Posted on 05/13/2005 10:38:28 PM PDT by aidni
From one Savage Garden song...
...I hate this silence, it's getting so loud!
The story about Condoleeza Rice was inspiring too. Great people, I guess, have similar paths in the walks of life.
Yep.
But you get the picture.
FRom relatively humble beginnings any and every American can aspire to and reach any pinicle of success!
[While, as an example on the other hand, "African" (According, when he was there, to his State Department "homepage") American, Colin Powell, was the American-born son of relatively well-to-do British migrants. But that has never stopped him reaching for every "affirmative action" free-lunch at every step of a life during which he has never held a non-governmental post, been responsible to a profit nor met a payroll] ]
A little symbolic Licence permitted -- no?
<< Our President Dr.Abdul Kalam (Who cares) used to sell newspapers as a child. He is also the father of our nuclear bombs and "ICBMs." In other words he grew up from utter poverty and [Helped India to build a dozen or so Hiroshima-era atom bombs.] Not bad eh? >>
If one could measure the worth of a state by its bombs, that would place India on a par with Pakistan.
Not bad eh?
But, more seriously, since the paper-seller days [Me too!] has Abdul Kalam ever held a non-governmental position, been responsible for making a profit and/or met a payroll?
Blessings -- Brian
Oh I wouldn't say that, but they are pretty good at scamming people. I can think of a dozen products that turned to crap after having had the software to run them outsourced to the land of fakirs, most notably HP scanning products, of which many now require the installation of the Java runtime engine just to work. The last scanner my company bought had a driver installation CD that spewed 280 MB of Indian garbage onto the drive, and had a crummy scanner app that ran in IE and took forever to load. The hardware itself was a pile of Chinese junk that had the look and feel of an low-end Lexmark printer from 1994.
As for the claim for the invention of a new compression scheme, it looks like the only people the Indians have beaten are the chumps at the ASX.
Read below from website
Matrixview had employed JBIG lossless compression algorithm, ABC (Advanced Blocksorting Compression), LZW compression by Unisys, LogLuv Compression by SGI, JPEG compression, FreeImage software and some lesser known academic works and scrambled into software called DocuMAT and Echoview. It’s little wonder why Ernst & Young’s report on Matrixview’s DocuMat (also known Dataview earlier) software revealed exact same performance as JBIG !!! Why didn’t Ernst & Young notice this phenomenon earlier when they conducted their independent tests? If the same compression engine was used, you basically achieve the same results!
"But, more seriously, since the paper-seller days [Me too!] has Abdul Kalam ever held a non-governmental position, been responsible for making a profit and/or met a payroll? "
This guy didnt just built the bombs and ICBMs but also built SLV and PSLV that launches satellites.
But comming back why does it really matter? I guess according to you if you are not into profit making, you are not really a success story is it?
Well for one in the business of making nukes, I dont suppose there is much profit to be made ( ........................................................... well unless ofcourse you are a scientist from Pakistan. Scientist? I suppose not ........more correctly our next door gunrunner Abdul Qader Khan (no relation to our Abdul Kalam) had his own syndicate/cartel. Payroll? This guy had his own bankroll. A true success story by your yardstick.
While our poor guy APJ Abdul Kalam built the bomb not for profits but to gives us the "ultimate deterent". Us Indies are grateful to him for that.
"If one could measure the worth of a state by its bombs, that would place India on a par with Pakistan. "
......or for that matter the US with N Korea?
I consider the Pakis a much more worthy state than India. We built/tested the bomb the old fashioned way and got our ass kicked by the whole goddamed world. The Pakis were smart, they laundered the bomb from the Chicoms and nobody cared. And look at them now, how successfully they ran a nuclear trade business with half the Muslim world. They dont just get away with it but also get rewarded with F-16s! FRee-trade enterprise always wins!
Nah! We(Indies) are way way behind the Pakis! We should be learning some of their stuff.
No. In any assertion on biography, stick to facts, truth, accuracy.
And in Condi's case especially, no ridiculous distortion such as yours is warranted. Her actual history is quite inspiring — and she is quite rightly proud of having been brought up by two college-educated and successful parents.
I've worked with many Indians. Their performance doesn't match their hype.
Image as matrix? I thought that was what bitmap was all about?
Any operation carried out on an image such as LZW coding, Bit-plane coding, Predictive coding, Wavelet coding, Transform coding are all essentially Matrix operations where pixel (from the image) form the individual elements in the matrix.
How freakin hard is it to write a "Hello World" app. It's practically staple boringness in any standard C programmer's book written today. If they can't do hello world, how the heck they gonna do dynamic functions - hint, same way they do
Med degrees.. half assed.
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