Wouldn't viewers of movies on this device be missing stuff? Based on where they are sitting, this would mean they only see portions of a movie, yes - i.e only one angle.
Making movies so that everything that needs to be visible is visible would be harder.
And making movies where something should not be visible or should be hidden, will be harder.
If this catches on it might spawn movie story telling techniques where the story seems different depending on where the viewer is sitting.
The breed of cows called "Brahma" in the West is derived from the humped cattle indigenous to the Indian sub-continent. Brahma cattle have a hump if you've noticed.
They were probably named after one of the region's primary Gods or its priestly class.
They were brought to the West because they could supposedly handle diseases better.
The missile itself is named after a combination of the names of rivers in the two countries that participated in its design.
Well it runs on an SVR4 derived UNIX - MP-RAS. And its very SVR4 - I should know. I have been using it for something like eight years now, and have worked in it at various levels (from device drivers to file-systems to apps to shell scripts).
Teradata runs on-top/within it.
A Teradata cluster uses mostly off-the-shelf h/w. Perhaps the only thing proprietary is the BYNET interconnect between the nodes in the cluster. But it shows up on the MP-RAS nodes as LAN interface cards and can be treated as such.
I do agree its expensive and nowhere as well-known as the other dbases, but it sure scales.
Have you considered NCR's Teradata? It runs on Intel boxes. I don't know if it is suited for your specific application, but it does top the TPC benchmarks in the higher categories.
The best example would be a multi-user system running different programs whose working set would be larger than 4GB. You would want to keep as much of the working set in the RAM as possible.
Yeah sure, I'ld love that. Further, if you offered to buy the land from me instead of getting the local mafia don to help you, we could be decent about it.
And its not like the Zionists are poor.
I think the solution to this whole mess is monetary.
Since it was the Zionists and the nations of the UN that made this mess, let them: 1) Ensure that a Palestine with clearly defined borders is created and respected by the Israelis. 2) Have the Zionists and the countries in the UN that voted for the creation of Israel cough up a suitably high value for the land they have "given/taken" and use that as starting capital for the new Palestinian nation and rehabilitation of the Palestinian dispora.
Running around saying the "fat-cat Palestinies don't want us to have a home" by stealing their land is a bit stupid if Israel is expecting to make a bid for some charity.
The Jewish diaspora is rich enough to fund the Zionist dream.
There are already 21 Arab states in the world. Israel just wants their little strip of rocky, desolate, oil-barren land the size of New Jersey. Without Israel, the dispersed Jewry has no land on which to make its homeland. Now, which side is greedy for more land?
You mean to tell me if you have
21 pieces of silver and someone else has none, he is allowed to grab it from you?
And if you fight him off and he grabs 3 more pieces of silver in a defensive fight he can keep those as well?
And just because his God has proclaimed that he will never starve, it therefore means you must somehow bow to his religion and his beliefs and give up your 4 pieces of silver?
The vast majority of current-day Palestinians have roots in the area going back only about 100 years or so, having immigrated contemporaneously with the better known Zionist immigration.
Do you have any references you can provide on this "going back only about 100 years" immigration of the Arab Palestinies?
And so what if it was? How many Jews were there in Palestine before the Zionists moved in?
Why should the British or even the UN decide on a Jewish home land by giving away land that wasn't theirs to begin with? So what if the Zionists only got 22% of the land that the British meant them to have? You mean the Arabs (Jordanians) should be happy that they got 78% of their land and should not shutup and go home.
I understand a lot of the confusion arose because the British required that land be registered. Literate Arabs in present day Jordan registered the land in their names and then sold it to Zionists all without the permission of the illiterate farmers living on these lands.
Trans(Jordan) was pretty densely populated I am sure. I suppose you mean because the British agreed to hand these over to the Zionists it belongs to them now. The Zionists have somehow been wronged by not being given something that belonged to someone else!
And the Arabs are greedy for not giving only 10% of their land to Zionists who at the time were known to be racist and practise selective hiring and had established patterns of chasing Arabs off from areas they were moving into.
What peoples would allow their own eviction? I understand at the time of partition 10% of Palestine was Jewish and the remaining 90% Arab.
And about Arab infant mortality - its a lot like saying the blacks under apartheid were better of than the ones in the rest of Africa, so they ought to be grateful!:-7
Israel I understand gets aid running into the billions every year from the US. The Israeli Arabs are so lucky to live in a country so blessed.
The present day situation of the Paletinies are a result of British, Zionist and neighbouring-Arabs meddling/mucking up. They have done nothing to deserve it themselves except maybe for being more disorganized than they should be.
and it is this attitude that makes me think that India will never do anything to help its billions of people living in poverty.
Why do you say that we spending $16 million on technology development means we will NOT DO ANYTHING to help our billions of poor people? We are doing a lot. A lot.
Do you seriously believe that a nation may have just one agenda at any given time? That if it decides to send a probe to the moon it has abandoned its billions (when did we get into plural billions) of poor?
What about the other issues I have raised? You think our nations pride, self-sufficiency, education and HR depletion are not issues? WHat do you have to say about that?
I know that there are a lot of people like you who turn a blind eye towards the lower classes in India.
How do you know I turn a blind eye to the lower classes? Because I want my nation to be self-sufficient and proud and hate brain-drain you assume I turn a blind eye to the lower classes? Well I would say *fuck you* but I won't:-), because the above line makes you look really stupid. How could you possibly assume I look down on lower classes?!
Why don't you just mail me at veliath@m-net.arbornet.org.remove.this.trailer. and continue this dicussion. I don't want to have to keep logging in to slashdot to read what you have to say.
Yes the US also has poverty and everything, but it is nothing compared to what India (or most developing countries) has . . . assuming you have been to both countries, it amazes me that you would compare the two.
I would compare the two and maybe you should do. There is something called the PQLI which you can use to compare. See what we have done, are doing and can do to alleviate our poverty.
The issues here are primarily:
Self-sufficiency. We don't want to have to depend on the Americans or anyone else if we can help it. You say you don't see any indication of future economical need. That hardly counts considering we have no clue whats out there or what use it can be put to.
Pride. The pride we wish to generate is not for the poor squatting in their filth. It's to inspire our youth from the middle class to participate in the nations development. The middle class pays much of the taxes in India. Surely India can afford to allow them this pride.
Education. I understand close to 10-20% of NASA is staffed by people of Indian origin. Don't you think we could use those people out here? You think we can keep such people if we don't have things they can do with their talent? Do you think they would even be inspired to work for India if we didn't have a space program they could contribute to?
Perhaps we should just train them all at government expense (as its done now) and send them off to NASA. Either we ramp up our hard science and technology job opportunities or ramp down our educational system.
$16 million more a year isn't much for the benefits India reaps. We wouldn't want them running away to another country to find jobs and help in other countries' development. Its either that or cancel our technology education programs.
What do you think India should do?
Poverty. Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta are the worst slums in Asia. But do you think they are representative of India? Are the ghettos or harlems of NYork representative of the US? A lot of the people visiting India walk around Delhi, shake their heads and pass judgement.
I would recommend visiting rural Maharashtra, Kerala or Punjab - the states with the highest quality of life indicators. That is what we are capable of. States like Tamilzh Nadhu, Karnataka, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh are not far behind. (Once again Hyderabad is not representative of AP though its very pretty I hear).
The OS example/analogy might be ridiculous to you just like they seemed to the first people who heard about the projects.
The point I was trying to make was that India should/will not be at the mercy of technological philanthropy if it can be helped.
obviously poeople have more of a need for a selection of OSes than for a selection of countries who have sent shuttles to the moon.
And what happens when sometime in the future we need to place a satellite around the moon or setup a base on the moon or in the asteriod belt? I suppose you would love to see us look to the Americans for technology. Well *we* wouldn't.
I was brought up in Kuwait(did all my schooling there) and came to India for my graduation. I know what a developed country looks like. I know what it is to have clean streets, good food, generous and free health care and air-conditioning. I want that for India; but I do not think we can get there if we do not have development in all the various human endeavours - arts, technology, quality of life.
And I'll say this. The reason I singled out the AC that posted the comments I am replying to is that he/she is of Indian origin. I would expect that he/she would look around India, read up about what its doing in the various areas of development before shooting his/her mouth off. Others have an excuse - they are tourists or business men. Peoples of Indian origin on the other hand have the resources (i.e. family in India) to move around India and see what it is beyond the slums surrounding the airports in the metros.
its things like this that convince me that India WILL NOT EVER leave the status of a developing country
And what are the other things? The proposal says that if we spend something like $16 million a year we can shoot a projectile onto the moon in five years. How does this convince you that we'll never leave the status of developing country?
Are you telling me there was no poverty or hunger or oppression in the US when their space program kicked off? I suppose no one lives in their own filth and violence out there in the US right now.
Which country has one of the highest incarceration rates out there? Which country actually make money selling prison (slave) labour to companies? Heck which country actually has a lobby that wants more prisons made because its so profitable? Which country has an incarceration rate of 3% amongst its largest minority?
And what was the state of this minority when the space program in that country was started?
So who says what the "rich people" to "people living in filth" ratio should be before a nation can start considering a space program?
The US spent money on its space program primarily because the Russians were(Sputnik, JFKs speech). They didn't want to be beaten. Pride is okay for the Americans but not for the Indians, huh?
Or perhaps India is to wait with a begging bowl for the Americans to drop in and take out technology that we might need later - perhaps when we need minerals that might be present only on the moon or certain asteroids or whatever.
Effectively what you are saying is - "We'll look after science and technology for the world. You look after your teeming millions in poverty. What use has a nation so poor for pride".
By the same argument we Indians shouldn't be spending money training atheletes. Heck whats the pride in having a few people run faster or jump higher. We could use that money to have some more people stop living in their own filth.:-7
From what I have read, the ISRO programs have spawned a whole ancillary industry for the manufacture of precision parts for aircrafts and space vehicles. This is not one or two government units but a lot of medium sized privately held companies that make parts which can be exported - which bring in revenue for our country.[Sorry I don't have a URL to back this up.] Industry that can be used to arm ourselves during the various embargoes that get thrown our way everytime we act "irresponsibly" (like the evil inherent in a third world country testing nukes:-7).
Further, the arguments here run along the lines - "There is nothing original being done here, why waste money"? To that I would give the example of people re-creating OSes. I mean what if we all listened to MSoft and believed that their OSes are good enough and that we should expend our energies elsewhere - perhaps writing apps for Windows?
A lot of the linux people do not trust MSoft (I don't) and wouldn't mind recreating technology they know they could control better and that wouldn't screw them in ways they didn't know; or would come with strings attached in contorted EULAs they had no way of understanding.
In much the same way why should/would India have to be dependent on countries that have already "done it" to be generous with their technology handouts?
Almost everyone knows the US gives out technology the same way MSoft does - for profit and to ultimately be in control. They yank things back when they want, they put restrictions when they want. Are you'll saying India has to put up with all this?
Like I said before, there might be a strong economical need to reach the stars or atleast deep space in the near future. When that happens you expect the US will be helping other countries stake their claims? I don't think so.
Indias nuclear program had nothing to do with the current government. Its been on since well before 1976. The present government simply publicly tested a few to gain political mileage or whatever.
India believes it has the resources to be as good as any nation in the world. It has also learnt that the nations of the world believe in what Rockfeller said: "Philanthropy is good, but philanthropy with profit is even better" (or something to that effect).
India thankfully doesnt have the "discipline" of the Chinese government system. Democracy is chaotic. Inspite of this we have thumbed our noses at the nay-sayers who predicted India would break up or fail like other former colonies (much smaller and more homogenous than we). For a former colony with the kind of heterogenity that we have and a political system not based on coercion we have done remarkably well.
Name another former colony thats a democracy and has fared as well as we (Thailand, SKorea maybe - but they had the Americans protecting them from the evil commies in countries to the north).
And sure we had problems in Gujarat but it was contained to Gujarat and there were no incidents in other states - proof that the Gujarat carnage was engineered by the political machinery of that state and not really a reflection of its people or Indias people.
All in all I support what the ISRO does and plans. Its good for our pride and its good for India.
"Mr. Duke has tremendous admiration for India" Oh ya?!:-7
I can see him standing there with "tremendous admiration" for that little girl covered with pus and flies and using her as an example for what america could become if the americans don't stop non-white masses pouring in.
Personally, I do believe america has the right to maintain its racial ratios - their immigration laws are based on this I believe (racial quotas). I'm all for it.
What I feel totally stupid is how he claims Indian civilization has "declined"! and this so called "decline" happened because "races" mixed! We are healthier now than ever before. We have more freedom and more people enjoy the arts like no time before in India's history. And we are in a "decline"?
But Duke isn't interested in that. He needs to show that mixing of "races" will cause "decline of civilization"s, so he has to pick out a slum to walk through.
If he were really interested in seeing what half-breeds can do, he should visit Kerala which has possibly the highest ratio of Muslims to Hindus in India and see what they have been upto. It has had major racial and cultural infusion from Arabia and N India. And whats happened? They have the most radical democratic political system in the world and have reached levels of literacy and QLI rivalling the US state of Kansas at less than 1/50th the cost. They have a higher literacy rate than Great Britain.
Why bother with Kerala, visit any village in N India and use that as an example. He chose to concentrate on a slum and a slum dweller to prove his stand - that he doesn't want other races mixing with his.
Like I said, I sympathize with his cause, but he better come up with a better example than pointing at slum dwellers and bemoaning the decline of Indian civilization. What ever peak he seems to have seen for Indian civilization had as high a percentage of slum dwellers or people at that subsistence level as there are now.
India is militarily and economically weak (or weaker than the US) at present. Period. We are not in any decline. And our racial heterogenity has nothing to do with anything, and is something a lot of us are proud of.
Heck we have more cultural and "racial" diversity than most continents!
Whats so fascinating about a white supremist walking through the slums of India and clucking in disgust?! He awakens from being a mere "racially conscious White person" to "the sacred purpose of all those who came before us, and those who will follow us in the unbroken spiral toward the heavens. I had become an Aryan", after walking through Delhi's slums.
Sure if I were a Dravidian supremist (they do exist) and I wanted to point out what a fucked up place America is and how the Aryans and Caucasians in general fuck things up, I would visit some slum in New York or LA and point at the violence and drugs and what not and draw lessons for all mankind.
I hate to break supremists bubbles but the dravidians of India and the Aryans belong to the Caucasoid family along with the Jews and Arabs. Ya Ya Ya, I was disappointed too.
I have noticed that everytime Slashdot mentions something about Indian aerospace, its clubbed under "the utter lunacy department" or some such thing by the moderator and almost a third of the posts are sneers.
I wonder if slashdot is representative of American nerds or just its loud minority.
As an aside they ought to change the title of this website to - "Slashdot: Gossip for nerds, stuff that might matter"
For one thing the kernel is not the only place one puts in functionality in Unixs. A lot of it can be in user space too.
This is so when the functionality is too complicated or is not dependent on such kernel-only processing such as interrupt handling or physical memory addressing and stuff.
So if I wanted to support a sound card I would put it in the kernel. But video cards are typically supported from user space.
Next, Linux *does* support multimedia - just like Microsoft does.
What happens is that *vendors* provide the support for their devices in Windows. Many vendors do not provide this support for linux - simply because it probably isn't a large enough market - *not* because linux isn't capable or lacks the architecture.
So its vendors who do not support Linux and not linux that does not support multimedia.
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Making movies so that everything that needs to be visible is visible would be harder.
And making movies where something should not be visible or should be hidden, will be harder.
If this catches on it might spawn movie story telling techniques where the story seems different depending on where the viewer is sitting.
veliath
They were probably named after one of the region's primary Gods or its priestly class.
They were brought to the West because they could supposedly handle diseases better.
The missile itself is named after a combination of the names of rivers in the two countries that participated in its design.
veliath
Teradata runs on-top/within it.
A Teradata cluster uses mostly off-the-shelf h/w. Perhaps the only thing proprietary is the BYNET interconnect between the nodes in the cluster. But it shows up on the MP-RAS nodes as LAN interface cards and can be treated as such.
I do agree its expensive and nowhere as well-known as the other dbases, but it sure scales.
veliath
veliath
The number of CPUs doesn't come into this at all.
veliath
veliath
Yeah sure, I'ld love that. Further, if you offered to buy the land from me instead of getting the local mafia don to help you, we could be decent about it.
And its not like the Zionists are poor.
I think the solution to this whole mess is monetary.
Since it was the Zionists and the nations of the UN that made this mess, let them:
1) Ensure that a Palestine with clearly defined borders is created and respected by the Israelis.
2) Have the Zionists and the countries in the UN that voted for the creation of Israel cough up a suitably high value for the land they have "given/taken" and use that as starting capital for the new Palestinian nation and rehabilitation of the Palestinian dispora.
Running around saying the "fat-cat Palestinies don't want us to have a home" by stealing their land is a bit stupid if Israel is expecting to make a bid for some charity.
The Jewish diaspora is rich enough to fund the Zionist dream.
And how did this become its own?
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Anyways,when I said 4 - I meant the original 1 and the 3 he grabbed defensively
The Israelis are building settlements.
And if you fight him off and he grabs 3 more pieces of silver in a defensive fight he can keep those as well?
And just because his God has proclaimed that he will never starve, it therefore means you must somehow bow to his religion and his beliefs and give up your 4 pieces of silver?
Seriously?
And so what if it was? How many Jews were there in Palestine before the Zionists moved in?
Why should the British or even the UN decide on a Jewish home land by giving away land that wasn't theirs to begin with? So what if the Zionists only got 22% of the land that the British meant them to have? You mean the Arabs (Jordanians) should be happy that they got 78% of their land and should not shutup and go home.
I understand a lot of the confusion arose because the British required that land be registered. Literate Arabs in present day Jordan registered the land in their names and then sold it to Zionists all without the permission of the illiterate farmers living on these lands.
Trans(Jordan) was pretty densely populated I am sure. I suppose you mean because the British agreed to hand these over to the Zionists it belongs to them now. The Zionists have somehow been wronged by not being given something that belonged to someone else!
And the Arabs are greedy for not giving only 10% of their land to Zionists who at the time were known to be racist and practise selective hiring and had established patterns of chasing Arabs off from areas they were moving into.
What peoples would allow their own eviction? I understand at the time of partition 10% of Palestine was Jewish and the remaining 90% Arab.
And about Arab infant mortality - its a lot like saying the blacks under apartheid were better of than the ones in the rest of Africa, so they ought to be grateful!:-7
Israel I understand gets aid running into the billions every year from the US. The Israeli Arabs are so lucky to live in a country so blessed.
The present day situation of the Paletinies are a result of British, Zionist and neighbouring-Arabs meddling/mucking up. They have done nothing to deserve it themselves except maybe for being more disorganized than they should be.
Why do you say that we spending $16 million on technology development means we will NOT DO ANYTHING to help our billions of poor people? We are doing a lot. A lot.
Do you seriously believe that a nation may have just one agenda at any given time? That if it decides to send a probe to the moon it has abandoned its billions (when did we get into plural billions) of poor?
What about the other issues I have raised? You think our nations pride, self-sufficiency, education and HR depletion are not issues? WHat do you have to say about that?
I know that there are a lot of people like you who turn a blind eye towards the lower classes in India.
How do you know I turn a blind eye to the lower classes? Because I want my nation to be self-sufficient and proud and hate brain-drain you assume I turn a blind eye to the lower classes? Well I would say *fuck you* but I won't:-), because the above line makes you look really stupid. How could you possibly assume I look down on lower classes?!
Why don't you just mail me at veliath@m-net.arbornet.org.remove.this.trailer. and continue this dicussion. I don't want to have to keep logging in to slashdot to read what you have to say.
veliath
I would compare the two and maybe you should do. There is something called the PQLI which you can use to compare. See what we have done, are doing and can do to alleviate our poverty.
The issues here are primarily:
Self-sufficiency. We don't want to have to depend on the Americans or anyone else if we can help it. You say you don't see any indication of future economical need. That hardly counts considering we have no clue whats out there or what use it can be put to.
Pride. The pride we wish to generate is not for the poor squatting in their filth. It's to inspire our youth from the middle class to participate in the nations development. The middle class pays much of the taxes in India. Surely India can afford to allow them this pride.
Education. I understand close to 10-20% of NASA is staffed by people of Indian origin. Don't you think we could use those people out here? You think we can keep such people if we don't have things they can do with their talent? Do you think they would even be inspired to work for India if we didn't have a space program they could contribute to?
Perhaps we should just train them all at government expense (as its done now) and send them off to NASA. Either we ramp up our hard science and technology job opportunities or ramp down our educational system.
$16 million more a year isn't much for the benefits India reaps. We wouldn't want them running away to another country to find jobs and help in other countries' development. Its either that or cancel our technology education programs.
What do you think India should do?
Poverty. Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta are the worst slums in Asia. But do you think they are representative of India? Are the ghettos or harlems of NYork representative of the US? A lot of the people visiting India walk around Delhi, shake their heads and pass judgement.
I would recommend visiting rural Maharashtra, Kerala or Punjab - the states with the highest quality of life indicators. That is what we are capable of. States like Tamilzh Nadhu, Karnataka, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh are not far behind. (Once again Hyderabad is not representative of AP though its very pretty I hear).
The OS example/analogy might be ridiculous to you just like they seemed to the first people who heard about the projects.
The point I was trying to make was that India should/will not be at the mercy of technological philanthropy if it can be helped.
obviously poeople have more of a need for a selection of OSes than for a selection of countries who have sent shuttles to the moon.
And what happens when sometime in the future we need to place a satellite around the moon or setup a base on the moon or in the asteriod belt? I suppose you would love to see us look to the Americans for technology. Well *we* wouldn't.
I was brought up in Kuwait(did all my schooling there) and came to India for my graduation. I know what a developed country looks like. I know what it is to have clean streets, good food, generous and free health care and air-conditioning. I want that for India; but I do not think we can get there if we do not have development in all the various human endeavours - arts, technology, quality of life.
And I'll say this. The reason I singled out the AC that posted the comments I am replying to is that he/she is of Indian origin. I would expect that he/she would look around India, read up about what its doing in the various areas of development before shooting his/her mouth off. Others have an excuse - they are tourists or business men. Peoples of Indian origin on the other hand have the resources (i.e. family in India) to move around India and see what it is beyond the slums surrounding the airports in the metros.
veliath
And what are the other things? The proposal says that if we spend something like $16 million a year we can shoot a projectile onto the moon in five years. How does this convince you that we'll never leave the status of developing country?
Are you telling me there was no poverty or hunger or oppression in the US when their space program kicked off? I suppose no one lives in their own filth and violence out there in the US right now.
Which country has one of the highest incarceration rates out there? Which country actually make money selling prison (slave) labour to companies? Heck which country actually has a lobby that wants more prisons made because its so profitable? Which country has an incarceration rate of 3% amongst its largest minority?
And what was the state of this minority when the space program in that country was started?
So who says what the "rich people" to "people living in filth" ratio should be before a nation can start considering a space program?
The US spent money on its space program primarily because the Russians were(Sputnik, JFKs speech). They didn't want to be beaten. Pride is okay for the Americans but not for the Indians, huh?
Or perhaps India is to wait with a begging bowl for the Americans to drop in and take out technology that we might need later - perhaps when we need minerals that might be present only on the moon or certain asteroids or whatever.
Effectively what you are saying is - "We'll look after science and technology for the world. You look after your teeming millions in poverty. What use has a nation so poor for pride".
By the same argument we Indians shouldn't be spending money training atheletes. Heck whats the pride in having a few people run faster or jump higher. We could use that money to have some more people stop living in their own filth.:-7
From what I have read, the ISRO programs have spawned a whole ancillary industry for the manufacture of precision parts for aircrafts and space vehicles. This is not one or two government units but a lot of medium sized privately held companies that make parts which can be exported - which bring in revenue for our country.[Sorry I don't have a URL to back this up.] Industry that can be used to arm ourselves during the various embargoes that get thrown our way everytime we act "irresponsibly" (like the evil inherent in a third world country testing nukes :-7).
Further, the arguments here run along the lines - "There is nothing original being done here, why waste money"? To that I would give the example of people re-creating OSes. I mean what if we all listened to MSoft and believed that their OSes are good enough and that we should expend our energies elsewhere - perhaps writing apps for Windows?
A lot of the linux people do not trust MSoft (I don't) and wouldn't mind recreating technology they know they could control better and that wouldn't screw them in ways they didn't know; or would come with strings attached in contorted EULAs they had no way of understanding.
In much the same way why should/would India have to be dependent on countries that have already "done it" to be generous with their technology handouts?
Almost everyone knows the US gives out technology the same way MSoft does - for profit and to ultimately be in control. They yank things back when they want, they put restrictions when they want. Are you'll saying India has to put up with all this?
Like I said before, there might be a strong economical need to reach the stars or atleast deep space in the near future. When that happens you expect the US will be helping other countries stake their claims? I don't think so.
Indias nuclear program had nothing to do with the current government. Its been on since well before 1976. The present government simply publicly tested a few to gain political mileage or whatever.
India believes it has the resources to be as good as any nation in the world. It has also learnt that the nations of the world believe in what Rockfeller said: "Philanthropy is good, but philanthropy with profit is even better" (or something to that effect).
India thankfully doesnt have the "discipline" of the Chinese government system. Democracy is chaotic. Inspite of this we have thumbed our noses at the nay-sayers who predicted India would break up or fail like other former colonies (much smaller and more homogenous than we). For a former colony with the kind of heterogenity that we have and a political system not based on coercion we have done remarkably well.
Name another former colony thats a democracy and has fared as well as we (Thailand, SKorea maybe - but they had the Americans protecting them from the evil commies in countries to the north).
As for our caste problems and poverty I would ask you all to take a look at Kerala. Thats a classic example of what people can do if they set their minds to it. http://www.ashanet.org/library/articles/kerala.199 803.html
And sure we had problems in Gujarat but it was contained to Gujarat and there were no incidents in other states - proof that the Gujarat carnage was engineered by the political machinery of that state and not really a reflection of its people or Indias people.
All in all I support what the ISRO does and plans. Its good for our pride and its good for India.
veliath
Oh ya?!:-7
I can see him standing there with "tremendous admiration" for that little girl covered with pus and flies and using her as an example for what america could become if the americans don't stop non-white masses pouring in.
Personally, I do believe america has the right to maintain its racial ratios - their immigration laws are based on this I believe (racial quotas). I'm all for it.
What I feel totally stupid is how he claims Indian civilization has "declined"! and this so called "decline" happened because "races" mixed! We are healthier now than ever before. We have more freedom and more people enjoy the arts like no time before in India's history. And we are in a "decline"?
But Duke isn't interested in that. He needs to show that mixing of "races" will cause "decline of civilization"s, so he has to pick out a slum to walk through.
If he were really interested in seeing what half-breeds can do, he should visit Kerala which has possibly the highest ratio of Muslims to Hindus in India and see what they have been upto. It has had major racial and cultural infusion from Arabia and N India. And whats happened? They have the most radical democratic political system in the world and have reached levels of literacy and QLI rivalling the US state of Kansas at less than 1/50th the cost. They have a higher literacy rate than Great Britain.
Why bother with Kerala, visit any village in N India and use that as an example. He chose to concentrate on a slum and a slum dweller to prove his stand - that he doesn't want other races mixing with his.
Like I said, I sympathize with his cause, but he better come up with a better example than pointing at slum dwellers and bemoaning the decline of Indian civilization. What ever peak he seems to have seen for Indian civilization had as high a percentage of slum dwellers or people at that subsistence level as there are now.
India is militarily and economically weak (or weaker than the US) at present. Period. We are not in any decline. And our racial heterogenity has nothing to do with anything, and is something a lot of us are proud of.
Heck we have more cultural and "racial" diversity than most continents!
veliath
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Sure if I were a Dravidian supremist (they do exist) and I wanted to point out what a fucked up place America is and how the Aryans and Caucasians in general fuck things up, I would visit some slum in New York or LA and point at the violence and drugs and what not and draw lessons for all mankind.
I hate to break supremists bubbles but the dravidians of India and the Aryans belong to the Caucasoid family along with the Jews and Arabs. Ya Ya Ya, I was disappointed too.
I have noticed that everytime Slashdot mentions something about Indian aerospace, its clubbed under "the utter lunacy department" or some such thing by the moderator and almost a third of the posts are sneers.
I wonder if slashdot is representative of American nerds or just its loud minority.
As an aside they ought to change the title of this website to - "Slashdot: Gossip for nerds, stuff that might matter"
For one thing the kernel is not the only place one puts in functionality in Unixs. A lot of it can be in user space too.
This is so when the functionality is too complicated or is not dependent on such kernel-only processing such as interrupt handling or physical memory addressing and stuff.
So if I wanted to support a sound card I would put it in the kernel. But video cards are typically supported from user space.
Next, Linux *does* support multimedia - just like Microsoft does.
What happens is that *vendors* provide the support for their devices in Windows. Many vendors do not provide this support for linux - simply because it probably isn't a large enough market - *not* because linux isn't capable or lacks the architecture.
So its vendors who do not support Linux and not linux that does not support multimedia.
veliath