While I agree to the main point that Indian economy depends on foreign money so they should respect it, rest of your post reeks of misinformation.
You guys in India are already under low wage pressure from Eastern Europe and Africa. Ain't that a crying shame.
It has been stated countless number of times that the purchasing power of India is not too different from the "rich" western nations. Welcome to ECO101, you price depends on how much money your potential customers have (and want to spend). May be majority people don't earn as much money as average European or American, but it is better than not doing anything.
Say hi to Pakistan for me. Assuming either of you are still around in 10 years.
Say Hello to your ignorance. India has never invaded other country including Pakistan. Both Pakistani and Indian government know that they cannot attack each other. Any issue (Kashmir) is alive because of Pakistan's flaky democracy and rise in Islamic fanaticism. And America has more responsibility in promoting it than anyother country, because they stand for the statements of 'founding fathers'. There are more terrorist organisations aimed at USA than any one. America for the whole world including Europe, stands just for hypocrisy.
Excuse me? We generate the intellectual property here, and outsource it to you. And most of that is generated by Americans. And lemme guess... "some dumb *enter nationality here*" translates to "some dumb non East Indian", right?
You racist, arrogant pricks. But then I knew this already. I talked to you guys before we ended our BPO relationship with Mumbai & Bangalore. You look down on Americans - and a lot of others in this world - but you depend on us to buy your products.
Hmm... you come up with ideas but don't have anyone to execute it. We have people but don't have any money to buy food, they will think about food than intellectual property. We do business. Big deal? Welcome again to ECO101.
Not putting up any point but giving facts to point out how people are inferior because they are from East India, and then calling them racist. Are you surprised when you don't get the 'respect'?
By the way, what product USA produces? America is rich because they sold weapons, NOT intellectual property. You have money and WE have product. That is something you said yourself.
Racial outburst? Nope. But you sure as heck have it in for your women. How many baby girls have been aborted or strangled over there? Racial hatred is a monster all its own, but it doesn't light a candle against a misogynist culture that plays whack-a-mole with baby girls.
You sir, are ignorant and intolerant of other cultures. You are too keen to point out vices of other cultures. Did you forget then times when you were riding horses? Did you forget when slavery was the norm? Did you forget when women didn't had the right to even vote? Did you forget that all this was accepted by government and was 'lawful'? Did you forget it was not more than 100 years ago?
Indian government bans killing babies. It is banned to check the gender of an unborn baby. Bias on the basis of cast is banned. We had out prime-minister as a women. When was the last time it happend in USA? Let me think... never. India will cleanse of its vices. It needs time. But you are too busy calling them racist because they don't speak English in the same accent as you, and still take jobs that you would like to do, but are too arrogant to accept the terms at lower salary. This all because you have never been poor and hungry. How long did you think you would ride the benefits of renaissance?
Okay, fine. If you're so much better, then build your tech industry yourself, without our help. Like we did. And yes, I know East Indians make up a large number of doctors and scientists in America, but feel free to shut them out of America if you wish. (They seem to come here m
While you are modded funny, just wanted to remind you that the places being blurred are not easily 'drivable near them'. For example, no one can enter Parliament of India without having some sort of pass with high authority to it. Similarly, it is forbidden through law to take pictures of inner premises of the parliament, which were clearly visible through Google Earth.
I guess she cracked any encryption schemes, but found some loopholes. Great job indeed, given she has all those encryption schemes to her name, but the linked article is full propaganda, and less on details
According to a Beijing digest, this SHA-1 encryption includes the world's gold standard Message-Digest algorithm 5 (MD5). Before Professor Wang cracked it, the MD5 could only be deciphered by today's fastest supercomputer running codes for more than a million years.
However, professor Wang Xiaoyun, a graduate of Shandong University of Technology's mathematics department, and her research team obtained results by using ordinary personal computers.
and
Within ten years, Wang cracked the five biggest names in data encryption. Many people would think the life of this scientist must be monotonous. However she said, "That ten years was a very relaxed time for me."
During her work, she bore a daughter and cultivated a balcony full of flowers. The only mathematics related habit in her life is how she remembers the license plates of taxi cabs.
While I agree to everything else, this part is incorrect:
Look, if an ebuild isn't in the portage tree then you're not going to have much luck installing it unless you make your own. Ditto for an rpm being available to yum in a repository.
Actually, opposite is true.
I have found Gentoo to best solve this problem. You can install softwares even from CVS/SVN/Darcs repositories using the portage (and not manual install). All you need is an ebuild. And ebuild formation is, most of the times, just copying any previous ebuild of another software and renaming it to your software-version. Compare this with making RPM/deb files.
And the rare cases when you have to compile some program, like X or kernel, to enable/add some feature, it was the easiest way I found to do, and still remain in 'installing the distro' realm. I installed Gentoo for the only reason that I needed latest Unichrome drivers, and I didn't know how to do that in SuSE 9.1.
By the way, yes, the article is basically about how some fanboy installed Gentoo on PS3. Aside from being a fanboy, it is indeed informative, and and atleast not a flamebait (give the guy a break:))
You want to hire a new programmer and you have the perfect candidate in mind, your old college roommate, Guillaume Portes. Unfortunately you can't just go out and offer him the job. That would get you in trouble with your corporate HR policies which require that you first create a job description, advertise the position, interview and rate candidates and choose the most qualified person. So much paperwork! But you really want Guillaume and only Guillaume.
So what can you do?
The solution is simple. Create a job description that is written specifically to your friend's background and skills. The more specific and longer you make the job description, the fewer candidates will be eligible. Ideally you would write a job description that no one else in the world except Guillaume could possibly match. Don't describe the job requirements. Describe the person you want. That's the trick.
So you end up with something like this:
* 5 years experience with Java, J2EE and web development, PHP, XSLT
* Fluency in French and Corsican
* Experience with the Llama farming industry
* Mole on left shoulder
* Sister named Bridgette
Although this technique may be familiar, in practice it is usually not taken this extreme. Corporate policies, employment law and common sense usually prevent one from making entirely irrational hiring decisions or discriminating against other applicants for things unrelated to the legitimate requirements of the job.
But evidently in the realm of standards there are no practical limits to the application of the above technique. It is quite possible to write a standard that allows only a single implementation. By focusing entirely on the capabilities of a single application and documenting it in infuriatingly useless detail, you can easily create a "Standard of One".
Of course, this begs the question of what is essential and what is not. This really needs to be determined by domain analysis, requirements gathering and consensus building. Let's just say that anyone who says that a single existing implementation is all one needs to look at is missing the point. The art of specification is to generalize and simplify. Generalizing allows you to do more with less, meeting more needs with few constraints.
Let's take a simplified example. You are writing a specification for a file format for a very simple drawing program, ShapeMaster 2007. It can draw circles and squares, and they can have solid or dashed lines. That's all it does. Let's consider two different ways of specifying a file format for ShapeMaster.
In the first case, we'll simply dump out what ShapeMaster does in the most literal way possible. Since it allows only two possible shapes and only two possible line styles, and we're not considering any other use, the file format will look like this:
Although this format is very specific and very accurate, it lacks generality, extensibility and flexibility. Although it may be useful for ShapeMaster 2007, it will hardly be useful for anyone else, unless they merely want to create data for ShapeMaster 2007. It is not a portable, cross-application, open format. It is a narrowly-defined, single application format. It may be in XML. It may be reviewed by a standards committee. But it is by its nature, closed and inflexible.
How could this have been done in a way which works for ShapeMaster 2007 but also is more flexible, extensible and considerate of the needs of different applications? One possibility is to generalize and simplify:
One of the things Ghost in the Shell SAC (complex as it was) expressed, was that robots are just machines.
In the movie, they are made to look like humans, or to act (emotionally) like humans; and those who watch the movie feel bad about them, which is told in the movie.
If kicking robot dog makes you feel bad, think about kicking door out of frustration. If you think a door has rights, so does robot dog. If you think door has no right, robots don't either.
Also, it doesn't matter what is living and what is not. It is just about how much YOU associate with the thing you kick. There are quite a few people who will kill a snake if they find without mercy but will avoid stepping on a dying butterfly.
It is not about the priority they give to there own products! It is completely fine as they are not public entities. What Blake is saying, is that they should mark it as a tip, like they do for the paid adds with colors.
Respect for Firefox decreased? You must be kidding!
Similarly, no one can patent "turmeric." Last I checked, "turmeric" isn't novel, as any Durkee's spice catalog from the 1960's or so will indicate. But a company might discover that turmeric has a previously unknown therapeutic property, and may patent the use of turmeric for that purpose.
I was with you until that point. Turmeric has been used for treatment for ages in India, for a variety of diseases. It is an important ingredient in Ayurveda, for example.
It is a common misconception that all the advances in science has occurred after the introduction of capitalism. We should really get rid of this. Capitalism is only a system which is relatively new but extraordinarily globally effective due to advances in easy communication over large distances.
Turmeric is a classic case of patenting without proper researching. The reality is, when some one find a patentable idea, they want to maximize the money they can get from it, and so they make it broader or narrower than it actually is.
I am no hacker and I do use google for many searches that I would not like to be a public information. Let us come clean, how many of us have not searched for a mp3 we liked a lot, or p0rn, or how to bypass company firewall?
The first thing he should have done is to delete Cache, browse anonymously, and FOR GOD'S SAKE, not be logged into google (which is integrated everywhere), or delete search history, or delete all cookies!
I know because I have suffered from this kind of stupidity, and in the end, I was unable to blame anyone.
While that is good as it will bring OLPC users a browser, what good is it for Opera? It's not like OLPC is a potential market, or will become one in near future.
Yeah but different people have different ways. Different societies employ different tactics for common problems. Saying 'my' way is better than that way, is wrong. If the method is wrong, people will realize it by themselves sooner or later. There IS not absolute right and wrong!
It is not correct to say that Egyptians were slow in progress due to civilizational problems. In fact, I would rather say they were faster. Preserving pharaoh was THE most important job in Egypt, since it was in the core of the society. It is much more likely that new research in this area would be promoted and funded. I remember from Discovery Channel that there was one pharaoh who alone was the reason for *three* pyramids, the first two a technical disaster.
While you are right about West is about being free and having basic human rights etc., I would like to quote from this article:
Communalistic instincts are stronger outside the United States. Europeans accept high taxes as the price for the welfare state. Asians shun individualism, especially if it harms group interests. Some people in the developing world might regard America's high divorce rates as apocalyptical in the same way as Americans might think the world has ended if their local electricity service was cut for more than a week.
While Egypt is no where near to Communalistic instinct, it is not far from truth that there are many societies in the world where individualism is not something special. So, as an Asian sitting in Germany, will say, there is nothing, NOTHING, and absolutely nothing great about being individualistic and having freedom. At the end it is all about raising next generation of offspring. And there are many many ways to run a society, shunning hate speech to maintain a certain state of society being one.
Did you read it?:) All I am asking is why Wikipedia is important for China. Individual freedom is a part of western philosophy. East has a long history of sacrificing individual benefits for the benefit of Society.
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It has been stated countless number of times that the purchasing power of India is not too different from the "rich" western nations. Welcome to ECO101, you price depends on how much money your potential customers have (and want to spend). May be majority people don't earn as much money as average European or American, but it is better than not doing anything.
Say Hello to your ignorance. India has never invaded other country including Pakistan. Both Pakistani and Indian government know that they cannot attack each other. Any issue (Kashmir) is alive because of Pakistan's flaky democracy and rise in Islamic fanaticism. And America has more responsibility in promoting it than anyother country, because they stand for the statements of 'founding fathers'. There are more terrorist organisations aimed at USA than any one. America for the whole world including Europe, stands just for hypocrisy.
Hmm... you come up with ideas but don't have anyone to execute it. We have people but don't have any money to buy food, they will think about food than intellectual property. We do business. Big deal? Welcome again to ECO101.
Not putting up any point but giving facts to point out how people are inferior because they are from East India, and then calling them racist. Are you surprised when you don't get the 'respect'?
By the way, what product USA produces? America is rich because they sold weapons, NOT intellectual property. You have money and WE have product. That is something you said yourself.
You sir, are ignorant and intolerant of other cultures. You are too keen to point out vices of other cultures. Did you forget then times when you were riding horses? Did you forget when slavery was the norm? Did you forget when women didn't had the right to even vote? Did you forget that all this was accepted by government and was 'lawful'? Did you forget it was not more than 100 years ago?
Indian government bans killing babies. It is banned to check the gender of an unborn baby. Bias on the basis of cast is banned. We had out prime-minister as a women. When was the last time it happend in USA? Let me think... never.
India will cleanse of its vices. It needs time. But you are too busy calling them racist because they don't speak English in the same accent as you, and still take jobs that you would like to do, but are too arrogant to accept the terms at lower salary. This all because you have never been poor and hungry. How long did you think you would ride the benefits of renaissance?
While you are modded funny, just wanted to remind you that the places being blurred are not easily 'drivable near them'. For example, no one can enter Parliament of India without having some sort of pass with high authority to it. Similarly, it is forbidden through law to take pictures of inner premises of the parliament, which were clearly visible through Google Earth.
I guess she cracked any encryption schemes, but found some loopholes. Great job indeed, given she has all those encryption schemes to her name, but the linked article is full propaganda, and less on details
and
Duh...
Oh, I know that
And it is "Sriharikota" and not "Srikharikota"!
:) )
More info for interested:
Sri ~ Mr.
hari ~ Hindu God
kota ~ some name (I don't know
Actually, opposite is true.
I have found Gentoo to best solve this problem. You can install softwares even from CVS/SVN/Darcs repositories using the portage (and not manual install). All you need is an ebuild. And ebuild formation is, most of the times, just copying any previous ebuild of another software and renaming it to your software-version. Compare this with making RPM/deb files.
And the rare cases when you have to compile some program, like X or kernel, to enable/add some feature, it was the easiest way I found to do, and still remain in 'installing the distro' realm. I installed Gentoo for the only reason that I needed latest Unichrome drivers, and I didn't know how to do that in SuSE 9.1.
By the way, yes, the article is basically about how some fanboy installed Gentoo on PS3. Aside from being a fanboy, it is indeed informative, and and atleast not a flamebait (give the guy a break
Thanks for the information. This is cleary interesting. I was kind of losing hope to buy a non-Windows computer.
I can see the FreeDOS option, is that what you are asking for? Can you please post a link please?
It's opening now :(
So what can you do?
The solution is simple. Create a job description that is written specifically to your friend's background and skills. The more specific and longer you make the job description, the fewer candidates will be eligible. Ideally you would write a job description that no one else in the world except Guillaume could possibly match. Don't describe the job requirements. Describe the person you want. That's the trick.
So you end up with something like this:
* 5 years experience with Java, J2EE and web development, PHP, XSLT
* Fluency in French and Corsican
* Experience with the Llama farming industry
* Mole on left shoulder
* Sister named Bridgette
Although this technique may be familiar, in practice it is usually not taken this extreme. Corporate policies, employment law and common sense usually prevent one from making entirely irrational hiring decisions or discriminating against other applicants for things unrelated to the legitimate requirements of the job.
But evidently in the realm of standards there are no practical limits to the application of the above technique. It is quite possible to write a standard that allows only a single implementation. By focusing entirely on the capabilities of a single application and documenting it in infuriatingly useless detail, you can easily create a "Standard of One".
Of course, this begs the question of what is essential and what is not. This really needs to be determined by domain analysis, requirements gathering and consensus building. Let's just say that anyone who says that a single existing implementation is all one needs to look at is missing the point. The art of specification is to generalize and simplify. Generalizing allows you to do more with less, meeting more needs with few constraints.
Let's take a simplified example. You are writing a specification for a file format for a very simple drawing program, ShapeMaster 2007. It can draw circles and squares, and they can have solid or dashed lines. That's all it does. Let's consider two different ways of specifying a file format for ShapeMaster.
In the first case, we'll simply dump out what ShapeMaster does in the most literal way possible. Since it allows only two possible shapes and only two possible line styles, and we're not considering any other use, the file format will look like this:
Although this format is very specific and very accurate, it lacks generality, extensibility and flexibility. Although it may be useful for ShapeMaster 2007, it will hardly be useful for anyone else, unless they merely want to create data for ShapeMaster 2007. It is not a portable, cross-application, open format. It is a narrowly-defined, single application format. It may be in XML. It may be reviewed by a standards committee. But it is by its nature, closed and inflexible.
How could this have been done in a way which works for ShapeMaster 2007 but also is more flexible, extensible and considerate of the needs of different applications? One possibility is to generalize and simplify:
One of the things Ghost in the Shell SAC (complex as it was) expressed, was that robots are just machines.
In the movie, they are made to look like humans, or to act (emotionally) like humans; and those who watch the movie feel bad about them, which is told in the movie.
If kicking robot dog makes you feel bad, think about kicking door out of frustration. If you think a door has rights, so does robot dog. If you think door has no right, robots don't either.
Also, it doesn't matter what is living and what is not. It is just about how much YOU associate with the thing you kick. There are quite a few people who will kill a snake if they find without mercy but will avoid stepping on a dying butterfly.
High time to download Firefox 2.0 ;-)
It is not about the priority they give to there own products! It is completely fine as they are not public entities. What Blake is saying, is that they should mark it as a tip, like they do for the paid adds with colors.
Respect for Firefox decreased? You must be kidding!
I for one don't trust about no. 1 position of Picasa anymore!
I was with you until that point. Turmeric has been used for treatment for ages in India, for a variety of diseases. It is an important ingredient in Ayurveda, for example.
It is a common misconception that all the advances in science has occurred after the introduction of capitalism. We should really get rid of this. Capitalism is only a system which is relatively new but extraordinarily globally effective due to advances in easy communication over large distances.
Turmeric is a classic case of patenting without proper researching. The reality is, when some one find a patentable idea, they want to maximize the money they can get from it, and so they make it broader or narrower than it actually is.
I am no hacker and I do use google for many searches that I would not like to be a public information. Let us come clean, how many of us have not searched for a mp3 we liked a lot, or p0rn, or how to bypass company firewall?
The first thing he should have done is to delete Cache, browse anonymously, and FOR GOD'S SAKE, not be logged into google (which is integrated everywhere), or delete search history, or delete all cookies!
I know because I have suffered from this kind of stupidity, and in the end, I was unable to blame anyone.
While that is good as it will bring OLPC users a browser, what good is it for Opera? It's not like OLPC is a potential market, or will become one in near future.
Yeah but different people have different ways. Different societies employ different tactics for common problems. Saying 'my' way is better than that way, is wrong. If the method is wrong, people will realize it by themselves sooner or later. There IS not absolute right and wrong!
I am going to kill my neighbor. Every one here is guilty of not stopping me. Well, at least all Australians.
That is because hardware does not change on Apply notebooks. So it really is a fast hibernate.
Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:03:54 +0000
I think the history is already linked from the summary itself :)
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ahh... I cannot continue...
It is not correct to say that Egyptians were slow in progress due to civilizational problems. In fact, I would rather say they were faster. Preserving pharaoh was THE most important job in Egypt, since it was in the core of the society. It is much more likely that new research in this area would be promoted and funded. I remember from Discovery Channel that there was one pharaoh who alone was the reason for *three* pyramids, the first two a technical disaster.
While Egypt is no where near to Communalistic instinct, it is not far from truth that there are many societies in the world where individualism is not something special. So, as an Asian sitting in Germany, will say, there is nothing, NOTHING, and absolutely nothing great about being individualistic and having freedom. At the end it is all about raising next generation of offspring. And there are many many ways to run a society, shunning hate speech to maintain a certain state of society being one.
This is a good thing for us I would say. An age old program is dying its death. Let it be...
>>While it is good for some reason I don't really get :), what is the future of Wikipedia as such in China?n _Training_2
:) All I am asking is why Wikipedia is important for China. Individual freedom is a part of western philosophy. East has a long history of sacrificing individual benefits for the benefit of Society.
>Let me sugest this to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Kawashima's_Brai
Did you read it?