Electricity Breakdown in India !! 10 Best ways to save electricity

For people living in India it is a common phenomenon that electricity often breaks down either in day or at night. Problem is less in winters but very hectic during summers. Many people spend endless hours during the summers without electricity.

What is responsible for the electricity breakdown ??

A number of possible reason are responsible for electricity breakdown but a few are listed here :

Insufficient electricity generation : India is one of the few nation with problem of insufficient electricity generation. India do not have enough power generation plant to produce enough electricity. Most of the power generation plant are thermal or hydel based which cannot produce sufficient electricity. Nuclear power plant are few in numbers.

Ever-growing electricity consumption : With India continuously progressing with growing urbanization and industrialization the demands of electricity has increased by leaps and bounds. More and more electricity consumed by household and industries leading to shortage of electricity.

Introduction of new electrical gadgets : Washing machines, dish washers, modern computers, mobile phones, geysers and modern Television has emerged with growing lifestyle. Use of such gadget are also responsible for electricity shortage.

Bad Internal wiring and theft of electricity : Many electricity have very cheap electrical circuiting which could result in short-circuiting and hence retardation of electricity supply. Also some people try to physically connect wires to electrical poles or live overhead wires to illegally steal electricity. This sometimes leads to overload and electricity breakdown.

Wastage electricity : Most of the Indians don't care about the importance of electricity. They waste the precious electricity by using bulbs instead of CFLs or using new electrical gadgets again and again carelessly. They don't know the harm that  they cause to others as well as the environment. Even Inverters are not a good idea !!, Inverters are a way to take away electricity from others by storing it in huge capacities batteries.

10 best way to save electricity

1. Never waste electricity. Turn off lights and electrical appliances when not in use. For example switch off TV or computer when not in use. Specially never leave computer in stand by mode. Lessen the use of mobile phones.
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3. Use CFL( Compact Fluorescent  Light) or Tube Light for lighting purposes. They help to save over 75 % of electricity over a conventional bulbs.


4. During summers, prefer to use fan or coolers instead of Air conditioners. ACs consumes a lot of electricity, use of fans and coolers help save electricity.


5. In winters, lessen the use of Room heaters. Use another blanket instead of its place.


6. Use Power efficient 5-star rated appliances. The more star rated the appliance is the more you can save electricity.


7. Use geysers consciously. Never leave a geyser running even after the shower. Use Solar heaters instead.


8. Close the door of your fridge. Never leave it open. This way you can also contribute to save environment.


9. Switch to alternate electrical source such as solar power. Use of solar panel can generate electricity to run TV or low power devices almost at no cost!


10. Turn of lighting outside the home after 12 midnight. You can save several watts of electricity by this.


11. Try natural lighting. Open all doors and window in the day time instead of using lighting appliances.


There are million possible way to save electricity. Keep experimenting with these. Don't limit this to your Science Project only !!.

Use of Pirated software is illegal ! Piracy in India

Though I tried my best to include my own original content, some ideas in this page is taken from the book Foundation of Information Technology by Sumita Arora, Dhanpat Rai Publication

In simple terms piracy means unauthorized duplication of softwares, movies, music and other without the knowledge or written permission of the owner.
Although most computers are aware of the fact that unauthorized use and duplication of software is illegal, yet general disregard is shown towards treating the software as valuable intellectual property.

As we all know piracy is very common to India. We can see pirated softwares, music CDs, games etc. spread all around the city. Currently India is reported to be the second most pirated-software seller nation in the world after China.

Common forms of Piracy :

Softlifting : It refers to purchasing a single licensed copy of a software and loading it into several other computers contrary to the license terms. For e.g Sharing licensed software with friends, co-workers and others. Softwares of Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Inc. are worst softlifted.

Uploading and Downloading : It refers to making unauthorized copies of copyrighted software available to end users connected to a network. Use of Torrent to download illegal software is the most appropriate example. Infact  torrent has emerged as the largest market of sharing illegal copies of copyrighted games, movies, softwares and music.

Software Counterfeiting : This refers to illegally duplicating and selling copyrighted software in a form designed to make it appear legitimate. Smart programmers open the software in the developed programming language and bring heavy changes to it so that it will no more ask for license key.

Hard Disk Loading : It refers to installing unauthorized copies of software onto the hard disks of the PCs, often as an incentive to the end user to buy the hardware from the particular hardware dealer. Mostly films and music are pirated by Hard Disk loading.

Renting : It refers to unauthorized selling of hardware for temporary use like renting a video.

Demerits of Piracy

• As a PHP developer I know the pain that it takes to develop a software and that too on C++ or Java. It is not ethical to use someones software without giving him/her benefit.


• Regarding movies and music, it takes lots of creativity and investment to develop a movie or music. Again piracy undermines the creator efficiency.


• Software piracy denies the creator revenue that he/she deserves and harms paying customer who ultimately bear the cost of illegal use of product. For example if a Software costs 10 USD originally. But due to huge piracy the software builder is forced to increase the price of software from 10 USD to 20 USD whose cost the paying customer has to bear.


• Piracy limits the creator's ability to be competitive, leading to higher-priced, less advanced products for customer.


• Pirated software have many features missing in it so as to make it compressible. Also the quality of video of Pirated movies is to bad.


• The most important point : Piracy makes a person dishonest, it becomes a sin committed by him.

How can creators help control Piracy ??

Piracy has been declared illegal by governments of most of the countries. So, the law completely gives rights to the creator to protect their materials. Creators generally have 3 ways to protect their materials :

Copyright : A copyright is the exclusive property right of the owner / creator / author of a work, granted by law. It gives the owner an exclusive right to protect his work in all forms.

For copyright of your material please visit http://www.copyright.in/ ( for India) or http://www.copyright.gov/ ( for United States ).

Patent : A patent refers to special power of monopoly granted by law. Without obtaining a license from the patent holder, the work can not be used or reproduced. This option is not available in every country but only applicable in some selected countries. It has to be legalized by the court.

Trademark : Trademark refers to the registered word/text/logo depicting the identity of a producy, work or company.

Apart from this, owners can also try advanced programming technologies to protect their softwares.

How can we help to reduce piracy ??

Millions of steps could be taken to stop piracy but a few of them are :

1. Encourage your friends and relatives to use genuine software and Movie or Music or Games disc.


2. Never buy those softwares which do not have special trademark logos representing genuineness of the product.


3. Report any threat going in your locality to the owner of the product. Most probably you can use their websites to do so.


4. Stop using torrents to download software, movies, music or games. It will reduce piracy by upto 20-30 %.

You can't CHANGE anything ??

 Here I present a beautiful thought on change :

" When I was a young child

I wanted to change the world, 

I found it was difficult to change the world,

So I tried to change my nation.

When I found I couldn't change the nation.

I began to focus on my city,

I couldn't change my town and as an adolescent man

I tried to change my family.

Now, as an Adult man,

I realize the only thing I can change is MYSELF.

and suddenly, I realized that,

I could have made an impact on my family,

My family and I could have ,made an impact on our town,

Their impact could have changed the nation and

I could indeed have changed the world. "

Change is very long and a natural process. The world cannot run in the way you want but you need to run in the way the world would. Just try to change yourself and you would see the world changing.

Moral Reasons to save environment. Beautiful Quotes on environment

 Certainly there are millions of reason for why we should we save environment. Today I am going to discuss some Moral reason on why you should save fuel and environment
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5 Moral Reason to save environment

1. Most of the parents care a lot about their children, they give them every comfort they need. Here I must put a question, if you do care for your children and care for their future, why not to care about environment? They will only be able to survive only if you protect the environment today and save something for them to live life tomorrow.


2. An ancient American proverb says "We have not  inherited this earth from our forefathers, We borrowed it from our children." This means that we must never take earth to be our own property but the property of our future generations that we have borrowed. Now if you borrow a toy from someone do you break it and return. Then why should you tear down earth and then return to the future generations? What they would even think about us ?


3. When traveling through a forest I read a line "In nature, there's no reward no punishment there are consequences." Even if we cheat nature again and again without realising the consequences, one day or the other we all have to pay for our deeds. No one can escape nature when she is in furious form.


4. The warranty on the earth has ended two centuries ago. Every product is repaired for no cost by the company until it is under warranty. God has offered warranty on earth till humans cooperated to save the earth. But now its high time and the warranty is over. Its all left in our hand to use this precious product very carefully to ensure it lasts long.


5. Many people try to save their those property that belong to them such as their house, car or furniture. Why not to take this world as our own property and try to save it. We are formed in an ecosystem, thus we become a crucial part of this earth. The whole earth is one way our property. Why not to save it?

Beautiful Quotes to save environment

If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in water. -Loren Eisley.

Pollution is so Bad in New York, that I saw Statue of Liberty holding her nose. -Jackie Mambley.

We abuse land because we view it as a commodity belongong to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong to, We may begin to use it with love and respect. -Ado Leopold.

The best time to save environment was 200 years ago. The second best time is now. -Anonymous.

They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just knew, and therefore, I concluded that weeds must have brains. -Dianee Bensons.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -Francis Bacon.

Till now man has been against nature; from now he will be against his own nature. -Dennis Gabor.

We didn't weave the web of life, we are merely part of it; Whatever we do to the web, we do it to ourselves. -Chief Seattle.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth, find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. -Rachel Carson.

Think of the earth as a living organism, that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years; either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both dies. -Gore Vidal.

My father rode a Camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet plane. His son will ride a Camel. -Anonymous.

The thing about farming is it's so easy, half of it is learning to kill. -Michael Carey.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man greed. -Mahatma Gandhi.

Those who loved are the unlucky ones; the lucky ones are those who died with seasonal change. -Rashida Bi.

 

The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney.

Now it all Depends on you; on what you choose to do. There are millions of way to save environment. You would get many objection but remember Good deeds never need appreciation.

Negatives of Youth Population of India ?? Indian Youngsters

Today, after days of experimentation with Teens and Youths of India, here I present the negatives of Indian Youths. I am not mentioning the common points that many know such as addiction to drugs or use of foul language or common habits like smoking.

Remember this article is written keeping in mind about the negatives of boys while some of them are even applicable to girls. 

Insufficient Moral Values and annoying attitude

 

All of us know the common moral values to learn such as proper behavior or being disciplined. This is the foremost thing that the youths lack. Their behavior towards their elder is very bad. Their attitude is annoying. Most of them think no end of themselves. They are irresponsible.

Highly indisciplined

 

Being Funny is always appreciated in teens and youths till everyone could enjoy them. Problem arises when it is too indisciplinary to be enjoyed by everyone. Discipline is one of the important aspect that most youth lack. They have no control over what they speak or what they do. They take up notorious things even if they know that it is not a long-lasting fun.

 

Lack of Decision-making power 

 

Most of the teens and youths cannot take proper decision on their own. This is quite natural as they are in the stage of maturity. The problem is they even don't take advice of their elders before doing so. They try to take advice of their friends who are themselves not able to take accurate decision. Because of this most of them ruin their bright career or sometimes even their life.

Always want to attract more and more attention

 

As we grow, we get less attention from others than we got when we were small.Thus generally most of the teens doesn't get attention from anyone. The teens or youngsters who have attention-grabbing skills such as being good in academics or sports or art and recreation are well-off. But others try to get attention by exaggeration or doing something wrong that others would ironically appreciate.

Too much exaggeration

 

  This is the most common fault seen in youths. They love appreciating about themselves again and again and even ironically. Some of them exaggerates about their knowledge of bikes and cars or computers or their ability to play musical instrument or many others, though they won't even be the junior players of these fields. Some of them are engaged in appericiating themselves in their field of knowledge.

 

Try to show off

 

Another peculiar attitude of Teens and Youth is that they try to show off. Though this is seen in many women also, it is quite typical among youths. Some examples are : 

1. Buying smartphones or even simple mobile phones or laptops or computers and not using them for their genuine purposes.
2. Wearing modern fashionable dresses though they are itchy or uncomfortable.
3. Use of bikes or cars even when it is not necessary.

Short-tempered. Always ready to take up fights

 

 Many of the youths are too short-tempered.  They are ever ready to take up fights. Believe me or not if they are with their friends they even can hit up a powerful official under slightest provocation.

Jealous of each other

 

 This is not seen in everyone but in quite a good numbers. They are jealous of each other only when their are under certain circumstances such as their friends or relatives getting better result in academics or being better in any fields. Sometimes this envy is so fierceful that they take up bad steps due to extreme frustration.

Affinity towards Facebook

 

If we have a glance to facebook user chart, we would realise that most of the accounts on facebook are of youths. Out of every 100 youth account on facebook 20-30 are of Indian youths. Many of the teens and youth are addicted to facebook. They don't even use this beautiful tool like facebook to get in touch with friends. They use it to show off. They even don't know many of the friends in their friend list. Making fun of someone has become common on Facebook.

Many of the company like Samsung are able to attract youths to buy their products by pushing facebook as a tool to their ads.

Its waste spending money to educate them

 

In India, primarily Parents pay a lot of attention to make their wards earn a degree. They spend over a million INR for this. But the government wants the youngsters to be educated enough to be active citizens of tomorrow. Thus the government spends over billions to set up colleges and university and hiring highly-qualified instructors. 

But they don't know the fact that they are watering cactus plant in a desert. The teens and youths are never going to take up what they are taught in schools. Some aspects are : 

1. Schools teach children to be honest. But the youths are not even honest to themselves. It is commonly seen as piracy of major software and games just to satisfy their never ending wants.
2. Youths are taught to save fuel or energy, they use bikes and cars as if they run on water.
3. Discipline is taught to almost every kid. They are left limited to only school and not to everyday life.

Internet competition and stratergy for survival

Today I am going to discuss the best way to survive in this e-world of extreme competition. This is much more important for web developers who rely on the Internet to earn their living.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who are the Senior players of the Internet

Major senior players on the Internet are the sites which was created during the period of 1990-2000. These sites include Google, Yahoo, Cnet, and many others. They were able to get a better domain name and hosting services due to less competition to space on the web and today after 15-20 years they have emerged as top sites of the world.

Every Information is already available on the web

Search something in Google and not able to get a million result is difficult to find. Every information on every topic is already available on the Internet. Thus to even write a new article you have to face competition.

All the best ideas are already taken

Almost all the major ideas are already taken over. Now it is very difficult to dig for new ideas. Building a site based on the same existing technique is of no use and there is no guarantee that you will receive heavy traffic even after expensive sponsors.

Best ways to Compete and emerge as a Internet Superpower

1. Think of something new and very innovative. Give a reason to the visitors to visit your site again. Your site should have superbly unique content.
2. Don't try to build a website solely. Try to gather 200-300 developers or writers together to build a powerful website.
3. Target audiences of different locality. Sponsor expensive advertisement. You have to bear the cost of huge losses at first.
4. Have patience. It will take years ranging from 10 - 15  years to become famous and receive more than million unique monthly visitors.

Don't want to compete? Then Join the existing Superpowers

Many people don't like to compete to grow. The only solution is to join the existing big websites and grow up their empires. In fact this is one of the reason the big sites go on expanding exponentially.

Many job positions are offered by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and other sites. You could join any one of them as a web developer or a article writer. Google Adsense, Facebook Inc. need many smart brains of the world to improve their technologies.

The same strategy too applies to Small-scale businessman to face huge competition in their world of business.