Actually, I AM an Indian. I live in India, and I have as much faith in the government as an atheist has in God.
You may be interested to know that I don't get electricity for more than 18 hours a day in the summer months -- and that a large percentage of the population still lives in huts.
The Indian ones are usually quite shoddily built. I remember one, retailing for around Rs 200, in which the left parenthesis key didn't work. The general feel was quite clunky. Complex operations like integration took a hell of a lot more time on it.
I'll stick with Casio, thank you.
As someone below has pointed out, the Human Resources Development ministry hasn't put out one thing of technological repute. This laptop will probably be as bad as that calculator -- if it isn't really a wooden block, that is. After all, anything that can be placed on top of your lap could possibly be called a laptop.
They should have gone for the OLPC laptops and called it a day. It would have saved a lot more money in R&D.
You know, I like the method adopted by Directory Opus (file manager) where you press a button on a window, allow the elevation, and let the window run as elevated until you close it. This could easily be put it as a registry setting for Explorer.
As for UAC, I disabled it in order to set my computer up with programs, and enabled it afterward. In normal usage you really won't see UAC.
the rights stick around for a while so you're not constantly typing in passwords.
What if some malware attacks in this while? That, I believe, is precisely why Microsoft didn't implement it this way.
the point where it's just plain annoying running the OS with it on. I tried it for a couple weeks just to see if I could get used to it.
Hmm. Apart from installing/uninstalling software, controlling system settings, and for certain software that hasn't got its act together yet and needs admin permissions, exactly where does UAC pop up?
OK. I'll answer my own question. UAC pops up when you create a folder in a system directory, and you have to get past 4 prompts. It's VERY annoying there. That's about the only place I can think of.
DD and Akaashvani sucked. They still suck. You've completely missed that point. Only after 1992, when satellite TV was allowed, did we actually get to see quality programming from around the world.
You turn on the radio, and listen to Aakashvani. Then you switch to a private channel. There is an *enormous* difference in the quality of programming.
In general, public sector undertakings in India suck.
The public airline is the worst of them all.
Public sector banks suck hard -- the computer servers are down half the time. A private bank will never allow this to happen.
The public sector telephone companies suck. I'm on a broadband line provided by one of them, and I experience downtimes of 2 days twice a month. You can cuss at them as hard as you wish, but they've become so thick-skinned that it makes no difference to them. I'm going to switch to Airtel, a private company, the moment it launches its service here, which should be in 3 months.
India is a living, breathing example of how socialism does not work.
Agreed. There's an objective basis for this. If neither of the two people has a problem with it, the government (of which the judiciary is a part) should just keep its hands off and move on. The whole law relating to "obscenity" in India is disgusting.
FYI, power is free only to farmers, and only in some states. Businesses and industries are charged hefty premiums across all states.
And yes, it is untouchable. When something scarce is made free it loses its value -- so you see farmers misusing the power they get. Good economics = bad politics.
Yes, and that's the trouble. Rule #1: There's no such thing as a free lunch.
The government here in India wastes too much money on such frivolous ideas, and on services to political class (free travel, free elecricity, free telephone calls, you name it). In the end their luxury is financed by us, the middle class. Every year the rate of taxation is increased (a tax on "services" has gone up from 8% to 12.36% in the past few years), or an entirely new tax is added.
There's no other solution but to cut down on this stupidity and direct the money towards the poorest of the poor. There will be plenty of scope to reduce taxes afterwards.
With dual core CPU most games should be able to dedicate a full core to "everything else" including AI, did games get a lot smarter?
At least one game did. Galactic Civilizations 2 http://www.galciv2.com/ has perhaps the best TBS AI ever. In the expansion, there is an option to turn on even better AI algorithms, and there is no CPU cost for dual core users.
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Ah, I meant that I get electricity for less than 18 hours a day. i.e. more than 6 hours of power cuts.
Actually, I AM an Indian. I live in India, and I have as much faith in the government as an atheist has in God.
You may be interested to know that I don't get electricity for more than 18 hours a day in the summer months -- and that a large percentage of the population still lives in huts.
The Indian ones are usually quite shoddily built. I remember one, retailing for around Rs 200, in which the left parenthesis key didn't work. The general feel was quite clunky. Complex operations like integration took a hell of a lot more time on it.
I'll stick with Casio, thank you.
As someone below has pointed out, the Human Resources Development ministry hasn't put out one thing of technological repute. This laptop will probably be as bad as that calculator -- if it isn't really a wooden block, that is. After all, anything that can be placed on top of your lap could possibly be called a laptop.
They should have gone for the OLPC laptops and called it a day. It would have saved a lot more money in R&D.
You know, I like the method adopted by Directory Opus (file manager) where you press a button on a window, allow the elevation, and let the window run as elevated until you close it. This could easily be put it as a registry setting for Explorer.
As for UAC, I disabled it in order to set my computer up with programs, and enabled it afterward. In normal usage you really won't see UAC.
What if some malware attacks in this while? That, I believe, is precisely why Microsoft didn't implement it this way.
Hmm. Apart from installing/uninstalling software, controlling system settings, and for certain software that hasn't got its act together yet and needs admin permissions, exactly where does UAC pop up?
OK. I'll answer my own question. UAC pops up when you create a folder in a system directory, and you have to get past 4 prompts. It's VERY annoying there. That's about the only place I can think of.
Nah, the majority of people are Brazilians.
(This is not a troll post)
DD and Akaashvani sucked. They still suck. You've completely missed that point. Only after 1992, when satellite TV was allowed, did we actually get to see quality programming from around the world.
You turn on the radio, and listen to Aakashvani. Then you switch to a private channel. There is an *enormous* difference in the quality of programming.
In general, public sector undertakings in India suck.
The public airline is the worst of them all.
Public sector banks suck hard -- the computer servers are down half the time. A private bank will never allow this to happen.
The public sector telephone companies suck. I'm on a broadband line provided by one of them, and I experience downtimes of 2 days twice a month. You can cuss at them as hard as you wish, but they've become so thick-skinned that it makes no difference to them. I'm going to switch to Airtel, a private company, the moment it launches its service here, which should be in 3 months.
India is a living, breathing example of how socialism does not work.
Agreed. There's an objective basis for this. If neither of the two people has a problem with it, the government (of which the judiciary is a part) should just keep its hands off and move on. The whole law relating to "obscenity" in India is disgusting.
The problem is that the COURT has sided with these idiots in this case. The whole issue is very disturbing indeed.
FYI, power is free only to farmers, and only in some states. Businesses and industries are charged hefty premiums across all states.
And yes, it is untouchable. When something scarce is made free it loses its value -- so you see farmers misusing the power they get. Good economics = bad politics.
Yes, and that's the trouble. Rule #1: There's no such thing as a free lunch.
The government here in India wastes too much money on such frivolous ideas, and on services to political class (free travel, free elecricity, free telephone calls, you name it). In the end their luxury is financed by us, the middle class. Every year the rate of taxation is increased (a tax on "services" has gone up from 8% to 12.36% in the past few years), or an entirely new tax is added.
There's no other solution but to cut down on this stupidity and direct the money towards the poorest of the poor. There will be plenty of scope to reduce taxes afterwards.
And ethanol from sugar has an 8.3x fuel gain (I think it's called energy balance or something.) Your point being...
As I said above, you lose.
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With dual core CPU most games should be able to dedicate a full core to "everything else" including AI, did games get a lot smarter? At least one game did. Galactic Civilizations 2 http://www.galciv2.com/ has perhaps the best TBS AI ever. In the expansion, there is an option to turn on even better AI algorithms, and there is no CPU cost for dual core users.
So where else will you get the metal you use so often from?