Seriously! If Cingular is the culprit, then iPhone will die after Cingular dies and that ain't gonna happen soon. Besides, your point of $2500 for service proves that iPhone is even more worth it. What is $500 extra on top of $2500 (which you would anyway pay with Cingular)? Just 20% extra, and you get wifi, 4 G ipod.
why would they use canadian coins to track americans? actually, these coins were made by US govt to track canadians. now that the story is out, they are denying that such coins exist.
1. Acquire satellite radio: This would allow apple to sell iTunes over wireless without a computer. Also, satellite radio use digital transmission. iPod can either do built-in transmitter or make it as an accessory. This would allow user to play their iPod on car radio (satellite radio) without wire and without loss of signal quality. I can think of tons of other benefits of Apple-satellite radio merger, but not enough space here. This will also allow wireless song sharing like Zune.
2. Acquire TiVO or offer similar service. Allow TiVO to download iTunes song and synch with iPod. Agains this will allow people to buy iTunes over broadband without using computer. Also, people can play their iTune songs on home stereo via DVR easily. This would fit in ther iTV or MacMini strategy quite well.
3. iPod remote: Make an iPod remote which looks like iPod nano. It can be synched with real iPod using a computer. Now user can truly do full control of their iPod using this remote control. My biggest problem of current generation of remotes is that I can't select a song, photo, video. I can only do play and then skip it if I don't like it. With a wheel and display, I can exactly select the song and then play. Such a remote should not cost more than 50/60 dollars.
4. External memory/battery module for iPod nano: Make an external memory/battery module for iPod which will connect to docking connector. That way, I can expand my iPod nano. How about 8 GB module for $99? Or a 48 hour battery module.
There is nothing exotic about negative refractive index. It is trivially achievable in real life experiments, albeit not at optical frequencies. All information about the light falling on any surface can be captured if we can digitize electromagnetic waves at sampling rate which is twice the bandwidth. At optical wavelengths, this would be trillions of samples per second at each sensor and you will need multiple sensors spatially distributed across a surface. At radio frequencies with only a few mega hertz bandwidth, this can be done and is being done routinely (by radio astronomers in VLBI experiments) for almost 30 years. Once you digitize the signal, you can simulate any refractive index as you wish using a computer. Mathematics and computing power are the limit.
If he becomes a president or even a president's cabinet member, he could reap billions of dollars in tax savings. He would be allowed (actually forced) to sell all of his microsoft stocks without any capital tax gains (he can then invest in other security). Even better, since he would be selling stocks as a legal requirements, market will not perceive this as a negative outlook for microsoft.
Since I didn't format properly, posting it again (it was slow connection, so I didn't preview)....
there are too many factual errors and at other places the emphasis is completely wrong. i can go and show these line by line, but let us look at some of the obvious errors:
"stock market,...fell nearly 20 percent in two weeks, wiping out some $2.4 billion... in just four days"
The above calculations implies India's stock market worth of $9.6 billion. Companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Reliance, ONGC etc. EACH have more market capital than this.
"As if on cue, special reports and covers hailing the rise of India in Time, Foreign Affairs and The Economist have appeared in the last month."
Looks like author believes that TIME and Economist are ill-informed.
"India is too dependent on Iran for oil "
India buys Iranian oil at market rate. What is wrong with that?
"country's $728 per capita gross domestic product is just slightly higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa"
How many economists are needed to tell the author to look for PPP instead of GDP? Besides, in 1980s, India's GDP was below that of GDP of almost all the sub-sahara African nations. So this is not a bad achievement.
"India will not catch up with high-income countries until 2106."
Ten years ago, the same was said about China by magazines like Economist.
"accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide;"
1 out of 5 children are in India. So this is just an average.
"100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003."
Per person, suicide ratio in India and USA is similar. Also there were more than a million suicide in India in the same period. So 10% of them happened to be farmers is not odd given the fact that farmer population in India is atleast that much.
"The potential for conflict -- among castes as well as classes -- also grows in urban areas, where India's cruel social and economic disparities are as evident as its new prosperity."
First the author has clubbed the two things: classes and castes. Here are my questions:
1. Can you show me any example of caste conflict in urban areas? 2. Can you show me any example of class conflict in urban areas?
"The main reason for this is that India's economic growth has been largely jobless. Only 1.3 million out of a working population of 400 million are employed in the information technology and business processing industries that make up the so-called new economy."
Ever heard of trickle down effect? Let me explain. The 1.3 million job in IT sector are high paying jobs. These people employ large number of people in secondary jobs from school teachers to bank officers. Suppose instead of 1.3 million IT jobs, India had 5 million in small sector jobs (Indian govt favorite darling). In this case, most employees would be dependent on govt for welfare in areas of school, medicine etc. Besides these people would contribute more toward all the ills that the author has talked about from infant deaths to malnutrition to suicide.
"But the anti-India insurgency in Kashmir, which has claimed some 80,000 lives in the last decade and a half, and the strength of violent communist militants across India, hint that regular elections may not be enough to contain the frustration and rage of millions of have-nots, or to shield them from the temptations of religious and ideological extremism."
Again author has clubbed two totally unrelated things. The Kashmir problem is India-Pakistan conflict left over from the partition of India in 40's. The communists on the other hand are supported by the same like minded people as the author of the article (look at other similar articles and you would find that most of them are communists. E.g. Praful Bidwai).
"Many serious problems confront India. They are unlikely to be solved as long as the wealthy, both inside and outside the country, choose to believe their own complacent myths."
there are too many factual errors and at other places the emphasis is completely wrong. i can go and show these line by line, but let us look at some of the obvious errors:
"stock market,...fell nearly 20 percent in two weeks, wiping out some $2.4 billion... in just four days"
The above calculations implies India's stock market worth of $9.6 billion. Companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Reliance, ONGC etc. EACH have more market capital than this.
"As if on cue, special reports and covers hailing the rise of India in Time, Foreign Affairs and The Economist have appeared in the last month."
Looks like author believes that TIME and Economist are ill-informed.
"India is too dependent on Iran for oil "
India buys Iranian oil at market rate. What is wrong with that?
"country's $728 per capita gross domestic product is just slightly higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa"
How many economists are needed to tell the author to look for PPP instead of GDP? Besides, in 1980s, India's GDP was below that of GDP of almost all the sub-sahara African nations. So this is not a bad achievement.
"India will not catch up with high-income countries until 2106."
Ten years ago, the same was said about China by magazines like Economist.
"accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide;"
1 out of 5 children are in India. So this is just an average.
"100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003."
Per person, suicide ratio in India and USA is similar. Also there were more than a million suicide in India in the same period. So 10% of them happened to be farmers is not odd given the fact that farmer population in India is atleast that much.
"The potential for conflict -- among castes as well as classes -- also grows in urban areas, where India's cruel social and economic disparities are as evident as its new prosperity."
First the author has clubbed the two things: classes and castes. Here are my questions:
1. Can you show me any example of caste conflict in urban areas?
2. Can you show me any example of class conflict in urban areas?
"The main reason for this is that India's economic growth has been largely jobless. Only 1.3 million out of a working population of 400 million are employed in the information technology and business processing industries that make up the so-called new economy."
Ever heard of trickle down effect? Let me explain. The 1.3 million job in IT sector are high paying jobs. These people employ large number of people in secondary jobs from school teachers to bank officers. Suppose instead of 1.3 million IT jobs, India had 5 million in small sector jobs (Indian govt favorite darling). In this case, most employees would be dependent on govt for welfare in areas of school, medicine etc. Besides these people would contribute more toward all the ills that the author has talked about from infant deaths to malnutrition to suicide.
"But the anti-India insurgency in Kashmir, which has claimed some 80,000 lives in the last decade and a half, and the strength of violent communist militants across India, hint that regular elections may not be enough to contain the frustration and rage of millions of have-nots, or to shield them from the temptations of religious and ideological extremism."
Again author has clubbed two totally unrelated things. The Kashmir problem is India-Pakistan conflict left over from the partition of India in 40's. The communists on the other hand are supported by the same like minded people as the author of the article (look at other similar articles and you would find that most of them are communists. E.g. Praful Bidwai).
"Many serious problems confront India. They are unlikely to be solved as long as the wealthy, both inside and outside the country, choose to believe their own complacent myths."
Who says people are complacent? Absolutely not. Most wealthy people in India and abroad recognize all the problems that India faces and they are working hard toward solving them. Some of them in the process get rich and communist people author of the article feel jealous of their achievement and write such venomous articles.
I am quite surprised that sun is spending so much money on software while its core copetency is in hardware. they paid tons for Forte, Netbeans, Seebeyond, Staroffice and has a huge software group. Other than Java and Solaris-10, not many people pay for any of the Sun software. Oracle, IBM, Microsoft have huge enterprise customer base from where they get majority of the revenue and use this to provide free developer tools and other free goodies, but what does Sun have? I guess, a way for Sun to achieve profitability would be to get rid off all software teams except Solaris, Java and focus on their hardware business. They should at AMD for some guidance. It stuck to its core business and today it is Intel whose stock price is very low while AMD is close to historically high.
US companies have comparatively free atmosphere and they are good at making loosely attached large softwares with lots of features. Japanes company on the other hand are good at making small, gadget types softwares which must work perfect and must work all the time with little CPU power and memory. Ofcourse there are exception to both the sides. As the digital gadgets are becoming complex and computers and gadgets are merging, the Japanese companies are losing. The can't compete with PDAs like PALM and PocketPC not because they can't develop software for it, but they are finding it difficult to interact with desktop software. Similarly, they can't compete with iPod, because then you will need to compete with iTune, which is not a gadget type software but is a huge software ecosystem. The other devices are PVR (people demand networking, filesharing with PC and so on), cell phone, etc. Slowly Japan is feeling pain of software complexity. They will make excellent digital cameras, LCD TVs, but will make poor enterprise software, search engines, operating systems and so on. For in between the cases (PDA, cell phones, portable audio, PVR), sometimes they will win but at this times, they are mostly losing.
Virues may be involved in transferring genes from one species to another. In fact in many eco systems, it is found that plants, animals share common genes. It is unlikely some plants originated from animal or otherway round or they both originated from common microorganism either. It is more likely that the viruses (or virii as it is called biology) when infected different species, they transferred genes from one species to another. So not only all forms of life evolved from viruses, but current genetic evolution may be related to viral gene transfer.
even if you use this algorithm, it is likely to produce a bigger document. this fact can be used to in court to challenge. the only problem would be that someone has to find manually that the document has been forged. the second part could be that the forged document must not leave any signature of being forged (e.g. must not contain redundant data etc...). so yes, i would advise people not to use MD5 anymore, but I would still say it is okay to take some time and safely migrate to another algorithm rather than panic.
I frequently make a call to india using Reliance and they have excellent service and the charge is only $0.129 using their toll free number. I don't have a land line, or internet phone. Just a cell phone. Other companies like Onesuite too provide very low cost service to many destinations including europe and india. So don't see really any great value in this.
Note that behind the scene, many carriers use voip and toll free number call charge in USA, is only 2 cents a minute. So most companies like skype, vonage can barely afford more than 2 cents a minutes discount compared to these discount carriers. In my own personal search, I have found that most broadband based voip service cost more than these discount carriers for international calls. As for calls within USA, I rarely exceed my free minutes.
1. the article quoted for $2000 itanium machine is 15 months old. i have not seen one in market.
2. where is the performance data of $2000 itanium?
3. quoting speed per mhz is meaningless. absolute speet matters.
4. all spec, jbb2000, tpc-c, tpc-h etc favor amd for upto 8 processors. above 8 proc, itanium just competes sometimes up and sometimes down with sparc, power processors.
5. with binary compatibility with windows not there and commonly available linux distros and apps not there, what is the appeal for itanium (other than forced migration of hp-ux)?
yes, itanium has lots of potential, perhaps same as ia432 had in 1980s, but right now, nothing to be excited about.
This is rather ironic that IBM is announcing low power G5 just weeks after Apple frustratingly switching to Intel (and according to many speculations, unavailability of low power G5 was the primary reason). Why is IBM unvailing it now? There are no known potential customers for this chip.
As for the dual core, I believe, it may be exciting to many Apple PowerPC fans and may provide a reason to some to buy Apple machine in this transition period.
given eye's optics, you can resolve about 1.5 mega pixels. This is assuming that the picture is kept at a distance, so that it occupies about the same area as 50 mm lens would provide on 35 mm camera (or 3x2 feet picture kept at 5 ft away). This is theoretical limit based on perfect print. Since most photos have some artifacts, you reach saturation at a slightly higher pixel count.
If your monitor is more than 1600x1200 and if you want to do pixel by pixel comparison of two photos on a single monitor (each photo size 800x600), then it is not possible to do so without moving your head.
In order to see 1 giga pixel, you will have to be incredibly close to the photo compared to its size and also will have to move up/down/side to see the details at different places.
Higher magapixel beyond 4-6 MP is only good for cropping, zooming, scientific data etc but is not of much use as a single print, specially if it is to be viewed as a whole.
in the beginning everything is assumed to be lumps of gas. due to some intial asymmetry, the otherwise uniform distribution of gas started forming lumps. once the lumps formed, it was a self sustaining chain reaction. as it became more denser, the gravity became strong and pulled gases even close. it still takes time to form the galaxy, because the gravitational collapse produces heat and that regulates the collapse (that is why our sun still shines and not collapsed under its gravity. except that in sun's case, the heat is coming from thermonuclear reaction). once gases start collapsing, they also form small lumps internally. when density of small lumps reaches some critical value we see star formation.
now the rate at which collapse occurs is difficult to calculate. it is non-linear, too many parameters and depends heavily on initial condition that you start. It may be possible, that these galaxy could produce internal lumps only recently which were dense enough to form stars. in the beginning the stars are massive, since thermonuclear reaction is hard to start in "pristine" gas composed of only primordial hydrogen and helium. However, these large stars are also short lived, since they produce heat very fast and consume internal fuel and then they explode and generate heavy elements as by-products, which helps other smaller start formation like our sun.
Coffee is addictive and so is tea and so are many other things in life. Some people are addicted to books. I have never seen senate debating library addiction PROBLEM? Before they should discuss internet porn addiction, they should show clearly that it is a problem which needs immediate addressing. Americans access more internet porn then many other nations in middle east, africa etc, but I don't think those countries have any less sexual crimes than USA.
as much as i like, i still think that online music downloading is still in its infancy. i can never imagine putting a CD that i bought from BestBuy in a player than finding out that now it won't play other CDs. nevertheless, such is the case of online music purchase and only because they don't trust me (their customer).
if they don't trust me, they should implement drm in transparent way. when CDs first came out, it was not possible for consumers to make copies. it means no drm and everything was fine.
as much as i hate MPAA over DeCSS case, atleast they have come up with a transparent way to handle copyright. i think if online companies want to implement drm, they should come out with a non-intrusive way of doing this rather than fiddling with their computer.
first thing that itune, musicmatch etc software license would ask you is "can we do anything to your computer?". Say no and you can't use it. Say yes, and they do more changes to computer than you expected.
i won't buy online music until i get it in a form that i can play on my computer with my own software. it also must come with any license agreement. only the standard copyright laws should apply.
I had a thought that USPTO should also accept proposal for patent-free ideas. In this, people should be allowed to submit idea that USPTO should certify that it is free of patent. If USPTO is competent enough to grant patent by saying, this hasn't been done before; they should be able to certify that this doesn't violate any patent. Once it is granted, people should feel free using this idea. In case someone wants to file a patent lawsuit on this patent-free idea, then the burden of proof should be on plaintiff. By default the idea should be considered patent free.
This would be a tremendous boost to standard organization. We no more will get surprise.gif,.jpg, eolas etc patents.
The cost of such patent-free filing should be at par with patent filing.
TV manufacturers argued that 85% people have cable/satellite. however the reality is slightly different. how many of those 85% people get hdtv in standard service witout paying extra? i have a cable, but i don't get hdtv. having an hdtv with a built-in tuner would surely benefit me even though i have a cable. i have cable broadband and comcast charges me more for just broadband internet than broadband internet + basic cable. i don't have hdtv, because i am affordable price hdtv with built-in tuner.
After learning terms "palm pc", "palm sized pc", "pocket pc", "hand sized pc" etc..., I have come to know what they mean by "window pc". It means "window sized pc".
Use sound detector. Emergency vehicle should emit specific sound frequencies signal that should be detected by traffice light sensor. Now, if somebody does copycat, atleast police or other drivers can find it and report. Even though no law is there against such devices, still drivers can be charged under "temparing with traffic signal".
how many XFree86 users are using Cygwin port? 1 percent? Let us face it, it is not the "beginning of the end" but is rather the "end of the beginning of the end".
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Seriously! If Cingular is the culprit, then iPhone will die after Cingular dies and that ain't gonna happen soon. Besides, your point of $2500 for service proves that iPhone is even more worth it. What is $500 extra on top of $2500 (which you would anyway pay with Cingular)? Just 20% extra, and you get wifi, 4 G ipod.
why would they use canadian coins to track americans? actually, these coins were made by US govt to track canadians. now that the story is out, they are denying that such coins exist.
1. Acquire satellite radio: This would allow apple to sell iTunes over wireless without a computer. Also, satellite radio use digital transmission. iPod can either do built-in transmitter or make it as an accessory. This would allow user to play their iPod on car radio (satellite radio) without wire and without loss of signal quality. I can think of tons of other benefits of Apple-satellite radio merger, but not enough space here. This will also allow wireless song sharing like Zune.
2. Acquire TiVO or offer similar service. Allow TiVO to download iTunes song and synch with iPod. Agains this will allow people to buy iTunes over broadband without using computer. Also, people can play their iTune songs on home stereo via DVR easily. This would fit in ther iTV or MacMini strategy quite well.
3. iPod remote: Make an iPod remote which looks like iPod nano. It can be synched with real iPod using a computer. Now user can truly do full control of their iPod using this remote control. My biggest problem of current generation of remotes is that I can't select a song, photo, video. I can only do play and then skip it if I don't like it. With a wheel and display, I can exactly select the song and then play. Such a remote should not cost more than 50/60 dollars.
4. External memory/battery module for iPod nano: Make an external memory/battery module for iPod which will connect to docking connector. That way, I can expand my iPod nano. How about 8 GB module for $99? Or a 48 hour battery module.
5. A camera module expansion.
There is nothing exotic about negative refractive index. It is trivially achievable in real life experiments, albeit not at optical frequencies. All information about the light falling on any surface can be captured if we can digitize electromagnetic waves at sampling rate which is twice the bandwidth. At optical wavelengths, this would be trillions of samples per second at each sensor and you will need multiple sensors spatially distributed across a surface. At radio frequencies with only a few mega hertz bandwidth, this can be done and is being done routinely (by radio astronomers in VLBI experiments) for almost 30 years. Once you digitize the signal, you can simulate any refractive index as you wish using a computer. Mathematics and computing power are the limit.
If he becomes a president or even a president's cabinet member, he could reap billions of dollars in tax savings. He would be allowed (actually forced) to sell all of his microsoft stocks without any capital tax gains (he can then invest in other security). Even better, since he would be selling stocks as a legal requirements, market will not perceive this as a negative outlook for microsoft.
A good way to diversify without paying tax.
Since I didn't format properly, posting it again (it was slow connection, so I didn't preview)....
...fell nearly 20 percent in two weeks, wiping out some $2.4 billion ... in just four days"
there are too many factual errors and at other places the emphasis is completely wrong. i can go and show these line by line, but let us look at some of the obvious errors:
"stock market,
The above calculations implies India's stock market worth of $9.6 billion. Companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Reliance, ONGC etc. EACH have more market capital than this.
"As if on cue, special reports and covers hailing the rise of India in Time, Foreign Affairs and The Economist have appeared in the last month."
Looks like author believes that TIME and Economist are ill-informed.
"India is too dependent on Iran for oil "
India buys Iranian oil at market rate. What is wrong with that?
"country's $728 per capita gross domestic product is just slightly higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa"
How many economists are needed to tell the author to look for PPP instead of GDP? Besides, in 1980s, India's GDP was below that of GDP of almost all the sub-sahara African nations. So this is not a bad achievement.
"India will not catch up with high-income countries until 2106."
Ten years ago, the same was said about China by magazines like Economist.
"accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide;"
1 out of 5 children are in India. So this is just an average.
"100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003."
Per person, suicide ratio in India and USA is similar. Also there were more than a million suicide in India in the same period. So 10% of them happened to be farmers is not odd given the fact that farmer population in India is atleast that much.
"The potential for conflict -- among castes as well as classes -- also grows in urban areas, where India's cruel social and economic disparities are as evident as its new prosperity."
First the author has clubbed the two things: classes and castes. Here are my questions:
1. Can you show me any example of caste conflict in urban areas?
2. Can you show me any example of class conflict in urban areas?
"The main reason for this is that India's economic growth has been largely jobless. Only 1.3 million out of a working population of 400 million are employed in the information technology and business processing industries that make up the so-called new economy."
Ever heard of trickle down effect? Let me explain. The 1.3 million job in IT sector are high paying jobs. These people employ large number of people in secondary jobs from school teachers to bank officers. Suppose instead of 1.3 million IT jobs, India had 5 million in small sector jobs (Indian govt favorite darling). In this case, most employees would be dependent on govt for welfare in areas of school, medicine etc. Besides these people would contribute more toward all the ills that the author has talked about from infant deaths to malnutrition to suicide.
"But the anti-India insurgency in Kashmir, which has claimed some 80,000 lives in the last decade and a half, and the strength of violent communist militants across India, hint that regular elections may not be enough to contain the frustration and rage of millions of have-nots, or to shield them from the temptations of religious and ideological extremism."
Again author has clubbed two totally unrelated things. The Kashmir problem is India-Pakistan conflict left over from the partition of India in 40's. The communists on the other hand are supported by the same like minded people as the author of the article (look at other similar articles and you would find that most of them are communists. E.g. Praful Bidwai).
"Many serious problems confront India. They are unlikely to be solved as long as the wealthy, both inside and outside the country, choose to believe their own complacent myths."
there are too many factual errors and at other places the emphasis is completely wrong. i can go and show these line by line, but let us look at some of the obvious errors: "stock market, ...fell nearly 20 percent in two weeks, wiping out some $2.4 billion ... in just four days"
The above calculations implies India's stock market worth of $9.6 billion. Companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Reliance, ONGC etc. EACH have more market capital than this.
"As if on cue, special reports and covers hailing the rise of India in Time, Foreign Affairs and The Economist have appeared in the last month."
Looks like author believes that TIME and Economist are ill-informed.
"India is too dependent on Iran for oil "
India buys Iranian oil at market rate. What is wrong with that?
"country's $728 per capita gross domestic product is just slightly higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa"
How many economists are needed to tell the author to look for PPP instead of GDP? Besides, in 1980s, India's GDP was below that of GDP of almost all the sub-sahara African nations. So this is not a bad achievement.
"India will not catch up with high-income countries until 2106."
Ten years ago, the same was said about China by magazines like Economist.
"accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide;"
1 out of 5 children are in India. So this is just an average.
"100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003."
Per person, suicide ratio in India and USA is similar. Also there were more than a million suicide in India in the same period. So 10% of them happened to be farmers is not odd given the fact that farmer population in India is atleast that much.
"The potential for conflict -- among castes as well as classes -- also grows in urban areas, where India's cruel social and economic disparities are as evident as its new prosperity."
First the author has clubbed the two things: classes and castes. Here are my questions:
1. Can you show me any example of caste conflict in urban areas?
2. Can you show me any example of class conflict in urban areas?
"The main reason for this is that India's economic growth has been largely jobless. Only 1.3 million out of a working population of 400 million are employed in the information technology and business processing industries that make up the so-called new economy."
Ever heard of trickle down effect? Let me explain. The 1.3 million job in IT sector are high paying jobs. These people employ large number of people in secondary jobs from school teachers to bank officers. Suppose instead of 1.3 million IT jobs, India had 5 million in small sector jobs (Indian govt favorite darling). In this case, most employees would be dependent on govt for welfare in areas of school, medicine etc. Besides these people would contribute more toward all the ills that the author has talked about from infant deaths to malnutrition to suicide.
"But the anti-India insurgency in Kashmir, which has claimed some 80,000 lives in the last decade and a half, and the strength of violent communist militants across India, hint that regular elections may not be enough to contain the frustration and rage of millions of have-nots, or to shield them from the temptations of religious and ideological extremism."
Again author has clubbed two totally unrelated things. The Kashmir problem is India-Pakistan conflict left over from the partition of India in 40's. The communists on the other hand are supported by the same like minded people as the author of the article (look at other similar articles and you would find that most of them are communists. E.g. Praful Bidwai).
"Many serious problems confront India. They are unlikely to be solved as long as the wealthy, both inside and outside the country, choose to believe their own complacent myths."
Who says people are complacent? Absolutely not. Most wealthy people in India and abroad recognize all the problems that India faces and they are working hard toward solving them. Some of them in the process get rich and communist people author of the article feel jealous of their achievement and write such venomous articles.
I am quite surprised that sun is spending so much money on software while its core copetency is in hardware. they paid tons for Forte, Netbeans, Seebeyond, Staroffice and has a huge software group. Other than Java and Solaris-10, not many people pay for any of the Sun software. Oracle, IBM, Microsoft have huge enterprise customer base from where they get majority of the revenue and use this to provide free developer tools and other free goodies, but what does Sun have? I guess, a way for Sun to achieve profitability would be to get rid off all software teams except Solaris, Java and focus on their hardware business. They should at AMD for some guidance. It stuck to its core business and today it is Intel whose stock price is very low while AMD is close to historically high.
US companies have comparatively free atmosphere and they are good at making loosely attached large softwares with lots of features. Japanes company on the other hand are good at making small, gadget types softwares which must work perfect and must work all the time with little CPU power and memory. Ofcourse there are exception to both the sides. As the digital gadgets are becoming complex and computers and gadgets are merging, the Japanese companies are losing. The can't compete with PDAs like PALM and PocketPC not because they can't develop software for it, but they are finding it difficult to interact with desktop software. Similarly, they can't compete with iPod, because then you will need to compete with iTune, which is not a gadget type software but is a huge software ecosystem. The other devices are PVR (people demand networking, filesharing with PC and so on), cell phone, etc. Slowly Japan is feeling pain of software complexity. They will make excellent digital cameras, LCD TVs, but will make poor enterprise software, search engines, operating systems and so on. For in between the cases (PDA, cell phones, portable audio, PVR), sometimes they will win but at this times, they are mostly losing.
Virues may be involved in transferring genes from one species to another. In fact in many eco systems, it is found that plants, animals share common genes. It is unlikely some plants originated from animal or otherway round or they both originated from common microorganism either. It is more likely that the viruses (or virii as it is called biology) when infected different species, they transferred genes from one species to another. So not only all forms of life evolved from viruses, but current genetic evolution may be related to viral gene transfer.
even if you use this algorithm, it is likely to produce a bigger document. this fact can be used to in court to challenge. the only problem would be that someone has to find manually that the document has been forged. the second part could be that the forged document must not leave any signature of being forged (e.g. must not contain redundant data etc...). so yes, i would advise people not to use MD5 anymore, but I would still say it is okay to take some time and safely migrate to another algorithm rather than panic.
Note that behind the scene, many carriers use voip and toll free number call charge in USA, is only 2 cents a minute. So most companies like skype, vonage can barely afford more than 2 cents a minutes discount compared to these discount carriers. In my own personal search, I have found that most broadband based voip service cost more than these discount carriers for international calls. As for calls within USA, I rarely exceed my free minutes.
2. where is the performance data of $2000 itanium?
3. quoting speed per mhz is meaningless. absolute speet matters.
4. all spec, jbb2000, tpc-c, tpc-h etc favor amd for upto 8 processors. above 8 proc, itanium just competes sometimes up and sometimes down with sparc, power processors.
5. with binary compatibility with windows not there and commonly available linux distros and apps not there, what is the appeal for itanium (other than forced migration of hp-ux)?
yes, itanium has lots of potential, perhaps same as ia432 had in 1980s, but right now, nothing to be excited about.
As for the dual core, I believe, it may be exciting to many Apple PowerPC fans and may provide a reason to some to buy Apple machine in this transition period.
buy a real galaxy. i am selling andromeda for $2500.00. Any takers?
given eye's optics, you can resolve about 1.5 mega pixels. This is assuming that the picture is kept at a distance, so that it occupies about the same area as 50 mm lens would provide on 35 mm camera (or 3x2 feet picture kept at 5 ft away). This is theoretical limit based on perfect print. Since most photos have some artifacts, you reach saturation at a slightly higher pixel count.
If your monitor is more than 1600x1200 and if you want to do pixel by pixel comparison of two photos on a single monitor (each photo size 800x600), then it is not possible to do so without moving your head.
In order to see 1 giga pixel, you will have to be incredibly close to the photo compared to its size and also will have to move up/down/side to see the details at different places.
Higher magapixel beyond 4-6 MP is only good for cropping, zooming, scientific data etc but is not of much use as a single print, specially if it is to be viewed as a whole.
in the beginning everything is assumed to be lumps of gas. due to some intial asymmetry, the otherwise uniform distribution of gas started forming lumps. once the lumps formed, it was a self sustaining chain reaction. as it became more denser, the gravity became strong and pulled gases even close. it still takes time to form the galaxy, because the gravitational collapse produces heat and that regulates the collapse (that is why our sun still shines and not collapsed under its gravity. except that in sun's case, the heat is coming from thermonuclear reaction). once gases start collapsing, they also form small lumps internally. when density of small lumps reaches some critical value we see star formation.
now the rate at which collapse occurs is difficult to calculate. it is non-linear, too many parameters and depends heavily on initial condition that you start. It may be possible, that these galaxy could produce internal lumps only recently which were dense enough to form stars.
in the beginning the stars are massive, since thermonuclear reaction is hard to start in "pristine" gas composed of only primordial hydrogen and helium. However, these large stars are also short lived, since they produce heat very fast and consume internal fuel and then they explode and generate heavy elements as by-products, which helps other smaller start formation like our sun.
Coffee is addictive and so is tea and so are many other things in life. Some people are addicted to books. I have never seen senate debating library addiction PROBLEM? Before they should discuss internet porn addiction, they should show clearly that it is a problem which needs immediate addressing. Americans access more internet porn then many other nations in middle east, africa etc, but I don't think those countries have any less sexual crimes than USA.
Iron has density of 7.8 g/cm^3. This manes, 1 cu ft of iron weighs little under 0.25 ton. So how does 12" magnet 2.5 ton?
as much as i like, i still think that online music downloading is still in its infancy. i can never imagine putting a CD that i bought from BestBuy in a player than finding out that now it won't play other CDs. nevertheless, such is the case of online music purchase and only because they don't trust me (their customer).
if they don't trust me, they should implement drm in transparent way. when CDs first came out, it was not possible for consumers to make copies. it means no drm and everything was fine.
as much as i hate MPAA over DeCSS case, atleast they have come up with a transparent way to handle copyright. i think if online companies want to implement drm, they should come out with a non-intrusive way of doing this rather than fiddling with their computer.
first thing that itune, musicmatch etc software license would ask you is "can we do anything to your computer?". Say no and you can't use it. Say yes, and they do more changes to computer than you expected.
i won't buy online music until i get it in a form that i can play on my computer with my own software. it also must come with any license agreement. only the standard copyright laws should apply.
I had a thought that USPTO should also accept proposal for patent-free ideas. In this, people should be allowed to submit idea that USPTO should certify that it is free of patent. If USPTO is competent enough to grant patent by saying, this hasn't been done before; they should be able to certify that this doesn't violate any patent. Once it is granted, people should feel free using this idea. In case someone wants to file a patent lawsuit on this patent-free idea, then the burden of proof should be on plaintiff. By default the idea should be considered patent free.
.gif, .jpg, eolas etc patents.
This would be a tremendous boost to standard organization. We no more will get surprise
The cost of such patent-free filing should be at par with patent filing.
TV manufacturers argued that 85% people have cable/satellite. however the reality is slightly different. how many of those 85% people get hdtv in standard service witout paying extra? i have a cable, but i don't get hdtv. having an hdtv with a built-in tuner would surely benefit me even though i have a cable. i have cable broadband and comcast charges me more for just broadband internet than broadband internet + basic cable. i don't have hdtv, because i am affordable price hdtv with built-in tuner.
After learning terms "palm pc", "palm sized pc", "pocket pc", "hand sized pc" etc..., I have come to know what they mean by "window pc". It means "window sized pc".
Use sound detector. Emergency vehicle should emit specific sound frequencies signal that should be detected by traffice light sensor. Now, if somebody does copycat, atleast police or other drivers can find it and report. Even though no law is there against such devices, still drivers can be charged under "temparing with traffic signal".
how many XFree86 users are using Cygwin port? 1 percent? Let us face it, it is not the "beginning of the end" but is rather the "end of the beginning of the end".