Winners are not quitters...

Hello....

I came across this post somewhere on other blog and found it quite inspiring..
So here I share you this with you all...


In 1962 four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out."

The group was called "THE BEATLES".

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of Blue Book Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norman Jean Baker, "You would better learn secretarial work, or else get married"

She went on to become MARILYN MONROE.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired a singer after one performance. He told him "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back drivin' a truck."

He went on to become ELVIS PRESLEY.

When a gentleman invented a communications machine in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to see one of them"

He said this to ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.

A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and and not being able to solve simple problems. She told him he would not become anything in life. His mother, however believed in him and coached him in Maths.

The boy went on to become ALBERT EINSTEIN.

In 1940's, another young inventor took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. Finally, a tiny company in New York, The Haloid Company purchased the rights to his invention - an electrostatic paper copying process. Halid became Xerox Corporation.

The young inventor was CHESTER CARLSON.

A candidate for a news broadcaster post was rejected because of his voice. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never become famous.

He is AMITABH BACHCHAN.

A small boy - fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father used to sell newspapers in his village to earn a living. He was not exceptionally smart in school, but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the space Odyssey of India single-handedly.

He is now the President of India - Dr. APJ ABDUL KALAM.

A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!!


Here's the reference to the above article..
http://ourlifeabroad.blogspot.com/2007/03/winners-are-not-quitters.html

My exams are starting up in few days... so now I wont be so regular in my post.
Anyways, bye for now... and keep smiling... :)

Experimenting with stocks @ NASDAQ, NYSE.... :D

As I lost 3000 bucks in the first day of my virtual trading in the Indian stock market, I decided to try my luck in the NYSE and the NASDAQ markets... as some of my favourite companies are listed in these markets... yup.. Google too :D cheers to Google :)

So, after searching for "virtual" stock simulator for these markets, I found "investopedia.com" for myself to experiment on... I swiftly went through the registration pages and got my registration done... as it was only 1830 hrs here in India.. so there was still half an hour left for the markets to open... i checked out some techie stocks on finance.google.com... and again... hats off to google for creating such an awesome application for simple and very fast analysis of stocks... just awesome...

finally the clock ticks 1900 hrs and i started off watching the market... first come the Google itself... :) bought it at $529 and as expected straightaway giving profit to my piggy bank :) as always expected... :) Then i eyed at Microsoft.. :) and bought 50 of it at $38.91... and again started making profit with it... :)

firstly, i decided to go on with this till 2100 hrs and then back off.... but................... i closed it at 0130 hrs only when stock market closed... :D

then i started reading some business news :) and see how stock fluctuates with effect from the business news... one company (i dont remember the name) was purchased by another giant company GlaxoSmithKline..... and guess.... the stock price of the company shoot up 80% straightaway... :D :D this shows how the expectations build up among the investors when they are purchased by big companies...

i bought many more shares including GlaxoSmithKline, Apple Inc, nVidia, Hewlett Packard, and many more....

The stock market was highly fluctuating.... one time making profit of $220 and other time $50... my heart was beating so fast with the market even being bidding in the virtual market.. god knows.. what will happen in the real world... :D

finally, the stock market closed and I ended up with making $169.54 profit on the first day itself... (1.19%) which was above the market rise.. :D now i can think myself of being a good investor.... so give me your money... and i will grow it up.. :)

Now its quite long for today... will end up now... will write soon....



byeeee

Getting weird with wireless.....

evening is quite a boring time to spend here :(, with nothing really exciting to do. all you can think about after 9 hrs of classes is to get some rest. but it seems gods had a different plan today. i was tweaking with my wireless router, when it just occurred to me how wonderful a thing is wireless. so i just thought to start a series about the what's and how's of wireless. and what could be a better forum than this blog.
it will be trivial to say that the world of wireless technologies is unbounded(yet, i said that :D).
so to start with i choose one very familiar topic-BLUE TOOTH. just as a matter of fact(though many of the readers may be knowing this), i must mention that Blue tooth was named after a 10th century Viking King, Harald Blatand (Bluetooth in English), who united Denmark and Norway - hence the inspiration for the idea of 'uniting devices with Bluetooth'. ( good analogy.. :D )

Bluetooth started in 1998 when five major companies (Ericsson, Nokia, IBM, Toshiba, and Intel) formed a group to create a license-free technology for universal wireless connectivity in the handheld market. Today, there are more than 800 companies using Bluetooth technology in their devices. and needless to say, we're witnessing the v2 today.

so what exactly goes behind a Bluetooth device, lets talk in some detail.
first things first.... core specifications.....
As with other technologies, Bluetooth also has a Bluetooth protocol stack which differs from the "classical" seven-layer networking model in some ways... (we leave "seven layer networking" for some other day)
At the base is radio frequency protocol... next comes Baseband.. followed by Link manager protocol, Audio, Data, HCI Protocol, Service Discovery protocol and lastly the Applications...

radio frequency - The radio is the lowest layer. Its interface specification defines the characteristics of the radio front end, frequency bands, channel arrangements, permissible transmit power levels, and receiver sensitivity level.
what makes bluetooth a license free technology is its 2.4-GHz ISM(Industrial, scientific, and medical) which is globally available for license free usage. though this specification varies around the world (US and countries like Spain and France using different Bandwidths for the same purpose), bluetooth ingeniously overcomes this problem by providing 79(yes 79!) 1 MHz spaced bands for US and most of Europe while 23 1 MHz spaced bands for japan, france and spain.

watch out for "why bluetooth is a success and security issues related to bluetooth" in our next post... :)