ummm, attach this piece of paper to a wifi receiver, and have the latest pages downloaded....why does it only have to represent one static page. One of us has missed a point somewhere...
Ugh! Not being paid on time has got the first possible crime, for which there is NO Excuse! Of course, I'm referring to consistently delayed paychecks. Every company screws up up once or twice with their SAP/PeopleSoft/Blah stuff. If your company delays your paycheck 3 months running, it's a definite sign to get the fsck out!
Try Hindi too - helpful while cussing call centre staff
Behenchod (Sisterfucker)
Maachod/Maaderchod (Motherfucker)
Gaandu (Someone who likes it up the ass)
Chutiya (Fucker)
Maa ki chut (Your mom's pussy is my property!)
Behen ki chut(Replace above cuss with sister instead of mother)
Behen ka lawra (You are your sister's dick, i.e. boning her).
Afraid most of my extensions are blocked. Boohoo. Mercifully, the gmail notifier still works. But the advanced tabbing (really helpful) is turned off. I think I'll revert back to the stable release soon, if it gets too annoying, SessionSaver ain't working either.
A word about Hinduism. Hindus also believe there is only one God - well the correct translation is Supreme Being. It's just they believe that there are different forms of the same Being. Different forms for different purposes and eras. So yes, by the strict definitions of other religions, this is polytheism, but in essence, Hinduism is monotheistic as well.
Linky
The Smarta perspective dominates the view of Hinduism in the West. Smarta monists, seeing in multiple manifestations the one God or source of being, are often confused by non-Hindus as being polytheists. It is seen as one unity, with the personal gods being different aspects of only one Supreme Being, like a single beam of light separated into colours by a prism, and are valid to worship
Well I'd assume that the copyright holders would be the publishers, or whoever sells to the libraries, so I'm assuming the authors/publishers get something back from the libraries. The way I see it, the libraries will stock 5/6 copies of popular stuff, 1/2 copies of not so popular stuff, and the publishers will redistribute based on the roylaty agreements or whatever. Can somebody with more knowledge than me elaborate on this? Any librarians out there(shudder) on Slashdot?
I can't answer that. But "we don't need it" coupled with "it might reduce infection and catching terminal diseases" makes a slightly stronger case, or am I just full of shyte?
The appendix is used to aid in the digestion of cellulose - i.e. grass - *in animals*. As we don't eat grass anymore, the appendix is effectively useless.
Well God/Evolution also put an appendix and tonsils in there - "for a reason", which, while useful to animals don't do squat for us. Plus, lately there's been talk that circumsized people MAY be less likely to get infected by HIV/AIDS. There's a plus point that beats the heck out of a lot arguments against, if proven.
Wow this is a great point - it's not people - it's IP addresses. I would think they would at least have to gather evidence that a particular person was using that particular IP (proof said geek was in his momma's basement, e.t.c.). Or am I totally clueless?
..US courts have a tendency to not rule logically when it comes to such issues, as the cases often go before judges that really have no idea what is going on. Why is this the case?
Probably because there are more lawyers than software engineer explaining things to them or more lawyers with some software law. Basically I think analogies and actual studies of who downloads what e.t.c - I don't think these have been covered as thoroughly as they should be. OTOH, you have the DMCA...so why look at anything else, as in, that's the law ergo judges will interpret that and use that for their rulings. And we all know how logical and rational the DMCA is...
Well if anything, it makes things even more expensive (for India) because 4 years ago, it was about 49 rupees to the dollar. Now it's about 43 rupees. The more you outsource, the more the excahnge rates rise, the less revenue Indian outsourcing companies get, the less lucrative outsourcing becomes, yada yada and yada.
As an Indian working in India, I've been screaming myself hoarse about this, and how America really doesn't have much to fear from outsourcing - because wages/costs/value of rupee is rising a lot faster than jobs/wages are falling in America. So eventually, say within the next 5 years, it won't be worth it to outsource to India. Now some people think that it just means things will be outsource to China or Kazakhstan or Sudan..but no.
1) China's GDP per capita is already much higher than India's. This means (in very inaccurate, general terms) that a chinese worker is ALREADY more expensive than an Indian one - coupled with a MUCH higher exchange rate - so the work will NOT be shipped to China.
2) It won't be sudan or wherever because India's main advantage is ENGLISH population. Sure they're not speaking as perfect as an American (debatable point actually), but there are more people speaking English in India, than in China, or the Philipines or wherever - in fact the World's largest selling English Daily is published in India - the Times of India (I'm not including a link to it because the f-ing site is bloated with spyware, and one of you poor souls might actually still be using IE!). There's that and the fact that India is 10-12 hours ahead of a US time zones. This is one reason for the efficiency - providing 24 hour customer service to Americans is easy if for 12 of those hours, your customer reps are actually just doing a regular 9-to-6 in their own country.
So again, there some particularly unique factors as to why India has been successful. Once our economy picks up, outsourcing on the *relatively* large scale will slow, or even drop greatly. Plus, in those 5 years, America will also move on in different ways (incomes won't rise or may even drop, yyou guys will find some alternative "growth" industry to keep you going, allowing retrenchment of unemployed software engineers/call centre workers, e.t.c).
Just because the average consumer doesn't want to go through the trouble of informing him/herself about which operating system is better doesn't mean s/he doesn't have a choice. The choice at least of August 2005 is large. You can pic Windows, Mac, Linux or Unix and many others, that I as a lazy consumer am not aware of - whose fault is that? Microsoft's? In a non-internet world, you'd be partly correct, because Microsoft's marketing dollars would yell the loudest. But we have the Net see, the "Great Equalizer". You want a good operating system. Look it up. If people are too lazy to research, they deserve the monopoly they end up with. The same applies to political candidates.
You thinking having to give away for free, that which could have got your monopoly a shitload of revenue, lack of punishment? I'm assuming valid punishment in your mind is giving Bill Gates a lethal injection?
instead, they included it into the windows install which took away any choice the majority of users would have
Umm excuse me? They offered something additonal for free and this limited consumers' choice? No. They were guilty of leveraging their monopoly in one market to exploit another, but they did not limit consumers' choice in this one instance. You were and still are absolute free to run any other browser on Windows - including Netscape. It's just that IE will be sitting there pre-installed. That's only a limitation of choice if you're down to your last 4 MB of space on your hard drive, and the un-bundling of IE would have saved that space for you to use otherwise. But you never have to click on it (unless you run into an ugly asp IE-only site - but again THAT is not MS's fault. The site should support multiple - and standards compliant - browsers).
It is pretty ironic. But what's more interesting is that TI was one of the first companies to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon, way before anybody could even say the word 'Bangalore'. TI and GE started outsourcing way back in the early 90s. In fact you can attribute most of today's outsourcing to the ground that they broke.
Well there's a very simple solution to the problem - use a hands-free kit. Of course, this doesn't limit the radiation to your lower torso or chest, depending on where you keep your phone, but it sure as hell stays away from your eyes/head...
So let's see, Masturbation and Cellphones cause blindness. Now all you need to do is add Star Wars to the list, and I may as well start investing in Geordi LaForge's glasses right now!
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ummm, attach this piece of paper to a wifi receiver, and have the latest pages downloaded....why does it only have to represent one static page. One of us has missed a point somewhere...
Ugh! Not being paid on time has got the first possible crime, for which there is NO Excuse! Of course, I'm referring to consistently delayed paychecks. Every company screws up up once or twice with their SAP/PeopleSoft/Blah stuff. If your company delays your paycheck 3 months running, it's a definite sign to get the fsck out!
Try Hindi too - helpful while cussing call centre staff
Behenchod (Sisterfucker)
Maachod/Maaderchod (Motherfucker)
Gaandu (Someone who likes it up the ass)
Chutiya (Fucker)
Maa ki chut (Your mom's pussy is my property!)
Behen ki chut(Replace above cuss with sister instead of mother)
Behen ka lawra (You are your sister's dick, i.e. boning her).
Cheers
You sir, are a truly evil man! I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
Afraid most of my extensions are blocked. Boohoo. Mercifully, the gmail notifier still works. But the advanced tabbing (really helpful) is turned off. I think I'll revert back to the stable release soon, if it gets too annoying, SessionSaver ain't working either.
Ok so I hafta ask, proving that I am a n00b. Where does this sentence come from? What's the source?
Followers of Hinduism are also forbidden from using line breaks and formatting in their Slashdot posts. DOH!
A word about Hinduism. Hindus also believe there is only one God - well the correct translation is Supreme Being. It's just they believe that there are different forms of the same Being. Different forms for different purposes and eras. So yes, by the strict definitions of other religions, this is polytheism, but in essence, Hinduism is monotheistic as well. Linky The Smarta perspective dominates the view of Hinduism in the West. Smarta monists, seeing in multiple manifestations the one God or source of being, are often confused by non-Hindus as being polytheists. It is seen as one unity, with the personal gods being different aspects of only one Supreme Being, like a single beam of light separated into colours by a prism, and are valid to worship
Well I'd assume that the copyright holders would be the publishers, or whoever sells to the libraries, so I'm assuming the authors/publishers get something back from the libraries. The way I see it, the libraries will stock 5/6 copies of popular stuff, 1/2 copies of not so popular stuff, and the publishers will redistribute based on the roylaty agreements or whatever. Can somebody with more knowledge than me elaborate on this? Any librarians out there(shudder) on Slashdot?
I can't answer that. But "we don't need it" coupled with "it might reduce infection and catching terminal diseases" makes a slightly stronger case, or am I just full of shyte?
The appendix is used to aid in the digestion of cellulose - i.e. grass - *in animals*. As we don't eat grass anymore, the appendix is effectively useless.
Well God/Evolution also put an appendix and tonsils in there - "for a reason", which, while useful to animals don't do squat for us. Plus, lately there's been talk that circumsized people MAY be less likely to get infected by HIV/AIDS. There's a plus point that beats the heck out of a lot arguments against, if proven.
Wow this is a great point - it's not people - it's IP addresses. I would think they would at least have to gather evidence that a particular person was using that particular IP (proof said geek was in his momma's basement, e.t.c.). Or am I totally clueless?
..US courts have a tendency to not rule logically when it comes to such issues, as the cases often go before judges that really have no idea what is going on. Why is this the case?
Probably because there are more lawyers than software engineer explaining things to them or more lawyers with some software law. Basically I think analogies and actual studies of who downloads what e.t.c - I don't think these have been covered as thoroughly as they should be. OTOH, you have the DMCA...so why look at anything else, as in, that's the law ergo judges will interpret that and use that for their rulings. And we all know how logical and rational the DMCA is...
Don't forget the popular: Not all men are fools - some are bachelors.
Well buddy, I'm one of those employees. So I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
Nope. Software Engineers, and Call-Centre employees don't have unions - this might the same reason you guys lost your jobs. Coders of the world UNITE!
Well if anything, it makes things even more expensive (for India) because 4 years ago, it was about 49 rupees to the dollar. Now it's about 43 rupees. The more you outsource, the more the excahnge rates rise, the less revenue Indian outsourcing companies get, the less lucrative outsourcing becomes, yada yada and yada.
As an Indian working in India, I've been screaming myself hoarse about this, and how America really doesn't have much to fear from outsourcing - because wages/costs/value of rupee is rising a lot faster than jobs/wages are falling in America. So eventually, say within the next 5 years, it won't be worth it to outsource to India. Now some people think that it just means things will be outsource to China or Kazakhstan or Sudan..but no.
1) China's GDP per capita is already much higher than India's. This means (in very inaccurate, general terms) that a chinese worker is ALREADY more expensive than an Indian one - coupled with a MUCH higher exchange rate - so the work will NOT be shipped to China.
2) It won't be sudan or wherever because India's main advantage is ENGLISH population. Sure they're not speaking as perfect as an American (debatable point actually), but there are more people speaking English in India, than in China, or the Philipines or wherever - in fact the World's largest selling English Daily is published in India - the Times of India (I'm not including a link to it because the f-ing site is bloated with spyware, and one of you poor souls might actually still be using IE!). There's that and the fact that India is 10-12 hours ahead of a US time zones. This is one reason for the efficiency - providing 24 hour customer service to Americans is easy if for 12 of those hours, your customer reps are actually just doing a regular 9-to-6 in their own country.
So again, there some particularly unique factors as to why India has been successful. Once our economy picks up, outsourcing on the *relatively* large scale will slow, or even drop greatly. Plus, in those 5 years, America will also move on in different ways (incomes won't rise or may even drop, yyou guys will find some alternative "growth" industry to keep you going, allowing retrenchment of unemployed software engineers/call centre workers, e.t.c).
And the free spare tire in your car limits your choice how exactly?
Just because the average consumer doesn't want to go through the trouble of informing him/herself about which operating system is better doesn't mean s/he doesn't have a choice. The choice at least of August 2005 is large. You can pic Windows, Mac, Linux or Unix and many others, that I as a lazy consumer am not aware of - whose fault is that? Microsoft's? In a non-internet world, you'd be partly correct, because Microsoft's marketing dollars would yell the loudest. But we have the Net see, the "Great Equalizer". You want a good operating system. Look it up. If people are too lazy to research, they deserve the monopoly they end up with. The same applies to political candidates.
You thinking having to give away for free, that which could have got your monopoly a shitload of revenue, lack of punishment? I'm assuming valid punishment in your mind is giving Bill Gates a lethal injection?
instead, they included it into the windows install which took away any choice the majority of users would have
Umm excuse me? They offered something additonal for free and this limited consumers' choice? No. They were guilty of leveraging their monopoly in one market to exploit another, but they did not limit consumers' choice in this one instance. You were and still are absolute free to run any other browser on Windows - including Netscape. It's just that IE will be sitting there pre-installed. That's only a limitation of choice if you're down to your last 4 MB of space on your hard drive, and the un-bundling of IE would have saved that space for you to use otherwise. But you never have to click on it (unless you run into an ugly asp IE-only site - but again THAT is not MS's fault. The site should support multiple - and standards compliant - browsers).
It is pretty ironic. But what's more interesting is that TI was one of the first companies to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon, way before anybody could even say the word 'Bangalore'. TI and GE started outsourcing way back in the early 90s. In fact you can attribute most of today's outsourcing to the ground that they broke.
Although point taken, I don't think every one of those 75-mil downloads is by Cmdr Taco. This comment, posted via a firefox browser...
Well there's a very simple solution to the problem - use a hands-free kit. Of course, this doesn't limit the radiation to your lower torso or chest, depending on where you keep your phone, but it sure as hell stays away from your eyes/head...
So let's see, Masturbation and Cellphones cause blindness. Now all you need to do is add Star Wars to the list, and I may as well start investing in Geordi LaForge's glasses right now!