I odont know about aou dude but my ATI radeo works fine under linux. You can even download linux drivers fro ATI websites... my logitech keyboard, mouse and yes my Logitech webcam work fine under linux as well. So welcome to the real world.
That said I do believe that a lot more hardware is supported under linux than under Mac OS. But when u come to think of it, the only reason even windows supports more hardware than linux is because the manufacturers write drivers for windows but they dont do so for linux and there is a certain amount of truth in the fact that if only there was a single linux distro, it would be much easier for manufacturers to write drivers for linux, primarily because many manufacturers don't want to release their device specs or give any info to the world about internals of thier device which they have to do if they release the source code of their driver because surely they cant provide the driver for every linux distro out there.
Anyone else noticed that contrary to what AMD would like you to believe by the 3000+ model naming, the intel pentium 4 3.06Ghz performed mcuh better than AMD 3000+ in every benchmark.
Was the paper too simple? I mean I was able to understand every single thing in the paper, as if the paer was written for a layman. Since when did NASA guys start writing papers like that?
But anyway, the other day I was discussing the use of FPGA in an embedded system and we reached the conclusion that an FPGA consumes too mcuh power to implement a whole CPU out of it. That said, an FPGA is surely an interesing concept for specialized computation as the article mentions. But this is very much limited by how frequently can u reprogramme the FPGA and if I am not wrong, this is not a very fast process, not comprabale to the number of instructions executed by a modern day CPU. So effectively, massively paralled applications are fine but if U have to reprogramme your FPAS too often then you wont get the proposed performance boost.
From the article:
"quantum teleportation produces pairs of "entangled" light particles that can be thought of as a pair of encoding and decoding rings. A message is combined with the encoding light particle. That combination goes to the recipient, who uses the decoding photon to decipher the message. Because no one else has the decoding photon, no one else can decipher the message."
First question. Does it mean that we can somehow store that information being transmitted and reproduce it again and again, something like copying?? Wow, that would a new form of cloning... me and my evil copies will rule the earth(if we don't get on each other's nerves first that is).
If not, so all I need is a hacker of some kind. Maybe he wont be able to decipher what he captured, but hey, for me it would probably mean being teleported without a head or smething. Not very interesting for aesthetic point of view I will say
As soon as I read this comment, I downloaded emule and searched for Shania Twain I am gonna getcha just for a test. The avrage speed I got was around 5 KBps.On the other hand, if I ddownload the same song using Kazaalite, I get a speed of 48KBps. So just tell me once again as to why should I use eMule?
"'m not being arrogant, but I find that there's a stunning lack of Indian software in the commercial software arena: which would be TRUE proof of homebrew abilities in an arena."
Well, Indian software industry is mostly active in services business and not in the products. As far as a shunning lack of commericial software, you would be surprised how many commercial softwares contain software from Indian companies, and for that matter how many embedded devices that you use have software from Indian companies.
I know that my first company sold the bluetooth protocol stack to a pretty big laptop manufacturer and now they use the stack in all their bluetooth products.
Firstly, I am in Indian but I dont work in India.
Now to the crux of the matter. Its trur that Wipro is a great company. Infact during the peak days of dotcom boom, its chairman, Azim Premji was the second richest person in the world just behind Bill G.
Wipro does have many good engineers like most big Indian software companies. But if you look at the salary of the guy, around 21000 USD, its not that low. Thats how the global economy works I assume. Eventually skilled people from poor countries get richer and to retain them the corporations have to pay more, and so the cost edge reduces gradually. Thats gonna happen with India as well, sooner or later. The only thing which is stopping this from happening is that India has a population of 1 billion, so we obviously have more skilled people as well, but still we have seen a gradual increase in the pay in IT industry and I dont think this trend is gonna stop. So eventually the competition between India and the rest will not be on price but on quality.
Even my present company outsources work to India but again we feel that the quality of the work is not very good. But we can't go to a big company as it disturbs our budget calculations. But even then, now the consensus is emrging that we should give some work to a big Indian company. In future this cud be any company in the world.
Well, no where in the article is it mentioned that there was a problem with IBM and Oracle. It just says that there were delays in transferring data. So I don't know why Oracle and IBM were named in the original post.
No, my point is that most of us have 256 Kbps or 512 Kbps connections. The current ADSL standard is fast enough to support such speeds. And as the ISPs are paying for data traffic, i.e, per GB of data, dont expect that they will give you cheaper prices just because now they can support more data on the same cable.
So whats so great about it?
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Okay, so ADSL2 may double the rate, but whats so gr8 about it anyway? The ISPs get have mostly got a fiber backbone and atleast the small ones pay by data traffic rather than by time, i.e, a fixed price per month. So effectively that translates into no price cut for an average consumer. I mean how many of us are really feeling constrained by the max rate of ADSL1? How many of us use that kind of bandwidth anyway??
So, yes, this technology maybe good for the ISPs but I dont think that the average Joe will notice any change.
I read the interview, and it was full of nomral political mumbo jumbo. Never say no to anything... just say that we are looking into it or whatever. For example, the pricing and Telstra.... I mean I can't really see what was so newsworthy in it to put it onto slashdot.Slow news day?
The only Daleks I know are described as follows:
Encased in their pepperpot-shaped travel machines, each Dalek is a mutant monstrosity from the planet Skaro. They are one of the Galaxy's most fearsome races, with no thoughts other than that of conquest. The Daleks consider themselves the most superior race in the Universe. Humanity and all of the other species in the Galaxy may be permitted to live as their slaves - but that which they cannot subjugate they will destroy. Their main weaponry is the gun attached to the front of their casings. Even a glancing shot is sufficient to despatch the hapless victim in screaming agony...
I doubt the Stephen Hawking invented those....
I was actually looking forward to this war. Its been a long time since MS met its match and Nokia is more than a match for MS.
Firstly Nokia phones are normally known to be reliable. A fact I cant say about MS software.
Secondly Nokia makes these phones so they dont have to convince the phone manufacturers to join the bandwagon.
Thirdly, in Europe, anti MS feelings are strong, so I dont think MS can make much of an impact in this market.
Fourthly, all the major phone manufacturers have signed up for symbian. And its pretty easy to write applications on that too.
Lastly, MS cant arm twist Nokia into carrying their software, mainly because a viable alternative exists.
But knowing how MS operates, they may try to pull off something aka Xbox. Don't know how Nokia will counter that.
>I assume you meant to write 'do we want songs withOUT DRM? Yes, my mistake.
>If so, then the answer is that so we can do whatever we want with them, up to and including redistributing. I can do that with CDs today, give it to a friend. I can also make a mix CD, sell it to a used CD store, and much more.
Well, thats the whole point. You can redistribute the CD but is it fair if ur friend makes a copy of that CD. So effectively he has the same CD but nothing went to the record company. By extension(exagerrated), record company will sell only one CD and everyone else has a copy, which surely doesn't make business sense. And you can also make a CD with the songs which the record companies are providing for downaloads. So you can make any CD you like. As far as selling it in a second hand store, well, if you sell the HD with the song on it, you theoretically can charge the person to whom u sell the HD to. Its just that the medium now is different. But thats not the point. The point is what we want a different solution. And my question was what exactly do we want? Whats so empty and rheotrical about this? I mean if u want to achieve something, you surely need to know what is it that you plan to achieve, or do u just want ppl to come up with new soutions and then say, hey I like that, and hey I dont like that, while u r sitting idle without contributing anything to it?
>Is it fair for whom? What does this have to do with fair? Are u really that dumb or are u just pretending?? By fair I mean fair to the music company and the artist. You surely cant survive if make an album with 12 songs in an year and then one chap downloads that album for $10 and redistributes it all over the world, can u?
>Songs are not software. That's how they're different. Do you even have to ask? Nice answer smart ass, what I meant was in terms of content licensing.
So my question still remains.... What exactly is the ideal solution that we are looking for?
Well, many people are saying that the music industry willl survive if they started aoffering cheap downloads of songs. Well, both EMI and Universal are working in this direction. Infact Universal has already made about 43000 songs availaible for download, and they cost 99 cents per song. These songs are in wma and liguid audio formats so that they can build DRM protection into it. But the big question is do we want songs with DRM? If yes, why do we want them so? So that we can redistribute them? Would it be fair to redistribute songs which we downloaded for 99 cents to millions of people using Kazaa? Why are songs any different from licensed software? What exactly is the ideal solution that we are looking for?
"There are huge differences in salary between an Indian developer($8-$12) and his US counterpart(>$75000). Do the math."
Firstly dude the average Indian developer of equivalent experience to the one making > $75000 would be earning about $20000 or more in India. And lets say that the company where this guy is employed will charge the US company about double his salary, so about $40000(thats the norm).Its less but not that much less.
Secondly, did you know that there are more CMM level 5 spftware companies in India than anywhere in the world? And normally such companies produce extremely high quality code. Atleast that has been my personal experience. Ofcourse there are many small no-name companies too, which I dont know anything about.
And I will say thats capitalism. I think the west preached capitalism to the developing countries mainly to get their markets open. Listen to what IMF is always telling Argentina and other such countries. So effectively capitalism is fine as long as the Western companies get access to developing world market, as long as they can charge the developing world high proces for their patented drugs and things like that, but when the developing world tries to do the only thing it can do, i.e, provide cheap and qualified manpower, the west starts having problems??
I think MS will suceed in this war. The linux groups in India are all small and pretty restricted in terms of their activities. And Bill is doing his level best to woo the India programmers. There is a place in Delhi where you can buy any pirated MS software. Everyone knows about that. But there are hardly any raids there. I think MS is knowingly encouraging pirated software in India, so that they can get more developers. Another thing is that software industry in India is mostly a services business, as in they sell services to other companies. They dont make any software products. Now its easy to guess what work do they get more, linux related or Windows related.
Are we supposed to feel nostalgic?
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I don't know if we should feel nostalgic about it or what. Yesterday, there was this story about altavista and people were having trouble remembering when it was the best search engine. You expect them to remember that? And can you feel nostalgic about something which you have never seen and never used? I can't. That said I do appreciate the photographs, but for the quality of the photographs and the technique rather than the content. WHat is more amazing to me that these computers is the fact that this guy managed to take such pics using obsolete camera equipmenmt.
Maybe someday some future Steven Spielberg will make a movie out of it, the attack of the giant computers or something.
And I guess 20 years from now the next generation will be looking at our PCs and would be wondering too. I think the change from that era to today was caused by two iventions, the silicon transisitor and microchips. The next change will be probably quantum computing. And that would leave all our PCs as obsolete(maybe more) as these PCs are for us guys today.
Now for something completely different
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Well, I read enough flaming of altavista so I ran a simple test. I searched altavista on google and google on altavista. Altavista is still lot slower I will say and the first result it gave me was google.de, maybe because I am posting from Switzerland. The results were fairly balanced on both sides, though I think I would still keep using google for speed. But one kinda nice feature about altavista is the option to refine one's search. For example I got many tabs on the top about differnt things related to google.
Refine your search with AltaVista Prisma Click a term to focus your search. Click >> to replace your search. Help
Google Toolbar >>
Cool Stuff >>
English Pages >>
Erweiterte Suche >>
Language Tools >>
Search Solutions >>
Search The Web >>
Suchen Auf >>
Adwords >>
Cost-per-click >>
Suchtipps >>
Web-seiten >>
That I think is something google doesnt do as cleanly. In rest all the departements either they are equal or google is better.
"Compounding this their culture is not geared towards allowing all childern to spend their time learning. Many children in India and other cultures are breadwinners."
Its not the culture mind you. NO where is it decried that you shud have more children as they are bread winners. Its an adapatation according to the circumstances. Its no different from what we do just before the exam. We know that if we dont study now we will flunk. In the same way those people know that if their children dont earn, the whole family will starve. And when one's survival is at stake, ethics dont really matte anymore. And once u do something repeatedly, you stop feeling bad about it.
As far as spending money on PDAs is concerned, the whole aim of the project was to improve the circumstances which force these people to send their children to work, i.e poverty. Its the same logic, you give a man food and he will be hungry the next day, teach him how to grow food and you have given him food for life. And the next logical question will be how will it tackle poverty. Well, majority of Indians depend on agriculture for a living. And this PDA can help them to find out about new techniques, weather patterns (it rains only four months in a year in India hence correct information about the timing of rains is very important) et. Besides it can reach people where the educational infrastructure is not very good and hence help improve the overall quality of life.
I know its my wild imagination, but the test results sure sounded like pr0n to me. Recognition Time 7.49 secs ( Time to know the gal) Load Time 1.32 secs Eject Time 1.44 secs Elapsed Time 0.12 secs
Though I must say, the eject time is way too quick... I dont think this drive will find many female customers.
Now I know why IBM wants CPU time to be a metered utility... all the TIVO consumers have to do is buy some CPU time on IBM supercomputers, and voila:-) I can now see why IBM's business will succeed.
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I odont know about aou dude but my ATI radeo works fine under linux. You can even download linux drivers fro ATI websites... my logitech keyboard, mouse and yes my Logitech webcam work fine under linux as well. So welcome to the real world. That said I do believe that a lot more hardware is supported under linux than under Mac OS. But when u come to think of it, the only reason even windows supports more hardware than linux is because the manufacturers write drivers for windows but they dont do so for linux and there is a certain amount of truth in the fact that if only there was a single linux distro, it would be much easier for manufacturers to write drivers for linux, primarily because many manufacturers don't want to release their device specs or give any info to the world about internals of thier device which they have to do if they release the source code of their driver because surely they cant provide the driver for every linux distro out there.
Anyone else noticed that contrary to what AMD would like you to believe by the 3000+ model naming, the intel pentium 4 3.06Ghz performed mcuh better than AMD 3000+ in every benchmark.
Was the paper too simple? I mean I was able to understand every single thing in the paper, as if the paer was written for a layman. Since when did NASA guys start writing papers like that? But anyway, the other day I was discussing the use of FPGA in an embedded system and we reached the conclusion that an FPGA consumes too mcuh power to implement a whole CPU out of it. That said, an FPGA is surely an interesing concept for specialized computation as the article mentions. But this is very much limited by how frequently can u reprogramme the FPGA and if I am not wrong, this is not a very fast process, not comprabale to the number of instructions executed by a modern day CPU. So effectively, massively paralled applications are fine but if U have to reprogramme your FPAS too often then you wont get the proposed performance boost.
From the article: "quantum teleportation produces pairs of "entangled" light particles that can be thought of as a pair of encoding and decoding rings. A message is combined with the encoding light particle. That combination goes to the recipient, who uses the decoding photon to decipher the message. Because no one else has the decoding photon, no one else can decipher the message." First question. Does it mean that we can somehow store that information being transmitted and reproduce it again and again, something like copying?? Wow, that would a new form of cloning... me and my evil copies will rule the earth(if we don't get on each other's nerves first that is). If not, so all I need is a hacker of some kind. Maybe he wont be able to decipher what he captured, but hey, for me it would probably mean being teleported without a head or smething. Not very interesting for aesthetic point of view I will say
As soon as I read this comment, I downloaded emule and searched for Shania Twain I am gonna getcha just for a test. The avrage speed I got was around 5 KBps.On the other hand, if I ddownload the same song using Kazaalite, I get a speed of 48KBps. So just tell me once again as to why should I use eMule?
Here is the originalposted 4 days back: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/234521 7&mode=thread&tid=158
"'m not being arrogant, but I find that there's a stunning lack of Indian software in the commercial software arena: which would be TRUE proof of homebrew abilities in an arena." Well, Indian software industry is mostly active in services business and not in the products. As far as a shunning lack of commericial software, you would be surprised how many commercial softwares contain software from Indian companies, and for that matter how many embedded devices that you use have software from Indian companies. I know that my first company sold the bluetooth protocol stack to a pretty big laptop manufacturer and now they use the stack in all their bluetooth products.
Firstly, I am in Indian but I dont work in India. Now to the crux of the matter. Its trur that Wipro is a great company. Infact during the peak days of dotcom boom, its chairman, Azim Premji was the second richest person in the world just behind Bill G. Wipro does have many good engineers like most big Indian software companies. But if you look at the salary of the guy, around 21000 USD, its not that low. Thats how the global economy works I assume. Eventually skilled people from poor countries get richer and to retain them the corporations have to pay more, and so the cost edge reduces gradually. Thats gonna happen with India as well, sooner or later. The only thing which is stopping this from happening is that India has a population of 1 billion, so we obviously have more skilled people as well, but still we have seen a gradual increase in the pay in IT industry and I dont think this trend is gonna stop. So eventually the competition between India and the rest will not be on price but on quality. Even my present company outsources work to India but again we feel that the quality of the work is not very good. But we can't go to a big company as it disturbs our budget calculations. But even then, now the consensus is emrging that we should give some work to a big Indian company. In future this cud be any company in the world.
Well, no where in the article is it mentioned that there was a problem with IBM and Oracle. It just says that there were delays in transferring data. So I don't know why Oracle and IBM were named in the original post.
No, my point is that most of us have 256 Kbps or 512 Kbps connections. The current ADSL standard is fast enough to support such speeds. And as the ISPs are paying for data traffic, i.e, per GB of data, dont expect that they will give you cheaper prices just because now they can support more data on the same cable.
Okay, so ADSL2 may double the rate, but whats so gr8 about it anyway? The ISPs get have mostly got a fiber backbone and atleast the small ones pay by data traffic rather than by time, i.e, a fixed price per month. So effectively that translates into no price cut for an average consumer. I mean how many of us are really feeling constrained by the max rate of ADSL1? How many of us use that kind of bandwidth anyway?? So, yes, this technology maybe good for the ISPs but I dont think that the average Joe will notice any change.
When it was only released in 1999... gotcha
I read the interview, and it was full of nomral political mumbo jumbo. Never say no to anything... just say that we are looking into it or whatever. For example, the pricing and Telstra.... I mean I can't really see what was so newsworthy in it to put it onto slashdot.Slow news day?
The only Daleks I know are described as follows: Encased in their pepperpot-shaped travel machines, each Dalek is a mutant monstrosity from the planet Skaro. They are one of the Galaxy's most fearsome races, with no thoughts other than that of conquest. The Daleks consider themselves the most superior race in the Universe. Humanity and all of the other species in the Galaxy may be permitted to live as their slaves - but that which they cannot subjugate they will destroy. Their main weaponry is the gun attached to the front of their casings. Even a glancing shot is sufficient to despatch the hapless victim in screaming agony... I doubt the Stephen Hawking invented those....
I was actually looking forward to this war. Its been a long time since MS met its match and Nokia is more than a match for MS. Firstly Nokia phones are normally known to be reliable. A fact I cant say about MS software. Secondly Nokia makes these phones so they dont have to convince the phone manufacturers to join the bandwagon. Thirdly, in Europe, anti MS feelings are strong, so I dont think MS can make much of an impact in this market. Fourthly, all the major phone manufacturers have signed up for symbian. And its pretty easy to write applications on that too. Lastly, MS cant arm twist Nokia into carrying their software, mainly because a viable alternative exists. But knowing how MS operates, they may try to pull off something aka Xbox. Don't know how Nokia will counter that.
>I assume you meant to write 'do we want songs withOUT DRM?
Yes, my mistake.
>If so, then the answer is that so we can do whatever we want with them, up to and including redistributing. I can do that with CDs today, give it to a friend. I can also make a mix CD, sell it to a used CD store, and much more.
Well, thats the whole point. You can redistribute the CD but is it fair if ur friend makes a copy of that CD. So effectively he has the same CD but nothing went to the record company. By extension(exagerrated), record company will sell only one CD and everyone else has a copy, which surely doesn't make business sense.
And you can also make a CD with the songs which the record companies are providing for downaloads. So you can make any CD you like. As far as selling it in a second hand store, well, if you sell the HD with the song on it, you theoretically can charge the person to whom u sell the HD to. Its just that the medium now is different.
But thats not the point. The point is what we want a different solution. And my question was what exactly do we want? Whats so empty and rheotrical about this? I mean if u want to achieve something, you surely need to know what is it that you plan to achieve, or do u just want ppl to come up with new soutions and then say, hey I like that, and hey I dont like that, while u r sitting idle without contributing anything to it?
>Is it fair for whom? What does this have to do with fair?
Are u really that dumb or are u just pretending??
By fair I mean fair to the music company and the artist. You surely cant survive if make an album with 12 songs in an year and then one chap downloads that album for $10 and redistributes it all over the world, can u?
>Songs are not software. That's how they're different. Do you even have to ask?
Nice answer smart ass, what I meant was in terms of content licensing.
So my question still remains.... What exactly is the ideal solution that we are looking for?
Well, many people are saying that the music industry willl survive if they started aoffering cheap downloads of songs. Well, both EMI and Universal are working in this direction. Infact Universal has already made about 43000 songs availaible for download, and they cost 99 cents per song.
These songs are in wma and liguid audio formats so that they can build DRM protection into it.
But the big question is do we want songs with DRM? If yes, why do we want them so? So that we can redistribute them? Would it be fair to redistribute songs which we downloaded for 99 cents to millions of people using Kazaa? Why are songs any different from licensed software?
What exactly is the ideal solution that we are looking for?
"They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions."
Exactly, afterall they have to put atleast something worth watching in the show.
"There are huge differences in salary between an Indian developer($8-$12) and his US counterpart(>$75000). Do the math."
Firstly dude the average Indian developer of equivalent experience to the one making > $75000 would be earning about $20000 or more in India. And lets say that the company where this guy is employed will charge the US company about double his salary, so about $40000(thats the norm).Its less but not that much less.
Secondly, did you know that there are more CMM level 5 spftware companies in India than anywhere in the world? And normally such companies produce extremely high quality code. Atleast that has been my personal experience. Ofcourse there are many small no-name companies too, which I dont know anything about.
And I will say thats capitalism. I think the west preached capitalism to the developing countries mainly to get their markets open. Listen to what IMF is always telling Argentina and other such countries. So effectively capitalism is fine as long as the Western companies get access to developing world market, as long as they can charge the developing world high proces for their patented drugs and things like that, but when the developing world tries to do the only thing it can do, i.e, provide cheap and qualified manpower, the west starts having problems??
I think MS will suceed in this war. The linux groups in India are all small and pretty restricted in terms of their activities. And Bill is doing his level best to woo the India programmers. There is a place in Delhi where you can buy any pirated MS software. Everyone knows about that. But there are hardly any raids there. I think MS is knowingly encouraging pirated software in India, so that they can get more developers.
Another thing is that software industry in India is mostly a services business, as in they sell services to other companies. They dont make any software products. Now its easy to guess what work do they get more, linux related or Windows related.
I don't know if we should feel nostalgic about it or what. Yesterday, there was this story about altavista and people were having trouble remembering when it was the best search engine. You expect them to remember that? And can you feel nostalgic about something which you have never seen and never used? I can't. That said I do appreciate the photographs, but for the quality of the photographs and the technique rather than the content. WHat is more amazing to me that these computers is the fact that this guy managed to take such pics using obsolete camera equipmenmt.
Maybe someday some future Steven Spielberg will make a movie out of it, the attack of the giant computers or something.
And I guess 20 years from now the next generation will be looking at our PCs and would be wondering too. I think the change from that era to today was caused by two iventions, the silicon transisitor and microchips. The next change will be probably quantum computing. And that would leave all our PCs as obsolete(maybe more) as these PCs are for us guys today.
Well, I read enough flaming of altavista so I ran a simple test. I searched altavista on google and google on altavista.
Altavista is still lot slower I will say and the first result it gave me was google.de, maybe because I am posting from Switzerland.
The results were fairly balanced on both sides, though I think I would still keep using google for speed.
But one kinda nice feature about altavista is the option to refine one's search. For example I got many tabs on the top about differnt things related to google.
Refine your search with AltaVista Prisma Click a term to focus your search. Click >> to replace your search. Help
Google Toolbar >>
Cool Stuff >>
English Pages >>
Erweiterte Suche >>
Language Tools >>
Search Solutions >>
Search The Web >>
Suchen Auf >>
Adwords >>
Cost-per-click >>
Suchtipps >>
Web-seiten >>
That I think is something google doesnt do as cleanly. In rest all the departements either they are equal or google is better.
"Compounding this their culture is not geared towards allowing all childern to spend their time learning. Many children in India and other cultures are breadwinners."
Its not the culture mind you. NO where is it decried that you shud have more children as they are bread winners. Its an adapatation according to the circumstances. Its no different from what we do just before the exam. We know that if we dont study now we will flunk. In the same way those people know that if their children dont earn, the whole family will starve. And when one's survival is at stake, ethics dont really matte anymore. And once u do something repeatedly, you stop feeling bad about it.
As far as spending money on PDAs is concerned, the whole aim of the project was to improve the circumstances which force these people to send their children to work, i.e poverty. Its the same logic, you give a man food and he will be hungry the next day, teach him how to grow food and you have given him food for life. And the next logical question will be how will it tackle poverty. Well, majority of Indians depend on agriculture for a living. And this PDA can help them to find out about new techniques, weather patterns (it rains only four months in a year in India hence correct information about the timing of rains is very important) et. Besides it can reach people where the educational infrastructure is not very good and hence help improve the overall quality of life.
I know its my wild imagination, but the test results sure sounded like pr0n to me.
Recognition Time 7.49 secs ( Time to know the gal)
Load Time 1.32 secs
Eject Time 1.44 secs
Elapsed Time 0.12 secs
Though I must say, the eject time is way too quick... I dont think this drive will find many female customers.
Now I know why IBM wants CPU time to be a metered utility... all the TIVO consumers have to do is buy some CPU time on IBM supercomputers, and voila :-)
I can now see why IBM's business will succeed.