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Cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Omkar Das Manikpuri, Naseeruddin Shah, Malaika Shenoy, Farrukh Jaffer, Vishal Sharma

Director: Anusha Rizvi

Debutante director Anusha Rizvi should teach directors a lesson or two about making political satires. There are a few films that entertain you and leave you a poignant message at the same time. You might laugh for most of the film but the end leaves you a little disturbed about the state of affairs in our country.

The plot deals with an omnipresent crisis that rears its head every now and then and especially during the elections – farmer suicides. Omkar Das and Raghuvir Yadav, the two main leads, are encumbered by an unsettled loan and the fear that their land will be auctioned off since they are in no position to repay. After numerous failed attempts to salvage their land, the only option seems to be suicide that will ensure that the family will get the mandatory Rs 1 lakh compensation from the government.

A local journalist does this story for a regional paper but it’s soon taken up by the national media and gets immense traction. The protagonist’s story is soon being played on national television as “live suicide coverage”. Journalists want their TRPs, the politicians do their bit to gain mileage from the issue just before the elections and the “media-event” is a good business proposition for the local community. Caught in the midst is the hapless family, a mere spectator in the ensuing media circus. watch peepli live film

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Top 50 Funny Computer Quotes

If you have enjoyed our collection of top 50 Linux quotes of all time, I’m sure you would love these funny computer-related quotes that I have put together. Although some of which are pretty old already, they can still tickle a geek’s funny bone.

Now get ready and enjoy this compilation of my top 50 funny computer quotes:

50. “Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there’s Google.”

49. “Failure is not an option — it comes bundled with Windows.”

48. “Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

47. “COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.”

46. “Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity.”

45. “To err is human… to really foul up requires the root password.”

44. “Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.”

43. “If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0″

42. “If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise.”

41. “Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.”

40. “Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?”

39. “I can’t uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of ‘Uninstall Shield’.”

38. “See daddy ? All the keys are in alphabetical order now.”

37. “Hey! It compiles! Ship it!”

36. “SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.”

35. “Yo moma is like HTML: Tiny head, huge body.”

34. “Windows Vista: It’s like upgrading from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush.”

33. “The more I C, the less I see.”

32. “Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.”

31. “My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.”

30. “The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.”

29. “Crap… Someone knocked over my recycle bin… There’s icons all over my desktop…”

28. “Relax, its only ONES and ZEROS !”

27. “rm -rf /bin/laden”

26. “I don’t care if you ARE getting a PhD in it ! Get away from that damn computer and go find a woman !”

25. “The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.”

24. “If brute force doesn’t solve your problems, then you aren’t using enough.”

23. “Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”

22. “Unix is user-friendly. It’s just very selective about who its friends are.”

21. Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

20. “I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly”

19. The world is coming to an end… SAVE YOUR BUFFERS !”

18. “If you don’t want to be replaced by a computer, don’t act like one.”

17. “Better to be a geek than an idiot.”

16. “I went to a gentleman’s cybercafe — and they offered me a ‘laptop dance’.”

15. “After Perl everything else is just assembly language.”

14. “The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.”

13. “There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”

12. “Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.”

11. “Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn’t leave something that can be traced back to you.”

10. “1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d”

9. “Helpdesk: There is an icon on your computer labeled “My Computer”. Double click on it.
User: What’s your computer doing on mine?”

8. “I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.”

7. “If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”

6. “Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.”

5. “Any fool can use a computer. Many do.”

4. “Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.”

3. “Those who can’t write programs, write help files.”

2. “You know you’re a geek when… You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.”

1. “Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.”

Business Intelligence Software: Key Applications

he business intelligence software market is one of the hottest areas in technology today. Companies are clearly getting on board: so many corporations have so many different systems, all with data that, if sliced and diced correctly, could (hopefully) lead to real business insight.

Not surprisingly, many vendors serve this market, including the larger companies that you would expect, along with smaller players that have unique offerings and value additions.

Let’s take a survey of some key offerings in the business intelligence space, their claims to fame, and what they have to offer.

SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 is the latest version of SAP’s flagship business intelligence suite. It boasts a suite of common services that helps an administrator deploy and manage BI tools on both the desktop and the server, including query tools and analysis programs for “self-service BI” (where a users can query and pull up reports themselves without relying on pre-programmed results).

Additionally, the Enterprise Information Management (EIM) module provides a foundation for querying and analysis using techniques like extract/transform/load (ETL). SAP BusinessObjects also integrates the venerable Crystal Reports product, used for years in businesses worldwide to create reports.

As you might expect, SAP has also stepped into the cloud with a software-as-a-service (Saas) offering, called Business Intelligence OnDemand, hosted entirely on the Web by SAP.

IBM Cognos
The Cognos family of products has been through several acquisitions and rebrandings, but the core suite remains intact now within IBM’s Business Analytics division. Cognos stretches into the midsize business arena with IBM Cognos Express, introduced in late 2009 to be a one-stop BI center with tight integration and targeted features for smaller enterprises.

The full enterprise suite of IBM Cognos 8 includes financial reporting, business intelligence, and extended mobile functions.

Within the BI arena, the Cognos offering is comprised of the following: Report Studio, a Web-centric report designer; Query Studio, a product designed to produce on-demand reporting with an instant preview function; Analysis Studio, a multidimensional cube analysis tool; Metric Studio and Metric Designer, which allows you to create, query, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs); Event Studio, which helps to design, and then send, alerts to business decision makers based on certain scenarios becoming