Choices - To go or not to go???
Long time Since my last post...
Must speak of the turmoil I face now...
One side lies comfort, 5 day weeks, Faster promotion. On the other lies 7 day weeks, Slogging day in & out, Bargains everyday... So where is the confusion???
The confusion is do you follow your heart? or ease in life???
Heart lies in the harder route, 'cos I enjoy it the most. Though its a 7 day week, I would be on field... Talking to dealers, in a position to create a difference... Striving for the targets, with scope for innovations every day, thinking on the feet, In-charge of the actual execution of my thoughts... Thats the best thing for me...
Then what about Comfort??? If in a good branch, things wont be hectic while allowing me to get my basics right. So, will Hyderabad be right???
I guess so. But if put in a challenging branch??? Then, Wont have an option but to learn to swim in the rough waters.
WHat about marketing??? God knows... For now, its Sales all the way...
Pride and Prejudice
Hmm...
Two years of ordinary and then kaboom... I am a star.
Get loads of resposibilities, get into not sales but sales strategy.
Every one is looking up to me expecting me to do gr8 things.
And what do I do?
Things get onto my head. And I overshoot. Going over people's head for even small things.
Tch tch...
Get these things out of your head. Thats what I should do.
Forget everything, keep your head down and work.
Be the nice guy you were.
Remember " Success comes to those who are too busy to look for it."
Of Jobs and the Like...
Jobs are tough. On both the planes. Physical and Emotional.
We have to be careful on what we speak to people on our job.
Learning 1: Dont trust any one blindly.
Learning 2: Watch your back.
Learning 3: Make your confidantes carefully.
More will be upadted as and when I learn them.
A New beginning.... A Poet rises
Thoughts elude me as I think of you
Not, this is, because of no feelings
A Problem this is, of too many
Peace I must make with me
Say I must yet say I do not.
Hmm... I wonder
Running behind the impossible,
I hope for the improbable.
Is it that I yearn for the impossible
or for the pain at not getting the improbable?
Well... D's and F's are an integral part of our lives in IIM Lucknow. We never had a gr8 fear of them, but it seems like our juniors are having to live with them.
I mean its like, the faculty had alloted a quota for every batch and this quota hadn't been fulfilled for the last couple of batches and so they decided 'what the hell, lets get it done with in this year'. Ok, huge exaggerations and extrapolations but seems like a explanation?
I mean, its stupid. The faculty gives the students exams to write where they throw any arbit stuff at them. Then, the students are given their marks which they can't appeal against. I mean, not even ask the prof why they were given those marks. Then why give the marks in the first place? As well, give the grades. Its like trying to remind the students that they, the faculty, are supreme. Then there is this whole process where grades are alloted. The faculty claims to follow a normal distribution but I don't think 40 D's out of 120 is a result of a normal distribution. And if so, it must be one helluva skewed Normal distribution. Then once the grade sheets are given there is no reprieve. I mean, you can't apppeal against it. I know of a friend who was given a grade drop inspite of her attending the classes. She shows the notes in the class and the prof agrees initially, but later when she talks to the PGP chairman, he 'mysteriously' says he can't help and the prof is now refusing to change the grades. Of course, the missing angle is that she is a topper and so is at no risk of getting kicked out. Some may say," So, what is she cribbing about?" but the point is if it has happened to the student whoz supposed to be in faculty's good books, who can be spared?
Though I dont say its the faculty's fault or the students fault alone, its definitely the fault of them both. On one side are studenst who shout at the prof that his class is finished and he must leave( rather rudely) on the other side are professors who say to the class that taking them in has been a terrible mistake and it must be corrected. I mean what the heck?
The faculty keeps promoting that the channels for communication must be open, etc., while the channel for communication between faculty and studenst far from being open does not even exist. The only way of interaction is through petitions. I mean, is this some communication? Whoz responsible for the students career? for wastage of their one year? All that because a student has dared to oppose you in class? I mean, come on guys, you are old and much more wise than us. Can't you forgive those students?
Also, many studenst need to mend their ways too. Working for cases, etc., need to be done. Also, things like respect are to be learnt (atleast by some students).
Lastly, the committee that decides the grades must have at least a few students to have a fair representation of their interests too.
Disclaimer: These are purely my thoughts and opinions.
BLACK is beautiful...
Speechless. Numbed. Frozen. Not the sigfns shown by a victim when hunted down, but rather my emotions on seeing BLACK. Ok, writing about a movie on a blog is pretty stupid, but this movie deserves a mention at least. Its a story of a blind &deaf girl's struggle to see the world. Amazing performances by all, but special mention of Rani Mukherji. My impression of her has gone up by a few notches on seeing this movie. I mean, a deaf, blind person acting that role is understandable but a normal person doing it? Its like, acting after 'unlearning' the most basic things you can ever learn. This is surely the best bet for India's entry to Oscar. In fact, if this doesn't get a oscar, 'SCREW OSCARS'.. They are nothing but hogwash.
Anywayz, I guess this is all I can write. Am still yet to come out of the BLACKness surrounding me.
I recently found this interesting article on Patents. The mother of them all!!! A Patent on Zeroes and Ones.
In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple Computer, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the Microsoft patent as monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that the 10-cent-per-digit licensing fee would bankrupt them instantly.
"While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used to create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at its core, just a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, whose company created the Java programming environment used in many Internet applications. "The licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be approximately 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
"If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no choice but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs, "and I have serious doubts whether this company would be able to remain competitive selling pedal-operated computers running software off vinyl LPs."
As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have begun radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer Oracle has embarked on a crash program to develop "an abacus for the next millennium." Novell, whose communications and networking systems are also subject to Microsoft licensing fees, is working with top animal trainers on a chimpanzee-based message-transmission system. Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new steam-powered printer.
Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground, maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of Microsoft.
"We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as they are legally ours," Gates said. "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives are Sanskrit cuneiform tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known as 'sunya,' or nothing. We also own: papyrus scrolls written by Pythagoras himself in which he explains the idea of singular notation, or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa al Kwarizimi explaining the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original mathematical manuscripts by Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed first-edition copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness. Should the need arise, Microsoft will have no difficulty proving to the Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these numbers."
Added Gates: "My salary also has lots of zeroes. I'm the richest man in the world."
According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's patenting of one and zero have yet to be realized.
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
Lattimore said that the only mathematical constructs of which Microsoft may not be able to claim ownership are infinity and transcendental numbers like pi. Microsoft lawyers are expected to file liens on infinity and pi this week.
Microsoft has not yet announced whether it will charge a user fee to individuals who wish to engage in such mathematically rooted motions as walking, stretching and smiling.
In an address beamed live to billions of people around the globe Monday, Gates expressed confidence that his company's latest move will, ultimately, benefit all humankind.
"Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes."
So, Does this mean we all become owned by Microsoft??? Something like the Matrix??? A Point to Ponder indeed.
