App developer should realize that there is a world outside the US [and Europe], where:
1. Phones are sold unlocked more as a rule than an exception.
2. Enthusiasts change phones frequently
3. There is a big market for cheaper and second hand/older gen. 'smart' phones.
Android fits in well for these market. This is also the exact reason for the abysmal sale of iPhone 3G/3GS in India and China.
1) car insurance is compulsory in India, covers the car, not the driver. Takes care of damages to the car as well as to the victims. 2) Safety standards exist, albeit for the typical India roads where the speed limits rarely exceed 50 km/hr [convert this to m/hr yourself , please]. 3) Nano is compliant with Euro 4, the present European emission standards. 4) Gross mis-information, smacks of ignorance at best and racism at worst. 5)....thus spoke the western overlord..go back to your bullock cart...you deserve not what you hath not?
and well the price of petrol [gasoline] has been hovering around the $4/gallon mark for last 4 years in India.
cant these guys just move their servers to India [or elsewhere for that matter], and simply proceed to show Hasbro the middle finger, a-la pirate bay?..on second thoughts maybe facebook will face all the fire in the hell then...
Well the whole exercise is funded by the consumers. The government manages what is called the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a fund to offset the subsidized operations in the rural areas by the government owned telcos(while the private operators enjoy the moolah they rake in the high-growth urban areas). All the telcos contribute 5% of their revenues to this fund. TFA states that the fund already has an unutilized INR 91.94 billion(apprx. USD 2.24 billion) lying idle. Considering that the last mile connectivity is in place (atleast on paper;) ). The investment shall remain in establishing the interweb infrastructure. Moreover, government also talks of proactive web-hosting by the ISP's so that the traffic can be contained within the fibers in the country(so as to try and save on international connectivity tariffs).
A small clarification:
In India sale of beef is banned in 13 states and three Union Territories, while its legal in the remaining 15 states and three Union Territories.
Another heartbreaking fact for Holy-cow brand of joke crackers is that India is actually a majority non-vegetarian country as shown in this survey: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/08/14/stories/20060 81403771200.htm
This is what Ignobles are supposed to be for, infact they awarded the 1st ignoble peace price to Edward Teller, the 'father' of hydrogen bomb.
Here's the interesting peace prize list:
1991: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars weapons system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it.
1992: Daryl Gates, former police chief of the City of Los Angeles, for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together.
1993: The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history
1994: Presented to John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C.
1995: Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.
1996: Presented to Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.
1997: Presented to Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England, for his report "The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods."
1998: Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.
1999: Presented to Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing the Blaster, an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower.
2000: Presented to The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout "Bang!"
2001: Presented to Viliumas Malinauskas of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World".
2002: Presented to Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device.
2003: Presented to Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People. Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India.
2004: Presented to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
2005: Presented jointly to Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of University of Newcastle, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."
looks like the improb.com site has been slashdotted, so had to resort to shamelessly rip the info off wikipedia.
Australian Computer Society now wants to introduce a test for competency in cricket, the national sport of Australia. The step is expected to discourage a heavy influx of foreign workers.
er..wait a minute..isnt cricket the stuff then Indians play day and night...
guess it wont work out....
ones and zeros remind me, now that an Indian discovered zero, why not stop using that dirty zero as well, or the decimal system as well, or the digits(damn arabs bought them to Eupore, that makes it even more dirtier aint it??), wont make much of a difference will it?..or wait...binar.y..well u better screw PC's and take up reading Pol Pot's autobiography..and make sure it aint printed in India ink;)
hmm reducing population???like do what???outsource population reduction to the Tiananmen Movers Corportion?????or to Osama Fliers-and-cleaners??? Do all articles referring to India need to have an obligatory flamebait by an ignorant IQ(x)IQ(potato) 'person' ????? I tell you what, your thinking is no better than Pol Pot, who killed over a million teachers, academicians and technicians, when he was ruling the present day Cambodia, in the pretext of setting up a 'self-sufficient agrarian socienty'.
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Who owns the ARM license right now? Motorola Mobility or Motorola solutions
App developer should realize that there is a world outside the US [and Europe], where:
1. Phones are sold unlocked more as a rule than an exception.
2. Enthusiasts change phones frequently
3. There is a big market for cheaper and second hand/older gen. 'smart' phones.
Android fits in well for these market. This is also the exact reason for the abysmal sale of iPhone 3G/3GS in India and China.
The article sadly doesn't seem to point the Government efforts to provide the non IMEI mobiles with a valid IMEI number. For the last few monthes, a person could have taken their el-cheapo Chinese phones to a designated centre and get a genuine IMEI number 'installed' on the phone for a sum of INR 199 [USD 4]. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Chinese-mobile-handsets-to-get-Indian-identity/articleshow/5286535.cms
The real deal will be when GM launches the 2010 Chevy Spark on which the Skids were based
1) car insurance is compulsory in India, covers the car, not the driver. Takes care of damages to the car as well as to the victims. ....thus spoke the western overlord..go back to your bullock cart...you deserve not what you hath not?
2) Safety standards exist, albeit for the typical India roads where the speed limits rarely exceed 50 km/hr [convert this to m/hr yourself , please].
3) Nano is compliant with Euro 4, the present European emission standards.
4) Gross mis-information, smacks of ignorance at best and racism at worst.
5)
and well the price of petrol [gasoline] has been hovering around the $4/gallon mark for last 4 years in India.
cant these guys just move their servers to India [or elsewhere for that matter], and simply proceed to show Hasbro the middle finger, a-la pirate bay? ..on second thoughts maybe facebook will face all the fire in the hell then...
Considering the power that the Reliance conglomerate wields in India, I would not be surprise if it was NRSA that provided the satellite data.
A bit off topic, for the sake of clarification, it's not Arabic numerals, its Hindu-arabic or Indo-Arabic numerals.
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irony meet your elder cousin...
Well the whole exercise is funded by the consumers. The government manages what is called the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a fund to offset the subsidized operations in the rural areas by the government owned telcos(while the private operators enjoy the moolah they rake in the high-growth urban areas). All the telcos contribute 5% of their revenues to this fund. TFA states that the fund already has an unutilized INR 91.94 billion(apprx. USD 2.24 billion) lying idle. Considering that the last mile connectivity is in place (atleast on paper ;) ). The investment shall remain in establishing the interweb infrastructure. Moreover, government also talks of proactive web-hosting by the ISP's so that the traffic can be contained within the fibers in the country(so as to try and save on international connectivity tariffs).
no mention of outsourcing or cows or curry till now.....
A small clarification: In India sale of beef is banned in 13 states and three Union Territories, while its legal in the remaining 15 states and three Union Territories. Another heartbreaking fact for Holy-cow brand of joke crackers is that India is actually a majority non-vegetarian country as shown in this survey: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/08/14/stories/20060 81403771200.htm
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All hail the wonderful world of contextual ads!!!!!!
ever heard of the word 'outsourcing' ????
sorry for the screwed up formatting, not my fault!!!!new /. system somehow didnt show me the preview :(
This is what Ignobles are supposed to be for, infact they awarded the 1st ignoble peace price to Edward Teller, the 'father' of hydrogen bomb. Here's the interesting peace prize list: 1991: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars weapons system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it. 1992: Daryl Gates, former police chief of the City of Los Angeles, for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together. 1993: The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history 1994: Presented to John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C. 1995: Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations. 1996: Presented to Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. 1997: Presented to Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England, for his report "The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods." 1998: Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs. 1999: Presented to Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing the Blaster, an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower. 2000: Presented to The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout "Bang!" 2001: Presented to Viliumas Malinauskas of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World". 2002: Presented to Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device. 2003: Presented to Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People. Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India. 2004: Presented to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other. 2005: Presented jointly to Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of University of Newcastle, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars." looks like the improb.com site has been slashdotted, so had to resort to shamelessly rip the info off wikipedia.
Australian Computer Society now wants to introduce a test for competency in cricket, the national sport of Australia. The step is expected to discourage a heavy influx of foreign workers. er..wait a minute..isnt cricket the stuff then Indians play day and night... guess it wont work out....
lol forget kansas, look at /. , espcially when it comes to the filthy-cow-loving-starving-Indians
Josef Boobsucksky Thriller .. ..
ofcourse it would be 'From RIAA With Love'
...and another crackpot comment gets (max)modded insightful
CowboyNeal!!!!!
ones and zeros remind me, now that an Indian discovered zero, why not stop using that dirty zero as well, or the decimal system as well, or the digits(damn arabs bought them to Eupore, that makes it even more dirtier aint it??), wont make much of a difference will it?..or wait...binar.y..well u better screw PC's and take up reading Pol Pot's autobiography..and make sure it aint printed in India ink ;)
its not about the usefulness of outlook, but the lack of options when it comes to clients for M$ Exchange Servers
hmm reducing population???like do what???outsource population reduction to the Tiananmen Movers Corportion?????or to Osama Fliers-and-cleaners??? Do all articles referring to India need to have an obligatory flamebait by an ignorant IQ(x)IQ(potato) 'person' ????? I tell you what, your thinking is no better than Pol Pot, who killed over a million teachers, academicians and technicians, when he was ruling the present day Cambodia, in the pretext of setting up a 'self-sufficient agrarian socienty'.
...too mush leftover whishkey...*hic*