Monday, November 15, 2010

Personal 24/7 medical consultant.

Technology is fast changing for the better. This upgrade has improved the standard of living of the people and affected their lives in several ways. The impossible becomes possible with changing technology, so why not this wish of mine? Although it will help people live their lives with more ease and spend less money, it may also suck up the jobs of many professionals and practitioners.

The Wish or Idea - My wish is a tool which will act as my personal medical consultant and give me free medical advice whenever I need it. It will a device which will be connected to my home computer or laptop with a blood tester, XRay device, eye scanner, bp checker, temperature check and other tools along with an application which will collate the results of all the tests and provide you the exact health condition or ailment that I am going through along with the prescribed medication. It will also have an inbuilt ordering system connected to the internet using which I can compare the prices of the medicines prescribed and order them online for a home delivery.

Possible? - By now before I may explain any more features of the device in my mind, many of the readers may be thinking that this is impossible, just like how 10000 years ago a man said there will be something like computer and phone using which we can interact with people sitting far away and his listeners thought it was impossible. He did not utter it again because he might have got executed by the king for spreading rumors and wrong information, I am not that unlucky and I can repost this article again and again.

The path – Building this tool would not be easy by any chance and will require several years of research and testing. A huge database of ailments, diseases, symptoms, characteristics of the human body and lot of medical knowledge has to be created. This database should be equivalent to the medical knowledge of 10 best doctors in the world combined. A database of all the available medicines has to be created which would not be a difficult task. The most difficult task will be to manufacture a compact and low cost testing device which will have all the diagnostic features required in it. A lot of electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, VLSI and embedded system specialists, programmers, doctors, chemists and other technicians will be required in this research and development. However it may take several years.

The cost – It may initially be so expensive that only the successors of Bill Gates or likewise can purchase it. But gradually, China and Taiwan based manufacturers will start manufacturing it and it will be a product sold in every home.

The consequences – This device may render hundreds of medical practitioners jobless and reduce the demand for medical study. May people may be amazed of the results whereas some may get a wrong medicine prescribed due to wrong diagnosis. A huge number of lawsuits may be filed against the corporation who invents this product initially and it may have to pay billions of money as compensation.

However with time technology will become as intelligent as men and this wonder may be achieved some day.

3G – The Third Generation Lifestyle

The 3G is going to be a buzz for sometime till something like 4G comes in to tickle your imagination again.

A brief introduction to 3G would be it’s a mobile telecommunication service which is all set to make your mobile devices much more than a phone. 3G services in India which were first offered by public sector players like BSNL and MTNL are now provided by a private player Tata Docomo and others like Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance and others are expected to follow soon.

Post the 3G era, if you opt for it, you can have a multipurpose device in you pocket, using which you can also make calls! This service essentially includes faster than broadband, mobile internet, video calls, mobile TV and much more. Let’s explore the 3G life.

The 3G life is your life on a hand held, wireless device and on the go. It combines the features of several other devices in it and makes your life just the next generation life.

Social on Mobile – The web had become social some time back and now has the mobile. It’s no more a one to one contact using your phone. Take a snap and share it with all your friends across your networks, get their comments on it and reply back. Chat with your friends, update statuses and track your network, on the go.

TV on the Go – Now I no longer need to miss the cricket matches when I am traveling. Instead of the irritating SMS alerts, I watch it live on my 3G mobile. Watch live TV on the phone with the help of the lightning fast 3G services. Tune in to your favorite music channel or programme in the taxi to your airport and also the airport, switch it off while on flight! And yes enjoy the services even when your plane lands, if it is within India.

Video Calls – I seldom use skype now to make video calls to my family and friends, even if I need to; I use it on my phone. I now use the 3G video calling services to connect, talk and interact. Isn’t it interesting? You are holidaying in Goa, attending a short video conference held in Singapore about the successful product launch.

Radio and Music – Music is what you love while at work, on the go and even while sleeping? Go for a 3G mobile, download songs till you have memory left in your phone and listen to them. If you exhaust it, listen to the radio. Organize your music, create playlists and do lots more. You can even listen music online if you don’t want to download.

Browsing – Browse across the internet, check your mail, write and read blogs, bookmark them, share them and just love it! Mobile browsing has become lighting fast with the advent of 3G and yes faster than the broadband of your company, which you always keep complaining about!

Applications – Go ahead and install as many apps you want in your phone for various purposes you may need to. Link your home monitoring camera to your phone, take a photo, edit and distort it, or shop from your phone. What else? Find out locations, cool places to hang out, pay bills, book tickets, play interactive games with friends and more.

Lots More – Have come out of your office to pick your daughter, when you got a call from Los Angeles for an urgent business presentation. The client is online and you need to impress him. Just put in your headphones and microphones, download the presentation from your docs, share your screen and start explaining. Captivate the client and get him impressed by the time your daughter finishes her ice cream. This category is probably for the hundreds of features of 3G which I have missed out just to give you a chance to explore it!

Welcome to the 3G life, are you not enjoying it?

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Ayodhya Verdict Live News, Ayodhya verdict Latest Updates and Ayodhya Verdict Decision.

In this article you will get to know Ayodhya Verdict Live News, Ayodhya verdict Latest Updates and Ayodhya Verdict Decision given by the Allahabad High Court. Just to brief you about the situation, Ayodhya is a burning issue from past 60 years and post the Babri Masjid demolition it has become even more critical. The disputed land is claimed as Ram Janma Bhoomi or the birth place of Shri Ram(A Hindu God) by the Hindus whereas the Muslims claim it as their land where they have seen Babri Masjid from several years. Legends in and around Ayodhya which have spread across India say that, a Ram Temple had been destroyed by the Mughals to build the Mosque. This and several arguements are into the surface from both sides and this historical case is being fought by both parties since ages.
The Allahabad High Court Bench decides its verdict today, on 30th of September, 2010 on the 60-year-old Ram Janambhoomi-Babri masjid dispute at 3:30 pm. The verdict is not definitely be a one liner decision and has to be understood in its entirity before summarizing.
It is widely believed that the judges will not declare winners or losers which may affect the communal harmony and result in tensions across the country. The verdict is 8300 pages verdict which states different facts, research findings, statements of witnesses and different aspects of the verdict.
The parties involved in the verdict are Nirmohi Akhara, Hindu Mahasabha and Sunni Waqf Board. To understand the entire verdict it becomes important to understand the parties involved in this.
Nirmohi Akhara is a Hindu religious denomination following its own religious faith and customs. It is one of the 14 akharas recognized by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, and belonging to the Vaishnava sampradaya. It is headed by Mahant Bhaskar Das.
The group has been in light in connection with the Ayodhya debate since 1959 when it filed a suit to take over the disputed site of Babri Mosque.
The Akhil Bhārat Hindū Mahāsabhā (All-Indian Hindu Assembly) is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. It was founded in 1915, as an alternative for Hindus who were not attracted to the secular Indian National Congress and sought to oppose the Muslim separatism of the Muslim League.
The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Boards is like any other Waqf boards which is entrusted the responsibility of looking after the Mosque Property amongst others.
The Court has come out with the formula that the disputed land will be divided into three parts- one third given to Nirmohi Akhara, one third to Sunni Waqf Board, and the remaining and most important part will be for construction of temple of Lord Ram.
The bench rejected the claim of Sunni Waqf Board over the propriety of disputed land in Ayodhya.  The verdict went against Waqf board by 2-1. The bench also dismissed the claim of Babri Action Committee.
The Court affirmed in majority that the place where Ramlala is kept and worshipped at the moment and claimed by Hindus as birth place of Lord Ram- will be allotted to Hindus for construction of the temple.
The three-judge bench that delivered the verdict comprised of Justice S U Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice D V Sharma. The bench started the proceedings around 3:30 pm after the litigants reached Court No. 21 of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court.  Verdict has been  delivered in all the cases pertaining to the title suit, which has been depicted in eight to ten thousand pages.
A specified time of three months has been provided for the parties to appeal the verdict in the Supreme Court.
As soon as the verdict was out, the lawyers came out of the premises of the court, and spoke with the media persons. Renowned lawyer and BJP leader who was counsel of Raghubar Das informed about the proceedings to the media.
Barricades had been erected about 100 metres from the court room and no one other than those connected with the case were allowed anywhere near the court room.
Hundreds of journalists from across the country converged at the District Magistrate's office in Qaiserbagh area to report on the verdict in the Ayodhya title suit.  Elaborate arrangements were in place with pandal erected to accommodate 500 journalists and camerapersons opposite the Allahabad High Court premises.
Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed the court had ruled that the place where the idol of Ram was kept was the birthplace of the deity and the idols should not removed.
The dispute was first taken to court 60 years ago. Hindus state the site of the Babri Masjid is the birthplace of their God, Ram, and want to make a temple there. India has made up security across the country for a court verdict that could generate religious violence. Ban on bulk SMSes continues. The Prime Minister himself appealed to the citizens of India to handle the decision with respect and control their emotion.
The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board on Thursday said it will move the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

How to start using Torrent?

Using Torrent is easy - believe it or not. This article is for absolute beginners. I will write about the advanced tips and trick in my later articles.

The requirements are you should have a good internet connection preferably an unlimited one with an average download speed of at least 50 kbps, good storage space and a Torrent Client. Installing a Torrent client is as easy as installing any other piece of software. Just go to your favorite search engine and type download torrent client. You will find a lot of websites which provide you free downloads of torrent clients. Just download one, click on the installation/ executable(.exe) file and follow the instructions to install it. My best torrent client is bit torrent. I recommend you to use bit torrent which provides a lot of features which are not available in many other torrent clients.

Just after you have installed this small piece of software you are ready to get going with your search. Just go to any torrent website and start searching what you want. It can be literally anything. I have found and downloaded movies of 1950s and 1960s from Torrent. My best torrent website is www.kickasstorrents.com. The reason why I like this website is that it is a 100% non profit. These guys do not show a single misleading ads and show a lot of information beside the torrent you want to download. They show the health of the Torrent file, the number of peers and seeds connected to the torrent file, whether the torrent is verified or not and also the comments of the users after the download. This helps you take a decision on whether to download a particular torrent or not. If the health of the file is high, the torrent is verified and there are a lot of positive comments on it, you do not need to worry about the quality of the file. It will work after the download.

The speed of the torrent download depends on the number of seeds. If there is a huge number of seeds then the download will be faster. Now you should understand how torrent works in comparison to a normal download. In a normal download you download the file directly from a server connected to the internet. But in Torrent you are downloaded bits and pieces of a file from your peers' systems who are connected to the internet. The Torrent software makes it possible.

I will tell you in brief how this entire process takes place.
1. The person who wants to share a file creates a torrent file of his particular file. The torrent file is very small(a few kbs) in size. The Torrent File contains information about the IP of the person and the folder in which he has saved the file.
2. He then goes to the various Torrent Websites and posts announcements about the Torrent he has created. This will create a link of the Torrent file which he has to upload and brief name and description of his torrent file.
3. Once his peers get interested in his torrent, they click on the announcement link and open the torrent file with their torrent client. The Torrent client connects itself to other clients who are downloading and uploading the particular file.
4. It is a rule for Torrent users that if you are downloading a particular file you should also upload the same amount/ or more data so that this process never stops. The upload happens automatically while you are downloading. The upload speed does not hamper your download speed and thus it can go on simultaneously. Although you can stop/ regulate the upload/ download speed, you should not do it unless you have any particular reason. Let the upload and download speed be maximum so that you help others while you take help.
5. Once the Torrent File is downloaded completely you can view and share it. Some players like VLC player also let you view/ listen to some file types even if they are not completely download. Another speciality of Torrent unlike normal browser downloading is that, if you get disconnected from internet in between the download, the next time you connect you can resume the download.

So this is how a torrent works. Welcome to the world of Torrents. Do let me know if you have any questions through comments below.

Download Unlimited free of Cost? Why Torrent? Is it unethical to use it?

Torrent, almost everyone using the internet might have heard of it. Almost 1% of the internet users are advanced Torrent Users, 20% of people using the internet are active users and another 20% know about it or have used it occasionally. More than 50% of the internet users do not know about it or have never used it. So what is Torrent? Is it as bad as some copyright protectors say? Or is it as good as thousands of pro-piracy advocates claim? Or is it just controversial? Lets find the answer. This is not a web page, but a blog and therefore comments and discussions are most welcome. It will benefit us all.

Torrent is actually a peer-to-peer(P2P) sharing tool to share huge amounts of data among peers through the internet. The unique features of Torrent are:-
1. It is free.
2. It is for the people and by the people.
3. It requires a good internet connection.
4. It is really easy to use.

Now lets go back to our initial question, why is Torrent controversial? My answer is that because it screws up the profits of big software giants, movie and music production houses, game production companies and virtually any digital product in the world. Torrent is a tool which helps people to share movies, music, software, games, photos etc. through the internet. The idea of building Torrent was not to promote piracy but to help people to share data with their online peers across geographical barriers. Over time Torrent has evolved as a tool wherein people have started sharing pirated digital products with the entire world.

If Torrent had been illegal, The Pirate Bay which is one of the largest Torrent Websites would not have survived the Legal Proceedings against it. After some production houses of Hollywood filed a copyright infringement case against The Pirate Bay, the servers and all equipments of the owners of Pirate Bay were confiscated following a subsequent raid on their premises. But it was only a matter of 3 days and Pirate Bay was back on Track again. This sparked huge pro-piracy protests against the government and the Hollywood and finally Pirate Bay got a huge fan following. Their logo at that time depicted a pirate ship firing canons at the HOLLYWOOD.

So we know that Torrent is not illegal, but what about the morality and ethics. What about the huge losses which people suffer due to Torrent. Yes I agree that it is immoral and unethical to share pirated versions of software through Torrent and we should refrain from it as far as possible. Only opensource software should be shared through Torrent. Only software, games, movies and music whose shelf life is over should be shared over Torrent.
Unfortunately some people use Torrent to share the latest movies, music and cracked versions of software and games. Movies and Music get shared almost on the day of release on Torrent. Software and games get shared as soon as some hacker finds the crack to it. But this is not good and people with good ethics should not download these. Even if you download a new movie from Torrent and like it, do consider paying a visit to a theatre so that the Theatre owner and the movie producer also gets his due.

The best way to use Torrent is to share your wedding video with the world, share your new music video shot in your college with all your online peers across the world or to share the new piece of Java Application you have developed with your Techie Friends.

Stay Tuned, I will soon write a post on how to Use Torrent and also about my best Torrent Sites and Clients so that you can get going - Coming up within a week.