Monday, April 8, 2002		Article

Nasscom welcomes Exim policy
Tribune News Service

THE National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), the apex association for the software and service companies in India, has welcomed the 2002-2007 Exim policy as it will serve as a boost to IT exports growth and increase India's competitiveness in the international market.

The proposed modification in the Electronic Hardware Technology Park (EHTP) scheme will enable the hardware industry to face zero duty regimes under ITA-1 and will be eligible for counting export obligation. This will provide a big boost to the domestic IT market and make the hardware industry globally competitive. Growth of hardware will be specifically helpful for emerging growth areas such as embedded software development or bio-informatics that are heavily dependent on hardware.

Nerd’s married life

How does the conversation go between a computer professional and his wife? Jasmeet Singh Gulati, one of our readers from Karnal, has sent us the following piece of conservation he perhaps overheard. He has even attached an interesting conclusion:

Husband: (Returning late from work) - "Good Evening, Dear, I'm now logged in."

Wife: Have you brought the grocery?

Husband: Bad command or filename.

Wife: But I told you in the morning!

Husband: Erroneous syntax. Abort?

Wife: What about my new TV?

Husband: Variable not found...

Wife: At least, give me your credit card; I want to do some shopping.

Husband: Sharing violation. Access denied...

Wife: Do you love me or do you only love computers or are you just being funny?

Husband: Too many parameters...

Wife: It was a great mistake that I married an idiot like you.

Husband: Data type mismatch.

Wife: You are useless.

Husband: It's by default.

Wife: What about your salary?

Husband: File in use ... Try later.

Wife: What is my value in the family.

Husband: Unknown Virus

Moral - Beware of marriage with an IT professional.