Feature Articles: In Quest of Infinity - Aug 2009

Feature Articles: In Quest of Infinity - Aug 2009

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few odd men

Sunil : after joining engineering i learnt many things.I met some real new characters.
venk : is it ? name them
Sunil : In roll number order.. abhi, gowri,Puppiesing,jaggu,satireddi,ramkanth,Rk,sourav,shakur,unmadi and venkateshhh
Venk : what me in the list ??
sunil : yes .really.

Malaysian Fisherman Reels in Shark with ‘Webbed Feet’

April 4, 2008
Has anyone ever seen a baby shark with webbed feet? A worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, made this unusual find when she was given the 1.7kg fish by a fisherman at the jetty recently. Mary Looi, 48, said she only realised the shark was different when she wanted to cook tomyam fish for lunch for her family. “It was only when I was about to cut the shark the day after I received it that I found two webbed feet sticking out from the lower part of the body. “The shark is one-metre long,” she said. Looi said she dared not cook the fish after consulting her husband Gooi Man Kaw, 57, who told her that according to Chinese belief, eating fish with unusual features could bring disaster or ill luck. “Immediately, I returned the fish to the fisherman that night at about 10pm “He threw it back into the sea,” said Looi. Looi, who has been working at LKIM for 10 years, said this was the first time she had stumbled upon such an unusual find. When contacted, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Muka Head marine research station head Prof Dr Zulfigar Yasin said this is the first time he had heard of fish with legs found in the Malaysian waters. “There is a possibility that the fish could have swum from other waters into Malaysian waters. “As far as I am concerned, fish species with legs or bony fins can only be discovered in the waters of North Sulawesi in Indonesia or South Africa,” he said.

Shark Attack

August 23, 2007 12:19 EST
Sarasota, Florida -- An American student has described the moment she was bitten by a shark in an attack that almost punctured her lungs and left her needing more than 100 stitches.

Andrea Lynch, 20, said she was lucky to be alive after being attacked as she enjoyed a late-night swim with friends during a boat trip off Sarasota Bay in Florida.

As she floated on her back, the shark, believed to be a 7ft-long bull shark, sank its razor-sharp teeth into her side until they hit her ribs and pelvis.

It shook her briefly before letting go.

Ms Lynch was left with 17 wounds in the attack, which happened last week.

"I got on the boat and my friend was, like, 'Do I need to call 911?' [the emergency services]," she told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune newspaper.

"I reached back with my hand and felt all these gashes on me, and there was blood running down my body and pooling in the boat," she added.

The shark attack was reported to be the second near Sarasota Bay this year, although they are relatively rare on the coast of Florida compared with the more perilous waters of Australia and South Africa.

However, the potential severity of any shark attack - even by smaller sharks like the bull - was underlined when doctors said that Mr Lynch's lungs were very nearly bitten through in the attack.

Great food ... great place.. !

" Fried fish hmmm....andhra chicken... yummy .... what baabu veg aa vaddu vaddu ...Naan...(opening the cover)what not there...oh god.. am i so late.. "
hello boss...theres no naan here..

Server: Sir just a moment... try this curry and pakoda mean while...
Me: yes if it pleases...
I dumped about 2 joints of chicken... and little of brinjal pakoda..
i looked around to check for envy...::: ZERO treats found!!!
volaa!!!!... go ahead man!
I started having the joint... as i got engrossed in a talk with my friends..very next moment i have seen a cute girl taking dozens of nans in her plate.
i said to myself... " may god slim this child.. "
I run to the server and had a 4 pieces of NAN... Lovely taste
I continued to eat ... and then got served.. and then eat.Just as felt a little unbalance in taste i threw the plate and went searching...
Yeah.... cakes,... ice creams... Halwa.. and fruits.. yummy ... right balance for my taste buds.
ME: baabu ... ekkada plates.. lay vooo???
server :Wait Sir. Please..Sir

later.....
Me: "Come again... again... ok ok enough.. 4 scoups.. quiet sufficient for the
first round...(wish the hotel had larger plates too)"

Me :"hmm baabu wats this..."
server: " halwa..sir ...very tasty..."
Me :hmmm YeahSye (telugu word...in English it means to dump huge amounts) 4 spoons.
After all this..somethings...missing....yeah,,, fruits..added those too
then a little of chit chat he he. and then... "smile please..."
Hmmm NO. Please smile again... I'm still not satisfied.. !!( this is the regular part of me in parties... haha photography)
Then... i added cakes..and then 3 more scoops of ice cream...ah.. then i realized... oh shit.. blunder of the event... oh god.. !
Then i ran to Sandeep.. Arey i wanna go meet your Sister...this event is all hers...
We then went to them
Me: "hi akka... !! happy wedding life.. !!
akka one pic here in this wedding location...
Akka:( bride) Ok sure.. go on

click..click
click click
click click
hmm .. okies....
Bye bye!!!

CAMPUS DATA

These days the most commonly expected question in an interview are the abbreviations. here is a small list.
Did You Know How These Names Came About!

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache

Apple Computers - favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.

C - Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it ‘New B’. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)

CISCO - its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.

Compaq - using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

GNU - a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the children’s song ‘The Gnu Song’ which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with ‘GNU’s Not Unix’.

Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’!

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Java - Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

Casio's new ambition: Fast-frame rate camera

Casio is unveiling a radical departure from its basic point-and-shoot camera roots Sunday, the $1,000 Exilim Pro EX-F1 that the company says can shoot 60 still images per second or movies at 1,200 frames per second.

The camera has a 6-megapixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor and a 12x zoom range, the company plans to announce at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. When using the sensor at its full resolution, the camera can take up to 60 images in a high-speed burst, with different frame rates possible. For example, a photographer can set the camera to take 60 shots in 1 second or 5 shots per second for 12 seconds, Casio said.

Casio started touting the high-speed camera in September; it'll go on sale in March, the company said.

It remains to be seen how well the camera works or how many people will want to buy a compact camera that costs hundreds of dollars more than a good entry-level SLR. But if nothing else, Casio deserves credit for finding a feature that departs from the ordinary categories and stretches limits beyond just how many pixels can be squeezed onto a sensor, a trend that for the most part isn't helping people take better or more interesting photos.

The EX-F1 also has some flash abilities to help out the camera. The built-in flash can fire "up to" 20 times at shooting rates of "up to" 7 frames per second, though the company doesn't detail what circumstances are required to hit those peak speeds. In addition, an internal LED can help burst shots at shooting rates from 10 to 60 frames per second, Casio said. It's also got a hot shoe on the top for mounting external flashes.

In the movie department, the camera can record 512x384-pixel video at 300 frames per second, 432x192 at 600 frames per second, and 336x96 at 1,200 frames per second, Casio said. The camera also can record high-definition movies at 1920x1080 pixels at 60 frames per second, has a dedicated movie button like Canon's PowerShot S5 ultrazoom, and has an HDMI port to watch videos on an HDTV.

For still photos, the camera can record with either JPEG or the higher-end raw format with unprocessed image sensor data; for raw, the EX-F1 uses Adobe Systems' Digital Negative (DNG) format.

The lens aperture ranges from a maximum of f/2.7 at wide angle to f/4.6 at telephoto. The focal length ranges from the equivalent of 36mm to 432mm in terms of 35mm film cameras (that's 7.3mm to 87.6mm in real optical terms; the 1/1.8-inch sensor is significantly smaller than a full frame of 35mm film).

Compact line overhaul
Casio also plans to introduce four more ordinary cameras at CES:

• The $250 Exilim Card EX-S10, the latest "product of Casio's relentless pursuit of thinness," has a 10.1-megapixel sensor, a 3x optical zoom from the equivalent of 36mm to 108mm, and a 2.7-inch LCD. It can wait to take a photo until the photographer's hand starts shaking, an interesting alternative to image stabilization used by higher-end cameras.

• The $330 Exilim Zoom EX-Z200 and $280 EX-Z100 both are 10.1-megapixel models with 4x optical zoom ranging from the equivalent of 28mm to 112mm. The Z200 counteracts camera shake by shifting the sensor.

• The $200 Exilim Zoom EX-Z80 has an 8.1-megapixel sensor, a 3X zoom lens ranging from the equivalent of 38mm to 114mm, and face detection to help set focus and exposure.
Originally posted at "Underexposed"