Sunday, April 29, 2012

Gaming companies indirect assassination attempt of PC as a Gaming Platform

Gaming use to be a subject of ridicule and criticism few years ago where it was attached to a personality of losers who are not so intelligent or bright to do something else and still living in the kinder garden but today it is a multimillion dollar serious industry targeting people of every age and family.
Even though PC has always been the soul and the primary market of Gaming industry the appearance of consoles like x box, playstation, wee etc has given some advantages to the game studios and the companies which make such consoles. The piracy can be controlled on such console based games where as the same thing cant be true for PC and unlike wee where per game you have to buy separate toys to play a game and wee can make money per game, in pc only the studios who make the games make money. Building a gaming pc is a one time investment but with consoles they can reap money out of their customers even after they purchase the hardware and software. Now PC being the major gaming platform and they simply cant neglect it so they are trying cheap tricks to divert  the PC games to console gaming by making them feel that they are in a stage of disadvantage compared to the console based games where as it should be the other way around in reality.
The first example for this should be the Batman : Arkham City but the best example will be the recent EA blockbuster Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect 3 employs the same cheap trick of arkham city but to a whole new level. It is a common sense that since a PC has more keys per 10 fingers than a console could ever have per 2 thumbs (as almost all the consoles are used with just 2 thumbs) which might not be a good idea for the ergonomics and you might fracture your thumbs after 20 hours of gameplay like me; however EA has cleverly made sure that in PC you have a disadvantage where as a PC gamer whenever you are running around the corner or near a cover you always sit and cover even though that is not what you want to do. Imagine you are running away from a heavy fire and you want to jump a small wall and take cover on the other side but instead in a PC you will be forced to sit in front of the cover/wall and then get up and then jump over the other side of the wall and take cover where as in a console based game you will just be jumping over the wall and take cover; obviously you will get killed as a PC gamer and you see that a console gamer (x box or playstation) can easily do what you wanted to do without that disadvantage. This is all because for a PC gamer there is just one key [space bar] for running, sitting and take cover, jump, roll over to the left side, roll over the right side in-spite of the abundance of keys on a keyboard compared to a console. If you have a PC and a console like xbox then play for yourself and you will know.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra and the importance of its first word


ॐ त्र्यम्बकम् यजामहे सुगन्धिम् पुष्टिवर्धनम् ।
उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान् मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ।।
aum tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam
urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt
[Another poular versino is]

ॐ [ह्रौं ॐ जूं सः भूर्भुवः स्वः] त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे
सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनं |
उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान् मृत्योर्मोक्षिय मामृतात् ||"
[बूर्बुवः स्वरों जूं सः ह्रौं ॐ]
Please read the details about it here Mahamrityunjaya_Mantra
This is all known but what I have noticed is the importance of the first word त्र्यम्बकं trayambakam. *Traya=3, Ambakam=eye; meaning the one who is 3 dimensional, or 3 eyed one or 3 eyed reality or the one who sees 3 dimensionally or sees everything. *amba=mother; so traya/trya=3(brahma vishnu maheswara the hindu trinity), the mother of 3, that means it also represents the same message of gayathri mantra where it worships the one true god. *Here trya/traya can also represent 'THE THREE' or 'THE Trinity' that is vrahma(a), vishnu(u), maheshwara(m) meaning aum and the amba=mother. so traymabakam=brahma vishnu maheswara and the amba(mother) *if you consider here traya symbolizing the 3 eyed then amba the mother, so tryambakam may well mean shiva and amba or shiva and shakti or shashakti.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A North / South Indian GIRL as WIFE


[This is from a facebook post, this is satire post]
1. At the time of marriage, a north Indian girl has more boyfriends
than her age.

2. Before marriage, she looks almost like a bollywood heroine and
after marriage you have to go around her twice to completely hug her.

3. By the time she professes her undevoted love to you, you are
bankrupt because of the number of times you had to take her out to
movies, theatres and restaurants. And you wait longingly for her dowry.

4. The only dishes she can think of to cook is paneer butter masala,
aloo sabji, aloo gobi sabji, aloo matar, aloo paneer, that after
eating all those paneer and aloos you are either in the bed with
chronic cholestrol or chronic gas disorder.

5. The only growth that you see later in your career is the rise in
your monthly phone bill.

6. You are blinded by her love that you think that she is a blonde.
Only later do you come to know that it is because of the mehandhi that
she applies to cover her grey hair.

7. When you come home from office she is very busy watching "Kyonki
saas bhi kabi bahu thi" that you either end up eating outside or
cooking yourself.

8. You are a very "ESpecial" person to her.

9. She always thought that Madras is a state and covers the whole of
south india until she met you.

10. When she says she is going to "work out" she means she is going to
" walk out"

11. She has greater number of relatives than the number of people you
have in your home town.

12. The only two sentences in English that she knows are "Thank you"
and "How are you"



*** WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A South Indian GIRL as WIFE ***

1.Her mother looks down at you because you didn't study in IIT or
Madras / Anna University .

2. Her father starts or ends every conversation with " ... I say..."

3. She shudders if you use four letter words.

4. She has long hair, neatly oiled and braided (The Dubai based Oil
Well Company will negotiate with her on a 25 year contract to extract
coconut oil from her hair.)

5. She uses the word 'Super' as her only superlative.

6. Her name is another name for a Goddess or a flower.

7. Her first name is longer than your first name, middle name and
surname combined (unless you are from Andhra)

8. When she mixes milk/curd and rice you are never sure whether it is
for the dog or for herself.

9. For weddings, she sports a mini jasmine garden on her head and
wears silk saris in the Madras heat without looking too uncomfortable
while you are melting in your singlet.

10. Her favourite cricketer is Krishnamachari Srikkanth.

11. Her favourite food is dosa though she has tried North Indian
snacks like Chats (pronounced like the slang for 'conversation' )

12. She bores you by telling you which raaga each song you hear is
based on.

13. You have to give her jewellery, though she has already got plenty
of it ..

14. Her Mangal Sutra weighs more than the championship belts worn by
WWE wrestlers.

15. Her father thinks she is much smarter than you..... :D ;D

Friday, April 13, 2012

What Cancer Causing poisons do you have in coke and pepsi?

sodium monoglutamine
potasium sorbate
rominated vegetable oil
methyl benzyne
methyl benzoate
endosulphon(insecticide)
CO2
phosoporic acid

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