Tata is a big player here in India. They control almost everything - communications, IT, motors, steel, infrastructure, power, beverage, satellites and research. This new supercomputer only strengthens their monopoly.
I have known about EKA for years now. Being an Indian, I try to be aware of all the developments in IT in and around India, so I knew about this project when it was at it's earliest stages.
What most people don't know is that this project is funded by the Tata Group, and is directly influenced by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), which I am strongly related to. The initial goal of this project was to surpass IBM's Blue Gene in the field of supercomputing, but then, things went wrong (as is usually the case with Indian projects), and it landed up in the 4th position, which I still feel, is quite a big feat for a projcet funded privately.
You're right. In fact, I did try out the Firefox 3 Beta 4, and loved it, was amazed, had absolutely no intentions of turning back to Opera, until yesterday, when they kicked some balls and made 100% on the Acid3 test. Opera FTW.
I wish the GIMP devs understood the need for an Integrated working environment. GIMP is great, has a lot of power and tools, but I really don't like the idea of 3 different boxes floating around on my desktop while I'm editing a single picture. An easy to access toolbox, embedded in the window in which I have my picture, would be much more convienient and would certainly increase productivity.
Before a flame war starts here, I have to say - after Photoshop, GIMP is the best photo-editing tool I've used.
So that excludes the people who would want Photoshop to go Web-based, the MOST.
I'm talking about people using Opera or Konqueror on Linux. The Adobe Flash Player 7 and even 9 Beta works very, very poorly with these browsers, on Linux, and doesn't seem to be improving at all. The only browser being given attention is Firefox.
Guess we Linux users will have to wait for a long time, before we really starting using the internet and get recognised by the world.
Adobe is becoming smarter by the day, and this is one of the moves that would give them an advantage over the other competitors in the photo-editing market.
That is past experience speaking, and general observation too. Probably I'm not dead sure (the phrase itself says that I'm sure of death), but I do know that this does not change the fact that people will continue to hate Microsoft, and love Apple.
Also, you cannot ignore the last point. Do you have any examples of bugs from Apple which totally destroyed your operating system? Then you can start counting the endless number of times Microsoft has done that.
Microsoft fixes their bugs faster, OK. I agree. I would say it is a result of the large manpower they have. They have a larger team dedicated to fixing bugs.
What affects me, is the severity of these bugs that need to be fixed. If that is analysed, I'm sure that Apple prioritises it's bugs better, and fixes the more important bugs earlier and more efficiently than Microsoft. Moreover, the bugs at Microsoft would be more severe, and a lot of patches are released in a hurry without testing properly. A perfect example is the recent release of the Vista SP1, which was withdrawn later on. It caused complete devastation, leaving many systems unrepairable, and led to heavy loss of data, for a lot of people I know. With Apple, such mistakes are very, very few. The bugs are mostly small, with less than 2% of them being fatal.
People say that competition is better for the development of any industry. I beg to differ. The only thing, that competition increases for me, as a consumer, is confusion. I am more confused with two services rather than I am with one. I am ready to pay more if I get what I want, and that too, a quality product.
That spacecraft is called Lynx, which gives me the creeps. I don't want to be traveling in a text-mode, verbose space shuttle. If I ever, will go into outer space, it will be on a first-class, GUI spacecraft, with lots of space to relax, and a lot of people on board with me. I'm not really sure what I would do on the moon with just my girlfriend.
A good way to bypass this system would be to use simple semantics. The government would eventually get fed up of tracking the different encryption techniques, and would probably give up.
And on another note, wasn't the Chinese government going to give this up? How would they specifically allow certain areas to get unfiltered access to the internet if the filtering occurs at the International Backbone level?
I have been watching South Park since the first season aired on Comedy Central. But then I got bored of waiting for a new episode every week, so I waited for a lot of episodes to pile up and then downloaded them off BitTorrent. Next, I found a site called southparkx.net, which offered news on South Park and offered episode downloads.
Their FAQs said that "Matt and Trey do not mind when fans download their episodes off the Internet; they feel that its good when people watch the show no matter how they do it." I felt good when I heard this, not because they legalised what I was doing, but because they made a truly great show and didn't believe in all the evil copyright laws.
Now, when they have offered a service to watch full episodes online, and to make small clips from episodes embeddable, I am a bigger South Park fan than ever.
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Tata is a big player here in India. They control almost everything - communications, IT, motors, steel, infrastructure, power, beverage, satellites and research. This new supercomputer only strengthens their monopoly.
I have known about EKA for years now. Being an Indian, I try to be aware of all the developments in IT in and around India, so I knew about this project when it was at it's earliest stages.
What most people don't know is that this project is funded by the Tata Group, and is directly influenced by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), which I am strongly related to. The initial goal of this project was to surpass IBM's Blue Gene in the field of supercomputing, but then, things went wrong (as is usually the case with Indian projects), and it landed up in the 4th position, which I still feel, is quite a big feat for a projcet funded privately.
So you agree. All we have to do is install an airbag/cushion at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
Why would somebody want to prevent that? Free fall would be the most amazing part of the ride.
In Adobe Photoshop Express, check out the Asian girl at the top-left, whose title says "Smile".
Notice that the "Exposure" filter that they claim "Made you Look" actually made you look at how racist the tool is, they made her coloured from white.
You're right. In fact, I did try out the Firefox 3 Beta 4, and loved it, was amazed, had absolutely no intentions of turning back to Opera, until yesterday, when they kicked some balls and made 100% on the Acid3 test. Opera FTW.
I don't agree.
"Computer users who say the software wrecked their systems"
"Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update"
"Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users"
I wish the GIMP devs understood the need for an Integrated working environment. GIMP is great, has a lot of power and tools, but I really don't like the idea of 3 different boxes floating around on my desktop while I'm editing a single picture. An easy to access toolbox, embedded in the window in which I have my picture, would be much more convienient and would certainly increase productivity.
Before a flame war starts here, I have to say - after Photoshop, GIMP is the best photo-editing tool I've used.
That's what Apple II, Atari 800 and Commodore 64 did. We all know what happened after that.
So that excludes the people who would want Photoshop to go Web-based, the MOST.
I'm talking about people using Opera or Konqueror on Linux. The Adobe Flash Player 7 and even 9 Beta works very, very poorly with these browsers, on Linux, and doesn't seem to be improving at all. The only browser being given attention is Firefox.
Guess we Linux users will have to wait for a long time, before we really starting using the internet and get recognised by the world.
Adobe is becoming smarter by the day, and this is one of the moves that would give them an advantage over the other competitors in the photo-editing market.
That is past experience speaking, and general observation too. Probably I'm not dead sure (the phrase itself says that I'm sure of death), but I do know that this does not change the fact that people will continue to hate Microsoft, and love Apple.
Also, you cannot ignore the last point. Do you have any examples of bugs from Apple which totally destroyed your operating system? Then you can start counting the endless number of times Microsoft has done that.
And I am not on any of the sides.
I use Linux.
Microsoft fixes their bugs faster, OK. I agree. I would say it is a result of the large manpower they have. They have a larger team dedicated to fixing bugs.
What affects me, is the severity of these bugs that need to be fixed. If that is analysed, I'm sure that Apple prioritises it's bugs better, and fixes the more important bugs earlier and more efficiently than Microsoft. Moreover, the bugs at Microsoft would be more severe, and a lot of patches are released in a hurry without testing properly. A perfect example is the recent release of the Vista SP1, which was withdrawn later on. It caused complete devastation, leaving many systems unrepairable, and led to heavy loss of data, for a lot of people I know. With Apple, such mistakes are very, very few. The bugs are mostly small, with less than 2% of them being fatal.
People say that competition is better for the development of any industry. I beg to differ. The only thing, that competition increases for me, as a consumer, is confusion. I am more confused with two services rather than I am with one. I am ready to pay more if I get what I want, and that too, a quality product.
That spacecraft is called Lynx, which gives me the creeps. I don't want to be traveling in a text-mode, verbose space shuttle. If I ever, will go into outer space, it will be on a first-class, GUI spacecraft, with lots of space to relax, and a lot of people on board with me. I'm not really sure what I would do on the moon with just my girlfriend.
A good way to bypass this system would be to use simple semantics. The government would eventually get fed up of tracking the different encryption techniques, and would probably give up.
And on another note, wasn't the Chinese government going to give this up? How would they specifically allow certain areas to get unfiltered access to the internet if the filtering occurs at the International Backbone level?
I have been watching South Park since the first season aired on Comedy Central. But then I got bored of waiting for a new episode every week, so I waited for a lot of episodes to pile up and then downloaded them off BitTorrent. Next, I found a site called southparkx.net, which offered news on South Park and offered episode downloads.
Their FAQs said that "Matt and Trey do not mind when fans download their episodes off the Internet; they feel that its good when people watch the show no matter how they do it." I felt good when I heard this, not because they legalised what I was doing, but because they made a truly great show and didn't believe in all the evil copyright laws.
Now, when they have offered a service to watch full episodes online, and to make small clips from episodes embeddable, I am a bigger South Park fan than ever.