This is like comparing Apples and Oranges. Books are used again an again by students or ardent readers. One can read a novel/ reference or any subject book again and again, are also helpful for reference purposes (basically knowledge gain). Movies on the other hand are more of instant gratification, a point of view of the Director of the movie (movie could be based on a book though), how many times would one see/ refer to the same movie, where as books are always useful (specially text books)

Indians are obviously a better choice as they can be exploited (as the Indian Programmers have to work on H1B VISA), there would be no fixed working hours, low pay and some kind of patriotism expected out of the Indian employee. Even in India these computer software firms exploit the Indian programmers by making them work for way more hours than they should, I mean working on Saturdays, almost 10 hours a day (on an average including Saturdays) and this is very common. This is why outsourcing is being done, not because the code is written in a better fashion but the Indian employee is more gullible (would bend over backwards) rather than an American grad, these outsourcing companies are having what I would like to call "Sweat shops". Everyone can be exploited in the name of Patriotism, and this what the Indian employer (HCL CEO) is saying, India/Indians provide him with cheap labor, him being Indian knows how to deal with them (nobody in the US is going to take that). Never believe the lies these guys propagate, summing up the situation in India. Low pay, irregular working hours (always on the call), can get fired anytime (forcing the employee to work extra hours without getting compensated for). The thing about sexual preference, do you really think that the Indian employer would hire a gay/lesbian that's never happening in India at least, you might get fired for being straight and promiscuous.

Apple doesn't care about gamers, never has never will. iPhone could be a decent gaming platform but so could the G5s (look at XBOX 360 and PS3) but Apple chose otherwise. Apple buying EA is going to destroy gaming on Windows platform and there would be nothing else Apple could gain acquiring EA games.

The price is too good to be true, and this stuff is most likely a propaganda. Even with the Nano there has been overbooking and rationing of the car. Remember that the average income in India is not even comparable to average income of any country in the western hemisphere. The city where I live in a 3 bedroom apartment costs around 3.5 million rupees and a two bedroom apartment costs 2.5 to 2.8 million rupees. Thats a lot of money, the average middle class in India finds buying (owning) a house to be the biggest accomplishment in their lives, this is also one of the prime reasons that children stay with their parents and do not move out. I am in a decent job and for me to buy a house (2 bedroom apartment) I would have to take a loan that I would be paying for atleast 15 years. That pretty much sums it up, let the patriots rise and defend their country as being born is a particular country is a great accomplishment by itself. Frequest Power breaks 3-4 hours of water supply at best (or 24 hours of bore-well water supply) these living standards are pathetic.

25 entries in a single day you must be a machine to have that kind of a stamina. Just kidding would love to get myself the macbook pro with 256 GB SSD, Ubuntu is going to be screaming fast on that shit

Safari might be loaded with a lot of features css animation etc, passes the acid3 test with flying colors but there are so many websites that are only Internet Explorer compliant and there is not answer to that. I know of many Bank websites that run only on Internet Explorer. Opera has been a leader in many thing tab preview, tabbed browsing, speed dial and many more thing, why not compare to Seamonkey, FireFox, Opera, Konqueror. When it comes to standards complaince Internet Explorer has never been upto the mark

Windows Millennium would be collapsing under it's own weight, in my opinion Micro$haft should make an Office Suite for Linux (they would make loads of money).