One of my hopes when reading/. is that the level of education of people here is at least slightly above average. I don't know where you're from, but the sad fact is that both in the US and in parts of Europe, many people are unaware of the basic geographical and cultural differences between middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and far eastern countries like India.
In terms of law, India is/far/ more advanced than many countries in the world.
- Separation between religion and state (expressed in the constitution as the nation being secular) actually works in India unlike many countries. India currently has a Sikh Prime Minister and a Muslim President. Whats more, our Muslim President has an advanced enough and open enough view of religion that he is a scholar and a practitioner of the often contradictory Hinduism and Islam.
- India is the worlds largest democracy. There's a billion people in India, and there's no country with a population even close to it thats a democracy in which the democratic process works as well as it does in India. And you honestly think that a working democracy would make laws to chop hands off citizens?
- Like mentioned in a previous post, India has joined other progressive (read non-US) countries in placing more value on human life - the death penalty exists, but is very rarely used. I think in the past several years, 1 person has been executed.
Please quit making completely unwarranted, unjustified, and most of all, uneducated comments. Your time is better spent actually looking up some information Wikipedia or elsewhere on the web every now and then. There's nothing healthier than doing that.
The motivation is this: Virgina allows only "state-approved" calculators to be used in standardized tests. If you don't send your calculator back and receive the fixed one, you won't be allowed to take your test with the old calculator.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Assessment/Calculato rUseonSOLTests.pdf
Not everyone might be as organized as you are. Many people like to throw their files all in one folder, and spend time figuring out what they want. Meta-data searching will hopefully reduce the time to retrive.
The major problem with Windows Find is that results are not indexed and cached. An analogy would be a user typing a word into google, and google *initiating* a web crawl to go through thousands and thousans of servers to find the word. That is simply inefficient if you search frequently. A utility as simple as "locate" or "slocate" has solved this problem under Unix for ages.
After installing Google deskstop, I have used it several times, though I should add that I've used it much less than I thought I would.
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In terms of law, India is /far/ more advanced than many countries in the world.
- Separation between religion and state (expressed in the constitution as the nation being secular) actually works in India unlike many countries. India currently has a Sikh Prime Minister and a Muslim President. Whats more, our Muslim President has an advanced enough and open enough view of religion that he is a scholar and a practitioner of the often contradictory Hinduism and Islam.
- India is the worlds largest democracy. There's a billion people in India, and there's no country with a population even close to it thats a democracy in which the democratic process works as well as it does in India. And you honestly think that a working democracy would make laws to chop hands off citizens?
- Like mentioned in a previous post, India has joined other progressive (read non-US) countries in placing more value on human life - the death penalty exists, but is very rarely used. I think in the past several years, 1 person has been executed.
Please quit making completely unwarranted, unjustified, and most of all, uneducated comments. Your time is better spent actually looking up some information Wikipedia or elsewhere on the web every now and then. There's nothing healthier than doing that.
The motivation is this: Virgina allows only "state-approved" calculators to be used in standardized tests. If you don't send your calculator back and receive the fixed one, you won't be allowed to take your test with the old calculator. http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Assessment/Calculato rUseonSOLTests.pdf
Nice. Those google engineers must be loading up on Google Gulp!
This works too:
more junk on TV == less channel switching == no need for fancy remote controls
....I want to wake up with that clock in my room, but I definitely would like to wake up with its inventor: http://web.media.mit.edu/~nanda/
Not everyone might be as organized as you are. Many people like to throw their files all in one folder, and spend time figuring out what they want. Meta-data searching will hopefully reduce the time to retrive. The major problem with Windows Find is that results are not indexed and cached. An analogy would be a user typing a word into google, and google *initiating* a web crawl to go through thousands and thousans of servers to find the word. That is simply inefficient if you search frequently. A utility as simple as "locate" or "slocate" has solved this problem under Unix for ages. After installing Google deskstop, I have used it several times, though I should add that I've used it much less than I thought I would.