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a2fan writes "A bunch of retro-computing Apple II enthusiasts are decending on Kansas City, MO July 22-27 for the 15th annual KFest. Apple co-founder and Apple I, II designer Steve Wozniak will be there. The Apple II keeps on kicking with Ethernet, TCP/IP, and PCMCIA RAM cards used as hard disks. What is it that keeps such an old platform going?"
Apple 0wnzorz !D
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Both of these parents are hysterical! Mod them up!!!
Nine Indians in elite US science academy
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, MAY 08, 2003 07:43:17 PM ]
WASHINGTON: A record nine Indian scientists and engineers have been elected this year to the elite US National Academy of Sciences and Engineering in what appears to be a testimony to the bountiful presence of Indian immigrants in American academia and industry.
Typically, the annual list includes one or two Indians every second or third year. The 2000-strong organizations have only about 30 or so Indians, including such luminaries as Nobel laureates Hargobind Khurana and Subramanyam Chandrasekhar.
But this year the list features a raft of US-based Indian scientists including Caltech astrophysicist Shrinivas Kulkarni (who incidentally is the brother in law of Infosys' N R Narayana Murthy) and Dr Praveen Chaudhury, who was recently appointed to head the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Also elected to the National Academy of Engineering are Debasis Mitra, vice president of the Mathematical Sciences Research at Bell Labs (for contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of communication networks), Vinod Sahney, senior vice president of the Henry Ford Health System (for improving health care systems), Anjan Bose, dean, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University (for contributions to tools, education and research on power systems) and Sanjit Mitra, professor, department of electrical and computer engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (for contributions to signal and image processing, for research supervision, and for writing pioneering textbooks).
Besides the six US-based Indians, the academies also elected three Indian delegates based outside the US -- R A Mashelkar, Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Delhi (for outstanding engineering contributions and exceptional leadership and management of the Indian National Laboratories); Bindu Lohani, secretary of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Obaid Siddiqi, professor, and director, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore.
Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honours that can be accorded to a scientist or engineer and the distinguished scroll includes such familiar names as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca and Lou Gershner.
Indian scientists and engineers have come into increasing prominence in the last few years after years of languishing in obscurity except for a few exceptional names. The year 1999 was considered the breakthrough year for Indians when five of them made the Academies list - Haren Gandhi of Ford, Aravind Joshi of University of Pennsylvania, K R Sreenivasan of University of Maryland, Rangaswamy Srinivasan of UV Tech and Praveen Variaya of University of California, Berkeley.
Last year the Academy elected Rakesh Agarwal of the company Process Synthesis, Subrata Chakravarti of Offshore Structure Analysis and Subra Suresh of MIT.
All of them were cited for breakthrough discoveries or developments. They joined the small band of distinguished Indian-American scientists and engineers like Amar Bose (of Bose acoustics and speakers), former Bell Labs President Arun Netravali, C Kumar Patel, also of Bell Labs, Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon and Tom Kailath of Stanford University in the academies list.
The fact that more Indian-origin people make the list than scientists and engineers from any other country suggests that despite all the flaws that are said to affect the system in India, it has thrown up phenomenal talent.
"This is literally the coming of age of Indian engineering and science," says Prof M A Pai of the University of Illinois in Urbana Champagne, who tracks the developments in the area on his website http://www.indusscitech.net. "Indians who came here in the 1960s and 1970s are now reaching the peak of their prowess."
Pai, like many of the scientists themselves, believes
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but do they have boobies like these chicks?
Are you all so blind that you can't see what your government is doing? You're about to default on the national debt in mid-May, and your president's only response is to cut income tax!
And yet you sit here and discuss Apple II computers. For God's sake, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!
1. Where is Osama bin Laden?
2. Where is Saddam Hussein?
3. Where is President-Vice Cheney?
4. Where is John Katz?
Thanks and have an LSD-inspired week,
W00t
Get Your War On
OR - you can pay (lets be optimistic) $500 for a relatively nice Dell computer nowadays ($499 to be exact, so I don't know how you were being *optomistic*) that requires hours of setup time (just entering in personal information),
/. could set up a dell out of box in under 30 minutes - 1 hour tops. Back to you, Sean
Okay. What ARE YOU doing?! It takes what, 10 minutes to set up windows when you start it up, and, what, like 5 minutes tops to set up your dailup/ethernet/broadband and email? Then, transfer files from old computer - I don't know, but transferring 20 Gb of porn is not "standard setup". Most people here at
most likely months to get as used to the original software, and the issue of having to update windows on a regular basis.
Wow, and I know your IIGS was just as functional as a $500 Dell, and that old word processor can do *everything* wordperfect can.
There's something to be said for taking the dive and upgrading occasionally. Most people *are* satisfied with what they currently have until they find out exactly how much better what they *can* have actually is.
Hmm. I *may* have *overused* the *asterix* in this post. I'll work on that.
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
Exactly what is an 'asspussy' anyway?
It is a fart that smells like fish.
San Antonio's Revenge Syndrome.
Sigh.
I don't claim to be the smartest person in the world. I know I'm not. However, in many areas of life the things in which I'm interested are considered by many to be "intellectual". I *can* converse on many topics. But a person with whom I'm likely to become close friends, one to whom I'm likely to be attracted, is someone who is also at least somewhat interested in many of the same things in which I'm interested.
And it doesn't matter whether it's a male or female -- I'm not going to enjoy being around a person who can't converse at a higher level than 2+2=4. I'm not saying that all conversation will be conversations about the deeper meanings of life. I'd be just as bored with that person. But the ability to converse at that level *must* be there. Especially if I'm planning to spend my life with that person.
Now, not everyone with whom I'm friendly necessarily is like that. I work with people, go to lunch with people, even socialize with people with whom I've never had a serious conversation. That's okay too. But my close friends are the people with whom I have those serious conversations about life.
Sean.
Linux will never supplant Windows as a desktop OS. Something else, maybe, Linux, no way. There is just too much intertia on so many fronts, and Windows is a damn good OS at this point. Unless MS keeps pulling Licencing 6.0 stunts, I think they will be the standard for at least the next ten or so years.
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