I honestly believe that Indians in the large would be behind linux and open src. Most at university are. I just get the feeling that gates will prounce around, use a bit of charm and try buy some strategic ppl/companies off with cutbacks and freebies in a lock down approach. Basically, contaminate the strategic centres and the rest will follow. I don't think it bothers them if nerd A uses linux and so does his friends. What matters to them is money and strategic alliances. When Gates talks the ppl in suits listen. The suits just need to realize the cost vs benefits and that goes for open src too.
Not a popularity contest but Gates gets the head start of not having to introduce himself - no real big deal but I think being more identifiable is a bonus. Anyway, this isn't an election and India has been in the technology loop for a while. M$ would like ppl who can't think for themselves such as those who learn VB, don't change anything for the next twenty years and be locked down into buying their products. Maybe RMS should pull a publicity stunt over there - dunno what.
India has a huge enough population and an already established I.T sector that even if half the population of educated proffesionals support either M$ or open src they're already big winners. The obvious bonus is to get the most behind you. I don't know what RMS is going to do, Gates has already won the popularity contest.
The planet saturn is so dense it could float in a tub of water if the tub was large enough. A neutron star otoh the size of a tennis ball weighs the planet of the earth.
They also want to make it easier for Echelon to find this information. They have satallite dvd readers and recorders. Your data goes up and it comes down into their collossal database.
Although the definition of a 'near miss or hit' varies from astronomer to astronomer I think the whole point of this comotion is for astronomy agencies to milk funding money out of the public, govt and where ever else. Documentary channels also like to air this stuff because ppl are interested. 'an asteroid will someday hit the earth' is an analogy to gambler's fallacy.
As a capped @home customer I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I think the bottom line is what the limit is and how much customers pay per month. Basically, how much you can live with being ripped off per month and not wasting the time and money of finding an alternative.
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just drive out to an isolated area and wait. If it is like what they are describing then anywhere would be good, although hanging around where all the astronomy geeks are is a good idea.
I actually thought I had the term incorrect, there are 3 stages to the 'meteor' before it hits the ground or gets burnt up. I should of just said shooting star.
Yahoo is a company that is responsible to shareholders and therefore companies need to make a profit. I don't think it is the case of yahoo getting ppl on board for free and then whacking them with a 'pay or else'. Besides, are other 'free' services around.
lol.. in point of fact, when halley's comet came around and I was in perfect position to see it (Australia). I was around 10 years old and fell to sleep for 3 days straight (iirc) before it came around at like 2am. The next day at school there were all these halley's comet pictures newspaper cutouts in class but I missed it. I made a pledge that in 70 or so years when it comes around again I won't miss it.
Anyway, I don't think leonids hits Australia but I better take a look.
Every time I used to hear about meteor showers I would get excited. Then I would stay up (would stay up coding anyway) for it and what do you see? nothing. I'm guessing that like all the other apparent showers, we're going to see nothing spectacular. Remember, go out any night of the week and you'll see meterorites.
Btw, this we know is going to happen, Australia and Africa are going to get a partial solar eclipse on the 4th of December. http://www.assa.org.au/observing/eclipse2002/
Sounds like the two got together to discuss microsoft's megalomania world domination and devised a plan to block that from happening to there interests. Rivals (I believe) doing this is significant, or is there yet another merger pending. I thought merger season was over, went out with the dot.com boom.
don't laugh, some 3rd world countries are using this technique for air reconassance.
In modern countries, ppl are using it to spy on there neighbors. Must we wait before there is a kiteonacamera.com ? "Kites flown over hollywood celebrities residences, 100% legal. For $5.95 a month you can have 24hr aerial vision of a hollywood supermodels".
Don't receive email and you won't receive spam (maybe in the mail still, "You may have already won!"). It's like those security experts who say "you want a safe network? switch the damn thing off", effective, but also useless.
Whats with all the p2p? Nevertheless, if any p2p network is going to survive, it needs both a legally and technically sound framework, each as important as each other. Just my 2 cents.
Woah.. I don't know why someone mod'd your post as offtopic.
I will have to go and look at opengl 2.0. Ironically I have a graphics exam tommorow on graphics theory all the way up to NURBS.
My friend works for a game company (auran) and was telling me the developers like direct x better as opengl is all over the place, but that was months ago. He also said that if you port a game to playstation it is not far off from being ported to linux.
The problem with opengl is that vendors decide to add there own extension to it, and too many vendors do such a thing. If opengl is going to outperform the rest cooperation between vendors and the opengl commitee needs to take place more often.
It seems the most vicious and lawful attacks are the ones that go _noticed. They also come along with large costs and could shut the whole network down. These attacks are from music industry and hollywoood based corporations. Not only that but they probably pay malicious hackers to carry out real attacks.
How to respond: find those loopholes and exploits in the legal system. Patch and re-open with a new and improved legal proof network. Continue the work at Stanford.
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I honestly believe that Indians in the large would be behind linux and open src. Most at university are. I just get the feeling that gates will prounce around, use a bit of charm and try buy some strategic ppl/companies off with cutbacks and freebies in a lock down approach. Basically, contaminate the strategic centres and the rest will follow. I don't think it bothers them if nerd A uses linux and so does his friends. What matters to them is money and strategic alliances. When Gates talks the ppl in suits listen. The suits just need to realize the cost vs benefits and that goes for open src too.
Not a popularity contest but Gates gets the head start of not having to introduce himself - no real big deal but I think being more identifiable is a bonus. Anyway, this isn't an election and India has been in the technology loop for a while. M$ would like ppl who can't think for themselves such as those who learn VB, don't change anything for the next twenty years and be locked down into buying their products. Maybe RMS should pull a publicity stunt over there - dunno what.
India has a huge enough population and an already established I.T sector that even if half the population of educated proffesionals support either M$ or open src they're already big winners. The obvious bonus is to get the most behind you. I don't know what RMS is going to do, Gates has already won the popularity contest.
Maybe such experiments can show how life may 'evolve' to adapt to the extremes of planets/moons in space.
Take a look at this room A 1000-Pentium Beowulf-Style Cluster Computer half way down the page.
If I don't have the radio on can it not show anything for me? Just like turning javascript off.
The planet saturn is so dense it could float in a tub of water if the tub was large enough. A neutron star otoh the size of a tennis ball weighs the planet of the earth.
They also want to make it easier for Echelon to find this information. They have satallite dvd readers and recorders. Your data goes up and it comes down into their collossal database.
Although the definition of a 'near miss or hit' varies from astronomer to astronomer I think the whole point of this comotion is for astronomy agencies to milk funding money out of the public, govt and where ever else. Documentary channels also like to air this stuff because ppl are interested. 'an asteroid will someday hit the earth' is an analogy to gambler's fallacy.
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As a capped @home customer I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I think the bottom line is what the limit is and how much customers pay per month. Basically, how much you can live with being ripped off per month and not wasting the time and money of finding an alternative.
just drive out to an isolated area and wait. If it is like what they are describing then anywhere would be good, although hanging around where all the astronomy geeks are is a good idea.
I actually thought I had the term incorrect, there are 3 stages to the 'meteor' before it hits the ground or gets burnt up. I should of just said shooting star.
Yahoo is a company that is responsible to shareholders and therefore companies need to make a profit. I don't think it is the case of yahoo getting ppl on board for free and then whacking them with a 'pay or else'. Besides, are other 'free' services around.
Why aren't any satellites allowed to take any pictures of israel? is it a 'repect our privacy' thing? "damn you paparazzi!"
lol .. in point of fact, when halley's comet came around and I was in perfect position to see it (Australia). I was around 10 years old and fell to sleep for 3 days straight (iirc) before it came around at like 2am. The next day at school there were all these halley's comet pictures newspaper cutouts in class but I missed it. I made a pledge that in 70 or so years when it comes around again I won't miss it.
Anyway, I don't think leonids hits Australia but I better take a look.
Every time I used to hear about meteor showers I would get excited. Then I would stay up (would stay up coding anyway) for it and what do you see? nothing. I'm guessing that like all the other apparent showers, we're going to see nothing spectacular. Remember, go out any night of the week and you'll see meterorites.
Btw, this we know is going to happen, Australia and Africa are going to get a partial solar eclipse on the 4th of December. http://www.assa.org.au/observing/eclipse2002/
napster.com -> work in progress. I thought they already did and it didn't go so well.
Maybe whoever took over were just going buy it and run it into the ground, "that will teach ya!".
Sounds like the two got together to discuss microsoft's megalomania world domination and devised a plan to block that from happening to there interests. Rivals (I believe) doing this is significant, or is there yet another merger pending. I thought merger season was over, went out with the dot.com boom.
don't laugh, some 3rd world countries are using this technique for air reconassance.
In modern countries, ppl are using it to spy on there neighbors. Must we wait before there is a kiteonacamera.com ? "Kites flown over hollywood celebrities residences, 100% legal. For $5.95 a month you can have 24hr aerial vision of a hollywood supermodels".
Don't receive email and you won't receive spam (maybe in the mail still, "You may have already won!"). It's like those security experts who say "you want a safe network? switch the damn thing off", effective, but also useless.
Whats with all the p2p? Nevertheless, if any p2p network is going to survive, it needs both a legally and technically sound framework, each as important as each other. Just my 2 cents.
Woah.. I don't know why someone mod'd your post as offtopic.
I will have to go and look at opengl 2.0. Ironically I have a graphics exam tommorow on graphics theory all the way up to NURBS.
My friend works for a game company (auran) and was telling me the developers like direct x better as opengl is all over the place, but that was months ago. He also said that if you port a game to playstation it is not far off from being ported to linux.
The problem with opengl is that vendors decide to add there own extension to it, and too many vendors do such a thing. If opengl is going to outperform the rest cooperation between vendors and the opengl commitee needs to take place more often.
It seems the most vicious and lawful attacks are the ones that go _noticed. They also come along with large costs and could shut the whole network down. These attacks are from music industry and hollywoood based corporations. Not only that but they probably pay malicious hackers to carry out real attacks.
How to respond: find those loopholes and exploits in the legal system. Patch and re-open with a new and improved legal proof network. Continue the work at Stanford.