India unveils $30 laptop

[lalala]

India unveils $30 laptop.

so? do you think people come to Pashtun forums to hear news about your indian homeland?

[KhalsaWarrior]

so? do you think people come to Pashtun forums to hear news about your indian homeland?

Do you talk from your mouth or from the chip on your shoulder?

[KhalsaWarrior]

Thats not really true in the USA. Unemployment is at all time high for nearly everyone, including educated Americans with 4 year college degrees. Outsourcing engineering are beneficials for the firms but not for average Americans. Ultimately its the CEO, firm and INDIANS who benefit.

Jasmine, I dont have data to support that its the low-skilled that are losing jobs in the US so I will concede to you the point. It was just something that I picked up from articles in economic magazines.

However I do not agree with you about the benefits of outsourcing. A company doesn't operate in a silo. In an economy everything is inter-linked. Its not that only the company that outsources will benefit. You are forgetting their other stakeholders apart from their employees. Their suppliers that provide raw material to them. Their supplier's suppliers and their employees. Their banks that lend credit to them. Other agencies that depend on business from them. Its a whole big-ecosystem that directly or indirectly depends upon that company's survival.

The former would make sense but its India who at the end of the day benefits from this.

Yes India does benefit from it but so does GE and all their stakeholders similar to the above example.

And Jasmine, the truth is that outsourcing today has become necessary for every company's survival. The competition is cut-throat and emerging economies like India/China cheaper and equivalent quality alternatives. How do you expect a company that only sources from the US to survive? Its just plain impossible.

[KhalsaWarrior]

It's still a long road for India or any country in the world to meet the level of the USA.

Khalsa wat do you think of the USA technological?

You mean the level of their technology? Oh well they are way, way more advanced than us. Indians are just rookies and they are the pros. But India has the resources. Great brains, good institutes and a culture that lays emphasis on learning and education. India just needs the right eco-system. A structure that helps inventors and innovators. Currently nobody wants to do research. All IIT grads want to do is to join a US MNC and rake in the dollars. Things are beginning to change, little by little. Outsourcing and software is just one example of India's potential.

My 6 Sigma professor in my B-school in Delhi who had spent some years in Japan with Mitsubishi, had this favorite quote - "1 Indian is better than 1 Japanese, but 10 Japanese are far better than 10 Indians". We lack team work.

[Dukhtar-e-Kabul]

Why doesnt India give Afghans these laptops. We dont want more embassies. We have enough of Indian embassies in Afghanistan. Help us out educationally.

I choose an Indian over a Pakistani anytime of the day.

[IamDZJ]

Arzan be ilat nest qeemat be hekmat.

[Shaan]

Pakistan and India are both the enemies of Pashtuns. Pakistan is our biggest enemy.

Be rest assured 99.99999% of the indians dont even know anything called pashtun exist at all. So no enemy, no friends, Still our govt building roads in afghan land, when they should have been building roads in our own land.

Sticking to the opening post, this laptop is for poor kids only to be distributed in govt funded schools and its subsidized, i got one in like US$42 and its fun posting through it and searching it landed me here :D

[KhalsaWarrior]

Be rest assured 99.99999% of the indians dont even know anything called pashtun exist at all. So no enemy, no friends, Still our govt building roads in afghan land, when they should have been building roads in our own land.

Sticking to the opening post, this laptop is for poor kids only to be distributed in govt funded schools and its subsidized, i got one in like US$42 and its fun posting through it and searching it landed me here :D

You mean you already bought it? I'd heard it wont be out for an year.

Btw, welcome from a fellow Indian. Its a real nice place, this forum.

[IamDZJ]

funny, i thought this is a thread about laptops...

[KhalsaWarrior]

funny, i thought this is a thread about laptops...

It started off like that, but then it went into Technology and IT and Outsourcing and now back to Laptops. I dont mind it as long as its cordial and everybody gets to exchange opinions and learn along he way.

[Shaan]

So you think India is doing it cause they care Shaan?

Well If I say they care for themselves, a strong afghan can be a benefactor in india's existance, and a pakistan kind of afghanistan can be a threat.

India being a multi cultural and multi ethnic land, can only afford to have stable nations with stable people, that s what indian policy cares I guess, other then this i dont think indians have any similarity or special love with afghans, but its like we must care for a neighbour to keep our integrity.

[Shaan]

You mean you already bought it? I'd heard it wont be out for an year.

Btw, welcome from a fellow Indian. Its a real nice place, this forum.

yeah I got one from myself, not from open market, it will be in open market in next academic session, but some limited editions are available if one likes to get. Its kinda poor man's ipad.

and thanks bro, for warm welcome bro :D So u got keen interest in info-af things?