will it automatically mean a strip search? what if the t-shirt says "I am a terrorist".. what if it says something ambiguous like "we will not be silent"?
The undergraduate entrance exams for IIT is one of the toughest I've seen. Here is a sample.
A typical question would be like.. Find all solutions for the equation 1! + 2! + 3! + 4!... + n! = n^2.
The british paper wouldnt probably appear even in a high school exam in India because the problem is so typical, it would have been surely used in the textbook prose, and hence immediately disqualified from being used as a question in an exam.
Google is biggest player in search. But it is not the biggest player in online mail applications. But in gmail, you have a "search web" option which defaults to google for search engine. Shouldnt it be including other search engine too and not use google by default??
In Gmail, you cannot see external images unless you explicitly specify by clicking a button. But I recently got an email from google recruiter who had the google image logo in his sig and it showed up in the email, even though the "display external images" flag was off..
Maybe its a bug.. maybe by "external images", they mean non-google hosted images, but I'd think that would be a little unfair..
3. The interesting bit here is that the system used is likely to have been GNU Motion (which means the machine running linux). He even left the thing running in debug mode where it shows the rectangle where the motion was picked up.
Yes, he did use GNU motion running off a linux system.. More info about the setup on his website.
Brain the size of planet and they tried to engage my enthusiasm by giving me this menial task and me with a pain in all the diodes down my left hand side.
How is it that India can see the light in all its raging stupidity (seriously... have you seen some of their movies?)
All this Bollywood bashing is kinda annoying. You need to take two things into account. First, 80% of hollywood movies are also populist crap. I'd think 99% of Bollywood movies are crap, but the gap is not due to lack of creativity. Bollywood directors dont have the luxury of making movies simply for art's sake. The movies HAVE to make money, period. Or you wont find producers/distributors for your next. If you really needa glimpse of all that Bollywood can be, you need to hunt for that 1% (there are quite a few, ask your indian friends)
Second, you need to understand that songs in bollywood movies is a cultural oddity, based on historical reasons. Its ok if you find it strange. I'm sure you find Toshiro Mifune loud acting in Rashomon strange too.. There no major independent music industry in India. Songs from movies are usually the only music around. Again, a lot of those songs are pure gems. One of the most talented composers from India, A R Rahman, is criminally ignored in the west.
It seems the site only carries a few ancient Dev Anand flicks (a yesteryear has-been actor still churning out embarrasingly bad movies).. and guess what Dev Anand is one of the collaborators of this crappy site.. self-promotion anyone??
This site isnt the first to provide hindi movies on the net. Theres <a href="http://indiamoviezone.com/>India Movie Zone</a> too, which has a substantial user base and all the latest releases.
Given a choice between giving up internet in any form whatsoever, and chopping off your fingers.. how many are you willing to give up?? My score is 3 (2 off left and 1 off right)
same question, but now giving up all computers in any form whatsoever. My score is 4 on this (2 off each)
There seems to be a connection between suicide in whales and earthquakes. Around two weeks ago, an Indian Doctor had predicted this earthquake on Princeton's mailing list based on whale behaviour in Australia. Interesting...
In his book, "Emergence - The connected lives of ants, brains,cities and softwares", Steven Johnson predicts the next generation of channel surfing.. Basically, the assumption is the the number of programs would be so many that it would painful to manually search it. What will emerge is a Network of viewers powered by Networked TiVos.. where programs would be moderated by viewers slashdot-style.. When you want to watch a program, the programs would be presented to you in a moderated format already, so you can access better programs directly without the constraint of time.
Isn't that what they always dreamed of, making american lives a real pain ? Destroying the "American Way of Life"
oh puh-leeze!! you think waiting couple of hours in a line is a real pain. No sir. Living in a single-room rain-soaked mud-house with 8 family members and watching them die of hunger is "real pain". This is the kind of place where terrorists come from. So please quit whining about losing your american way of life, just because you need to take your shoes before boarding a plane!
Theoretically though, I wonder what the law says about this. The hard disk, being an object, would go to the next of kin, but does that include data too? Data is usually more expensive than harddisk, so that doesnt seem right..but then does that mean some govt official sits and deletes data of all deceased people's hard disks. that doesnt dound right either.
You should be wary of anything Times of India reports. Once a premier newspaper, it has reduced to a tabloid and semi porn website now.
Case in point, assuming you get paid $0.25 per click as the article reports, that amounts to $180 an hour (assuming you click 1 ad per 5 seconds)!! Thats insane, even by american standards. In India where a average guy gets $300 a month salary, that figure is damn near impossible.
I hate to break this to all mail client developers, but after using GMail, I doubt I'd ever be going back to anything else.
The main problem with have desktop mail clients is about spam. I access mail from 5 diff computers, so it takes 5 times as much effort to train the clients junk mail controls (since they dont share data). With gmail's central reporting, not only do optimize my spam settings, but I also benefit from other people's reporting.
All gmail needs is some sort of inbox monitor and I'd be all set.
Slashdot Mirror
Wrong! Vista overtook the entire install base of apple within 5 weeks of launch.. check your numbers
will it automatically mean a strip search? what if the t-shirt says "I am a terrorist".. what if it says something ambiguous like "we will not be silent"?
thats why I always sit around on my ass instead of standing up for myself.. creative thinking baby..
The undergraduate entrance exams for IIT is one of the toughest I've seen. Here is a sample. A typical question would be like.. Find all solutions for the equation 1! + 2! + 3! + 4!... + n! = n^2. The british paper wouldnt probably appear even in a high school exam in India because the problem is so typical, it would have been surely used in the textbook prose, and hence immediately disqualified from being used as a question in an exam.
Google is biggest player in search. But it is not the biggest player in online mail applications. But in gmail, you have a "search web" option which defaults to google for search engine. Shouldnt it be including other search engine too and not use google by default??
Well.. obviously you didnt RTFA!
We just upped the Gmail quota for all our users to 2GB. Hotmail, yahoo, lycos.. up yours!
nope.. it was embedded.. plus gmail doesnt display attachments..
In Gmail, you cannot see external images unless you explicitly specify by clicking a button. But I recently got an email from google recruiter who had the google image logo in his sig and it showed up in the email, even though the "display external images" flag was off..
Maybe its a bug.. maybe by "external images", they mean non-google hosted images, but I'd think that would be a little unfair..
Yes, he did use GNU motion running off a linux system.. More info about the setup on his website.
Brain the size of planet and they tried to engage my enthusiasm by giving me this menial task and me with a pain in all the diodes down my left hand side.
All this Bollywood bashing is kinda annoying. You need to take two things into account. First, 80% of hollywood movies are also populist crap. I'd think 99% of Bollywood movies are crap, but the gap is not due to lack of creativity. Bollywood directors dont have the luxury of making movies simply for art's sake. The movies HAVE to make money, period. Or you wont find producers/distributors for your next. If you really needa glimpse of all that Bollywood can be, you need to hunt for that 1% (there are quite a few, ask your indian friends)
Second, you need to understand that songs in bollywood movies is a cultural oddity, based on historical reasons. Its ok if you find it strange. I'm sure you find Toshiro Mifune loud acting in Rashomon strange too.. There no major independent music industry in India. Songs from movies are usually the only music around. Again, a lot of those songs are pure gems. One of the most talented composers from India, A R Rahman, is criminally ignored in the west.
It seems the site only carries a few ancient Dev Anand flicks (a yesteryear has-been actor still churning out embarrasingly bad movies).. and guess what Dev Anand is one of the collaborators of this crappy site.. self-promotion anyone??
This site isnt the first to provide hindi movies on the net. Theres <a href="http://indiamoviezone.com/>India Movie Zone</a> too, which has a substantial user base and all the latest releases.
Quick Poll:
Given a choice between giving up internet in any form whatsoever, and chopping off your fingers.. how many are you willing to give up?? My score is 3 (2 off left and 1 off right)
same question, but now giving up all computers in any form whatsoever. My score is 4 on this (2 off each)
Is it time to get a life yet?
wheres the dead parrot joke?
There seems to be a connection between suicide in whales and earthquakes. Around two weeks ago, an Indian Doctor had predicted this earthquake on Princeton's mailing list based on whale behaviour in Australia. Interesting...
you still wont get laid.
In his book, "Emergence - The connected lives of ants, brains,cities and softwares", Steven Johnson predicts the next generation of channel surfing.. Basically, the assumption is the the number of programs would be so many that it would painful to manually search it. What will emerge is a Network of viewers powered by Networked TiVos.. where programs would be moderated by viewers slashdot-style.. When you want to watch a program, the programs would be presented to you in a moderated format already, so you can access better programs directly without the constraint of time.
India's former defense minister was strip-searched twice on US airports. He has vowed never to return to US. And you wonder why the world hates you.
oh puh-leeze!! you think waiting couple of hours in a line is a real pain. No sir. Living in a single-room rain-soaked mud-house with 8 family members and watching them die of hunger is "real pain". This is the kind of place where terrorists come from. So please quit whining about losing your american way of life, just because you need to take your shoes before boarding a plane!
Theoretically though, I wonder what the law says about this. The hard disk, being an object, would go to the next of kin, but does that include data too? Data is usually more expensive than harddisk, so that doesnt seem right..but then does that mean some govt official sits and deletes data of all deceased people's hard disks. that doesnt dound right either.
The article mentions that you have to stay on the page for ~60 seconds. Tabbed browsing.
You should be wary of anything Times of India reports. Once a premier newspaper, it has reduced to a tabloid and semi porn website now.
Case in point, assuming you get paid $0.25 per click as the article reports, that amounts to $180 an hour (assuming you click 1 ad per 5 seconds)!! Thats insane, even by american standards. In India where a average guy gets $300 a month salary, that figure is damn near impossible.
can they grow hair with stem cells? If they can do that, now THAT would be a goldmine.. fake teeth dont look as fake as fake hair.
I hate to break this to all mail client developers, but after using GMail, I doubt I'd ever be going back to anything else.
The main problem with have desktop mail clients is about spam. I access mail from 5 diff computers, so it takes 5 times as much effort to train the clients junk mail controls (since they dont share data). With gmail's central reporting, not only do optimize my spam settings, but I also benefit from other people's reporting.
All gmail needs is some sort of inbox monitor and I'd be all set.