Comment proves that if you are good you can get a (Score 1) 183
job even in this economy. Damn you Steve for making me feel worse. But then I dont have to compete with you for other jobs out there. How lucky for me.
Comment can any of the guys in the audience sue Bill Gates (Score 1) 841
just wondering if there is a case for suing Bill Gates for terrorizing people and causing psychological trauma.
Comment Re:Please dig up some facts about this fella (Score 1) 105
Comment it was but no longer (Score 1) 407
hmm..
Submission + - What can we do to get out of this economic mess? (blogspot.com)
shakuni writes: "It is enormously frustrating for me to just carry on my work like its business as usual, while the whole economy and society around us seems to be collapsing. I am sure there are others, in our community, who feel the same. I am looking for suggestions on how we can, individually and collectively, contribute to getting out of this situation. It is my belief that we are all capable of embracing hardships to build a better and robust future. What is unnerving, to most of us, is a lack of predictability around the current situation. Personally, I am witnessing a lot of very capable people unable to channelize their productive resources purely because they are in a state of shock or denial or both.
I believe this community has the smarts and the attitude to come up with positive suggestions and personally I am all ears. I refuse to believe that we have no control over a situation that is of our own making."
Comment An electric car company from India (Score 1) 594
This Company has been in business since 1994.
Comment Re:DoD use Blackberries (Score 1) 365
The value of the target i think is the answer. While military as a whole is important, the location of each individual of the military and their communication (and location) isnt nearly as important is the President for our enemies.
Comment Re:I don't get the "50% reduction in failures" (Score 1) 317
well said. true for IITs (Indian Institute of Technology). Getting in was so tough that 2 years of prep lets you float through the 4 years. You may not graduate with flying colors but you will get through
Comment Re:bad analogy - think crank (Score 1) 407
Dont blame the tool !!!
Spreadsheet is great for a lot of things. Most users of spreadsheets dont hit those limits that you talk about.
My car speedometer is calibrated for displaying 140MPH speed but I rarely go above 75 MPH and that is true for most people who use the car. You are like that guy who tries to get the Honda Civic run like formula 1 and then complain that it aint good enough.
Comment Consensus is not science (Score 0, Troll) 458
It is crazy how scientific community behaves like just any other group where scientific methods are trumped by polls and consensus. It is exactly this herd mentality that prevented the community to look outside string theory for the grand unified theory.
Folks like Garrett Lisi had to resort to virtually getting away from civilization to make progress their own radical new ideas.
Comment oh sorry a small mistake (Score 1) 227
This is MSFT initiative wrongly posted as Google one....
please change your comments accordingly.
inconvenience caused is regretted
Comment just speculating (Score 2, Insightful) 877
Has tapping this as an energy source ever been considered ? i am not a geologist but I am thinking if there is so much geothermal energy right beneath our feet (probably very deep) of such enormous magnitude there could be a way to tap into this.
Comment from the article - it drives me nuts (Score 1) 302
"With iSuppli's estimated PS3 cost at $448.73, the product retailing in the United States at around $399 and taking into account other expenses, the PS3 may be able to break even in 2009 with further hardware revisions."
I don't know what this statement means. Are they saying that total cost (direct and indirect cost) per unit in 2009 will fall below $399 retail price ? If yes, then that is not breakeven. Also, it seems to me that they have very little idea of other expenses (both direct and indirect)to be able to even make that statement.
It drives me nuts
