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Anant wrote:Any idea what is going on with MOM? No news on any outlet since October 20th. Seems unusual.

Second that

Congratulations ISRO !!!

Today is the day India became truly independent. Time has come for India to realize her true potential.

It is indeed a tsunamo!!!!

and one more round of 'reorgs' is coming end of this week - expected YoY decline in sale is 20% Singhaji, what is the total head count so far? In 2002, IT in India grew big, since massa found it easier to fund a development center in India than to ramp up in US. The first question any Angel Investo...

Oracle may layoff 10,000 people :-o http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24539/1231/ "In our estimation, Oracle will lay off between 10,000 to 15,000 Sun employees and gain annual savings of $1.5 billion in operating expense in year one and more than $2.0 billion in the second year," they sa...

I am wondering when Citi BofA themselves are in deep trouble, what will happen to the trillion of black money our politicians have in Swiss banks. Is it gone in to the black hole? It will be a sweet revenge when they find out the lockers are empty.

negi wrote:Apologies for my ignorance but are you folks talking about the company based out of land of 'cowboys' and 'Chainsaw massacre' fame ?

I think they are talking about this and its progeny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0SrWpfFmA

California is in Deep trouble. Looks like the State may not give the Tax Refund on time for the Taxpayers.

Schwarzenegger Proposes Releasing 20,000 Inmates, Budget Problem :lol: http://cbs5.com/local/Schwarzenegger.prison.release.2.615602.html Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a n...

Singha wrote:the consolidated cheese & golden gate bridge making company.

Ok, got it. What is the consensus on this quarter? Flat or -ve?

Singha wrote:the announced 2k 'reorg' at netzilla started yesterday night. some posts in yindia also affected.

Who/what is Netzilla?

De Beers gets $500 million loan to weather hard times http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/International-Business/De-Beers-gets-500-mn-loan-/articleshow/4162452.cms The world's largest diamond group, De Beers, said its three shareholders have agreed to loan the company $500 million to help it weathe...

India's fab dreams running aground http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/076/1051076/india-fab-dreams-running-aground fab Quote from last year in the newspaper Hyderabad, April 21: The Telugu Desam on Saturday released documents to prove that the State government had signed the Fab City deal wit...

BofA and Citi shares fall on nationalization fear
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BofA-and- ... 14973.html

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4146478.cms Pune’s Persistent Systems introduces reappraisal tests to realign workforce MUMBAI: At a time when IT companies are looking at ways to realign their workforce, given the declining number of clients, Pune-based Persistent Systems has begun ...

Donald Trump quits casino company's board http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Donald-Trump-quits-casino-apf-14364621.html ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Donald Trump fired himself Friday from the casino company that bears his name. Spurned by bond holders who rejected his effort to buy Trump Entertainment R...

If you have cash, buy stocks and the ask them issue the ceritificates and lock them in a box and don't open them till 2014. Its a bad idea to buy stocks now. IMHO stock market will tank further. All these are suckers rally. If you have cash. Put it in a storage box and dig a pit under your floor an...

Cisco is going to cut 2000 jobs now and according to Chambers if the next quarter results dont improve upto 10% cut in staff numbers, which is roughly 6700 (this coming from a company with $30B of cash reserves)
Singha, How is Bangalore office? Any rumblings there?

btw what is the place ? sounds like a good place for a picnic and a skinny dip. Singha you can use the free software http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ The image was taken as Joseph D Grant county park, on south of san jose (near mount Hamilton). Here is a panoramic image of the lake, stitched from 3...

HDR - high dynamic range imaging the simplest way is to take 3 shots at -N ev, 0ev, +Nev and use a tool like photomatix (free watermarked trial ver) or Cinepaint(linux) to blend them together as a HDR image then use the tools tonal blending... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging...

Singhaji, I heard that the Big Gorilla is going to layoff most of the contract workers. Is this True? Also, the Chip industry is in total disarray. TI lowers 4th qtr estimate to 10-16 Cents/share from 30-36 cents/share :shock: . Broadcom too lowers the 4th qtr estimates. Motorola Credit rating downg...

read the first post AND the thread title.

Here is the moon flyby wmv videofile uploaded on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTWqBuK70PU

Enjoy

Chandraayaan enters final orbit
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Mis ... 705375.cms

Just returned from Fleet week 2008 at SFO. Great air show against the golden gate & Alcatraz background.


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Sarulan, Nice pics. The 100-400 is a great lens and a bargain. There really isn't anything like it with the other systems at such a low cost. In 2007, this lens could be bought for under $1200 USD, its unfortunate Canon has raised the price to over $1400 USD. Yup, I waited for a long time for it to...

Cross posting from nukkad thread. Guys, Went to the Salinas international airshow this weekend. Bought a new canon 100-400mm IS lens and wanted to test it. Here is a teaser image http://share4pic.com/images/3/3/1/3312607.jpg Link for my web album is below. http://picasaweb.google.com/sarulan/Salinas...