Teaching 10 times Vs Teaching Basics Once

I have seen many teachers who are ready to teach a topic 10 times, if the student does not understand it. But, most of them miss the point that, if the student does not understand even after teaching second time, it means, there is some thing wrong. Most of the time, the student does not have the basics of that topic, and that's why he/she could not understand. The student should be taught on the basics of that topic, and then only he/she can understand. Without teaching basics, if they keep on teaching the same topic even for 100 times, they will not understand, and the student may lose confidence and then interest on the subject.

Learn Basics and Teach Basics.

Copy Right - Is Registration Mandatory?

Most of the articles that I have read says, if I publish anything that I own, that itself is proof enough that, it is copyrighted to me. Once I copyright anything, then nobody can use that without taking permission from me.

Recently, in one discussion in a TV Channel, Loksatta's Legal Cell Convenor C.V.L.Narasimha Rao told that, just publishing itself is not enough for copyright, and one must register it to copyright it. He said, just publishing cannot be produced as a proof in the court. Due to few other issues, the discussion did not continue on that line.

Few months back, I had met C.V.L.Narasimha Rao to discuss whether there can be any way, I can proceed legally for the issues that I mentioned in the article Is it Legal or Illegal?. He told me, what are all involved in any case. For the transport problem, the court would ask questions like,

how many buses are there?
how many passengers are there?
What is the capacity of the bus?
Which routes have problems?
How many buses are required in those routes?
Whether there was any complaint given to RTC for this?
What did they say?
Whether the issue was escalated to the Managing Director?
What did the MD say?

For any of these questions, if the response is negative or does not have supporting documentation, the court would dismiss the case immediately. Not only that, court does not involve in changing any act. If there is any problem, then court would just ask to solve that problem, and it does not involve in solving root problems or solving for long term, which is the duty of Assembly/Parliament.

Based on the above experience, I could easily understand the problems in filing a court case on copyright without registering it. Even if they publish it, still they need to prove that, they have created that content on that day or before, which is not trivial. Even if one person publishes a book, how do they prove that, that book was published in the year mentioned in that book? It is not very trivial. Theoretically, just publishing may be enough to copyright it. But, in practical, it may not be enough. So, it is better to register it to copyright.

On a side note, all the creations of all the employees of almost all the corporate companies would belong to the corresponding companies, and not to the actual person who created it. Since, almost all the companies write in their agreements that, all the creations of the employee would belong to the company, irrespective of whether it is done during the office time or not.

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How do the managers force their Favorite Technologies?

A Manager comes up with some technology which he/she wants to use. He/She learns few buzzwords in that technology and proposes it.

Developers do not know how to respond to that. For any question by any developer, the manager throws some buzzword in the marketing guide of that technology, and says, with that technology, one can do everything.

Developers cannot reply to the manager, because, the manager knows more buzzwords than the developers.

When developers are not in agreement with the manager in using the new technology, the manager tells them that, it is only a proposal and not the final design.

For verifying this proposal, the manager asks the developers to start prototyping.

If the developers fail in prototyping, the manager googles the corresponding keywords and sends the top 10 results to the developers, and asks them why they could not search in google.

If atleast one developer could manage the prototype of his/her component, then the manager is impressed by that developer. If any other developer fails in his/her component, the manager asks the developer who was successful to help this developer.

Once everyone finishes the prototyping of their respective components, and if all the developers unanimously say that, this technology is not good for the product, since it is taking more time and effort, then the manager says the following:

"Why are you telling me this now? We are already in the middle of the release. We have spent lot of time and effort in this technology. If we change the technology, then we cannot deliver by the deadline, and all the effort would be wasted."

With that, the developers unwillingly use the technology proposed by the manager.

Minimum Matches To Win In IPL To Enter Semi-Finals

In IPL (till 2010), there are 8 teams. Each team plays with all other teams twice. The top 4 teams would go to semi-finals. If two teams get equal no.of points, then the one which has higher Net Run Rate would get better rank.

How many minimum no.of matches should a team win to enter semi-finals in the best case as well as worst case? Assume that, in all the matches, one team would win, and there is no case of draw/tie/cancellation.

Each team plays 14 matches. Generally, people tend to think that, if any team wins one more match than the half, then it would surely go to semi-finals. i.e., if a team wins 8 matches then it would enter semi-finals. But, that is not the case.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	X	W	W	W	W	W	L	L
2	L	X	W	W	W	W	W	L
3	L	L	X	W	W	W	W	W
4	L	L	L	X	W	L	L	L
5	L	L	L	L	X	W	L	L
6	L	L	L	W	L	X	L	L
7	W	L	L	W	W	W	X	W
8	W	W	L	W	W	W	L	X

[In the above table, for any cell, if there is a W/L, it means, the team in that row won/lost against the team in that column.]

In the above case, teams 1,2,3,7 and 8 won 5 games each. Since, each team plays with all other teams twice. In the second round also, if they win exactly like this, and there will be five teams with 10 wins each. So, even if a team wins 10 games, it is not guaranteed that it would reach semi-finals.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	X	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
2	L	X	W	W	W	W	W	W
3	L	L	X	W	W	W	W	W
4	L	L	L	X	W	W	L	L
5	L	L	L	L	X	W	W	L
6	L	L	L	L	L	X	W	W
7	L	L	L	W	L	L	X	W
8	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	X

In the above table, 1, 2 and 3 reach semi-finals. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have won 2 matches each. If the same is repeated in the second round also, then one of 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 would reach semi-finals with just 4 wins.