YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-GoldwynMayer’s archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company officials said. The YouTube site, owned by Google Inc, plans to make the announcement about the new partnership on Monday.
MGM Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of its decade-old American Gladiators program to YouTube on one channel.
On another channel, MGM will post full length action films such as Bulletproof Monk and The Magnificent Seven and also clips from popular movies such as Legally Blonde.
These movies will be free to watch, with ads running alongside the video. YouTube in October forged a similar partnership with CBS Corp to run full-length archived shows, including Star Trek, Young and the Restless.
Many TV networks already run short clips on YouTube, which also offers millions of home videos uploaded by users.
But until now, YouTube videos were predominantly short clips of ten min utes or less.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Use strong deodorant after workout
G ood gymwear is a must have for health conscious men. And if you are won dering what are the essential things you must carry to the gym, we will give you a lowdown.
Essentially, the bag that you carry to the gym should be small enough to fit in your gym locker and large enough to hold all your gym gear. Your gym attire should never be too tight to restrict free movement, nor should it be so loose that it gets entangled in the weights and gym equipment. Comfortable track suits or drawstrings and tees are all time favourites.
You must remember to always carry a deodorant in your gym bag.
After a long workout, if you don’t feel like hitting the shower immediately, spare a thought for the people around you. Carry a strong deodorant along with you and spray a generous amount after your workout.
Sudhanshu Pandey, a singer, actor and health freak, says, “Body odour is something that irritates me the most and some thing that people should take care of. One must always carry a deo in his gym-bag.” It is necessary to keep your body hydrated during workouts. A sipper comes handy when you’re tired and don’t feel like walking all the way to the gym’s water dispenser. A trendy and cool sipper enables you to enjoy chilled water, while you’re sweating it out in the gym.
When it comes to choosing what shoes to wear for the gym, one must settle for nothing, but the most comfortable and best-fitting pair. Most men prefer wearing trainers or joggers that are made of light, breathable material. The right pair of footwear could help you avoid injury, sprains, splinters and will also not put your body through unnecessary strain.
A towel and sweat-band is a must if you perspire heavily. “It is always better if you leave the gym apparatus and training mats free of sweat when you’re done. Towels are handy when it comes to keeping yourself and the gym equipment clean,” Sudhanshu adds.
An MP3 player is a must for those who get tired listening to Himesh crooning on the gym’s music player, they can listen to their favourite tracks while working out. Experts believe that listening to music, diverts attention from a strenuous workout. So, one could end up working out harder with lesser strain, while listening to his favourite music.
For people who shuttle between gym and work, Sudhanshu adds that carrying a change of clothes in one’s gym bag comes in handy when you’re pressed for time.
Essentially, the bag that you carry to the gym should be small enough to fit in your gym locker and large enough to hold all your gym gear. Your gym attire should never be too tight to restrict free movement, nor should it be so loose that it gets entangled in the weights and gym equipment. Comfortable track suits or drawstrings and tees are all time favourites.
You must remember to always carry a deodorant in your gym bag.
After a long workout, if you don’t feel like hitting the shower immediately, spare a thought for the people around you. Carry a strong deodorant along with you and spray a generous amount after your workout.
Sudhanshu Pandey, a singer, actor and health freak, says, “Body odour is something that irritates me the most and some thing that people should take care of. One must always carry a deo in his gym-bag.” It is necessary to keep your body hydrated during workouts. A sipper comes handy when you’re tired and don’t feel like walking all the way to the gym’s water dispenser. A trendy and cool sipper enables you to enjoy chilled water, while you’re sweating it out in the gym.
When it comes to choosing what shoes to wear for the gym, one must settle for nothing, but the most comfortable and best-fitting pair. Most men prefer wearing trainers or joggers that are made of light, breathable material. The right pair of footwear could help you avoid injury, sprains, splinters and will also not put your body through unnecessary strain.
A towel and sweat-band is a must if you perspire heavily. “It is always better if you leave the gym apparatus and training mats free of sweat when you’re done. Towels are handy when it comes to keeping yourself and the gym equipment clean,” Sudhanshu adds.
An MP3 player is a must for those who get tired listening to Himesh crooning on the gym’s music player, they can listen to their favourite tracks while working out. Experts believe that listening to music, diverts attention from a strenuous workout. So, one could end up working out harder with lesser strain, while listening to his favourite music.
For people who shuttle between gym and work, Sudhanshu adds that carrying a change of clothes in one’s gym bag comes in handy when you’re pressed for time.
Cell phone shopping makes wallets redundant in Japan
Japanese office worker Satoshi Tada pays for shopping, wins free food and gets store discounts all by waving his cell phone. “I use it pretty much every day,” the 25-year-old said. “You can charge money on it right there if needed, and you don’t have to run around trying to find an ATM. You can even get points because it's linked to credit cards.” The world's top firms such as Visa Inc and Nokia are still mostly testing phone use for payments, but in Japan, more than 50 million, or about half of all cell phone users, already carry phones capable of serving as wallets. KDDI, for example, is a Japanese telecom operator that has recently set up a bank along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest wireless carrier, offers credit cards and lending services as part of a tie up with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan's thirdlargest bank. Outside Japan, telecom industry and financial players are still in the midst of working out how the wallet phone payment business would operate, who would get a cut and when.“Traditional financial industry met telcos by going mobile. Now telecom operators want to play a part in that chain. These talks are well under way,” said Gerhard Romen, Director for Strategic Alliances & Partnering at Nokia. The world's biggest payment card company, Mas tercard, said last month it was in talks over commercial launches of phone wallets with several banks, and during the next two years it expects to see substantial activity from retail-focused banks. Tada, the Tokyo office worker, rarely pulls out his leather wallet these days as his cell phone does the job instead. “For shopping, I use it everywhere I can ... and I also use coupons such as Gourmet Navigator Touch wherever possible,” Tada said, citing services at some restaurants that offer coupons and free gifts when customers wave their phones at reader terminals.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
ROBOTICS IS THE FUTURE
T he current academic programme is heavily inclined towards the Engineering discipline and, the Arts and Pure Science streams have taken a back seat in the mind share of most students.Engineering, which was so long dominated by the IT industry is slowly changing and other courses are also gaining momentum. Across the state there are more than 250 engineering colleges and students are looking at better career options.
Technological advances have given birth to the age of robotics, and the field is luring more youngsters towards it. Papyrusclubs, a Deccan Chronicle initiative rightly anticipated the student psyche and launched a Robotics Training for students in Schools and Colleges. Robotics Orientation Program, a two day seminar for the students of IIT Chennai, was organised as part of the IITM –Saashtra 2008.
The students went through a carefully designed course covering the fundamentals of Robotic Engineering. This two day program focused on the art of building basic, manual and autonomous robots from discrete electronic components.
Building such intelligent and autonomous robots is an ideal way to explore the field of electronics and basics of robotics. Participants were encouraged to apply concepts that they learned in their classrooms, to employ their knowledge in new and interesting ways to create simple yet seemingly complex robots.
The program concluded with a competition in which participants had to build robots and demonstrate their capabilities in a soccer robot event. Certificates were awarded to all participants.
There was an overwhelming response for this program and stu dents from other parts of India too showed interest in the program.
The program validated the initiative of Papyrusclub in delivering knowledge enhancement programs for students.
Light emitting concrete at IIT
Can concrete trans mit or reflect light? Yes, it can and researchers at the civil engineering department of IIT Madras demonstrated it at the Open House 2008 held as part of the institution’s golden jubilee celebrations here on Sunday.
Litracon, the light transmitting concrete developed by them, using cement and optical fibre, was the centre of attraction in the stall set up by the civil engineering department.
“This type of concrete is not only cost effective but will help prevent major mishaps that can occur in street corners,” said Srikant Menon, a B.Tech student, who demonstrated how the light transmitting concrete worked.
This would also reflect the lights of vehicles coming from one direction to caution vehicles approaching from the other end, he added.
The concrete could replace mirrors and reflectors on the roads and also be used for erecting compound walls. The civil engineering department has also developed a quake resistant wall made up of sand packed in folded polymer sheets.
These walls could be used for foundations and basements in areas prone to earthquakes and landslips.
Among the other displays at the Open House were a sophisticated robot that could be used to carry out ISO prescribed tests on cars and another robot that could sense its way around without colliding with any object in its path.
The department of humanities and social sciences entertained the students, from the city schools and colleges, by conducting quizzes, games to test their language skill and poetry reading sessions.
The first ‘Open House’ was conducted 25 years ago to mark the Silver Jubilee celebrations of IIT Madras. This is the second such event and marks the Golden Jubilee of the institute.
Litracon, the light transmitting concrete developed by them, using cement and optical fibre, was the centre of attraction in the stall set up by the civil engineering department.
“This type of concrete is not only cost effective but will help prevent major mishaps that can occur in street corners,” said Srikant Menon, a B.Tech student, who demonstrated how the light transmitting concrete worked.
This would also reflect the lights of vehicles coming from one direction to caution vehicles approaching from the other end, he added.
The concrete could replace mirrors and reflectors on the roads and also be used for erecting compound walls. The civil engineering department has also developed a quake resistant wall made up of sand packed in folded polymer sheets.
These walls could be used for foundations and basements in areas prone to earthquakes and landslips.
Among the other displays at the Open House were a sophisticated robot that could be used to carry out ISO prescribed tests on cars and another robot that could sense its way around without colliding with any object in its path.
The department of humanities and social sciences entertained the students, from the city schools and colleges, by conducting quizzes, games to test their language skill and poetry reading sessions.
The first ‘Open House’ was conducted 25 years ago to mark the Silver Jubilee celebrations of IIT Madras. This is the second such event and marks the Golden Jubilee of the institute.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
How to Choose Smart Girls
Smart girls are sexy. They’re witty, insightful and they’re always wearing those funky darkrimmed glasses. Okay, maybe we’re generalising a bit, but our point is that it’s worth your time to learn how to pick up a smart girl. We’re talking about the kind of girl who tells great stories and the kind of woman who gets all your jokes. She’s a great conversationalist and she’s genuinely interested in the world around her. So the only question is: How do you attract intelligent women? Initially, it may seem as if the two of you don’t have much in common. Those obstacles, however, can be easily overcome.
1 Don’t fake it: Remember that scene in Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck tries to pick up Minnie Driver at that Harvard bar? Remember how he tries to look all smart and sophisticated, but instead he just ends up looking like a douche? Yeah. Don’t be that guy. When you’re trying to pick up a smart girl, it’s imperative that you don’t, under any circumstances, pretend to know something that you don’t. First, she’ll probably see right through your sorry act. Trying to sound smart will only make you sound dumb or worse: pretentious.
2 Don’t defer to her intelligence: OK, so you don’t want to act like a know-it-all, but don’t get caught playing dumb either. Just don’t fawn over her. Even if you’re legitimately in awe of her intelligence, don’t let on. Giving her compliments like “Wow, you’re so smart” or “I never would have thought of that” may seem harmless, but they don’t necessarily reflect positively on you.
3 Be honest about what you know: When you meet a really intelligent woman, you might find it difficult to carry a conversation if the two of you don’t share many common interests. But just because you haven’t had the same experiences doesn’t mean she’s out of your league. You might not be able to relate to her specific passions, but you do understand what it’s like to be passionate about something. Show her what you know and share your passions with her.
1 Don’t fake it: Remember that scene in Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck tries to pick up Minnie Driver at that Harvard bar? Remember how he tries to look all smart and sophisticated, but instead he just ends up looking like a douche? Yeah. Don’t be that guy. When you’re trying to pick up a smart girl, it’s imperative that you don’t, under any circumstances, pretend to know something that you don’t. First, she’ll probably see right through your sorry act. Trying to sound smart will only make you sound dumb or worse: pretentious.
2 Don’t defer to her intelligence: OK, so you don’t want to act like a know-it-all, but don’t get caught playing dumb either. Just don’t fawn over her. Even if you’re legitimately in awe of her intelligence, don’t let on. Giving her compliments like “Wow, you’re so smart” or “I never would have thought of that” may seem harmless, but they don’t necessarily reflect positively on you.
3 Be honest about what you know: When you meet a really intelligent woman, you might find it difficult to carry a conversation if the two of you don’t share many common interests. But just because you haven’t had the same experiences doesn’t mean she’s out of your league. You might not be able to relate to her specific passions, but you do understand what it’s like to be passionate about something. Show her what you know and share your passions with her.
PDAs in Hotels
A s an extension to the automation of almost every human task, it seems that waiters in Chennai would soon coast along their jobs, making a breeze of what would otherwise be a hectic work routine. The reason is that hotels in the city are now equipping their waiters with PDAs or ‘personal digital assistants’ in order to take their orders.
Armed with the mini computers, the hotels aim at providing their customers with a faster, more convenient and hassle free eating out experience. While five stars hotels like the Taj Group are known to have this service in most of their restaurants and pubs, many hotels based locally have also jumped onto the PDA bandwagon.
Speaking about the emerging development, Mr Venkat, the captain (supervisor to waiters) at Anjappar Chettinad restaurant, Chennai Central branch says, “We introduced PDAs in our hotels some time ago. It’s a wireless system connected to a PC in the kitchen. The orders are taken by the captains on the PDAs while the waiters only have to collect the order from the kitchen and serve it to customers.” Explaining about the benefits of the system he says, “Besides ensuring accurate billing, it also saves a lot of time as waiters don’t have to go back and forth between the kitchen and the customer’s table. The PDA even takes care of special requirements of the cus tomers like extra spice to be added in their curries or low sugar in their tea, etc.” “Our hotels in Nungambakkam, Mylapore, Egmore, Central and Puducherry have this facility and we’ll extend this service across all our branches by this month end,” he adds.
Mr Sathpathy, a management trainee from Orissa, who visited the hotel said, “We have not seen these kind of services in hotels in Bhubhaneswar. We are very impressed with the facility and the speedy delivery.” Saravana Bhavan’s Mylapore branch is one such eatery in the city that has taken to this new trend.
Mr Subramaniam Siva, the head of IT for the hotel chain says, “We introduced handheld PCs from April 2008. The idea was to reduce the time taken between placing the order to communicating it to the waiter and so on. Items like tandoori take upto 20 minutes to prepare and if the orders are placed in time, it cuts down on the customer’s waiting period.” He adds, “The compartmentalisation of each job also happens through this. For instance, the waiter can always be in the vicinity of the customer to take any special orders, which helps add value to the customer’s experience.”
Armed with the mini computers, the hotels aim at providing their customers with a faster, more convenient and hassle free eating out experience. While five stars hotels like the Taj Group are known to have this service in most of their restaurants and pubs, many hotels based locally have also jumped onto the PDA bandwagon.
Speaking about the emerging development, Mr Venkat, the captain (supervisor to waiters) at Anjappar Chettinad restaurant, Chennai Central branch says, “We introduced PDAs in our hotels some time ago. It’s a wireless system connected to a PC in the kitchen. The orders are taken by the captains on the PDAs while the waiters only have to collect the order from the kitchen and serve it to customers.” Explaining about the benefits of the system he says, “Besides ensuring accurate billing, it also saves a lot of time as waiters don’t have to go back and forth between the kitchen and the customer’s table. The PDA even takes care of special requirements of the cus tomers like extra spice to be added in their curries or low sugar in their tea, etc.” “Our hotels in Nungambakkam, Mylapore, Egmore, Central and Puducherry have this facility and we’ll extend this service across all our branches by this month end,” he adds.
Mr Sathpathy, a management trainee from Orissa, who visited the hotel said, “We have not seen these kind of services in hotels in Bhubhaneswar. We are very impressed with the facility and the speedy delivery.” Saravana Bhavan’s Mylapore branch is one such eatery in the city that has taken to this new trend.
Mr Subramaniam Siva, the head of IT for the hotel chain says, “We introduced handheld PCs from April 2008. The idea was to reduce the time taken between placing the order to communicating it to the waiter and so on. Items like tandoori take upto 20 minutes to prepare and if the orders are placed in time, it cuts down on the customer’s waiting period.” He adds, “The compartmentalisation of each job also happens through this. For instance, the waiter can always be in the vicinity of the customer to take any special orders, which helps add value to the customer’s experience.”
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Online Tutor
The search for good tutors and going to different places to attend tedious tuition classes may be a thing of the past for students.
2tion.com is the latest website for students, which helps them in getting a tutor for any subject, anywhere. “This website is an online portal which serves as a meeting place for teachers and students. To get a tutor, a student has to search on 2tion.com database, which has more than 40,000 tutors from across the country, scan through their qualification and experience and make their choice. The teachers charge anywhere between Rs 100 to Rs 250 per hour, depending on the subject.” Tech-friendly students are wel coming this trend because it saves them a great deal of traveling time and is considered the ‘in’ thing.
2tion.com is the latest website for students, which helps them in getting a tutor for any subject, anywhere. “This website is an online portal which serves as a meeting place for teachers and students. To get a tutor, a student has to search on 2tion.com database, which has more than 40,000 tutors from across the country, scan through their qualification and experience and make their choice. The teachers charge anywhere between Rs 100 to Rs 250 per hour, depending on the subject.” Tech-friendly students are wel coming this trend because it saves them a great deal of traveling time and is considered the ‘in’ thing.
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