Not necessary flame... I feel digital signing will be a mandatory standard in the near future for everybody...but it just needs to be made a lot cheaper and more accessible...I assume that a fingerprint scanner will probably be the way to get a digital sig, and then have that attached to yer e-mail somehow...This stuff is probably active already somewhere though surely...
Yep, been virus free on Windows meself. It's not very difficult.
Do yourself a favour, and use webmail instead of your own pop client. Let M$/Yahoo pay Norton and keep their virus clients up to date. I have never felt the need to use Outlook, Outlook Express. At home, I've never needed to store many e-mails, plus Yahoo has 6MB, and Hotmail has 2. That's good enough for most of my stuff. Course, I use Outlook at work...but if anything goes wrong at work, it's a a large-scale problem, so the responsibility lies with SysAdmin to make sure all anitvirus stuff is up to date.
I've just upgraded from Win98 to XP Prof. Now also using ZoneAlarm in conjunction with XP's built-in firewall, and also the multiple users feature which *nix users have been able to use forever(i.e. browsing the web from an account which has 'limited' access and not Admin. And that means that for the last 10 yrs at least, I've been totally virus free...
C'mon trolls, gimme yer best shot! I'm wearing mithril...
Considering GPRS is a 2.5G mobile-phone standard, and wi-fi is a Broadband standard, ya, GPRS will be a lot more sluggish, than wi-fi. The real comparison to be made is WCDMA/3GSM vs Wi-Fi. GPRS is just some kind of midpoint between 2G digital mobile phone service and 3G 'fat-pipe' wireless data transfer
So basically what you're trying to say is that by creating faster, power-hungry processors, Intel is scoping out new markets that can really use that 'power'(like Siberia..)...while at the same time working for the benefit of mankind, by reducing lead and keeping us warm.... This will be a problem for Bangalore. The temp over there is already on the higher side, it's mostly summer all yr round...
Although it's a good thing they're moving away from the More GHz is Better! philosophy, their new branding will be just awful, and cause consumers a LOT of pain.
Hey the 3200 series computers cost $800, how come the 2100 series computers cost $1500?
And then the inevitable: "That's all dandy, but what's the clock speed?". I think they'd be better off keeping things simple:
Category I/Fast/Home-SOHO use
Category II/SuperFast/Medium-Large Business
Category III/!#@$!#@/Industrial Strength
Category IV/Only visible after smoking up...
Okay, maybe I've confirmed that I'm not getting any jobs in marketing, but seriously, they can come up with something better than the esiting proposal...
Yes, the shit that u mentioned happened over 20 years ago. We eliminated mistakes like those, to get where we are now. IBM pulled out of India in the 70s, when Indira Gandhi tried to establish a dictatorship, and she tried to kick out all the multinationl corps. (It was actually kinda funny - she told Coke to surrender their recipe to Indians, or get lost)...anyway, in 1991 we implemented free-market reforms (20 years after China unfortunately, so we're 20 yrs behind 'em) and now we're finally catching up. Coke and IBM both returned to India in 1993...the rest is history...
That's the big joke though. Name one country America has attacked since WW2 which comes close to it in terms of size(size of military, and general population, or area). The answer is NONE. America doesn't really have balls to fight. It attacks places like Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, Serbia, Vietnam (and still loses there). Try picking a fight with Russia/India/China, and see where it gets you.
There is a lot of gender and age discrimination in India. They don't follow the same rules. There is also profession discrimination. For call centre jobs, most ads clearly specify: Engineers need not apply and also Female Candidates preferred. Reason being that like most of the SlashDot community, engineers feel they deserve to be put on a pedestal and paid double, even if it is a call-centre job, and also the reason they prefer females is because their blasted market research shows that a female voice is more "soothing" to irate customers. But this kind of discrimination is legal in India, and not considered too big a deal either.
The cost to company for most Indian call centre employees averages to about (Rupees)Rs 240,000 per employee per year. Using the latest exchange rate (US$1 = Rs. 43.54) you get the following: The average call centre employee makes US$5512 per annum.... multiply that by 6000 and you get...
US$ 3.3 million per year (again on average). Did you say Bonus? These people should ask for a fuckin' 200 percent increase...but of course just like you guys cuss your greedy American CEOs for outsourcing, so do the Indian employees (they all know the US dollars get lost somewhere between America and India...). Hurrah for capitalism...though in this case it's actually hurrah for Arbitrage...
It's not so much What Air Canada's doing, but how they went about it. There really doesn't seem to be much reason to give former employees access to private sites. Although it's not too clear in the article, the least they coulda done was create a separate network, with filtered data (i.e. a DB with just empty airline seats, and also coded in different ways so that you don't really have too much of a clue what's going on elsewhere...) Heck maybe the employee shouldn't even have visibility into what routes have empty seats, but just submit a request for an empty seat. (i.e. Instead of the system saying "we have 50 free seats to mexico today, take your pick" it should simply say " Mr. X, you have got the free seat to mexico today". ) How difficult would that be to do really? Even simpler is not allowing the former employees access to private sites, severance or not. This is simply laziness on Air Canada's part (hell we have to give these bozos free tickets, so let's just give 'em a little more access).Air Canada got what it deserves, and if anything, it should be Air Canada's investors suing Air Canada!
I think game companies should follow the model of IBM PC-Compatibles...
Heck if everyone is emulating Nintendo systems, they're buying nintendo games...(and that should be good for Nintendo, unlike IBM, which didn't have any proprietary software tied to its systems)
And from what I hear, the real margins aren't in the consoles anyway....
Actually I disagree, but my argument hinges on whether you call the DVD region-crack 'piracy'
or not. The fucking morons in Hollywood, instead of migrating from an archaic colour system (where USA has NTSC, Europe and Asia are PAL) went all out and made it worse by having 6 Regions on DVD... ok so that's just great for USA and Europe (Regions 1 & 2) since all new releases are available but what do people in region 5 (Russia, India and probably The Republic of Nose Hair) have to do to get to those same releases? India isn't even a consideration for hollywood, so no new movies are ever released in Region 5 encoding (or only the very very few...like Disney's The Lion King 2...!#@!@) so that means that either we smuggle over Region 1 players, and Region 1 DVDs, or we rip Region 1 DVDs onto regular Video CDs (i.e. MPEGs on CD) or we go out and make region-free players (current solution here in Asia)...thus rendering the whole region-coding nonsense redundant....now if the DVDs were region free to begin with.....
Eventually, Bill croaks and Satan is there to greet him. "Welcome Mr Gates this will be your home for all eternity. I'll be generous and give you a choice of three places in which you'll be locked up forever."
Satan takes Bill to a huge lake of fire, in which millions of poor souls are tormented and tortured. He then takes him to a massive coliseum where thousands of people are chased about and devoured by starving lions. Finally, he takes Bill to a tiny room in which there is a beautiful young blonde with an alluring look on her face, sitting at a table on which there is a bottle of the finest wine. To Bill's delight, he sees a PC in the corner. Bill says "I'll take this option." Satan agrees and locks the room after Bill gets in.
As he turns around, he bumps into Lucifer. "That was Bill Gates!" cried Lucifer. "Why did you give him the best place of all!" "That's what everyone thinks" snickered Satan. "The bottle has a hole in it and the girl hasn't!" "What about the PC?" "It's got Windows 95!" laughed Satan. "And it's missing three keys," "Which three?" "Control, Alt and Delete.")
Does anybody actually buy windows? (I mean 'cept for the OEMs )? I wonder how many people purchased the Windows ME Upgrade, for example, after having Win98 on their comps... it would make for an interesting discussion. As for innovation by Microsoft, the only people who've been able to force it to innovate have been the Justice Dept. lawyers...and that was in the pre-Bush era....But c'mon let's be honest, no matter what anybody says, my luddite grandpa is gonna find much easier to boot up Windows, compared to Linux, though granted, the gap is a little less these days.... If we could at least bring 90% of Linux installation and UI up to par with Windows and make it REALLY EASILY accessible(with Luddite Grandpa in mind), then there'd be some real competition...
Look I'm just going to say one thing to all those fucking whining Americans out there....are you guys starving yet? Are u out on the streets? No I mean seriously, let's get some figures. Does anybody have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that the poverty levels have increased in america, and the reason is because of more software developers being unemployed? Please, do tell, I'm really curious to know. How many software developers are now without a roof over their heads, and don't have a private place to pee. How many software developers did not make their last electricity bill payment, rent payment. As someone who's stolen your job, I'm curious to know how much damange I've wreaked.
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Not necessary flame... I feel digital signing will be a mandatory standard in the near future for everybody ...but it just needs to be made a lot cheaper and more accessible...I assume that a fingerprint scanner will probably be the way to get a digital sig, and then have that attached to yer e-mail somehow...This stuff is probably active already somewhere though surely...
Yep, been virus free on Windows meself. It's not very difficult.
Do yourself a favour, and use webmail instead of your own pop client. Let M$/Yahoo pay Norton and keep their virus clients up to date. I have never felt the need to use Outlook, Outlook Express. At home, I've never needed to store many e-mails, plus Yahoo has 6MB, and Hotmail has 2. That's good enough for most of my stuff. Course, I use Outlook at work...but if anything goes wrong at work, it's a a large-scale problem, so the responsibility lies with SysAdmin to make sure all anitvirus stuff is up to date.
I've just upgraded from Win98 to XP Prof. Now also using ZoneAlarm in conjunction with XP's built-in firewall, and also the multiple users feature which *nix users have been able to use forever(i.e. browsing the web from an account which has 'limited' access and not Admin. And that means that for the last 10 yrs at least, I've been totally virus free... C'mon trolls, gimme yer best shot! I'm wearing mithril...
Considering GPRS is a 2.5G mobile-phone standard, and wi-fi is a Broadband standard, ya, GPRS will be a lot more sluggish, than wi-fi. The real comparison to be made is WCDMA/3GSM vs Wi-Fi. GPRS is just some kind of midpoint between 2G digital mobile phone service and 3G 'fat-pipe' wireless data transfer
Well not grossly ignorant. But why use wires, when you can be totally wireless? I'm sure it's a cost saving, IMHO.
You won't stop 3rd world countries trying to kill themselves
U also won't stop first-world countries from trying to kill 3rd-world countries either.
So basically what you're trying to say is that by creating faster, power-hungry processors, Intel is scoping out new markets that can really use that 'power'(like Siberia..)...while at the same time working for the benefit of mankind, by reducing lead and keeping us warm.... This will be a problem for Bangalore. The temp over there is already on the higher side, it's mostly summer all yr round...
Although it's a good thing they're moving away from the More GHz is Better! philosophy, their new branding will be just awful, and cause consumers a LOT of pain.
Hey the 3200 series computers cost $800, how come the 2100 series computers cost $1500?
And then the inevitable: "That's all dandy, but what's the clock speed?". I think they'd be better off keeping things simple:
Category I/Fast/Home-SOHO use
Category II/SuperFast/Medium-Large Business
Category III/!#@$!#@/Industrial Strength
Category IV/Only visible after smoking up...
Okay, maybe I've confirmed that I'm not getting any jobs in marketing, but seriously, they can come up with something better than the esiting proposal...
Yes, the shit that u mentioned happened over 20 years ago. We eliminated mistakes like those, to get where we are now. IBM pulled out of India in the 70s, when Indira Gandhi tried to establish a dictatorship, and she tried to kick out all the multinationl corps. (It was actually kinda funny - she told Coke to surrender their recipe to Indians, or get lost)...anyway, in 1991 we implemented free-market reforms (20 years after China unfortunately, so we're 20 yrs behind 'em) and now we're finally catching up. Coke and IBM both returned to India in 1993...the rest is history...
That's the big joke though. Name one country America has attacked since WW2 which comes close to it in terms of size(size of military, and general population, or area). The answer is NONE. America doesn't really have balls to fight. It attacks places like Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, Serbia, Vietnam (and still loses there). Try picking a fight with Russia/India/China, and see where it gets you.
There is a lot of gender and age discrimination in India. They don't follow the same rules. There is also profession discrimination. For call centre jobs, most ads clearly specify: Engineers need not apply and also Female Candidates preferred. Reason being that like most of the SlashDot community, engineers feel they deserve to be put on a pedestal and paid double, even if it is a call-centre job, and also the reason they prefer females is because their blasted market research shows that a female voice is more "soothing" to irate customers. But this kind of discrimination is legal in India, and not considered too big a deal either.
The cost to company for most Indian call centre employees averages to about (Rupees)Rs 240,000 per employee per year. Using the latest exchange rate (US$1 = Rs. 43.54) you get the following: The average call centre employee makes US$5512 per annum.... multiply that by 6000 and you get... US$ 3.3 million per year (again on average). Did you say Bonus? These people should ask for a fuckin' 200 percent increase...but of course just like you guys cuss your greedy American CEOs for outsourcing, so do the Indian employees (they all know the US dollars get lost somewhere between America and India...). Hurrah for capitalism...though in this case it's actually hurrah for Arbitrage...
I worked at Amazon too, and I dunno which part of the company you were at buddy, but so long as I was there, everybody was pretty happy with Daksh
How to wean you losers back to reality
It's not so much What Air Canada's doing, but how they went about it. There really doesn't seem to be much reason to give former employees access to private sites. Although it's not too clear in the article, the least they coulda done was create a separate network, with filtered data (i.e. a DB with just empty airline seats, and also coded in different ways so that you don't really have too much of a clue what's going on elsewhere...) Heck maybe the employee shouldn't even have visibility into what routes have empty seats, but just submit a request for an empty seat. (i.e. Instead of the system saying "we have 50 free seats to mexico today, take your pick" it should simply say " Mr. X, you have got the free seat to mexico today". ) How difficult would that be to do really? Even simpler is not allowing the former employees access to private sites, severance or not. This is simply laziness on Air Canada's part (hell we have to give these bozos free tickets, so let's just give 'em a little more access).Air Canada got what it deserves, and if anything, it should be Air Canada's investors suing Air Canada!
I think game companies should follow the model of IBM PC-Compatibles...
Heck if everyone is emulating Nintendo systems, they're buying nintendo games...(and that should be good for Nintendo, unlike IBM, which didn't have any proprietary software tied to its systems)
And from what I hear, the real margins aren't in the consoles anyway....
Actually I disagree, but my argument hinges on whether you call the DVD region-crack 'piracy' or not. The fucking morons in Hollywood, instead of migrating from an archaic colour system (where USA has NTSC, Europe and Asia are PAL) went all out and made it worse by having 6 Regions on DVD... ok so that's just great for USA and Europe (Regions 1 & 2) since all new releases are available but what do people in region 5 (Russia, India and probably The Republic of Nose Hair) have to do to get to those same releases? India isn't even a consideration for hollywood, so no new movies are ever released in Region 5 encoding (or only the very very few...like Disney's The Lion King 2...!#@!@) so that means that either we smuggle over Region 1 players, and Region 1 DVDs, or we rip Region 1 DVDs onto regular Video CDs (i.e. MPEGs on CD) or we go out and make region-free players (current solution here in Asia)...thus rendering the whole region-coding nonsense redundant....now if the DVDs were region free to begin with.....
Eventually, Bill croaks and Satan is there to greet him. "Welcome Mr Gates this will be your home for all eternity. I'll be generous and give you a choice of three places in which you'll be locked up forever."
Satan takes Bill to a huge lake of fire, in which millions of poor souls are tormented and tortured. He then takes him to a massive coliseum where thousands of people are chased about and devoured by starving lions. Finally, he takes Bill to a tiny room in which there is a beautiful young blonde with an alluring look on her face, sitting at a table on which there is a bottle of the finest wine. To Bill's delight, he sees a PC in the corner. Bill says "I'll take this option." Satan agrees and locks the room after Bill gets in.
As he turns around, he bumps into Lucifer. "That was Bill Gates!" cried Lucifer. "Why did you give him the best place of all!" "That's what everyone thinks" snickered Satan. "The bottle has a hole in it and the girl hasn't!" "What about the PC?" "It's got Windows 95!" laughed Satan. "And it's missing three keys," "Which three?" "Control, Alt and Delete.")
Does anybody actually buy windows? (I mean 'cept for the OEMs )? I wonder how many people purchased the Windows ME Upgrade, for example, after having Win98 on their comps... it would make for an interesting discussion. As for innovation by Microsoft, the only people who've been able to force it to innovate have been the Justice Dept. lawyers...and that was in the pre-Bush era....But c'mon let's be honest, no matter what anybody says, my luddite grandpa is gonna find much easier to boot up Windows, compared to Linux, though granted, the gap is a little less these days.... If we could at least bring 90% of Linux installation and UI up to par with Windows and make it REALLY EASILY accessible(with Luddite Grandpa in mind), then there'd be some real competition...
I upgraded to XP. You people and your insecure operating systems. Next thing you know, you'll be able to bypass passwords by hitting the ESC key.
WE ARE THE INDIANS. YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS SHALL BE OUTSOURCED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Fucking Hell. This entire Thread should be taken off.
U know, they shoulda sent some cockroaches to Mars... Just a thought...
DUH! Sex with a martian mare. I hear they grow tits this time of year...
You Insensitive CLOD!
I think we should study the effects of flatulence on the Martian Atmosphere. That and how an exposed nipple could cause the next world war.
We are the Indians. You technological distinctiveness shall be outsourced. Resistance is Futile!
Look I'm just going to say one thing to all those fucking whining Americans out there....are you guys starving yet? Are u out on the streets? No I mean seriously, let's get some figures. Does anybody have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that the poverty levels have increased in america, and the reason is because of more software developers being unemployed? Please, do tell, I'm really curious to know. How many software developers are now without a roof over their heads, and don't have a private place to pee. How many software developers did not make their last electricity bill payment, rent payment. As someone who's stolen your job, I'm curious to know how much damange I've wreaked.