IMO, Google News is not the source to look for unbiased news. It just tries to guess what is current "news". One has to use own judgement to decide the biasness of the news.
Anyway, atleast the article thinks that Google is God and expects it not to be wrong!
Enron did invest quite some money in India. But their operations in India were anything but ethical. They broke virtually every law of the land, with the help of local politicos, whom they must have bribed heavily. In mid 90s, Enron project at Dabhol was an issue in State elections!! I would have hated Enron even if it were an Indian company.
And this H1B-for-IT phenomenon is recent one - late 90s, to be precise. So how is debacle of Enron in any way connected with their IT department? Since when coders started making decisions about multi-billion-dollar investments?
Enron did invest quite some money in India. But their operations in India were anything but ethical. They broke virtually every law of the land, with the help of local politicos, whom they must have bribed heavily. In mid 90s, Enron project at Dabhol was an issue in State elections!! I would have hated Enron even if it were an Indian company.
And this H1B-for-IT phenomenon is recent one - late 90s, to be precise. So how is debacle of Enron in any way connected with their bankruptcy?
For example, India while more than outsourcing jobs, runs one of the most protectionist regimes in the world.
Is calling India a protectionist in vogue? Did you check the farm subsidies doled out by US govt (for that matter any other developed nation)?
Try, as a non-Indian to start a business and you will be kept out at the government, economic, and even social level.
Hey, that's true for Indians also. Red-tapism is rampant and even the locals have to face the brunt of it. BTW, what do you mean by "to be kept out at social level?"
May be you are right. But, in India, there is hell lot of excitement about computers, especially in rural areas. Computers may fail as education tool, but they will bring more kids to schools. Computers have succeeded where most of the government schemes have failed miserably.
In India about 5-10% (probably closer to the latter figure by now) PCs are sold with linux pre-installed. Obviously, not all stick with linux. My guess is 2-3%.
5-10%?!! That's untrue. I am yet to come across a person who does not code to earn bread and uses linux. In India, only geeks (mind you, hardcore fans) use linux.
Where cost of software is equivalent to cost of media (due to rampant piracy), people tend to use windows.
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If you want to do business in China, you have to have a development arm in China to build your applications or your software. China is using their muscle to say, "Hey, Mr. Microsoft, or Hey, Mr. Borland, if you want to sell to our companies or our government, you have to be based here."
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I started to spent some time reading about the Indish culture and econmoy, and figured out that they have a casts system there
As if there is no racism in so-called "developed" nations!
and that 2/3 of their people are suffering
and starving and live in the poorest possible conditions while some of them are quite rich.
As if all the developed nations enjoy great equality.
They also have a strange sense of politics and a strange view of themselves being the only right humans on this globe (we could say national sozialism mentality) e.g. their religion is the best religion, their culture is the pure culture, their knowledge is the right knowledge, their busines is the best busines and so on.
Bother to give some proof for the same? I would be delighted.
BTW, there is nothing such as Indian Culture. India has large population of religions other than Hindu. They follow their own culture. Care to show such a wide diversity in any other country?
It's quite ignorant and disrespectful if it comes to other people, other mentality, respecting other humans on this globe - and yet the IT industry stuffs money up their butt.
Hey, take a break. Contribution of Indian IT exports in global market is a measly 2%. The outgo of "rich" nations is still small to India.
Is your system set up to allow votes for people not listed i.e. write-ins or do you have to select 'only' from the list provided?
You have to select "only" from the list.
If you have to select from the list, can you withhold your vote on parts of the ballot because you don't like any of the candidates or does that invalidate the entire ballot?
If it were paper-based, you could just drop the blank ballot in the box. But with EVM you have to press a button.
The Election Commission of India is proposing Vote for nobody.
I just wonder if these countries couldn't be spending time, money, and minds on more relevant issues.
Just imagine, printing 543 _different_ sets of ballot papers for 650 million voters! And then, manage the logistics of these ballot papers, count them by hand which can take anywhere from 12 to 48 hours.
Indians have applied their mind and saved on this labour. No ballot papers and counting takes not more than few hours.
Democracy IS a relevant issue!
Why so much scepticism? The electronic voting machines are being used in India from quite some time now. But this is the first time that the whole of the general election will be paperless. So it is just the matter of scale (1 million voting machines), which is of interest.
The Indian Government is fiercely isolationist when it comes to contracting out IT and other services, and IBM acquiring Daksh may just get their foot in the door.
Mind supporting your statement with some plain facts? Most (read All) the call centres work as back-office for Citibanks of the world and _not_ Indian Govt. And as for the "contracting out IT", many of the state Govt. have tie-ups with IBM/Sun/Microsoft/HP to implement e-governance.
You have a short memory, pal. Few years back, they spent half a billion on Hotmail. Now, there are zillions of Hotmail on internet. There won't be even a dozen Google down the line.
Secondly, Hotmail was easily replicable. Google is not. 10 billion is still less!!!
Why on Earth would Microsoft spend half of their money on a search engine?
Rocket goes boom in India, I wouldn't be surprised to see most of India mourning.
Sad, but true, that you are dead wrong. It hasn't received even 1% of coverage, let alone mourning, what Kalpana Chawla and Columbia had received on its first anniversary.
Slashdot Mirror
IMO, Google News is not the source to look for unbiased news. It just tries to guess what is current "news". One has to use own judgement to decide the biasness of the news.
Anyway, atleast the article thinks that Google is God and expects it not to be wrong!
Mod down the parent....
Enron did invest quite some money in India. But their operations in India were anything but ethical. They broke virtually every law of the land, with the help of local politicos, whom they must have bribed heavily. In mid 90s, Enron project at Dabhol was an issue in State elections!! I would have hated Enron even if it were an Indian company.
And this H1B-for-IT phenomenon is recent one - late 90s, to be precise. So how is debacle of Enron in any way connected with their IT department? Since when coders started making decisions about multi-billion-dollar investments?
Enron did invest quite some money in India. But their operations in India were anything but ethical. They broke virtually every law of the land, with the help of local politicos, whom they must have bribed heavily. In mid 90s, Enron project at Dabhol was an issue in State elections!! I would have hated Enron even if it were an Indian company.
And this H1B-for-IT phenomenon is recent one - late 90s, to be precise. So how is debacle of Enron in any way connected with their bankruptcy?
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone
Then, how come I haven't seen "Ask Jeeves" plugin for any browser, yet?
"Jeeves has something that is more polished and more robust " than Amazon's version, said Danny Sullivan
Sun's marketing team has tough competition!!
It is a small favor IBM can return, given the fact that IBM has earned more dollars with Java than Sun.
For example, India while more than outsourcing jobs, runs one of the most protectionist regimes in the world.
Is calling India a protectionist in vogue? Did you check the farm subsidies doled out by US govt (for that matter any other developed nation)?
Try, as a non-Indian to start a business and you will be kept out at the government, economic, and even social level.
Hey, that's true for Indians also. Red-tapism is rampant and even the locals have to face the brunt of it. BTW, what do you mean by "to be kept out at social level?"
May be you are right. But, in India, there is hell lot of excitement about computers, especially in rural areas. Computers may fail as education tool, but they will bring more kids to schools. Computers have succeeded where most of the government schemes have failed miserably.
It is already there!
... FP is not about pr0n.
IPO = It's Probably Over-priced !!
In India about 5-10% (probably closer to the latter figure by now) PCs are sold with linux pre-installed. Obviously, not all stick with linux. My guess is 2-3%.
5-10%?!! That's untrue. I am yet to come across a person who does not code to earn bread and uses linux. In India, only geeks (mind you, hardcore fans) use linux.
Where cost of software is equivalent to cost of media (due to rampant piracy), people tend to use windows.
This!
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If you want to do business in China, you have to have a development arm in China to build your applications or your software. China is using their muscle to say, "Hey, Mr. Microsoft, or Hey, Mr. Borland, if you want to sell to our companies or our government, you have to be based here."
[/quote]
I started to spent some time reading about the Indish culture and econmoy, and figured out that they have a casts system there
As if there is no racism in so-called "developed" nations!
and that 2/3 of their people are suffering and starving and live in the poorest possible conditions while some of them are quite rich.
As if all the developed nations enjoy great equality.
They also have a strange sense of politics and a strange view of themselves being the only right humans on this globe (we could say national sozialism mentality) e.g. their religion is the best religion, their culture is the pure culture, their knowledge is the right knowledge, their busines is the best busines and so on.
Bother to give some proof for the same? I would be delighted. BTW, there is nothing such as Indian Culture. India has large population of religions other than Hindu. They follow their own culture. Care to show such a wide diversity in any other country?
It's quite ignorant and disrespectful if it comes to other people, other mentality, respecting other humans on this globe - and yet the IT industry stuffs money up their butt.
Hey, take a break. Contribution of Indian IT exports in global market is a measly 2%. The outgo of "rich" nations is still small to India.
take for instance the railway reservation which is computerised in india. still it takes 1-2 hours standing in the queue to get the ticket.
You surely haven't heard of this! You book the tickets online and get it delivered in 48 hours. Takes 3-5 minutes flat.
Is your system set up to allow votes for people not listed i.e. write-ins or do you have to select 'only' from the list provided?
You have to select "only" from the list.
If you have to select from the list, can you withhold your vote on parts of the ballot because you don't like any of the candidates or does that invalidate the entire ballot?
If it were paper-based, you could just drop the blank ballot in the box. But with EVM you have to press a button.
The Election Commission of India is proposing Vote for nobody.
I just wonder if these countries couldn't be spending time, money, and minds on more relevant issues.
Just imagine, printing 543 _different_ sets of ballot papers for 650 million voters! And then, manage the logistics of these ballot papers, count them by hand which can take anywhere from 12 to 48 hours.
Indians have applied their mind and saved on this labour. No ballot papers and counting takes not more than few hours.
Democracy IS a relevant issue!
Will it work?
Why so much scepticism? The electronic voting machines are being used in India from quite some time now. But this is the first time that the whole of the general election will be paperless. So it is just the matter of scale (1 million voting machines), which is of interest.
The Indian Government is fiercely isolationist when it comes to contracting out IT and other services, and IBM acquiring Daksh may just get their foot in the door.
Mind supporting your statement with some plain facts? Most (read All) the call centres work as back-office for Citibanks of the world and _not_ Indian Govt. And as for the "contracting out IT", many of the state Govt. have tie-ups with IBM/Sun/Microsoft/HP to implement e-governance.
.... Sun is making inroads with StarOffice. Sun signs StarOffice deal in India
Your link now returns the results with only link - to this very page!
Election Commission of India is proposing Vote for nobody in this election.
Any idea how many democracies in the world give this option to the voters?
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
--George Jean Nathan
10 billion? With a b, billion?
;-)
You have a short memory, pal. Few years back, they spent half a billion on Hotmail. Now, there are zillions of Hotmail on internet. There won't be even a dozen Google down the line.
Secondly, Hotmail was easily replicable. Google is not. 10 billion is still less!!!
Why on Earth would Microsoft spend half of their money on a search engine?
You are an engineer, right?
Rocket goes boom in India, I wouldn't be surprised to see most of India mourning.
Sad, but true, that you are dead wrong. It hasn't received even 1% of coverage, let alone mourning, what Kalpana Chawla and Columbia had received on its first anniversary.