Kapil Sibal, India's telecommunications minister has said today that the government will sell 100,000 tablets at 1,100 rupees ($22 USD) in an effort to boost computer literacy.
The government will first buy the devices from DataWind for 2250 rupees ($46 USD) and then sell the tablets at a subsidized price to schools in the nation.
India will then purchase 10 million tablets over the next 5 years.
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Boy, is this turning into a pissing match or what?
Talking about inventing a computer. Without the Indian mathematicians coming up with the zero concept you might still be screwing around with the Latin numerals or as the present US education stands counting on the fingers and toes and then scratching their head not being able to go beyond 20!
Has anyone any idea what kind of development is taking place in India? Just to name a few, even 20 years ago Wipro was designing multilayer motherboards for for your top name PC makers. TI has designed all their current version DSPs in India. Very large parts of Adobe PS and other page layout software is designed in India. Around 50% of employee population in MS centers around the world is of Indian origin. A lot of ASICs are designed in India. Just because we did not feel the need to develop our war technology to the level of being able to invade and plunder other countries says a lot about our culture, something US is devoid of.
Americans need to be taught the concept of TCO. Indians are born with it.
BTW one of the H1B visa requirements is that the employer can hire a foreign national ONLY if he cannot fill the vacancy with available US talent AND be paid at par with a US worker !
Another thing one must note is the fact that the US is mainly made up of descendents of immigrants who were on the verge of extinction due to economic hardship, political and/or religious persecution. I can almost bet that the first so called computer had a whole lot of German/East European scientists/engineers working on it.
Originally posted by pmshah: Boy, is this turning into a pissing match or what?
Talking about inventing a computer. Without the Indian mathematicians coming up with the zero concept you might still be screwing around with the Latin numerals or as the present US education stands counting on the fingers and toes and then scratching their head not being able to go beyond 20!
Has anyone any idea what kind of development is taking place in India? Just to name a few, even 20 years ago Wipro was designing multilayer motherboards for for your top name PC makers. TI has designed all their current version DSPs in India. Very large parts of Adobe PS and other page layout software is designed in India. Around 50% of employee population in MS centers around the world is of Indian origin. A lot of ASICs are designed in India. Just because we did not feel the need to develop our war technology to the level of being able to invade and plunder other countries says a lot about our culture, something US is devoid of.
Americans need to be taught the concept of TCO. Indians are born with it.
BTW one of the H1B visa requirements is that the employer can hire a foreign national ONLY if he cannot fill the vacancy with available US talent AND be paid at par with a US worker !
Another thing one must note is the fact that the US is mainly made up of descendents of immigrants who were on the verge of extinction due to economic hardship, political and/or religious persecution. I can almost bet that the first so called computer had a whole lot of German/East European scientists/engineers working on it.
I'm glad you brought that up because the Aztec's had that concept way before the Indians did and that is a fact.
If there wasn't 0 theory, computers would just use 1's and 2's for
"off" and "on". They don't even actually have 0's and 1's in binary anyway...that is just how it is written for humans. Heck, they could just as easily have used "Y"s and "Z"s.
If you mean that US employees are "too lazy" to work for $2 an hour, you are correct...you simply can't live on that and it is actually illegal to pay people that little in the states...but in India, $2 an hour is a living wage and people are happy to get it.
In terms of actual laziness at comparable wages, US employees are better because they generally come with all the training they need, gotten on their own...while Indian employees usually won't get basic skill training unless you pay them to do it. They also tend to get to work ontime, because they don't leave everything up to Karma. Believe it or not, people in India will often ignore catastrophic vehicle failures that could easily kill themselves and others with the theory that, "If the gods want me to die, I will die...and if they want me to live, I will live". People sometimes think like that in the states...but they still replace their brake pads.
