stealth technology however, is that it is almost exclusively used for aggression rather than defense if you play your strategy according to tradition.
I would actually argue the other way around. Stealth is inherently a passive defensive technology. It's primary purpose is to protect the aircraft (or ship or tank or grunt in his camo). Now this defensive advantage can easily be used for offense (sneak in and bomb, setup an aerial ambush or make locking on by enemy missiles harder).
Previously the primary protection used to be either superior mobility (hit and run before being hit back) or superior damage resistance (armoring, redundant systems etc). Stealth is just another element of protection - avoid being hit at all.
And stealth isnt something revolutionarily new - low observability has always been a military factor in the form of camoflague, emission control, acoustic damping etc with partial radar transparency being the new hotness now.
I know this is just nitpicking, but I wouldn't call the Mig-25 or it's Turmansky jets a great technological success.
I would. A aircraft that can cruise at mach 2.35 and dash at 2.8 making it immune to most threats. Carries multiple long range missiles coupled with a powerful radar. Can take off and land from a dirt strip while being maintained by semi-skilled conscript labour and flown by relatively unskilled pilots counting on its excellent autopilot. Plus cheap enough to mass produce. And all that in the sixties! The Foxbat is an outstanding success outside of Tom Clancy novels.
Yes, the jets may of been able to out run the F-15's of the day, but their maintenance requirements were extraordinary
Actually they werent. No more than say the F-14. The soviets just had a different maintanence philosophy.
A high speed run above mach 2 required them to be fully rebuilt. A high speed run above mach 2.8 for more than a few minutes generally resulted in the destruction of the engines.
Routine mach 2 flight did not result in the engine having to be being rebuilt.
That, coupled with the Mig-25's short effective combat radius (~180 miles with full load out), poor maneuverability (typical G loading limited to around 3 depending on fuel and load out), doesn't make it an effective interceptor.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers but MiG-25 with four missiles and some supersonic flight (few minutes in combat) had a range of about 600 miles. Range under full load is a meaningless term in real life. At maximum weapons load a F-16 runs out of fuel by the time it taxies for takeoff. It doesn't mean that F-16 is a ineffective aircraft in real life.
And poor maneuverability is a quite acceptable limitation for a interceptor. These aircraft are not intented for dog fights.
Mig-25's have kills associated with their name, but none have ever intercepted an SR-71 (one task it was designed to handle)
Actually it wasn't designed to intercept the SR-71, but the high altitude fast bombers like the B-58 and B-70 which it was more than capable of doing.
In a head on engagement (ie, F-15), their only defense is their speed
You mean other than their longer ranged missiles or their electronic warfare gear?
which results in massive maintenance or destruction of the engines.
Between destroyed engines and engines-destroyed/airframe-destroyed/pilot-dead it would take the former every time. Wouldn't you?
Actually you are even more wrong than the grand parent.
Bombers are not designed to attack navy ships.
Wrong. Take Tu-22M for instance. Or the Tu-16. Or even the B-52. Some of these aircraft served in hundreds in dedicated anti-shipping regiments.
Battle carrier groups are heavily fortified structures.
Wrong again. Heavily defended? Yes. Fortified? Hell No. Not since world war 2 when the armored battleships went the way of the Dodo. Modern warships dont have anything more than splinter armor.
Even back then, they would use small fast aircrafts to hit our ships, not monsters aircrafts that make inviting targets
Wrong two more times again. One, Small aircraft lack the range, endurance and payload to effectively hunt the carrier battle groups. Two, These "monster" aircraft are not quite the easy target you think they are because they have stand off weapons.
Finally, you are wrong when you contradict the GP that Tomcat/Phoenix was a direct responce to these bombers. The Tomcat was specifically designed for intercepting heavy cruise missile carrying bombers.
And you have the gall for berating the GP and mods about modding without a clue!!!
The Soviet Union designed the TU-160 as a counter weight to the US carrier groups.
The primary mission of the Tu-160 was and remains as a cruise missile carrier for nuclear attack on the north american continent. I am not aware it was ever cleared or fitted for maritime strike. These aircraft were too few and too precious to waste on carriers.
If WWIII had actually started, those birds were the only thing in their inventory that could effectively counter a Navy task force.
Thats not true at all. The Soviets had dedicated Tu-22M heavy bomber regiments whose primary mission was carrier plinking. The Tu-22M was and remains a very potent aircraft and a credible threat to US carriers. These were backed by tons on Bears and Badgers for support.
In fact their entire strategy for a land war in Europe depended on them interdicting shipping from the US across the GIUK line.
Not really. The land strategy did not depend on sinking the reforger convoys - land battle would be made a bit easier if that happened but it was not necessary and the Soviets were not predicating their success in a land war on it. Warsaw could have easily rolled up the NATO armies any time they wanted and ended up on the channel coast during the cold war even with all the reforger convoys making it through. NATO was aware of its conventional weakness and threated escalation to nuclear war in the event of a soviet invasion. This is the reason why the US has never committed to "No First Strike".
The real role of the Soviet navy and naval aviation was largely defensive - defending the ballistic missile submarine bastions and protecting the motherland from a similar seaward attack. Convoys remained a lucrative target but it was clearly and emphatically second to the above objectives.
1. Rich people can ace exams by studying at exam coaching institutes? If you throw out competitive entrance examinations and let the market decide who studies then only the ultra-rich will be able to study (as you say the demand is high; implying in a free market the cost will be astronomical). At least the current system favors the smart-and-rich and the smart-and-determined poor rather than the merely rich which your system would end up with.
2. We already have too many engineering and medical colleges. A good three quarter of the people who graduate from there range from the merely mediocre to the catastrophically incompetent. Too many people in India treat engineering and medical profession like high school - minimal stuff that every tom, dick and harry should graduate by default. Little if any attention is paid aptitude, interest and capability of the individual. While we can not control who has the aptitude and real interest, we can surely select the capable to a certain measure through centrally administered examinations.
3. Demand for "professional degree" is so vast that a lassie-fair economy will take many decades to correct itself. This is if it ever corrects itself because the reason why so many people take up these degrees is not merely economic but also strongly social.
There are many draw backs to the current system of education administration in India. But I am yet to hear of a better system suited to our social mores, economic condition and the one true constant of life in India - total corruption and endemic nepotism as a accepted way of life.
Molly Weasley kills Bellatrix Lestrange.
One of the most feared duelers on Voldemort's side is killed by Molly Weasley? Sure, she's a member of the OotP, but the only spells she had shown in the previous books were household charms. It shows JK Rowling's opinion of a mother's love. But that is going too far in my opinion. Made me laugh when I read it.
Harry tried to sacrifice his life to save the people under attack at hogwarts. He invoked the same ancient magic his mother did and all the people at hogwarts got the immunity. Hence non of the Death Eaters and Voldie's curses had any effect (as Harry says in his "Do you feel lucky punk?" speech to voldemort.
Gryffindor's sword in the Sorting Hat.
I thought that Griphook took it? If he cared so much about it, why wouldn't he protect it in some way?
Perhaps he did. Perhaps Gryffindors magic was more powerful than Griphooks.
The Taboo.
So the Ministry can detect when and where a certain word is said throughout the whole country? Why didn't they use it before to find out when someone used the Unforgivables? Or when someone mentioned Death Eaters? Or plenty of other ways it could have been used.
file this in the same section as the time turners plot holes.
Harry not moving when Voldemort cast a Crucio on him?
I understand not screaming, since the pain can be resisted somewhat. But not even twitching?
He was immune to any harmful magic Voldemort did.
If she insisted on doing an epilogue to destroy any future books, couldn't she have at least mentioned what happened to the other characters? The Ministry? Weasely Wizarding Wheezes? It mentioned that Ted Lupin wasn't living with Harry, but where else would he live if not his godfather?
Why does knowing all this matter? All we need to know that Harry made it possible for these people and institutions to continue on as always. They lived, they died, they did good, they made mistakes. Normal life went on. The epilogue was pointless (except for the shippers). Harry ruminating on a sandwich was an excellent point to end the series on.
My second thought was of how amazingly boneheaded of an idea administering an anti-fear drug would be in a war zone -- especially for US soldiers carrying an amazingly expensive array of military gear and having had expensive combat training. Soldiers need fear as a survival mechanism. Without it, they'd do amazingly stupid and suicidal things.
Giving this to the dudes in the foxholes would be pretty stupid, but there are military applications if a particular fear could be eliminated. A submarine crew who are freaking out because there is a torpedo in the water are less likely to do better than a crew which is unafraid because they have been conditioned to not fear torpedo attacks. Similarly a warship crew dealing with air attack (remember the Iranian airline shootdown). An airdefense battery crewed by calm soldiers shooting down missiles and aircraft has a better chance of survival than ones shitting their pants. An AWACS command crew dealing with incoming fighters can judge and react more rationally if they arent worrying about being blown out of the sky any minute. Most command and control and technical specialities (usually the entire navy) benefit from being cold blooded automatons.
1. It probably won't be free for businesses.
2. Service level guarantees will ensure that corporate users will continue to patronize paid services with appropriate SLAs.
3. Telecommuting is unlikely to be a big draw for companies operating in India.
4. This will have zero effect on outsourcing to India. Do you really think companies will shift operations to another continent/culture/timezone just to save internet connection bills???
How exactly do people subsisting in tenement slums benefit from free broadband? I don't think tenement slums mean what you think it means.
Al-Qaeda to LTTE is apples to Oranges. Unlike the nebulous Al-Qaeda which may or may not be a real cohesive entity the LTTE is a state within a state and has a its own territory which they defend with their armed forces (and have kept the Sri Lankan army at bay in open conflict). They run courts, banks and even customs service along with other paraphernalia of a set government.
From your asinine remarks about the Sri Lankan people in the west being in cahoots with the LTTE it seems unlikely that you are aware that bulk of the Sri Lankans are Sinhalese who are opposed to the LTTE.
Because then they'll just come blow our shit up over her
What a amazingly selfish, self-serving reason! It's OK for innocent Iraqi civilians to be collateral damage in the war between US and Al-Qaeda, rather than American civilians?
The American hypocrisy is astonishing : half a million dead is a worthwhile price for Iraqis to pay to secure 'freedom'; but 3000 dead is sufficient reason to steadily erode those very freedoms in the USA.
New Delhi, Dec. 6: Cisco Systems said on Wednesday that it plans to set up a pilot facility in Chennai by April 2007, to manufacture internet protocol phones. Cisco is planning to triple its head count in India from the present 2,000 to 6,000 in the next three years. Cisco also announced the next stage of its globalisation strategy with the selection of India as the site for its globalisation centre. It has appointed Mr Wim Elfrink as its chief globalisation officer, who will relocate to Bangalore in January.
Cisco expects that India will contribute 5 per cent of Ciscos revenue in the next two to three years and will provide half of the future growth in its staff numbers, said chairman and CEO Cisco systems, John Chambers, after meeting Union IT and communications minister Dayanidhi Maran. In line with the companys outsourced manufacturing model, Cisco has selected one of its global partners, Foxconn, to work on the facility, said Mr Chambers.
Mr Chambers added that Cisco chose India as its globalisation vision, because India has a highly skilled workforce, supportive government and world class partners that already have global capabilities. Cisco would invest $100 million to expand its technical services out of India. In the last year Cisco invested $5 million in Indiagames and Bharti Telesoft and expects to invest another $25 million to $30 million in the next few months in Indian companies involved in broadband content and digital media.
These investments are part of the $1.1 billion that the company had committed in November 2005. Ciscos growing investments across all its operation areas in India is a vindication of the increasingly self sustaining ecosystem that the country provides for business to thrive and compete in a globalised economy, said Mr Chambers.
Fairly ordinary hardware I would think. You don't have to queue up much data at all if you merely wish to send a burst at 14 TBps.
What's to stop one from sending 2 bytes at 14 TBps?
PS: My physics professor used to say that it is possible for a man to outshine the whole galaxy just by farting - the trick was merely to fart fast enough.
What does that SQL mumbo jumbo mean? Does it mean that my searches on aolsearchdatabase.com where I..err.. for research purposes, look at what hanky-panky stuff people have been up to will itself be publicly available in the future? Scratches head...
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Anyone who has done both will tell you the thrill of playing with serious intent in an organised competition is far more exciting.
From your post it comes across that what you enjoy is not the game (football or a computer one) but the competition. While that is as valid a way of enjoying oneself as any; it is not necessarily one that all people will enjoy. A large number of people enjoy games only in a non competitive settings.
Second, this is a licensing issue too, one thing I've used it for is for software I use too infrequently to purchase and has a trial period like 30 days or whatever. Create a VM, install XP in to it, and take a snapshot. Then install and run the software. You may, as I often do, only need to run it for a couple of hours and then not again for a couple of months. By then the trial period has expired. Simply restore the VM from the snapshot, re-install the trial software and you're good to go for another session.
You'd be better off using a software virtualizer for all your virtual pirating needs.
[1] its hell of a lot simpler than mucking with VMs
[2] the apps you use are faster, since it is not running in a VM
[3] Option of sand-boxing/unboxing the apps to suit the app and your needs
[4] Apps can be completely removed and restored instantaneously with single button click
[5] No need to reinstall to reinitialize, system restored to a selected "fresh install" state in a single button click
You are SOL, I am already working on a nanorobot verification system that checks for Yves Saint-Laurent Genuine Advantage Certificate on each perfume molecule.
One more competitor, loaded with cash, unencumbered by a requirement to maintain backward compatibility with Windows, and given a well-articulated mission might be able to come up with something radically new and better than anything currently available.
Coming up with a newer, better OS than MS Windows is easy (in a manner of speaking). Winning a large enough share of the market to make a difference is extremely hard.
A better way of undermining MS Windows would be to create and promote slick, solid cross platform libraries and associated tools - along the lines of GTK, mono, eclipse or whatever. Once enough developers are enticed into using these tools which automatically generate code that runs with little or minimal effort on non win32 platforms the win32 'format lock in' will be broken.
It must be clearly understood that end-users and businesses don't stick to MS Windows out of love or appreciation of WinXP or Win9x - but due to their program library dependence on the win32 layer. Any alternative that doesn't offer compatibility with win32 while win32 is still the only dominant application platform will be doomed to failure or end up a niche player like OS X or Linux.
The current axis of attack of bypassing the win32 layer by means of web2 is an approach that is inherently limited due to the very nature of browser technology.
If MS doesn't recognize that their golden goose is fast becoming a lead albatross, they're going to continue to lose their ability to shape the market.
Unfortunately I don't see it happening any time soon.
Getting by on marketing and control of PC OEMs isn't going to cut it any more.
Ubuntu right now is your classic dotcom strategy -- blow through venture capital to get "eyeballs" and then figure out later how to build revenue out of that.
erm, I don't think canonical is in the Linux business for the money.
This isn't about copyrights. Or about moral rights. Or patents. Or (to an extent) even Miro's family. This is all about ARS.
ARS is some kind of organization that is in bussiness because it claims it can protect 'artists rights'. It doesnt care if Miro's works get published or not. It doesn't care if Miro's work get increased profits due to mass exposure through Google (they wont get a cut from increased value of Miro's art work - presumably the heirs, their sales agents and auction house will benefit).
All that ARS will care is that a lot of artists hear that there is someone who is willing to stand up for their rights - even stand up to a Goliath like Google. This is free publicity. That is a win for ARS.
As an Indian, I am quite surprised that they went with an offering from Red Hat. Red Hat has long been known to support GNOME as their main desktop. However, KDE is the leader when it comes to supporting the popular Indic languages like Urdu, Tamil, Hindi, and Bengali.
Thats because using 'Indic' languages is irrelevant to a major subcontinent wide corporation like LIC. All corporate work will be done in english.
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I would actually argue the other way around. Stealth is inherently a passive defensive technology. It's primary purpose is to protect the aircraft (or ship or tank or grunt in his camo). Now this defensive advantage can easily be used for offense (sneak in and bomb, setup an aerial ambush or make locking on by enemy missiles harder).
Previously the primary protection used to be either superior mobility (hit and run before being hit back) or superior damage resistance (armoring, redundant systems etc). Stealth is just another element of protection - avoid being hit at all.
And stealth isnt something revolutionarily new - low observability has always been a military factor in the form of camoflague, emission control, acoustic damping etc with partial radar transparency being the new hotness now.
I would. A aircraft that can cruise at mach 2.35 and dash at 2.8 making it immune to most threats. Carries multiple long range missiles coupled with a powerful radar. Can take off and land from a dirt strip while being maintained by semi-skilled conscript labour and flown by relatively unskilled pilots counting on its excellent autopilot. Plus cheap enough to mass produce. And all that in the sixties! The Foxbat is an outstanding success outside of Tom Clancy novels.
Yes, the jets may of been able to out run the F-15's of the day, but their maintenance requirements were extraordinary
Actually they werent. No more than say the F-14. The soviets just had a different maintanence philosophy.
A high speed run above mach 2 required them to be fully rebuilt. A high speed run above mach 2.8 for more than a few minutes generally resulted in the destruction of the engines.
Routine mach 2 flight did not result in the engine having to be being rebuilt.
That, coupled with the Mig-25's short effective combat radius (~180 miles with full load out), poor maneuverability (typical G loading limited to around 3 depending on fuel and load out), doesn't make it an effective interceptor.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers but MiG-25 with four missiles and some supersonic flight (few minutes in combat) had a range of about 600 miles. Range under full load is a meaningless term in real life. At maximum weapons load a F-16 runs out of fuel by the time it taxies for takeoff. It doesn't mean that F-16 is a ineffective aircraft in real life.
And poor maneuverability is a quite acceptable limitation for a interceptor. These aircraft are not intented for dog fights.
Mig-25's have kills associated with their name, but none have ever intercepted an SR-71 (one task it was designed to handle)
Actually it wasn't designed to intercept the SR-71, but the high altitude fast bombers like the B-58 and B-70 which it was more than capable of doing.
In a head on engagement (ie, F-15), their only defense is their speed
You mean other than their longer ranged missiles or their electronic warfare gear?
which results in massive maintenance or destruction of the engines.
Between destroyed engines and engines-destroyed/airframe-destroyed/pilot-dead it would take the former every time. Wouldn't you?
Bombers are not designed to attack navy ships.
Wrong. Take Tu-22M for instance. Or the Tu-16. Or even the B-52. Some of these aircraft served in hundreds in dedicated anti-shipping regiments.
Battle carrier groups are heavily fortified structures.
Wrong again. Heavily defended? Yes. Fortified? Hell No. Not since world war 2 when the armored battleships went the way of the Dodo. Modern warships dont have anything more than splinter armor.
Even back then, they would use small fast aircrafts to hit our ships, not monsters aircrafts that make inviting targets
Wrong two more times again. One, Small aircraft lack the range, endurance and payload to effectively hunt the carrier battle groups. Two, These "monster" aircraft are not quite the easy target you think they are because they have stand off weapons.
Finally, you are wrong when you contradict the GP that Tomcat/Phoenix was a direct responce to these bombers. The Tomcat was specifically designed for intercepting heavy cruise missile carrying bombers.
And you have the gall for berating the GP and mods about modding without a clue!!!
The primary mission of the Tu-160 was and remains as a cruise missile carrier for nuclear attack on the north american continent. I am not aware it was ever cleared or fitted for maritime strike. These aircraft were too few and too precious to waste on carriers.
If WWIII had actually started, those birds were the only thing in their inventory that could effectively counter a Navy task force.
Thats not true at all. The Soviets had dedicated Tu-22M heavy bomber regiments whose primary mission was carrier plinking. The Tu-22M was and remains a very potent aircraft and a credible threat to US carriers. These were backed by tons on Bears and Badgers for support.
In fact their entire strategy for a land war in Europe depended on them interdicting shipping from the US across the GIUK line.
Not really. The land strategy did not depend on sinking the reforger convoys - land battle would be made a bit easier if that happened but it was not necessary and the Soviets were not predicating their success in a land war on it. Warsaw could have easily rolled up the NATO armies any time they wanted and ended up on the channel coast during the cold war even with all the reforger convoys making it through. NATO was aware of its conventional weakness and threated escalation to nuclear war in the event of a soviet invasion. This is the reason why the US has never committed to "No First Strike".
The real role of the Soviet navy and naval aviation was largely defensive - defending the ballistic missile submarine bastions and protecting the motherland from a similar seaward attack. Convoys remained a lucrative target but it was clearly and emphatically second to the above objectives.
If you can get away with killing 20,000 people without personal accountability, what the big deal about some bits and bytes?
1. Rich people can ace exams by studying at exam coaching institutes? If you throw out competitive entrance examinations and let the market decide who studies then only the ultra-rich will be able to study (as you say the demand is high; implying in a free market the cost will be astronomical). At least the current system favors the smart-and-rich and the smart-and-determined poor rather than the merely rich which your system would end up with.
2. We already have too many engineering and medical colleges. A good three quarter of the people who graduate from there range from the merely mediocre to the catastrophically incompetent. Too many people in India treat engineering and medical profession like high school - minimal stuff that every tom, dick and harry should graduate by default. Little if any attention is paid aptitude, interest and capability of the individual. While we can not control who has the aptitude and real interest, we can surely select the capable to a certain measure through centrally administered examinations.
3. Demand for "professional degree" is so vast that a lassie-fair economy will take many decades to correct itself. This is if it ever corrects itself because the reason why so many people take up these degrees is not merely economic but also strongly social.
There are many draw backs to the current system of education administration in India. But I am yet to hear of a better system suited to our social mores, economic condition and the one true constant of life in India - total corruption and endemic nepotism as a accepted way of life.
Harry tried to sacrifice his life to save the people under attack at hogwarts. He invoked the same ancient magic his mother did and all the people at hogwarts got the immunity. Hence non of the Death Eaters and Voldie's curses had any effect (as Harry says in his "Do you feel lucky punk?" speech to voldemort.
Gryffindor's sword in the Sorting Hat. I thought that Griphook took it? If he cared so much about it, why wouldn't he protect it in some way?
Perhaps he did. Perhaps Gryffindors magic was more powerful than Griphooks.
The Taboo. So the Ministry can detect when and where a certain word is said throughout the whole country? Why didn't they use it before to find out when someone used the Unforgivables? Or when someone mentioned Death Eaters? Or plenty of other ways it could have been used.
file this in the same section as the time turners plot holes.
Harry not moving when Voldemort cast a Crucio on him? I understand not screaming, since the pain can be resisted somewhat. But not even twitching?
He was immune to any harmful magic Voldemort did.
If she insisted on doing an epilogue to destroy any future books, couldn't she have at least mentioned what happened to the other characters? The Ministry? Weasely Wizarding Wheezes? It mentioned that Ted Lupin wasn't living with Harry, but where else would he live if not his godfather?
Why does knowing all this matter? All we need to know that Harry made it possible for these people and institutions to continue on as always. They lived, they died, they did good, they made mistakes. Normal life went on. The epilogue was pointless (except for the shippers). Harry ruminating on a sandwich was an excellent point to end the series on.
Don't be a moron. If you want to land on the sun you would obviously do it at night - when it is cooler.
Giving this to the dudes in the foxholes would be pretty stupid, but there are military applications if a particular fear could be eliminated. A submarine crew who are freaking out because there is a torpedo in the water are less likely to do better than a crew which is unafraid because they have been conditioned to not fear torpedo attacks. Similarly a warship crew dealing with air attack (remember the Iranian airline shootdown). An airdefense battery crewed by calm soldiers shooting down missiles and aircraft has a better chance of survival than ones shitting their pants. An AWACS command crew dealing with incoming fighters can judge and react more rationally if they arent worrying about being blown out of the sky any minute. Most command and control and technical specialities (usually the entire navy) benefit from being cold blooded automatons.
2. Service level guarantees will ensure that corporate users will continue to patronize paid services with appropriate SLAs.
3. Telecommuting is unlikely to be a big draw for companies operating in India.
4. This will have zero effect on outsourcing to India. Do you really think companies will shift operations to another continent/culture/timezone just to save internet connection bills???
How exactly do people subsisting in tenement slums benefit from free broadband? I don't think tenement slums mean what you think it means.
From your asinine remarks about the Sri Lankan people in the west being in cahoots with the LTTE it seems unlikely that you are aware that bulk of the Sri Lankans are Sinhalese who are opposed to the LTTE.
How does one welcome invisible overlords?
nonplussed,
SorryTomato.
What a amazingly selfish, self-serving reason! It's OK for innocent Iraqi civilians to be collateral damage in the war between US and Al-Qaeda, rather than American civilians?
The American hypocrisy is astonishing : half a million dead is a worthwhile price for Iraqis to pay to secure 'freedom'; but 3000 dead is sufficient reason to steadily erode those very freedoms in the USA.
whats a bushfull? Money made per unit Halliburton per GWB administration? That's a lot of money dude!
IP phones by 2007: Cisco
New Delhi, Dec. 6: Cisco Systems said on Wednesday that it plans to set up a pilot facility in Chennai by April 2007, to manufacture internet protocol phones. Cisco is planning to triple its head count in India from the present 2,000 to 6,000 in the next three years. Cisco also announced the next stage of its globalisation strategy with the selection of India as the site for its globalisation centre. It has appointed Mr Wim Elfrink as its chief globalisation officer, who will relocate to Bangalore in January.
Cisco expects that India will contribute 5 per cent of Ciscos revenue in the next two to three years and will provide half of the future growth in its staff numbers, said chairman and CEO Cisco systems, John Chambers, after meeting Union IT and communications minister Dayanidhi Maran. In line with the companys outsourced manufacturing model, Cisco has selected one of its global partners, Foxconn, to work on the facility, said Mr Chambers.
Mr Chambers added that Cisco chose India as its globalisation vision, because India has a highly skilled workforce, supportive government and world class partners that already have global capabilities. Cisco would invest $100 million to expand its technical services out of India. In the last year Cisco invested $5 million in Indiagames and Bharti Telesoft and expects to invest another $25 million to $30 million in the next few months in Indian companies involved in broadband content and digital media.
These investments are part of the $1.1 billion that the company had committed in November 2005. Ciscos growing investments across all its operation areas in India is a vindication of the increasingly self sustaining ecosystem that the country provides for business to thrive and compete in a globalised economy, said Mr Chambers.
What's to stop one from sending 2 bytes at 14 TBps?
PS: My physics professor used to say that it is possible for a man to outshine the whole galaxy just by farting - the trick was merely to fart fast enough.
"Quantum leap" also means a change to a completely new level - i.e not an incremental or minor change. Which is what they mean here.
What does that SQL mumbo jumbo mean? Does it mean that my searches on aolsearchdatabase.com where I ..err.. for research purposes, look at what hanky-panky stuff people have been up to will itself be publicly available in the future? Scratches head...
From your post it comes across that what you enjoy is not the game (football or a computer one) but the competition. While that is as valid a way of enjoying oneself as any; it is not necessarily one that all people will enjoy. A large number of people enjoy games only in a non competitive settings.
You'd be better off using a software virtualizer for all your virtual pirating needs.
[1] its hell of a lot simpler than mucking with VMs
[2] the apps you use are faster, since it is not running in a VM
[3] Option of sand-boxing/unboxing the apps to suit the app and your needs
[4] Apps can be completely removed and restored instantaneously with single button click
[5] No need to reinstall to reinitialize, system restored to a selected "fresh install" state in a single button click
Altiris SVS is free for private use (or was, check the latest licencing)... http://www.altiris.com/Products/SoftwareVirtualiza tionSolution.aspx
It does have its limitations, but is useful for the vast majority of the stuff.
You are SOL, I am already working on a nanorobot verification system that checks for Yves Saint-Laurent Genuine Advantage Certificate on each perfume molecule.
Coming up with a newer, better OS than MS Windows is easy (in a manner of speaking). Winning a large enough share of the market to make a difference is extremely hard.
A better way of undermining MS Windows would be to create and promote slick, solid cross platform libraries and associated tools - along the lines of GTK, mono, eclipse or whatever. Once enough developers are enticed into using these tools which automatically generate code that runs with little or minimal effort on non win32 platforms the win32 'format lock in' will be broken.
It must be clearly understood that end-users and businesses don't stick to MS Windows out of love or appreciation of WinXP or Win9x - but due to their program library dependence on the win32 layer. Any alternative that doesn't offer compatibility with win32 while win32 is still the only dominant application platform will be doomed to failure or end up a niche player like OS X or Linux.
The current axis of attack of bypassing the win32 layer by means of web2 is an approach that is inherently limited due to the very nature of browser technology.
If MS doesn't recognize that their golden goose is fast becoming a lead albatross, they're going to continue to lose their ability to shape the market.
Unfortunately I don't see it happening any time soon.Getting by on marketing and control of PC OEMs isn't going to cut it any more.
Why ever not?! It seems to be working just fine!
erm, I don't think canonical is in the Linux business for the money.
ARS is some kind of organization that is in bussiness because it claims it can protect 'artists rights'. It doesnt care if Miro's works get published or not. It doesn't care if Miro's work get increased profits due to mass exposure through Google (they wont get a cut from increased value of Miro's art work - presumably the heirs, their sales agents and auction house will benefit).
All that ARS will care is that a lot of artists hear that there is someone who is willing to stand up for their rights - even stand up to a Goliath like Google. This is free publicity. That is a win for ARS.
As an Indian, I am quite surprised that they went with an offering from Red Hat. Red Hat has long been known to support GNOME as their main desktop. However, KDE is the leader when it comes to supporting the popular Indic languages like Urdu, Tamil, Hindi, and Bengali.
Thats because using 'Indic' languages is irrelevant to a major subcontinent wide corporation like LIC. All corporate work will be done in english.