Fact is not just questionable ones but all of them. BCIS has something called the SEVIS system now to keep track of all foreign students. It's like none of them would have a privacy as each of their actions would be tracked. Now they are extending this to all of them. I was a foreign student for a while and take it from me it is a big hassle being asked and monitored each things you do when you just want to have a better education and do something good with your life.
The reason I use Firefox is it "doesn't" behave as IE. A browser with both functionalities can get you good traits from both but can also get you bad traits and you know how IE does so well to get nice little popups, spywares on your computer.
LOL... I just quoted the article!! I prefer Linux over Windows any time of the year or day. In fact I have been trying to pursuade my company to write an application they just wrote in.NET for Windows to write for Linux platform.
Personally every person has a capacity and coding 80+ hours without any problems personally to health or even to the code's health is out of the question. I totally agree that it is going to generate very buggy code and may result in more hours trying to debug it. Instead the entire process should be well organised and time alloted to have the best result.
I don't work there now. And besides the average pay of Scientist B is 15000 rupees and you get much higher wages in the private sector there. You should read what remote sensing satellites can do to find clean water, telemedicine. I agree politics is there but tell me where it isn't there. I agree we need to advance and I say this is one of those right steps.
Of course you have a very limited view. It is said "you need to spend money to make money". You are totally unaware of how much space missions from ISRO has helping Indian Villages, etc. By making something that is very cost effective India can bag contracts from other countries to launch their vehicles, etc providing them revenue. You should not just see expenditure but "net gain".
Of course being an Indian and having worked with ISRO I feel strongly about it. The space is definitely the next frontier. So far India has done incredible projects related to weather, remote sensing, etc. It's definitely time to venture into this. And this is not just showing technological superiority (and I definitely will see more posts on NASA outsorcing) but that's the proud thing that India can launch vehicles in space at much much lower costs. Putting this in perspective helps in going through further projects like star wars (when US is already thinking about making it a reality). Besides India also faces competition from its neighbor China in space frontiers.
Problem is more deep. People tend to go with the flow and want to buy more and more stuff like competition. When I usually buy something I try evaluating my needs in future and try to compensate it with the current technology. What benefits that might have that I don't feel out of place. What problems I have is people can have better equipment than I do at some point in future. But, hey as long as I am able to do my daily tasks I am good with it. Then of course when my needs change I need to upgrade. Of course money is very important as well which similary drives this need.
Is he trying to tell that terrorists are better programmers than rest of the world?!?!? Is the non open source software any better if we are also getting thousands of exploits on that? I think he should seriously reconsider his analysis (if he did any).
We used to simulate our computer architecture projects in our graduate studies and often noticed java code to be very very slower than C++. Even the superscalar processor code is written in C++. Ultimately I feel whatever these tests show people find C++ easier and faster to develop good simulation software and overall much better.
Hmm Makes sense!!! This way we would fall into two categories: Regions in frequent earthquake zone and Regions that are not. This kind of research will help in latter. Besides this research will help in identifying and separating these regions and hence proper distribution of the "kind of research" would be attained. As for e.g. the research on earthquake resistant buildings would help Japan on the other hand research of predicting earthquakes will help cities which don't normally do receive earthquakes. That can be helped in evaluating cost of making a building too.
Lucky People. I have never gotten anything in return except a "grateful" sentence. I have helped people setup and debug their hardware also, hmmm maybe I should start putting in thse clause
"We accept all major credit cards and bartering":p
I believe a research into predicting earthquakes should be encouraged and given more funding. I am saying this because of my own experience.
About 3 years ago, my city and lot of cities around my state experienced a major quake reading 7.8 (Bhuj quake in India) that killed more than 30,000 people. I was sleeping when this happened and it was terrifying. Never in my dream I had imagined my city was in earthquake prone zone. Looking at the rumble and bodies gave me shivers. I believe if such a thing is developed so many lives could be saved (if not property).
Also this might help in identifying earthquake zones (if I remeber correctly they classify them in zones based on likelihood of having an earthquake) and that can give an impetus to civil authorities to build earthquake proof houses minimising property damage as well.
Just my thoughts.
I totally agree on that. In fact I know one off hand spammer who tries spamming me all the time and even try to hack my computer and I know very well he is NOT AT ALL bright. THe point being they manage to outsmart the sys admins and whoever by whatever means they have and that classifies them as not "not so bright" spammers. After all ends justify the means.
"Hopefully the spammers aren't that bright and the antispammers stick around long enough to bring them down."
Yea right!! Do you imply everyone is so stupid to get spammed everyday and can't stop these "not so bright" spammers.
LOL, I laughed at that rainbow comment. I have voted on EVMs before and it is not machine to machine or getting your hands sprayed by ink. You get your finger marked once and in the same EVM you cast multpile votes. As for example when I was voting I was voting for State elections as well as national elections and I did it on the same EVM.
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Fact is not just questionable ones but all of them. BCIS has something called the SEVIS system now to keep track of all foreign students. It's like none of them would have a privacy as each of their actions would be tracked. Now they are extending this to all of them. I was a foreign student for a while and take it from me it is a big hassle being asked and monitored each things you do when you just want to have a better education and do something good with your life.
The reason I use Firefox is it "doesn't" behave as IE. A browser with both functionalities can get you good traits from both but can also get you bad traits and you know how IE does so well to get nice little popups, spywares on your computer.
I am more worried about effects of radio waves on my brains!!!
Well here's the google cache!!
10 Bugs
LOL ... I just quoted the article!! I prefer Linux over Windows any time of the year or day. In fact I have been trying to pursuade my company to write an application they just wrote in .NET for Windows to write for Linux platform.
Personally every person has a capacity and coding 80+ hours without any problems personally to health or even to the code's health is out of the question. I totally agree that it is going to generate very buggy code and may result in more hours trying to debug it. Instead the entire process should be well organised and time alloted to have the best result.
Is that where they got the idea for that commercial where the guy boasts about this "electric shock" phone and ends up frying his office mate!! ;-)
I don't work there now. And besides the average pay of Scientist B is 15000 rupees and you get much higher wages in the private sector there. You should read what remote sensing satellites can do to find clean water, telemedicine. I agree politics is there but tell me where it isn't there. I agree we need to advance and I say this is one of those right steps.
I have always been fascinated by them that they have so many incredible applications and multiwalled carbon nanotubes is just one of its many possible ways of using it.
Of course you have a very limited view. It is said "you need to spend money to make money". You are totally unaware of how much space missions from ISRO has helping Indian Villages, etc. By making something that is very cost effective India can bag contracts from other countries to launch their vehicles, etc providing them revenue. You should not just see expenditure but "net gain".
Of course being an Indian and having worked with ISRO I feel strongly about it. The space is definitely the next frontier. So far India has done incredible projects related to weather, remote sensing, etc. It's definitely time to venture into this. And this is not just showing technological superiority (and I definitely will see more posts on NASA outsorcing) but that's the proud thing that India can launch vehicles in space at much much lower costs. Putting this in perspective helps in going through further projects like star wars (when US is already thinking about making it a reality). Besides India also faces competition from its neighbor China in space frontiers.
Apparently it has been slashdotted already.
Here's the google cache
Glaucoma
Problem is more deep. People tend to go with the flow and want to buy more and more stuff like competition. When I usually buy something I try evaluating my needs in future and try to compensate it with the current technology. What benefits that might have that I don't feel out of place. What problems I have is people can have better equipment than I do at some point in future. But, hey as long as I am able to do my daily tasks I am good with it. Then of course when my needs change I need to upgrade. Of course money is very important as well which similary drives this need.
I come from Ahmedabad, India and we had that since last 7 years.
Is he trying to tell that terrorists are better programmers than rest of the world?!?!? Is the non open source software any better if we are also getting thousands of exploits on that? I think he should seriously reconsider his analysis (if he did any).
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We used to simulate our computer architecture projects in our graduate studies and often noticed java code to be very very slower than C++. Even the superscalar processor code is written in C++. Ultimately I feel whatever these tests show people find C++ easier and faster to develop good simulation software and overall much better.
And then when Indiana Jones is travelling on the blimp he will figure out that the blimp changed direction by doppler shift!!!
Interesting: Vishnu is Hindu God and is to the rescue of army!!
Hmm Makes sense!!! This way we would fall into two categories: Regions in frequent earthquake zone and Regions that are not. This kind of research will help in latter. Besides this research will help in identifying and separating these regions and hence proper distribution of the "kind of research" would be attained. As for e.g. the research on earthquake resistant buildings would help Japan on the other hand research of predicting earthquakes will help cities which don't normally do receive earthquakes. That can be helped in evaluating cost of making a building too.
Lucky People. I have never gotten anything in return except a "grateful" sentence. I have helped people setup and debug their hardware also, hmmm maybe I should start putting in thse clause "We accept all major credit cards and bartering" :p
I believe a research into predicting earthquakes should be encouraged and given more funding. I am saying this because of my own experience. About 3 years ago, my city and lot of cities around my state experienced a major quake reading 7.8 (Bhuj quake in India) that killed more than 30,000 people. I was sleeping when this happened and it was terrifying. Never in my dream I had imagined my city was in earthquake prone zone. Looking at the rumble and bodies gave me shivers. I believe if such a thing is developed so many lives could be saved (if not property). Also this might help in identifying earthquake zones (if I remeber correctly they classify them in zones based on likelihood of having an earthquake) and that can give an impetus to civil authorities to build earthquake proof houses minimising property damage as well. Just my thoughts.
I totally agree on that. In fact I know one off hand spammer who tries spamming me all the time and even try to hack my computer and I know very well he is NOT AT ALL bright. THe point being they manage to outsmart the sys admins and whoever by whatever means they have and that classifies them as not "not so bright" spammers. After all ends justify the means.
"Hopefully the spammers aren't that bright and the antispammers stick around long enough to bring them down." Yea right!! Do you imply everyone is so stupid to get spammed everyday and can't stop these "not so bright" spammers.
LOL, I laughed at that rainbow comment. I have voted on EVMs before and it is not machine to machine or getting your hands sprayed by ink. You get your finger marked once and in the same EVM you cast multpile votes. As for example when I was voting I was voting for State elections as well as national elections and I did it on the same EVM.