Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Kapil
This I agree with - both pranayama and shavasana are superb for relaxing and focusing the mind. I also agree with the 'reputed person' suggestion ... not one of the new fly-by-night 'gurus' who combine these with ayurvedic massages from Kerala. Having said that I would highly recommend AGAINST

[silk] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

2006-12-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beyond the obvious playback-quality implications of deliberately degraded output, this measure can have serious repercussions in applications where high-quality reproduction of content is vital. For example the field of medical imaging either bans

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 28/12/06 12:27 -, Badri Natarajan wrote: It's another thing that I find that most folks in India don't take you seriously unless you appear to be breathing fire, but this is just not what I want to become. Any method in which I can deal with the uncertainities and stupidity that

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 28 Dec 2006 7:41 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: the things he is doing involve juggling insane amounts of state wat dat means - may I ask?

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 28/12/06 20:13 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: On Thursday 28 Dec 2006 7:41 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: the things he is doing involve juggling insane amounts of state wat dat means - may I ask? Things which require you to keep large amounts of data in short term memory, like programming,

[silk] India’s Place in the US Strategic Order

2006-12-28 Thread Thaths
NB: I have not read this fully yet. It is a long article that, from the snippets I've read, sound interesting. http://www.rupe-india.org/41/order.html In the following we address four questions: What sort of global power is India? What impelled the Indian government to take the three steps

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 29 Dec 2006 12:00 am, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Things which require you to keep large amounts of data in short term memory, like programming, mathematics, chess, writing ... Think of it as the equivalent of doing surgery while maintaining anaesthesia and blood flow and all the others

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
shiv sastry [29/12/06 06:19 +0530]: If the act of programming gets thrown of gear by life events, could your example mean that programming should really move from a single-person work overload paradigm to a more effective and cooperative multiple person work sharing arrangement so that

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 29 Dec 2006 6:22 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: it's already moved there .. or why do you think infy, cognizant etc hire so many people? Indeed - and if this is not reducing stress caused by life events there has to be something wrong somewhere. Right? shiv

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
shiv sastry [29/12/06 06:28 +0530]: On Friday 29 Dec 2006 6:22 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: it's already moved there .. or why do you think infy, cognizant etc hire so many people? Indeed - and if this is not reducing stress caused by life events there has to be something wrong

Re: [silk] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

2006-12-28 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 12/28/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt Scry stuff indeed, and it makes me want to turn rebel and kill a few no good suits in Redmond and Santa Clara (Intel). I am in the process of buying a PC for the