Top Gear | Bugatti Veyron | Top Speed Test

James May driving the Veyron up to 253 MPH. (407KPH)
See the google video at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5098456791096422307

India's technology before the suppression from British colonialism

The English confrontation with Indian rockets came in 1780 at the Battle of Guntur.
The closely massed, normally unflinching British troops broke and ran when the Indian Army (or specifically: Tipu Sultan's army) laid down a rocket barrage in their midst.

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/rocketry/11.html

The British thoroughly examined the Indian specimens to reverse engineer and making its copies that were later used successfully in naval attack on Boulogne(1806)[5], siege of Copenhagen(1807)[6] and also against fort Washington(New York) during America independence war, that is recounted as, "rockets' red glare" in U.S. National Anthem "The Star Spangled Banner"[7].

After British colonialism, the lack of political and economic independence stymied Indian science and military technology for 150 years till 1947 when it finally threw away the yoke of foreign occupation, to transition back as an independent sovereign nation state.

Wipeer: Free Wi-Fi software eliminates need for routers/access points

Free Wi-Fi software eliminates need for routers

April 19, 2007 (Network World) Researchers are making available software they say can be used to link nearby computers via Wi-Fi without a router and that someday could be used by cell phone users to make free calls.

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology scientists say their WiPeer software (available as a no-cost download here) can be used to link computers that are within 300 feet of each other inside buildings to more than 900 feet apart outside.

The wireless link can be used to swap photos, conduct online chats and even transfer a 700MB file in 15 minutes or less, the scientists say.
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Read the full story at:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9017180

Wipeer site:
http://www.wipeer.com/

What would be our (programmers) fate in the days of "Self-programming" machines?

I was just goin thru some sites referring to automatic programming....

A machine is just told what to do and not on how to do that...

And some real good work (from Dr. Koza) has been already done in this field...machines have been able to invent new electronic circuits and even found out many patented circuits.... So is self-programming for a machine nearby? Is it some other kind of software revolution ready to take over (similar to industrial revolution)...

most of the times its under the name of Genetic programming....programs evolve to solve a problem..... it makes me think what problem of this world am I solving???

People can see the link below:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

I think even Microsoft's DSI and IBM dynamic systems are initiative on the same side

What are the other types of job a software engineer is capable of??? (other than effectively ordering pitzas through google voice search). I am already feeling out of options

Comments at codeproject can be seen at the link below

http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?forumid=1159&fr=401&select=2002068#xx2002068xx

Whats the IDEAL food for a programmer?

Like the body builders need food with vitamins, minerals, proteins,etc to be the best in the world.....what food does a programmer require to build the best programs?? Any advice from experts???
Options (but not limited to these): Caffiene/BEER????
Feel free to put your comments here....

See the link below for comments received from codeproject :)

http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?forumid=1159&fr=351&select=2002361#xx2002361xx

OCRopus Technology Preview Release (open source)

An Open source document analysis and OCR system

The OCRopus engine is based on
1 . a high-performance handwriting recognizer
2 . and novel high-performance layout analysis methods.

They are expecting it to be an excellent OCR system for many other applications.

You can see more details at
http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

Google's pitza delivery service: Gootza

Wow. Google starts GOOG-411 a voice local search.

It says: Search for your pizza store on the phone. Can it redirect the call to the pizza store directly...or do I have to write down the numbers.

Google might prepare to enter the Pizza business and give a great competition and you will get a pitza named Gootza with the colored Gooooooogle topppings....great hmmm...

I don't know when they will be starting their world wide Gootza delivery.


Okay...enough fun....you can find more details on so called Gootza below

http://labs.google.com/goog411/

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Hacking the world - Geo-locate incoming emails

Hi,

I have recently published an article : Geographically locating incoming emails
http://www.anupshinde.com/articles/Hacking-The-World/Geo-locate-Emails/

The article here is nothing new, but I would just like to share with you people a trick that has been very useful to me in past few years, especially for superficially scrutinizing cyber-strangers.

There is much software out there that will allow you to geo-locate the incoming mails and thereby making this task much easier to perform. For those who want to use this information only casually, the article shows a simple procedure.

If you have any suggestions or any more ideas that you would like to be published. Please let me know.

Thanks and regards,
Anup Shinde.

Hello everybody