First of all kudos to the guys who did it. I just hope it picks up as they intend but cannot hep noticing that the article is more idealistic than practical.
* No illiterate/poor guy is going to spend 200$ (10,000 Rs) in India to buy this. Computers have still not become a major part of the government infrastructure in the way they have become in say the US or Singapore. Many places which have been computers are in urban India. And today when I can pick up an XBox / PS2 for 250$ or a Palm for 300$+ in the grey market in any of the cities, will I spend 200$ for a machine with 32 MB of RAM?
* What is the ROI for this product? My pop uses a 5000 Rs (100$) box from one of the ISP's to browse the Internet on the TV. I do not think I would be able to convince him to fork out double the money for something like this.
* Will you buy a Simputer for 10000 bucks when we can buy a P3 machine (assembled) for 23000, or pick up all the old 486'z for 5 K + ? I feel that a computer would be more educational and useful than a simputer.
The only positive thing it looks like is that the Government is going to be a big customer for their product. So more standardisation , less price-manipulation and more people using Linux!
. "Users will be able to start dealing with data as they would with any type of SQL query, so it will no longer matter where the files are located. Organizing data becomes far simpler."
How does it make it any simpler ? May be faster..
Anyway locate ang glimpse always work for me..That makes more sense than putting a DB in the FS
Databases in File systems..wonder why we never need a File System Administrator ? Or is this just a new way to create jobs ???Give me a decent file system which can survive crashes...
Since I can use a garden hoe to hack my neighbor to bits, should the hoe company be help liable?
I have seen this argument again and again on Slashdot and evry time it gets modded up. So lets get two things clear
* Software cannot be compared to a gun or a garden hoe.
* Hacking your neighbor to bits is different from trading illegal software and kid porn.
I would also like to add a few things.
* A very few people (are there any ?) use stuff like Kazaa to trade information. Most of it is just MP3 and warez.
* Things like Kazaa as pointed out do not harm the Music industry. They benefit it.
* Things like Kazaa as pointed out do not harm the Software industry. The industry is free to put anybody who does it behing bars.
* People who discuss about Kazaa and Napster comprise only around 5 % of guys who actually use it. All other guys are dumb (Gnucleus anyone ? )
The whole concept of security for data in a public network is flawed.Security on a public network like the Internet cannot be guaranteed. The Internet was built not for security but for decentralised redundancy.
If I have *really* sensitive data which I want no one to look at , I would not put it in a Email, on the Web or wherever. Ofcourse if you wanted to hide something from corporate spiers use PGP etc can serve the purpose.
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someone help me find that guy laden ..
First of all kudos to the guys who did it. I just hope it picks up as they intend but cannot hep noticing that the article is more idealistic than practical. * No illiterate/poor guy is going to spend 200$ (10,000 Rs) in India to buy this. Computers have still not become a major part of the government infrastructure in the way they have become in say the US or Singapore. Many places which have been computers are in urban India. And today when I can pick up an XBox / PS2 for 250$ or a Palm for 300$+ in the grey market in any of the cities, will I spend 200$ for a machine with 32 MB of RAM? * What is the ROI for this product? My pop uses a 5000 Rs (100$) box from one of the ISP's to browse the Internet on the TV. I do not think I would be able to convince him to fork out double the money for something like this. * Will you buy a Simputer for 10000 bucks when we can buy a P3 machine (assembled) for 23000, or pick up all the old 486'z for 5 K + ? I feel that a computer would be more educational and useful than a simputer. The only positive thing it looks like is that the Government is going to be a big customer for their product. So more standardisation , less price-manipulation and more people using Linux!
. "Users will be able to start dealing with data as they would with any type of SQL query, so it will no longer matter where the files are located. Organizing data becomes far simpler." ..
Anyway locate ang glimpse always work for me ..That makes more sense than putting a DB in the FS
How does it make it any simpler ? May be faster
Databases in File systems..wonder why we never need a File System Administrator ? Or is this just a new way to create jobs ???Give me a decent file system which can survive crashes ...
btw, wont databases make the filesystem slow ?
Since I can use a garden hoe to hack my neighbor to bits, should the hoe company be help liable? I have seen this argument again and again on Slashdot and evry time it gets modded up. So lets get two things clear * Software cannot be compared to a gun or a garden hoe. * Hacking your neighbor to bits is different from trading illegal software and kid porn. I would also like to add a few things. * A very few people (are there any ?) use stuff like Kazaa to trade information. Most of it is just MP3 and warez. * Things like Kazaa as pointed out do not harm the Music industry. They benefit it. * Things like Kazaa as pointed out do not harm the Software industry. The industry is free to put anybody who does it behing bars. * People who discuss about Kazaa and Napster comprise only around 5 % of guys who actually use it. All other guys are dumb (Gnucleus anyone ? )
The whole concept of security for data in a public network is flawed.Security on a public network like the Internet cannot be guaranteed. The Internet was built not for security but for decentralised redundancy. If I have *really* sensitive data which I want no one to look at , I would not put it in a Email, on the Web or wherever. Ofcourse if you wanted to hide something from corporate spiers use PGP etc can serve the purpose.