Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread Sarad AV
--- Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meaning that 150,000 engineers are employed in Bangalore? Does this include software engineers, HTML coders, programmers, computer scientists? Computer scientists are very few. Most engineering colleges and teachers emphasis simple on coding. If you

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Steve Mynott wrote: Jim Dixon wrote: The term 'software engineer' is becoming less common in the States these days. I have watched the job title wax and wane for more than twenty five years. I think that it was most fashionable in the early 1980s. Any

US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-08 Thread Nostradumbass
The great American experiment finally fizzled on December 1, 2003, when the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a 9th Federal Circuit decision which gutted the Second Amendment. It was a nice run - over two hundred years. As of December 1, 2003, the US Supreme Court issued its

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread ken
Steve Mynott wrote: Jim Dixon wrote: The term 'engineer' is far from precise; in the UK most people who work with tools can be called engineers but people who write software generally are NOT called engineers. There are further complications: for example, in I have had jobs as a software

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:27 PM 1/6/04 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: Try building and finding a place to launch an amateur rocket (it can be done, but now only with the greatest of regulatory red tape). I did. Some of my group's rockets achieved heights over 100,000 ft (confirmed by Edward's AFB radar.) Yeah, but

Current Operational Nodes?

2004-01-08 Thread Thoenen, Peter Mr CN Sprint SFOR
Cross posting on multiple nodes since none seem reliable. Now that LNE is shutting down ... are there actually any other reliable operational nodes? Have subscribed to minder.net, algebra.com, and ds.pro-ns.net all in the last two weeks to no avail. Some return subscribed message but never