Good sentiments, but why stop there? Some people go beyond and call themselves 'world citizens', others call themselves just 'humans', others still just 'animals' and some claim to be just part of the universe.
I guess different people have different levels of self-definition.
Actual advantages of Android phones: Google Voice integration Free navigation (no need to carry a separate gps device) Porn (via apps)
Sufficient to beat the higher polish on the iphone? Many people think so. Funnily enough, all these advantages would not exist if Apple had an open app store policy.
I was making a comparison, not holding up America as a gold standard on relationships or something. Also, the "West" usually includes much of Europe as well.
You're just showing you/your friends' shortsightedness/arrogance. Just being in the West does not automatically mean you lose all family and relationships. In fact, one could say the West enjoys usually a much more mature and nuanced set of relationships than India which is still struggling to come to terms with even basic sexuality. All that in addition to freedom and independence _from_ society if you want it, makes the West quite attractive to certain types of people. This has a direct correlation with creativity, the sort that can build an iPod or a Google search engine. You/your friends just see that top of the societal iceberg and proclaim its shallowness not realizing the history and the grandeur of ideas underlying it, stretching back to the Romans and Greeks.
IMO, the youth in India is being misled by the cry of development of infrastructure/technology thinking that's what will make them great, that merely adopting the outward look-n-feel of the West (better roads/taller buildings/more cars) is sufficient while ignoring wholesale the foundations that enabled the West to build those things and then improve on them. I think India can have modern facilities sure enough but it will not have modern people. The West for all its faults will still bear the burden of giving this world a direction.
Now, do you REALLY want us to spend a serious fraction of our time and money preparing and making available the raw data..
Nope. We expect you folks to spend some time thinking up a way so that you don't spend any time at all on "preparing" the supposedly "raw" data _and_ still make it available to the desirous public. Like you know putting up a file on a website with some footnotes. I hear universities have some websites.
Huh? Why include the data provider as an "author"? Just because that's the way it's been done so far doesn't mean it can't change to something more appropriate. Maybe like a data citation.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather focus on keeping a language relevant to the kinds of problems people are trying to solve, not trying to maintain some level of trendiness like the latest cool band.
Ah, ok then its just listing out servers. I'd not seen anything like it before, so thought it might have something to do with the outage today especially given the update date.
Noticed it earlier today. The Twitter-verse of course was immediately complaining about it. As usual I checked the ping, whois, traceroute stuff and it's interesting to say the least: $ whois youtube.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/ for detailed information.
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:59:16 UTC
GULLI.com seems to be somewhere in Germany as per its geo ip.
The stuff above is still what I get back from whois.internic.net.
Wow, just checked for whois google.com and it's coming back worse:
So people paying yearly fines until they get sick is in effect the public option!
Would have been so much better to have actually spelled it out as such.
India with corruption so deep-set and intractable that even buying a TV usually involves multiple pay-offs?
This used to be true in the 80s when there were massive import duties. But it's not true any longer atleast for tv sets (I just bought one here).
There still seems to be a lot of corruption, especially in real estate, where money under the table (in order to avoid tax) is usually included in price calculations and usually benefits buyer and seller and is to the detriment of only the govt purse. I'm not relishing the prospect of purchasing a house here and am wondering if i can actually stand up to the pressure and how much it will cost me.
Absolutely the same story in India. Sometimes I wonder if _any_ place outside of the US really gets it. Anecdotally, even Europe seems similarly third world-ish.
This is also the reason I think predictions of the US being eclipsed anytime this century are hogwash.
The H1B situation is mostly orthogonal to the silicon valley startup situation. Almost no startup will take the time or the effort to put people through the immigration process. So H1B's mostly only work for well established and safe companies at-least till they get a Green card (which nowadays takes more than a decade for Indians). They are competition only for Americans also wanting to work in well established and safe companies.
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Good sentiments, but why stop there? Some people go beyond and call themselves 'world citizens', others call themselves just 'humans', others still just 'animals' and some claim to be just part of the universe.
I guess different people have different levels of self-definition.
Most Indians also use the word 'cum' regularly. As in 'Actor-cum-Producer' for someone who's both an actor and a producer. Very jarring.
Actual advantages of Android phones:
Google Voice integration
Free navigation (no need to carry a separate gps device)
Porn (via apps)
Sufficient to beat the higher polish on the iphone? Many people think so. Funnily enough, all these advantages would not exist if Apple had an open app store policy.
They carefully learn all of the science, which can take 5 years of graduate school, 2 years of post-doctoral work and 5 years as a professor.
But you are still expected to produce papers all of those years or you don't get to progress from stage to the next at all! I wonder how that works.
So, you're saying Apple is suddenly afraid of taking on puritans (of all people)?? That's not the counter-culture Apple I grew up admiring.
Lets face it, Apple is getting Disneyfied/Pixar'ed. You may make oodles of money, but it's just not the real world.
I was making a comparison, not holding up America as a gold standard on relationships or something. Also, the "West" usually includes much of Europe as well.
You're just showing you/your friends' shortsightedness/arrogance. Just being in the West does not automatically mean you lose all family and relationships. In fact, one could say the West enjoys usually a much more mature and nuanced set of relationships than India which is still struggling to come to terms with even basic sexuality. All that in addition to freedom and independence _from_ society if you want it, makes the West quite attractive to certain types of people. This has a direct correlation with creativity, the sort that can build an iPod or a Google search engine. You/your friends just see that top of the societal iceberg and proclaim its shallowness not realizing the history and the grandeur of ideas underlying it, stretching back to the Romans and Greeks.
IMO, the youth in India is being misled by the cry of development of infrastructure/technology thinking that's what will make them great, that merely adopting the outward look-n-feel of the West (better roads/taller buildings/more cars) is sufficient while ignoring wholesale the foundations that enabled the West to build those things and then improve on them. I think India can have modern facilities sure enough but it will not have modern people. The West for all its faults will still bear the burden of giving this world a direction.
Kudos to you sir. "Release the data when you publish the paper" needs to beaten into the heads of some of these scientists.
Now, do you REALLY want us to spend a serious fraction of our time and money preparing and making available the raw data..
Nope. We expect you folks to spend some time thinking up a way so that you don't spend any time at all on "preparing" the supposedly "raw" data _and_ still make it available to the desirous public. Like you know putting up a file on a website with some footnotes. I hear universities have some websites.
I guess you're in favor of DRM and 20-year patents and 80-year copyrights as well? Because having access in those cases is also just as "pointless"?
Huh? Why include the data provider as an "author"? Just because that's the way it's been done so far doesn't mean it can't change to something more appropriate. Maybe like a data citation.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather focus on keeping a language relevant to the kinds of problems people are trying to solve, not trying to maintain some level of trendiness like the latest cool band.
On the other hand, trends are relevant too.
Ah, ok then its just listing out servers. I'd not seen anything like it before, so thought it might have something to do with the outage today especially given the update date.
Noticed it earlier today. The Twitter-verse of course was immediately complaining about it. As usual I checked the ping, whois, traceroute stuff and it's interesting to say the least:
$ whois youtube.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.LOVES.HILPERS.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
YOUTUBE.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:59:16 UTC
GULLI.com seems to be somewhere in Germany as per its geo ip.
The stuff above is still what I get back from whois.internic.net.
Wow, just checked for whois google.com and it's coming back worse:
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.UY
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
GOOGLE.COM.SANATATEA-NOASTRA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.PROGRAMASVIP.COM
GOOGLE.COM.MX
GOOGLE.COM.IS.SHIT.SQUAREBOARDS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.DO
GOOGLE.COM.CO
GOOGLE.COM.CN
GOOGLE.COM.CHIQUITASEXY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.BR
GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM.AR
GOOGLE.COM
Anybody else seeing this?
So people paying yearly fines until they get sick is in effect the public option! Would have been so much better to have actually spelled it out as such.
India with corruption so deep-set and intractable that even buying a TV usually involves multiple pay-offs?
This used to be true in the 80s when there were massive import duties. But it's not true any longer atleast for tv sets (I just bought one here).
There still seems to be a lot of corruption, especially in real estate, where money under the table (in order to avoid tax) is usually included in price calculations and usually benefits buyer and seller and is to the detriment of only the govt purse. I'm not relishing the prospect of purchasing a house here and am wondering if i can actually stand up to the pressure and how much it will cost me.
Absolutely the same story in India. Sometimes I wonder if _any_ place outside of the US really gets it. Anecdotally, even Europe seems similarly third world-ish. This is also the reason I think predictions of the US being eclipsed anytime this century are hogwash.
Maybe you could get into a car for electrical shielding? You'd still need sufficient advance warning though.
Congratulations! Your retarditude just lost you a ps3 sale.
The H1B situation is mostly orthogonal to the silicon valley startup situation. Almost no startup will take the time or the effort to put people through the immigration process. So H1B's mostly only work for well established and safe companies at-least till they get a Green card (which nowadays takes more than a decade for Indians). They are competition only for Americans also wanting to work in well established and safe companies.
Actually, the publishers are saying "this is price we want _you_ to sell it for". Very different thing and yes I do believe its un-free-market-y.
I see it as publishers imposing price controls. Not a very "free market" thing to do.
Why would I want to kill whole trees just for a few hours of entertainment?