??? sure for cellfone manufacturers it doesnt make a diff b/w incorporating a 802.11/b/g/n interface or a 3G system..
For service providers, new spectrum, new systems in place, new market.. and for users.. it would certainly cost them dear atleast till the market stabilises.. remember when cellfone came into existence, it was 8Rs outgoing n 4 for incoming. Only thing I see that brings the initial cost down is video call and may be video broadcast on 3G..I cant predict how video calls wud go well with Indians but I see IPTv thru wifi coming well ahead of 3G/4G mobile TV.
Tho 3G mobiles are very prevalent in India, only a couple of months back the Indian govt has granted permission to release 3G spectrum for service providers.. new spectrum, new hardware, new systems it wud atleast be 2010 for 3G market to gain momentum but making chennai/ blore wifi-ed wudnt take a month ?!! Ought to be cheaper and I see a nice market for IPTv here with ads.. Is some service provider listening ?
How abt this? Nokia-Tata Sky-Airtel broadband convergence.. Airtel can make the a city WiMax with 802.16e with 70Mbps speed. Tata Sky providing all the channels they provide thru broadband.. smaller screen, Less resolution, less bandwidth and Nokia providing mobile handsets with wiMax.
How will this business gonna do?!
Me waiting for Bush in his typical style, "Ladies and Gentlemen, We have hanged him"..
BTW, will Sadaam goto heaven as he died on 'Vaikunta ekadesi' ??
Apple reports shipping Video IPODs with a windows virus RavMonE.exe... admitting it, interestingly it says
As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.Firefox 2.0 beta (starts downloading) is released. Diff b/w 2.0 n 1.5..
Each tab has a close button.
A pulldown menu at the end of the tabs with all the pages listed.
spell checks whenever we type in something in the browser..more 2wards web 2.0?!
Search completion in the search toolbar.. chk it out urself !!
Recently Closed Tabs in History section.
Try Guruji.com , the Indian search engine.. a nice one, shud be a nice one since its the only search engine which lists this blog as number 1, if u search for Sujay :)
The knights of Templar were killed on this day, friday the 13th of october.. Margarer Thatcher was born, Kishore kumar died on this day, O'Neal, Thorpedo all born on this day.. so was another..er.. "wanna -be-gr8"guy.. me hitting quarter century 2day ..on friday the 13th... ne one with paraskavedekatriaphobia arnd ?!
sigh !!! 25 years.. seems a loong time, but on retrospect.. things jus happened.. school, college, job....it all jus happened... lazily, was living jus the moment instinctively..no plannin whatsoever.. whew!!
hmmm.. Do I need to change ? be more resposible ??? GOK !!!
Chat b/w me n my friend..
me : hey dude, Arun contacted u ?!
he : illada (no da)
me: u went out somewhere during the weekend ?!
he : illada
me: ur answer for this Question also "illada ?" ?!
he : illada
Now this is a paradox, isnt it ?!
By toutatis, how wud u name the Tamil dubbed version of Asterix n Obelix : Mission Cleopatra ?? Definitely not "Imsai Arasi 2-aam Cleopatra".. but thats exactly what they have named the Tamil version of the movie.. Whacky !!!
tryin' to become a digital fotographer from a digital camera owner(canon S2IS).. might start a fotoblog if am getting better !
its so sickening to watch tennis on TEN sports...far too less clarity .Thanks to ever increasing price of oil, these sheiks have all the money in the world. Now except Wimby all Grandslams on TEN sports. Whats with ESPN and STAR sports, they jus play old dull cricket matches n golf. they also lost champs league to TEN sports. How in the world they will show 2 matches simultaneously.. sick !
Sania's bigtime faking an accent and is as good as her 2nd serve.
Top quotes of last week.
Sania Mirza: I dint even know I am ranked 54. neways WTA rankings dont bother me. (what else does, then ?!)
Sourav : WC is not everything.Its jus hyped up coz its the world cup. (c'mon Mourinho, beat this !)
Watched Vetayaadu Vilayaadu last friday. Decent movie but more was expected off Kamal and Gautam. Kamal-JO romance was a kinda drag to such a story..but when viewed objectively, it was mature and couldnt have done in any other way. BTW where was Harris Jeyaraj, songs were pretty decent but the movie was badly missing the right kinda background score.
Read in Rajdeep Sardesai style :
As CNN-IBN brings in the latest The HINDU-IBN POLL State of the Nation poll that has been taken across 19 states, 14000 samples.. a thought provoking yet shocking statistics reveals that 98.6% of IBN journos use Natraj pencils.
2 cute gals in my project..ok.. earlier project.. now that I am in bench.. let us call them CG1 and CG2 namesake.. CG1 speaks kannada with kannadigas, Hindi with Northies and Tamil with Tamil guys but English with me.. :( donno y ?! CG2 speaks kannada with kannadigas, Hindi with Northies, Tamil with tamil guys. Both CG1 and Cg2 are native Tamilians but speak to each other in Kannada !! Now in what language do I speak with CG2, Tamil or English ?!
Blogspot blocked or not, me gonna post !
Had a perfect weekend at Chennai..
2 Movies at Satyam complex back to back (Over the hedge and DVC)
Food at "Murugan Idly shop" ...Slurp !!
Drive thru ECR... thats what I call a Highway (BTW, I travel thru Hosur rd daily)
Bowling, pool at Mayajaal..
Attended a celeb(singer Karthik) wedding reception. (courtesy: Ram) and had a chance to brush shoulders with singing gr8s., Chitra, Sujatha, Srinivas, Vijay Yesudas..
That was a perfect combo for a weekend !
Its so funny to see billboards of Yahoo ! and AOL on hosur road.. Y! has a very conspicuous "free mail".. its akin to any soap ad with a BOGOF offer.. I am not sure what segment of ppl they are targeting.. any Tom, Dick and Harry accessing the net will know that there are hoards of free mail sites scattered. With the next gen Web 2.0, wiki and open source peaking on the net, even office tools are online and free. Atleast AOL in this regard was decent enuf to have a "I entertain 100 m people ..". Competing with Y!'s billboard is rediff's TV ads on how fast rediff is. BTW, is anybody using rediff mails? its Gmail for me anyday and for that matter every single Google product rocks !
Is Y! targetting the "hey, this is free" mentality of Indian public..?! cheap ! they already have a strong base in India as they are one of the pioneers on the www. I was introduced to net in my eleventh standard and I thot Y! was a tool to access the web. And when I went for browsing the 1st time, I asked the guy at the counter showing off my internet knowledge, "is Y! available?"...he replied "yeah, every other site is also available".. !!!
After a perfect weekend(as in 1.eating,2.sleeping..repeat steps 1 and 2 n times wher n is generally a 2digit number) at home, took a spl train from Pothanur (dint get tickets in island express) and was supposed to reach blore at arnd 0500 hrs... I woke up at 5 and the train was at a very familiar station.. I asked a guy standing near the door what station that was.. That idiot told me it was Blore CANTT.. sleepy me woke up and alighted there only to realise that it wasnt CANTT .. By the time I realised the train sped away.. okie, fine way to start a day I thot and and started walking in the direction as everybody else, still not knowing what station it was.. man..It was 5 in the morning and u expected me to be..er..myself ?!
Then I learnt that it was KR Puram.. KR puram: Blore is as good as Perumbur:Chn ... Queues of autos were waiting for their preys.. Checked an auto for K'mangala, that bugger asked for 150 bucks..I smirked and proceeded to the next one, "200 saar" was the reply.., the next one asked me 250 bucks.. my face had a pathetic "boss, I paid 181 for cbe to blore..." look.. now the logical step was to ask an auto before the 1st one rite? I did and seems that guy dint know this trend and asked for 150 bucks (silly fellow).. I said this is too much and asked 1.5*meter.. he immediately said ok and reached home after a loooooong journey and the meter read 126 bucks, that means me have to give him 189, thats 39 bucks more than wht he asked and 9 Rs more than what I had spent fo travelling 425km from cbe to blore... Damn !
Of Channels, soccer and Cheergals...
5 comments Published by Sujay on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 3:55 PMWC matches shown on ESPN n STAR doesnt have same ado as Champions League. Simultaneous telecast on STAR n ESPN for the 1st time yday and there was nothing for the prequel and aftermath of the matches for STAR, meanwile ESPN was on its usual self with Harsha was rattling out his football knowldege .. Even after the 1st half, no analysis or whatsoever on STAR.. they were jus showing the top 10 goals of this WC. This is THE WORLD CUP and much is expected outa of ESPN STAR !
One thing that can draw away men from football is probably women, TEN sports seems to get a cue from this and were telecasting a show on NHL cheergals and their life when the soccer matches were going on... :D
Its fine to support minnows but its really iritating to see people belittle geniuses for no particular reason.. U see these kinda people everywhere even sitting right next to you derogating successful people.. nitpicking at small slips they make...and r bound to make..they are humans too..
Sachin has no steam left in him.. he is such a hyped batsman..
Illayaraaja is ok only for melodies
Federer cant play on clay
Schumacher won races jus coz Senna died !
U can hear all kinds of comments wherever u go... I jus simply could not understand why some people could not appreciate the best.. Ask them whats their best achivement in life other than picking their noses every 2 mins !
They dont stop defaming the masterminds, their sadistic nature blooms up whenever any of the geniuses slips a bit.. They are at their pinnacle of happiness whenever Bangladesh wins Australia, Nadal wins over FedEx, Mani Ratnam gives a flop, Schumi loses or Sachin fails to score..
Is it jealously that only some are successful ??
Or is it flavor of every season to get noticed ?!
crazy buggers !!
I donno y but am so obsessed with the "Normal Distribution" these days.. For every thing I observe be it any attribute, IQ, skills, prowess,art I tend to fit that into a normal distribution and start thinking over how the distribution lies, where I might fit the normal curve and what % of ppl might fit in the extreme ends of the famous bell curve.. Thankfully I havent gone to the extend of calculating the mean, variance and stuff..
Huh! If at I had shown interest in the same during school days...
Tho the only reservation I am concerned about is of S6, S7, S8 kind, I couldnt resist posting this small incident. My uncle recently bought a car and was unable to find space for parking as any such parking on our street would affect the heavy traffic both ways..er..well, ok..our street is so small for any kind of encroachments..
Soon enuf, he heard that somebody has opened a pay-n-use parking lot and thot of availing its services and contacted the person in charge. On contacting he was told that the parking lot was only for "Chettiar" cars... Baffled, my uncle walked away contemplating on buying a "chetti" car rather than a Maruti !
Hmm.. first it was for Gods, then for people..not its for cars..