Advantages and Disadvantages of internet marriages

ADVANTAGES OF ONLINE MATRIMONIAL/MARRIAGES:

1. Huge Choice:
You can select from the wide variety of matrimonial profiles and not just the people you know. You can literally shortlist the suitable matches based on education, religion, caste, salary, location, hobbies, personality and even looks. Similarly you can post your profile and let others contact you in the same way. You can even include or exclude people with special circumstances like people with disabilities, divorce or widow. Because there are millions of profiles online the biggest advantage of finding a match online is undoughtedly "The Choice". Even if you were taking out your matrimonial advertisement in the newspaper, your voice is still restricted to the territory where that newspaper is circulated. Although it is a good idea to place your advertisement on internet and newspapers for maximum exposure.

2. Cheap Services:
Although in most of the online matrimonial / matchmaker sites the basic listing can be free but in order to start a real conversation between both the interested parties, you have to upgrade to a paid membership which is also quite cheap and is within a few hundred rupees. therefore it is best to have a paid membership from the starting itself rather than having to upgrade it later on..

3. See picture / video:
In most arranged marriage proposals, people use to hesitate sending photos, even when they did attach a photo there was always a problem of getting back the photo if the proposal did not work out. Here you can just shortlist the profiles with pictures only.

DISADVANTAGES OF ONLINE MATRIMONIAL / MARRIAGES:

1. Genuinety is questionable:
This is the biggest drawback when trying to find a life partner online. You have no idea how much truth a person has written. Everyone tries to polish their matrimonial biodata with lies and deception and many cases go too far in order to get the conversation started. On the other hand there is more truthful knowledge about the background of your possible bride/groom if you have met the person or if your friends or relatives know the person. False photographs, lies about salary and family background are not uncommon in online marriages.

2. Privacy:
Once something goes on internet, there is no gurantee how far all of it will go. In most cases it is not an issue, therefore refrain from providing any information which may be sensitive to you. Provide those details only which are sufficient to establish a contact with the other party.

3. High divorce rates: ( Reference: in.news.yahoo.com/32/20080715/1072/ten-virtual-reality.html)
If your marriage was made online, there's a one in three chance that you will be sitting in front of a marriage counsellor, say experts. Psychiatrists in the capital have recorded an increase in the number of married couples, who met in cyber space, seeking counselling. In Arranged marriages, the man and woman come from a similar background and therefore share the same views of marriage and family, the chance of divorcing due to irreconcilable differences is not as strong as in western cultures or online marriages.

4. Past history of a person:
There is no way to tell if the other guy (or girl) is really nice or not. Did he have too many affairs or for that matter even having one or not, whether the person is a heavy drinker or smoker etc. There rare cases where people have even tried to re-marry using these online websites. Making an opinion about a person and his family background within a few meetings or phonecalls can be quite risky.

A BETTER APPROACH FOR CREATING YOUR ONLINE BIODATA:

1. Be truthful, even if there are any negative points in your matrimonial bio-data, it is still better to clarify upfront. If you are really hesitant to mention those online, disclose those to the interested parties within the first or second conversation before the talks go too far.

2. Whenever you receive a response or get contacted, always go slow and never show too much excitement. Always ask for references and try to seek if you have any friends or relatives where that person lives and if you can get any information about the true background of that person. In rare cases people even make use of expensive background and detective services.

3. Others: Let the girl and guy talk to each other a few times before they really meet in person. Two good natured people will like each other is not a guarantee. Talk to each other not just about hobbies but also about their future plans, if they had any serious love affair and if a person smokes or drinks. Try to judge if the person is marrying for money and hopefully not for the dowry. Although in times of difficulty, the couple can count on the help of their parents and in-laws for physical, emotional and financial support. Does the balance of practicality and emotion matches yours. Do your religious thoughts meet, are you both vegetarian or non-vegetarian. How much influence does the guy have of his family (too much parental influence can be bad).

4. Listen to your parents: In most cases your parents will have a more matured advice than yours, although it may not be always true. You should also check for the compatibility of the two families along with your own.

5.Each person is different: Good qualities in one person may not always be found in the other one. It is not a bad idea to seek premarital counseling rather than doing it later. Over time the couple may realise that they made a hasty decision and are incompatible.

CONCLUSION:
Using internet as a medium to find your life partner is a good choice, but be careful of people who put false and overly exaggerated statements in their biodata.

Promotional Products – Create Competitive Advantage

There are many new ideas and products, nowadays that are used to create competitive advantages. In today’s corporate world it is must to stay competitive and keep all your employees and clients active and interacting with you. Different companies and corporates use different activities and ideas to keep the employees and clients in touch with them and let them participate actively with the company affairs; one of the best and widely adapted things to create competitive advantage is by giving away corporate gifts. The theme and the ways of doing business have been prevalent since the old days.

Before enumerating the advantages of the corporate gifts and how they help you in being competitive, let us give you an idea about what corporate gifts actually are. Corporate gifts are actually giveaways by the companies to promote their name and improve their image. Corporate gifts help companies in interacting with clients and other competitive corporates. These corporate gifts can vary considerably from promotional discounts and holidays and other facilities like free coupons and traveling tickets and free stays. Whatever you pick to offer as the corporate gift on behalf of the company, make it stand out in the crowd and do something that others are not doing. You must aim at offering corporate gifts that are not available in the local market.

Corporate gifts are used to challenge the competition and for withholding a strong position in the market competition. In the world, when we talk about corporate links and relations it is a must to maintain healthy and yet competitive relations with other clients and do your best not to lose the customers at any cost. These are the little things; if proper care is taken, then these would benefit the corporates with multiple profits but otherwise carelessness can easily ruin the profits overnights. So, one needs proper strategy and planning for offering corporate gifts.

Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme Processors

For a company like Intel to stumble and that too, badly, for the two years prior to the launch of the now runaway hit, the Core 2 Duo has been quite an experience (not to be confused with the P4, Core Duo - whereas the P4 Core Duo could complete three instructions per cycle, the Core 2 Duo can complete 4 – and that is without talking about processing power and efficiency). Especially when the underdogs, AMD had almost overtaken it.

But then, all that has changed with the introduction of the Core 2 Duo and the rest. It was when Intel decided to scrap the Netburst micro-architecture that never reached the potential that Intel believed was possible, and focused on the Pentium M architecture designed by their Israeli team that things started brightening up.





The architecture of the chip is simply known as Core, of which the products include Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme. Both run on an 1066 MHz FSB bus and are built using 65nm transistors. Again, both are dual core chips, with the Core 2 Extreme coming with a higher cache and a higher clock speed. (There is also a workstation version of the Core architecture – Woodcrest Xeon.)

These processors are built on a 143 sq mm die and are made up of 291 million transistors, regardless of their L2 cache size. While rivals AMD use 90nm tranistors on their chips, Intel uses the 65nm ones.

Code named ‘Conroe’, Intel’s Core 2 Duo will have a mobile counterpart, named ‘Merom’.
Following are the various versions of the Core 2 Duo that are available.




Testing by PC World and others show that the Core 2 Duo processors are the fastest amongst the range considered for the desktop PCs. (Of course, we haven’t talked about the Quad Core ‘Kentsfield’ series from Intel – consisting of two Conroe chips.)

Apart from that, the Core 2 Duo series boasts of lower power consumption, resulting in lesser heat and higher performance.

Of course, the disadvantage is that you cannot use the processors on your existing motherboards as these processors - though they sit on the same Socket 775 interface as with the earlier Pentium 4 sockets – require different chipsets. Major manufacturers are ready with their motherboards which can use these Intel powerhouses, e.g. Gigabyte, ATI, nVIdia.

While it is difficult to say that whether investing in a Core 2 Duo motherboard makes sense in terms of longevity and it is known that the processor is incompatible with a lot of Pentium-compatible chipsets, it depends on the customer to make the call.

Find A Tradesman You Can Trust

The most important thing in any relationship is trust. This applies as much to working relationships as it does to your day to day dealings with friends and family members.
When it come to dealing with tradesmen we all know some horror stories about people being conned, ripped off or simply disappointed by unscrupulous or unreliable tradesmen such as plumbers and electricians. The work that is done for you in your home is something which you are going to use, or at least be left looking at, for a long time. For this reason it is extremely important that you hire someone who now only gives you a good feeling of trust, but who can also back this up with solid recommendations and an excellent work history.
Nowadays there is no excuse for simply flicking through a phone book, choosing a tradesman at random, crossing your fingers and touching wood. With the depth of information and choice which the internet has opened up for us we can look for a worker whom we know we can trust from the outset. This may seem a dubious claim, but let's look at the system for hiring a tradesman online and pick out the points which will give you that level of confidence:
1) Only registered, local tradesmen will respond to your announcement. Once you advise of the work needing done local builders, plumbers etc will be notified of the job possibility.
2) Recommended tradesmen stand out. With the responses from interested parties in your email you can check what feedback ratings they have each been given by previous customers.
3) Maintain your privacy. Your details are kept from the site's other users. You should only gives your details out when you choose a tradesman, hire him and give him the full details of the job.
4) You get to voice your opinion. All the workers who use the site know full well that one of the most important features of the internet recruitment system is the feedback aspect. A bad review from you could lead to someone dropping from being the most highly rated builder on the site to being an average looking one. With internet recruitment sites, more than ever, local tradesmen have to take care of their customers and protect their reputation.
Once you a find a tradesman you can trust then you will find the whole building process to be a lot simpler, whether it is a simple painting job or a sizable extension being built to your property.

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