The sad part is that most people's idea of privacy is "You close your eyes" rather than "me hide stuff". So as a result, Writely is going to be the next "in thing" for the next few months atleast solely because "Do No Evil" Google made it.
(I know they didn't make it; they bought it. But that's what most will assume anyways)
It's not necessarily that way. It's entirely possible to code to the standards and still whip out a page that looks good on both IE and Firefox (and KHTML, Opera, etc.). It just requires developers to work a wee bit harder. you're paid by the hour anyway aren't you?
to be honest I think affirmative action tends to cause people to think more about the segregation of the sexes
Very true. I understand that point too.
in the long term what needs to be changed is people's attitudes
Yes, but it's not at all that easy. In case of raceism/casteism it's possible that in such a large world people will some day forget about these differences if we do not highlight them. But in case of men and women the segregation will always be there, whether or not there is any affirmitive action doesn't matter.
If we decide to get in women and train them (in FOSS for eg), they can go forward and tell the others how they enjoy it. It's basically like spreading the word. It would cause bad blood between men and women if there was a case of snatching the Mans apple to give to the Woman. But that's not the case here.
The idea is, coax the women a little more to get them interested in the first place. Once that happens they're on the same playing field as the men. All these foundations are coaxing the women with their training programs.
Maybe, just maybe, if women (or minorities or the handicapped, etc) can be provided with a supportive environment, we'll find that women are interested in tech. Maybe we'll even find that some women can be really good at it.
I can back that up with an emample. My fiancee is a geek of sorts and I recently got her started with a debian base system. She is now building up to a full system herself. The key is that whenever we talk tech I don't fool around and I treat her like an equal.
Face it, women are less attracted to IT than men, just like men are less attracted to fashion decoration than women.
Some of the best fashion designers in the world are Men. The best cooks in the world are men. Saying that women are less attracted "by nature" towards IT is stupid. A woman (or a man for that matter) will be inclined to a certain field/idea according to her (his) upbringing.
And if they're not then why the need for affirmative action?
To account for all the brainwashing of women by the society over time making them believe that their only job is to take care of the household and satisfy their men.
Take a look at all the jokes, the discrimination is still there and will remain until any affirmitive action is taken.
I'll make my own browser, and it will be supercool and it will support CSS 4.0 and the ACID test will totally look awesomer in CSS 4.0 because it will support 3-D web browsing!!!
At the beginning of time, the universe was perfectly symmetrical
That is assuming you have a beginning to time, which doesn't seem to be a very smart assumption. A better way to put it would probably be at a certain time t; consider it to be 0 for simplicity in calculation.
That begs another question, if at time t the universe was perfectly symmetrical then what about time tx
(I'm no physicist, if you are then I'd love it if you could clear my doubts)
Most Indian CS majors (not talking about IIT grads here) come out just knowing C#/VB.NET
Actually, No. Most Indian CS majors come out knowing nothing more than basic C/C++ and probably a bit of Java. Their projects are almost always in VB6 as development is very quick n easy on it. C/C++ knowledge is more or less theoretical as our education system gives more importance to theory than practice.
Most CS guys in India go by hype and industry requirement and that means it's either.Net or J2EE..Net, like VB, is preferred again because it's easier to learn (drag and drop controls, etc.). In fact, many devs here tout C#/VB.Net as difficult platforms to learn as they're not as braindead as VB6.
Also, there is very less genuine interest in software development and CS on the whole. S/W Development is a means to earn money, nothing more.
Its hard to find programmers in India with Mac OS x experiance, or even *nix experiance.
You might still get many with *nix experience but Mac OSX, not a chance. There's hardly anyone in India who *uses* Macs in the first place; PCs are way cheaper, especially with a pirated copy of Windows and all its apps.
It's the perfect case of ignoring a person all the while and later coming up to him and saying "hey, where have you been hiding all this time?". I guess by reclusive they mean that he doesn't keep shouting his own name off the top of a hill.
I don't think Linus is reclusive, just that the "corporate world" prefers to use his creation without giving him much due.
While there will be many posts claiming that he's not THE leader of OSS there is absolutely no doubt that he is one of the most important figures in the OSS revolution along with RMS, Bruce Perens/Eric Raymond, Ian Murdock, etc.
How effective would outsourced network monitoring be if the time difference between India and the U.S. is more than 9 hours?
How about 24x7 monitoring at a cheaper cost? I'm going out on one leg here because even I'm not sure how they're gonna pull this off but lets consider this for a second:
The admin team size in the US could be reduced to half (even less) and equivalent teams set up in India
This "right sizing" would probably put the axe more on the night shift guys so that the same work could be performed in the day in India. That should be a big saver as I assume night shifts cost more.
The team in US is there only for emergencies i.e. for network failures, h/w failures, etc.
I'm not sure about the quality of service though. We're facing a huge shortage of skills here in India.
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist, not even close actually;-)
Probably this reversal has something to do with erbium. It gives a characteristic sharp absorption spectra in visible light, ultraviolet, and near infrared [Wikipedia].
When a photon is released due to de-excitation, it may go any way (including right back into the fibre and outside). Could that explain the reverse light?
Also, could it be that erbium is actually slowing down the incident beam and thus what Prof Boyd saw at the other end wasn't exactly the incident pulse coming out at all?
Probably some physics experts could help out here.
The more I see Dvorak submissions on Slashdot the more I'm convinced. John Dvorak himself probably submits his articles to Slashdot so that they get noticed (and ridiculed, but thats a different matter). Slashdot has become a guaranteed salary generator of sorts for Dvorak.
I'm not sure exactly what the link was; been more than a month now since I had seen that. Probably some IE7 beta tester here could confim it.
But given Microsoft and their love for closed and 'secure' schemes there must be some noodly way to change the default search engine. Hence the possibility of a binary installer is quite high.
Slashdot Mirror
Where's SCO...
The sad part is that most people's idea of privacy is "You close your eyes" rather than "me hide stuff". So as a result, Writely is going to be the next "in thing" for the next few months atleast solely because "Do No Evil" Google made it.
(I know they didn't make it; they bought it. But that's what most will assume anyways)
I guess you haven't tried NetHack yet. It gets you really really hooked.
Very true. I understand that point too.
Yes, but it's not at all that easy. In case of raceism/casteism it's possible that in such a large world people will some day forget about these differences if we do not highlight them. But in case of men and women the segregation will always be there, whether or not there is any affirmitive action doesn't matter.
If we decide to get in women and train them (in FOSS for eg), they can go forward and tell the others how they enjoy it. It's basically like spreading the word. It would cause bad blood between men and women if there was a case of snatching the Mans apple to give to the Woman. But that's not the case here.
The idea is, coax the women a little more to get them interested in the first place. Once that happens they're on the same playing field as the men. All these foundations are coaxing the women with their training programs.
To account for all the brainwashing of women by the society over time making them believe that their only job is to take care of the household and satisfy their men.
Take a look at all the jokes, the discrimination is still there and will remain until any affirmitive action is taken.
And we'll call it Firefox Forever
At the beginning of time, the universe was perfectly symmetrical
That is assuming you have a beginning to time, which doesn't seem to be a very smart assumption. A better way to put it would probably be at a certain time t; consider it to be 0 for simplicity in calculation.
That begs another question, if at time t the universe was perfectly symmetrical then what about time tx
(I'm no physicist, if you are then I'd love it if you could clear my doubts)
$699
or is this just a short phase to gain publicity
Yes
but rather for Linux in the general sense
;-)
I think you misspelt *GNU/Linux*
Then use XFCE. I just installed the 4.4 beta version and that thing looks awesome without the memory hog of Gnome :)
The sample size is also very different. Netcraft has a sample of over 85 million sites while Security Space has a sample of less than 20 million.
Most Indian CS majors (not talking about IIT grads here) come out just knowing C#/VB .NET
.Net or J2EE. .Net, like VB, is preferred again because it's easier to learn (drag and drop controls, etc.). In fact, many devs here tout C#/VB.Net as difficult platforms to learn as they're not as braindead as VB6.
Actually, No. Most Indian CS majors come out knowing nothing more than basic C/C++ and probably a bit of Java. Their projects are almost always in VB6 as development is very quick n easy on it. C/C++ knowledge is more or less theoretical as our education system gives more importance to theory than practice.
Most CS guys in India go by hype and industry requirement and that means it's either
Also, there is very less genuine interest in software development and CS on the whole. S/W Development is a means to earn money, nothing more.
Its hard to find programmers in India with Mac OS x experiance, or even *nix experiance.
You might still get many with *nix experience but Mac OSX, not a chance. There's hardly anyone in India who *uses* Macs in the first place; PCs are way cheaper, especially with a pirated copy of Windows and all its apps.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 05/0040225&from=rss
This quote was made by Jonathan Murray on Code Breakers, a series on FOSS that aired on BBC World on 11th and 18th May.
Among other things he also called Open Source as a "friend" and "competition" which is a "good thing".
It's the perfect case of ignoring a person all the while and later coming up to him and saying "hey, where have you been hiding all this time?". I guess by reclusive they mean that he doesn't keep shouting his own name off the top of a hill.
I don't think Linus is reclusive, just that the "corporate world" prefers to use his creation without giving him much due.
While there will be many posts claiming that he's not THE leader of OSS there is absolutely no doubt that he is one of the most important figures in the OSS revolution along with RMS, Bruce Perens/Eric Raymond, Ian Murdock, etc.
Thank you, Linus and Steve.
;-)
Who, Linus Torvalds and Steve Ballmer?
How about 24x7 monitoring at a cheaper cost? I'm going out on one leg here because even I'm not sure how they're gonna pull this off but lets consider this for a second:
I'm not sure about the quality of service though. We're facing a huge shortage of skills here in India.
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist, not even close actually ;-)
Probably this reversal has something to do with erbium. It gives a characteristic sharp absorption spectra in visible light, ultraviolet, and near infrared [Wikipedia].
When a photon is released due to de-excitation, it may go any way (including right back into the fibre and outside). Could that explain the reverse light?
Also, could it be that erbium is actually slowing down the incident beam and thus what Prof Boyd saw at the other end wasn't exactly the incident pulse coming out at all?
Probably some physics experts could help out here.
The more I see Dvorak submissions on Slashdot the more I'm convinced. John Dvorak himself probably submits his articles to Slashdot so that they get noticed (and ridiculed, but thats a different matter). Slashdot has become a guaranteed salary generator of sorts for Dvorak.
I'm not sure exactly what the link was; been more than a month now since I had seen that. Probably some IE7 beta tester here could confim it.
But given Microsoft and their love for closed and 'secure' schemes there must be some noodly way to change the default search engine. Hence the possibility of a binary installer is quite high.