World’s Playground

The word titanic refers to something huge. Such was the magnitude of the ship, when it was built. Unluckily, the phrase became even more famous, with the downfall of the giant.

Titanic set sail from Southampton, England to New York on her maiden and only voyage, on April 12, 1912. The unsinkable ship had some of the richest businessmen in the world and to the contrast there were also the poor people from Europe and Middle East hoping for a good future in America. RMS titanic was the largest and the most luxurious ship of her days and all the passengers marveled at its design, comfort and the unsinkable properties of the ship.

The Titanic

During this voyage, titanic and its crew was warned about the ice bergs in that area by the other ships which have navigated through that region. Giving less importance to these warnings, the queen of ships sailed at the top speed of 20.5 knots. The titanic was owned by the British White Star Line and so she flew the British flag. She had been designed to carry 42 life boats.Its designer planned 50. But when the ship set sail it had only a mere 20, which was 4 more than that specified under the rules and regulations of the British government.

When all the passengers were enjoying their evening, the ship kissed an ice berg at 11.40 pm on April 14.1912. From then titanic was on the sea for just less than three hours. At 2.18, it sank completely into the icy waters of the Atlantic. The life boats began to be filled in shear panic. But many boats were not filled to the capacity. Only a mere 705 were rescued and the wholesome 1523 drowned in the cold sea.

RMS Carpathia was the first ship that came to the rescue of the Titanic. But it was late by three and a half hours. If it had come earlier the death toll would have been decreased. By 8.30, April 15,1912, all the escaped passengers were aboard the RMS Carpathia and they reached New York, but many with their kith and kin lost in the sea. Carelessness and panic had made the unsinkable ship to sink.

In some countries, there was a feeling of less man power. They were thinking to overcome this. And moreover teaching man the technical aspects and to make him do it without errors is so hard. So Japanese, the pioneers in robotics came out with this idea of developing artificial man in the name of ROBOTS!!!.

Robots

Robots do work with great accuracy. It has no fatigue levels and its technically fed with all instructions. So it does not need anyone to look after it. So as it goes, man power is reduced. More work can be performed with little time. And each robot is assigned with each work to increase the tempo.

In most F1 car manufacturing units, robots are being used and they perform work hundred times faster and accurate than man. Also there are domestic robots which can help handicapped people at home and office. In industries, houses, office, and in all places the works of robots are found.

May be after a hundred years from now, we may find robots walking down the streets, driving a car and living life like any ordinary but powerful man. Its a great developing field and is soon expected to grow high.

A lot of matches to follow and if you were at work last night, here is a good report on each of the matches.

Cavaliers vs. Pistons (4-0)

Duel to the regular season looks to be very easy for the Cavs, but the inexperience of their “guards” in Play-offs and the Pistons at Play-offs are strong parties that can be closed or that play 1 or 2 more games in this series.

Celtics vs. Bulls (4-2)

This also seems a very easy for the Celtics, but the Bulls are very much like the Hawks last year, young team with nothing to lose and who have no time Play-offs. Besides the Celtics were without Kevin Garnett at least in the first round.

Magic vs. Sixers (4-2)

This series is going to depend a lot on the physical state of Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu, who are touched. If they pass their physical problems will be a 4-0, but if you walk headgear, which is as much as possible, the whole round could reach the seventh game.

Hawks vs. Heat (4-3)

This is the most igualada round, the Hawks need more equipment, but the Heat have Dwyane Wade. It also depends a lot on how young people respond to each team, but this series goes to 7 games as possible.

West

Lakers vs. Jazz (4-1)

In this round, it is possible to move the Lakers over the Jazz, but the Jazz are a very pig (sorry to his followers) and they can create more of a problem if Kobe Bryant or relax for some, every increasingly, in 5 of 20 shots. Also this series will be very crucial to see how Andrew Bynum will be in play-offs.

Nuggets vs. Hornets (4-1)

Since Chauncey Billups is on the Nuggets, they played very well and were placed 2nd in the west. The Hornets finished the season very poorly and also may not have to Tyson Chandler. I see this very easy for the Nuggets, will be 4-1 or 4-2.

Spurs vs. Mavericks (4-2)

It would be difficult to predict, as the Spurs do not have Tim Duncan and Manu Ginolibi the Mavs and played very strong at home. But the factor of the stadium is Spurs, Drew Gooden finished the season well and have a Roger Mason Jr. to fill the lower Manu Ginobili. It will be a 4-2 or a 4-3, depend on Tim Duncan.

Blazers vs. Rockets (3-4)

Against inexperienced “Cagones”, there you have it all. The Blazers have a good team but almost none to play the Play-offs and the Rockets and experience by staff should not win the first round have gone a long time and the fear of not repeating what anyone away.

The widely used business strategy in the world, nowadays, is Six Sigma. Though Six Sigma is just six standard deviations from mean it have big business concepts behind it. Sigma is nothing but the notation given to standard deviation in mathematics. It is a Greek word. Six Sigma is used to reduce the flaws and to increase the capability of work in any process.

Six Sigma was first used in the manufacturing unit of Motorola in 1986. It came from the concepts like Total Quality Management, Quality Control and Zero defects. Pioneers like Deming, Taguchi, Juran and Shew Hart helped lot in the discovery of this.

Six Sigma curve is equivalent to that of a normal distributional curve in Mathematics. This is the statistical representation of Six Sigma. To achieve the level of Six Sigma a product should not produce more than 3.4 defects in a million parts produced. A Six Sigma calculator can be used to calculate the process sigma.

The two important Six Sigma methodologies are DMAIC and DMADV. DMAIC is nothing but Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control and it is done for the existing product which fall below the level of specifications and needs a incremental improvement. DMADV is Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify and it is used for a new product and can also be used for a old product which needs a improvement more than that of a incremental improvement

Six Sigma concept can be used to save more than $230,000 for a single project. So only the two third of the 500 fortune companies are using this.

I have been pondering why I use youtube only on my ipod touch. I do not remember using youtube on my laptop or on my desktop. The top 10 dunks is among the favorites and I have watched it quite a lot of times. Top ten dunks on youtube.

If you are Micheal Jordon fan, you might want to treasure this. I have seen him play and I remember him hanging to the hoop.

I have finally decided to end the lease with my car and buy myself a second hand car.

For the number of new cars being bought, equal number of used cars are also been sold. There are in fact more dealers for used cars than new car dealers. The reason is because of less capital investment and more profit. But not to forget the high risks involved.

First and foremost is the quality of the engine. We should be aware of the noise of the engine as we cant open up the engine and find the flaws. So assumptions are to be made by listening to the noise of the engine. But here too, dealers who know all the tricks of the trade make the vehicle engine less noisy using a overhaul which goes only in 2 days time.

Next is to check for the accidents. Many people take the cars after accidents and repair them and make it look new. This has to be clearly found. We can check for this using the door beadings and the bumpers under the vehicle. If these parts are damaged, the vehicle might have met with a severe accident.

The most important thing is the records of the vehicle. Each car has its service record, Rc book, insurance copy and all the 7 forms namely 29(2), 30(2), 32, 60(2) in which name transfer has to be done and signed by the previous owner.

So all these care should be taken and we should be totally cautious before buying or selling a used car. But in the market if we don’t find any cars for our taste and within our budget its good to go with used cars.