An Android phone is not the same as an Apple or Blackberry phone. Google just makes the software. Apple and Blackberry make their own hardware.
By the same token how many of the BSoDs blamed on Microsoft was really Microsoft's fault and how many were due to crappy hardware bought to save money? (Lest some one accuse me of a being a microsoft shill, my anti-MS credentials (Sep 2007) have been well established. )
It couldn't be someone who has an axe to grind on Android phones, no?
The axe-grinding app is awesommer in iPhone than in android. Why, just last week for Halloween I needed to grind an axe to do some serial killing for more realistic blood spatters. The Android could not even get a two bars on the 3G network. Before it could even find and down load an app, iPhone had an axe grinding app going at full tilt. It was a close call, whether to use the iGrind to grind the axe or directly use iGrind itself on the victim. Anyway iGrind rules!
About 25 years ago, my boss, the IT manager, had the same attitude towards PCs. He referred to them as "toys". They lacked security.
He, (I am sure it was a he not a she) was right. They lacked security. They still do. If all the IT managers held their ground, we might have gotten Microsoft to take security seriously back when we could make it listen us.
The mosquitoes find their prey/victims/hosts through a combination of temperature and humidity trails in the air. These IR beam heat the air and create the signature of a host where there is none. Mosquitoes fly toward these beams due to heat signature, gets confused by the lack of humidity signature, gets scared and stop and go back.
I always thought it would be a good mosquito trap to heat a small bowl of water at 98.4 degrees and surround it with fly paper or something. May be the next version would use a decoy humidity signature generator and steer the mosquitoes to the trap.
I am totally soured by most of the automated phone response systems that does voice recognition. All phone systems are irritating but the failure rate in these voice recognition is particularly aggravating. Some allow me to punch in the numbers. Others force me to speak the responses. I speak with a slight South Indian accent, (no stress on stressed syllables, rolled rr-s, pause at unexpected places. I say slight because I have made presentations to large audience and spoken on phone to customers and teleconferences without any problem, without people asking me to repeat, scored 5 out 6 in Test of Spoken English taken when I was a TA in grad school). The voice recognition in GPS devices and cellphones too are very substandard for people with even slight accents. How good is Siri for such groups?
One thing that really took me by pleasant surprise was Google's non-English transliteration engine built into edit boxes/text compose windows of all google sites. English has just five vowels with y and w coming in very occasionally to support vowel sounds . Most Asian languages have distinct glyphs for at least 12 vowels (long and short forms separated and a few more). Google allows me to type using an English key board, when I hit a space, it changes text to the selected Indian language. If the text is not exact, I press backspace, and it creates a drop down box that typically has a few variations, and I am surprised how good its guesses are about what I was planning to type.
If Google has been collecting such data about the most common english transliteration for the most common words in other languages, it has a treasure trove of stuff. If that probability engine could be adapted to voice, it would have a global reach. If Siri has an American English focus, its lead is definitely not two years. Do not count the non-native English speakers out. Hispanic population is increasing and they use smart phones to access the net mostly. On the high end, the median family income of Asian Americans is the highest for any ethnic group. Almost double that of Hispanics, the lowest. That probably would make the ratio 3 or even 4 when it comes to disposable income. Citation provided. Unless they tackle both ends of the income spectrum, siri is not going to make as big a wave as these talking heads are talking about.
Alternatively... reading this guy's blog, frankly he strikes me as more than a little childish (like most militant atheists -- the more militant, the more childish.)
Jerry Coyne got a PhD from Harvard, Post Doc in U Cal Davis, Prof in Univ of Maryland, Presently Prof in U Chicago. You call him childish?
A decade ago most clueless top executives will award themselves the latest and greatest laptops and start belting out the latest version of documents/spreadsheets/presentations that is incompatible with rest of the corporations. Forcing everyone to upgrade, and Microsoft was laughing all the way to the bank.
Now the same clueless top exec buys latest and greatest toys to play angry birds or something and expects it to work in the corporate environment. All the deliberate incompatibilities and interoperability poison pills baked into the system is coming back to bite the tails of IT crews.
In India nuclear power and the workings are poorly understood by the masses. They built a nuclear power plant at a place called Koodangulam, TN. The opposition parties believe in opposing anything the ruling party does, even if it has supported the very same idea/principle/project when it was in power. This time the Church also joined the fray, its priests went on hunger strike etc and have effectively blocked the plant from going on line. This plant is in a Christian majority district of that state.
Almost every project in the country is opposed by the environmental groups and whoever happens to be in the opposition at that time.
I don't want PDFs to open in the web browser. I want to open them in Acrobat in another window. Let the browser be a browser and Acrobat be Acrobat!
But the problem is Acrobat wants to be a browser. Why the hell should it follow hyperlinks and open itself for so many attacks? If you are still using acrobat and have not disabled the hyperlink ability you are in great danger of contracting a virus.
So the problem isn't that the US is no longer a good place to invest in. It's that we haven't squandered enough money. Good to know.
What is good for the investor is not always what is good for the country. If we coddle the investors they will game the system. It will result in a race to the bottom.
But the gov't shouldn't be subsidizing anything, it shouldn't be taxing/borrowing/printing and subsidizing with that money. It should leave people alone and should allow them to work it out in the market.
When it was left to the "people" they invest it in China and India because the labor is cheap, there is no environmental regulations, no pesky work place safety... In the end you will have third world wages, third world pollution in the USA. Race to the bottom it is called. It is best not to run that race.
Keep printing dollars and subsidize this, spend the money inside USA. Eventually corporate America will get tired of lending us money to buy cheaply made chinese crap. Money is just a man made construct. There is nothing wrong in printing a trillion dollars to pay off our debt to China. That actually teach them the stupidity of oppressing their own people to make plastic trinkets to sell to America. They might actually build a middle class in their own country.
It is quite true. The same is also true for tax cuts to the wealthy. Cut taxes for the low income people, they spend it. Cut taxes for high income people they invest it in China and India. However much one hates the tax and spend policies, however wasteful the government machinery is, it creates jobs in the U.S.A unlike most other nostrums (nostra is the correct plural?) proposed by most of the politicians and Goldman indoctrinated economists.
Looks like the problem is there is no way to profit from predicting the bubble. The classic way to profit from a predicted bubble would be to short the sectors that are one believes to be over inflated and facing collapse. But the problem is almost all the reasonably priced shorting options have a quarter or two time horizon. It is impossible to predict the timing that accurately. If there was a way to short these big banks and these people pumping it up over a longer period of time, we could build safe deflating mechanisms.
But shorting has been misused so much by these big players with the clout to "borrow" securities and drive the price down in short term, no body likes them. But unless we structure incentives to predict these bubbles, and to profit from predicting it correctly, bubbles will keep coming back.
Look, it was predicted by the South Americans. Who would know the terrain best? Natives who lived there for thousands of years? Or some mamby pamby scientist in a lab coat, thick glasses, may be a beard and a few letters behind his name?
Good, now I will resolve the defect about my time counter being 32 bits and going to over flow in y2k32 as "not worth fixing."
The article is mostly about IT in the sense of database/SQL skills. When all you have to sell is the ability to code in some vendor's API, and when new versions keep appearing at some regular intervals, you need to keep running to keep your place, like in a treadmill. But there are many jobs where the coding skills are essential/necessary but not sufficient. In scientific application development (CAD developers like AutoCAD, Ansoft, Ansys, Fluent, Cadence, Mentor etc) the marketability could improve with experience, if you could demonstrate that you other skills have benefited by experience. I am very sure the analysts, architects and other higher level workers in IT will see their value and marketability improve with experience and demonstrable successes. But if all you have skill are the ability to program in Oracle version XYZ, your marketability will be tied to that version of that software.
Slashdot Mirror
An Android phone is not the same as an Apple or Blackberry phone. Google just makes the software. Apple and Blackberry make their own hardware.
By the same token how many of the BSoDs blamed on Microsoft was really Microsoft's fault and how many were due to crappy hardware bought to save money? (Lest some one accuse me of a being a microsoft shill, my anti-MS credentials (Sep 2007) have been well established. )
It couldn't be someone who has an axe to grind on Android phones, no?
The axe-grinding app is awesommer in iPhone than in android. Why, just last week for Halloween I needed to grind an axe to do some serial killing for more realistic blood spatters. The Android could not even get a two bars on the 3G network. Before it could even find and down load an app, iPhone had an axe grinding app going at full tilt. It was a close call, whether to use the iGrind to grind the axe or directly use iGrind itself on the victim. Anyway iGrind rules!
There is an app for it.
Yes, these falling bullets do kill people. Citation provided
"The Final Countdown" just popped into my head. Thanks. ):
About 25 years ago, my boss, the IT manager, had the same attitude towards PCs. He referred to them as "toys". They lacked security.
He, (I am sure it was a he not a she) was right. They lacked security. They still do. If all the IT managers held their ground, we might have gotten Microsoft to take security seriously back when we could make it listen us.
I always thought it would be a good mosquito trap to heat a small bowl of water at 98.4 degrees and surround it with fly paper or something. May be the next version would use a decoy humidity signature generator and steer the mosquitoes to the trap.
One thing that really took me by pleasant surprise was Google's non-English transliteration engine built into edit boxes/text compose windows of all google sites. English has just five vowels with y and w coming in very occasionally to support vowel sounds . Most Asian languages have distinct glyphs for at least 12 vowels (long and short forms separated and a few more). Google allows me to type using an English key board, when I hit a space, it changes text to the selected Indian language. If the text is not exact, I press backspace, and it creates a drop down box that typically has a few variations, and I am surprised how good its guesses are about what I was planning to type.
If Google has been collecting such data about the most common english transliteration for the most common words in other languages, it has a treasure trove of stuff. If that probability engine could be adapted to voice, it would have a global reach. If Siri has an American English focus, its lead is definitely not two years. Do not count the non-native English speakers out. Hispanic population is increasing and they use smart phones to access the net mostly. On the high end, the median family income of Asian Americans is the highest for any ethnic group. Almost double that of Hispanics, the lowest. That probably would make the ratio 3 or even 4 when it comes to disposable income. Citation provided. Unless they tackle both ends of the income spectrum, siri is not going to make as big a wave as these talking heads are talking about.
Alternatively... reading this guy's blog, frankly he strikes me as more than a little childish (like most militant atheists -- the more militant, the more childish.)
Jerry Coyne got a PhD from Harvard, Post Doc in U Cal Davis, Prof in Univ of Maryland, Presently Prof in U Chicago. You call him childish?
Now the same clueless top exec buys latest and greatest toys to play angry birds or something and expects it to work in the corporate environment. All the deliberate incompatibilities and interoperability poison pills baked into the system is coming back to bite the tails of IT crews.
The video has been released. I just posted the link.
The video has been released by the Gaines center.
Disclaimer-- I probably disagree with about 80% of what Haught believes.
OK you disagree with 80% of Haught. But in which direction? I mean 80% towards science or 80% even more into the fundie land?
I see why you call yourself anonymous coward.
http://www.cathnewsindia.com/tag/koodankulam-nuclear-plant/
http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/has-church-hijacked-tn-anti-nuclear-stir/327707.html
Almost every project in the country is opposed by the environmental groups and whoever happens to be in the opposition at that time.
What? Actually spend f2f time with you own flesh and blood? Is it some kind of belated Halloween joke? Someone stop this madness from spreading.
I don't want PDFs to open in the web browser. I want to open them in Acrobat in another window. Let the browser be a browser and Acrobat be Acrobat!
But the problem is Acrobat wants to be a browser. Why the hell should it follow hyperlinks and open itself for so many attacks? If you are still using acrobat and have not disabled the hyperlink ability you are in great danger of contracting a virus.
So the problem isn't that the US is no longer a good place to invest in. It's that we haven't squandered enough money. Good to know.
What is good for the investor is not always what is good for the country. If we coddle the investors they will game the system. It will result in a race to the bottom.
Remember Ayatollah Khomeini displaying documents recovered from US Embassy in Tehran? So we are finally catching up to him in vision?
But the gov't shouldn't be subsidizing anything, it shouldn't be taxing/borrowing/printing and subsidizing with that money. It should leave people alone and should allow them to work it out in the market.
When it was left to the "people" they invest it in China and India because the labor is cheap, there is no environmental regulations, no pesky work place safety ... In the end you will have third world wages, third world pollution in the USA. Race to the bottom it is called. It is best not to run that race.
Keep printing dollars and subsidize this, spend the money inside USA. Eventually corporate America will get tired of lending us money to buy cheaply made chinese crap. Money is just a man made construct. There is nothing wrong in printing a trillion dollars to pay off our debt to China. That actually teach them the stupidity of oppressing their own people to make plastic trinkets to sell to America. They might actually build a middle class in their own country.
It is quite true. The same is also true for tax cuts to the wealthy. Cut taxes for the low income people, they spend it. Cut taxes for high income people they invest it in China and India. However much one hates the tax and spend policies, however wasteful the government machinery is, it creates jobs in the U.S.A unlike most other nostrums (nostra is the correct plural?) proposed by most of the politicians and Goldman indoctrinated economists.
But shorting has been misused so much by these big players with the clout to "borrow" securities and drive the price down in short term, no body likes them. But unless we structure incentives to predict these bubbles, and to profit from predicting it correctly, bubbles will keep coming back.
Good, now I will resolve the defect about my time counter being 32 bits and going to over flow in y2k32 as "not worth fixing."
The article is mostly about IT in the sense of database/SQL skills. When all you have to sell is the ability to code in some vendor's API, and when new versions keep appearing at some regular intervals, you need to keep running to keep your place, like in a treadmill. But there are many jobs where the coding skills are essential/necessary but not sufficient. In scientific application development (CAD developers like AutoCAD, Ansoft, Ansys, Fluent, Cadence, Mentor etc) the marketability could improve with experience, if you could demonstrate that you other skills have benefited by experience. I am very sure the analysts, architects and other higher level workers in IT will see their value and marketability improve with experience and demonstrable successes. But if all you have skill are the ability to program in Oracle version XYZ, your marketability will be tied to that version of that software.
The tested the DNA of the blood. Blood cells are not germ line cells. Still a long way from Lamarck.