although, it is possible to develop Hindi Linux, not many people are going to use it. Hindi and other Indian languages have been abandoned in India largely due to govt policy of providing English only higher education. In addition, by providing heavy subsidy and making legal framework difficult for private education, the govt has made sure that only english is available in higher education.
Read the content on the screen and you will realize that most words are in English written in Hindi script. Almost every educated people (even in non-english medium) knows english script. So the only benefit of Hindi-Linux is that you don't need to learn English grammar.
Hindi Linux doesn't provide much benefits and not many people will use it.
majority of educated people in india has better command of english only because, the majority of education offered in india is in english. govt subsidizes education in india to the extent that private education is a niche market and govt offers mostly english only education. i studied in one of the IITs (india's premier technology undergrad colleges), and there wasn't a single course (not even a language course) in non-english.
most schools not english medium, but since the higher education is in english, elite class people send their children to english, thus in cities, english schools are comparatively more. no more than 10% childrens today recv education in english, and one generation ago, the figure was 2-5%.
in addition to govt subsidizing education, various laws make private education very un-profitable and hence it is nearly impossible to get higher education in non-english. besides, in india, most stuff is govt controlled where english is the official language (in india, govt controls everything from temples, slaughterhouses, hotels, electronics companies, electricy, transport, textile mills,...).
since most money is concentrated in india in english speaking society, lack of non-english support in linux is not going to be an issue there.
i have used digital camera with great success for many such things. i haven't tried coupling with OCR, so don't know how suitable this would be for data intensive research.
use camera with 4MP+ and somewhat high end (Nikon, Sony, Canon etc) with good close up functionality. After taking photo, zoom-in to see the quality of the photo.
i have stopped using scanner and photo-copying documents for archival. instead, I always take photos.
It needs to have enough mass, so that its shape is approximately spherical (Of course, on the higher side, it must not glow on its own). Because of large mass, any aspericity would generate strong pressure due to gravity, so that the base will melt and it will become spherical again. Look at Earth, its diameter is 12000 km, but the largest bulge is Mount Everest, which is 9 km. Note, that the bulges due to systematic rotation etc are not counted, only the random bulges are counted.
indeed the quality of 35-mm dSLR at high end, like canon 11 mp and kodak 14 mp is better than almost all 35-mm film quality. now these cameras are getting limited by lens quality. though it will still take time to kill regular SLRs, high-end SLRs are likely to be the first casualty. there are many things to be worked out, among them: standardization, print color matching, display matching (images looks very different when viewed on different monitors), cheap prints, print ordering convenience and most important of all, the price.
also, it seems the 35-mm dSLR may not be the future for replacing regular low to medium end 35-mm SLRs. the main obstacle is sensor size. it is extremely costly to make a large chip (24x36mm). and if you reduce the sensor size, then it is costly to make wide angle lens (35 mm lens on film camera would become 70 mm if the sensor size is 12x18). so the future looks like smaller sensor, smaller lens. olympus and kodak recently introduced a new format called 4/3. this standard if adopted widely could become equivalent of 35-mm film standard in future. this uses smaller sensor (i guess, the diagonal size would be 4/3 inches), so the lenses would be small and dedicated lenses would have matching focal lengths.
Price wise and quality wise, full frame 35-mm dSLRs are likely to be in the range of current medium format cameras and hence the medium format market seems under direct attack too. Goodby hasselblad, welcome kodak!
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Read the content on the screen and you will realize that most words are in English written in Hindi script. Almost every educated people (even in non-english medium) knows english script. So the only benefit of Hindi-Linux is that you don't need to learn English grammar. Hindi Linux doesn't provide much benefits and not many people will use it.
most schools not english medium, but since the higher education is in english, elite class people send their children to english, thus in cities, english schools are comparatively more. no more than 10% childrens today recv education in english, and one generation ago, the figure was 2-5%.
in addition to govt subsidizing education, various laws make private education very un-profitable and hence it is nearly impossible to get higher education in non-english. besides, in india, most stuff is govt controlled where english is the official language (in india, govt controls everything from temples, slaughterhouses, hotels, electronics companies, electricy, transport, textile mills, ...).
since most money is concentrated in india in english speaking society, lack of non-english support in linux is not going to be an issue there.
i have used digital camera with great success for many such things. i haven't tried coupling with OCR, so don't know how suitable this would be for data intensive research. use camera with 4MP+ and somewhat high end (Nikon, Sony, Canon etc) with good close up functionality. After taking photo, zoom-in to see the quality of the photo. i have stopped using scanner and photo-copying documents for archival. instead, I always take photos.
As a trademark, it has a much limited protection. In this case, they can't prevent sell of MM toys, books, software, video games, movies, cartoon etc.
wish there was some such category. may be i would qualify or who knows, i might get more competition there than in "nobel prize for smart".
It needs to have enough mass, so that its shape is approximately spherical (Of course, on the higher side, it must not glow on its own). Because of large mass, any aspericity would generate strong pressure due to gravity, so that the base will melt and it will become spherical again. Look at Earth, its diameter is 12000 km, but the largest bulge is Mount Everest, which is 9 km. Note, that the bulges due to systematic rotation etc are not counted, only the random bulges are counted.
indeed the quality of 35-mm dSLR at high end, like canon 11 mp and kodak 14 mp is better than almost all 35-mm film quality. now these cameras are getting limited by lens quality. though it will still take time to kill regular SLRs, high-end SLRs are likely to be the first casualty. there are many things to be worked out, among them: standardization, print color matching, display matching (images looks very different when viewed on different monitors), cheap prints, print ordering convenience and most important of all, the price.
also, it seems the 35-mm dSLR may not be the future for replacing regular low to medium end 35-mm SLRs. the main obstacle is sensor size. it is extremely costly to make a large chip (24x36mm). and if you reduce the sensor size, then it is costly to make wide angle lens (35 mm lens on film camera would become 70 mm if the sensor size is 12x18). so the future looks like smaller sensor, smaller lens. olympus and kodak recently introduced a new format called 4/3. this standard if adopted widely could become equivalent of 35-mm film standard in future. this uses smaller sensor (i guess, the diagonal size would be 4/3 inches), so the lenses would be small and dedicated lenses would have matching focal lengths.
Price wise and quality wise, full frame 35-mm dSLRs are likely to be in the range of current medium format cameras and hence the medium format market seems under direct attack too. Goodby hasselblad, welcome kodak!