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This is an Electronics forum, so please refrain on informing us about your little vein.Marks256 said:Yes, and now that i know how to PM... oooh, i can feel the old dictionary opening up, Oh yah, i can feel the power now... Oh, never mind, that is that little vein again!
let's not forget unethical as well.HiTech said:2. I'm trying to fight off the notion that India is full of clueless, lazy students. The only thing that prevents me from making a blanket statement as such, is my Indian neighbor who is a successful doctor, his wife who is a social counselor, and an Indian student worker of mine who is attaining a degree in plastics technology.
1. WTH is an opensourcelover?
This is an Electronics forum, so please refrain on informing us about your little vein.
What is interesting is that India has a number of good to very good schools - IIT, BIT, and so on. I've known many indian engineers that were quite competent - on a par with good engineers from North America or Europe. Entry is very competitive but apparently there are a number of ways to get in that don't involve academics. I suspect that many of those show up here.
edit: interesting story. in about 1988 or 89, a couple of senior technical guys from Microsoft went to Europe to interview job candidates. they had prepared a list of tough, open ended technical questions. They interviewed at quite a few cities and university sites. When they returned, they were raving about how great the candidate were - head and shoulders above the normal ones. around 30 were hired with out the usual on site interviews. when they showed up, they were good but no where near the level that the two recruiters had claimed. Several of them worked for me and as I got to know them, the story came out - after the first round of interviews, they shared the questions and, lo and behold, the next candidates were able to ace the problems. sigh...
You need to stop thinking about handmade wicker furniture or brass figurines if you're stereotyping India's industrialization.
I meant about your "little vein" (hint: look between your legs!).
Marks256 said:I never said that. I know that they are highly advanced in technology. I am saying if they don't start doing their own work, then they will fall behind, just like what is happening to the US. We are getting too cocky with our money, and our knowledge, so we have started to get lazy. Because of this, other countries are passing us by far when it comes to technology and education. I don't want to see that happened to other countries.
This nation is far from cocky with our money. For that matter we should keep far more of it for our infrastructure and social spending pgms. and greatly reduce our foreign aid to countries that never repay us or falsely use it to build weapons that may be used against us someday! Other nations are not passing us up. For the most part America is now a think tank more than an industrial producer. If we're far behind than why is the Space Shuttle still the primary vehicle that constructed and still services the ISS? Why is the major cost and development of the ISS predominantly American? Polymer and nanotechnologies are an American forefront as well as many medical breakthroughs. So don't get too distraught about America. Hyrdogen fuel storage is being further researched and perfected as you read this and someday soon, the rest of the world can push and shove for oil.
That isn't even funny. I agree; I wouldn't laugh if it were me, but it's not me!
It is my belief that every older generation looks at the younger generation and thinks that we're all going to h3ll.HiTech said:In America, if you look at the younger generation today, junior/senior high school kids, I would tend to think that America is soon to go to ruins.
OutToLunch said:It is my belief that every older generation looks at the younger generation and thinks that we're all going to h3ll.
that's funny!Nigel Goodwin said:Historical tablets found near Hadrian's Wall (between England and Scotland) have been found to contain texts complaining about the bad behaviour of the youth of the day - and they are about 2000 years old.
Probably more like this:
When I was your age we got chased by animals to become their food. Now a days, your generation gets to chase animals to become food, and all because someone had the idea to take a small rock and chip away at its edges until sharp and then wedge it into a split tree limb. Just think that someday your children may figure out a way to launch that spear from a tool tnat stores energy, making it travel farther, faster, and strike harder than how you throw it today.
Marks256 said:1. that?
Also, i don't think they new about "stored energy" back then.
1. knew
I don't use a spell checker because I'm too damn lazy to take the extra step for the few times it happens. I caught that before I submitted the thread but didn't feel like correcting it. Invariably, incorrect spelling is a result of my less than proper typing technique. In school, I was a winning spelling bee contestant. In school I goofed off during typing class!