Taking into consideration purchasing power parity (PPP), India's GDP of $719.8 billion becomes $3.611 trillion.
PPP adjusts the income approximately 5 times to the US Dollar. If the average salary in the US is $67,400, that is $13,480 in India's PPP terms.
And the average salary for programmers in India is certainly above that. People need to understand its not about 'cheap labour'. Its just another feature of globalization.
The call may originate from a VoIP phone. But there is a difference between a call terminating to a VoIP phone or a PSTN line. If its the former then all the arguments posted about internet data being charged are valid. But if the termination is to a PSTN network it can be considered valid to tax it just like any other PSTN network taxes.
It _may_ not be possible to just reverse the function and create a program to generate the perfect essay. The idea being something similar to, not being able to generate the original text from a hashed string by just reversing the algo.
There could be an algorythm that works on these lines.
Identifying and naming (or bar-coding) all the species would require a very big name space. And we seem to be running out of them. Here's a very nice article about it. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/Ass etDet ail/assetid/39138
When restaurant,theaters and other public places are allowed to use such things, they will start tie-ups with certain operators and allow signal of only that operator. If Vodafone has a tie-up with this theatre conglomerate with 1000 theaters nation-wide that allows only Vodafone calls through, I would want to be a Vodafone customer. Food for thought?
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A hackers dreams come true? Get a log of everything you did today or in the past, all kinds of data passwords etc. all on a golden platter ?!
What are the security features in this thing?
How about just URL re-writing? That would be equivalent to session cookies. Rest of the data required by the sites should anyway be stored in their database and used only when the user 'logs-on' to the site or indicates to the site in some way who he/she is.
How can they blame the medium (WLAN i.e.) because people send spam from it? Its like blaming the tele-communication industry (AT&T et al) for the tele-marketiers phone calls. You wanna prevent spamming just block any kinda SMTP traffic, any standard filewall will do it for you (which I assume you will be running anyway if u'er opening up your network to the world).
If robots came alive, would we be justified in killing them?'
Well Why the hell not?! Killing those Iraqi civilians has been justified, has'nt it !
Well, here's some innovative ideas...
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Instead of just the blue screen, MS and now give users a better experience. Here are some innovative ideas:
1. Green screen
2. Red screen
3. Maroon screen
4. Orange screen
5. Peach screen
6. Lavendar screen
7. Deep Blue screen
8. Yellow with black Polka dots screen
9. Multi-colored ButterFly screen
10. Rainbow coloured screen
11. Patent all the above colors/designs
12. Get royalty from world for using any such colors/designs anywhere
Colin Powel's proof to the UN about those mobile chemical weapons creation facilities etc were a sham, absolutely laughable. Till date there has been no proof of there having been any WoMD (not even now that the US army has reached Baghdad). I'm not saying they do or they dont, but the US with all of its powerfull intelligence and the amazing super-redundant network of spy satellites has'nt been able to provide any evidence! So what it looks like to the world is: No weapons of Mass Destruction BUT lotsa OIL, lots and lotsa OIL ! Even if they had the weapons, Why aint it going after N.Korea? Probably beacuse they'er afraid that N.Korea actully has the WoMD! Another reason is probably that N.korea has no OIL!
About human rights issues in Iraq, what makes US the chief policeman of the world? There are such grave human rights violations in other parts of the world, but thats fine with the US. The US is fine with having Pakistan as their great ally! What about the dictatorship in Pakistan? About about the killings in Kashmir due to cross-border terrorism sponsored by Pakistan. Killings everyday. Real human being dying. Would'nt this be called US's hypocrisy?
"The riches came from hard work" you say. Nobody is denying that! Anyone who is rich is because he/it probably deserves to be. The point here was about the arrogance! The current policies of the US govt. are turning this into a unipolar world.
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Thats what I would mod the summary of this post. The /. editors trying to be funny?
because you cannot be found guilty of thinking about a crime You'er right. Not yet.
Wait a minute, does that mean people are now reading the story?
Taking into consideration purchasing power parity (PPP), India's GDP of $719.8 billion becomes $3.611 trillion. PPP adjusts the income approximately 5 times to the US Dollar. If the average salary in the US is $67,400, that is $13,480 in India's PPP terms. And the average salary for programmers in India is certainly above that. People need to understand its not about 'cheap labour'. Its just another feature of globalization.
Heck! How the sexual predator gonna attract someone here?
"I got the fastest CPU just released from intel, wanna come to my place and have a look at it?"
"I wrote this really fast algorythm to crack unix passwords. Say, wanna check it out?"
"I think MS really suxx, do u want to?"
Mohammad (spelt in a lot of different ways) is the most common name in the world. Yes, it is more common than Jack or Smith or Jones.
After if aliens where found, they'd may be already have a cure for cancer, global warming, etc.
The call may originate from a VoIP phone. But there is a difference between a call terminating to a VoIP phone or a PSTN line. If its the former then all the arguments posted about internet data being charged are valid. But if the termination is to a PSTN network it can be considered valid to tax it just like any other PSTN network taxes.
Is is just me, or are others too, getting bored of slashdot's new found love for Sony bashing? Enough already!
It _may_ not be possible to just reverse the function and create a program to generate the perfect essay. The idea being something similar to, not being able to generate the original text from a hashed string by just reversing the algo.
There could be an algorythm that works on these lines.
Identifying and naming (or bar-coding) all the species would require a very big name space. And we seem to be running out of them. Here's a very nice article about it.s etDet ail/assetid/39138
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/As
Phewww! finally enough space to keep all my porn in one place!
If it kills a bunch of people the gov.'s probably going to blame it on Al Qaida!
When restaurant,theaters and other public places are allowed to use such things, they will start tie-ups with certain operators and allow signal of only that operator. If Vodafone has a tie-up with this theatre conglomerate with 1000 theaters nation-wide that allows only Vodafone calls through, I would want to be a Vodafone customer.
Food for thought?
A hackers dreams come true? Get a log of everything you did today or in the past, all kinds of data passwords etc. all on a golden platter ?! What are the security features in this thing?
How about just URL re-writing? That would be equivalent to session cookies.
Rest of the data required by the sites should anyway be stored in their database and used only when the user 'logs-on' to the site or indicates to the site in some way who he/she is.
Early bird prices - Free portable computer that fits into hospital beds!!
Something here for Paul Graham to learn :)
You think? Urban India speaks good English. Let me say very good English. A lot of time far better than the NY yuppies.
good point. And yes there are clients which would do that.
How can they blame the medium (WLAN i.e.) because people send spam from it? Its like blaming the tele-communication industry (AT&T et al) for the tele-marketiers phone calls. You wanna prevent spamming just block any kinda SMTP traffic, any standard filewall will do it for you (which I assume you will be running anyway if u'er opening up your network to the world).
If robots came alive, would we be justified in killing them?'
Well Why the hell not?! Killing those Iraqi civilians has been justified, has'nt it !
Instead of just the blue screen, MS and now give users a better experience. Here are some innovative ideas: 1. Green screen 2. Red screen 3. Maroon screen 4. Orange screen 5. Peach screen 6. Lavendar screen 7. Deep Blue screen 8. Yellow with black Polka dots screen 9. Multi-colored ButterFly screen 10. Rainbow coloured screen 11. Patent all the above colors/designs 12. Get royalty from world for using any such colors/designs anywhere
Oh now that is'nt all true, You forget the Blue Screen !
Colin Powel's proof to the UN about those mobile chemical weapons creation facilities etc were a sham, absolutely laughable. Till date there has been no proof of there having been any WoMD (not even now that the US army has reached Baghdad). I'm not saying they do or they dont, but the US with all of its powerfull intelligence and the amazing super-redundant network of spy satellites has'nt been able to provide any evidence! So what it looks like to the world is: No weapons of Mass Destruction BUT lotsa OIL, lots and lotsa OIL !
Even if they had the weapons, Why aint it going after N.Korea? Probably beacuse they'er afraid that N.Korea actully has the WoMD! Another reason is probably that N.korea has no OIL!
About human rights issues in Iraq, what makes US the chief policeman of the world? There are such grave human rights violations in other parts of the world, but thats fine with the US. The US is fine with having Pakistan as their great ally! What about the dictatorship in Pakistan? About about the killings in Kashmir due to cross-border terrorism sponsored by Pakistan. Killings everyday. Real human being dying. Would'nt this be called US's hypocrisy?
"The riches came from hard work" you say. Nobody is denying that! Anyone who is rich is because he/it probably deserves to be. The point here was about the arrogance! The current policies of the US govt. are turning this into a unipolar world.