Microsoft to Pull Seinfeld TV Commercials

Its been long and I couldn't get time to write an entry.. but I think after seeing this news I just culdn't stop wirting it :). It is a great news that Microsoft itself found that the ads with Seinfeld are crap and are pulling out. Well who on earth will see those junk ads. But we have to accept the fact that they are on microsoft standards like their products :D . Not knowing how to spend money Bill Gates spent $10 mn for these. Only after spending so much did they realiease it. Good some one else might have benifited by it :).

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LHC ...

World didn’t come to an end, of course not so soon also they haven't started any experiment, but all that was done is testing the devices if they work fine not sure when the actual testing is likely to happen. 10% of the scientists are from India, which is great. But when is the testing happening and the conclusions given. Will have to wait and see.

Apple released a new nano and touch. They are quite good but not Steve Jobs. Will have to wait and see what apple has in store. Not planning to go for any of them :) financial constraints for a poor guy like me :) All these only after a D 90. Couldn’t sleep well these days. Not feeling well today tried to sleep but couldn’t so writing this now, not knowing what to do. Also the damn phone kept ringing, have to answer the calls.

Well have to start sleeping now else it will be difficult tomorrow at work.

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World coming to an end today?

Interesting.... Whooping $7.75 billion for a single machine that is a part of the test to simulate Big Bang Theory? Well what is that they are trying to find out. The effort of thousands of engineers and scientists for 10 years created the Large Hadron Collider. 

So rumors and concerns about earth being not able to withstand to the test are already on. And in today's news its reported taht too many people visited temples and are not going out of home. Do you think the scientists haven’t thought about the after effects of this experiment? 10 years of research can’t miss that.

What if the world is going to end today?  If earth cannot withstand the test and terrible things happen where will you be and what will you be missing 

I may miss writing the blog and this would be my last so writing it from office :) If earth can’t survive do you think google servers will survive? 

Ha ha .. Enough let me get back to work now… 

Watch out at 12:30 PM. Will update the news as soon as I get some thing. Keep watching…

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Browser Wars!!!

Quite impressive to find that Mozilla has captured good amount of users :)  Here are the list of statistics from w3 schools. Happy to see Mozilla taking over. 

2008	IE7	IE6	IE5	Fx	Moz	S	O
August	26.0%	24.5%	0.1%	43.7%	0.5%	2.6%	2.1%
July	26.4%	25.3%	0.3%	42.6%	0.5%	2.5%	1.9%
June	27.0%	26.5%	0.5%	41.0%	0.5%	2.6%	1.7%
May	26.5%	27.3%	0.7%	39.8%	0.7%	2.4%	1.5%
April	24.9%	28.9%	1.0%	39.1%	0.9%	2.2%	1.4%
March	23.3%	29.5%	1.1%	37.0%	1.1%	2.1%	1.4%
February	22.7%	30.7%	1.3%	36.5%	1.2%	2.0%	1.4%
January	21.2%	32.0%	1.5%	36.4%	1.3%	1.9%	1.4%

This is from the w3schools. You can see the same info here http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp. 

So now IE is at 50.5% and Mozilla at 43.7% Will have to wait and see for the month where Mozilla will post more. Hope that is not far......

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Display Devices and Power Consumption

Recently I have got a new laptop at work the battery lasts up to 3 hours and it purely depends on the screen brightness I am using it. I use it in moderate brightness even when power is on. Today I was discussing some FS of mine and have connected it to the projector. It was working in a mode that display is only on the projector and I was using the application in full screen mode. And its almost 3 hours when I remembered that the power have to be plugged in. I immediately switched to normal mode to check out what percentage of battery is still left. To my surprise it showed it can last for another 2 hour 44 mins. I just couldn’t believe that. Later I realized it was due to my display on laptop was off. 

The processor and the entire hardware consumed only 40% for more than 3 hours so 60% of the power is used up by the display in the normal mode. Hmmmmm Now do if we can have more power efficient display devices the same batteries can give a long back up and in turn less recharge which leads to low total power consumption and in saving energy:) so start finding one now.

So Moral of the story is… Keeping the brightness of the display device low is not only good for eyes but also will consume less power.

Save Energy! Save Earth! 

He he too much isn’t it?

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