I have seen IETF in operation about 12 years and I have worked with industry bodies such as 3gpp - worked on one particular standard which actually went through the standardization process. Standards bodies are supposed to be slow and stodgy, that is their purpose. There was a time when we used to get objections based on corner cases which (we believed) were irrelevant, but, in any case, the objections were made in good faith. I used to enjoy the debate, trying to get another, obviously very smart person to see my point of view. Nowadays we get objections which, you know, are because of some directive from the other guy's C*O level or some legal or marketing directive, which he is powerless to oppose. You feel embarrassed for the guy, because you know that he isn't allowed to change his stance and therefore all debate is immaterial. This is the effect of corporatization.
The working groups are infested by corporate types, from Cisco, Google, Microsoft, you name it. IETF was made what it was due to academics - van Jacobson, Jonathan Postel, Sally Floyd, Henning Schulzrine. No wranglings about patent rights or the need to keep their respective companies competitive edge.
They don't actually 'poll' the the tower, they monitor the paging channel. They do re-register with the network every 30 minutes or so, so as to let the system know where they are. However, this is for a static phone; a phone moving inside an airplane would be updating its registration every few minutes as it went from one cell to the other.
The ringing tone is sent back by the local switch once the remote party's location has been verified and an ALERTING mesage has been forwarded to it. So, it is not entirely meaningless when you hear a ringtone on your phone.
"The alleged tax evasion pertains to royalty payment made against supply of software by its parent company, which attracts a 10 per cent tax deduction under the Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) category."
Basically, Nokia India pays Nokia International royalty for each copy of software that it loads onto the phone - as per Indian IT law, they should deduct 10% tax at source. Nokia claims that this is not applicable to them because they are in a Special Economic Zone and the IT department disagrees. This is an old dispute and the inflation is due to penalties (Nokia has been operating in India for a long time). It has nothing to do with the Microsoft deal - the whole issue has come to the forefront because Microsoft may refuse to go through the deal if this issue is not settled first.
Actually, it has been reported in all Indian newspapers and few news channels. I don't think many people were paying attention, but things might change if deportation all of a sudden became a consideration.
Except that is not how science works. 99% of climatologists can be in agreement with AGW and it doesn't mean a thing. Please don't fall into the trap of the deniers by going down to their levels.
The problem in the AGW science that exists today is that there is no one single experimental result which conclusively demonstrates a prediction of AGW theory (AFAIK, would be happy to be corrected). Verifiable predictions are the heart of modern science; it is very hard (and very wrong) to make the case using empirical data only. Unfortunately, it is not easy to setup experiments in an area like this, so we are looking for predictions of results in specific situations. And we don't have that yet.
God, I hope your message goes through to Mozilla. I am seriously contemplating stopping using firefox altogether on my work comp. It eats 345MB of page memory and completely destroys everything else.
This is why I am increasingly of the opinion that capitalism is dead. The employee (CEO) gambles with his employer's money and walks away with a nice parachute when he is done. The capitalists (share holders) are left to pick up the pieces. They cannot effectively punish the CEO (the board was packed with his cronies anyway, all CEOs somewhere or the other) and he will jump into the CEO's seat in some other company and proceed to ruin that one.
Free speech would be an issue if he had restricted himself to making his own web-page about the subject. But when he went and posted offensive comments on somebody else's tribute page, he crossed the line and became a nuisance.
Buy the book by Spivak or Munkres' "Analysis on Manifolds". Multi-variate calculus is a beautiful subject, regardless of whether you want to learn relativity or not. Once you are done with that, you need a higher level book on differential geometry.
Actually, at the old TV spectrum, your signal would bounce nicely of the sky and you could get natural multihop transmission. That is one of the advantages of using OFDMA for the air link, because it is resilient to path variations.
This was an idea conceived in the 1990s, called Skystation, I think - balloons, solar powered, stationed at 80000 ft. It is incredibly hard to maintain the altitude of these HAPS (High Altitude Platforms) and the continuous movements lead to a very complex link management problem. Didn't work then. The new standard 802.22 uses OFDMA which is more resilient to tiny variations in path distance (path from the ground to the blimp), but I think it will still be a complex challenge
I have had two citibank accounts (CC and banking) since 2008, and at least the citibank site that I access is fully https and jsp based. The only thing in the URL is https://citibank.co.in/infolaunch/launch.jsp. So, either the US citibank site is completely different or the real story is worse.
Here is some anecdotal experience. My son goes to this school mentioned in the article. And it is a good school, with some seriously good teachers, from my personal experience. This school and many other schools have been taking in "economically weaker sections" or EWS kids from some time now, but not more than some 5 to 10%. Also, different schools had different models for inclusion. The Delhi Public School, I believe holds special evening classes for these kids, whereas other schools like to integrate them into the main class.
The specific experiment described in this article actually took effect in this school year and has raised the proportion of these kids in the class to 25%. Of course, I am not privy to whatever internal issues the teachers/kids have been having, but its early days still. The no-testing admission has been the law in Delhi for some time now, but now has become law across the nation (I hear that private school admission in Bombay is even more difficult than Delhi). Most of the schools are incensed at having their own policies superseded arbitrarily by the law; hence the resistance. However, I am fairly certain that they will adjust to this and do a good job, once the initial issues are ironed out.
From my own personal experience there are two issues to deal with. First is the rich poor divide. Compared to many of the parents in this school, I am decidedly on the poorer side; these are the parents who own farm-houses in Delhi (about USD 10 million apiece) and send their 5 year olds to the south of France for summer vacation. My family got to go to the hills near Shimla, overnight journey by train. The first time I took my son to one of his friend's birthdays my jaw fell open. As a middle class parent with a middle class upbringing, I am having the same conversation about rich-poor divides with my son when I plan his next birthday party. I simply cannot afford to match his friends birthdays and, even if I could, have no intention of doing it. In my opinion, this is an important purpose of school; my child needs to learn the importance of money but not to make the mistake of conflating it with self-worth; he needs to learn to get along with all people, both richer and poorer than him.
In short, by having EWS students in the school, they are not creating a new problem; however, of course the EWS parents and children feel it more keenly and probably need counseling on how to deal with it.
The second issue is the eagerness for an education and the ability to follow that through. IMHO this is the most serious problem: most of the other kids in school have parents who are genuinely motivated that their children get an education and have the ability to help their children, either directly or by hiring tutors. This is the place where the EWS parents suffer the most and they need the most help. In many cases, they simply need reassurance; it is often the case where the kid is lagging behind a little in something or the other, but within the overall is well within the group limits; given time he or she will catch up. However, the parent panics when they hear about it from the teacher and start that "all work no play" nonsense alluded to in the article. Which actually increases the pressure on the child and makes things worse. I think this is where we parents can actually help, by forming support groups and reaching out to the EWS parents. However, this is the kind of thing which can't be legislated and takes time. The schools can probably also reach out to the parents (the Shri Ram school has a parent teacher association, but I am not aware if they are directly dealing with the issue) for help. Once again, all of this will take time.
Speaking from the Indian perspective. Nokia is busy losing the cheap handset market, initially to Samsung and recently to local manufacturers (Micromax, Lava, Videocon, etc.). Any one of these have offerings at about half the price of the equivalent Nokia phone. In the smart phone business, they are being wiped out both at the low end (Samsung, HTC) and the high end (Samsung, Apple, HTC Android). My wife recently bought a low-end smartphone and I advised her against Nokia; she ended up buying a HTC Wildfire, over the Sony Ericsson Experia.
Nokia is busy losing their shirt all over the world.
In the recent bomb attacks in New Delhi, the perps would go home, switch on TV, knock back some drinks and bet each other about who would get the highest body counts.
I always think the problem with LaTeX is the opposite; not that it makes good documents look bad, it makes complete BS look good.
A quick question; I am pretty good in LaTeX (5 yrs plus, including IEEE submissions), and am trying to learn TeX. Is there a good detailed reference (not an introduction) with listings of all possible commands?
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Plus they will drop dead earlier due to colon cancer, from eating too much meat.
I have seen IETF in operation about 12 years and I have worked with industry bodies such as 3gpp - worked on one particular standard which actually went through the standardization process. Standards bodies are supposed to be slow and stodgy, that is their purpose. There was a time when we used to get objections based on corner cases which (we believed) were irrelevant, but, in any case, the objections were made in good faith. I used to enjoy the debate, trying to get another, obviously very smart person to see my point of view. Nowadays we get objections which, you know, are because of some directive from the other guy's C*O level or some legal or marketing directive, which he is powerless to oppose. You feel embarrassed for the guy, because you know that he isn't allowed to change his stance and therefore all debate is immaterial. This is the effect of corporatization.
The working groups are infested by corporate types, from Cisco, Google, Microsoft, you name it. IETF was made what it was due to academics - van Jacobson, Jonathan Postel, Sally Floyd, Henning Schulzrine. No wranglings about patent rights or the need to keep their respective companies competitive edge.
They don't actually 'poll' the the tower, they monitor the paging channel. They do re-register with the network every 30 minutes or so, so as to let the system know where they are. However, this is for a static phone; a phone moving inside an airplane would be updating its registration every few minutes as it went from one cell to the other.
The ringing tone is sent back by the local switch once the remote party's location has been verified and an ALERTING mesage has been forwarded to it. So, it is not entirely meaningless when you hear a ringtone on your phone.
"The alleged tax evasion pertains to royalty payment made against supply of software by its parent company, which attracts a 10 per cent tax deduction under the Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) category."
Basically, Nokia India pays Nokia International royalty for each copy of software that it loads onto the phone - as per Indian IT law, they should deduct 10% tax at source. Nokia claims that this is not applicable to them because they are in a Special Economic Zone and the IT department disagrees.
This is an old dispute and the inflation is due to penalties (Nokia has been operating in India for a long time). It has nothing to do with the Microsoft deal - the whole issue has come to the forefront because Microsoft may refuse to go through the deal if this issue is not settled first.
So the first thing he is going to do is to offshore it?
The entire public transport system in New Delhi was switched over to compressed natural gas ten years ago. A city of 16 million people.
Actually, it has been reported in all Indian newspapers and few news channels. I don't think many people were paying attention, but things might change if deportation all of a sudden became a consideration.
Except that is not how science works. 99% of climatologists can be in agreement with AGW and it doesn't mean a thing. Please don't fall into the trap of the deniers by going down to their levels.
The problem in the AGW science that exists today is that there is no one single experimental result which conclusively demonstrates a prediction of AGW theory (AFAIK, would be happy to be corrected). Verifiable predictions are the heart of modern science; it is very hard (and very wrong) to make the case using empirical data only. Unfortunately, it is not easy to setup experiments in an area like this, so we are looking for predictions of results in specific situations. And we don't have that yet.
Wasn't this the program which caused Lockheed Martin to shut down comsat labs?
God, I hope your message goes through to Mozilla. I am seriously contemplating stopping using firefox altogether on my work comp. It eats 345MB of page memory and completely destroys everything else.
This is why I am increasingly of the opinion that capitalism is dead. The employee (CEO) gambles with his employer's money and walks away with a nice parachute when he is done. The capitalists (share holders) are left to pick up the pieces. They cannot effectively punish the CEO (the board was packed with his cronies anyway, all CEOs somewhere or the other) and he will jump into the CEO's seat in some other company and proceed to ruin that one.
Free speech would be an issue if he had restricted himself to making his own web-page about the subject. But when he went and posted offensive comments on somebody else's tribute page, he crossed the line and became a nuisance.
Multivariable calculus, differential operators, manifolds, tensors and Stoke's theorem
Buy the book by Spivak or Munkres' "Analysis on Manifolds". Multi-variate calculus is a beautiful subject, regardless of whether you want to learn relativity or not. Once you are done with that, you need a higher level book on differential geometry.
Actually, at the old TV spectrum, your signal would bounce nicely of the sky and you could get natural multihop transmission. That is one of the advantages of using OFDMA for the air link, because it is resilient to path variations.
This was an idea conceived in the 1990s, called Skystation, I think - balloons, solar powered, stationed at 80000 ft. It is incredibly hard to maintain the altitude of these HAPS (High Altitude Platforms) and the continuous movements lead to a very complex link management problem. Didn't work then. The new standard 802.22 uses OFDMA which is more resilient to tiny variations in path distance (path from the ground to the blimp), but I think it will still be a complex challenge
I have had two citibank accounts (CC and banking) since 2008, and at least the citibank site that I access is fully https and jsp based. The only thing in the URL is https://citibank.co.in/infolaunch/launch.jsp. So, either the US citibank site is completely different or the real story is worse.
Here is some anecdotal experience. My son goes to this school mentioned in the article. And it is a good school, with some seriously good teachers, from my personal experience. This school and many other schools have been taking in "economically weaker sections" or EWS kids from some time now, but not more than some 5 to 10%. Also, different schools had different models for inclusion. The Delhi Public School, I believe holds special evening classes for these kids, whereas other schools like to integrate them into the main class.
The specific experiment described in this article actually took effect in this school year and has raised the proportion of these kids in the class to 25%. Of course, I am not privy to whatever internal issues the teachers/kids have been having, but its early days still. The no-testing admission has been the law in Delhi for some time now, but now has become law across the nation (I hear that private school admission in Bombay is even more difficult than Delhi). Most of the schools are incensed at having their own policies superseded arbitrarily by the law; hence the resistance. However, I am fairly certain that they will adjust to this and do a good job, once the initial issues are ironed out.
From my own personal experience there are two issues to deal with. First is the rich poor divide. Compared to many of the parents in this school, I am decidedly on the poorer side; these are the parents who own farm-houses in Delhi (about USD 10 million apiece) and send their 5 year olds to the south of France for summer vacation. My family got to go to the hills near Shimla, overnight journey by train. The first time I took my son to one of his friend's birthdays my jaw fell open. As a middle class parent with a middle class upbringing, I am having the same conversation about rich-poor divides with my son when I plan his next birthday party. I simply cannot afford to match his friends birthdays and, even if I could, have no intention of doing it. In my opinion, this is an important purpose of school; my child needs to learn the importance of money but not to make the mistake of conflating it with self-worth; he needs to learn to get along with all people, both richer and poorer than him.
In short, by having EWS students in the school, they are not creating a new problem; however, of course the EWS parents and children feel it more keenly and probably need counseling on how to deal with it.
The second issue is the eagerness for an education and the ability to follow that through. IMHO this is the most serious problem: most of the other kids in school have parents who are genuinely motivated that their children get an education and have the ability to help their children, either directly or by hiring tutors. This is the place where the EWS parents suffer the most and they need the most help. In many cases, they simply need reassurance; it is often the case where the kid is lagging behind a little in something or the other, but within the overall is well within the group limits; given time he or she will catch up. However, the parent panics when they hear about it from the teacher and start that "all work no play" nonsense alluded to in the article. Which actually increases the pressure on the child and makes things worse. I think this is where we parents can actually help, by forming support groups and reaching out to the EWS parents. However, this is the kind of thing which can't be legislated and takes time. The schools can probably also reach out to the parents (the Shri Ram school has a parent teacher association, but I am not aware if they are directly dealing with the issue) for help. Once again, all of this will take time.
Speaking from the Indian perspective. Nokia is busy losing the cheap handset market, initially to Samsung and recently to local manufacturers (Micromax, Lava, Videocon, etc.). Any one of these have offerings at about half the price of the equivalent Nokia phone. In the smart phone business, they are being wiped out both at the low end (Samsung, HTC) and the high end (Samsung, Apple, HTC Android). My wife recently bought a low-end smartphone and I advised her against Nokia; she ended up buying a HTC Wildfire, over the Sony Ericsson Experia. Nokia is busy losing their shirt all over the world.
There was an IEEE spectrum article a few weeks back, proposing a continuous transmission system. Here it is: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/beyond-the-black-box
I know. And all those cell phone towers my mean neighbour is putting up on his roof.
In the recent bomb attacks in New Delhi, the perps would go home, switch on TV, knock back some drinks and bet each other about who would get the highest body counts.
I always think the problem with LaTeX is the opposite; not that it makes good documents look bad, it makes complete BS look good. A quick question; I am pretty good in LaTeX (5 yrs plus, including IEEE submissions), and am trying to learn TeX. Is there a good detailed reference (not an introduction) with listings of all possible commands? -abheek
And anyway, food prices in India have been relatively stable this year, compared to what has been going on in the rest of the world.