Looking into the horizon

When it comes to lifting weights, everyone has an opinion. One day you hear heaving heavy weights will leave you looking like a linebacker (it won't). The next day, rumor has it that supermodel limbs are a mere 10 minutes away thanks to the Miracle Machine du jour (not in this lifetime). The fact is, those little hand weights aren't the only dumbbells lurking around your gym. If all this conflicting information is enough to make you burn your jog bra and bag working out altogether, fear not: We sought out two of the most in-the-know pros in the fitness industry to clear up your confusion once and for all.   1. If you lift weights, you'll bulk up. "It's physiologically impossible," says Michael Wood, director of the Sports Performance Group in Cambridge, Mass., and an exercise physiologist at Tufts Research Center on Aging. The reason? Testosterone is responsible for a muscle's bulk, and women simply don't have enough of this predominantly...

This was the article published on the IBM website after its Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov when both of them met for the second time. Gary won the match the year before.   Kasparov began this match with great optimism and won Game 1. However, after discovering that he could have drawn game 2 things seemed to go from bad to worse. He began to wonder if Deep Blue was being tampered with and eventually the machine seemed to totally psych him out. This is what he had to say in a message he sent to members of Club Kasparov:   This was a very tough match, which demanded a lot of my energy. It was also a very interesting match, that captured the imagination of millions of people all over the world. Unfortunately, they also got to see some errors on my part...   I admit that I was probably too optimistic at the start of the match. I followed the conventional wisdom when playing computers of playing 'ugly' openings [non-theoretical] to avoid early confrontat...

This is the prepared text of the address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, who spoke at Commencement on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.   The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his...

Microsoft is facing a real threat to its browser market. Internet Explorer has started losing to Firefox. - US-based analysts NetApplications. Web always has superfluous information and no one gets contented on his/her way to the information. The knowledge thirst has raised many issues in the information organisation. Therfore, the tools used for accessing those information are also gaining the popularity, nevertheless to say with high-end competition too. Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE) are the higher grade competitors these days. Firefox has been created by the Mozilla Foundation which was started by former browser maker Netscape back in 1998. Internet Explorer ships with the windows operating system. Due to its early release, IE is at present enjoying a substantial difference in terms of browser market but its shares are dropping in a steady pace. By January 2005, IE relished a 90.31% with firefox down at 5.59%. But by the end of May 2005, the figures have altered with IE hold...

Russia's population decline is accelerating, according to the country's official statistics agency. As per the figures submitted, about 100 people are dying in Russia every hour. At this rate Russia will soon top the list of nations having maximum death rates. This issue has got the international attention. United Nations has warned that Russian population would diminish to one-third by the middle of this century. Only economic growth and improved living standards could reverse the slump. But on the views of economists, Russia always had its problem with low birth rate and its current economical status has added its part to the problem, thereby declining any possibility of improvement. Most regions have reported more deaths than births this year. Poverty factor is moving in rapid pace as number of indigent Russians nearly doubled in recent years. Statistically, a baby boy born in Russia today is unlikely to see his 16th birthday a shocking figure says. Moreover, he is...

Sun is Open Sourcing Solaris OS Today, June 14, 2005, is Opening Day for OpenSolaris. Sun has open sourced its Solaris operating system. OpenSolaris is an open source project. It's also a community and a website for collaboration, conversation, source, downloads, mailing lists, events and developer tools all available at http://opensolaris.org . OpenSolaris includes a single source base for SPARC and x86/x64. It features all the key  innovations that we recently delivered in the Solaris 10 OS - unparalleled features like DTrace and Containers and Predictive Self-Healing. The Solaris 10 OS is the latest version of Sun's tested, certified and supported enterprise operating system, available free for download. Future versions of the Solaris operating system will be based on technology from OpenSolaris. Sun will continue to invest in delivering a high quality, highly secure and reliable commercial Solaris Operating System, with the same amount of extensive quality ...

In the summer of 1958, Kilby was a newly employed engineer at TI who didn't yet have the right to a summer vacation. He spent the whole summer working on the problem of "tyranny of numbers" and finally came to the conclusion that all that they need is semiconductors. On September 12 he presented his findings to the management of Texas Instruments. He showed them a piece of germanium, pressed a switch, and the attached oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave, proving that he solved the problem. A patent for a "Solid Circuit made of Germanium", the first integrated circuit, was later filed on February 6, 1959. From 1978 to 1985, he was Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his breakthrough discovery. The J-K flip-flop is named after him, as is The Kilby Center, TI's research center for silicon manufacturing. "In my opinion, there are only a handful of peopl...

After reading Badri , its obvious to have an urge on english blogs. I wanted to give it a try. Bringing out some of the entropies of this cosmos is a pleasure. May be I have to widen my window visions. Sometimes this horizon may be thunderous and sometimes it may be pleasant. Everything is left in the hands of viewers and I try to oxygenate them. As Emerson cites "I am not ready to argue with a person who writes more than what he reads" , I want to annul the arguments. I trust almighty will be with me in this venture.