"The jap company being the majority shareholder sends two japanese managers."
you're not comparing like with like. I'm sure if an american company made a major investment in india some american specialists managers would do som supervision.
" I won't call you a racist.
I'll just call you ill-informed.
Let's take a look at the economic performance of places where immigration happens, and where it doesn't. percent by state"
your argument is false. The reason is simple, it's more logical to suggest that states with better economies attract, and may even need, more immigrants, than to say that more immigrants create better economies.
You're totally missing the point. While Americans can't work in india, scores of indians are taking over American jobs in the US.
So americans aren't allowed to compete with indians in india, but indians can compete with americans in america.
No other country i know of would allow such a thing to happen. You should consider why such a thing simply does not happen in Europe, where they are more protective of their citizens livelihood.
Check out the republican party's politics, they even resourced their fundraising to india!
Those damn capitalists. Let's just hope democrats will win in 2004.
isn't 5m a lot of money for a top ten supercomputer?
I thought you could get cluster computing on the cheap. Would they have had it cheaper had they used linux and intel?
I've always preferred Gnome to KDE. Not only that it's truly free and truly GNU, but it's also cooler and better looking, IMO. Minimalist in design, clean, and not so geeky. It looks different enough from windows and doesn't try to be an XP clone. Using Gnome truly feels like using a respectable OS with personality and style. KDE unfortunately feels so 1980s, and not in a good way, at all. When i use KDE it feels like it's gonna fall apart.
I'm glad that the industry has adopted gnome. Sun, HP and others. PyGTK is also sweet, and GTK runtime environment on windows for the GIMP also looks neat.
The only thing i don't like that much in Gnome are the default icons of bars in nautilus and epiphany, but i guess that's easily fixed with a change of themes.
It has good technology, good style that appeals to both corporate and teens, and it has great marketing.
it's one company that seems incapable of doing any wrong.
Actually, would it make me more of a "wussy" if i'd said the "baby" i had missed was really a kitten we adopted from the animal shelter and i've come to totally adore over the few months we had him?
That's why i said "baby" so people won't make fun of me for it, but i guess you can't win these days!
last summer when i was in Kuwait i called my girlfriend in GA using ordinary telecom initially and then using VoIP. The telecom service was almost 2 dollars per minute, so the call was brief and not much was said, whereas the VoIP i finally managed to get was 1.7 cents per minute using vocaltech, yes! one point seven cents from kuwait to georgia USA, and was just great; i talked to my girlfriend, whom i'd not seen or had a good convo with for over a month or more, with VoIP for over 3 hours first time i used it, and it was a heavenly feeling, omg it felt like being able to breath again, i had just missed home so much, my girl and my baby, that i just got tearful and then as the hours passed with me lying on my back in the dark wearing a headset i just felt sorta happy. That, i think, is what makes a technology, any technology, so wonderful.
I really don't think there's much of a big deal about new model configurations.
What really makes me wonder, having been an Apple fan for almost three decades now, is what their next revolutionary product will be.
You see, The "new" LCD imac was a long-awaited and logical follow up to the "old" 1998 imac, but the "old" imac almost came out of no where. And likewise, the ipod too came out of no where, and so did the 1984 macintosh.
If my expectations are right, apple will come out next with a product that'll be revolutionary in an unexpected way, and in a way that almost doesn't make much logical or historical sense except for the love of originality and their creative insanity.
I'm just wondering what that might be. I just feel it, that'll be next, Steve Jobs' butt is itching right now and he can't just settle down; he can't tolerate aesthetic boredom that attention freak.
I lived in a house a few years ago where at night you'd be asleep in a bedroom upstairs and hear footsteps walking around and down/up the stairs when you're sure it's no other person, your unalarmed overnight guests unanimously report being creeped out by some incident during the night, you see curtains moving and when you go to close the windows you find them firmly shut, your cat that was snoozing at the other end of the room and glancing at you ever few minutes suddenly looks freaked out and watches the the blank between you from left to right as if he's watching someone walking across the room, a vase falls and a voodoo doll pops out, you find unexplained knots in random places that apparently serve no logical function... etc etc.
Infrasound doesn't sound like a logical explanation to me.
I remember when it was on the news back in 1989, i was a 14/15 year old whose favorite magazine was Scientific American, which i bought every week and thought a subscription would've been a cool gift. Aids was rising as an epidemic and the iron curtain was melting with articles popping up here and there about fascinating soviet technology and science.
As for conspiracy theory, i remember in 1993, someone in a reputable engineering school, whom i was hanging out with close to or past midnight, told me that there'd been an invention of an alternative source of energy, which a can of coke full of it would enable a car to travel either either a 200Kms or a 1000Kms distance, don't remember the figure, and that a fuel company, forgot which one, secretly bought it, so it doesn't mess up their business.
Now that's conspiracy thoery.
I don't know if any has seen some of those indian trains on the news; some of them are literally covered with people, people hanging off the sides and sitting on the roof.
I don't wanna imagine an indian train accident. I hope this technology will work.
... and stop whinning.
While I totally oppose the RIAA for scaring the hell out of a mother by suing her for a song her 14yo kid had in his Kazaa directory, and likewise the many others of ordinary filesharers, I think it is reasonable to suggest that filesharing is not a legitimate right. After all, such music was not released under a GPL license. And it doesn't matter how much it costs or is priced at. It is, after all, a product; If you don't like its value proposition, don't buy it.
Music files downloaded from the web are no different from using Warez. Now linux and OSS is is good, but cracked commercial software isn't. There's no moral right to use cracked commercial software.
Music after all, is not all that essential. It's not water or fuel. The RIAA can charge whatever they want. Either buy it or leave it, but don't "steal" it.
Respecting copyright is good. After all, had it not been for copyright we wouldn't have had linux and OSS. There would've been no incentive for GNU/GPL.
I hope they come up with something as cool as the peace, love and linux logo.
That was pretty cool on a T-shirt, and it summed up a lot of what might make a person happy.
http://t1d.www-1.cacheibm.com/servers/eserver/pll/ images/animate_header.gif
"Have you ever tried cornering in an Explorer? Compare that to an X5 and you will see how an SUV can handle when made in Germany."
I don't think a comparison between a Ford and a BMW is a fair one, as a measure of "made in USA" and "made in Germany". How about comparing a low cost beige-box back-to-school mass produced German PC to a dual-64 apple mac G5? maybe then the comparison between American products and germant counterparts would be a little more fair.
Only the English could come up with something like that. Remember the Reliant Robin?
http://www.3wheelers.com/robin.html
Those weird Brit inventors are unbelievably geeky.
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"The jap company being the majority shareholder sends two japanese managers."
you're not comparing like with like. I'm sure if an american company made a major investment in india some american specialists managers would do som supervision.
That's because german, british and italian are all europeans. But try to work in europe if you're non-european.
europe has better protection for its workers.
" I won't call you a racist. I'll just call you ill-informed. Let's take a look at the economic performance of places where immigration happens, and where it doesn't. percent by state"
your argument is false. The reason is simple, it's more logical to suggest that states with better economies attract, and may even need, more immigrants, than to say that more immigrants create better economies.
You totally reversed the cause and effect.
You're totally missing the point. While Americans can't work in india, scores of indians are taking over American jobs in the US.
So americans aren't allowed to compete with indians in india, but indians can compete with americans in america.
No other country i know of would allow such a thing to happen. You should consider why such a thing simply does not happen in Europe, where they are more protective of their citizens livelihood.
Check out the republican party's politics, they even resourced their fundraising to india!
Those damn capitalists. Let's just hope democrats will win in 2004.
isn't 5m a lot of money for a top ten supercomputer? I thought you could get cluster computing on the cheap. Would they have had it cheaper had they used linux and intel?
had he only not bragged so much he would've been okay.
I've always preferred Gnome to KDE. Not only that it's truly free and truly GNU, but it's also cooler and better looking, IMO. Minimalist in design, clean, and not so geeky. It looks different enough from windows and doesn't try to be an XP clone. Using Gnome truly feels like using a respectable OS with personality and style. KDE unfortunately feels so 1980s, and not in a good way, at all. When i use KDE it feels like it's gonna fall apart.
I'm glad that the industry has adopted gnome. Sun, HP and others. PyGTK is also sweet, and GTK runtime environment on windows for the GIMP also looks neat.
The only thing i don't like that much in Gnome are the default icons of bars in nautilus and epiphany, but i guess that's easily fixed with a change of themes.
It has good technology, good style that appeals to both corporate and teens, and it has great marketing.
it's one company that seems incapable of doing any wrong.
Actually, would it make me more of a "wussy" if i'd said the "baby" i had missed was really a kitten we adopted from the animal shelter and i've come to totally adore over the few months we had him? That's why i said "baby" so people won't make fun of me for it, but i guess you can't win these days!
are people in the UK at risk of being sued or something like that?
last summer when i was in Kuwait i called my girlfriend in GA using ordinary telecom initially and then using VoIP. The telecom service was almost 2 dollars per minute, so the call was brief and not much was said, whereas the VoIP i finally managed to get was 1.7 cents per minute using vocaltech, yes! one point seven cents from kuwait to georgia USA, and was just great; i talked to my girlfriend, whom i'd not seen or had a good convo with for over a month or more, with VoIP for over 3 hours first time i used it, and it was a heavenly feeling, omg it felt like being able to breath again, i had just missed home so much, my girl and my baby, that i just got tearful and then as the hours passed with me lying on my back in the dark wearing a headset i just felt sorta happy. That, i think, is what makes a technology, any technology, so wonderful.
I really don't think there's much of a big deal about new model configurations.
What really makes me wonder, having been an Apple fan for almost three decades now, is what their next revolutionary product will be.
You see, The "new" LCD imac was a long-awaited and logical follow up to the "old" 1998 imac, but the "old" imac almost came out of no where. And likewise, the ipod too came out of no where, and so did the 1984 macintosh.
If my expectations are right, apple will come out next with a product that'll be revolutionary in an unexpected way, and in a way that almost doesn't make much logical or historical sense except for the love of originality and their creative insanity.
I'm just wondering what that might be. I just feel it, that'll be next, Steve Jobs' butt is itching right now and he can't just settle down; he can't tolerate aesthetic boredom that attention freak.
I wonder if this means energy plants in the future will be pretty rotten places.
what i find really interesting is that Al-Jazeera is posted as a first link and USA Today as an alternative one.
I lived in a house a few years ago where at night you'd be asleep in a bedroom upstairs and hear footsteps walking around and down/up the stairs when you're sure it's no other person, your unalarmed overnight guests unanimously report being creeped out by some incident during the night, you see curtains moving and when you go to close the windows you find them firmly shut, your cat that was snoozing at the other end of the room and glancing at you ever few minutes suddenly looks freaked out and watches the the blank between you from left to right as if he's watching someone walking across the room, a vase falls and a voodoo doll pops out, you find unexplained knots in random places that apparently serve no logical function... etc etc.
Infrasound doesn't sound like a logical explanation to me.
"Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble"
When I saw this in my newsfeed I thought they'd found an alien fish or lizard.
Yeah i wish Google had given them the finger and said "sue me if you dare!".
That would've competed for the lawsuit of the year with Fox News suing Al Franken.
Make that LIME-scented foamy cream please.
I remember when it was on the news back in 1989, i was a 14/15 year old whose favorite magazine was Scientific American, which i bought every week and thought a subscription would've been a cool gift. Aids was rising as an epidemic and the iron curtain was melting with articles popping up here and there about fascinating soviet technology and science. As for conspiracy theory, i remember in 1993, someone in a reputable engineering school, whom i was hanging out with close to or past midnight, told me that there'd been an invention of an alternative source of energy, which a can of coke full of it would enable a car to travel either either a 200Kms or a 1000Kms distance, don't remember the figure, and that a fuel company, forgot which one, secretly bought it, so it doesn't mess up their business. Now that's conspiracy thoery.
I don't know if any has seen some of those indian trains on the news; some of them are literally covered with people, people hanging off the sides and sitting on the roof. I don't wanna imagine an indian train accident. I hope this technology will work.
I just find it pretty ironic that kazaa are complaining about copyright infringement.
... and stop whinning. While I totally oppose the RIAA for scaring the hell out of a mother by suing her for a song her 14yo kid had in his Kazaa directory, and likewise the many others of ordinary filesharers, I think it is reasonable to suggest that filesharing is not a legitimate right. After all, such music was not released under a GPL license. And it doesn't matter how much it costs or is priced at. It is, after all, a product; If you don't like its value proposition, don't buy it. Music files downloaded from the web are no different from using Warez. Now linux and OSS is is good, but cracked commercial software isn't. There's no moral right to use cracked commercial software. Music after all, is not all that essential. It's not water or fuel. The RIAA can charge whatever they want. Either buy it or leave it, but don't "steal" it. Respecting copyright is good. After all, had it not been for copyright we wouldn't have had linux and OSS. There would've been no incentive for GNU/GPL.
I hope they come up with something as cool as the peace, love and linux logo. That was pretty cool on a T-shirt, and it summed up a lot of what might make a person happy. http://t1d.www-1.cacheibm.com/servers/eserver/pll/ images/animate_header.gif
"Have you ever tried cornering in an Explorer? Compare that to an X5 and you will see how an SUV can handle when made in Germany." I don't think a comparison between a Ford and a BMW is a fair one, as a measure of "made in USA" and "made in Germany". How about comparing a low cost beige-box back-to-school mass produced German PC to a dual-64 apple mac G5? maybe then the comparison between American products and germant counterparts would be a little more fair.
Only the English could come up with something like that. Remember the Reliant Robin? http://www.3wheelers.com/robin.html Those weird Brit inventors are unbelievably geeky.