-- and then the
links don't reach on clicking.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
I suspect you credit authorities with more responsibility than they
actually bear. May I recommend Robert Neuwirth's Shadow Cities?
Here's a review:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002029.html
Here's the author's blog:
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/
Here's him giving a talk at TED
Can someone with academic access get this paper?
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/teta/
2006/0018/0002/art7
Belief revision, a process in which one revises one's current belief
in the light of new information, is an essential component of human
abductive reasoning.
Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug)
in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio.
Express.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
pissed they drew
attention to their IIT pedigree.
FWIW, they may be on to something; just that I'm yet to meet anyone
who gets it.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
On 21-May-07, at 11:57 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
Ok ok. Wed the 23rd.
I'm in too.
On 21-May-07, at 4:46 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
So far the crowd seems entirely manageable though we may run out of
chairs.
I'll get a cane mat.
On 29-May-07, at 7:36 AM, Thaths wrote:
I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a remote Northern
California bookstore yesterday. Judging this book by its cover, it is
supposed to be a near future sci-fi book set in India. It had a quote
from Cory Doctorow in the back cover.
It's
On 29-May-07, at 11:40 AM, Divya wrote:
- India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond - Shashi Tharoor
Is Shashi Tharoor any good? His book's received a sound thrashing
from Amazon's reviewers, who point out that Tharoor is unable to
distinguish between his own life and the growth
Try Music Brainz: http://musicbrainz.org/
On 29-May-07, at 3:05 PM, Aditya Kapil wrote:
Is there a database where I might upload an audio file (wav, mp3
etc) and
have the song identified? I have some nameless, orphan files
cluttering my
hard disk. But the music is great and I don't want
This is an unusually paranoid article for the Economist:
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9247909fsrc=RSS
Business.view
China takes capitalism by the throat
May 29th 2007
From Economist.com
The odd coupling of communism and private equity
CHINA'S secret plan to bring down
On 01-Jun-07, at 4:53 PM, Gautam John wrote:
Looks like the UFO did some travelin'!
I can't recall seeing anything, but I'm sure if I read some more
reports, my memory will come back. Must be the work pressure. Darn
thing. Can no longer even remember what I was supposed to be working on.
On 02-Jun-07, at 11:25 PM, Nandkumar Saravade wrote:
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews053107?pg=0
http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/25/nicholas-carr-on-opensource/
On 27-Jun-07, at 10:20 PM, Thaths wrote:
I believe
jace has been to the restaurant and can attest to the goodness of the
food there.
Only ate there once and it was good.
Tried finding accommodation there on my way through Bangkok last
week, but the darned airport phones only allowed long
On 30-Jun-07, at 8:02 AM, Vinit Bhansali wrote:
Also, NPR radio was stating something to the affect of ATT having
a 5 year
lock-in exclusive to selling the iPhone.
How the heck did Apple get cornered into that?
Two year lock-in for the American market only.
On 30-Jun-07, at 11:09 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
Can I ask a stupid question as a prelude to a convoluted answer?
How does an iPod differ from any one of a number of similar music/
other media
reproducing devices in the market?
Isn't owning an iPod a fashion statement or is content for iPods
On 08-Jul-07, at 9:06 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
No regulation in India, as far as I'm aware. One can fly without
showing any sort of ID by buying one's ticket for cash at airline
ticketing desks or travel agent's.
FWIW, I don't always get asked for id even with e-tickets.
J.
FabIndia, the kurta outfit, is worth $183 million?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/
c0ac20e4-2e40-11dc-821c-779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=a6dfcf08-9c79-11da-8762-00
00779e2340,_i_rssPage=a6dfcf08-9c79-11da-8762-779e2340.html
Ex-World Bank president buys Fabindia stake
By Joe Leahy in Mumbai
Published:
On 10-Jul-07, at 11:11 PM, Alok G. Singh wrote:
The camera is not going to be present in GTA02 either. Wi-Fi will,
though. Harald Welte said that it was a concious decision to omit the
camera, and I sort of agree.
Could you elaborate?
The camera is a significant deciding factor in any phone
On 02-Aug-07, at 10:40 AM, Gautam John wrote:
There's a lot of noise [1] being made over Murdoch's take over of the
WSJ. What does the group-mind think? Good? Bad? No difference?
I'll go with The Economist's cautious optimism:
On 02-Aug-07, at 4:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
We call it a FOU camp out here
Actually, we call it a Barcamp around here.
J.
On 02-Aug-07, at 6:46 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
on another note, you should stop using the new UI for Yahoo mail.
See what a mess it's made of your post?
Her post came through fine for me. Maybe it's time to give Eudora its
golden handshake?
J.
On 02-Aug-07, at 8:02 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a
collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that
runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and
not in good spirit. That did put me off TED.
I wasn't being flippant when I mentioned Barcamp Bangalore earlier in
this thread. The event has evolved significantly in its four
iterations, turning into an incubator of sorts -- we're going to have
two spin-off events later this year, focusing on e-governance and
startups, in addition
On 22-Aug-07, at 8:15 PM, Casey O'Donnell wrote:
Dec 1-2 is a big conference that I can't miss since
I'm going on the job market.
What's on Dec 1-2? December seems to be the month of conferences.
On 02-Sep-07, at 8:16 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
I now left click using the left middle finger, and that finger,
being longer
and being situated further to the left on the left hand, ensures
that my left
middle finger wraps right over the mouse almost up to its far end,
well over
the left
On 07-Sep-07, at 11:22 AM, Gautam John wrote:
Well, yes. But here they did it within three months of launch and by
third. Which makes it rather unusual in terms of time, amount and the
fact that they run this horse along with ATT.
It appears that ATT just provides the cell towers as a service
On 07-Sep-07, at 9:02 AM, Anil Kumar wrote:
The purpose of my posting the link and query was to solicit list-
member's
reactions on this unusual change in Apple's pricing policy as well as
initiate a discussion (assuming if it interested anyone at all).
I'm not sure what's so unusual about
On 16-Sep-07, at 6:42 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
That is true, but it appears that faith based assertions can
certainly be used
politically and have been used for the most prominent and
contentious issues
in the past by the same groups fighting over this issue.
On 18-Sep-07, at 12:58 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
I suppose this senator has a point to prove, but still it is pretty
funny:
http://www.ketv.com/news/14133442/detail.html
*yawn* life imitates art again. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268437/
On 28-Sep-07, at 5:41 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
This appears to be a volume normalizer. How would that help when
the waveforms have been clipped by turning it to 11 while
engineering the album?
It can't do anything about clipping, but does help with those maxed
out without clipping. My
On 28-Sep-07, at 11:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Having said that, I think that some of the things we are seeing with
the loudness war would not be possible without digital technology.
One of the root causes is the fact that the default way of consuming
music for much of the world is via MP3
are my options?
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
On 02-Oct-07, at 2:02 PM, Gautam John wrote:
James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker
Cables Are Better
Our rant about those $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables found its way to
the James Randi
On 02-Oct-07, at 3:10 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Keep your phone away from your speakers?
The laptop's inbuilt speakers have no such problem, so it's clearly
an issue with the shielding. (Speakers are borrowed; not mine.)
On 03-Oct-07, at 7:21 AM, Thaths wrote:
Naomi Klein is a fairly respected writer among the Left in the US. And
the article you referred to was an opinion piece. Even if Naomi's
opinion was misled or wrong (one cannot have false opinions, merely
wrong-headed ones), I think she deserves being
On 22-Oct-07, at 9:11 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I remember an essay I read in college...the definition of
civilization being that a beautiful woman decked out with jewellery
could walk alone at night...and the other definition being, the laying
down of any form of weaponry by citizens of the
On 29-Oct-07, at 12:33 PM, Gautam John wrote:
And if the Hutch network is EDGE enabled, then the speeds are even
worse than I imagined. I get between 0.50 kB/s to a (rare) max of 5.3
kB/s...
It's not much better on Airtel EDGE. 1.5 - 3.0 kB/s is the norm. The
network and handset are
On 05-Nov-07, at 3:15 PM, Chandrashekhar Bhosle wrote:
Have these flights started? From what I could find online they are
postponed
to sometime next year. The company website does not say so but they
don't
seem to have any tickets available either.
I just did a trip on them. Flights tend
On 11-Nov-07, at 10:42 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
In other words the policy is to encourage smuggling and bribery of
customs
officials. This is no different from the same ol' same ol' policy
regarding
electronic equipment for the last 30 years.
No -- you're allowed one laptop and three cell
On 07-Nov-07, at 1:42 PM, Sthitaprajna wrote:
Umm correction. Dont use the pressure blast.. what I meant is a
bulb blower that directs a jet of air when you press it.
Don't blow directly at the CCD either. The air around you may not be
clean enough. Get a nylon paintbrush (~Rs 80 at
I've been travelling a bit lately. Doing another trip to BR hills
sounds more stress than relaxation. I'd rather go with Fireflies.
On 12-Nov-07, at 12:19 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy wrote:
I'm in. Open to both locations , BR hills seems more interesting. but
will be helluva travel over the
On 12-Nov-07, at 8:22 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Indian academia is mostly a cesspool of corruption and dishonesty.
With particular emphasis on mostly rather than, say, entirely. I
do know of Indian academia that does high quality original research.
On 13-Nov-07, at 2:50 PM, Anil Kumar wrote:
Another factor that went against Nok Air on this route was the poor
on-ward connectivity to other destinations in South East Asia. Full
service carriers such as Thai, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines
and Sri Lankan score over Nok Air with
On 21-Nov-07, at 7:37 PM, Bharath Chari wrote:
ps : Nothing against blackberries, but haven't missed one since I
got the E61 - plus I get to load all my apps on it - putty, vnc and
even an apache web server, running python via the raccoon
project :-). http://chari.at.openlaboratory.net/
On 25-Nov-07, at 4:40 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I could however easily bring several kilograms of undetectable (no
vapor
pressure, no nitrogen, dogs not trained on) high explosive onboard,
which is not
recognizable as such on an contrasted x-ray. I'm deliberately
not giving you more details,
On 27-Nov-07, at 1:24 PM, ashok _ wrote:
Would it be possible to setup an internet service that uses GPRS/EDGE
for uplink and
a one-way VSAT for downlink ? Here GPRS charges apply only for
downloads and upload
requests are essentially free...
Yes, but you'll need a server at the other end of
On 10-Dec-07, at 9:43 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
In fact many educated Hindus chose this route to avoid being asked
to answer
uncomfortable questions about Hinduism. Wearing Hindu symbols like
a large
tilak on one's forehead or admitting to openly practicing Hindu
ritual is
quite often an
On 10-Dec-07, at 11:11 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
If you do put XP in there stick in as many anti spyware, malware,
virus etc
tools as you can, harden it some.
Public library PCs tend to pick up trojans and such at an alarming
rate
In particular, you'll want to use Microsoft
On 10-Dec-07, at 2:05 PM, Gautam John wrote:
Amongst the suggestions, a common thread, barring Eugen, is ways and
methods to 'secure' XP. Surely Ubuntu would be a better bet? I was
rather hoping for arguments that I could use in favour of that. But, I
suppose, freedom of choice would mean
On 10-Dec-07, at 7:22 PM, ashok _ wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007 4:21 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
er yes
shiv
maybe you counted the same women twice or thrice over... since
its hard to differentiate at a glance between two women wearing a
hijab :)
Or counted Indian Christian women as Hindus without
On 11-Dec-07, at 9:49 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
A survey of that variability would probably throw up some
interesting results.
but hey it doesn't pay to be a sociologist in India.
So you're saying that you're too cheap to get a real survey done, but
expect to be taken seriously on facts you
On 11-Dec-07, at 2:40 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
Jace has just played the you farted game on me. Thanks, but no
thanks.
Thanks for the nice backdrop, Shiv. As I see it, I'm commenting on
the emperor's new clothes.
Where's your research data?
On 11-Dec-07, at 7:13 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
Too late. You're hopping mad now :D and I am not playing your game.
Once
again, thanks but no thanks.
You may have heard of this new game. It's called bait the skeptic.
Here's how it works:
Person A, our hero, makes an exaggerated claim.
On 18-Dec-07, at 4:37 PM, ashok _ wrote:
I have never seen such a preloaded windows version being sold for a
pittance ?
what happens when they need to upgrade this preloaded windows ?
will the upgrade also be free ?
When the tail is on fire, you'll get what you want for whatever you
Venkat, what about WebERP? Have you tried it? http://www.weberp.org/HomePage
J.
On 13-Jan-08, at 12:25 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Take a look at Opentaps (www.opentaps.org), based on Apache's OFBiz.
Opentaps is a much better ERP system and I recommend it to all my
clients.
Venkat
Bharath
On 14-Jan-08, at 11:59 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Was reading http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=34 and a conversation
throwback morphed itself into a question as to how much research has
actually gone inside the social aspect of a social network. For
example,
sites like Flickr etc lend
On 16-Jan-08, at 2:15 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
The page claims that they are a channel partner for Reliance, but
is setting off my bullshit alarms, especially since WiMAX is still
having some regulatory...issues in India.
For what it's worth, a colleague at work has a Reliance WiMax
Dear All,
Registrations for the Bangalore edition of the Free Map 2008 workshop
are now open.
The workshop will be held on February 16-17 at the NS Raghavan Centre
for Entrepreneurship Learning (NSRCEL), Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore (IIMB). This is the same location as was
On 25-Jan-08, at 10:53 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Charles, I am sending a link to a photo of my friend, artist Ramesh
Thorat. I had photographed him against the backdrop of one of his
paintings. He lives in Mumbai so he is definitely more than an hour's
drive away :-) He is one of the most
On 04-Feb-08, at 5:28 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
A dinner on Sunday evening the 10th sounds like fun, with Valsa,
Venkat, Biju, and whomever else is in the area? I'm submitting
myself somewhat to the whims of the OSIWeek staff when it comes to
when and where I'll be - I don't even know
On 07-Feb-08, at 12:41 PM, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
an interesting bit of self-ethnography - which obviously asks the
reader to conjure up the absent photograph.
The impatient can always resort to the interwebs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinn/326573817/
Maybe he's the man in the picture.
On 07-Feb-08, at 1:00 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
But then again I found out that Hassath is usually the name of a
woman, so my theory shows signs of failing to the exception rule.
Maybe Hassath is the one on the left, and our friend AMS is the fellow
in the middle.
On 07-Feb-08, at 1:11 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Maybe Hassath is the one on the left, and our friend AMS is the
fellow
in the middle.
Fair guess, following from NS1.TOROID.ORG
You may recall Quinn Norton's India trip for the Global Voices Summit
was preceded by a post to this list
On 09-Feb-08, at 9:59 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
share the story for those who missed the dinner?
That's tomorrow, and I'll probably be missing it. Here's an outline of
the work we're involved in:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/bangpypers/2008-February/000329.html
As for the unusual
On 09-Feb-08, at 1:16 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
I miss street-food as well. There used to a place near V V puram which
was similar to the Khau-galli (Food Lanes in Marathi) in Mumbai. But
it
has depleted thanks to high-handedness of the Bangalore police.
What do you mean? The place was
On 10-Feb-08, at 9:08 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
The evolution of such businesses in India starts with Just setting it
up (Just do it). If uncontrolled we get a Gandhi Bazaar like
situation in
which the entire pavement is occupied by illegal vendors who do not
pay a
paisa of tax, but have been
On 10-Feb-08, at 10:32 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
Old Bangalore has plenty of those. Basavanagudi was the first
planned area
of Bangalore - under the Brits. But many of the extensions that came
later
lack this simple facility, although the most recently developed ones
do.
The pavement along
On 12-Feb-08, at 5:52 AM, divya manian wrote:
On 2/12/08, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello. Have we met before?
Yep, several times on twitter (http://twitter.com/nimbupani) and rare
times at some cafe place in Chennai (from some 20 person blog meets to
a 2 person
On 14-Feb-08, at 5:51 PM, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account wrote:
If you can buy an old WRT54G that can use DD-WRT firmware, signal can
be boosted or two of them can be used for repeating forming a kind of
mesh if u know someb ody who lives between the two places. I
understand WRT54G-L can be used
On 19-Feb-08, at 5:06 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
There was no info about who
wrote this article though
Umm, a certain Manu AB, whose name is mentioned in the text?
On 19-Feb-08, at 8:10 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Jace plans to wow everyone with this at freed.in I read
Ok, ok, I get the message. I'll start making slides. They will
hopefully substitute for the lack of content.
:p
On 27-Feb-08, at 3:35 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
That's totally bizarre. Though I was amused by this sign in a
Bangalore bank:
No weapons are allowed inside the bank except for kripans by Sikhs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haynes/871162228/
Curiously enough, the Delhi airport lists items
On 07-Mar-08, at 8:25 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
Sensible as these changes may be, however, reforms written by civil
servants are unlikely to provide the necessary transformation in
India's
civil service. Nor is technology the instant elixir it is sometimes
considered to be. Inspired by a
On 11-Mar-08, at 2:38 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that immediately after
death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into
Hell.
But, but, but, don't souls supposedly just float around until
judgement day, when they can
On 11-Mar-08, at 4:29 PM, Gautam John wrote:
Okay, let me try to explain. I work with a non-profit that publishes
childrens books. And we have these books in English. Now we want to
upload them to a wiki type place, which we are developing but ideas
are welcome, where people can take the
On 11-Mar-08, at 5:32 PM, Bharath Chari wrote:
I think it may have to be manual. I suspect the tool Kiran is
referring
to will _extract_ text, and remove all formatting. As he said, this is
for archival, and search. I don't think the layout will be preserved.
Bharat, the layout is preserved
This is very Tolkien-esque. An imagination so fantastic and so well
defined, it's hard to believe it's not true. No wonder it works for
some people.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
http://jace.livejournal.com/
On 12-Mar-08, at 8:32 AM, The smaller the better wrote:
When
On 08-Apr-08, at 9:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Just over a decade.
As for tone, here's one message from almost exactly a decade ago,
for purposes of comparision:
http://netropolis.org/silklist/msg00349.html
Jeepers! That site has landmines. I got hit by this one:
ss wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Apr 2008 3:09:07 pm Badri Natarajan wrote:
. I think the quality of parenting is the key factor in any
child's life, and I don't think that has changed all that much in the last
30 years...
Make that 3000 years
Aren't there a number of studies that say the peer
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote, [on 4/10/2008 7:35 AM]:
Aren't there a number of studies that say the peer group matters more
than the parenting?
Citations?
Can't recall at the moment. From some book in the last few months.
On 10-Apr-08, at 4:14 PM, ss wrote:
So I believe that it could be wrong to say that one or the other
have greater
influence. Both parents and peer group are inextricably involved
with any
given child and the influence of one cannot be completely isolated.
The material I was reading tended
On 14-Apr-08, at 5:31 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
I read it three years ago, and wrote a couple of paras on it in an
old piece
I wrote for WSJ [1]. From what I remember, the book does an
excellent job of
demonstrating how government works, with much first-person narrative
of the
problems Shourie
No comment. Make your own opinion.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Balarama Varanasi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 April 2008 12:45:16 PM GMT+05:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [BCB] The lesser known aspects of kAmasutra and
panchatantra
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi friends:
Important
On 16-Apr-08, at 1:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I am actually curious about this particular nym (Tee Beedi).
Comes from the initials: T. B. Dinesh
On 16-Apr-08, at 9:29 PM, Thaths wrote:
Barring evidence to the contrary, my reading of the situation is that
Tea Beedi is trolling and basking in the attention and is busy making
profound academic social observations.
Nothing to see under this bridge, folks. Just your garden variety
troll.
On 17-Apr-08, at 11:30 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Dinesh makes his home available to friends and visitors passing
through Bangalore. Any random evening there will see a rather
interesting line-up around the dinner table -- of both genders.
Related reading: http
On 20-Apr-08, at 9:34 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Also, I think that keeping casual visitors out is not logical..the
casual visitor of today might be the committed contributor of
tomorrow. Since the whole Barcamp premise is based on freewheeling,
impromptu discussions and presentations as well as
On 23-Apr-08, at 11:23 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
So, who else has got an eeepc? I bought one and haven't yet been able
to pry it out of my non-techie wife's hands.
Me. Also wondering if I need extended battery backup:
On 23-Apr-08, at 1:01 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
I find the keyboard annoyingly small -- otherwise it's really nice.
It's the first linux box that I could get my wife to use on an
extended basis.
I've found the keyboard manageable -- takes a few days to adjust and a
particular posture for
corner of the home.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
http://jace.livejournal.com/
On 24-Apr-08, at 1:16 PM, divya manian wrote:
Probably to the kitchen as a recipe manager/meal planner?
I was thinking to the treadmill, with Miro, as a video feed viewer.
On 26-Apr-08, at 6:24 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
So...you techies...tell mewhat IS so evil about this top posting
thing?
The context also matters, Deepa.
Top posting on a mailing list is bad, because it wastes bandwidth (a
lot of us spend time on near-dialup quality links over GPRS and
Gautam John wrote:
Will try that. No drivers et. al. needed for the USB modem?
Curiously enough, the Tata Indicom USB modem didn't work for me either
on the Eee PC, although it worked for a friend running Debian. The
Reliance Netconnect USB card worked. I'm using that now.
--Jace, chilling
On 05-May-08, at 7:52 AM, ss wrote:
Microsoft software is as expensive as jewellery for the vast
majority of
Indians. I haven't checked prices recently but the cost of a Vista
Home Basic
is well over the monthly average salary in India.
I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been
of its markets around the globe. Later this year,
Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece,
Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be
able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com
On 07-May-08, at 2:47 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
if MS did have lower prices in some countries, they could face
pressure
from more consumers in rich countries, shocked that the software is
available at lower prices elsewhere. this, plus the difficulty of
enforcing price differentiation in
On 22-May-08, at 10:28 PM, Thaths wrote:
What are prices in SE Asia? Are prices equally bad in Singapore or
Bangkok or KL? I recall a return flight to BKK on Jet costing around
Rs. 10,000 (might have been a promotional fare).
Tiger Airways is starting discount flights between Bangalore and
On 23-May-08, at 11:28 AM, Madhu Menon wrote:
Tiger Airways is starting discount flights between Bangalore and
Singapore from June 1. The price for a round trip is about Rs 10,500.
Excluding taxes and fees, of course.
Including. That is the total price. JetStarAsia used to have similar
On 25-May-08, at 6:58 PM, Raj Shekhar wrote:
Did the test with my airtel connection, and the site gave it a green
flag.
My BSNL's clean too.
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