Star wars: Planet being devoured by yellow dwarf's heavenly inferno

In a far-away region of the galaxy, a planet is learning the lesson that Icarus taught the ancient Greeks thousands of years ago.

A planet known as Wasp-12b is passing so close to its parent star that it is being roasted and ripped apart in an extraordinary display of celestial violence.

The gravitational pull of the star is so strong it has stretched the planet into the shape of a rugby ball. The planet has reached a temperature of more than 1,500C and material has begun spilling from it onto the star.

The planet's precarious situation was revealed by observations made with a new instrument on Nasa's Hubble space telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (Cos).

"We see a huge cloud of material around the planet which is escaping and will be captured by the star. We have identified chemical elements never before seen on planets outside our own solar system," said Carole Haswell, lead scientist at the Open University.

The planet may have only 10m years left before it is completely devoured, according to a report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The star, a yellow dwarf called Wasp-12, is about 600 light years from Earth in the winter constellation of Auriga, the charioteer. The planet was spotted and named by the UK's Wide Area Search for Planets (Wasp) team in 2008.

The Wasp telescope looks for periodic dimming caused by planets moving across the faces of their parent stars. Wasp-12b is so close to its star, it completes an orbit in 1.1 days.

The Cos equipment monitors ultraviolet light coming from stars and was sensitive enough to show that the atmosphere of the planet had expanded greatly because it is so hot.

New nebulae found in Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a large number of previously unknown regions in the Milky Way where massive stars are being formed.

The star-forming H II regions are sites where hydrogen atoms are stripped of their electrons by intense radiation from young stars.

With the help of infrared and radio telescope Spitzer Space, the researchers traced these regions which remain hidden due to gas and dust clouds around the Milky Way, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said Wednesday.

“We found our targets by using the results of infrared surveys done with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and of surveys done with the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope,” said astronomer Loren Anderson who worked on the project.

“Objects that appear bright in both the Spitzer and Very Large Array images we studied are good candidates for H II regions.”

Through further analysis, the astronomers also determined the locations of the H II regions, discovering concentrations of the regions at the end of the galaxy's central bar and in its spiral arms, according to Xinhua.

Their analysis also showed that 25 of the regions are farther from the galaxy's center than the sun, according to the JPL.

How green is the iPad?

How does an iPad compare with other computers when it comes to environmental impact? Will I save electricity by using an iPad rather than a laptop?

It is the heralding of the iPad as a transformative technology – one that profoundly changes the way we use computers - that makes this particular debate so interesting. As has already been discussed below, we have to view the iPad's environmental impact in this context. Is it the long-fabled digital bridge that will lead us away from methods of content delivery that are reliant on dead trees, compact discs and cathode ray tubes? Or will it end up being just another example of disposable electronica that will keep us all amused for a couple of years before the Next Big Thing comes along (no doubt produced by Apple)?

India vs Pakistan

Well friends its a gud news to all the cricket lovers of india,the much awaited india vs pakistan matchs will be held in the upcoming asia cup starting from june 15th......
Asian Cricket Council announced the schedule of the Micromax Asia Cup 2010 which is to be held in Sri Lanka involving the four Asian teams- Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Seven ODIs will be played between June 15th and June 24th in Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is the defending champions of the Asia Cup as they defeated India in 2008 at Karachi. This year will have three reserve days.

Is Your Car Safe From Hackers?

This week researchers will present a study showing what could happen if a determined hacker went after the computer systems embedded in cars. The researchers found that, among other things, an attacker could disable the vehicle's brakes, stop its engine, or take control of its door locks. All the attacker needs is access to the federally mandated onboard diagnostics port-- located under the dashboard in almost all cars today.
The researchers point to a recent report showing that a typical luxury sedan now contains about 100 megabytes of code that controls 50 to 70 computers inside the car, most of which communicate over a shared internal network.

"In a lot of car architectures, all the computers are interconnected, so that having taken over one component, there's a substantive risk that you could take over all the rest of them. Once you're in, you're in," says Stefan Savage, an associate professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, who is one of the lead investigators on the project.

The researchers say that their work shouldn't yet be a cause for alarm, mainly because the exploits require access to the inside of a vehicle. But some of these systems can be accessed remotely, and the trend is to add even more wireless connectivity--for example, wireless automatic crash-response systems. The researchers say that other systems, such as satellite radios and remote-controlled door openers, could also become entry points.

Why indians love cricket.....???

The only reason for this is india got a player who changed the 'Game' and the people on a whole and he is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar!!!


1973 is a very significant year in sporting history. Not because Pakistan, New Zealand & West Indies made their debuts in Odi’s. Not just because Sir Richard Hadlee made his Test debut or Umpire H D “Dickie” Bird made his umpiring debut. Definitely not because NFL revolutionized sporting attire with the jersey numbering system, Neither was the 13th Europe Cup victory of AC Milan in Saloniki or the 2nd FA cup after world war-II victory of Sunderland as significant as was the birth of an icon.

24th April 1973 witnessed the birth of a genius who would then go on to become a sporting God & change the lives of billions across the globe. Its 37 years since the birth of Sachin Tendulkar and as the famous song from the group Europe goes” Things would never be the same again”


37 Years on, the “Little Master” has pulverized attacks, destroyed bowlers (and probably their careers along with it) and given headaches and heart breaks to many an opposition.


37 Years after 24th April 1973 and……………………………………………………….


1) Still Shane Warne doesn’t bowl & also doesn’t allow his kids to bowl to Sachin even in an EA Sports game on his Play station fearing that his kids would get the same Nightmare.


2) Michael Kasprowicz has made sure that he lives away from deserts because he can weather any storm but not the ‘’DESERT STORM’’.


3) Shoaib Akthar is still finding ways of how to not get selected into the Pakistani team after 1st March 2003 a day at ‘’The Centurion’’.


4) The cricketing world experienced a 2nd illegitimate underarm delivery bowled by another one of the Chappell brothers this time it was ‘’IAN’’ when he uttered a statement ‘’Sachin Tendulkar should retire’’.


5) After a long chase Punter has finally started finding references of different hospitals down under for finding a Wheel chair at the best & cheapest price!!!!!!


6) Surprisingly For the 1st time ever we are thankful to a person for not selecting ‘Sachin Tendulkar’, yes the person is ‘Dennis Lillee’………………


7) A worried Obama is still increasing his nuclear powers after watching this single Dynamite from India blow away multiple nations single handedly.


 Abdul Qadir still visits the Peshawar Stadium daily in a hope that he might locate the 4 balls that went out of the park.


9) Michael Phelps has started practicing harder than before after watching the on field dives of Sachin Tendulkar.


10) Damien Fleming still considers his best birthday gift as his retirement because it makes sure that he doesn’t have to bowl to Sachin Tendulkar again on 24th April a day on which he was also born.

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Technology coming closer.

3G TECHNOLOGY:
When people use walkie-talkie radios to communicate, only one person can talk at a time (the person doing the talking has to press a button). This is because walkie-talkie radios only use one communication frequency - a form of communication known as simplex:

Of course, this is not how mobile phones work. Mobile phones allow simultaneous two-way transfer of data - a situation known as duplex (if more than two data streams can be transmitted, it is called multiplex):

Symmetric Transmission vs. Asymmetric Transmission

Data transmission is symmetric if the data in the downlink and the data in the uplink is transmitted at the same data rate. This will probably be the case for voice transmission - the same amount of data is sent both ways. However, for internet connections or broadcast data (e.g., streaming video), it is likely that more data will be sent from the server to the mobile device (the downlink).

Macro Cells, Micro Cells, and Pico Cells

The 3G network might be divided up in hierarchical fashion:

Macro cell - the area of largest coverage, e.g., an entire city.
Micro cell - the area of intermediate coverage, e.g., a city centre.
Pico cell - the area of smallest coverage, e.g., a "hot spot" in a hotel or airport.
3G Spectrum:


When you read about radio spectrum this means a range of radio frequencies. The bandwidth of a radio signal is defined as being the difference between the upper and lower frequencies of the signal. For example, in the case of a voice signal having a minimum frequency of 300 hertz (Hz) and a maximum frequency of 3,300 Hz, the bandwidth is 3,000 Hz (3 KHz).

The amount of bandwidth needed for 3G services could be as much as 15-20 MHz. Compare this with the bandwidth of 30-200 KHz used for current 2G communication and you can see that there is as much as a 500-fold increase in the amount of bandwidth required. Now you can appreciate why radio spectrum has become such a precious and scarce resource in the information age - everybody from television broadcasters to the military wants spectrum, and it is in short supply. Michael Powell, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has suggested that spectrum demand "is going to forever outstrip supply". The telecoms operators have had to buy 3G spectrum from governments around the world, and those governments - realising that they own a precious, valuable resource - have sought to sell that spectrum at the highest possible price.

Radio spectrum is often organised (and sold) as paired spectrum - a bit of spectrum in a lower frequency band, and a bit of spectrum in an upper frequency band (see the section on 3G Technology for an explanation of paired spectrum). Paired spectrum is often specified in a form like "2x15MHz" meaning 15MHz in a lower band and 15MHz in an upper band. This technique of two users talking to each other on two separate frequencies is called Frequency Division Duplex, or FDD (see the section on 3G Technology for an explanation of FDD). W-CDMA is an FDD technique (i.e., it requires paired spectrum) whereas TD-CDMA is a TDD technique (i.e., it can use unpaired spectrum).

Do we need best of three in all finals......

Well a single final in a big tournament could go anyway as the game changes at any moment ...
I feel that its better to have three finals and going with the conclusion from that we can have a better champion at the end ,ricky pointing said the same after getting disappointed with the performance of aussies in the fianls against the england......

Poor Aussies crashed by English Team!!

 

 

The pictures indicate how australian’s are crushed in this final match and  all  the credit goes to the team work and energy shown by the english team in the field .It was a bad start for the australia but the captain mad it poor by coming in at no.3 and  got warner out cheaply as a run out it was really sad to see warner walking away but poor decision making of clarke and later on aussies only tried to recover but never managed to get enough on the board …..

English batsman smoked away the aussies pace attack and no sooner reached a victory which was never achieved before by any english team under the captancy of paul collingwood  who got the winning runs for the england …

Kevin peterson the ‘man who made’ the difference was given the palyer of the tournament ….!!

10 Things You Can Do With Old CDs

If you have a bunch of old CDs and DVDs lying discarded around the house, here are some interesting ideas for things you can do with your collection of shiny disks.
Instead of throwing them away, you can reuse old CDs for craft, as a holder for mobile phones or even a flower arrangement.
 1. Create a wall of CDs that also works as a mirror.


2. Make an air-hockey table with CDs.


3. Make a stand for your mobile phone.

4. Make a beautiful and glowing wreath out of old CDs

5. Make a unique flower arrangement with CDs

6. Arrange the CDs on a stack with some LEDs and you have a lamp.

7. Make vanishing blinds or a long curtain with CDs

8. Create an art installation with CDs

9. Make a disco ball for the dance floor with CDs.

10. Make an iPhone Dock with old CDs
        

Champs can do it at any stage..!!!

Well Aussie's did it again and this time it was a crucial semifinal and they hold their nerve in this vital game to continue their winning streak,chasing a huge target and loosing wickets dosent really matter for the mighty aussies when they got palyers like M.Hussey ,its just a dream to have a player of that quality and every team wants such a player in their squad ....

Lanka crashed!!

Lanka is crashed out of the tournament and not long ago they were enjoying their win against india in the super8 ...they never looked like playing a semifinal game and they kept loosing wickets after winning the toss and elected to bat first,english team bowled really well and maintained their winning streak ,,,,

England got of to a good start with the openers giving england a really good start and they went after the lankan bowlers every over reducing the target and kevin peterson finidhed the match clinically continuing his good form from the super8's England never performed so well untill now in any international tournament and it will be their first tournament victory if they could hold their nerve in the finals !!!

Google and Verizon to Launch Tablet Computer

Add a big new twist to the tablet computing wars. The Wall Street Journal is confirming that Google plans to bring a tablet computer to market with Verizon Wireless.
Although details –- including a name, manufacturer, launch date and operating system (Android () or Chrome OS?) are not yet known — Verizon’s CEO told WSJ,”We’re looking at all the things Google () has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience.”
The news doesn’t come as a total shocker –- last month Google’s CEO reportedly told friends that his company was building a tablet device.
However, the move does exemplify the increasing competition between Apple and Google –- a competition increasingly taking place in the mobile space where recent reports suggest that Android is gaining significant ground on iPhone. The move also casts some doubt as to whether Apple will open up iPad and iPhone to Verizon customers — something that has seemed increasingly likely in recent weeks.
Now, we’ll see this competition play out in the tablet device market, where Apple has an early lead with its iPad selling more than one million units in its first month, and the iPad 3G just hit stores with AT&T as the exclusive wireless carrier.

Microsoft Office 2010 Goes Live

After a lengthy phase of beta testing, Microsoft finally unleashed its long-awaited update to the Office 2007 desktop productivity suite.

Office 2010 includes a number of new features, among them a redesigned menu system, improved inline multimedia editing, real-time collaboration, improved security settings and — perhaps the biggest of them all — a cloud-based web apps component that aims to compete with Google Docs.

The online component of Office 2010 includes web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. They’re largely positioned as companion apps to their full desktop counterparts, making them arguably less powerful as standalone services than existing cloud champions Google Docs (Google Docs) or Zoho (zoho).

Never one to sit idly by, Google has already launched the first volley in the coming Office Wars by suggesting Office 2007 users would be better served by “upgrading” to Google Docs instead. Still, with an enormous existing base of business Office users, Microsoft will undoubtedly benefit from its incumbent position in the marketplace. Nor have things been totally rosy for Google Docs uptake lately, with Yale University and UC Davis recently dumping the search giant’s cloud services over privacy and security concerns.

Nevertheless, a number of schools are embracing Google services in order to reap all the advantages that come with productivity in the cloud. Will the online component of Microsoft Office 2010 be enough to stave off the competition from Google (Google), Zoho and others? It remains to be seen, but it’s certainly a sign of the times that the once staunchly desktop-chained Office suite has put its head firmly into the cloud.

Its nothing but poor performance..!!

Well indians lost the match because of poor performance from each of their departments ......

they started of well but couldnt capitalize on the good start they got in both the innings after dismissing both the lankan openers cheaply lankan middle order went after the indian spinners ......(Indian batsman got only one six against the lankan spinners while the lankan batsman got too many sixes from the indian spinners ) this just indicates how indian bowlers struggled to bowl for the lankans.
Indians badly need a victory to move into the semis but they were crushed badly,its disappointing but it also indicates how the team badly failed in executing their plans  ..

It was mighty Mathews and Kapugadera who stared the match with sixes at the end at put them in the hunt for the cup well done Lanka.!!!

My work with html....

Just thought of posting something other than cricket and i did this

Bad Bad show by India

Indians badly failed to face the short balls which turned to be an advantage for the opponents.

It was a poor show and an obvious defeat to india on the carebian grounds,indians never showed their domination on the westindies,with poor bowling attack from the indian and captain's showing good confidence on the part timer ravindra jadeja who was banged for huge sixes giving a good chance for the carebians to recover after a slow start .

This win makes india go out of Wc yet again in the super8's but india has a thin chance of moving into the semis if a miracle will occur .This time i dont think it will happen and india dont diserve to be in the semis with the kind of bowling and batting effort the have shown on the field .....its diappionting to see the catches drop at the international level .

It was a good bowling effort from the West indies,knowing the weakness of the indian batsman and going after them with the short stuff!!
84% of the balls were bowled short by the WI,while indian bowlers rarely used it.....

On a whole its disappointing show by the indians.

who will win today....??

Now we got the Clash of the titans today at 7 pm where india and west indies will be fighting for their place in the semifinals its crucial match for both the teams after india lost to australia and west indies lost to srilankans in the super8 matches ....

This super sunday will decide india's future in the world cup the last time they were out the tournament in the super8's !!

In my view india would fire today but its only the batsman in form who can do this .....
the openers are not going well for india and a change is necessary in the opening pair .....we miss VIRU,SACHIN......!!
Lets hope india will amke it to the semis with a win today....!!

Defending champions out of WC

Pakistan was unlucky,as salman butt's effort went in vain with the match turning around on the last ball wicket !!

It was Ian Butler with his 3/19 and a maiden on the first over of this spell turned the match around for New Zealand ....

Salman Butt badly need support at the other end with wickets falling fast and afridi getting out was another turn around for pakistan .

It was a good contest of cricket which went in favour of new zealand who controlled their nerve and snezeed the match away form the defending champions !!

Facebook users under friendly fire

Have you been getting strange "friend recommendations" from Facebook recently? Have you wondered how the social networking site has managed to connect you with a work contact or the husband of a colleague?

An investigation by the journalism.co.uk website claims to have the answers: address book importing (ABI) is the technique used to transfer your email contacts between email accounts or clients. But ABI is also being used by Facebook and other sites to get hold of and make use of users' address book information.

Using its "friend finder" tool, Facebook encourages users to upload their contact information from either their email account or from a desktop address book. The site then uses this information to link you to people you email. This could include people you have emailed just a couple of times. (Other sites like Twitter and Friendster also use ABI.)

Users' contact details are also used by Facebook to create public links between other people. There are concerns that Facebook users unwittingly give away sensitive information by being publicly linked to the people they have emailed.

Facebook said: "The information on the help page and in the blog post clearly sets out what the friend finder does and how users control how and if their contacts are shared."

Facebook has been attempting to move away from being a private site where users' content is kept behind a wall to having more content shared and publicly searchable, like its fast-growing competitor Twitter.

Extra batsMan :Only Batsman for India!!!

Well that was too ordinary show by india They failed in every department and the whole match was just an upset .

Rohit sharma came as an extra batsman for india and was the only batsman who played the batsman's knock and saved team from a poor defeat his knock just showed other indian players how to knock the ball out of the park .

When zaheer and bajji got into the action wat's the problem with 7 batsman who just found the fielders .

Its a good saying in cricket that "CLASS PLAYERS FIND THE FENCE",we need players like Sachin tendulkar at the top !!!

But on a whole its a murderous game with aussies where indian batsmen were murdered with pace,bounce.

Indian spin was murdered earlier as well

with Bajji alone doing good with a 0/15 spell !!

Lonely birds...!!!

well the last one is me......

Beautiful cities Heroshima and Ngasakhi.......

India's campaign in super8's begin today

India will be facing Australia in their 1st super8 match today .
This will be very important for both the teams and this match will indicate how their momentum continues in the series .Aussies will be aiming high as they couldnt fire much with the bangladesh when they were struck up with 66/6 ......and its once again Mr.Cricket Micheal Hussy who turned to be a saviour for aussies. With a strong batting line up aussies can change the match at any moment of time  and things can change for india as well because its will be intresting to see aussies play indian spinners ........


On a whole its a tight match and we need to look forward for the winner !!

How To Create Sudoku Puzzles Revealed!

I hesitate to tell you how to create Sudoku puzzles for yourself. 

Then again, when you see that it isn't all that easy to make Sudoku puzzles by hand with single solutions, you may be happy to return again.

If you want this inside knowledge to create a Sudoku computer program, then take it from me, there is a lot of competition. Should you create a new PC program, I am interested in reviewing your creation here.

So it is win - win. Here are the steps to make your own Sudoku puzzle and solutions.

Step 1: Create Sudoku Solution

Yes, the first step is to create your puzzle's solution. That is the easy part. You know the Sudoku rules.
Each row, column, and 3x3 grid must contain the numbers one through nine without duplicates. Fill in the grid completely obeying the rules and you have created a puzzle solution.

If you are creating your puzzle by hand, I suggest that you use my blank sudoku grid (or grille if you prefer) for a worksheet.

A faster way is to enter the solution on a new blank puzzle grid in Sudoku Dragon. (File > New Blank puzzle).
Anytime that you encounter a duplicate number, you must redo your grid, removing some or all of your numbers.

Then start over again. Fill in all the blank spaces again until each row, column, and 3x3 grids has only the numbers one through nine without duplicates.

Done with it? Great, you just created your first Sudoku puzzle answer. Save your puzzle.

Step 2: Remove Mirror Pairs

The next step is to begin removing numbers from your completed Sudoku puzzle solution.

If you want to create a symmetrical puzzle, you must remove mirror pairs from your puzzle. For example, if you are removing the number from the cell R1C1, then you must also remove the number from the cell which is R9C9.

These two cells are mirror images if the puzzle is folded in half diagonally.

Step 3: Test For A Single Solution

Each time you remove a mirror pair from your puzzle solution, you must test the puzzle to see if it has a single solution. If it does not have a single solution, it is an invalid puzzle.
The easiest way to test your puzzle is to enter the puzzle manually into a game like Sudoku Dragon mentioned above.

Then allow the software to test to see if your puzzle is solvable.

To do this open the Give Solution Hint window (Game > Hint) or press F9. Then select the first radio button "Check whether all allocations so far are correct".

Click the Show button. If you get an error message, you do not have a valid puzzle. Re-enter the removed number pairs and try again.

Repeat step 2 and step 3 until you can no longer remove mirror pairs without an error or creating an invalid puzzle that has multiple solutions.

It is simple, but not easy to create Sudoku puzzles.

I recommend reading Programming Sudoku by Wei-Meng Lee. This book explains in detail how to program Sudoku. Complete source code is given.

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Grading Sudoku Puzzles
Ever wonder how grading Sudoku puzzles is done? My research has revealed what Sudoku patterns you are likely to find in different grades of puzzles and games.

Google to launch e-book store this summer

Google will launch its own e-book store this summer, the company has confirmed, setting the scene for an all-out war with Apple and Amazon over the future of the digital book market.

Speaking at a panel discussion held by Random House late yesterday, Google's manager for strategic partner development Chris Palma laid out Google's plans, saying Google Editions would launch as early as June or July offering digital versions of the titles on its book search service.

The critical detail is these books will be browser-based, and so will work across multiple devices - a powerful differentiator from the proprietary e-books of iPad and Kindle that will only work on those devices.

Also key is the ubiquity we have come to know from Google; anyone with a Google account will be able to access these boks, while retail sites will be able to embed a Google Editions book store on their own sites. Those sites will take the majority of any margins on sale, and Google also takes a bite.

The Wall Street Journal was the first to pick up on Palma's comments, noting that although no publishers are signed up yet, that won't be a problem for Google because "publishers tend to believe the more outlets to sell books the better".
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Master is on TWITTER

Well the big man made his debut to the Twitter as TWITTER is attracting almost all the celebrities and yuvi,zaheer are one among them  sachin has got few pics on the twitter and few tweets and a quick fire followers who are increasing minute by minute .

Its good to see him on the twitter and many fans feel this as they follow sachin on the twitter waiting for his tweets and keep track of the celebs where ever they go keeping the info about the celebs upto date.......

Its not sachin alone but many other celebs are available on the twitter tweeting every incident at one or the other ocassion when ever they are free!!!

Its a gud thing that the twitter has done to us as they brought all the celebs together on the web which could'nt be done all the time other than the web !!

The simple idea of TWITTER has done much difference since years as FACEBOOK ages and TWITTER getting LIVE with celebs getting into action!!

Deepwater Horizon oil spill threatens Louisiana Gulf coast

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English men lucky to be in the Super8's.....

After  restricting england for just 120, ireland would have easily gone through the chase if the rain wouldnt have stopped the play .

Once again it was a rainy day on an england match as the match was abandoned and they moved into the Super8 only because of their runrate or else it could have been a tight call !!

And the mighty ireland have to get out of the WC with this unlucky rainy season in West Indies and the home team is lucky the other day as they won by just 1 run when the stopped the play ......

In my view D/L method can not be applied to the T20 games as the match on a whole depends on one big over either for the bowling side or for the batting side 

We have seen many matches in ipl which were changed in just one over .Hope the officials have a note on this ..........