Closed-source programs? Binary installations? That's what you're worried about?
I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but I can't help feeling nervous about having to roast in DLL hell in Linux as well...
While I agree (hey, I couldn't see the White House in Google Earth...just bunches of white blocky images), the fact remains that the Indian govt. in general is totally clueless about technology.
Case in point: The constant reference to "GoogleEarth".
Plus it has history of setting up committees and expert groups which (most of the time) end up as a political spring break..
Americans are on the "if it ain't broke, don't improve it" mode, and when it comes to shrinking ressources, they are always caught with their pants down.
That reminds me of the story of how an organization with a muted red Tyrannosaurus Rex as its logo is busy upsetting the applecart of another much larger organization (which doesn't really have its own logo) headed by some guy whose name sounds like male goats and his man-at-arms who likes to throw chairs around...All because the latter organization decided they needn't work no longer improving stuff...
Do customers who acquire the Visual Studio Express products during the free promotional pricing period have to pay after the first year if they want to continue to use them?
No, as long as you download Visual Studio Express on or before November 7th 2006, you will not have to pay for it.
Practitioners of traditional medicines say their importance cannot be denied - according to the WHO, 70% of the people living in India use traditional medicine for primary health care.
Also, some 42% of the people living in the US and 70% of the people living in Canada have used traditional medicines at least once for treatment.
One has to ask how many of that Indian 70% depend on 'traditional' medicine out of choice. Most people in India simply cannot afford expensive 'modern' medicine.
On another note, the term "alternative medicine" has to be taken with a pinch of salt. A casual stroll through the marketplace of any major Indian city will reveal a surpsisingly large number of quacks peddling "miracle cures" through alternative medicine.
That said, Ayurveda is certainly a very effective form of treatment. Note the lack of comparison with 'modern' medicine - no authoritative research on this exists, only sponsored studies by organizations with vested interests, not unlike Microsoft-sponsored Windows vs. Linux TCO studies...
I had a Compaq Presario 4620 from June 1998 till July 2004. Its specs? Pentium II 266 Mhz, 32 megs ram, 3.73 GB HDD, and a CD-ROM drive.
Since then I've started hating company-branded PCs, but that particular piece was quite the star performer. Came preloaded with Win95 OSR2, which I booted out soon enough to replace with Win98, and it ran beautifully.
A few IE windows, Yahoo! messenger, KaZaA, mIRC and Abilon (my newsreader of choice then) running together, with the occasional MS Word/Excel requirement. Heck, I even did Visual Studio 6.0 programmming on that comp!
I'm not trying to troll here - just that Win98 didn't need a shitload of decrapifying software like an AV, firewall and antispyware running like WinXP does, so it was actually pretty neat.
I did get my nose rubbed into the ground at school when I'd describe my PC specs, but my point is - use the system wisely, without weird shit running in the background, and you'll have yourself a good VFM PC.
President Kalam has harnessed Google's act of publishing easily used satellite photos of India to spread fear, to achieve political ends. Both simply passing laws to censor Google, and any other "extra" items that get packaged in those laws, and all the international political clout he accumulates along the way.
The President in India, unlike in the US of A, is just a token head-of-state. It's the Prime Minister who can do 'achieve political ends'.
In any case, he's not just 'spreading fear' - India has been racked by terrorism since its independence in 1947, so I think it's a natural concern. Talking of double standards? How about the US knee-jerk reactions to a single (albeit major) attack?
President Kalam knows all about terrorism - he was a rocket scientist who developed missile technology that puts fear of India's nuclear force into everyone in Asia, and therefore everyone in the world.
I know I'll probably be modded as flamebait, but are you really serious about 'fear of India's nuclear force'? Four words - United States Of America.
And one more thing - Abdul Kalam was in the Indian Space Research Organisation, not in Defence.
At least in the launch stages. Same old story - amazing interface, slick navigation, but overall badly borked. Oh yeah, and good luck finding an online/offline news aggregator that exports OPML Google Reader can use...
The Google Group for this has pretty much all the same comments.
There's even a blog post about it, even though it is somewhat tinny. I have to agree with one of the comments in the blog though:
...they are NOT ready to even call this thing Beta...
I've done my engineering in Chennai, India. And this is how a typical engineering student's life goes, most of the time regardless of his/her choice of major in undergrad school :
Choose major
Plough thru piles of papers and exams
Land job in large software company, only to be told everything learnt in college is El-Krapo
Undergo training within company
Since this happens anyway, IMO it's a Good Thing (tm) that more core papers are tought in colleges.
If the large cos. are going to run you through a training program in any case, it makes good sense to do stuff in college that actually ensure your fundamentals are solid.
And, like in the comments from TFA, college is *NOT* trade school. In fact, quite contrary to what Zambonini (does that name make anybody else hungry?) says, the vocational papers should be made optional. Hey, I'm pretty sure, if you can grok compiler design, finite automata, AI et al., you could easily wade into XML/SAX/DOM/"other industry stuff"
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Closed-source programs? Binary installations? That's what you're worried about? I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but I can't help feeling nervous about having to roast in DLL hell in Linux as well...
As if existing dependency issues weren't enough!
..He said "do do"...
The article links to the Googleblog, which does indeed have the post by Mike Jazayeri, the Product Manager for Google Talk.
The Google GTalk Blog (or Google Talkabout) has a similar update, but this one's by Gary Burd, one of the software engineers of Google Talk.
*licks his keyb..
Oh wait, I don't think this is a particularly good idea after last night's pr0n marathon.
There's one of the main reasons, people!
Just FYI - WinAmp does this (i.e reports usage info, but asks your permission first). And has been doing so since the days of Justin Frankel...
Excuse me? +5 Funny?!
Because it was so original?
While I agree (hey, I couldn't see the White House in Google Earth...just bunches of white blocky images), the fact remains that the Indian govt. in general is totally clueless about technology.
Case in point: The constant reference to "GoogleEarth".
Plus it has history of setting up committees and expert groups which (most of the time) end up as a political spring break..
Americans are on the "if it ain't broke, don't improve it" mode, and when it comes to shrinking ressources, they are always caught with their pants down.
That reminds me of the story of how an organization with a muted red Tyrannosaurus Rex as its logo is busy upsetting the applecart of another much larger organization (which doesn't really have its own logo) headed by some guy whose name sounds like male goats and his man-at-arms who likes to throw chairs around...All because the latter organization decided they needn't work no longer improving stuff...
wow, visual studio for free for one year man ... what should i do after 366 days ?
Microsoft's response, from the FAQ:
Do customers who acquire the Visual Studio Express products during the free promotional pricing period have to pay after the first year if they want to continue to use them?
No, as long as you download Visual Studio Express on or before November 7th 2006, you will not have to pay for it.
It's not that difficult these days to get VC funding, at least not with this guy around...
Considering the rate at which the Indian population is increasing, I suspect it will be the latter than the former...
Bio-DRM?
Practitioners of traditional medicines say their importance cannot be denied - according to the WHO, 70% of the people living in India use traditional medicine for primary health care.
Also, some 42% of the people living in the US and 70% of the people living in Canada have used traditional medicines at least once for treatment.
One has to ask how many of that Indian 70% depend on 'traditional' medicine out of choice. Most people in India simply cannot afford expensive 'modern' medicine.
On another note, the term "alternative medicine" has to be taken with a pinch of salt. A casual stroll through the marketplace of any major Indian city will reveal a surpsisingly large number of quacks peddling "miracle cures" through alternative medicine.
That said, Ayurveda is certainly a very effective form of treatment. Note the lack of comparison with 'modern' medicine - no authoritative research on this exists, only sponsored studies by organizations with vested interests, not unlike Microsoft-sponsored Windows vs. Linux TCO studies...
With marketing and management raving about AJAX and demanding AJAX applications be put everywhere including locations they shouldn't be...
Yes! Website navigation using Flash is a Bad Thing (TM)!
The new Napster ad and Crimson Room are about the only decent things ever done with Flash. Oh, and Badger, Badger...
I had a Compaq Presario 4620 from June 1998 till July 2004. Its specs? Pentium II 266 Mhz, 32 megs ram, 3.73 GB HDD, and a CD-ROM drive.
Since then I've started hating company-branded PCs, but that particular piece was quite the star performer. Came preloaded with Win95 OSR2, which I booted out soon enough to replace with Win98, and it ran beautifully.
A few IE windows, Yahoo! messenger, KaZaA, mIRC and Abilon (my newsreader of choice then) running together, with the occasional MS Word/Excel requirement. Heck, I even did Visual Studio 6.0 programmming on that comp!
I'm not trying to troll here - just that Win98 didn't need a shitload of decrapifying software like an AV, firewall and antispyware running like WinXP does, so it was actually pretty neat.
I did get my nose rubbed into the ground at school when I'd describe my PC specs, but my point is - use the system wisely, without weird shit running in the background, and you'll have yourself a good VFM PC.
*gasp* even without Linux *gasp*
Microsoft stops using YOU!
President Kalam has harnessed Google's act of publishing easily used satellite photos of India to spread fear, to achieve political ends. Both simply passing laws to censor Google, and any other "extra" items that get packaged in those laws, and all the international political clout he accumulates along the way.
The President in India, unlike in the US of A, is just a token head-of-state. It's the Prime Minister who can do 'achieve political ends'.
In any case, he's not just 'spreading fear' - India has been racked by terrorism since its independence in 1947, so I think it's a natural concern. Talking of double standards? How about the US knee-jerk reactions to a single (albeit major) attack?
President Kalam knows all about terrorism - he was a rocket scientist who developed missile technology that puts fear of India's nuclear force into everyone in Asia, and therefore everyone in the world.
I know I'll probably be modded as flamebait, but are you really serious about 'fear of India's nuclear force'? Four words - United States Of America.
And one more thing - Abdul Kalam was in the Indian Space Research Organisation, not in Defence.
At least in the launch stages. Same old story - amazing interface, slick navigation, but overall badly borked. Oh yeah, and good luck finding an online/offline news aggregator that exports OPML Google Reader can use...
...they are NOT ready to even call this thing Beta...
The Google Group for this has pretty much all the same comments.
There's even a blog post about it, even though it is somewhat tinny. I have to agree with one of the comments in the blog though:
One more step towards a Googlified world...
Test Equipment Finds Life In Mars-like Conditions
..till they find life in Snickers-like conditions
there goes Linux... a wet dream for Microsoft... getting Linux outlawed...
Ignoring the obviously flawed premise, let me just say - WOW! Linux outlawed in Finland is like curry [or cows] outlawed in India...
...but if you want to save money because of rising gas prices... ..if you can't even fart for free?
A true-blue /.er, posting the right comments for the wrong story!
*That's* useful info around here...
Choose major
Plough thru piles of papers and exams
Land job in large software company, only to be told everything learnt in college is El-Krapo
Undergo training within company Since this happens anyway, IMO it's a Good Thing (tm) that more core papers are tought in colleges. If the large cos. are going to run you through a training program in any case, it makes good sense to do stuff in college that actually ensure your fundamentals are solid. And, like in the comments from TFA, college is *NOT* trade school. In fact, quite contrary to what Zambonini (does that name make anybody else hungry?) says, the vocational papers should be made optional. Hey, I'm pretty sure, if you can grok compiler design, finite automata, AI et al., you could easily wade into XML/SAX/DOM/"other industry stuff"
..Ellis Wyatt already did this. Where? That John Galt book.