If its only video, voice and email, there's only so much of an "experience" that one can have on the web (at least with the current tools). What about true interactivity - which is what ultimately everyone is trying to achieve? The way I see it, once they had a mechanism to connect several different computers together and had a standard way of data-exchange, we then "built" add-ons to emulate human senses, thinking naively, it would emulate a human "experience"
I strongly believe our tools are dated compared to the technologies available to us. Browsers (the primary tool for trawling through the information available to us), are primal beasts at best - with core emphasis on hyperlinking and hypertext.
If we are to achieve true "interactivity", all tools we use to access the web (including the OS), will have to be restructured to change the way we access it
There was talk early this year (or was it last year), about the game developed by WHO, to teach young kids in the developed countries, about the plight and standard of living of people in third world countries. However, it met with the same fate as the others that I heard of in the past... the launch of such a game is covered a lot by the media, but fizzles out with no updates posted about the effectivness.
On the other hand, how does one measure the effectiveness of such an initiative?
As for this trial, one has to wonder how much of a push is it from the gaming giant to lure more children into the gaming world?
Its not just about making them more "appealing" to the public.
This new "fabric" laminates the pressure and temperature sensing network together, so that both properties can be detected simultaneously, using carbon based circuits and semi-conductors, which is inexpensive to reproduce
This would allow the scientists to measure more easily (if not more accurately), the effects a certain task would have were it performed by a human, the side effects certain working conditions may have (kind of prevention before cure), and in future they could add more sensors on these layers to measure other aspects (for example, radioactivity)..
I wouldn't reach too much into anything coming out of ATOS, especially results of a "survey" among 80 ppl !
Atos indeed is a large consulting organization, with some weight in the telecoms space, and I remember their stance from the days "Linux isn't a supported product..". Now that the OSS initiative is growing rapidly, and becoming more prevalent, they suddenly jump on the bandwagon and "predict" it will become more prevalent!
Sounds like a nifty management task of going with the flow if they can't stop it...
Few hours ago there was a post about Firefox downloads topping 80 million mark
Even in this article, The enquirer mentions that "Net measurement is a tricky business and whenever we quote Net application figures, someone always quotes figures to make it look all gloom and doom.."
So effectively, they say the share *might* have been dropped, but that may not necessarily be true!
1) Endless gloating about holiness of Linux
2) I'm Darl McBride, you insensitive...
3) Bush couldnt find WMD, like McBride couldn't find violations
4) ?
5) Profit!!!
maybe it's one of my pet peeves now, but i think being short, rude, couldnt-care-less attitude is the norm in IT:
You go down to PCWorld, and the reps there try to brush you off with the tersest replies they can muster. Worse is the look in their eyes if you ask them something and you can almost see the smirk twirling around their lips as they answer you. Which is wiped only when you trash their whole theory that I should buy a PC, when you tell them how you checked the motherboard and concluded its the SMPS that's busted
Countless software vendors I've worked with in the past have had the same attitude - 'dude, its your problem.'. Until you send them a log of their own software falling over itself every two minutes, or how it encountered an 'unexpected situation' and keeps writing a wierd error message in the logs.
Not that I'm dyed-in-wool. I'm currently working for a company recently acquired by Micromuse, and they mess their customers around as soon as they receive the PO. The sheer infighting and the jealousy kills any scope of friendliness and care for the customer. Little wonder the customers turn nasty
I don't think that people have woken up to the fact that buying a software is so unlike buying hardware. If its faulty or doesn't work, the hardware may be repaired or exchanged, while in software, they just mess you around, till you either threaten to sue them, or worse still, get your money back, return their software and lose your precious time
The rail or e/m gun (whatever it was called) in the Schwarzenegger flick Eraser used electromagnetism beams/rays to accelerate projectiles at incredible speed.
Check out http://www.powerlabs.org/emguns.htm
14,000? The OP itself says 13,000 jobs, the NY times article says 10,000 t 13,000 jobs, AND the article on an indian website says IBM may hire upto 13,000 workers..
While one can argue the cost of creativity, or a product that enriches other people's lives, music corporations seem to have taken the idea a bit too far in their attempt to milk the songs for as much money as they can.
One would wonder what research is this based upon? Most songs, if not all, would not have a shelf life of more than a few months (if that), and there are only a few gems that go beyond that. At the same time, there will be songs that are timeless (or considered timeless by a certain generation), which will see a number of repeat buyers, or buyers that are created as a 'spin-off' effect.
The clear argument then, is the longevity, after which an artists' work is considered 'paid off', or has generated enough revenue (or the revenue has dried off), for the companies to let go if it and show their collective generosity by making it available for the masses for free.
I think when they put up the 50 year term initially, it must have seemed long enough. They certainly didnt expect the market and technology to fluctuate so much, and the rapid changes and the ease of reproduction has made them rethink their strategies. But then, conversely, what music was recorded 100 years ago that ppl still listen to? (i can see a flood of posts enlightening me!)
So basically, the recording companies are trying to ensure royalties are paid as long as possible
What about the costs of scaling and maintaining such an infrastructure? The routine administrative tasks, reporting, etc? The costs for someone actually looking at the generated results to see if they are meaningful at all, and if it is all going in the right direction?
obviously i spent time reading that article (even though it was in that time window when i was writing mine), and then i actually spent effort on duping it up.
true/. style, isn't it.
I don't know if Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Everytime they do, they lose more customers.
What's the potential benefit of even looking around for such a change?
This has to be the most ignorant and trollish post on/. ever
Kama has found mentioned in texts as early as the Vedas. Initially he was regarded as a creative spirit who welled out of Purusha, the supreme male element. Some parts of the Vedas go even farther and say that Kama himself was the supreme creative being, self-existent and sprung out of the cosmic waters at the beginning of time. In this context he was the supreme god who created everything else and whose first emanation was desire and whose second was the power to achieve that desire.
The Vedas are texts prepared over long lengths of time by diverse persons and the older versions were modified frequently. Thus Kama is found mentioned in many forms, all of them being some aspect of creativity.
Later, as Hindu Mythology progressed and developed into what it is today, Kama became identified with sexual desire, a more frivolous aspect of his creativity. Kama is depicted as a handsome youth who carried a bow entwined with flowers and shot arrows that produced love in their targets - That's your cupid.
The aim of Kama in Indian literature deals with pleasure and love. It is hypothesized that Kama teachings came into existence because of frustration in married life in a patriarchal society where marriages were arranged for convenience, while marriages of love were uncommon. The Kama literature was written in a technical format and is thought to have been written for the people of the higher castes because the social atmosphere of the time permitted very little private time for a husband and wife. Sexual relations were seen as the only allowable token of affection a husband could show his new bride, but at the same time, sex was a source of anxiety for the couple because it was one of the only activities privately shared by the couple and stood as the grounds for which the relationship was based. The lower castes did not have such problems because the men and women interacted on a daily basis, and therefore were able to develop relationships not solely based on sexual performance.
The best known of the Kama literature is Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, which was written around the third century C.E. It is a technical account of the social structure dealing with manners, morals, sexology, and culture in the third century.
This has now been bastardised by a western interpretation, that translates the very connotation of Kama to fucking.
If you've had a girlfriend, I'm sure you'd know there's a difference between sex and making love.
You can read more about Eastern Indian mythologies and beliefs at:
www.deliriumsrealm.com www.pantheon.org
I could write about "Soma" or "Sura", but I'm sure you'd conveniently choose to ignore that, just like you'd this post
The entire issue has been blown out of proportions I believe.
What started off as a prank, teenage goofing, moment of madness - name what you like, was not only copied several times over, but also packaged and sold. So far, nothing out of the ordinary honestly. Such things have happened in the past elsewhere as well.
What really got things going was the sale of the content via a website, I guess. The ease of content transmission, coupled with the fact that it was two students from a well-known (and reputed, if i may say so myself) which were on camera, was what fuelled the controversy big time.
As has been the case with administration and police in India in the past, they appear to believe that the best means of solving a crime is to rake the muck and/or shoot in the dark, hoping something would give. Since they did not have the seller (or even his identity) initially, they resorted to the worst interpretation of the law - holding the owner of the website (www.bazee.com) responsible for the content!
It's a travesty that the CEO had to spend time in one of the most notorious jails of India (the Tihar Jail).
I was harsh I know, because quite honestly, your comment was far one-sided, and did not seem to be based upon any facts or research.
And I find it rather difficult to understand the generally held belief that a poor country should focus only on basic necessities, healthcare, et al.
I am not trying to convince you of the benefits of the programme, but I can certainly point out few things:
Space program has always been at the heart of India's belief of a progressive nation. My earliest memories of any pride are related to, now famously covered, cryogenic technology (and the pains that India went through) to acquire it, after USA strong-armed Russia into NOT selling it to India. Read here and here for the contextual info on this.
We are a large country, both in size and population, and we have learnt the hard way that there has to be an all-round balance to achieve any growth. India invested heavily in education (you would be astonished how subsidized fees are), yet faced the biggest challenge during 80s - brain drain, losing a large majority of the workers that it invested in. Again, you can either google for "India brain drain" or read this for some info
Mission to moon, as I see it, will be a step towards self-dependence, and then revenue benefits by providing services. The current Indian president, is a rocket scientist himself, with an eye for acquiring core technologies and services (including launch vehicles) to the rest of the world (as far as I remember, one such satellite launch vehicle has already been used by Israel).
Finally, I believe you are confusing health-care with poverty. Sure we have a large pool of people living below the poverty line - people who barely feed themselves, however, public healthcare is free-for-all? Including a large number of medicines (or are subsidized when not free). However crass it sounds, there are larger figures of people dying from hunger (say during famine), than diseases
..rather interesting to see the most highly-rated comments on/. are those who deride the Indian space programme and yelp about the poverty and the living conditions, and expound the wealth of their knowledge about how this 88 mil could be used towards creating more hospitals and so on.
How many of you know about India's space programmes though?
Did you know that India has been working on space programmes since the 60's?
Or that it had a comprehensive space progamme, that included a satellite system, a remote sensing satellite system, polar satellite launch vehicle and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle ?
Or that when United States arm-twisted Russia in April 1992 and July 1993 not to sell the cryogenic technology know-how to India.
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If its only video, voice and email, there's only so much of an "experience" that one can have on the web (at least with the current tools). What about true interactivity - which is what ultimately everyone is trying to achieve? The way I see it, once they had a mechanism to connect several different computers together and had a standard way of data-exchange, we then "built" add-ons to emulate human senses, thinking naively, it would emulate a human "experience"
I strongly believe our tools are dated compared to the technologies available to us. Browsers (the primary tool for trawling through the information available to us), are primal beasts at best - with core emphasis on hyperlinking and hypertext.
If we are to achieve true "interactivity", all tools we use to access the web (including the OS), will have to be restructured to change the way we access it
Guess this really isn't a coffe-mug holder!
There was talk early this year (or was it last year), about the game developed by WHO, to teach young kids in the developed countries, about the plight and standard of living of people in third world countries. However, it met with the same fate as the others that I heard of in the past... the launch of such a game is covered a lot by the media, but fizzles out with no updates posted about the effectivness.
On the other hand, how does one measure the effectiveness of such an initiative?
As for this trial, one has to wonder how much of a push is it from the gaming giant to lure more children into the gaming world?
Its not just about making them more "appealing" to the public.
This new "fabric" laminates the pressure and temperature sensing network together, so that both properties can be detected simultaneously, using carbon based circuits and semi-conductors, which is inexpensive to reproduce
This would allow the scientists to measure more easily (if not more accurately), the effects a certain task would have were it performed by a human, the side effects certain working conditions may have (kind of prevention before cure), and in future they could add more sensors on these layers to measure other aspects (for example, radioactivity)..
I wouldn't reach too much into anything coming out of ATOS, especially results of a "survey" among 80 ppl !
Atos indeed is a large consulting organization, with some weight in the telecoms space, and I remember their stance from the days "Linux isn't a supported product..". Now that the OSS initiative is growing rapidly, and becoming more prevalent, they suddenly jump on the bandwagon and "predict" it will become more prevalent!
Sounds like a nifty management task of going with the flow if they can't stop it...
Few hours ago there was a post about Firefox downloads topping 80 million mark
Even in this article, The enquirer mentions that "Net measurement is a tricky business and whenever we quote Net application figures, someone always quotes figures to make it look all gloom and doom.."
So effectively, they say the share *might* have been dropped, but that may not necessarily be true!
1) Endless gloating about holiness of Linux
2) I'm Darl McBride, you insensitive...
3) Bush couldnt find WMD, like McBride couldn't find violations
4) ? 5) Profit!!!
- You go down to PCWorld, and the reps there try to brush you off with the tersest replies they can muster. Worse is the look in their eyes if you ask them something and you can almost see the smirk twirling around their lips as they answer you. Which is wiped only when you trash their whole theory that I should buy a PC, when you tell them how you checked the motherboard and concluded its the SMPS that's busted
- Countless software vendors I've worked with in the past have had the same attitude - 'dude, its your problem.'. Until you send them a log of their own software falling over itself every two minutes, or how it encountered an 'unexpected situation' and keeps writing a wierd error message in the logs.
- Not that I'm dyed-in-wool. I'm currently working for a company recently acquired by Micromuse, and they mess their customers around as soon as they receive the PO. The sheer infighting and the jealousy kills any scope of friendliness and care for the customer. Little wonder the customers turn nasty
I don't think that people have woken up to the fact that buying a software is so unlike buying hardware. If its faulty or doesn't work, the hardware may be repaired or exchanged, while in software, they just mess you around, till you either threaten to sue them, or worse still, get your money back, return their software and lose your precious timeThe rail or e/m gun (whatever it was called) in the Schwarzenegger flick Eraser used electromagnetism beams/rays to accelerate projectiles at incredible speed. Check out http://www.powerlabs.org/emguns.htm
Oh and mods, go on, mark this as troll please
14,000? The OP itself says 13,000 jobs, the NY times article says 10,000 t 13,000 jobs, AND the article on an indian website says IBM may hire upto 13,000 workers..
What gives?
While one can argue the cost of creativity, or a product that enriches other people's lives, music corporations seem to have taken the idea a bit too far in their attempt to milk the songs for as much money as they can. One would wonder what research is this based upon? Most songs, if not all, would not have a shelf life of more than a few months (if that), and there are only a few gems that go beyond that. At the same time, there will be songs that are timeless (or considered timeless by a certain generation), which will see a number of repeat buyers, or buyers that are created as a 'spin-off' effect. The clear argument then, is the longevity, after which an artists' work is considered 'paid off', or has generated enough revenue (or the revenue has dried off), for the companies to let go if it and show their collective generosity by making it available for the masses for free. I think when they put up the 50 year term initially, it must have seemed long enough. They certainly didnt expect the market and technology to fluctuate so much, and the rapid changes and the ease of reproduction has made them rethink their strategies. But then, conversely, what music was recorded 100 years ago that ppl still listen to? (i can see a flood of posts enlightening me!) So basically, the recording companies are trying to ensure royalties are paid as long as possible
What about the costs of scaling and maintaining such an infrastructure? The routine administrative tasks, reporting, etc? The costs for someone actually looking at the generated results to see if they are meaningful at all, and if it is all going in the right direction?
obviously i spent time reading that article (even though it was in that time window when i was writing mine), and then i actually spent effort on duping it up. true /. style, isn't it.
I don't know if Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Everytime they do, they lose more customers. What's the potential benefit of even looking around for such a change?
...suggest the red planet is more active than many scientists had thought<snip/>
Usually that's something the parents discover...
This has to be the most ignorant and trollish post on /. ever
Kama has found mentioned in texts as early as the Vedas. Initially he was regarded as a creative spirit who welled out of Purusha, the supreme male element. Some parts of the Vedas go even farther and say that Kama himself was the supreme creative being, self-existent and sprung out of the cosmic waters at the beginning of time. In this context he was the supreme god who created everything else and whose first emanation was desire and whose second was the power to achieve that desire.
The Vedas are texts prepared over long lengths of time by diverse persons and the older versions were modified frequently. Thus Kama is found mentioned in many forms, all of them being some aspect of creativity.
Later, as Hindu Mythology progressed and developed into what it is today, Kama became identified with sexual desire, a more frivolous aspect of his creativity. Kama is depicted as a handsome youth who carried a bow entwined with flowers and shot arrows that produced love in their targets - That's your cupid.
The aim of Kama in Indian literature deals with pleasure and love. It is hypothesized that Kama teachings came into existence because of frustration in married life in a patriarchal society where marriages were arranged for convenience, while marriages of love were uncommon. The Kama literature was written in a technical format and is thought to have been written for the people of the higher castes because the social atmosphere of the time permitted very little private time for a husband and wife. Sexual relations were seen as the only allowable token of affection a husband could show his new bride, but at the same time, sex was a source of anxiety for the couple because it was one of the only activities privately shared by the couple and stood as the grounds for which the relationship was based. The lower castes did not have such problems because the men and women interacted on a daily basis, and therefore were able to develop relationships not solely based on sexual performance.
The best known of the Kama literature is Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, which was written around the third century C.E. It is a technical account of the social structure dealing with manners, morals, sexology, and culture in the third century.
This has now been bastardised by a western interpretation, that translates the very connotation of Kama to fucking.
If you've had a girlfriend, I'm sure you'd know there's a difference between sex and making love.
You can read more about Eastern Indian mythologies and beliefs at:
www.deliriumsrealm.com
www.pantheon.org
I could write about "Soma" or "Sura", but I'm sure you'd conveniently choose to ignore that, just like you'd this post
The entire issue has been blown out of proportions I believe.
What started off as a prank, teenage goofing, moment of madness - name what you like, was not only copied several times over, but also packaged and sold. So far, nothing out of the ordinary honestly. Such things have happened in the past elsewhere as well.
What really got things going was the sale of the content via a website, I guess. The ease of content transmission, coupled with the fact that it was two students from a well-known (and reputed, if i may say so myself) which were on camera, was what fuelled the controversy big time.
As has been the case with administration and police in India in the past, they appear to believe that the best means of solving a crime is to rake the muck and/or shoot in the dark, hoping something would give. Since they did not have the seller (or even his identity) initially, they resorted to the worst interpretation of the law - holding the owner of the website (www.bazee.com) responsible for the content!
It's a travesty that the CEO had to spend time in one of the most notorious jails of India (the Tihar Jail).
err, ah well, what do I add more to it? :)
...it seems the article is about folding of dangling cables inside your computer case...
..but does it still double up as a comfy portable heater for you, like its predecessors?!
You can get as many fscking breaks as you like, as soon as you crawl into the hole that you were spewed out from.
/., there are invariably a few twats who believe in "yelling-till-blue-in-face" to prove their argument.
/. a better place for others
Ever heard of a Satellite lauch vehicle? Or heard that several satellites of comparable payloads were placed in orbit by indigenous launch vehicles?
For every reasonable discussion I have on
Troll along.. make
I was harsh I know, because quite honestly, your comment was far one-sided, and did not seem to be based upon any facts or research.
And I find it rather difficult to understand the generally held belief that a poor country should focus only on basic necessities, healthcare, et al.
I am not trying to convince you of the benefits of the programme, but I can certainly point out few things:
Space program has always been at the heart of India's belief of a progressive nation. My earliest memories of any pride are related to, now famously covered, cryogenic technology (and the pains that India went through) to acquire it, after USA strong-armed Russia into NOT selling it to India. Read here and here for the contextual info on this.
We are a large country, both in size and population, and we have learnt the hard way that there has to be an all-round balance to achieve any growth. India invested heavily in education (you would be astonished how subsidized fees are), yet faced the biggest challenge during 80s - brain drain, losing a large majority of the workers that it invested in. Again, you can either google for "India brain drain" or read this for some info
Mission to moon, as I see it, will be a step towards self-dependence, and then revenue benefits by providing services. The current Indian president, is a rocket scientist himself, with an eye for acquiring core technologies and services (including launch vehicles) to the rest of the world (as far as I remember, one such satellite launch vehicle has already been used by Israel).
Finally, I believe you are confusing health-care with poverty. Sure we have a large pool of people living below the poverty line - people who barely feed themselves, however, public healthcare is free-for-all? Including a large number of medicines (or are subsidized when not free). However crass it sounds, there are larger figures of people dying from hunger (say during famine), than diseases
..rather interesting to see the most highly-rated comments on /. are those who deride the Indian space programme and yelp about the poverty and the living conditions, and expound the wealth of their knowledge about how this 88 mil could be used towards creating more hospitals and so on.
How many of you know about India's space programmes though?
Did you know that India has been working on space programmes since the 60's?
Or that it had a comprehensive space progamme, that included a satellite system, a remote sensing satellite system, polar satellite launch vehicle and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle ?
Or that when United States arm-twisted Russia in April 1992 and July 1993 not to sell the cryogenic technology know-how to India.
Or that India's cryogenic engine came of age on April 18, 2001 when India bustled into the exclusive GSL club?