There are many ways that we all think / believe our lives are supposed to be at certain points of it, and failing to recognize these goals, people's fantasies about who/what they are / supposed to be cause a confusion that leads to common conclusions, which can be misconceptions, or beliefs about the truth of what life is that are incorrect. To call someone's philosophical opinions about the purpose of life is an extreme arrogance, yet here on quora we are allowed such luxuries.
Author: Aditya
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What is the biggest misconception people have about life?
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The patent battles continue
Someone should just get a patent on granting silly patents, and then sue the patent agencies & courts when they grant one.
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Visualizing planets in the moon’s place
Beautiful and scary – just imagine the kind of tides the larger ones would cause (of course, if they were at that distance, tides are the last thing we’d be worried about)
Of course, nowhere as cool as Tatooine
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Pixar’s Global Illumination system & the Uncanny valley
CGI Lighting goes up another notch – just watch the clip from Pixar’s “Blue Umbrella” short below:
Also, check out the stills from the original article to get an idea of how far we’ve come. You’d be hard pressed to believe that it’s not real – Director Saschka Unseld discusses Pixar, photorealism, and the making of ‘The Blue Umbrella’ | The Verge.
Uncanny Valley at its eeriest
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The other saffron, white & green flag
Miami, Florida it is:
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Taking the New Bhakti Park-Dockyard Eastern Expressway
I tried the recently opened Eastern Freeway in Mumbai to get to office today, and ended up covering the first 10 km in less than 10 minutes. The remaining 8 km took over 20 min, thus taking the same amount of time to get to office (Cadbury House) as my usual route via Lalbagh. The taxi fare came to Rs 225 vs the usual Rs 175.
The entry\exit for both the flyovers is at the end of Bhakti Park, behind the Odyessey building. Here’s the route in detail (from Bhakti Park to Mahalaxmi Temple) captured via the My Tracks Android app synced to Google Drive.
Not going to change my regular route for this, but it is definitely a quick way to get to CST or Colaba. This possibly makes CST closer to Bhakti Park, Chembur & Vashi (via the extended expressway) than Dadar in terms of the time taken. CST should take 15-20 min at most via this route from Bhakti Park & Chembur.
For how to embed Google maps in a wordpress blog, checkout: Google Maps — Support — WordPress.com.
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99% perspiration, 1% inspiration & the case for a tripod
That took some effort for sure:
via This Mind-Bending, Colorful Photo Mosaic is Actually a Single Photograph.
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Blast from the past: Nokia, the N810 Tablet & the Long View
Long in the tooth, but gotta give some leeway, considering that this was written before the App Store debuted on iOS, and before Android (which incidentally is the Linux OS that ate Nokia’s lunch):
Contrast this war with Nokia’s handset, which is based on Linux. Nokia is building a platform that can run arbitrary software. It’ll be messy, and will go through several iterations. But in the end, we know how this story plays out: iPhone is Compuserve; Nokia is the Internet. (Google’s (GOOG) much-speculated mobile device is also rumored to run a pared-down Linux.)
via Nokia, the N810 Tablet & the Long View — Tech News and Analysis.
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Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani: Tech portrayal gets accurate
A few quick thoughts on the movie that I watched last Friday:
– Canon is really going all out in India given the number of photographers portrayed in recent movies, and all use Canon gear obviously
– Nice touch (intentional or not) with the Windows XP PC and Internet Explorer 6 being used by Deepika Padukone in the flashback, plus no smartphones either
– The present day of course has our hero Ranbir Kapoor using a MacBook, plus smartphones in the hands of the entire gang
– The MacBook did seem to be a tad outdated though with an older version of iTunes, but it did have Firefox installed
– The movie plot itself was pretty staple stuff as numerous reviews have noted, and Bollywood ladies as usual are a lot less sensitive to the cold as evident from their attire in the freezing Manali weather
