What an ignorant d-bag you are.

I've worked in companies (in the USA and Canada) where my team was primarily Indian/Chinese/Brazilian/Russian/etc. Some are here on visa, some are now citizens. You can't assume, especially in software engineering, that foreign names equals outsourcing. Some of these people are even second or third generation citizens.

The hiring process is a key determining factor in the quality of the employee you have at the company. And presumably, if they are bad at their job, with good management, they won't be working there for long, regardless of where they came from.

I've certainly seen variance among co-workers in the quality of their work, but that has never correlated with their race or ethnicity. If you see that, then you're probably blinded by your own prejudices. Take some time to sort out these issues you have.

I think better than trying to get there just via Math, take an actual Physics course that teaches General Relativity.

At ASU, I took a 300-level course "Modern Physics" as an elective and it explained it all pretty well. And I agree, the only Math concepts you really need to know would be basic calculus and vectors. Of course the course itself might have the basic first year Physics courses as pre-requisites.

IMF World Economic Outlook says India's economy was up 7.3% in 2008, up 5.6% in 2009, and predicted to be up 7.7% in 2010. China's economy was up 9.6% in 2008, up 8.7% in 2009, and predicted to be up 10% in 2010. Meanwhile the United States' economy was up 0.4% in 2008, down 2.5% in 2009, and predicted to be up only 2.7% in 2010.

People are keeping a very close eye on emerging market economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico, etc. They have been behind, but that means they have a lot of potential to grow, and many of them have been doing a good job at outpacing the United States' economy in recent years.

That all aside, the original comment for this thread was just stupid. In terms of comedic value it was beyond stale. Other than that it's tasteless. I don't think I've ever been on the phone with a tech support rep who was in India. Meanwhile I've been to India twice in the past few years and know that call centers are just about zero percent of their cultural identity. Just because some Americans have some exposure to this one small profession in India, they have extrapolated it into this whole stereotype for an entire country. I guess that's just ignorance.

If there is any stereotype of Americans which is absolutely accurate, it would be that Americans are ignorant.

I'm afraid to google for Dick Pick... I just know I will find out about something I never knew, and never wanted to know, existed.

By acquaintance, you mean you, right? You're really talking about you. You "have a friend..." with a porn addiction. Mm-hmmm.

What about iCab? I went to the iCab homepage and I see version 3.0.5 for download, from 1/1/08... that's a bit behind the latest OS X version (4.6.1) but it might be more usable than IE.

I highly doubt this monitor is of a type which even records any data. It's probably like the heart rate monitors in typical gym equipment which give you some feedback about how hard you are working.

What do you think a heart monitor is? Have you ever used any gym equipment? It's pretty standard for a lot of gym equipment to monitor your heart rate if you hold onto some metal contacts... but its also common to have something that plugs into a jack and then clips onto your finger or ear to monitor your pulse. It just gives you feedback about how hard you are exercising and if you need to work harder or if you're over-exerting yourself.

The responses here seem to indicate everyone thinks this is some sort of PDA the kids will be actually wearing like a wireless mic, logging data as they run around and play baseball or something....

I think the person who asked this question should be more worried about her kid being denied insurance because he inherited stupidity and crippling paranoia from his parents. Forget about heart conditions.

I made the same mistake when I read about Haiku, since I stopped following BeOS after Be went out of business.

I used to use BeOS R5 exclusively for awhile, and then I kept it around some time after that with the patches (like the BONE net stack which was in development at Be Inc and which got leaked).

Then there were all these projects that sprouted up... BlueEyedOS, OpenBeOS, YellowTab Zeta... as well as questions about what Palm might do with BeOS. And of course there were a ton of Mac, Linux, and Windows themes to mimic BeOS. At first, I think BlueEyedOS seemed to have the most going for it since it was based on Linux and had a head start.

Years later and I hear about Haiku, and didn't realize this is what used to be OpenBeOS which was not based on Linux at all. I think a lot of people who have been out of the loop for so many years might, like me, be thinking Haiku is based on Linux like BlueEyedOS was.

Well crap... which BeOS project was it that was going the route of using Linux... I know there was one.