Is India the Richest Country? Reports speak..

The link below will tell you that 1.4 trillion dollars worth Indian black money was lying in the swiss banks in 2006...
Read the last para in the report -
Money lying in Swiss banks may hit markets via P-notes- Analysis-Markets-The Economic Times

Updated figures per the Swiss Banking Association report 2008

Deposits In Swiss Bank :

Top 5
India---- $1891 billion
Russia----- $610 billion
China------ $213 billion
UK-------- $210 billion
Ukraine ----------- $140 billion
Rest of the world ----$300 billion

Source: Swiss Banking Association report 2008

Do you know this is more money than ALL the money in ALL the banks in India taken TOGETHER ! This shows how corrupt the beurocrat netas and their relatives are... Its high time to get thatmoney back to India...

Everybody know that these are the black money of our own famous country men. Atlast after so many years Government has started thinking about this.. But This Bank refuses to give the details of the account holders... They are showing their sincerity towards their proud customers...

According to this stats.., India is the richest country..! nice to hear right??.. hope it turns true..

PS : Am not trying to urge any Sivajis or Kandasamys... :p

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ILLAYATHALAPATHY IN PUDUCHERRY

Its First visit of Vijay to puducherry after his social service organisation Makkal Iyakkam was launched..

Some of the Questions thrown at him @ the function..

1.Question : How is sanjay and ur daugther divya?if they are interested in films will youi allow

Vijay : I will give them basic education then its their inters

2.Question : Many did diff roles in films , why ur doing same roles?

Vijay : The question person mentioned some characters in tamil cinema , But Vijay told Naanga ellam Youth ma i will do only youth charcters

3.Question : How will Vettaikaran be and 50 th film be ?

Vijay : Vettaikaran and 50 th film will be different from films he did so far Also he mentioned Sanjay will be dancing in Vettaikaran for 1 min

4.Question : One small boy asked i want to act in cinema pls take me to Chennai?

Vijay : na i will come with you for school tomorow - see its your work to study similar its my work to act

5.Question : Vijay anna you sing very well pl sing a song for us

Vijay : sure i will do it


Also While Police was beating the crowd - Vijay took the mike and said "Na pls yarium adikathenga"

Chanceless -Vijay is god - Vijay fan till ever

It was heavy rain

But Fans r hardcore

Chanceless - I am damn sure it wont come for any actor's

Pondicherry Rocked to core

After M.G.R Its vijay

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE - BEST BOOK TURNED TO BE WORST MOVIE..

After watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I’m worried that a movie franchise that had been building up some significant steam could now be heading for a disaster of Matrix proportions. While the movie doesn’t commit an atrocity on the level of, say, the rave scene in Matrix Reloaded, it does manage to be quite dull. This far into the series, that’s a bit disconcerting.

This is easily the least likeable Potter film since the overblown and dull first one, Sorcerer’s Stone. I liked the second one, Chamber of Secrets, totally loved the third, Prisoner of Azkaban, was OK with the fourth, Goblet of Fire, and really liked the fifth, Order of the Phoenix.

The biggest surprise regarding the failure of Half-Blood Prince is that David Yates, the man behind the camera for Phoenix, directed the film. He’s also in charge of the upcoming two-part finale Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. If the future films are anything like this one, Harry’s cinematic story will smash into the Earth like a Quidditch broom that’s lost its soaring power.

Things start interestingly enough in this chapter, with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) almost picking up a hot waitress in a diner and Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) spoiling the party. The old wizard needs Harry’s help in recruiting former Hogwarts teacher Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent). Dumbledore wants him back in the fold for some reason, and he needs to use Harry as bait.

Additionally, Dumbledore chooses to show Harry some rather disturbing memories of a former student named Tom Riddle, a young kid who could talk to snakes and grew up to be a major troublemaker. Yates, and the young people he gets to play Riddle in these memories (one of them being Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who plays the nefarious Voldemort), make these scenes easily the best of the film. Actually, I’m wishing a larger percentage of this movie were flashbacks of the creepy kids. This aspect of the film is engaging.

Sadly, what the movie turns out to be, for the most part, is a blasé look at Harry and friends starting to notice the opposite sex in truly stultifying fashion. A subplot involving Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and his emerging sex appeal is nothing but silly. Even worse, the normally enjoyable Hermione (Emma Watson) is left little to do but pout and whimper, rarely raising her mood above somber for the entire picture.

A major character says goodbye near film’s end, and Yates bungles the job. Given the importance of the character, I was expecting something momentous. Instead, we get a scene that feels rushed and has very little emotional impact.

Yeah, I get it, the movie is supposed to be dark, disturbing and foreboding. It’s supposed to act as a transitional film to the big finale. I’m OK with the dark sinister stuff … hell, I welcome it, but Voldemort is nowhere to be seen, unless you count cloud formations, and the movie’s secondary bad guys are not given enough screen time to really register. The whole thing lacks focus.

I haven’t read the books (with the exception of Deathly Hallows). With every one of these movies, I have heard from diehard fans complaining of key points in the books left out, which is a necessity considering the lengths of the novels. I’m a total muggle, but Potterheads I know are outraged by omissions made in the film. I certainly got a sense that something was missing.

While I mostly complain, the film is more of a near miss than a total failure. It’s just that, given the quality of the four chapters preceding it, this does qualify as a major letdown, especially after the delay getting the movie to the screen. Part one of the Hallows conclusion hits next year. Let’s hope Half Blood-Prince is just a misstep for Yates, and he steers the franchise to a finish worthy of Harry and friends. And, please, no rave scenes.

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF HARRY POTTER

Let’s get cooking. First off I’ve been rereading the Harry Potter books for too long and I’ve noticed a lot of things that could and probably will be of some importance later on in the series. I have no clue as to what any of these could mean or contain so if anybody has an idea please e-mail me.

The first thing I noticed is the one corridor that is apparently “caved in” according to the Weasley twins. And it could very well be caved in but, what if its not? I for one believe that it could be holding other secrets the twins have not yet revealed. Such as a time traveler they used in GoF to find the score of the championship game. It could also be something evil or bad that the twins don’t want Harry to find. Who knows? I am probably wrong on this theory, but in the text, the twins are always fast to say that it’s caved in. I guess we will find out what is really in the lost corridor in book 6.

Another mystery that I found was the one pertaining to the one Christmas dinner at Hogwarts in PoA. If you don’t remember I shall refresh your memory for you, short and sweet. 12 people sit down for dinner; Trelawney sits down and makes 13. It was very obvious when this happened because she announced it to the table. If you remember the Christmas dinner in OotP 13 sat down, first to get up, first to die. Unfortunately it was Sirius. When it happened in PoA, Harry and Ron both got up at the same time, or so it seems. TIME TO INVESTIGATE!!!

1. Harry and Ron got up at the same time. Does that cancel the first to get up is first to die thing or not, or states both will die at same time? 2. One got up right before the other so therefore will die before the series is over? a. Example: Harry dying to kill Voldy. b. Example: Ron dying so Harry can kill Voldy.

Who knows what could happen, JK used the rule of 13 before, and she will most definitely use it again.

I’ve been reading all these people’s articles on this website and they’re all saying how Voldy and Harry can’t duel. Well they can as long as their spells don’t collide like they did by chance in GoF. Harry has used Hermione's wand before, so he could even use someone else’s wand too.

I was also thinking about what happened in PoA at the end of the book. Harry saved Wormtail’s life and Dumbledore told us that Wormtail owes his life to Harry because of this. In GoF Wormtail gave Voldy his arm. Could this mean that Voldy is now under that same spell type thing that Wormtail is under? So if Voldy uses Avada Kedavra against Harry it may again bounce off Harry and hit Voldy again like it did so many years ago.

Now I’m just repeating this one bit because it’s a very good idea. But I remember someone talking of a Harry/Matrix type thing going on. How Harry can do magic without a wand and Nemo can do sweet stuff outside the Matrix? Some examples of when this happens are during OotP when Harry screams “Where is the way out” and the door flies open. Harry does it again in the same book when he’s practicing Occlumency lessons. He hits Snape with a stinging hex while not saying anything. I can’t remember which book this happens in but Harry says Lumos when his wand is on the ground and it lights up. Therefore I believe Harry will be able to defend against Unforgivable Curses and many other types of spells. Anyway I have to study for Bio. Peace and Love

HOW DO ENGINEERS LIE

If you're the CEO or vice president of marketing of tech company, engineers have probably flabbergasted you with their lies about the quality of their work and shipping dates. There is a good reason for this: to innovate, engineers need to lie to themselves and others because many people are telling them that what they're doing can't be done, shouldn't be done, or isn't necessary. I'm not suggesting that you pity engineers, but at least you should understand how they lie.

We're about to go into final testing.

This is a meaningless statement on two counts: (1) "about to go" can mean days, weeks, months, or years to an engineer; (2) final testing can last days, weeks, months of years. As a rule of thumb, if an engineer can't tell you that the project will ship in three weeks or less, it means that she has no idea whatsoever.

Even my mother can use it.

It's not clear what the engineers mother will use if for, and it may be that his mother is the chairman of the computer science department at MIT. A better test is whether your mother (or father) can use it. At least you'll know something about the capabilities of the guinea pig that way.

Our beta sites really love the product.

More than anything, this statement shows a fundamental ignorance of human nature: beta sites always say they like the product. This because they (a) don't want to insult you and (b) they're flattered that you asked them to beta test the product. The real question that you want to know the answer to is, "Will our beta sites pay to use it once we ship?"

We'd save time if we'd just start the whole project over from scratch.

This translates to,"We're in such deep shiitake that I don't even know which way is up." Generally, any time engineer (b) looks at work done by engineer (a), engineer (b) "knows" what engineer (a) did wrong. Unfortunately, this continues, that is, engineer (z) "knows" what engineer (y) did wrong. If an engineer ever tells you this, triple the cost of the project and add one year to her "pessimistic" ship date.

This time we got it right.

This lie follows the previous lie as in "I know what my predecessors did wrong, and I've done it right." Guess what the next engineer will say about this engineer. You'll come to learn that there is no right and wrong in engineering. There's only stuff that's good enough to ship and stuff that's not.

It works on my computer.

In other words, the fact that no one else in the company can get something to work much less any paying customers isn't important because it does work on one computer in the world. In particular, if it works on the engineer's computer, then it's not his fault that it doesn't work on computers of lesser people.

We have great testers and a great bug-tracking system.

In other words, the programmer is using his teenage kids to try the product, and they send him text messages if they find anything wrong. As a rule of thumb, all projects have at least 1,000 bugs. If your engineer tells you anything less, he's either lying or clueless. Incidentally, a liar is preferable.

I don't know much about sales or marketing.

This is a lie of false modesty. Engineers think that sales and marketing is easy. How hard can it be, after all, to sell and market something so great? While this lie is awfully irritating, it usually goes away when the engineer misses deadline after deadline. There's nothing like blowing it to create self-awareness.

What I'm doing is scalable.

Isn't it funny how people who have never created a large, complex product "know" that what they're doing is scalable? I especially love this type of lie when the engineer slams companies like Google, Oracle, and United Airlines twelve months after graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

This will take five minutes to fix.

There are several issues with this lie: first, there are 1,000 bugs that each will take five minutes to fix; second, as the engineer fixes bugs, he introduces new ones; and third, people are reporting new bugs faster than your engineer is fixing old ones anyway.

I have a soft spot in my heart for engineers because without them, there wouldn't be anything for people like me to evangelize and me myself being one of them :p. Still, you shouldn't confuse softness for gullibility. It's a very good thing to know how engineers lie, so that you won't unwittingly repeat those those lies to others.

TOP TEN LIES BY ENTREPRENEURS

1. “Our projections are conservative.”An entrepreneur's projections are never conservative. If they were, they would be $0. I have never seen an entrepreneur achieve even her most conservative projections. Generally, an entrepreneur has no idea what sales will be, so she guesses: “Too little will make my deal uninteresting; too big, and I'll look hallucinogenic.” The result is that everyone's projections are $50 million in year four. As a rule of thumb, when I see a projection, I add one year to delivery time and multiply by .1.
2. “(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010.”Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.
3. “(Big name company) is going to sign our purchase order next week.”This is the “I heard I have to show traction at a conference” lie of entrepreneurs. The funny thing is that next week, the purchase order still isn't signed. Nor the week after. The decision maker gets laid off, the CEO gets fired, there's a natural disaster, whatever. The only way to play this card if AFTER the purchase order is signed because no investor whose money you'd want will fall for this one.
4. “Key employees are set to join us as soon as we get funded.”More often than not when a venture capitalist calls these key employees who are VPs are Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun, he gets the following response, “Who said that? I recall meeting him at a Churchill Club meeting, but I certainly didn't say I would leave my cush $250,000/year job at Adobe to join his startup.” If it's true that key employees are ready to rock and roll, have them call the venture capitalist after the meeting and testify to this effect.
5. “No one is doing what we're doing.”This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.
6. “No one can do what we're doing.”If there's anything worse than the lack of a market and cluelessness, it's arrogance. No one else can do this until the first company does it, and ten others spring up in the next ninety days. Let's see, no one else ran a sub four-minute mile after Roger Bannister. (It took only a month before John Landy did). The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.
7. “Hurry because several other venture capital firms are interested.”The good news: There are maybe one hundred entrepreneurs in the world who can make this claim. The bad news: The fact that you are reading a blog about venture capital means you're not one of them. As my mother used to say, “Never play Russian roulette with an Uzi.” For the absolute cream of the crop, there is competition for a deal, and an entrepreneur can scare other investors to make a decision. For the rest of us, don't think one can create a sense of scarcity when it's not true. Re-read the previous blog about the lies of venture capitalists, to learn how entrepreneurs are hearing “maybe” when venture capitalists are saying “no.”
8. “Oracle is too big/dumb/slow to be a threat.”Larry Ellison has his own jet. He can keep the San Jose Airport open for his late night landings. His boat is so big that it can barely get under the Golden Gate Bridge. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs are flying on Southwest out of Oakland and stealing the free peanuts. There's a reason why Larry is where he is, and entrepreneurs are where they are, and it's not that he's big, dumb, and slow. Competing with Oracle, Microsoft, and other large companies is a very difficult task. Entrepreneurs who utter this lie look at best naive. You think it's bravado, but venture capitalists think it's stupidity.
9. “We have a proven management team.”Says who? Because the founder worked at Morgan Stanley for a summer? Or McKinsey for two years? Or he made sure that John Sculley's Macintosh could power on? Truly “proven” in a venture capitalist's eyes is founder of a company that returned billions to its investors. But if the entrepreneur were that proven, that he (a) probably wouldn't have to ask for money; (b) wouldn't be claiming that he's proven. (Do you think Wayne Gretzky went around saying, “I am a good hockey player”?) A better strategy is for the entrepreneur to state that (a) she has relevant industry experience; (b) she is going to do whatever it takes to succeed; (c) she is going to surround herself with directors and advisors who are proven; and (d) she'll step aside whenever it becomes necessary. This is good enough for a venture capitalist that believes in what the entrepreneur is doing.
10. “Patents make our product defensible.”The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, “We have filed patents for what we are doing.” Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, “I am clueless.” Sure, you should patent what you're doing--if for no other reason than to say it once in your presentation. But at the end of the patents are mostly good for impressing your parents. You won't have the time or money to sue anyone with a pocket deep enough to be worth suing.

HERE IS A BONUS LIE.....

1. “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”(Here's a bonus since I still have battery power.) This lie is the flip side of “the market will be $50 billion.” There are two problems with this lie. First, no venture capitalist is interested in a company that is looking to get 1% or so of a market. Frankly, we want our companies to face the wrath of the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice. Second, it's also not that easy to get 1% of any market, so you look silly pretending that it is. Generally, it's much better for entrepreneurs to show a realistic appreciation of the difficulty of building a successful company.