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Sunday, 25 June 2017
Qualities of a good student
Eat well , Score well
*A recent study found that teens who got 8 hours of sleep before taking a maths test where nearly 3 times more likely to figure out the problem than those who stayed awake all night.
Understand & follow the given tips to achieve your desired performance in your exams.
Besides this, an hour of walking & some breathing exercises like pranayam keeps you relaxed. Some simple stretches at home will also prevent you from getting cramps aches & pains.
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Swami Vivekhanand
1. Man comes from God in the beginning, in the middle he becomes man, and in the end he goes back to God.
2. He is an Acharya through whom the Divine Power acts.
3. According to Karma Yoga, the action one has done cannot be destroyed, until it has borne its fruit; no power in nature can stop it from yielding its results.
4. Know it for certain that there is no greater Tirtha (holy spot) than the body of man. Nowhere else is the Atman so manifest as here.
5. This world is just a gymnasium in which we play; our life is an eternal holiday.
6. Strength is the one thing needful. Strength is the medicine for the world’s disease. And nothing gives such strength as the idea of Monism.
7. Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer.
8. Any new discovery of truth does not contradict the past truth but fits into it.
9. Our King Janaka tilled the soil with his own hands, and he was also the greatest of the knowers of Truth, of his time.
10. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.
11. You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.
12. The senses cheat you day and night. Vedanta found that out ages ago, modern science is just discovering the same fact.
13. It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice.
14. Of Gyan and Bhakti, he who advocates one and denounces the other cannot be either a Jnanin or a Bhakta, but he is a thief and a cheat.
15. While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
16. The wind of grace of the Lord is blowing on, for ever and ever. Do you spread your sail.
17. Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further.
18. So long as the ‘skin sky’ surrounds man, that is, so long as he identifies himself with his body, he cannot see God.
19. Men worship Incarnations such as Christ or Buddha. They are the most perfect manifestations of the eternal Self. They are much higher than all the conceptions of God that you or I can make.
20. The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.
21. Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.
22. The monk is the religious expert, having made religion his one métier of life. He is the soldier of God.
23. I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven !
24. The first thing to be got rid of by him who would be a Gyanani, is fear.
25. Brahman, this Reality, is unknown and unknowable, not in the sense of the agnostic, but because to know Him would be a blasphemy, because you are He already.
26. Where do you find the Indian Society standing still ? It is always on the move. Sometimes, as in the times of foreign invasions, the movement has been slow, at other times quicker. This is what I say to my countrymen, I do not condemn them. I look into their past. I find that under the circumstances no nation could do more glorious work. I tell them that they have done well. I only ask them to do better.
27. Our ideal is the Brahmin of spiritual culture and renunciation. By the Brahmin ideal Brahminness in which worldliness is altogether absent and true wisdom is abundantly present. That is the ideal of the Hindu race.
28. Buddha was a working Gynani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by them.
29. Maya is eternal both-ways, taken universally, as genus; but it is not-eternal individually.
30. Renunciation is the real beginning of religion. Nowadays it is very hard even to talk of renunciation. It was said of me in America that I was a man who came out of a land that had been dead and buried for five thousand years, and talked of renunciation. So says perhaps the English philosopher. Yet it is true that is the only path to religion. Renounce and give up.
31. It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. We are the greatest temple.
32. Worship of God, worship of the holy ones, concentration and meditation, and unselfish work, these are the ways of breaking away from Maya’s net; but we must first have the strong desire to get free.
33. Wisdom can be practiced even on a battlefield. The Gita was preached so.
34. To think there is any imperfection creates it. Thoughts of strength and perfection alone can cure it.
35. Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. We make our own destiny.
36. Those that want to help mankind must take their own pleasure and pain, name and fame, and all sorts of interests, and make a bundle of them and throw them into the sea, and then come to the Lord. That is what all the masters said and did.
37. The finer the organism, the higher the culture – greater is the power to enjoy pleasure, and the sharper are the pangs of pain.
38. With us, the prominent idea is Mukti; with the Westerners it is Dharma. What we desire is – Mukti; what they want is – Dharma. Dharma is that which makes man seek for happiness in this world or the next.
39. They had hundreds of Rishis in ancient India. We will have millions – we are going to have, and the sooner everyone of you believes in this, the better for India and the better for the world. Whatever you believe, that you will be.
40. The greatest men in the world have passed away unknown. Silently they live and silently they pass away; and in time their thoughts find expression in Buddhas or Christs, and it is these latter that become known to us.
41. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him.
42. Vedanta says, ‘We are free and not free at the same time.’ That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side.
43. In our country, the imparting of knowledge has always been through men of renunciation. India had all good prospects so long as tyagis (men of renunciation) used to impart knowledge.
44. Creation is infinite, without beginning and without end, the ever moving ripple in an infinite lake.
45. Monism and Dualism are essentially the same. The difference consists in the expression. Dualism is in nature, in manifestation and Monism is pure spirituality in the essence.
46. The reconciliation of the different paths of Dharma and work without desire or attachment – these are the two special characteristics of the Gita.
47. The personal God is the highest reading that can be attained to, of the impersonal, by the human intellect.
48. The teachings of Krishna as taught by the Gita are the grandest the world has ever known. He who wrote that wonderful poem was one of those rare souls whose lives send a wave of regeneration through the world.
49. The living secrets must be handed down from Guru to disciple, in every science, much more so in religion.
50. Jesus Christ was a Jew, and Shakya Muni was a Hindu. The Jews rejected Jesus Christ, nay crucified him, and the Hindus have accepted Shakya Muni as God and worship him.
Computer System
Hardware and Software
A computer system consists of hardware ,the electronic devices that are capable of computing and manipulating information and software(set of instructions)that carries out predefined tasks to complete a given job. As we know a, computer cannot perform on its own .It performs operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division only when the user instructs it to do so. Theuser issues instruction which controls the sequence of operation are know as programs , and collectively programs are called software. It is an intangible commodity ,that is ,the part of a computer system that users cannot touch.
Relationship Between software and Hardware.
Software refers to the computer programs that are loaded into the computer system ,and hardware refers to all the visible devices, which are assembled together to build a computer system. Both software and hardware go hand in hand ;you cannot have one without the other .Even though hardware is the physical part of the computer . It is nothing unless it has software to control it .In a way, hard ware is like a car without a driver ;one needs both to make something happen .software is a set of instruction that tells the hardware what to do and how to perform the requested actions. Thus ,hardware and software share a special relationship. If hardware is the “heart “of the computer system, software is its “soul”. Both are complimentary to each other.
Software Definition:
Software is the generic term for organized collection of computer data and instruction .It is responsible for controlling ,integrating and managing the hardware components of a computer and to accomplish specific tasks. In other words software tells the computer what to do and how to do it. for example software instructs the hardware what to display on the users screen, what kind of input to take from the user ,and what kind of output to generate. Thus, software communicates with the hard ware by organizing the control sequences, and the hardware carries out the instructions defined by the software.
A computer needs to be instructed to perform any task .These instructions are given in the form of computer program, which are written in computer programming language. program controls the activity of the processor. The movement the hardware (processor, memory etc.) acts as per the instructions of a program, the is said to be in running or executing state.
Categories Of software
Software can be categorized as system software and application software. System software is a generic term for referring to any computer program whose purpose is to help the user to run the computer system , whereas application software employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform.
E.g. Take an electric bulb to an application and the electric power generation plant with system . the power plant merely generates electricity .
System Software
System software consists of several programs , Which are directly responsible for controlling ,integrating ,and managing the individual hardware components of a computer system. You must have noticed that a new computer system is always accompanied by some software ,either stored in a floppy or CD, which is supplied by the manufacturer. This software manages and supports the computer system and its information processing activity.
System software is more transparent and less noticed by the user s, they usually interact with the hardware or the application. This software provides a programming environment in which programmers can create application to accommodate their needs .Hence ,system software acts as an interface between the hardware of the computer and the software application.
In simple terms, system software makes the computer functional. They provide basic functionality like file management , visual display , and keyboard input, and are used by application software to accomplish these functions .some examples of system software are operating system , device drivers, language translators and system utilities.
Operating system :
It is the first layer of software loaded into computer memory when it starts up. As the first software layer, all other software that’s gets loaded after it depends on it for various common core services. These common core services include disk access, memory management, task scheduling, and user interfacing. In adding the operating system ensures that different programs executing at the same time do not interfere with each other. In simple words, the operating system organizes and controls the hardware. Examples of operating systems are windows XP,UNIX, and linux .The basic function of an operating system are :
1. Process Management: It handles the creation, deletion, suspension, resumption, and synchronization of processes.
2. Memory Management: It handles allocation and de-allocation of memory space as required by various programs.
3. File Management: It is responsible for creation and deletion of files and directories. It also organizes, stores, retrieves, names, and protects all the files.
4. Device Management: It manages all the devices of the computer system such as printers and modems. If any device fails, it detects the device failure and notifies the same to the user.
5. Security Management: Protects system resources and information against destruction and unauthorized use.
6. User Interface: Provides the interface between the user and the hardware.
Application Software
The most often seen software by the user is the application software. It is used accomplished specific tasks rather than just managing a computer system .For a user ,the computer system has no specific use without application software. Application software may consists of a single program , such as Microsoft Notepad (for writing and editing simple text0. It may also consists of a collection of programs, often called a software package, which work together to accomplish a task , such as database management software. Application software may also include a larger collection of related but independent programs and packages(a software suite) , which have a common. User interface or shared data format such as Microsoft office suite.
Application software are dependent on system soft ware’s. A system software (like operating system )acts as an interface between the user and the computer hardware. While application software performs specific tasks . Application are pieces of software that perform tasks for the users besides helping the computer operate. Which is the task of the system software. Application software are controlled by system software , which manages hardware devices and performs background task for them. Without system software, the computer will not run , and without application software , the computer , no matter how powerful , will not be helpful in meeting users requirements . Think of it this way------application apply the computer thinking power to business tasks such as tracking the general ledger or billing your customers.
Application software ranges from games , calculators and word processors (document creating programs), To programs that “paint “ images on screen (image color). Application represents real world tasks .
Monday, 19 June 2017
SMS & ITS NEGATIVE EFFECTS
Origins of Text Messaging Slang
At the root of most, if not all, differences between normal English and text messaging slang -- affectionately or mockingly known as "txt spk" -- lies a desire to use as few characters as possible. SMS originally allowed a maximum of 160 characters, including spaces and punctuation: shortening words was often the only way to fit everything you wanted to say into the message.
Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Pictogram
A great part of the vocabulary of text messaging is made up of abbreviations, acronyms, and pictograms. Abbreviations are words that are shortened one way or another, such as "l8r" for "later," "u" for "you," and "sec" for "second"; acronyms are letter sequences that stand for a longer phrase, such as "IDK" for "I don't know," "OMG" for "oh my God," and "AFAIR" for "as far as I remember"; pictograms are strings of characters that represent a feeling or concept, such as ":)" for a smile and "<3" for "love."
Vocabulary
People who send a lot of text messages may end up using abbreviations, acronyms, and pictograms in other contexts by sheer habit, even though it may be inappropriate. This can happen both in writing and in speech: in his book "Txtng: The Gr8 Db8," the linguist David Crystal notes that he has heard teenagers and adults alike use abbreviations rather than the corresponding sentence when speaking out loud.
Phonetic Spelling and Deteriorating Grammar
In order to shorten words, people writing text messages may resort to phonetic spelling, such as "skool" for "school" and "thru" for "through." Similarly, in order to save characters, writers may skip punctuation or spaces, or omit non-essential parts of sentences, such as articles. Finally, any and all capitalization may be skipped in order to increase the speed of typing. These habits may persist even outside of texting, leading to a slow deterioration of spelling and grammar skills.
Sentence Length
Because text messages focus so much on short sentences, people who frequently write text messages may adopt the same style in any kind of written communication. This can lead to written works full of sentence fragments with only a thin thread of logic flow linking them.
Learning the Language
For people who are just beginning to learn a language, encountering text messaging slang can be extremely confusing. Native speakers are usually aware that the way they are writing goes against the established rules of the language; learners who encounter this kind of slang regularly, however, may end up genuinely believing it to be the correct way of spelling and writing.
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