Comparing India and Pakistan is inappropriate. India is the world's largest secular democracy, with a healthy mix of various ethnicities and the like, with over a billion people. Pakistan is relatively smaller, and is an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship with a military general.
While India's technological developments are said to be largely inhouse (they had a little help from Russia in the 1980s, but Russia had to stop helping them after pressure from the US), Pakistan's technologies are largely borrowed from China.
There is a big difference. India is a progressive economy with a very liberal-minded population, you can be fairly certain that they won't blow up anyone first. Pakistan is a conservative Islamic nation with a military ruler, you never know how they would react.
I've interacted with several Indians - but for the cultural "oddities" they are excellent people.
The cradle of civilization and agriculture. The first place humans built cities. The birthplace of writing. And--oh, yeah--currently the best place in the world to get yourself kidnapped or killed. For archaeologists, there's no plum like Iraq. Saddam actually let them do their job, and he even protected his country's heritage in museums. But now no archaeologist can work in Iraq until security improves. Meanwhile more than 8,500 treasures have been stolen, and those are just from museums, where artifacts are cataloged.
What truly troubles archaeologists is imagining what's being taken from their dig sites in the field. Archaeologist Francis Deblauwe, who is trying to keep tabs on the looting, knows of more than 30 important digs, including ancient Babylon, that have been despoiled, but he notes that his list is "very preliminary and grossly incomplete." When the researchers do get to go back in, they'll be able to determine which sites have been looted. But they'll never know what's been taken.
Sheesh! And I wonder how many such 'casualities' of war we ignore. Really sad.
War is not just people, it's a whole lot more. And as an amateur archaeologist, I really do feel bad. And these things are irreplaceable.
You're right about the spelling part too, that was my bad. However I figured that it would help more people fall for it;) and have decided to let it stay that way.
Btw, the sig _was_ the troll -- I had a perfectly normal, albeit useless, comment on topic. However the sig was in bold and took two lines.
Most people would look at the sig and be like, duh what the hell. Wait and watch for more fun;)
Oh yes, indeed. You're absolutely right in saying that people see things in their perspective and in their perspective alone!
I'm quite well aware of the libertarian idealogies -- ironically, more aware than the folks who fell for my troll:-) Which goes onto show that the idiots who talk a lot know just as little as the people they make fun of.
It's quite funny, though - you would think that on a place like Slashdot, people would be a little smarter. It's as bad as folks falling for trolls on places like Adequacy.org.
And I did notice that the site on your sig supports for a libertarian president;-)
I hope so too, however its only a matter of time before other competitors jump in.
Which might be a good thing, since it may bring about some more price-cuts (okay, now I'm asking for too much, but hey!). On the other hand, I'm not really certain about how long the cheap rates may last.
If everyone gets in on the bandwagon, then there is likelihood of unilateral increase, too.
Ramanujan's Tau function had so much trouble proving that equality, and generalizing it for polynomial continued fractions.
Not to mention the difficulty people have had in proving that trivial equalities are indeed generalizable across various degrees.
Dude, that equation probably has had more effort put in (and continues to have more effort put in, in terms of trivial results in infinity-related operations and operands) than any other.
My favorite is 0 = 0, because it's the one that most often indicates you're done with the math exercise.:-)
And it also indicates the beginning of a lot of problems for a mathematician.
Hmmm, I do not quite understand the preoccupation that the US needs to be numero uno in everything.
Yes, I'm from the US myself - but I would much rather see humanity go somewhere, than just this country.
Germany was once the world's leading hub of sci-tech for a while, then it was Russia and now it is the US. We may be the number one, or we may not - nobody knows yet. However, that does not mean we have to look at it from the perspective of the US being beaten by someone or the US beating someone.
Uhh, moderators -- parent is a troll. An obvious troll at that.
If you read what he is saying, you'd realize that it does not make any sense whatsoever, and has absolutely no relation to the original poster's response.
Please mod parent down.
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failure of the soviet union is proof enough, imho.
you are the idiot here, communism was borne out of academic work on socio-economic systems.
although i suppose even capitalism could be argued as that, truth is that capitalism in some form or the other has always existed (colonialism is just an extreme form of it).
i think what the original poster meant was that all things equal, a theoretical solution is not a substitute for one that's evolved such as capitalism. if we have socio-neo-capitalism with socialist overtones coming off it, then so be it.
the original economic idea for communism was largely academic, while that of capitalism was largely real-life-ish.
Says a guy who's abusing a lady. Hah, the irony of it all. I think you could learn to be polite, I hear it helps in real life.
Honestly, am surprised at the way the mods have plundered this thread. Didn't moderation meant "expressing one's personal opinion". Would be fun if Michael bitchslapped this thread, and $rtbl'ed everyone. Heh.
What the hell? Do you even know a thing about audio systems?
You need to be able to provide a uniformly distributed frequency response, across an infinite number of harmonics. Not to mention the diffusion fields that're created, relative to positions.
Just because it looks simple does not mean designing it was.
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Hmmm, despite his "achievements", Dr. Hawking is not all that highly respected in theoretical physics circles - mind you, he is well respected, just nothing as extraordinary as the rest of the world would like to believe. He's like Feynman - someone who is quite smart, shows off a hell lot but is just another smart physicist - nothing more.
I agree with some of your points, but I will have to disagree on some.
The thing that C zealots fail to recognize is the need for clean, standardized APIs (NOT implementations).
Ahh, but this is where you are wrong. C was initially written to be used for writing an Operating System - something above Assembly but a little more sophisticated.
The basic language needs to adhere to a standard ANSI C, or whatever - that is all. Which it does.
Now all other frills and bells and whistles cannot really be blamed squarely on C - its like blaming MFC and OWL and STL for being non-standardized in C++. APIs are not platform independent, and hence how can the implementations be different?
The thing is that, there is no real need for C in enterprise level applications until they have some kind of low-level interface.
But I do realize that most of your points are valid, however am just offering my 2 cents.
Just that when you use the wrong tool for the task, some problems are inevitable:)
Slashdot Mirror
The sig is sarcastic and designed to shock. See this thread.
Comparing India and Pakistan is inappropriate. India is the world's largest secular democracy, with a healthy mix of various ethnicities and the like, with over a billion people. Pakistan is relatively smaller, and is an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship with a military general.
While India's technological developments are said to be largely inhouse (they had a little help from Russia in the 1980s, but Russia had to stop helping them after pressure from the US), Pakistan's technologies are largely borrowed from China.
There is a big difference. India is a progressive economy with a very liberal-minded population, you can be fairly certain that they won't blow up anyone first. Pakistan is a conservative Islamic nation with a military ruler, you never know how they would react.
I've interacted with several Indians - but for the cultural "oddities" they are excellent people.
The cradle of civilization and agriculture. The first place humans built cities. The birthplace of writing. And--oh, yeah--currently the best place in the world to get yourself kidnapped or killed. For archaeologists, there's no plum like Iraq. Saddam actually let them do their job, and he even protected his country's heritage in museums. But now no archaeologist can work in Iraq until security improves. Meanwhile more than 8,500 treasures have been stolen, and those are just from museums, where artifacts are cataloged.
What truly troubles archaeologists is imagining what's being taken from their dig sites in the field. Archaeologist Francis Deblauwe, who is trying to keep tabs on the looting, knows of more than 30 important digs, including ancient Babylon, that have been despoiled, but he notes that his list is "very preliminary and grossly incomplete." When the researchers do get to go back in, they'll be able to determine which sites have been looted. But they'll never know what's been taken.
Sheesh! And I wonder how many such 'casualities' of war we ignore. Really sad.
War is not just people, it's a whole lot more. And as an amateur archaeologist, I really do feel bad. And these things are irreplaceable.
Ewww!
#4 is Tampon Squeezer
On the other hand, Tampon Tester would rate as one of the best jobs ever.
*sigh*
Sorry if I grossed someone out.
Ofcourse.
;) and have decided to let it stay that way.
;)
You're right about the spelling part too, that was my bad. However I figured that it would help more people fall for it
Btw, the sig _was_ the troll -- I had a perfectly normal, albeit useless, comment on topic. However the sig was in bold and took two lines.
Most people would look at the sig and be like, duh what the hell. Wait and watch for more fun
Oh yes, indeed. You're absolutely right in saying that people see things in their perspective and in their perspective alone!
:-) Which goes onto show that the idiots who talk a lot know just as little as the people they make fun of.
;-)
I'm quite well aware of the libertarian idealogies -- ironically, more aware than the folks who fell for my troll
It's quite funny, though - you would think that on a place like Slashdot, people would be a little smarter. It's as bad as folks falling for trolls on places like Adequacy.org.
And I did notice that the site on your sig supports for a libertarian president
Okay, not bad. Am too tired to continue the charade. Atleast one Slashdotter gets it.
:-) Cheers, mate.
This is more in league with the AST Troll.
Hook, line, sinker
I'm sorry, but you've no idea how ridiculous you sound.
As ridiculous as all those people making caricatures of Bush and comparing him to a Chimp and what not?
God I hope you aren't voting.
Why? Because you disagree with me?
Nice.
I hope so too, however its only a matter of time before other competitors jump in.
Which might be a good thing, since it may bring about some more price-cuts (okay, now I'm asking for too much, but hey!). On the other hand, I'm not really certain about how long the cheap rates may last.
If everyone gets in on the bandwagon, then there is likelihood of unilateral increase, too.
Are you kidding me?
:-)
Ramanujan's Tau function had so much trouble proving that equality, and generalizing it for polynomial continued fractions.
Not to mention the difficulty people have had in proving that trivial equalities are indeed generalizable across various degrees.
Dude, that equation probably has had more effort put in (and continues to have more effort put in, in terms of trivial results in infinity-related operations and operands) than any other.
My favorite is 0 = 0, because it's the one that most often indicates you're done with the math exercise.
And it also indicates the beginning of a lot of problems for a mathematician.
Hmmm, I do not quite understand the preoccupation that the US needs to be numero uno in everything.
:-)
Yes, I'm from the US myself - but I would much rather see humanity go somewhere, than just this country.
Germany was once the world's leading hub of sci-tech for a while, then it was Russia and now it is the US. We may be the number one, or we may not - nobody knows yet. However, that does not mean we have to look at it from the perspective of the US being beaten by someone or the US beating someone.
It's all for science's sake and humanity's sake!
So here's three cheers for Brazil
If you notice, your search did not even contain a single link on the first page to my linked articles.
I just happen to frequent these two sites and provided the links. Since when is providing information whoring?
Bite me.
More details can be found at Deisgntechnica.
Geekzone also has a similar article.
Uhh, moderators -- parent is a troll. An obvious troll at that.
If you read what he is saying, you'd realize that it does not make any sense whatsoever, and has absolutely no relation to the original poster's response.
Please mod parent down.
failure of the soviet union is proof enough, imho.
you are the idiot here, communism was borne out of academic work on socio-economic systems.
although i suppose even capitalism could be argued as that, truth is that capitalism in some form or the other has always existed (colonialism is just an extreme form of it).
i think what the original poster meant was that all things equal, a theoretical solution is not a substitute for one that's evolved such as capitalism. if we have socio-neo-capitalism with socialist overtones coming off it, then so be it.
the original economic idea for communism was largely academic, while that of capitalism was largely real-life-ish.
>"...obnoxious arseholes"
Says a guy who's abusing a lady. Hah, the irony of it all. I think you could learn to be polite, I hear it helps in real life.
Honestly, am surprised at the way the mods have plundered this thread. Didn't moderation meant "expressing one's personal opinion". Would be fun if Michael bitchslapped this thread, and $rtbl'ed everyone. Heh.
Hey! Real Americans drink Coca-cola extralarge ;-)
What the hell? Do you even know a thing about audio systems?
You need to be able to provide a uniformly distributed frequency response, across an infinite number of harmonics. Not to mention the diffusion fields that're created, relative to positions.
Just because it looks simple does not mean designing it was.
Hmmm, despite his "achievements", Dr. Hawking is not all that highly respected in theoretical physics circles - mind you, he is well respected, just nothing as extraordinary as the rest of the world would like to believe. He's like Feynman - someone who is quite smart, shows off a hell lot but is just another smart physicist - nothing more.
And yes, I'm a physicist.
All in good time, my friend ;-)
*nods*
:-p
The one time when Taco Snotting would be on-topic.
See Sam Barros' Powerlabs for similar stuff - the guy has got a lot of very cool and realy interesting stuff.
Especially interesting are his high-voltage stuff.
You have no idea, either ;-)
I agree with some of your points, but I will have to disagree on some.
:)
The thing that C zealots fail to recognize is the need for clean, standardized APIs (NOT implementations).
Ahh, but this is where you are wrong. C was initially written to be used for writing an Operating System - something above Assembly but a little more sophisticated.
The basic language needs to adhere to a standard ANSI C, or whatever - that is all. Which it does.
Now all other frills and bells and whistles cannot really be blamed squarely on C - its like blaming MFC and OWL and STL for being non-standardized in C++. APIs are not platform independent, and hence how can the implementations be different?
The thing is that, there is no real need for C in enterprise level applications until they have some kind of low-level interface.
But I do realize that most of your points are valid, however am just offering my 2 cents.
Just that when you use the wrong tool for the task, some problems are inevitable
Flamebait.
Remember, a language does not cause overflows - careless and stupid programmers do.
C is built for low-level interface, and its best suited for that purpose. Its lean and mean, and thats how its meant to be.
If you want complex exception handling and all that, you are probably using the wrong language for the task.
Blame the people who used C for the wrong task, not the language.