Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
Re: [silk] On Innovation in India
Wed, 14 May 2008 10:14:22 +0530 Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://seekingalpha.com/article/76511-where-are-indias-innovative-companies-products-and-solutions According to the article, the missing ingredients required to jump-start India's innovation ecosystem are; 1. Access to intellectual and relational capital. 2. A well developed Angel and Venture Capital industry does not exist in India. 3. An active segment of the Press focused on promoting early stage ventures and building Entrepreneurs into Business Celebrities. 4. A Comprehensive Understanding of the Indian Consumer and the lack of formal Government support to promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 5. Establishing Compelling Reasons to Innovate. Quite safely, one can say that 5 exists and as for 4, the less government 'support' the better, yes? Apologies for the delayed posting in response to this post; My response is in reference to Point - 4: I quite disagree with the 'less government 'support' the better' argument. In India, good examples (IMHO) are the development of the Information Technology sector, now followed by the Business Process Outsourcing sector, both having benefited from various forms of government (both Central and State) support including but not limited to support in procuring land and buildings, reduced to nil stamp duties and registration fees on real estate transactions, tax free income generation. There are a few other benefits and support on administrative and regulatory levels. This support (particularly from Central Government) is administered through the Software Technology Parks of India Scheme. Recently, India has evolved this support mechanism through a legislation and supports eligible activities under the Special Economic Zones Act. I think such support is certainly worth-while for the development of India. -- Anil KUMAR
[silk] Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man (fwd)
Bringing a couple of threads from this list together... Brian -- Forwarded message -- Date: 19 May 2008 16:26:03 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/19/148208 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2008-05-19 14:47:00 An anonymous reader writes After a Google user posted a profane picture of the Hindu saint Shivaji, Indian authorities contacted Google to ask for his IP address. [1]Google complied. He was arrested and is [2]reported to have been beaten by a lathi and asked to use the same bowl to eat and to use in the toilet. Not surprisingly, Google is a keen to play this down as Yahoo is being hauled over the coals by US Congress for handing over an IP addresses and emails to the Chinese Government which resulted in a Chinese democracy activist being jailed. Readers are noting that these are 2 unrelated cases -- the latter is several months old. References 1. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/18/hit-pause-on-the-evil-button-google-assists-in-arrest-of-indian-man/ 2. http://www.techgoss.com/fullstory.aspx?storyid=c2211350011508011508%205:12:14%20AMS14347
Re: [silk] On Innovation in India
Anil Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I quite disagree with the 'less government 'support' the better' argument. In India, good examples (IMHO) are the development of the Information Technology sector, now followed by the Business Process Outsourcing sector, both having benefited from various forms of government (both Central and State) support including but not limited to support in procuring land and buildings, reduced to nil stamp duties and registration fees on real estate transactions, tax free income generation. Here is my simple counterargument. If you look at the countries with the highest levels of economic development, they are largely the countries with the smallest amount of government interference in the economy. Indeed, the lesson of India over the last century may be that the ideas of the Fabian Society don't really work out well in practice. On the other hand, if you look at what John Cowperthwaite's Hong Kong, it did remarkably well in quite a short period of time. If you look at the primary change in China in the last 30 years, it has been the elimination of control, not the imposition of control. If you look at the economic decline of France, it has coincided almost perfectly with the imposition of strong labor controls. I am not sure I want to get into an argument here with people as I'm not an expert in Indian affairs, but I think the experiment has been tried repeatedly at this point -- Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, etc. on the deregulation side, Argentina, France, the UK prior to Thatcher, etc. on the regulation side -- and I think the results are clear. Perry
Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
Rishab Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:10:52PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: The Narita Express was pretty fast when I last took it. Not a it does 60 km in just under an hr. compare that to, say, the arlanda express in stockholm that does 45 km in 20 mins. or even horrible heathrow, 25 km in 15 mins. tokyo could do better than that! True, it isn't insanely speedy. I'm used to being stuck in traffic in New York for an hour and a half going to Kennedy, which isn't even outside the city limits. Perhaps my standards are too low, though -- you are clearly right that much of the world does significantly better at this point. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perry E. Metzger [18/05/08 18:10 -0400]: The Narita Express was pretty fast when I last took it. Not a Shinkansen by any means, but still pretty good, and it stops right inside the airport. (Also very comfortable, and it has assigned seating, although that's a bit of a problem for those who can't read the (two) kanji needed to find your seat...) NEX has bilingual seat numbers, announcements etc .. everything (at least as of late march when I was last in Tokyo) You may be right. I could be mis-remembering. My last trip to Japan was five or six years ago (amazing how time flies...) I remember it being useful to recognize the box-with-axle-like symbol for car, but perhaps my recollection is tricking me. -- Perry E. Metzger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [silk] The Great Firewall
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If securing the dns lookups of you browser is good enough, firefox has the ability to use the other end of a tunnel for dns lookups. Go to about:config and search for the string 'dns'. I'm posting via cellphone and can't be more specific. Just set the variable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to 'true'. I had done this in the past, and it led to unreliable load times and my ssh connection getting wedged pretty frequently, requiring a restart. Trying it again against a newer ssh server, it seems like those problems have gone away; probably a switch to some sort of non-blocking DNS lookups on the server's side. Thanks! Brian
Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Lots of Japan has been going bilingual, and even (gasp) hiring non japanese. Thaths and I met up with Shradha (quite a character on livejournal) a couple of years back when she was in kyoto - she's in the bay area now Did a post grad course in Japan (Keio U I think) and then worked as an exec assistant in the office of the chairman at Sanyo. Speaks fluent japanese, got quite immersed in japanese culture .. Got reminded of that seeing an IP post some hours back about how Japan is finally, reluctantly, hiring more engineers from abroad. We're getting a tad off topic here, but you may want to stress quite heavily the /finally/ and /reluctantly/ bits in the graph above. :) Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
Jim Grisanzio [20/05/08 09:14 +0900]: Got reminded of that seeing an IP post some hours back about how Japan is finally, reluctantly, hiring more engineers from abroad. We're getting a tad off topic here, but you may want to stress quite heavily the /finally/ and /reluctantly/ bits in the graph above. :) If I was posting that in html, and if I was in the habit of doing such stuff, those two words would rate 18 pt type, bold, underlined, and in bright red.
Re: [silk] On Innovation in India
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote, [on 5/20/2008 2:43 AM]: IT is a nice example of how the absence of government interference is good. indian IT's best growth happened while there was no ministry of IT, at which point in time electricity, telecommunications, broadcasting etc (which all had ministries) were barely growing. To be fair, the rise of the IT industry in Bangalore, at least, can be quite clearly traced back to the (quite intentional, AFAICT) establishment of various 'hi-tech' public sector organizations here: ISRO, BEL, NAL, DRDO etc. (for non-Indians: the Indian Space Research Organization, Bharat Electronics Limited, National Aeronautics Lab, Defense Research and Development Organization.) Oh, and the Indian Institute of Science (though this wasn't a 100% governmental effort.) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] Bush's Arabian visit....
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still not extreme enough. I could not find any good videos for demonstration but the Virar Local (Churchgate - Virar) is way more crowded. In fact so crowded that you should not bother trying to get [snip] 1. http://theideasmithy.com/a-survival-guide-to-mumbai-trains/ omigosh, i've forgotten the howto** catch a running train... :( ** getting on and off a train in motion is an art practiced and honed to perfection by millions of commuters and their trick is to run with the train ;-)
