A lot of people try to buy domains with keywords in them, because they're immediately attractive to search engines like Google. That's why buy-a-domain-to-be-rich still works, though not necessarily mistype - although I guess I can see how that would work; if I have a website I check often and I keep mistyping, that's atleast enough "hits" from me (even if it takes me seconds to ctrl-W outta there) to attract advertisers.
Like someone mentioned, I can't believe anybody actually clicks on the ads! So how do these guys make (advertising) money?
Cue John Cleese: Stupid american kaniggets! i spit in your general direction! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Google-engine, you and all your silly American kaniggets. Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelt of edelberries!
Seriously though, why French? Why not Chinese, or Russian, or even Hindi? We must ALL have our Google book catalogs!
Are there any Indian or Chinese companies with this kind of web presence? I doubt it.
Also, remember that outsourcing isn't happening to be traitorous, but to cut back on costs and increasing costs (although some people are finding it cost-inefficient after all). So, technically, the US economy is making money by outsourcing.
There is a cost to the job market, of course, but introducing robots on production lines got lots of people fired - while creating new supervisory posts. From what I hear on Slashdot, it sounds like many companies are hiring again. If that's happening, it might well be the best of both worlds - outsource the codemonkey jobs, while doing the important stuff in-house, paying programmers well for their time.
Of course, as an Indian, I have no particular problem with something which is creating jobs in my home country, as well as resulting in plenty of foreign inflows:).
Errr... maybe that's because of the severe censorship of all media?;)
I'd love to see evidence of any of the above, though... agreed, stuff like bureaucratic slowdown, corruption, intercaste violence, and poverty are rampant, but sexual repression? Most of my friends back home seem to be quite sexually active, afaik... severe censorship of the media? Several cases of rampant corruption have been uncovered by media-coordinated sting operations in the last few years... the caste system, well, I'd argue that the mental associations are much worse than any legal measures (who actually follows in the law in India anyway?). I have seen older relatives checking up on which caste and subcaste someone who married into the family is, but never heard that kind of stuff from anyone in my generation yet, so hopefully we've heard the end of that matter.
India has a LOT of faults, but I don't think the ones you mentioned are.
(Of course Gandhi failed. He was trying to hold everybody up to impossible standards of perfection. But I agree with you: he would have prefered to see an India "where truth prevails", although I'm sure he'd appreciate that however bad things are, they could have been a lot, lot worse... we are still a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. And in a world of dictatorships, political instability and racism, that is something to be proud of)
Here's 2004 in review. As you can see (scroll down to see the graph) there was a crash in mid-2004 immediately following the election results, as a socialistic party with communist allies came into power. Support for the government grew after it was announced that two of India's best finance ministers in recent times were going to have prominent roles in the government, one of them as the prime minister. Also, as the leftist partiest didn't interfere with government policy, the market rose, hitting new highs towards the end of the year.
It's now at around 6500, so it hasn't changed much since last December.
the venture capitalists would be a little more careful with their money
Actually, I, Cringely predicted this a while ago. Apparently, any money the VCs collected in '99-'00 which they haven't invested has to be returned to the investors in five years, along with the VC's management fee. To avoid giving the fee back, the VCs have to invest in something - anything - and soon.
Get out and get a LIFE, man! Slashdot isn't so important! Sheesh, with the number of posting I see by you, it's obvious you haven't left your computer in years.
So what are these red-tailed deep water fish turning up off the coast of Kerela?
The tsunami took place in the morning, and took about three hours to get to the coast of Kerela. Did the fisherman have enough time to go out, find "unusual numbers of rare red-tailed deep-water fishes" and report back to the government offices?
Actually, you've just seen one of the first Mallu jokes on slashdot. "Mallu" is the colloqial Indian name of the people from the state of Kerela (who speak Malayalam, hence Mallu as a contraction). In jokes in the South, they frequently take the role of the "morons" in jokes - like Surds (Sardarjis, or Sikhs) do in the North.
That said, I really, really couldn't get GP's joke either:-S.
Slashdot Mirror
... I don't get it, and I wrote it. Mods on crack?
You must be new here.
:)
Obviously, the next story will be this story posted again by another editor.
A lot of people try to buy domains with keywords in them, because they're immediately attractive to search engines like Google. That's why buy-a-domain-to-be-rich still works, though not necessarily mistype - although I guess I can see how that would work; if I have a website I check often and I keep mistyping, that's atleast enough "hits" from me (even if it takes me seconds to ctrl-W outta there) to attract advertisers.
Like someone mentioned, I can't believe anybody actually clicks on the ads! So how do these guys make (advertising) money?
... but it just had to be brought up.
Cue John Cleese: Stupid american kaniggets! i spit in your general direction! Go and boil your
bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Google-engine, you and all your silly American kaniggets. Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelt of edelberries!
Seriously though, why French? Why not Chinese, or Russian, or even Hindi? We must ALL have our Google book catalogs!
Something like this?
You forgot Newater, you insensitive clod!
How about games?
Does chess count?
Naah, it didn't work for Japan, did it?
... wasn't Slashdot Japan started in 2000 sometime? Wonder how Japan's been doing since ...
... don't think we've ever slashdotted an entire nation before ...
:|)
Wait a minute
*gasp* oh my
(this would all be so much funnier if Slashdot Japan hadn't been founded in 2001
Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile. This will be your last warning.
All figured out? Sheesh, I'd be happy if they pronounced "nuclear" correctly ...
the number of posts it takes before the Americans on /. start screaming for or against Bush and/or Kerry
... if it's against Bush, I don't think it's just the American /.ers who're saying it ...
Errr
Cows are sacred. Or didn't you know? ;)
India and China now own the Internet industry.
:).
Some people would beg to differ.
Are there any Indian or Chinese companies with this kind of web presence? I doubt it.
Also, remember that outsourcing isn't happening to be traitorous, but to cut back on costs and increasing costs (although some people are finding it cost-inefficient after all). So, technically, the US economy is making money by outsourcing.
There is a cost to the job market, of course, but introducing robots on production lines got lots of people fired - while creating new supervisory posts. From what I hear on Slashdot, it sounds like many companies are hiring again. If that's happening, it might well be the best of both worlds - outsource the codemonkey jobs, while doing the important stuff in-house, paying programmers well for their time.
Of course, as an Indian, I have no particular problem with something which is creating jobs in my home country, as well as resulting in plenty of foreign inflows
Errr ... maybe that's because of the severe censorship of all media? ;)
... agreed, stuff like bureaucratic slowdown, corruption, intercaste violence, and poverty are rampant, but sexual repression? Most of my friends back home seem to be quite sexually active, afaik ... severe censorship of the media? Several cases of rampant corruption have been uncovered by media-coordinated sting operations in the last few years ... the caste system, well, I'd argue that the mental associations are much worse than any legal measures (who actually follows in the law in India anyway?). I have seen older relatives checking up on which caste and subcaste someone who married into the family is, but never heard that kind of stuff from anyone in my generation yet, so hopefully we've heard the end of that matter.
... we are still a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. And in a world of dictatorships, political instability and racism, that is something to be proud of)
I'd love to see evidence of any of the above, though
India has a LOT of faults, but I don't think the ones you mentioned are.
(Of course Gandhi failed. He was trying to hold everybody up to impossible standards of perfection. But I agree with you: he would have prefered to see an India "where truth prevails", although I'm sure he'd appreciate that however bad things are, they could have been a lot, lot worse
Here's 2004 in review. As you can see (scroll down to see the graph) there was a crash in mid-2004 immediately following the election results, as a socialistic party with communist allies came into power. Support for the government grew after it was announced that two of India's best finance ministers in recent times were going to have prominent roles in the government, one of them as the prime minister. Also, as the leftist partiest didn't interfere with government policy, the market rose, hitting new highs towards the end of the year.
It's now at around 6500, so it hasn't changed much since last December.
*sheepish grin*
the venture capitalists would be a little more careful with their money
Actually, I, Cringely predicted this a while ago. Apparently, any money the VCs collected in '99-'00 which they haven't invested has to be returned to the investors in five years, along with the VC's management fee. To avoid giving the fee back, the VCs have to invest in something - anything - and soon.
Woah! Which blog is that?
:).
I ask strictly because I want to read the content, of course
Get out and get a LIFE, man! Slashdot isn't so important! Sheesh, with the number of posting I see by you, it's obvious you haven't left your computer in years.
That's two dupes in forty-eight hours! It's not April 1st yet, is it?
Errr ... okay, but are you sure there'll be *any* editors left after this witchhunt?
- The deep fish story is a hoax.
- So what are these red-tailed deep water fish turning up off the coast of Kerela?
- The tsunami took place in the morning, and took about three hours to get to the coast of Kerela. Did the fisherman have enough time to go out, find "unusual numbers of rare red-tailed deep-water fishes" and report back to the government offices?
I'm very skeptical.Actually, you've just seen one of the first Mallu jokes on slashdot. "Mallu" is the colloqial Indian name of the people from the state of Kerela (who speak Malayalam, hence Mallu as a contraction). In jokes in the South, they frequently take the role of the "morons" in jokes - like Surds (Sardarjis, or Sikhs) do in the North.
:-S.
That said, I really, really couldn't get GP's joke either
I thought France already surrendered?
I'm sorry, we were trying to click on "-1 More Traumatising Than Goatse" while trying to poke out our mental eye. I guess the mouse musta slipped.