The Indians are coming

I wonder if their hardware will be as hard to understand as their tech support.

Who knows maybe by then you will have to learn Hindi to understand the hardware.

I figure any time something doesn't run properly, the system will automatically and immediately reboot.

Most often heard response on the GE PC help line: "Have you rebooted your computer yet?" (GE outsourced their PC helpdesk to India years ago).

I am just wondering and scratching my bald head... what the hell that picture of cow is doing in this article ???

Come on guys... is that the first image that pops into your mind when you think of India ???

In India the cow symbol is reverenced.

Why the Cow: http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/things/cow.htm

The strange: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490932,00.html

Guys, before you all get cow excited, isn't that a horse?

Maybe India can do for democracy what the US has failed to do: popularize it without tying it to a specific religion.

Or maybe not since India's elite still adhere to their reincarnation-karma-bound caste system.

Good luck to them. Once the middle class is up and running things and the quality of life rockets up, they may fall prey to the same laziness, greed, and selfishness as the US any way.

Um, what are you trying to say? The US doesn't promote "democracy" (or whatever it actually is) in conjunction with specific religions. If religion does play a part, it comes from the demographics of the populace, afterall, the government should represent the people who vote for it. We can expect that "democracy" in India will have major influences from its Hindu and Islamic elements whether or not it claims to be secular or not.

I also expect people will be "left behind." There are a lot of poor people there, and just a lot of people in general. You can't provide for all of them, and you shouldn't try. What you can do is gradually try and increase the standard of living, even if there are differences.

Maybe they'll have the edge on the US since they can have their tech support domestically provided.

"Sales of PCs have reached 7.3 million units a year, about 8-10 million mobile phones are sold. The market for televisions has also increased to about 15 million units a year"
These numbers are amazingly small for such a large country

atleast mobile phone numbers are off...
"Sales of mobile phones using both CDMA and GSM technologies reached 24.5 million units during the three months ended 30 September 2007 in the world’s second-most populous nation, said the survey by market research firm Gartner."
http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/28112435/India-posts-largest-growth-in.html

the PC volume is almost 9Mu in '08 and the mobile phone sales was 15Mu in the month of Jan '09 itself... numbers stated are not right.

If those cows weren't revered they would have eaten every one of them on the continent years ago.

Must be fun living in a country whose manufacturing base has been progressively gutted, and whose financial industry based service industry centred at Reykjavik on the Thames just imploded, while Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants take over inner cities.

We need to get rid of our extra cows because we need the land to build factories that will employ millions. Holy Indian cows, certified BSE free. In exchange buy out some high tech UK companies so we can get hold of their technology. Awesome Indo-British trade potential, huh ?

PS: the mobile phone data is 10-15 million new subscribers PER MONTH.

Cow == India ????
posted by : rahul, 25 February 2009

It's an expensive cow, ie. cash cow!!!