Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Who is the highest taxpayer in India?
Do you know who is the highest tax payer in India? Let me tell you. Mr. Mahesh Gordhandas Garodia is highest tax payer in India. He has paid a tax of Rs 20 crores. Whereas, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has become the highest taxpayer among sportspersons in the country for the last quarter of 2009, while…
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What is Dependency injection?
Dependency injection or DI is one of the important concepts in computer programming. It refers to the process of supplying an external dependency to a software component. Let’s try to understand the concept of Dependency Injection. There is a consumer who needs a particular service to accomplish a certain task. Without dependency injection, the consumer…
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Technologies used in Avatar Movie
Development of Avatar commenced in 1994 by Cameron, who wrote an 80-page script for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Titanic, and the film would have been released in 1999, but according to Cameron, “technology needed to catch up” with his vision of the film. In early 2006, Cameron…
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Controversies over 3 Idiots
Although 3 Idiots team has all the reasons to celebrate as the movie has become such a great hit, author Chetan Bhagat does not seem to be the part of celebration. The famous author of the book five point someone on which this movie is based seems to be hurt by the fact that his…
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Top 10 iPhone Applications
iPhone is the most popular internet and multimedia enabled smartphone in the world. The iPhone can work as a camera phone, a portable media player, and an Internet client with facilities like e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity. In 2007, Apple announced that the iPhone would support third-party “web applications” written in Ajax that share…
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Top 10 Engineering Colleges in India
With the New Year lying on the brink, students are geared to appear for lot of competitive exams over the next 4-5 months. A large number of students appear for engineering entrance exams every year. Toughest of all the exams is Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), for admission into prestigious Indian Institute of Technologies. Then, there…
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What is the total number of websites on internet?
Have you ever thought about the total number of websites on internet? Well, according to the Netcraft Web Server Survey, as of December 2009 there are around 233,848,493 websites are available on world wide web. There has been an increase of 47 million hostnames and 7 million active websites over the last 12 months. In…
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Vindu Dara Singh becomes Bigg Boss season 3 winner
Bigg Boss Season 3 ended on a high note with actor Vindu Dara Singh winning the season 3 of popular TV reality show. As the winner of the contest Vindu will get prize money of Rs 1 crore. The finale of the show took place last night on Saturday. Bigg Boss season 3 started 12…
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3 Idiots Movie Review
Last night, I had a wonderful experience of watching “3 Idiots”. The show was houseful and everyone was pretty excited to see the most awaited movie of the year 2009. The movie had created a lot of buzz all over the bollywood before the release as the big names like Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and…
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DDoS attacks on Amazon and Walmart websites
On a jolt to big online shopping destinations, DDoS attacks take down the websites of Amazon and Walmart. Christmas shopping took a break because of attacks on the servers of Amazon,Walmart and Expedia. Neustar is the owner of these server. It offers DNS services to many big companies like Amazon, Walmart, under the name of…
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