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Comment Thanks Bucc (Score 1) 117

by tanveer1979 (#45592205) Attached to: Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013

I make time lapse videos as a hobby, and I spend hours searching for CC licensed music. After finding such music, I go through the license type to make sure I am not using the music in a way it was not intended to.
Yet, anybody can file a claim.
Remember that fiasco about the video that had no music, just some background of birds chirping?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/

It was so ridiculous that everybody from slashdot to tech portals picked it up, and the guy won. However, what about countless others who are impacted every day.

Here see, they take down classical public domain music
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110421/10280813987/uk-music-publishers-issue-dmca-takedown-public-domain-sheet-music.shtml

Search google and stories are literally unlimited. Its a sad state of affairs, with everything heavily stacked in favour of those who can afford an expensive lawyer.

Comment I have been on the receiving end (Score 3, Interesting) 117

by tanveer1979 (#45581523) Attached to: Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013

I made a time lapse video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVbBfUWq3mU

I used background music from ccmixer
Gave the full attribution too!

Music : Improvisation On Sunday, by Alex Beroza(http://ccmixter.org/files/AlexBeroza/...)
Uses : http://ccmixter.org/files/The3amAssoc... again under the following license.

And got a notice that it matches. I filed a dispute, and haven't heard from them again, and my video is up and running. However, if they had filed a counter claim, they would have taken it down? My account gets a copyright strike? I dunno

anyways, I notified the actual music composer about the claim, and maybe he is also trying to get it removed from their DB.

But its scary, if somebody puts a takedown notice, I cannot seek recourse. I am not in the USA and that makes it even more difficult.

Comment The real Triumph.... (Score 4, Interesting) 73

by tanveer1979 (#45410671) Attached to: India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup

This is exciting. Really exciting. First the successful moon mission and now this.
However, from a ISRO's standpoint, this is more significant from another angle too.
With such low cost, now others are looking at India as a satellite launch country. Even before, those who wanted satellite launches, often came to ISRO if cost was an issue. But success rate was not too good.
With this mission reaching this stage, ISRO has shown that it can launch any type of satellite. From satellite launch perspective, this is a complete success. No doubt about it.
All these dollars invested will come back over the next few years, as more and more companies gain more trust in ISRO launch capabilities. I won't be surprised if ISRO recovers all the costs of this mission from commercial launches within the next 5 years.

Comment Hall Effect Sensor? (Score 1) 358

by tanveer1979 (#45297733) Attached to: Android KitKat Released

I was looking at the tech specs. Sensors are very important to me(eg Pressure, magnetic etc.,)
So I went through the list on the tech specs page, and apart from the regular proximity and stuff, there is a Hall Effect sensor too. Haven't seen it in the high end Note 2 also, or maybe Samsung calls it by a different name.
I know what is a Hall effect sensor, however, I am wondering what will it be used for here? Will it be used for whether a flip cover is open or not? For that I think you can use the light sensor too.
Answers please?

Comment Black is just fine (Score 1) 285

by tanveer1979 (#45185775) Attached to: No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine

Indian premium brands like Taj Mahal are excellent for black tea too.
In India, few people use flavoured tea. However, they do flavor their tea.
If you want a lemony flavor - Just add a few drops of lemon juice(Fresh squeezed)
If you want aroma - Cardamon
If you want Spice - Cinnamon

Flavoring tea like this has better results than pre flavored tea. When you refer to Earl grey and such , I figure you are buying Twinnings?

Comment Tea?? (Score 1, Informative) 285

by tanveer1979 (#45150451) Attached to: No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine
Brewing tea is quite easy. Go to an Indian store and buy a 1kg pack. We get 1KG pack for your 300 INR in India for excellent tea. Thats less than 5$. With markup and all 1KG tea of good quality(eg. Taj Mahal) should be around 10-20$ in Indian stores in any big city.
That 1KG pack will brew around 500 150ml cups of tea for you.
Add milk and sugar to taste.

Here is the recipe. Remember this is how tea is made in India, which is kind of like the home of Tea. British just borrowed it and consider those silly tea bags as tea.

Lets say you want to make 300ml of tea(2 cups)

Take 300ml water.
Add sugar to taste. If you have a sweet tooth you would need around 4 teaspoons, otherwise most people do fine with 1 teaspoon each or 2 for 300ml. Use cane sugar.

Start boiling the water, and as you start seeing the steam coming, put in the tea leaves. Add 1.5 tea spoons
This figure is relative. Some like tea bitter, so you would need 2 tea spoons

Keep boiling the water with tea leaves. Once it starts boiling, i.e reaches around 100 degree C(violent water) keep boiling it for 1 minute or so.
By the end of a minute or so you would have 250ml water left. Add 50ml milk. Or add 70ml if you want it whiter.

Bring it to a boil(the mixture would start rising) and turn off the gas, and cover it for couple of minutes, sitting there.
Now pour the mixture from a sieve and throw away the spend leaves.

Drink and enjoy. Not expensive.

Some further tips. If you like a strong spicy flavor, add 1/4th teaspoon of cinnamon powder along with tea leaves.
If you like to have gingery flavor(excellent sore through remedy), put around 1 table spoon of crushed fresh ginger
If you like aromatic, add 3 small crushed cardamom cloves((a pack of 100 cloves costs around 3-4$ at Indian stores.

Some links
Tea -> http://shop.khanapakana.com/brooke-bond-taj-mahal-tea-15-8-oz-450-grams/ 6$ for half kg. you may find cheaper
Cardamon pods -> http://nhastore.com/Cardamon-Pods-Whole-Green-1-Pound-Bulk--P884492.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=Product_Search&utm_campaign=google_base

Remember one cup tea needs 1 clove of cardamom so even a 30$/1lb pack will last you for 500 cups or so or even more.
If you ever make a vacation to India, buy 5kg tea and store in air tight container(it will not spoil). Will cost 15$ or so. Cardamom will be 5-6$ for 1kg pack.

Once again, lemme tell you, british do not know tea. That is not tea.
When british first discovered tea, they used to bew tea, throw away the water and eat the bitter spent leaves, and then complain that Indians eat such vile stuff
Tea has to be brewed, and the first 10-15 cups will not taste very good.
Slowly you will realize how much milk, or how much sugar, or how much tea leaves you need to add.

Watch some Indian youtube videos for tea making. You will find some where 300ml water + 70ml milk and mixed and then boiled. After the boil the burner is kept on slow and tea leaves are added which are then brewed on slow flame for 5 minutes.;
These are all variations. Experiment, and you will find what you really want.
And its a cheap cheap way to prepare tea.

In India we often make 10 cups, keep in a thermos, and for the next 5 hours we can keep microwaving and having. However after 4-5 hours, the taste starts going bad.

Comment The real problem is... (Score 1) 197

by tanveer1979 (#44792097) Attached to: Microsoft Drops Price on Nokia's 41-Megapixel Phone
That its not really a smartphone.
I use android, and recently, aquired a lumia 520 running the latest windows OS. Basic things like file rename, send file as attachment in an email is not possible.
If you use an app to open a file from web, if you delete that app, all files related to that app go away.
So its kind of like a featurephone.
With here maps, its wonderful for the 520. You get an amazing GPS featurephone with great touch etc.,
However, as you spend more, you can get a smartphone so high end win os phones will never fly off the shelves.

Comment You like many other.... (Score 1) 535

by tanveer1979 (#44763317) Attached to: Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business
posters here, are a fanboi. And I am not going to give you any counter argument, because any counter argument to fanboi's is useless.
As for me, I believe the best OS is the one which makes you productive. If there was one best OS, we would all use that one best OS. So different folks, different strokes, but fanbois do not understand such simple logic.

Comment Wrong... (Score 1) 535

by tanveer1979 (#44744895) Attached to: Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business
The major experience of a touch phone is the sensitity of touch. I have handled multiple phones running same version of android, with different touch sensitivity. 520 uses the "super touch or something" which allows it to be used with gloves, hence the extra sensitive touch. This is why we did not get the 620 even though its only slightly more expensive!

Comment As a 520 user.. (Score 2) 535

by tanveer1979 (#44744375) Attached to: Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business
I use a Note 2, and have a Lumia 520 in the family. The thing which shone about the 520 is that, at the low price point, the touch and feel experience of the phone was simple marvellous. Nokia makes brilliant stuff. All they needed was a better OS.
A Nokia phone with Android OS would have been the killer. Nokia still has a lot of goodwill, esp outside USA, and when you say Nokia people still Gush, and are willing to sacrifice on the OS front for the hardware. Now with M$, that is gone.
I expect sales to go down due to two reasons
1. Nokia is gone. The name is gone. Its M$ now
2. The groups will be managed by Microsoft, and we all know how M$ has fared in hardware device management.

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