Disruptive Technologies, Web, Wireless and Education
September 7th, 2007 — Robot
Sarath spend 2 hours building this piece and I spend 2 mins writing a small program in VPL to make this fellow pick up that ball.
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September 7th, 2007 — Ideas
I dont know whether anyone is planning to do it, or its already implemented.
I want google to provide a developer API to handle registrations/login. I dont want to register by typing in all the details for every site I am interested in. I should be able to login to every site with my google login. Google should provide the site developer with an API to access my personal information.
To get into details, I need something like this.
I want google to do this. If they dont Im gonna do it.
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September 7th, 2007 — Uncategorized
Sometimes Gmail becomes an addiction. I myself was a Gmail addict. Gmail, built in feed reader and a lot of feeds can eat up all your time. There were times when I used to wake up in the morning and spend the whole day reading mails, replying to them and then reading feeds. Leaving unread feeds in my reader was a very hard thing to do.
Feeds are good, but when they start becoming addictive, then its time to delete some of the feeds. Recently I deleted around 10 feeds from my reader. Those feeds were useful, but not enough useful compared to the time I spent for the feeds.
In the future internet will face the same problem, information overload. Too much information coming to you, and you find it difficult to distinguish from the useful and the useless. Lets hope web 3.0 will bring some solution to this problem.
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September 7th, 2007 — Uncategorized
How does wealth grow, or how does wealth multiply ?
This was one question that I had in my mind for quite some time. We all are consuming money for various purposes, then how does an economy grow ? I found an answer yesterday when thinking about social entrepreneurship.
Suppose I have 10 lakhs in my bank account. I build a hotel for that money. I paid 10 lakhs to various vendors contractors, employees etc. My 10 lakhs got distributed among various people. But I still have assets worth 10 lakhs. In effect I doubled the economy, I still have my 10 lakhs with me and also many other have got a share of the 10 lakhs that I spend.
Now it seems to me that If everyone with dead money parked somewhere come forward and put it to some real world business, all the economic problems of the world can be solved. Well, Im really stupid to think that will ever happen. Anyways the concept looks nice.
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September 4th, 2007 — Uncategorized
A visual programming language uses different interconnected blocks to create programs rather than complete text coding. This is mainly used in robotics. Various movements of the robot are specified in different action blocks and the robot function is achieved by connecting the blocks in the required fashion.
The simplest VPL is the one shipped with Lego robots. Its really easy to use. Different code blocks are there which control different parts of the robot. We arrange them and connect them to create the motion flow.
The language features almost all concepts in modern programming languages. Branching, looping etc are also there. The most important thing to notice is that Parallel programming is built into VPL languages.
LabView is one famous VPL thats used for industrial applications such as data acquisition and control.
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