Monday, October 30, 2006

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

News from its initial days was a dry 10-15 minutes program.The focus used tobe the happenings, their possible cause, how it affected people etc. I still remember that message on Doordarshan that came at the crucial point in an ongoing movie or a cricket match "match/movie follows the news telecast". That was real irritation for us. News telecast was typically twice a day, morning and night. Just 10-15 minutes were sufficient to cover news across the globe.It was a safe time to switch off your TV or have a break. There used tobe no breaking news. But still we heard or saw the news first only on TV. I still remember the news readers Manjari Joshi, shami narang, Sumit tandon etc.
News had clearly marked segments like happenings in the country, inter-national news and at
the end sports news. Entertainment news, only if something big happened. National awards etc. News on film pesonalities only if their health is upset or if they pass away!
Typical events qualified tobe a news item were statements by national leaders, their speech,
their national/international visits. Sports events such as hockey, athletics and cricket. Crime news covered only if it affected the nation. Attack by terrorists, was the only crime news.
I still miss that news on Doordarshan. Now we have 24X7X365/6 news channels but that rarely feeds the news that we need.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Mind to us humans is as microprocessor for PC. It executes instructions which
are assigned to it.Mind is massively multi-threaded system. Multi-tasking and
multi-processing are natural to it. There innumerable i/o devices in our body
Five sensory organs are just few of them. There are sensors which detect those
signals opaque to major five organs.
All i/o 's function according to a scheduler. CPU burst and I/O burst has little
significance as system is massively multi-processing. But heavy duty by i/o reduces
concurrent CPU efficiency.
There is one massively multi-tasking module that acts as scheduler. This module
make mind process signals got by i/o in a sensible manner. It provides mind the
intelligence, the smart working nature.
Practically all cpu's are same in terms of processing power. The scheduler efficiency
determines system's efficiency.