Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity - Seneca
Friday, December 28, 2007
A Thought for Today : December 27, 2007
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind - Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Facts & Figures-13 :
India has the largest number of illiterates: 350 million. 250 million Indians lack safe drinking water.
Excerpted from “Resurgent India is the responsibility of this generation: Narayana Murthy” by Sarah Hiddleston, ‘Education Plus’, The Hindu, Dec.24, 2007. (Based on speech delivered by Mr.Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor and Chairman, Infosys Technologies, to management students from across the country gathered in Chennai for L'attitude, an annual management festival organized by Great Lakes Institute of Management)
A Thought for Today-185: December 26, 2007
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves - Thornton Wilder
A Thought for Today-184: December 25, 2007
Life has a meaning, our birth has a meaning: that meaning is to realize in ourselves, in each one of us, something of God, to express in our daily life something that is associated with God, knowledge, kindness, benevolence, purity and happiness. - M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Monday, December 24, 2007
A Thought for Today-183: December 24, 2007
Unstable emotions not only disturb our own state of mind, they also disturb the minds of others - His Holiness The Dalai Lama
A Thought for Today-182: December 23, 2007
The more we are able to develop an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the better the atmosphere we will create around us. - His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Q&A-2: How are we to live in a world full of violence, greed, envy and brutality? Will we not be destroyed?
“By eliminating these negative elements from our personal life, we can create a solid, living fortress, around ourselves. Impurities shy away from Purity. Even if an individual is destroyed by a combination of evil forces, in the very act of dying he releases energies that will eventually overcome the power of evil for the benefit of mankind.
- M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Courtesy: “M.P.Pandit: A Peep into his past” by P.Raja
Published by DIPTI Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry-605002
- M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Courtesy: “M.P.Pandit: A Peep into his past” by P.Raja
Published by DIPTI Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry-605002
Q&A-1: How can we get rid of the present world-wide violence?
“By creating centres of peace, pockets of peace, wherever we can. First we start with ourselves and then associate with others who are on the same wave-length. This is a sure way of combating the forces of violence on the subtle levels.”
- M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Courtesy: “M.P.Pandit: A Peep into his past” by P.Raja
Published by DIPTI Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry-605002
- M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Courtesy: “M.P.Pandit: A Peep into his past” by P.Raja
Published by DIPTI Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry-605002
Self-improvement-43: 'Right Beginnings' - James Allen
Ø Life is full of beginnings. They are presented every day and every hour to every person. Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life.
Ø When a man begins the day by rising early, he will find that the silent early hour is conducive to clearness of mind and calmness of thought. It will enable him to meet any and every difficulty with wisdom and calm strength.
Ø Begin today aright, and, aided by the accumulated experiences of all your past days, live it better than any of your previous days. The character of the whole day depends upon the way it is begun.
Ø Another beginning which is of great importance is the beginning of any particular and responsible undertaking. The right beginning and first essential is a definite method plan on which to build.
Ø Your whole life is a series of effects having their cause in thought – in your own thought. All conduct is made and moulded by thought, all deeds, good or bad, are thoughts made visible.
Ø The man who patiently studies how to put into his mind the seeds of wholesome and charitable thoughts, will obtain the best results in life. The greatest blessedness comes to him, who infuses into his mind the purest and noblest thoughts.
Courtesy: James Allen’s “Byways of Blessedness”
With grateful thanks to: Professor S.Raghunathan, Former Director, Computer Centre, Alagappa University, Karaikudi-630003, Tamilnadu, India
Ø When a man begins the day by rising early, he will find that the silent early hour is conducive to clearness of mind and calmness of thought. It will enable him to meet any and every difficulty with wisdom and calm strength.
Ø Begin today aright, and, aided by the accumulated experiences of all your past days, live it better than any of your previous days. The character of the whole day depends upon the way it is begun.
Ø Another beginning which is of great importance is the beginning of any particular and responsible undertaking. The right beginning and first essential is a definite method plan on which to build.
Ø Your whole life is a series of effects having their cause in thought – in your own thought. All conduct is made and moulded by thought, all deeds, good or bad, are thoughts made visible.
Ø The man who patiently studies how to put into his mind the seeds of wholesome and charitable thoughts, will obtain the best results in life. The greatest blessedness comes to him, who infuses into his mind the purest and noblest thoughts.
Courtesy: James Allen’s “Byways of Blessedness”
With grateful thanks to: Professor S.Raghunathan, Former Director, Computer Centre, Alagappa University, Karaikudi-630003, Tamilnadu, India
A Thought for Today-181: December 22, 2007
Life is not meant to be somehow lived. It is to be geared to one central purpose if one is to achieve anything at all. - M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Friday, December 21, 2007
A Thought for Today-180: December 21, 2007
Evolution is always experimental. All progress is gained through mistakes and their rectification. No good comes fully fashioned, out of God's hand, but has to be carved out through repeated experiments and repeated failures by ourselves. This is the law of individual growth. - Gandhiji
Thursday, December 20, 2007
A Thought for Today-179: December 20, 2007
To be conscious is the first step towards overcoming - Sri Aurobindo
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Thought for Today=178: December 19, 2007
Happiness means that our life is rhythmic and harmonious - Swami Paramananda
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
A Thought for Today-177: December 18, 2007
Happiness lives clothed in the garb of work - Swami Rama Tirtha
Monday, December 17, 2007
Eyecatchers-48: Super chip moves IT optically - ELECTRICAL SIGNALS CAN BE TURNED INTO LIGHT BEAM
Like a highway sign that says 'No Entry,' semiconductor designers may soon face the end of the road on the electric pathways used to move signals inside a computer chip. As they slide into the multi core era - where one slab of silicon might well house 2, 4 and soon 8, separate processing cores - they are grappling with a pressing problem: 'How to build the copper rails that carry the signals between the cores thin enough to squeeze more and more transistors on a computer chip. Even Intel co-founder Dr.Gordon Moore, whose "Law" predicted the doubling of chip complexity every two years, does not give current technology more than a decade, before it faces a physical roadblock.
Which is why last week's announcement by IBM, of a breakthrough in swapping copper rails for an optical waveguide is causing some excitement in the semiconductor industry.
A waveguide is the optical equivalent of a pair of railway lines - it forces an optical beam to stay within the guide. IBM engineers reported in the journal Optical Express that they had succeeded in converting the electrical signals of today's microchips into beams of light. Since these can be much, much, finer than the thinnest copper rail, they believe this will allow chip makers to put, not just dozens, but hundreds, of separate cores on a single processor, all simultaneously attacking the task at hand. Even the waveguide carrying all these beams would be 200 times thinner than a strand of human hair.
In other words, the first hurdle to creating a supercomputer in a box, maybe even on a single chip, seems to have been crossed. But please don't rush to order one any time soon.
The researchers say practical systems that deploy optical waveguides within silicon chips, are at least a decade away - Special Correspondent, Bangalore, The Hindu
Courtesy: The Hindu, Madurai, December 17, 2007.
Which is why last week's announcement by IBM, of a breakthrough in swapping copper rails for an optical waveguide is causing some excitement in the semiconductor industry.
A waveguide is the optical equivalent of a pair of railway lines - it forces an optical beam to stay within the guide. IBM engineers reported in the journal Optical Express that they had succeeded in converting the electrical signals of today's microchips into beams of light. Since these can be much, much, finer than the thinnest copper rail, they believe this will allow chip makers to put, not just dozens, but hundreds, of separate cores on a single processor, all simultaneously attacking the task at hand. Even the waveguide carrying all these beams would be 200 times thinner than a strand of human hair.
In other words, the first hurdle to creating a supercomputer in a box, maybe even on a single chip, seems to have been crossed. But please don't rush to order one any time soon.
The researchers say practical systems that deploy optical waveguides within silicon chips, are at least a decade away - Special Correspondent, Bangalore, The Hindu
Courtesy: The Hindu, Madurai, December 17, 2007.
Grateful thanks to The Hindu.
A Thought for Today-176: December 17, 2007
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, but to love wisdom and live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust - Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, December 15, 2007
A Thought for Today-174: December 15, 2007
The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy - Angelina Jolie
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