Not to mention the fact that Indian currency has different and logical sizes for both notes and coins.
I was surprised to see that US coin size / thickness has nothing to do with the value of the coin. The dime (10 cents) coin is smaller than the 5cent coin or the 1 cent coin! Absurd !
and don't even get me started on the metric system. The United States is an original signer of the 1875 Metric Treaty, however it shares the unique & dubious distinction along with Liberia & Myanmar of not implementing the metric system.
IIRC, AMD has a bunchload of engineers from the former Digital Equipment Corp. not Cyrix. Also, would like to remind everyone that DEC Alpha were at 64bit when a lot of computers were stuck at 16bit.
AMD processor architecture reflect a lot of DEC pioneered designed, the EV6 bus is an example.
I am from India and well your accent is also incomprehensible to me:) How about you picking up our accent since there are more English speakers in India, than UK and US combined http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=4947.
Actually most space programs in India have very important developmental goals- The 40 year old Indian space effort is dedicated at improving telecommunications, weather reporting, education and the like. Weather reporting alone probably has resulted in saving millions of lives in India and its neighbouring countries (India gives satellite data to them free of cost).
I guess a lot of Slashdotter would feel the same.
I suggest you do something which can truly change the world. I know this sounds vague, but if you are what you claim to be then you will understand.
People like you are not corrupted by ambition / greed and are intelligent and creative...often have extraordinary multi-displinary skills and the ability to look beyond the ordinary hum-dum of life.
It would actually be nice to have a community of like-minded people and a have a go at defining the greatest problems in the world and proposing solutions to make the world a better place...that is something I have been wanting to do for a long time.... may be I am naive but there is always hope for an eternal optimist.
Bose demonstrated radio signalling in 1895 almost 2 years before Marconi did in 1897 and cross-Atlantic in 1901 (both times using a detector designed by Bose). Prof. J.C. Bose did not want to commercialize his invention and published his work for others to copy / improve upon.
Last time I checked India's foreign exchange reserves was well over $100 billion. Now most of that money is not in real hard cash but kept in US govt. securities which pay a 1% interest rate. The interesting point is that it means India is providing US with really cheap credit to prop the US budget deficit. Now just add to this the similar cases of China, South Korea and other developing countries with large foreign exchnage reserves.
Get your facts straight. he is not the first Muslim president. (Dr. Zakir Hussain and Fakiruddin Ali Ahmed came before him). He is respected because is a man of action and vision. BTW, he probably is most tech-savvy head of state in the world.
Remember Intel shouting to all and sundry about how cool RDRAM was?
Thank god that consumers had the intelligence to throw the shit back.
Anyways here is one company which doesn't learn from mistakes.
We should hold onto the congrats and just ponder for a moment that more people have been to the moon (21 IIRC) than to the deepest point on Earth - just 2 people. Let us not get completely carried away by the return to space hype. Let our quest to search for life beyond be tempered by understanding and protecting life here at home.
you really want to know why india is more competitive?
This is better answered with an example. and the best example I can find is our president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He is one of India's foremost scientists, accomplished poet in several languages and a gifted musician. Above all he is a teacher par excellence and proponent of non-violence . Not to mention he is web-savvy and is known to reply to mails himself and often gives presentations from his laptop. He is also a big supporter of the Open Source movement. Not to brag- how does Mr. Bush compare? I will leave the readers to judge for themselves.
True the FDA process may be long but things like clinical trials are the most expensive.
and these trials can be done for a fraction of the cost in india add that to the low cost of Indian PhD holders. voila! you have the perfect receipe for making pharma products which are just as good if not better than the west and cheaper too.
I am a foreign student currently looking for scholarship/low-costloan options for graduate study in US (information science / information management). I found that the much admired FastWeb has surprisingly little to offer. Anyone has anytips for foreign students?
Come down to India. Here in Bangalore there are plenty of hotspots though most are operated by Sify. Sify in my neighborhood charges Rs. 60 (aprox US$ 1.4) per hour which is good if your are on the move otherwise I prefer my Rs. 900 (approx. US$ 20) per month broadband at home.
Just a small correction:
India has been a net exporter of food for quite sometime. In fact all granaries are over-flowing (though it is a different matter that the food doesn't always reach the needy).
And it is not a parasite, trade is always 2 way. So if Indians are getting jobs then the western companies are benefiting from lower costs. But what they do with the savings is of course subject to argument.
I find it really funny when someone from the west makes a comment like that. India has thousands years of continuous civilization. Our capital New Delhi is not that new- it has been inhabited for at least 7000 years. India invented numbers so the world could count. When Europe was indulging in witch-hunting great strides in the arts and sciences were being made in India. And India doesn't need to go begging for western technology not when it has the world's second largest pool of scientists and the largest pool of engineers, many of whom are helping create technologies in the west.
The west still is stuck with the 1000 year old notion that they are the centre of the universe.
When will people learn that sharing of knowledge only increases it and our idosyncracies are what that makes us human.
They put a lot of money in advertising and bribes, they are cheap they same as their low quality software. But it turns out not as cheap after all.
Many companies got burned on that but majority does not realize what is going on.
The same as made in China crap.
I am an Indian but let me give a lesson in American economic history- in the 60's and 70's the Japanese goods (including cars) were seen as cheap and unreliable. But by the 80's the Japanese had started eating the American companies especially car companies alive and people started fearing the Japanese economy juggernaut.
Cut back to the present: The Japanese government and people are crying hoarse that their big coporations are only keen on making factories and jobs in the US and Europe while the Japanese economy is tottering.
Yes India may have been producing cheap products earlier but there are amazing stories everywhere: The first Deming prize (The Noble of quality) winning company outside Japan is not in the US or Europe but in India. Reliance Infocomm (one of the largest and lowest cost telecom providers) has been granted a FCC licence in the US. Tata Motors has bought Daewoo's commercial vehicle operations in South Korea. GE designs and manufactures the most advanced MRI and medical imaging systems in India.
Moral of the story: Do not fear from the competition you know but be mortally afraid of the competition you do not know. While the rest of the world was pre-occupied with snake charmer & elephants view of India. We Indians were hard at work at beating them!
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point taken... its not unique but what about 'dubious' ? ;)
Not to mention the fact that Indian currency has different and logical sizes for both notes and coins.
I was surprised to see that US coin size / thickness has nothing to do with the value of the coin. The dime (10 cents) coin is smaller than the 5cent coin or the 1 cent coin! Absurd !
and don't even get me started on the metric system. The United States is an original signer of the 1875 Metric Treaty, however it shares the unique & dubious distinction along with Liberia & Myanmar of not implementing the metric system.
Thanks for your support! I can tell you it feels just as great working there.
IIRC, AMD has a bunchload of engineers from the former Digital Equipment Corp. not Cyrix. Also, would like to remind everyone that DEC Alpha were at 64bit when a lot of computers were stuck at 16bit.
AMD processor architecture reflect a lot of DEC pioneered designed, the EV6 bus is an example.
The Itanium story
Number of transistors= 1.7 billion
Number of units sold = 1.7K
Money invested= gazillion dollars
Tasting dirt from your puny competition (read AMD)= priceless
Why cooperate (and share the burden) with other international space agencies to do the listening to signals?
I am from India and well your accent is also incomprehensible to me :)7 .
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How about you picking up our accent since there are more English speakers in India, than UK and US combined http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=494
And while you are at it, check this out http://forum.education.tas.gov.au/webforum/studen
Actually most space programs in India have very important developmental goals- The 40 year old Indian space effort is dedicated at improving telecommunications, weather reporting, education and the like. Weather reporting alone probably has resulted in saving millions of lives in India and its neighbouring countries (India gives satellite data to them free of cost).
You can try out VIA C3 or Eden based solutions such as this one: http://www.computergate.com/products/item.cfm?prod cd=B7VEPIACL6
VIA http://www.via.com.tw/ makes excellent fanless CPUs and motherboards from 400Mhz upto 1+Ghz
Another good option is http://www.emachines.com/. I plan to buy one for myself soon.
People like you are not corrupted by ambition / greed and are intelligent and creative...often have extraordinary multi-displinary skills and the ability to look beyond the ordinary hum-dum of life.
It would actually be nice to have a community of like-minded people and a have a go at defining the greatest problems in the world and proposing solutions to make the world a better place...that is something I have been wanting to do for a long time.... may be I am naive but there is always hope for an eternal optimist.
Reference at U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Apparently IEEE also recognized Bose's contribution to Radio. Maybe a someone with access to IEEE material (Google has not helped me) can substantiate this.
Last time I checked India's foreign exchange reserves was well over $100 billion. Now most of that money is not in real hard cash but kept in US govt. securities which pay a 1% interest rate.
The interesting point is that it means India is providing US with really cheap credit to prop the US budget deficit.
Now just add to this the similar cases of China, South Korea and other developing countries with large foreign exchnage reserves.
Get your facts straight. he is not the first Muslim president. (Dr. Zakir Hussain and Fakiruddin Ali Ahmed came before him). He is respected because is a man of action and vision.
BTW, he probably is most tech-savvy head of state in the world.
Remember Intel shouting to all and sundry about how cool RDRAM was?
Thank god that consumers had the intelligence to throw the shit back.
Anyways here is one company which doesn't learn from mistakes.
We should hold onto the congrats and just ponder for a moment that more people have been to the moon (21 IIRC) than to the deepest point on Earth - just 2 people. Let us not get completely carried away by the return to space hype. Let our quest to search for life beyond be tempered by understanding and protecting life here at home.
Have you tried asking Dan at Dan's Data for help. Best of all he gives free advice. His frequently updated letters to readers' queries is a must read for everyone whether you are a geek or tech-challenged.
This is better answered with an example. and the best example I can find is our president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He is one of India's foremost scientists, accomplished poet in several languages and a gifted musician. Above all he is a teacher par excellence and proponent of non-violence . Not to mention he is web-savvy and is known to reply to mails himself and often gives presentations from his laptop. He is also a big supporter of the Open Source movement. Not to brag- how does Mr. Bush compare? I will leave the readers to judge for themselves.
True the FDA process may be long but things like clinical trials are the most expensive. and these trials can be done for a fraction of the cost in india add that to the low cost of Indian PhD holders. voila! you have the perfect receipe for making pharma products which are just as good if not better than the west and cheaper too.
I am a foreign student currently looking for scholarship /low-costloan options for graduate study in US (information science / information management). I found that the much admired FastWeb has surprisingly little to offer. Anyone has anytips for foreign students?
Come down to India. Here in Bangalore there are plenty of hotspots though most are operated by Sify. Sify in my neighborhood charges Rs. 60 (aprox US$ 1.4) per hour which is good if your are on the move otherwise I prefer my Rs. 900 (approx. US$ 20) per month broadband at home.
So what is the solution? Head Reboot?
Just a small correction: India has been a net exporter of food for quite sometime. In fact all granaries are over-flowing (though it is a different matter that the food doesn't always reach the needy). And it is not a parasite, trade is always 2 way. So if Indians are getting jobs then the western companies are benefiting from lower costs. But what they do with the savings is of course subject to argument.
The west still is stuck with the 1000 year old notion that they are the centre of the universe.
When will people learn that sharing of knowledge only increases it and our idosyncracies are what that makes us human.
Cut back to the present: The Japanese government and people are crying hoarse that their big coporations are only keen on making factories and jobs in the US and Europe while the Japanese economy is tottering.
Yes India may have been producing cheap products earlier but there are amazing stories everywhere: The first Deming prize (The Noble of quality) winning company outside Japan is not in the US or Europe but in India. Reliance Infocomm (one of the largest and lowest cost telecom providers) has been granted a FCC licence in the US. Tata Motors has bought Daewoo's commercial vehicle operations in South Korea. GE designs and manufactures the most advanced MRI and medical imaging systems in India.
Moral of the story: Do not fear from the competition you know but be mortally afraid of the competition you do not know. While the rest of the world was pre-occupied with snake charmer & elephants view of India. We Indians were hard at work at beating them!