Your premise is that the Blackberry revenue stream depends on prosumers who want to reach their corporate Exchange 2k3 servers. Thats only ~ 1/9th of the picture.
I have observed that most textbooks can be bought from here. Drawback is that the Indian Editions are paperback, the print quality is also a lot poorer. Advantage is, the books are usually a tenth of what they cost in the states.
I have been using Indian Editions all my student life, so the relatively poor quality does not pertrube me much.
India has border disputes with just about every neighbor. Indian political leaders are under a lot of pressure to not settle any of these disputes. Instead they have to fan these flames to win votes.
On what basis can you make such sweeping generalizations? Are you aware that Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Tibet all share borders with India (apart from Pakistan and China)?
I would like to especially point out (from the article):
In the interest of sovereignity and integrity: This ground was inserted as a ground by the 16th amendment to the Constitution in the year 1963, to enable India to combat cries for secession from organizations and their activities which could not be restricted otherwise.
This is going to happen, sooner of later, in any nation which doesn't have some analogue of the First Amendment.
Freedom of Speech and Expression is already built into the Constitution of India. I forgive you for so thoughtlessly assuming that it should'nt.
However, as history has shown, every goverment in one way or the other, has exploited its qualitative nature to restrict those freedoms. The United States is no exception.
If you're American, I've got nothing against you. But if you think you should be able to just waltz in and have a job or study at one of our universities, think again.
I am surprised at the statement above! I strongly disagree with your view on studying at one of 'your' Universities. Before you start tearing away at the system, I think you should be aware that:
1. US Universities allowing students from abroad (or India) into their fold, actually works and is justified! Think Dr. Kalpana Chawla who was on the shuttle Columbia on its last mission. She has a distinguished service record with NASA. She happens to be a graduate of the Punjab Engg. College, India. She was later awarded her Master's and Doctorate by US Universities.
2. Without foreign students, classes in some of America's largest universities would be quite empty. These students pay their tuition and if they do have their tuition waived, they put in an equivalent amount of effort into the development of labs and research projects. No one 'waltzes' into anyplace!
I thought value for hard work and innovation was part of the foundation the American society. I might agree that the job market is twisted, but I definitely cannot agree with paranoia and generalizations.
The article does do a good job at pointing out possible improvements. For example the article mentions how biased the search can get towards particular trends on the web.
To workaround this, the folks who have worked in the field of Information Retrieval offer query refinement. An example of this can be seen at work with Teoma. Teoma offers to automatically refine your search query into narrower concepts it thinks are relevant to the original search. Type in "Jaguar" and it will return results as well as a box that suggests you could search for the car or the animal by modifying the query further.
Overall, I feel the article walks a thin line by associating Google with the flaws. On the other hand for the folks at Google, it has been 5 years now. Maybe the improvements are not coming along as I expected. In any case, their index rules. As far as the web is concerned, in my opinion they are the Oracle...
I just have not been able to bring my question in a clearer light.
As you pointed out, assume that there is SCO code in the Kernel. While you have described clearly how for the end user (corporate or otherwise) it's smarter to simply stick with foregoing the SCO code, I am more interested in the legal implications of having used that kernel in the first place. In other words, what is the strength of SCO's claim that everyone who has used Linux (2.4), is a software pirate and can be sued or turned into a potential licensee.
For one, the user had no idea that this was the case and therefore in all fairness should have another alternative.
Can the end user then avoid litigation by simply foregoing the SCO code? As far as I know, SCO have been mum about this, but they have mentioned somewhere to the effect that if someone were to go and try to remove tainted portions, you would get kernel 2.2. I think the statment refers to the fact that the code in question is now integrated with the kernel and eliminating it will be difficult. They do not mean it to be an alternative to litigation or buying a license.
In any case the point is moot from the smaller perspective, or this particular case (I agree with your last 2 paragraphs). I was just curious about the 'rules of engagement' itself.
Yes, but in the extraordinarilly unlikely event that there is SCO code in Linux, users are NOT permitted to violate the GPL OR SCO's license. The two are incompatible, so the user in question must chose to adhere to one or the other (guess which one wins? Yup, the GPL, as SCO's contribution, if any, won't a working kernel make).
Out of curiosity, So how can we be sure about this? I would like to know more. Are you predicting a legal path given that the extraordinary circumstances are true? Do you have an example of a case settled in this manner?
Rohcester Institute of Technology has a online submission system that checks for 1. Minimum assignment requirements met 2. Plagiarism 3. Submission/Deadline requirements
Hope you can get that setup:) They work great here at RIT. You won't believe how effective the plagiarism avoidance solution is.
I work offshore for a small ( 20 developers) US based company from India. I have been with them for almost 2 years now. That is also how much experience I have in the Industry itself. I won't make the mistake of saying that I am just as good as the developers in US. But thats primarily because every member on their team has a lot more experience in the Industry than I do.
Initially, yes the 9 am Conference Calls sucked, and it was a lengthy process trying to understand their requirements. But it all paid off eventually. Over the last two years, there has been plenty of work coming my way. With the ball rolling I always manage to keep pace and work to maintain standards. Besides, communication over Messenger and Email reduced the gap tremendously.
Once your keeping pace, working proactively becomes the next barrier which I surpassed in time. My work has always been assessed thouroughly and credit given where due.
The real meat in working 12 hours away was evident before a recent release where it was assured that after the Dev's in the US stopped working on a possible show-stopper for the day, I took up the responsibility of ensuring it was fixed during my work day.
Apart from the differences in the pay scales, I am sure you can see the inherent advantages. With my experience in the current team, my employers hardly require any management bandwidth to ensure I am productive.
Last year, the company had to layoff a sizeable portion of the development team. They retained the cream however to sustain their product line and to explore more lucrative avenues. In a show of confidance in my abilities they did retain me. Now having weathered the worst, I feel proud I stuck with them. What better recognition could one ask for ?
I guess the key to making this work is to ride the initial curve effectively, achieve tight integration and to not let the fact that your team is offshore turn into a justification for poor results.
A lot of the posts have been negative and it surprises me. Nevertheless, my post is not a defense for offshore development, I am just putting my experiences to paper.
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Your premise is that the Blackberry revenue stream depends on prosumers who want to reach their corporate Exchange 2k3 servers. Thats only ~ 1/9th of the picture.
- Santosh
almost never asks for a "reply" but presses me into dialing a 1-800#.
I have observed that most textbooks can be bought from here. Drawback is that the Indian Editions are paperback, the print quality is also a lot poorer. Advantage is, the books are usually a tenth of what they cost in the states.
I have been using Indian Editions all my student life, so the relatively poor quality does not pertrube me much.
India has border disputes with just about every
neighbor. Indian political leaders are under a lot
of pressure to not settle any of these disputes.
Instead they have to fan these flames to win votes.
On what basis can you make such sweeping generalizations? Are you aware that Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Tibet all share borders with India (apart from Pakistan and China)?
- Santosh
Freedom of Speech and Expression is already built into the Constitution of India. I forgive you for so thoughtlessly assuming that it should'nt.
And here is the mandatory link:
Freedom of Speech and Expression
I would like to especially point out (from the article):
In the interest of sovereignity and integrity: This ground was inserted as a ground by the 16th amendment to the Constitution in the year 1963, to enable India to combat cries for secession from organizations and their activities which could not be restricted otherwise.
This was not part of the original constitution!
This is going to happen, sooner of later, in any nation which doesn't have some analogue of the First Amendment.
Freedom of Speech and Expression is already built into the Constitution of India. I forgive you for so thoughtlessly assuming that it should'nt.
However, as history has shown, every goverment in one way or the other, has exploited its qualitative nature to restrict those freedoms. The United States is no exception.
Eventually even the Pope will owe money to SCO, they'll prove it somehow! Maybe they'll say the Bible is a branch of the Unix!!
- Santosh
If you're American, I've got nothing against you. But if you think you should be able to just waltz in and have a job or study at one of our universities, think again.
I am surprised at the statement above! I strongly disagree with your view on studying at one of 'your' Universities. Before you start tearing away at the system, I think you should be aware that:
1. US Universities allowing students from abroad (or India) into their fold, actually works and is justified! Think Dr. Kalpana Chawla who was on the shuttle Columbia on its last mission. She has a distinguished service record with NASA. She happens to be a graduate of the Punjab Engg. College, India. She was later awarded her Master's and Doctorate by US Universities.
2. Without foreign students, classes in some of America's largest universities would be quite empty. These students pay their tuition and if they do have their tuition waived, they put in an equivalent amount of effort into the development of labs and research projects. No one 'waltzes' into anyplace!
I thought value for hard work and innovation was part of the foundation the American society. I might agree that the job market is twisted, but I definitely cannot agree with paranoia and generalizations.
- Santosh
The article does do a good job at pointing out possible improvements. For example the article mentions how biased the search can get towards particular trends on the web.
To workaround this, the folks who have worked in the field of Information Retrieval offer query refinement. An example of this can be seen at work with Teoma. Teoma offers to automatically refine your search query into narrower concepts it thinks are relevant to the original search. Type in "Jaguar" and it will return results as well as a box that suggests you could search for the car or the animal by modifying the query further.
Overall, I feel the article walks a thin line by associating Google with the flaws. On the other hand for the folks at Google, it has been 5 years now. Maybe the improvements are not coming along as I expected. In any case, their index rules. As far as the web is concerned, in my opinion they are the Oracle...
Thank you for your reply,
I think you misunderstand.
I just have not been able to bring my question in a clearer light.
As you pointed out, assume that there is SCO code in the Kernel. While you have described clearly how for the end user (corporate or otherwise) it's smarter to simply stick with foregoing the SCO code, I am more interested in the legal implications of having used that kernel in the first place. In other words, what is the strength of SCO's claim that everyone who has used Linux (2.4), is a software pirate and can be sued or turned into a potential licensee.
For one, the user had no idea that this was the case and therefore in all fairness should have another alternative.
Can the end user then avoid litigation by simply foregoing the SCO code? As far as I know, SCO have been mum about this, but they have mentioned somewhere to the effect that if someone were to go and try to remove tainted portions, you would get kernel 2.2. I think the statment refers to the fact that the code in question is now integrated with the kernel and eliminating it will be difficult. They do not mean it to be an alternative to litigation or buying a license.
In any case the point is moot from the smaller perspective, or this particular case (I agree with your last 2 paragraphs). I was just curious about the 'rules of engagement' itself.
Yes, but in the extraordinarilly unlikely event that there is SCO code in Linux, users are NOT permitted to violate the GPL OR SCO's license. The two are incompatible, so the user in question must chose to adhere to one or the other (guess which one wins? Yup, the GPL, as SCO's contribution, if any, won't a working kernel make).
Out of curiosity,
So how can we be sure about this? I would like to know more. Are you predicting a legal path given that the extraordinary circumstances are true? Do you have an example of a case settled in this manner?
Rohcester Institute of Technology has a online submission system that checks for
:) They work great here at RIT. You won't believe how effective the plagiarism avoidance solution is.
1. Minimum assignment requirements met
2. Plagiarism
3. Submission/Deadline requirements
Hope you can get that setup
- Santosh
I think your answer lies here:
http://www.teamon.com/
- Santosh
I work offshore for a small ( 20 developers) US based company from India. I have been with them for almost 2 years now. That is also how much experience I have in the Industry itself. I won't make the mistake of saying that I am just as good as the developers in US. But thats primarily because every member on their team has a lot more experience in the Industry than I do.
Initially, yes the 9 am Conference Calls sucked, and it was a lengthy process trying to understand their requirements. But it all paid off eventually. Over the last two years, there has been plenty of work coming my way. With the ball rolling I always manage to keep pace and work to maintain standards. Besides, communication over Messenger and Email reduced the gap tremendously.
Once your keeping pace, working proactively becomes the next barrier which I surpassed in time. My work has always been assessed thouroughly and credit given where due.
The real meat in working 12 hours away was evident before a recent release where it was assured that after the Dev's in the US stopped working on a possible show-stopper for the day, I took up the responsibility of ensuring it was fixed during my work day.
Apart from the differences in the pay scales, I am sure you can see the inherent advantages. With my experience in the current team, my employers hardly require any management bandwidth to ensure I am productive.
Last year, the company had to layoff a sizeable portion of the development team. They retained the cream however to sustain their product line and to explore more lucrative avenues. In a show of confidance in my abilities they did retain me. Now having weathered the worst, I feel proud I stuck with them. What better recognition could one ask for ?
I guess the key to making this work is to ride the initial curve effectively, achieve tight integration and to not let the fact that your team is offshore turn into a justification for poor results.
A lot of the posts have been negative and it surprises me. Nevertheless, my post is not a defense for offshore development, I am just putting my experiences to paper.
- Santosh