Tech news!

Last couple of days I have been following tech updates meticulously. I have not done that before but I am kind of amazed by learning how journalists write about technologies and tech companies. I think the entire journalism is based on hoax. People have been publishing rumors shamelessly. Insufficient research behind every article is almost impossible to miss. Many article shamelessly copies other article as well. I am not asking you to buy my words, just pick a tech word (let say "Kindle Fire") and google it. The first few search results are saying the same things and you can find the similarity in wordings as well. 

Now interestingly the things they are talking about are most likely rumor! Ooops! I don't understand how come a rumor become a news! Are we living in twenty first century? Finally, analysis! I have no idea what they were thinking when they were writing those articles. Well, no analysis is full proof but those analysis are far from perfect they are just garbage. Somehow they kind of habituated with the idea that it is okay to write hoax and garbage about technology. 

Back in 07 Google published an hoax about Toilet Internet Service Provider and one reputed Bangladeshi news paper published it in their technology column. Back then I was kind of amazed how come they published something without giving a second thought. I was thinking maybe, we are living in a developing country and where all latest technologies are not readily available; and so it is conceivable that they kind of believe whatever they heard. But when I found the same thing here in most advanced technologically developed county and I kind of get the idea that technology is beyond the reach of journalism. Please leave it alone. 

Chronicle of a Mundane Life

I just learn couple of days ago that my wife has been secretly following my blog for a long time. Well interesting but not unexpected. In this age of information almost everyone does ego searching and it is not quite surprising at all that she found my blog and followed it. I have been writing tons of garbage for so long, so it is not unimaginable that some of my idea is quite offensive for her. Sure it is, some ideas are really offensive. But what I learned from the entire story is implication of blog on my real life and other people perception about my blog.

I think I wrote couple of post regarding purpose of this blog. Well! did I say couple of? Technically if I have to articulate the same things many times then there must be something wrong in the articulation or there could be something wrong in the subject itself. I guess the former is the case here. I think I myself don't know what is the purpose my blog. Having a purposeless thing does not bother me at all, so I don't mind. But all I want to say I am not here to write gospel. My words are not eternal. These are my momentary thoughts. Do they have big/significant implication on me? Could be, but it's a set of independent events arranged in chronological order.

Some of my friends think the entire blog is a bullshit; yes! that's what it is. The entire blog is a bullshit but I like to have this bullshit with me for some time like we all love to nourish our weakness for our entire life. Is it hypocrisy? If you wanna see it that way, I don't mind. It is a chronicle of 'a' me. If it does not go well with your sense of morality, I am a bad person then. Don't come here again. But let 'one' me live the way it wants to.

Carried by the wind

I've crossed the edge where time disappears

My life has been taken by the charm of the seer

My conscience is clear, I committed no sin

My spirit roams free now, carried by the wind

My mission has failed, the spell has been cast

I wasn't the first one and I won't be the last

This can't be the end, so let it begin

My message will reach you, carried by the wind

Out here on Mars I now realize

Mankind has vanished, tears fill my eyes

There must be a world I can live in

My spirit will find it, carried by the wind

My message will reach you, carried by the wind

My spirit will find you, carried by the wind

[Ayreon]

Eid Mubarak

Eid! It always sucks, sometimes it sucks  even more. Festivity is the part of human culture for a long long time and religious festivity is always at the center. Nothing can shatter the world like religious cause and festivals. Well festival is a necessary step of mythological evolution. It gives the cause for the people to be together and share common ideas. I always have trouble with social gathering where I don't have any particular role to play. I get confused what I am suppose to do. I am little bit of unsocial, well may be not unsocial I took little long time to blend and the problem with social gathering is I never had enough time to blend. 

Sometimes the gathering becomes pretty stressful. I was thinking of starting a fresh semester. Starting with a stressful day is not good for me at all. At the end of the week I am stressed feeling low esteem. I had my whole day doing things that really hate to do. Some of these days make the life thinking worse things. I am never good at managing my emotional stress. It is pushed toward worse. The whole thing makes me thinking. maybe, some part of my personal life is becoming more stressful than I can handle and hence it is eventually affecting my work. Well, I am thinking of this possibility; this is not good. I need little more courage to handle. I am always afraid of violent outburst; if it does I am afraid there would be no one to control. Anyway, Eid sucks, as it did before.

Evil in our eyes

We have been brought up with this idea that nature has whole lot of problems and all we have to do is to make our living despite all evil of nature. We have drought because mother nature decided not to pour any more water, we have flood because mother nature decided to pour extravagantly. People is small island die because mother nature decided to take wash them up. We cannot make mega structures because our dear earth can start quaking any time. Then we have learned the glory of human civilization. How we are taming our earth. We made wonderful things so that mother nature listens to us not the other way around. Up until now everything was great. But then suddenly I stumbled upon another view about nature.

Mother nature is so because it is meant to be so and all these are glory of it. They are the beauty of mother nature. They are not meant to be conquered, they are meant to be glorified. All we have to do is adapt with its will. Mother nature is not evil anymore and we did not born with noble of cause of correcting it. We have to live with it. This is how it is supposed to be and we have to embrace it. We know what we have done to the only known planet that can foster us. Why don't we try other way around, instead of taming this beautiful planet why don't we learn adapt with it. Sure, you can tame a wild horse, but the horse would no longer bear the beauty of wilderness.

Well, I am not the first person who found this idea fascinating. I am not a nature lover or protector in any consideration. But I found this idea equally beautiful in other contexts of life. We all fight with each other; we try to make other people believe they are the evil and we are the one who are the chosen being for correcting them. We all complain about each other and we all are right. I wish if we could have the second view. I fight with my dearest people like an animal believing I am the avatar straight from heaven; my noble duty is to show them the right path. I wish I had the opposite view. I wish I learned to live with them, embraced them as they are and learned to adapt with them. I wish I could be little more acceptable.

I saw people dying to correct the evil in their birth. Their is no evil in any birth, there is no right in dying. We see evil in other people's face. It is not in other people's face, it is in our eyes. 

Parallelism

"These are astonishing similarities. And if we believe, as most modern students do, that the Indians' achievement was made independently, and their progress was not stimulated from overseas, then we reach a very significant conclusion. We can infer that human beings possess an innate urge to take certain definite steps toward what we called civilization. And that men also possess the innate ability, given proper environmental conditions, to put that urge into effect. In other words, we must consider that civilization is an inevitable response to laws governing the growth of culture and controlling the man-culture relationship." - Looking backward, Kidder.

Well, the idea is fascinating but equally disturbing.

The Paradox of Our Times

Is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers

Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints

We spend more, but we have less.

We have bigger houses, but smaller families

More conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees, but less sense

More knowledge, but less judgement

More experts, but more problems

More medicines, but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often

We have learnt how to make a living, but not a life.

We have added years to life, but not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back

But have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.

We have conquered outer space, but not inner space.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted our soul.

We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We've higher incomes, but lower morals.

We've become long on quantity but short on quality.

These are the times of tall men, and short character;

Steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare,

More leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are the days of two incomes, but more divorces;

Of fancier houses, but broken homes.

It is a time when there is much in the show window, and nothing in the stockroom.

~ Unknown Author

Tablets: An Elusive Revolution

When iPad was first introduced in 2010, I was little bit skeptical, I was asking do I need one? Well many people were asking the same question. I was used to familiar with the idea of tablet since early 2000 when Microsoft first introduced the idea. I was not too excited about the product and like other people I was not very convinced. Things have changed so much now, millions of tablets are sold in every month. Some tablet enthusiast even believe that tablet is the next way to go. Tablet will eventually replace mobile phone, pc and what not. You name it they will replace it with tablet. Apparently tablet is in the driving sit of post-pc revolution. Surprisingly my position has not changed since then. I still don't know why I need a tablet.

Truthfully, I am not in a position to spend any money for any fancy gadget. Definitely 'need' is a big word for my spending. Unlike many people 'need' is not the new word for 'desire' for me. So, I have to carefully justify the need before decide to purchase. Sure, for people like me the word tablet has a very little use (if any). Apart from all that I feel like tablet is probably not the right way to go. I know big people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs used to believe tablet is the future of the industry; somehow the whole tablet thing never been able to convince me.

Smartphone was a big step forward from whatever we used to have. Smartphone redefined the use of the cell phone that we used to have. What could be most use of tablets: book reading, browsing, media consumption. Well specifically, tablet is a media consumption device! Aha. so that is the use of tablet! I see the use of tablet as a media consumption device. But my imagination stops right there. I cannot take it any further! Even though tablets are becoming ubiquitous. Some guy is India use his tablet to change the education system, aircraft industry is planning of use iPad as a real-time flight simulator, fire fighters are using it for live layouts. Even I have no trouble imagining tablets as a widespread ad-hoc mobile network that have the potential to replace wired network of today and torrent over that really possesses the possibility of replacing the internet of today. But remember all these can equally be done with a smartphone and they both share a serious problem: input!

The input is simple not convenience. Touch is an interesting way of input but it is not convenient. Technically touch is a mechanical way communication. Being a mechanical way of communication it has high degree of error, hence we are never gonna achieve a touch sensitive device with arbitrary precision. If your device is limited by input, theoretically is limited by output as well. Well that's theory but practically there is no limitation; the biggest problem is smartphones are more convenient (let alone its ancestor pc).

The second problem is no matter how powerful your tablet is there would always be a same powerful smartphone and high powered pc. So the only advantage it offers is its little bigger screen. If a smart phone can come up with bigger screen the requirement for tablet is diminished. When I say bigger screen I mean to say bigger projection of the screen. My point is: a device with only advantage of having bigger screen with whatever display cannot sustain the evolution where more convenient devices compete with it. (I am assuming tablet is not gonna replace pc anytime soon, if you are not convinced why you don't know pc at all) 

The only advantage tablets have over smartphones is in content consumption which is primarily because of bigger screen size. I have no problem imagining a device that solves the problem. Well devices with multiple convenient screen can easily solve the problem. I am sure there would be more innovative way of solving this problem. Well smartphone would be a narrow name for it then; it would be less phone and more of something new then, but not surely not tablets as we know them today.

When a new sustainable technology emerged it would enable countless new technologies to bolster its echo system. Tablets have no such things; everything it has is borrowed from either smartphone or pc. It does not give us anything new. Therefore my bet is tablet would not rule too long. Sure it is a successful business product of today; it is a killer product but it not a technology of future. 

Babe

Babe I'm leavin' 

I must be on my way 

The time is drawing near 

My train is going 

I see it in your eyes 

The love, the need, your tears 

But I'll be lonely without you 

And I'll need your love to see me through 

So please believe me 

My heart is in your hands 

And I'll be missing you 

'Cause you know it's you babe 

Whenever I get weary 

And I've had enough 

Feel like giving up 

You know it's you babe 

Givin' me the courage 

And the strength I need 

Please believe that it's true 

Babe, I love you 

You know it's you babe 

Whenever I get weary 

And I've had enough 

Feel like giving up 

You know it's you babe 

Givin' me the courage 

And the strength I need 

Please believe that it's true 

Babe, I love you 

Babe, I'm leavin' 

I'll say it once again 

And somehow try to smile 

I know the feeling we're tryin' to forget 

If only for a while 

'Cause I'll be lonely without you 

And I'll need your love to see me through 

Please believe me 

My heart is in your hands 

'Cause I'll be missing you 

Babe, I love you 

Babe, I love you 

Ooo-oo-oo-oo, babe

[Styx]