Hence, the Indian public just does not care about these issues, because it doesn't 'concern' them:-)
exactly. people here do whatever they want to do. they drive on the wrong side of the road. they jump red lights. they cross the street when cars are approaching. they don't wear helmets/seatbelts. they steal electricity. they encroach on the street area in front of their house/shop. they pay 60% value of real estate in black money. they buy laptops without os and just get the local tech dude to install windows, office, flash, photoshop, modern warfare installed on it. they download songs on a MASSIVE scale and send it to everyone around them using bluetooth. seriously, the last time i bought a cd/dvd/vcd was in 1999, when the internet was only 56k.
you know why? because people here don't care what the law is. they do whatever they want to do. seriously, i don't think anyplace in the world has more lawlessness than here, except for maybe somalia.
Thats one hell of an allegation to make against Gandhi, do you have any sources for your claim? I sort of agree with your prediction though, if you were to proclaim this publicly in India, you would most definitely be beaten to death by the people, let alone being arrested/beaten by police.
avg monthly income is Rs3700. M$ Windows 7 Professional is Rs9000 M$ Office 2007 Home and Student is Rs2700 so os+spredsheet is 4times the average monthly income.
Also, please consider that what you consider as happiness might not be the only scale with which others measure theirs.
Correct Raj. Having more shopping malls is not a measure of development and progress. More people eating in McDonalds and KFC doesn't make India a happy nation.For India, happiness is mostly achieved by living together in family. You share your success and failures with family and lots more. It's more of a social issue rather than eating in subway or KFC.
you can't say that on behalf of the whole of india. i am an indian and those exact things (kfc, mcd, malls) make me happy. i hate the family culture here, it is just too full of hypocrisy. and believe me, most of my peers think like this too. i suspect people like you are in the minority.
problem with flash video on mac is that apple does not expose the api required to hardware accelerate h264. so flash video on mac sucks. while windows has had its flash vids accelerated from ancient times. not actually adobe's fault.
...wait about seven long seconds for the camera to boot up...
man you sure bought a shitty camera. i have canon's poweshot a480 or some such, it was the cheapest i could find. the time between pressing the power button and the recorded picture displaying on the screen is ~4 seconds for without flash and ~6 seconds with flash.
your n900 can also use bluetooth keyboards!!! i was quite surprised/pleased to see that shit! i am currently saving up for the next maemo phone^H^H^H^H^Hmobile computer!
I think Mr WrongSizeGlass should accept the fact that cramming more and more gigabytes into hard drives will make them more and more expensive. Since HDDs have become commodity items in the PC market people want them to be good quality and cheap, not super duper mega high capacity & low latency and very very expensive. The normal consumer doesn't have a need for a shit load of gigabytes so he needs to find an HDD maker who will deliver on to his desk so he can stop whining about it.
BTW, if this is his biggest complaint about things then he's got it pretty easy and obviously doesn't have enough to worry about.
yeah sorry for being a douche myself. But you must understand that people have a right to express themselves. Your retort to gggp that then he should not buy apple stuff is irrelevant. Obviously he won't buy it now. And if he feels something about the jobs guy he is free to do so and does not deserve your discouraging advice.
no. issue is not resolved until i get to express my opinion. douchebags like you, why don't YOU shut up? if i get conned by someone, obviously i'll do my next deal with someone else, but does that take away my freedom to complain about the conner?
I'm sure the thought of an Apple provided internet a la AOL of old has crossed their minds. Wouldn't be awesome if all the pages you were given access to had to be reviewed and approved by Apple!
Sound ridiculous, but I see it as a very real possibility in a few years.
This is absolutely absurd. Apple has zero interest in blocking what you can view in Safari (or Firefox or whatever you browse with). This is solely about the apps in the App Store. Nothing more.
Apple doesn't want you to stop watching porn, they just don't want to distribute it. Apple restricts apps more than they should, but their goal has nothing to do with controlling the user, but in controlling the quality of the iPhone experience itself.
what do you expect when htc starts making hundreds of new phone models running android?
seriously i have lost track, and i try to follow android devices.
i think you should also consider ms security essentials. i think they have a corporate vrsion too. and it works as well as any other anti virus and is lightweight too.
jokes aside, you must have seriously disturbed the poor woman.;) i think most of the people on earth believe in this sort of superstitious shit. I, on the other hand, am instead scared of mere mortals like burglars, murderers, policemen etc.
i believe you ARE the devil. The sum of Your/. Id digits is nine. And what is nine turned upside down, eh??? Yes, it is 6. And your post number is 66. So what does it amount to? 666. You, my dear sir, are really an unwittting tool of the devil.
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they dont alleviate hypocrisy, they let me avoid it.
yes i did not think about that. That would make a HUGE difference. The divide between the poor and middle class is humongous.
i dont think i will ever be able to go to the us. I just dont work hard enough to get into a good college.
Hence, the Indian public just does not care about these issues, because it doesn't 'concern' them :-)
exactly. people here do whatever they want to do. they drive on the wrong side of the road. they jump red lights. they cross the street when cars are approaching. they don't wear helmets/seatbelts. they steal electricity. they encroach on the street area in front of their house/shop. they pay 60% value of real estate in black money. they buy laptops without os and just get the local tech dude to install windows, office, flash, photoshop, modern warfare installed on it. they download songs on a MASSIVE scale and send it to everyone around them using bluetooth. seriously, the last time i bought a cd/dvd/vcd was in 1999, when the internet was only 56k.
you know why? because people here don't care what the law is. they do whatever they want to do. seriously, i don't think anyplace in the world has more lawlessness than here, except for maybe somalia.
Thats one hell of an allegation to make against Gandhi, do you have any sources for your claim? I sort of agree with your prediction though, if you were to proclaim this publicly in India, you would most definitely be beaten to death by the people, let alone being arrested/beaten by police.
naah, nobody here gives a damn about gandhi.
avg monthly income is Rs3700.
M$ Windows 7 Professional is Rs9000
M$ Office 2007 Home and Student is Rs2700
so os+spredsheet is 4times the average monthly income.
Correct Raj. Having more shopping malls is not a measure of development and progress. More people eating in McDonalds and KFC doesn't make India a happy nation. For India, happiness is mostly achieved by living together in family. You share your success and failures with family and lots more. It's more of a social issue rather than eating in subway or KFC.
you can't say that on behalf of the whole of india. i am an indian and those exact things (kfc, mcd, malls) make me happy. i hate the family culture here, it is just too full of hypocrisy. and believe me, most of my peers think like this too. i suspect people like you are in the minority.
producing little creative output(in before Slumdog)
why would you make such an uninformed/ignorant statement?
from the wikipedia article on 'bollywood':
Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world.
and slumdog was hardly an indian production. all the money was american.
problem with flash video on mac is that apple does not expose the api required to hardware accelerate h264. so flash video on mac sucks. while windows has had its flash vids accelerated from ancient times. not actually adobe's fault.
and i'm glad. i'd hate to see something like win xp happen in the mobile market (or the desktop).
n900 actually has so much hardware that it is obscene. 32 gb storage? 1gb ram? discreet graphics with opengl acceleration? i mean wtf??
...wait about seven long seconds for the camera to boot up...
man you sure bought a shitty camera. i have canon's poweshot a480 or some such, it was the cheapest i could find. the time between pressing the power button and the recorded picture displaying on the screen is ~4 seconds for without flash and ~6 seconds with flash.
your n900 can also use bluetooth keyboards!!!
i was quite surprised/pleased to see that shit!
i am currently saving up for the next maemo phone^H^H^H^H^Hmobile computer!
I think Mr WrongSizeGlass should accept the fact that cramming more and more gigabytes into hard drives will make them more and more expensive. Since HDDs have become commodity items in the PC market people want them to be good quality and cheap, not super duper mega high capacity & low latency and very very expensive. The normal consumer doesn't have a need for a shit load of gigabytes so he needs to find an HDD maker who will deliver on to his desk so he can stop whining about it.
BTW, if this is his biggest complaint about things then he's got it pretty easy and obviously doesn't have enough to worry about.
do you realize how weak/stupid your argument is?
yeah sorry for being a douche myself. But you must understand that people have a right to express themselves. Your retort to gggp that then he should not buy apple stuff is irrelevant. Obviously he won't buy it now. And if he feels something about the jobs guy he is free to do so and does not deserve your discouraging advice.
no. issue is not resolved until i get to express my opinion. douchebags like you, why don't YOU shut up? if i get conned by someone, obviously i'll do my next deal with someone else, but does that take away my freedom to complain about the conner?
I'm sure the thought of an Apple provided internet a la AOL of old has crossed their minds. Wouldn't be awesome if all the pages you were given access to had to be reviewed and approved by Apple!
Sound ridiculous, but I see it as a very real possibility in a few years.
This is absolutely absurd. Apple has zero interest in blocking what you can view in Safari (or Firefox or whatever you browse with). This is solely about the apps in the App Store. Nothing more.
Apple doesn't want you to stop watching porn, they just don't want to distribute it. Apple restricts apps more than they should, but their goal has nothing to do with controlling the user, but in controlling the quality of the iPhone experience itself.
lol!!
you sound serious!
what do you expect when htc starts making hundreds of new phone models running android? seriously i have lost track, and i try to follow android devices.
they don't watch gay porn, they DO it!
i think you should also consider ms security essentials. i think they have a corporate vrsion too. and it works as well as any other anti virus and is lightweight too.
jokes aside, you must have seriously disturbed the poor woman. ;)
i think most of the people on earth believe in this sort of superstitious shit. I, on the other hand, am instead scared of mere mortals like burglars, murderers, policemen etc.
i believe you ARE the devil. The sum of Your /. Id digits is nine. And what is nine turned upside down, eh??? Yes, it is 6. And your post number is 66. So what does it amount to? 666. You, my dear sir, are really an unwittting tool of the devil.
sorry, english is not my first language. I just know only one word for projector.
whats a beamer?