Take a look at this;
http://100x100network.org/
The government is funding research to build and roll out such networks. My question is: where are the applications? The biggest driver for bandwidth I've seen so far has been KaZaa and the other P2P stuff. Nothing else seem to have spurred bandwidth demand otherwise. I mean, isn't that the only intensive stuff people run on DSL/Cable even now?
It is a myth that all of the programming in India is low-end grunt work. Some of Texas Instrument's DSPs have been developed entirely in India (I have friends who worked on them, so I know). Also, Adobe's latest Photoshop Album was developed entirely in India. Cadence as well as Veritas are two top product companies (as a gazillion others) have strong development offices in India.
It is just that product development and marketing in places like the US takes up too much money, and not many Indian companies can afford or would want to do that right now. It is a matter of time, before someone makes the jump. Also, don't forget the number of expatriate Indians at the top of tech companies in the US (e.g. Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun, Sabeer Bhatia who sold Hotmail to Microsoft are just two examples, and Amar Bose of the Bose speakers).
An excellent course taught in Carnegie Mellon University is "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" - CS:APP or 15-213, the course number by which it is better known. A better way to put it is that they are teaching computer systems and not computer science, which by definition is much wider in scope.
A book based on this course, (which is immensely popular among CS and ECE majors here) is also available. Check it out at
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu
Obscurity hasn't worked very well, ever. Be it cryptography, or be it this issue. Maybe they'll snag a few people, but it won't be long before people make out what is going on and break whatever new tools they put out.
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Take a look at this; http://100x100network.org/ The government is funding research to build and roll out such networks. My question is: where are the applications? The biggest driver for bandwidth I've seen so far has been KaZaa and the other P2P stuff. Nothing else seem to have spurred bandwidth demand otherwise. I mean, isn't that the only intensive stuff people run on DSL /Cable even now?
It is a myth that all of the programming in India is low-end grunt work. Some of Texas Instrument's DSPs have been developed entirely in India (I have friends who worked on them, so I know). Also, Adobe's latest Photoshop Album was developed entirely in India. Cadence as well as Veritas are two top product companies (as a gazillion others) have strong development offices in India.
It is just that product development and marketing in places like the US takes up too much money, and not many Indian companies can afford or would want to do that right now. It is a matter of time, before someone makes the jump. Also, don't forget the number of expatriate Indians at the top of tech companies in the US (e.g. Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun, Sabeer Bhatia who sold Hotmail to Microsoft are just two examples, and Amar Bose of the Bose speakers).
An excellent course taught in Carnegie Mellon University is "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" - CS:APP or 15-213, the course number by which it is better known. A better way to put it is that they are teaching computer systems and not computer science, which by definition is much wider in scope. A book based on this course, (which is immensely popular among CS and ECE majors here) is also available. Check it out at http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu
Obscurity hasn't worked very well, ever. Be it cryptography, or be it this issue. Maybe they'll snag a few people, but it won't be long before people make out what is going on and break whatever new tools they put out.