MY VIEWS OF THE WORLD: 06/22/11

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22 June, 2011

இதே நாள் ...

போலந்து, உகாண்டா ஆகியவற்றின் தந்தையர் தினம்

பன்னாட்டு ஒலிம்பிக் அமைப்பு பாரிசில் அமைக்கப்பட்டது(1894)

கிறிஸ்டோபர் ஷோல்ஸ், தட்டச்சு இயந்திரத்திற்கான காப்புரிமம் பெற்றார்(1868)

மல்டோவா, சுதந்திரத்தை அறிவித்தது(1991)

World's highest paid musicians...

10.DAVE MATTHEWS BAND ($ 51 million ):The American rock band, also known as DMB, was formed in 1991. One of the original members of the band, LeRoi Moore, died after an accident in 2008. The band has won a Grammy and their latest album is Big Whiskey and the GrooGru

09, JUSTIN BIEBER ( $ 53 MILLION ) The teenage music sensation is one of the higest paid musicians. With massive following across the world, Justin Bieber was the Artist of the Year at the 2010 American Music Awards. An YouTube discovery, Justin Bieber's videos are ranked amongst the most viewed on the video sharing site.

8, THE EAGLES ( $ 60 MILLION ) : Two of the American rock band's albums Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, were amongst the top best selling albums of the last century. In the music scene since 1971, the group had broken up in 1980, only to regroup in 1994. In 2007 they released the Long Road out of Eden, their first studio album since The Long Run in 1979. The 1994 album Hell Freezes Over was a mix of live and new studio tracks.

7, BLACK EYED PEAS ( $ 61 MILLION ) : The American hip hop group rose to worldwide fame with Where Is the Love? in 2003. The band was formed in 1995.

6, SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY ( $ 67 MILLION ): Paul McCartney was a member of the legendary The Beatles along with John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. After the break up of The Beatles in 1970 he started on a solo musical journey, often collaborating with other musicians. He is also one of the richest individuals in the UK.

5, MICHAEL BUBLE ( $ MILLION ) : Canadian singer Michael Buble has two Grammys in his bag. His self titled debut album released in 2003, but it was with his 2005 album It's Time that he rose to fame. Crazy Love (2009) is his latest album.

4, LADY GAGA ( 90 MILLION ): Known for her eccentric dressing style, Lady Gaga has also made a name for herself with her music. Her debut studio album The Fame released in 2008. Her recent album Born This Way is currently reigning the charts.

3, SIR ELTON JOHN ( $ 100 MILLION ) : Elton John has a four-decade musical career behind him and his multiple awards include six Grammys and an Oscar. His latest album The Union released in October 2010.

2, BON JOVI ( $ 125 MILLION ) : The American hard rock band dates back to 1983. Lead by the lead singer Jon Bon Jovi the band has numerous chartopping numbers to its credit. Their latest album The Circle released in November 2009.

1, U2 ( $ 195 MILLION ) : The Irish rock band U2 is the highest paid amongst all the musicians out there. U2 has been jamming since 1976. Joshua Tree (1987) gave the band a push to the higher echelons of legendary bands. No Line on the Horizon, released in February 2009, is the band's 12th album.

Alyssa Campanella of Los Angeles crowned Miss USA 2011 - அமெரிக்காவின் புதிய அழகி 2011

Asia's first public lesbian wedding...உலகம் ரொம்ப ரொம்ப வேகமாபோகுது!

Mermaid Parade in New York... கடற்கண்ணி அணிவகுப்பு !

Google Translate adds five Indian languages... தமிழுக்கு பெருமை!

Google has extended its translation services to five more Indian languages - Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu - besides Hindi potentially increasing its reach to over 500 million people.
"Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages", the internet search engine announced on the Google blog. According to Google, more than 500 million people speak these five languages in India and Bangladesh alone. Having launched over 11 alpha languages since 2009, the current number of languages supported by Google Translate is around 63.

The translations for these five alpha languages are expected to be less fluent and might include many more untranslated words than languages like Spanish or Chinese, with more of web content that powers Google's statistical machine translation approach.
"Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems," said Google research scientist Ashish Venugopal.
"Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering.
"This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them.
"Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number," he wrote.
As these languages have their own unique scripts, Google translate has enabled a transliterated input method for the users who do not have Indian language keyboards. Google has also requested the users to improve the quality of the translations, by correcting errors and providing feedback. Despite the challenges involved in the translation of Indian languages, Google feels it's important to translate these languages in order to help people gain better access to the multilingual web, and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages.

Firefox gets a 'rapid release', moves to 5.0

Within three months of the previous version of Firefox, Mozilla Labs has released a new version 5.0 of the web browser.
In its efforts to move ahead in the battle of the browsers, Mozilla had shifted to a "a rapid release development cycle" to ensure new features, enhancements, security updates and stability improvements for its Firefox browser at a faster pace. According to Mozilla the latest version of the browser includes more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements. In this release Mozilla also includes Do Not Track to the Android version of the browser making it the first browser to feature the privacy feature on multiple platforms. With Do Not Track enabled users can opt out of online behavioural tracking used by many websites.

There are no major noticeable differences in the user interface in Firefox 5 as most of the upgrades are related to performance enhancement. The Internet browser market is led by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, followed by Firefox, which is a distant second. Google Chrome is making rapid strides with rapid releases. Firefox is attempting to secure and better its position with more frequent updates.