Friday, August 31, 2007

OpenSource economy

It always been hard, to guess how those open source guys are making money and if there are no "free lunch"es around, where are these free cookies coming from and at what cost,
Issue is quite debatable still the author tries to throw some answers at you.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Wineeey - wine color guide

I came to know this post through my friend,
and I though that it'll be of great help for all my wine loving friends.
This post contains an exaggerated palette of wine colors and their associated meanings. It looks like wines on the darker end of the spectrum are older and/or may have oxidized and are therefore not in their prime, while the lightest wines are generally very young and a bit immature. Wine aficionados, Enjoy!
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/08/07/wine-color-guide-for-quality-and-age/

Bits manipulation

I came across 2 nice articles about bit manipulations. Both has techniques of how to count set/off bits in an integer. What makes them interesting is it describes how to do it in constant time and memory. It has nice explanations in lined.
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~manku/bitcount/bitcount.html
http://tekpool.wordpress.com/tag/bit-fiddling/
last link also has discussion of swapping 2 numbers without using temporary space, using X-Or operator, mentions an interesting case if 2 numbers are at same memory location.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Chak De, India

I watched "Chak De, India" some days back...
It was real fun watching this movie with all shahrukh'a fan arround cheering and shouting... It was great !
Long time since a sensible movie by Shahrukh, I think after Swades.
Movie is really nice, not just cuz I like this actor's performance. But cuz it's not a tipical bollywood movie with a hero + heroine + his/her mummy dady + couple of bad guys(sometimes father+mother come under this term too) + some romance and songs, but this is a movie with a good story, some nice characters and a lot of commercial risk.
Movie is sports gener, has one of the his great performances by Shahrukh and co-actors. Shamit Amin never let the movie track go out of his hand not even wen it's Shahrukh in cast, that's the reason u see there is no such focus on Shahrukh and that's wat makes thai movie different than any other shahrukh's movie.
Movie surely gets successfull to entertain u, and makes u cheer for the team too !!!
Go watch it !!