It doesn't say that VOIP will be banned in India, it says:
1. Illegal Web calls by BPOs face axe
2. Companies...not use the services of unlicensed foreign service providers such as Net2Phone, Vonage, Dialpad, Impetus, Novanet, Euros, Skype and Yahoo
3. According to official sources, foreign players such as Skype, in addition to disturbing the level-playing field for bonafide licensees, were also causing great revenue loss to the government as they did not pay the 12% service tax and 6% revenue share on internet telephony.
4. The government move, when implemented, will fulfil a long-pending demand of internet service providers (ISPs).
5....call centres and BPOs can ensure that they are availing services from an authorised service provider.
IOW, VOIP won't be banned but more regulated.
New Delhi has agressively developed nuclear weapons and is willing to sell nuclear technology to anyone.
This is false. India has not and is not selling nuke tech to any country. You are probably mistaking it with Pakistan. Most of you don't know the difference between India and Pakistan. You guys think IndiaPakistan is one country.
I commute on the GO train (gotransit.com) from Mississauga to Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
I see people reading, working, watching videos(on their laptops), listening to music, conversing, staring at the scenery rolling by or trying to steal a glance at some pretty woman.
It is a pity, that doping is so deeply involved in the sport
If what you say is true then every or almost every cyclist is doing it, therefore it should cancel out. Shouldn't it?:) Hence what we saw was human effort even if slightly dope-enhanced.
A real democracy conducts elections regularly and the elected reps govern.
A real democracy does not let terrorists dictate to its people.
A real democracy does not let religion become a smokescreen for land grab by neighbour. Especially when the real democracy knows that all rivers that matter to the neighbour originate from the land in question.
A real democracy should have enforced the conditions required for referendum, namely,
(a) the occupying forces would leave the land immediately as a precondition to referendum. Period. No ifs and buts.
(b) the land would be available for conducting a referendum. Right now a part of the land has been ceded to China. China is in no mood to give it back. Can you get that land back?
Under no circumstances will a real democracy allow a garrison and a rentier state, which is the epicenter of terrorism in the world, to dictate the course of action.
Every now and then a state of unrest, violence and bombings happen in punjab, from what we see on tvs
In Indian Punjab? Surely not. The last act of terrorism was in 1995.
Are you confusing Punjab with Pakistani Punjab? There are two Punjabs. One in India and another in Pakistan. The terrorism movement in Indian Punjab died out in early 1990s with the last incident occurring in 1995. There is no state of unrest, violence or bombings in Punjab since then.
For your information a state of civil war is raging for over 20-30 years in its punjab region
That's false. The last time an act of terrorism happened there ("there" = Indian Punjab) was in 1995. Since then there have been no terrorist incidents. The separatist movement was long dead even before that.
and clueless techs who have no idea what celcius is
That would be surprising. In India the temperatures are given in celsius and if a tech doesn't know what it is, I would wonder if they are from India.
As to your example:
And of course, the USA's finest... *drumroll* being told that component cables would not increase the quality of picture on my PSX games
Here is a similar example experienced in USA. I once went to the Radio Shack store in International Mall in Miami, FL and asked for a wireless keyboard. The salesman laughed at me in his loud voice for all the customers to hear and said that there was no such thing as a wireless keyboard.
(Please don't imagine the world as being black and white - that's only in movies).
1. The shapes of cars would be different. Funny looking with strange horns.
2. People wearing different kinds of clothes.
3. I don't know whether I'll be able to phone someone up in a country in Asia. Europe probably yes.
4. To go somewhere in the same country, I'll probably have to take a train. To go from Europe to Asia, I'll have to take a steamship, and factor in the time taken to do my work. There are no commercial flights. As someone used to them, the world has slowed down dramatically.
5. The views about other people are in black and white probably.
6. Religion is stronger.
7. As a person of colour, life isn't so smooth.
8. Terrorism has not been heard of.
9. No emails, no IM, no blogs, no PC, no C++, no webservices
The meanings of expressions change in languages over time. While begging the question may not technically mean "begs for the question to be asked", if the general populace uses it in that sense then this is what it will be said to mean. And this is how the next generation will use it.
What I have done to alleviate this problem is to create a virtual machine in my Windows XP box. I installed Fedora on it and use it to surf. However, if someone needs Windows, they can install Windows on their virtual machine. Any app that wants admin access can happily have it. If that virtual machine is compromised, then it is only the VM which is compromised, not the entire enclosing Windows machine. Just delete the VM and create a new one in that case.
The question is not whether they had good ideas, the question is for whom.
With ActiveX(TM) and linking, they made it much easier for some to install helpful components, like those that display ads, on a dumb user's machine. If it wasn't for these technologies, would anyone have a network of 50,000 PCs controllable by a single person/entity in a land far, far away and sending emails for useful stuff like increasing the size of whatever is small about you? No, such things would have existed only in sci-fi movies. Now thanks to MS, they are a reality.
Which ass are you speaking out of? Unlike "North American Continent" where everyone uses english (and ok -- some amount of Spanish) the Indian Subcontinent has about 17 different "official" languages, + many hundreds local languages and dialects, and at LEAST 5 different scripts (I think the number is more like 10).
I don't understand your criticism. OP talked of corporate work, not public-dealing-interfaces. Does LIC do its corporate work in regional languages? Or is regional language work only limited to a particular region's offices. And then to communicate with officers of another region, they would use English?
That seems unlikely, not to mention wastage of time and effort to, for example, translate the contents of a file into English so it could be communicated across regions.
I have worked in Delhi and Maharashtra. In Delhi, govt. forms used to be in English and Hindi. In Maharashtra, they were in Marathi and English. So I can understand if forms given to public are in the regional language, but why would corporate work be in a regional language, unless it is in all regional languages at the same time so employees in different regions could understand or in English!
This is not a troll. I would really like to know why is it that MS's reputation is that of least innovative company that produces buggy software which is only usable in it's 3.0 release.
From the little I know, MS hires, or attempts to hire, the best of the lot.
If the best people out there cannot innovate and consistently produce highly buggy code, why do other companies supposedly innovate more and produce less buggy code?
Does there exist an analysis tying SLOC produced by MS v/s number of bugs comparing those to that produced by other companies and by OSS developers?
A true geek kbd has only 2 keys
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A true geek kbd has only 2 keys anyway - 1 and 0. No matter how you place them, you'll be able to memorize their position in a few seconds.
Depending upon the way you pronounce it, "phatak" could mean boom or gate. If pronunciation is "phutaak", meaning is boom, if pron. is "phaatuck", meaning is gate.
I know I'm late jumping into the debate, but here's my 2-pence. In scientific method, a "theory" is a "hypothesis" that has been confirmed through repeated experimental tests.
A "hypothesis" is (an educated) guess.
In general language though, a "hypothesis" is what people mean to say when they say "theory."
So when the sticker said that Evolution is a Theory, it is correct from scientific language point of view.
In "honest" and sometimes in "historic", the sound of 'h' is that of a vowel. Therefore, they have an "an" in front of them.
Sometimes, even a certified vowel is pronounced as a consonant, such as the first 'u' in "unique." In that case, there should be no "an" in front of it. Some people, however, see a 'u' and blindly place an "an" in front of it, such as, "an unique event."
Hence, the placement of "an" is determined by the sound the letter will produce.
You probably meant Gandhi. Try to say the 'd' while making the 'h' sound as in "hale", just as some people pronounce "when" as "hwen." This way you will never forget that it is Gandhi and not Ghandi.
People who end *any* mini review with "I had to reformat" are clearly people who are either too stupid or too lazy to try the simple things like system restore or just yanking the app off
This statement is not founded upon facts.
I work in tech support. These days spyware calls are the largest number of calls we get. Let me tell you a sampling of the problems we face:
1. Customer's system is slow, gets loads of popups and shutting it down takes ages.
2. We try starting it up in safe mode after shutting down non-essential services via msconfig. Many times, though not all, mouse and keyboard freeze and we are unable to proceed in that mode. (No I didn't stop MS services)
3. We uninstall all suspicious programs from control panel (after researching and confirming they are indeed malware). Sometimes it takes the crap out, sometimes it just comes back.
4. It is reported that (though I am not sure) that there is a symbiotic relationship between some spyware and trojans. So if you take a spyware out and the trojan is still present, the trojan pulls back the spyware the next time you go online and similarly spyware pulls back trojan if you take trojan out.
5. Some customers lose internet connectivity. Depending upon the savvy-ness of the customer, we may sit from half-an-hour to 2 hours fixing their Winsock - walking them through registry settings, deleting winsock keys, adding TCP/IP protocol, etc.
You can see that by this time, we have spent quite some time with the customer. And this assumes that everything has gone smoothly. However, in real life, what happens is:
"Sir, please click your start button and then click run."
"I can't find Start button. Oh there it is. Now what is it you wanted me to click?"
and so on...
6. Sometimes, spybot and adaware find hundreds of problems/critical objects (as they call them). You fix them. But the system is still slow. There are no popups but performance is still atrocious. What do you tell the customer now?
7. Repair install or restore *does not* fix the problem. Spyware is insidious enough to remain there.
At this point the customer gets very frustrated. He has typically spent several hours on the phone, first with his ISP and then with us spread over a period of several days sometimes.
I would never call such a person lazy!
So at this point he just wants the problem fixed. Throw the PC out the window or reformat. Clearly, reformat is much less painful than going through hours of registry cleanups, reboots, waits, frustration and lost productivity.
Morever, these people aren't stupid, they just don't know about computers. Lack of knowledge of a particular field does not equal stupidity. For example, many of our customers are doctors, economists, journalists, etc. (One was a very nice old lady trying to get her email working so she could email her grandkid serving in Iraq).
Hence it is my considered opinion that to call people stupid or lazy without having more information is incorrect.
Sure you don't see too many black smiths around these days, but you do see...
* Metallurgical Tech./Technician
* Machinist
* Machine shop workers
* Steel workers
* locksmiths
and many more...
I agree.
When I started working (in 1989 in India), all I'd heard of was programmers or programmer/analysts. For the longest time, I replied "programmer" whenever anybody asked me my profession even if my designation was "software engineer" or "software developer."
I thought it was my job description to be able to do programming, design, printer troubleshooting, network setup, OS installs, help users, normalize databases and so on...
Until I moved to my first big company.
There I met
DB Admins,
Network Admins,
Software engineers,
System Analysts,
Programmer/Analysts,
QA engineers,
Consultants,...
And lately, I have been meeting portal specialists and integrators.
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If time is the argument you want to advance, then what about COBOL, Fortran and C/C++?
When Java came out they said it's good because it's new and others, especially C++, are bad because they're "legacy." Now Java has become "legacy."
It doesn't say that VOIP will be banned in India, it says:
1. Illegal Web calls by BPOs face axe
2. Companies...not use the services of unlicensed foreign service providers such as Net2Phone, Vonage, Dialpad, Impetus, Novanet, Euros, Skype and Yahoo
3. According to official sources, foreign players such as Skype, in addition to disturbing the level-playing field for bonafide licensees, were also causing great revenue loss to the government as they did not pay the 12% service tax and 6% revenue share on internet telephony.
4. The government move, when implemented, will fulfil a long-pending demand of internet service providers (ISPs).
5. ...call centres and BPOs can ensure that they are availing services from an authorised service provider.
IOW, VOIP won't be banned but more regulated.
The headline of this story is sensationalist.
This is false. India has not and is not selling nuke tech to any country. You are probably mistaking it with Pakistan. Most of you don't know the difference between India and Pakistan. You guys think IndiaPakistan is one country.
DEL - Delhi Airport, India
I see people reading, working, watching videos(on their laptops), listening to music, conversing, staring at the scenery rolling by or trying to steal a glance at some pretty woman.
As an Indian I found many of the comments as either mildly amusing or completely ignorant. Aise hee hain yeh log. Don't worry.
If what you say is true then every or almost every cyclist is doing it, therefore it should cancel out. Shouldn't it? :) Hence what we saw was human effort even if slightly dope-enhanced.
A real democracy does not let terrorists dictate to its people.
A real democracy does not let religion become a smokescreen for land grab by neighbour. Especially when the real democracy knows that all rivers that matter to the neighbour originate from the land in question.
A real democracy should have enforced the conditions required for referendum, namely,
(a) the occupying forces would leave the land immediately as a precondition to referendum. Period. No ifs and buts.
(b) the land would be available for conducting a referendum. Right now a part of the land has been ceded to China. China is in no mood to give it back. Can you get that land back?
Under no circumstances will a real democracy allow a garrison and a rentier state, which is the epicenter of terrorism in the world, to dictate the course of action.
In Indian Punjab? Surely not. The last act of terrorism was in 1995.
Are you confusing Punjab with Pakistani Punjab? There are two Punjabs. One in India and another in Pakistan. The terrorism movement in Indian Punjab died out in early 1990s with the last incident occurring in 1995. There is no state of unrest, violence or bombings in Punjab since then.
Can you quote any one such instance?
Here is a recent report for your perusal. http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews &id=19636 Tata discusses investment in Punjab.
Also go here: http://punjabnewz.com/ Notice the main news. The terrorism it talks about occurred in Mumbai, not Indian Punjab.
That's false. The last time an act of terrorism happened there ("there" = Indian Punjab) was in 1995. Since then there have been no terrorist incidents. The separatist movement was long dead even before that.
That would be surprising. In India the temperatures are given in celsius and if a tech doesn't know what it is, I would wonder if they are from India.
As to your example:
And of course, the USA's finest... *drumroll* being told that component cables would not increase the quality of picture on my PSX games
Here is a similar example experienced in USA. I once went to the Radio Shack store in International Mall in Miami, FL and asked for a wireless keyboard. The salesman laughed at me in his loud voice for all the customers to hear and said that there was no such thing as a wireless keyboard.
Clueless people exist everywhere.
1. The shapes of cars would be different. Funny looking with strange horns.
2. People wearing different kinds of clothes.
3. I don't know whether I'll be able to phone someone up in a country in Asia. Europe probably yes.
4. To go somewhere in the same country, I'll probably have to take a train. To go from Europe to Asia, I'll have to take a steamship, and factor in the time taken to do my work. There are no commercial flights. As someone used to them, the world has slowed down dramatically.
5. The views about other people are in black and white probably.
6. Religion is stronger.
7. As a person of colour, life isn't so smooth.
8. Terrorism has not been heard of.
9. No emails, no IM, no blogs, no PC, no C++, no webservices
10. No Microsoft.
The meanings of expressions change in languages over time. While begging the question may not technically mean "begs for the question to be asked", if the general populace uses it in that sense then this is what it will be said to mean. And this is how the next generation will use it.
What I have done to alleviate this problem is to create a virtual machine in my Windows XP box. I installed Fedora on it and use it to surf. However, if someone needs Windows, they can install Windows on their virtual machine. Any app that wants admin access can happily have it. If that virtual machine is compromised, then it is only the VM which is compromised, not the entire enclosing Windows machine. Just delete the VM and create a new one in that case.
Incorrect.
ActiveX controls was a great idea.
Linking IE with Windows was another.
The question is not whether they had good ideas, the question is for whom.
With ActiveX(TM) and linking, they made it much easier for some to install helpful components, like those that display ads, on a dumb user's machine. If it wasn't for these technologies, would anyone have a network of 50,000 PCs controllable by a single person/entity in a land far, far away and sending emails for useful stuff like increasing the size of whatever is small about you? No, such things would have existed only in sci-fi movies. Now thanks to MS, they are a reality.
I don't understand your criticism. OP talked of corporate work, not public-dealing-interfaces. Does LIC do its corporate work in regional languages? Or is regional language work only limited to a particular region's offices. And then to communicate with officers of another region, they would use English?
That seems unlikely, not to mention wastage of time and effort to, for example, translate the contents of a file into English so it could be communicated across regions.
I have worked in Delhi and Maharashtra. In Delhi, govt. forms used to be in English and Hindi. In Maharashtra, they were in Marathi and English. So I can understand if forms given to public are in the regional language, but why would corporate work be in a regional language, unless it is in all regional languages at the same time so employees in different regions could understand or in English!
From the little I know, MS hires, or attempts to hire, the best of the lot.
If the best people out there cannot innovate and consistently produce highly buggy code, why do other companies supposedly innovate more and produce less buggy code?
Does there exist an analysis tying SLOC produced by MS v/s number of bugs comparing those to that produced by other companies and by OSS developers?
A true geek kbd has only 2 keys anyway - 1 and 0. No matter how you place them, you'll be able to memorize their position in a few seconds.
Food!
The 'f' in wtf stands for food.
Depending upon the way you pronounce it, "phatak" could mean boom or gate.
If pronunciation is "phutaak", meaning is boom,
if pron. is "phaatuck", meaning is gate.
I know I'm late jumping into the debate, but here's my 2-pence. In scientific method, a "theory" is a "hypothesis" that has been confirmed through repeated experimental tests.
A "hypothesis" is (an educated) guess.
In general language though, a "hypothesis" is what people mean to say when they say "theory."
So when the sticker said that Evolution is a Theory, it is correct from scientific language point of view.
In "honest" and sometimes in "historic", the sound of 'h' is that of a vowel. Therefore, they have an "an" in front of them.
Sometimes, even a certified vowel is pronounced as a consonant, such as the first 'u' in "unique." In that case, there should be no "an" in front of it. Some people, however, see a 'u' and blindly place an "an" in front of it, such as, "an unique event."
Hence, the placement of "an" is determined by the sound the letter will produce.
You probably meant Gandhi. Try to say the 'd' while making the 'h' sound as in "hale", just as some people pronounce "when" as "hwen." This way you will never forget that it is Gandhi and not Ghandi.
This statement is not founded upon facts.
I work in tech support. These days spyware calls are the largest number of calls we get. Let me tell you a sampling of the problems we face:
1. Customer's system is slow, gets loads of popups and shutting it down takes ages.
2. We try starting it up in safe mode after shutting down non-essential services via msconfig. Many times, though not all, mouse and keyboard freeze and we are unable to proceed in that mode. (No I didn't stop MS services)
3. We uninstall all suspicious programs from control panel (after researching and confirming they are indeed malware). Sometimes it takes the crap out, sometimes it just comes back.
4. It is reported that (though I am not sure) that there is a symbiotic relationship between some spyware and trojans. So if you take a spyware out and the trojan is still present, the trojan pulls back the spyware the next time you go online and similarly spyware pulls back trojan if you take trojan out.
5. Some customers lose internet connectivity. Depending upon the savvy-ness of the customer, we may sit from half-an-hour to 2 hours fixing their Winsock - walking them through registry settings, deleting winsock keys, adding TCP/IP protocol, etc.
You can see that by this time, we have spent quite some time with the customer. And this assumes that everything has gone smoothly. However, in real life, what happens is:
"Sir, please click your start button and then click run."
"I can't find Start button. Oh there it is. Now what is it you wanted me to click?"
and so on...
6. Sometimes, spybot and adaware find hundreds of problems/critical objects (as they call them). You fix them. But the system is still slow. There are no popups but performance is still atrocious. What do you tell the customer now?
7. Repair install or restore *does not* fix the problem. Spyware is insidious enough to remain there.
At this point the customer gets very frustrated. He has typically spent several hours on the phone, first with his ISP and then with us spread over a period of several days sometimes.
I would never call such a person lazy!
So at this point he just wants the problem fixed. Throw the PC out the window or reformat. Clearly, reformat is much less painful than going through hours of registry cleanups, reboots, waits, frustration and lost productivity.
Morever, these people aren't stupid, they just don't know about computers. Lack of knowledge of a particular field does not equal stupidity. For example, many of our customers are doctors, economists, journalists, etc. (One was a very nice old lady trying to get her email working so she could email her grandkid serving in Iraq).
Hence it is my considered opinion that to call people stupid or lazy without having more information is incorrect.
* Metallurgical Tech./Technician
* Machinist
* Machine shop workers
* Steel workers
* locksmiths
and many more...
I agree.
When I started working (in 1989 in India), all I'd heard of was programmers or programmer/analysts. For the longest time, I replied "programmer" whenever anybody asked me my profession even if my designation was "software engineer" or "software developer."
I thought it was my job description to be able to do programming, design, printer troubleshooting, network setup, OS installs, help users, normalize databases and so on...
Until I moved to my first big company.
There I met DB Admins, Network Admins, Software engineers, System Analysts, Programmer/Analysts, QA engineers, Consultants, ...
And lately, I have been meeting portal specialists and integrators.
Subdivision continues.