Comment Re:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters (Score 1, Insightful) 97
Total agreement.
Comment Re:No surprise.. this is india after all (Score 1) 227
I'm Indian. I wasn't a registered member of slashdot for a long time, due to sheer laziness. I registered only a few months ago. But I've been reading slash for over 6 years now. It no longer surprises me that whenever there's an article about Indian technology, the comments section degenerates into Bangalore bashing and India bashing. I absolutely love the articles posted on this site. This site makes my day in more ways than one. I just wish people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations without much knowledge of what they're professing to know. Saying that Indians lack innovation in any field is utter crap, and you know it. It's true that a huge percentage of our population is below the poverty line. So what's your point? How is that related to innovation? Your post is just an outlet for your hatred of some Indians in your office.
Comment Re:Our advise is to place your funds somewhere saf (Score 1) 467
Banks do not keep money. That's probably what you're missing. Banks make money by loaning out cash to companies (this is where the lion's share goes) and to people who need it. They charge them an interest rate that is higher than the interest rate that they pay out on deposits. This difference in interest rates is what contributes to banks earnings. Banks do have to store a percentage of depositors' money with the Central bank (the percentage varies from country to country and is called Cash Reserve Ratio), but the percentage is usually only around 20% or less.
In a nutshell, banks don't keep money. That's a wrong notion.
Comment KVM? (Score 1) 175
To quote the original article
"Because Tsubame uses a KVM hypervisor and various cloud-like provisioning tools, it can run both Windows and Linux at the same time on different nodes, and offer users various types of processing configurations."
As one of the commentors on the original article pointed out, KVM is virtual machine software designed for linux, so is this benchmark comparing the performance of linux and windows virtual machines (running on a linux host), rather than comparing the performance of linux and windows directly? Or is this comment relevant only in the sense that Tsubame is currently running KVM and totally irrelevant in the context of the testing performed?
Comment Space Curry (Score 1) 47
Yippee! No more dehydrated rations. Say hello to space curry!
Comment clouds huh? (Score 2, Funny) 187
sounds like rather clouded judgement to me
Submission + - Facemail? (washingtonpost.com)
knotprawn writes: At an event Monday in San Francisco, founder Mark Zuckerberg introduced a major upgrade to the social network's messaging system, now called "Messages," that's designed to fold in other, older forms of electronic text communication: chat, e-mail and SMS.
Yes, you can have a facebook.com e-mail address, based on the user name you choose for your profile on the site. The idea, however, is not just to give you yet another e-mail account but also to unify the ways you can converse with other Facebook users and flatten some perceived hang-ups with e-mail.
To explain that, Zuckerberg related how a group of high school students told him that "we don't really use e-mail." Why? "It's too slow," he quoted them as saying. It didn't have the seamless back-and-forth and near-instant delivery of text messaging.
Here's the full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111506844.html
Yes, you can have a facebook.com e-mail address, based on the user name you choose for your profile on the site. The idea, however, is not just to give you yet another e-mail account but also to unify the ways you can converse with other Facebook users and flatten some perceived hang-ups with e-mail.
To explain that, Zuckerberg related how a group of high school students told him that "we don't really use e-mail." Why? "It's too slow," he quoted them as saying. It didn't have the seamless back-and-forth and near-instant delivery of text messaging.
Here's the full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111506844.html
