I think the RSS/Shiv Sena guys are just using this to have their periodic 15 seconds of fame. As far as cafe owners censoring Orkut is concerned: It won't happen. The number of orkut users from India is really high. Its the cafe owner's bread and butter.
I totally agree. Especially the remark "...but try to find a basic C-only programmer today, and you'll likely find a guy that's unemployed and/or training for a new skill." That is just a plain stupid statement. There are many C only programmers who code firmware and are happily employed. And the "training for a new skill" part is plain defense. Everyone is training for a new skill.
The technology could help small businesses and schools in developing countries reduce their computer costs and could even work in homes where more than one family member needs access.
I somehow don't like the idea of two people sharing the same PC. The personal computer won't be personal anymore.
Yes I agree with you. The logo design looks amateurish. It doesn't do justice to the capabilities of GIMP. Previous logos have been much better than this one.
You want to make the picture more vibrant, get rid of red-eye, remove an object from the scene, and maybe swap the heads of the people in the picture" After all, all these things are easy to describe, so they must be easy to make as a one-click tool, right?
Even recoginizing which part of the photo is a head is a hard enough job. CMU has special face analysis projects. Check this out it is pretty cool : http://demo.pittpatt.com/
Google has come with innovative ideas in areas which already had a lot of major players and were able to give them a run for their money. Gmail is a good example. I don't see why this can't happen in the IM world.
I don't think that the title of this article needs to be taken that seriously. Neither do I think that the makers of this "robot" intend it to replace musicians. I think it is more of a fun DIY.
Just thinking if you combine this one with the drum playing robot you will pretty much have a band.
Suppose you have a gmail account. Let all the mails you get except from your own gmail account be forwarded to your gmail account. Then let gmail forward the mails back to your original account. You have yourself a spam filter.
Very true. I would say if you want to build a Linux system from scratch and also use it in the future, you would be better of with Gentoo. Doing a stage 1 install will let you learn a lot. Also you have a nice packaging system (portage) which does the dirty job of keeping track of dependencies etc.
As well, they will be a hit with developing countries. Cheapness without the ambiguity of a white-box.
Another thing these are not at all cheap in developing countries. I'm from India. The A9Home costs 499 Pounds which translates to around 40,000 Indian Rs which is a lot for a desktop computer which doesn't have a monitor. We can get assembled PCs (with monitor, speakers etc) for around 25,000 Indian Rs
The costs are low, therefore people who have given that excuse to not owning a computer will be happy to buy. Usage is simple, which will appeal to the same group of people.
I don't think that people who haven't owned a computer till now will go and buy one which doesn't have a monitor and runs RISC OS. IMHO they will be more comfortable buying a standard PC running windows.
They will be useful for clusters (ie. Beowolf)
Technically Beowulf clusters are diskless along with not having monitors,mice etc.
Spyware is a general term used for software that performs certain behaviors such as advertising, collecting personal information, or changing the configuration of your computer, generally without appropriately obtaining your consent. You might have spyware or other unwanted software on your computer if:
You see pop-up advertisements even when you're not on the Web.
The page your Web browser first opens to (your home page) or your browser search settings have changed without your knowledge.
You notice a new toolbar in your browser that you didn't want, and find it difficult to get rid of.
Your computer takes longer than usual to complete certain tasks.
You experience a sudden rise in computer crashes.
Oddly enough Internet explorer satisfies all the above, maybe Microsoft AntiSpyware should remove it.:)
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I don't think that these missions are too serious enough and they are surely not sending people up there (FTA Five months later, Musk used some of his estimated $328 million fortune to fund Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), with the ambitious -- some might say absurd -- goal of building a rocket that would send small payloads into low-Earth orbit at one-tenth the going rate in the United States.).
So maintainance is really not the prime concern. IMO the real concern would be to get the rockets into space, which in itself would be a great achievement.
So why not have the people working on Hurd work on something new instead, or work on improving Linux? Competition can also hurt, by splitting up the resources into many small parts...
No, that would be bad. The amount of research going into OS research these days is already very less. The linux kernel itself has a very old monolithic kernel design unlike the mach or L4 which are multilithic. And AFAIK the Linux developers would not be too keen to work with the HURD developers.
Well first of all it is legal to have pornographic material on your computer in India, but it is not legal to trade porn (irony).
The tape in question, is being seen in India, as not any ordinary porn movie, but it has become more of a scandal (which,IMO, has blown out of proportion). This is mainly because things like these don't happen in India everyday.
Parents are now even worried about giving Cell phones with cameras to their kids (for those of you who didn't know the tape was shot with the help of a phone and got transferred all over with the help of MMS).
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I think the RSS/Shiv Sena guys are just using this to have their periodic 15 seconds of fame. As far as cafe owners censoring Orkut is concerned: It won't happen. The number of orkut users from India is really high. Its the cafe owner's bread and butter.
I totally agree. Especially the remark "...but try to find a basic C-only programmer today, and you'll likely find a guy that's unemployed and/or training for a new skill." That is just a plain stupid statement. There are many C only programmers who code firmware and are happily employed. And the "training for a new skill" part is plain defense. Everyone is training for a new skill.
I somehow don't like the idea of two people sharing the same PC. The personal computer won't be personal anymore.
I won't say that it is a biased view. Its the truth more or less :)
Associated comic. Happened a long time ago.
Yes I agree with you. The logo design looks amateurish. It doesn't do justice to the capabilities of GIMP. Previous logos have been much better than this one.
One of my friends has a Geforce 7800 GTX. Here are some screenshots of Farcry with HDR enabled.
Even recoginizing which part of the photo is a head is a hard enough job. CMU has special face analysis projects. Check this out it is pretty cool : http://demo.pittpatt.com/
Nicely put, I totally agree with you :)
Google has come with innovative ideas in areas which already had a lot of major players and were able to give them a run for their money. Gmail is a good example. I don't see why this can't happen in the IM world.
Very true, but this was not the case a few days back. I'm pretty happy that they changed their interface.
I disagree and so would a lot of people.
I don't think that the title of this article needs to be taken that seriously. Neither do I think that the makers of this "robot" intend it to replace musicians. I think it is more of a fun DIY. Just thinking if you combine this one with the drum playing robot you will pretty much have a band.
Suppose you have a gmail account. Let all the mails you get except from your own gmail account be forwarded to your gmail account. Then let gmail forward the mails back to your original account. You have yourself a spam filter.
Very true. I would say if you want to build a Linux system from scratch and also use it in the future, you would be better of with Gentoo. Doing a stage 1 install will let you learn a lot. Also you have a nice packaging system (portage) which does the dirty job of keeping track of dependencies etc.
Ya one could alwyas google /. but to /. google is a totally different thing.
Another thing these are not at all cheap in developing countries. I'm from India. The A9Home costs 499 Pounds which translates to around 40,000 Indian Rs which is a lot for a desktop computer which doesn't have a monitor. We can get assembled PCs (with monitor, speakers etc) for around 25,000 Indian Rs
I don't think that people who haven't owned a computer till now will go and buy one which doesn't have a monitor and runs RISC OS. IMHO they will be more comfortable buying a standard PC running windows.
They will be useful for clusters (ie. Beowolf)
Technically Beowulf clusters are diskless along with not having monitors,mice etc.
From the spec sheet [i] Makes a standard Linux cluster into a standalone computer [/i] I wonder how it does that...
Spyware is a general term used for software that performs certain behaviors such as advertising, collecting personal information, or changing the configuration of your computer, generally without appropriately obtaining your consent. You might have spyware or other unwanted software on your computer if:
Oddly enough Internet explorer satisfies all the above, maybe Microsoft AntiSpyware should remove it. :)
So maintainance is really not the prime concern. IMO the real concern would be to get the rockets into space, which in itself would be a great achievement.
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No, that would be bad. The amount of research going into OS research these days is already very less. The linux kernel itself has a very old monolithic kernel design unlike the mach or L4 which are multilithic. And AFAIK the Linux developers would not be too keen to work with the HURD developers.
Why did you have to wait for the arrival of mac mini to be able to switch over to Unix/Linux.. You could have switched before.
Well first of all it is legal to have pornographic material on your computer in India, but it is not legal to trade porn (irony). The tape in question, is being seen in India, as not any ordinary porn movie, but it has become more of a scandal (which ,IMO, has blown out of proportion). This is mainly because things like these don't happen in India everyday.
Parents are now even worried about giving Cell phones with cameras to their kids (for those of you who didn't know the tape was shot with the help of a phone and got transferred all over with the help of MMS).