http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates/
This is not acceptable, when in rest of the world there is an effort to curb piracy. It is appalling that in US public opinion piracy is acceptable. This is all due to Hollywood glorifying them through films like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Don't worry, increasing gov't control is coming.... Now that former Infosys executive Nandan M. Nilekani has taken on the job of creating ID cards for everyone in India.
Do you believe they will succeed this time? I have been aware of such plans for as long as I remember, more than 20 years. They have been trying, but it is quite easy to remain anonymous in India than anywhere else. Government does not matter as far as individual freedom is considered.
A lot more tolerant? I tend to disagree. Maybe there isn't as much government interference, but the social pressure in India more than makes up for it. India is a nice place to visit, but as I foreigner I would never be able to live there. The lack of infrastructure, electricity cuts in most cities, flocks of touts and beggars, men who gawk (if you're female and unaccompanied by a man, even if you dress conservatively), and uptight attitudes towards alcohol and tobacco would take it off my list.
I don't know whether you are Indian or not. But India is HUGE, and you might have experienced just a small bit of India.
It has a place for everybody. From poorest of poor to one of the richest man on earth. You can be atheist or you can be most religious person. There are many saints who stay naked for their whole life, without even getting a second look from anybody. You can belong to any race, religion, caste, creed and still feel at home in India. People may gawk at you, but they welcome all with open heart.
These are sign of open society. May not be open in western civilization's sense, but open nevertheless
India has be described a an elephant as experience by 5 blind people. The blind person touching its trunk may think elephant is like a water hose, while person touching its tail may describe the elephant as a rope, and still one touching its legs will experience it as a tower.
Come and experience the Incredible India. You will get in it what you are looking for. This has been true since the age of Alexander and before.
Yes. In theory, we in India too have restricted freedom of speech and government constantly telling citizens how to behave.
But, India is such a huge country with huge population that government is overwhelmed. It cannot monitor everybody. And the society as a whole is lot more tolerant. So in practice every individual experience a true freedom and anonymity. This remains true until you become too popular and catch eye of media. Which I think is very less probability again due to huge population. May be 10000 popular people in set of 1 Billion.
The climate changes we are experiencing will likely take millions of lives. Few people realize how easily diseases like malaria might thrive if we go up even one or two degrees in average temperatures.
Inspite of high disease rates and more unhealthy environment, the fact is that tropical region has more population density than any other place on earth. It also has the most biodiversity
The temperate climate is most suitable for human sustainability. The quality of life may not be as good as in cold region like Europe or North America, but regions like India, Bangladesh, Indonesia sustain more population per area.
We still need scientific methods to develop useful models and understand and refine the existing models. When Newton defined his mechanics that was the state of the art in his era, and now we have progressed to quantum mechanics which might be refined tomorrow.
But mere observation of some phenomena is not sufficient to postulate the behaviour in a changed condition. A scientific model and its rigorous application is required for this. Correlations drawn from the cloud cannot substitute it.
Laptops are difficult to handle in a corporate environment even today, what do you expect to happen in schools. We have even grownup executives taking laptop and connecting to it to outside corporate network, and bringing back viruses and trojans in the corporate network. Corporate IT dept. with all its might still strugle to keep all the laptops updated and patched.
Did IISc hire some US returned scientists? People in US academia have been playing this game of overpromising and underdelivering for a long long time.
It is true, most of IITs and the IISc has US returned Profs. They are good in producing good students, but poor in doing any worthwhile research. Most of the research done in IITs and IISc is just incremental improvment over already done things.
The students of IITs are exceptionally good, but that's because you can always find 1000 good students every year in a population of 12,000,000,000 (delibrately written in numericals)
Avery body here is aware of a project called Simputer, that was being run by IISc, Bangalore some 5 years ago. That project also had aim of providing computer at about Rs 5000 (@100 USD at rough rate of 50 Rs/USD). It turned out to be a huge failure.
This seems to be another vapour ware project, whose main aim is to extract government money. A present even simple mouse costs more than Rs. 500.
There is a saying in Sanskrit vachanesu kim dardratam . Why should you act as poor if only thing you have to do is to make promise. You can promise Rs 5.0 laptop, if you know that nobody is going to held you accountable at end of 5 year project and spending million dollar, and delivering nothing.
When I first create a new password I typically stumble just a bit when typing it. After a few days/weeks I start building up motion memory for my password. How would the system handle when people impove typing their password?
Also by the time it learns to understand the pattern, the SysAd forces to change the password.
he's proposing that they built a spiral ramp INSIDE the pyramid, instead of outside. Advantages being keeping the workers out of the sun, and it could have been much smaller.
The question arise that who built the out side? and how was it built? You cannot have any thing inside that is protected from sun unless there is something out side. Obviously I have not read TFA, these might have been answere there.
I think I'll continue to outsource to India. They tend to speak better English than Alabamans.
I still don't get why everyone in the country makes fun of the way southerners speak when there are so many screwed up dialects in this country.
The situation is same in India too!. We north Indians cannot make out the English spoken by a south Indian. And in India also, the south Indians are made fun off by calling them 'madrasi, who speak funny language'
If Intel has its reference clock built-in with the processor, why dont they use it instead of depending on the external clock, and then limiting its speed through a round about way.
Being communist government, do you think they believe in open source? China may be adopting Linux, but it is limited to using it, and not contributing to open source. Who can guaranty that any modification they make in Linux of new application they develop, will be GPLed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates/ This is not acceptable, when in rest of the world there is an effort to curb piracy. It is appalling that in US public opinion piracy is acceptable. This is all due to Hollywood glorifying them through films like Pirates of the Caribbean.
There was a recent Indian movie which revolved around the name Khan. Its called 'My name is Khan'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Khan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188996/
And all Khans are not terrorists
Gopla
There was a recent Indian movie which revolved around the name Khan. Its called 'My name is Khan'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Khan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188996/
And all Khans are not terrorists
Gopla
Don't worry, increasing gov't control is coming. ... Now that former Infosys executive Nandan M. Nilekani has taken on the job of creating ID cards for everyone in India.
Do you believe they will succeed this time? I have been aware of such plans for as long as I remember, more than 20 years. They have been trying, but it is quite easy to remain anonymous in India than anywhere else. Government does not matter as far as individual freedom is considered.
A lot more tolerant? I tend to disagree. Maybe there isn't as much government interference, but the social pressure in India more than makes up for it. India is a nice place to visit, but as I foreigner I would never be able to live there. The lack of infrastructure, electricity cuts in most cities, flocks of touts and beggars, men who gawk (if you're female and unaccompanied by a man, even if you dress conservatively), and uptight attitudes towards alcohol and tobacco would take it off my list.
I don't know whether you are Indian or not. But India is HUGE, and you might have experienced just a small bit of India.
It has a place for everybody. From poorest of poor to one of the richest man on earth. You can be atheist or you can be most religious person. There are many saints who stay naked for their whole life, without even getting a second look from anybody. You can belong to any race, religion, caste, creed and still feel at home in India. People may gawk at you, but they welcome all with open heart.
These are sign of open society. May not be open in western civilization's sense, but open nevertheless
India has be described a an elephant as experience by 5 blind people. The blind person touching its trunk may think elephant is like a water hose, while person touching its tail may describe the elephant as a rope, and still one touching its legs will experience it as a tower.
Come and experience the Incredible India. You will get in it what you are looking for. This has been true since the age of Alexander and before.
Yes. In theory, we in India too have restricted freedom of speech and government constantly telling citizens how to behave.
But, India is such a huge country with huge population that government is overwhelmed. It cannot monitor everybody. And the society as a whole is lot more tolerant. So in practice every individual experience a true freedom and anonymity. This remains true until you become too popular and catch eye of media. Which I think is very less probability again due to huge population. May be 10000 popular people in set of 1 Billion.
The climate changes we are experiencing will likely take millions of lives. Few people realize how easily diseases like malaria might thrive if we go up even one or two degrees in average temperatures.
Inspite of high disease rates and more unhealthy environment, the fact is that tropical region has more population density than any other place on earth. It also has the most biodiversity
The temperate climate is most suitable for human sustainability. The quality of life may not be as good as in cold region like Europe or North America, but regions like India, Bangladesh, Indonesia sustain more population per area.
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
We still need scientific methods to develop useful models and understand and refine the existing models. When Newton defined his mechanics that was the state of the art in his era, and now we have progressed to quantum mechanics which might be refined tomorrow.
But mere observation of some phenomena is not sufficient to postulate the behaviour in a changed condition. A scientific model and its rigorous application is required for this. Correlations drawn from the cloud cannot substitute it.
gopla
Laptops are difficult to handle in a corporate environment even today, what do you expect to happen in schools. We have even grownup executives taking laptop and connecting to it to outside corporate network, and bringing back viruses and trojans in the corporate network. Corporate IT dept. with all its might still strugle to keep all the laptops updated and patched.
GoplaIt is true, most of IITs and the IISc has US returned Profs. They are good in producing good students, but poor in doing any worthwhile research. Most of the research done in IITs and IISc is just incremental improvment over already done things.
The students of IITs are exceptionally good, but that's because you can always find 1000 good students every year in a population of 12,000,000,000 (delibrately written in numericals)
GoplaAvery body here is aware of a project called Simputer, that was being run by IISc, Bangalore some 5 years ago. That project also had aim of providing computer at about Rs 5000 (@100 USD at rough rate of 50 Rs/USD). It turned out to be a huge failure.
This seems to be another vapour ware project, whose main aim is to extract government money. A present even simple mouse costs more than Rs. 500.
There is a saying in Sanskrit vachanesu kim dardratam . Why should you act as poor if only thing you have to do is to make promise. You can promise Rs 5.0 laptop, if you know that nobody is going to held you accountable at end of 5 year project and spending million dollar, and delivering nothing.
GoplaWhen I first create a new password I typically stumble just a bit when typing it. After a few days/weeks I start building up motion memory for my password. How would the system handle when people impove typing their password?
Also by the time it learns to understand the pattern, the SysAd forces to change the password.he's proposing that they built a spiral ramp INSIDE the pyramid, instead of outside. Advantages being keeping the workers out of the sun, and it could have been much smaller.
The question arise that who built the out side? and how was it built? You cannot have any thing inside that is protected from sun unless there is something out side.
Obviously I have not read TFA, these might have been answere there.
Gopla
... Well you've seen Superman right?
may be The Matrix is a better example
What we want in a TV is .... something entertaining to watch
summary asks : does this say anything about space travel in the 21st century?
In 21st century, one would accumulate frequent flier miles from 40 trips to space to earn a single trip from US to UK.
I think I'll continue to outsource to India. They tend to speak better English than Alabamans.
I still don't get why everyone in the country makes fun of the way southerners speak when there are so many screwed up dialects in this country.
The situation is same in India too!. We north Indians cannot make out the English spoken by a south Indian. And in India also, the south Indians are made fun off by calling them 'madrasi, who speak funny language'
If Intel has its reference clock built-in with the processor, why dont they use it instead of depending on the external clock, and then limiting its speed through a round about way.
Being communist government, do you think they believe
in open source? China may be adopting Linux, but it
is limited to using it, and not contributing to open
source. Who can guaranty that any modification they
make in Linux of new application they develop, will
be GPLed.
Is GPL legally enforceable in China?
I was just testing, my login