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Being an action movie fan, i was excited about this movie. But i didn’t get what i expected. Jackie chan style comedy-action was not there.I am a huge fan of Jackie Chan, but my Chinese friend Mr. Zhou beiyi has told me more than once that only Jet li is a real kung-fu player and national champion. But I think Jet li may be champion of kung-fu but Jackie Chan is champion of movies.
He understands the human nature very well. He plays second lead in his own movies. Giving chance to white people to play as hero. This way he involves his target audience in the movie and makes them feel as hero. (Although I don’t feel this is always good).Even in this movie a white guy is actual hero who frees the monkey king and kills the warlord.
He almost never played the role of kung-fu expert, in all his movies his opponent is shown to be better fighter (usually white). Normally action heroes beat dozens of villains nonchalantly, but not in case of Jackie Chan, he will run away on slight opportunity. His roles are more close to reality than other action heroes. I love Jackie Chan, but didn’t like the movie.

We have received & sent many SMS jokes about this but its time to think more seriously about it. Jobs in Telecom sector are critical in nature. By critical I mean…

1. Problems in system need to be attended immediately. Night visits are very common.
2. Even a small mistake can cause revenue loss in Crores of rupees.
3. Large number of customers is affected by even a single equipment failure. So very high quality equipment maintenance is needed.
4. On festivals and other holidays, Calls are more than average so, engineers need to be in office. Diwali & New Year eve are too important to stay at home and enjoy.

Telecom sector is booming in India right now. Despite all this, compensation packages of telecom engineers are not as good as IT\Software engineers. Also IT\Software companies provide other benefits like gym, swimming pool, etc but not telecom companies.

This is puzzling me from quite some time now. What can be the reason (s) for this?

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Vista is definitely much more secure than legacy windows. It’s not affected by common viruses and Trojans. Its interface is also slightly better, but it’s too heavy on system.

Mac & Linux can provide better graphics without much load on system. May be Microsoft over estimated the hardware capabilities of today’s PCs. Instead of designing good code they relied on power of hardware. Although people around the world use very powerful machines (with lots of Giga’s in CPU, RAM & HD), but Vista demands too much.

One very good feature of vista is very long battery life for stand by mode. If you put your machine running vista on sleep (stand by) mode, it consumes very less battery and on average can go for 3 days. Some people have reported up to 7 days of standby time. While Windows XP on same machine will give standby time in ‘hours’. It’s really a feat to change the battery consumption by changing the software only. I

don’t know if XP SP3 can achieve the same in stand by time. Apart from this there is nothing much in vista. As now SP3 is launched for XP, its security level should equal vista. So now there is no reason to use vista.

Declaration: I use Windows Vista Myself.

Commercialisation of sports (cricket actually) is the best thing that happened to sports in India lately.
From last century or so, sports all over the world had taken the shape of hidden war, a fight to show superiority over the competing nation. It created environment of intense emotions and hatred. For example during indo-pak cricket matches, atmosphere is nothing less than that of war.
Hidden motive behind matches of national teams seems to be display of power and superiority. In past, especially in countries ruled by dictators, big rewards were given to winning teams and loosing teams were punished severely.
In sports, pride of the nation is attached to the team of 10-12 players. If they win whole country will make them feel like kings and if they loose their dummies are burned and their homes are pelted with stones.
With commercialisation of cricket and formation of IPL, now players from all over the world play together in a team. Players from same country compete each other, thus no hatred for other nations will be there while fans will get ample amount of the game.
So we should not oppose IPL just because word commercial is attached with it. For the mankind commercialisation is better than war, without any doubt. Another good thing money can do – help us stop spreading hatred.