These basic models of Nokia are very popular in India. And these are absolutely cheap (approx USD 65). In fact, considering the huge market for such cheap phone Motorola is coming up with a phone which costs only USD 40.
.. how Bill was off the mark when he said "640K ought to be enough." Time and again, it has been proven beyond that such quotes go in history as the examples of how big guys make some really stupid (in hindsight) comments about future.
[DavidR] Besides MLE, MIT Media Lab has created another research lab: Media Lab Asia. This attempt failed as well - the river of funding Indian government went dry. MLA has a different model now, without MIT. [/DavidR]
Asia lab was scrapped not because of funding issue. It was due to failure to produce any significant results. Govt had pumped close to $20m in the project. Consider the fact that Media Lab asked a sum of $5m just to use the name "Media Lab". That was exhorbitant by for a country like India.
Wish MLE had looked at the closure of MLA more closely.
IMO, Govt should not be in the business of running business. It should do only what it is supposed to - govern. That too as little as possible, since more governance means more red tape.
Instead, Govt should adopt the policies (like reducing the license fees, various taxes, etc.) which make private operators offer cheap broadband.
Among other customers, the proposed broadband network will provide broadband services to 40,000 government offices across the state. This will enable the government departments to deliver various citizen services through eSeva centres, Rajiv Internet Village Kiosks and web-based online services. The network will also enable the rural folk to access video-conferencing, internet surfing among other facilities.
This project seems to be a part of e-governance. The Govt is not starting a broadband service, like other telecom giants.
I pay approx USD 21 per month for 64 kbps connection. Dial-up sucks and costs even more. People use it since broadband still not as pervasive as cable TV. Access to internet is *very expensive* in India. It is still considered a luxury. And to certain extent, it is!
mywdt is expensive to call countries like India. I use Reliance
No wonder, when you are routing the calls illegally. Snippet from here
[snip]
Reliance Infocomm is alleged to have routed international calls on the networks of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited under the garb of domestic traffic. As a result, the two PSUs lost out on their due share of access deficit charges (ADC) on international calls.
[/snip]
When an internatinal call lands in India, the party which brings the call is supposed to pay a certain amount (10 cents per minute) to the terminating network. But Reliance showed the international traffic as local/national traffic and got away without paying any charges. Recently, they were asked to cough up US$ 50m as fine.
Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed.
When will the author read the "Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages" at the bottom of google home page? Though, he is techincally correct as 8 billion is more than 4 billion.
Seriously, think about the last time the governemtns of India or China actually cared about patents that were registered outside their respective countries.
I am sick of such messages which regularly appear on the topic of some technological development in the developing nations. And these messages get moderated as +5 Insightful.
If I were to use the same argument, then US should spend a little less on defence and bring the number of people below povery line to zero.
While AOL may own Netscape, they probably found that a lot of sites out there were still IE specific and they couldn't afford the support costs for angry users who couldn't visit them.
To use the cliche, AOL is digging its own grave. They brought Netscape for $4B and what did they do with it? They threw Netscape's flagship product in trash can. IE couldn't have gone the places had AOL staunchly backed Netscape. Coders would have been forced to write sane HTML which looks same across browsers.
The most effective techniques for finding defects is still code review.
Bang on target, though I don't completely agree with pair progamming! In fact, start with peer review before doing unit testing. Reviews can locate a spectrum of problems from the obvious (for reviewers and not programmer!) bugs to the complicated bugs which can possibly affect other components of the system.
And of course, you need a TV set, too, which further adds to the costs attached to this...
You will be suprised to know that 50+ percent households in India have TV and 60% of these households have cable connections!
Anyway, the number of TVs do not matter. Here is why.
This virtual classroom concept is not new, per se. Currently some institutes do offer such distance education program. They open centres in the towns, with population of approx 20-30K, where they share the infrastructure such as TV, camera, phones. The students visit these virtual classroom as per the schedule.
This was being done at small scale. But a dedicated satellite, makes me say, wow!
Slashdot Mirror
Has ./ set a robot to post each blog entry of Google's official blog on Slashdot, albeit with a delay of 48 hrs?
./ headline - "Google launches Feed Reader"! No kiddin', visit reader.google.com
Here I give tomorrow's
* With so many cool extensions available do I need Google toolbar? * Will be available on Linux?
These basic models of Nokia are very popular in India. And these are absolutely cheap (approx USD 65). In fact, considering the huge market for such cheap phone Motorola is coming up with a phone which costs only USD 40.
.. how Bill was off the mark when he said "640K ought to be enough." Time and again, it has been proven beyond that such quotes go in history as the examples of how big guys make some really stupid (in hindsight) comments about future.
AFAIR, WinFS' killing feature was searching files faster. Please note, it is _searching_, and not accessing, faster!
Now with a bunch of desktop search tools available for the same including one from MS, do they still need WinFS?
o Smoking, Microsoft and Linux are the root causes all the studies.
o 99.99% studies useless.
o 99.87% studies are not unbiased.
[DavidR]
Besides MLE, MIT Media Lab has created another research lab: Media Lab Asia. This attempt failed as well - the river of funding Indian government went dry. MLA has a different model now, without MIT.
[/DavidR]
Asia lab was scrapped not because of funding issue. It was due to failure to produce any significant results. Govt had pumped close to $20m in the project. Consider the fact that Media Lab asked a sum of $5m just to use the name "Media Lab". That was exhorbitant by for a country like India.
Wish MLE had looked at the closure of MLA more closely.
Hindi movies are not so popular in Andhra. May be you will more Telugu movies.
IMO, Govt should not be in the business of running business. It should do only what it is supposed to - govern. That too as little as possible, since more governance means more red tape.
Instead, Govt should adopt the policies (like reducing the license fees, various taxes, etc.) which make private operators offer cheap broadband.
Among other customers, the proposed broadband network will provide broadband services to 40,000 government offices across the state. This will enable the government departments to deliver various citizen services through eSeva centres, Rajiv Internet Village Kiosks and web-based online services. The network will also enable the rural folk to access video-conferencing, internet surfing among other facilities.
This project seems to be a part of e-governance. The Govt is not starting a broadband service, like other telecom giants.
I pay approx USD 21 per month for 64 kbps connection. Dial-up sucks and costs even more. People use it since broadband still not as pervasive as cable TV. Access to internet is *very expensive* in India. It is still considered a luxury. And to certain extent, it is!
mywdt is expensive to call countries like India. I use Reliance
No wonder, when you are routing the calls illegally. Snippet from here
[snip]
Reliance Infocomm is alleged to have routed international calls on the networks of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited under the garb of domestic traffic. As a result, the two PSUs lost out on their due share of access deficit charges (ADC) on international calls.
[/snip]
When an internatinal call lands in India, the party which brings the call is supposed to pay a certain amount (10 cents per minute) to the terminating network. But Reliance showed the international traffic as local/national traffic and got away without paying any charges. Recently, they were asked to cough up US$ 50m as fine.
Internet wouldn't have proliferated to such an extent without RSA.
Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed.
When will the author read the "Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages" at the bottom of google home page? Though, he is techincally correct as 8 billion is more than 4 billion.
Supported operating systems are Windows Me, 2000 and XP.
It doesn't support any of unices.
Seriously, think about the last time the governemtns of India or China actually cared about patents that were registered outside their respective countries.
India will soon enter in the WTO patent regime.
And according to this news, Microsoft will be using WTO as its intellectual property enforcement proxy.
I am sick of such messages which regularly appear on the topic of some technological development in the developing nations. And these messages get moderated as +5 Insightful.
If I were to use the same argument, then US should spend a little less on defence and bring the number of people below povery line to zero.
whereas in india many voters see a monitor once every 5 years : when they vote.
Two corrections.
1. The voting machine is not a monitor. A simple device where you just need to press a button to vote your candidate. More info here.
2. They vote thrice - National, State and local elections - in 5 yrs. If the Govt does not last its full term, once again elections are conducted.
The only way to destroy Anti-virus firm is to stop writing viri. The more the viri, the more $$$ for AV companies.
Media Lab Asia is dead. Well, almost. They are hiring MD/CEO.
Last year, MIT asked Indian Govt. to cough up US$ 5m for using the name "Media Lab" and Govt refused to oblige and deal was called off.
MIT-style research has failed in India.
A recent Cover Story in Indian weekly.
While AOL may own Netscape, they probably found that a lot of sites out there were still IE specific and they couldn't afford the support costs for angry users who couldn't visit them.
To use the cliche, AOL is digging its own grave. They brought Netscape for $4B and what did they do with it? They threw Netscape's flagship product in trash can. IE couldn't have gone the places had AOL staunchly backed Netscape. Coders would have been forced to write sane HTML which looks same across browsers.
What next? AIM's version based on MSN's IM?
The most effective techniques for finding defects is still code review.
Bang on target, though I don't completely agree with pair progamming! In fact, start with peer review before doing unit testing. Reviews can locate a spectrum of problems from the obvious (for reviewers and not programmer!) bugs to the complicated bugs which can possibly affect other components of the system.
Does it have great search capabilities like google? Lack of good tool will render this monstrous mailbox useless.
This should be the first distance learning programme for higher education in India.
And of course, you need a TV set, too, which further adds to the costs attached to this...
You will be suprised to know that 50+ percent households in India have TV and 60% of these households have cable connections!
Anyway, the number of TVs do not matter. Here is why.
This virtual classroom concept is not new, per se. Currently some institutes do offer such distance education program. They open centres in the towns, with population of approx 20-30K, where they share the infrastructure such as TV, camera, phones. The students visit these virtual classroom as per the schedule.
This was being done at small scale. But a dedicated satellite, makes me say, wow!