India a leader in Outsourcing

According to a new study, India continues to be a major global IT and BPO outsourcing destination amid a determined bid by neighboring China to give it tough competition in the field. According to a study by Global Services, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune are the six Indian cities in the list of top eight outsourcing cities of the world. China dominates the list of emerging cities for Global outsourcing with Shanghai and Beijing leading the list together with Cebu city from Phillippines.

Pallete images Information

Palette images are widely used in multimedia and internet applications for several purposes. I happened to go through a magazine which quoted the use of palette images in a rather interesting way. They had studied the various ways and means of using palette images. A new method for data hiding in palette images with security protection by color ordering and mapping, as well as parameter randomization, was proposed. First image pixels are classified as data embeddable or nonembeddable, and only the former ones are used to embed secret data. The proposed idea of data hiding is based on the use of a new type of color-ordering relationship, from which a color-mapping function is defined with binary values as output.

Voice of Dinosaurs

No one really knows if dinosaurs had voices. Maybe some did and others didn't. Hadrosaurs had a hollow in their head crest, and they may have trumpeted sounds through it almost the way an elephant uses its trunk. Sound leaves no visible record and so the question of whether dinosaurs could communicate may be the most difficult question of all. However, there is fossil evidence to show that the nostrils of Hadrosaurs were elongated. The hollow in the head crest might have acted as a kind of echo chamber; a noise formed in the throat trumpeted through the crest for identification of species, communication, mating and warnings. Parasaurolophus, or the archetypal Hadrosaaurus, was named the trombone duckbill because of its facial structure.

Aliens different form us…?

If they look so "biologically different from us"- assuming that we know what every species of creature on this planet looks like, and has metabolisms and behavioral patterns that we recognize - we should see them as nothing but aliens. Then, again - and to repeat a popular science fiction trope - they might just be walking, eating, farting and sleeping amongst us (not fornicating and reproducing with us, successfully, at least, because it is entirely unlikely that even though they might look like us, their DNA will be a replica of ours. But who knows? If they look like species among us, they've probably got to gene splicing, perhaps gene replication, perhaps even gene creation - in which case, they are us. Perhaps the alien is a virus in my laptop that's found a way to jump the binary-gene barrier and has leaked into me through my fingertips and is forcing me to write this crud. Man, this is a complicated business. I'd better degauss my laptop. Better to lose all my software than to turn into an alien virus hatchery.