But, if I was the one going to another country, I'd want to speak the language first, if only to not promote a few choice stereotypes about Americans... (I speak Spanish more or less fluently, and I know enough Japanese to find the bathroom. Maybe.)
Hmmm... India is like Europe. Except for a few northern states, every state has it's own language. (Indian currency carries 17 languages.:) ) How many can/will you learn:)
Come to India... Urban India speaks English with varying levels of competence. and being a white person will draw excellent salaries as well (I'm serious). Though it will not be in the 100K range. But then cost of living is much cheaper in most parts...
America wants globalization in a world that plays with different rules to those American are use too.
Really? Last I heard was America was screaming bloody murder and clamping down on outsourcing of jobs? Where is globalisation now?
America is a hypocrite. And don't let anything make you think otherwise.
India has been using Electronic Voting since 1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_examples#India). No major problems reported.
Ironically the first vote held with this was struck down, because the law had no provision for electronic voting (Laws which were subsequently changed).
Read more about Indian EVM's http://www.eci.gov.in/faq/evm.asp
oh! an ad hominem attack. that's original. I suppose on slashdot you can't expect any better. I suppose u think Slashdot a site to show your language prowess eh.
Well anyway, i was referring to the 130 million page impressions a month that my company is giving to Adsense...
If I as a publisher am not making money runing Adsense. Noway is google making money on orkut.
General purpose social networks, the way they are structured currently will *never* make money over an extended period of time.
Sure there is hype now, ever joker of marketing manager wants to do something on *social media*, widgets and dump traditional marketing.
Ironic. Coz three years ago when I was trying to sell them internet, they'd laugh in my face.
But, wait till long term impact of shortsighted advertising decisions starts to get measured. they'll drop all this and go back to nuts and bolts marketing. And then... we will talk.
I was wondering when India will come into this conversation.
I think they still teach COBOL in some schools here in India... and Americans wonder, why jobs are moving to Indians. No fancy shmancy Ruby on Rails here... Hah!
BTW, It isn't only California. UPS has a gigantic COBOL codebase and pretty much any corporation that automated in the wrong side of the 90's.
And... no COBOL programmers.
In India we have something called NEFT (http://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=60). you can send money to any bank on the RBI grid (currently in 15 odd cities) account using the banks internet portal. Though u do need to know the receiver's bank account and branch.
This transfer is free to both the sender and reciever. (tho there is a daily cap on the amount of money u can transfer)
Our thuggish ISP here in India by the name of Airtel does the same. Who's to catch them out? Nowhere to complain to.
What's more, they do it only for Home customers and not corporate customers. They think they are mighty clever at that.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Ghandi If you are going to quote the man, at least spell his name right.
The correct spelling is Gandhi not Ghandi.
Cheers
Because the Price of advertising goes up. The margins Google keeps goes up.
on the other end, the Publisher keeps getting screwed
This is how it is a bad thing. Grow up.
I know everyone likes google around here... I don't. They behave a like a marker monopolist. On both ends... At the advertisers end there is no transparency. I launched a service aimed at the US market from here in India last year. The site had no traffic to begin with and we were only advertising through Google. Very consistently we were being overbilled to the tune of 20-25% compared to the traffic that was hitting our site.
There was absolutely no acknowledgement of the problem. None whatsoever. Denial was the only response.
I'm now at the other end (i.e. as a publisher) the same story. Google adwords was running on our site, before I joined. When I inquired about what is the revenue share that we are getting, I was told that is confidential??? Imagine the gall...
The moment we get a credible alternative, we will move from Google. I'm talking to colleagues across major online publishers in India to do the same.
We all have the same problem.
No competition to Google. The lack of a credible alternative who can consistently drive revenues.
Im not saying google is an evil company, just that advertisers and adwords customers would benefit greatly if Google had real competition. Yet they keep buying competitors (like doubleclick) or doing deals with companies like Yahoo to effectively remove them from competition. Don't be too sure of the don't be evil brand proposition. It was good while it lasted. There is nothing in my opinion that makes Google less (or more) evil than MS.
It is a corporation and it is self serving... that's it. For e.g. Google regularly hands off/shuts down Blogger accounts on complaints from authorities (and in once case media companies like Indian Express)
Go back in time, MS was "the" company sticking it to the Man and then it became the Man.
Guess what? Google has become the Man.
Stop defending a corporation. It doesn't care.
Hell, they may well rule the world. They already rule the world of customer service, and Quick-E-Marts. give us a few years and we will back those high paying investment banking jobs... we'll create sub-prime crises in the US, sitting right here out of Bombay...:o
Here's a funny thought:
1. India has nukes. (It also sits on huge reserves of Thorium and has breeder reactors, so it can transform them to uranium or eventually plutonium, as needed.) India also has uranium/plutonium for enough nukes. So why bother with the thorium route.
Anyway, we are preserving our supply for more *interesting* applications and shopping around for an independent source of uranium for power, courtesy the nuke deal.
2. If you can put an object in orbit, you can make it come down wherever you want it to come down. Or use a smaller rocket and/or a heavier load to make them go ballistic instead of orbitting at all. (For reference, the USSR's space program started the other way around. Someone realized that they had build a rocket so powerful to haul nukes, that it could put a small-ish object in orbit.) Rockets are that interchangeable purpose. India has a few ballistic missiles... The Agni series is the most prominent of the lot. I believe we are testing 5K range next year. (Beijing at last...) not quite the US yet, but still...
Then there is the Surya. This one is almost mythical, but give it a couple of years... around the world should be a snap.
3. Inclined/polar orbits? Always good to have for a nuke, if nothing else, to hit a location that's not near the equator. Plus you might want to go extremely inclined to minimize flight time and thus warning time (I think both the USA and the USSR had most of their nukes aimed at each other over the arctic), or to lob them over international waters and avoid pissing off everyone else in their path.
As a bonus: once you can do polar orbits and big payloads, you can use spy sats. India has been using remote sensing satellites for years and years... satellites in polar orbits go around the world and spy on the world.
nothing to see here... lets move on...
Now I'm not saying India is necessarily aiming to become an ICBM power. Maybe, maybe not. And they're probably not yet ready to willy-wave internationally about it, in any case. But I'm saying I wouldn't be the least surprised if that was at least one factor in funding that space program. we are aiming to be one. It is a stated objective. The US knows it and wants to be on our good side. You can't make enemies of any and every country that can fry a couple of your cities... can you?
I still remember seeing the news on TV when they had built their first nuke, and the general euphoria. It was waay back, while they were even poorer than today. Arguably that money could have been better invested in industrializing a little faster. But there were people cheering in the streets that they now have a big destructive weapon. I can see a lot of political capital in the implicit "and now we can lob it at anyone too!" message. Yup, I've heard this argument before. don't compete with the big boys till you figure out hunger etc. This is a socialist argument and I reject it. So should you. This money spent on space is accelerating industrialisation. As does research in military applications. Food preservation by irradiation (yeah i know, still borders on science fiction), cheaper and better prosthetics, better alloys et al.
All this is stuff the west denies us citing dual use and other such rubbish. An atomic clock is dual use... Bah!
Now I'm not singling India out there. I think they're just... humans, like everyone else. And it's a sad thing that we'd rather have a big stick to threaten the neighbours with, than an extra slice of bread. this was about a civilian satellite launch, you made it into a stick...
I'm waiting for the time, when US reduces it's stockpile of Nukes to a point where it can destroy the world only tens of times over, rather than hundreds of times over. then we'll talk about the extra slice of bread.
Your Paranoia knows no bounds. Rest assured, the stick is being built and we plan the biggest of them all. I hope you sleep well...
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umm.. The Indian space program not only pays for itself, it is profitable (i.e. it returns money back to the Government). I think gross margins are 100%. Not too shabby. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/moonmission/Story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20080068200&type=SpecialReport
flamebait? oh! come on...
But, if I was the one going to another country, I'd want to speak the language first, if only to not promote a few choice stereotypes about Americans... (I speak Spanish more or less fluently, and I know enough Japanese to find the bathroom. Maybe.)
Hmmm... India is like Europe. Except for a few northern states, every state has it's own language. (Indian currency carries 17 languages. :) ) How many can/will you learn :)
Come to India... Urban India speaks English with varying levels of competence. and being a white person will draw excellent salaries as well (I'm serious). Though it will not be in the 100K range. But then cost of living is much cheaper in most parts...
America wants globalization in a world that plays with different rules to those American are use too.
Really? Last I heard was America was screaming bloody murder and clamping down on outsourcing of jobs? Where is globalisation now? America is a hypocrite. And don't let anything make you think otherwise.
More likely that Slashdot itself will be running of a Mainframe... Cloud computing, hosted apps. The world is begging for a return to mainframes...
India has been using Electronic Voting since 1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_examples#India). No major problems reported. Ironically the first vote held with this was struck down, because the law had no provision for electronic voting (Laws which were subsequently changed). Read more about Indian EVM's http://www.eci.gov.in/faq/evm.asp
I think you should read a book called "Gangs of America". http://books.google.com/books?id=WHD402m6ZVwC
oh! an ad hominem attack. that's original. I suppose on slashdot you can't expect any better. I suppose u think Slashdot a site to show your language prowess eh.
Well anyway, i was referring to the 130 million page impressions a month that my company is giving to Adsense...
Now go and curl up in a corner... Joker
Orkut, going strong. yes. Making money? no way.
If I as a publisher am not making money runing Adsense. Noway is google making money on orkut.
General purpose social networks, the way they are structured currently will *never* make money over an extended period of time.
Sure there is hype now, ever joker of marketing manager wants to do something on *social media*, widgets and dump traditional marketing. Ironic. Coz three years ago when I was trying to sell them internet, they'd laugh in my face. But, wait till long term impact of shortsighted advertising decisions starts to get measured. they'll drop all this and go back to nuts and bolts marketing. And then... we will talk.
I was wondering when India will come into this conversation. I think they still teach COBOL in some schools here in India... and Americans wonder, why jobs are moving to Indians. No fancy shmancy Ruby on Rails here... Hah! BTW, It isn't only California. UPS has a gigantic COBOL codebase and pretty much any corporation that automated in the wrong side of the 90's. And... no COBOL programmers.
In India we have something called NEFT (http://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=60). you can send money to any bank on the RBI grid (currently in 15 odd cities) account using the banks internet portal. Though u do need to know the receiver's bank account and branch. This transfer is free to both the sender and reciever. (tho there is a daily cap on the amount of money u can transfer)
Our thuggish ISP here in India by the name of Airtel does the same. Who's to catch them out? Nowhere to complain to. What's more, they do it only for Home customers and not corporate customers. They think they are mighty clever at that.
Because the Price of advertising goes up. The margins Google keeps goes up. on the other end, the Publisher keeps getting screwed This is how it is a bad thing. Grow up.
A multiple choice test, increases(reduces) probability of getting a hit to 25% (or 100/no. of options)