New Message from Uncle Sam

Bush-o-nomics

Most of the countries are facing inflation these days. In India the inflation reached a record high of 7.57 and also many nations are suffering from food crisis. Recently Mr.Bush blamed India and China for consuming nutritional food. India as well as china is experiencing a positive economic growth. So people are earning more money, especially the middle class in India which is the backbone for Indian economic conditions. So when people earn money they have the rights to spend it in their own way. Bush commented that Indian middle class is consuming a lot of nutritional food so as a result of that the food crisis raised in the world. When people have an option to eat good food then why should they go for poor stuff. Until now middle class had no option other than working hard to earn the livelihood, but now with the growing economy good salary brings them the freedom to choose between things, it may be in selecting the food stuffs to eat or in buying a piece of cloth. Until now Americans had many option to choose for each thing, but when others(Indians and Chinese) started enjoying the same, the president of United States is condemning it. Bush and Federal bank made a mistake in driving the US economy and they failed to bring it onto right track. Now, they are simply condemning others for their mistakes.

Blackle-Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year

These days we are experiencing the global warming. Global warming is causing the ice bergs to melt at the arctic and hence increasing sea levels and hence the possibility of oceans covering major landscapes which includes major cities in all the continents. Here is a step taken by Google for reducing the power consumed by monitors while displaying it's search engine pages. Google introduced Blackle, the Google with black colored search pages.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002.

Thus the electricity consumption is reduced while you are using Google search and also contributing a little to save the earth.

So, please use Blackle.com instead of previous Google search from now. Also change the start page to Blackle.com if you have set Google.com before as your homepage.


Use blackle to tackle the global warming.

Recession

Recession is a decline in a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. The Recession is said to occur whenever the GDP of a country crosses below the zero mark.

Effect of Recession on stock markets
The Great fall in stock prices need not be due to the recession. There are many reasons for the stock market prices fall. Even though there is a recession period going on in a country there is a chance for stock prices to move up. Suppose the effect of inflation may cause the demand for a product to go up and hence it's stock price in the market goes up.

How to control Recession
There is only one option to control recession that is to circulate money among the people of the country. This is achieved by Tax Exemption, Internal development work which creates more jobs and thus the income for people, Fiscal and many more.

Now the US economy is facing such a recession problem. It is expected that the GDP by the end of the next quarter will be recorded near to -0.65. Now the GDP index is approximated to 0.00, so this will be a worse hit for the Real Estate business. This Real Estate business takes a minimum of three to six months to recover back to find it's normal value. so this is the best time to make some Real Estate property for you.

Being Dollar'ed' $$$$$$$ - Part 2

Many months passed after the world market was affected by US Sub prime crisis. Many small companies closed at the start of this crisis, many selled their mortgages but those who resisted all these are making huge profits in their midcap and small sectors. Here is such an example, John is a diary farmer in US. He's making more money than he did before the subprime crisis. You may wonder that how can this guy is becoming rich when the whole world is chanting mantras for Dollar appreciation and the rate cuts made by Federal Reserve is maintaing the US markets to stay at reasonable mark. Now coming back to John's story, John is able to sell more milk from his diary farm. This happened because of Dollar depreciation, which resulted in ending up of many US products in India, China and other countries. Thus the Dollar depriciation resulted in demand for many US products at the same time many large companies are losing millions due to this Dollar depreciation.

Let's pay our attention towards Indian market. There is a fall happening in indian markets this is due to solidity in markets because the Reliance IPO has dominated the money gathering from the market and there is little money left to switch from one share to another. Thus this fall may continue for three weeks or more. The FED may boost the markets by cutting rates but again markets will end low for next one or two weeks. This is a very good time to buy the shares.

Moral of this post is RESIST TO WIN !!!!!!!!

Solid State Drives replacing Hard Drives

One of major design issues in laptops is the hard disk reliability. Since people can run around with laptops while the machine is on, it is very important to build some disk crash protection in laptops. Laptops typically handle this situation by switching off hard disk when it detects any movement.

Solid state drives are here (which don’t have any moving parts) which eliminates this problem!!!!
Today I came across an Alien ware laptop advertisement which features a 64GB solid state drive! The good thing is that it consumes 50% less power and is supposed to be faster than an ordinary hard drive!!!!

Yes, this thing comes with a price. The Alien ware configuration section gives an additional $1100 for a 64GB solid state drive ($500 for 32GB). I think the best option will be to use 32GB solid state drive with a portable hard disk for your long term storage needs.



The main advantages of solid state drives are,

1. No moving parts and hence highly reliable.
2. Faster booting time (2x faster than fast hard disks)
3. Power efficient and increases battery life.
4. Quiet operation.

I think we can soon see other brands (Dell, Toshiba etc.) coming up with solid state hard disks.

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth ! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. The software manufacturer reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:
Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without double qoutes

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy-->computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :
"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.