...Marconi. Finally he was told to deliver a lecture on his invention in The Royal Institution, London on the 13th June, 1902. Now the time came for Marconi to answer to that most important question, "Who is the inventor of the coherer that uses mercury?" He was shrewd enough to find out some mean tactics to create even more confusion and to keep the works of Sir Bose unveiled. He told the august audience in Royal Institution that he designed a number of coherers and one of them used mercury, which was in no way coherent with his speech made in New York in front of AIEEE personnel where he had mentioned that he only invented one coherer. Gradually, he began to shift towards "mercury coherer" from "iron coherer", i.e., Bose's coherer, but never made any reference to Sir Bose. After 25 years of this incident Mr. Vivian, who was an assistant to Marconi, wrote the biography of Marconi where he clearly mentioned that it was nothing but the " mercury coherer" that Marconi used....
Bose or Marconi? questions:
Nearly 100 years after Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless communication, it has come to light that the detector he had used to pick up the signal was invented by Professor Jagadish Chandra Bose. The discovery made by a group of scientists of the US-based IEEE proves what has been a century-old suspicion in the world scientific community: that the honour of being the pioneer in wireless communication should have gone to Bose and not Marconi....
And here is an interesting analysis why Bose wouldn't have patented...
J.C. BOSE: The Inventor Who Wouldn't Patent
and some more
analyses:
Bose's anti-patent position is explained in his authorised 1920 biography written by his close friend Patrick Geddes, "Simply stated, it is the position of the old rishis of India, of whom he is increasingly recognised by his countrymen as a renewed type, and whose best teaching was ever open to all willing to accept it." Bose carried on his shoulders the full weight of his country's defensiveness. He was the proof, because proof was needed, that Indians could do modern science. As Tagore wrote to him, Bose was God's instrument in the removal of India's shame. Bose did not want want to make hay for himself in the European sunshine.
What will happen to the public libraries if e-books become the way of publishing?
Will the publisher sell N number of copies to the library and give the software to control the lending of these books to students (by some sort of expiry mechanism) so that that copy of e-book be lent to others...
It really puzzles me how it goes on? I very much support the idea of saving trees and paying the author/publisher he deserves, but at what cost to the convinience of the user?
You install it, that's it, you are screwed. You don't have an option to un-install it!
Start the NS6, after half an hour it comes up! No indication of what is happening at all...
The mozilla builds are better, you put it in a directory, new version comes, remove your old directory and put in the new one.
This Netscape 6 made me lose all my respect for Netscape. I think I would be better off using the nightly builds. It even screwed up the profiles, can't use proxy, which now my nightly build is not able to use.
This release is a bad PR for Netscape, as previously only developpers saw Mozilla and they knew what to expect. This release out there for every layman to use, and once they try it they will never plan to return to Netescape 6 crap anymore!
(Sorry for the crude RANT, I am myself a nightly builds tester and bug reporter for Mozilla, but this install stuff left a bad feeling in me, I have to spit it out...:((
I think Sony VAIOs already have this feature. That day while going thru the Ubid auction site, I found the new Sony VAIO >340 machines had advertised this feature of handwriting recognition on the touchpad (though the Sony VAIO I have, (F-250 cute one, but OK display!) doesn't have this feature!)
-Sas
Re:I have a P3/500 ...stop cancerous radio waves..
on
Laptop Pentium IIIs
·
· Score: 1
Call me radio-phobic (what ever...!) but...
Numerous studies have indicated that radio-waves are carcinogenic and DNA mutant
Micro-wave antennas are frying birds flying past them
Companies and people are jumping towards wireless access, making America more cancerous...
...and later Hawaii will become the sheltering place for all the cancerous American people (as I saw on the TV that day...)
Come-on people, come to grips, vote for safer technologies. Don't be just lured by just walking around with your laptop and boasting of mobility. Stop this wire-less every-where mania. Use it as a scrace resource and make this world a better place...
Why don't you wait for the SAR sources to be released and adopt it. SAR supposedly gives a lot of low level statistics. If I remember correctly, sometime back [ok, longtime back!] when I was writing an SNMP agent for Acer Server Manager, we used to make use of SARs libraries on UnixWare to get some specific statistics for instrumentation.
AOL butchered Netscape Browser, Netscape fans and Netscape. When netscape was alone, it had a single goal of product development and they would have somehow managed to get Mozilla released. Now everything is with the new bosses...
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Remembering Sir. J.C. Bose says:
Bose or Marconi? questions:
And here is an interesting analysis why Bose wouldn't have patented...
J.C. BOSE: The Inventor Who Wouldn't Patent
and some more
analyses:
and many more at google!
-Sas
Yes, government has real strategy.
Think of all the social security taxes these H1Bs pay.
They never get a cent back as benifit out of it, neither they can claim it back.
The government rants that trillions of dollars of social security money will only suffice until year 2029!
What will happen to the public libraries if e-books become the way of publishing?
Will the publisher sell N number of copies to the library and give the software to control the lending of these books to students (by some sort of expiry mechanism) so that that copy of e-book be lent to others...
It really puzzles me how it goes on? I very much support the idea of saving trees and paying the author/publisher he deserves, but at what cost to the convinience of the user?
--Sas
You install it, that's it, you are screwed. You don't have an option to un-install it!
Start the NS6, after half an hour it comes up! No indication of what is happening at all...
The mozilla builds are better, you put it in a directory, new version comes, remove your old directory and put in the new one.
This Netscape 6 made me lose all my respect for Netscape. I think I would be better off using the nightly builds. It even screwed up the profiles, can't use proxy, which now my nightly build is not able to use.
This release is a bad PR for Netscape, as previously only developpers saw Mozilla and they knew what to expect. This release out there for every layman to use, and once they try it they will never plan to return to Netescape 6 crap anymore!
(Sorry for the crude RANT, I am myself a nightly builds tester and bug reporter for Mozilla, but this install stuff left a bad feeling in me, I have to spit it out...:((
-Sas
I think Sony VAIOs already have this feature.
That day while going thru the Ubid
auction site, I found the new Sony VAIO >340
machines had advertised this feature of handwriting
recognition on the touchpad (though the Sony VAIO I have,
(F-250 cute one, but OK display!) doesn't have this feature!)
-Sas
Come-on people, come to grips, vote for safer technologies. Don't be just lured by just walking around with your laptop and boasting of mobility. Stop this wire-less every-where mania. Use it as a scrace resource and make this world a better place...
--
Your-well-wisher!
Why don't you wait for the SAR sources to be
released and adopt it. SAR supposedly gives
a lot of low level statistics. If I remember
correctly, sometime back [ok, longtime back!]
when I was writing an SNMP agent for Acer
Server Manager, we used to make use of SARs
libraries on UnixWare to get some specific
statistics for instrumentation.
-Sas
I second this,
;-)
Kernels are great!
Kernels are good!
Kernels are a song to the ears,
Kernels drive our thoughts,
:)))
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As somebody said, we could just post the
new features on the new kernel to slashdot.
On a second thought, why do people peep into
the new kernel release discussions? They are
surely interested and so...
So, let the new kernel release news be posted
in the main slashdot news...
Flames are welcome, but they will suffer packet loss!
AOL butchered Netscape Browser, Netscape fans and
:)
Netscape. When netscape was alone, it had a single
goal of product development and they would have
somehow managed to get Mozilla released. Now everything is with the new bosses...
Was it a M$ conspiray...?