Mind blowing one

Read this. It is a 100% challenge that u will have a wrong answer to the question asked in the passage.

Once there was loving couple traveling in a bus in a mountainous area. They decided to get down at some place. After the couple got down at some place the bus moved on. As the bus moved on, a huge rock fell on the bus from the mountain and crushed the bus to crumbs. Everybody on board was killed. The couple upon seeing that, said, "We wish we were on that bus" Why do u think they said that?

Of course, it’s not a stupid answer -------- purely logical

------------------- Answer!!!! -------------------

If they had remained on the bus instead of deciding to get down, the resulting time delay could have been avoided and the rock would have fallen after the bus had passed...!!! Think positive in life always and look for opportunities when u can help others...... Many times in life, the opposite of Success is not Failure, its Quitting.

Never expect things to happen. Struggle and make them happen.

Indians come up with 'Kosmix' to challenge 'Google'

Kosmix is one out of many search engines available that has to battle the giant Google. Kosmix creators, Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, do however have a lot in common with the creators of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin. All four namely went to Stanford University and developed their search engines as a school project during their time at the the university. The rest is history, but despite that Kosmix hasn't really reached out in the same way as Google has they have kept improving the service. Kosmix will according to its creators be a more precise search engine than Google and thus give more precise results. At least these guys have an advantage over the other search engines out there as the creators share some of the same experiences as the men behind Google, but if that is enough remains to see.

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Google Talk everywhere: Open federation

Google has just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, "Open federation" is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there's nothing that prevents Cingular users from talking to Sprint users.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with many IM and Internet voice calling services today. You can only talk to people on the particular service you have an account on (so you need an account on every service to talk to everybody, which is pretty cumbersome). With open federation, you get to choose your service provider and you can talk to people on any other federated service (and vice versa).

This means we can now talk to millions of users around the world all with a single account on the service provider of our choice. it will bring us one step closer to making IM and Internet voice calling as ubiquitous as email.

Related links:
Open federation
What is libjingle????
XMPP federation
libjingle home

Kids to write new chapter in Indo-Pak peace initiatives...

A bird's eye view of the 'World's Largest letter' aimed at building bonds of friendship between India and Pakistan at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Monday, 16-01-2006.
The letter is painted with the message ''Dear Friends in Pakistan, Let's join hearts in friendship. Together we can make a better world. --The Children of India.'' Surrounding this letter is smaller tarpaulins signed by school children from around the country.

supplemental result...

Today, as usually when i started googling, i got different search result for my search string...
only one search result i got, that too 'supplemental result' and also the title for that result is not at all relavent to my search string......i was surprised...... this is what the text i got as the result....

Hello visitor,

Soory, google smashed my webspace with indexing this file containing
some thousand words with ranking and order and giving this 3MB txt
as search result for hopeless search queries.

If you are still interested in that wordlist please download
wordlist_2004-03-14.txt.bz2 in this directory or place your browser to

http://rabe.uugrn.org_(slash)_scripts_(slash)_google-news_(slash)
_wordlist_2004-03-14_(dot)_txt_(dot)_bz2

Regards
rabe

I didnt observed this never b4. It might b coming b4 also.....
Yes...
the supplemental result is the feature to augment the results for obscure queries. This is a new technology that can return more results for queries that for example have a small number of results. So it might not affect the results for a popular search, but for a researcher doing a more specific query, it can improve the recall of the results. The supplemental collection of pages has been collected from the web just like the 3.3 billion pages in Google's main index

Six degrees of Separation

Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called Chains.

Source: wiki

She is Human calculator...

January 24, 1977 . A cold and windy Monday afternoon at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas .

A beautiful young lady smartly clad in a sari, walked up to the stage. She sat down on a chair smiling at the hundreds of students and professors assembled in the hall. A scholarly professor wrote a 201 digit long number on the black board at her side. The number occupied 10 lines and took four minutes to write. After finishing the number, the professor took out a stopwatch from his pocket and with a nod at the lady he started the timer. There was absolute silence in the hall.

The young lady took one long look at the number and closed her eyes. Seconds ticked by. In deep concentration she appeared to have gone into a trance. At the fifty-second mark, the lady opened her eyes and slowly pronounced the answer, '546372891'. The professor then checked it with the result given by the computer. Yes, she was correct. The number given by her is the 23rd root of the 201 digit long number. Earlier that day, the fastest computer of the time, Univac 1108, had taken 62 seconds to give the answer.

Every member of the audience jumped to their feet and applauded the genius who beat the computer.

She was born in Bangalore, and that lady was Shakuntala Devi...........

source: wiki