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The Symbiosis Curse
#TrueStory
I dread telling people in Pune I’m a Symbiosis student. It takes a huge amount of courage. One needs to take a deep breath and say it as casually as possible and wait for the interviewer to roll his eyes and slowly contort his face in disgust like a jumbled Rubiks cube. In nine cases out of ten, he will proceed to put you in the category one associates with Mexican drug peddlers. In the tenth case, the candidate will turn out to be a fellow Symbian, who will make a mental note to bitch about the worthlessness of your particular institute at some point later in his life.
I would love to tackle some FAQs at this stage. Firstly, we aren’t all rich, spoilt brats. Just because we happen to wear a uniform involving the amalgamation of a shirt and trousers and speak the English language with above average…
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Interstellar Movie Explained!!
Confusion!! Confusion!! Confusion!!
So we need to think!! “Did we pay less attention in Physics during our college days??”..
No!! Let’s not take it this way, So do we curse “Christopher Nolan” to waste money and time (I mean I liked the movie other than some confusion in the end).
Let’s leave that all this behind and try to understand what was the movie about(Obviously as we spent our time and money).
Note: People who are planning to watch this movie and don’t want spoilers “Don’t Read/watch this”
Here is what I understood from climax:
Matthew McConaughey, sacrifices himself so that Anne Hathaway could use the sparse resources herself and execute Plan B (human colonies in the habitable planet) soon after which Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is sucked inside the horizon and he finds himself in a bookshelf in which he believes that rather than being a naturally occurring phenomenon, the structure he finds himself in was built by “them.”
Cooper is in a world where time is visualized as a fourth dimension. Similar to how we walk through the three dimensions, Cooper inside the tesseract is able to glide through the 4th dimension, which is time. Since there is no established communication links between earth and Cooper, he is using gravity (e.g., dust sprinkles aligning themselves in certain pattern) Cooper is sending out the quantum data (which is available inside the black hole) to finish off the equations (carried out by Murph after the death of Michael Caine) so that, current generation humans would know how to manipulate time as the fourth dimension, which would allow them to transcend time and space allowing them to leave earth and reach a habitable planet, Cooper uses TARS to translate the message in morse code and sends message to the watch he gave Murph (when he leaves Earth) by ticking its longer hand. Using the data Murph finishes off the equation, thereby saving humans from extinction.
Who are “them”?
Them, are the future humans who created the tesseract in specific black hole, so that cooper could communicate with his daughter to transfer the quantum data.
And once the job is done, the tesseract self-destructs. With the available knowledge on time manipulation, humans rescue cooper (remember he is in the proximity of the black hole where the gravity is exponentially greater than earth, which means seconds for him would be years together in Earth). That is why, when he returns back he finds his daughter to be very aged.
Coming to Anne Hathaway:
There is no way to return to earth since the Endurance is damaged beyond extent, using the available gravitational force Anne Hathaway is slingshot to the planet where the third beacon arrived from (sent from previously left astronauts indicating presence of life) to execute plan B, so that human colonies would be brought up there, thereby saving our race from extinction.
At the end of the movie, Matthew McConaughey meets his daughter during which she tells him that he need not worry about his old daughter anymore and asks him to go find Anne Hathaway following which Matthew McConaughey leaves with a space ship to find her.
After all the ghost is not a ghost as assumed by Murph, it’s her father sending messages from future.
P.S. I have written this based on my understanding of the movie and very little knowledge about Astrophysics, if there is any mistake please correct me.
Here are some links which will clear the confusion that caused in the end.
Video(Who has the time to read..): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhW1HfSuPVQ
Something to read(I know we hate it, but let’s make some effort) http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/interstellar/241065/explaining-the-interstellar-ending
Timeline of Interstellar Explained(This is interesting): http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/11/interstellar-explained-in-one-timeline-warning-spoilers/
Still didn’t understand?? Google “Interstellar Explained ”.
Thanks,
Sajeel Irkal
Dropdown menu using Jquery and CSS
<a class=”account” >My Account</a><div class=”submenu”>
<ul class=”root”>
<li ><a href=”#Dashboard” >Dashboard</a></li>
<li ><a href=”#Profile” >Profile</a></li>
<li ><a href=”#settings”>Settings</a></li>
<li ><a href=”#feedback”>Send Feedback</a></li>
</ul>
</div></div>
Contains javascipt code. $(“.account”).click(function(){}– account is the class name of the My Account anchor tag. Using $(this).attr(‘id’) calling id value of the anchor tag and based on condition showing .submenu div box and the same time $(this).attr(‘id’, ‘1’) adding id value too.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js
"></script>;
<script type="text/javascript" >
$(document).ready(function()
{$(".account").click(function()
{
var X=$(this).attr('id');
if(X==1)
{
$(".submenu").hide();
$(this).attr('id', '0');
}
else
{
$(".submenu").show();
$(this).attr('id', '1');
}});//Mouse click on sub menu
$(".submenu").mouseup(function()
{
return false
});//Mouse click on my account link
$(".account").mouseup(function()
{
return false
});//Document Click
$(document).mouseup(function()
{
$(".submenu").hide();
$(".account").attr('id', '');
});
});
</script>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CSS Code
{
color: #555;
margin: 3px -22px 0 0;
width: 143px;
position: relative;
height: 17px;
text-align:left;
}
.submenu
{
background: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: -12px;
left: -20px;
z-index: 100;
width: 135px;
display: none;
margin-left: 10px;
padding: 40px 0 5px;
border-radius: 6px;
box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.45);
}
.dropdown li a
{
color: #555555;
display: block;
font-family: arial;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 6px 15px;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration:none;
}.dropdown li a:hover
{
background:#155FB0;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.account
{
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 16px;
color: #555;
position: absolute;
z-index: 110;
display: block;
padding: 11px 0 0 20px;
height: 28px;
width: 121px;
margin: -11px 0 0 -10px;
text-decoration: none;
background: url(icons/arrow.png) 116px 17px no-repeat;
cursor:pointer;
}
.root
{
list-style:none;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
font-size: 11px;
padding: 11px 0 0 0px;
border-top:1px solid #dedede;
}
This may be helpful to you for creating the Dropdown menu using Jquery.
TorChat Is an Easy to Use Anonymous and Encrypted Chat Client
Windows/Mac: TorChat is an instant messenger client that makes encrypted, anonymous chat and file sharing with your friends incredibly easy. Built on Tor’slocation hiding services nobody will be able to see what you’re doing or who you’re contacting.
While most of us won’t need TorChat too often, it’s bound to come in handy at some point when you need to transmit data or if you’d like to have a conversation with a friend without worrying about anyone sniffing your internet connection. When you sign into TorChat you’ll get an random .onion address that serves as your ID. Exchange this with your friends and you’ll be chatting privately right away. On top of the Windows version linked below you can get an OS X client, Pidgin plugin, and a Portable Java version.
- TorChat | via One Thing Well
Here Comes Linux Kernel Version 3.3
Monday, March 19, 2012: Linus Torvalds has finally announced the seventh release candidate (RC7)for Version 3.3 of the software. Torvalds noted that a host of small issues prompted the decision to go with RC7 rather than a full release of 3.3. “Now, none of the fixes here are all that scary in themselves, but there were just too many of them, and across various subsystems. Networking, memory management, drivers, you name it,” he wrote.
Linux 3.2 was released more than 10 weeks ago.
Interestingly, Android has been baked into the Linux 3.3 kernel thus making it more straightforward for developers to create cross-platform applications. “Although Android and mainline Linux have always shared plenty of code, the underlying kernels have been separate; this new release means manufacturers will be able to simply throw their hardware-specific drivers into a Linux-based gadget and have a functional Android device,” SlashGear said in a report.
“For a long time, code from the Android project has not been merged back to the Linux repositories due to disagreement between developers from both projects. Fortunately, after several years the differences are being ironed out. Various Android subsystems and features have already been merged, and more will follow in the future. This will make things easier for everybody, including the Android mod community, or Linux distros that want to support Android programs,” states the Linux 3.3 release notes.
Ref: Monika Bhati, EFYTIMES News Network
“For a long time, code from the Android project has not been merged back to the Linux repositories due to disagreement between developers from both projects. Fortunately, after several years the differences are being ironed out. Various Android subsystems and features have already been merged, and more will follow in the future. This will make things easier for everybody, including the Android mod community, or Linux distros that want to support Android programs,” states the Linux 3.3 release notes.
Mobile Phones To Get Cheaper.
Saturday, March 17, 2012: Telecom users have some goods news coming from the Budget.
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting Union Budget in Lok Sabha on Friday, announced relaxation in custom duty on mobile phone parts.
With this, mobile phones will get cheaper in India. Mukherjee also proposed to exempt memory cards parts from basic excise duty.
The move is likely to provide boost for manufacturing of mobile phones in the country. Mobile Phones Telecom Industry Reacts To Budget “Exemption of mobile phone parts from basic custom duties will bring down the manufacturing cost of mobile phones.
It will also aid in deeper penetration of mobile phone manufacturers into the untapped portions of the Indian market,” Pradeep Jain, managing director, Karbonn Mobiles said. Sunil Dutt, managing director, Research In Motion (RIM) India, told Business Line, “The proposed full exemption on mobile phone parts may further make the smartphone affordable to larger section of the masses.
The increase in disposal income as a result of relaxed IT slabs will further enhance the penetration of smartphones.” The Government has also announced deduction of 200 per cent tax liability on expenditure made in research and development (R&D).
Welcoming the announcement, SN Rai, co-founder and director of Lava Mobile, said, “For telecom industry it is a good budget. The Government has provided benefits for companies like us to invest on a core of R&D because for manufacturing and R&D services there is an increase in deduction of income tax from 150 per cent to 200 per cent.”
Reference: Monika Bhati, EFYTIMES News Network
Sajeel Irkal 