Well , its similar in some aspects and not in many.
When you say poverty in USA, it's meaning could vary from living in the streets of NY, to living on minimum wage jobs, living on social security etc.
When we say poverty in india, we mean being unable to provide oneself even with daily bread.
There is no govt. program (at least one that works), to educate, support or at the least feed the really really poor indians. Any money generated thru welfare organizations is socked up internally by politicians and officials.
The fast rise of Islam and Christanity in India is mainly due to FREE food provided by the mosques and churches to poor people. I am not a religiously biased person, so I am not critisizing either one, But when a religion starts to get converts because it provides free food, instead of its principals and ideologies, you start wondering about the entire system.
when you've got to the Moon, what challenge can you honestly say is too big to even attempt?
Hmm, let me see, from India's perspective , the bigger challanges are....
Poverty:- The country's wealth is divided by the 90-10 rule. i.e. 10% of the population has 90% of the wealth.
Illiteracy:- More than 50%. And since being literate means being able to sign your name, the actual figures could be as high as 70-75%
Rampant Political/Economical and Social Corruption:- Forget the politicians , I can't get my mail if I don't tip my postman.
Infrastructure:- One of the world's worst . So much Red tape everywhere.
Transportation and Safety:- Barring major cities, public transport is a mess and not every one can afford their own vehicle. Road/Rail accidents account for most no. of deaths in the country.
Disaster Recovery:- No set plans and procedures for natural disaster recovery from floods , famines, fires etc. People are left at the mercy of nature and rehabilitation is a joke.
I am not a westerner trying to judge india, I am an indian , humbly pointing out what our top priorities should be.
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Oh so that's why the "You will respect my authoritaa" attitude.
This is because in India the govt. is not taking strong measures to curtail s/w piracy.
All the generations from 1993 onward have been raised on pirated copies of Win 3.x right upto XP. So the inertia in adopting linux is because windows is available for free.<P> Once indian govt. starts to come down on piracy just as US govt. , you will see a lot of adaptation of linux. This has already started to happen in schools and colleges where in past pirated s/w was the defacto standard. Now faced with the choice of paying $$ for Windows s/w and practically free OSS solutions , they are moving towards linux/BSD etc. <P> Plus the current computer student in India is a lot more aware of Unix that say 10 years ago. So many school and college networks/systems are maintained by students themselves saving the institute further money.
The policy to support non -javascript browsers is long gone. These days corporates just assume you have a javascript enabled browser. The best you can hope for is the <noscript> Sorry this website won't work without javascript </noscript>. And that too if you are lucky.
Not to be trolling, but I am real sick of these pretentious so called indians like arundhati roy.
India is a place of many cultures and languages and the dynamics of the region are far too complex. Arundhati does not even live in india , so what gives her or any outsider the right to judge.<P> She is just a controversy creating person, I mean how else would all those books of her sell, and how else would she be decorated by the western world ?
Not entirely true.... <P>They do need to install GSM Codes compiled by the gnomemeeting.org team. These are slightly different than MSN's Codecs. Look at the last entry in their downloads section.<P> And the compatibility works only in theory. I have been trying to get this work since pre 0.90 days of gnomemeeting, without any luck. And no I am not behind a firewall, neither is the windows user. and none of us are natted and both have broadband connections.
I am not at all surprised to learn that scientist are some of the worst ego maniacs.
A high profile scientist can only b eequated to a multi platinum selling rapper. The credit and acknowledgement they get in the scientific community is their "Bling-Bling". And the nobel prize being the cadillac escalade or the rolls royce.<P> But this can be easily acchieved by the GPL like license. The terms of the license should be that if you use data that is licensed under that perticular license for your research then your research also has to be published under the same license and the Authors of the original data should also be credited in the new Data.<P> This way the scientist will be credited for all the future work derived from his work.
Even though you are right to point this out. The double negetive is a a bastardization of proper english by the americans. I don't mean to be condesending but, no where is english can you use sentenses like...
I didn't do nothing.<br/> I don't know nothing<br/> <P>Also don't forget , India was ruled by brits for more that 150+ years, so the influence is heavily british.<P> As of as being able to understand accent goes, forget indians , how many americans can understand what bernie mac is saying ?
I don't think you read my post correctly, I said it was a major bank's international office.
Maybe I am comming from a financial sector, where everybody is paranoid, so I don't know how other sectors deal with their security concerns.
The bank had windows m/cs too, but the network structure was so tightly fortified, e.g. diff. sub domains for ppl using laptops and VPN. Much tigher rules for these domains. Firewalls everywhere. Databases were literally behind 2-3 firewalls.
Plus the technical staff was so highly competant that the management had a hard time to convince them to relax their security initiatives.
Generic terms which apply to that perticular industry can not be trademarked in that industry.
And there is no such thing as bookshelf in Computer Science, not that I have heard of.It is the same reason why apple is able to trademark the word apple.
This prevents you from branding your computer product either s/w h/w as apple, but you can invent a furniture shop and call it apple.
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When we say poverty in india, we mean being unable to provide oneself even with daily bread.
There is no govt. program (at least one that works), to educate, support or at the least feed the really really poor indians. Any money generated thru welfare organizations is socked up internally by politicians and officials.
The fast rise of Islam and Christanity in India is mainly due to FREE food provided by the mosques and churches to poor people. I am not a religiously biased person, so I am not critisizing either one, But when a religion starts to get converts because it provides free food, instead of its principals and ideologies, you start wondering about the entire system.
Hmm, let me see, from India's perspective , the bigger challanges are ....
Poverty :- The country's wealth is divided by the 90-10 rule. i.e. 10% of the population has 90% of the wealth.
:- More than 50%. And since being literate means being able to sign your name, the actual figures could be as high as 70-75% :- Forget the politicians , I can't get my mail if I don't tip my postman. :- One of the world's worst . So much Red tape everywhere. :- Barring major cities, public transport is a mess and not every one can afford their own vehicle. Road/Rail accidents account for most no. of deaths in the country.
Illiteracy
Rampant Political/Economical and Social Corruption
Infrastructure
Transportation and Safety
Disaster Recovery:- No set plans and procedures for natural disaster recovery from floods , famines, fires etc. People are left at the mercy of nature and rehabilitation is a joke.
I am not a westerner trying to judge india, I am an indian , humbly pointing out what our top priorities should be.
Oh so that's why the "You will respect my authoritaa" attitude.
All the generations from 1993 onward have been raised on pirated copies of Win 3.x right upto XP. So the inertia in adopting linux is because windows is available for free.<P>
Once indian govt. starts to come down on piracy just as US govt. , you will see a lot of adaptation of linux. This has already started to happen in schools and colleges where in past pirated s/w was the defacto standard. Now faced with the choice of paying $$ for Windows s/w and practically free OSS solutions , they are moving towards linux/BSD etc. <P>
Plus the current computer student in India is a lot more aware of Unix that say 10 years ago. So many school and college networks/systems are maintained by students themselves saving the institute further money.
All your great grandpa did was invent your gradpa, and not a perticularly bright idea at that, considering the fourth generation.
Although I am not sure how they sync between themselves. i.e. Would compromizing one lead to compromising the others as well ?
The policy to support non -javascript browsers is long gone. These days corporates just assume you have a javascript enabled browser. The best you can hope for is the <noscript> Sorry this website won't work without javascript </noscript>. And that too if you are lucky.
Yep the mail order scheme. Can't be too elaborate from work place ;)
In case you don't know what I am talking about, Go see the movie before you mode me down.
India is a place of many cultures and languages and the dynamics of the region are far too complex. Arundhati does not even live in india , so what gives her or any outsider the right to judge
She is just a controversy creating person, I mean how else would all those books of her sell, and how else would she be decorated by the western world ?
Not entirely true....
<P>They do need to install GSM Codes compiled by the gnomemeeting.org team. These are slightly different than MSN's Codecs. Look at the last entry in their downloads section.<P>
And the compatibility works only in theory. I have been trying to get this work since pre 0.90 days of gnomemeeting, without any luck. And no I am not behind a firewall, neither is the windows user. and none of us are natted and both have broadband connections.
period.; ...
Speaking of redunduncy in open source projects
or the lack of , maybe ?
I am not at all surprised to learn that scientist are some of the worst ego maniacs.
A high profile scientist can only b eequated to a multi platinum selling rapper. The credit and acknowledgement they get in the scientific community is their "Bling-Bling". And the nobel prize being the cadillac escalade or the rolls royce.<P>
But this can be easily acchieved by the GPL like license. The terms of the license should be that if you use data that is licensed under that perticular license for your research then your research also has to be published under the same license and the Authors of the original data should also be credited in the new Data.<P>
This way the scientist will be credited for all the future work derived from his work.
Lets face it, even if someone to come up with a cure of cancer, there will be some one to sue him for whatever reason.
Gunsdon't kill people, Apes with guns kill people...
I didn't do nothing.<br/>
I don't know nothing<br/>
<P>Also don't forget , India was ruled by brits for more that 150+ years, so the influence is heavily british.<P>
As of as being able to understand accent goes, forget indians , how many americans can understand what bernie mac is saying ?
You have been warned.
Now i'll bitchslap you if you don't know who YOKO is, All hail YOKO...
Don't ask me of the result, not a pleasing memory at all..
Seriously , it is a name.
Owned linux ?, Last time I checked nobody owned , owns or never will own linux, not even linus. Isn't that open source is all about ?
Maybe I am comming from a financial sector, where everybody is paranoid, so I don't know how other sectors deal with their security concerns.
The bank had windows m/cs too, but the network structure was so tightly fortified, e.g. diff. sub domains for ppl using laptops and VPN. Much tigher rules for these domains. Firewalls everywhere. Databases were literally behind 2-3 firewalls.
Plus the technical staff was so highly competant that the management had a hard time to convince them to relax their security initiatives.
And it would be super cool, a book store suing a forest.
Generic terms which apply to that perticular industry can not be trademarked in that industry. And there is no such thing as bookshelf in Computer Science, not that I have heard of.It is the same reason why apple is able to trademark the word apple.
This prevents you from branding your computer product either s/w h/w as apple, but you can invent a furniture shop and call it apple.