What you are describing is typically a local train in a major city, running no more than 50 to 80 kms total with stops every 2 to 5 kms.
The article refers to the long distance, inter city trains which cover anywhere from 200- to 3000+ kms in one run. It would be far more uncommon to see people hanging out of these trains as one has to have a reservation (read seat) to get on board. Of course there are other ways to get on a train, but my point stands.
Microsoft's consumer product finally has a restricted mode. The problem is, there's still a user problem... most people use an administrator account as their primary, sometimes only, Windows logon. So, even though the software has caught up, the users haven't.
True, but the company nas not pushed to educate its users to the benefits of non-administrator operation. Further, there is no advisory during the installation process to inform users about the pros/cons of operating in administrator mode or user mode. Lets not even start on all those pre-installed unpatched systems all running the administrator account as default since they put out XP Home (a la windows 9x).
The software may have caught up, the company philosophy has not.
> Btw why run mirc under WINE when there are so many native IRC apps?
Parent poster clearly mentioned that it was only a test. Most wine articles tell u to test notepad.exe to see if it is working. However, a real world test would be to use a Win32 application that is not distributed by microsoft and has a few shades of complexity greater than notepad.
> Indian Universities are of very poor quality, just to bring your typical Indian male arrogance down a notch.
And i believe you have attended one to know better? Allow me to vouch that i have attended universities in three countries and The University of Pune, is top notch.
And i noticed u chose to bring down my typical Indian male arrogance with a bout of good old fashioned stereotyping.
> Also, I suspect you are in the U.S. sucking off the teat of those who you mock.
Really now, u do know what international student fees are like... right? And no financial aid at this university or anywhere in this state. i pay over (no hyperbole) 4 times the fees of a local resident student. And im not even counting the financial aid that local students get. Couple to that 1/10th the buying power (as mentioned in earlier posts to this article). Now whose sucking whose teat?
> Your country has a billion people, 56% unemployment rate and a 52% literacy rate. It is nothing to brag about. If it was, you would still be living there.
What measure of unemployment rate are u considering? Just because a person does not get a paycheck which he cashes in at a bank does not imply that he/she is unemployed. i'll shed a little light on that 50 something percent unemployment rate u dug up. Hows 8.8% sound. Enlighten yourself. Fyi: the unemployment rate has fallen by 2% in the last couple of years. Historically, India has never had an umemployment rate above 30%.
The simple truth is that a VERY LARGE part of the workforce is employed in the "unorganised sector". Enlighten yourself more on the issues before flinging out cocktail party numbers.
The illiteracy numbers have declined steadlily during the last half century. And here's a plan. Why don't we dump those 48% illiterates (thats about 480 million) in your hometown and u try to educate them in less than two generations!
.... And we are still on topic. with technology such as this broadband distance learning... the literacy drive might be successful is less than the projected number of generations.
> why are these ppl uneducated in the first place?
I'm indian and one of "these people" and i have three degrees (one a Masters in Computer Science, two in Electronics Engineering from Indian universities.).
India has one of the largest number of "highly skilled" to "very highly skilled" workers today. The university where i did my engineering degree had nineteen affiliated engineering colleges under it that followed the same syllabus. (that number has risen since then). And that was just for Electronics engineering. Count in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical, Telecommunication, Industrial Electronics, Instrumentation...... and u start to see the picture. I havent even started to mention the "evergreen" fields of mechanical, civil, chemical, production and industrial engineerings.
Don't believe me? Check out the stats for yourself
The question u ask cannot be answered in two words... but i'll open by saying "British Colonialism".
As stated in the Cambridge Dictionary,
colonialism noun [U]
the belief in and support for the system of one country controlling another
And thats what they did; controlled India and kept her populace uneducated. The few Indians that did manage to get educated pre-independance (1947) did so because of their elite stature and family connections with the "English Sahebs".
So the trend of lack of education continued, with most males either working in the fields or enlistning in the Indian regiments of the British Army.
Post-independance (post-1947) the situation was very different. The infrastructure was pitiful. The world's largest democracy has been built out of practicaly nothing. The govenment took radical measures to get children into schools in cities and rural areas. In my home state, Maharashtra for example, education for boys between 1th grade and 10th is subsidised (fees = your grade * 12 rupees per year)... yes! u heard me. A fifth grade boy's tution fee is only Rs 5 a month. Tution for girls in the same state is free!
Being a large country -- with a large population that is illterate to start with -- getting children into school has proven to be difficult in some rural (even urban) areas. The old adage that hands are made to work is held fast by some the older generation. The result is that some children are not sent to school, instead to carpet factories, construction sites or "bidi" (tobaco rolling) shops. But this trend is on the decline.
A LOT has been achieved in India in just 56 years (since independance).
i know u are not American, but just for contrast lets take America as an example.
America:
Population = 300 Milion (rounded up)
Literacy 97% = 291 Million literate
India:
Population = a billion (rounded down)
Literacy 52% = 520 Million literate
We still got em beat 1.7 : 1
I understand that u are not American and i have no ill-will towards your nation... but let me know which country u are from, and i will happily post the ratio with your country in comparison.
P.S. I know that male to female literacy ratio is a little lopsided but hey, its getting better. Either way we'd still kick your ass at Math.
Thank you for airing my thoughts. Especially the part about "nationalistic lip-service".
Capitalism has for decades caused jobs to be moved to third world countries. Since the 70s there has been a lot of talk on the issue, but few Americans have chosen to vote on the issue with their dollar.
Americans are still purchasing the most cost effective
-- cars, which are made in Japan and S. Korea
-- clothing, which is made in Brazil, Mexico, India, China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
-- computer hardware, which is made in China, Taiwan and S. Korea
Computer software from India and China will soon be an addition to this list.
One may want to hate the trend of tech jobs moving to third world countries, but one's hatred of India or IBM is unwarrented. It is the very core of Capitalism and Free Market Economy which has spread globally due to America's very vocal advocacy. Each country cashes in on its most valuable natural resource. India's natural resource happens to be her highly skilled workforce.
To all those posting negatively against India i say, lets not discuss any more of migrating job markets due to cheap labour and free market economics until say... 2008... when the must-have product made by an Indian software company is available for a bargain dollar. At that time we'll continue this issue further.
Step 1: Take one pack at a time off the shelf... letting the camera take your picture each time. Stroll nonchalantly to the checkout counter.
Step 2: Checkout person sees your photo on their console, asks if u have a loyalty card. Start your statement with "i do not have a sodding loyalty card".
Step 3: After checkout person rings up all yor items, politely ask "do any items have RFID tags on them? if so, i will not purchasing them".
Step 4: Checkout person calls manager to confirm and eventually is is forced to remove razor blades from list. Since they had to remove the blades there is no allegation of theft.
Step 5: Lather
Step 6: Rinse
Step 7: Repeat
Step 8: RFID tags gets unpopular with retailers and data miners start to see RFID tagged items being returned.
The most telling flaw in the strategy, for me, was that you could find entire racks of books on.Net. But absolutely none that explained the basic wire protocols used. They were all "How to Program a.Net application inside one box using language Y".
This brings to mind something mentioned by a professor, Dr. Puder, in a seminar/discussion i attended about.NET. The questions addressed were:
-- what is.NET
-- what problems does.NET solve
-- haven't technologies such as CORBA already addressed these issues.
The discussion was preceeded by a presentation by another professor (a.NET zealot IMHO).
During the critiquing of.NET, Dr. Puder mentioned that a distributed architecture should offer transparent, well documented access to two interfaces. The first interface is the Horizontal interface, better known as the API. The second interface is the Vertical interface which documents the protocols being used over the wire.
In the specific case of.NET, the vertical interface is documented (to some extent), which is what the mono team are using as reference. However the horizontal interface (API) is horribly obscured and a vendor of a.NET environment may choose to hide some of the APIs from the programmer. The primary reason for this obscurity is product lock-in. A vendor can choose to lock u in by providing or not providing some of the interfaces that other vendors provide.
To address the question put forth by the parent post,.NET uses XML encoded messages sent from the service requester to the service provider. This is typically done to keep the messages simple and human readable(?) -- however CORBA sends code (binary) in its communication protocol and achieves the same task with a large reduction in the number of bytes actually transmitted. From examples i have seen it is it is typically between 25:1 and 40:1.
Dr. Puder is a CORBA Demi-God and an author of MICO (MICO Is COrba). MICO is an open source, fully compliant implementation of the CORBA standard written in C++.
Why stop at replacing the mozilla throbber, go to mozdev.org and get the Internet Explorer theme for mozilla to complete the look and feel.
i know some will say that this defeats the purpose of mozilla advocacy, but those that dont care about which browser they are using aren't going to care anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
This is how i got my porn fix pre-windows / X windows. SEA Image Viewer.
Phone?
What you are describing is typically a local train in a major city, running no more than 50 to 80 kms total with stops every 2 to 5 kms.
The article refers to the long distance, inter city trains which cover anywhere from 200- to 3000+ kms in one run. It would be far more uncommon to see people hanging out of these trains as one has to have a reservation (read seat) to get on board. Of course there are other ways to get on a train, but my point stands.
Get off the grid j0hn "fr0g" conner. You're not safe here on /. -- The T-X is web-enabled.
Update: The T-101 is unavailable to protect you at this time. He's been reprogrammed to terminate the budget crisis.
thousand of them... that cling to your [body] hair during the day and crawl out to cut your hair, clean your teeth and trim your nails while u sleep.
... is here
Fine then, i will!
[continues to drink the Fosters.]
The software may have caught up, the company philosophy has not.
RedHat has responded that Severn will be renamed to "Red-Flaming-Mad-Hat".
This was already mentioned in a comment in the previous story about the MSN Messenger Networks.
The banner on her website shows her wearing a tshirt. Look closely at what it says.
Too many subliminal messages here me thinks.
...now humans that breed like pandas... that i can understand.
> Btw why run mirc under WINE when there are so many native IRC apps?
Parent poster clearly mentioned that it was only a test. Most wine articles tell u to test notepad.exe to see if it is working. However, a real world test would be to use a Win32 application that is not distributed by microsoft and has a few shades of complexity greater than notepad.
> Indian Universities are of very poor quality, just to bring your typical Indian male arrogance down a notch.
.... And we are still on topic. with technology such as this broadband distance learning... the literacy drive might be successful is less than the projected number of generations.
And i believe you have attended one to know better? Allow me to vouch that i have attended universities in three countries and The University of Pune, is top notch.
And i noticed u chose to bring down my typical Indian male arrogance with a bout of good old fashioned stereotyping.
> Also, I suspect you are in the U.S. sucking off the teat of those who you mock.
Really now, u do know what international student fees are like... right? And no financial aid at this university or anywhere in this state. i pay over (no hyperbole) 4 times the fees of a local resident student. And im not even counting the financial aid that local students get. Couple to that 1/10th the buying power (as mentioned in earlier posts to this article). Now whose sucking whose teat?
> Your country has a billion people, 56% unemployment rate and a 52% literacy rate. It is nothing to brag about. If it was, you would still be living there.
What measure of unemployment rate are u considering? Just because a person does not get a paycheck which he cashes in at a bank does not imply that he/she is unemployed. i'll shed a little light on that 50 something percent unemployment rate u dug up. Hows 8.8% sound. Enlighten yourself. Fyi: the unemployment rate has fallen by 2% in the last couple of years. Historically, India has never had an umemployment rate above 30%.
The simple truth is that a VERY LARGE part of the workforce is employed in the "unorganised sector". Enlighten yourself more on the issues before flinging out cocktail party numbers.
The illiteracy numbers have declined steadlily during the last half century. And here's a plan. Why don't we dump those 48% illiterates (thats about 480 million) in your hometown and u try to educate them in less than two generations!
My guess is that sun lacks a mascot who stands for liberty, love and the pursuit of happiness all the while standing up for the little guy.
A mascot should enjoy being a super hero, fragging, and sports and should appeal to the geek, the freak, the n00b and those corporate types.
And no! Duke is not cool. Duke thinks that he is cool. But he only reaches cute. And cute is for sissies.
I'm indian and one of "these people" and i have three degrees (one a Masters in Computer Science, two in Electronics Engineering from Indian universities.).
India has one of the largest number of "highly skilled" to "very highly skilled" workers today. The university where i did my engineering degree had nineteen affiliated engineering colleges under it that followed the same syllabus. (that number has risen since then). And that was just for Electronics engineering. Count in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical, Telecommunication, Industrial Electronics, Instrumentation
The question u ask cannot be answered in two words
As stated in the Cambridge Dictionary, colonialism noun [U] the belief in and support for the system of one country controlling another
And thats what they did; controlled India and kept her populace uneducated. The few Indians that did manage to get educated pre-independance (1947) did so because of their elite stature and family connections with the "English Sahebs".
So the trend of lack of education continued, with most males either working in the fields or enlistning in the Indian regiments of the British Army.
Post-independance (post-1947) the situation was very different. The infrastructure was pitiful. The world's largest democracy has been built out of practicaly nothing. The govenment took radical measures to get children into schools in cities and rural areas. In my home state, Maharashtra for example, education for boys between 1th grade and 10th is subsidised (fees = your grade * 12 rupees per year)... yes! u heard me. A fifth grade boy's tution fee is only Rs 5 a month. Tution for girls in the same state is free!
Being a large country -- with a large population that is illterate to start with -- getting children into school has proven to be difficult in some rural (even urban) areas. The old adage that hands are made to work is held fast by some the older generation. The result is that some children are not sent to school, instead to carpet factories, construction sites or "bidi" (tobaco rolling) shops. But this trend is on the decline.
A LOT has been achieved in India in just 56 years (since independance).
- -- world's largest democracy. (no link required)
- -- world's largest standing or deployed land force.
- -- world's largest employer is in India.
- -- Kerala, the state with over 99% literacy (one down, 28 to go
:) )
i know u are not American, but just for contrast lets take America as an example.oh and i saved the best for last -- India as a country has 52% literacy.
America
Population = 300 Milion (rounded up)
Literacy 97% = 291 Million literate
India
Population = a billion (rounded down)
Literacy 52% = 520 Million literate
We still got em beat 1.7 : 1
I understand that u are not American and i have no ill-will towards your nation... but let me know which country u are from, and i will happily post the ratio with your country in comparison.
P.S. I know that male to female literacy ratio is a little lopsided but hey, its getting better. Either way we'd still kick your ass at Math.
Cheers,
sort of like the RedHat equivalent of up2date
or apt-get upgrade depending on your trust and taste.
... and Mandrake
Thank you for airing my thoughts. Especially the part about "nationalistic lip-service".
Capitalism has for decades caused jobs to be moved to third world countries. Since the 70s there has been a lot of talk on the issue, but few Americans have chosen to vote on the issue with their dollar.
Americans are still purchasing the most cost effective
-- cars, which are made in Japan and S. Korea
-- clothing, which is made in Brazil, Mexico, India, China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
-- computer hardware, which is made in China, Taiwan and S. Korea
Computer software from India and China will soon be an addition to this list.
One may want to hate the trend of tech jobs moving to third world countries, but one's hatred of India or IBM is unwarrented. It is the very core of Capitalism and Free Market Economy which has spread globally due to America's very vocal advocacy. Each country cashes in on its most valuable natural resource. India's natural resource happens to be her highly skilled workforce.
To all those posting negatively against India i say, lets not discuss any more of migrating job markets due to cheap labour and free market economics until say... 2008... when the must-have product made by an Indian software company is available for a bargain dollar. At that time we'll continue this issue further.
Cheers,
Step 1: Take one pack at a time off the shelf ... letting the camera take your picture each time. Stroll nonchalantly to the checkout counter.
Step 2: Checkout person sees your photo on their console, asks if u have a loyalty card. Start your statement with "i do not have a sodding loyalty card".
Step 3: After checkout person rings up all yor items, politely ask "do any items have RFID tags on them? if so, i will not purchasing them".
Step 4: Checkout person calls manager to confirm and eventually is is forced to remove razor blades from list. Since they had to remove the blades there is no allegation of theft.
Step 5: Lather
Step 6: Rinse
Step 7: Repeat
Step 8: RFID tags gets unpopular with retailers and data miners start to see RFID tagged items being returned.
and the obligatory last two steps
Step 9: ???
Step 10: PROFIT !!!
Death by pop-ups... hmmm... u aint gonna find a chink in this browsers armour (See sig). cheers,
The most telling flaw in the strategy, for me, was that you could find entire racks of books on .Net. But absolutely none that explained the basic wire protocols used. They were all "How to Program a .Net application inside one box using language Y".
.NET. The questions addressed were: .NET .NET solve
.NET zealot IMHO).
.NET, Dr. Puder mentioned that a distributed architecture should offer transparent, well documented access to two interfaces. The first interface is the Horizontal interface, better known as the API. The second interface is the Vertical interface which documents the protocols being used over the wire.
.NET, the vertical interface is documented (to some extent), which is what the mono team are using as reference. However the horizontal interface (API) is horribly obscured and a vendor of a .NET environment may choose to hide some of the APIs from the programmer. The primary reason for this obscurity is product lock-in. A vendor can choose to lock u in by providing or not providing some of the interfaces that other vendors provide.
.NET uses XML encoded messages sent from the service requester to the service provider. This is typically done to keep the messages simple and human readable(?) -- however CORBA sends code (binary) in its communication protocol and achieves the same task with a large reduction in the number of bytes actually transmitted. From examples i have seen it is it is typically between 25:1 and 40:1.
This brings to mind something mentioned by a professor, Dr. Puder, in a seminar/discussion i attended about
-- what is
-- what problems does
-- haven't technologies such as CORBA already addressed these issues.
The discussion was preceeded by a presentation by another professor (a
During the critiquing of
In the specific case of
To address the question put forth by the parent post,
Dr. Puder is a CORBA Demi-God and an author of MICO ( M ICO I s CO rba). MICO is an open source, fully compliant implementation of the CORBA standard written in C++.
Why stop at replacing the mozilla throbber, go to mozdev.org and get the Internet Explorer theme for mozilla to complete the look and feel.
i know some will say that this defeats the purpose of mozilla advocacy, but those that dont care about which browser they are using aren't going to care anyway.
Cheers,