Besides.. how the @!#@#!@ do u photograph something like what Picasso does without being Adolf? (Sorry to invoke that Nazi-reference-in-conversation law...)
This is true.
A sailboat can stil circumnavigate the world, and the abacus can still kick a pocket caclulator's ass when used by an expert... your point is...?
I guess this is called "Feeding the Troll..."
So I'll just say this...:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these puppies!
followed by
In Soviet Russia, the picture takes YOU!
followed by
1.Take an even bigger picture of the Marlboro Man
2.??? (How about - Speak to advertising agency..)
3. Profit!!
followed by
I'm far-sighted, you insensitive CLOD!
Ummm, Copper is a very _good_ conducter (or is it conductor, I don't know) of Electricity. So er.. therefore, he's shorting his box (and his house...) because most computer cases are not properly earthed.....
Whoops. Er.. guys weren't we talking about Case Mods? That being said, this HL case mod really does kick some ass. Does anybody know what you use to get the water to glow? And is that stuff easily available? Sorry, I must be knew here...
Well she's big enough to cause you to say "Like anyone cares about so-and-so...". Nobody even knows who I am, and they never say "Like anyone cares about TarunTheGreat":-(
You probably spoke to what? 3 People? 4? Here we go again - there are 1 BILLION people in India. You think all of them work in software? And it's not like the English/Arts/History majors aren't looked down upon here in America. I went to UPENN, and over there the students that went to Wharton thought they were all the hot shit, gonna become investment bankers and all. And then came the dotcom bubble.
You ask any wall-streeter what life must be like for an arts major, and they'd give you the same answer as those Indians.
You future employers are going to demand your grades anyway. So basically you're saying this prevents you from lying to your boss about your grades. So although I agree that people could mess with your names and all, they'd have to be close to you in some way - go to the same school at the very least. One of the posters above said that they could use to get somebody's father's name and then say "Show up at such and such place with the money.." - How? In order for any of this stuff to be of any use to you, u have to already know something about the person. You only know if the grades you've just seen belong to person X, if you know what person X's roll number already is (in which case, it's the same as having someone's password). You may know a person X, whose father's name is Y, but how do you know that this X and Y are the one's living in your neighbourhood? And if you already know that this is that person, there is really only so much you can do with the grades on the web - which you would still need the roll number for. I don't see any addresses or telephone numbers. Yes, maybe I'm naive, but I still haven't heard a plausible argument as to how this site is dangerous.
When a software company opens up in India, it needs to pay construction workers to set up a building. Plumbers to make bathrooms. Security guards. Canteen workers. Cleaners. Pay for electricity. Pay the transporters for ferrying their workers to the buildings. Shops and restaurants open up nearby to cater to the high-income software workers. The high-income workers have more money, to pay rent, buy cars, computers. When they buy more cars, the auto factory workrs get more money. When they pay rent, they are giving a landlord his due. When these people get paid, they spend (and save) further and so on. This is basic fucking Economics 101 - it's called the Multiplier Effect. And Naidu didn't lose because he was pro-IT. He lost because he forgot about the rest. But that's no reason to stop supporting IT. India is richer now than it has been in the entire 57 years since its inception. But as a typical Cynical old-style Indian, you find it hard to look at the positive.
I am in India. New Delhi, in fact. I know Manvendra Singh passed his Exam. I don't know which Manvendra Singh, I don't know where he lives in all India, I don't know what he looks like. And to a non-Indian, you don't even know if it's a He or a She. I would really like to know, What can I do with the information given?
1. So u have their names. What can YOU do with that? Publish it on the internet?
2. Pass/Fail status..hmmm... I think most students would be able to figure out if their friends/enemies made it into the next grade, without the help of this website.... As for future prospective employers, you have to provide your original certificates to them anyway. Finally, there's a disclaimer on the site saying they're not responsible for any typos, and this site should not taken as the final Word on your grades. Anybody can just deny that the grades in this site are valid.
Answer to your header - yes. They can. Expensive bit of kit? The cheapest mobile phone is available for US$50 in India. But if you buy it thru the commitment plans, you pay nothing for it. How is that expensive? Get opver the fucking contrast. There are 1 billion people living in India. There are lots of poor people, and there are lots of rich.
This is a valid point, which Car companies have picked up long before IT.. If your car can withstand high temperature ranges (-10 degrees C in Kashmir to 52 degrees C in plain - I can't be bothered to convert to Fahrenheit, DIY), deal with some really awful roads and traffic, still manage to not bust your suspension, blow your radiator and keep the a/c cooling, you've got a winner. So even though most Indians can't afford BMW SUVs, or the Porsche Cayenne (it's being relaesed this month in India), they are still sold there. The problem is that when India's National Highway Development Project nears completion, they'll have to find a slightly more thrid-world country to carry on testing...
Getting back on topic, you want to see scalable software - Try Indian Railways...!
This would be funny, 'cept that it isn't. There is no Calcutta Tech. You might mean the Indian Institute of Technology, Calcutta/Kharagpur, but then you'd still be a liar. Further, Shiva is part of the Holy Trinity, which consists of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer. If you praise the Destroyer, u start sounding like George Bush. Now u wouldn't want that, would u?
Just wanted to add, that Age Discrimination isn't going away anytime soon in India. I can give you lots of justifications for this, but none of them will really hold I guess. It's just kind of like how Kevin Spacey wants to go back and work for a fast-food place in American Beauty. His manager is half his age, and doesn't know what the heck to do with him, and it would be the same in this case. Further, it's easier to teach a 20 year to take the rough edges off their accent than a 40 year old, and to imbibe a little American culture. By the time you're 40, you're not going change your world-view overnight. Yes, you've met lots of 20 year olds who are dogmatic, but most 20 year olds are also college going students, and thus a teecy-bit more open to learning. Second, you have the choice opf dealing between a 25 yr-old Indian woman as opposed to a 56 yr-old codger - who's voice is going sound a bit more soothing, and less grating to you? It's discrimination, sure, but it's not out malice. I doubt Hooters is ever going to pick up male waiters.
This is a good and insightful point, however it still sounds funny when you say somebody was microsoft, so HA! You Evil Couch!
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft is fucked by YOU!
followed by
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Windows 2000 Mach...ROTFL sorry I couldn't resists!!!!
Well I've heard the term "CPU Tower" thrown around a lot. It's still a lot better than "the big box, without the screen". The most difficult issue I've ever come across is trying to explain to senior citizens the fact that deleting stuff from their Hotmail account does not mean deleting things from their computer. I wonder what mental blocks we'll develop when we're their age... it's a sad thought...
Yep, my point...
I guess when I say MP3s, I don't mean.mp3 per se, but a compressed music file. Plus it's possible to change the associations of a file too.
Can somebody say "MP3's and Movies VIA e-mail"? YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! (look all u gotta do is change the extensions... unless they come up with some sophisticated algo to check each file to see if it is an MP3 (unless this already exists - I must be new here!).
In Soviet Russia, the web-based e-mail service offers YOU! followed by
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Gmail accounts
followed by
I forgot my password and secret question, you insensitive CLOD!
Hasn't anybody seen the IBM ads? Unless of course Linus gave birth to an Albino son, there is no way that Linus is the father of Linux.
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for serving up obscene volumes of multimedia content
Sorry can't resist, but..shouldn't it be "serving up volumes of obscene media content" in your case? (ducks)
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Besides.. how the @!#@#!@ do u photograph something like what Picasso does without being Adolf? (Sorry to invoke that Nazi-reference-in-conversation law...)
This is true.
A sailboat can stil circumnavigate the world, and the abacus can still kick a pocket caclulator's ass when used by an expert... your point is...?
I guess this is called "Feeding the Troll..."
So I'll just say this...:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these puppies!
followed by
In Soviet Russia, the picture takes YOU!
followed by
1.Take an even bigger picture of the Marlboro Man
2.??? (How about - Speak to advertising agency..)
3. Profit!!
followed by
I'm far-sighted, you insensitive CLOD!
Yes, I am ANAL....Communist Right??!#@#!@ Saying that is the equivalent of having your legs pulled by two horses in opposite directions....
Ummm, Copper is a very _good_ conducter (or is it conductor, I don't know) of Electricity. So er.. therefore, he's shorting his box (and his house...) because most computer cases are not properly earthed.....
Whoops. Er.. guys weren't we talking about Case Mods? That being said, this HL case mod really does kick some ass. Does anybody know what you use to get the water to glow? And is that stuff easily available? Sorry, I must be knew here...
Well she's big enough to cause you to say "Like anyone cares about so-and-so...". Nobody even knows who I am, and they never say "Like anyone cares about TarunTheGreat" :-(
You probably spoke to what? 3 People? 4? Here we go again - there are 1 BILLION people in India. You think all of them work in software? And it's not like the English/Arts/History majors aren't looked down upon here in America. I went to UPENN, and over there the students that went to Wharton thought they were all the hot shit, gonna become investment bankers and all. And then came the dotcom bubble.
You ask any wall-streeter what life must be like for an arts major, and they'd give you the same answer as those Indians.
You future employers are going to demand your grades anyway. So basically you're saying this prevents you from lying to your boss about your grades. So although I agree that people could mess with your names and all, they'd have to be close to you in some way - go to the same school at the very least. One of the posters above said that they could use to get somebody's father's name and then say "Show up at such and such place with the money.." - How? In order for any of this stuff to be of any use to you, u have to already know something about the person. You only know if the grades you've just seen belong to person X, if you know what person X's roll number already is (in which case, it's the same as having someone's password). You may know a person X, whose father's name is Y, but how do you know that this X and Y are the one's living in your neighbourhood? And if you already know that this is that person, there is really only so much you can do with the grades on the web - which you would still need the roll number for. I don't see any addresses or telephone numbers. Yes, maybe I'm naive, but I still haven't heard a plausible argument as to how this site is dangerous.
IT touches a miniscule amount of the population
When a software company opens up in India, it needs to pay construction workers to set up a building. Plumbers to make bathrooms. Security guards. Canteen workers. Cleaners. Pay for electricity. Pay the transporters for ferrying their workers to the buildings. Shops and restaurants open up nearby to cater to the high-income software workers. The high-income workers have more money, to pay rent, buy cars, computers. When they buy more cars, the auto factory workrs get more money. When they pay rent, they are giving a landlord his due. When these people get paid, they spend (and save) further and so on. This is basic fucking Economics 101 - it's called the Multiplier Effect. And Naidu didn't lose because he was pro-IT. He lost because he forgot about the rest. But that's no reason to stop supporting IT. India is richer now than it has been in the entire 57 years since its inception. But as a typical Cynical old-style Indian, you find it hard to look at the positive.
I am in India. New Delhi, in fact. I know Manvendra Singh passed his Exam. I don't know which Manvendra Singh, I don't know where he lives in all India, I don't know what he looks like. And to a non-Indian, you don't even know if it's a He or a She. I would really like to know, What can I do with the information given?
Sorry I couldn't resist. I'm still hoping to get modded "Informative" by the Slashdot Gods.
1. So u have their names. What can YOU do with that? Publish it on the internet?
2. Pass/Fail status..hmmm... I think most students would be able to figure out if their friends/enemies made it into the next grade, without the help of this website.... As for future prospective employers, you have to provide your original certificates to them anyway.
Finally, there's a disclaimer on the site saying they're not responsible for any typos, and this site should not taken as the final Word on your grades. Anybody can just deny that the grades in this site are valid.
Answer to your header - yes. They can.
Expensive bit of kit? The cheapest mobile phone is available for US$50 in India. But if you buy it thru the commitment plans, you pay nothing for it. How is that expensive? Get opver the fucking contrast. There are 1 billion people living in India. There are lots of poor people, and there are lots of rich.
This is a valid point, which Car companies have picked up long before IT.. If your car can withstand high temperature ranges (-10 degrees C in Kashmir to 52 degrees C in plain - I can't be bothered to convert to Fahrenheit, DIY), deal with some really awful roads and traffic, still manage to not bust your suspension, blow your radiator and keep the a/c cooling, you've got a winner. So even though most Indians can't afford BMW SUVs, or the Porsche Cayenne (it's being relaesed this month in India), they are still sold there. The problem is that when India's National Highway Development Project nears completion, they'll have to find a slightly more thrid-world country to carry on testing... Getting back on topic, you want to see scalable software - Try Indian Railways...!
This would be funny, 'cept that it isn't. There is no Calcutta Tech. You might mean the Indian Institute of Technology, Calcutta/Kharagpur, but then you'd still be a liar. Further, Shiva is part of the Holy Trinity, which consists of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer. If you praise the Destroyer, u start sounding like George Bush. Now u wouldn't want that, would u?
Just wanted to add, that Age Discrimination isn't going away anytime soon in India. I can give you lots of justifications for this, but none of them will really hold I guess. It's just kind of like how Kevin Spacey wants to go back and work for a fast-food place in American Beauty. His manager is half his age, and doesn't know what the heck to do with him, and it would be the same in this case. Further, it's easier to teach a 20 year to take the rough edges off their accent than a 40 year old, and to imbibe a little American culture. By the time you're 40, you're not going change your world-view overnight. Yes, you've met lots of 20 year olds who are dogmatic, but most 20 year olds are also college going students, and thus a teecy-bit more open to learning. Second, you have the choice opf dealing between a 25 yr-old Indian woman as opposed to a 56 yr-old codger - who's voice is going sound a bit more soothing, and less grating to you? It's discrimination, sure, but it's not out malice. I doubt Hooters is ever going to pick up male waiters.
This is a good and insightful point, however it still sounds funny when you say somebody was microsoft, so HA! You Evil Couch! In Soviet Russia, Microsoft is fucked by YOU!
followed by
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Windows 2000 Mach...ROTFL sorry I couldn't resists!!!!
He couldn't fuck anything if he tried - He was Micro$oft.
Well I've heard the term "CPU Tower" thrown around a lot. It's still a lot better than "the big box, without the screen". The most difficult issue I've ever come across is trying to explain to senior citizens the fact that deleting stuff from their Hotmail account does not mean deleting things from their computer. I wonder what mental blocks we'll develop when we're their age... it's a sad thought...
Yep, my point... I guess when I say MP3s, I don't mean .mp3 per se, but a compressed music file. Plus it's possible to change the associations of a file too.
Can somebody say "MP3's and Movies VIA e-mail"? YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! (look all u gotta do is change the extensions... unless they come up with some sophisticated algo to check each file to see if it is an MP3 (unless this already exists - I must be new here!).
In Soviet Russia, the web-based e-mail service offers YOU!
followed by
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Gmail accounts
followed by
I forgot my password and secret question, you insensitive CLOD!
Yes me a karma whore
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Hasn't anybody seen the IBM ads? Unless of course Linus gave birth to an Albino son, there is no way that Linus is the father of Linux.
for serving up obscene volumes of multimedia content
Sorry can't resist, but..shouldn't it be "serving up volumes of obscene media content" in your case? (ducks)