Science Fiction is perhaps the least understood, most abused and most underrated genre of literature out there. The beauty of Science Fiction is that it thoroughly explores the nature of man and his relationship with the cosmos. Science Fiction is not about star travel, alien contact or a bunch of weird planets out there. Star Wars for example, is not at all SF, it is fantasy. For this reason, a lot of anthologies have both fantasy and SF stories together. Not that I don't like fantasy, Moorcock can easily give Asimov a run for his money in my book, but it is very unfair to the genre to classify good SF books with vampires, dragons, dwarfs, wizards and the lot. It is also unfair to the genre to classify futuristic fiction, or fantasy books such as Artemis Fowl as SF. Star Wars is again the biggest example of this very misconception. It is a universe where guys with crystal-produced laser swords fight around on a desert planet wearing cloaks woven out of alien animal hair. It is not scientific. Good SF is based on hard facts, on science, on being technically accurate. Lightsabres have no place in a proper SF story. Some people tend to call this genre of SF as hard SF. The 'hard' in Hard SF is not the same as 'hardcore', it is not about how outrageous or how intense the depiction of the science and technology in the in-story universe is, it is about how technically accurate the science is the story is. All of Arthur C Clark's books for example, are so technically accurate, that many a times science has caught up to his ideas. This is because most of his stories were based on the latest developments in the field at that point of time. He is one of the few SF authors who has dabbled in faster than light travel, knowing that it was impossible - his most favorite work, 2001 being an example of it. Some of the best SF books I have read is already heavily out of date - which is a good thing, as it shows clearly the technical accuracy of the writing. For example, when Jules Verne wrote 20,000 leagues under the sea, undersea travel was impossible. He came up with the word 'submarine' for Captain Nemo's Nautilus. Around the world in 80 days was a great effort of immense love towards the planet. It was the time when the world was a big, great place, with infinite possibilities hiding around every meridian. Man's relentless conquest of the planet was the thing that led to later generations of SF writers to look towards the stars. And the stars are a long way from being conquered.
Moorcock's 'A fall of moondust' is by far the best example of authentic SF that I have read. He has written better books, 'Sunstorm', The Rama series, and the odyssey series, but 'A fall of moondust' is realistic, scientifically accurate, and has a degree of psychological depth alien to the SF genre. Anderson's 'Kyrie' and Robinson's Mars trilogy are other good examples of - there is no other word for it - proper SF works. The best and most intense of the lot is probably the works of Michael Flynn - the Nanotech Chronicles. Read some of it recently, and it is a a beautiful piece of science fiction, exploring the cultural and social impact of new technology as much as exploring the details of the technology itself. There are equations and allusions to ancient mythology in the same work. There was a guy called Kalpit in the book and I was mid-way through it before realising it was an Indian name. Unfortunately, there are not many such books out there - maybe because publishers won't go for them, maybe because they are not really popular. There are however, exemplary short stories in the genre, and the only way to find them is to hunt through the hundreds of anthologies where one gem is hidden somewhere.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
wtf
Thilak to Me
Hi Aditya, I am not spaming your mailbox dude (as you said spam me in your blog). My name is Thilak. I found your blog when i was searching for wordpress in google blog search. Your blog is really really cool. You see those header changes everytime.
And i wanted to put your link in my blog www.digitalife.co.nr are you interested (ofcourse i want a reciprocal link, y this method we can increase both google and technorati rankings
Aditya MJ to Thilak (the godforsaken motherfucker)
Dude... what you are doing is desperate and wrong. Stop copying stuff from my blog and putting it on yours to gain more rankings ok... do your own thing, dont be such a loser. what the fuck is this about man? What the hell are you trying to achieve? why did you do this?
Thilak to Me
Hey I know you copied the Wordpress vs Blogger from digg because i know that that was put in digg. If it was really written by you I would have given the Credits at the bottom of the post. You u copied it from somewhere else you don't have the moral right to tell it to me.
BTW if you praise Wordpress then why do you use Blogger.
Aditya MJ to Thilak
Copied from where man? I wrote it... send me the link if you think I copied it from somewhere... Just put in a link to my blog. I use blogger because of all the template editing that I did, and I don't really want to use the categories. What do you mean put in digg? I swear I wrote it - have proof for that too, mailed it somewhere... just tell me where else this has appeared, will nuke their asses too.
In your case, this seems to be an honest mistake, the wordpress Vc blogger thing is my creation. I was about to put yout link in my blogroll when I gave your site a visit and found my article there! I was obviously pissed, but I WROTE THAT. I did not copy that from anywhere, just tell me where dude. I am not some kind of a loser who copies...
And if you took it from somewhere else, then why did you not link it to THAT page?
cheers
Thilak to Me
u don't know about digg. & i swear man this stuff was put in digg.com if u don;t believe me just go to digg.com and do a search
Aditya MJ to Thilak
Ok, the article at http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/ looks like nothing on my blog, or yours. It is in a different format, has points that are not in my article, and there are some points in mine that are not on that article. You have not written both articles, yet you put it on your blog without a link to either site.
I HAVE written the article on my blog... and yours. This is from expirience after using both the serivices.
Thilak to Me
I don't know Y do u lie so much. If you copied then admit it. The whole issue is over. Or just tell me i'll put a link back to your blog from that post
Or if you insist i will delete the entire post OK.
OK dude I apologize for what i did. OK now lets be good friends .
Are u participating in Google Code Jam.
Ok. The hate is justified - so here goes - You are a good for nothing ad-sense whore. Go fuck yourself in the ass, after cutting your dick off. After that, find a horney donkey and get it to fuck your ass again. IT still would not be enough punishment, so put some ointment on your sore pussy and pray to God that you will pick up some sense some time.
Hi Aditya, I am not spaming your mailbox dude (as you said spam me in your blog). My name is Thilak. I found your blog when i was searching for wordpress in google blog search. Your blog is really really cool. You see those header changes everytime.
And i wanted to put your link in my blog www.digitalife.co.nr are you interested (ofcourse i want a reciprocal link, y this method we can increase both google and technorati rankings
Aditya MJ to Thilak (the godforsaken motherfucker)
Dude... what you are doing is desperate and wrong. Stop copying stuff from my blog and putting it on yours to gain more rankings ok... do your own thing, dont be such a loser. what the fuck is this about man? What the hell are you trying to achieve? why did you do this?
Thilak to Me
Hey I know you copied the Wordpress vs Blogger from digg because i know that that was put in digg. If it was really written by you I would have given the Credits at the bottom of the post. You u copied it from somewhere else you don't have the moral right to tell it to me.
BTW if you praise Wordpress then why do you use Blogger.
Aditya MJ to Thilak
Copied from where man? I wrote it... send me the link if you think I copied it from somewhere... Just put in a link to my blog. I use blogger because of all the template editing that I did, and I don't really want to use the categories. What do you mean put in digg? I swear I wrote it - have proof for that too, mailed it somewhere... just tell me where else this has appeared, will nuke their asses too.
In your case, this seems to be an honest mistake, the wordpress Vc blogger thing is my creation. I was about to put yout link in my blogroll when I gave your site a visit and found my article there! I was obviously pissed, but I WROTE THAT. I did not copy that from anywhere, just tell me where dude. I am not some kind of a loser who copies...
And if you took it from somewhere else, then why did you not link it to THAT page?
cheers
Thilak to Me
u don't know about digg. & i swear man this stuff was put in digg.com if u don;t believe me just go to digg.com and do a search
Aditya MJ to Thilak
Ok, the article at http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/ looks like nothing on my blog, or yours. It is in a different format, has points that are not in my article, and there are some points in mine that are not on that article. You have not written both articles, yet you put it on your blog without a link to either site.
I HAVE written the article on my blog... and yours. This is from expirience after using both the serivices.
Thilak to Me
I don't know Y do u lie so much. If you copied then admit it. The whole issue is over. Or just tell me i'll put a link back to your blog from that post
Or if you insist i will delete the entire post OK.
OK dude I apologize for what i did. OK now lets be good friends .
Are u participating in Google Code Jam.
Ok. The hate is justified - so here goes - You are a good for nothing ad-sense whore. Go fuck yourself in the ass, after cutting your dick off. After that, find a horney donkey and get it to fuck your ass again. IT still would not be enough punishment, so put some ointment on your sore pussy and pray to God that you will pick up some sense some time.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
gagagoogle
For most people, Google is the only thing that makes sense of the chaotic mishmash of information that the internet is. Innovations like the page rank system, a simple and minimalistic search interface, and a high speed of search returns ensured that people kept coming back. The search engine receives the most number of hits per day for any website in the world, and "google" is a dictionary recognized verb. Despite serious privacy concerns and various allegations of improper trade practices, Google has consistently been the market leader in the segment. However, this was not always the case. There was a time when chatting activity on MSN networks had reached such heights that Parent Teacher Associations across America and Europe had called for various bans and restrictions. MSN was the harbinger of the social networking era, with extensive participation across its forums. The biggest drawback with hotmail was how stingy they were with the amount of space they gave out in the inbox. For this reason, Yahoo! was the preferred e-mail service provider of choice for many, and the avatars had their fifteen minutes of fame. This was, however, before gmail came along.
One GB of space, that was four times more than what anyone else was offering around that time. You had to get an invite, which were so precious that people were offering money, limbs and souls on e-bay to get one. Everyone who had access to the internet wanted one, and eventually, everyone had a gmail id. What was really surprising was the ease at which gmail developers introduced innovations that caught on. Using labels instead of folders, a chat interface over the e-mail interface, and the grouping together of sent and replied e-mails were all simple but effective ideas. In a span of a couple of years, it became easy to guess anyone's e-mail id, because most started following the firstname.lastname@gmail format which spread like wildfire.
In the year 2002, Google spotted great potential in blogger and bought them out. Blogging created a whole knew platform for expression. Blogging introduced a new model for keeping a website continuously updated. Its influence on popular culture cannot be discounted, the band All American Rejects made a music video out of blog entries on postsecret.com, the scandalous love lives of America’s Capital city were catalogued in washingtonienne, and in India Gaurav Sabhnis had to resign from IBM after IIPM threatened to burn IBM laptops over Sabhnis’ posts on false claims by IIPM. In authoritarian countries like China and Singapore, blogs were – and still are the only medium for expression of discontent by the general public. To tell the truth, the amount of bloggers out there has actually reduced, and there are a lot of abandoned blogs, but blogger was responsible for the onset of photoblogging, podcasting, and vlogging, which were the early precursors of something that would change the landscape of the audiovisual media.
Every minute, ten hours of video are uploaded on YouTube. Everyone from Street Musicians to amateur short film makers get a worldwide audience. Uploading videos and streaming the content onto the computers of visitors was a complicated process before YouTube came along, and now anyone can do it. Additionally, pasting simple blocks of HTML coding allows the videos to be shared on blogs, social networking sites and almost any website.
"Google dictates almost everything I do online” said a friend of mine “As soon as I log on, I check orkut and gmail, then head over to youtube and spend some time there. If I want to surf, google is my starting point.” This increasing dependence on the search engine, and their apparent monopoly in the market has led to a lot of concerns. “If google takes over the world,” said the same friend “it would be pretty convenient actually.” While internet users in India may seem dependant on the search engine, there is still plenty of scope for getting more involved. For one, the number of search results for products and services in the local area are not nearly as prolific as they are in the Americas or Europe. Google is only a search engine, and there is only so much it can do with a very limited number of business houses and corporations having an online presence. The Yellow Pages is still the best place to go to if you want to buy something like say – spray paint. Another aspect is that newspapers and television are still the primary sources of news and entertainment. While many publishing houses do put their reports online, there are no independent news agencies working on specific beats or watching particular areas of interest as yet. Additionally, the bandwidth constraints of most Indian connections make it a tedious process to load videos and only the best of the best, handpicked by the grapevine get watched.
There is a flipside as well, with a lot of parents being uncomfortable about the boisterous nightlife that underage teenagers on orkut enjoy, cookies that never expire, tracking search behavior across many sessions, and privacy concerns about google’s revenue generating baby, ad-sense. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has a simple answer, “Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”
What to look forward to?
* A desktop widget that lets you know if your local vendor just got a fresh stock of apus
* Sangli farmers selling secondhand tractors on e-bay
* Independent opinions on things like the n-deal or the stock markets on online news channels that have no affiliations with publishing houses or their advertisers
* More active online forums and discussion groups with a lot more offliners
One GB of space, that was four times more than what anyone else was offering around that time. You had to get an invite, which were so precious that people were offering money, limbs and souls on e-bay to get one. Everyone who had access to the internet wanted one, and eventually, everyone had a gmail id. What was really surprising was the ease at which gmail developers introduced innovations that caught on. Using labels instead of folders, a chat interface over the e-mail interface, and the grouping together of sent and replied e-mails were all simple but effective ideas. In a span of a couple of years, it became easy to guess anyone's e-mail id, because most started following the firstname.lastname@gmail format which spread like wildfire.
In the year 2002, Google spotted great potential in blogger and bought them out. Blogging created a whole knew platform for expression. Blogging introduced a new model for keeping a website continuously updated. Its influence on popular culture cannot be discounted, the band All American Rejects made a music video out of blog entries on postsecret.com, the scandalous love lives of America’s Capital city were catalogued in washingtonienne, and in India Gaurav Sabhnis had to resign from IBM after IIPM threatened to burn IBM laptops over Sabhnis’ posts on false claims by IIPM. In authoritarian countries like China and Singapore, blogs were – and still are the only medium for expression of discontent by the general public. To tell the truth, the amount of bloggers out there has actually reduced, and there are a lot of abandoned blogs, but blogger was responsible for the onset of photoblogging, podcasting, and vlogging, which were the early precursors of something that would change the landscape of the audiovisual media.
Every minute, ten hours of video are uploaded on YouTube. Everyone from Street Musicians to amateur short film makers get a worldwide audience. Uploading videos and streaming the content onto the computers of visitors was a complicated process before YouTube came along, and now anyone can do it. Additionally, pasting simple blocks of HTML coding allows the videos to be shared on blogs, social networking sites and almost any website.
"Google dictates almost everything I do online” said a friend of mine “As soon as I log on, I check orkut and gmail, then head over to youtube and spend some time there. If I want to surf, google is my starting point.” This increasing dependence on the search engine, and their apparent monopoly in the market has led to a lot of concerns. “If google takes over the world,” said the same friend “it would be pretty convenient actually.” While internet users in India may seem dependant on the search engine, there is still plenty of scope for getting more involved. For one, the number of search results for products and services in the local area are not nearly as prolific as they are in the Americas or Europe. Google is only a search engine, and there is only so much it can do with a very limited number of business houses and corporations having an online presence. The Yellow Pages is still the best place to go to if you want to buy something like say – spray paint. Another aspect is that newspapers and television are still the primary sources of news and entertainment. While many publishing houses do put their reports online, there are no independent news agencies working on specific beats or watching particular areas of interest as yet. Additionally, the bandwidth constraints of most Indian connections make it a tedious process to load videos and only the best of the best, handpicked by the grapevine get watched.
There is a flipside as well, with a lot of parents being uncomfortable about the boisterous nightlife that underage teenagers on orkut enjoy, cookies that never expire, tracking search behavior across many sessions, and privacy concerns about google’s revenue generating baby, ad-sense. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has a simple answer, “Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”
What to look forward to?
* A desktop widget that lets you know if your local vendor just got a fresh stock of apus
* Sangli farmers selling secondhand tractors on e-bay
* Independent opinions on things like the n-deal or the stock markets on online news channels that have no affiliations with publishing houses or their advertisers
* More active online forums and discussion groups with a lot more offliners
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