'Need' is asking the question point blank. Rather, ask a question like 'Would Office for *nix be a GOOD THING?'
Yes it would be a GOOD THING.
Stop trolling.
Yes, there are many languages and their dialects used around India. How the hell are they going to handle the different languages? And even if they manage to handle the different scripts, how will they filter people who write marathi or hindi in the roman script? There are many ways of spelling a marathi/hindi/XYZ word in roman script, and while they do make sense to a human who knows the language, how the hell will an algorithm differentiate between two different words?
For those of you interested in the physics of motion (mechanics), I would suggest you pick up the books "Vector Mechanics for Engineers" by Prof. Beer and Prof. Johnston. It is easily the best book for mechanics I have personally read. And it is modular in the sense you can skip some chapters if they're not interesting without going "DUH" while reading the later ones.
Although it says 'For engineers,' the books are understandable even if you haven't got too much math experience. If you're scared of vectors, they also have a "Mechanics for Engineers."
Why bother?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Does it not seem better to build solar arrays in the deserts near the equator (max sunlight) and have the energy transported through a smaller distance than from the moon?
And why is this news for nerds?
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
-- Russell Baker"
So, umm, the German polits want to enjoy things more?;)
The US does NOT have a monopoly on idiots in government.
No, but it does have a monopoly on idiots in the 'news for nerds' business. Oh wait, Timothy.
I take back my words...
Look what I found ...
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"Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Please, oh please let them meet as hitch hikers aboard a vogon ship.
Oh, and I hope they are read vogon poetry, by the vogons.
Take that CmdrTaco, Timothy, Katz.
http://www.me.iitb.ernet.in/yantriki/
IIT Bombay has a robotics festival called Yantriki.
They've had games like TUG-O-WAR in '94, moving on to SOCCER, BASKETBALL, BUNNY WARS, CARROMINES, SUMO WRESTLING and WATER POLO, since it's beginning in '94.
"Here is your big chance to disrupt free thinking radio programs in your neighborhood."
Yeah right Chris, do that on your 400 inch monitor that gives out enough EM emission to cause spontaneous electron-positron pairs to be created in your neighbourhood.
"You could also have.org.us strictly for non-profits (or maybe.charity.us for legally recognized tax-exempt charities),"
If.org domains are for non-profit and/or tax-exempt charities, why is this http://slashdot.org ????
If I'm not mistaken, CmdrTacho gets a lot of money out of this website as do many other people.
"BTW: It's extremely unlikely that it will ever happen that some kind of space debris, a meteorite or another sattelite will ever come into the laser beam and interrupt it..."
What do you base this statement upon?
Do you have any specific stats?
AFAIK communications sats are high up above the atmosphere. So even if small fragments from other sats/meteorites come along, they won't burn up (as they do, fortunately, for us).
And last I heard, there's quite a lot of debris up there to make the scenario I implied quite probable.
Sure, you get the laser link up and running fine, transferring all your data, and suddenly a piece of space debris intercepts the path of the laser. So some amount of data is lost.
What kind of redundencies are employed to work around this problem?
Or isn't it a problem at all?
Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters; and retribution against oppressive/anti-people/anti-intellectual/anti-free dom....... policies.
You censor something, and we'll make sure you don't have a website to show... atleast for some hours... and we'll cause your sys admins a lot of headaches.
Phear the power of 800,000 odd geeks with a LOT of bandwidth and free time.
"Should we expect to see more US companies building launch facilities in SE Asia after this report has been out a while?"
Not the least bit likely.
India has it's own launching agency, Indian Space Research Organisation. They currently launch satellites using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles, and have actually launched a Geosynchronous Satellite using an indigenously designed Launch Vehicle. They're close to breakthrough on indigenous cryogenic engines for the GSLV which they had to develope from scratch because of the US of A feeling threatened by the transfer of technology from Russia. (The launch used Russian engines).
The fact is, the Indian government is a launching agency, and getting permission to set up a private launch facility is not possible.
Besides, ISRO are said to provide the cheapest (money wise) launches compaired to Airaine and NASA.
"My design was based on the notion that compuational power would catch up by the time my design would be feasible. The idea is simple:"
Well, it is simple, unless it's restricted to Microsoft products (or even linux), in which case I'm sure the terrorists will fund research into these flying coffins.
Yes, I know the negative reference to linux means I'm going to be modded -6387594872497 Satan's Spawn.
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"Does Unix really need Office at this point?"
'Need' is asking the question point blank. Rather, ask a question like 'Would Office for *nix be a GOOD THING?'
Yes it would be a GOOD THING.
Stop trolling.
"Since they are multiple choice, your almost guaranteed 25% correct by guessing. ;) "
:)
No you're not. And remember, I speak from experience
Yes, there are many languages and their dialects used around India. How the hell are they going to handle the different languages? And even if they manage to handle the different scripts, how will they filter people who write marathi or hindi in the roman script? There are many ways of spelling a marathi/hindi/XYZ word in roman script, and while they do make sense to a human who knows the language, how the hell will an algorithm differentiate between two different words?
Here's a link to the website./ index.mhtml
http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/engmech/beerjohnston/vm
For those of you interested in the physics of motion (mechanics), I would suggest you pick up the books "Vector Mechanics for Engineers" by Prof. Beer and Prof. Johnston. It is easily the best book for mechanics I have personally read. And it is modular in the sense you can skip some chapters if they're not interesting without going "DUH" while reading the later ones. Although it says 'For engineers,' the books are understandable even if you haven't got too much math experience. If you're scared of vectors, they also have a "Mechanics for Engineers."
Does it not seem better to build solar arrays in the deserts near the equator (max sunlight) and have the energy transported through a smaller distance than from the moon?
And why is this news for nerds?
This landed in my mailbox today.
;)
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
-- Russell Baker"
So, umm, the German polits want to enjoy things more?
No, but it does have a monopoly on idiots in the 'news for nerds' business. Oh wait, Timothy.
I take back my words
"Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Please, oh please let them meet as hitch hikers aboard a vogon ship.
Oh, and I hope they are read vogon poetry, by the vogons.
Take that CmdrTaco, Timothy, Katz.
Hold on, this man "Timothy" works for slashdot.
Why are you reading this?
Why am I reading this?
Why am I bothered enough to write here?
Why am I sounding like the confused philosopher?
"If space was open source to begin with, enterprising hackers would have found these holes long ago, and plugged them with Bill Gates' ego."
Well, if you plugged them with Billy boy's ego, would they radiate Hawking Monopoly Radiation(Tm)?
"Now you've given me a great idea!
Robo-Kabadi"
Damn good idea, if I say so.
How would you spell fun? Oh, that's right, Robot-Kabbadi.
"Alas the 'always be breating out' (saying 'kabadi') aspect doesn't translate directly into the tobotic domain... "
Well, you could have robots with software for sound, infinite loops,
{
say "kabaddi"
repeat
}
:)
http://www.me.iitb.ernet.in/yantriki/
IIT Bombay has a robotics festival called Yantriki.
They've had games like TUG-O-WAR in '94, moving on to SOCCER, BASKETBALL, BUNNY WARS, CARROMINES, SUMO WRESTLING and WATER POLO, since it's beginning in '94.
"Here is your big chance to disrupt free thinking radio programs in your neighborhood."
Yeah right Chris, do that on your 400 inch monitor that gives out enough EM emission to cause spontaneous electron-positron pairs to be created in your neighbourhood.
Aw comeon.
Offtopic?
That's his opinion, and it's quite valid here, methinks.
"You could also have .org.us strictly for non-profits (or maybe .charity.us for legally recognized tax-exempt charities),"
.org domains are for non-profit and/or tax-exempt charities, why is this http://slashdot.org ????
If
If I'm not mistaken, CmdrTacho gets a lot of money out of this website as do many other people.
???
"It just goes to show the power of ill-informed people in large numbers."
Ill informed people are almost always found in large numbers.
"Perhaps the 'war on terrorism' will manifest as the new cold war, and propel the United States into a leadership position once again."
It's already in the leadership position. All your $$s are belong to US(of A).
"BTW: It's extremely unlikely that it will ever happen that some kind of space debris, a meteorite or another sattelite will ever come into the laser beam and interrupt it..."
What do you base this statement upon?
Do you have any specific stats?
AFAIK communications sats are high up above the atmosphere. So even if small fragments from other sats/meteorites come along, they won't burn up (as they do, fortunately, for us).
And last I heard, there's quite a lot of debris up there to make the scenario I implied quite probable.
Sure, you get the laser link up and running fine, transferring all your data, and suddenly a piece of space debris intercepts the path of the laser. So some amount of data is lost.
What kind of redundencies are employed to work around this problem?
Or isn't it a problem at all?
Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters; and retribution against oppressive/anti-people/anti-intellectual/anti-free dom....... policies.
... atleast for some hours ... and we'll cause your sys admins a lot of headaches.
You censor something, and we'll make sure you don't have a website to show
Phear the power of 800,000 odd geeks with a LOT of bandwidth and free time.
"Should we expect to see more US companies building launch facilities in SE Asia after this report has been out a while?"
Not the least bit likely. India has it's own launching agency, Indian Space Research Organisation. They currently launch satellites using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles, and have actually launched a Geosynchronous Satellite using an indigenously designed Launch Vehicle. They're close to breakthrough on indigenous cryogenic engines for the GSLV which they had to develope from scratch because of the US of A feeling threatened by the transfer of technology from Russia. (The launch used Russian engines).
The fact is, the Indian government is a launching agency, and getting permission to set up a private launch facility is not possible.
Besides, ISRO are said to provide the cheapest (money wise) launches compaired to Airaine and NASA.
"My design was based on the notion that compuational power would catch up by the time my design would be feasible. The idea is simple:"
Well, it is simple, unless it's restricted to Microsoft products (or even linux), in which case I'm sure the terrorists will fund research into these flying coffins.
Yes, I know the negative reference to linux means I'm going to be modded -6387594872497 Satan's Spawn.
"For milestones 0.9.7 and 0.9.8, the focus
is on performace enhancingment, and stability
of the Mail/News end of the suite."
You mean to say all these previous milestones
focussed on making Mozilla slow, buggy and
unstable at the Mail/News end?
Gosh, I would never have guessed!!
"[A]dult themes" include: "verbal references to and depictions associated with issues such as suicide, crime, corruption..."
.
Well, the crime and corruption bit rules out any reference to most governments in this world
And "racism, religious issues" rules out any reference to the Australian Immigration Policy, doesn't it?