Thursday, September 11, 2008

World's most expensive lab experiment

Our attempt to trace our existence, to re-create one of the possiblities that most believe created matter. BIG BANG THEORY, September 10th, 2008....



What followed during the entire process and after that is plethora of questions and few answers. Roughly 2000 scientists from all over the world got involved, 200 of them were from our own country. We have even contributed financially for this project.The mini big bang is carried out with the help of 80 different countries to unearth questions as:

1.How God's particle(Higgs Boson) can be captured?

2.How to find proof of the evolution of mankind?

3.With this experiment, what are the chances of finding life elsewhere?


The LHC (large hadron collider) is seen in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland.


My questions for this entire experiment:

1. Can we limit ourselves with the knowledge that one can gather from this? There is no limit for getting information.

2. Can we then use all this effort and money to share it with people who are alive but find it difficult to survive? What's the big deal in assuring that there is life in some other planet??

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Hams & Eggs!!!



Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with agile software development.
Several roles are defined in Scrum; these are divided into two groups; pigs and chickens, based on a joke about a pig and a chicken..

A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig and says, "Hey, why don't we open a restaurant?" The pig looks back at the chicken and says, "Good idea, what do you want to call it?" The chicken thinks about it and says, "Why don't we call it 'Ham and Eggs'?" "I don't think so," says the pig, "I'd be committed but you'd only be involved."

So the pigs are committed to building software regularly and frequently, while everyone else is a chicken: interested in the project but really irrelevant because if it fails they're not a pig, that is they weren't the ones that committed to doing it. The needs, desires, ideas and influences of the chicken roles are taken into account, but not in any way letting it affect or distort or get in the way of the actual Scrum project

Users
The software is being built for someone! If software is not used - much like 'the tree falling in a forest' riddle - was it ever written?