Las Vegas

Getting a chance to goto this city, on the second day of my first job ( getting which was a dream in itself after 8 rejects !) was like a dream come true. This city grows on you and with time you may either get bored of it or may start liking it. In my case, the latter has happened, and I am loving this place. I guess one of the reasons for this is the bright and sunny weather, which sort of comes as natural to me, coming from India... This weather is most definitely waaay better than the hyper erratic Atlanta weather !

I am a bit bored now though, not because of the place, but by the people here. Everything seems very artificial to me, I guess the beauty of this place also has similar foundations and like a double edged sword, this factor sometimes tends to make Vegas a less alluring place. The smiles on the people's faces seem planted, they seem artificial, they seem temporary and about to vanish as soon as you lose their sight...

- My Kadi bhau instincts have helped me from going Bankrupt till now [:D] ... Casino score till now is .. $ 40 lost ... and today I won .. 74 cents [:D]

- It's like being in the middle of nowhere.

- the roads are narrow, and the speed limits are as less as 25 at many places.

- is totally unlike Atlanta

- becomes like a totally different city from evening through to morning .... it's beautiful..

India Trip 2008 !

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Visa power :

- Weekday Buffet at Cafe Bombay : $ 11.5

- Lunch at Tin Drum : $ 6.5

- Taking a pleasure ride on a Cessna at the PDK airport : $ 100.

- Surprising your parents by unexpectedly appearing infront of them after 2 years, by arriving from the US infront of the doorsteps completely unannounced, seeing their facial expressions at such a moment : Priceless !

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Pune

- Koregao Park is heaven, or so I have heard.

- It was interesting to see the following written in Hindi :

"Vhej Peeejha"

"Cheej Peeejha"

"Phyvyoor Vhej" { Pure Veg }

- Apache is nice ..

- No matter which Chicken dish you order they will always put "Kadi Patta" in it.


Indore :

- Food still rocks.

- Roads still bad.

- Bhaijaan still going strong

- St. Paul's is still the best.

- Saraswati sir is as sharp as ever.

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Legal Issues in Tech transfer

Tech Transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer

Many companies, universities and governmental organizations now have an "Office of Technology Transfer" dedicated to identifying research which has potential commercial interest and strategies for how to exploit it. For instance, a research result may be of scientific and commercial interest, but patents are normally only issued for practical processes, and so someone -- not necessarily the researchers -- must come up with a specific practical process. Another consideration is commercial value; for example, while there are many ways to accomplish nuclear fusion, the ones of commercial value are those that generate more energy than they require to operate.

The process to commercially exploit research varies widely. It can involve licensing agreements or setting up joint ventures and partnerships to share both the risks and rewards of bringing new technologies to market. Other corporate vehicles, e.g. spin-outs, are used where the host organization does not have the necessary will, resources or skills to develop a new technology. Often these approaches are associated with raising of venture capital (VC) as a means of funding the development process, a practice more common in the US than in the EU, which has a more conservative approach to VC funding.^[1]

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in technology transfer intermediaries specialized in their field. They work on behalf of research institutions, governments and even large multinationals. Where start-ups and spin-outs are the clients, commercial fees are sometimes waived in lieu of an equity stake in the business. As a result of the potential complexity of the technology transfer process, technology transfer organizations are often multidisciplinary, including economists, engineers, lawyers, marketers and scientists. The dynamics of the technology transfer process has attracted attention in its own right, and there are several dedicated societies and journals.

USPTO
http://www.uspto.gov


TOWARDS A EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE AREA
http://ec.europa.eu/invest-in-research/pdf/kf_2007_prepub_en.pdf

more or less, it laments the current spending in the EU for Industrial R and D and also focuses on the growing investment by Asian economies on R and D spending.

Kailash Mansarovar Yatra Tour operators

http://www.atmadarshan.com/

Planning and Organization...

Planning and organization is very important. It is very important to focus to not being lazy. Also, not just doing work is important, but the rate also matters. If the rate at which you work is high, then you can do more stuff, and the stuff may mean work or even fun. So, high rate equals more productivity and higher diversity of output.

Mind is the most important 'animal'/creature to be controlled. Once you do that, everything is positive and possible.

The C++ FAQ and C FAQ

The C FAQ
http://c-faq.com/

The C++ FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/

It is good because :
1. It is comprehensive.
2. Contains links to other sources of Info like the ANSI / ISO standards
3. Is associated with an active discussion group.

Some links for C freaks

what are root causes ... research debugging more xtensively ...

http://home.att.net/~jackklein/c/inttypes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache

http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/transputer/chapter6/chap6-1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection