CHARACTERS: BOY1, BOY2, GIRL1, GIRL2, PARENTS
BOY 1 loves GIRL 1.
BOY 2 loves GIRL 2.
PARENTS MAKE THE DECISION.
BOY 1 MARRIES GIRL 2.
BOY 2 MARRIES GIRL 1.
BOY 1 ? GIRL 2 ? UNHAPPY
BOY 2 ? GIRL 1 ? UNHAPPY
BOY 1 still loves GIRL 1
BOY 2 still loves GIRL 2
PARENTS COME TO KNOW AGAIN. DECISION MADE.
BOY 1 MARRIES GIRL 1.
BOY 2 MARRIES GIRL 2.
HAPPY ENDING!!!
NAME OF THE STORY: KABHI ALVIDA NA KEHNA.
BOY 1: SHAHRUKH KHAN
BOY 2: ABHISHEK BACCHAN
GIRL 1: PRIETY ZINTA
GIRL 2: RANI MUKHERJEE
Viewers: $%^$%^$@%^^$^$!!!!!!
Need i say more? :P
Friday, August 11, 2006
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Amd+Ati = Trouble for Intel+Nvidia??
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 2 weeks, you would have probably heard or read about the deal. Amd has announced a take over/acquistion of ATi for approximately 5.2 billion US dollars. As im in no position to discuss technical details of the deeal (im not a management student :P ), ill just keep it to a technological and consumer point of view..
Quite frankly, the deal had to happen. I expected something of this kind. AMD has been at the top for almost 3 years now(which is quite a long time in technology), leaving the big bro Intel to completely rot (lets face it, prescott was a complete failure). When Conroe started showing promising figures early this year, suddenly everyone was interested in intel. Amd on the other hand, had to convince everyone that AM2 was really a big leap forward - although the only noticable improvements were a different socket and DDR2. Things got worse for Amd when the cheapest conroe started steamrolling the costliest processor that AMD has right now, the FX-62 (okay, the E6300 was overclocked, but that itself is a piece of cake). Also, AM2 isnt showing the performance increase that AMD promised. Now that is where it can get really messy.
On the other hand, the Graphics battle has more or less been equal - Ati and Nvidia fighting over each other with a completely new Marchitecture every 2 years or so (i hope im correct). And it hasnt been a complete domination like AMD’s. Every new chipset that came out from ATi was matched by a competing one from Nvidia. So that part of the story has been pretty balanced.
Now the reason why i think this deal would come through was AMD’s position. Although im a AMD fanboy, i will NOT be getting a AM2. Conroe has just kicked its ass fair and square. The next 2 years or so definitely belongs to intel. i see no reason why not to get a conroe. Amd has to live with this, and unfortunately it cannot. It simply doesnt have the financial power of Intel to survive in the market without selling much chips for more than 2 years. That is where this deal can work to its advantage. Ati has been doing pretty well itself - the X1900XT is a big hit, and with its Much awaited and hyped R600 coming out sometime this year or Q1 2007, it will have a pretty nice position in the market. Amd can use this to try and minimise the poor performance of AM2.
Another area which will be interesting to watch is the combined platform based performance of AMD+ATI. They can really turn the tables on other chip makers by developing a Processor+Chipset+Graphics platform that can crush competition. Joint development doesnt hurt in technology. Amd has announced that joint development can probably start in 2008, which is not too far away. Also the prospect of AMD fabs producing the complex ATI chips will definitely bring down the production costs.
So does this spell doom for either intel or nvidia. The answer unforunately is NO. Intel isnt your typical upcoming company that is afraid of competition. They literally brought about the microprocessor revolution single handly in the common consumer market. They have survived the worst disaster - prescott and still have come out with their best success story till date - the conroe. And nvidia too isnt going to be shaken - they are valued at approx 10 billion dollars, twice that of ATI’s. So this merger will not affect the two companies anytime soon. Maybe when AMD+ATi start their joint development things will get interesting….
And as for the big question - will intel buy nvidia? The answer is probably no. At least thats what everyone is hoping. But you can never predict the Big Bad Intel ;)
For more info and technical commentry head to Anandtech
Quite frankly, the deal had to happen. I expected something of this kind. AMD has been at the top for almost 3 years now(which is quite a long time in technology), leaving the big bro Intel to completely rot (lets face it, prescott was a complete failure). When Conroe started showing promising figures early this year, suddenly everyone was interested in intel. Amd on the other hand, had to convince everyone that AM2 was really a big leap forward - although the only noticable improvements were a different socket and DDR2. Things got worse for Amd when the cheapest conroe started steamrolling the costliest processor that AMD has right now, the FX-62 (okay, the E6300 was overclocked, but that itself is a piece of cake). Also, AM2 isnt showing the performance increase that AMD promised. Now that is where it can get really messy.
On the other hand, the Graphics battle has more or less been equal - Ati and Nvidia fighting over each other with a completely new Marchitecture every 2 years or so (i hope im correct). And it hasnt been a complete domination like AMD’s. Every new chipset that came out from ATi was matched by a competing one from Nvidia. So that part of the story has been pretty balanced.
Now the reason why i think this deal would come through was AMD’s position. Although im a AMD fanboy, i will NOT be getting a AM2. Conroe has just kicked its ass fair and square. The next 2 years or so definitely belongs to intel. i see no reason why not to get a conroe. Amd has to live with this, and unfortunately it cannot. It simply doesnt have the financial power of Intel to survive in the market without selling much chips for more than 2 years. That is where this deal can work to its advantage. Ati has been doing pretty well itself - the X1900XT is a big hit, and with its Much awaited and hyped R600 coming out sometime this year or Q1 2007, it will have a pretty nice position in the market. Amd can use this to try and minimise the poor performance of AM2.
Another area which will be interesting to watch is the combined platform based performance of AMD+ATI. They can really turn the tables on other chip makers by developing a Processor+Chipset+Graphics platform that can crush competition. Joint development doesnt hurt in technology. Amd has announced that joint development can probably start in 2008, which is not too far away. Also the prospect of AMD fabs producing the complex ATI chips will definitely bring down the production costs.
So does this spell doom for either intel or nvidia. The answer unforunately is NO. Intel isnt your typical upcoming company that is afraid of competition. They literally brought about the microprocessor revolution single handly in the common consumer market. They have survived the worst disaster - prescott and still have come out with their best success story till date - the conroe. And nvidia too isnt going to be shaken - they are valued at approx 10 billion dollars, twice that of ATI’s. So this merger will not affect the two companies anytime soon. Maybe when AMD+ATi start their joint development things will get interesting….
And as for the big question - will intel buy nvidia? The answer is probably no. At least thats what everyone is hoping. But you can never predict the Big Bad Intel ;)
For more info and technical commentry head to Anandtech
Thursday, August 03, 2006
getting a wordpress blog...
so ive created a wordpress blog with the same name. reason is that its far more customizable, and i like wordpress :p ive imported everything there too. and i plan to keep this blog so that i can learn a bit of php designing :p
http://restlesschatter.wordpress.com
http://restlesschatter.wordpress.com
Monday, July 31, 2006
Music ahoye!!
With nothing else to do, ive been working hard on my music collection. For the past week, ive been downloading like crazy - everything from metal, trance, techno, OSTs etc. I figured out this would be the perfect time to diversify my music taste (which is pretty limited by the way).
And in other news, i will be off holidaying for about a week. Since college is delayed, this is the perfect time to roam about and have fun. Probably the last time i can holiday without any worries...
And in other news, i will be off holidaying for about a week. Since college is delayed, this is the perfect time to roam about and have fun. Probably the last time i can holiday without any worries...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Aint she a beauty!!
The SAMSUNG 940bw - Widescreen 19" LCD panel :) got it yesterday, and im absolutely loving it!!! After seeing this, im not going back to CRT's ever again :P
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Album Collection - 1
i guess the pic is self explanatory :p anyway, ive been hooked on to trance/electonic/ambient music for the past one month... and ive goto say i love it. ive got about 12 albums of depeche mode, and they are legendary!! id recommend everyone listens to "Playing the Angel" - its an instrumental, and it just blows me away!! never have i been addicted to one particular album for a long time... listen to it twice a day :)
Indian ISPs suck!
im pissed off!! really. how can the ISPs block popular domains like blogspot, geocities, etc when the government asked them to block a few particular blogs. and that too wasnt right! whatever happened to the democratic "free" country where everyone can express their thoughts freely?? i can understand that the govt is under tremendous pressure to keep terrorism under control, but claiming that many terrorist outfits use public blogs to communicate just makes me laugh my ass off! they should know better, and get their facts right rather than going about blocking sites that normal people use daily....
and the accusation wars will begin now. the ISPs have already claimed that the govt had directed them to block the complete domains, something that the govt obviously refuses. who was actually behind this will never be known (so much for the right to information act :p)
on the brighter side, they are back again!! so im not complaining :p like i said, im more bothered about people's right to free speech, the right to information etc rather than keep blabbering about this episode. and blocking content in the internet isnt something that should be done! i feel its an invation of privacy, and a direct curb of people's freedom of speech. sadly, nothing will be done about it :(
lets just hope something stupid like this doesnt happen again.
and the accusation wars will begin now. the ISPs have already claimed that the govt had directed them to block the complete domains, something that the govt obviously refuses. who was actually behind this will never be known (so much for the right to information act :p)
on the brighter side, they are back again!! so im not complaining :p like i said, im more bothered about people's right to free speech, the right to information etc rather than keep blabbering about this episode. and blocking content in the internet isnt something that should be done! i feel its an invation of privacy, and a direct curb of people's freedom of speech. sadly, nothing will be done about it :(
lets just hope something stupid like this doesnt happen again.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Im back
after some time away from my computer and my blog, im back again... lots have happened in the past 2 weeks and i would like to keep in touch :p anway, the most important thing is i have been admitted to MCA program in SSN college , chennai. im quite happy with it. And SSN has been doing extremely well in Anna university for the past 3 years.
Also, i did receive a call letter from anna univ, but only after i paid the fee in SSN. but i have no regrets whatsoever. What happened, was the best that could happen. I was pretty sure id get into PSG in coimbatore, but then didnt want to leave my dad alone... so here im again for the next 3 years in my life!!
ive been watching quite a few movies recently, and intend to write reviews for superman returs, Click, Cars and others. Lets see how fast i can get down to that
Also, i did receive a call letter from anna univ, but only after i paid the fee in SSN. but i have no regrets whatsoever. What happened, was the best that could happen. I was pretty sure id get into PSG in coimbatore, but then didnt want to leave my dad alone... so here im again for the next 3 years in my life!!
ive been watching quite a few movies recently, and intend to write reviews for superman returs, Click, Cars and others. Lets see how fast i can get down to that
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