windows 7 without default email program

If you got used to using outlook express 6 and later windows mail then be up for a shock. Windows 7 doesn't contain anything similar. But would require you to download their suite of programs named 'Essential' as if to mock at you who did not get it as part of your purchase of windows 7 . If it was essential why did not they give it to you with windows 7 CD.

Even despite this the problem would not have been so daunting until to your chagrin you find out that it is a very-very heavy file to download. But what can you do. You can either change to web interface of your favourite email provider or if you do wish mails to sit on your computer then either shift to the lighter programs like thunderbird or go for 'windows live essential' and wait endlessly for the download to be over.

The failure of microsoft strategy is again seen in the naming the bouquet 'windows live' especially that they have stopped using this name for their favourite search engine and are now re-branding under the name of bing to give google a loosing fight. 2GB requirement of Windows 7 is again a steep one. I don't know how one could even be so un-imaginative for hoping that computers in the world would change to 2GB RAM, must be another strategy of Microsoft of investing in major RAM manufacturers. So if software can't earn for you shift to hardware.

nuclear bombs for peace

What is the use of the new capability of the nuclear powered states to destroy each other? I think there is none that comes to your mind on the face of it. But if you see deeper then you find that the very fact that the two nations are nuclear capable, makes you think about avoidance of conflict. This is because none of the nation can afford a nuclear spill-over. Also one of the doctrines of no first use is another thought out strategy of any mature state. This is more of a peaceful stand rather than an aggressive stand.

What's your raashee, no no sorry sorry -- What's your race?

In India the debate of who were your ancestors -- North Indian or South Indian? rages on. Can you tell this from color of skin, size of ears, and texture of hair? Maybe no! If genetic mapping is done for you, you can be up for a shock for the fact most likely you may not be that different from someone else from another part of India.

Anthropologists, evolutionary scientists and genetic-researchers have worked over the last 50 years. The results that have come out comprehensively challenge numerous previously held beliefs about Aryan-Dravidian divide. Physical characteristics -- skin color, ears, hair -- are just some of it, which change according to climatic conditions and do not take millions of years. The new research is genome-based, examining SNPs or ‘single-nucleotide polymorphisms’.

Most Indians today are a mix of these two groups Ancestral South Indians (ASIs) -- who arrived about 60,000 years ago and Ancestral North Indians (ANIs), who came later. Interestingly, the genetic mix apparently pre-dates all our historic social self-conceived separations based on caste and endogamy. Shocked to hear that!! Fact is that we were all mixed up into Indians long before the origin of the stigmatic caste system and so called ‘purity’ maintained by it is only about 3,000 years old.

It has been observed regarding acceptance of the scientific findings that any society takes a longer time to interpret and accept scientific findings. The Christian dominated-west still has problems in fully accepting Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But, as they say over the time the people who believe in older theory are not converted but they finally die out and a new generation of neo-believers takes their place. And it’s true also in other fields of scientific research like physics and astronomy as well.

The fact we all came out of Africa is more or less now accepted. The question is of when and how? The story of our journey out of Africa is fascinating as it is the story of all of us. Numerous streams of disciplines are working together -- archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary sciences, linguistics, history, sociology, genetics and more, in finding answers to these questions.

No matter how stubborn we are with our beliefs, yet, as we have seen, with every new scientific discovery, our lives do change, in both obvious and subtle ways. Whatever the outcome, the unraveling of the human genome would only make us better humans with out racial conflicts.