I have observed that in this IT field many people like to criticise Microsoft. People hate Microsoft, as if its their hobby. They will use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Suite and most the the Microsoft products but then also keep criticizing it.

Lets look back at history. Windows has become a standard and majority of people use it. one myth that is common among people is that "Apple OS is good for designers". I do not know whats the reason behind this myth but I find it really wierd when Apple is considered good for designers. Windows platform has much more tools than any other platform for designers. With emerging technologies like WPF Windows is the best platform for designing and development.

Linux desktop have copied each and every feature of Windows and the open source community keep on copying Microsoft Office Suite in the name of Open Office. Open Office is such a wierd product that most of the time you will use it hoping that it doesn't crash. I am now wondering how open source community will copy Office 2007. But I am sure there are many copy cats who can easily do it.

Now a days people are creating hype about Apollo and Flex. When I had a look at what these two products are, I found that Apollo and Flex is just the replica of .NET Framework. They are talking so loud about Flash and Flex. Guys Flash is just an animation software which was made with the intention of being a preloader. It cannot take place of programming Language. Apollo people are giving counts of Apollo runtime downloads. Dot NET Framework is downloaded four times more than their Apollo runtime.

WPF technology and .NET Framework 3.0 brings in the years of experience of Microsoft in programming field. WPF is really a revolution. The combination of WPF/Expression Suite with the programming capabilities of Visual Studio makes it the best Programming Suite ever available.

One day I was just trying to open a file in Flash, would you believe Actionscript is such a wierd language that simple task like writing/reading file looks almost difficult, infact I don't count any of the Adobe's new product as programming language products, they are only desperate ways of competing with Microsoft.

Let this year of 2007 come to an end then we will see where this Apollo and Flex stand :D

I would like to apologize for my comments. Since I am passionate about some technology doesn't mean I should have written what I have.

I know I have hurt a lot of people and I sincerely apologize for it.

I made a mistake and I wish that I wasn't sober while writing that. I will do my best to learn from it.

.NET 3.0 | .NET Framework | Adobe | Apple | Flex | Linux | Microsoft | Visual Studio "Orcas" | Visual Studio 2005 | WPF | XAML

4/11/2007 2:28:03 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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In any sport win or loss is normal part and parcel of it. The matter is not that why India lost against Bangaladesh or Sri Lanka in the World Cup 2007, the matter is totally different. Its the matter of player's attitude and the management of BCCI. I was trying to resist myself from writing this article but could not stop myself.

Biggest annoyance I feel is that politicians like pawar lead the cricket board of India. Because of his private rivalry with Dalmiya he slashed all the supporters who where with Dalmiya. Saurav was thrown out of team and removed from captainship as he was Dalmiya's favourite. One question that keeps on hitting my mind is what knowledge does Pawar has of cricket. Second wierd thing about board is the zonal selection team. Players are selected based on the region they belong to instead of their ability. We have seen players selected based on selector's and capatain's biases. Laxman was dropped from world cup squad when he was in form, whereas Sehwag was selected irrespective of his wierd form.

When India was out of the race for world cup Chappel said that what could he have done if players did not play. He was right but then he should not take any credit for any win india has registered his being coach.

All board people call up all the old captains and other cricket people to do a postmortem of Indian cricket. They sit for two days. As usual Chappel gives a wonderful presentation (for which he is famous), pawar is again impressed irrespective of the bad performance of the team. Pawar accused media in the loss of Indian team. How is media responsible for it, Was media playing cricket for India? :D.

Indian cricket should learn that we should stop fighting amongst ourselves then only we can play with other teams. In our team Sachin, Yuvraj like players think themselves to be God. Dravid seems to be a person never in control. I never see India dominating any team. There is no positive attitude in team. Players play with their insecurites. Gangualy once he returned was under presssure to perform hence he wasted many balls to just score runs. Sachin on the other hand does not make a single run in two crucial matches and gives interivew to media which shows that there is no unity in our team.

BCCI instead of counting money should sort out these differences and should take measures which TRULY improve indian cricket, instead of wierd rules passed by the board. people have short memory, and they will forget this loss in World Cup and the story will again continue. Now Ravi Shastri is made the manager. I see that once india looses more series he too would be blamed and thrown our of the team.

We should watch Australia and South African Circket team. The commitment they show on field and the unity they have. The commitment of captain the the positive attitude of whole team is so contagious. Chappel rightly said "if we want to become like Australian cricket team we should not play like Zimbabve".

To help solve this problem Zee group came up with a plan to start a league which will help Indian Cricket team. But the insecure BCCI rejected to support this league.

Lets wait and watch what happens in days to come.

Cricket | MyThoughts | World Cup Cricket 2007

4/8/2007 1:51:25 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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We have all seen invisibility used in science fiction movies. The spies use invisible car to flee away from the location. Well, now scientists are working to make this a reality.

An article in Popular science magazine shows us how it can be a reality and what are the theories of the scientists . The trick is to use metamaterial, a complex hybrid structure of metal and insulator that makes light move around an object like air flowing over an airplane wing.

In a process called refraction, these materials interact with light in such a way that it travels faster through the metamaterial than it does through a vacuum, the famed c in Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Properly tuned, the light emerges from the shield as if there were no object present.

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4/4/2007 1:47:55 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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Newlaunches.com has published a list of Top 10 Apple products that flopped. People know Apple for its series of products starting with supersticious "i" like ipod, imac etc. but many of you might not be knowing about the products developed by Apple that flopped badly. This list by Newlanches.com gives us an idea of the top 10 flop products of Apple.

This kind of lists are always debatable and many of you might think otherwise, but I had fun going through this list. This list of flop includes the "Apple Cyberdog" product that Apple released to compete with Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

Another such product was "Apple Pippin" which was the technology of multimedia player marketed by Apple, they were able to sell only 42000 units.

 Have a look at the whole list on Newlaunces.com.

Apple | Purely Idotic Stuff

4/2/2007 1:46:15 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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