Which goes against the whole article anyway, since Jones didn't invent, or claim to invent, the concept of Pi either, that'd be a 3-way shootout between ancient indians, chinese or egyptians, Jones just assigned it the name Pi.
i have worked with Red5 previously. Its a good streaming server for putting together a POC quickly but not the best tool for scalability and reliability. I wonder how this new effort scales on top of Red5
Apache OpenMeetings seem to have got all the features of a typical webmeeting but I wonder if it would be usable by a typical non-geek user
but I wonder if it would be usable by a typical non-geek user
I'm working at one of the largest chip design companies, so you can assume that the engineers around me have a sound understanding of technology (I mean we know how to use all the EDA tools, if there wasn't SAP software I'd say that's the most complicated software you can get :). We use WebEx heavily for intra and inter company communication. Still many of us have trouble using it, and explaining its workings to first time users almost always takes a lot of time (and nerves!).
I'm eager to have a look at OpenMeetings. But assuming it already has all the needed corporate functions I'd say concentrating on usability (especially for new users) would be a major differentiation factor to other products in this space.
whats the timezone shown in the pop out? Is it mine or can the user configure the timezone to be specified?
what if i have multiple google accounts and i want to show the aggregate availability. for example i have four sales reps and they all have free time between 10 am and 11 am. if all four are booked the end user should see the time slot as full, else till all four are booked the user should be able to book that time slot. if that possible?
What will Amazon look like in five years?
A place where you can buy anything and everything. And if that's your goal, you better have a tactic to accomplish it, a partnership strategy. For us, it's thousands of partners of all sizes and business models. That's what we're trying to do - within the context of being Earth's most customer-centric company.
At various times westerners who dont understand the various forces at work in india have predicted the fall of india. Churchill said: India will fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages (source: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-w...)
Even we Indian barely understand all the forces and the interplay so I dont hold it too much against ppl who pass such pronouncements.
In the last 30 years or so in every parameter (health/education/life span) India has developed and this has happened to all stratas of sosciety. Please understand that I am not refuting the nytimes article. I am saying that poor people are also getting better.
Estimates for India also indicate a continuing decline in poverty. The revised estimates suggest that the percentage of people living below $1.25 a day in 2005 (which, based on India’s PPP rate, works out to Rs 21.6 a day in urban areas and Rs 14.3 in rural areas in 2005 ) decreased from 60% in 1981 to 42% in 2005. Source: http://www.worldbank.org.in/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHA...
Yes, the rich are getting richer but the poor are also getting a bit better.
India follows the "Sheep Herd" mentality.
The whole country's economy is based on people getting into "Profitable" domains mostly following the success of a pioneer in the field.
The most recent example of this ideology is the "Business Process Outsourcing" industry.
New BPO units are propping up here and there at a dime a dozen leading to a quality deterioration in the final deliverable.
This process will continue till a saturation level is reached and then they will wait till another "Killer" domain picks up momentum.
Till then India will be in a so called "Calm Period" where nothing great and major takes place.
The population increased from ~700million to ~1 billion over that time frame. An 8% increase in the number of people living in poverty while the population grew 42% is still progress. The US has a similar history economic growth lifted most poeple out of poverty, but it took wealth redistribution to reduce the number of people living in abject poverty. (Now we have beggars making 20 times what an Indian day labor makes, but 100 years ago things where vary different.)
PS: The simple poverty numbers say vary little. If a farmer in the third world with a wife and and five kids he is unlikely to get out of poverty any time soon. But, with a reasonable education his kids can lead a much better life.
On 4th August 1932 Round Table Conference, British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald gave autonomy/independence to Muslims/Christians/Anglo-Indians/Sikhs/SC/ST communities in India.
But Gandhi colluded with Ambedkar and foiled it to favor forward caste community in India.
One of the most important fact form this article which is likely to be overlooked is : "the Prineville facility runs at 85°F with a 65 percent relative humidity". Running at such a high humidity + Temp combination is impressive esp when you look at the money saved in environmental costs.
