I don't know if you ever noticed, but postage stamps in every country in the world carry the name of that country somewhere on the stamp, except for one. Which one? The UK.
Not quite analogous, 'coz there's a queen icon somewhere on the stamp. So, yes, while there's no mention of a country, there is still some identification.
The problem with the.com/org/net TLD is that it has (rightly) become ubiquitous without any reference to the United States. I'm talking about sites such as this.
Or this. (The last one is a governmental site; the.com site is maintained more often than the one with the stylistically correct url)
For christ's sake they as a nation are freaking out because of the monkey man! [strangemag.com] attacking people.
That's no measure of anything. Last time I heard, many people in the United States were getting freaked out by a couple of baseball fields and tennis courts. (The pun here is that the picture of Area 51 is from a satellite. Not Indian, though.)
As for Indian techies, I'm sure you haven't heard the fact that the Cartosat 2 will have a panchromatic resolution of 1m; same as that of the current leader Ikonos.
Here's a gentle hint:- Science is peer-reviewable in scientific terms. Not racial.
Shockwave II is the conclusion to last season's season- ending cliff-hanger
On other news, Macromedia today announced that it will be sponsoring the season-ending cliffhangers for this season and the next one as well.
Under the scenario being considered, this season might end with a nailbiting mystery about a Flash, while next season might feature some FireWorks in its finale. Readers will note that this is in addition to a four-hour long episode featuring the Starship Enterprise undergoing ColdFusion.
It's not about spying or ICBM's or anything, the key factor here is, believe it or not, agriculture. I know other patriotic Indians have problems accepting this, but India is still largely an agriculture-based economy, with the population especially concentrated in rural areas. With the exploding population creating pressure on food resources, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research actively involves itself in creating better yielding food varieties .
Students of Indian history would have heard about the green revolution that created self-sustainence in food; a crucial post-independence achievement considering food scarcity situations such as the 1943 Bengal Famine (the one on which Amartya Sen did economic research and won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics).
Now with satellite technology, ICAR can identify which land areas are suitable for which crops and therefore goad farmers into growing those varieties (remember that India is a sub-continent; you have all sorts of terrain, from deserts to plains to plateaus to, of course, mountains.
So accurately knowing which crop goes best where is critical information for the hungry masses (over-cliched, but it's true). Methinks that this will be the biggest use, followed closely by telecommunications and satellite television AND then by urban planning (Mumbai will have 24.7 million people by 2005).
PS:- Note that I'm not saying that satellite technology wont be used for other purposes; I definitely want India to use cutting-edge technology against a couple of motherfuckers, but talking only about that would be misleading.
"Injustice"... a hugely ironic title, if there was one. Author writes a story called "Injustice", shows it to a big television franchise, tv bigshot steals it...
Oh wait, that's another plot idea!Running to call my lawyers....
For all those Google-challenged, you automatically go to the first hit if you press "I'm feeling lucky" (or it's linguistic equivalent thereof) instead of "Search". The parent's (and my!) link are the first hit on Google for "Cruithine".
Does anyone know why this one person was so important??
The term is "scapegoating".
It's happened before; someone from MPAA apparently tracked the download behaviour of two students from a non-American university for two months, before firing an email to the university's sysadmin.
The local legend goes (and I stand corrected if this is not what really happened) that all universities on this island have cracked down on IPR violations ever since.
No, the analogy is not to GPL. The analogy is to reverse-engineer Windows to get the source code, apply whatever modifications you like to the source code, and then put that port up for download.
Oh, of course, IANAL.
Like all countries, I'm sure there are a lot of conservatives in US who'd like to enforce their opinion of popular culture on everyone else. The problem with this becoming the dominant discourse of the day are of course oft-repeated (and probably obvious); you'd also need to answer the questions 'who bells the cat', 'what bell should we use' and 'what if the cat wants to be friendly with us'. Questions you can't answer without being partisan or ideological. The alternative is much simpler:- let everyone speak their mind, but clearly classify whom the message(s) are meant for.
To read the source code, or somebody's derived work:- that is the question. I prefer the original source code, thank you.
Point to note:- No, the machines don't accept dollar bills. Instead, they accept a cashcard for payment. I have a cashcard, but no, I never purchase anything from there. It's always more fun explaining how a cashcard works to that dumb hot babe at the counter...
("Hey, your queue is growing longer; tell you what, I'll pay now in cash. May be we could meet on Saturday night and I'll show you how I buy drinks with this? ")
Obviously, you haven't tried Indian coffee; South Indian yard-long coffee, to be precise. It's made out of a decoted powdered mix of chicory and plantation/ peabury beans, so has that caffeine edge. Pretty fun to watch it being made, the waiter allegedly extends the pouring coffee for a yard before collecting it in a steel tumbler. (Hence the Anglo-Indian slang "yard-long coffee")
(I should have probably used the correct Indian English term for "waiter"; he's a server (#1a in the link), but this would confuse the/. crowd; nothing Apache about this folks)
I'm still 20, so I guess I fall under CmdrTaco's surging age (pun intended).
I used to live with Coke and Mt Dew myself, until one fine day I found that despite whitening toothpastes , my teeth still remained yellow. Increasingly yellow.
I'm now on a 8-month doctor-sanctioned probation from all canned/aerated drinks. Save for a Red Bull + Vodka incursion two months back (hey, it was a party!), I've pretty much stuck to plain old water, milo and cafe-au-lait.
Feels great, I might add. (Great pickup line shamelessly picked from Moulin Rouge:- Hey babe, you have skin as smooth as my coffee)
Disclaimer: I don't use Rembrandt toothpaste(s); the link was meant to be generic.
In some ways, I wish the "cyberspace" notion had never been introduced, because it furthers bad analogies like these, comparing the net to a geographical neighborhood, which has apparently become a red-light district.
The reality, of course, is that the internet is a communication medium, not a neighborhood, and the apparently-proliferating number of sleazy businesses making use of it proves very little.
You're right; the metaphor shouldn't be a neighbourhood, it should be a billboard . A billboard gone bad. And one that needs urgent infusion and moderation.
(Further reading: Consider the actual history of a popular website to see how "many users discovered new and annoying ways to abuse the system", how the webmasters "knew that we would never be able to keep up. We were outnumbered", but how they pro-actively brought sanity and human thought back into the system)
Afterthought: What an irony if this gets modded down.:-)
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Not quite analogous, 'coz there's a queen icon somewhere on the stamp. So, yes, while there's no mention of a country, there is still some identification.
The problem with the .com/org/net TLD is that it has (rightly) become ubiquitous without any reference to the United States. I'm talking about sites such as this.
Or this. (The last one is a governmental site; the .com site is maintained more often than the one with the stylistically correct url)
Hey, I already know about that. Take a look at this picture I took during my last visit to Cydonia!
That's no measure of anything. Last time I heard, many people in the United States were getting freaked out by a couple of baseball fields and tennis courts. (The pun here is that the picture of Area 51 is from a satellite. Not Indian, though.)
As for Indian techies, I'm sure you haven't heard the fact that the Cartosat 2 will have a panchromatic resolution of 1m; same as that of the current leader Ikonos.
Here's a gentle hint:- Science is peer-reviewable in scientific terms. Not racial.
On other news, Macromedia today announced that it will be sponsoring the season-ending cliffhangers for this season and the next one as well.
Under the scenario being considered, this season might end with a nailbiting mystery about a Flash, while next season might feature some FireWorks in its finale. Readers will note that this is in addition to a four-hour long episode featuring the Starship Enterprise undergoing ColdFusion.
It's not about spying or ICBM's or anything, the key factor here is, believe it or not, agriculture. I know other patriotic Indians have problems accepting this, but India is still largely an agriculture-based economy, with the population especially concentrated in rural areas. With the exploding population creating pressure on food resources, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research actively involves itself in creating better yielding food varieties .
Students of Indian history would have heard about the green revolution that created self-sustainence in food; a crucial post-independence achievement considering food scarcity situations such as the 1943 Bengal Famine (the one on which Amartya Sen did economic research and won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics).
Now with satellite technology, ICAR can identify which land areas are suitable for which crops and therefore goad farmers into growing those varieties (remember that India is a sub-continent; you have all sorts of terrain, from deserts to plains to plateaus to, of course, mountains.
So accurately knowing which crop goes best where is critical information for the hungry masses (over-cliched, but it's true). Methinks that this will be the biggest use, followed closely by telecommunications and satellite television AND then by urban planning (Mumbai will have 24.7 million people by 2005).
PS:- Note that I'm not saying that satellite technology wont be used for other purposes; I definitely want India to use cutting-edge technology against a couple of motherfuckers, but talking only about that would be misleading.
Can confirm this for sure.
On a similar note, it's fascinating to see how much of the media industry is gay.
Not that I have any problems with it, but still, it's interesting.
Amen man, I mean, people are actually flaming him. :-D
"Injustice"... a hugely ironic title, if there was one. Author writes a story called "Injustice", shows it to a big television franchise, tv bigshot steals it...
Oh wait, that's another plot idea!Running to call my lawyers....
Feeling lucky, eh? :-)
Baah. Doesn't matter. You got to it before me.
For all those Google-challenged, you automatically go to the first hit if you press "I'm feeling lucky" (or it's linguistic equivalent thereof) instead of "Search". The parent's (and my!) link are the first hit on Google for "Cruithine".
There, pre-empted any predatory moderation.
Specifically, there are two two more near-Earth asteroids known to be currently in resonant states similar to those of Cruithne.
Does anyone know why this one person was so important??
The term is "scapegoating".
It's happened before; someone from MPAA apparently tracked the download behaviour of two students from a non-American university for two months, before firing an email to the university's sysadmin.
The local legend goes (and I stand corrected if this is not what really happened) that all universities on this island have cracked down on IPR violations ever since.
Don't ascribe to malice that which can be better explained by incompetance...
Typed slowly for those who cannot read fast.
Okay, so you are not malicious in doing this, but incompetence is no excuse for bad spelling.
Especially if you've typed it slowly.
Oh, of course, IANAL.
Like all countries, I'm sure there are a lot of conservatives in US who'd like to enforce their opinion of popular culture on everyone else. The problem with this becoming the dominant discourse of the day are of course oft-repeated (and probably obvious); you'd also need to answer the questions 'who bells the cat', 'what bell should we use' and 'what if the cat wants to be friendly with us'. Questions you can't answer without being partisan or ideological. The alternative is much simpler:- let everyone speak their mind, but clearly classify whom the message(s) are meant for.
To read the source code, or somebody's derived work:- that is the question. I prefer the original source code, thank you.
Point to note:- No, the machines don't accept dollar bills. Instead, they accept a cashcard for payment. I have a cashcard, but no, I never purchase anything from there. It's always more fun explaining how a cashcard works to that dumb hot babe at the counter... ("Hey, your queue is growing longer; tell you what, I'll pay now in cash. May be we could meet on Saturday night and I'll show you how I buy drinks with this? ")
Obviously, you haven't tried Indian coffee; South Indian yard-long coffee, to be precise. It's made out of a decoted powdered mix of chicory and plantation/ peabury beans, so has that caffeine edge. Pretty fun to watch it being made, the waiter allegedly extends the pouring coffee for a yard before collecting it in a steel tumbler. (Hence the Anglo-Indian slang "yard-long coffee")
(I should have probably used the correct Indian English term for "waiter"; he's a server (#1a in the link), but this would confuse the /. crowd; nothing Apache about this folks)
I'm still 20, so I guess I fall under CmdrTaco's surging age (pun intended).
I used to live with Coke and Mt Dew myself, until one fine day I found that despite whitening toothpastes , my teeth still remained yellow. Increasingly yellow.
I'm now on a 8-month doctor-sanctioned probation from all canned/aerated drinks. Save for a Red Bull + Vodka incursion two months back (hey, it was a party!), I've pretty much stuck to plain old water, milo and cafe-au-lait.
Feels great, I might add. (Great pickup line shamelessly picked from Moulin Rouge :- Hey babe, you have skin as smooth as my coffee)
Disclaimer: I don't use Rembrandt toothpaste(s); the link was meant to be generic.
You're right; the metaphor shouldn't be a neighbourhood, it should be a billboard . A billboard gone bad. And one that needs urgent infusion and moderation.
(Further reading: Consider the actual history of a popular website to see how "many users discovered new and annoying ways to abuse the system", how the webmasters "knew that we would never be able to keep up. We were outnumbered", but how they pro-actively brought sanity and human thought back into the system)
Afterthought: What an irony if this gets modded down. :-)
The Jackson Chicago in the plateau must be a citizen.
That's what I got by some random pointing at the letters.
No, I wasn't even trying. Seems to me they've got some hypercool text-prediction algo's out there.