So on one hand we have thousands of officially recognized experts working on the energy storage problem for years on the other hand we have some unknown start-up from Texas that claims a 10x improvement on battery technology...hmm..let's see who do we believe...?
I read this in a book. when Texas Instruments announced first IC's using Silicon, the reaction was similar.
not exact quote, but from my memory:
Some caller on the phone: "They made transistors with Silicon, in Texas". I wasn't sure if he was more surprised that they did it with Silicon or that they did it in Texas.
Noble stated that no dead person could win the Nobel Prize.
Any reference for that? I don't know of any such restriction, because I am very much interested in the debate about why Mahatma Gandhi did not win Nobel prize and have heard of a lot of excuses (I am biased, I call them excuses) - one of them for the year 1948 and how the committee did not want to give it to Gandhi because he was dead and there was no precedent of awarding a Nobel prize posthumously. There was never a mention of Nobel stating that no dead person could win the prize.
I'd have modded you insightful if I had some mod points. I don't know why this article was deemed fit to be posted on/. - May be there should be a 'Trivia' or 'Tabloid' section here and these articles can be lined up for that section.
If you're planning on a career in IT, get yourself an answer to the question "What can you do that I can't do with two and a half Indians for the same price?" "I speak a foreign language" is an easy and sufficient answer to that question.
Are you kidding? Almost all Indians in IT speak at least one language other than english. (I Know all the jokes about how Indians in tech support do not speak english, but you get the point) And given the demography of India, it is more likely that the 2.5 Indians will have knowledge of 2 languages between them (again, 2 languages apart from english).
This is probably totally off-topic but he is talking about Cricket, the first test match of The Ashes is just over and the Aussies beat the Poms (England).
The problem is it becomes painful to view your mail in the other account. Unless you have an automatic filter somewhere to strip the gmail headers. Every mail would appear to have come from your gmail account. The sender of email is a useful thing for me to keep track of my mail.
you got modded funny, but you should be modded insightful. If a guy wants to go to some restricted area to do any mischief, he would not be wearing his dog collar. He would conveniently slip it onto someone else or make an accomplice carry two tags (one inside and one his own) while he slips into the secure area. I am not really sure what they are planning to accomplish by watching the dots.
Someone should educate the Indian Income Tax department about the value of patents and how they can make even more money by licensing this idea to every tax department in the world.
At the risk of being modded off-topic, let me answer this. Ken Lay did not have anything to loose by committing perjury. He was already in deep shit. If he did not commit perjury, he will have to plead guilty to the charges laid - which amounts to the same. I don't think these two are similar.
I have seen this comment elsewhere too - that by doing it publicly they are drawing more attention to it. It does not have to be public, it can be obtaining the permission before (or approval within a certain timeperiod) from a court or judge. This can be kept official secret.
We need an EFF or the equivalent in India. Their biggest challenge would not be to fight the government but educating the public and fighting the status quo public opinion about individual liberties. The police routinely submit cellphone records (conversations) in courts to prove their case. And all they need to obtain these, is an order from a commissioner or even lower official. Again - no oversight. There is nothing preventing the police officers to tap the phone of their wives (if they suspect) or their personal enemies just because they want to. The problem is that there is very little public awareness of these dangers. I mean, public knows that the police and the government can do anything they want, but at this point, people are accepting it as they believe they are powerless, or the government needs all these powers to keep the bad elements in check.
I wish our constitution assembly looked at the US constitution more than the UK one when framing our own about 60 years ago.
This is just smart marketing. Imagine they put up a survey that did not make any controversial claims (something like, open source and proprietary software are comparable), then would that generate as much heat? Now many people hear about the company because more people talk about this now than if the survey said something less controversial.
Now to compare every open source software application to aerospace software is really comparing apples to oranges. There is a big difference in the expected quality between an editor and an aerospace application. It's alright even if my editor crashes once in every 20 times I invoke it. Is that acceptable with an aeroplane?
I'm sure the folks at Coverity understand all this. But if they really speak what is right, they will not get all the eyeballs and publicity. In classic slashdot lingo: 1. Do something (anything) that involves open source and proprietary software 2. Make claims that sound outrageous / controversial 3. Profit! (with all the free publicity)
Whatever you say may be true. As I see it, the bigger problem here is not the blocking, but the clandestine way the government can go about it and the fact that the government (ie., the executive and the beauracracy) not being answerable to anyone. A single beuracrat can do this all by himself without needing a permission from judiciary or even legislature. Yes, if it becomes an issue they may step back if it seems to hurt the government politically, but the rules do not prevent the government from acting on its own.
Just a little while back, blogspot was banned. It became a huge issue and so the government directed the ISPs to lift the block. Once the ban was lifted on blogspot, people were content. Nobody asked the government what justification it had to block the various sites and the government did not even bother to issue a clarification about why it did what it did.
I have a Motorola A780 - which is based on Linux too, and it is triband and it's unlocked too (Most of the GSM phones you buy in India are unlocked). IIRC, the whole A-series of Motorola is based on Linux. Yes, my phone does not have Wi-fi, but the plug talks as if it's the first Linux based cellphone.
You are trying to sneak a potential explosive device into the airplane!
You've just been tracked.
Tomorrow's news: How the guv'ment secured the lives of many airline passengers by breaking a potential plot of terrorists by deciphering their evil plans that were being hatched on a site known as a terrorist and communist (which is worse?) hangout! The officials are considering whether to change the alert from 0xFFFF00 to 0xFFAA00 or to 0xFF5500
So many European airports have free wi-fi, with such good speeds if you open up a file-sharing program that missing a connection there and being delayed doesn't seem much of a problem at all. It's a pity that off the continent, in England and in the U.S., one has to pay for access.
I don't know which airports you're referring to, but I know Frankfurt does not have free wifi acess (I was there in July). Paris did not have one either (as of last year).
It may be true if you're in some kind of sales job or something where you want all the people who are interested in it to contact you. I give out my business card only to people who I want to give my contact information to. It's just an easy way of giving out contact info, that's all. If there was an easier way of transferring my contact details - may be a single button press on bluetooth phone to phone transfer, I will do that instead.
Totally agree with you. I wonder why the television manufacturers don't attack this technologically - provide a button that cuts sudden changes in volume. I will set that off only when watching some thrillers (where I expect to be surprised with volumes) - but when watching any other program, I hate it when the volume is increased heavily for advertisements.
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And demand information about bloggers posting from even outside their country?
So on one hand we have thousands of officially recognized experts working on the energy storage problem for years on the other hand we have some unknown start-up from Texas that claims a 10x improvement on battery technology...hmm..let's see who do we believe...?
I read this in a book. when Texas Instruments announced first IC's using Silicon, the reaction was similar.
not exact quote, but from my memory:
Some caller on the phone: "They made transistors with Silicon, in Texas". I wasn't sure if he was more surprised that they did it with Silicon or that they did it in Texas.
Noble stated that no dead person could win the Nobel Prize.
Any reference for that? I don't know of any such restriction, because I am very much interested in the debate about why Mahatma Gandhi did not win Nobel prize and have heard of a lot of excuses (I am biased, I call them excuses) - one of them for the year 1948 and how the committee did not want to give it to Gandhi because he was dead and there was no precedent of awarding a Nobel prize posthumously. There was never a mention of Nobel stating that no dead person could win the prize.
I'd have modded you insightful if I had some mod points. I don't know why this article was deemed fit to be posted on /. - May be there should be a 'Trivia' or 'Tabloid' section here and these articles can be lined up for that section.
If you're planning on a career in IT, get yourself an answer to the question "What can you do that I can't do with two and a half Indians for the same price?" "I speak a foreign language" is an easy and sufficient answer to that question.
Are you kidding? Almost all Indians in IT speak at least one language other than english. (I Know all the jokes about how Indians in tech support do not speak english, but you get the point) And given the demography of India, it is more likely that the 2.5 Indians will have knowledge of 2 languages between them (again, 2 languages apart from english).
At least most of the new phones of Motorola the A-series, the RAZR, SLVR and PEBL etc all come with USB ports for charging as well as data-transfer.
I really think this is an injustice for the people who had their identities and privacy compromised, and for HP shareholders in the long run.
Well, the shareholders do not seem to mind. In fact, the market is relieved that their company got away so lightly.
This is probably totally off-topic but he is talking about Cricket, the first test match of The Ashes is just over and the Aussies beat the Poms (England).
The problem is it becomes painful to view your mail in the other account. Unless you have an automatic filter somewhere to strip the gmail headers. Every mail would appear to have come from your gmail account. The sender of email is a useful thing for me to keep track of my mail.
you got modded funny, but you should be modded insightful. If a guy wants to go to some restricted area to do any mischief, he would not be wearing his dog collar. He would conveniently slip it onto someone else or make an accomplice carry two tags (one inside and one his own) while he slips into the secure area. I am not really sure what they are planning to accomplish by watching the dots.
Someone should educate the Indian Income Tax department about the value of patents and how they can make even more money by licensing this idea to every tax department in the world.
Say that about Ken Lay's testimony at his trial.
At the risk of being modded off-topic, let me answer this. Ken Lay did not have anything to loose by committing perjury. He was already in deep shit. If he did not commit perjury, he will have to plead guilty to the charges laid - which amounts to the same. I don't think these two are similar.
I have seen this comment elsewhere too - that by doing it publicly they are drawing more attention to it. It does not have to be public, it can be obtaining the permission before (or approval within a certain timeperiod) from a court or judge. This can be kept official secret.
We need an EFF or the equivalent in India. Their biggest challenge would not be to fight the government but educating the public and fighting the status quo public opinion about individual liberties. The police routinely submit cellphone records (conversations) in courts to prove their case. And all they need to obtain these, is an order from a commissioner or even lower official. Again - no oversight. There is nothing preventing the police officers to tap the phone of their wives (if they suspect) or their personal enemies just because they want to. The problem is that there is very little public awareness of these dangers. I mean, public knows that the police and the government can do anything they want, but at this point, people are accepting it as they believe they are powerless, or the government needs all these powers to keep the bad elements in check.
I wish our constitution assembly looked at the US constitution more than the UK one when framing our own about 60 years ago.
This is just smart marketing. Imagine they put up a survey that did not make any controversial claims (something like, open source and proprietary software are comparable), then would that generate as much heat? Now many people hear about the company because more people talk about this now than if the survey said something less controversial.
Now to compare every open source software application to aerospace software is really comparing apples to oranges. There is a big difference in the expected quality between an editor and an aerospace application. It's alright even if my editor crashes once in every 20 times I invoke it. Is that acceptable with an aeroplane?
I'm sure the folks at Coverity understand all this. But if they really speak what is right, they will not get all the eyeballs and publicity. In classic slashdot lingo:
1. Do something (anything) that involves open source and proprietary software
2. Make claims that sound outrageous / controversial
3. Profit! (with all the free publicity)
Whatever you say may be true. As I see it, the bigger problem here is not the blocking, but the clandestine way the government can go about it and the fact that the government (ie., the executive and the beauracracy) not being answerable to anyone. A single beuracrat can do this all by himself without needing a permission from judiciary or even legislature. Yes, if it becomes an issue they may step back if it seems to hurt the government politically, but the rules do not prevent the government from acting on its own.
Just a little while back, blogspot was banned. It became a huge issue and so the government directed the ISPs to lift the block. Once the ban was lifted on blogspot, people were content. Nobody asked the government what justification it had to block the various sites and the government did not even bother to issue a clarification about why it did what it did.
I only take tens of powernaps during the day, and my boss is threatening to fire me. (True, each of them lasts longer than a few seconds ;-)
I wonder how many digits of pi can be squeezed onto a piece of rice.
It's a _ball_ of rice. If you make sure the cross-section is circular, all the digits of pi can be fit into that!
If you can't beat them, join them!
The headline is misleading.
I have a Motorola A780 - which is based on Linux too, and it is triband and it's unlocked too (Most of the GSM phones you buy in India are unlocked). IIRC, the whole A-series of Motorola is based on Linux. Yes, my phone does not have Wi-fi, but the plug talks as if it's the first Linux based cellphone.
You are trying to sneak a potential explosive device into the airplane!
You've just been tracked.
Tomorrow's news: How the guv'ment secured the lives of many airline passengers by breaking a potential plot of terrorists by deciphering their evil plans that were being hatched on a site known as a terrorist and communist (which is worse?) hangout! The officials are considering whether to change the alert from 0xFFFF00 to 0xFFAA00 or to 0xFF5500
So many European airports have free wi-fi, with such good speeds if you open up a file-sharing program that missing a connection there and being delayed doesn't seem much of a problem at all. It's a pity that off the continent, in England and in the U.S., one has to pay for access.
I don't know which airports you're referring to, but I know Frankfurt does not have free wifi acess (I was there in July). Paris did not have one either (as of last year).
It may be true if you're in some kind of sales job or something where you want all the people who are interested in it to contact you. I give out my business card only to people who I want to give my contact information to. It's just an easy way of giving out contact info, that's all. If there was an easier way of transferring my contact details - may be a single button press on bluetooth phone to phone transfer, I will do that instead.
YOu need a course, I prescribe "Sarcasm 101"
The GP was being sarcastic. Couldn't you tell?
Let's get Marvin to talk to the mouse and see if it still remains cheerful.
Totally agree with you. I wonder why the television manufacturers don't attack this technologically - provide a button that cuts sudden changes in volume. I will set that off only when watching some thrillers (where I expect to be surprised with volumes) - but when watching any other program, I hate it when the volume is increased heavily for advertisements.