Uhm, those countries were mostly forced to open up their market to the forces of globalisation under US/IMF/world Bank pressure. That got the US access to those markets.
Now the US is being forced to deal with the results. You want to tariff goods coming from China?
I think you mean Mumbai, Delhi or Srinagar, not Bangalore.
All armed by Pakistan, with Saudi Arabian funding and supported by US weapons and training.
I don't blame the US citizens, most of them have never been informed about it, or been misinformed. The government, on the other hand, deserves the blame.
You are comparing the cost of living in Delhi. Let me add another city to the mix.
Mumbai flats go for 500K USD+. On the other hand, you have running _clean_ water 24 x 7. working public transport (You could travel for the entire year for ~ 200 USD, no need for a car). That's 18K + fuel savings + interest savings. You have very good power supply (no need for a UPS/invertor).
Frankly, the quality of life in Delhi and Bangalore is far, far lower than the quality in Mumbai, but both these cities depend on the car. You might want to reason with your employer about where you live and work (Kolkata and Chennai are both better in terms of quality of life than Delhi and Bangalore). (If you need to own a car, your infrastructure is significantly lacking).
the cost of electronics is the same in dollar terms across the two countries, but the basics are much cheaper in India.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way up to suborbital flight, but that's just peanuts to space.
It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to live ethically, then it doesn't work out.
On the other hand, if you want to be a CEO (or join politics), then perhaps you need to know how to cheat. See Microsoft, HP, Enron, Diebold, the republicrats...
Another big difference is that Gentoo tends to be closer to the bleeding edge than the binary distros. I was editing some raw images from my Nikon D70s on Linux, and you need a rather newer version of ufraw for things to work right than the one in Debian unstable (or Ubuntu).
And for those of us who _do_ know how to use USE flags, yes, these things matter. I do agree that Gentoo is a platform to customise a distro, and doing it right takes a lot more skill than most of the noise making fanboys who just want to rice.
But isn't that exactly what the current US society values? Who cares about integrity? Hell, the president of the US has been caught lying, and is still supported by a bunch of people instead of being sent to a trial for impeachment.
Bill Gates has lied, and is still happily doing business.
These are respected people in today's society, so they are exactly what students will follow.
Students know the value of their education. A MBA counts for more than any degree. Sales and marketing is where the money is. The students are learnnig the tools of their trade, lying, cheating and fooling others with a straight face.
I find phones obnoxious, they interrupt my time (and picking up the phone is an interrupt).
IM is nicer, and email is even better because they let me communicate when I want to (or am able to). Phones are for emergencies, email for normal communication. I telecommute, so email is a bit more important (International calls are expensive).
Nope. My point is that the result of Compaq's actions was the availability of cheap hardware which primarily fuelled the PC explosion. Microsoft rode on the popularity of this growth, rather than being the cause of it. DR-DOS was a viable alternative, until the whole "Windows will not run on DRDOS thing happened".
CP/M also existed, and I am sure there were others as well.
For point and click/portraits, no. For stuff like landscapes, low light shots, fine artwork, the more the merrier. Of course, these also need a corresponding investment in lenses, which means that a lot of stuff is going to the higher end of things rather than the lower end of prosumer cameras.
And then there was this little company named Compaq, which reverse engineered the IBM BIOS and made is possible for cheap hardware to take over the market. Microsoft just rode on the tails of the PC explosion, and then abused their position with Windows (even Windows 3.11).
I grew up in a dense, urban environment (Mumbai for those interested). I grew up in an apartment complex with 80 flats, and a whole bunch of kids. We had our own building playground, as did the buildings around us.
Neighbourhood parks were available, the jungle (a national park, actually) was slightly father away (about an hour's commute away).
I don't see the "dangerous" urban neighbourhood issue there.
I am currently in Bangalore, and I see all these people extolling the virtues of individual houses, which lack the large playgrounds available to me. No neighbourhood kids, no playgrounds, small yards (we had about a square km of playground in the apartment complex), lots of road traffic.... Kids have practically no place to play unsupervised with their peers, and the best they can be offered is typically indoor entertainment.
I don't know about the "small" house thing, but personally, I will be more than happy to sacrifice a bigger house for my kids (if I ever have any).
While I do sympathise with your position, I don't see how it can be improved without major city and lifestyle re-engineering. Shared open spaces are *good* for kids, small, personalised open spaces, not as much (IMHO).
Until the previous elections, India had paper ballots, and we have a population slightly bigger than the US. Electronic voting was rammed down our throats.
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Uhm, those countries were mostly forced to open up their market to the forces of globalisation under US/IMF/world Bank pressure. That got the US access to those markets.
Now the US is being forced to deal with the results. You want to tariff goods coming from China?
I think you mean Mumbai, Delhi or Srinagar, not Bangalore.
All armed by Pakistan, with Saudi Arabian funding and supported by US weapons and training.
I don't blame the US citizens, most of them have never been informed about it, or been misinformed. The government, on the other hand, deserves the blame.
You are comparing the cost of living in Delhi. Let me add another city to the mix.
Mumbai flats go for 500K USD+. On the other hand, you have running _clean_ water 24 x 7. working public transport (You could travel for the entire year for ~ 200 USD, no need for a car). That's 18K + fuel savings + interest savings. You have very good power supply (no need for a UPS/invertor).
Frankly, the quality of life in Delhi and Bangalore is far, far lower than the quality in Mumbai, but both these cities depend on the car. You might want to reason with your employer about where you live and work (Kolkata and Chennai are both better in terms of quality of life than Delhi and Bangalore).
(If you need to own a car, your infrastructure is significantly lacking).
the cost of electronics is the same in dollar terms across the two countries, but the basics are much cheaper in India.
Is space is no longer the final frontier?
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way up to suborbital flight, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- with apologies to Douglas Adams
The 8080 actually.
Define nice
I prefer WindowMaker, followed by fvwm. Stuff which doesn't behave like these is not nice for me. Oh, and I prefer xterms and real virtual desktops.
Per user DSNBL rejection checks in a MTA. Please let me know how you propose to do that without a 'if' statement of some sort.
It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to live ethically, then it doesn't work out.
...
On the other hand, if you want to be a CEO (or join politics), then perhaps you need to know how to cheat. See Microsoft, HP, Enron, Diebold, the republicrats
Or you could have one fibre line, and a bunch of providers on the same line. See?
resume?.
X -configure is your friend.
Another big difference is that Gentoo tends to be closer to the bleeding edge than the binary distros. I was editing some raw images from my Nikon D70s on Linux, and you need a rather newer version of ufraw for things to work right than the one in Debian unstable (or Ubuntu).
And for those of us who _do_ know how to use USE flags, yes, these things matter. I do agree that Gentoo is a platform to customise a distro, and doing it right takes a lot more skill than most of the noise making fanboys who just want to rice.
Obviously, we should try to make health care more efficient, but, if it's too expensive to give everyone full access, how do we sort things out?
The same way the developing/poor countries do.
It was in the Himalayas. Those mountains are steep, so the guru could easily be sitting above the student.
This is a NAT with a crapload of users behind it, unlike your home commection.
A rather important reason why NAT is considered evil by a lot of networking people.
In which case students should be allowed to get their own service from another ISP.
But isn't that exactly what the current US society values? Who cares about integrity? Hell, the president of the US has been caught lying, and is still supported by a bunch of people instead of being sent to a trial for impeachment.
Bill Gates has lied, and is still happily doing business.
These are respected people in today's society, so they are exactly what students will follow.
Students know the value of their education. A MBA counts for more than any degree. Sales and marketing is where the money is. The students are learnnig the tools of their trade, lying, cheating and fooling others with a straight face.
The truth simply doesn't pay.
I find phones obnoxious, they interrupt my time (and picking up the phone is an interrupt).
IM is nicer, and email is even better because they let me communicate when I want to (or am able to). Phones are for emergencies, email for normal communication. I telecommute, so email is a bit more important (International calls are expensive).
Then what happens when the protestors turn it on the police?
Nope. My point is that the result of Compaq's actions was the availability of cheap hardware which primarily fuelled the PC explosion. Microsoft rode on the popularity of this growth, rather than being the cause of it. DR-DOS was a viable alternative, until the whole "Windows will not run on DRDOS thing happened".
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CP/M also existed, and I am sure there were others as well.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_pl
You are reversing cause and effect.
For point and click/portraits, no. For stuff like landscapes, low light shots, fine artwork, the more the merrier. Of course, these also need a corresponding investment in lenses, which means that a lot of stuff is going to the higher end of things rather than the lower end of prosumer cameras.
And then there was this little company named Compaq, which reverse engineered the IBM BIOS and made is possible for cheap hardware to take over the market. Microsoft just rode on the tails of the PC explosion, and then abused their position with Windows (even Windows 3.11).
I grew up in a dense, urban environment (Mumbai for those interested). I grew up in an apartment complex with 80 flats, and a whole bunch of kids. We had our own building playground, as did the buildings around us.
Neighbourhood parks were available, the jungle (a national park, actually) was slightly father away (about an hour's commute away).
I don't see the "dangerous" urban neighbourhood issue there.
I am currently in Bangalore, and I see all these people extolling the virtues of individual houses, which lack the large playgrounds available to me. No neighbourhood kids, no playgrounds, small yards (we had about a square km of playground in the apartment complex), lots of road traffic.... Kids have practically no place to play unsupervised with their peers, and the best they can be offered is typically indoor entertainment.
I don't know about the "small" house thing, but personally, I will be more than happy to sacrifice a bigger house for my kids (if I ever have any).
While I do sympathise with your position, I don't see how it can be improved without major city and lifestyle re-engineering. Shared open spaces are *good* for kids, small, personalised open spaces, not as much (IMHO).
Until the previous elections, India had paper ballots, and we have a population slightly bigger than the US. Electronic voting was rammed down our throats.
Well, we call them nuclear power plants. Or as the US president puts it, nukluar