It's not that they can't handle a high volume of complaints. It's that they can't handle ANYTHING.
Have you ever tried to reach a human being through yahoo? Good luck.
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I wonder if they teach that in those call centers in India, or those single programming courses companies make people take when they're trying to cut out the cost of programmers altogether.
Yes, they do. Not in call centers though, but in Universities across India. If your purpose was to slander Indian education system or belittle the coders there - then that's a FAIL.
The guys there are as good [or bad] as they are over here. The spread is larger because of the bigger population.
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*Citation needed.
PS: Moderators, mod this down. Except for paul graham, the other links appear to be cheap imitators.
In the next decade or so, India and China are going to figure out they can do business with each other _than_ sucking up to Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam though would want to ensure this never happens [read up ASEAN].
Discount 2 billion people trading with each other at your own peril.
"Munroe describes XKCD as 'a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It's about three-fourths autobiographical.'"
Translated: Autobiographical - except for the 'lots of sex' part.
You haven't used a blackberry ever, have you? They are called crackberrys for a reason: Email.
I have a blackberry AND am iphone, both. Iphone does NOT and will not fetch my email the way blackberry does. If you have a blackberry email account[it works with most emails, I have mine hosted on google, and it works wonderfully with it] you get your email right in your message box. Not so with iphone. You have to either manually check your mailbox OR have your battery die on you if you keep that 'check my email often' option.
There is a reason even nokia licenses blackberry connect. There's NO contender to Blackberry email in the market.
Have you mirror mark tested your dog? You have to think of ways to differentiate between recognition and self-recognition, i.e. can your dog tell that it's itself or does it just recognise a non-threatening, non-responsive playmate, or even just a flat object?
Dogs are very sensitive to smell as a part of identity, I'm not sure a mirror would 'work' for them anyway.
Can dogs see a two dimensional image ? I think not.
In Malaysia - it costed me 300 RM - or - 100 USD. Funny ? explaination below
[ ] Market Dynamics Blah Blah [ ] Supply Demand & Blah Blah [ ] Blah Blah Capitalism [x] You price your product based on what people can pay. Rest, is Bullshit.
I'm all tears as I write this. I've been following Prof Pausch on web since the time that video was posted. If you see his video, blog and other web commentary, you would realize how he was the embodiment of positive energy.
Hell, I even checked on him last week - and his blog posted that he was off chemo. I was happy to know that he was doing well.:(
My Blackberry runs Google Map (http://www.google.com/gmm) Coupled with GPS, this fills my need. If my handphone can install Google Maps, what's the value add for NavteqonNokia ?
Ofcourse Navteq might be offering the data to Google, so Nokia might want to bypass that Google connection. But honestly, Google Map is a killer application in itself - the data offerred by Navteq hold no value if the application sucks.
There could a case for Software as a Service kind of application. Shameless Plug: Krawler (you can google).
It has all what you need from a SaaS app - and it sits on your desktop so you can have access anytime, even offline. It works on standard http/80 - just like a browser would - but being a native app, it can tightly integrate with your desktop.
I believe rising real estate prices are a measure of over-liquidity in a system than anything else. -- Obligatory Disclaimers - IANAREI (not an Real Estate Investor/Analyst) TNT (Thou NO Tard) IIRC WTF etc .
As a program manager in Microsoft's Research Division, Karen Fries explores applications of social interface. In her previous life, she launched Microsoft Bob, a program aimed at making home computing easier and more fun. With her partner, Barry Linnett, Fries conceived the idea and followed it from beginning to end, when it was announced by Bill Gates at CES in January of 1995. Working with animators, artists, development teams, and testing groups, Fries ensured all pieces of the product came together and got to market...
Correct, and whomever "picked up the torch" would have to face the same problems as the present establishment. Curse living in an economic world. Or put up ads and make millions? Boon living in a Google economy.
As an aside, if Firefox can make money, I'm sure wikipedia can find some way to make money in an obvious-non-evil way. I say this article is classic FUD.
I've been a user of both Blackboard and WebCT - the SAP and Oracle of (sort of) Learning Management Systems - and I've found both extremely horrible and user un-friendly to use - not to mention costly as well. I've also used Moodle - and I strongly believe its very techie-oriented. For eg, you can't expect a professor to install an Apache with MySQL and Php.
Purely out of frustration - I created my own click and install LMS and content authoring engine named Krawler (shameless plug: http://www.krawlerx.com./ Krawler is *free* and extremely easy to use - all the course/content creation part is drag/drop/wysiwyg and you can create your own classroom, courses, assigments or quizzes in seconds. Since it works p2p, one doesnt have to worry too much about server space or such stuff (imagine a self-sustaining University Intranet).
At last count, I've had about 200k downloads - and have got a wonderful feedback from the market. Not that I'm selling my product here (maybe I am)- all I'm saying is that there are a few better alternatives to big bulky systems - if you can take the trouble of going out in the market to find one.
I say use Moodle, or Krawler - they're much better than the blackboards of 1990s. I know I'm whoring my product here - but hey, that's all I got. I don't have the PR budget of Blackboard to get into Slashdot mainpage;-)
The value c/10 makes sense. It can't be near C or 90% of C - because of this. If anything, either we will totally breach C by a factor of 2 , or will max out at c/10 or thereabouts.
I think the writer is assuming that we won't be able to breach C physically (as per current phyical laws) - which is understandable. Because if you're not talking physics, you're basically saying anything is possible - and even god could exist.
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It's not that they can't handle a high volume of complaints. It's that they can't handle ANYTHING.
Have you ever tried to reach a human being through yahoo? Good luck.
Yes, and here are ten facts you must know
1. You are reading my comment
2. Now you are saying/thinking that's a stupid fact.
4. You didn't notice that I skipped 3.
5. You're checking it now.
6. You're smiling.
7. You're still reading my comment.
8. You know all you have read is true.
10. You didn't notice that i skipped 9.
11. You're checking it now.
12. You didn't notice there are only 10 facts
Beat that.
Also, Fuck You.
Count 1: disrupting or denying computer services is moot
Joey: It's a moo point ... like a cows opinion, doesn't matter ... it's moo.
Rachel: You mean a moot point ?
Joey: No...no, a moo point
That's Slumdog Millionare talking for you, my friend.
"Get it? Is ANYBODY listening?"
No.
I wonder if they teach that in those call centers in India, or those single programming courses companies make people take when they're trying to cut out the cost of programmers altogether.
Yes, they do. Not in call centers though, but in Universities across India. If your purpose was to slander Indian education system or belittle the coders there - then that's a FAIL. The guys there are as good [or bad] as they are over here. The spread is larger because of the bigger population.
*Citation needed.
PS: Moderators, mod this down. Except for paul graham, the other links appear to be cheap imitators.
The Moon is a harsh mistress.
In the next decade or so, India and China are going to figure out they can do business with each other _than_ sucking up to Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam though would want to ensure this never happens [read up ASEAN].
Discount 2 billion people trading with each other at your own peril.
"Munroe describes XKCD as 'a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It's about three-fourths autobiographical.'"
Translated: Autobiographical - except for the 'lots of sex' part.
You haven't used a blackberry ever, have you? They are called crackberrys for a reason: Email.
I have a blackberry AND am iphone, both. Iphone does NOT and will not fetch my email the way blackberry does. If you have a blackberry email account[it works with most emails, I have mine hosted on google, and it works wonderfully with it] you get your email right in your message box. Not so with iphone. You have to either manually check your mailbox OR have your battery die on you if you keep that 'check my email often' option.
There is a reason even nokia licenses blackberry connect. There's NO contender to Blackberry email in the market.
Have you mirror mark tested your dog? You have to think of ways to differentiate between recognition and self-recognition, i.e. can your dog tell that it's itself or does it just recognise a non-threatening, non-responsive playmate, or even just a flat object?
Dogs are very sensitive to smell as a part of identity, I'm not sure a mirror would 'work' for them anyway.
Can dogs see a two dimensional image ? I think not.
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In Malaysia - it costed me 300 RM - or - 100 USD. Funny ? explaination below
[ ] Market Dynamics Blah Blah
[ ] Supply Demand & Blah Blah
[ ] Blah Blah Capitalism
[x] You price your product based on what people can pay. Rest, is Bullshit.
I'm all tears as I write this. I've been following Prof Pausch on web since the time that video was posted. If you see his video, blog and other web commentary, you would realize how he was the embodiment of positive energy.
Hell, I even checked on him last week - and his blog posted that he was off chemo. I was happy to know that he was doing well. :(
Prof Pausch, we will miss you.
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Ofcourse they use Microsoft(tm)(r) Excel(tm)(r) to calculate. No wonder.
Any wonder that the author of the Article Vivek Wadhwa has authored multiple papers on offshoring and outsourcing.
He wrote a similar rant in bweek about 2 years ago.
"... summarized on the Wired Science Blog." or Weird Science Blog, going by the weird scientific articles being posted on there.
My Blackberry runs Google Map (http://www.google.com/gmm) Coupled with GPS, this fills my need. If my handphone can install Google Maps, what's the value add for NavteqonNokia ?
Ofcourse Navteq might be offering the data to Google, so Nokia might want to bypass that Google connection. But honestly, Google Map is a killer application in itself - the data offerred by Navteq hold no value if the application sucks.
There could a case for Software as a Service kind of application. Shameless Plug: Krawler (you can google).
It has all what you need from a SaaS app - and it sits on your desktop so you can have access anytime, even offline. It works on standard http/80 - just like a browser would - but being a native app, it can tightly integrate with your desktop.
Just a thought...
...Housing prices are way overinflated...
If that's a measure of an overinflated economy - India aint doing any better. $95.5 million for an acre in Mumbai, India should be twice as costly as anything available in Amercia minus NY/LA This highly-inflated trend is making a presence in other key cities like bengaluru, chennai and pune.
I believe rising real estate prices are a measure of over-liquidity in a system than anything else.
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Obligatory Disclaimers - IANAREI (not an Real Estate Investor/Analyst) TNT (Thou NO Tard) IIRC WTF etc .
As a program manager in Microsoft's Research Division, Karen Fries explores applications of social interface. In her previous life, she launched Microsoft Bob, a program aimed at making home computing easier and more fun. With her partner, Barry Linnett, Fries conceived the idea and followed it from beginning to end, when it was announced by Bill Gates at CES in January of 1995. Working with animators, artists, development teams, and testing groups, Fries ensured all pieces of the product came together and got to market...
As an aside, if Firefox can make money, I'm sure wikipedia can find some way to make money in an obvious-non-evil way. I say this article is classic FUD.
I've been a user of both Blackboard and WebCT - the SAP and Oracle of (sort of) Learning Management Systems - and I've found both extremely horrible and user un-friendly to use - not to mention costly as well. I've also used Moodle - and I strongly believe its very techie-oriented. For eg, you can't expect a professor to install an Apache with MySQL and Php.
;-)
Purely out of frustration - I created my own click and install LMS and content authoring engine named Krawler (shameless plug: http://www.krawlerx.com./ Krawler is *free* and extremely easy to use - all the course/content creation part is drag/drop/wysiwyg and you can create your own classroom, courses, assigments or quizzes in seconds. Since it works p2p, one doesnt have to worry too much about server space or such stuff (imagine a self-sustaining University Intranet).
At last count, I've had about 200k downloads - and have got a wonderful feedback from the market. Not that I'm selling my product here (maybe I am)- all I'm saying is that there are a few better alternatives to big bulky systems - if you can take the trouble of going out in the market to find one.
I say use Moodle, or Krawler - they're much better than the blackboards of 1990s. I know I'm whoring my product here - but hey, that's all I got. I don't have the PR budget of Blackboard to get into Slashdot mainpage
Shashark
The value c/10 makes sense. It can't be near C or 90% of C - because of this. If anything, either we will totally breach C by a factor of 2 , or will max out at c/10 or thereabouts.
I think the writer is assuming that we won't be able to breach C physically (as per current phyical laws) - which is understandable. Because if you're not talking physics, you're basically saying anything is possible - and even god could exist.