As I understand it the VoIP works this way:
Phone #1 -> traditional carrier -> PSTN exchange -> VoIP carrier -> VoIP router (and phone#2 IP address) -> phone #2
So the only place where IP comes into picture is between the VoIP carrier's servers and the home VoIP router. Is'nt that link reasonably secure? Is it possible to hijack it without the VoIP carrier's assent?
Or is this a scare story to halt the advance of VoIP? If spam calls are introduced at any other point, then VoIP spammers can spam any phone (not just VoIP phones)...
IEEE is only partly funded by people who become members paying about $150 a year. But at this level you dont get any of the publications except the IEEE Spectrum. You have to pay an additional fee to get access to any one of the hundreds of journals that different IEEE societies publish. Companies and university libraries pay to get bulk electronic access to all these journals.
So IEEE membership does'nt really get you much in terms of journal material. But it does get you into conferences at a cheaper rate than non-members and also lets you participate in various events of the IEEE network.
The IEEE is most importantly an output stream for the bulk of university research that is produced by PhD/Grad students. IEEE does charge a publication fee (a few hundred dollars) for every paper published from the authors. The peer review is done by other students and researchers for free. And most students put up their papers on their own webpages anyway. So most material should be pretty easily accessible on the web.
The main reason I continue being a member is because my employer pays for it. I get the online access to IEEEXPlore through my employer. IEEE has probably realised that with the advent of the web, Google (scholar) and sites such as creative commons, there will be more avenues for easy publication and access of research.
I have a faint suspicion that a lot of the money that gets collected in IEEE goes to fund the various schmoozing events rather than actively publish the scholarly work
It is actually 2^30 + 2^29.... + 2^2 grand(^n)parents assuming 3 generations every century. Imagine all the tertiary cousins you would know... And then consider buying gifts to all of them;-)
Do you think Comcast or the Baby-Bells will sit and look on from the sidelines? The Telecom industry already has the FCC in their pockets, will they let a bunch of free-access-for-all people deny them their lunch?
Those Morons probably read an earlier post and did not realise that it was a sarcastic rant. This Times of India (the largest Indian Newspaper) has become a blemish on Indian journalism. Not all Indian papers are this bad. This is just another instance of the TOI web edition http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ trying to create sensational news and attract viewers. They usually resort to more straight forward means such as putting up photos of fine looking women;-)
Once upon a time Europeans craved for spices to improve their bland meat and fought with the Arabs who controlled access to the places of production in the Indian Subcontinent. That is why Cristobal' Columbus set out to discover a sea route to India and arrived in America instead. Vasco Da Gama succeeded in finding that route to India.
It is this "Curry" smell that drove European colonialists to do all the things they did eventiually to America and to India. That's the magic of the Masala!
Can you give some info and pointers about the CS/IT/telecom education in India, especially at unversity level?
The information technology related 4-year engineering degrees are the hot courses of study. But it is very likely that your average software programmer has a non-IT engg. degree(chemical/civil/mechanical etc.). My quantitative answers are not averages but educated guesses influenced by personal experience
* How many people graduate from a (technical) university on an average?
Any where between 200 to 500 students every year. This may include non-IT related fields, many of whom end up in the IT sector anyway
* Does the government subsidize university-level education in any way, or is a degree only possible to attain only if you are rich enough? What does a M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree cost you?
See another post later in the main thread.
Anywhere in the range between $2000 to $20000 for the entire course. The lower range is typically for the better government/state schools and the higher range is for the more expensive for-profit private institutions. The BSc degree is a 3-year degree in India. The equivalent of an american 4-yr engineering BS is a B.E or B. Tech.
* What are the most prominent higher-level education universities in the technology sector? Homepage URLs? Do they specialize in any particular fields of technology?
* What's the teaching like, compared to curriculums in Eurpoe or the US? Are certain subjects and fields emphasized more or less?
Except for the top few colleges, in general the quality is not as good as in a major research university in the US. The teaching is getting better as professors are beginning to get paid more. Being a professor (except than in a top IIT/IISc) did not pay very well and the best talent went to the private sector instead. Some syllabi are out-dated, there may be too little equipment or a small prof-to-student ratio. The problem lies partly in government intervention and in rulers who have socialist intentions ingrained in their genes.
* Are there any major differences in teaching methods? (lectures, homework, group projects, tuition by teaching assistants, etc.)
In my undergrad life in India, I had studied
the text book for almost every subject cover-to-cover. In contrast, in the US, I have covered at the most 40% of a few textbooks. The work is based more on a few heavily-weighted exams rather than small and regular equally weighted assignments thro'out the semester. Again this is changing with more teachers being exposed to a US/European education.
* Are those Indians that have graduated abroad (say in the US) more respected than people who have graduated from an Indian university? That is, how well are foreign degrees appreciated within India?
I hope they are;-) A graduate from even a not-so-well ranked US university typically would start at a higher level than a student with a degree from a local university. That is probably one reason why US universities have so many PIGs (Poor Indian Grad students). But that is not true of all schools. An IIT or IIM graduate would probably be ranked competitively with a US grad.
* What is the employment outlook and status in tech-sector jobs in India? Are many graduated engineers unemployed? Has the unemployment rate risen or fallen? What impact ha
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antennas are multiples of wavelength. in this case wavelength 3*10^8/100MHz = 3 meters
As I understand it the VoIP works this way: Phone #1 -> traditional carrier -> PSTN exchange -> VoIP carrier -> VoIP router (and phone#2 IP address) -> phone #2
So the only place where IP comes into picture is between the VoIP carrier's servers and the home VoIP router. Is'nt that link reasonably secure? Is it possible to hijack it without the VoIP carrier's assent?
Or is this a scare story to halt the advance of VoIP? If spam calls are introduced at any other point, then VoIP spammers can spam any phone (not just VoIP phones)...
IEEE is only partly funded by people who become members paying about $150 a year. But at this level you dont get any of the publications except the IEEE Spectrum. You have to pay an additional fee to get access to any one of the hundreds of journals that different IEEE societies publish. Companies and university libraries pay to get bulk electronic access to all these journals.
So IEEE membership does'nt really get you much in terms of journal material. But it does get you into conferences at a cheaper rate than non-members and also lets you participate in various events of the IEEE network.
The IEEE is most importantly an output stream for the bulk of university research that is produced by PhD/Grad students. IEEE does charge a publication fee (a few hundred dollars) for every paper published from the authors. The peer review is done by other students and researchers for free. And most students put up their papers on their own webpages anyway. So most material should be pretty easily accessible on the web.
The main reason I continue being a member is because my employer pays for it. I get the online access to IEEEXPlore through my employer. IEEE has probably realised that with the advent of the web, Google (scholar) and sites such as creative commons, there will be more avenues for easy publication and access of research.
I have a faint suspicion that a lot of the money that gets collected in IEEE goes to fund the various schmoozing events rather than actively publish the scholarly work
It is actually 2^30 + 2^29 .... + 2^2 grand(^n)parents assuming 3 generations every century. Imagine all the tertiary cousins you would know... And then consider buying gifts to all of them ;-)
Do you think Comcast or the Baby-Bells will sit and look on from the sidelines? The Telecom industry already has the FCC in their pockets, will they let a bunch of free-access-for-all people deny them their lunch?
Those Morons probably read an earlier post and did not realise that it was a sarcastic rant. This Times of India (the largest Indian Newspaper) has become a blemish on Indian journalism. Not all Indian papers are this bad. This is just another instance of the TOI web edition http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ trying to create sensational news and attract viewers. They usually resort to more straight forward means such as putting up photos of fine looking women ;-)
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It is this "Curry" smell that drove European colonialists to do all the things they did eventiually to America and to India. That's the magic of the Masala!
The information technology related 4-year engineering degrees are the hot courses of study. But it is very likely that your average software programmer has a non-IT engg. degree(chemical/civil/mechanical etc.). My quantitative answers are not averages but educated guesses influenced by personal experience
* How many people graduate from a (technical) university on an average?
Any where between 200 to 500 students every year. This may include non-IT related fields, many of whom end up in the IT sector anyway
* Does the government subsidize university-level education in any way, or is a degree only possible to attain only if you are rich enough? What does a M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree cost you?
See another post later in the main thread. Anywhere in the range between $2000 to $20000 for the entire course. The lower range is typically for the better government/state schools and the higher range is for the more expensive for-profit private institutions. The BSc degree is a 3-year degree in India. The equivalent of an american 4-yr engineering BS is a B.E or B. Tech.
* What are the most prominent higher-level education universities in the technology sector? Homepage URLs? Do they specialize in any particular fields of technology?
The most prominent are the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and RECs (Regional Engineering Colleges) and the most prestigious institute is IISc located in Bangalore.
* What's the teaching like, compared to curriculums in Eurpoe or the US? Are certain subjects and fields emphasized more or less?
Except for the top few colleges, in general the quality is not as good as in a major research university in the US. The teaching is getting better as professors are beginning to get paid more. Being a professor (except than in a top IIT/IISc) did not pay very well and the best talent went to the private sector instead. Some syllabi are out-dated, there may be too little equipment or a small prof-to-student ratio. The problem lies partly in government intervention and in rulers who have socialist intentions ingrained in their genes.
* Are there any major differences in teaching methods? (lectures, homework, group projects, tuition by teaching assistants, etc.)
In my undergrad life in India, I had studied the text book for almost every subject cover-to-cover. In contrast, in the US, I have covered at the most 40% of a few textbooks. The work is based more on a few heavily-weighted exams rather than small and regular equally weighted assignments thro'out the semester. Again this is changing with more teachers being exposed to a US/European education.
* Are those Indians that have graduated abroad (say in the US) more respected than people who have graduated from an Indian university? That is, how well are foreign degrees appreciated within India?
I hope they are ;-) A graduate from even a not-so-well ranked US university typically would start at a higher level than a student with a degree from a local university. That is probably one reason why US universities have so many PIGs (Poor Indian Grad students). But that is not true of all schools. An IIT or IIM graduate would probably be ranked competitively with a US grad.
* What is the employment outlook and status in tech-sector jobs in India? Are many graduated engineers unemployed? Has the unemployment rate risen or fallen? What impact ha
Not to worry, Globalisation and the spread of american values means that even the burger flippers, lawyers and doctors will move there!
Telcordia used to be Bell CoRe (Communications Research).