The Race against Time......................

One,Two,Three Go.....
Well the race has just begun. Intel has launched its new processor(i7-Nehalem) in the market soon after the launch of its quad-core.


There is lot more revolution to be seen in the coming few days with lots of work going on in optimizing the performance of processors both from the software side and hardware side. The virtualization techniques and the multi-threading architectures are surely gonna change the way. Well every invention has some necessity behind it and same is the case here. With the need for highly optimized processors for the large size servers operating on voluminous data and high quality image processing required, we are left with no other alternative except for the improvement in current design of processors and the way in which data is processed.

Now coming back to intel new processor (Nehalem architecture) which is basically a quad core processor with eight threads running simultaneously.

See this demo :::

check it urself

lot more to come, keep checking..................................................:)

Will it be the end of a big giant

Google has completely captured the market of web(advertisements and searches) and its new release Google Chrome(An excellent browser) might prove to be a nightmare to the Microsoft Internet Explorer.To challenge the Google dominance Microsoft again tried its old policy of mergers and acquisitions and tried to lure yahoo(really a big name in web market after Google) with its 44.5 b $ but it all went into vain.

Market analysts are predicting that Google is going to release Google OS that can bring trouble to Microsoft vista(which is already a failure)

Apple, Red Hat and other OS manufacturers with their new features are already proving a danger for Microsoft.

Sony is a way ahead in the field of Play-station and is challenging Microsoft XBox

Its new software Vista is getting a challenge from its previous version XP

So what the above facts are telling us : is this really the end of the road for Microsoft. With the two key players of Microsoft i.e. Windows XP and Bill Gates stepping down this year is really gonna hit Microsoft. Microsoft chief Bill Gates officially leaving Microsoft in the end of July and the official announcement of Microsoft to stop the sales of Windows XP from this year onwards is really posing a big threat to Microsoft which has been a buzzwords in IT sector. Windows XP has been a great product from Microsoft Labs which has brought down the computer to the reach of common man. XP made Microsoft presence felt in Offices(Its Office XP and MS Word 2003 have been of great use) , in homes( as a source of entertainment) and in schools and colleges( as a learning tool). The friendly GUI of Windows XP made it easy for even a two-three year old child to handle the computer(oops a big term as it was thought to be in early 1960s and was limited to a group of elite people consisting of scientists and engineers) with such a great ease.
But there are always some pros and cons and XP is not a exception to this. With its ease it made a way for the hackers and viruses to sneak into the system and to play with the sensitive data making computer the most frustrating thing that ever existed on this earth. In my four years of engineering i have seen some really good work from virus writers and their ability to exploit the pitfalls in Windows XP. Everyday i used to find my computer infected with some other virus (really a improved one compared to previous) that was not even detected by Anti-virus Softwares. To computer science people a new virus really appears to be a challenge and every time in a day or two they come up with some solution to it (if no solution is there, format is the only option ) but what about the common man who knows only the basic details of computers and the businessmen who don't have enough time to try a hand on these nasty viruses. It appears quite frustrating when you just surf one or two sites and suddenly you find your computer running quite slow or you plug in a pen drive and find some quite irritating(well someone can term them interesting) things going on in your computer. Well to answer all these problems Microsoft came up with a totally new Windows i.e. Vista previous year ( somewhere in spring) with some great expectations (It is said to be the dream project of Bill gates) but ...

Is Microsoft really an Innovator

"oops! so many viruses in my computer"

"damn! my PC is so slow" "oh my god another deadly virus has gotta place in my hard drive" "should i get my hard disk formatted" and i don't know how many... but really people have to face these kinds of problem everyday and one person who is to blame for that is the billion dollar software company giant(oops did i mention bill gates) who just revolutionized the operating system and made it so handy that a 2-3 year old child can handle such a big machine(as it was thought to be in the early 70s) in a very easy manner. Really hats off to the genius(but is that so actually). Across the web i came to know that he is known to be an excellent businessman who really has his empire built by the acquisitions of smaller IT companies which after years of work, come up with a really great idea and sell their intellectual property for some million dollars. Some of the facts i am mentioning below (really hurting for a fan of Microsoft)

Courtesy: http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/microsoft.html

1. BASIC: This was the original Microsoft product, a simple programming language. Microsoft’s BASIC was released in 1975, but BASIC itself had been invented back in 1964, and it was only one of many programming languages available even then.
2. MS-DOS: In 1981, Microsoft published MS-DOS. MS-DOS was Microsoft’s new name for QDOS, the “Quick and Dirty Operating System” written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products in 6 weeks not long before Paterson developed QDOS by buying a CP/M manual and using the manual as the basis for his own program, so QDOS itself wasn’t innovative. When IBM approached Microsoft looking for software for its to-be-announced PC, Microsoft quickly bought QDOS and renamed it so it could make a deal with IBM. Of course, the notion of an operating system was old even by 1981, so MS-DOS was in no way innovative either. Later on, Microsoft did add features such as directories to MS-DOS, but these were intentionally copied from another operating system (Unix).
3. Windows: In 1983 Microsoft announced that it would be developing Windows. Windows 1.0 was finally delivered November 1985 (two years late), but it performed poorly and had little in the way of applications. It wasn’t until May 22, 1990, when Windows 3.0 was released, that the system gained widespread third-party support. Windows was clearly inspired by Apple’s Macintosh (which, in turn, had been inspired by Xerox PARC, which had been inspired by the original 1968 inventions of Doulas Engelbart for a GUI with a mouse). Since Windows was essentially a copy of the Macintosh, which was based on earlier work, Windows cannot be considered fundamentally innovative.
4. Windows NT/2000: Microsoft’s Windows NT finally provided (limited) multi-user capability and protected memory in a server operating system, but it did this by liberally borrowing ideas from the pre-existing VAX VMS and Unix systems (which were not the first such operating systems either).
5. Word: This is simply another word processor, which Microsoft began in 1983. Lexitron and Linolex developed the first screen-oriented word processing system before Microsoft existed (in 1972), and WordStar preceded Microsoft’s efforts as well (1979).
6. Excel: A spreadsheet, implemented long after the original VisiCalc (1978) and Lotus 1-2-3.
7. Access: Yet another database system. Since it’s relational, the primary innovation it embodies are Codd’s models, which were developed in 1970 (before Microsoft even existed).
8. Internet Explorer (IE): Internet Explorer wasn’t originally developed by Microsoft; it is an extension of the older NCSA Mosaic web browser. On at least Internet Explorer 5.5, selecting “Help About” shows that it is “Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM) was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.” Again, web browsers (and IE) are not a Microsoft innovation.
9. Active Directory: Active Directory is basically a re-implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), with Microsoft’s proprietary variant of MIT’s Kerberos often being used for identity authentication. LDAP is in turn a subset of X.500’s Directory Access Protocol (DAP). That goes back to the late 1980s, long before “Active Directory” existed. Again, no serious innovation here.
10. Their SQL Server was just a deal with Sybase software.

These were some of the facts which i have collected from the web which shows that those products for which Microsoft boasts of their innovation are merely just repackaging of the previous built softwares.
Considering even today's scenario Microsoft Vista (really a dream project of bill gates) was just have most of the aero and glassy features just inspired by Apple new Mac OS X x10.4 Tiger (http://www.tradeyourmac.com/mac-pc.html) & (http://thegrahambaileyblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/did-microsoft-really-copy-apple/)
Their new work on the photosynth & seadragon(both are new ground breaking technologies in area of visual media) are also just mergers and collaborations with other companies.
If we look at the graph of microsoft innovativity we will find that it is going down day by day. We hardly see any new innovative product coming in market from the microsoft labs. So what can we say about the future of Microsoft (a software giant) who is getting real challenge from its oppositions Google, Apple, RedHat, Sony etc to name a few.

One step towards god or ...

Well it might be surprising that we are leading to somewhere from where we had started our journey.

For years scientists might have been trying to disprove the existence of god but they all have in their mind( i mustn't say heart thats why they are scientist) a little faith in god.

What will be the result of CERN billion dollars experiment which has put the whole earth at stake. Might we be leading somewhere close to god or stepping back, the scientists at CERN are also not sure.

"The matter cannot be created from anything" and "The earth formation from a big bang explosion " are just contradictory statements to which scientist do not have any answer.

Will the minuscule big bang at CERN be the answer to these problems??
Is there really some antimatter or anti-universe kinda thing??
What will happen to this universe if big bang fails??

So many questions yet to be answered...

The experiment has successfully started working and may provide some answers to them.
Well time will tell whether there is really a god who is just playing a hide and seek with his children or are we alone on this small planet between a huge black indefinite space guided by some basic(quite complicated) physics.