# Help me Understand India and the Indian Culture **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973 "2003-09-11T13:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973/81 "2003-10-13T14:20:44Z")
Well I work in a tech company in Ireland, and none of our PCs have firewire ports - the only computer in the whole office that does is my G4 Mac. So it seems that firewire ports in PCs is maybe non-standard outside the US, and/or the US models are a year or two in advance of what’s standard here. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973/82 "2003-10-13T15:39:05Z")
Hmm…yeah from what I can tell, you can add a firewire card to a desktop PC, or if you have a portable laptop computer you need A FireWire CardBus Card: A credit card sized connector that fits into the PCMCIA slot on the computer and has 2 FireWire ports to allow you to connect to FireWire devices. Maybe they have laptops that don’t have PCMCIA slots… ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973/83 "2003-10-13T16:14:30Z")
firewire as a standar has not yet made a huge inroad in india. for that matter not even has USB! its ok in bigger cities like mumbai and b’lore, but not in the smaller towns. also, when people compare the prices, the USB costs cheaper, so people choose that. after all, life in india isnt too hactic, that you would need the faster firewire over the slower USB ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973/84 "2003-10-17T13:26:06Z")
Update: well, we’re getting up to speed. Five coworkers are en route to Mumbai right now. They’ll be at the JW Marriot in Mumbai at Juhu Beach for about a month. I’ll be spending my first month there in January. Hey, anybody live near that hotel?! Anybody know someone working there? I know it’s a looooooong shot, but it’s worth asking. I’d be the coolest guy ever if I could have someone greet them! By summer, we’ll have an apartment. I just learned that one of our folks who went there in July to visit the potential vendor was kidnapped and was missing for a day. He was robbed of his shoes, money and some other stuff and was quite shaken up. Just thought I’d mention that. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973/85 "2003-10-17T13:34:56Z")
note: It’s four female coworkers stepping way outside their comfort zone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-india-and-the-indian-culture/200973.md?page=4)