In India, to study engineering, you need to shell out at least 4-5 times extra of what you what you would normally pay to study commerce or science. Indian education costs may still may be one of the cheapest among the world, but to a common Indian, quality education is still out of reach.
This reminds me of a legislation passed in India back in 2003 which required all private vehicles (old or new), to have their license plates painted with black text on white background. Earlier, the color scheme used to be just the opposite; i.e. white text on black background. The reason given was that black on white would be more visible during night.
That logic, as it has turned out now, is incorrect . White text on black background definitely causes lesser strain on eyes. Not sure whether this would be true in case of illuminated (computer) screens too.
This is what that intrigues me too. Java is basically a Sun product. Then why is it that Java apps are sluggish on Solaris as compared to Windows. Why is it that JRE seems to be optimized for Windows/Intel platforms rather than Solaris/SPARC?
At least, if you're going to be proud of something, be proud of what you've done, not what someone else has done (unless it's your kids, obviously)
It's not like that buddy. If I get something for free and that works as good (in fact better) as a paid version of the same, then I should let others know about it. The others who are paying for a product to get the equivalent (or inferior) functionality should be made aware that a better competing product exists and that too for free! For me, at least that is what preaching Linux means. I may not have not contributed anything to it, but I still need to spread the right word about it, because I use it and I like it. As simple as that.
Interesting. As a customer, my experiences with my ISP's call center were not exactly satisfactory. The problem with most tech support people is that they think that their callers are morons. Once, my net connection was down. I called up my ISP customer support. Explained that my DSL router was not getting an IP, turning it on and off did not help. She kept asking me all the time which particular site I was trying to access and that the sites that I was trying to access might be down or slow. It was of no use to explain her that I wasn't even able to ping an outside host. She probably didn't even understand the terms 'IP' and 'ping'. In another instance, when I called up the customer care to complain about the spped of connection, she (not the same person) advised me to got to McAfee site and get a trial AV download.
It's not that I haven't had good experiences with tech support. Dell server tech support staff was for example, very trained and understood the terms SATA, RAID, SCSI very well. You might argue that they need to; otherwise why they were at that job at the first place. Unfortunately though, I don't see the same logic being applied to other tech call centers. All you need to have is, if you want a call center job is perhaps a good voice and the ability to dodge your callers.
The whole of the argument was this:
1) Things that respond to injury feel pain.
2) Plants respond to injury.
3) Therefore plants feel pain.
Plants in general don't respond to injury does not conclusively prove that they don't feel pain. Some plants namely Venus Trap and Touch-me-not do possess tactile sense. These are a few plants which do take a perceptible reaction to the sense of touch. Other plants might feel the touch aka injury but they possibly they don't have the mechanism to react.
Well I am not at all a M$ fanboy. But this time I'll have to admit there is something from M$ that can be put into the category of "innovation". The technology may be not new, but the way they have packaged existing technologies into a sell-able product is awesome. So far, MS has been copying blatantly; from Zune to Xbox. This is something that it can call as it's own. But it would be interesting to see whether there are any takers.
Ya... it's as simple as this. You should understand that Internet is a public, unmanaged network. If you are too concerned about your privacy and rights, just don't put it on the net. You can't put something on public display and at the same time complain about a passerby seeing it. Keep it under wraps if you don't want it to be seen by all.
That is an old joke. Mty printer salesman friend has not been able to sell two Lexmark Cartridges priced at Rs. 1500 each. Epson and HP cartridges with prices ranging from Rs. 450 - 500 remain never remain in shelf for more than a week:-).
As a college student, I always struggled with higher mathematics. Until school they taught geometry that dealt with two dimensional figures, arithmetic which involved profit and loss calculations, factorization of numbers, co-ordinate geometry that was an extension of simple geometry and all that interesting stuff. That mathematics used to be tangible as it dealt with something real. Once in college however, when faced with differential equations, Laplace transformations, Fourier series and all other outlandish stuff, mathematics suddenly started appearing lethargic to me. The text books apart from a few solved questions followed by twenty question exercises, never bothered to explain what earthly purpose this all stuff served.
Any such division of mathematics or physics that has got a very limited application in some specialized areas of study should be left to only those who are really are interested in them. You should not try to push it down the throats of poor students who can't comprehend it.
Ya that's fine. But the question is that how far will IBM go in supporting Linux. IBM will always want AIX to be the OS of it's choice on its proprietary hardware. Many of powerful features of AIX like hardware diagnostic tools, mksysb image backups, hot swap LVM are not available on Power Linux and probably will never be. Like GNU Toolbox for Linux, x86 Virtual Linux also seems like another feeble attempt by IBM to support Linux.
Overall, Sun seems more committed than IBM as far as Linux support is concerned.
India has perhaps got the largest rail network in the world. The fastest train in Indian Railways network hardly ever crosses the 200 kph barrier, given the heavy traffic across its network, no matter what technological innovations in tracks/signaling/locomotive engineering are used. I don't what is the story in China. But if anyone has to travel at such high speeds, then airplane is a much viable alternative.
Whatever distro they choose, I hope they mention it openly. I recently came across a Toshiba laptop ad in a newspaper which just mentioned 'Linux OS' in the end of it's features. Furthermore, the term 'Linux OS' was accompanied by a small footnote that went like this "The pre-installed Linux OS may have limited functionality unless a new operating system is installed". Needless to say, this "new operating system" would presumably be Windows. Such clumsy marketing would definitely force a non-geek PC user into thinking that Linux might be just a limited-functionality OS (perhaps with no GUI) like FreeDOS.
Seeing in that way, Dell's commitment to Linux seems far more serious then the likes of Toshiba and HP.
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..there would have been no such thing as Linux. Too bad that Tanenbaum doesn't get much of the credit for Linux.
In India, to study engineering, you need to shell out at least 4-5 times extra of what you what you would normally pay to study commerce or science. Indian education costs may still may be one of the cheapest among the world, but to a common Indian, quality education is still out of reach.
This reminds me of a legislation passed in India back in 2003 which required all private vehicles (old or new), to have their license plates painted with black text on white background. Earlier, the color scheme used to be just the opposite; i.e. white text on black background. The reason given was that black on white would be more visible during night.
That logic, as it has turned out now, is incorrect . White text on black background definitely causes lesser strain on eyes. Not sure whether this would be true in case of illuminated (computer) screens too.
has this been discussed on Slashdot?
This is what that intrigues me too. Java is basically a Sun product. Then why is it that Java apps are sluggish on Solaris as compared to Windows. Why is it that JRE seems to be optimized for Windows/Intel platforms rather than Solaris/SPARC?
At least, if you're going to be proud of something, be proud of what you've done, not what someone else has done (unless it's your kids, obviously)
It's not like that buddy. If I get something for free and that works as good (in fact better) as a paid version of the same, then I should let others know about it. The others who are paying for a product to get the equivalent (or inferior) functionality should be made aware that a better competing product exists and that too for free!
For me, at least that is what preaching Linux means. I may not have not contributed anything to it, but I still need to spread the right word about it, because I use it and I like it. As simple as that.
Ya..sure. But what if I download the updates on my Ubuntu and then transfer them later to a (illegitimate) Vista machine ??
Interesting. As a customer, my experiences with my ISP's call center were not exactly satisfactory. The problem with most tech support people is that they think that their callers are morons. Once, my net connection was down. I called up my ISP customer support. Explained that my DSL router was not getting an IP, turning it on and off did not help. She kept asking me all the time which particular site I was trying to access and that the sites that I was trying to access might be down or slow. It was of no use to explain her that I wasn't even able to ping an outside host. She probably didn't even understand the terms 'IP' and 'ping'. In another instance, when I called up the customer care to complain about the spped of connection, she (not the same person) advised me to got to McAfee site and get a trial AV download.
It's not that I haven't had good experiences with tech support. Dell server tech support staff was for example, very trained and understood the terms SATA, RAID, SCSI very well. You might argue that they need to; otherwise why they were at that job at the first place. Unfortunately though, I don't see the same logic being applied to other tech call centers. All you need to have is, if you want a call center job is perhaps a good voice and the ability to dodge your callers.
The whole of the argument was this:
1) Things that respond to injury feel pain.
2) Plants respond to injury.
3) Therefore plants feel pain.
Plants in general don't respond to injury does not conclusively prove that they don't feel pain. Some plants namely Venus Trap and Touch-me-not do possess tactile sense. These are a few plants which do take a perceptible reaction to the sense of touch. Other plants might feel the touch aka injury but they possibly they don't have the mechanism to react.
Well I am not at all a M$ fanboy. But this time I'll have to admit there is something from M$ that can be put into the category of "innovation". The technology may be not new, but the way they have packaged existing technologies into a sell-able product is awesome. So far, MS has been copying blatantly; from Zune to Xbox. This is something that it can call as it's own. But it would be interesting to see whether there are any takers.
Ya... it's as simple as this. You should understand that Internet is a public, unmanaged network. If you are too concerned about your privacy and rights, just don't put it on the net. You can't put something on public display and at the same time complain about a passerby seeing it. Keep it under wraps if you don't want it to be seen by all.
Bill Gates: What? A computer with screen split into two..? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard at Microsoft.
He died at 85. A natural death I presume. What's the fuss all about buddy?
That is an old joke. Mty printer salesman friend has not been able to sell two Lexmark Cartridges priced at Rs. 1500 each. Epson and HP cartridges with prices ranging from Rs. 450 - 500 remain never remain in shelf for more than a week :-).
As a college student, I always struggled with higher mathematics. Until school they taught geometry that dealt with two dimensional figures, arithmetic which involved profit and loss calculations, factorization of numbers, co-ordinate geometry that was an extension of simple geometry and all that interesting stuff. That mathematics used to be tangible as it dealt with something real.
Once in college however, when faced with differential equations, Laplace transformations, Fourier series and all other outlandish stuff, mathematics suddenly started appearing lethargic to me. The text books apart from a few solved questions followed by twenty question exercises, never bothered to explain what earthly purpose this all stuff served.
Any such division of mathematics or physics that has got a very limited application in some specialized areas of study should be left to only those who are really are interested in them. You should not try to push it down the throats of poor students who can't comprehend it.
India have been into electronic voting since a long time without any problems. Why not import some from there?
Ya that's fine. But the question is that how far will IBM go in supporting Linux. IBM will always want AIX to be the OS of it's choice on its proprietary hardware. Many of powerful features of AIX like hardware diagnostic tools, mksysb image backups, hot swap LVM are not available on Power Linux and probably will never be. Like GNU Toolbox for Linux, x86 Virtual Linux also seems like another feeble attempt by IBM to support Linux.
Overall, Sun seems more committed than IBM as far as Linux support is concerned.
Please mod up the parent as 'Troll'.
IE 8 is going to sport this feature. And yes, it was Microsoft who first came up with this idea. Understand?
The researchers say the only reason they didn't do it on Vista final was cost
These researchers should have been the ones who must have received those free Vista pre-loaded Acer Ferrari laptops.
India has perhaps got the largest rail network in the world. The fastest train in Indian Railways network hardly ever crosses the 200 kph barrier, given the heavy traffic across its network, no matter what technological innovations in tracks/signaling/locomotive engineering are used. I don't what is the story in China. But if anyone has to travel at such high speeds, then airplane is a much viable alternative.
Could someone explain to me what is "funny" in above??
FTA, he first wrote Fortran and then he developed BNF. Perhaps if it was the other way around, Fortan would had much simpler syntax?
I don't know about SE Linux very well but just wanted to know that whether I can accomplish the same things which SE Linux does using PAM?
Whatever distro they choose, I hope they mention it openly. I recently came across a Toshiba laptop ad in a newspaper which just mentioned 'Linux OS' in the end of it's features. Furthermore, the term 'Linux OS' was accompanied by a small footnote that went like this "The pre-installed Linux OS may have limited functionality unless a new operating system is installed". Needless to say, this "new operating system" would presumably be Windows. Such clumsy marketing would definitely force a non-geek PC user into thinking that Linux might be just a limited-functionality OS (perhaps with no GUI) like FreeDOS.
Seeing in that way, Dell's commitment to Linux seems far more serious then the likes of Toshiba and HP.