There are several reasons, many of which you have stated.
One more reason I have observed is that people get used to a particular platform. More often than not, a commercial vendor enters a market first, or even creates the market. So people start using that vendor's products and then it becomes difficult for them to switch and learn something new. Many are satisfied if something just simply works, and they don't want change. In this SIP case, they probably purchase the hardware and software as a bundle.
This same thing can be said of peoples' reluctance to stop using Windows. Sure, some games don't run on Linux and there are some other drawbacks, but otherwise Linux can serve pretty well in the personal desktop area. ["OpenOffice doesn't open my Word document" is not really a great excuse as the Word document format is not an open standard, but Linux distributions do implement open standards well from basic internet protocols right till MPEG audio/video.] People start on Windows. So that's where things need to be changed.. in schools and universities, and at places where people get their first computer.
For years the rich and powerful in India prevented outside influence. This slowed India's development.
Forget the rich and powerful: Indians have an unforgettable lesson in history. Besides, self-reliance is not a bad thing, or a self-defeating thing. Indians are very patriotic and proud of their country, and its accomplishments.
I'd rather you manually grade it and provide valuable remarks to your students about their programs.
If universities were all about automated stuff, students can very well learn from course textbooks such as those prescribed by ocw.mit.edu by themselves. They go to university so that they can interact with their professors, get their amateur evaluated properly to shape their future work, and collaborate with their classmates.
It certainly isn't as easy as it looks but it's certainly cheaper (and hence easier in this case) than it costs. The Nazis under Hitler were producing V2 rockets at the rate of about 800/month which cost orders of magnitude lower [about $13,000 / rocket after the first 5000 according to the article linked below] than current rockets back in the 1940s and which could reach low Earth orbit. Modern rockets are definitely better equipped, but still the costs for unmanned rocketry can be brought down a LOT if more launches were made and the error margin was allowed to be lowered a bit.
(Granted, this commentry is about launchers that put payload in low Earth orbits, and the Indian rocket was likely one which put payload in a GTO. The point still is valid.)
Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed, merely by making that code part of a WGA update.
Excuse me? You already use Windows, right? Where do you think that comes from?
I'm surprised the parent post got marked insightful.
It's not the Indian programmers' fault that US programmers' jobs get outsourced to them. So it's not exactly medicine they're delivering. US jobs get moved to India because US capitalists want to increase their profits by getting the same job done for less money in India.
You're wrong in saying that it needs a base CentOS distribution and then installs on top of it. Openfiler is a standalone installable distribution. Please read about Openfiler's features and please decide for yourself how FreeNAS compares to it. I'm not saying FreeNAS doesn't have a market (the home market).. however you should be careful comparing cars and buses.
Naslite sucks compared to Openfiler. This is why Naslite tries to siphon off Openfiler search traffic by placing ads on google on searches related to Openfiler. Too bad that users who search for what they want know better.
Naslite is a closed product and is by far inferior to Openfiler's features.
You talk lines quite easily.. if you were Indian or know our history, you wouldn't generalise.
It's hard to trust "western powers" after 200 years of colonial rule. Colonial rule started cause we (Indians) trusted the British in business in the first place.
About health and literacy programmes, yes it's unfortunate that our level of literacy is low. But it doesn't mean there isn't enthusiasm to help. Factors such as corruption have hurt this.. but we still have goals to make everyone literate. It is in fact a basic right of every child in India to be entitled free and compulsary education. But in a highly populated country like India, it's easier said than done.
But all things must move, and just cause we want health and literacy, it doesn't mean that we just ignore other development. There's greater room for development.. due to the amount of population (which also means high competition) and the _quality of education available to the middle classes_, India has a large number of intelligent people. Scientific research and development, and engineering would usher in development of infrastructure.. these are related.
Again, all this is easier said than done.. but instead of pooh-poohing our approach, you should be glad we are doing something about it. India is not very far off from the likes of the U.S. We value freedom too.. we are a democracy. Our markets are just as capitalist.
There are incidents you'd prolly hear about, about communal violence, etc. But do you hear about the number of Indians of different religions, cultures, etc. living in perfect harmony (read the vast majority of the Indian public)? It's quite a feat to pull off. It's no simple task to administer a country of this size.
Progress can only be slow and steady. It's certainly not flat as you can see.
You know.. I once saw this Ali G show with an arrogant man who refused to speak to Ali G cause his grammar was "incorrect", and you remind me of him because you are just as arrogant.
Do you know how new words in English turn up? Ever ponder why we don't speak English like in the 17th century? Yeah think about it. Standards are a great thing. Thankfully, English don't have none.
And they're worried about terrorists using modern cryptographic alogrithms...;)
But seriously, though these guys were bad, I'm surprised how much the old world still hangs on to what they believe is "tried and tested" stuff which is outdated and vulnerable. If these guys had any PGP/GPG user, he'd have laughed at caesar subsitution (and showed a copy of bsdgames). Some people in parts of the world use strong harmful "natural" medicine (with little effect but other harmful side effects --- note: many natural medicines are not bad), or useless medicines (quackery) are used in the belief that it'll work.
JNode is one example of an entire OS which is written in pure Java but for a nano-kernel written in assembly (similar to the assembly code in Linux kernels which is required for setting up the processor before switching to C code and also for some basic libraries such as for outputting to ports). JNode includes a TCP/IP stack and device drivers.
Eclipse's Java compiler and Sun's J2SE compiler already are written in Java.
So it's not impossible. It's even better in many ways to write compilers or large device drivers such as SCSI subsystems and IP based protocols in Java, especially where there's complexity and large amounts of code which can be helped by object orientation.
C certainly has its uses where you want a high level system programming language for small to medium sized projects. But it is certainly over-used in many applications.
I owned a C3030Z and it worked great for me with Gphoto2. Keep trying until it works. I have used both USB and RS-232 to connect to it and both methods have worked. One of my colleagues took it and never returned it, hence the "owned" bit.
Point #1: I didn't say reviews aren't useful. The point in my comment was that subject to some criteria, all submitted papers should be available for people to decide for themselves whether the information in them suits oneself or not. This is the base functionality of Arxiv.org. Reviews, however opiniated they may be, are useful and people trust certain persons more than others to provide them with opinions they agree with. So a layer of reader reviews / moderation / sorting by popularity / or even an Amazon style "People who read this also read that..." system can replace executive review committees. Publications complain that reviewers need to be paid and hence they can't do a free-for-all distribution of journals. Hence the suggestion for something different.
Point #2: Access to knowledge should be free. Especially in this day and age, where it doesn't cost much to publish through media on the internet.
Your post is quite arrogant. I am a computer scientist and I work at a company in UK. My company does not have any library facilities, and I do need access to CS papers. I am also studying biochemistry on the side-lines by myself. I have private individual membership to ACM and IEEE computer society which costs me over $200 a year. I find it quite difficult to pay this, but I do because I need access. Imagine people in my situation in developing countries.
Plos.org are doing a good job. I believe that access to knowledge should be free. I like arxiv.org a lot for this. Reviews, done by however skilled staff, are filters of opinion. There are many good quality papers which do not get accepted to popular journals because their review team didn't like it. That doesn't mean everyone else won't like them. A good system is to have a system where people can vote on papers and let the good papers float up on their own merit. And what's more important is to still make available the papers which didn't make it to the top. Arxiv + a voting system is just fine for this.
For those who must publish in the paid journals, many encourage them to share their papers on their personal websites.
He's going to provide support for 50 million computers at 10 cents each? Would be quite tough.
If there is no support involved, I'd like to provide South Korea with Linux for 50 million computers in the form of either CentOS, Fedora or Ubuntu for free and free with "community support".
t0rbad> so there i was in this hallway right BlackAdder> i believe i speak for all of us when i say... BlackAdder> WRONG BTICH BlackAdder> IM SICK OF YOU BlackAdder> AND YOUR LAME STORIES BlackAdder> NOBODY HERE THINKS YOURE FUNNY BlackAdder> NOBODY HERE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR STORIES BlackAdder> IN FACT BlackAdder> IF YOU DIED RIGHT NOW BlackAdder> I DON"T THINK NOBODY WOULD CARE BlackAdder> SO WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT FAG *** t0rbad sets mode: +b BlackAdder*!*@*.* *** BlackAdder has been kicked my t0rbad ( ) t0rbad> so there i was in this hallway right CRCError> right heartless> Right. r3v> right
The iTunes interface seems to be almost a ditto copy of their interface, and they have alleged that persons who were at the time employed by or later became employed by Apple were present at both trade shows and viewed Contois' software.
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There are several reasons, many of which you have stated.
One more reason I have observed is that people get used to a particular platform. More often than not, a commercial vendor enters a market first, or even creates the market. So people start using that vendor's products and then it becomes difficult for them to switch and learn something new. Many are satisfied if something just simply works, and they don't want change. In this SIP case, they probably purchase the hardware and software as a bundle.
This same thing can be said of peoples' reluctance to stop using Windows. Sure, some games don't run on Linux and there are some other drawbacks, but otherwise Linux can serve pretty well in the personal desktop area. ["OpenOffice doesn't open my Word document" is not really a great excuse as the Word document format is not an open standard, but Linux distributions do implement open standards well from basic internet protocols right till MPEG audio/video.] People start on Windows. So that's where things need to be changed.. in schools and universities, and at places where people get their first computer.
For years the rich and powerful in India prevented outside influence. This slowed India's development.
Forget the rich and powerful: Indians have an unforgettable lesson in history. Besides, self-reliance is not a bad thing, or a self-defeating thing. Indians are very patriotic and proud of their country, and its accomplishments.
I'd rather you manually grade it and provide valuable remarks to your students about their programs.
If universities were all about automated stuff, students can very well learn from course textbooks such as those prescribed by ocw.mit.edu by themselves. They go to university so that they can interact with their professors, get their amateur evaluated properly to shape their future work, and collaborate with their classmates.
It certainly isn't as easy as it looks but it's certainly cheaper (and hence easier in this case) than it costs. The Nazis under Hitler were producing V2 rockets at the rate of about 800/month which cost orders of magnitude lower [about $13,000 / rocket after the first 5000 according to the article linked below] than current rockets back in the 1940s and which could reach low Earth orbit. Modern rockets are definitely better equipped, but still the costs for unmanned rocketry can be brought down a LOT if more launches were made and the error margin was allowed to be lowered a bit.
(Granted, this commentry is about launchers that put payload in low Earth orbits, and the Indian rocket was likely one which put payload in a GTO. The point still is valid.)
John Walker has a good article about this.
Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed, merely by making that code part of a WGA update.
Excuse me? You already use Windows, right? Where do you think that comes from?
I'm surprised the parent post got marked insightful.
It's not the Indian programmers' fault that US programmers' jobs get outsourced to them. So it's not exactly medicine they're delivering. US jobs get moved to India because US capitalists want to increase their profits by getting the same job done for less money in India.
You're wrong in saying that it needs a base CentOS distribution and then installs on top of it. Openfiler is a standalone installable distribution. Please read about Openfiler's features and please decide for yourself how FreeNAS compares to it. I'm not saying FreeNAS doesn't have a market (the home market).. however you should be careful comparing cars and buses.
Naslite sucks compared to Openfiler. This is why Naslite tries to siphon off Openfiler search traffic by placing ads on google on searches related to Openfiler. Too bad that users who search for what they want know better. Naslite is a closed product and is by far inferior to Openfiler's features.
Civil disobedience has long been a part of attempts to attain freedom and protect freedom.
You talk lines quite easily.. if you were Indian or know our history, you wouldn't generalise.
It's hard to trust "western powers" after 200 years of colonial rule. Colonial rule started cause we (Indians) trusted the British in business in the first place.
About health and literacy programmes, yes it's unfortunate that our level of literacy is low. But it doesn't mean there isn't enthusiasm to help. Factors such as corruption have hurt this.. but we still have goals to make everyone literate. It is in fact a basic right of every child in India to be entitled free and compulsary education. But in a highly populated country like India, it's easier said than done.
But all things must move, and just cause we want health and literacy, it doesn't mean that we just ignore other development. There's greater room for development.. due to the amount of population (which also means high competition) and the _quality of education available to the middle classes_, India has a large number of intelligent people. Scientific research and development, and engineering would usher in development of infrastructure.. these are related.
Again, all this is easier said than done.. but instead of pooh-poohing our approach, you should be glad we are doing something about it. India is not very far off from the likes of the U.S. We value freedom too.. we are a democracy. Our markets are just as capitalist.
There are incidents you'd prolly hear about, about communal violence, etc. But do you hear about the number of Indians of different religions, cultures, etc. living in perfect harmony (read the vast majority of the Indian public)? It's quite a feat to pull off. It's no simple task to administer a country of this size.
Progress can only be slow and steady. It's certainly not flat as you can see.
You know.. I once saw this Ali G show with an arrogant man who refused to speak to Ali G cause his grammar was "incorrect", and you remind me of him because you are just as arrogant.
Do you know how new words in English turn up? Ever ponder why we don't speak English like in the 17th century? Yeah think about it. Standards are a great thing. Thankfully, English don't have none.
Doesn't the cluster engine in 5.0 have the capacity to write the transaction log to a file on disk?
And they're worried about terrorists using modern cryptographic alogrithms... ;)
But seriously, though these guys were bad, I'm surprised how much the old world still hangs on to what they believe is "tried and tested" stuff which is outdated and vulnerable. If these guys had any PGP/GPG user, he'd have laughed at caesar subsitution (and showed a copy of bsdgames). Some people in parts of the world use strong harmful "natural" medicine (with little effect but other harmful side effects --- note: many natural medicines are not bad), or useless medicines (quackery) are used in the belief that it'll work.
JNode is one example of an entire OS which is written in pure Java but for a nano-kernel written in assembly (similar to the assembly code in Linux kernels which is required for setting up the processor before switching to C code and also for some basic libraries such as for outputting to ports). JNode includes a TCP/IP stack and device drivers.
Eclipse's Java compiler and Sun's J2SE compiler already are written in Java.
So it's not impossible. It's even better in many ways to write compilers or large device drivers such as SCSI subsystems and IP based protocols in Java, especially where there's complexity and large amounts of code which can be helped by object orientation.
C certainly has its uses where you want a high level system programming language for small to medium sized projects. But it is certainly over-used in many applications.
I owned a C3030Z and it worked great for me with Gphoto2. Keep trying until it works. I have used both USB and RS-232 to connect to it and both methods have worked. One of my colleagues took it and never returned it, hence the "owned" bit.
LANG=C gphoto2 --port "usb:" --camera "Olympus C-3030Z" --folder "/DCIM/100OLYMP" --get-all-files
Perhaps GNU Radio is of a worthy mention here.
You've got a lady friend and you have been called to help on conducting a deep and objective human interface study on the desktop?
Go for it!
(If you're wondering about the subject of this comment, the nipple is one of the most intuitive human interfaces btw).
I for one welcome our new stupid overlords...
Hi there
Point #1: I didn't say reviews aren't useful. The point in my comment was that subject to some criteria, all submitted papers should be available for people to decide for themselves whether the information in them suits oneself or not. This is the base functionality of Arxiv.org. Reviews, however opiniated they may be, are useful and people trust certain persons more than others to provide them with opinions they agree with. So a layer of reader reviews / moderation / sorting by popularity / or even an Amazon style "People who read this also read that..." system can replace executive review committees. Publications complain that reviewers need to be paid and hence they can't do a free-for-all distribution of journals. Hence the suggestion for something different.
Point #2: Access to knowledge should be free. Especially in this day and age, where it doesn't cost much to publish through media on the internet.
Your post is quite arrogant. I am a computer scientist and I work at a company in UK. My company does not have any library facilities, and I do need access to CS papers. I am also studying biochemistry on the side-lines by myself. I have private individual membership to ACM and IEEE computer society which costs me over $200 a year. I find it quite difficult to pay this, but I do because I need access. Imagine people in my situation in developing countries.
Plos.org are doing a good job. I believe that access to knowledge should be free. I like arxiv.org a lot for this. Reviews, done by however skilled staff, are filters of opinion. There are many good quality papers which do not get accepted to popular journals because their review team didn't like it. That doesn't mean everyone else won't like them. A good system is to have a system where people can vote on papers and let the good papers float up on their own merit. And what's more important is to still make available the papers which didn't make it to the top. Arxiv + a voting system is just fine for this.
For those who must publish in the paid journals, many encourage them to share their papers on their personal websites.
He's going to provide support for 50 million computers at 10 cents each? Would be quite tough.
If there is no support involved, I'd like to provide South Korea with Linux for 50 million computers in the form of either CentOS, Fedora or Ubuntu for free and free with "community support".
What's the deal?
How is your company responding to the current situation?
They're making me stay at the company itself.
The title of the story "20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space" is misleading as it takes $200,000 to buy a seat. The $20k is just a deposit.
From bash.org
t0rbad> so there i was in this hallway right
BlackAdder> i believe i speak for all of us when i say...
BlackAdder> WRONG BTICH
BlackAdder> IM SICK OF YOU
BlackAdder> AND YOUR LAME STORIES
BlackAdder> NOBODY HERE THINKS YOURE FUNNY
BlackAdder> NOBODY HERE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR STORIES
BlackAdder> IN FACT
BlackAdder> IF YOU DIED RIGHT NOW
BlackAdder> I DON"T THINK NOBODY WOULD CARE
BlackAdder> SO WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT FAG
*** t0rbad sets mode: +b BlackAdder*!*@*.*
*** BlackAdder has been kicked my t0rbad ( )
t0rbad> so there i was in this hallway right
CRCError> right
heartless> Right.
r3v> right
The iTunes interface seems to be almost a ditto copy of their interface, and they have alleged that persons who were at the time employed by or later became employed by Apple were present at both trade shows and viewed Contois' software.