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Category: Technology
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In a recent lecture, my teacher rightly said- “The job of Information Technology is to eliminate the middle-man and if implemented in governance, we will have tremendous growth!” Let me elaborate. IT eliminates the middleman by supporting a process and hence automating it. May it be ATMs or eBay, or the Wikipedia- IT serves as…
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Dolly zoom, is an art of cinematography where the camera is pulled away from a subject while the lens zooms in, or vice-versa. The effect of it depends on the direction in which the camera is moved. If the camera moves closer, the background seems to grow and become dominant. If the camera moves further…
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With the 3-d movement entering the mainstream cinema, one more era of cinema is coming to an end. Cinema has always been the ultimate ground for implementing the latest advancements in sound and visual technologies. Generically speaking, cinema is all about conveying ideas- the storyline. The technology involved is secondary. Good cinema embeds the available technology to…
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“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin” – John Von Newman
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First, let’s define what open source is and dispel some myths. Open source software is sometimes referred to as free software. “Free” in this case means freedom to do as you wish with the software, not price. As Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation states, “Free software is a matter of liberty, not price.…
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 