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Way to troll. How do you even know what the "Office Expenses" in a "Budget at a glance" head contains? FYI, it is just that - "office" expenses and no, that does not include software/hardware for schools. Kerala's expenditure on education is around Rs.15,000 crore in 2016-17 - refer page 25 of the detailed financial statement straight from Finance dept. You are either a fool or far removed from India and reality if you think just Rs.220 crore includes entire Kerala's education spend. You are two magnitudes off - in future, do a favor and do not comment authoritatively on things you know zilch about.

The 150k value per machine includes not just Office software but FOSS replacements for other highly valuable ones like Matlab, Animation software, Molecular modelling, Interactive geometric sketching etc.

Finally, what's with the ad hominem argument? I'll just leave this here.

Since you refuse to look at the evidence for yourself, the eight major investigations that cleared CRU of any scientific misconduct include:

  - House of Commons Science and Technology Committee: "the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact"

  - Independent Climate Change Review: "we find that their rigour and honesty as scientists are not in doubt."

  - International Science Assessment Panel: "We found absolutely no evidence of impropriety whatsoever"

  - Pennsylvania State University first panel and second panel: "Dr. Michael E. Mann did not engage in, nor did he participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions that seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community"

  - United States Environmental Protection Agency: CRU critics came to "faulty scientific conclusions" and "resorted to hyperbole."

  - Department of Commerce: "We did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data or failed to adhere to appropriate peer review procedures"

- National Science Foundation: "We found no basis to conclude that the emails were evidence of research misconduct or that they pointed to such evidence."

Interesting how loyalty to the officially atheistic Communist Party of China constitutes "religion" while loyalty to atheism itself doesn't. We're talking about worldviews here, not some cherry-picked definition of religion that only includes those views which you disagree with. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/212827/no-religion-chinese-communist-party.html

See what I said above.

The information was examined by multiple parties and no conspiracy or malice was found. It was a big PR failure, but there's no evidence of scienfitic misconduct, nor "other forces at work".

If you want me to believe your claim of wrongdoing, I expect some proof of it, specifically something explaining why all of these got it wrong:

House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (UK)
Independent Climate Change Review (UK)
International Science Assessment Panel (UK)
Pennsylvania State University (US)
United States Environmental Protection Agency (US)
Department of Commerce (US)

20 cents for one radish seed?

That's what genetic engineering is about. Patent the seeds then charge every farmer to use seeds. If farmers don't use your seeds, or saves seeds, then they get sued.

Fact is is that there is not a shortage of food. The problem is what is done with it as well as distribution. In the US more corn is grown to feed cattle, who naturally eat grass not corn, than what people eat. Other animals raised for food require more land for growing their own feedstock. Then there are problems with food distribution and storage. Food grains rotting due to poor storage in Punjab. Empty stomachs, rotting food stocks. Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.

Falcon

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread556388/pg1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-488662/Iraq-whistleblower-Dr-Kelly-WAS-murdered-silence-says-MP.html

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/46616/whistleblower-rti-activist-satish-shetty.html

http://hollyonthehill.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/bp-whistleblower-found-dead/

Those are the first things Google brought up. I know I didn't provide any sources, the information in that post I learned while taking a Business Ethics class and I'm too lazy to dig out the text book and find examples.

A little jail time might be in order as well

Get a grip. Wikipedia allows anonymous editing.No laws are being broken. Stop taking yourself so seriously. It's *not* becoming, and really, you look like a fool.

You forgot about "depending upon where he happens to hail from. ". In some places, you can be jailed for claiming you're God

Thank you. Some people tend to gloss over things that might force them to skip their rant.

A little jail time might be in order as well

Get a grip. Wikipedia allows anonymous editing.No laws are being broken. Stop taking yourself so seriously. It's *not* becoming, and really, you look like a fool.

You forgot about "depending upon where he happens to hail from. ". In some places, you can be jailed for claiming you're God

The drowners are usually drunken Mumbaians.

Then again with such genius police that can't discriminate between committing suicide and being struck by lightning who can tell!

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan152009/national20090114112591.asp

R K Pachauri thinks this will facilitate more gas guzzling on the roads, though Tatas are quick to reject it.
Suzuki thinks safety concerns would mount
People are also worried if our roads will be congested by these cars.

In case anyone is interested, here is a link to a a relevant page: Human Proteins from transgenic Avians

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/08/stories/2006100800 021100.htm ("last modified" seems correct)
"I have achieved storage densities of about 2.7 gigabytes per square inch," Mr. Abideen told The Hindu over phone from Kottakkal in Kerala.

And sooner, in September :
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep62006/ cyberspace163748200695.asp (but "last modified" is november 26...)
(But has been linked by some blogs the 19 September)
http://www.stingygaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p= 165
( the photo was on imageshack ... http://img319.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbowte chzz4.jpg )

I never think to this technology but the better way to discredit it is this kind of re-publication of an imprecise article.
Concepts stay very exiting even if storage place is in the order of the hundred of MB.

About the dot precision, laser printers (Xer.. ?) do some miracles :
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/inde x.php

Could you believe that ?! :)

You can get them in India, in a place called Nanda Devi. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr252004 /fp2.asp

Indian villagers have been using cow dung for creating gas for cooking, running automobiles and geenrators for decades now.

What's the point of this new "invention"? Frankly it has pretty significant and successful prior art and is not all that "inventive" either.

Here's a URL: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan112005 /cbytes2.asp

Carbonation of seawater is already occurring, and it is reported to be causing the destruction of coral reefs and shells, as it dissolves calcium carbonate:

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july26200 4/snt1.asp

There are two different ways to rationalize your way into doing nothing about it: you can either pretend the problem doesn't exist, or you can pretend that we are powerless to do anything about it. I'm willing to bet the Easter Islanders used both techniques to make them feel better about their little deforestation problem. These days we look back at the Easter Islanders and say "how could they have been so stupid that they couldn't see what they were doing to their home?" It was all right in front of their eyes, they just chose to look away.

I'm not predicting doom and gloom. I'm only saying that global warming exists, it is a real problem, and denying it won't make it go away. Our actions have consequences. If your knew your house was infested by termites, would you ignore the problem until your roof fell in, or would you take steps to fix it?

It's not easy to find raw sales numbers, but here goes:

AMD sold 36 million processors in 2004.

They are opening the new Fab 36 in 2005/06, which should roughly double AMD's production capacity (their two current 8-inch fabs produce less than the new 12-inch fab can).

Intel should have 375 million per year capacity in 2005/06, thanks to 5 new 12-inch fabs.

Apple's sales in 2004 were about 3.3 million computers.

So, you do the math: roughly 5-10% of AMD's capacity (depending on how troublesome Fab 36 is) is a pretty big drop in the bucket, especially since AMD is currently so stretched to meet their current supplier's demands that they're outsourcing chip production.

But, for Intel, who should increase capacity by a huge jump in the next year, Apple is no strain.

From the article:

Gamma ray bursts are thought to be caused either when two neutron stars collide or when giant stars collapse into black holes at the end of their lives.

Then you get this:

Black holes do not exist

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr112005 /snt108532005410.asp

So which one is it? Do black holes exist, or do they not?

Don't know whether or not you're willing to undergo the surgery though.

There's been plenty going on in the field of fusion. The first experiments which investigated sonoluminescence were thought to include fusion. These were disproven. Since then, however, sonic experiments have been conducted with heavy acetone and evidence of fusion has been certain.

And yes... people are always trying to disprove it.

But there is an accent, at least in the way words are used. Indians use the word reputed where we would use the word reputable. For American readers of /., it is not unusual to see adverts in Indian newspapers with text like Reputed Engineer Seeks Wife. For Indian readers of /., Americans use the word reputed to mean alledged as in John Gotti is a reputed mobster. One day while reading the Deccan Herald I saw them refer to the New York Times as a reputed newspaper in the United States. Which is either the truth or a funny insult depending on your point of view and place of origin.

...or artificialy grown organs. I think medicine is in for revolution.

It's not clear that the Sonic Cruiser was scrapped for the right reasons. It was probably board of directors politics rather than an informed technical and business decision that killed this bird.

In general, Boeing is hurting; it's a cyclical industry and even in the best of times they have to take huge financial risks with new models.

Also, they seem to have a really antagonistic relationship with their unions, and it so happens that the mechanics and even the engineers were on strike at the time that the Sonic Cruiser had been announced. Under these circumstances, a couple of board members including John F. McDonnell, relics from the old McDonnell-Douglas corporation, were able to veto the project as "too expensive".

There's been a lot of articles about Boeing's descent from a dynamic innovator to a stodgy defense contractor, partly caused by its merger with Mc.D. See this article for example.

It's sad to see a once great company fading away.

Anyway a space race is coming, the US will certainly be involved, because China is the last great evil. These mideastern conflicts are tiny compared to what would happen if China were feeling froggy, and that fear will drive us just as it did in our space race against Russia.

That has been debated! Scientists tend to be pigheaded about their pet theories and thus the subject of Homo Sapient/Neandertalis hybrids has become the cause of full blown trench warfare among scientists.

But enaugh about the bonfies of (scientific) vanity. Geneticists claim they have extracted Homo Sapiens Neandertalis DNA from fossils. Now..... some of the people who evaluated these results claim that interbreeding was impossible or at best extremely unlikely. Critics of this assertion point out that if Camels and Guanacos (30-40 million years of genetic isolation) can produce viable hybrid offspring the same should be the case with Homo Sapiens Sapiens and and Homo Sapiens Neandertalis where the Genetic isolation was much, much, smaller. This seems to be born out by evidence from Israel (debated) and especially new discoveries in Portugal . Some of the aversion to the possibility of Neandertal/Cromagnong hybrids seems to be almost Eugenic with some people which is probably due to the Neandertals undeserved reputation of being a primitive hominid when, at least in my humble opinion, they fully deserve the title "Sapiens". Personally I would not be at all disappointed to find I had some Neandertal DNA. There is a legion of worse possibilities when it comes to embarrasing ancestors than Neandertals. Feel free to make fun of me for saying that, I'm sure some of you can will not be able to resist it.

Ps. I am not an anthropologist and I may be misusing the term Homo Sapiens Sapiens, these hominids are also sometimes referred to as Homo Sapiens Cromagnon.

Your worst nightmare may be coming true. And remember that karnataka(of which bangalore is it's capital) has the largest no. of engineering colleges, that's a coup. But most of the faculty in the top univ's & college's are atleast aware of linux & it is not entirely discouraging. And thanks to the LUG's it is being noticed, even if not extensively used. Heck, In my college, Me & one of my friends, both commerce graduates had more knowledge of linux than the CS guys. And in most colleges in my city, it is the vocal minority like us that has played a big role in popularising linux. Actually the crackdown on piracy will encourage the move to linux, since most of the educational institutes are using pirated stuff. I know some colleges which have started teaching Staroffice in bangalore. Maybe, if something like the dotcoms happened to linux, it would gain some attention, atleast among the 'where's the next big $ coming from?' kind of people.