rrrazdan

Since the process is 'optical' in nature, the latency will be very low. 'Almost' equal to the speed of light in this case. ;)

For me 'open' has a very strong connection to 'choice'.

Yup how is this different from the Lime Wire case. Basically I don't see how this will work. As an aside, except distros and open Documentaries, what all do people download legally through bit torrent?

But in this case there is almost a certainty that people would accept your short. I would.

If tablets really are the future of computing, then developing countries can bridge the digital gap quickly with inexpensive tablets. http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/35-tablet-from-india-look...

Imagine 500 millions like these in every Indian's pocket.

The utility and scale of the idea in the future could be enormous. Imagine a giant, distributed battery grid. The only difference is that these batteries also power cars.

Here is a link to the famous 'Game of the Century' by Bobby. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361

Many times you need to look beneath the veneer of abstractions that is the modern GUI, to work with speed and flexibility. However you don't want to strip away all the abstractions. That would yield the system very unwieldy. (example: Programming in C vs Programming in Assembly) The Unix command prompt is just the right amount of abstraction for me, and for many other users. What the project proposes is certainly novel, and this level of abstraction may work for some people.

And people down voted you for this! Sigh!

I thinks a water storage dam to periodically flush the river would keep the river in its present course much longer.

The same technique was used later in satellites to map terrain. I had the chance to see an image of the Himalayas, in my Remote Sensing class. You don't use any special glasses and consequently experience minimal eyestrain, even when you view the image for hours. ( This is important if you are scouring the image for some small detail.) And the 3D effect is so much better and lifelike than current 3D in movies. I wonder what it would take to get that kind of experience to devices today.

True, why would I want to get an iPhone when I know it won't be serviced in India. India is a very smartphone hungry market, and Apple is doing itself a great disservice by not selling here.

PS:- Apple does sell, iPhone 3GS and iPad 2 in India. Except the iPhone, every other product is available within a week of the US launch. So the iPhone situation is quite strange.

The whole system makes eminent sense. Content that has been permitted by the owner is released in your country, when the owner permits. If you are resort to piracy because of this, you are still stealing.

Excuse me but how is this not anti-competitive behaviour. The way I see it, its clear cause for at least an investigation, if not prosecution.

Well, I'd like to quote a comment from the original posting. "If you remove one branch from a tree, doesn't change the fact that it's still a tree." This cannot in any way dwarf the magnitudes of contributions they have made to the open source world.