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  1. Re:Manufacturing? by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Informative · on Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology For India's $35 Tablet

    Does India have any tech manufacturing base? No troll - sincere question.

    I know they've got keen engineering students who want that base to develop so they can work in it, but I can't think of any factories.

    Yes, Dell does smone manufacturing there.

  2. Re:Perspective: by Doctor+Memory · · Score: 1 · on Slashdot's Vastu

    Interestingly, this article (linked from the IIL website), reports that IndiaMART InterMESH has received mixed results from applying the vastu shastra principles to web sites. Three of five sites has reported a 60% increase in the number of hits, but two other sites saw little or no change. I'd guess it wasn't the actual visual redesign that improved hit counts, more likely it was some content updates that improved the search engine rankings of the sites in question, but who knows?

  3. Re:My Clinically Inept Siblings by Knuckles · · Score: 1 · on Forbes Says Vista Not People Ready

    In fact, nowadays sewing patterns are created with specialist CAD software, with the resulting files directly fed to the manufacturing machines. I don't know about Hilfinger, but, e.g., a suit can get pretty complex by itself, and if you factor different sizes, etc., you can imagine that much complexity can be reduced this way.
    Examples: this, this, and this

  4. Nope. by gstoddart · · Score: 1 · on Bush vs. Kerry on Science
    That's why it's 'charged with' and not 'convicted of' or 'guilty of'


    Ah, but the thing is ... they haven't been 'charged'. Nobody has said that under a specific legal statute these people are formally accused of a specific crime.

    What has actually happened is that the US government with some legal interpretations that say they are allowed to detain people they claim did bad things for an indefinite period of time without any required legal process.

    Essentially these people are held without any real representation, explaination of what they are assumed to have done, and held in a facilty which may or may not be encouraging abuses of these people.

    Even the Supreme Court has said that decision may not be based on anything valid in law.

    In effect the US administration has two things: US law doesn't apply because we say so, and since we say they're unlawful combatants, international law doesn't apply either.

    These people most decidedly have not been 'charged' with anything. They are merely being held under suspicions and accusations, but in such a way as to not be definitevely legal under international treaties and the like.

    Trying to change the wording to something that makes it all sound nice and legal has no bearing on the actual legality. It's just fiddling with words to try and hide what has actually happened.

  5. Re:1... million... DOLLARS!!! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Speech Recognition in Silicon

    Ah hah! Found one!

  6. REVA-Electric car from India by earthstar · · Score: 4, Informative · on The Return of the Sparrow Electric Vehicle?

    Hey ppl! Chk out this electric car -REVA -from India.
    Features Grab:
    This elegant, light-yet rugged, two-door sedan comfortably seats 2 adults in the front and 2 children upto a height of 5' and 6" (165 cms) in the rear. It has a range of 80 kilometers in stop-and-go city driving, and a top speed of 65 km/h.
    you can read a review about it Here
    It costs somethin like Rupees.2.20 lakhs (which is abt $5300).

  7. Leather, too by Alien54 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Exotic Wood Computer Cases
    They also have a leather, which is interesting. Shades of Ricardo Montabahn talking about "Rich Corinthian Leather"

    If you are going to be modding or painting a case, then other decorative elements like leather or wood seem in line... Although it is tricky to apply the veneers yourself.

    There is a decent review here

    There are plenty of wood veneer sources out there.

  8. Re:Morally? by LinuxHam · · Score: 1 · on How India is Saving Capitalism
    he might go out and pick up a new Ford, a new Dell computer, a new Motorola Cell Phone, a pair of new Gap jeans, a Maytag washer

    • cars
    • computers
    • cellphones
    • clothing!?!? i won't even look..
    • and washing machines, ok that's tougher, but it certainly doesn't have to come from America

    Point is, they are not guaranteed to spend former American $$ on American goods. Yes, they will spend some, but they will not spend all of it, and they have a lot less to spend on our goods to start with. It just may not be worth losing an American job saying, "don't worry, the Indian guy's only going to buy American goods anyway", that's all.
  9. Re:Morally? by LinuxHam · · Score: 1 · on How India is Saving Capitalism
    he might go out and pick up a new Ford, a new Dell computer, a new Motorola Cell Phone, a pair of new Gap jeans, a Maytag washer

    • cars
    • computers
    • cellphones
    • clothing!?!? i won't even look..
    • and washing machines, ok that's tougher, but it certainly doesn't have to come from America

    Point is, they are not guaranteed to spend former American $$ on American goods. Yes, they will spend some, but they will not spend all of it, and they have a lot less to spend on our goods to start with. It just may not be worth losing an American job saying, "don't worry, the Indian guy's only going to buy American goods anyway", that's all.
  10. Re:Standard US pattern by watzinaneihm · · Score: 1 · on What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.?

    The thing is, that the offshore push is not just in High Tech. They are moving entire back-end-office (that i believe, was the term used). Here is a sample from a google search .
    We will see a whole lot of accounting,data-entry and similar mundane jobs moving to India (China and Russia, not yet, assumption being that they are not too good at english.).
    Now these jobs don't contribute too much to the US economy, but wonder what effects it will have if this goes on for too long?