This is a 70’s era Bollywood movie with two fine actors pitted in a classic genre- stylish mafia drama. An ensemble supporting cast, pretty images to see a classic not so crowded Bombay (as it was called)- it actually draws inspiration from real life gangsters. With fine music and good action as well, this movie can be good for your time-
Curt Monash at Monash Research pointed out some ongoing open source GPL issues for WordPress and the Thesis issue (Also see http://ma.tt/2009/04/oracle-and-open-source/ and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/switching-things-around/).
As a user of both going upwards of 2 years- I believe open source and GPL license enforcement are general parts of software strategy of most software companies nowadays. Some thoughts on open source and software strategy-Thesis remains a very very popular theme and has earned upwards of 100,000 $ for its creator (estimate based on 20k plus installs and 60$ avg price)
(Art citation-http://gapingvoid.com/about/ and http://gapingvoidgallery.com/
I rarely write on Politics- rather I mostly present statistics on poverty, third world, offshoring etc and would rather invite people to draw their own conclusions. But something I read in the New York Times, yes , THAT liberal and well written newspaper causes me to remember a rather obscure branch of analytics- related to defence personnel operations. It’s kill ratios- or the ratio of number of casualties on each side in a war.
While it is easier to estimate, define and measure kill ratios in conventional warfare, kill ratios can be sometimes misleading as predictors of victory (i.e Tet Offensive was a massive victory for the United States in terms of kill ratios, but the number of US casualties hastened the decision to end that war).
When it comes to Terrorism, kill ratios are even more skewed. 19 Terrorists caused September 11 that killed 3000 people, nearly all civilians. An unmanned drone attack kills 20 people in Pakistan, but causes some people to become car bomb terrorists,thus creating some terrorists and killing some.
An excerpt from the book, ” The Age of the Unthinkable” comes to mind in which the Israeli defence statisticians even came up with a precise number for ratio of innocents killed to terrorists killed, which is acceptable for a military solution. That along with some network analysis in Terror organizations, in which nodes to kill or disrupt for maximum ratio of benefit/cost is a very lucrative and secretive branch , called Security Analysis or what I term as kill analytics. Some of those hitherto secret kill algorithms would be better used in product marketing- however I wish the opposite was true (selling terrorists shampoo and get them hooked on Facebook rather than go with the flow). But thats an ideal world !
A short analysis on the ASA Directory at http://www.amstat.org/membership/directory/search.cfm
and http://www.amstat.org/minorities/index.cfm
There are 15904 Total Members out of which if broken done by Race/Color
Even optimistically the color of statisticians is overwhelmingly as follows (assuming that minority data is under counted by 10X- so multiplying the minority data by 10 and then taking percentage)
89 % White
4 % Black and
7% Non Black Minorities (presumably Indian, Chinese, Hispanic).
I tried to find some statistics on fresh maths/stats graduates by race but did not find some. Surely this calls for some thought ? 😉
Tony Stark is back! and he is cooler, with a hotter sidekick (Scarlett J),better villain (Mickey Rourke), cooler robots, and plus the same old winning sequel formula. Kind of like Matrix 2 had all the multiple Agent Smiths we get some multiple drone attacks versus Iron Man (or Men- as D Cheadle becomes the second Iron Man, stealing his suit – but whats an Iron Man suit between friends). Watch it- summer is here and can Hollywood Comic Book masala movies be far behind. I especially like the charming way Downey Jr and Rourke can fill the screen- thus proving better actors make even comic books more fun.
This is a good old fashioned action movie disguised as a Greek drama with special effects. I saw the movie in 2D
and it seemed all right. Sam Worthington was awesome as the blood and guts Greek hero, and the cast was nice as well.
The struggles of Perseus, against mighty crabs, assasins, Hades (played by Ralph Fiennes) and titans like Medusa and Kraken all contribute to make a magnificent story . Not since Troy has a classic story like this gained so much attention.
I am not sure if watching in 3D is going to be more entertaining, but the movie was quite nice in action and sword fights.
Recommended especially for a day when you need a movie break!
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