Nov 16, 2010

Format, should we?

Lets start with a off topic. PL's are the time when blogging activity is on its high. You get a lot of material worth reading, you get a lot of ideas to write. On a typical PL evening, at 1834 hours, I have a weird thought.

What if we had a 'format' button in life? Just like our PC. Lets get our analogy right here.

Hardware - Physical features like height, weight, looks. Intelligence which can be compared to motherboard, so that remains the same.

Operating System: Here, we have a complex structure. What should we include and what we should not? Lets say a engineering student will include engineering traits. Lets just say, all traits. The operating system decides how well our hardware works, or how badly it works. Hardware and Software compliment each other. Well, actually everything is dependent on each other. No part of our body, or no part of our PC can function on its own. So yeah, operating system will include your behaviour, your positives and negatives, your susceptibility in certain areas whereas your strong points in certain others. (If I had been a computer student, I would have drawn an analogy between Windows Vista or Linux)

Data: They are the set of people you mingle with. We shall include applications that we run on our operating system in here. Teachers and Parents, can take the place of antivirus. Slow down the system, but eventually help us. Friends, can take the place of an explorer. Can be used for good as well as bad things (google.com and some porn website). Some friends are harmless. (facebook.com) And, then you have a host of other applications. Too much of an analogy to draw.

So, the question here is, should we or should we not have an option of formatting our life? Even when we format, we can always keep raw data, reinstall an application and use the data again. Our Hardware always remains same, we can just increase certain specifications, by adding add-on devices.

If you think closely, you always change applications in life. It is an ongoing process. You change your job. An application gets boring after a certain time, while some other application becomes interesting. An application just goes corrupt. You sometimes cannot access a data because it has been affected by virus. The point here is, we change applications, but do we change the operating system? We always add service packs to our operating system, but never change it altogether. Why?

Anyway, is it in our interest to do it?


(Please excuse me for haphazard discussion of points)

7 comments:

Rishkul Kulkarni said...

I installed Win7 on Vista without formatting. :D
It works.

Harshad said...

split personality?? :P

Rishkul Kulkarni said...

Not split personality per se`, Vista gaya. Now only Win7.

Shraddha said...

Nice analogy.
Esp antivirus and parents-teachers.
Too much unwanted data we have ! And that corrupts an efficient system.

Shraddha said...

And then there is information overload and the system hangs.

pratap said...

new look, new post, true thing. Everybody wakes up during the Pls. About the post nice analogy it is. And why is there so much russian porn spam on your comment page??

Anonymous said...

Very nicce!