let me say something about obvious. once you are exposed to something, then it becomes obvious. there are so many scientific results that you take for granted. when people talk about Newton and his famous invention called gravity, i used to think, give me a break, an apple falling down, if he didn't get it, somebody would have. it was so obvious. this was my thought when i was a kid. then i went to college, and i was exposed to Newtonian Mechanics(that was a completely different subject).
we should be armed against some trolls, who just patent any thing they could get their hands on, instead of new invention or discovery.
if the librarian asks for subpoena, instead of getting it, i don't know why they make it a big issue. is it because they know that it will be very difficult to convince a judge to issue a subpoena for the circulation records.
i was in India this april, and took my family out for dinner, the day before i left for US to an upscale restaurant. for a group of 10 people, i paid around 900 Rupees, which came to $19, the same that i spent last night when i went out to eat here in US.
It is not right that the quality of life in India is not as good as here. i.e., if you earn in US and spend it in India it is great. but if you earn in India, then that meal we had was a luxury. it is very complicated.
the hype about these high paying software jobs is very rampant in India and everybody wants a share of the pie(and i don't blame them). but the problem is sometimes i worry whether Indians is also going the same direction as US. i.e., abandoning the manufacturing sector(which is very vital for a good industrial growth) and giving more importance to the service sector. just like Apple major companies have their high end solutions R&D labs in US, so in reality there is not much value added here.
it is sometimes sad that the young engineers are flocking the software industry than the traditional industries. it is about time, we had a reality check
Wikipedia's basic assumption is the good intention of the editor. when i'm looking for any academic facts and definitions (like physics, engineering, math)i find the information in Wikipedia very useful. but when it is about people, place or politics, then you can easily see the agenda of the editor. they write, what they want the world to know.
"History doesn't reflect facts, but what the winner wants to tell the world". Even if we have some strict editorial policy, again how we are going to agree to the editors point of view, when it comes to sensitive issues such as religion, language, country, politics.
i think there is a belief that if you call Bill Gates names and hail Linux, you are supposed to be cool. I use linux(debian)as my backend server. i have my good days with both linux and windows. but what it is worth, Gates has lead Microsoft all these years because he is good at what he does. apart from that the money they (him and his wife) spend on humanitarian is awesome. Microsoft followed the business code, dictated by a capitalistic economy, so instead of blaming him and his company, why don't people appreciate for what he had done.
i installed vista beta version over the weekend. it was the first time i had hiccups while installing windows(with debian installs everytime it happens).
so the first problem was, i was told to reserve 15 GB for OS and if i had 20 GB, i will be fine. so i partitioned by hard disk 20 + 85, and guess what it complained not enough space and without any warning installed in the 85 GB partition. i ain't no fool to give 85 GB to windows. then i increased the size to 35 GB and reinstalled it. the moral of the story, still a Microsoft product won't listen to the user
second the system is so paranoid of any action. first i wanted to install the video card, network card, i get all these warning message that some application is trying to access a device(esp i logged in as administrator). the only way around i found was, log in as a normal user, and open the application as the administrator(it is in the menu), then it will install. the moral of the story, when they talk about security, they mean the paranoia of a secure system.
what happened to the good old days of lynx anyway. sometimes all i wanted to do was browsing, i felt even Opera was kind of overkill with all the graphics on top and the bottom. some how i like those browsers such as firefox and IE, which just lets me browse
I'm originally from India and now working in US. Now when you go to India and visit these factories, we can see that the employees have the option of working for this or that company. the salary is competitive when you compare the living cost of that area, and the earning capacity of that person. it is not like they are chained as slaves.
when people compare the salaries of two countries they conveniently forget this fact, as their only intention is to slander the object(in this case Apple). if they are so worried, why don't they offer to do the same job for the same cost in UK or US. I don't think they would want that. they would want minimum $10/hour plus health, dental and everything. which will finally increase the cost of manufacture to almost $40/hour, while they can get the job done for almost $1/hour in India or China. and the consumers happily buy the product while blaming the policies of these corporations while they are the ones in the first place who made these shift possible
Just another example of 'Embrace and extend' - part of the US culture (is that an oxymoron?). The USA is the 'Microsoft' of the English language - copy it, then change it so that it doesn't work properly with the original version.... and you lot complain about China....
being able to embrace and extend is an important part of a language. if it can't be embraced or extended then i guess british will be the only people who will be speaking english (ofcourse apart from the fact half of the world was once their colony). the fact is there are so many borrowed words from many languages in english, while so many classical languages like Sansktrit are almost dead because it didn't allow extension..
yeah their core competency is searching. but they just show to the world that with the pool of talent, resources(money and people) they have they can release products such as gmail, google talk, google maps, picassa. since it is not their core competency i don't know whether they want to make money out of it
i think they thought that just say the name "Richard Stallman and his organization FSF", all the doors will just open wide. why don't they just pick a number and wait in line.
If Chinese Universities were able to handle the demand of top Chinese students, they wouldn't flood to American universities by the thousands....
i think the reason they flood american university by thousands is not because they want better education...have you ever come across a chinese student get multiple degrees in engineering, math, management just for the sake of staying here, or because his/her spouse is doing something else.
there is this article that i read about mergers and splitting of the big corporations. How they spend some 100 million dollars just to merge and within a couple of years they split the same business citing some other reason and again they spend same amount of money. the point is we don't hear the Wall Street guys complaining about this splits and mergers because they are the consultants who do the work of splitting or merging. finally they don't care about the shareholders.
OK first of all I use debian. but it doesn't mean that i don't appreciate windows. especially after i tried to unsuccessfully install the binary ati driver for the new amd 64 i just built. even though i don't need the X as mostly it is going to be a server for backend applications. the point is even for a guy with 5 years experience with debian, redhat, it is challenging to get a computer with new components such as audio card, video card, even network card.
luckily it is not my primary computer, i have a laptop from work(which obviously run windows 2000), so that i can google for every problem i encounter.
what i don't understand is if someone says something nice about MS, others call him a traitor or being paid by MS.
Most of the time i feel like this generic grandma who just wants to check the email or read news for which MS would do
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ok the buyers gets a refund or a replacement laptop(his complaint has been rectified), then he pulls the website down. but whatever damage he did to the seller has been done already and there is no way he can go back and make it go away (even if the law puts the guy in prison or something like that). it is the same way everybody feels when we talk to a customer service(esp airlines) but that doesn't mean that we take part in vigilante.
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let me say something about obvious. once you are exposed to something, then it becomes obvious. there are so many scientific results that you take for granted. when people talk about Newton and his famous invention called gravity, i used to think, give me a break, an apple falling down, if he didn't get it, somebody would have. it was so obvious. this was my thought when i was a kid. then i went to college, and i was exposed to Newtonian Mechanics(that was a completely different subject). we should be armed against some trolls, who just patent any thing they could get their hands on, instead of new invention or discovery.
if the librarian asks for subpoena, instead of getting it, i don't know why they make it a big issue. is it because they know that it will be very difficult to convince a judge to issue a subpoena for the circulation records.
Businesses like paying for their software.... and let the vendor be accountable if the system goes down.
i was in India this april, and took my family out for dinner, the day before i left for US to an upscale restaurant. for a group of 10 people, i paid around 900 Rupees, which came to $19, the same that i spent last night when i went out to eat here in US. It is not right that the quality of life in India is not as good as here. i.e., if you earn in US and spend it in India it is great. but if you earn in India, then that meal we had was a luxury. it is very complicated. the hype about these high paying software jobs is very rampant in India and everybody wants a share of the pie(and i don't blame them). but the problem is sometimes i worry whether Indians is also going the same direction as US. i.e., abandoning the manufacturing sector(which is very vital for a good industrial growth) and giving more importance to the service sector. just like Apple major companies have their high end solutions R&D labs in US, so in reality there is not much value added here. it is sometimes sad that the young engineers are flocking the software industry than the traditional industries. it is about time, we had a reality check
Wikipedia's basic assumption is the good intention of the editor. when i'm looking for any academic facts and definitions (like physics, engineering, math)i find the information in Wikipedia very useful. but when it is about people, place or politics, then you can easily see the agenda of the editor. they write, what they want the world to know.
"History doesn't reflect facts, but what the winner wants to tell the world". Even if we have some strict editorial policy, again how we are going to agree to the editors point of view, when it comes to sensitive issues such as religion, language, country, politics.
i think there is a belief that if you call Bill Gates names and hail Linux, you are supposed to be cool. I use linux(debian)as my backend server. i have my good days with both linux and windows. but what it is worth, Gates has lead Microsoft all these years because he is good at what he does. apart from that the money they (him and his wife) spend on humanitarian is awesome. Microsoft followed the business code, dictated by a capitalistic economy, so instead of blaming him and his company, why don't people appreciate for what he had done.
i installed vista beta version over the weekend. it was the first time i had hiccups while installing windows(with debian installs everytime it happens). so the first problem was, i was told to reserve 15 GB for OS and if i had 20 GB, i will be fine. so i partitioned by hard disk 20 + 85, and guess what it complained not enough space and without any warning installed in the 85 GB partition. i ain't no fool to give 85 GB to windows. then i increased the size to 35 GB and reinstalled it. the moral of the story, still a Microsoft product won't listen to the user second the system is so paranoid of any action. first i wanted to install the video card, network card, i get all these warning message that some application is trying to access a device(esp i logged in as administrator). the only way around i found was, log in as a normal user, and open the application as the administrator(it is in the menu), then it will install. the moral of the story, when they talk about security, they mean the paranoia of a secure system.
what happened to the good old days of lynx anyway. sometimes all i wanted to do was browsing, i felt even Opera was kind of overkill with all the graphics on top and the bottom. some how i like those browsers such as firefox and IE, which just lets me browse
I'm originally from India and now working in US. Now when you go to India and visit these factories, we can see that the employees have the option of working for this or that company. the salary is competitive when you compare the living cost of that area, and the earning capacity of that person. it is not like they are chained as slaves. when people compare the salaries of two countries they conveniently forget this fact, as their only intention is to slander the object(in this case Apple). if they are so worried, why don't they offer to do the same job for the same cost in UK or US. I don't think they would want that. they would want minimum $10/hour plus health, dental and everything. which will finally increase the cost of manufacture to almost $40/hour, while they can get the job done for almost $1/hour in India or China. and the consumers happily buy the product while blaming the policies of these corporations while they are the ones in the first place who made these shift possible
Just another example of 'Embrace and extend' - part of the US culture (is that an oxymoron?). The USA is the 'Microsoft' of the English language - copy it, then change it so that it doesn't work properly with the original version. ... and you lot complain about China....
being able to embrace and extend is an important part of a language. if it can't be embraced or extended then i guess british will be the only people who will be speaking english (ofcourse apart from the fact half of the world was once their colony). the fact is there are so many borrowed words from many languages in english, while so many classical languages like Sansktrit are almost dead because it didn't allow extension..
yeah their core competency is searching. but they just show to the world that with the pool of talent, resources(money and people) they have they can release products such as gmail, google talk, google maps, picassa. since it is not their core competency i don't know whether they want to make money out of it
i think they thought that just say the name "Richard Stallman and his organization FSF", all the doors will just open wide. why don't they just pick a number and wait in line.
If Chinese Universities were able to handle the demand of top Chinese students, they wouldn't flood to American universities by the thousands....
i think the reason they flood american university by thousands is not because they want better education...have you ever come across a chinese student get multiple degrees in engineering, math, management just for the sake of staying here, or because his/her spouse is doing something else.
so if i post my ip address here, and note down some, am i liable. please i don't have money to cover the attorney fees
there is this article that i read about mergers and splitting of the big corporations. How they spend some 100 million dollars just to merge and within a couple of years they split the same business citing some other reason and again they spend same amount of money. the point is we don't hear the Wall Street guys complaining about this splits and mergers because they are the consultants who do the work of splitting or merging. finally they don't care about the shareholders.
OK first of all I use debian. but it doesn't mean that i don't appreciate windows. especially after i tried to unsuccessfully install the binary ati driver for the new amd 64 i just built. even though i don't need the X as mostly it is going to be a server for backend applications. the point is even for a guy with 5 years experience with debian, redhat, it is challenging to get a computer with new components such as audio card, video card, even network card. luckily it is not my primary computer, i have a laptop from work(which obviously run windows 2000), so that i can google for every problem i encounter. what i don't understand is if someone says something nice about MS, others call him a traitor or being paid by MS. Most of the time i feel like this generic grandma who just wants to check the email or read news for which MS would do
ok the buyers gets a refund or a replacement laptop(his complaint has been rectified), then he pulls the website down. but whatever damage he did to the seller has been done already and there is no way he can go back and make it go away (even if the law puts the guy in prison or something like that). it is the same way everybody feels when we talk to a customer service(esp airlines) but that doesn't mean that we take part in vigilante.
the europeans label americans as conservative and don't know how to enjoy the life with no vacation (just 12 days per year, i think). fyi