Since most of us wont bother, I take the liberty to cut_and_paste some of what I found relevant here.
When I moved to Queens, in New York City, at the age of 14, I found myself, for the first time in my life, considered good at math. In Bombay, math was my worst subject, and I regularly found my place near the bottom of the class rankings in that rigorous subject. But in my American school, so low were their standards that I was - to my parents' disbelief - near the top of the class. It was the same in English and, unexpectedly, in American history, for my school in Bombay included a detailed study of the American Revolution. My American school curriculum had, of course, almost nothing on the subcontinent's freedom struggle. I was mercilessly bullied during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, because my classmates couldn't tell the difference between Iran and India. If I were now to move with my family to India, my children - who go to one of the best private schools in New York - would have to take remedial math and science courses to get into a good school in Bombay.
I remember that a family friend of mine, a vicar who lived in CA for almost six years, had to send both of his daughters to private tuition when they reached India, because both of them struggled like hell to catch up with the rest of the class, despite being honor students here.
I am not suggesting that the education system here is crap. But they seriously need to start comparing with the rest of the world, if they want to compete with the rest of the world, especially when it comes to Jobs.
Your idea number (3) is partially right. A main reason why terrorist attacks have stayed off of American soil since 09/11 is because this is a land of opportunities, of freedom and economic success. Capitalism seduces one's will to act, whether that be good or bad. But do not mistake their hesitation to destroy is since they consider it paradise. Its more because they realized that what they learnt of infidel Western civilization was a distant reflection of what is reality. Islamic Thugs whether they reach the gates of Capitalism with the intention to destroy or not are sucked in to a 9-5 world of making money to get by, buying a bigger TV, buying a faster Car, getting married, rearing kids, buying a house with good schools nearby and before they know it, they are now part of the same society they once feared/hated.
Calling other lands as disease infected cess pools mirror an ignorance that is identical to the warped perspective that Islamic fundamentalists view US. No matter which corner of the world you were born, no matter how much of a cesspool it might be, its still home.
The only way out of this seemingly endless pit of hatred and fanaticism is not democracy, but better education. The young who live in Islamic regimes and theocracies, the only education they would ever receive is from the Islamic Madrassas, which serves up a skewered version of hate and fundamentalism and infects their minds with thousand times more hatred towards West. Instead they should receive an alternate view, that can only be received from an actual school that is devoid of religious rhetoric.
This is why Religion should not be allowed to creep in to our classrooms.
Purely because, assuming that you didnt just crawl out from under a rock, SCOTUS has been the focus of a number of Slashdot discussions (mainly Eminent Domain and P2P) plus it has ruled recently on a variety of issues that has relevance to the community, technical or not.
What the current administration and the Christian groups will love to see is for Bush to push two conservative judges thus tilting the balance in SCOTUS firmly towards conservative rulings for the near future. Since Justice O'Connor mainly provided the swing vote in many rulings, its a clear win for the conservatives to replace her with someone that is far towards the right. If Bush suceeds (whether he wants to or he is forced to) expect a lot of contentious issues (think Roe Vs Wade, Prayer in Schools, Pornography, Flag burning) to end up again at SCOTUS.
This is one court that has always held me in awe, in the manner at which justice that has been passed down and the fairness of its rulings. I am afraid that is about to change, for good or bad.
a) For thinking people dont get punished in other countries for crimes committed against foreign citizens.
b) For thinking its the fault of Party B that contracts were drawn up where Party A is outsourcing work to Party B, while at the same time not drawing up provisions to penalize Party B if shit happens.
c) For plain idiocy. You are nothing but clueless to imagine that Fortune 100 firms would risk everything they stand for and all the goodwill they have made, to outsource work to a nation who "can walk out of a contract at will" with out penalty. Who ever told you that needs to take a big ass clue pill and same with you. You talk like a 13 yr old.
Cause we all know that only US businesses such as Card Systems are authorized to leak credit card/account information and allow it to be traded by criminals world over..
suing your Govt to prevent it from using your tax money to building road that make strip bars and race tracks/casinos (or future ones) accessible to the General Public??
HijackThis does not deal with all known variants of Browser Hijacks. I do not recall what I was trying to remove, but it was far nastier than CoolWebSearch or other popular Browser Hijacks.
Are you crazy!! Or are you so removed from the real world??
Do you think the "Average Joe" cares whether the back-end http proto handlers are reused by every app or not? Heck, even if it is, the morons behind IE should have had the tiniest sense to ask themselves whether it should be that way...
And if you had any experience with some of these Browser Hijackers, you would know that spyware removal tools dont do shit. Both spybot and lavasoft did nada.
And searching and nuking registry entries is as painful as pulling nails out.. Why would anyone be subjected to that, when they can use an alternate browser??
I am not saying Firefox is the solution to everything and neither am I stating that IE is the worst. But the whole thinking behind the browser and how it has its roots in the OS is just poor/lame/immature design at best.
If M$ is listening (and for the sake of IE, I hope they are) the biggest need to save IE right now is an ability in XP to uninstall IE cleanly. I mean, one should be able to uninstall and install IE at his whim. No strapping it down to the OS crap!
My brother had his PC infected by a smart viral strain of CoolWebsearch, a nasty Browser Hijacker. I ended up spending a few hours trying to clean it and every time I thought I did, it would pop back up. I gave up, installed Firefox and asked him never to touch IE again. If I had the ability to go to the Control Panel, and nuke IE altogether, thereby getting rid of any unsavory plugins that might have been installed along with it, and doing a fresh install back again, I wouldnt have forced him to move to Firefox. I understand that Browser Hijacker has aspects outside the realm of the browser, but providing the ability to uninstall and reinstall gives power back to the user.
And this is totally understandable for a bad product. Obviously you want to strap it down with hooks in to the OS as deep as you could, preventing anyone from removing it, since if the user realizes that they could remove it, the first thing they would want to do is nuke it.
The Starwars Holiday Special!! featuring the happy family reunion of Chewbacca, wife Malla and son Lumpy(!!!!)
The Jedi Arena!! Two rectangles swinging sprites at an orange glob!!!
Christmas in the Stars!! featuring "What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?)" and R2-D2 dishing out "We wish you a Merry Xmas"!!!
It all makes sense now!!!
But LUMPY!!! If I ever came up with a character name as "Lumpy", I would wilfully get eaten by a Dianoga!!
I lived in the valley most of 99 when things were at its peak and the bust that followed it. What I attempted to point out is the lack of any focus on academics by parents and the community. Heck, the school focuses more on homecoming, prom, football and everything else.
Schools are now becoming a playground for polictians, religious groups, liberals and other groups whose primary objective is not to educate kids, but to push their own agenda.
Now you have schools pushing "intelligent design" while the rest of the world has been teaching evolution for the last fifty years??!!!
Do not assume that since for the last fifty years U.S has been at the forefront of tech research and private industry that it will remain so. That is nothing but a narrow perspective that has been proven wrong time and time again throughout history.
Its not jealousy, I just pointed out what is true yet absolutely no one wants to highlight for fear of being ostracized. And if your kids are all rounded individuals, great. I wasnt necessarily saying that kids are bad in U.S, just that their priorities are messed up, just as for their parents. Sports rules over Academics till the kids grow up and realize they are not the next best MVP and has a mortgage and wife/2 kids and spend the next 20 years getting their kid to be the same. Meanwhile, there are other places in the world who has their priorities straight and will steal your lunch..
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I have been in the U.S for the last six years. Right from the beginning I was surprised to find the constant barrage of sports over everything else (only outdone by Terrorism and Elections) in this country. Here parents pray their kids end up on the school/college football teams for both bragging rights as well as the potential for a lot of moolah in the future (mostly I think its bragging rights). Jocks get limelighted every step, every game, gets the hotter looking babe and scrapes through academics yet has no trouble getting in to college due to his sports background. The science nerds barely gets any mention in school over their accomplishment and rarely gets highlighted among their community or in the media. Almost never. Yet they positively contribute to the country and get sucked in to the same cycle, hoping their kids turn in to football players and get the girls they could only dream of.
Where I am from: Literacy is 100%. Sports hour or P.T is a one hour drill where the students are herded for rigorous exercises, which happens thankfully only once a week. At the school level, there is hardly any sports events, mostly it is to do with academics, science shows, arts and cultural events, literature events. Sports is mainly soccer or cricket and is indulged in during the lunch hour or afterschool. No sponsors, no parents wishing their kid would become the next star. Infact, if some kid grabs his gear and heads off to the local soccer ground during study hour, he is likely to play alone.
Academics comes first and foremost. Infact, I used to wish it were different, but not anymore. And on the state and regional level, those who pass the Secondary School exam (10th grade) with rank (ranks 1 - 15 on state level) are rewarded by the State Govt. Same goes for National Level.
I see none of that in the U.S. I see undue importance being given to Sports, and little given to academics. I see MVP's regarded as Gods while the ones who transparently contributed +vely to the society languish in anonymity.
This would be a boon for the small business and to potentially reach the millions in rural areas. Consider the advantages this would bring to a small store owner who does all his inventory and order management in this and at the end of the day takes it along home and he can continue working on it, or his kids can do their school work on it / browse etc.
Simputer was a noble concept, but the small size worked to its disadvantage since it was never considered as a replacement for a PC. This on the other hand has the potential to do so. And for medium to large companies can use this to automate their supply chains and any of their outdated processes that can be implemented better with automation. The portability is the biggest benefit while offering everything a PC offers.
FCC had no business in mandating the broadcast flag at the behest of MPAA and its cronies. This throws the claim out the window, for now, to be picked up by lobbyists for the next run with the congress. I would not be surprised if it aint a breeze convincing the majority of clueless that this helps innovation and protects copyrights.
FCC had no right to assist the content creators, pushing them on to the HD realm. The market and the millions of tv viewers should instead spearhead that, and creators who turn a deaf ear will find out finicky eyeballs prefer HD over SD as HD compatible TV's get ever cheaper and between equally bad scripted shows, they pick the better looking one.
Wonder what the Southpark creators would do with HD:). As long as I can still make out the characters, I would continue watching it..bad feed or no feed.
From what I've seen, the pre-teen crowd might be not going to this movie, which could hurt its success
Not Really.. this is where Lucas Marketing whiz wheels kick in to action..
Instead of kids going to the movie alone, or with other kids (PG), now they drag their parents along to watch it with them. Additional revenue that would otherwise been not there..
Confidence ran high. A senior Microsoft executive said the top brass thought the fight against Google "was going to be Netscape all over again."
*Chuckle*
"I remember when [Payne's team] showed off their first prototype in early 2004--people laughed because it was so much like Google," says a former Microsoft executive. "We had copied them. That's not how you lead."
Hmm..isnt that how they led with XP, copying Aqua?
One reason Google has been rolling out so many new or improved products is that Schmidt understands that innovation is the only sure edge Google has. The moment Google allows itself to slow, Microsoft could overwhelm it.
This is the reason why Odds are stacked so high up against companies such as Google or Apple. All their success depends on their ability to innovate constantly and continuously, that any letup will cost them both users and provide enough leverage for competitors to one_up them.
"Microsoft can play its old game to compete with Linux and Apple. It has to play Google's game to compete with Google."
And that sums it all. Google has proven to Microsoft that they cant compete on the same level. Microsoft has bureaucratic issues that needs to be resolved in terms of its size and the products it push through, and in their direction. Google has its own such as growing pains, the push to constantly innovate and the drive to outlast a cash cow ten times bigger.
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You can read the article here.
Since most of us wont bother, I take the liberty to cut_and_paste some of what I found relevant here.
When I moved to Queens, in New York City, at the age of 14, I found myself, for the first time in my life, considered good at math. In Bombay, math was my worst subject, and I regularly found my place near the bottom of the class rankings in that rigorous subject. But in my American school, so low were their standards that I was - to my parents' disbelief - near the top of the class. It was the same in English and, unexpectedly, in American history, for my school in Bombay included a detailed study of the American Revolution. My American school curriculum had, of course, almost nothing on the subcontinent's freedom struggle. I was mercilessly bullied during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, because my classmates couldn't tell the difference between Iran and India. If I were now to move with my family to India, my children - who go to one of the best private schools in New York - would have to take remedial math and science courses to get into a good school in Bombay.
I remember that a family friend of mine, a vicar who lived in CA for almost six years, had to send both of his daughters to private tuition when they reached India, because both of them struggled like hell to catch up with the rest of the class, despite being honor students here.
I am not suggesting that the education system here is crap. But they seriously need to start comparing with the rest of the world, if they want to compete with the rest of the world, especially when it comes to Jobs.
Your idea number (3) is partially right. A main reason why terrorist attacks have stayed off of American soil since 09/11 is because this is a land of opportunities, of freedom and economic success. Capitalism seduces one's will to act, whether that be good or bad. But do not mistake their hesitation to destroy is since they consider it paradise. Its more because they realized that what they learnt of infidel Western civilization was a distant reflection of what is reality. Islamic Thugs whether they reach the gates of Capitalism with the intention to destroy or not are sucked in to a 9-5 world of making money to get by, buying a bigger TV, buying a faster Car, getting married, rearing kids, buying a house with good schools nearby and before they know it, they are now part of the same society they once feared/hated.
Calling other lands as disease infected cess pools mirror an ignorance that is identical to the warped perspective that Islamic fundamentalists view US. No matter which corner of the world you were born, no matter how much of a cesspool it might be, its still home.
The only way out of this seemingly endless pit of hatred and fanaticism is not democracy, but better education. The young who live in Islamic regimes and theocracies, the only education they would ever receive is from the Islamic Madrassas, which serves up a skewered version of hate and fundamentalism and infects their minds with thousand times more hatred towards West. Instead they should receive an alternate view, that can only be received from an actual school that is devoid of religious rhetoric.
This is why Religion should not be allowed to creep in to our classrooms.
Purely because, assuming that you didnt just crawl out from under a rock, SCOTUS has been the focus of a number of Slashdot discussions (mainly Eminent Domain and P2P) plus it has ruled recently on a variety of issues that has relevance to the community, technical or not.
What the current administration and the Christian groups will love to see is for Bush to push two conservative judges thus tilting the balance in SCOTUS firmly towards conservative rulings for the near future. Since Justice O'Connor mainly provided the swing vote in many rulings, its a clear win for the conservatives to replace her with someone that is far towards the right. If Bush suceeds (whether he wants to or he is forced to) expect a lot of contentious issues (think Roe Vs Wade, Prayer in Schools, Pornography, Flag burning) to end up again at SCOTUS.
This is one court that has always held me in awe, in the manner at which justice that has been passed down and the fairness of its rulings. I am afraid that is about to change, for good or bad.
You keep repeating the same tripe you spewed initially, regardless of the fact that it still amounts to shit.
Meantime keep your random lip flappings to yourself, eh?
Likewise Dude.. Likewise..
Dude..you are an idiot.. and for many reasons.
a) For thinking people dont get punished in other countries for crimes committed against foreign citizens.
b) For thinking its the fault of Party B that contracts were drawn up where Party A is outsourcing work to Party B, while at the same time not drawing up provisions to penalize Party B if shit happens.
c) For plain idiocy. You are nothing but clueless to imagine that Fortune 100 firms would risk everything they stand for and all the goodwill they have made, to outsource work to a nation who "can walk out of a contract at will" with out penalty. Who ever told you that needs to take a big ass clue pill and same with you. You talk like a 13 yr old.
Cause we all know that only US businesses such as Card Systems are authorized to leak credit card /account information and allow it to be traded by criminals world over..
suing your Govt to prevent it from using your tax money to building road that make strip bars and race tracks/casinos (or future ones) accessible to the General Public??
Oh wait.. we dont!
Does that mean "Sell your soul, Meet the Devil?"
*ducks*
You would think, as a real incentive, they would throw "boobies" in there somewhere..Darn!
Along similar lines..
I predict Linux would perish with in six years, 12 months and eleven days.
I predict Revenge of the Sith would be the last Starwars movie, before the next one.
I predict there would be a Presidential election with in the next 4 years and the 4 years after.
I predict this is the last term for George Walker Bush as President of United States
I predict Bill Gates will pick his nose at least two times in the next 12 hours
I predict Mars will be terraformed before Ballmer finds use for a comb
I predict...
A viral strain of CoolWebSearch.. not CoolWebSearch itself. Look at my original post.
CoolWebSearch can be removed by CWShredder. CWShredder didnt do *@#$ with what I had.
HijackThis does not deal with all known variants of Browser Hijacks. I do not recall what I was trying to remove, but it was far nastier than CoolWebSearch or other popular Browser Hijacks.
Are you crazy!! Or are you so removed from the real world??
Do you think the "Average Joe" cares whether the back-end http proto handlers are reused by every app or not? Heck, even if it is, the morons behind IE should have had the tiniest sense to ask themselves whether it should be that way...
And if you had any experience with some of these Browser Hijackers, you would know that spyware removal tools dont do shit. Both spybot and lavasoft did nada.
And searching and nuking registry entries is as painful as pulling nails out.. Why would anyone be subjected to that, when they can use an alternate browser??
I am not saying Firefox is the solution to everything and neither am I stating that IE is the worst. But the whole thinking behind the browser and how it has its roots in the OS is just poor/lame/immature design at best.
The top five reasons why Sony might want to rethink the controller design:
1) Players would use it as a boomerang to exact revenge on their opponents outside the realm of the PS3
2) A certain religious group might object to the "crescent" shaped design and might get their panties in a knot.
3) The controller ends up being a tool to massage your pressure points and used less for gaming
4) Female Players take it further and use it to simulate two spots at once. Oh goody!
5) It looks like one of those guns in Battle Field Earth
If M$ is listening (and for the sake of IE, I hope they are) the biggest need to save IE right now is an ability in XP to uninstall IE cleanly. I mean, one should be able to uninstall and install IE at his whim. No strapping it down to the OS crap!
My brother had his PC infected by a smart viral strain of CoolWebsearch, a nasty Browser Hijacker. I ended up spending a few hours trying to clean it and every time I thought I did, it would pop back up. I gave up, installed Firefox and asked him never to touch IE again. If I had the ability to go to the Control Panel, and nuke IE altogether, thereby getting rid of any unsavory plugins that might have been installed along with it, and doing a fresh install back again, I wouldnt have forced him to move to Firefox. I understand that Browser Hijacker has aspects outside the realm of the browser, but providing the ability to uninstall and reinstall gives power back to the user.
And this is totally understandable for a bad product. Obviously you want to strap it down with hooks in to the OS as deep as you could, preventing anyone from removing it, since if the user realizes that they could remove it, the first thing they would want to do is nuke it.
i'm sure someone could fix the engineering problems i have so far with a little effort
They have..Lookie here
Oh!! You mean.... *scurries away like an Ewok*
The Starwars Holiday Special!! featuring the happy family reunion of Chewbacca, wife Malla and son Lumpy(!!!!)
The Jedi Arena!! Two rectangles swinging sprites at an orange glob!!!
Christmas in the Stars!! featuring "What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?)" and R2-D2 dishing out "We wish you a Merry Xmas"!!!
It all makes sense now!!!
But LUMPY!!! If I ever came up with a character name as "Lumpy", I would wilfully get eaten by a Dianoga!!
Kerala
I lived in the valley most of 99 when things were at its peak and the bust that followed it. What I attempted to point out is the lack of any focus on academics by parents and the community. Heck, the school focuses more on homecoming, prom, football and everything else.
Schools are now becoming a playground for polictians, religious groups, liberals and other groups whose primary objective is not to educate kids, but to push their own agenda.
Now you have schools pushing "intelligent design" while the rest of the world has been teaching evolution for the last fifty years??!!!
Do not assume that since for the last fifty years U.S has been at the forefront of tech research and private industry that it will remain so. That is nothing but a narrow perspective that has been proven wrong time and time again throughout history.
More power to you!
The reason I left it out didnt have to do anything with rapidnirvana.com. Its a site which has been ignored off and on and needs a good revamp.
The place I am referring to is Kerala
Its not jealousy, I just pointed out what is true yet absolutely no one wants to highlight for fear of being ostracized. And if your kids are all rounded individuals, great. I wasnt necessarily saying that kids are bad in U.S, just that their priorities are messed up, just as for their parents. Sports rules over Academics till the kids grow up and realize they are not the next best MVP and has a mortgage and wife/2 kids and spend the next 20 years getting their kid to be the same. Meanwhile, there are other places in the world who has their priorities straight and will steal your lunch..
I have been in the U.S for the last six years. Right from the beginning I was surprised to find the constant barrage of sports over everything else (only outdone by Terrorism and Elections) in this country. Here parents pray their kids end up on the school/college football teams for both bragging rights as well as the potential for a lot of moolah in the future (mostly I think its bragging rights). Jocks get limelighted every step, every game, gets the hotter looking babe and scrapes through academics yet has no trouble getting in to college due to his sports background. The science nerds barely gets any mention in school over their accomplishment and rarely gets highlighted among their community or in the media. Almost never. Yet they positively contribute to the country and get sucked in to the same cycle, hoping their kids turn in to football players and get the girls they could only dream of.
Where I am from: Literacy is 100%. Sports hour or P.T is a one hour drill where the students are herded for rigorous exercises, which happens thankfully only once a week. At the school level, there is hardly any sports events, mostly it is to do with academics, science shows, arts and cultural events, literature events. Sports is mainly soccer or cricket and is indulged in during the lunch hour or afterschool. No sponsors, no parents wishing their kid would become the next star. Infact, if some kid grabs his gear and heads off to the local soccer ground during study hour, he is likely to play alone.
Academics comes first and foremost. Infact, I used to wish it were different, but not anymore. And on the state and regional level, those who pass the Secondary School exam (10th grade) with rank (ranks 1 - 15 on state level) are rewarded by the State Govt. Same goes for National Level.
I see none of that in the U.S. I see undue importance being given to Sports, and little given to academics. I see MVP's regarded as Gods while the ones who transparently contributed +vely to the society languish in anonymity.
This would be a boon for the small business and to potentially reach the millions in rural areas. Consider the advantages this would bring to a small store owner who does all his inventory and order management in this and at the end of the day takes it along home and he can continue working on it, or his kids can do their school work on it / browse etc.
Simputer was a noble concept, but the small size worked to its disadvantage since it was never considered as a replacement for a PC. This on the other hand has the potential to do so. And for medium to large companies can use this to automate their supply chains and any of their outdated processes that can be implemented better with automation. The portability is the biggest benefit while offering everything a PC offers.
FCC had no business in mandating the broadcast flag at the behest of MPAA and its cronies. This throws the claim out the window, for now, to be picked up by lobbyists for the next run with the congress. I would not be surprised if it aint a breeze convincing the majority of clueless that this helps innovation and protects copyrights.
:). As long as I can still make out the characters, I would continue watching it..bad feed or no feed.
FCC had no right to assist the content creators, pushing them on to the HD realm. The market and the millions of tv viewers should instead spearhead that, and creators who turn a deaf ear will find out finicky eyeballs prefer HD over SD as HD compatible TV's get ever cheaper and between equally bad scripted shows, they pick the better looking one.
Wonder what the Southpark creators would do with HD
From what I've seen, the pre-teen crowd might be not going to this movie, which could hurt its success
Not Really.. this is where Lucas Marketing whiz wheels kick in to action..
Instead of kids going to the movie alone, or with other kids (PG), now they drag their parents along to watch it with them. Additional revenue that would otherwise been not there..
Confidence ran high. A senior Microsoft executive said the top brass thought the fight against Google "was going to be Netscape all over again."
*Chuckle*
"I remember when [Payne's team] showed off their first prototype in early 2004--people laughed because it was so much like Google," says a former Microsoft executive. "We had copied them. That's not how you lead."
Hmm..isnt that how they led with XP, copying Aqua?
One reason Google has been rolling out so many new or improved products is that Schmidt understands that innovation is the only sure edge Google has. The moment Google allows itself to slow, Microsoft could overwhelm it.
This is the reason why Odds are stacked so high up against companies such as Google or Apple. All their success depends on their ability to innovate constantly and continuously, that any letup will cost them both users and provide enough leverage for competitors to one_up them.
"Microsoft can play its old game to compete with Linux and Apple. It has to play Google's game to compete with Google."
And that sums it all. Google has proven to Microsoft that they cant compete on the same level. Microsoft has bureaucratic issues that needs to be resolved in terms of its size and the products it push through, and in their direction. Google has its own such as growing pains, the push to constantly innovate and the drive to outlast a cash cow ten times bigger.
Stand back!! Its a case of blinding irony!!!
Must have to do something with the "Urban_legend_tale" of the GM - M$ snub that they went with Ford instead..