Choispad 110 has been put up by the infocomm people in my house in the 3rd week of May. Basically the development work is being done by innomedia technologies and the implementation and the field work is done by reliance infocomm.Before installation the following things were done…. Optical fibers were laid up to my building and a white colored box was put outside the house in which the fibers went. The house was then wired from inside (and the whole thing connected to the white box outside) where in RJ45 connections were given at several places to plug the Choispad and the computer. The Choispad is then connected to one of these ports and to the AV mode of the TV. as such there is now no need for the coaxial cables now as the Choispad also shows TV channels.
External looks and features of Choispad 110
Choispad 110 is a new and improved version of the Choispad 101. There was no external difference between Choispad 100 and choispad101 but Choispad 110 is completely new and different.
LOOKS: Choispad 110 mainly consists of 4 parts:
1. Choispad: this is less than half the size of previous Choispad. It has got a moulded plastic body which is sleek and good to look. The color is black. Front panel contains a smart card slot, 2 lights( one for network and one for standby mode/remote sensor). The back side contains – audio in, audio out, video out, component video, digital audio, serial port, parallel port, plug for choisfone, charge point for choiser, Ethernet RJ45 plug, Choispower connection.
2. Choispower: this is a separate unit which goes into the 230V ac supply and the other end goes in the choispad perhaps after conversion to DC. It has got a reset button and also provides a 15 minute UPS backup. ;)
3. Choiser: this the remote control of the Choispad. Though it needs to be charged (frustrating thing is that this charge remains for a very little time- about 15 mins - and one need to charge the remote very frequently). A good alternative is use the choisfone. Now the choiser is a remote control panel where we have the arrow keys, ok button, back, tab, delete, shift, symbols, a-z and 0-9, home, start, volume control, page control and a few more. The good thing is that there is a LCD panel with a 4 line display at the bottom where u can see what u have typed . At the back side of the remote is a button which has the function of a mouse ball (it’s a button not a ball tough). This helps while surfing the net.
4. Choisfone: this is exactly same as the choiser except a few differences. This is a phone. U can actually call the people those are connected to the netway network (this is the case now). It has got a speaker and a mic. Call and mute buttons etc. But the catch is that it is connected to the choispad by a wire ( abt 4-5 mtrs). Even this has got a LCD panel and all the buttons present in choiser. Theres a strap at the back of the choiser and the choisfone so that it remains intact in ur hand.
I suppose the top picture is self explainatory. It shows the choisepad and the choiser. The botton one is a screen shot of the netway screen.
Comments by people who have tested this live…..
Finally!
It took over a week of waiting but the choispad was installed last night.
the broadband was very good -
i tested it at cnet:http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html
I was getting 130 kb/s avg/sustained which is office/work speed the peak rate was around double that in bursts. The ‘landline’ feature was useless, you have to use the remote and you can only call other netway users i’m never going to be using that…
The VoD was quite good - over 100 english & over 200 hindi movies with more being added almost monthly.
The recording feature is good in theory, i’ll comment after i actually use it. The channel selection was mostly better than normal cable but HBO was not available which was sad ;(The internet access was a big dissappointment - the web page does not fit onto the TV! so you have to scroll sideways when reading email which is annoying enough to put me off - i’d rather use my laptop to check email
They should have a zoom feature so we can make a page fit across a TV screenso my final ratings:
~ Telephony - useless (waste of resources)~ Internet on tv - bad (but usable in extreme situations/emergencies)~ Cable - average/acceptable
~ Interactive tv (rewind/pause/record live broadcasts) – good
~ VoD – good
~ Broadband - Very good
Since i’m not paying for it yet (first month free), its acceptable. But i would not want to pay more than 500/month for this including taxes & STB rental if we assume about 50 for taxes & 100 for the rental, that leaves about 350 for the services. The rechargeable remote is a good idea but I don’t see why a corded remote is also provided - like any mobile, we should be able to use it while its charging the ‘online’ help was barely avg with pauses every few min for the streaming video to get download the voice style/tone was quite poor (not the audio quality but the human skill.) for the help videos.I stick by my earlier opinion - the remotes are UGLY and need to be taken out back and shot without a trial!
Overall compared to the hype it misses the mark as usual…
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WOMEN HAVE BEEN victims of rape since centuries. They are portrayed as helpless weaklings who fall prey to some of the most heinous of crimes floating around the globe. Rape is not about the satisfaction of ones physical needs at the cost of another person’s vulnerability, but is a rather distorted result of losing self-control. What inspires this loss of control is an indescribable phenomenon. There is no particular reason for the springing up of a physical need so immense that it can lead to the destruction of one’s conscious behavior.
According to a study, serial rapists are the most average of people. It is a simple excuse that they do it out of sheer compulsion provoked by a sexual desire. If a person’s mind is not in sync with his physical being, rape is the last thing he will resort to. There might be a burning rage or a venomous vengeance curbed at the root of any such activity. But what’s startling about most of the rapists is that they follow a specific plan before committing any of these brutal crimes. In an interview, some rapists agreed that they did it because they were instantly compelled to do it. They could not stop themselves from giving in to this act. The startling fact, according to them, was that it was the women who provoked them and it wasn’t entirely their fault. They said that they were misled into the crime. About 70 per cent of the men agreed that they often tracked a single woman as they were instantly attracted to her. They liked the way she dressed. Women wearing skimpy clothes project an image of being easily available and men misinterpret all the skin-show as an invitation to bed. Such women are all around them – in their offices, in the malls, in the pubs and at shopping malls. Some rapists have the tendency to grab them at the first instance, be it at a party or in a parking lot. They even follow several techniques for this. As per the statement of one such rapist — who admitted to have raped a colleague whom he thought would give in easily — said that from the moment she had stepped into his office, he had known that she was as horny as he liked them to be. She wore minimal clothing and flirted around with all the male members. It was at this office party that she got a bit too drunk and asked him to drop her home. Once she got into his car, he took her to his home instead of hers and that’s where things got out of hand. Now, would you call that a deliberate crime? Another set of rapists informed that they did it just for fun. Raping women, made them feel powerful and capable. They were overwhelmed with a sense of immense authority after having committed the crime. One such rapist informed that he had lost his job, his wife was always complaining and he felt that he was good for nothing. Then, finally, he began to rape innocent girls, taking advantage of his good looks and was instantly filled with a sense of worthiness. Then are the most intense of rapists who plan their act. They can be seen haunting parking lots and isolated streets. They often grab women, abduct them and rape them. Men belonging to this category are not only animalistic, but are also very dangerous. They may or may not kill their victims. A more concrete type is that of date-rapists. They conveniently make friends with women – on the net, through pen pal or over the phone. They then schedule a meeting. When the women go to meet them, they are unaware of what is about to happen to them. After maybe, a formal dinner and a drink, they get into boiling hot water and there is no way out. Date-rape at times is the most confusing of all. What men need to understand is that women are not mere puppets created for their entertainment. They need to be treated with respect. One thing that men should get straight is that NO means no! Listed below are a few techniques that might help women in case of trouble:
Never wear revealing clothes in public. Know your limits and do not lead men on unnecessarily.
- If you feel you are being followed, take a path that has a lot of people around. At least you can scream for help.
- Never underestimate your stalker. If you have a doubt about someone – report it.
- Go with your gut feeling.
- Never trust strangers.
- If going out on a blind date, tell a friend or someone else about the venue. Always carry your cell phone and, if possible, leave a number behind where you can be reached. Try giving your date’s number to someone. That ways he’ll know that he is known to other people in your social circle and the chances of a mishap will reduce.
- Always take the elevator. Staircases and alleys are the most dangerous of places to hand around.
- If someone tries to grab you, punch him with your elbow as hard as you can.
- Yell, try to bite in between his elbow and arm or even better in between his upper thighs.
- Keep a pepper spray in your purse – all the time.
Never accept a ride or eat something offered by a stranger.
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Swami Vivekananda
WORK AND ITS SECRETS
Los Angles, California, January 4, 1900
One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. He was a great man from whom I learnt it , and his own life was a practical demonstration of this great principle. I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of life is there; to pay as much attention to means as to the end.
Our great defect in life is that we are so much drawn to the ideal , the goal is so much more enchanting so much more alluring, so much bigger in our mental horizon, that we lose sight of the details altogether.
But whenever failure comes, if we analyze it critically, in ninety nine percent of cases we shall find that it was because we did not pay attention to the means. Proper attention to the finishing, strengthening of the means is what we need. With the means all right, the end must come. We forget that it is the cause that produces the effect; the effect cannot come by itself; and unless the causes are exact, proper, and powerful, the effect will not be produced. Once the ideal is chosen and the means determined, we may almost let go of the ideal, because we are sure it will be there, there is no more difficulty about the effect . The effect is bound to come. If we take care of the cause, the effect will take care of itself. The realization of the ideal is the effect. The means are the cause : attention to the means, therefore, is the great secret of life. We also read this in the Gita and learn that we have to work , constantly work with all our power ; to put our whole mind in the work. Whatever it might be, that we are doing. At the same time, we must not be attached. That is to say, we must not be drawn away form the work by anything else; still, we must be able to quit the work whenever we like.
If we examine our own lives, we find that the greatest cause of sorrow is this : we take up something, and put our whole energy on it - perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still, we cannot tear ourselves away from it. The Bee came to sip the honey, but its feet stuck to the honey pot and it could not get away. Again and again, we are finding ourselves in that state. That is the whole secret of existence. Why are we here? We came here to sip the honey, and we find our hands and feet sticking to it. We are caught, though we came to catch. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. We are being worked upon by other minds, and we are always struggling to work on other minds. We want to enjoy the pleasures of life; and they eat into our vitals. We want to get everything from nature, but we find in the long run that nature takes everything from us - depletes us , and casts us aside.
Had it not been for this, life would have been all sunshine. Never mind! With all the failure and success, with all its joys and sorrows, it can be one succession of sunshine, if only we are not caught.
That is the one cause of misery: we are attached, we are being caught. Therefore says Gita: Work constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught. Reserve unto yourself the power of detaching yourself from everything, however beloved, however much the soul might yearn for it, however great the pangs of misery you fee if you were going to leave it; still, reserve the power of leaving it whenever you want. The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive the. There may be a million microbes of misery, floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death.
Attachment is the source of all our pleasures now. We are attached to our friends, to our relatives; we are attached to our intellectual and spiritual works; we are attached to external object, so that we get pleasure form them. What, again, brings misery but this very attachment? We have to detach ourselves to earn joy. If only we had the power to detach ourselves to earn joy. If only we had power to detach ourselves at will, there would not be any misery. That man alone will be able to get the best of nature, he/she has the power of attaching himself to a thing with all his energy, has also the power to detach himself when he should do so. The difficulty is that there must be power to attachment as that of detachment. There are men who are never attracted by anything. They can never love, they are hard hearted and apathetic; they escape most of the miseries But the wall never feels misery, and the wall never loves, is never hurt; but it is the wall, after all. Surely it is better to be attached and caught, than to be a wall. Therefore the man who never loves, who is hard and stony, escaping most of the miseries of life, escapes also its joys. We do not want that. That is weakness that is death.
That soul has not been awakened that never feels weakness, never feels misery. That is a callous state. We don’t want that. At the same time, we not only want this mighty power of love, this mighty power of attachment, the power of throwing our whole soul upon a single object, loosing ourselves and letting ourselves be annihilated, as it were, for other souls which is the power of gods. The perfect man can put his whole soul upon that one point of love, yet he is unattached. How come this? There is another secret to learn.
The beggar is never happy. The beggar only gets a dole with pity and scorn behind it, at least with the thought behind that the beggar is a low object. He never really enjoys what he gets.
We are all beggars. Whatever we do we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in life, we are traders in virtue, and we are traders in religion. And alas! We are also traders in Love.
If you come to trade, if it is a question of give and take, if it is a question of buy and sell, abide by the laws of buying and selling. There is a bad time and there is a good time; there is a rise and a fall in prices: always you expect the blow to come. It is like looking at the mirror. Your face is reflected: you make a grim face there is one in the mirror; if you laugh, the mirror laugh. This is buying and selling, giving and taking.
We get caught. How? Not by what we give, but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love; not form the fact that we love, but from the fact that we want love in rerun. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desire is bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish man, is the most successful. It seems to be a paradox. Do we not know that every man who is unselfish in life gets cheated, gets hurt? Apparently, Yes. “Christ was unselfish, and yet he was crucified.” True, but we know that his unselfishness is the reason, the cause of a great victory the crowning of millions upon millions of lives with the blessings of true success.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what your have to give; it will come back to you but multiplied a thousand fold but the attention must not be on that. Yet have the power to give: give, and there it ends. Learn that the whole of life is giving. That nature will force you to give. So give willingly. Sooner of later your will have to give up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands you want to take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open. Whether your will it on not, you have to give. The moment you say, “I will not”. The blow comes; you are hurt. None is there but will be compelled, in the long run, to give everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels. It is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable. The forest is gone, but we get heat in return. The sun is taking up water from the ocean, to return it in showers. Are you a machine for taking and giving: you take, in order to give. Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the more will come to you. The quicker it will be filed up by the external air; and if you close all the doors and every aperture, that which is within will remain, but that which is outside will never come in, and that which is within will stagnate, degenerate, and become poisoned. As river is continually emptying itself into the ocean and is continually filing up again. Bar not the exit in to the ocean. The moment you do that , death seizes you.
Be, therefore, not a beggar; be unattached. This is the most terrible task of life! You do not calculate the dangers on the path. Even by intellectually recognizing the difficulties, we really don’t know them until we feel them. From a distance we may get a general view of a park; well, what of that? We feel and really know it when we are in it. Even if our every attempt is a failure and we bleed and torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart we must assert our God head in the midst of all these difficulties. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. Then it requires a super divine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be unattached.
Every day we renew our determination to be unattached. We cast our eyes back and look at the past object of our love and attachment, and feel how every one of them made us miserable. We went down into the depths of despondency because of our “love”! We found ourselves mere slaves in the hands of others, we were dragged down and down! And we make a fresh determination: “Henceforth, I will be master of myself; henceforth, I will have control over myself.” But the time comes, and the same story once more! Again the soul is caught and cannot get out. The bird is in a net, struggling and fluttering; this is our life.
I know the difficulties. Tremendous they are, and ninety percent of us become discourage and lose heart, and in our turn, often become pessimists and cease to believe in sincerity, love, and all that is grand and noble. So , we find men who in the freshness of their lives have been forgiving, kind, simple, and guileless, become in old age lying masks of men. Their minds are a mass of intricacy. There may be a good deal of external policy, possibly. They are not hot headed they do not speak, but it would be better for then to do so; their hearts are dead and, therefore, they do not speak, They do not curse, not become angry; but it would be better for them to be able to be angry; a thousand times better , to be able to curse. They cannot. There is death in the heart, for cold hands have seized upon it, and it can no more act, even act, even to utter a curse, even to use a harsh word.
All this we have to avoid; therefore I say, we require super divine power. Super human power is not strong enough. Super divine strength is the only way, the one way out. By it alone we can pass through all these intricacies, through these showers of miseries, unscathed. We may be cut to pieces , torn asunder, yet our hearts must grow nobler a nobler all the time.
It is very difficult, but we can overcome the difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us, unless we make ourselves susceptible to it. I have just said, no disease can come to me until the body is ready; it does not depend alone on the germs, but upon a certain predisposition which is already in the body. We get only that for which we are fitted. Let us give up our pride and understand this that there is never a misery which is undeserved, there never has been a blow undeserved: there never has been evil for which I did not pave the way with my own hands. We ought to know that every blow you have received, came to you because you prepared yourselves for it. You did half, and the external world did the other half: that is how the blow came. That will sober us down. At the same time, from this very analysis will come a note of hope, and the note of hope is: ” I have no control of external world, but that which is in me and nearer unto me, my own world, is in my control. If the two together are required to make a failure, if the two together are necessary to give me a blow, I will not contribute the one which is in my keeping; and how then can the blow come? If I get real control of myself, the blow will never come.”
We are all the time, form our childhood, trying to lay blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, “Oh, the world is a devil’s world.” We curse others and say, “What infatuated fools!” But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil’s world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? “Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!” True enough, but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that. We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when we say, the world, is bad and we are good. It can never be so. It is terrible lie we tell ourselves. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon any one outside, but be a man, stand up. Lay the blame on yourself. You will find, that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
If it not a shame that at one moment we talk so much of our manhood , of our being gods that we know everything, we can do everything, we are blameless. Spotless, the most unselfish people in the world; and at the next moment a little stone huts us, a little anger makes “these gods” miserable! Should this be so if we are such gods? Is if true that the world is to blame? Could God , who is the purest and the noblest of should, be made miserable by any of our tricks? If you are of unselfish, You are like God. What world can hurt you? You would go through the seventh hell unscathed, untouched, But the very fact that you complain and want to lay the blame upon the external world shows that you feel the external world the very fact that you feel shows that you are not what you claim to be. You only make your offence greater by heaping misery upon misery, By imagining that the external world is hurting our , and crying out, “Oh , this devil’s world! This man hurts me; that man hurts me!” and so forth. It is adding lies to misery.
We are to take care of ourselves that much we can do and give up attending to others for a time. let us perfect the means; the end will take care of itself. For the world can be good and pure, only if our lives are good and pure. It is an effect, and we are the means. Therefore, let us purify ourselves. Let us make ourselves perfect.
