Do you know where it measures on the corruption charts? The present government is a band of thugs out to sell out the nation and their grandmothers to the highest bidder.
And don't even mention the crime rate. The politicians, police and the mafia (who are synonymous with terrorism) are hand-in-glove. This is the price you pay for four decades of socialism, secularism and identity politics.
The referred laptops will most likely be channelised to the black market and end up as toys for the moneyed class. I agree that their right use can bring about a revolution, but if a black market exists for these computers, and obviously they'll be in high demand, they'll meet the same fate as subsidised rations under the failed Public Distribution System.
1. The spam did not originate from India. It originated from the US. Somebody, probably a US citizen paid Indians to do his dirty work. So it is a crime against your own people. Care to name it? 2. Indian citizens too are suffering from spam. Therefore, it is a crime against another sovereign nation. 3. The vast, vast majority of Indians have no part in, nor lend support to, this scam. 4. How many problems have you solved with bombing? 5. Vietnam 6. Korea etc. etc. n-3. Iraq-I n-2. Afghanistan n-1. Iraq-II n. Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
As a moderately successful finance professional, I make almost $33 per day. That is, 6 days per week, 9 hrs per day and no overtime pay. It rhymes, so it must be good.
As physical boundaries dissolve, equity will prevail increasingly. It is already making life harder (read: costlier) back here, with all the money flowing in to workers in call centres, BPOs and software.
And its various sects. And so do Buddhism, Jainism, Shintoism, anything-you-can-thinkaboutism. Religion is not a means to direct spiritual affairs. It has evolved as a set of guidelines about how to lead your life by reducing disharmony with your environment (to varying degrees, o constant cynic). It has also evolved from mankind's need to understand its environment, when the concept of scientific thought was in its infancy.
So tell us something new. Going by the doctrine of Islam, is Bill Gates qualified to lead a large, powerful nation?
This is one of innumerable instances where the bureaucracy (or an unbelievably numb part of it) will reclassify something at a whim and want to tax it. The motives are many - revenue to the exchequer, corruption, or just plain sadism.
You've got to meet some of these revenue officials to realize what absolute crud they are actually.
It should be clear to anybody having the slightest knowledge of business transactions and indirect taxation that the ISPs are not selling light energy, they are just providing data communication service. If we go by their logic, they would start levying VAT on the electrical charge in phone lines, microwaves for cellphones, radio waves, God knows what else.
And as the value of the 'goods' being sold is much higher than the input cost, namely electricity, the value added could be computed as a major chunk of the rental/data transmission charges unless allowed to be set off by connectivity expenses.
Oh well, not everyone in India has to worry about this, the tax is being assessed only in Karnataka, where Bangalore - and its most notorious, useless products are located. In a sense, it is moving forward quicker to the planned unification of VAT and Service Tax under GST. More power to you, o techie!
Every time I read about freedoms being curtailed in Canada, I wonder if I should have applied for emigrating there. Australia also does not seem to be much better.
"Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild and replace the OS X kernel from source code," wrote Tom Yager of InfoWorld. "Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS." Yager notes that users in demanding fields such as biosciences and meteorology frequently hack operating system kernels to trim, alter throughput, and open the resources of massive grids. "Even if I don't need to hack the kernel, knowing that I can affords me a level of self-sufficiency and insulation from vendors' whims that fixed system software, such as Windows', does not," Yager adds.
And this, his current profile on www.maxx.net (from ZoomInfo):
Tom has written and published hundreds of reviews, features and tutorials in magazines including BYTE, InfoWorld, Windows, Windows Sources, Windows User, UNIX World, PC World, Mobile Computing, Windows NT Systems, Videography, A/V Video, Video Systems, Pro Video Review and Digital Content Creation (DCC), among others. He is now a senior analyst for InfoWorld, in charge of software development coverage for the InfoWorld Test Center.
Has he slowly changed his loyalty?
I am really surprised at his prophecy about the Apple OS. With the current pricing and hardware lock-in, will it ever find a market in growing economies, or even outside of the US? Who needs an expensive, overpriced PC to execute his or her everyday task? And what about the enterprise market, servers, etc.?
Again, is the article summary inspired?
Microsoft and Apple aren't sending Linux away, just underground to do the job it was made for
And the last three paragraphs are astoundingly sci-fi.
Is this guy really qualified to make such broad assumptions and statements? I call it inspired, and FUD.
All major American, and certain European cities are under the threat of bombs, and not just normal bombs at that. You have the first world luxury of choosing from biological, chemical, nuclear and neurotic weapons. So why don't people speak about the threat to all technological and commercial sourcing?
So why the fuck is the bombing in Mumbai so important to/.? Are you all softbellies scared of getting outsourced?
Was it Baroda? Then we can wax eloquent about the $10 per month food at the hostel mess, and don't tell anybody how unhygienic and tasteless it all was.
The last time India's educated youth took up revolt was in the '70s, when the whole world believed in people power. And it was mostly socialist.
Apart from that, the only revolt independent India has seen has been religious, which, in case of Punjab, floundered mostly because there wasn't much merit to the militants' grouse. The other example is known well by everybody, and may not be resolved till another millennium, or till fossil fuels run out.
There was a time when the poor were oppressed by the rich, mostly businessmen. That was a good time to revolt, because the enemy was identifiable. Now, however, the oppressors are mostly the people voted to power by the very class.
Lower castes have much less to complain about as each year goes by, and the Governments go on introducing and increasing quotas everywhere, which is why students from the highest echelons of society have been holding mass protests recently.
Yet, there is not much chance of a popular revolt, as there is no common cause, no tangible reward. And in such a competitive land, where hundreds of thousands appear for the toughest tests in the world (read Civil Services and Chartered Accountancy), nobody can afford to let a day go waste.
India's current problems stem largely from votebank politics and greedy politicians (who are naturally supported by business and vested interests all over the world). Change is slow, growth is uneven and casualties are many, but the results are there for anyone to see and believe.
-clueless
Actually, it should be a part of the 0th law, except Gates, Ballmer et al. will disagree with rms whenever they can. So the first law should state:
1. A robot may not harm the founders, heirs of founders and principal shareholders of Microsoft, or, through inaction, allow the founders, heirs of founders and principal shareholders of Microsoft to come to harm, Microsoft Corp. be damned.
You're all dead wrong. It's not Iran, but Pakistan, which is much more likely to do such things. Ever since its formation, it has tried to establish itself as the leader of the Islamic world, by doing the deeds only those of its own kind find brave and commendable. They who hold Ghauri, Ghazni, Taimur Lung and Chengiz Khan to be heroes, unlike the rest of the world, who considers them the worst scoundrel in history.
And how did Pakistan get its nuclear weapons and missiles? By stealing designs from the US facilities, and getting blueprints and components from China and N.Korea.
And why doesn't the US treat Pakistan as it deserves, in spite of 9/11 and all? Because Pakistan is an effective counterweight in keeping India occupied, in spite of its proven role in global terrorism, arms smuggling and proliferation, narcotics hub and safe harbour for criminals of every kind - if they profess hate for India, Hindus, or the West. Yes, and Pakistan is also a convenient US military and intelligence (?) base in South Asia.
-clueless
Ever tried Ctrl + Shift + F with Adblock? *I've* never found it lacking in any respect. You should also try the Filterset.G extension as a companion to Adblock.
Why use two separate ad blockers when one is enough?
-clueless
Slashdot Mirror
Give 'em a break, will ya!
What's the harm in calling a spade a spade? Or is somebody astroturfing here?
Or is it another paralegal, only now with Boies, Schiller & Flexner / Flower?
Boo.
Now you can print your own pr0n. Or pony.
With stories like these, why bother to RTFA?
India?
Do you know where it measures on the corruption charts? The present government is a band of thugs out to sell out the nation and their grandmothers to the highest bidder.
And don't even mention the crime rate. The politicians, police and the mafia (who are synonymous with terrorism) are hand-in-glove. This is the price you pay for four decades of socialism, secularism and identity politics.
The referred laptops will most likely be channelised to the black market and end up as toys for the moneyed class. I agree that their right use can bring about a revolution, but if a black market exists for these computers, and obviously they'll be in high demand, they'll meet the same fate as subsidised rations under the failed Public Distribution System.
All these advances, no real remedy.
1. The spam did not originate from India. It originated from the US. Somebody, probably a US citizen paid Indians to do his dirty work. So it is a crime against your own people. Care to name it?
2. Indian citizens too are suffering from spam. Therefore, it is a crime against another sovereign nation.
3. The vast, vast majority of Indians have no part in, nor lend support to, this scam.
4. How many problems have you solved with bombing?
5. Vietnam
6. Korea
etc.
etc.
n-3. Iraq-I
n-2. Afghanistan
n-1. Iraq-II
n. Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
So whom should you bomb now?
As a moderately successful finance professional, I make almost $33 per day. That is, 6 days per week, 9 hrs per day and no overtime pay. It rhymes, so it must be good.
As physical boundaries dissolve, equity will prevail increasingly. It is already making life harder (read: costlier) back here, with all the money flowing in to workers in call centres, BPOs and software.
It's already there. Update Picasa through the Help menu entry or download it directly from http://picasa.google.com/
-clueless
And its various sects. And so do Buddhism, Jainism, Shintoism, anything-you-can-thinkaboutism. Religion is not a means to direct spiritual affairs. It has evolved as a set of guidelines about how to lead your life by reducing disharmony with your environment (to varying degrees, o constant cynic). It has also evolved from mankind's need to understand its environment, when the concept of scientific thought was in its infancy.
So tell us something new. Going by the doctrine of Islam, is Bill Gates qualified to lead a large, powerful nation?
heh...you half sound like India's ruling coalition. The other half of it of course will bay for your blood.
This is one of innumerable instances where the bureaucracy (or an unbelievably numb part of it) will reclassify something at a whim and want to tax it. The motives are many - revenue to the exchequer, corruption, or just plain sadism.
You've got to meet some of these revenue officials to realize what absolute crud they are actually.
It should be clear to anybody having the slightest knowledge of business transactions and indirect taxation that the ISPs are not selling light energy, they are just providing data communication service. If we go by their logic, they would start levying VAT on the electrical charge in phone lines, microwaves for cellphones, radio waves, God knows what else.
And as the value of the 'goods' being sold is much higher than the input cost, namely electricity, the value added could be computed as a major chunk of the rental/data transmission charges unless allowed to be set off by connectivity expenses.
Oh well, not everyone in India has to worry about this, the tax is being assessed only in Karnataka, where Bangalore - and its most notorious, useless products are located. In a sense, it is moving forward quicker to the planned unification of VAT and Service Tax under GST. More power to you, o techie!
-clueless
Every time I read about freedoms being curtailed in Canada, I wonder if I should have applied for emigrating there. Australia also does not seem to be much better.
Is it worth the pain?
I am really surprised at his prophecy about the Apple OS. With the current pricing and hardware lock-in, will it ever find a market in growing economies, or even outside of the US? Who needs an expensive, overpriced PC to execute his or her everyday task? And what about the enterprise market, servers, etc.?
Again, is the article summary inspired?
And the last three paragraphs are astoundingly sci-fi.Is this guy really qualified to make such broad assumptions and statements? I call it inspired, and FUD.
Very unamerican in your opinion, you are. Naturalized citizen, are you?
All major American, and certain European cities are under the threat of bombs, and not just normal bombs at that. You have the first world luxury of choosing from biological, chemical, nuclear and neurotic weapons. So why don't people speak about the threat to all technological and commercial sourcing?
/.? Are you all softbellies scared of getting outsourced?
So why the fuck is the bombing in Mumbai so important to
Mark me flamebait, lazy overpaid supremacist!
-clueless
Was it Baroda? Then we can wax eloquent about the $10 per month food at the hostel mess, and don't tell anybody how unhygienic and tasteless it all was.
-clueless
The last time India's educated youth took up revolt was in the '70s, when the whole world believed in people power. And it was mostly socialist. Apart from that, the only revolt independent India has seen has been religious, which, in case of Punjab, floundered mostly because there wasn't much merit to the militants' grouse. The other example is known well by everybody, and may not be resolved till another millennium, or till fossil fuels run out. There was a time when the poor were oppressed by the rich, mostly businessmen. That was a good time to revolt, because the enemy was identifiable. Now, however, the oppressors are mostly the people voted to power by the very class. Lower castes have much less to complain about as each year goes by, and the Governments go on introducing and increasing quotas everywhere, which is why students from the highest echelons of society have been holding mass protests recently. Yet, there is not much chance of a popular revolt, as there is no common cause, no tangible reward. And in such a competitive land, where hundreds of thousands appear for the toughest tests in the world (read Civil Services and Chartered Accountancy), nobody can afford to let a day go waste. India's current problems stem largely from votebank politics and greedy politicians (who are naturally supported by business and vested interests all over the world). Change is slow, growth is uneven and casualties are many, but the results are there for anyone to see and believe. -clueless
...I read the headline as "Supermodel Computes Sun's Corona Dynamics". Blame it on hectic Tuesday. But we would love to see the day, won't we?
-clueless
Actually, it should be a part of the 0th law, except Gates, Ballmer et al. will disagree with rms whenever they can. So the first law should state:
1. A robot may not harm the founders, heirs of founders and principal shareholders of Microsoft, or, through inaction, allow the founders, heirs of founders and principal shareholders of Microsoft to come to harm, Microsoft Corp. be damned.
-clueless
You're all dead wrong. It's not Iran, but Pakistan, which is much more likely to do such things. Ever since its formation, it has tried to establish itself as the leader of the Islamic world, by doing the deeds only those of its own kind find brave and commendable. They who hold Ghauri, Ghazni, Taimur Lung and Chengiz Khan to be heroes, unlike the rest of the world, who considers them the worst scoundrel in history. And how did Pakistan get its nuclear weapons and missiles? By stealing designs from the US facilities, and getting blueprints and components from China and N.Korea. And why doesn't the US treat Pakistan as it deserves, in spite of 9/11 and all? Because Pakistan is an effective counterweight in keeping India occupied, in spite of its proven role in global terrorism, arms smuggling and proliferation, narcotics hub and safe harbour for criminals of every kind - if they profess hate for India, Hindus, or the West. Yes, and Pakistan is also a convenient US military and intelligence (?) base in South Asia. -clueless
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bhrataha...
Ever tried Ctrl + Shift + F with Adblock? *I've* never found it lacking in any respect. You should also try the Filterset.G extension as a companion to Adblock. Why use two separate ad blockers when one is enough? -clueless
Concede.
/ahem/. Just had to do it.
Excuse me
-cl
You can just collect raindrop data on a 1m x 1m touch sensitive grid for a few hours every year. This is an easier, more accessible way.
How would an average person go about collecting Quasar data? How would he be able to trust the source?
-clueless