What happens if you put Bill Gates & Steve Jobs in a conference !!!!

I actually missed seeing this conference (due to my memorial day weekend plans) and was happy to find the entire conference and its transcript and its video on wall street journal.



Here is the entire video of the chat,


The video starts with a video from the past (bill gates is so young) and then has several parts of the new D5 conference.
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Following is a transcript of the interview Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conducted with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007,
The transcript of this entire show is provided on,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118063909956120356.html

Sivaji - The Boss - Movie News

Sivaji is the name of the upcoming tamil movie directed by Shankar, starring Rajinikanth the world famous iconic tamil hero. Here is an entire list of movies acted by this great man.

Rajini is a very influential person in south asia, has lot of fans from around the world and even japan. I am a big fan of all his punch dialogues and the message he has in each and every movie.

About the movie:

• Music by A.R. Rahman,
• Four lyricists,
• The world wide release is on June 15, 2007 (scroll below for locations in MA)
• This movie is the most costly production till date in India - 60 Crores (14800235.92 $)
• Rajini gets 20 Crores (4933411.97 $ )as his pay for playing the hero role.
• Note: 1 Crore = 10 Million US$ (approx)
• Check out more at this site
• The official web site for the movie is http://www.sivajitheboss.com/
• Vivek is playing a lead comedian role along with Rajini
• Sivaji - The Boss (BOSS acronym for Bachelor of Social Service)

Here is the You-Tube trailor for this movie: (It has been viewed 50,000+ times)



Locations:

The movie will be played at the following locations,

Primary Venue: Entertainment Cinemas, Fresh Pond (Alewife, Cambridge, MA) with DTS sound system.

June 15th Friday 9:30 PM
June 16th Saturday 10 AM
June 16th 9:30 PM
June 17th 10 AM

Venue 2: Studio Cinemas
June 17th Sunday 5:30 PM

Tickets to be purchased at http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/showtimes.asp?mid=7911&vid=5661 (the links are yet to be provided, check around june 12th or so).

I will be watching this movie with a big gang of friends & colleagues and will post the review soon :)

Punch quote from this movie - Pera ketavudane summa adurudilla :)

Microsoft Surface - no mouse no keyboard touch screen technology

Microsoft Surface

When I saw this today on news i could not believe my eyes and when i saw those 3 videos on microsoft site it was so amazing.

Microsoft Surface - is a 30 inches length table top screen which you keep like a coffee table in your room. It has got no keyboard or no mouse and is going to change the way you interact with computers.

The videos show the following,
1) A girl places her digital camera on the surface and immediately on the 30 inch table top all the images are shown, she selects what she wants and moves it and deletes what she does not want to a recycle bin.
2) A guy moves songs in to a zune player kept on top of the table top.
3) Two users play cards on the table top,
4) We can see videos and pictures, to resize a picture you need to hold the image corners and stretch your fingers, to shrink it - bring your fingers together.
5) When you place your credit card on the surface it reads the info
6) Also you can see a kid painting with bare fingers and picking colors from a pallette on the left.

http://microsoft.com/surface

Also Bill Gates spoke in a TV Show today how it is going to revolutionize our outlook, and guess what already early adopters are there,

Who all are rushing to get one?

a) T-Mobile the cell phone giant is going to keep each surface pad in its branches so that you can pick up a cell phone and keep it on this table and it will show the price and specifications of the cell phone
b) Sheraton Hotels is going to have one soon.

c) Harrah's entertainment.

Do you want to see it live?
1) The first technology preview is going to be on Sat June 9th 2007 at New York City and also
2) Aug 5th 2007 @ san diego, CA.

It is available for purchase starting winter 2007. I dont know how much they are going to price it yet !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm... so developers like us will have to start writing applications for the surface, no more right click, context menu code, no more lost focus, got focus, selected index changed, new api may come like got finger, lost finger, click intensity changed etc

Also i was so happy to see one of the person behind this techology who is in the surface team is an indian - Anusha.

It is so amazing to see what all technology can do in our life.

But if you think about it, it is not new because when you go to the railway station they got these huge touch screen terminals where you touch with your finger to buy tickets.

Seen above is the picture of a kid who selects green color using one finger and draws a face on the surface screen.

$800,000 to repair a pothole on I-95 in Hampton

All the tax payer bills are going down the drain. I could not believe my ears when i heard this in today's news. The state had nearly approved an estimate of $800,000 to fix a pot hole near a manhole near interstate 95 along hampton (when you drive to the hampton beach right in front of the liquor shop across the NH-MA border).

Here is the breakdown of the estimate,

$16,000 to pay to the state trooper for eight days,
$97,000 for inflation (what ?????),
$71,000 for consultant fees (I thought only lawyers, doctors, state troopers got paid well)
and several other line items which add up to $800,000

Here is the news from WMUR channel, (if you dont believe me still).
http://www.wmur.com/news/13368898/detail.html

When the person who prepared this was questioned here was his reply, "It is just an estimate actual figures can change and be lower too" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (They showed him on TV)

No it was not a typo in the estimate. lol

If there are several pot holes like this many countries would even go bankrupt.

My dream came true

On Sat, May 19 2007 my dream came true.

Studying Masters in US was a dream which I never thought would come true. Since my will was stronger than my skill i was able to fulfill my desire today.

I completed my M.S. in Organizational Leadership from Southern New Hampshire University as a part time student while working a full time job.

It was a great moment in my life, the speaker for the commencement was Senator Barack Obama, yes the democratic senator who has announced his candidacy for the US President in 2008.

I have heard lot of Advani's speeches but this was the first time I was listening to an American politician live, politicians have some charisma in them which attracts people like magnets.

If you are interested to listen to the speech, here is the video clipping from the commencement,




Also I have uploaded two other clips from the event to you tube, and i am linking them here.

This is the first clip during the announcement, and i am sitting in the crowd of graduates,




and this is the last clip or the closing moment (when the pipers played and you can see in the video obama walking).




Also i was lucky enough to get a very very close picture of him while he was walking past me. (Taken from my cellphone)

During the speech Obama talked about his experiences as a community worker in chicago, there was once an instance when he had to organize a community meeting, after lot of hard work and with lot of expectation that many people would turn up (on his very first assignment to organize one) very few elder women came in to the meeting and they too asked "Where is the bingo gathering?" , if he would have been frustrated in his life then, today he would not be running for the 2008 US Presidency.

Also during the commencement, many speakers were again and again iterating the fact that today is not a day to show that learning has completed in our lives but it just marks the beginning of the initiative.

I should say it has been an overwhelming experience studying in US and if you are a student and if you are reading this never make the mistake of getting in to a job instead of pursuing higher education. Just go for your dreams, someday it will come true like it did for me today.

Telematics - possibilities are endless

I was watching TV the other day and saw an ad for Chevy uplander and i could not believe my ears, it comes with a 40 GB harddisk, yes a car with a harddrive where you can transfer all your music, photos, maps. wow that was cool.

All along i have seen only hardbook laptops embedded in cop cars (don't ask me how i come to know about cop cars !!!!)

But the field of telematics is picking up very fast, the ability to have computers and cars together is telematics. It is not very easy as it sounds because cars in US undergo several climatic changes, severe cold and severe hot weather changes and the computer has to withstand all those. Even if we leave the digital camera in the dashboard it becomes severe cold during the night, then how are we to put a hard disk inside the car (that is quite a challenge, and lot of shocks to withstand during travelling in backroads and in highways).

But great chevy has done it, 40 Gigs of harddrive in the new 2007 Chevy uplander.

The new cars have quite a lot of features like,
1) My friends new car has keyless entry (you may ask whats new, the new feature is, all you need is to keep the key in your pocket and just walk to the car and it automatically opens), yes i know what is your next question i too asked him the same, how do you lock it then , answer is simple you walk away with the key in your pocket and it automatically locks.
2) The Bluetooth is embedded inside the car, so if you receive a call on your cell you can answer it in your car speakers. (wow thats cool as long as you dont answer private calls in front of other passengers :)
3) Now hard disks inside cars,
4) Push button ignition.

Atleast it makes sense to have hard drives, otherwise burning 12 songs in a audio cd and having a hell a lot of cds does not make any sense, and if you have an ipod then you have to buy a FM transmitter for an ipod and then the ipod mobile charger, etc etc, after all it is so simple all you need is a usb slot to transfer mp3 to your car and listen it on the way. 40 Gigs is a good amount of space to have a good collection of songs.

Wait i want more, why dont we also put a wireless network card in the car, so that i can browse my home wifi from car and move all the mp3 files. (well this too is not so far and it would happen some day).

Why women rule the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got this video from a good friend and i could not stop laughing seeing the logic the baby uses, may be it is true, that is why women rule the world :)