Well, you want to fix terrorism, then address the real reasons for hating your society; it's pretty simple, and the only thing that really works.
brother, that is easier said than done...
what if someone hates you simply because you are are Hindu or a Sikh ? do you expect me to give up my Hindu or Sikh identity ?
what if someone hates you simply because you send your daughter to school and expect her to earn a honest living as a professional ? do you expect me keep my daughter locked up in the house... and marry her off at puberty ?
get real brother, because the real world has people who need no real reason to hate you.
Slums are ecofriendly ? Are you nuts ? Have you lived in one or anywhere close to one
They may be energy efficient but that is not by choice but by bloody necessity.. because there is neither energy, nor the money to buy them.
Life is hard, tough and painful in a slum and those who live there do so because they have no other choice. Given half a chance any self respecting slum dweller would leave it on the first available opportunity. But circumstances are such -- and this is not the place to go into the causes of urban despair -- that they have no way to move out. So they grin and bear it... and try to make a virtue out of necessity. So let us not have any illusions about the "beauty of slums"
i would strongly support the view that Chinese merchandise is really third class stuff. india too is flooded with all kinds of really dirt cheap stuff -- buckets, torches and a million other household goods -- the quality is astonishly bad. really wonder why people cannot make a simple and rational choice.
was whether the Hospitals could have at all managed to deliver the kind of services WITHOUT the systems that they are using today. We know that hospitals can operate without computer ( there are enough of them where I live, in India ) but the real question is how efficiently do these computer-less hospitals operate ? the queues ? the chaos ? if not the gross corruption ? We know that computer system cannot solve a problem when the underlying physical system is broken but it sure helps to have a computer around -- a computer is necessary, but not sufficient to solve major business problems.
And do not expect to calculate a Return-On-Investment on IT systems ( of the kind that can be done with other machines ).... consultants and CIO have tried for years to do so and have realised that the answer simply does not exist.
Second Life ( and 3D Virtual Worlds in general ) is what the web will look in the future. When I built my first website on Tripod people laughed at it and the whole concept of web. Geocities is dead and Tripod will most likely follow suit but the web lives.. and has become an integral part of our life. I am not saying that Second Life will die, but even if for the sake of argument we say that it will, the idea that it has spawned -- of persistent 3D virtual worlds that are built by users -- will continue to evolve and mutate... and will spur the the growth of parallel technology in the area of 3D screens, 3D imagery and so on.
Net net, new technology always seems quirky and geeky ( and that should not be a crime in slashdot:) but I believe that this will evolve into something useful and ubiquitous in future.
Geocities ( and Tripod before that ) allowed me to actually create content and publish it -- without help or permissions from anyone. In the Web 2.0 world of user generated content, this may be passe... but it was very big deal for for me and some of us who thought along those line. Geocities was where I learnt -- and practised -- how to code in HTML and actually write and deploy Java applets. The confidence of having done it -- alone and by myself -- ten years ago continues to stand me in good stead when I use the more user-friendly tools to build and deploy far more complex applications.
Thank you Geocities for opening up a new world of programming for me.. A world that I still love and cherish today... when my job is far removed from coding.
Jai Ho
Chandrayaan, the moon probe sent by the Indian Space Research Organisation, carried the NASA-built Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) that finally located water. This is a big boost to the Indian space program
Geocities ( and Tripod ) were the first webservers that allowed a newbie HTML programmer like me to build and host my first and primitive web site... way back in 1997
I feel sad that Geocities is now gone ! May it rest in peace... somewhere in the Internet Archives and in our hearts
I teach information system to a bunch of folks in a Business School where it is infra dig to be viewed as a programmer !!! Being a programmer myself I find this ludicrous but have discovered that by using Gamemaker -- a visual development environment for arcade style games -- i can get across the basics of Object Oriented Programming with much less effort. Many of my students do not realise that they are actually writing programs but get a good idea of objects, attributes, methods and instances !!! Gamemaker is available free of cost but it is not open source.
Is it so difficult to position a platoon of troops armed with the latest infantry weapons on every merchant ship that is sailing through this area ? If we can have security guards in banks, factories and other land based installations, why is it so difficult to have guards on a ship carrying USD 100m worth of merchandise ?
The pendulum keeps swinging between centralised systems ( "mainframe" with "dumb" terminals) and client server ( with smart or fat clients ).
For standard applications like email and office productivity products from Google and Zoho offer good support... in the centralised mode... through what is now known as cloud computing.
However for specialist applications, one might still have to go for desktop based applications.
Has anyone tried checked out the features and facilities that Zoho offers ? I for one use Zoho creator http://creator.zoho.com/ to teach visual application development to my grad school students and quite a few of them have gone on to develop corporate applications with persistent data -- ok, not giant ones, but useful ones nevertheless... and all up in the cloud.
While the idea of creating a Microsoft Free desktop or laptop is very good, IBM -- in its typically ham handed way -- is ruining the case by trying to use this to push its Lotus suite of products.
The initiative would have taken off far better had they decided to bundle in Open Office...
But IBM being IBM they will always believe that they know best.... "he who knows not and knows not he knows not is a ????? "
I understand that MS Gold Partners are activly but verbally encouraging universities and schools to purchase a few paper licenses and allowing all students to use MS Office in an attempt to undermine OpenOffice... even MS India staff is involved in this scam.. but since nothing is on paper, their deniability is complete..
Amazon is a distributor and should remain one. Today they start dictating the printer from whom I get my book printed... or else !! Tomorrow they will tell me what I can write... or else !! and since they are SO BIG, i really have no chance ( or no guts) to ask them go FISH...
i have published a book on POD on a very eclectic topic which no mainstream publisher would have touched with a bargepole... and I am perfectly happy with the fact that 50 copies have been sold globally... And in terms of layout and look-and-feel I have made every effort to make it perfect. So what is wrong with POD ?
Just because you have published a book on the traditional route does NOT mean that the rest of us POD enthusiasts should do so as well.
how about controlling your TV remotely by using your thoughts ? That may be a simpler task to achieve and the device could have a far larger and ready market ?
To the vast majority of Slashdotters who have grown up in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition spelt out in the "Book", it may be possible to contemplate a connection between genetics and religion, but for those of us who are familiar with Sanatan Dharma ( The Perennial Philosophy a.k.a. Hinduism ) the definition of religion or faith is very ill-defined.
Which faith ? Sanatan Dharma includes the entire range of faiths spanning from (a) the innocent polytheism of multiple gods (b) the monotheistic duality of God-and-Man and (c) the extreme monism of Advaita (the nondual singularity of the Knower and the Knowledge )...
Depending on your level of awareness, the phenotype moves through various levels(a through c) of ignorance(?) so which of these coded in the corresponding genotype ?
Or is it that each is coded differently. We need lots and lots of data and some high end statistical software to locate statistically significant differences between these.
Absolutely...
If we use (an upgraded version) of the current bionic eye technology to hook a the client ("viewer") software of any standard MMORPG style "game" or environment like SecondLife, then the border between what is "reality" and what is "virtual reality" becomes extremely blurred. Are You
Real is a short movie that explores this possibility.
WYSIWYG could take on a different meaning altogether whether the definition of seeing can be expanded from the current "optical" version to the direct digital version.
The technology that is described here can be used to design a new class of man-machine interfaces. Consider the traditional display. Digital data is first rendered as alpha-numeric-graphic icons and presented on a screen. Optical signals emanating from the screen reach the eye, get converted into electro-chemical signals that are processed by the nervous system.
The technology that is described here picks up optical signals, converts them into electrical signals (most probably digital), does some pre-processing and passes them directly to the ganglion cells / optic nerve in the eye. The user sees light and fuzzy objects and as the image processing technology improves ( as it inevitably would ) the resolution will improve dramatically.
My hypothesis is that the intermediate optical signals are irrelevent for the man-machine interface. The digital computer output is already digital. There is no need to render this information graphically... instead let us pass it to the pre-processing software of the bionic eye... and from then on into the ganglion.
And voila ! you would see your favourite slashdot.com website in your "minds" eye !
Slashdot Mirror
this is not such a big deal here in India ! strange that i had to hear it in ./ and not in the national press
Yo brother, dont be sarcastic about Texas until you have faced government harassment in some repressive countries ...
violates a basic human right.
do people in China really care about human rights ?
Well, you want to fix terrorism, then address the real reasons for hating your society; it's pretty simple, and the only thing that really works.
brother, that is easier said than done ... ... and marry her off at puberty ?
what if someone hates you simply because you are are Hindu or a Sikh ? do you expect me to give up my Hindu or Sikh identity ?
what if someone hates you simply because you send your daughter to school and expect her to earn a honest living as a professional ? do you expect me keep my daughter locked up in the house
get real brother, because the real world has people who need no real reason to hate you.
Slums are ecofriendly ? Are you nuts ? Have you lived in one or anywhere close to one They may be energy efficient but that is not by choice but by bloody necessity .. because there is neither energy, nor the money to buy them.
Life is hard, tough and painful in a slum and those who live there do so because they have no other choice. Given half a chance any self respecting slum dweller would leave it on the first available opportunity. But circumstances are such -- and this is not the place to go into the causes of urban despair -- that they have no way to move out. So they grin and bear it ... and try to make a virtue out of necessity. So let us not have any illusions about the "beauty of slums"
i would strongly support the view that Chinese merchandise is really third class stuff. india too is flooded with all kinds of really dirt cheap stuff -- buckets, torches and a million other household goods -- the quality is astonishly bad. really wonder why people cannot make a simple and rational choice.
Check out (a) Are You Living in a Computer Simulation. http://www.simulation-argument.com/ and (b) the video Are you real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebq0tbhap-g Both speculate on the possibility that we are a part of an MMORPG environment as envisaged by the movie Matrix
was whether the Hospitals could have at all managed to deliver the kind of services WITHOUT the systems that they are using today. We know that hospitals can operate without computer ( there are enough of them where I live, in India ) but the real question is how efficiently do these computer-less hospitals operate ? the queues ? the chaos ? if not the gross corruption ? We know that computer system cannot solve a problem when the underlying physical system is broken but it sure helps to have a computer around -- a computer is necessary, but not sufficient to solve major business problems. And do not expect to calculate a Return-On-Investment on IT systems ( of the kind that can be done with other machines ) .... consultants and CIO have tried for years to do so and have realised that the answer simply does not exist.
I use Gamemaker to introduce students to the OO concepts. Some people may find this ridiculous but I have found it to be quite effective.
Second Life ( and 3D Virtual Worlds in general ) is what the web will look in the future. When I built my first website on Tripod people laughed at it and the whole concept of web. Geocities is dead and Tripod will most likely follow suit but the web lives .. and has become an integral part of our life. I am not saying that Second Life will die, but even if for the sake of argument we say that it will, the idea that it has spawned -- of persistent 3D virtual worlds that are built by users -- will continue to evolve and mutate ... and will spur the the growth of parallel technology in the area of 3D screens, 3D imagery and so on.
Net net, new technology always seems quirky and geeky ( and that should not be a crime in slashdot :) but I believe that this will evolve into something useful and ubiquitous in future.
Geocities ( and Tripod before that ) allowed me to actually create content and publish it -- without help or permissions from anyone. In the Web 2.0 world of user generated content, this may be passe ... but it was very big deal for for me and some of us who thought along those line. Geocities was where I learnt -- and practised -- how to code in HTML and actually write and deploy Java applets. The confidence of having done it -- alone and by myself -- ten years ago continues to stand me in good stead when I use the more user-friendly tools to build and deploy far more complex applications.
Thank you Geocities for opening up a new world of programming for me .. A world that I still love and cherish today ... when my job is far removed from coding.
Jai Ho
Chandrayaan, the moon probe sent by the Indian Space Research Organisation, carried the NASA-built Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) that finally located water. This is a big boost to the Indian space program
Geocities ( and Tripod ) were the first webservers that allowed a newbie HTML programmer like me to build and host my first and primitive web site ... way back in 1997
I feel sad that Geocities is now gone ! May it rest in peace ... somewhere in the Internet Archives and in our hearts
I teach information system to a bunch of folks in a Business School where it is infra dig to be viewed as a programmer !!! Being a programmer myself I find this ludicrous but have discovered that by using Gamemaker -- a visual development environment for arcade style games -- i can get across the basics of Object Oriented Programming with much less effort. Many of my students do not realise that they are actually writing programs but get a good idea of objects, attributes, methods and instances !!! Gamemaker is available free of cost but it is not open source.
Is it so difficult to position a platoon of troops armed with the latest infantry weapons on every merchant ship that is sailing through this area ? If we can have security guards in banks, factories and other land based installations, why is it so difficult to have guards on a ship carrying USD 100m worth of merchandise ?
The pendulum keeps swinging between centralised systems ( "mainframe" with "dumb" terminals) and client server ( with smart or fat clients ). For standard applications like email and office productivity products from Google and Zoho offer good support ... in the centralised mode ... through what is now known as cloud computing.
However for specialist applications, one might still have to go for desktop based applications.
Has anyone tried checked out the features and facilities that Zoho offers ? I for one use Zoho creator http://creator.zoho.com/ to teach visual application development to my grad school students and quite a few of them have gone on to develop corporate applications with persistent data -- ok, not giant ones, but useful ones nevertheless ... and all up in the cloud.
While the idea of creating a Microsoft Free desktop or laptop is very good, IBM -- in its typically ham handed way -- is ruining the case by trying to use this to push its Lotus suite of products. The initiative would have taken off far better had they decided to bundle in Open Office ...
But IBM being IBM they will always believe that they know best .... "he who knows not and knows not he knows not is a ????? "
I understand that MS Gold Partners are activly but verbally encouraging universities and schools to purchase a few paper licenses and allowing all students to use MS Office in an attempt to undermine OpenOffice ... even MS India staff is involved in this scam .. but since nothing is on paper, their deniability is complete ..
Amazon is a distributor and should remain one. ... or else !! ... or else !! ...
Today they start dictating the printer from whom I get my book printed
Tomorrow they will tell me what I can write
and since they are SO BIG, i really have no chance ( or no guts) to ask them go FISH
i have published a book on POD on a very eclectic topic which no mainstream publisher would have touched with a bargepole ... and I am perfectly happy with the fact that 50 copies have been sold globally ... And in terms of layout and look-and-feel I have made every effort to make it perfect. So what is wrong with POD ?
Just because you have published a book on the traditional route does NOT mean that the rest of us POD enthusiasts should do so as well.
how about controlling your TV remotely by using your thoughts ? That may be a simpler task to achieve and the device could have a far larger and ready market ?
To the vast majority of Slashdotters who have grown up in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition spelt out in the "Book", it may be possible to contemplate a connection between genetics and religion, but for those of us who are familiar with Sanatan Dharma ( The Perennial Philosophy a.k.a. Hinduism ) the definition of religion or faith is very ill-defined.
Which faith ? Sanatan Dharma includes the entire range of faiths spanning from (a) the innocent polytheism of multiple gods (b) the monotheistic duality of God-and-Man and (c) the extreme monism of Advaita (the nondual singularity of the Knower and the Knowledge )...
Depending on your level of awareness, the phenotype moves through various levels(a through c) of ignorance(?) so which of these coded in the corresponding genotype ?
Or is it that each is coded differently. We need lots and lots of data and some high end statistical software to locate statistically significant differences between these.
Absolutely ...
If we use (an upgraded version) of the current bionic eye technology to hook a the client ("viewer") software of any standard MMORPG style "game" or environment like SecondLife, then the border between what is "reality" and what is "virtual reality" becomes extremely blurred. Are You Real is a short movie that explores this possibility.
WYSIWYG could take on a different meaning altogether whether the definition of seeing can be expanded from the current "optical" version to the direct digital version.
The technology that is described here can be used to design a new class of man-machine interfaces. Consider the traditional display. Digital data is first rendered as alpha-numeric-graphic icons and presented on a screen. Optical signals emanating from the screen reach the eye, get converted into electro-chemical signals that are processed by the nervous system.
... instead let us pass it to the pre-processing software of the bionic eye ... and from then on into the ganglion.
The technology that is described here picks up optical signals, converts them into electrical signals (most probably digital), does some pre-processing and passes them directly to the ganglion cells / optic nerve in the eye. The user sees light and fuzzy objects and as the image processing technology improves ( as it inevitably would ) the resolution will improve dramatically.
My hypothesis is that the intermediate optical signals are irrelevent for the man-machine interface. The digital computer output is already digital. There is no need to render this information graphically
And voila ! you would see your favourite slashdot.com website in your "minds" eye !
Am I being too futuristic ?