today on TNL i saw this JHU monk... rathana hamuduruwo saying that being politically liberal tends to embrace western values... where ppl eat well... get drunk etc..
it was a political debate... they were debating some act passed by the parliament on having bars close to schools and religious places of worship...
its good that the act specifically mentioned "religious places of worship".... 'cos a bar is a place of worship to some liberals....
if i had no desire to eat tasty animals... drink alcohol... get high... and eat again... and use deodarants... i'd be a bigger monk than him... and since this abstinence would make my smug cloud so big i'd want to go preaching to those lost souls about how drinking is bad... (and how its okay to pirate software, music and movies...)
and now they want the govt to ban alcohol and tobacco completely... 'cos apparently the natural log of the rate at which the natural log of the rate at which ppl are getting high is increasing exponentially...
y = e^((ln (d(ln (dx/dt)/dt).c)) + C
and they'd ban meat and the whole country will eventually turn up to be a monastery... and there wont be anyone to populate... 'cos no one will have the desire to populate...
ah not cool... so as an act of civil disobedience... we should drink more and eat more tasty animals or else there wont be anyone to populate the country!
i wonder what the govts policy is on software and movie piracy...
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
time dilation and the international space station
surface radius of earth,
R = 6,378.137 km
orbital radius of the international space station,
r = R + (319.6 + 346.9) / 2 = R + 333.25 km = 6,711.387 km
from gravitational time dilation:
rs = 0.0088356 m
t0 = 1s * 0.99999999934 = 0.99999999934 s
so someone living in the the ISS will be 0.00000000066 seconds younger for every second on earth...
hmmmm
that is... for every 1 earth year... a person living in ISS will be 20.77 milliseconds younger!... so if he/she lives for 48 years in the ISS he/she will be 1 second younger!
R = 6,378.137 km
orbital radius of the international space station,
r = R + (319.6 + 346.9) / 2 = R + 333.25 km = 6,711.387 km
from gravitational time dilation:
rs = 0.0088356 m
t0 = 1s * 0.99999999934 = 0.99999999934 s
so someone living in the the ISS will be 0.00000000066 seconds younger for every second on earth...
hmmmm
that is... for every 1 earth year... a person living in ISS will be 20.77 milliseconds younger!... so if he/she lives for 48 years in the ISS he/she will be 1 second younger!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
i'm selling my iMac G5





i'm selling my iMac G5
well it's not really mine... it belongs to UITier (my company)
the bid starts at: Rs 85,000
i bought it in Sept 2005 but its like brand new... 'cos i like to keep things clean
;)
i have the original DVDs
check the wikipedia article on iMac G5s
and also the official Apple press release
why am i selling it? 'cos they are gay... havent you seen those mac vs PC youtube videos? and 'cos its redundant...

for a list of installed software pls contact me via gmail: shehal@gmail.com
this model does NOT come with the remote or does NOT have built in blue tooth
Machine Name: iMac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac8,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Bus Speed: 600 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.2f2
Serial Number: YD4415SFPP8
DVD-Writer: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Memory: 1GB
Size: 2 x 512 MB
Type: DDR SDRAM
Speed: PC3200U-30330
Hard Disk: 150 GB
Capacity: 149.05 GB
Model: WDC WD1600JD-40GBB2
Revision: 09.05M09
Serial Number: WD-WMAES3955685
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ata
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial-ATA
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Connectivity:
Built-in Fast Ethernet
WiFi
Video
GeForce FX 5200:
Chipset Model: GeForce FX 5200
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: AGP
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0329
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 2103
Displays:
20 inch Display:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-bit Color
Built-In: Yes
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
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