Why isn't C++ being taught in public schools now? Being that everything can be reprogrammed (software, robotics, sales metrics, accounting...etc). Programming should be like any of the major subjects such as Science, English and Math.
Psst... tell you what, C++ and computer science *is* taught in public schools at least here in India. Infact, "computer science" is just another (optional) subject that you take in your equivalent of grade school... thats right, its just another subject like English, Maths, Science...
... these machines are hugely successfull and these kind of incidents are rare.
The reason is that machines here are EXTREMELY simple. No 'enter 10 digit code to vote' bullsh*t. Every candidate has got a dedicated button on panel where his party's logo, his photo and name are prominantly displayed. An officer verifies your name from list and presses a 'companion' button... only after that you can press a button inside the voting box (only once!).
Thus its a simple electronic 'interlock' mechanism. At the end of the day, officers can push a button and can read individual vote count on the display. No complex logic in software... and no 'practical' "intentional" bugs causing bias, because the machines come only with a panel with LARGE number of unlabelled buttons... these buttons gets labelled with stickers of candidates party logo, photo and name only after its assigned to a particular constituency. Given that assignment is random and voting happens in multiple phases, the same machine can be used in multiple locations... with completely 'unpredictable' labelling (eg. BJP's candidate may get 10th button in one area and 50th in other)... so the programmers can't introduce intentional bias bugs.
Following the KISS principle sometimes really helps.
(I have mod points, but think replying would be more apt)
Perhaps it's to store tax returns so the government can mail you your refund check faster. (Job required, sorry).
Maybe INS (or USCIS or whatever they're called) want to track the tidal wave of benifits being handed to Mexican illegals.
Note that name of the buyer has been kept secret. None of the agencies you mentioned need their names to be kept secret... infact Tax Returns dept will scream all over that it can now serve the texpayers better!!
So the issue is who was the buyer who needed this to make his HUGE database reasonably fast AND needs to keep the name secret.
Here in India, GSM networks operate in 900MHz and 1800MHz bands. 900MHz is omnipresent, 1800 is available in Big cities because 900MHz band can't fulfil the bandwidth requirement alone.
Also, in India GSM is 'unlocked'. That means you can have any compatible handset and you only need to purchase a SIM card. The handsets are *not* tied to a particular provider. There is no monopoly here and in general (exclusing small cities) you'll find multiple GSM operators in a city. FYI, Prepaid is more popular than postpaid here.
CDMA is also available as an option and through new unified licensing, CDMA operators are entitled to provide *same* level of services as GSM operators (like full roaming, additional frills like WAP/Internet/multimedia etc etc). However, right now majority of CDMA handsets are provided by operators themselves and are tied to the operator (there are anyways only two major CDMA players - Reliance and Tata Indicom). Reliance even offers Prepaid connections on their CDMA network. Like GSM, in most (big) cities, you'll have choice of both Reliance and Tata.
Here in India, GSM networks operate in 900MHz and 1800MHz bands. 900MHz is omnipresent, 1800 is available in Big cities because 900MHz band can't fulfil the bandwidth requirement alone.
Also, in India GSM is 'unlocked'. That means you can have any compatible handset and you only need to purchase a SIM card. The handsets are *not* tied to a particular provider. There is no monopoly here and in general (exclusing small cities) you'll find multiple GSM operators in a city. FYI, Prepaid is more popular than postpaid here.
CDMA is also available as an option and through new unified licensing, CDMA operators are entitled to provide *same* level of services as GSM operators (like full roaming, additional frills like WAP/Internet/multimedia etc etc). However, right now majority of CDMA handsets are provided by operators themselves and are tied to the operator (there are anyways only two major CDMA players - Reliance and Tata Indicom). Reliance even offers Prepaid connections on their CDMA network. Like GSM, in most (big) cities, you'll have choice of both Reliance and Tata.
Enjoy your stay:-)
For example here in Hyderabad, I don't have a landline at home, but have a DSL line from Tata Indicom, and have 512/512 service from my ISP Dishnet DSL. (Actually, they have a mutual agreement with Tata Indicom... pretty much OK cuz we have got Dishnet DSL only as ISP who provide service over DSL in this city).
All so, there was this totally hot reporter there who kept talking 2 me asking questions and $h!t. She was totaly n 2 me and i was gonna get her # but those loser body guards said i had to go to another meeting. gawd, what pr!cks!!!
anyway, i gotta go sighn sum papers, ttyl.
(Glad he's not one of the leaders of my country)
Like you didn't have one... forgot so soon what happened in Oval Office, cowboy, eh ??:-P
total cost for MRI - Rs 6600! (that is around $330 for you).
Sorry for wrong figures in USD. The total expenditure in USD for MRI was around $150. This includes cost of medicines used for taking MRI, abdominal MRI and radiologist's fees and doc's fees.
PS: CT Scans cost roughly the same too.
- Mritunjai
First, is this the case? or is India also excelling in architectural and design work?
(Request: Look on google for news links yourself... at 0032hrs IST and back home after 12hrs work day coding/debugging I'm too lazy to look it for you)
GE India filed 500+ patents last year . Lastest Intel Xeon was developed in Intel India development center. Fastest selling TI DSP was designed in TI India (Bangalore center). So yes, Indian's are getting good work... though its not universally the case.
Agreed. My most recent place of employment used one for primary DNS and DHCP. It ran Solaris 2.6, and
in two years there I never had any problems with it.
Pizzaboxes may be ancient, but they get the job done. I wouldn't task one as a high-availability database server or anything like that
If you didn't have any problems with it in 2 years, what's wrong with using one as high availability database server considering that that box has awesome throughput ?
Dude, you're not allowed to use any programmable calculator even in post grad courses in IITs (Indian Institute of technology) even NOW... and nobody misses them.
As for problems involving them, we have something called "lab exercises" where usually a Solaris/Linux/WIndows box running MATLAB is at your disposal and you're supposed to solve some fairly "interesting" problems;-)
That is one of the reasons you see Indians excell even without the "facilities".
Calculators in High school (US quivalent of 12th grade) Ha!!! No one even touches one till they reach grad classes.
Hell, even in IITs, you can't use any calculator that is in any way superior to "Non-Programmable FX100" (the ideal model is Casio FX100W).
Yeah, bring one of those funky TI/HP calculators, and you're outta class!! Bring one to exams and you're outta the school.
PS. Profs can bar using calculators altogether in exams, if they think that the questions are not "hard" (ie, they can be done if you know values of log 2, 3, 5, 7, trignometric ratios from 0-360 at 30 deg intervals, common physical quantities like heat values, bond enegies etc). On the other side there are profs who would let you bring WHATEVER you want/need to solve the problems in exams and yet you would be struggling to solve even half the questions in the prescribed time limit.
yeah, and with MS holding patents, Microsoft will be to Mono as SCO is to Linux.
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Better yet, imagine a whole connected world, with everyone owning a portable, wireless PDA/cell phone. Each device could be networked to every other device, and could be set to run important calculations in the background, when it is not in use.
... And the battery dies in uh 1 hr!!
Have you ever thought why your phone has a standby time of 480 hrs and talk time of 4.5 hrs ? These little devices conserve power by switching off the CPU (power guzzler) and the RF unit (only 'pinging' periodically). If they are networked and work continuously round the clok, there goes your standby time down the drain. Would you like to charge your phone 6 times a day while your phone is busy calculating some arcane data ?
BTW, Earth simulator is a ~30Tera flops (ie. floating point operations/s) machine. A typical phone has around 200 mips of processing power. If you want to do floating point, it would mostly be simulated cuz the tiny cpu in there doesn't have a FPU in general. So at around ~30Mflops (with damn good FP emulation) you're gonna need around a million PDAs... and need to charge them 6 times a day.
[sorry for HTML submission previously.]... it was loaded with goodies. Quoting from the article-
"Our Simputer comes with a smart card reader. It has a USB master that can host different kind of peripherals. It has an in-built modem, GSM/CDMA data interface, GPS receiver and the equivalent of a 400 MHZ Celeron [comment: its a SA proc]. It is a power packed machine," says Samyeer Metrani, group manager (embedded systems), Encore Technologies.
Probably they needed to include the goodies for special purposes, but somehow they got in the "basic" model where many of these weren't even needed. Comeon... even Palm and Zaurus don't have GPS receiver and CDMA+GSM interface, buildin modem and a 400(!) MHz processor.
The cost can surely be brought down, but then they would be competing with established players. So they chose the alternative route to play in niche markets with feature packed versions... and its very well known that benefits of economies of scale are usually not available to niche players!
... it was loaded with goodies. Quoting from the article-
"Our Simputer comes with a smart card reader. It has a USB master that can host different kind of peripherals. It has an in-built modem, GSM/CDMA data interface, GPS receiver and the equivalent of a 400 MHZ Celeron [comment: its a SA proc]. It is a power packed machine," says Samyeer Metrani, group manager (embedded systems), Encore Technologies.
Probably they needed to include the goodies for special purposes, but somehow they got in the "basic" model where many of these weren't even needed. Comeon... even Palm and Zaurus don't have GPS receiver and CDMA+GSM interface, buildin modem and a 400(!) MHz processor.
The cost can surely be brought down, but then they would be competing with established players. So they chose the alternative route to play in niche markets with feature packed versions... and its very well known that benefits of economies of scale are usually not available to niche players!
amen to that!
one hasn't truly lived until they've done an:
import somewhere.far.away/net/net
Your wish has been granted... actually it was around more than a decade ago.
Check out QNX, you can use other QNX machine's network (and other devices, including audio, graphics, block devices etc) as your own local ones!!! And no silly imports etc... they just work!
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... these machines are hugely successfull and these kind of incidents are rare.
The reason is that machines here are EXTREMELY simple. No 'enter 10 digit code to vote' bullsh*t. Every candidate has got a dedicated button on panel where his party's logo, his photo and name are prominantly displayed. An officer verifies your name from list and presses a 'companion' button... only after that you can press a button inside the voting box (only once!).
Thus its a simple electronic 'interlock' mechanism. At the end of the day, officers can push a button and can read individual vote count on the display. No complex logic in software... and no 'practical' "intentional" bugs causing bias, because the machines come only with a panel with LARGE number of unlabelled buttons... these buttons gets labelled with stickers of candidates party logo, photo and name only after its assigned to a particular constituency. Given that assignment is random and voting happens in multiple phases, the same machine can be used in multiple locations... with completely 'unpredictable' labelling (eg. BJP's candidate may get 10th button in one area and 50th in other)... so the programmers can't introduce intentional bias bugs.
Following the KISS principle sometimes really helps.
Note that name of the buyer has been kept secret. None of the agencies you mentioned need their names to be kept secret... infact Tax Returns dept will scream all over that it can now serve the texpayers better!!
So the issue is who was the buyer who needed this to make his HUGE database reasonably fast AND needs to keep the name secret.
Here in India, GSM networks operate in 900MHz and 1800MHz bands. 900MHz is omnipresent, 1800 is available in Big cities because 900MHz band can't fulfil the bandwidth requirement alone.
:-)
Also, in India GSM is 'unlocked'. That means you can have any compatible handset and you only need to purchase a SIM card. The handsets are *not* tied to a particular provider. There is no monopoly here and in general (exclusing small cities) you'll find multiple GSM operators in a city. FYI, Prepaid is more popular than postpaid here.
CDMA is also available as an option and through new unified licensing, CDMA operators are entitled to provide *same* level of services as GSM operators (like full roaming, additional frills like WAP/Internet/multimedia etc etc). However, right now majority of CDMA handsets are provided by operators themselves and are tied to the operator (there are anyways only two major CDMA players - Reliance and Tata Indicom). Reliance even offers Prepaid connections on their CDMA network. Like GSM, in most (big) cities, you'll have choice of both Reliance and Tata.
Enjoy your stay
Here in India, GSM networks operate in 900MHz and 1800MHz bands. 900MHz is omnipresent, 1800 is available in Big cities because 900MHz band can't fulfil the bandwidth requirement alone. Also, in India GSM is 'unlocked'. That means you can have any compatible handset and you only need to purchase a SIM card. The handsets are *not* tied to a particular provider. There is no monopoly here and in general (exclusing small cities) you'll find multiple GSM operators in a city. FYI, Prepaid is more popular than postpaid here. CDMA is also available as an option and through new unified licensing, CDMA operators are entitled to provide *same* level of services as GSM operators (like full roaming, additional frills like WAP/Internet/multimedia etc etc). However, right now majority of CDMA handsets are provided by operators themselves and are tied to the operator (there are anyways only two major CDMA players - Reliance and Tata Indicom). Reliance even offers Prepaid connections on their CDMA network. Like GSM, in most (big) cities, you'll have choice of both Reliance and Tata. Enjoy your stay :-)
Have to say it, this was one of the best written personal review article submitted to slashdot in recent past.
It covers the functionality well, does not break the continuity and was fun to read.
If only we had more articles like this, slashdot might gain few more subscribers.
What makes you believe that Xbox 2's BIOS will support booting from USB mass storage devices ?
Actually in 'backward' India too :-)
For example here in Hyderabad, I don't have a landline at home, but have a DSL line from Tata Indicom, and have 512/512 service from my ISP Dishnet DSL. (Actually, they have a mutual agreement with Tata Indicom... pretty much OK cuz we have got Dishnet DSL only as ISP who provide service over DSL in this city).
Suuure... you just have to do something 'interesting'... as a bonus they will move YOU too , to something called 'X-Ray camp' :-)
I'm forsaking moderating to reply!
Background: I'm an Indian, I ride a bike and had a fall sometime ago going at 100+ kmph (ie 80+ MPH).
The docs at Apollo Hospital (one of the best hospital chains in India) did MRI... total cost for MRI - Rs 6600! (that is around $330 for you).
And all this after taking into consideration that the MRI equipment is IMPORTED... so they got to pay the shipping and excise/custom duties!!
So, yeah, US docs are FLEECING you! Wake up.
(Request: Look on google for news links yourself... at 0032hrs IST and back home after 12hrs work day coding/debugging I'm too lazy to look it for you)
GE India filed 500+ patents last year . Lastest Intel Xeon was developed in Intel India development center. Fastest selling TI DSP was designed in TI India (Bangalore center). So yes, Indian's are getting good work... though its not universally the case.
UK isn't part of EU yet!
old days ???
;-)
Dude, you're not allowed to use any programmable calculator even in post grad courses in IITs (Indian Institute of technology) even NOW... and nobody misses them.
As for problems involving them, we have something called "lab exercises" where usually a Solaris/Linux/WIndows box running MATLAB is at your disposal and you're supposed to solve some fairly "interesting" problems
Nope. not even by a large measure.
France Telecom's Oracle database is around 30 TB in size (29,232 GB.. thats a comma not a decimal point).
That is one of the reasons you see Indians excell even without the "facilities".
Calculators in High school (US quivalent of 12th grade) Ha!!! No one even touches one till they reach grad classes.
Hell, even in IITs, you can't use any calculator that is in any way superior to "Non-Programmable FX100" (the ideal model is Casio FX100W).
Yeah, bring one of those funky TI/HP calculators, and you're outta class!! Bring one to exams and you're outta the school.
PS. Profs can bar using calculators altogether in exams, if they think that the questions are not "hard" (ie, they can be done if you know values of log 2, 3, 5, 7, trignometric ratios from 0-360 at 30 deg intervals, common physical quantities like heat values, bond enegies etc). On the other side there are profs who would let you bring WHATEVER you want/need to solve the problems in exams and yet you would be struggling to solve even half the questions in the prescribed time limit.
... I can see capitalism "working"... naked and in all its gory details.
Folks, absolute power untimately corrupts absolutely, and sadly, capitalism gives that power in hands of those who have deep pockets.
Say it again, this time with "Linux" in front of you.
yeah, and with MS holding patents, Microsoft will be to Mono as SCO is to Linux.
Have you ever thought why your phone has a standby time of 480 hrs and talk time of 4.5 hrs ? These little devices conserve power by switching off the CPU (power guzzler) and the RF unit (only 'pinging' periodically). If they are networked and work continuously round the clok, there goes your standby time down the drain. Would you like to charge your phone 6 times a day while your phone is busy calculating some arcane data ?
BTW, Earth simulator is a ~30Tera flops (ie. floating point operations/s) machine. A typical phone has around 200 mips of processing power. If you want to do floating point, it would mostly be simulated cuz the tiny cpu in there doesn't have a FPU in general. So at around ~30Mflops (with damn good FP emulation) you're gonna need around a million PDAs... and need to charge them 6 times a day.
[sorry for HTML submission previously.] ... it was loaded with goodies. Quoting from the article-
"Our Simputer comes with a smart card reader. It has a USB master that can host different kind of peripherals. It has an in-built modem, GSM/CDMA data interface, GPS receiver and the equivalent of a 400 MHZ Celeron [comment: its a SA proc]. It is a power packed machine," says Samyeer Metrani, group manager (embedded systems), Encore Technologies.
Probably they needed to include the goodies for special purposes, but somehow they got in the "basic" model where many of these weren't even needed. Comeon... even Palm and Zaurus don't have GPS receiver and CDMA+GSM interface, buildin modem and a 400(!) MHz processor.
The cost can surely be brought down, but then they would be competing with established players. So they chose the alternative route to play in niche markets with feature packed versions... and its very well known that benefits of economies of scale are usually not available to niche players!
... it was loaded with goodies. Quoting from the article- "Our Simputer comes with a smart card reader. It has a USB master that can host different kind of peripherals. It has an in-built modem, GSM/CDMA data interface, GPS receiver and the equivalent of a 400 MHZ Celeron [comment: its a SA proc]. It is a power packed machine," says Samyeer Metrani, group manager (embedded systems), Encore Technologies. Probably they needed to include the goodies for special purposes, but somehow they got in the "basic" model where many of these weren't even needed. Comeon... even Palm and Zaurus don't have GPS receiver and CDMA+GSM interface, buildin modem and a 400(!) MHz processor. The cost can surely be brought down, but then they would be competing with established players. So they chose the alternative route to play in niche markets with feature packed versions... and its very well known that benefits of economies of scale are usually not available to niche players!
Your wish has been granted... actually it was around more than a decade ago.
Check out QNX, you can use other QNX machine's network (and other devices, including audio, graphics, block devices etc) as your own local ones!!! And no silly imports etc... they just work!