The 10 Million Mac Year

Although Jobs became “iCEO” in the summer of 1997, Apple acquired NeXT in late 1996 for what would become OS X, and got Jobs for free. It was the best deal the company has ever made. Just look at the numbers.

After watching this clip I feel bad for not having not followed Big Boss 3.

Man !! Raju Srivastava is awesome, superb !!! watch Raju Srivastava’s Jack and Jill’s bhojpuri remix…

Driod from Motorola coming soon, releasing this Nov. Hope it gets released in India too…
its to be seen if Droid is all set to create a new fad like Razr… Will the robot do the trick for Motorola ? its to be seen !!!

Droid is a GPhone, Powered with Google's Android platform. Specs are amazing Android 2.0 (Echlair) powered by 600 MHz ARM Cortex Processor !!! Wow !!!

There is Acer Liquid too making waves, it runs on Android 1.6 powered by powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. There is Dell too getting into smart phone business with their Android offering. But nothing is more tempting than the smart phone from the manufacturers of the the first practical mobile phones. Hail Moto !!

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In today's scenario for a smart phone manufacturer to succeed, it should either be Apple or it should manufacture GPhones powered by Android.**

Otherwise the demise is certain: The first victim NOKIA : 2009 Q2 result : Sales down 24% – Profits down 72%.
                              
** Considering that Microsoft does not pull out something spectacular with WinMo 7.0.

Interesting times for a cell phone consumer.

Jenson Button is finally victorious, thoroughly deserving victory. Who would have thought at the beginning of the season that Brawn F1 would have had any kind of chance to win the championship. The championship is a great tribute to Jenson who stayed with the team when Honda backed off from F1, agreed to be front-line driver for Brawn F1 despite the pay cut.

Hats off to Ross Brawn, to have faith in the team and the car. Honda made a big big mistake by exiting F1 arena this season. When it was time to reap the benefits hard work and R & D that had put in previous 2 years, they unfortunately gave up F1.

I was surprised when I learnt that they managed the entire season with just 3 chassis. That’s really cool. Demonstrating that it is possible to do well in F1 with tight budget. I’ve not spoken anything about Barrichello, he too has done extremely well. However I’m not a big fan of Barrichello.

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Coming back to the race. Force India started the race in the second row along side Trulli. I really hoped Force India would score points this time around. In the last race Sutil spun off and lost 5 places if I remember right. This race was also unfortunate for Sutil, he crashed into Trulli’s car. They had a war of words infront of the camera, Trulli was fined for his behavior.

Webber won the race another good result for Red Bull F1 team. His team-mate also did a commendable job by finishing 4th, he started from 12th position.

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Looks like Niko Roseberg will replace Barrichello as the Brawn driver, Barrichello is most probably going to fill in Niko Roseberg’s shoes with Williams. Kubica is moving to Renault filling the spot emptied by Alonso. There is still no hint on where Kimi will be driving next season. There is high probability that he might join McLaren team. Toyota has a slot open Kimi might have a chance there aswell.

BMW ruled out from the next season, Williams F1 team will use Cosworth engines. Lotus F1 is back into F1 next season. Lots of changes next season, it will be interesting as usual.

Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .

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Amazon

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world’s oxygen supply.

The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .

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Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Ninety percent of the world’s ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy  percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

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Brazil

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

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Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village.

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Chicago

Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

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Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

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Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

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Los Angeles

Los Angele's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula — and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

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New York City

The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time – The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin , Ireland ; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy ; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel .

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Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is manmade.

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Pitcairn Island

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

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Rome

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome , Italy in 133 B.C.  There is a city called Rome on every continent.

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Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

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S.M.O.M

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta  (S.M.O.M). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican.  It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.

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Sahara Desert

In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island . There has been no rainfall there for two million years.

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Spain

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits

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Roads

Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, in Canada : 75%

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Russia

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen – so massive that the mud coming from the hole was “boiling” with it.

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United States

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .

Jenson Button might be completely disheartened by the qualifying results. He will be starting 13 places behind the his team-mate Rubens Barrichello and a threat to Jenson’s championship dreams. Vettel one more championship contender was eliminated in the Q1 of the Qualifying so was Lewis Hamilton.

Force India’s Sutil did well to finish 3rd to start in the second row behind Barrichello and Webber. Sutil has a big job of keeping Trulli and Kimi at bay, both driving cars equipped with KERS. Liuzzi also did well for Force India if not for this crash.

Jenson will need some luck to score some points and maintain a good lead ahead of the final race at Abu-dhabi. Barrichello is lighter on fuel this will pose an opportunity to Webber. Anything can happen in tomorrow’s race I do not think the same line-up will win the race in same order. Brazil is in for some action.

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Apart from this, There was one more interesting move by Kubica to move to Renault next season From BMW Sauber. Its still unclear where Kimi is heading.

The race turned out to be a damp squib. All my high expectation fizzed out.

Adian Sutil was in good position to score some points for Force India, he was in 9th position, Jenson Button breathing down his neck. However things went bad for Sutil when he spun trying to overtake Heikki Kovalainen. He then lost four positions to end the race at 13th position, ahead of Liuzzi’s car in 14th position.

Japanese GP - 2009 (image from www.f1fanatic.co.uk)

The front runners ended up in the same order as the started. Vettel, Trulli and Hamilton taking podium positions. Kimi finished fourth. Its was in the second half of the race that Kimi actually began to push his car. I seemed as if Kimi is getting into the groove.

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Its not yet clear where Kimi will be going next season. Alonso moving to Ferarri there is a slot empty at Renault. There are also rumors that McLaren might recall him. It will be interesting if McLaren recalls him, and Alonso joins Ferrari. The best drivers get the best cars, it will be a battle to watch.

Button needs one good race to tighten his grip on this year’s championship. With two races to go, Barrichello has a good chance of spoiling Button’s party. Vettel has an outside chance, in case Button does very bad in next two races. Anyways I want Button to win the championship, for all his hard work and perseverance he has put in all these years. Hoping Button does well in the Brazilian GP.

Good performances by Force India in Belgian and Italian GP, re-kindled my interest in F1. Last couple of races the McLarens and Ferraris are performing better than they did in the first half of the season. This is the first time since I began watching F1 that the McLarens or the Ferraris not occuping any of the top two slots in the constructors championship. Brawn-Mercedes sitting pretty on top of the constructors campionship table and Jenson Button and Barrichello of the same team are in first and second positions leading the Drivers Championship table.

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Japanese GP Qualifying

The Qualifying was accident prone. Three drivers Jaime Alguersuari on Torro Rosso-Ferrari, Timo Glock on Williams-Toyota and Heikki Kovalainen on McLaren-Mercedez crashed. Timo Glock’s accident was serious not sure if will be able to race tomorrow. Every time a car crash red-flag was waved, lot of time was lost in the process.

Japanese GP Leaders (image from news.bbc.co.uk)

Sebastian Vettel lead Qualifing Red Bull-Renault ahead of Jarno Trulli on Toyota and Lewis Hamilton on McLaren-Mercedes. Force India’s Adrian Sutil ended fourth.

However the Brawn pair, Fernando Alonso, Adrian Sutil and Sebastian Buemi are demoted 5 places for failing to slow when yellow flags were waved in a crash-strewn qualifying session [starting grid]. I hope Force India will be able to score some points, and Button be able to keep his championship lead. 2 more races remaining this season Vettel has a slim chance of upsetting Button’s lead. It is interesting to see how this will unfold.

Looking forward to watch the race tomorrow.

Wondering what was wrong with this guy to keep is 2 daughters and wife locked for seven years. Probably some kind of a mental patient. And over all that the guy has the audacity to claim that he did not do anything wrong. Locked up for 7 years, what was the man thinking !!! And over all that neighbours were totally unaware of this. Feel sorry for the folks who get stuck up in this kinda mess for no mistake of thiers. Really sometimes feel blessed to have all good people around.

The results are interesting. I always thought Japanese cars were more fuel effecient. The results suprised me European cars on top of Japanese counterparts. Ford Feista the more fuel effecient car !!

And no car powered with FIAT multi-jet engines were considered as contenders. ( Late realization : all the cars shown in the show run on petrol, that explains why ? )