

When referring to televisions, the aspect ratio essentially tells us the shape of a TV image - and is also used to refer to the shape of our televisions.
The ratio that it refers to is the width of the image divided by the height.
For those of you old enough to remember (ok, we're not actually going that far back!), the traditional shape of a television screen was almost square. It was slightly wider than it was high, but not by much.
This TV screen shape was designed to match the shape of the images that were sent to our TVs, and it was known as a "4 by 3" image - also known as 4:3 or 4x3.
This means that the image was 4 units wide and 3 units high. The physical size of the units doesn't matter - it could be 4 inches by 3 inches, 4 feet by 3 feet or 8 feet by 6 feet - but the relationship between the width and the height is always 4 across and 3 down.
As the actual size of the image doesn't matter, it is often easier to express this 4:3 relationship as a ratio. This means that if we divide the width by the height, then 4 ÷ 3 = 1.33.
So 1.33 (or 1.33:1) is said to be the aspect ratio of a 4:3 TV image or television.
You will often find the aspect ratio referred to as either of these two numbers, but they both mean the same thing. When you do see these terms, then it is just telling you the basic shape of an image or screen.
As with all technology, times change and the boffins try and improve on what we already have. Therefore, it was thought that this traditional 4:3 aspect ratio used in television viewing could be improved.
Although originally 1.33:1, the traditional aspect ratio of movies has for a long time been different to the 'square' images were used to seeing on our televisions. This meant the image shape was much wider than it was high. You can see this by the wide shape of the screen in a cinema or movie theater.
This wide image shape was thought to more closely reflect the way that our eyes worked - and so was a more natural way for us to see things.
With the introduction of HDTV and digital television, the result has been a slow but steady switch to 'widescreen' televisions.
The widescreen image we see on our TVs isn't quite the same shape as they use in movies, but it is similar.
The actual shape that has become standard for HDTVs is a "16 by 9" image. This is the standard HD aspect ratio. As with a 4:3 image, this means that the picture is 16 units wide and 9 units high - therefore much wider in comparison to the height.
You're probably way ahead of me now, but we can also express this widescreen image as a ratio.
Therefore, 16 ÷ 9 = 1.77. This number is usually rounded up to 1.78 - so when you see a reference to 1.78 or 1.78:1, then you know that the image or TV screen will be widescreen - or 16:9.
"The sale of all tickets for the 2nd Twenty20 match between India and England to be played on Saturday, 22nd December 2012 will be made online at
http://in.bookmyshow.com/cricket/india-vs-england-t20-2012
" said a media release issued by MCA's joint secretaries Nitin Dalal and Dr P V Shetty.
There will be "no counter sale of tickets at the box office", the release added. The opening T20 game of the series is to be held at Pune's Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium on Thursday.To run Ubuntu from a USB stick, the first thing you need to do is insert a USB stick with at least 2GB of free space into your PC.
The easiest way to put Ubuntu onto your stick is to use the USB installer provided at pendrivelinux.com. You'll need to download and install and follow the instructions.
Download Pen Drive Linux's USB Installer
read more at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
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The filled in application form and ICR sheet along with a demand draft for Rs 1000/- (towards registration fee), drawn on any nationalized bank in favour of the Director, Directorate of Admissions, Osmania University payable at Hyderabad, should be submitted to the Director, Directorate of Admissions, Near PGRR Centre for Distance Education, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007 on or before 11th January, 2013 by 04.00 p.m.
Candidates are advised to go through the information brochure for detailed eligibility before applying
Last date for submitting the application is 11th January, 2013
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BITSAT-2013: BITSAT-2013 is a 3 hour test, offered to candidates on computers at dedicated centers in different cities in India and at the Dubai campus
The test will have objective type (multiple choices) questions only
The test will be conducted between 14th May, 2013 to 01st June, 2013
The syllabus and other details of the test are available in the BITSAT-2013 brochure, which will be available from the website www.bitsadmission.com
How to apply: Interested candidates should register for BITSAT-2013 by applying in the prescribed application form at www.bitsadmission.com
The prescribed fees for BITSAT-2013 is Rs 1750/- (Rs 1250/- for female candidates)
Last date of registration for BITSAT-2013 by filling the online form alongwith the prescribed fee is 15th February, 2013, 05.00 p.m.
for complete details click here http://www.successcds.net/engineeringentranceexam/BITSAT/index.php
Forms available from: 12th December, 2012 to 31st January, 2013
Last date for submission of forms: 31st January, 2013
Interview (in DRC): 3rd Week of February, 2013
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Google has added a new feature to Drive: You can now serve up web content from within your Google Drive folder, even ones that run JavaScript. All you need to do is upload your HTML files and assets (e.g., images) and make them public.
The Google Developers site has more details on publishing a folder as a website, but essentially, besides having the folder and site assets public, you also need to link to the files in the folder using a "webViewLink" code. If you don't have an index.html file in the folder, Drive will display a list of the folder's contents.
more at http://lifehacker.com/5964262/host-web-pages-on-google-drive
Paper Based Test: 03 February 2013 (Sunday) 10.00am-12.30pm
Computer Based Test: 09 February 2013 (Saturday) onwards In different Time slots at specific test venues; subject to number of candidates registering for Computer Based Test.
If the number of candidates registered for computer based test is limited and can be accommodated in a single day; the test will be completed on 09 Feb 2013 itself.
Test Centre City list is provided in the bulletin. Test Venues for Paper-Based Test and Computer Based Test are different.
One candidate can appear only for one date for the February 2013 MAT.
Candidate can choose any one of the following modes to apply
Obtain form with MAT bulletin/CD against cash payment of Rs 1200/- (Rs one thousand two hundred only) from listed branches of Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank, listed Study Centres of AIMA or from AIMA, New Delhi; or
Obtain crossed Demand Draft (DD) of Rs 1200/- (One thousand two hundred only) in favour of 'All India Management Association' payable at Delhi from any Bank. Register online at website http://apps.aima.in/matfeb13 alongwith the DD details. Detailed procedure is given on the website link.
Register online at website link http://apps.aima.in/matfeb13 with Credit Card payment. Detailed procedure is given on the website link.
03-12-2012 | Applicants can now download their Admit Card for written exam to be conducted on 09-12-2012 by typing in the 8 digit Application Number in the field provided below: |
After topping Pool A courtesy their two wins and the number of goals they scored in the preliminary league, India will play Pool B's bottom-placed side Belgium as the new format devised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) allows all eight teams to move from the preliminary league into the knockout rounds.
India finished top of Pool A despite going down 3-2 in their final pool game to Olympic champions Germany at the Champions Trophy in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Socialite Paris Hilton became Santa Claus for children at an orphanage here Monday and even grooved to the popular song 'Chammak Challo' with them.
Hilton, who is on second visit to India, went to Ashray, a part of the Committed Communities Development Trust (CCDT) in suburban Bandra. The 31-year-old looked radiant in a colourful floral dress with a flower garland around her neck and a blingy hair band.
Hilton made it a point to bring gifts for all the children in the orphanage. She was welcomed with a traditional arti and treated to a delightful performances by the children.
"I am so happy to be here and meet you all. It is holiday time and Christmas is coming. I hoped you liked the presents," Hilton said at the event. "I admire the work done here. It makes me so happy," she added.
When the children shook a leg to popular Bollywood dance number 'Chammak Challo' from the movie 'RA.One', Hilton too joined them for a gig. Hilton's prime motive for this trip was her performance at the recently concluded India Resort Fashion Week in Goa. She had a stop-over in Mumbai.
"Paris wanted to visit an orphanage while she was in Mumbai. She got in touch with someone in Bandra, who happened to know our trustee and that is why she chose our organisation," Cherie Pereira, senior project officer of CCDT, told IANS.
CCDT houses a total of 108 children in its various centres in and around Mumbai, and Ashray, its Bandra branch, has 30 children.
Read more:-http://ibnlive.in.com/news/paris-hilton-presenting-the-new-chammak-challo/308725-3.html
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author George Frederick Will once said. As the short messaging service, or SMS turns 20, it has swept aside in two decades known conventions about courtesy, relationship, language and communication.
It troubles linguists that SMS has made deep inroads in language and unfastened from the root the basics on which any language stands.
Take the case of a 13-year-old Scottish schoolgirl who handed in an essay written completely in text message jargon to understand the extent of influence of SMS on language. BBC had famously put up an extract from the essay on its website in 2003 and invited a debate on it to gauge readers' reaction.
"My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc," said a chunk of the essay.
How has SMS changed our lives in the last 20 years?
Language
For those who assiduously believe that language can survive centuries of corrosion and assault by constantly evolving, there is both good and bad news. Whether the threat from cryptic and often lazy mobile phone communication is real or perceived is immaterial, what matters most is that it has morphed into a giant beast, feeding on the demands that time and career make on modern day professionals. Where is the time to send a handwritten note or a letter? In the electronic survival of the fittest, it is amazing that the SMS has outlived the dying email.
erhaps language is the biggest casualty of SMS. There are the usual defenders of text messages. Before William Shakespeare came along, the courtly flourish of 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer's works were said to be the cornerstone for English language. Chaucer added new words to his language as did Shakespeare. But 21st century thinkers are contemplating modelling spoken and written English to fit the sensibilities of the current day and age.
What is wrong with 'u' if that has come to be acceptable in mobile communication in place of 'you' to save time and adhere to a character limit? You can rue the death of the graceful Queen's English, but modern linguists argue that it would be of no use if it ate up space and time when you needed to pack in as much as possible in 160 characters.
Clarity of thought and analysis
The ability to think clearly, analyse astutely and infer accordingly has been served a death knell with the 140-160 character texts that urge you instead to come right to the point. SMS, the precursor of social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook – where status updates and tweets come with a character limit – have dulled an entire generation's ability to think.
The complex labyrinth serious discourses and societal issues are broken down to a easily comprehensible and overtly simplified 'ok', 'yes', 'no', 'agree' or 'disagree' without putting in the effort needed for analysis. Before one debate is solved, another crops up and issues jostle for space.
Attention span
The biggest hostage that text messaging has taken is our collective attention span. We text and speak, not lifting our eyes from our mobile phones to look at the person we are addressing. We text during meetings, longish speeches bore us, written communication that is more than a paragraph in length leave us irritable and flustered. The market has understood our needs, which is why we have booklets of witty SMS saying, novellas written in SMSese and our eyes glaze over anything that is over 160 characters long.Spam
The unsolicited messages that land in your inbox everyday despite your best efforts to block them – spam has become an unwanted companion of our daily lives in the last 20 years.
Advertisers use the low entry level barriers and the virtually intractable operation to bomb users with bulk deals that you have no use for. Imagine the pamphlets of the '80s and youngsters putting up posters advertising hair oil in the dead of the night on your home's boundary walls despite several warnings to understand the extent of intrusion of spam.
Emotions
Twenty years ago, a reasonable response to a confession of love would be an ornate handwritten letter or a walk in the park. Gradually all acceptable conventions of relationships have been remodelled into emoticons – an invention of text messages. If there is ever an electronic Nobel instituted, a smiley would be the top contender. Nothing expresses hope, amusement, love, friendship or excitement like a smiley does.
Accessibility
From a company's CEO, to a general physician, a local chemist or your boss – suddenly everyone's accessible. There is no longer the need to formally set up an appointment through a reticent personal secretary. SMS has reduced even the strictly formal relationships like that of an employee and an employer into a convivial, homely mush of a thing.
informality
'Won't be coming in to work today." This text would not have worked as method of putting in a leave application 20 years ago, what is perfectly acceptable now. 'R u bored?' a colleague texting you in the middle of a meeting is as acceptable as a future mother-in-law asking you to join you for a 'bite 2 eat @ 1 pm'.
Too Much Information
There is such a thing as Too Much Information – TMI for short. People you vaguely know texting you at midnight about their heartbreaks, their life's plans and aspirations. Texting your boss what ails your mother-in-law or your dentist your wedding plans in response to a simple query on shifting of an appointment – yes we are living with TMI.
Brevity and wit
It is solely thanks to SMS that we have a flourishing industry of one-liners that crop up during social conversations. SMS has kept wit real and sharp for the times. No one has the attention span to wait for the host to finish the punch line of a joke at the dinner table. They'd rather be 'forwarded' the latest SMS joke doing the rounds. The art of quipping has evolved over years through elaborately planned and tested text messages.
The courier of romance
Perhaps nothing has evolved as much as romance over the last two decades. In electronic age, love is defined by logged in hours and Skype conversations. And even before that, by late night texting under the quilt so as not to wake up the rest of the household. 'Love u 2′ has replaced verbose cards and flowers. Emoticons summarise the depth of feelings of a heart broken by failed communication. We have learnt to adjust our expectations to fit love into 160 characters.
It might happen that your cheque's start bouncing and do not get accepted from Jan 1, 2013. There is a new standard in banking called as Cheque Truncation System or CTS 2010, which all the banks have to follow now. RBI has issued a circular telling all banks that they should only process and accept those cheques which follow CTS guidelines.
Cheque Truncation System (CTS) is a project undertaken by the RBI, for faster clearing of cheques. RBI is planning a full-fledged completion by March 2013.
Probably you would have also got this msg from your bank. Pl pay attention to this.
RBI has instructed all banks to phase out all Non CTS format cheque by Dec 31st 2012. Only CTS 2010 format cheques, with the enhanced security features shall be honoured in clearing from Jan 1st 2013.
How does it impact you?
- Any non CTS format cheque presented w.e.f Jan 1st 2013 will be dishonoured in clearing
How can you distinguish the new cheque from the old?
- In the left hand top corner, you can see the words "CTS 2010" printed on the side
- In the left hand bottom corner of the cheque, a greyish silver square patch covering a security feature is clearly visible (Please see attached a sample format of cheque with features highlighted)
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Candidates seeking admission to various M.Sc programmes of GITAM Institute of Science of GITAM University are required to appear for an entrance test GSAT-2013 to be held at various centres in Andhra Pradesh and outside
M.Sc: Applied Mathematics, Physics, Electronics Science, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Food Science and Technology, Bioinformatics, Environmental Science
Admission is based on the rank obtained in the entrance test
Eligibility: Requirement for admission to all science programmes is a minimum aggregate of 50% marks in group (optional) subjects in the qualifying examination
Candidates who have already passed qualifying examination or who have appeared/are appearing for the final examinations in 2013 are also eligible
BEM (Bachelor of Environmental Management), 5 year Integrated M.Sc, BCA
GITAM Institute of Science, GITAM University, offers the following courses for Intermediate/+2 candidates
Bachelor of Environmental Management (BEM)
5 year Integrated M.Sc Programme in Biotechnology (with an option to secure B.Sc. at the end of 3rd year and B.Sc (Hons) at the end of 4th year) (Candidates with science optionals are only eligible)
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Candidates seeking admission to the above programmes are required to appear for an entrance test GSAT-2013 to be held at various centres in Andhra Pradesh and outside
Admission is based on the rank obtained in the entrance test
Eligibility: Requirement for admission to the above programmes is a minimum aggregate of 50% marks in group (optional) subjects in the qualifying examination
Candidates who have already passed qualifying examination or who have appeared/are appearing for the final examinations in 2013 are eligible
complete details at http://www.successcds.net/Entrance-Exam/GITAM-University-Visakhapatnam-Entrance-Exam-GSAT-UG-PG.html