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प्रारंभिक भलाई यही मानकर चलने में है कि संसार का कोई भी पुरस्‍कार मतभेद और विवाद से परे हो नहीं सकता- यदि उसमें दिलचस्‍पी रखने वालों का जैसा-तैसा प्रबुद्ध बहुमत उसके पक्ष्‍ा में प्रतीत हो तो उसे वैध मानना होगा

Indeed, home buyers generally do carefully compare prices — that is, they compare the price of their potential purchase with the prices of other houses. But this says nothing about whether the overall price of houses is justified. It’s ketchup economics, again: because a two-quart bottle of ketchup costs twice as much as a one-quart bottle, finance theorists declare that the price of ketchup must be right.

Now that the undiagnosed bubble has burst, the true riskiness of supposedly safe assets has been revealed and the financial system has demonstrated its fragility. U.S. households have seen $13 trillion in wealth evaporate. More than six million jobs have been lost, and the unemployment rate appears headed for its highest level since 1940. So what guidance does modern economics have to offer in our current predicament? And should we trust it?

I am quite
ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists
themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single
shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature
of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature
is indeed fully admitted by those members of the committee who support
the oriental plan of education.

Zoom lenses are obviously a good choice for vacations. I’d recommend a 28-105-mm zoom, which will provide you a lot of versatility. You might also consider a telephoto zoom lens (maybe a 70-200 mm), which gives you the ability to pull in the subject and use techniques that act to compress or isolate the scene.

Rather than buying a second lens, consider a 2X extender [teleconverter], which doubles the focal length of that 28-105-mm lens, to 56-210mm. So for a very small physical space, and much less cost, you effectively double the lens. The downside, however, is that you lose one stop of light.

Apple iPhone supports Unicode and seems to have few Indic fonts in-built (for example Tamil) but it lacks Indic Rendering  (Apple AAT which is roughly Windows Uniscribe or Linux Pango equivalent) so the characters get displayed jumbled, which is the same behaviour of Windows Mobiles.

Jirbo matching games!

The Sesame Street Podcast is great, and also free.

This news is most exciting to the iPod Touch community. Since the second generation Touches come with a microphone input, using an adapter (search ebay for “iphone headset adapter 2.5mm 3.5mm”), you can use any cellphone headset to turn your iPod Touch into a fully functional “mobile” phone. No need to jailbreak or do anything complicated.

You can make phone calls, receive them, have a “real” number that people can call from regular phones, voicemail and a sexy British operator asking people to leave you a message.