No matter how narrow and shallow a stream is,
Does it not cool the breeze blowing over it?
No matter how weak the gush of water is,
Can it not smoothen the hardest of rocks?
No matter how small an '=' operator is,
Can it not create an entire system crash ;)
Peek into yourselves, and look how small you are
And Think of the wonders you can bring.
No matter how vast the ocean is,
Can a human quench his thirst beside it?
No matter how quick and precise a machine is,
Can it do what it has to, on its own?
No matter how big the Microsoft is,
Can it not create the silliest of bugs ;)
Peek into yourselves, and look how great you are
And Think of the foolishness you can bring.
-- Deepesh
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Life is to be Lived
Life oh!! the mystery,
we r upon and we face;
The thing we always worry,
the thing we endeavor to glace.
His Almighty, who did bestow,
has also given it the curb,
Thru which all have to go,
Be it rustic or the urb.
Life is to be lived,
Make it an applause;
The time which is confined,
Should not be a cause.
--Deepesh
we r upon and we face;
The thing we always worry,
the thing we endeavor to glace.
His Almighty, who did bestow,
has also given it the curb,
Thru which all have to go,
Be it rustic or the urb.
Life is to be lived,
Make it an applause;
The time which is confined,
Should not be a cause.
--Deepesh
Digital Storage
I always admire the advancements in the information technology, which went so wide and in such great pace. When I was studying about the digital technology (some 6-7 years before), I used to wonder how this 0 -1 combination could work out such wonders.
Those times (even now), the storage media was advancing highly. The size was going smaller, while the capacity was going higher and higher. The Compact Disc (CD) uses optical technology, by burning 'pits' into the disk while writing and using a laser diode to illuminate and read. This can easily represent the 0-1 combinations of the digital world. We can see different kinds of handy portable digital media in the market including CDs, DVDs, USB devices, etc.
Now we have another contradictory thing that is the analog one. We have started with the analog things (including storage devices) and ended up with digital solutions. But what we see in the real world is actually analog. We cant imagine a digital world in our real life where everything is either true or false, set or reset, etc. What I think, is the analog technology can much stronger/faster than the digital one. But designing an analog system might be more complicated.
When I was studying about Compact Disk, I was curious of another fact. We store bits by burning the disk. And in the application part, we never read it as individual bits. We read it atleast as bytes. Hence, why cant we store them as bytes itself. Instead of 'dark pits' we can use colors on the disk. The CD writer will write small tint of colors into the disk. The optical reader should recognize the colors and read it out. This would improve the speed and increase the storage space even more; if the size is kept constant.
Time has passed, but still I dont see a similar kind of storage, in the market. In my example of using colors, we can have 256 colors or millions of color combinations written which will multiply the number of bits represented in a single tint of color. But that may result in slower app performance, although the storage size can be reduced highly.
Is this an analog solution? I am not sure. But still I think storing as bytes would be a better way in a storage media. But we see the serial busses are getting more popular than parallel ones. Also 'The simpler, the more popular" is working out in most scenarios. So I dunno how much my thinking is relevant to the present scenario.
Those times (even now), the storage media was advancing highly. The size was going smaller, while the capacity was going higher and higher. The Compact Disc (CD) uses optical technology, by burning 'pits' into the disk while writing and using a laser diode to illuminate and read. This can easily represent the 0-1 combinations of the digital world. We can see different kinds of handy portable digital media in the market including CDs, DVDs, USB devices, etc.
Now we have another contradictory thing that is the analog one. We have started with the analog things (including storage devices) and ended up with digital solutions. But what we see in the real world is actually analog. We cant imagine a digital world in our real life where everything is either true or false, set or reset, etc. What I think, is the analog technology can much stronger/faster than the digital one. But designing an analog system might be more complicated.
When I was studying about Compact Disk, I was curious of another fact. We store bits by burning the disk. And in the application part, we never read it as individual bits. We read it atleast as bytes. Hence, why cant we store them as bytes itself. Instead of 'dark pits' we can use colors on the disk. The CD writer will write small tint of colors into the disk. The optical reader should recognize the colors and read it out. This would improve the speed and increase the storage space even more; if the size is kept constant.
Time has passed, but still I dont see a similar kind of storage, in the market. In my example of using colors, we can have 256 colors or millions of color combinations written which will multiply the number of bits represented in a single tint of color. But that may result in slower app performance, although the storage size can be reduced highly.
Is this an analog solution? I am not sure. But still I think storing as bytes would be a better way in a storage media. But we see the serial busses are getting more popular than parallel ones. Also 'The simpler, the more popular" is working out in most scenarios. So I dunno how much my thinking is relevant to the present scenario.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Here it goes
Finally, I decided to start a blog. The 'thought-provoking' ;-) blogs from AnoopG (http://poonaji.blogspot.com) and Shameer (http://www.openhat.org/blog) gave me all the inspiration. May God bless me to have a good blogging future...
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