Sony in a Coma

You know there used to be days when Sony used to be the king of all things electronic. It kind of makes me sad that Sony hasn't been able to keep up with the latest trend. I truly believed that if they had been more focused from the beginning, they could have really been leading the technological race.
There is no doubt that Sony was once emperor of the entertainment industry, and nokia was the king of the communication industry. Still when I go for window shopping or shopping not a single event goes by without looking at a Sony. But then I realize that I am getting more in a Samsung product for a relatively less price.
I don't get it why the Japanese aren’t able to reduce the price of their product. At the end of the day, everything is really assembled in China. I mean, iphone is in China, and almost all the products designed in Japan are manufactured in China.
Sometimes I sit down and think, that the standard of living in Japan is so high, as a result of which, companies have to pay high salaries to their worker. So to compensate for the high wages, they are charging exorbitant prices for their products. But don't they realize that if they keep on charging high prices, without any giant technological leaps they are going to lose all of their customers, upon which they will have to fire all of their workers. This is even a worse scenario.
To come back to the top, I believe that Sony has to make drastic changes in their marketing strategies. Come out with smarter technologies which will allow them to construct durable product at fraction of the cost. I believe Samsung have worked on the starting principle of Sony, and Sony just got lost along the way.
I just don't want a future without a Sony, You know, when I have my grandchildren I want them to be using Sony products.... side by side with apple (i am not a big apple fan.... but they have such a big fan base ... I think that they are going to survive)
Right now Sony is in a coma... it can go either way ....death or revival.
All the best to Sony.....Return to your Roots!!!!!!!!

The Problems of my HTC Sensation 4g

 The one thing that i want to make perfectly clear is that i absolutely clear is that i love my phone . i got my HTC sensation almost 2 years ago at about the time of iphone4. through the mist of hype that the iphone carried around it , i just didn't understand why more people didn't carry the HTC phones. cause it is an absolutely fabulous device. It has an amazing touch screen matching that of iphone 4 , with amazing camera, htc sence and all the richness of the android goodness. i loved it ... and i still do.
i bought my phone from a friend ....secondhand . but as long as it worked great i didn't care. At the time i was sharing an apartment with 3 other friends as well and..... all of them had iphones.
needless to say i could take all of them on with my htc.
but recently from around 6 months back i started having problems with it .

1.  while playing games the bottom half of the device gets extremely hot (i mean you can cook an egg on it!!)
2. the phone has started rebooting so frequently . i will be inbetween calls and suddenly everything is droped and it starts to reboot. 
3. cycle of reboot: this one is my favourite . soppose i have pics that i want to copy to my computer and i have connected the phone to my computer. when i disconnect the device the phone again starts to reboot. not only that when it has finished rebooting and everything is order.... it reboots again. and so the reboot continues on and on and on . so much so , if i had the phone in full charge before i connected it , the phone will reboot until the phone literally dies. hahaha i wimper by myself in the darkness
4. invisible enternal storage: when i first got the phone, i simultaneously bought a 32 gb external storage , cause the internal storage in this device sucks. now days from time to time , when i visit my gallery , one moment it shows an excess of 5000 photos and videos as well ....then the next time you check it out there is nothing there!!!! hahaha... just feels like a cruel joke you know
5. the soundsystem on this phone sucked from the beginning though (i hear htc one is amazing). at full volume the best i get is a sigh from me which is louder than the phone . 

but dont get me wrong i love my phone ... the games are great , it works amazingly as a book reader and the 8MP camera( when the iphone offered only 4 MP) was amazing . you could literally see the smile on my face when the OS on the phone got upgraded to ice cream sandwich .
Now i have an eye out for other phone htc One, nokia lumia, sony xperia z10 and the blackberry z10 . but i still think that htc one will throw them all out of the water . but still i have my eye out
on the other hand , i have my eye out for the nokia 105 as well ... the minimalitic phone with minimum features and which is not a smartphone , but has internet facility ..but the main attraction .......A MONTH OF BATTERY WITHOUT CHARGING !!!! :) cheeers guys

Setting up an image for the world coordinate system. Swmm 6

When you insert an image into SWMM5 , the image enters in standard size in any random coordinate. If we are with the world file of the image then the image stays in the actual coordinate representing the true nature of the land , coordinate wise . I would like to remind you that this only gives the true coordinate and does not give the elevation data of the image. Also the only method I know how to give the world coordinate to an image also requires the knowledge of AutoCAD. Cause you need the real coordinate vector data for this process. Cheers

STEPS:

1. Open Arc GIS –Arc MAP 
2.   Upon the initiation of the ArcMAP , start by creating a new empty map.
   
3.  You need the AutoCAD data where you have already created the map.( you need to do this step cause SWMM cannot take file with AutoCAD .dwg  extension
4. Click the add data button to add the AutoCAD drawing.
   
5. Add the autocad file with the dwg extension
   
    
6. The the figure should appear in the ArcGIS workspace . to get the full view of the drawing just click the full extent button.
   
   
   
7. after this . get the picture of the map, image or a google earth image that you have saved and import that into arcGIS as well
1. again click the add data button
   
   and navigate to your image file (.jpg extension)
   
2. the software will  ask you to insert pyramids cause the image has no pyramids. just say yes to
   
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3. both the autocad drawing and the image are shown in the 'data frame' of the Arc Map
   
4. and when you right click the image in the data frame ... you can zoom to layer to see where the image has exactly landed
   
8. after getting both the files in to Arc Map , you have to use the tool within Arc Map called geo refrencing which you can get by right clicking on the blank spot on the toolbar and selecting geo refrencing
   
9. Now just use the double crosshair button on the side of geo refrence toolbar and select a point on the image and match it exactly on the autocad drawing . you can do this more conviniently by doing 'zoom to layer' in each of the layers after repeating the process at multiple points you get an image which is more accurately placed in the world coordinate system. have the layer in geo refrence selected to the image file as well. this is very important!!!!
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11. The video for the above procedure is below but in the end of the video i forgot to show that you should also rectify the image to a given folder , this i have shown in the image below
    
    
12. after everything is done you import the said image in to swmm 5, also you import the world file which you have successfully created through the ArcGIS program. this process i have shown in the previous tutorial of how to import the image in swmm
13. now the image that you have is correctly positioned image file 
14. CHEERS :)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

Inserting a Location oriented image into SWMM- SWMM5

Now it is necessary to design a drainage system , we must have a guidance of the placement of a supporting map. so what we do in we insert a backdrop image into swmm with which we are able to generate the pipe placement . But the problem with this is that when we insert an image into swmm, the size and location of the image is not in correspondence with the geographic location .
for the moment i will show you how to insert an image into swmm . in the next lesson  , i will try my best to make an image location oriented with the help of ArcGIS. the only problem is that ArcGIS itself is a very expensive software.

STEPS:

1. Menu 
1. View-Backdrop-Load
   
2. Backdrop image selector window
3. select the backdrop image from the browse folder button
4. select the world file from the browse folder button
5. select "scale map to backdrop image"
   
6. the image is imported , scaled and in its proper geographic location

Setting Up SWMM- Map Display options- SWMM Part 4

Setting Up SWMM- Map Display options- SWMM Part 4

After configuring the project defaults and setting it up to all future projects as well we need to set up the map display options. This is done to determine how the maps will be displayed in the workspace of swmm model.

Steps:

1. go to  Tools- Map Display options
   
2. The Map Display option in opened
3. Set the setting as it fits your requirement
   
4. click ok

setting up project defaults - swmm part 3

the project defaults are how you want the swmm to calculate the projected data and display them in output.
Go to

1. Project  - defaults
   
2. fill in the shown boxes 
   
3. similarly in nodes and links withing the project default box
   
4. save default to all new projects 
5. click ok
   

working with SWMM .. opening a new project and importing a map-2

to create a new project in swmm and import a map to develop the piping system in swmm 5.0

steps:

1. open  SWMM from Start
2. click on File -new
3. A new Window appears
4. Click on View-Backdrop-upload
5. select a jpeg file from the pop up window, a bitmap image is more preferable for this
6. the image is shown in the workspace of swmm, now you can draw your elements on top of this image

working with SWMM software part 1

SWMM is a software produced by EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) of U.S.A . It is a free software used for developing the required data for drainage design. After showing the proper ground surface , catchment area and pipeline, the software generates the discharge at the various points. The full form of SWMM is Stormwater Management model.
So , right now , i am basically trying to learn the software and run it for the project as well. another alternative to this software could be Autodest Stormwater and sanitary analysis software.
 the project that i am doing is an urban development project where i have to design the storm water drain system . i need to determine the discharge at different nodes of the system. to determine that i want to import a jpeg image which i have taken out from an autocad drawing. I want to insert the jpeg image in to swmm and determine the pipe system in swmm according to that.