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Similar to Kill Switches,Microsoft is expereincing a whole new phase of innovations all around which is evident from the facts brought in light by NICK PARKER(Corporate Vice President) during his adress at COMPUTEX...for more info go to http://www.ciol.com/

I was 14 years old in 1994
I had a Macintosh LC 475 back then. It had a 25 Mhz Motorola 68040 CPU and had come pre-installed with Microsoft Virtual PC for the Mac which emulated x86 architecture on the Motorola 68040.
A magazine called PCQuest ( It was a geek-focussed magazine then; it's a CIO-focussed magazine now ) came out with Slackware on the CD. ( I cannot remember the version)
I managed to installed Linux as a VM on my Mac 18 years ago using this. ( That's a link to my blog post with more details as to how I did it )
Of course I did not know what Virtualization was. I did not have an internet connection even!
It took me a year to get X running - just by reading the man pages and configuring modelines and hsync and vsync values
My proudest moment was when I wrote my own man page using nroff ( IIRC ) and it showed me bold fonts in a terminal. I did not know even know what a terminal was, except that Jeff Goldblum destroyed the Aliens by uploading a computer virus through it ( Movie: Independence Day ) I am nostalgic

Civil society in India agitating against corruption in 2011 made use of social networking and SMS's to mobilize large crowd Janlokpal

The party in power has been attacking every communication medium used by the agitators since. Sending of bulk SMS's was prohibited immediately after their agitation in august/Sept SMS. Phone network was down in mumbai during their protest meet in December. Their Facebook page was removed in Sept/Oct.

At a particular time during the August agitation the government was virtually under siege in Dehli with peaceful protesters turning up in front of the parliament and parliamentarian's house in large number. Requiring the government to shut down train stops and bus services to prevent protesters from gathering at the hotspots.

The attack against Facebook, Orkut, SMS etc. is the response of the party in power. They are attacking the communication medium used by protesters under one pretext or other.

A quick google search on "packet switching" reveals several people involved in the development of packet switching, and Larry Roberts is not one of them. He, in fact, supports Leonard Kleinrock. That last article on packet switching may actually be one of the more interesting ones, as it is written by someone that was involved in yet another application external to ARPANet.

A quick google search on "packet switching" reveals several people involved in the development of packet switching, and Larry Roberts is not one of them. He, in fact, supports Leonard Kleinrock. That last article on packet switching may actually be one of the more interesting ones, as it is written by someone that was involved in yet another application external to ARPANet.

In terms of units, IDC predict the growth of Windows Server installations to outpace the growth of Linux server installations, and to reach a level nearly three times as high by 2010: http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Windows_ Server_to_Outpace_Linux_31_by_2010/1179330859

If there's a shift involving Windows and Linux going on in the server market, it appears to be a shift from Linux to Windows, and not vice-versa. What unquestionably has happened is that Unix has been displaced by both Windows and Linux.

Is there any information on this, or is this just guesswork? I have never heard it mentioned before, and I couldn't find anything on Google or in the blogs dated later than 2001.

The only oblique citation I found here: http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2006/106052003.as p

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4515/945/

Apple had been offering and still continues to offer tech support from another third party BPO provider, TransWorks based here in Bangalore.

But sources claim that this has nothing to do with the kind of quality of service that the India tech support would offer. "I think it has more to do with financial feasibility of the centre rather than the quality of service. You have to keep in mind that no work had started - basically it was just mid-level support staff that had been hired apart from Kharbanda who was expected to grow this the Dell way."

http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.as p?artid=84773

Many of the components used in the company's products are, in fact, produced by third-party vendors in Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. Most of the company's portable products including MacBook Pro, iBooks, and iPods are manufactured by third-party vendors in China. "It makes sense for the company to invest and expand in these regions, instead of having a new facility in India," say analysts.

http://services.silicon.com/offshoring/0,380000487 7,39157100,00.htm
The company stressed it isn't cutting any US jobs, noting that its ranks are growing both in the United States and overall. The Apple representative said: "Our call centres in Austin and Sacramento also continue to grow."

Moaners can read this too :
http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2648?sourc e=NLT_MGT&nlid=23

In a bizarre twist to the offshoring craze, The Boston Globe reports that some Indian high-tech companies that accept "offshoring" work from American companies are turning around and offshoring some of that work back to Americans. According to the May 30 story, INDIA TECH FIRMS SEEK US TALENT IN OFFSHORING TWIST, Tata Consultancy Services of Bangalore can't find enough workers in India to fill the 30,500 positions it needs to hire for this year so it plans to hire talent abroad, including 1,000 recruits in America. Some 9,500 positions out of 62,000 at Tata are Americans, according to the story.

But that is his Elected right. For the American people to be able to call need for battle in harsh times is quite possibly the least strategic and responsive way to enter into battle.

The Commander-in-Chief has been given this right to call us into battle if he, our Elected official, deems it necessary. That is why he/she was elected.
Unlike the days of the tea where The People had only the voice the Nobles wanted to hear.

And so as to where I'm not entirely OT, you do not have to be British to be Knighted. However, once Knighted you cannot use the Sir title in your name.
Bill Gates is a classic example.

Introduction, Preliminary, Inventions not Patentable clearly mentions something about e-Patents .. so that post can be easily forgotten .

Computer Programs
1. Computer program is not patentable invention as computer program is
a set of instructions for controlling a sequence of operations of a dataprocessing
system. It closely resembles a mathematical method .It
may be expressed in various forms eg. A series of verbal statements, a
flow chart, an algorithm, or other coded form and may be presented in
a format suitable for direct entry into a particular computer, or may
require transcription into a different format (or computer “language”). It
may merely be written on paper or recorded on some machine-
readable medium such as magnetic tape or disc or optically scanned
record, or it may be permanently recorded in a control store forming
part of a computer. Thus it is evident that a program may be presented
in terms of either software or firmware.

India does offer Process Patents but explicitly prevents patenting naturally occurring substances or extracts there of. However you are free to patent your form of culturing or producing an anti-biotic or vaccine. Patent infringement can be enforced in India as is with any other country in the world. Interestingly , Prior art of Foreign origin are valid in India - unlike the USPTO .

Get an OSS Loving, Nuke Missile Desgning President for your country too :)

Here's a quote from an article dated Oct. 2003.

Samsung can also use South Korea as a test market. Some 70% of the country's homes are wired for broadband. Twenty percent of the population buys a new cell phone every seven months.

Samsung already sells a phone in Korea that allows users to download and view up to 30 minutes of video and watch live tv for a fixed monthly fee. Samsung is selling 100,000 video-on-demand phones a month in Korea at $583 each. Verizon plans to introduce them in three US cities this fall

Every company sets up a limited release of their product in various test markets to guage how well it'll be recieved. Pepsi used to have a product called Pepsi Kona. Now guess why we aren't drinking it today? Because it didn't shine in the test market. The End.

Oh, and no it's not because of design faults, its because most of their tech is expensive. If they roll out something new in a city of 10 million people and it doesn't catch on, you think they're going to send it overseas and try again?

The other part is that U.S. consumers want it cheap. New != cheap. Cell phone companies here practically give away the phone so that they can lock you into a service contract. My phone was about $20 after an instant rebate and the store sending in the mfg rebate to knock off another $120 at the register. I haven't seen it anywhere for less than $260 & CompUSA sells it for $350. Ouch.

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You could try this. Here's another article (give it some time to load) on it.
You can use any portable USB keyboard with it and it has full featured browser and much more and you can plug it into any phone jack to connect to web to send emails etc.
Here and here are some features...

Microsoft are going to spend money and time devaluing their product to sell it to people who can't afford it at their current price. This from a company that makes a profit of over $1 billion a quarter.

There seems to be several stories. Since yesterday, Dell's Indian office said that no jobs are going to be moved out of India. According to Dell Australia, Dell underestimated the demands of moving their corporate support oveseas and is postponing the move.

In short, it seems like all of the newspapers in India are reporting that Dell is not moving out while all of the US press is reporting that they are. The spokesman Jon Weissblatt seems like a pretty reliable source; he's been doing press relations for Dell for at least four years.

First lets start with quotes. "There is a light at the end of the desktop tunnel,", Michael Tiemann, chief technology officer of Red Hat, "We have clearly seen a limited amount (of demand for desktop Linux) to date in the U.S.," Randy Groves, vice president at Dell "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line," CEO Redhat. All this year they said it was ready and now a few deals happen and its not ready? Now suddenly IBM and Redhat volunteer to offer their opinions which we didnt ask for by the way. No one asked "Hey Redhat CEO, hey IBM, whats your opinions of Linux on the desktop?" And even if we did ask, do we need to be told its not ready? Linux isnt ready for the super computer so why isnt Redhat and IBM volunteering to admit "Linux just isnt ready for the super computer" Redhat and IBM are hypocrites, earlier this year they said Linux was ready. proof1 proof2 And now Redhat has changed their mind, they want to focus on the super computer now?

"I say this from experience competing with people from third world countries for contracts , unless you can price your self down to there level you wont get the majority of contracts ." You are missing something here, people in third world countries such as India don't price themselves out, due to strong dollar policies cost of living is simply lower, so at 20% of your salary here, they can have a better life than you. Don't make it sound as if they degrade themselves to unfairly compete with you. This trend will continue till those currencies come to par with the US dollar which is slowly but surely happening. http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=2 3007 http://www.ciol.com/content/news/CorpResult/2003/1 03071501.asp After that it would not make any sense to outsource jobs to those countries.

this reminds me of a prior attempt by the real networks to provide a game subscription service named RealOneArcade. i don't think the service became all that popular, though - unfortunately, it seems they didn't offer much aside from arcade and puzzle games, and there's only so much demand for those.

but in general, the subscription model can be amazingly profitable. even if games-on-demand bring only a fraction of the incredible revenue from on-line games, it's still a lot of money. not to mention they do a good deed of breathing new life into old games. :)

That wasnt all that Scott had to say.. Check-out this report
to hear more of Scott's views.
The gist: Scott doesn't want you downloading the source, he wants you to write it. And buy the product his company packages for you.

This doesn't make much sense. Why would Sun lay off people here and try to import H1-Bs when they could just expand staffing at their India Engineering Center and ship development over there, as they have already done for their HPC ClusterTools software? Oh wait, they're already doing that. And also why did my submission of this very same story get rejected three days ago?

Deep Blue was dismantled in 2001, and part of it donated to the Smithsonian in 2002.

Wondering what the world cup has to do with "news with nerds". Well the world cup requires "The largest converged voice and data network ever". Avaya, one of the partners, also has some more details on it's site. If you could find a decent article written by a 3rd party, post it. Until then you have to make do with this.

IBM is the #4 PC maker in the world according to IDC's estimates in this article. The ThinkPad is considered the "Corp Standard" for laptop computers. They still make a line a "business" desktops...none of them are worth a crap for gaming since they have only business quality sound and video cards. Analysts have been asking the same question you asked for years and IBM continues to make and sell PCs so they can offer a "soup to nuts" IT solution for their customers.

Just so I won't get modded OT...there's no doubt IBM stop funding LINUX support for Thinkpad because it was a smart business decision. If /. took a poll of all their readers, I suspect they'd find the majority of them use windows as their desktop OS. Also, I think you'd have to agree the majority of laptop users aren't techs, they're execs or marketing or sales professional who just need their laptops to read/write email and the occasional document or simple spreadsheet. Windows and MS Office handles these tasks rather well. For Linux to become a serious consideration for IBM and other laptop makers, the linux laptop user niche will have to grow some.

Ruger

I would find it hard to download an entire DVD (what? several GB or so...) on even a cable connection. Consider the bandwidth required to serve up these movies too, even a 2.56 Tb/s line would end up being swamped should enough people try to use the service. Even if some sort of standard allowed better compression rates than even DivX or MP3 could allow, the size of a DVD could still be more than half a GB. Besides the fact that when I watch a DVD, I want to see absolutely no evidence of any sort of compression... that's why I watch em (well at least nothing I am sohpistocated enough to notice). Even compressed DivX files don't look real great. I agree with you that $35 is highway robbery though - all of the DVDs should be kept under $20 (maybe, just maybe $25 - although I would prefer to not see that until a couple more years go by). New DVD releases would go for the usual $19.99 and not-so-new movies would go for $14.99.

Implementing legit DVD distribution online would be difficult right now, hopefully new connection improvements in the future would allow such data transfer on an individual basis without loss of detail and value.

Here is a link describing on how i-node works. This stuff can get quite cool if you really have access to this technology. (Where are the towers, buddy?). I guess that finally, Europe will finally start reaping from this new technology.

But wait a sec, where is the bill for that UMTS phone I have prepaid!?!

• WAP Vs i-Mode: The Big Fight
• Canvas Dreams Article: WAP vs. i-Mode
• WAP or I-Mode: Which is Better?