Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote [ at 09:39 AM 11/11/2006 ] : gmail shows '>' marks well enough if you turn HTML mail off. Unfortunately, this appears to be something you need to do on a per-message basis. Lame^500. You must give the geeks behind gmail a little credit. Gmail remembers how you composed your previo

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Thaths
On 11/10/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gmail shows '>' marks well enough if you turn HTML mail off. Unfortunately, this appears to be something you need to do on a per-message basis. Lame^500. You must give the geeks behind gmail a little credit. Gmail remembers how you compose

Re: [silk] FoU Camp v 2.0 - Rides Offered and Wanted

2006-11-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote [ at 09:35 PM 11/10/2006 ] : I've added a page in the wiki for people who want or are offering rides. http://fou.openscroll.org/index.php?title=Rides_offered_and_wanted I updated it with my details: Udhay, from JP Nagar (South Bangalore, right off Kanakapura Road - i.e, the s

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote [ at 07:58 PM 11/10/2006 ] : AMS, she's using Gmail, which won't show '>' marks, just a vertical bar. gmail shows '>' marks well enough if you turn HTML mail off. Unfortunately, this appears to be something you need to do on a per-message basis. Lame^500. Udhay --

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread sastry
On Friday 10 Nov 2006 9:04 pm, Casey O'Donnell wrote: > Pine was always really good for keeping with > this kind of format. Some days I miss Pine. If we didn't have Windows we would have no light. Right? Wherever you find penguins - the night lasts for 6 months. :-))) shiv

Re: [silk] I spit me of Asimov and his First Law!

2006-11-10 Thread sastry
On Friday 10 Nov 2006 10:13 pm, Thaths wrote: > Would it not be more cost-effective for India to spend that money on > making sure truly representative democracy works in > Indian-administered Kashmir and creating economic opportunities for > the youth? After all, it worked in Punjab in the 90's.

[silk] Any Game Developers on Silk?

2006-11-10 Thread Casey O'Donnell
I know my initial geek out brought some of the gamers out to play, but are there any game developers on the list? I'm heading out on Monday for Bangalore, then later to Hyderabad and later Chennai. My time is pretty structured in Bangalore and Chennai, though I'll have more than enough time to eat

Re: [silk] I spit me of Asimov and his First Law!

2006-11-10 Thread Thaths
On 11/9/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "obvious" applicaton and target nation for a machine gun-toting robot that can distinguish between humans and trees or whatever is India - with guarding of the line of control between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan occupied Kashmir in mind. It has

Re: [silk] I spit me of Asimov and his First Law!

2006-11-10 Thread sastry
On Friday 10 Nov 2006 5:29 pm, Dave Long wrote: > Wikipedia's entry on Kargil says both Pakistan and > India had deployed US and Israeli-sourced UAVs in 1999 Typically whenever you read a source that says "both India and Pakistan blah blah blah" - it is likely to be a Pakistani source (or a left

[silk] FoU Camp v 2.0 - Rides Offered and Wanted

2006-11-10 Thread Thaths
I've added a page in the wiki for people who want or are offering rides. http://fou.openscroll.org/index.php?title=Rides_offered_and_wanted Thaths -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer: (pause) A dinosaur.

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

2006-11-10 Thread Vardhini Shankar
> One of the BPO vendors I work with in Pune, work to UK holidays, not Indian> ones.  However, I was struck with the way that the management made 'noises> in our ears' to allow staff time off during Diwali (against our contract)> but made no special provision for Ramzan.>> I'm not trying to inflame

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Casey O'Donnell
On 11/10/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/Nov/2006, at 6:43 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > The idea is that what you quote should have '> ' in front of it, and > your responses shouldn't. In this instance, it looks like sastry said > what you typed about the Sardarji. Also

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 10/Nov/2006, at 6:43 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: The idea is that what you quote should have '> ' in front of it, and your responses shouldn't. In this instance, it looks like sastry said what you typed about the Sardarji. Also, you're quoting stuff twice. AMS, she's using Gmail, which won

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-11-10 18:37:38 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Udhay...is this way of quoting better? I'm not Udhay... but no, not really. The idea is that what you quote should have '> ' in front of it, and your responses shouldn't. In this instance, it looks like sastry said what you typed about th

Re: [silk] Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing

2006-11-10 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 11/9/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No computer can run without abrilliant program called "Windows".Which reminds me of the Sardarji/Pole/blonde/whoever who went to order nice curtains for the computer..   Deepa.   Udhay...is this way of quoting better? On 11/9/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [silk] Indian Police Restructuring

2006-11-10 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 10 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In comparison, what are our cops taught? The state police training curriculum varies a lot despite following guidelines framed by the Police Training Academy. I do know that the Bangalore police have sensitivity training and some sessions on crowd manage

Re: [silk] I spit me of Asimov and his First Law!

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Long
The "obvious" applicaton and target nation for a machine gun-toting robot that can distinguish between humans and trees or whatever is India - with guarding of the line of control between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan occupied Kashmir in mind. With the "whatever" obviously being machine gun-t

Re: [silk] Indian Police Restructuring

2006-11-10 Thread Madhu Menon
Just curious (and I know Nandakumar is on this list) about the level of training Indian police officers get. Here's a breakdown of LA Police Academy training, for instance: http://www.joinlapd.com/academy.html In comparison, what are our cops taught? -- <<< * >>> Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eas

[silk] Doublethink in the Time of Criminal Reform

2006-11-10 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://www.kafila.org/2006/10/31/doublethink-in-the-time-of-criminal- reform/ Doublethink in the Time of Criminal Reform By Lawrence Liang, October 31st, 2006 Orwell created a range of wonderful concepts in his dystopic novel 1984 to characterize the language of power. One such phrase Do

Re: [silk] FoU Camp - Part II - final countdown

2006-11-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Jess wrote [at 12:14 PM 11/10/2006] : Committed FoUs meet over dinner (I have a number of 20) on 23rd evening. The booze will be broken out here and after I assume. And FoUing will continue through the night. There is no corkage charge. Sounds good to me. I've told Eugene (person-in-charg