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At least you could have attempted to look at the meaning of word : "sniggering" in a dictionary before calling it racist. https://www.google.co.in/webhp... Snigger:- "laugh in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way." But then this is Slashdot..Who the fuck gives a damn about RTFA or correct meaning of words. :)

Local politicians in India have this predilection to rename everything. Costs very little financially and works as a kind of vote bank politics. Madras to Chennai, Bangalore to Bengalooru, Bombay to Mumbai, Calcutta to Kolkatta, Orissa to Odisha what the hell? There was guy named A Brito who was well known for his Letters to the Editor, Indian Express, Bangalore. When the local mayor renamed yet another road (which had been named for a British officer) after some local politician he wrote: "... To celebrate his grand achievement of renaming $road, I hereby propose we rename the Queen Victoria statue in the $park Mayor Butte Gowda statue. The resemblance is, after all, so striking that ..."

Yeah I agree with you. Those impoverished Indians. Why can't they fix their toilets before looking at any of this. I really wish they would first put toilets & fix their slums. Here's some pics for those Indians to remind them how dirty and awful their country is: http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyscrapercity.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1561469%26page%3D3&ei=ooZEVJyxHoK1uASq1YHYCA&psig=AFQjCNFl_l05vC1Qm7_1K0tj8UKPPkquig&ust=1413863441250685 and of course: from Google search https://www.google.co.in/search?q=images+of+slums+in+detroit&num=100&newwindow=1&client=ubuntu&hs=Zp5&channel=fs&tbm=isch&imgil=n0Wp1TGybHJqUM%253A%253B-FLR7Ksvd-70fM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.forbes.com%25252Fsites%25252Ftechonomy%25252F2011%25252F10%25252F28%25252Ftake-back-the-city-gary-hustwits-urbanized%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=n0Wp1TGybHJqUM%253A%252C-FLR7Ksvd-70fM%252C_&usg=__W1BV7BBWPeJGOnPtVKfXqLhznNE%3D&biw=1366&bih=615&ved=0CDMQyjc&ei=iIZEVJiIFYyJuAS42ILoDQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=aDY9wF_FO20wXM%253A%3BtH9o5XMDMoucEM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpropago.files.wordpress.com%252F2009%252F03%252Fslum-mumbai1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.skyscrapercity.com%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D1561469%2526page%253D3%3B836%3B447

Yeah I agree with you. Those impoverished Indians. Why can't they fix their toilets before looking at any of this. I really wish they would first put toilets & fix their slums. Here's some pics for those Indians to remind them how dirty and awful their country is: http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyscrapercity.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1561469%26page%3D3&ei=ooZEVJyxHoK1uASq1YHYCA&psig=AFQjCNFl_l05vC1Qm7_1K0tj8UKPPkquig&ust=1413863441250685 and of course: from Google search https://www.google.co.in/search?q=images+of+slums+in+detroit&num=100&newwindow=1&client=ubuntu&hs=Zp5&channel=fs&tbm=isch&imgil=n0Wp1TGybHJqUM%253A%253B-FLR7Ksvd-70fM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.forbes.com%25252Fsites%25252Ftechonomy%25252F2011%25252F10%25252F28%25252Ftake-back-the-city-gary-hustwits-urbanized%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=n0Wp1TGybHJqUM%253A%252C-FLR7Ksvd-70fM%252C_&usg=__W1BV7BBWPeJGOnPtVKfXqLhznNE%3D&biw=1366&bih=615&ved=0CDMQyjc&ei=iIZEVJiIFYyJuAS42ILoDQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=aDY9wF_FO20wXM%253A%3BtH9o5XMDMoucEM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpropago.files.wordpress.com%252F2009%252F03%252Fslum-mumbai1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.skyscrapercity.com%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D1561469%2526page%253D3%3B836%3B447

Thank you. There was something about glass houses asshole. We're going up, and you're on your way down, see ya dude, have fun & happy landings... Guess where these are from. Some fourth world I guess. Clean your own front yard first, if this is not people living in urine and feces, then I guess it is all about people living on obamacare: https://www.google.co.in/searc... http://www.frontpagemag.com/20... and especially: https://www.google.co.in/searc...

Thank you. There was something about glass houses asshole. We're going up, and you're on your way down, see ya dude, have fun & happy landings... Guess where these are from. Some fourth world I guess. Clean your own front yard first, if this is not people living in urine and feces, then I guess it is all about people living on obamacare: https://www.google.co.in/searc... http://www.frontpagemag.com/20... and especially: https://www.google.co.in/searc...

No, I am okay. Thank you.

Are you being sarcastic, and or abusive?

Elysium

Sounds like Automatic Generation of Computer Animation

How about http://www.google.co.in/search?q=http://imgur.com/gallery/q5awp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=iGekUeuAM4nLhAfp9YG4DA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=787#facrc=_&imgrc=dUnfg-NtpZTtMM%3A%3BjNnKK-OTvIMY4M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi.imgur.com%252FmOFS3kD.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fimgur.com%252Fgallery%252Fq5awp%3B1024%3B768? Whenever I get a link to imgur, I google it.

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So long as we're talking about old tablets, let's pull out the good-old Knight-Ridder Tablet.

There is one tiny problem here - apart from the fact that the Knight-Ridder Tablet wasn't a product, nor a working design prototype. It also misses several of the design characteristics of the iPad, like the flush surface, the curved back - you know, all the stuff that Samsung felt the need to copy and Apple sued over.

The Knight-Ridder was cited in a sane ruling by Judge Koh [businessweek.com].

You are aware that this "insane" ruling is by the same judge?

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So long as we're talking about old tablets, let's pull out the good-old Knight-Ridder Tablet. Were you unaware of it, or did you post about all the others and not this one?

Same form factor? Check
Black bezel? Check
Simple, uncluttered design? Check
Oh, and rounded corners-Check (what else are they supposed to be? Razor sharp?)

Pictures

The Knight-Ridder was cited in a sane ruling by Judge Koh.

By the way, can anyone what brand of phone the current ruling's judge uses? Likely Apple.

I think the GP meant these : http://www.google.co.in/search?q=usb+number+pad&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=D1p&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Gu23T5bcEIrlrAe8_9TeBw&ved=0CHkQsAQ&biw=1362&bih=561&sei=Ke23T7zEAoHYrQfbkbmNCQ . The 'Fine Original Post' is probably complaining of full size USB keyboards and if that isn't the case I really don't understand whats his problem with externally connected keyboards or keypads. Those might be inconvenient to carry around but you probably won't either require serious Num typing while sitting at a coffee shop or a hotel lobby. Serious typing work calls for a full size external keyboard; laptop keyboards just aren't convenient enough.

We've got about 120 million Internet users in India. Chances are, a large proportion of those people would care...

That's larger than most countries, for those of you keeping track at home...

statement by our finance minister over the recent debate in uk about giving aid to india:
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesun.co.uk%2Fsol%2Fhomepage%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F4109514%2FIndia-minister-Brit-aid-is-peanuts.html&ei=7TeST-PpOciJrAeYpMz6BA&usg=AFQjCNGwT57CQFFkcfW_aoLZw8Y8YGQ9zA&sig2=jTRp3ibnSFuybvqvUmqTSw

Check out
India-China tension
Chengdu J-10

Not true for Google India. Normally Google finance is 5th or 6th in search result. http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=csco

It shouldn't unless they are violating their stated principles. Of course, they ARE violating their stated principles at least a little bit (google's updater hard to disable/etc) but this is the first I have heard of them hijacking the default browser.

Great post, here are some more reasons why Microsoft Project is simply not on the critical path any more...and it does not stop with Microsoft Project...

Today with rapid development, testing and release that is Agile, I am unaware of a single software development shop that is wasting time putting up a Project Management project. Once you have a sustainable velocity, not only are your developer's happier, but your customers are seeing you fix problems more rapidly as well. Its smart and a win - win - win - win.

Years ago, thanks to Joel on Software I took a hard look at project management in general. It really opened my eyes to how much time can be wasted if you are not careful. When I looked at the differences between Microsoft Project and Open WorkBench, I found Open WorkBench to be superior. The fact that Open WorkBench saves a company significant money as compared to Microsoft Project, simply makes it better. The Savings vs Buying Microsoft Project as of Sept 19, 2010 are listed as $350,855,864 and that is for only 585,736 downloads.

Since most organizations are resource-constrained rather than time-constrained, the resource-based scheduling in Open Workbench typically provides a more realistic plan in less time. ~ that just makes sense to me and is obvious.

Even though Joel does not want you to read about Painless Software Scheduling and he wants you to read instead about Evidence Based Scheduling, from a KISS perspective I discovered that I was able to do rapid estimating of projects using a spreadsheet. In fact before I ever started putting a project in Microsoft Project (when a company required that tool) I would first use Joel's method using an Excel spreadsheet. Naturally when I moved from Windows to Linux I found that OpenOffice Calc did everything that Excel would do. I will freely admit that there are things that some people do with Excel and Macros in Excel specifically that I would never do and/or use. In fact I have programmed some of those Macros for small businesses that insisted using Excel as their tool. However I have always felt that it was smarter to pick the correct tool for the correct job. If it is honestly Microsoft, so be it. In most cases, Macros and Excel are NOT better than open source software dedicated to that business function. From a pure Macro standpoint, there is nothing that one can do in Office Excel, that can not be done in OpenOffice Calc. And the price is right. From my perspective, OOo Calc is far superior!

My lesson did not start there, nope, I learned along the way with other smart purchases after doing a feature by feature comparison of products.

Many years before I needed a Graphics package to create, edit and reduce the size of images for the web. At that time, PaintShop Pro could do everything that Adobe PhotoShop could do at about 1/10th of the Price. It was a no brainer...I bought PaintShop Pro. (PaintShop Pro should not be mistaken for Microsoft Paint.). When the company that produces PaintShop Pro mistakenly attempted to force me to update my Windows operating System before using their new version of PaintShop Pro, I borrowed a Laptop running the new version of XP and installed PaintShop Pro on a USB device (yes they did try to prevent that in the install process, however if you know what you are doing

The site http://www.google.com/ is opening fine for me, but I don't see any change in the Google Logo and neither any moving particles. And there's no change in http://www.google.co.in/ either. My guess is that Google hasn't blessed all the netizens yet. It's just the Americans who get to see the moving particles whereas the rest of the world has to be content with the static ones. Wow! A particle just moved on my google.com webpage!! Or, Did it ?

http://maps.google.co.in/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=jamuna+hostel&sll=21.125498,81.914063&sspn=56.007922,62.490234&ie=UTF8&hq=jamuna+hostel&hnear=&ll=12.986436,80.239608&spn=0.003617,0.00405&t=h&z=18

Just for laughs, type "removing" in google inda and , and compare the google typing suggestions.

I wonder what makes Google's situation different that makes them unafraid of that

Not at all. Compare this with asking START the same question: "How far is Los Angeles from New York?"

absoloutely: the next step would be to harness the abilities of a) time dilation (http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/phonedrmarc/2003_may.shtml, http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=UrK&q=time+dilation&btnG=Search&meta=) to allow for future time travel in some space ship, and the ability to drop someone into a coma / life support device for a lifetime or more. If stuntmen, soldiers and astronauts are willing to take those risks I'm sure someone would do this.
Seriously, it won't happen in our lifetime, but who could have imagined planes realistically 200 years ago? If we are sent back pictures of a human society (but 2009 years in the future!) on another planet, it would inevitably unite the people of earth, and probably invoke an worldwide effort to make contact. Or perhaps governments to devise operation 'Enduring Intergalatic Freedom'. Eitherway, I find it credible.

PS. Pater@slashdot.org give us an option for the old slashdot back in preferences - the new ajax doesn't work in many places.

What on earth is styleproject? Ironically, the first google result for that is Stile Project, which advertises itself as having 'free sex pics'.

Google has something called a "Phone Search" here. They provide a toll-free number, which you can call and feed it with queries and make it read out the results.

They even have an option to send a particular result via sms to your phone.

Its still in Google Labs though

Not strictly true.

A side note: Sanskrit has singular, dual and plural forms of words. A lot of i18n infrastructure could get broken if this language got back to life all of a sudden.

Example: boy, (two boys), (more than two boys) === baalakah(1), baalakau(2), baalakaah(2+)

This Slashdot ignored non ascii when I previewed this, so added the google search results for the devanagari characters used to compose these three words instead.

I'm guessing the need arose as a shorthand to talk about two's - eg two people, two oxen working in the form, two feet, two hands and so on.

Anyone know of any other language tha has dual forms of words?

A side note: Sanskrit has singular, dual and plural forms of words. A lot of i18n infrastructure could get broken if this language got back to life all of a sudden.

Example: boy, (two boys), (more than two boys) === baalakah(1), baalakau(2), baalakaah(2+)

This Slashdot ignored non ascii when I previewed this, so added the google search results for the devanagari characters used to compose these three words instead.

I'm guessing the need arose as a shorthand to talk about two's - eg two people, two oxen working in the form, two feet, two hands and so on.

Anyone know of any other language tha has dual forms of words?

A side note: Sanskrit has singular, dual and plural forms of words. A lot of i18n infrastructure could get broken if this language got back to life all of a sudden.

Example: boy, (two boys), (more than two boys) === baalakah(1), baalakau(2), baalakaah(2+)

This Slashdot ignored non ascii when I previewed this, so added the google search results for the devanagari characters used to compose these three words instead.

I'm guessing the need arose as a shorthand to talk about two's - eg two people, two oxen working in the form, two feet, two hands and so on.

Anyone know of any other language tha has dual forms of words?

A side note: Sanskrit has singular, dual and plural forms of words. A lot of i18n infrastructure could get broken if this language got back to life all of a sudden.

Example: boy, (two boys), (more than two boys) === baalakah(1), baalakau(2), baalakaah(2+)

This Slashdot ignored non ascii when I previewed this, so added the google search results for the devanagari characters used to compose these three words instead.

I'm guessing the need arose as a shorthand to talk about two's - eg two people, two oxen working in the form, two feet, two hands and so on.

Anyone know of any other language tha has dual forms of words?

Possibly, however no one in their right minds would process a matrix of that size without blocking. There are several 'Block SVD' algorithms, there are also some projects done by students on doing SVD on GPUs.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/Numeric/svd/
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=block+SVD&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Agreed that the matrices that it is processing are large but what is the size of the blocks that it is processing - IIRC the 8600 that the guys in my lab are working on can have 32 threads running in parallel however each thread will be working on a very small (I've been told it's upto 32x32 double precision floating point and that's stretching it)

Thus -blocking- as I had said comes into play, look I'm not downplaying the usefulness of the GPU or anything, nor am I downplaying their research, it's just that it's to be expected and the usefulness to general applications is limited.

What is this a reference to? Whatever it is, it doesn't appear to be that popular. If this is a sci-fi movie quote... I wanna see the movie it's in...

Just google my name, go ahead, do it.
And don't forget to click on the first result.

LTTE might have started as a group of freedom fighters.
But they are no longer one.

LTTE might have started as a group of freedom fighters.
But they are no longer one.

LTTE might have started as a group of freedom fighters.
But they are no longer one.

As an ousourced employee I can tell you that most of the work that is outsourced to India is not true development work. And this is true with most of the companies.

Companies like Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, TCS (which constitute about 70% of the outsourcing 'market') are consulting services.

None of these companies write any software. What they do is web services. That's why you see a lot of Java developers from India and very few C/C++ programmers.

And even if companies which actually do write software, like Intergraph or Google only outsource QA.

The REAL development is still done in the US, IMO.

According to google 0^0 = 1
According to GNU bc program : 0^0 =1
According to Windows calc: 0^0 = 1
Looks like computer world has already assumed 0^0 =1

No need to fill up the form to download the whitepaper. Just download it from the following URI: http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/marketing_ma terial/SophosSecurityReport_2005.pdf

Just a trivial case of Google Hacking.

* lon3st4r *

The first result for this search at google

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=amd+profiling

Gives this

AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer for Windows
(With Microsoft .NET profile support)

http://developer.amd.com/cawin.aspx

And this tool is around since atleast as long as when I first heard about "A company not called Intel which makes processors".

Seriously, quit your job and look for one in Mc Donalds. Or maybe starbucks is more popular in US these days.

Whatever, pick any, just outsource your job to me.

That is only for you people http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=of f&as_qdr=all&q=failure&btnG=Search&meta=

Here, in India, it's still Bush http://www.google.co.in/search?num=100&hl=en&safe= off&as_qdr=all&q=failure&btnG=Search&meta=

Google has never before given me different search results for google.co.in and google.com

This is the first time I'm seeing different results for these two domains.

here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge.

In case, like me, you're wondering what on earth "pbb" is, let me spare you the searching:

"pbb" at Wikipedia redirects to "Polybrominated biphenyls", with no disambiguation link.

"pbb" on Google returns nothing remotely related to open source.

"pbb open source" on Google returns phpBB at the top.

So why the zark does the summary say "pbb"?

here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge.

In case, like me, you're wondering what on earth "pbb" is, let me spare you the searching:

"pbb" at Wikipedia redirects to "Polybrominated biphenyls", with no disambiguation link.

"pbb" on Google returns nothing remotely related to open source.

"pbb open source" on Google returns phpBB at the top.

So why the zark does the summary say "pbb"?

Thinking of disassembling computer will be more dangerous...Ever heard that the soviet supercomputer tried to electrocute Nikolai Gudkov.

I really don't see your point here. Result two is a gigantic list of Google employee blogs. Results one and four are stories about a Google blog getting taken down after criticism of the company, true, but result three says the blog went back up in a few days minus a few pieces of slightly sensitive (positive) financial information. The criticism was still there.

At last a company is shouting at the top of it's voice, engineers make the world.

this reminds me of when steve balmer made his famous developers speech... "developers developers developers developers...

Seems to me like they are ONLY saying it out loud to attract best talent, I am not sure how much they actually follow what they say (I mean BOTH google and MS).

Its also a bit surprising how google talks a lot about google-culture but we hardly read about any first person account by an employee. Has NONE of their employees ever blogged about how their first month at google was (Or is it just me who couldnt find that)? I find that hard to digest, unless their is some policy restricting them.

Try this google search http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=google+empl oyee+blog&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Just my 2 qubits

Still, I'll go with the GP's point. I'm based in South East Asia, and I made a quick survey of all US-based sites I frequent. He's right; except for community websites such as this one, most big sites (Yahoo, Google, Amazon etc) provide local variants as well, although not necessarily Indian or Chinese in every case.

1. Their website does not mention *anything* about the break-in
2. The first link thrown up by a Google search for "opensuse hack" is a thread on suselinuxsupport.de that, apparently, has been deleted!

Nandz.