Agreed. Because of a very non-transparent(for the lack of a good word) administration, people just buy into whatever current administration sells them.
For India its always choosing between better evil.
Also corruption in India is like flu infected household(i.e we keep infecting each other), populace are enormously corrupt, people take money/personal favors/liquor and sell their votes to politicians and political leaders in turn spend tax payers money for themselves and then tax system is itself a big mess, Bureaucrats corrupt politicians and politicians corrupt Bureaucrats.
When I was doing my masters(in India) , my friend through his relative was able to get a project with DRDO(One of India's Defence Research Department). His project was to develop a GUI in QT in linux for the Data Packet Sniffer program they already had in place, yes it reads all the incoming and outgoing emails of all the employees , and everybody knows about this and nobody cares about it.
India has bigger problems called Corruption,Terrorism,Communal Conflicts to deal with that everyone is treated Guilty until proven Innocent.
I don't understand why people time and again think Google would donate large amounts of money to FOSS or its projects
Google may be less 'evil' but its still Profit making Corporation.
its not the poster but the slashdot posting options that are retarded.
and if someone is posting something passionately its very annoying and more over doesn't occur to type <br/> after every line also if what they are posting is large in terms of story/opinion/information.
Why would a tube of toothpaste be completely colored green -- did green have some special significance to Indians that we didn't understand?
but the answer for that rings bells all over my head
yes yellow,green and red are very special for Indians.
Because these colors run so deep into our culture, customs and tradition, I bet every Indian even who is below poverty line and very rich can relate to these almost immediately
Yellow reminds/represents Haldi has been used for household medicine and food color for centuries
Red reminds/represents Sindoor (wonder why some call us DOTS)
Green reminds/represents many leafy things but most importantly Neem has been used for medicine and brushing teeth (yes) for centuries
This will kick off a whole new era of Afghani 419 Scams.
Request for urgent business relationship (imagine caps slashdot filter won't allow me to type in caps)
we need your help in excavating lithium and exporting it out of Afghanistan
....
The multiple references to "burning" an already "burned" CD clearly shouts that people really forgot how CDs work.
Time to move on with Mp3 and probably in future get a better format, not travel back to CD and Vinyl.
I am having a big problem these days figuring out which article at slashdot does not belong to Idle category.
Yeah I know this is Redundant. I needed a good place to start burning my karma anyway.
Developers spend significant time reading and navigating code fragments spread across multiple locations. The file-based nature of contemporary IDEs makes it prohibitively difficult to create and maintain a simultaneous view of such fragments. We propose a novel user interface metaphor for code understanding and maintanence based on collections of lightweight, editable fragments called bubbles, which form concurrently visible working sets.
I agree with Developers spending time reading and navigating code fragments but isn't that part of the job ?
I think its called debugging,locating problem, identifying it in the code and fixing it, if it takes navigating or standing on his head he will do it.
Leopard has been having its purplish pink background as default, I saw nobody complain about that.
I think if some thing comes out of opensource folks at slashdot evaluate it too critically.
Slashdot Mirror
mach 5 reference
for those interested I found video somewhere on internet
what bothers me the most is that something like Wikileaks needs to exist at all.
True. But this is not a perfect world or No government is perfect to be trusted for everything they say.
looks like they already got slashdotted .. the irony
Agreed. Because of a very non-transparent(for the lack of a good word) administration, people just buy into whatever current administration sells them.
For India its always choosing between better evil.
Also corruption in India is like flu infected household(i.e we keep infecting each other), populace are enormously corrupt, people take money/personal favors/liquor and sell their votes to politicians and political leaders in turn spend tax payers money for themselves and then tax system is itself a big mess, Bureaucrats corrupt politicians and politicians corrupt Bureaucrats.
When I was doing my masters(in India) , my friend through his relative was able to get a project with DRDO(One of India's Defence Research Department).
His project was to develop a GUI in QT in linux for the Data Packet Sniffer program they already had in place, yes it reads all the incoming and outgoing emails of all the employees
, and everybody knows about this and nobody cares about it.
India has bigger problems called Corruption,Terrorism,Communal Conflicts to deal with that everyone is treated Guilty until proven Innocent.
I don't understand why people time and again think Google would donate large amounts of money to FOSS or its projects
Google may be less 'evil' but its still Profit making Corporation.
This would be the new subject line for many spammers to come
your death has been reported
click on the link to revoke
get your ass to maaa.....oops ok asteroid ???
in my house its exactly the opposite, I am light sleeper, and my wife is a heavy(log) sleeper.
and yeah the initial baby nights were difficult.
its not the poster but the slashdot posting options that are retarded.
and if someone is posting something passionately its very annoying and more over doesn't occur to type <br/> after every line also if what they are posting is large in terms of story/opinion/information.
McClane (flashes badge and ID): Police.
Farrell: Yeah that looks real
McClane (reveals Gun): check this out.
Farrell: Ok Get in.
but I am an Indian
Why would a tube of toothpaste be completely colored green -- did green have some special significance to Indians that we didn't understand?
but the answer for that rings bells all over my head
yes yellow,green and red are very special for Indians.
Because these colors run so deep into our culture, customs and tradition, I bet every Indian even who is below poverty line and very rich can relate to these almost immediately
Yellow reminds/represents Haldi has been used for household medicine and food color for centuries
Red reminds/represents Sindoor (wonder why some call us DOTS)
Green reminds/represents many leafy things but most importantly Neem has been used for medicine and brushing teeth (yes) for centuries
working From Home
Who gives a damn if there is no Word on iPad... ahh wait a minute.
(note to self) Should stop using MS products.
This will kick off a whole new era of Afghani 419 Scams.
....
Request for urgent business relationship (imagine caps slashdot filter won't allow me to type in caps)
we need your help in excavating lithium and exporting it out of Afghanistan
Let me put on my Smarty Pants ... Has a whole new meaning
Aliens Of Cow Fart Land
cant wait for the false positives
The multiple references to "burning" an already "burned" CD clearly shouts that people really forgot how CDs work.
Time to move on with Mp3 and probably in future get a better format, not travel back to CD and Vinyl.
High performance javascript in what will likely be the world's most highly used browser for a while
which is exactly what slashdot readers need
I am having a big problem these days figuring out which article at slashdot does not belong to Idle category.
Yeah I know this is Redundant.
I needed a good place to start burning my karma anyway.
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Developers spend significant time reading and navigating code fragments spread across multiple locations. The file-based nature of contemporary IDEs makes it prohibitively difficult to create and maintain a simultaneous view of such fragments. We propose a novel user interface metaphor for code understanding and maintanence based on collections of lightweight, editable fragments called bubbles, which form concurrently visible working sets.
I agree with Developers spending time reading and navigating code fragments but isn't that part of the job ? I think its called debugging ,locating problem, identifying it in the code and fixing it, if it takes navigating or standing on his head he will do it.
Leopard has been having its purplish pink background as default, I saw nobody complain about that. I think if some thing comes out of opensource folks at slashdot evaluate it too critically.