There is a cell phone tower of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey that looks like a tree. So don't worry about the towers look bad. They just look like wierd towers unless you don't care that they don't look that bad.
Isn't this a re-post ? I think I read it before somwhere ??
The problem with XML is that it is big and bulky. It will take the system sometime to parse through the whole thing. But maybe they figured a way around it. Maybe there will be a distro that will use launchd or soemthing... We will see, but don't know if the other Unixs will pick up like AIX ?
I watched it, it was pretty funny. But then I watched it by myself, and I remember laughing so hard to the show on radio and smiling after reading the boook. But I did not laugh as much. Don't know why...
I was checking out the imdb.com post of George Lucas. And all you see are Star Wars and related ( Video games etc... ). The Star Wars universe is cool and all that but that doesn't make it sustainable.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg got together and created Indiana Jones.
Then there is also Howard the Duck, we will not go there.
I think George Lucas should try to make an experimental movie not about technology, future or space. Just a movie about nothing with no storyline. That is what makes a good director. But Lucas has pretty much squeezed or rather dried the last couple of drops out of the Star Wars bottle of ideas.
But maybe he doesn't want to create just wants to amass more wealth and then justify it buying new toys.
What ever it maybe George Lucas is the person who opened one of the doors... As he says.. "... if you can tune into the fantasy of a 11 year old girl, you can make a fortune in the buisness."
Maybe he is more of a buisness man than anything else...
The design the thought the effort, it is a piece of art that becomes a computer. Amazing, he could've just made a Bender model out of metal. But where is the fun in that:)
You gotta add a twist. The computer case is pretty damn cool.
5 stars and 2 thumbs up.
You can try an IBM Regatta, I think they max out at about 512GB, their are some Power5 chip boxes that IBM makes with about 1/2 a terrabyte of RAM etc..
There are also these PCI cards that are RAM DISKS don't know the size or that they do but stuff like that does exist.
Also I don't think ther are any x86-(64) motherboards beyond 192 GB of memory. If you are willing maybe some company can get you a custom solution.
Over all of the shelves no.. but there are other 'types of computes' you can buy which might have the same functionality.
Slyck.com Interviews Jon Lech Johansen April 4, 2005 Thomas Mennecke
Depending on your point of view, Jon Lech Johansen is either your hero or adversary. To the copyright industry, Jon Lech Johansen has been a detriment to their policy of control since the advent of DeCSS (Decrypt Content Scrambling System.) To those who cherish freedom, he has been a pillar of hope in an age when DRM (Digital Rights Management) threatens to overtake mainstream media. Jon Lech Johansen became well known for his role in the development of DeCSS. Jon spent 3 long years in the Norwegian courts proving his innocence. The American movie industry pressured the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit to press charges against Jon Lech Johansen in 2000 for allegedly bypassing the CSS copy protection on DVDs.
After two trials, the courts finally ruled in Jon's favor. However, there is much more to Jon Lech Johansen than DeCSS. In this interview, Slyck hopes to bring to light the many facets of Mr. Johansen, and the numerous projects he is involved with.
Describe your role in the development of DeCSS. Was is a group effort or were you the mastermind behind it?
DeCSS was written by 3 people: a German developer, a Dutch developer and myself. The reverse engineering was done by the German.
From time to time I see people repeat the claim that DeCSS was only made possible because a DVD player manufacturer forgot to "protect" their DVD player. This is a myth that is perpetuated by people who don't understand how computers work. Code obfuscation only slows down reverse engineering, it doesn't block it.
What was the motivation behind creating DeCSS?
The motivation was being able to play DVDs the way we want to. I don't like being forced to use a specific operating system or a specific player to watch movies (or listen to music.) Nor do I like being forced to watch commercials. When your DVD player tells you "This operation is not allowed" when you try to skip commercials, it becomes pretty clear that DRM really stands for Digital Restrictions Management.
Did you ever expect the level of legal entanglements; and for it to become as popular as it is today?
No and no.
How difficult was it do break the CSS encryption? What did it take to break the encryption?
Technically DeCSS didn't break CSS. Breaking a crypto algorithm requires revealing and/or exploiting a method that's faster than brute force. DeCSS simply implemented CSS the same way as a normal DVD player.
Another myth is that DeCSS is illegal because it uses a "stolen" key. A CSS key is 5 bytes. How anyone can think that it's possible to "steal" 5 bytes is beyond me. 5 bytes do not have any protection under copyright law because it's not an original work. It's probably possible for 5 bytes to be protected under trade secret law, but CSS hasn't been a trade secret since DeCSS was released and mirrored all over the net. Is someone who names their child "Frank" (5 bytes) stealing Frank's name? It's absurd.
Was there at any point during the DeCSS trials when you felt you were in serious trouble, or were you confident throughout that you would emerge victorious?
I was confident throughout.
What was the expression(s) on the face of the movie industry when you were finally acquitted?
The MPAA's (or rather, the MPA, which is the international arm of the MPAA) Norwegian lawyer was present for most of the first trial. I don't remember if he was present when the judgment was handed down, but if he was, he was probably wearing his standard grumpy look.
He can move to another country, this country is not the crux of civilization. Also he can get out of Mn, which is a nice state, but there are better places to be.
Another Apple story ( 2nd today ) why... we all know that MacOSx is some sort of BSD...
We all know they are cool.
We know they are pricey
We all want one.
Besides this is one man's view of the world. And then if you ask somebody else he will say that another type of gadget is cool and great.
I did not expect this from you, very dissapointed.
Sun has a lot of tight control of java. But I believe IBM also has their own java implementation, and I think that version has alot of proprietary and licensed code. But most of the jvm is not available for all different platforms.... anyone seen a 64bit jvm ? Open sourcing java seems good, but the reason Sun may not want to do that is because sun wants to milk the embeded devices market where java can be a real breakthrough.
I use Linux on a regular basis across many many machines of different sizes. Their maybe some truth in the article saying that Linux does not scale well. Firstly the whole thing of security is over rated. It is a corporate fudge factor, things are as secure as the apps that you use and you make your system. Linux does have a strange threading model but it works and does 99% of jobs with out issues. I run linux on SMP boxes ( more than 8 processors a machine) and their are some problems. Usually with network device drivers or some watchdog card. But otherwise it works. The most important thing is to learn how to get the job done. I have not used Solaris 10 thus I don't know what the new features are. The closed UNIX systems "seem" more robust because they sell the hardware with the software and ( example AIX with IBM POWER boxes ) and they have some major, major, major testing.
Now the article says using Linux on mainframes is concering, well it sure is. Because why pay for a iSeries OS/400 license when Linux runs on the box rock solid. Linux on iSeries is amazing, it is a piece of art in itself.
This was nothing but some technical jargon by soem companies that have outdated security procedures and they don't even have any facts. This is not news this is gossip.
Also another thing Linux is a far more versatile system than people acknowledge it to be.
Finally a good piece of news to share with the other guys that did not get slashdoted. This was definately a good article and a morning edition is always a good show to listen to.
Xray Crystallography is the science of studying crystals using xrays. Its is computationaly dependent, much math, physics and chemistry is required. Most number of Noble Prizes in physics have resulted from research on xray cryatallography. It is worth learning a certain specific science that will tie your scientific areas together. So you can apply all that you have learned in the world towards solving problems using many different methods. Another interesting set of classes you many want to take is in visual arts so you broaden your horizons. Any idiot can read a book and learn something; to get vision to see beyond the world's boundaries one needs to excercise the other side of the brain even if you hate it. Long story cut short focus on your strengths, and learn you weakness. Here you learn how to percieve your world and how you can learn from their to solve problems. Long story cut short create the world that you want to live in. Good luck in the big bad world ( which really isn't that bad.... just not nice )
It is balance that makes a man, it is balance that makes a company. A CEO does not run a company, she/he runs a part of the decesion making process. It is the ability to take risks, be modest and agreessive that makes a compnay's CEO sucessful with his company. Just because you are trained by profession as an economist you are better of as a person managing funds and a buisness venture, not always the case. This is a broad question to answer human nature and traits and should be asked on a case by case basis.
The slashdot posting should've been about the top 10 software companies and their CEO's background in technical fields etc...
This is a general question and has a general answer for specificity please try to choose an example next time.
Now for the Slashdot favorite heavyweight Apple; Steve Jobs and team have done a great job. Brought a computer company back from the dead and increased stock prices. Great achivement. I am not quite sure what their backgrounds are but Appl;e does employ a good marketing department and a even better forecasting department. Maybe a CEO just gets the right people together to create a sucessful good/service??
The main idea is to milk the market. Have a bunch of recodrings for every major age group, from youngsters, teen, college students, 25+ , 35+ etc... and make them pay $15+ for them.
And then charge the group with the most demand inelasticity the highest price, this is even more than the $15 ammount. The RIAA does not understand that the the music industry is changing; or believes they can still stop the change and it is a matter of time before they change or be changed. They will fight tooth and nail so they can reap their profits.
After all record companies make money from borrowing money from financial institutions. And these institutions charge them interest rates, and these institutions want their money not matter what this includes the 10% interest etc...
Also due to the extreme large spectra of artists the quality of music has gone to the euthanasia clinic. Way too many young inexperinced people playing the tune of the music producer. Most people listen to this stuff because they have no alternative choice; for background music. Let the RIAA milk the market, it is time we put a cieling on the price of music. I say no less than 50cents and no more than 99c. And have certain protections for the consumer. I mean there are two ways to make money, charge a higher price or sell more units. Selling more units that is to create demand is hard when all you have to sell is crap so they do option number 1) ; which is to raise the price.
It is time most consumers got smarter and said hell with the current distribution. The RIAA is nothing but a conglomertation to give people the illusion of happiness, after which they will milk you for your money.
Let them raise prices and let's see what happens... there will be less songs sold.
This is old news, many college students have been exposed to this. Looks like/. has lost its edge or they are all out on vaccation.
But none the less a good article for most people to see and maybe cause some comotion on the airplane industry if enough people started to use such methods.
I was wondering if Microsoft has any inclination to have a "cluster-version" of Windows in a high performance x86 or x86-64bit comptational cluster? If so what would be like.Also what would the high availability be for such a cluster?
IBM is a very big big company, they have a lot of leverage power with lawyers and with other companies. I am not following this as much as I should but it looks like IBM is pushing SCO into a corner and will use every arsenal to make a win. If IBM was going not going to win this court case they will settle. IBM will win it and it will be the end of SCO, we will then see slashdot posts about people buying SCO office furniture for $50.00 at there parking lots.
IBM is a east coast company and they can leverage all the big wig lawyers to fight for them there is no way SCO can win.
take care
-A
End result lawyers go home rich, SCO sells furniture and IBM's laptops go in to suspend using ACPI under Linux.
Maybe, or maybe the EU was the cheapest bidder for the 270,000 parts that made the vehicle. Let me tell you one thing,
No EU country gives announce of pity/history/love/loyalty/or your momma's fried chicken to India. Maybe India is a 'pre-Industralized' nation so what. And ciroknight I think you got it wrong, I don't think the EU is trying to make it up to them. if they are they are saying, "Hey you Brits, remember India well looks like we got Ikea ( I don't think there are any in India) and we got there space contract...." And India is not about wasting lives, there are far few executions in India than maybe the _state_of_Texas_....
That is not a way to judgg industralized nations. the way to judge an indsutralized nation is far more deeper than the way a country may look at judging life.
Sorry to say this, but there is more to life than living your life to buy your materialistic goods produced by an industralized nation.
Man this rock around the ball of fire has gone to crap, invasions that make the Vicotrian era look like a bad 1980's video game.
I am looking for the next Stargate out of here, what do you mean transport to Tatooine, I am looking for a wormhole, bet you that I will beat you to a Tatooine ( if there is one ):)
PS Star Wars is not real.
but on the over all congrats to India and space exploration and landing on the moon. Maybe this will be a big step in moving sane/peaceful of this rock around the ball of fire.
"Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an acropolis, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and....you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing -- about the letter. NUKE IT, FLAME IT, DESTROY IT -- it hurts me to know it's out there. Later." - Loyd Dobbler, Say Anything
Congratulations to India, This is a great progress for Indian Space technology, maybe this will allow India to get recognition as a player in the so called space exploration, it is suprising to see a country with such a large portion of its population in poverty. How it will help the average man it will cause an economic boom / investment into a new field. I am very happy to see India move into this field it might cause the _caucasian_ western nations; which rather spend its money on coquering other nations and torture people for _intelligence_ and supporting puppet goverments rethink there roles and understand that the future of humanity lies in the stars. Even if they have done this before just because they are pioneers don't make it that they are the best. Even if the natives of America came from Asia/Europe/Africa/Australasia it really doesn't matter they never got to rule the land that they discovered.... ( I wonder what happened to the all the Native Americans/me looks around hoping to find a native american)
India the "heart" of outsourcing is a country that has horrible broadband. They do have DSL with caps, and there cable internet service is really bad. I believe in India there is something called a local loop where they use wireless transmitters to local subnets which have some sort of ethernet implementation on some private network. Just a way to suck money out of the customer. Looks like a lot of the telcos in India are out there to suck money out of the consumers and bail out. Maybe Bangalore and Bombay might have good broadband for people who live in the cities municipality . . . Don't know for sure.
Which brings up another point, is that in India that there is big initiative to lay down tons and tons of fibre optic cables. What this will result in is pretty much unknown. But maybe the lack of high bandwidth broadband is good so the Indians can put higher bandwidth into schools, colleges and office buildings.
Broadband communications will become like phones, one day the whole world will have every person and thing they own with an ip address ( ipv6 ). But yes it is most probably that the densely populated countries will adopt newer technologies better and force the market to better and greater technologies.
damn I can't do that all our mac's are registered here, but there are some free ip addresses floating around which don't need mac address binding But that sounds great cool:)
Slashdot Mirror
There is a cell phone tower of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey that looks like a tree. So don't worry about the towers look bad. They just look like wierd towers unless you don't care that they don't look that bad.
Isn't this a re-post ? I think I read it before somwhere ?? The problem with XML is that it is big and bulky. It will take the system sometime to parse through the whole thing. But maybe they figured a way around it. Maybe there will be a distro that will use launchd or soemthing... We will see, but don't know if the other Unixs will pick up like AIX ?
I watched it, it was pretty funny. But then I watched it by myself, and I remember laughing so hard to the show on radio and smiling after reading the boook. But I did not laugh as much.
Don't know why...
I was checking out the imdb.com post of George Lucas. And all you see are Star Wars and related ( Video games etc ... ). The Star Wars universe is cool and all that but that doesn't make it sustainable.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg got together and created Indiana Jones.
Then there is also Howard the Duck, we will not go there.
I think George Lucas should try to make an experimental movie not about technology, future or space. Just a movie about nothing with no storyline. That is what makes a good director. But Lucas has pretty much squeezed or rather dried the last couple of drops out of the Star Wars bottle of ideas.
But maybe he doesn't want to create just wants to amass more wealth and then justify it buying new toys.
What ever it maybe George Lucas is the person who opened one of the doors ... As he says .. " ... if you can tune into the fantasy of a 11 year old girl, you can make a fortune in the buisness."
Maybe he is more of a buisness man than anything else...
The design the thought the effort, it is a piece of art that becomes a computer. Amazing, he could've just made a Bender model out of metal. But where is the fun in that :)
You gotta add a twist. The computer case is pretty damn cool.
5 stars and 2 thumbs up.
You can try an IBM Regatta, I think they max out at about 512GB, their are some Power5 chip boxes that IBM makes with about 1/2 a terrabyte of RAM etc.. There are also these PCI cards that are RAM DISKS don't know the size or that they do but stuff like that does exist. Also I don't think ther are any x86-(64) motherboards beyond 192 GB of memory. If you are willing maybe some company can get you a custom solution. Over all of the shelves no.. but there are other 'types of computes' you can buy which might have the same functionality.
Hey what abot megatron and starscream... You forgot to put them into the picture. :)
Funny analysis
Slyck.com Interviews Jon Lech Johansen
April 4, 2005
Thomas Mennecke
Depending on your point of view, Jon Lech Johansen is either your hero or adversary. To the copyright industry, Jon Lech Johansen has been a detriment to their policy of control since the advent of DeCSS (Decrypt Content Scrambling System.) To those who cherish freedom, he has been a pillar of hope in an age when DRM (Digital Rights Management) threatens to overtake mainstream media.
Jon Lech Johansen became well known for his role in the development of DeCSS. Jon spent 3 long years in the Norwegian courts proving his innocence. The American movie industry pressured the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit to press charges against Jon Lech Johansen in 2000 for allegedly bypassing the CSS copy protection on DVDs.
After two trials, the courts finally ruled in Jon's favor. However, there is much more to Jon Lech Johansen than DeCSS. In this interview, Slyck hopes to bring to light the many facets of Mr. Johansen, and the numerous projects he is involved with.
Describe your role in the development of DeCSS. Was is a group effort or were you the mastermind behind it?
DeCSS was written by 3 people: a German developer, a Dutch developer and myself. The reverse engineering was done by the German.
From time to time I see people repeat the claim that DeCSS was only made possible because a DVD player manufacturer forgot to "protect" their DVD player. This is a myth that is perpetuated by people who don't understand how computers work. Code obfuscation only slows down reverse engineering, it doesn't block it.
What was the motivation behind creating DeCSS?
The motivation was being able to play DVDs the way we want to. I don't like being forced to use a specific operating system or a specific player to watch movies (or listen to music.) Nor do I like being forced to watch commercials. When your DVD player tells you "This operation is not allowed" when you try to skip commercials, it becomes pretty clear that DRM really stands for Digital Restrictions Management.
Did you ever expect the level of legal entanglements; and for it to become as popular as it is today?
No and no.
How difficult was it do break the CSS encryption? What did it take to break the encryption?
Technically DeCSS didn't break CSS. Breaking a crypto algorithm requires revealing and/or exploiting a method that's faster than brute force. DeCSS simply implemented CSS the same way as a normal DVD player.
CSS was however broken by Frank Andrew Stevenson: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/FrankStevenson/ index.html. Many DVD decryption tools today exploit the weaknesses in CSS that he revealed.
Another myth is that DeCSS is illegal because it uses a "stolen" key. A CSS key is 5 bytes. How anyone can think that it's possible to "steal" 5 bytes is beyond me. 5 bytes do not have any protection under copyright law because it's not an original work. It's probably possible for 5 bytes to be protected under trade secret law, but CSS hasn't been a trade secret since DeCSS was released and mirrored all over the net. Is someone who names their child "Frank" (5 bytes) stealing Frank's name? It's absurd.
Was there at any point during the DeCSS trials when you felt you were in serious trouble, or were you confident throughout that you would emerge victorious?
I was confident throughout.
What was the expression(s) on the face of the movie industry when you were finally acquitted?
The MPAA's (or rather, the MPA, which is the international arm of the MPAA) Norwegian lawyer was present for most of the first trial. I don't remember if he was present when the judgment was handed down, but if he was, he was probably wearing his standard grumpy look.
For the acquitt
He can move to another country, this country is not the crux of civilization. Also he can get out of Mn, which is a nice state, but there are better places to be.
Another Apple story ( 2nd today ) why ... we all know that MacOSx is some sort of BSD...
We all know they are cool.
We know they are pricey
We all want one.
Besides this is one man's view of the world. And then if you ask somebody else he will say that another type of gadget is cool and great.
I did not expect this from you, very dissapointed.
Damn, ...
I don't know where you got that but that was an excellent post. Learned a lot about why some games slow down at the most crucial time
Sun has a lot of tight control of java. But I believe IBM also has their own java implementation, and I think that version has alot of proprietary and licensed code. But most of the jvm is not available for all different platforms.... anyone seen a 64bit jvm ?
Open sourcing java seems good, but the reason Sun may not want to do that is because sun wants to milk the embeded devices market where java can be a real breakthrough.
I use Linux on a regular basis across many many machines of different sizes. Their maybe some truth in the article saying that Linux does not scale well. Firstly the whole thing of security is over rated. It is a corporate fudge factor, things are as secure as the apps that you use and you make your system. Linux does have a strange threading model but it works and does 99% of jobs with out issues.
I run linux on SMP boxes ( more than 8 processors a machine) and their are some problems. Usually with network device drivers or some watchdog card. But otherwise it works. The most important thing is to learn how to get the job done.
I have not used Solaris 10 thus I don't know what the new features are. The closed UNIX systems "seem" more robust because they sell the hardware with the software and ( example AIX with IBM POWER boxes ) and they have some major, major, major testing.
Now the article says using Linux on mainframes is concering, well it sure is. Because why pay for a iSeries OS/400 license when Linux runs on the box rock solid. Linux on iSeries is amazing, it is a piece of art in itself.
This was nothing but some technical jargon by soem companies that have outdated security procedures and they don't even have any facts. This is not news this is gossip.
Also another thing Linux is a far more versatile system than people acknowledge it to be.
Finally a good piece of news to share with the other guys that did not get slashdoted. This was definately a good article and a morning edition is always a good show to listen to.
Xray Crystallography is the science of studying crystals using xrays. .... just not nice )
Its is computationaly dependent, much math, physics and chemistry is required. Most number of Noble Prizes in physics have resulted from research on xray cryatallography.
It is worth learning a certain specific science that will tie your scientific areas together. So you can apply all that you have learned in the world towards solving problems using many different methods.
Another interesting set of classes you many want to take is in visual arts so you broaden your horizons. Any idiot can read a book and learn something; to get vision to see beyond the world's boundaries one needs to excercise the other side of the brain even if you hate it. Long story cut short focus on your strengths, and learn you weakness. Here you learn how to percieve your world and how you can learn from their to solve problems. Long story cut short create the world that you want to live in.
Good luck in the big bad world ( which really isn't that bad
It is balance that makes a man, it is balance that makes a company. A CEO does not run a company, she/he runs a part of the decesion making process. It is the ability to take risks, be modest and agreessive that makes a compnay's CEO sucessful with his company.
Just because you are trained by profession as an economist you are better of as a person managing funds and a buisness venture, not always the case.
This is a broad question to answer human nature and traits and should be asked on a case by case basis.
The slashdot posting should've been about the top 10 software companies and their CEO's background in technical fields etc...
This is a general question and has a general answer for specificity please try to choose an example next time.
Now for the Slashdot favorite heavyweight Apple; Steve Jobs and team have done a great job. Brought a computer company back from the dead and increased stock prices. Great achivement. I am not quite sure what their backgrounds are but Appl;e does employ a good marketing department and a even better forecasting department. Maybe a CEO just gets the right people together to create a sucessful good/service??
The main idea is to milk the market. Have a bunch of recodrings for every major age group, from youngsters, teen, college students, 25+ , 35+ etc... and make them pay $15+ for them.
And then charge the group with the most demand inelasticity the highest price, this is even more than the $15 ammount. The RIAA does not understand that the the music industry is changing; or believes they can still stop the change and it is a matter of time before they change or be changed. They will fight tooth and nail so they can reap their profits.
After all record companies make money from borrowing money from financial institutions. And these institutions charge them interest rates, and these institutions want their money not matter what this includes the 10% interest etc...
Also due to the extreme large spectra of artists the quality of music has gone to the euthanasia clinic. Way too many young inexperinced people playing the tune of the music producer. Most people listen to this stuff because they have no alternative choice; for background music. Let the RIAA milk the market, it is time we put a cieling on the price of music. I say no less than 50cents and no more than 99c. And have certain protections for the consumer. I mean there are two ways to make money, charge a higher price or sell more units. Selling more units that is to create demand is hard when all you have to sell is crap so they do option number 1) ; which is to raise the price.
It is time most consumers got smarter and said hell with the current distribution. The RIAA is nothing but a conglomertation to give people the illusion of happiness, after which they will milk you for your money.
Let them raise prices and let's see what happens... there will be less songs sold.
This is old news, many college students have been exposed to this. Looks like /. has lost its edge or they are all out on vaccation.
But none the less a good article for most people to see and maybe cause some comotion on the airplane industry if enough people started to use such methods.
I was wondering if Microsoft has any inclination to have a "cluster-version" of Windows in a high performance x86 or x86-64bit comptational cluster? If so what would be like.Also what would the high availability be for such a cluster?
IBM is a very big big company, they have a lot of leverage power with lawyers and with other companies. I am not following this as much as I should but it looks like IBM is pushing SCO into a corner and will use every arsenal to make a win. If IBM was going not going to win this court case they will settle. IBM will win it and it will be the end of SCO, we will then see slashdot posts about people buying SCO office furniture for $50.00 at there parking lots. IBM is a east coast company and they can leverage all the big wig lawyers to fight for them there is no way SCO can win. take care -A End result lawyers go home rich, SCO sells furniture and IBM's laptops go in to suspend using ACPI under Linux.
No EU country gives announce of pity/history/love/loyalty/or your momma's fried chicken to India. Maybe India is a 'pre-Industralized' nation so what. And ciroknight I think you got it wrong, I don't think the EU is trying to make it up to them. if they are they are saying, "Hey you Brits, remember India well looks like we got Ikea ( I don't think there are any in India) and we got there space contract ...." And India is not about wasting lives, there are far few executions in India than maybe the _state_of_Texas_....
That is not a way to judgg industralized nations. the way to judge an indsutralized nation is far more deeper than the way a country may look at judging life.
Sorry to say this, but there is more to life than living your life to buy your materialistic goods produced by an industralized nation.
Man this rock around the ball of fire has gone to crap, invasions that make the Vicotrian era look like a bad 1980's video game. I am looking for the next Stargate out of here, what do you mean transport to Tatooine, I am looking for a wormhole, bet you that I will beat you to a Tatooine ( if there is one ) :)
PS Star Wars is not real.
but on the over all congrats to India and space exploration and landing on the moon. Maybe this will be a big step in moving sane/peaceful of this rock around the ball of fire.
"Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an acropolis, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and....you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing -- about the letter. NUKE IT, FLAME IT, DESTROY IT -- it hurts me to know it's out there. Later." - Loyd Dobbler, Say Anything
Congratulations to India, /me looks around hoping to find a native american)
This is a great progress for Indian Space technology, maybe this will allow India to get recognition as a player in the so called space exploration, it is suprising to see a country with such a large portion of its population in poverty. How it will help the average man it will cause an economic boom / investment into a new field. I am very happy to see India move into this field it might cause the _caucasian_ western nations; which rather spend its money on coquering other nations and torture people for _intelligence_ and supporting puppet goverments rethink there roles and understand that the future of humanity lies in the stars. Even if they have done this before just because they are pioneers don't make it that they are the best. Even if the natives of America came from Asia/Europe/Africa/Australasia it really doesn't matter they never got to rule the land that they discovered.... ( I wonder what happened to the all the Native Americans
Jai Hind
India the "heart" of outsourcing is a country that has horrible broadband. They do have DSL with caps, and there cable internet service is really bad. I believe in India there is something called a local loop where they use wireless transmitters to local subnets which have some sort of ethernet implementation on some private network. Just a way to suck money out of the customer. Looks like a lot of the telcos in India are out there to suck money out of the consumers and bail out. Maybe Bangalore and Bombay might have good broadband for people who live in the cities municipality . . . Don't know for sure. Which brings up another point, is that in India that there is big initiative to lay down tons and tons of fibre optic cables. What this will result in is pretty much unknown. But maybe the lack of high bandwidth broadband is good so the Indians can put higher bandwidth into schools, colleges and office buildings. Broadband communications will become like phones, one day the whole world will have every person and thing they own with an ip address ( ipv6 ). But yes it is most probably that the densely populated countries will adopt newer technologies better and force the market to better and greater technologies.
damn I can't do that all our mac's are registered here, but there are some free ip addresses floating around which don't need mac address binding :)
But that sounds great
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