The project was kicked off just a year ago. The fact that Bangalore is built on rocky terrain makes going difficult. You should be a little more tolerant about the Metro officials. Try looking at the Delhi metro, whose team is the epitome of efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_metro/
>> 1. Stop advertising drugs on TV and in magazines. You are not a doctor. You shouldn't be "asking your doc" if zotramiphil is >> right for your itchy ass. That's funny because as a visitor to the US, its the first thing you notice. I don't recall the last time I saw an ad in way that is highly annoying anywhere else.
>> 5. Make US employers provide health insurance. Yes, all of them. Call it the cost of doing business in the USA. Health care is expensive, simply because it *requires* the human touch. In places where the population is aging, the costs would only increase.
>> 5a. For every non-US employee a company contracts or subcontracts, make them pay money directly to the federal government's >> unemployment fund. In other words, a non-US employee working for a US company still gets taxed at the same rate as a US >> employee would. That's fair only if US companies do not buy or sell *anything* from the rest of the world. Don't buy Cars, Clothes, Toothbrushes and electronics from other parts of the world and also don't sell airplanes, guns to the rest of the world. Its not going to happen that way.
I do agree that by cutting a deal with New Delhi, the US govt essentially squashed the NPT. But then, that's what happened to the Kyoto treaty as well.
The NPT by itself is a relic of the cold war and extremely biased. What it basically says is that 5 countries can build and maintain as many Nuclear weapons as they want while the rest of the world should not. Ideally, if Nuclear Non Proliferation was to work, the NPT should have contained a timetable for the reduction/removal of all nuclear weapons, including those stockpiled by the big five. The NPT isn't about reducing the risk of a Nuclear Winter. Its about maintaining a military advantage and is purely political in its framework.
I'm all for reducing the risk of Nuclear Proliferation, but I'm not convinced that NPT is the tool to use. What we need is for the big 5 to show the way and reduce their stockpile and then enforce the NPT.
Reminds me of the a Calvin & Hobbes classic where "6.30 Calvin" has to do his homework and "invents" (a.k.a turns the duplicator box topside up), and travels to the future to meet the "8.30 Calvin" and pick up his homework. However, both the Calvins find out that its too late and "8.30 Calvin" has to go to bed. So, they decide to go back to 7.30 and get "7.30 Calvin" to write the story.
The genius of Bill Waterson but not related to Bram in anyway.
Why is it "India" and NASA? ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is funded by the Indian Govt, using Indian taxpayers Rupees just like how NASA is funded by American taxpayers dollars.
At the same time when Daimler-Benz bought out Chrysler, nobody went out saying that Germany has bought Chrysler. If NASA collaborates with the European Space Agency, are we going to see a headline that says - NASA and Europe to collaborate?.
Its the same regardless of whether its India or China.
Reminds me of an ad campaign by Pepsi during the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Coke were the official sponsers. So Pepsi had a campaign called "Nothing official about it". Folks still talk about it.
Since it is ported to a mobile phone, it would be really cool if it could use some location based service and convert doom into a multiplayer + multilocation game.
For example, if the player was in a particular mall or playground then the level would automatically be X but it would different if the player was at home.If this can be done, porting doom to a mobile phone will really make sense. Otherwise, we will end up just playing the same on a smaller screen. No real kick there.
Lets say that we are implementing a DH Key exchange program for a client server program. One could improve the basic key exchange by manipulating either "q" or "n" in the basic equation. Instead of having to communicate either one "in the clear" we could use some information which is readily available to both, say a timestamp at both ends. Naturally, this implies that both the client and the server are time aligned. Given that prolification of GPS and the veritable NTP this shouldn't be too hard. Plus, a server with multiple clients would have different keys.
Eve may have a 100 computers working in parallel but if the key exchange takes place periodically then it will be computationally improbable for Eve to reuse any old key. The periodicity can be set by the server for each client randomly on the secure channel. In addition, for eve to get to every single channel, recalculation will be required for each and every client.
I believe a similar mechanism is used in Cellular Networks to authenticate Mobile Phones.
Looking at the top 10 its easy to misread the impact of "American Culture"
ESPN and Star Sports show mainly India specific content such as Cricket, Football (Soccer to Americans/Australians), Formula 1, Moto GP etc.
While Star Movies and HBO are mainly Hollywood oriented, I suspect Sony is the India specific channel - SET.
Going through the list its evident that all the channels are India specific that Bhutan is getting. (Including BBC and CNN!!)
Since these channels are India specific, I think what people should be concerned about is the invasion of Indian Culture and not American. All the ads will be targetting Indian Audiences and believe it or not these contain a lot of cultural information.
I have a SUN Ultra 10 and a HP vectra at my workplace. The HP Vectra has a "normal" keyboard layout but the SUN keyboard has the capslock and control keys exchanged. In addition keys like ESC are in different positions.
I'm comfortable with both but I send mail and reply to/. on my HP m/c. Most of my coding (and debugging:-) is on SUN. So, when I type long sentences I'm used to having ctrl on the top but when I code, its the other way around.
I've got so used to having 2 different keyboards for two different things, I find it difficult to code on the wrong keyboard!!
I wonder what the poor souls who have both DVORAK and QWERTY do?
That said, I am currently thinking that for a heavy info junkie such as myself, the bill at the end of the month should be in the US$15-30 range.
Converting $30 into different currencies is important. $30 to an American may be worth more than $30 to an Aussie or vice versa.
3) determining what the market price would be
How do you do that? Markets vary. The cost of a car in Europe is different from that in China or Australia. Even within Europe there are price discrepancies. If tangibles like Cars, Shoes, Toothpaste cost different in different markets, why shouldn't information? Take Cable. I don't know the cost you folks pay, but in my country it works out to only $3 a month. I get more or less similar content, similar information and in many cases the same shows as many of you, but how much do you pay? Some of you may pay less some may pay more.
Take News broadcasts for e.g. News is the same worldwide. If Australia wins a cricket match in England, its followed with interest in South Africa and Pakistan. But South Africans and Pakistanis pay differently from the English and the Aussies for the same information.
Another point is which Currency? The are surely hundreds of different currencies out there. Should we all be forced to pay in U.S Dollars? Can we pay in Euros? What about in Yens? How do you handle such a situation? What's the logistics involved?
Some companies may decide that they want to target a particular country. So they decide to tailor their payment structure to that country. Now, if a competitor provides the same content in another country, should the first company respond? . If so How?
Agreeing to pay for online content may be an utopian dream. It may be logistically impossible to provide online payment solutions to everybody. The moment you segregate markets and allow payments only for some markets and ignore others you are losing out on oppurtunities. Is it really possible to target content geographically?
Lets say, we had to pay for Slashdot (Heaven Forbid). How do you implement such a solution? I'm interested in X, Y and Z. So is Joe in Zanzibar and Jane in Finland. Can Slashdot provide payment solutions for Joe, Jane and me? Given current infrastructure is it really possible?
To be precise, networks make use of something called as SMS center as the gateway. This element in the network acts as a router for all messages within the network. So, to send a message, a phone will first send it to the SMS center. The SMS center will then forward it to the recipient. Even if you are sending SMS within the network, it will still be routed via the SMS center.
The SMS center is addressed as just as any other cellphone in your network. You can find the number in the network settings of your phone.
Now, the interesting part. For GSM, the interface between the SMS center and the rest of the network is not standardized (GSM standards say that its 'out of scope'). That means your operators can choose whatever they want as the interface between the mobile network and the SMS center. Typically, this interface will be TCP/IP, or IPX or X.25 or SS7. Usually, the vendors who provide the equipment to the operators suggest an interface and the operators go along.
For U.S. based standards, there is a similar concept. Again, the interface can be TCP/IP or IPX or X.25 or SS7.
However, the standards for both GSM and the CDMA/TDMA/AMPS don't talk anything about how the SMS center should talk to the rest of the world. This means talking to some other SMS center of any other operator, or some server on the Internet is not 'in scope'. Since the standards don't talk of any such connectivity, the vendors (Big Guys like Nokia, Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel, Alcatel, Seimens, Motorola etc. ) don't have to build SMS centers with external interfaces to be standards compliant. For GSM, the internal interface to the network is a must but external is 'out of scope'. Typically, there is an extra charge for giving the external interface, and so many operators don't go for the equipment. That's why, many operators don't have external connectivity and you end up sending SMS to only people in your network. In the U.S. standards, SMS is a relatively new phenomenon. Many networks haven't had to upgrade to the latest specs, and so there isn't any SMS.
Taking this issue further, a lot of the GSM operators in Europe make money by allowing people to 'roam' between networks. Therefore, it makes business sense to provide connectivity (SMS/roaming). However, in the U.S. the operators make money mainly from airtime. So, there isn't much incentive to provide roaming or interconnectivity between networks. The end result, you are stuck with either not having SMS or only able to sent it within your network. As far as the rest of the world goes, the folks with GSM have SMS as per standards with external connectivity an optional feature, and the CDMA/TDMA folks depend on the 'age' of their networks.
Slashdot Mirror
http://focus.ti.com//general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12843&contentId=53243#omap4Benefits. Seems to do similar things but has more technical information rather than just a press release.
Higher the Miniskirt, better it is.
At last it comes out - The real reason for all those delays to Windows Vista.
Or Duke Nukem Forever!
Over 1/2 million were downloaded by Iran (Axis of evil???).
If you look at the Middle East, most downloads are from Iran. Heck there are more downloads from Iran than India.
*shudder* Think about Web Vista..
correction. Needs to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_metro
The article may just be a fart, but I'll just gas up anyways..
>> 1. Stop advertising drugs on TV and in magazines. You are not a doctor. You shouldn't be "asking your doc" if zotramiphil is
>> right for your itchy ass.
That's funny because as a visitor to the US, its the first thing you notice. I don't recall the last time I saw an ad in way that is highly annoying anywhere else.
>> 5. Make US employers provide health insurance. Yes, all of them. Call it the cost of doing business in the USA.
Health care is expensive, simply because it *requires* the human touch. In places where the population is aging, the costs would only increase.
>> 5a. For every non-US employee a company contracts or subcontracts, make them pay money directly to the federal government's
>> unemployment fund. In other words, a non-US employee working for a US company still gets taxed at the same rate as a US
>> employee would.
That's fair only if US companies do not buy or sell *anything* from the rest of the world. Don't buy Cars, Clothes, Toothbrushes and electronics from other parts of the world and also don't sell airplanes, guns to the rest of the world. Its not going to happen that way.
I do agree that by cutting a deal with New Delhi, the US govt essentially squashed the NPT. But then, that's what happened to the Kyoto treaty as well.
The NPT by itself is a relic of the cold war and extremely biased. What it basically says is that 5 countries can build and maintain as many Nuclear weapons as they want while the rest of the world should not. Ideally, if Nuclear Non Proliferation was to work, the NPT should have contained a timetable for the reduction/removal of all nuclear weapons, including those stockpiled by the big five. The NPT isn't about reducing the risk of a Nuclear Winter. Its about maintaining a military advantage and is purely political in its framework.
I'm all for reducing the risk of Nuclear Proliferation, but I'm not convinced that NPT is the tool to use. What we need is for the big 5 to show the way and reduce their stockpile and then enforce the NPT.
Reminds me of the a Calvin & Hobbes classic where "6.30 Calvin" has to do his homework and "invents" (a.k.a turns the duplicator box topside up), and travels to the future to meet the "8.30 Calvin" and pick up his homework. However, both the Calvins find out that its too late and "8.30 Calvin" has to go to bed. So, they decide to go back to 7.30 and get "7.30 Calvin" to write the story.
The genius of Bill Waterson but not related to Bram in anyway.
Or as they say - Trojans and P*rn go hand in hand ;-)
Why is it "India" and NASA? ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is funded by the Indian Govt, using Indian taxpayers Rupees just like how NASA is funded by American taxpayers dollars.
At the same time when Daimler-Benz bought out Chrysler, nobody went out saying that Germany has bought Chrysler. If NASA collaborates with the European Space Agency, are we going to see a headline that says - NASA and Europe to collaborate?.
Its the same regardless of whether its India or China.
1. Get Firefox
2. Install Greasemonkey extension
3. Install the Gmail delete userscript
4. Delete!!! (There is no profit)
Actually, a number of countries/companies are thinking about using GPS to collect toll.
Reminds me of an ad campaign by Pepsi during the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Coke were the official sponsers. So Pepsi had a campaign called "Nothing official about it". Folks still talk about it.
Since it is ported to a mobile phone, it would
be really cool if it could use some location based
service and convert doom into a multiplayer +
multilocation game.
For example, if the player was in a particular
mall or playground then the level would automatically be X but it would different if the player was at home.If this can be done, porting doom to a mobile phone will really make sense. Otherwise, we will end up just playing the same on a smaller screen. No real kick there.
Lets say that we are implementing a DH Key exchange program for a client server program. One could improve the basic key exchange by manipulating either "q" or "n" in the basic equation. Instead of having to communicate either one "in the clear" we could use some information which is readily available to both, say a timestamp at both ends. Naturally, this implies that both the client and the server are time aligned. Given that prolification of GPS and the veritable NTP this shouldn't be too hard. Plus, a server with multiple clients would have different keys.
Eve may have a 100 computers working in parallel but if the key exchange takes place periodically then it will be computationally improbable for Eve to reuse any old key. The periodicity can be set by the server for each client randomly on the secure channel. In addition, for eve to get to every single channel, recalculation will be required for each and every client.
I believe a similar mechanism is used in Cellular Networks to authenticate Mobile Phones.
Looking at the top 10 its easy to misread the impact of "American Culture"
ESPN and Star Sports show mainly India specific content such as Cricket, Football (Soccer to Americans/Australians), Formula 1, Moto GP etc.
While Star Movies and HBO are mainly Hollywood oriented, I suspect Sony is the India specific channel - SET.
Going through the list its evident that all the channels are India specific that Bhutan is getting. (Including BBC and CNN!!)
Since these channels are India specific, I think what people should be concerned about is the invasion of Indian Culture and not American. All the ads will be targetting Indian Audiences and believe it or not these contain a lot of cultural information.
I have a SUN Ultra 10 and a HP vectra at my workplace. The HP Vectra has a "normal" keyboard layout but the SUN keyboard has the capslock and control keys exchanged. In addition keys like ESC are in different positions.
I'm comfortable with both but I send mail and reply to /. on my HP m/c. Most of my coding (and debugging :-) is on SUN. So, when I type long sentences I'm used to having ctrl on the top but when I code, its the other way around.
I've got so used to having 2 different keyboards for two different things, I find it difficult to code on the wrong keyboard!!
I wonder what the poor souls who have both DVORAK and QWERTY do?
And he added: "But there's no need to worry, as although they can escape they are perfectly harmless and won't be taking over just yet."
Phew!! Just when we were about to have a big discussion and get everyone talking about machines taking over the world.. Thanks!!
I wonder what would happen if I searched for google in teoma and teoma in google..
The search results are here..
The Google search for Teoma
The Teoma search for Google
That said, I am currently thinking that for a heavy info junkie such as myself, the bill at the end of the month should be in the US$15-30 range.
Converting $30 into different currencies is important. $30 to an American may be worth more than $30 to an Aussie or vice versa.
3) determining what the market price would be
How do you do that? Markets vary. The cost of a car in Europe is different from that in China or Australia. Even within Europe there are price discrepancies. If tangibles like Cars, Shoes, Toothpaste cost different in different markets, why shouldn't information? Take Cable. I don't know the cost you folks pay, but in my country it works out to only $3 a month. I get more or less similar content, similar information and in many cases the same shows as many of you, but how much do you pay? Some of you may pay less some may pay more.
Take News broadcasts for e.g. News is the same worldwide. If Australia wins a cricket match in England, its followed with interest in South Africa and Pakistan. But South Africans and Pakistanis pay differently from the English and the Aussies for the same information.
Another point is which Currency? The are surely hundreds of different currencies out there. Should we all be forced to pay in U.S Dollars? Can we pay in Euros? What about in Yens? How do you handle such a situation? What's the logistics involved?
Some companies may decide that they want to target a particular country. So they decide to tailor their payment structure to that country. Now, if a competitor provides the same content in another country, should the first company respond? . If so How?
Agreeing to pay for online content may be an utopian dream. It may be logistically impossible to provide online payment solutions to everybody. The moment you segregate markets and allow payments only for some markets and ignore others you are losing out on oppurtunities. Is it really possible to target content geographically?
Lets say, we had to pay for Slashdot (Heaven Forbid). How do you implement such a solution? I'm interested in X, Y and Z. So is Joe in Zanzibar and Jane in Finland. Can Slashdot provide payment solutions for Joe, Jane and me? Given current infrastructure is it really possible?
To be precise, networks make use of something called as SMS center as the gateway. This element in the network acts as a router for all messages within the network. So, to send a message, a phone will first send it to the SMS center. The SMS center will then forward it to the recipient. Even if you are sending SMS within the network, it will still be routed via the SMS center.
The SMS center is addressed as just as any other cellphone in your network. You can find the number in the network settings of your phone.
Now, the interesting part. For GSM, the interface between the SMS center and the rest of the network is not standardized (GSM standards say that its 'out of scope'). That means your operators can choose whatever they want as the interface between the mobile network and the SMS center. Typically, this interface will be TCP/IP, or IPX or X.25 or SS7. Usually, the vendors who provide the equipment to the operators suggest an interface and the operators go along.
For U.S. based standards, there is a similar concept. Again, the interface can be TCP/IP or IPX or X.25 or SS7.
However, the standards for both GSM and the CDMA/TDMA/AMPS don't talk anything about how the SMS center should talk to the rest of the world. This means talking to some other SMS center of any other operator, or some server on the Internet is not 'in scope'. Since the standards don't talk of any such connectivity, the vendors (Big Guys like Nokia, Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel, Alcatel, Seimens, Motorola etc. ) don't have to build SMS centers with external interfaces to be standards compliant. For GSM, the internal interface to the network is a must but external is 'out of scope'. Typically, there is an extra charge for giving the external interface, and so many operators don't go for the equipment. That's why, many operators don't have external connectivity and you end up sending SMS to only people in your network. In the U.S. standards, SMS is a relatively new phenomenon. Many networks haven't had to upgrade to the latest specs, and so there isn't any SMS.
Taking this issue further, a lot of the GSM operators in Europe make money by allowing people to 'roam' between networks. Therefore, it makes business sense to provide connectivity (SMS/roaming). However, in the U.S. the operators make money mainly from airtime. So, there isn't much incentive to provide roaming or interconnectivity between networks. The end result, you are stuck with either not having SMS or only able to sent it within your network. As far as the rest of the world goes, the folks with GSM have SMS as per standards with external connectivity an optional feature, and the CDMA/TDMA folks depend on the 'age' of their networks.
Cost for unlimited dialup access for a month - Rs.200 = $4.5 a month
Telephone Costs - Rs.3 per minute = $0.06 per minute
Average Telephone Bill per month - Rs.1500 = $34
Therefore Average cost for dialup = $34 + $4.5 = $38.5 a month.
And I'm not talking of 56.6kbps. One is lucky if its 28.8... I don't expect the condition to better in most other countries in the world.
To be fair, I do have access to cable. These are the costs the ISP gave me
Cost of Modem = Rs.15000 = $333
Monthly payment = Rs.1000 = $22
Therefore, cost for cable for a year = ($333 + 12*$22)/12 = $50
Again, the bandwidth is more like a 64kbps ISDN line rather than the 1Mbps touted.
Moral: Life goes on.
I manage just fine with a notepad and a pencil.
Advts
.No programming required.
Can be easily customized.
Glue languages are available for a dime
Graffiti optional.
Disadvts
Doesn't cost too much. There goes my bragging rights.