Movie review: Pirates of the Silicon Valley

Silicon valley :this name always reminded me of a place where creative minds (of really decorated and highly qualified people) would set course to give to the world , the best technology can offer , mainly through mind boggling software advancements and solutions.

So when i heard the name of this movie ,the term 'Pirates' seemed pretty somewhat irrelevant in context with Silicon valley, but after watching the movie i understood the point of keeping the term in its name.

the movie constantly circled around a thought:
"Intelligent people create ,but the great steal."

This point was also very evident in the film.And to make things more interesting ,the movie used real names,Steve Jobs(CEO of Apple) and Bill Gates (CEO of Microsoft).The movie is about how Apple and Microsoft came up and how Bill gates became one of the richest men alive:

The movie starts of with the background of Bill and Steve .It seems that Steve was more into hare rama hare krishna kinda things , and stayed more in the " Yo-peace" world than reality , you can say that was because he hadnt struck or lets say he had not found his passion yet...but during all that time while he was blissfully enjoying himself, his best pal with him thoroughout, who was nicknamed as "Wazz" in the movie, his father was working for Hp(Hewlett Packarrd) at that time and Wazz handling a project- he was trying to developing what we call today the "PC"- the first ever personal computer using digital logistics ,boolean algebra and the abascus logics .

..that is where Steve got curious and something sparked within...an instinct..that this is something big rite here...history was in the making.

and decided to work alongside with his buddy..when they finished, they showed their machine in the their college science exhibition ,where they received most of the crowds ...people got curious of what all the machine is capable of....from the exhibition they moved on to a bigger platform ,a town science expo where more people could see and know about it..thats where Intel kicked in and approached Steve with an offer to work with them and put this machine into mass production ,thats where the careers of Steve and Wazz took of and they both worked in a division which Intel named Apple...during this time and before developing the pc- Steve and people of that generation knew very well about a company called IBM(International Business Machines) which not only had very strict work policies but strong foothold in the market and desperate craving for success they just did not stop come what may...this made them have an air about themselves..which i think was made by-far obvious by the kind of advertisements they made on tv back then.... because of this Steve had a grudge against IBM , he wanted to do something to defeat the company and the PC did his biding.


When Steve was working with Intel,Bill on the other hand was trying his best to achieve something in the computer world but he wasnt getting a proper platform, when he learnt about the PC ,he bought it ,studied it and learnt that it doesnt have an operating system to make it user efficient.So he tries to make one OS for it .But his efforts go in vain...so he decides to approach IBM (since they were at the top in those times in the computing world) ,talks to the top level bosses and tells them"What good is a machine ,if it doesnt have an Operating System?"
and that if they sell the PC with an OS which Bill would provide them with ,which would have very simple syntaxes, then IBM would rule the market,and have a stong monopoly,people at IBM got impressed and agreed with Bill.
Bill's colleague it seemed knew a guy who had built an operating system but did not know where to put this into use ,he had stored the entire codings of the operating system in magnetic tapes ,but he did not know how would it help him earn some moolaah to whom should this be shown to,or the kind of exposure it needed,or where else can it be used ,so this colleague approaches the guy- buys the OS(i.e. all the magnetic tapes) for $10,000 and hands it over to Bill.
Mr.Gates takes this OS sells it to IBM for a six figure amount and calls it the MS-DOS(as in microsoft's disk operating system).The conditions are all the royalties should go to microsoft and royalty should be on every machine manufactured and running on MS-DOS as its OS.
-neat isnt it..

Meanwhile the company Xerox was working on something called the GUI(Graphic user interface) and the Mouse.The people whom Xerox approached to show this ,made a mockery of all this and told them that Xerox should concentrate on the paper copying technology rather than all this.Because they actually never understood why did Xerox come up with this idea in the first place.

Steve learned about this and decided to approach Xerox with an handsome offer
he bought the GUI and the Mouse concept- integrated this in his PC, and came up with a new machine he called it the Apple Macintosh.He took this step in order to beat IBM pcs with MS-DOS.However to correct some tweaks it wasnt sent into mass production..Bill however after working with IBM came to know about Apple..he had a hunch that Apple here was on something big, something which will change computing completely.So he approaches Apple and tells them that he can help correct those tweaks and as well as help Steve defeat IBM because he claimed to know what exactly MS-DOS lacked..Steve agrees and gives Bill three of the PCs with Macintosh

Bill studies Macintosh and builds his own copy of it and calls it "MS-Windows".

In a way Bill gets away with more because MS-Windows=(GUI+Mouse+Apple's Macintosh)
Steve feels ruined when Bill goes public with this ,Bill calls Steve also a copycat coz he to took the idea of GUI and Mouse from Xerox.Steve splits out with Intel and establishes the company Apple with hope of again rising up in to computer world but in vain...in the coming years the company itself sacks Steve and makes him resign.

Microsoft knows Apple is helpless without Steve so it initiates a takeover .Apple has no other option but to call Steve back and puts him as the CEO ,Steve breaks the takeover but only partially.
As of today Microsoft owns a part of Apple!!

ST buses v/s BEST buses

The first difference which comes to my mind when thinking about the topic is the speed with which they travel,

st buses take almost a straight line path where as the best buses ..oh boy! god knows why have they been cursed to take most busiest and the most boring route possible and by the time you reach the desired stop ..you ponder "why did'nt i try take the train?" or something like, what if best buses travel with the speed of light.

traveling in best buses is not always such a bad idea provided your destination is some 30-45mins away, but if you are taking a bus from the depot or from a stop near the depot to go to the last stop of the current bus (in case you are as lazy as me to avoid taking a rick got to the station then take a ticket blah blah blah!)

then you have had it , dude

a very classic example:
my grandma stays in goregoan and i stay in chembur there is this best bus 374 starting from anushakti nagar to all the way upto goregaon..earlier i thought of the bus to be a jackpot, believe me when i say this the entire route till goregaon took me two and a half hours,
the route is so screwed up- the bus starts from anushakti nagar straight till sion circle
....there it turns and heads straight till the kalina- kurla junction literally crawling its way up till there thanks to the pedestrians,hawkers,bikers etc..... then to inner area of santacruz ,mumbai univ. ..then to vakola bridge ....... through the highway to vileparle and thats where this bus moves a lot and wastes a ton of time and makes me wanna pull my hair out till i go bald!! ...... then again through the highway by some opening near Garware (some tapri plastic manufacturing company) it heads to the andheri s.v. road via flyover +more traffic and finally to goregaon depot ...phew!!! finally

..but if you wanna look to the brighter side of it ....lets just say that people in best buses dont end up puking ,unlike in st buses which rumble,resonate,vibrate you right down to the core...so much so that things start getting out of control and such evidence can be found along the sides of these buses right below the windows ..or in some worst cases on the foot board in the gangway of the st buses..

And for some particular reason the type of people who travel in these buses also vary, people in ST buses stick to entrance like a tongue stuck on a ice frosted metal bar, but such is not the case in best buses probably because its got one door for entry and the other for exit...isliye maaf!! hai

st drivers are probably the most ruthless drivers on the planet, its not that they cause more number of casualties or bang and break more number smaller cars (which actually in some cases they do.)
its just that their speed at times is so damn high the whole chassis of the bus seems to be saying "yo driver dude its gonna blow ,what are you ? insane!!!"

and lastly but not the least about bus commuting,let me just add
S.T. buses rock dude log!!

on a new leaf...

Malls -we all know about such places by now ,probably because they tend to pop up at the most busiest junctions in the city.
Inorbit mall is one such example ,its truly a one shop stop for all your needs, be it groceries,clothes,food,gaming gadgets,electronic gizmos (sigh!!!)

But ofcourse each of the above with its own hefty price tag.I have been to inorbit many times , what i was not aware of is the fact that, this time there will be a slight change ,frankly speaking inorbit is one place where i prefer to stick my tongue out and wag my tail like a dog while looking at the showcase windows of the varied shops in the mall,literally begging at the cookie shops for one more sample of that delicious chocolate cream dipped cookie chip.

Ah!! anyways ,

As i was walking along gazing at the shops ,i came across a display of paintings , these paintings looked pretty simple in nature they did not hide anything ,revealed exactly what the painter thought of while drawing it, which could somehow be interpret very easily ,because they sure seemed logical and could be related to with ease- things like night life in the city ,greenery after the first shower of rain,women working in the village were conveyed by them as if they had the power to speak to people.

Although i never understood paintings very much or probably never made an effort to bother about such things,but this set of paintings however was of a different style ,a unique example in itself.Below it were a few words about the person who drew it "Paintings by Shashank Mittal from The Doon School,Dehradun".The name suggested to me that he must be a big time painter in his early forties.
Surrounding the gallery at one end were a bunch of boys talking amongst themselves,so with the thought of commenting at the paintings, i looked for the visitors log , and i asked one of the boys as he came forward ,since i looked curious "so you are looking after paintings eh?" he replied yes, so i asked him do you know the painter and he said "i am the painter, i am Shashank mittal"
jee i had never met a painter before ,so i was a bit enthralled by seeing his confidence and i did my best to encourage him further by admiring his work.






Thats how the conversation began and it so turned out that, he was otherwise a regular guy studying in XII std. (science stream) aspiring to get into the N.I.D.(National Institute of Design) in Ahmedabad .
I wished him the best for his dreams and goals and i told him that he would definitely get into the N.I.D.

And so for the first time i left inorbit by taking home something unique and yet free of cost- i.e. some of his paintings in my camera phone.

Heroes....

its a new series on cnbc hdtv....kinda really cool though..ordinary people developin special powers due some mutations in their DNA....usin their powers to save the world and stuff...

kinda sounds pretty comical and of X-men origin...but has been presented in really cool way on the small screen..

the guy above is my favorite character from the series his name is Hiro Nagamura...a guy who can bend space and time...go back in time and correct things ..set a few things in a way which would be more pleasant and desirable...warn people about the consequence in the future of their present action..

the only one thing he could not stop from happening ..is the murder of his best friend Charlene..who was a very pretty lookin waitress at a stop-by-motel...later he realises that death is inevitable...no matter however hard he tried he could stop her from dying by murder....coz nature had already givin her a brain clot....

meddling with time has always been my dream wish...obviously such a thing doesnt exist
..but i love giving it a thought whenever i see those clock hands movin ..time doesnt exist in any physical form..it jus there..lookin at us ...starin...like a watcher..non interferring whether in grief or joy, not sayin a word about whats gonna happen next..

lazyyyy....sleep and the workzzzzz..

oh yeah..can go on about this for hours together....been lazy wherever i have been ....be it in the school days ..or junior college or the engg. college..or as a matter of fact even this blog..i am posting after about a month or so..shii even lazy enuf to cut short words and to try and think to type less..and skip some extra typin..

i do pretend to be enthu sumtimes..it happens only when my brain realises "holy moly i forgot to switch on the dopamine dump"..and ther u go i wake to my senses ..make my self aware whether its the darn college bench ..or my pillow
..kiddin:p
but i do tht only when i want to be more lazy or so that i can get a wholesome sleep with loads of loud snoring ..to let the whole world know tht i am sleepin and if any one ever bothers to wake me up
he/she is gonna sound jus like my snoring does..

now thts one of the reasons why no one bothers to wake me up while i am gulping down the huge bouts of slumber..sleep..and laziness

no alarms are of any help..if thers anything that really gets me on my feet are the nightmares which i tend conjure up at times!!(sem7 results are on their way!!)

frankly speakin i sleep so that my brain can get some rest.....coz in my line of work it really needs to be active u see, thinkin for time slots for dozing off... makin plans for a wholesome nighty night isnt childs play now is it?..