Third World Research, Development & Innovation

tovarish writes "It is nice to see that countries like India are trying to research communication techniques in backward and rural areas. While tech savvy people like us enjoy the latest gadgets it is quite a challenge to develop gadgets which actually help the poor and illiterate. While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too."

Comments

Innovation, yes. But please, HP, NOT India.

[Anonymous Coward]

From the article: "While the name Hewlett-Packard reminds many Indians of their temperamental office printers, in HP's research center in Bangalore a team is working on something far nobler. Shekar Borgaonkar and his team are building what they call Script Mail, a device that makes electronic communication easier for people who speak languages that can't be typed on a standard keyboard."

Re:Query:

[CommieLib]

And yet this is precisely what the American Left thinks that they should do.

Re:Flame

[Pig Hogger]

While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too."

Her sensible acheivements should be covered too? Can we mark the article blurb as flamebait? Lets keep the bias out of the story. Please.

Now hear the spoiled-child rhetoric! Perhaps it is the yankees who are overrated? Perhaps it is the yankees' lifestyle that's over-inflated? Why do the jobs go out of the US with a great sucking sound??? In the turd-world (so said because life there is nothing but shit, thanks to the yankees sucking-out all the wealth of the world), workers do not have four cars in the driveway and a swimming pool in their backyards.

In most of the civilized world (this is spelled E.U.R.O.P.E.), there is public transit to take the people to their jobs without FORCING them to use an expensive, gas-guzzling heap of junk on wheels which is, thanks to the inherent paranoïa that is so typical of the shitheap-puritan yankee mindset, has to be inflated beyond any semblance of reasonableness for it's owner to retain some kind of status amongst it's hare-brained sheepish co-herders.

After a while of destroying the countryside with strip-malls, the business owners are getting tired of subsidizing the heavy car usage that is so typical of the earth-trashing yankees' lifestyle and are starting to rebel. By moving the work where the workforce do not need to have a subsidized conveyance.

The great sucking sound is nothing but the sound itself of the yankees' suckitude, it's stupid dependence on foreign oil that has done so much in the last few years to alienate most of the earth's population, all thanks to the most miserable failure of all time in yankee politics.

So, mister Anonymous Coward, your sheepish flame, shot from behind your huge cowardice (see how I am NOT afraid of you unwashed barbarians by signing my name), you can roll it, and shove it up your anus so it can give you your long-overdue orgasm thar your sheepish moronic puritanism has prevented you from enjoying all that time.

Morons. (Anybody who moderates this negatively is nothing but one of those stupid spoiled Bush-voting yankees).