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Today I came across a thrilling news about sixth sense technology researched and demonstrated by one Pranav Mistry of MIT USA . He gave a lecture in Mysore India . Do not miss to watch out the second video in the link below.
http://www.ted.com/speakers/pranav_mistry.html
Its absolutely thrilling because
->he is able to take photos simply by making hand gestures
->by hand gestures he makes the content of a paper to be displayed in the PC
->he is able to make phone calls from hand itself
->he makes a piece of paper work as a keyboard
etc etc
And above all – he has declared that this technology will be a open source !!!
redindian
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I find your lack of faith disturbing. The ability to destroy planets use a piece of paper as a keyboard is as nothing compared to the power of the force
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The Fart is strong with this one. [Breathes heavily through mouth to avoid the waft].
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That explains the huge black mask.
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Several years ago at work a guy said "Careful you'll end up joining the Dark Side".
I gave him my best innocent look and said gently "Dear, I am the Dark Side". There was a slight gulp. 
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A lady Canadian libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.
She received back the following reply:
National Defence Headquarters
MGen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa .
You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself; we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defence, to be called 'Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers' program, or L.A.R.K. for short.
In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint.
It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers.. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommend in your letter.
Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his 'attitudinal problem' will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences.
We understand that you plan to offer counselling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.
Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will recommend as more appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of 'respecting his culture and religious beliefs' as described in your letter.
Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow man. You take good care of Ahmed and remember we'll be watching.
Good luck and God bless you.
Cordially,
Gordon O'Connor
Minister of National Defence
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Perfect! 
Currently Reading: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Next in Queue: Kill The Messenger by Tami Hoag
- Kirtan
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I love people with an arch sense of humour!
Re-elect this guy every time!
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One of the few defence ministers who actually served in the military. Gets a big thumbs up from me for that. Unfortunately I don't believe he is the defence minister any longer. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Definitely a Soapbox item.
Link to Rant[^]
I like the letter, it sums up the feelings of the fan.
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Sounds like mine this season.
Luton only went down because of a 25 point reduction, so they are theoretically way better than everyone else in the BSP.
Why are they not top?
Cos they played like a bunch of twats.
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This is definitely a rant, and I apologise in advance for letting off steam, but I bet I am not the only one. Time for a collective scream!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hold my hands up, I am a recent frequenter of the forums. Having been a CodeProject member for some time I decided to give back to the community and see if I could help answer some of the simpler questions. Not always right but hopefully helpful. Little did I realise what I was letting myself in for.
I have seen to many daft coding questions that can be answered by Google, or a Book, or even just the intellisense in the IDE! Some you wonder how the poster managed to post, the question is so obvious. Homework questions, dissertation questions.
My view had been that a forum is the last resort having tried all other avenues for a really difficult problem. Now I find that people are still asking how to make a wheel.
Here is my question:
Someone posts a basic question on the forums that any coder who has even touched a keyboard could answer. Yet this is someone days away from getting a doctorate! How do they expect to get a job?
Then I realised, they will get a job, then they will post again for every little thing they need to do because employers will take anyone with a qualification.
It saddens me how this behaviour cheapens our profession.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
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Heh... Just noticed? Here are the various types of questions we get:
1) Intelligent questions about difficult topics that are not easily researched. These are an insignificant minority of the posts, so let's just ignore this type.
2) "I need a program that does X, Y, and Z. Someone write it for me."
3) "Where can I download a copy of [non-free commercial application]?"
4) "[10 pages of unformatted code] ... plz hlp"
5) "How do I put a word in a text box?"
6) [indecipherable gibberish]
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The selection of subjects is even funnier:
- Help (this is very common)
- Please help (at least it is polite)
- I have a problem (finally some honesty)
Of course the vast majority have some sense to them, but there are some really awful subject lines.
Possible question for a Code Project Poll:
What is the worst/funniest/silliest subject line you have ever seen?
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
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That came out a long way back. Before 6 or so months, I guess. Its an exciting find nonetheless.
