If the average 10-year old Indian kid was smarter than the average 35-yr old American, wouldn't India be at the top of the global pecking order, and not grovel before the US for every problem it faces, be it Pakistan or China?.
What you say may be true... but let's not forget the power of having certain attitudes.
The US is built in an area where the indigenous people have been virtually destroyed, those that are left are free to integrate into society, but if they want to maintain their heritage they do it on small lots of land granted to them.
"Might is Right".
So is the US a global leader because it is the most intelligent? Or, because it has (or perhaps HAD is better) the balls to make shit happen, whether it was weapons, technology, etc.? They have always been in a race to either defend themselves or over-power another aggressor.
Who comes from India? Ghandi... Mr. Passive Resistance. They're also a country that was under the thumb of the English, so they were forced into these positions. The attitudes are changing all over, India, China, etc... these are places were traditionally polite, passive and humble people are beginning to realize that you spend your short life in the shadow when you act like that.
I'm born in the US and always lived here so my view is one-sided, and perhaps all I know are stereo-types. I also don't always (or even usually) agree with the aggressive attitudes my country has toward other nations, but I do recognize that without them the world would be a very different place. Possibly under the rule of Nazi's, or a Russian Czar, who knows...
Separately, we have a saying in India, which is drilled into the brains of BPO trainees. It says; 10=35. The IQ of an average 10-year old Indian kid is about the same as the IQ of the average 35-yr old American. Reading the many infantile responses to this article, I begin to suspect this might not be far from the truth.
You see a narrow view of the US--- - Media (which is virtual fantasy compared to real life) - Those who call help centers... Think about it--who calls help centers, particular ones for consumer products? Mostly it's idiots.
I work with and encounter far too many intelligent people on a daily basis to believe that the "average" American is a complete idiot, unfortunately for you it's a case of dealing with a select slice of the population who cannot solve their own problems. I'm sure the same would be true for people of any country.
Attitude is another issue--people calling into help centers are often frustrated over a problem. I don't agree with having attitude toward a stranger who is trying to help you, but when you've called in half a dozen times, waited 10's of minutes on hold each time, only to be walked through a set of basic and obvious set of corrective actions you tend to get short with the people you are speaking with. So don't mistake someone who is rude out of frustration with being unintelligent.
The enigma in question is the rural last mile, and that's an issue of "technology or logistics" for ISPs to solve. Disc rental by mail is the only practical service if all you can get in your area are dial-up and satellite, not DSL, cable, or fiber.
Where the heck are all you people that you can't get access to cable or something better?
It's been better than 15 years that I've had access to a T1-or-better download connection.
You cannot duplicate a house with no evidence of the duplication, so the evidence of entry is preserved. How do you accomplish this with a digital object that can be trivially duplicated? You're talking about revamping everything we have to treat packets (let's just focus at that level I guess) as unique objects which cannot be duplicated (or at least not with modifying the original such that someone will know it was duplicated).
The other issue with your analogy... when/if your house is violated it will be a problem for you--documents and other contents may be stolen and used for nefarious purposes. House break-in's are not common, at least most people don't experience multiple break-in's per month, let alone per day or less. If we were transition to your model we may face the equivalent of a house break-in on an hourly or daily basis as our data is intercepted/examined and we are notified.
No... I think it's more accurate to compare data security to an armored car. You build your vehicle to withstand all reasonable attacks it may face.
I don't value it because I have nothing to say via email/chat/etc that *needs* to be secure or protected typically. The information is either public, unimportant, or otherwise reasonably obscured.
If the MPAA succeeds in their obscene desire to destroy Netflix at any cost, I WILL NEVER EVER respect their "IP" rights. I will steal any content I want.
They will not be satisfied with "flat rate" pricing for given periods of time, and frankly that will only lead to the Viacom-DirecTV styled battles we've just recently seen anyway--with Netflix or the studio content provider superimposing text over your stream airing out their contract laundry, etc.
I think the ultimate model will unfortunately be cell-phone-esque with a bucket of hours for a fixed price, various contract tiers and overage charges... You are allowed to watch then it's up to the streaming company to settle costs with the studios.
I've been hesitant to use Amazon since they screwed me with a downloadable movie--their app failed to run, as a result I lost the rental fee. It was ultimately refunded, but very aggravating to spend the time on it. The quality of their streaming appears to be inferior to me which is why I went for the download.
Their rental fees are pricey too, particularly for older stuff... $2.99 to watch an old movie? Too much given what you can get from Netflix by mail or Redbox. They need to get it down to 99c for older movies and 50c for TV episodes (with a reasonable price for season pass)
Netflix streaming, You Tube and my personal DVD collection are all that I watch--no cable, DVD by mail, antenna or other streaming.
Netflix makes up greater than 90% of what I watch, though You Tube is actually quite good for European (BBC) shows split up into thirds, and very old movies (collection of Chaplin movies is good).
I almost never watch my own DVDs because I'm too lazy to seek out what I want to watch and put it in the player... there's just too much commitment in that act and I feel like I must watch it;-)
sounds like something that will be shown in small bits and clips as part of mainstream media, and maybe played in full lengths at career fairs, MS HQ during interfests, etc...
There is no way we're going to watch programmers on mainstream TV, there is just nothing interesting about it to average people, and those who do it for a living will do nothing but be aggravated by it.
After all, if women aren't up to the job of wearing body armour, they shouldn't join the army.
The counter of course is that it's not they aren't up to it, it's that their form (vs the male form) allows for gaps which can lead them to be exposed to dangers.
As another./er noted--his wife had gaps at the top of her body armor allowing spent shells to fall between her armor and skin, this lead to physical scars and as someone who has had a shell land in his shirt I can say firsthand that it can affect your aim and cause you to physically react.
Apple has much less variety in product lines than Google or MS in terms of the small-form-factor mobile market (cell phones, int the case of Google, tablets)...
How does Apple turn this weakness into a strength?
The smaller number of products as well as a better defined launch schedule with stable form factors, UI, feature sets and accessories are also good at capturing an audience of people who are either techno-phobic or simply do not have the time or desire to re-buy and re-learn products every couple of years.
I am a highly technical person, but I appreciate how simple it is to use a iPhone, and what I learned 5 years ago is still largely applicable to using one today, but with some incremental additions.
The same cannot be said for most cell phones or smartphones from 5 years ago, changing UIs, changing feature sets, etc... all make it very difficult to know what you're getting or how to use it--at least without spending significant time with it. There are a gazillion "Android" phones out there... how do I know if I want 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0?, what do the different processor names mean?, can I actually compare "GHz" to get a reasonable idea of what is best (no)?, what apps will or won't run on this?
Often times you're forced to wait for extensive reviews of a product before you consider it because "specsmanship" means almost nothing with some of the garbage produced by certain companies. Fortunately HTC, Samsung and others have started learning that although outright lying and inflating capabilities may inflate short term sales, it only does long term brand damage, so it seems like they're producing better products these days.
Let's also not forget support--it's far easier to find people to help you use an iPhone than some random smart phone from some manufacturer. There are constant updates to the SW and apps, and for the most part these things tend to make improvements, whereas I've found with Android an update can wind you up in a broken state (this is where the walled garden, closed OS and tight HW control makes the world of difference)
Not sure if trolling, or attempting to be funny...
But it seems clear enough that "safety", in this context, is referring to immediate physical safety and not job security or being portrayed in "unflattering light" after the fact.
This should be a short thread... no one on the internet ever seems to have much of an opinion about police matters, particularly where recording comes in...
I've been told by a friend that one of the issues with running businesses within SFO is that once you grow beyond a certain size your costs really start to escalate because of various city ordinances and taxes. Don't they have some health care requirements that other nearby cities/towns don't? Not to mention the cost of real estate, etc.
Being a great place to live doesn't necessarily mean it's a great place to run a business. At some point, unless you're wildly successful or simply cannot exist outside the SFO ecosphere, the businesses will look to either lobby for lower costs or will move out of the area forcing the workers to either move or commute.
In the Boston area when you refer to living within the city most people will say "in town", as in "it's more expensive to live 'in town' than in a suburb", or "you're going to find a lot more sushi places in town than out (t)here"
I think it's fairly common to refer to a nearby city as "the city" or in our case "in town". It probably does get confusing when you live somewhere equally distant from major cities--such as living around the CT/RI/MA border... if you say "The City", do you mean Boston? Worcester? Springfield? Hartford? Providence? Maybe New York City? It's all relative to location and the speakers.
Hold your arm out in front of you for 20 minutes and tell me how great that touchscreen interface is.
The touch interface makes sense when you consider the rising popularity of the tablet form-factor, and potentially increasing number of non-traditional "desktops" such as Surface-like devices (which would be an ergonomic nightmare for long term use, unless they intend to patent a dual-display where your hands/arms sit on one interface flat to your desktop while your eyes view another display (in a more traditional position say 90-120* vs. your desktop) which would have some sort of an on-screen halo showing the positions of your hands/fingers so that you can coordinate what you're touching on the lower screen with your eyes on the top screen.
But yeah, in it's present form Win8's UI appears to be adding needless complexity to traditional laptop and desktop form factor PC's. So far for me it has been far more difficult to use and I fail to see how it will ultimately be a better interface than what we have already. I think MS' best bet would be to allow a full regression to the "traditional" interface in order to maximize potential adopters, at some point they probably don't care WHY people are buying Win8, just that they are... so why not have a full WinXP/7-UI mode available?
One thing I do love about Win8 is the new copy dialog--love to see the progress and measured disk/network speeds. I also think that the larger fonts make a good deal of sense given how usage is changing (it looks great on the PC in my living room connected to the TV).
A straight-forward set of solutions to some of these potential problems:
- A human being with a brain is left still ultimately responsible for the operation of trains, planes, etc... "the computer gone haywire" scenario becomes one of inconvenience and slow-downs vs. disaster and death
- Double checking of automated processes... the treatment plant is not a "set and forget" operation, humans should be monitoring the quality of the drinking water and the output of the treatment plants using manual devices--these are double checks for any automatic monitoring
- Disconnect critical systems from public (and sometime even private) networks. There is no reason to allow remote operation of many of these plants and facilities, so that's first and foremost (if it doesn't NEED to be remote controlled, then don't allow it). Second, for many of these systems simply making sure that they are connected only to secure and private networks would do wonders for preventing outside hacking, and while you're at it eliminate gateways between public and private networks.
At the end of the day it comes down to the human factor. Keep human's located at the equipment, and properly trained in it's operation (and recognition of malfunction) and these disasters will be easily averted.
I wonder who will be responsible for cleaning up the physical damage after some of these incidents? Halliburton, or other major contractors? Perhaps they'd be happy to have these things happen...
If I buy cable TV and it includes ESPN, does that mean I want ESPN? No.
Consumers want certain features. If those features are only available on a phone with an extra-large screen, they are forced to buy it, or otherwise skip the feature they want.
I own a iPhone, not because I'm in love with Apple or it's feature sets, but because I like the size. I do not want a larger phone.
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If the average 10-year old Indian kid was smarter than the average 35-yr old American, wouldn't India be at the top of the global pecking order, and not grovel before the US for every problem it faces, be it Pakistan or China?.
What you say may be true... but let's not forget the power of having certain attitudes.
The US is built in an area where the indigenous people have been virtually destroyed, those that are left are free to integrate into society, but if they want to maintain their heritage they do it on small lots of land granted to them.
"Might is Right".
So is the US a global leader because it is the most intelligent? Or, because it has (or perhaps HAD is better) the balls to make shit happen, whether it was weapons, technology, etc.? They have always been in a race to either defend themselves or over-power another aggressor.
Who comes from India? Ghandi... Mr. Passive Resistance. They're also a country that was under the thumb of the English, so they were forced into these positions. The attitudes are changing all over, India, China, etc... these are places were traditionally polite, passive and humble people are beginning to realize that you spend your short life in the shadow when you act like that.
I'm born in the US and always lived here so my view is one-sided, and perhaps all I know are stereo-types. I also don't always (or even usually) agree with the aggressive attitudes my country has toward other nations, but I do recognize that without them the world would be a very different place. Possibly under the rule of Nazi's, or a Russian Czar, who knows...
Separately, we have a saying in India, which is drilled into the brains of BPO trainees. It says; 10=35. The IQ of an average 10-year old Indian kid is about the same as the IQ of the average 35-yr old American. Reading the many infantile responses to this article, I begin to suspect this might not be far from the truth.
You see a narrow view of the US---
- Media (which is virtual fantasy compared to real life)
- Those who call help centers... Think about it--who calls help centers, particular ones for consumer products? Mostly it's idiots.
I work with and encounter far too many intelligent people on a daily basis to believe that the "average" American is a complete idiot, unfortunately for you it's a case of dealing with a select slice of the population who cannot solve their own problems. I'm sure the same would be true for people of any country.
Attitude is another issue--people calling into help centers are often frustrated over a problem. I don't agree with having attitude toward a stranger who is trying to help you, but when you've called in half a dozen times, waited 10's of minutes on hold each time, only to be walked through a set of basic and obvious set of corrective actions you tend to get short with the people you are speaking with. So don't mistake someone who is rude out of frustration with being unintelligent.
The enigma in question is the rural last mile, and that's an issue of "technology or logistics" for ISPs to solve. Disc rental by mail is the only practical service if all you can get in your area are dial-up and satellite, not DSL, cable, or fiber.
Where the heck are all you people that you can't get access to cable or something better?
It's been better than 15 years that I've had access to a T1-or-better download connection.
I don't want, nor do I need, an unbreakable password. I want to know when I've had a trespasser.
That's all well and good - until someones changes your lock; You know you've had a trespasser, but you can't do anything about it.
Or they break in and take your cash and other valuables. Great, I know they stole those things, now what? I'd prefer to keep out thanks.
Love the analogy.
You cannot duplicate a house with no evidence of the duplication, so the evidence of entry is preserved. How do you accomplish this with a digital object that can be trivially duplicated? You're talking about revamping everything we have to treat packets (let's just focus at that level I guess) as unique objects which cannot be duplicated (or at least not with modifying the original such that someone will know it was duplicated).
The other issue with your analogy... when/if your house is violated it will be a problem for you--documents and other contents may be stolen and used for nefarious purposes. House break-in's are not common, at least most people don't experience multiple break-in's per month, let alone per day or less. If we were transition to your model we may face the equivalent of a house break-in on an hourly or daily basis as our data is intercepted/examined and we are notified.
No... I think it's more accurate to compare data security to an armored car. You build your vehicle to withstand all reasonable attacks it may face.
I don't value it because I have nothing to say via email/chat/etc that *needs* to be secure or protected typically. The information is either public, unimportant, or otherwise reasonably obscured.
$80? I pay $39?
If the MPAA succeeds in their obscene desire to destroy Netflix at any cost, I WILL NEVER EVER respect their "IP" rights. I will steal any content I want.
They will not be satisfied with "flat rate" pricing for given periods of time, and frankly that will only lead to the Viacom-DirecTV styled battles we've just recently seen anyway--with Netflix or the studio content provider superimposing text over your stream airing out their contract laundry, etc.
I think the ultimate model will unfortunately be cell-phone-esque with a bucket of hours for a fixed price, various contract tiers and overage charges... You are allowed to watch then it's up to the streaming company to settle costs with the studios.
I've been hesitant to use Amazon since they screwed me with a downloadable movie--their app failed to run, as a result I lost the rental fee. It was ultimately refunded, but very aggravating to spend the time on it. The quality of their streaming appears to be inferior to me which is why I went for the download.
Their rental fees are pricey too, particularly for older stuff... $2.99 to watch an old movie? Too much given what you can get from Netflix by mail or Redbox. They need to get it down to 99c for older movies and 50c for TV episodes (with a reasonable price for season pass)
Netflix streaming, You Tube and my personal DVD collection are all that I watch--no cable, DVD by mail, antenna or other streaming.
Netflix makes up greater than 90% of what I watch, though You Tube is actually quite good for European (BBC) shows split up into thirds, and very old movies (collection of Chaplin movies is good).
I almost never watch my own DVDs because I'm too lazy to seek out what I want to watch and put it in the player... there's just too much commitment in that act and I feel like I must watch it ;-)
sounds like something that will be shown in small bits and clips as part of mainstream media, and maybe played in full lengths at career fairs, MS HQ during interfests, etc...
There is no way we're going to watch programmers on mainstream TV, there is just nothing interesting about it to average people, and those who do it for a living will do nothing but be aggravated by it.
After all, if women aren't up to the job of wearing body armour, they shouldn't join the army.
The counter of course is that it's not they aren't up to it, it's that their form (vs the male form) allows for gaps which can lead them to be exposed to dangers.
As another ./er noted--his wife had gaps at the top of her body armor allowing spent shells to fall between her armor and skin, this lead to physical scars and as someone who has had a shell land in his shirt I can say firsthand that it can affect your aim and cause you to physically react.
their = there ... damn brain.
Your username plus your description of your wife... good lord man, let's hang out.
BTW, glad to hear it sounds like her injuries may be limited to a couple of scars (physical ones anyway)
Since there will be conflicts (or at least preparation and equipping for them) the problem still remains even if we follow your suggestion.
Complete world peace with no armed conflicts is simply not going to happen as long as their is competition for resource and space.
So let's focus on the actual problem of properly protecting and equipping our female soldiers.
Apple has much less variety in product lines than Google or MS in terms of the small-form-factor mobile market (cell phones, int the case of Google, tablets)...
How does Apple turn this weakness into a strength?
The smaller number of products as well as a better defined launch schedule with stable form factors, UI, feature sets and accessories are also good at capturing an audience of people who are either techno-phobic or simply do not have the time or desire to re-buy and re-learn products every couple of years.
I am a highly technical person, but I appreciate how simple it is to use a iPhone, and what I learned 5 years ago is still largely applicable to using one today, but with some incremental additions.
The same cannot be said for most cell phones or smartphones from 5 years ago, changing UIs, changing feature sets, etc... all make it very difficult to know what you're getting or how to use it--at least without spending significant time with it. There are a gazillion "Android" phones out there... how do I know if I want 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0?, what do the different processor names mean?, can I actually compare "GHz" to get a reasonable idea of what is best (no)?, what apps will or won't run on this?
Often times you're forced to wait for extensive reviews of a product before you consider it because "specsmanship" means almost nothing with some of the garbage produced by certain companies. Fortunately HTC, Samsung and others have started learning that although outright lying and inflating capabilities may inflate short term sales, it only does long term brand damage, so it seems like they're producing better products these days.
Let's also not forget support--it's far easier to find people to help you use an iPhone than some random smart phone from some manufacturer. There are constant updates to the SW and apps, and for the most part these things tend to make improvements, whereas I've found with Android an update can wind you up in a broken state (this is where the walled garden, closed OS and tight HW control makes the world of difference)
Not sure if trolling, or attempting to be funny...
But it seems clear enough that "safety", in this context, is referring to immediate physical safety and not job security or being portrayed in "unflattering light" after the fact.
This should be a short thread... no one on the internet ever seems to have much of an opinion about police matters, particularly where recording comes in...
I've been told by a friend that one of the issues with running businesses within SFO is that once you grow beyond a certain size your costs really start to escalate because of various city ordinances and taxes. Don't they have some health care requirements that other nearby cities/towns don't? Not to mention the cost of real estate, etc.
Being a great place to live doesn't necessarily mean it's a great place to run a business. At some point, unless you're wildly successful or simply cannot exist outside the SFO ecosphere, the businesses will look to either lobby for lower costs or will move out of the area forcing the workers to either move or commute.
In the Boston area when you refer to living within the city most people will say "in town", as in "it's more expensive to live 'in town' than in a suburb", or "you're going to find a lot more sushi places in town than out (t)here"
I think it's fairly common to refer to a nearby city as "the city" or in our case "in town". It probably does get confusing when you live somewhere equally distant from major cities--such as living around the CT/RI/MA border... if you say "The City", do you mean Boston? Worcester? Springfield? Hartford? Providence? Maybe New York City? It's all relative to location and the speakers.
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism)
Hold your arm out in front of you for 20 minutes and tell me how great that touchscreen interface is.
The touch interface makes sense when you consider the rising popularity of the tablet form-factor, and potentially increasing number of non-traditional "desktops" such as Surface-like devices (which would be an ergonomic nightmare for long term use, unless they intend to patent a dual-display where your hands/arms sit on one interface flat to your desktop while your eyes view another display (in a more traditional position say 90-120* vs. your desktop) which would have some sort of an on-screen halo showing the positions of your hands/fingers so that you can coordinate what you're touching on the lower screen with your eyes on the top screen.
But yeah, in it's present form Win8's UI appears to be adding needless complexity to traditional laptop and desktop form factor PC's. So far for me it has been far more difficult to use and I fail to see how it will ultimately be a better interface than what we have already. I think MS' best bet would be to allow a full regression to the "traditional" interface in order to maximize potential adopters, at some point they probably don't care WHY people are buying Win8, just that they are... so why not have a full WinXP/7-UI mode available?
One thing I do love about Win8 is the new copy dialog--love to see the progress and measured disk/network speeds. I also think that the larger fonts make a good deal of sense given how usage is changing (it looks great on the PC in my living room connected to the TV).
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A straight-forward set of solutions to some of these potential problems:
- A human being with a brain is left still ultimately responsible for the operation of trains, planes, etc... "the computer gone haywire" scenario becomes one of inconvenience and slow-downs vs. disaster and death
- Double checking of automated processes... the treatment plant is not a "set and forget" operation, humans should be monitoring the quality of the drinking water and the output of the treatment plants using manual devices--these are double checks for any automatic monitoring
- Disconnect critical systems from public (and sometime even private) networks. There is no reason to allow remote operation of many of these plants and facilities, so that's first and foremost (if it doesn't NEED to be remote controlled, then don't allow it). Second, for many of these systems simply making sure that they are connected only to secure and private networks would do wonders for preventing outside hacking, and while you're at it eliminate gateways between public and private networks.
At the end of the day it comes down to the human factor. Keep human's located at the equipment, and properly trained in it's operation (and recognition of malfunction) and these disasters will be easily averted.
I wonder who will be responsible for cleaning up the physical damage after some of these incidents? Halliburton, or other major contractors? Perhaps they'd be happy to have these things happen...
If I buy cable TV and it includes ESPN, does that mean I want ESPN? No.
Consumers want certain features. If those features are only available on a phone with an extra-large screen, they are forced to buy it, or otherwise skip the feature they want.
I own a iPhone, not because I'm in love with Apple or it's feature sets, but because I like the size. I do not want a larger phone.