Why Telangana need to a separate state??

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Does video games spoil kids??

I would like to share my personal experience about video games.

Last month on vacation i went to my home town for couple of weeks. Like most of us, Internet has become very much part of my life, can't stay away from it for couple of day. I usually spend most of my leasure time in browsing stuff of my interest. As i had not carried my laptop to home town, i had to look for some local net cafe center (even though net speed is dam slow). My home town has 4 to 5 Internet cafes, i usually go to near by cafe which had 9 old desktops approx all in white..!!

On a Monday morning i was in real hurry to do some money transfer to one of my friend, who need it in urgent and send out some important mails to office. The moment i reached the net cafe i was saw a bunch of kids in the cafe(age group of high school). I asked the cafe person that "can i get a system by chance?". He smiled at me and said "this week is full of holidays so all the kids are here to play video games, not sure but you may get one after an hour". So i returned back home, had to kill some time at by watching TV stuff, then came back to cafe hoping to get one.

I was given the same old reply by the cafe owner. So i moved to next cafe check out (hoping to get one). Annoyingly, this cafe was also much busy with kids all over the place playing games. I waited for half an hour there turned back home and to come in evening.

In the evening when i went to my near by cafe with serious intentions to finish my work. Shockingly kids were still glued to computer playing dam seriously like hell, this time i got wired and ask owner to get me one boss!!!, but he said i had no other option than using cafes owner desktop to finish of my work(which he usually does not allow customer to use it). Quickly i finished my work and turned back.

From my observation i figured out that kids were playing without a break for hours together(some had skipped lunch also), as they were are of such kind which take hours to finish one game, cafe owner make decent money by make kids to addicted to games(I observed this even with some big boys). Video games make kids to get more aggressive towards them and losing interest on studies and even rest of the real world around them. So i think parent should keep an eye on kids, what they do in holidays. Its far better if they do send kids to training camps of some physical games or dance or music class which would build self confidence rather than this mind hijacking games.

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How Companies Make Money??

Hi Readers, this week posting is contributed by my dear friend Sana Khan

To understand how companies make money, let me take few classic examples from different sectors of our industry.

Firefox
Firefox one of the most popular application on Internet and highly used freeware software in computer history, so how do they buy time and money for their research and development projects?? Firefox actually earns approximately $ 40,000,000 per year!! Google pays all this amount on making Google as default search engine toolbar on Firefox main page. The deal with Google helps Firefox to earn there 85% of total earnings. People also donate to Firefox for there development work, donation also plays an important role in earning money. And rest of money comes from T-shirts and other accessories with high price tag at Firefox stores, people like to have brand on what they wear and use.

Media
To explain how media makes money, let me take an much localized example of our Telugu Television Channels and Newspapers. Media earns a large amount of share from advertisement. Ads are of two categories Commercial and Entertainment. The market rate for 10 seconds advertisement on Television varies from Rs 7000 to Rs 30,000 on non-news channels like Gemini TV, ETV and Maa TV. These are going rates for commercial products such as real estate, cosmetics, Mobile phone, insurance and all other ads you see on TV. Usually Commercial ads are buyed on annual basis. The Rate of Entertainment ads would be fraction of the commercial ads, with varies from Rs 1900 to 2500. This concession is mainly because movie trailer also have 'entertainment value' for the channels and of interesting to audience too.

Pepsi and Coca Cola
Its really amazing to know how much these beverage companies make out of each sale. As they manufacture these products in bulk so that would not cost them much. Lets take a small exam of Aqua water bottle sold at various bus stops, railway station and shopping malls would cost around Rs 14/- Liter. Almost with the same quality localized home deliver suppliers are selling 20 Liters of water Can for Rs 25-40 approx with fair enough profits. This clear shows how much these beverages companies make out of each product. Lets take another small exam of cool drinks
For instance price of coke = Rs 12
The total cost of production filtered = Rs 2.50
For whole sale dealer's profit margin = Rs 1.00
And for retailer = Rs 0.50

Remaining Rs 8/- goes directly into the pockets of Companies. Out of these ample profit they spend little amount on advertising and branding. As these companies are usually MNC's major amount of profit is shipped across the sea's sadly... People may have to think of some alternative Indian products which would help our nation at least to circulate our money with in the county.

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Hurry!!! I Got My Data Backkk

A few weeks ago, my desktop was not booting up at all, just a blue screen comes up when every i tried to start it. Some times it just restart on its own, it was behaving strange like a ghost in a machine. I guessed it may be because of OS problem. So thought of trying open source software Linux(As i had little experience in my college days with Ubuntu, actually its not so much user friendly as Windows). Some how could get a Ubuntu CD from one of my friend.

I installed it into my system with usual setting, then i went to desktop option to check some old stuff, desktop was simply empty, i thought Ubuntu must have over written the C drive. When eventually i checked the Drives i could see only 1 drive out of my 5 partitioned drives. And all other 4 drives seems to be missing, this one drive was of around 160 GB in size, it triggered a spark in dark rooms of my brain saying that "YOUR DATA IS LOST BOSS..!!!!". I had to open that drive to believe my eyes that every thing is lost.

I felt like i m seriously in deep shit at that moment because i had so much of my personnel stuff stored in the system like pictures taken on several events at college like convocation day, friends birthday parties and lot more videos, which took 2 years to collect and those were my all time favorites. I never though i would loss them just like this. Really got angry on myself for losing them.

Later after a couple of days of research on the Internet, i found that lost data could be recovered using some recovery software's. It really build up some hope of getting my data back. Then after with further research found that some software called "Partition recovery software" was available on some paid site for which they were charging some $ 50. And that would guarantee to recovery all the lost data. Initially thought of going for it, then tried to find some open source software (which were free of cost).

Finally my search ended with www.4shared.com , where i could find Partition recovery software. Then execution started by connected my hard drive to one of my friends system making my hard drive as secondary, installed this software on my friends system, started to scan my hard drive and could get bit slowly but most of my data back.

I m really happy now after recovering 80% of my valuable stuff back..!!

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