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not just this... Business Today ran a cover story a few months ago abt the apathy of call centre employess... and the numbers speak as to how one in every 4 considers himself/herself socially out of the circuit... how 1 in every 10 has thought of suicide atleast once... how they develop feelings of lonliness and turn recluse... it goes on and on... i mean i have been guilty of being harsh and irritated to those calls i got in the past but having read that article i changed... the article ended with a thought "... the next time you shout and bang down the phone on a call (sales/promotional) think of it as a youngster from a distant town trying to make his way up in a career" its aint all that easy and cushy in their shoes... few would disagree

The Sunday Times April 6, 2008 Coming soon: superfast internet Jonathan Leake, Science Editor THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call. David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow University and a leading figure in the grid project, believes grid technologies could “revolutionise” society. “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,” he said. The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates. Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid computing project seven years ago when researchers realised the LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs - enough to make a stack 40 miles high. This meant that scientists at Cern - where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 - would no longer be able to use his creation for fear of causing a global collapse. This is because the internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission. By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years. Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern. The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.” That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world. One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire. From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks. It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn. Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet. “It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said. Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world. The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information. The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass. The LHC has been designed to hunt out this particle - but even at optimum performance it will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge capacity busy for years to come. Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so. Additionally, the grid is being made available to dozens of other academic researchers including astronomers and molecular biologists. It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years. “Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said. “Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate. “The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”

by getting a phone meant to be used in US on their network, to India to use it here is a loss of warranty in the first place...

i dont think call conferencing is restricted to post paid anymore... pre paid users need to search the forum for threads on enabling this feature along with call waiting... my wife uses both CW and Conferencing on her prepaid for those still unwilling to believe... wonder why Sadik would just want post paid users though...

now now... thats some inside news... that could sure be inspiration... no i am joking... they can get away with it while most of us here cant...

Your resume is the one point lead to what your interviewer could ever ask you... think back and you'd realise it too... you are questioned on what your resume claims for you to be, to know and your aspirations... realisation of this simple fact help me get thru some really tricky interviews thru my college and post grad years...

hey... i kinda like this one better...

its because the spectrum to run 3G services has yet not been released... airtel and others have already tested 3G offerings and applications and are now just waiting for the auction to be able to roll out 3G... untill then its only BSNL which also BTW is purely in experimental stage mind you...

Saurav... u might not get win mob 6.1 on s720 out of the box but if u ran a rom update and flashed your phone with roms available on ppcgeeks.com you would surely have a winner... our man Hetal has released roms with the win mob 6.1 core there too... so u shouldnt have a problem...

second last one is a gem

yeah... it seems they followed mtnl slashing rates and i realised this on seeing service records for the month of april... till march it shows 900ul plus and post 2nd april it shows 750ul plus... so thats a cut of 150 rupees on my BB bill every month little disappointed though... i had been hoping they would keep charging me 900 and escalate the speed to 512kbps... but they have instead introduced 1350 UL with 512kbps speeds... check attached file for details... others with dataone 900UL, please confirm unlimited_home_750___1350.pdf

Sudheendra Kulkarni Posted online: Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 2310 hrs Indian Express One of the most pleasing sights in the bazaars of Indian cities and towns is that of Tibetans selling their wares, usually woolens or other creations of their honest and hard-working hands. Tibetans live quiet lives, proudly preserving their community identity, zealously adhering to their customs, and remaining deeply devoted to their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. They scrupulously respect the local social milieu in which they live — be it Manali in Himachal Pradesh or Mundagod in north Karnataka, where they have established a wonderful township — and are in turn respected by the locals. It is rare to find a Tibetan involved in any criminal activity. Every time I see a Tibetan on the street, I feel proud of my country that it has continued its tradition, since time immemorial, of providing shelter to any immigrant community that suffered religious persecution in its own land. India does not treat such refugees as aliens, nor does it force them to give up their culture and customs. In this sense, India is unique in the world, and this uniqueness must be safeguarded and cherished. Indeed, in the case of Tibetans, it is a matter of honour for us that His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the greatest living exponent of the Buddha’s ideals of universal peace brotherhood and compassion, has made India his home. It is, therefore, shocking that the China’s communist rulers have targeted such a proud and peace-loving community for a violent crackdown in Lhasa, and, furthermore, resorted to the most offensive language to malign the Dalai Lama. They have called His Holiness a “serial liar” and accused him of “pretending to be a peaceful, angel-type of figure” while instigating violent protests in Lhasa. One cannot expect them or China’s government-controlled media to admit that Tibetans may have a genuine reason to protest. The reason, however, is loud and clear: systematic marginalisation of Tibetans in their own homeland, denial of religious freedom, consistent and persistent human rights violations and, worst of all, what the Dalai Lama has called the “cultural genocide” of his people. The issue here is not whether Tibet is a part of China or not. India has acknowledged, and this was explicitly stated by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during his visit to China in 2003, that “the Tibet Autonomous Region is an integral part of the People’s Republic of China”. Therefore, if any Indian condemns the Chinese communists’ brutality in Tibet, it is not to be interpreted as questioning our government’s “One China” policy. The real issue is: whether or not India’s civil society, political parties and government have a duty to express concern over China’s repressive measures in Tibet and to show our solidarity with our Tibetan brethren in their hour of suffering. There are two parties in India — Congress and the CPM — which, instead of expressing concern, have chosen the path of cowardice. Congress leaders have been discouraged from meeting the Dalai Lama. To the best of my knowledge, Sonia Gandhi has never called on His Holiness. (I do know that she never bothered to even reply to any of the letters written by Taslima Nasreen.) As far as the leaders of the CPM are concerned, they have covered themselves with ignominy with their silence over — nay, justification of — the Chinese government’s repressive measures in Tibet. Here is their ludicrous poser: “How can we condemn the incidents in Tibet? How would India react if any other nation were to raise the issue of what is happening in Kashmir?” Only those who consider India’s stand on Kashmir to be inherently insupportable, and are also blind to the Pakistan-aided and jihad-inspired campaign of cross-border terrorism in India, can see a parallel between the situations in Kashmir and Tibet. It goes without saying that India must seek friendly and cooperative ties with China. However, we must beware of those who believe that friendly ties with our northern neighbour are possible only by keeping quiet over all its acts of bullying — be it the question of its repression in Tibet or its frequent upping of ante in Arunachal Pradesh. China has every reason to feel proud of showcasing its greatness during the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. But it too must know that its greatness is sullied by its unacceptable behavior in Tibet. India should work with the rest of the world community in urging the Chinese authorities to open meaningful talks with the Dalai Lama. The latter, on his part, has repeatedly stated that he is not seeking Tibet’s secession from China. Now it is China’s responsibility to ensure, by working constructively with His Holiness, that Tibetans can live with honour, dignity and genuine autonomy in their ancestral homeland. ______________ My intention to post this is to raise no more than compassion for humanity... Dheeraj

stand corrected then atleast for assuming he was talking abt mobile browsing opera stands way ahead for sure... but firefox for pc... both on win and linux

yes indeed Arun... this needs a serious thought for sure... certain threads are past what i would say 'open to the public eyes'

still experimental and to be honest, a long long way off... atleast for end users like us... here we cry abt BB with puny speeds like 256kbps...

your right on that note buddy... but then do u have all these options available...

valid point tanveer... moreover this could be a suggestion to Arun and Ashok to maybe make certain threads private... you guys would know what i am talking about... what do the others say?

u might wanna look at this thread Anwar... besides i would suggest u look thru the forum to post at the right place...

I'm on Sadik

opera has been optimized for mobile browsing... ever since the release of windows mobile pocket IE has remain unchanged whereas the net we surf has undergone a sea change... opera has been evolved constantly and is the reason its preferred over PIE as do u suggest too...

These instruments being sold AFAIK, are new and with original esn which are good... but not good to go as they belong to other networks hence wont work on reliance or tata unless tweaked... or are with ruim where the above gets annulled...

i had a big problem last time arnd almost two months back when i had to courier a mobile... decided to send a fellow by train nd hand deliver in the end... none of the tricks suggested here worked !

and here everyone thinks Reliance only ****s

although there are limited ways a ppc/mobile could get a virus provided one is cautious... i would also suggest you stay off it at the cost of valuable and scarce processor power

quite unexpected of BSNL... but a positive step forward... i use its gsm services here in lucknow and their network is unrivaled...