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  1. Re: One source for his statement by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Lowering the Odds of Being Outsourced

    Here's one easy to google for.
    Search for "Lakh inflation salary programmer".

    Lakh is one of the currencies in india (about the same as our dollar?).

    http://www.the-week.com/25dec04/currentevents_arti cle10.htm

    At 13.8 per cent, average salary hike will be the highest in India

    By K. Sunil Thomas

    Charu Malik is a quick learner. After finishing her master's at the Delhi School of Economics last June, the 22-year-old joined Pipal, a research firm in south Delhi, at an annual salary of Rs 4.8 lakh. If Charu thought she had landed a decent bundle, there were more, nicer, surprises in store--the company had two appraisals every year. This meant her salary went up by a whopping 40 per cent within six months, and that is not including the chunky bonus she got. ... article continues...

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    When their wages reach 40 to 50% of US wages then the outsourcing will be less of an issue and -maybe- wages and job security will recover here in the States.

  2. Other Atlantis like cities: Dwaraka by bot · · Score: 1 · on Atlantis Found. Again.

    Indian mythology also speaks of a city that sank into the Ocean - Dwaraka. Recent archaeological digs off the coast of Gujrat in India have found remains of what could be Dwaraka. Maybe there is a reason for all these flood stories and submerged cities.. a global warming that occured in the past and flooded coastal cities?

  3. Indian tinkerer increase I.C.E. efficiency by 20%! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Grow Your Own Replacement Bones

    sorry for the OT post, but I've been submitting this to the Science section for a week. Popular Science has an article about a tinkerer named Somender Singh from India who seems to have figured out how to increase the efficiency of the Internal Combustion Engine by 20%. He describes the innovation in US patent number 6237579 and in an article he published in 2002 available at racingarticles.com. There's an earlier blurb about his discovery in the Indian webzine the-week.com. Are you gonna be the first geek to Singh-mod your car on your block?

  4. Re:Non terrorist users of criuse missiles? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance

    Thank you.

    We already have the first supersonic cruise missle.

    So thanks but no, we dont need this guy.

    news

    there was even a slashdot story about it. I cant fing it.

  5. Indian Moon Mission by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Mine The Moon For Helium-3

    Check out the indian mission to moon called Chandrayan.

    The primary goal for this mission is the same thing. extracting helium 3 and mapping moon surface for finding proper spot to do that.

    I would like to see some comments here about poverty in India though ;-)

  6. How Indians views themselves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on BusinessWeek on Outsourcing

    Such a huge cognitive dissonance between the /. crowd and the Indians in India....

    Igniting India's mind

    Our lives are about to become *very* interesting. Thank you very much for everything in the last century, Americans : we Indians and chineses willl take it from here.

    US is *so* 1999.......