MBP never had a problem. This is about the seriously underpowered Macbook (one-port wonder, mobile grade RAM, motherboard same size as that of a phone, no fan). Since Windows 10 runs on everything from $50 phones to $10k workstations, I am not surprised that it is much better optimized than OSX.
280W peak for a fridge cannot be real. Someone please help me out here. I have literally not seen a refrigerator (any size) have a rating below 1kW. Is this thing really running on ~300W?
Lollipop is perfectly fine on my SGS4. It's much faster, totally lag-free, full of nice animations and new shiny UI. I think it's the shitty hardware that's the problem with the Nexus devices.
Not a big loss since Nexus 5 camera was always shit. Since you knew that and still bought it means you don't really care about picture-taking abilities. So it is a little disingenuous to whine about it now.
This is a freaking 10th class test. It's inconsequential in every way. The exams which do matter (like the IIT entrance exam) are very well administered. There is zero cheating in them. The tests themselves can be said to be useless, but there is no cheating involved. Also, a large number of H1B visas are people who have a master's degree from USA. Their degrees and accomplishments are NOT the products of cheating. Cheating is not common means that events like these are outliers and they are dealt with very harshly. Look at the article. They expelled ~500 students and some parents have actually been arrested and are in jail. When I was in school, and taking one of these board exams, we were really scared of getting caught doing anything during the test that might construed as "cheating" by the invigilator. People are literally not allowed to bring cellphones/bags inside the testing room, let alone keep them on their person. They make it very hard to cheat and the punishments are very severe. There are some government institutes where cheating is a common thing. But any qualification from these places is considered useless, especially in companies which would send people to the US. Connecting such cheating with the quality of people getting H1B visas is just plain ignorant.
10th class exams are the easiest exams ever! Also, they are TOTALLY inconsequential. In fact, they are optional if your school is affiliated to the most popular board (CBSE). So we are talking about a test that is of so less consequence that you can say "fuck it, I don't need this shit" and everybody is fine with that. And even if you decide to take it, it's so easy that most students cram the entire yearly syllabus in about a month and get decent scores, sans cheating. I really cannot understand why such a huge cheating effort seemed appropriate to these people.
This cheating is not common in the institutes from where H1B visa people are selected. But I guess it's easier to spout bullshit like a dumbass than find out the facts.
They're usually from the very top universities, the kind of which, even if there is talk of reservation for 'minorities', let alone cheating, can lead to people 'self-immolating' [wikipedia.org] in protest.
He was protesting against the Mandal commission reservations in jobs, not universities. We have 50% reservations for low caste people and minorities in every government educational institute. And though many people have complained, most support it.
Haha, motivation is a funny thing. In the right person, it can create a Stephen Hawking, or a Bill Gates. In some other people, it creates people you see in the pics.
No, CHEATING is a cultural thing there. Many feel they have the RIGHT to cheat. [bbc.com]
Bullshit. This is BBC's shoddy alarmist reporting. Some random whackjobs saying some stupid bullshit does not mean "many" in the entire country of 1.2 billion humans feel the same way. It is NOT a fucking cultural thing. The culture here is to get marks, and people usually work hard for that. Some thugs in some remote parts may cheat like in the linked article. It is not a widespread phenomenon by any means.
Cheating on university exams produces inferior quality graduates, that only make the system cumbersome and unpleasant.
True. Most graduates out of university here are stupid and un-trained and basically worthless. That is not because of cheating. That is because of bad curriculum, bad testing and a general lack of focus on research. Even the best engineering schools (IITs) have a dismal record in research.
However, there are whole industries that capitalize on this phenomenon. H1B visa mills are just one such industry.
Almost 1 in 3 H1B visas are granted to people who have attained a master's degree from an American institute. So you are saying that Indians are so good at cheating that they cheated in GRE, cheated in the American university they attended, and still got the degree? LOL.
However, there are whole industries that capitalize on this phenomenon. H1B visa mills are just one such industry.
There are always hard crackdowns happening on cheating here. Incidents like these happen once in a while, but they are not prevalent enough to be a big problem. The bigger problem right now is that the entire education imparted in our colleges is absurd, inadequate and favors dumb people. For example, 50% of college seats are reserved for the dumbest of the dumb because hurr durr caste system. It helps nobody, only creates disgruntled people, and reduces the worth of the degree.
The S5 had everything. SD card, removable battery and water resistance. Big flop because plastic body. Compare it to HTC M8. Shit phone, shit camera. Sold awesomely because metal body. Samsung is providing what most users want. People like me and you have to put up with this shit.
You should try making audio calls on Skype, on your phone. It's like a new dimension has opened up for your ears. Crystal clear, like a studio recording. Trust me, the barrier to call audio quality is NOT the phone, it's your shitty GSM codecs.
I have used it with a JBL Flip speaker and the range is literally 2 meters. With my phone I can run around the whole apartment and the music keeps on playing.
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Vaio has been discontinued for a reason. Try a decent machine and watch Windows fly :)
MBP never had a problem. This is about the seriously underpowered Macbook (one-port wonder, mobile grade RAM, motherboard same size as that of a phone, no fan). Since Windows 10 runs on everything from $50 phones to $10k workstations, I am not surprised that it is much better optimized than OSX.
280W peak for a fridge cannot be real. Someone please help me out here. I have literally not seen a refrigerator (any size) have a rating below 1kW. Is this thing really running on ~300W?
So does this mean that if I scream loud enough in space, someone can hear me?
Lollipop is perfectly fine on my SGS4. It's much faster, totally lag-free, full of nice animations and new shiny UI. I think it's the shitty hardware that's the problem with the Nexus devices.
Not a big loss since Nexus 5 camera was always shit. Since you knew that and still bought it means you don't really care about picture-taking abilities. So it is a little disingenuous to whine about it now.
Yup, same here. It's so slow in fact that I have turned it off and kept it away.
Nexus devices have unlocked bootloaders
Nope. But unlocking it is easy and does not void your warranty.
I'll still count it as a win if every phone ships with H.265 and VP9.
Samsung Galaxy S6 has built-in hardware support for VP9, AFAIK. It is the first phone to have this.
Walled gardens sound crappy until your users turn out to be stupid.
Is there any problem plastic can't solve?
This is a freaking 10th class test. It's inconsequential in every way. The exams which do matter (like the IIT entrance exam) are very well administered. There is zero cheating in them. The tests themselves can be said to be useless, but there is no cheating involved. Also, a large number of H1B visas are people who have a master's degree from USA. Their degrees and accomplishments are NOT the products of cheating.
Cheating is not common means that events like these are outliers and they are dealt with very harshly. Look at the article. They expelled ~500 students and some parents have actually been arrested and are in jail. When I was in school, and taking one of these board exams, we were really scared of getting caught doing anything during the test that might construed as "cheating" by the invigilator. People are literally not allowed to bring cellphones/bags inside the testing room, let alone keep them on their person. They make it very hard to cheat and the punishments are very severe.
There are some government institutes where cheating is a common thing. But any qualification from these places is considered useless, especially in companies which would send people to the US. Connecting such cheating with the quality of people getting H1B visas is just plain ignorant.
10th class exams are the easiest exams ever! Also, they are TOTALLY inconsequential. In fact, they are optional if your school is affiliated to the most popular board (CBSE). So we are talking about a test that is of so less consequence that you can say "fuck it, I don't need this shit" and everybody is fine with that. And even if you decide to take it, it's so easy that most students cram the entire yearly syllabus in about a month and get decent scores, sans cheating. I really cannot understand why such a huge cheating effort seemed appropriate to these people.
It doesn't matter. We do not have an ICBM yet that can reach North American territories. We can cover the entirety of China though.
This cheating is not common in the institutes from where H1B visa people are selected. But I guess it's easier to spout bullshit like a dumbass than find out the facts.
They're usually from the very top universities, the kind of which, even if there is talk of reservation for 'minorities', let alone cheating, can lead to people 'self-immolating' [wikipedia.org] in protest.
He was protesting against the Mandal commission reservations in jobs, not universities. We have 50% reservations for low caste people and minorities in every government educational institute. And though many people have complained, most support it.
Haha, motivation is a funny thing. In the right person, it can create a Stephen Hawking, or a Bill Gates. In some other people, it creates people you see in the pics.
No, CHEATING is a cultural thing there. Many feel they have the RIGHT to cheat. [bbc.com]
Bullshit. This is BBC's shoddy alarmist reporting. Some random whackjobs saying some stupid bullshit does not mean "many" in the entire country of 1.2 billion humans feel the same way. It is NOT a fucking cultural thing. The culture here is to get marks, and people usually work hard for that. Some thugs in some remote parts may cheat like in the linked article. It is not a widespread phenomenon by any means.
Cheating on university exams produces inferior quality graduates, that only make the system cumbersome and unpleasant.
True. Most graduates out of university here are stupid and un-trained and basically worthless. That is not because of cheating. That is because of bad curriculum, bad testing and a general lack of focus on research. Even the best engineering schools (IITs) have a dismal record in research.
However, there are whole industries that capitalize on this phenomenon. H1B visa mills are just one such industry.
Almost 1 in 3 H1B visas are granted to people who have attained a master's degree from an American institute. So you are saying that Indians are so good at cheating that they cheated in GRE, cheated in the American university they attended, and still got the degree? LOL.
However, there are whole industries that capitalize on this phenomenon. H1B visa mills are just one such industry.
There are always hard crackdowns happening on cheating here. Incidents like these happen once in a while, but they are not prevalent enough to be a big problem. The bigger problem right now is that the entire education imparted in our colleges is absurd, inadequate and favors dumb people. For example, 50% of college seats are reserved for the dumbest of the dumb because hurr durr caste system. It helps nobody, only creates disgruntled people, and reduces the worth of the degree.
Curiosity has it's own nuclear reactor.
This phone can record at 4k, not 1080p.
In-built camera on the S6 actually shoots at 4k. The screen is 2.5k (I think), so actually the GPU is downscaling.
The S5 had everything. SD card, removable battery and water resistance. Big flop because plastic body. Compare it to HTC M8. Shit phone, shit camera. Sold awesomely because metal body. Samsung is providing what most users want. People like me and you have to put up with this shit.
You should try making audio calls on Skype, on your phone. It's like a new dimension has opened up for your ears. Crystal clear, like a studio recording. Trust me, the barrier to call audio quality is NOT the phone, it's your shitty GSM codecs.
I have used it with a JBL Flip speaker and the range is literally 2 meters. With my phone I can run around the whole apartment and the music keeps on playing.
Even bluetooth is shit in Macbook Pro.