I wonder how many grad students and academics of this study are on visas themselves, and how it might lead to an interesting paradox. (did not read TFA, this is./ afterall)
I might be missing something, but how is it significantly different from the work on languages such as WSDL used to describe Web Services? Is this just a JavaScript/REST version of the same?
I am teaching a friend the basics of programming, and Python is what I have chosen. Books such as Learn Python the Hard Way [found its ref on StackOverflow, and liked it] are very good for someone who wants to learn programming on their own time.
That said, I think a lesson in the basics of flowcharting (inputs, outputs, conditionals, loops using counters and conditionals) goes a long way to prepare the student for programming languages.
HTML/CSS+JS is relevant given
how many apps are web apps now, and the developer will likely need to work on it anyway
Writing short snippets of markup + code can give some very instant gratification
... from the US govt. having laws in place for (warranted) interception of communication.
The article does not say that the govt. is asking for warrantless wiretaps (at least not according to the BBC article that the USA Today article cites). I have friends in the Indian govt. eavesdropping community, and they talk about how oversight is very strong there, and access to such data needs a warrant and is logged.
So, what exactly is the problem here? Or are we demanding different standards for companies in US and India?
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How about the Antrix corporation ?
On a serious note, what are the prospects for international organizations bidding for the contracts? What are the implications?
Something that the article missed was that 2 years ago, an IIT engineer was gunned down in the state of Bihar because he blew the whistle on some of his seniors who were awarding contracts for the highway construction illegally. The most shocking part was that his letter to the ministry, which was marked highly confidential, was subject to the usual beaurocratic chain in the ministry, which led to the blowing of his cover and his death. The culprits have still not been brought to the book. However, this started a movement which is driving the creation of a whistleblower protection act in the Indian parliament.
More information about Satyendra Dubey is at the website of the S.K.Dubey foundation against corruption.
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Another possibility raised by the skeptics is that, particularly in the case of the specimen with a small braincase, the discoverers happened to come on a people suffering from a condition known as microencephaly. The disease causes abnormal brain growth and other deformities.
How does one confuse a leopard with a puma, especially when the animal in question is not running, but lying dead in front of you?
Or maybe they are talking about mysterious out-of-place big cats that alternate between two shapes:-?
Being someone who did his undergrad from India [owning a PIII PC back then], let me give you some figures:
A standard PC [P4-2.4 Ghz, 512MB RAM,... ] costs Rs. 20K+ [you can go to http://www.npithub.com/ and configure your PC]
and since 10K < 20K, this new system is still cheaper, and as someone said, fulfils the need for a lot of people.
Also, these things can be used by "communities" who can together pay for this kind of hardware. There are already experiments underway in which farmers can see market prices for cattle etc. from the village post-office before going for a sale.
Excellent Point. I wish I had some mod points to mod you up!
Anyways, did anyone notice that another problem the prefetch creates is bandwidth costs on poor websites. Does GWA follow robots.txt [I guess not, since then a lot of sites will be off bounds]?
I actually started a discussion on the sex determination of visitors sometime ago on my crazy ideas blog. You may want to read/contribute.... would be interesting though to figure out the gender of the visitor.
Guess they just stole some idea from there for this statistic:-).
I submitted this news last night, I wonder why it was not posted.
Before you mod me down or reply with flames.. I must tell you that I have read the FAQ and find no reason why that story should have been rejected and this one accepted...
read http://animeshpathak.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-googl e-maps-slashdot-and-yours.html for my complaints on this issue.
I wonder why, I wonder why,.. I wonder why I wonder [with apologies to Richard Feynman]
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder how many grad students and academics of this study are on visas themselves, and how it might lead to an interesting paradox. ./ afterall)
(did not read TFA, this is
I might be missing something, but how is it significantly different from the work on languages such as WSDL used to describe Web Services? Is this just a JavaScript/REST version of the same?
Thanks,
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I am teaching a friend the basics of programming, and Python is what I have chosen. Books such as Learn Python the Hard Way [found its ref on StackOverflow, and liked it] are very good for someone who wants to learn programming on their own time.
That said, I think a lesson in the basics of flowcharting (inputs, outputs, conditionals, loops using counters and conditionals) goes a long way to prepare the student for programming languages.
HTML/CSS+JS is relevant given
The above is from feedback from my friend. YMMV.
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For those who are getting a slashdotted server, here is the video.
... from the US govt. having laws in place for (warranted) interception of communication.
The article does not say that the govt. is asking for warrantless wiretaps (at least not according to the BBC article that the USA Today article cites). I have friends in the Indian govt. eavesdropping community, and they talk about how oversight is very strong there, and access to such data needs a warrant and is logged.
So, what exactly is the problem here? Or are we demanding different standards for companies in US and India?
Thanks.
Maybe she can switch to using that page?
Thanks,
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Agreed. And why can't they use the Google AJAX search API?
from TFA, the IP mistake was made by an employee of the ISP - Bharti Airtel
Here it is. Free registration/bugmenot required :-).
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... I use LaTeX. The commented text stays only in my .tex file.
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How about the Antrix corporation ?
On a serious note, what are the prospects for international organizations bidding for the contracts? What are the implications?
Something that the article missed was that 2 years ago, an IIT engineer was gunned down in the state of Bihar because he blew the whistle on some of his seniors who were awarding contracts for the highway construction illegally. The most shocking part was that his letter to the ministry, which was marked highly confidential, was subject to the usual beaurocratic chain in the ministry, which led to the blowing of his cover and his death. The culprits have still not been brought to the book. However, this started a movement which is driving the creation of a whistleblower protection act in the Indian parliament.
More information about Satyendra Dubey is at the website of the S.K.Dubey foundation against corruption.
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From the article:
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"... believed to be a leopard or puma..."
:-?
How does one confuse a leopard with a puma, especially when the animal in question is not running, but lying dead in front of you?
Or maybe they are talking about mysterious out-of-place big cats that alternate between two shapes
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I would say the average user does not even know that other OSs exist, or for that matter, what an Operating System is.
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... and said home is 3.2 km from the exchange as the crow flies (plus or minus GPS error), ...
:-)
Wow.. I didn't know crows used GPS
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Being someone who did his undergrad from India [owning a PIII PC back then], let me give you some figures:
A standard PC [P4-2.4 Ghz, 512MB RAM,... ] costs Rs. 20K+ [you can go to http://www.npithub.com/ and configure your PC]
and since 10K < 20K, this new system is still cheaper, and as someone said, fulfils the need for a lot of people.
Also, these things can be used by "communities" who can together pay for this kind of hardware. There are already experiments underway in which farmers can see market prices for cattle etc. from the village post-office before going for a sale.
My 2 cents.
Excellent Point. I wish I had some mod points to mod you up!
Anyways, did anyone notice that another problem the prefetch creates is bandwidth costs on poor websites. Does GWA follow robots.txt [I guess not, since then a lot of sites will be off bounds]?
My 2 cents.
_NOW_ you tell me... :-(
Well then... its back to the theatre for me... where is my towel!
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" - What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
" - You ask a glass of water."
I actually started a discussion on the sex determination of visitors sometime ago on my crazy ideas blog. You may want to read/contribute .... would be interesting though to figure out the gender of the visitor.
:-).
Guess they just stole some idea from there for this statistic
I submitted this news last night, I wonder why it was not posted. Before you mod me down or reply with flames.. I must tell you that I have read the FAQ and find no reason why that story should have been rejected and this one accepted... read http://animeshpathak.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-googl e-maps-slashdot-and-yours.html for my complaints on this issue.
I wonder why, I wonder why, .. I wonder why I wonder [with apologies to Richard Feynman]