In Gandhi's autobiography he describes his caste a kind of family clan headed by some family elders. I am confused by this book. Does the word caste refer to a family clan?
PS: I realize that much has happened to indian society since the birth of Gandhi, so perhaps I should rephrase my question into: Did the word caste refer to a family clan at the time when Gandhi was young?
Does the economic boom of Bangalore have an influence on the average living standard of the typical citizen of Karnataka? Here I refer to a citizen which does not belong to the 15% middle class.
Is the indian middle class a closed economic system or does a member of the indian middle class spend a large percentage of her money on stuff which is produced by the lower classes?
Is there a major difference between the communist and the noncommunist indian states in this respect?
In that case the Roman republic was not a republic...
I call upon Merian webster as a witness:
Main Entry: republic
Pronunciation: ri-'p&-blik
Function: noun
Etymology: French republique, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth + publica, feminine of publicus public -- more at REAL, PUBLIC
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit (the French Fourth Republic)
2 : a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity (the republic of letters)
3 : a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., or Yugoslavia
My only speed issue with GNOME is that it takes one or two seconds to make the main menu pop up from the toolbar. I am a happy and grateful GNOME user:)
heheh... some of these guys are pretty old. We should be thankful that we have done things of value since the deaths of Tycho Brahe and Soren Kierkegaard.
The readers of slashdot often disagree on how easy it is for a westerner to get a job in the indian software industry. What is your take on this? How easy is it to get visa for more than half a year? Have you met many westerners who worked in india, employed by an indian company?
Thank you for the explanation. I am danish, so I do have some knowledge about one european system:)
The danish competition authority can also give rather large fines, however it is not lead by a politician. This way it differs from the office of the european commissioner of competition.
I was just wondering. The pictures look very colorful. Do the colors on these photos correspond to the actual colors on Mars, or have the colors been enhanced?
I cannot access the new report, but here is a pages with some of their former reports:
2000 -2002. My impression is that you cannot conclude very much from these reports. Let's take the
US 2002 report as an example. They have collected data from 2000 households in America. Using these data they can compare the households with internet access to households without internet access.
The problem is that internet access is correllated to education level. Furthermore a person with a high education will tend to read more books. In other words it is not very surprising if internet users read more books.
Similar arguments can be applied to many of the other conclusions in the report.
In conclusion this report does not tell us if internet use changes the life style of a person.
I was in Bangalore in the spring (doing physics). In order to get a working visa that lasts for more than 6 months you have to be invited by an indian employer. I had a feeling that once you have this invitation, the rest was a formality, but I am not sure. (I ended up going on a turist visa)
When I heard of this in seventh grade it sounded like this: The swedes had just lost Finland to Russia, so they had a lot of surplus soldiers and nothing to do. As Denmark had just lost their entire navy in 1806, the swedes decided to pass the mountains and steal Norway away from Denmark.
I am grateful to have read your post. It adds extra details to the somewhat distorted version that I heard in school:)
Also the experiment was confined to a single state. When they perform a similar experiment in South India they will probably have to translate into the local language, but then again this is easily done.
I agree with much of your comment, but if you wish to argue that an antibubble is stable then I you also have to explain why the system is stable with respect to fluctuations in the thickness of the layer of air.
If the system was not stable with respect to this kind of fluctuations then the air would flow together to form a bubble within the membrane. In other words you have to call upon a negative surface tension of the hydrophobic ends.
Happily the hydrophobic ends are slightly electronegative, so everything ends up working nicely:)
Here is a link to an article . I looks like they produce a cell membrane with air in the middle. This membrane is stable because the hydrophobic chains of the surfactant molecules are slightly electronegative.
As part of my Ph.D. study at I spend the last 4 months at a Bangalore research institution, and I have to say that I was quite impressed by
the level of research. Most of the faculty members have been chosen among indians who worked in German or American universities.
However this place was an elite institution. There is a wide spread in the levels of Indian
universities. The goverment wants to concentrate the money in the
places where they make a difference, so some of the poorer universities cannot afford to buy the right journals. This means that
they cannot keep up to date. The access to internet (and specificly www.arxiv.org)
is a great help, but it is still difficult to do proper research if you do not get to go to conferences and talk to a wide range of fellow researchers.
My conclusion is that the current pool of able research labor big yet limited. The spread of internet cannot create an instant increase increase of this pool.
The the phase shif of the rhubidium caused by this firing also occurs at the other photon (because they are entangled). Then when you measure the phase shift of the second crystal, the difference is twice as great (i.e. the first phase shift plus the second phase shift0 - hence you know at the other end of the solar system, that it was fired.
Do you have a reference for this? I feel stongly convinced that you cannot use the EPR experiment to transfer information at speeds that are faster than light speed. (Here information means that the people in Solar system A know that the people in Solar system B have performed a meassurement)
However if physicists at Solar system A and Solar system B perform a meassurement at the same time, then their reasults will be correllated (and disbobey Bell's inequalities).
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Me too. I wish he would return to slashdot.
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What scares you guys the most. Meteors or nukes in space? The whole story reminds me a little too much of Iraqs missing weapons of mass destruction.
PS: I realize that much has happened to indian society since the birth of Gandhi, so perhaps I should rephrase my question into: Did the word caste refer to a family clan at the time when Gandhi was young?
Does the economic boom of Bangalore have an influence on the average living standard of the typical citizen of Karnataka? Here I refer to a citizen which does not belong to the 15% middle class.
Is the indian middle class a closed economic system or does a member of the indian middle class spend a large percentage of her money on stuff which is produced by the lower classes?
Is there a major difference between the communist and the noncommunist indian states in this respect?
In that case the Roman republic was not a republic...
I call upon Merian webster as a witness:
Main Entry: republic
Pronunciation: ri-'p&-blik
Function: noun
Etymology: French republique, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth + publica, feminine of publicus public -- more at REAL, PUBLIC
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit (the French Fourth Republic)
2 : a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity (the republic of letters)
3 : a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., or Yugoslavia
You could find similar rallies in much of Europe. The official danish first of may party however is slowly decaying into a celebration of Carlsberg :)
My only speed issue with GNOME is that it takes one or two seconds to make the main menu pop up from the toolbar. I am a happy and grateful GNOME user :)
heheh... some of these guys are pretty old. We should be thankful that we have done things of value since the deaths of Tycho Brahe and Soren Kierkegaard.
The readers of slashdot often disagree on how easy it is for a westerner to get a job in the indian software industry. What is your take on this? How easy is it to get visa for more than half a year? Have you met many westerners who worked in india, employed by an indian company?
According to a thread on the gnome-vfs-list, the problem is that LUFS relies on a Linux-specific kernel module.
The danish competition authority can also give rather large fines, however it is not lead by a politician. This way it differs from the office of the european commissioner of competition.
Therefore it seems weird to me that a comissioner is able to fine a company. Fining should be left to the judges.
I realize that the case is being appealed to Brussels, but still the whole system is kind of strange.
I was just wondering. The pictures look very colorful. Do the colors on these photos correspond to the actual colors on Mars, or have the colors been enhanced?
The problem is that internet access is correllated to education level. Furthermore a person with a high education will tend to read more books. In other words it is not very surprising if internet users read more books. Similar arguments can be applied to many of the other conclusions in the report.
In conclusion this report does not tell us if internet use changes the life style of a person.
I was in Bangalore in the spring (doing physics). In order to get a working visa that lasts for more than 6 months you have to be invited by an indian employer. I had a feeling that once you have this invitation, the rest was a formality, but I am not sure. (I ended up going on a turist visa)
I am grateful to have read your post. It adds extra details to the somewhat distorted version that I heard in school :)
Also the experiment was confined to a single state. When they perform a similar experiment in South India they will probably have to translate into the local language, but then again this is easily done.
If the system was not stable with respect to this kind of fluctuations then the air would flow together to form a bubble within the membrane. In other words you have to call upon a negative surface tension of the hydrophobic ends. Happily the hydrophobic ends are slightly electronegative, so everything ends up working nicely :)
Here is a link to an article . I looks like they produce a cell membrane with air in the middle.
This membrane is stable because the hydrophobic chains of the surfactant molecules are slightly electronegative.
However this place was an elite institution. There is a wide spread in the levels of Indian universities. The goverment wants to concentrate the money in the places where they make a difference, so some of the poorer universities cannot afford to buy the right journals. This means that they cannot keep up to date. The access to internet (and specificly www.arxiv.org) is a great help, but it is still difficult to do proper research if you do not get to go to conferences and talk to a wide range of fellow researchers.
My conclusion is that the current pool of able research labor big yet limited. The spread of internet cannot create an instant increase increase of this pool.
I wish India the best of luck :)
I don't play xpilot anymore, but there is an xpilot sourceforge project working on fancy xpilot graphics:
http://xpilot.sf.net
Do you have a reference for this? I feel stongly convinced that you cannot use the EPR experiment to transfer information at speeds that are faster than light speed. (Here information means that the people in Solar system A know that the people in Solar system B have performed a meassurement)
However if physicists at Solar system A and Solar system B perform a meassurement at the same time, then their reasults will be correllated (and disbobey Bell's inequalities).
So in conlusion most of the shares are owned by Capital Guardian Trust Company and Royce & Associates, Inc.. Can you do a similar search on these two funds?
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