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When I was studying for brief period I was attracted to a project run by Prince Charles or may be he was one of the member named "HUNGER PROJECT" there I came across statistics of impact of meat production over agriculture.

Good thread but I am vegetarian (from 1984 to 1990, I had been non vegetarian -when I was doing lots of exercise - but could not prove myself that meat and eggs are good for body building and strength, so quit and became vegetarian again). My body feels more comfortable being vegetarian. I dont know about others. I believe vegetarianism is more eco friendly too - this is yet another reason for me converting to strict vegetarianism.

Not couple of month, may be more than that for being torch bearer of yet another probable revolution. I suspect their (TATA) intentions as they are offerings are in prepaid segments only. And I believe pre paid segment because its bigger it has greater impact in short term. But serious offers are those offered in post paid segments -as it forces service providers to commit.

I think we should have very simplistic view of cross border situation nor very critical. Westerners are known to create tensions between any countries where their interests are involved. Iran - Iraq war, attack on terrorism and subsequent attack on afghanistan and iraq. Creation of Israel and even first and second world wars. Which were not initiated by Germany, yet Germany was blamed for both. We will never be out of problem till we stop thinking with western brains China can never be friend of India because it has very big ambitions, i.e. to be in league of US and Russia. India has very confused ambition where they look at US for economic model and Russia for social model. We have very little indegenious thinking for our own solutions. Terrorism is out come of poor Indian politics then cross border issue. It was year 1948 and subsequent years where Mr. Nehru made mistakes and terrorism was born. Even after India never took concrete steps to curb terrorism, even after so many years of independence we are yet to have agreement on type of laws we should have for anti social activities like terrorism, adulteration in food etc. In my view point terrorism is no worst than one who sells adultrated food or chemical factories polluting underground water - all done with full knowledge. This demoralizes our otherwise capable armed forces. Even if you look at iisrael, they initially depended on westerners to get arm and technology support, now they are least dependennt of westerners. We have not created any thing off our own. We Indians has typical mentality of "I AM POOR". I laugh when I read articles in news paper stating that India wasted Rs. 400 crore on partially failed moon mission or when they mention about few tens of crore missile fails. Unless we come out of this mentality, we can never develop any thing of our own, as new ideas cost lots of money. Even old ideas cost lots of money - initially - when we do not have any manufacturing abilities.. There are articles on India, US and China that by year so and so,, US will be devided in 25 parts, India in X number of parts and blah blah. They just add fuel to our insecurities and give politicians a chance to spend huge money on arms deal and there by corruption. Before few years, I visited one DRDO fair and exhibiton, where they called Indian Industry to paticipate in Indignation of various parts and stores needed by defense, I was surprised when I saw articles like wiper, nuts, bolts, rubber bellow to be indigenised. It shows what they did for so many years. I don't see fault of DRDO officials or scientist in this, I see fault of our politicians who never allowed them to put efforts to do what is needed. Our priorities should be like this: 1. To give best of the salaries to Defense personnel. 2. Defense deals should not pass through all red tapes its passing right now and even defense accounts should be audited - so corruption decreases and yield increases. 3. Should have uniform law and special judiciary for Anti Social activities like terrorism, adulteration, willful spoilage of natural resources. 4. Uniform foreign policy, which do not change with governments. (In US no president can change foreign policies, they can just make statements about changing policies..)

One more Idea I have is to buy TATA Photon Plus RUIM (If its available on RUIM) then slip in to PPC 6700 r RUIM modded 6800 and see that happens. EVDO uses multiple methdos of authentication so its difficult. however with new chip sets it has became easier. Only difficult thing till now is to get SPC of reliance data card. I have tried both ZTE and HUAWEI, I could not read SPC of either of data card. Latest information I have is reliance EVDO PRL supports voice channels.

When tata cdma was introduced they too came up with per second pulse and later changed to minute. Prepaid offers has no value, what matters in post paid, where operators has to commit themselves. Also according to me lifetime validity is an eye wash. They do not offer life time validity of a tariff.

Same answer as doctor said. But would like to add that its very user friendly size, KB is little small but can live with it. Gestures are really really good. SO is screen resolution... I really liked this handset.

Address and interaction with the Engineers and Staff of Tata Motors, Pune 29 July 2008 Automobile vision 2020: Internationally competitive Indian automobile system “There are many Everests in the life of man. It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves”. Dear Friends, When I am with the TATA institution, I realize that you are born out of a vision. A great vision by a great soul in the early 20th century. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata laid the foundation for three important areas. The first was the sowing of seeds for TATA Iron and Steel Plant, second to create hydro-electric power station, third was establishment of an educational and research institute popularly known as TATA institute now Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, envisioned all these institutions in early 20th century (May 1904); the IISc-Bangalore opened its doors in 1911; The first ingot of steel rolled out from Tata Iron and Steel Plant in 1912; The hydro-electric power was switched on in Mumbai in 1915. Today, we see all these three institutions flourishing and what a contribution they have made to the national scene IISc has become a world class branded institution. Tata Steel has crossed the nine million tons per year steel output. The Tata Hydro Electric Station has given birth to many power plants in the country.. Tata’s vision has brought a revolution in steel industry, power generation and education. I admire this great visionary, a visionary revolutionist who evolved a new method of working towards India’s freedom through development of industry, power and scientific research. The light he lit in our country has lit many lamps and is still lighting. Let me congratulate everyone in the Tata institutions. During my visit to Europe and US cities, while traveling in their high ways, with cars of multiple nations whizzing past at 100-110 kms, dear friends, a dream always comes to me. I want to see the Indian designed car, Indian manufactured car flying in multiple numbers in multiple nations. When will it happen? How to make it possible? Certainly, Tata has a great opportunity because of your visionary approach, core competence and innovative spirit. When I am with you all, I would like to discuss the dynamics of automobile enterprises and particularly Automobile vision 2020: internationally competitive Indian automobile system TATA’s contribution to Automobile sector . Tata Motors has made history in the past many times. Well known commercial truck making company has shown the world that it can make customer friendly passenger cars . In recent years, the indigenously designed Tata Indica has brought a brand image to India in the Automobile sector. Launch of Indica in 1998and launch of ACE in 2005 have been important milestones in the country’s prowess in automobile sector. Launch of innovative Nano in 2008 is an another important milestone in the world of Indian automotive industry. I would like to greet the TATA team for this singular contribution. Integrated Capacities My view is: the growth of automotive industry is powered by competitiveness. Competitiveness is powered by intensive knowledge in multiple fields. Intensive knowledge is powered by technology and innovation. I would like to suggest the TATA Team, to launch a world- wide marketing campaign for NANO and also plan to start multiple manufacturing centers in India and abroad, so that TATA can graduate from the present production of 2,18,000 (all types of passenger vehicles) to 1 Million NANO cars alone in a suitable product mix by the year 2015. In a globally competitive environment, you have to continuously trigger innovations which will capture the global market. You have to meet the multiple users needs in different countries with widely varying climatic conditions, achieving high gradient climbing capability, passenger comfort, safety needs, ease of maintenance and affordability. I would suggest TATA Motors to use their system design capacity, system integration capacity, system management capacity, manufacturing capacity and above all innovative marketing methodology in an integrated manner to produce a globally competitive passenger vehicle system. You need to evolve this combination in an integrated way, so that million car production can be made possible. For that, what you need to do, is, thinking differently and acting differently with innovative leadership. Suitable infrastructure for future automobiles Whenever I meet young people they ask me thought provoking questions, that is: with Nano car coming on the road and becoming affordable for large number of people,. in that situation what will happen to the road traffic congestion? What will be the pollution level increase? What will be its effect on parking problem? When I hear these types of questions, I thought of sharing with you one experience: When I visited Dubai – UAE in 2003, I met the Ruler of Dubai. He said that Dubai is planning to increase the tourist arrival by five times. Once this decision was taken, I found, that the aviation minister was planning for a new airport and also addition of new types of aircraft needed for attracting the tourists. The surface transport minister was planning a number of additional road lanes required in the highways. The works ministry was planning for increase in the hotel accommodation for accommodating the tourists without disappointment. The health ministry had a road map for waste management and a plan for providing the additional clean water needed. This was the type of integrated response that I found in the whole government - a plan of action to fulfill the national objective from a single ministry’s vision. . We have to take the message coming out of this experience and plan for the multiple requirements simultaneously for promoting uninterrupted large volume car production and deployment. Your interdiciplinary team may have to study comprehensively various aspects like the loading on the already crowded high ways and city roads, parking facilities, complimentarity with public transport system and financing in affordable way and give valuable inputs to various specialist agencies. Recyclable automobile systems Dear friends, I would like to share with you a new development in the automotive industry reported in the book titled ‘Pulse’ by Robert Frenay, published in 2006.. Carmakers have a history of reclamation and reuse, which they’re now expanding. A new sports car from BMW features a recyclable thermoplastic body that can be disconnected from its frame in twenty minutes. Audi has joined with Volkswagen and Preussag, the steel company, to set up a chain of auto-disassembly plants. With funding primarily from Ford, as well as from Xerox and GE Plastics, Carnegie Mellon University has developed ReStar – a software that analyzes disassembly tasks, McDonough and Braungart are working with Ford on another development, which has a goal to design a production model in which every material can eventually be reused. This technique apart from reducing the ‘embodied energy’ as in the case of construction industry will reduce the cost of the vehicle substantially and simultaneously reduce the pollution created by raw material manufacturing industry. I am sure this development will be of considerable interest to automotive researchers, designers and industry leaders. Indian Automotive Industry During the last two decades, Indian Automobile Industry has taken long strides. After 1983, the standard of automotive technology has got redefined and Indian consumers are able to get what their western counterparts are getting. I am also happy to note that many of Indian auto companies have started exporting their components to their original equipment manufacturers in the developed world. In this respect, globalization has done a lot of good in the Indian automobile industry. With the competitiveness arising out of globalization, our thinking has been refined resulting in enhancing our ability to face global competition through our core strength. In India the vehicle production is increasing at about 17%. While this is a welcome situation from the point of view of personnel and goods mobility, it has two major issues which have to be addressed: “environmental pollution and safety”. This has to be done innovatively while designing all our future cars. Innovation is the capital I was studying the Global Competitiveness Report for the year 2007-08. There I find in terms of Growth Competitive Index ranking US is ranked 1, Switzerland is ranked 2, Finland is ranked 6, Singapore is ranked 7, China 34 and UAE 37 and India is 48. Growth competitiveness is determined by the innovative ability of an organization. This innovation arises from institutional initiative and the R & D productivity of the firm, shaped by policies and nature of local institutions. National innovative capacity has to be the country’s important potential for producing competitive products. I would like to suggest to the TATA team assembled here, to concentrate on the following design criteria for competing in the national and international market: 1. Work towards highest fuel efficiency for a given class of engine and car sizing. 2. Work towards fossil fuel free automobile of the future: (a) solar power + fuel cell ( electric © ethanol or bio-diesel (d) hydrogen 3. Continuously aim to decrease the overall weight of the automobile systems enabling higher payload capability through state of the art structural design. 4. Designing the power plant to accept 100% bio-fuel, ethanol and emulsified fuel. 5. Design to cost and quality 6. Design of safety systems for providing high-level passenger Safety. 7. Constantly increasing the electronics, communication and control in the automobile systems for realizing high reliability, self-healing and fail-safe system. 8. Robotic Car I realize that all the eight criteria are interconnected. Here I would like to emphasize that winner in the automobile industry will be the one who puts the automobile to run with 100% bio-fuel first in the market. It can be seen in Brazil the gas stations have provisions for various mixes of biofuel and ethanol including 100% biofuels. Automobile plying in Brazil roads have to get the design certification for using maximum biofuel and bio-diesel. Without that, they will not be permitted in run on Brazil roads. We should take note of the successful implementation of such programme in different parts of the world. Automobile Research areas Now, let me discuss some of the research areas where automobile scientists and engineers have to concentrate. a. Improvement in Combustion Efficiency: For getting better control and precision over combustion and emission, we have to work on direct injection of gasoline for better exhaust characteristics. Gasoline direct injection permits combustion of ultra-clean fuel air mixtures under diverse operating conditions and hence can deliver higher performance with lower fuel consumption and lower emission. b. Improvement in Diesel Engines: One of the important aspect of diesel engines is, the NOx and particulate matter in the emission which has to be overcome by use of advanced combustion technologies which will reduce both. Indian Automotive Engineers have to work on this area and offer the system for use in all types of diesel vehicles. c. Alternate Fuels: While it is important, to continuously improve the efficiency of internal combustion engines, scientists have to concentrate on development of alternate fuels and renewable energy sources. The future generation cars and trucks have to use bio-diesel, ethanol and hydrogen. Bio-fuels are renewable and can be produced in short notice as against fossil fuels which have been produced over millions of years. d. Emulsified Fuels: Emulsified fuels are found to give much better emission reduction towards reduced particulate and Oxides of Nitrogen emission reduction along with fuel saving that it is now implemented in most of the developed countries. In India, we are now successfully burning in a boiler in an industry emulsified diesel fuel with 25% water straight away saving 25% of the diesel fuel.. The emulsified fuel costs 20% cheaper than the diesel fuel. If one such small boiler using emulsified fuel can save 40 litres of diesel in a day and equivalent amount of cash spent on the fuel, please think about the huge fuel savings and the cost benefits for over thousands of boilers and several external fired equipments running with oil in India. The savings for the country in oil import bill will be over 20% the present level. While combusting emulsified fuels for industrial firing needs no modifications it needs encouragement and educating the users. For automobile applications, TATA Need to work with Hydro drive emulsification technology and IIT Madras to experiment and introduce the emulsified fuels in the Diesel cars and diesel vehicles. Emulsified fuels will cut emissions and will bring down the operating costs including captive power generation costs. This singular research area alone has the potential to make TATA Motors to produce and market the most competitive commercial and passenger vehicle within the next two years. e. Hydrogen powered fuel cells: Hydrogen powered vehicles are almost zero emission vehicles. We have to progressively move into fuel cell vehicles within a few decades. f. Alternative Power Plants: Substantial research is required in battery technology to provide a reliable, low-weight, high density and cost effective battery to the large Indian rural population. Simultaneously, there is a need to work on hybrid electric vehicle for containing the growing environmental emission in big cities. Challenge for researchers will be in the development of drives, control electronics, transmission and low weight high capacity batteries. g. CNT Based Solar PV Cells: Our scientists have to take up this challenge and come up with the development of a CNT based PV cell with an efficiency of at least 50% within the next three years so that it can go into the commercial production within five years. In addition, they can also take up the development of organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells and third generation solar cells. The automobile specialists should work with these energy experts to get the solar cells with 50% efficiency which can be effectively used in solar power driven vehicles. Conclusion Dear friends, I have seen three dreams which have taken shape as vision, mission and realization. Space programme of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) , AGNI programme of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization) and PURA (Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) becoming the National Mission. Of course, these three programmes succeeded in the midst of many challenges and problems. I have worked in all these three areas. I want to convey to you what I have learnt on leadership from these three programmes. 1. Leader must have a vision. 2. Leader must have a passion to transform the vision into action. 3. Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path. 4. Leader must know how to manage a success and failure. 5. Leader must have courage to take decisions. 6. Leader should have Nobility in management. 7. Every action of the leader should be transparent. 8. Leader must work with integrity and succeed with integrity. In order to achieve what I have discussed so far and to realize the goals in a specified time frame and to build TATA Motors brand, what we need is creative leadership. Creative leadership means exercising the vision to change the traditional role from the commander to the coach, manager to mentor, from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitates self-respect. For a non-linear growth in the Automobile Sector and transforming India into a world leader in the production and marketing of energy efficient, highly mobile, pollution free, safe and cost effective automotive system before the year 2020, the industry needs large number of creative leaders. I am sure, TATA Motors has such leaders who will transform TATA Motors into a one million passenger car per annum producer with 50% going to export market. For that leaders of this organisation should have courage. COURAGE Courage to think different, Courage to invent, Courage to travel into an unexplored path, Courage to discover the impossible, Courage to combat the problems and succeed, Are the unique qualities of the youth. As a youth of my nation, I will work and work with courage to achieve success in all the missions. May God bless you. __._,_.___

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Great thats the only word.

Till now I have been AMD processor fans. But since last couple of years, AMD processors are performing poorer on power consumption front. So since I have to change my AMD Athlon 64 bit - 1.8 Ghz (about 4.5 years - I love it but battery life is now just 30 mins and dont get battery or 12 cells for cheap. 6 cell battery last hardly 70 mins) old laptop. I am confused between processor performance and battery performance. My usage mainly is for E mail, browsing, Autocad 2008 for 2D (Drafting for new product etc, I dont know 3D or dont do 3D or rendering) and just checking dox and accounts (Tally ERP, max 1 hour per week) in my office. I want to know which is better processor to buy: Intel Atom (I dont like much, but has good battery life) Intel Core 2 Solo, just 5.5W (USed in acer time line http://www.acer.co.i...wrAjaxHistory=1 8 hours battery life) Has 3 MB L2 cache, so I think it may offset lower processor speed and single core for routine work. Intel T6400 (This is fastest of all with Core2 Duo but battery life is limited to 3 hours.) My basic requirement is Minimum 14" screen size 2 GB RAM, Miinimum 250 GB HDD Wifi and BT Memory card reader and all other standard specs. LED backlit display for better battery life Good battery life Please suggest

The above is a con.. up to 3 hrs is very very less nowadays. But its ok if its ok with you. Yes 3 hours is less but longer battery laptops has mainly Core2Solo processors running at max 1.4 Ghz. I am saying this because I have studied specs of acer timeline and Sony Vio (Forgot model number) also as screen size increases battery life decreases. Its said by people that as 1" screen size increases battery life decreases by 45 minutes. Meas for 14" it should be more than 4 hours and may be 4.5 to 5 hours for 13 or 12 " models. I will suggest all to buy Laptops with DDR3 RAM now as DDR 2 os almost on verge of obsoletion. Means upgrades will become expensive in next year or so. DDR3 ram will be expensive now but will be much cheaper in next 1 year. That time laptop can be upgraded to may be with 4 GB module for longer usability of laptop.

if you are looking for laptop and can live with little delicate models, my recent purchase on Aspire 5738Z is with DDR 3 RAM.

I today bought one tata sim and incidentally its under this scheme. Tariff are as under: Validity of SIM: 10 years Validity of tarrif: 10 years (As told by CC don't blame me if they change tariff ) Daily rental : Rs. 1 Call charges: Rs. 1 / 10 mins local, Rs. 3 / 10 min STD No STV to change tariff, thru out tenure of SIM.

Most calls are less than 1 minute as per survey. Only youngsters / collage goers talks for so long and as it is they are not high ARPU customers. I dont think any business users will be impressed by such tariff. They are good tariff for chit chatters ofcourse.

True, biggest problem of reliance is customer care. My experience with airtel has been really wonderful and amazing. Just yesterday, while looking for my bill data I came across their offer that they have Rs. 78 add on for SMS on post paid, where one get 375 national + Local SMS. I called CC on 121, they refused that they have any such add on available. I send email to their CC asking for clarification for wrong information on web site. Within total 3 hours, I got 3 calls, they discussed my requirement, from where I got information (then I sent PDF print out of their web page - marking offer made by them on web site) in total 3 hours with 3 calls for discussion, one call to inform that they have activated SMS pack and one call today morning for apology for the inconvinience. On other hand, I sent mail to reliance CC for presentation of bill to ECS with wrong due date. Its been 5 days - I am yet to get even acknowledgment with complaint reference. In airtel as soon as you send mail, within hour or so, you get acknowledgment mail along with reference number, one also get SMS of same number. They also mention that within what time CC will address grevience. Usually its 24 or 48 hours (Once they said 72 hours - for their mchek issue - which too was resolved in less than 36 hours). At times makinng complaint to airtel means making own life miserable. They are behind you like dogs till complaint it resolved. Reliance need to learn from airtel for CC atleast. Better they do not learn for network quality.

I think Rimweb should have zero tolerence policy for 3G discussion. It should be banned.

^ No I did not noticed, I know so just mentioned. Device he mentioned is just useless.

I dont think they are OMH as according to standards OMH should be able to program itself from RUIM only (just like GSM handsets) or OMH should have programming on device and detect activate suitable data + MMS or operator specific settings upon insertion of RUIM.

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Unless qualcomm give up it control from standards CDMA is bound to grow slow. Also EU do not want CDMA to grow so they will never adopt CDMA. Though this is good initiative by CDG, its very very half hearted in modern context. IF CDMA wants to compete GSM they have to be as open as GSM if not more.

I think nokia is creating space for them selves as they might be suspicious about future preferences. Since the inception of Android, how ever slow development may be - google might may change people's preference in favour of ANDROID and LINUX. Symbian as an OS has reached to PALM OS stage. where OS is very stable, fast and user friendly. But its not modern and any development on same old core is peripheral development , means it has to pay cost in terms of usability, UI, user experience and new emerging requirements. Symbian being very old platform number of application available are far more than any other OS including windows.

in India 3G even if comes, I doubt service providers will be able to offer it cheap due to licence fees and data requirement of people. If you look at broad band services, its evident that most people prefer slower speed but unlimited downloads. People just dont need high speed data....

Wht every thing has to be iphone killer? Iphone is iphone trendsetter. Only iphone can kill iphone. Linux OS is very powerful. has long way to go. If you look at android, its certainly powerful OS but very slow development. I dont think Nokia has ditched N97 users. Agreed this seems to be better than N97 but may be slower than N97. This perhaps is N97 with linux and faster CPU which is required for Linux or WM. N97 has only 40 MB user accesible RAM still its as fast as E71 which had 70 MB yet its much faster than HTC touch pro.

yummy Not only yummy, its "tummy" friendly too