It is true in software engineering, and it is true everywhere.
Perfection is the goal. But doing better than current version is the shipping criterion.
Auto captioning is better than no captioning for hearing impaired.
And human captioning is not perfect. I remember watching Lion King with closed captioning turned on
and they had missed a crucial "o" in some dialog that had the word "count".
In India verification of identity has been a mess for a long time. Much of this complaint is true, and the Indian government can mess things up royally or vice-royally. But you can compare the new system with perfect system and carp about it. Perfection is the goal, but doing better than current version is the shipping criterion, as any coder knows.
Before aadhaar (meaning proof in Hindi, cognates with similar word in most of indian languages) it was an incredible mess. For most people "the ration card" issued to families to avail services of subsidized food served as a form of identity. Originally it had no photos, and it was one per family, not individual. But the state governments made some basic efforts to curtail fraudulent cards, so it served as an identity card. Voter registration lists were inflated. Migrant people did not have one. Credit worthiness could not be verified. So unsecured loans are never available from organized sector. All unsecured loans were made by local loan sharks who knew people personally. Almost all the commerce was done by cash. Allowed untaxed black money to mix freely with white money. So much so that the government had demonetized 500 Rs, and 1000 rs currency notes. Unless you can prove you had that note legally, you can't exchange it for the new legal tender. It did it back in 1976 too. The country was formed only in 1947.
The mess is far larger than any one can imagine or fix in short term. Finding fault with any new system is easy. Unless you offer viable solutions and work to address your concerns, one would think, it is just a troll or astro turf or feigned outrage.
Funny story: I was a lucky person with a propane gas cylinder account with a government owned gas supplier when I graduated from college. Propane gas stoves are the way most cooking is done in India for about half the population. It was a hot thing to have a gas cylinder account! All due to the foresight of my mom who "registered" my name using the ration card when I was in sixth or seventh grade. When I left for America, that account became very valuable. I gave the cylinder I had to my friend. So every time the cylinder would run out, he would use my name and get a replacement. Not sure if I gave my ration card to him too. When I ran into him some 15 years later he said, "I never forgot you. How could I ? Every 20 days, I had to call the Indane Gas company, and identify myself as 140mandak262jamuna!"
Standard operating procedure for the ambulance chasers. Sling as much mud as possible, watch to see what sticks, and then pile on to use that kind of mud in the trial. I am sure they are trying to find what would make Tesla settle out of court. Then the avalanche will start.
The way the courts work, if there are N causes for an accident, all N causes are liable for full 100% of the damages. This is a necessary consequence of allowing limited liability corporations. If we assign liability proportionally, immediately all corporations will spawn child corporations that will all act as one way valve. Profits flow upstream and liability stops with them. So they will not have the assets to pay for the damages they cause. It is already happening to some extent, in taxes, income stream management, and a few other areas.
But the way the system is gamed, no one seems to benefit, other than the trial lawyers.
They found what they call geoglyphs. Circular earthworks and with a ditch around them. Some places two level deep ditches and earthworks. But so far there is no evidence there was a stone structures, especially the classic a lintel propped up on top of two stone pillars is not found. It is the structures that were stunning and their alignment with equinoxes and solstices that make them very special.
Earth work and ditches would have been the earliest form of defenses. Let us not belittle the discovery. These earthworks tell us a lot about early settlers in the Amazon region. Also they discovered agriculture late. Eincorn wheat was domesticated in the Levant 11000 years ago, rice in China 9000 years ago. Corn was domesticated in South America just 3000 or 4000 years ago. Domestication of crops correlates with sedentism, and a transition from hunter/gatherer to farmer. We remember that transition in the New World as the story of Cain (farmer) and Abel (hunter). We need to learn the transition in the New World from these clues. So the findings are very very significant.
It is already a great and significant find. Comparing it to stonehenge is counterproductive. Stonehenge was 5000 years after domestication of crops in the New World. These geoglyphs seem to be concurrent with the domestication of corn. It is unfair to compare geoglyphs with stonehenge.
When government spends it, we can make it spend in America. Even if those who take it from US govt imports it from abroad, there is a percentage left in the hands of Americans. If you cut the govt and give all the money as profits to private sector without low or no taxes, they spend ALL of it abroad.
And John Galt who was the greatest entrepreneur in the whole damned world got stumped because some rail road would not run a line to Galt's Gulch. So he took his marbles and went home. That was the story in a nut shell by Ayn Rand. Insane story written by a deranged social security collecting leech.
Rich are not the one "producing". It is the consumers who create the jobs.
If a town of 10,000 has about 300 people willing to buy pizza on any given night, that is the job creator right there. If one rich guy does not want to "create the job" by our rules, move along buddy, there are other rich people who would. The world is sloshing with 2 trillion dollars of money looking for a place to invest. There are no good investment opportunities anymore, I did not say it, CNBC is blaring it almost every quarter.
There is only one way to deal with the rich people. Call their bluff. They would do every trick in the book to scare us. They got rich by playing hardball. Being rational and reasonable with them is insane. They will play chicken and will win because, rational people always lose the game of chicken. The only sane, rational thing to do is to appear to be even more insane than they are. Scare them with communism, nationalization, eminent domain, till we instill a panic and fear in them. Then they will play by the rules.
What happens to the spent money? Does it end up in some garbage dump? Some sort of used money disposal facility?
Remember this: Every dollar spent/wasted/squandered by someone is a dollar earned by someone else.
Where would the poor people spend their money? On food? We, the rich, own the grocery stores and the agri business.
Would they squander it in beer and cigarettes? We, the rich, own brewing companies, distribution networks, and tobacco companies
Would they smoke themselves to emphazema and end up in hospitals? We, the rich, own pharma companies and hospitals and healthcare
There is nothing the government can do without profiting us. We, the rich, and even the middle class hoi polli investing in stock funds and 401K will get the money eventually.
This is the key. People sold their labor to earn money to spend it. The labor is getting lower and lower valuations and the poor are not able to earn enough to keep spending. This will shut off our profit stream. It is imperative for the government to fund the poor to keep the consumption up.
So where is the government going to get the money? Partly by taxation. We, the rich, should pay the tax because existence of government protects our property and our interests. Partly by Quantitative easing or printing money. It does not matter, the money taxed from us will come back to us.
It does not matter how wasteful the government spending is. All that waste is earning for Americans. Cut the government and send the profits to private companies, they will invest in Bangalore, Bangkok and Bermuda.
Almost pretty much ALL the great R&D is done in US universities. University of Chicago did the pioneering work on quality assurance, sample size and production engineering. It was their business school that did that. And Detroit promptly ignored it while Japanese laboriously translated the results, assiduously studied it and put it to practice to kick Detroit's butt.
Many people are posting why the windows driver model sucks and how terrible it is etc etc.
But device drivers, especially printer drivers were the front lines of the war between MS-Word and WordPerfect in 1990s. WordPerfect created a virtual printer to which its software will print. They laboriously wrote printer drivers for every printer maker in existence at that time. In those days no matter how obscure and unknown your printer is, WordPerfect will be able to correctly print in it. It also got the "exactly the same printout, no matter what the printer is" edge over Microsoft.
One way MS decided to create Windows printer driver standard and strong armed all the printer makers to supply a driver that will meet the windows spec. Apple Laserwriter and most other unixy printers had settled on postscript. It wanted to mess them up too. So it was all serious market share battleground those days. Forcing a proprietary ill-defined ever changing driver spec was MS way to deny the competitive advantage WP had built laboriously.
But it also created two serious side effects on MS-Word. They comingled the virtual device driver code into MS-Word and tried to get the WYSIWYG cheap way. That is why MS-Word margins would change, pagination would change and page references would change if you change your default printer. It was a nightmare those days. Grad students who were PhDs in Engineering went completely bonkers trying to get a paper correctly printed in MS-Word, and worse the TeX guys were laughing at them.
The second effect was hard pressed printer makers hacked out really bad printer drivers. Many of them took some approximate driver from some place and hacked out something that barely worked and passed basic acceptance test. Then bug reports would pour in, they will fix some of them, then post updated drivers... the mess has not been fully sorted out even now.
The damage Microsoft did by deliberately sabotaging inter-operability is incalculable.
Why did they have to create Truth in Advertising laws?
BTW courts have held corporations are people endowed with all the rights of real people, including speech and religion.
They have help spending money is speech to gut campaign finance regulations
Companies have argued protection to lie in advertisements claiming first amendment freedom of speech
So far courts have made a distinction for "commercial speech" and applied restrictions based on tort and contract laws
Not sure how long this distinction will last, given all other rights given to the corporation people on equal footing to living people.
We might lose Truth in advertisement, fair disclosure laws, not sure how long this distinction can last given so much of rights given to people created by one person by a 120$ filing fee in 2 minutes, over people created by two people over nine months.
Come on, first of all the bone is not all that dry.
Second, when the Moon was formed there were not even single celled organisms either on Earth or the nascent Moon. Boned animals did not appear till very recently, just 500 million years ago.
All home security companies allow you to set two passwords, one "All clear" and another one for "Not All clear, someone is forcing me to answer the phone". If you use the second password, the company will politely reply "ok sir/madam, everything is good. thank you", hang up and call the police.
We can set up such a password, parent over the shoulder, password etc. They will appear to be normal and seemingly function cleanly. But it will expose only parts of the account you had already deemed safe for that access.
They can implement POTS (parent over the shoulder) password too. Log in using that password, everything would be seemingly normal, with write access and everything. But only portions that you had declared "safe" using earlier regular full access password sessions would be visible.
The folk memory of the ending of the last ice-age exists in many cultures. In most cultures it is similar to the Tamil literature references: "Sea rose, and kept rising, took some stuff. We remember it."
It is drastically different from the Flood legends of Hindu, Sumerian and Abrahamic Flood Legends. "God was angry at the sinfulness of the world and He destroyed most of Humanity, sparing a selected few" is common to these religions. Hindu Noah is called Manu. He was spared by Lord Vishnu who came in the form a giant fish. Sumerian Noah is called Ziusudra. Another common thing between these faith is the Indo-European language family. Since proto-Indo-European was spoken in the region north-east of the present day black sea, the speculation is: The ending of the ice age, raised the level of the Mediterranean sea so much, it overtopped the isthmus of Bhosporus, making it the Straits of Bhosporus. Black sea was a fresh water lake before. The Flood created by this overtopping was sudden and catastrophic and the people on the North-East shores barely escaped and scattered. They took with them the story of the Flood and the Indo-European language with them and slowly filled up the lands of the Levant, Mesopotamia, and then the Indus and Gangetic plains.
It is an interesting speculation. Not much of evidence to it, not even an "Ancient Aliens" like documentary in History channel.
If the lawyer fees are capped at a certain percentage of the money actually distributed, then there will be an incentive for the lawyers to actually make some effort to find the beneficiaries and get them some cash. As it stands now, the lawyers get a percentage of "estimated" compensation, deduct all their expenses and make a few news paper ads and go home. The money not distributed goes back to the defendant. So they don't have any incentive to actually distribute cash.
I am from Tamil Nadu the state on the southern peninsula of India. It is very commonly believed by Tamil people there was a lost continent south of the southern tip of India. They call it Lemuria, believing it extended all the way to Madagaskar, the land of the Lemurs.
Ancient Tamil literature mentions many places and things that were "taken by the Sea". The city of South Madurai where the First Tamil Sangam (Institute) was established. The river Pahtruli, the first ever grammar book of Tamil called Agasthiam, the five great epics associated with the First Sangam were all taken by the sea. The oldest extant Tamil book is a grammar book, called Tholkappiam (literally Old Literature) is believed to be derivative of the lost book Agasthiam.
Since Homo sapiens broke out of Africa just 75,000 - 100,000 years ago it is commonly believed by the scientists that these events did not take place in geological time. The most common explanation was that, these were the folk memories of the ending of the last ice-age, 9000 years ago. Sea levels rose, inexorably and the coastal communities moved slowly to the higher ground, each generation remembering that they used to live where the sea was. The places mentioned in the fragments of Tamil literature must have been in the continental shelf just south of Cape Comarin.
In the Tsunami of 2004, people claim seeing a temple in the sea bed when the seas retreated before the onslaught of the tsunami off the coast of Mahabalipuram. The local legend claims the present shore temple is the seventh in the series, as the previous six were "taken by the Sea".
You will see Amzon delivering packages before you see electric flying taxis carrying fare paying passengers. FAA regulations for passenger carrying aircraft is very stringent.
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Yes, that was the line. Zazu's lines in the song "I'm going to be king". So you noticed that too? You think it was an intentional mistake?
Perfection is the goal. But doing better than current version is the shipping criterion.
Auto captioning is better than no captioning for hearing impaired.
And human captioning is not perfect. I remember watching Lion King with closed captioning turned on and they had missed a crucial "o" in some dialog that had the word "count".
Buy some more candy, flowers and keep at it man. Don't give up so easily. Nothing is cooled permanently and nothing ever reaches absolute zero.
Before aadhaar (meaning proof in Hindi, cognates with similar word in most of indian languages) it was an incredible mess. For most people "the ration card" issued to families to avail services of subsidized food served as a form of identity. Originally it had no photos, and it was one per family, not individual. But the state governments made some basic efforts to curtail fraudulent cards, so it served as an identity card. Voter registration lists were inflated. Migrant people did not have one. Credit worthiness could not be verified. So unsecured loans are never available from organized sector. All unsecured loans were made by local loan sharks who knew people personally. Almost all the commerce was done by cash. Allowed untaxed black money to mix freely with white money. So much so that the government had demonetized 500 Rs, and 1000 rs currency notes. Unless you can prove you had that note legally, you can't exchange it for the new legal tender. It did it back in 1976 too. The country was formed only in 1947.
The mess is far larger than any one can imagine or fix in short term. Finding fault with any new system is easy. Unless you offer viable solutions and work to address your concerns, one would think, it is just a troll or astro turf or feigned outrage.
Funny story: I was a lucky person with a propane gas cylinder account with a government owned gas supplier when I graduated from college. Propane gas stoves are the way most cooking is done in India for about half the population. It was a hot thing to have a gas cylinder account! All due to the foresight of my mom who "registered" my name using the ration card when I was in sixth or seventh grade. When I left for America, that account became very valuable. I gave the cylinder I had to my friend. So every time the cylinder would run out, he would use my name and get a replacement. Not sure if I gave my ration card to him too. When I ran into him some 15 years later he said, "I never forgot you. How could I ? Every 20 days, I had to call the Indane Gas company, and identify myself as 140mandak262jamuna!"
The way the courts work, if there are N causes for an accident, all N causes are liable for full 100% of the damages. This is a necessary consequence of allowing limited liability corporations. If we assign liability proportionally, immediately all corporations will spawn child corporations that will all act as one way valve. Profits flow upstream and liability stops with them. So they will not have the assets to pay for the damages they cause. It is already happening to some extent, in taxes, income stream management, and a few other areas.
But the way the system is gamed, no one seems to benefit, other than the trial lawyers.
Earth work and ditches would have been the earliest form of defenses. Let us not belittle the discovery. These earthworks tell us a lot about early settlers in the Amazon region. Also they discovered agriculture late. Eincorn wheat was domesticated in the Levant 11000 years ago, rice in China 9000 years ago. Corn was domesticated in South America just 3000 or 4000 years ago. Domestication of crops correlates with sedentism, and a transition from hunter/gatherer to farmer. We remember that transition in the New World as the story of Cain (farmer) and Abel (hunter). We need to learn the transition in the New World from these clues. So the findings are very very significant.
It is already a great and significant find. Comparing it to stonehenge is counterproductive. Stonehenge was 5000 years after domestication of crops in the New World. These geoglyphs seem to be concurrent with the domestication of corn. It is unfair to compare geoglyphs with stonehenge.
When government spends it, we can make it spend in America. Even if those who take it from US govt imports it from abroad, there is a percentage left in the hands of Americans. If you cut the govt and give all the money as profits to private sector without low or no taxes, they spend ALL of it abroad.
And John Galt who was the greatest entrepreneur in the whole damned world got stumped because some rail road would not run a line to Galt's Gulch. So he took his marbles and went home. That was the story in a nut shell by Ayn Rand. Insane story written by a deranged social security collecting leech.
If a town of 10,000 has about 300 people willing to buy pizza on any given night, that is the job creator right there. If one rich guy does not want to "create the job" by our rules, move along buddy, there are other rich people who would. The world is sloshing with 2 trillion dollars of money looking for a place to invest. There are no good investment opportunities anymore, I did not say it, CNBC is blaring it almost every quarter.
There is only one way to deal with the rich people. Call their bluff. They would do every trick in the book to scare us. They got rich by playing hardball. Being rational and reasonable with them is insane. They will play chicken and will win because, rational people always lose the game of chicken. The only sane, rational thing to do is to appear to be even more insane than they are. Scare them with communism, nationalization, eminent domain, till we instill a panic and fear in them. Then they will play by the rules.
as the poor immediately spend all that money
What happens to the spent money? Does it end up in some garbage dump? Some sort of used money disposal facility?
Remember this: Every dollar spent/wasted/squandered by someone is a dollar earned by someone else. Where would the poor people spend their money? On food? We, the rich, own the grocery stores and the agri business.
Would they squander it in beer and cigarettes? We, the rich, own brewing companies, distribution networks, and tobacco companies
Would they smoke themselves to emphazema and end up in hospitals? We, the rich, own pharma companies and hospitals and healthcare
There is nothing the government can do without profiting us. We, the rich, and even the middle class hoi polli investing in stock funds and 401K will get the money eventually.
This is the key. People sold their labor to earn money to spend it. The labor is getting lower and lower valuations and the poor are not able to earn enough to keep spending. This will shut off our profit stream. It is imperative for the government to fund the poor to keep the consumption up.
So where is the government going to get the money? Partly by taxation. We, the rich, should pay the tax because existence of government protects our property and our interests. Partly by Quantitative easing or printing money. It does not matter, the money taxed from us will come back to us.
It does not matter how wasteful the government spending is. All that waste is earning for Americans. Cut the government and send the profits to private companies, they will invest in Bangalore, Bangkok and Bermuda.
Same can be said for almost any technology.
But device drivers, especially printer drivers were the front lines of the war between MS-Word and WordPerfect in 1990s. WordPerfect created a virtual printer to which its software will print. They laboriously wrote printer drivers for every printer maker in existence at that time. In those days no matter how obscure and unknown your printer is, WordPerfect will be able to correctly print in it. It also got the "exactly the same printout, no matter what the printer is" edge over Microsoft.
One way MS decided to create Windows printer driver standard and strong armed all the printer makers to supply a driver that will meet the windows spec. Apple Laserwriter and most other unixy printers had settled on postscript. It wanted to mess them up too. So it was all serious market share battleground those days. Forcing a proprietary ill-defined ever changing driver spec was MS way to deny the competitive advantage WP had built laboriously.
But it also created two serious side effects on MS-Word. They comingled the virtual device driver code into MS-Word and tried to get the WYSIWYG cheap way. That is why MS-Word margins would change, pagination would change and page references would change if you change your default printer. It was a nightmare those days. Grad students who were PhDs in Engineering went completely bonkers trying to get a paper correctly printed in MS-Word, and worse the TeX guys were laughing at them.
The second effect was hard pressed printer makers hacked out really bad printer drivers. Many of them took some approximate driver from some place and hacked out something that barely worked and passed basic acceptance test. Then bug reports would pour in, they will fix some of them, then post updated drivers... the mess has not been fully sorted out even now.
The damage Microsoft did by deliberately sabotaging inter-operability is incalculable.
Why did they have to create Truth in Advertising laws?
BTW courts have held corporations are people endowed with all the rights of real people, including speech and religion.
They have help spending money is speech to gut campaign finance regulations
Companies have argued protection to lie in advertisements claiming first amendment freedom of speech
So far courts have made a distinction for "commercial speech" and applied restrictions based on tort and contract laws
Not sure how long this distinction will last, given all other rights given to the corporation people on equal footing to living people.
We might lose Truth in advertisement, fair disclosure laws, not sure how long this distinction can last given so much of rights given to people created by one person by a 120$ filing fee in 2 minutes, over people created by two people over nine months.
Now Sprint is doing a campaign, We are in second place. That is good enough.
How much the attitude of corporations has changed and how low our expectations have fallen!
Second, when the Moon was formed there were not even single celled organisms either on Earth or the nascent Moon. Boned animals did not appear till very recently, just 500 million years ago.
Wait. That is not the Cameron you are talking about right?
He does not have the ability to avoid getting caught. So no deal.
Wait...
It is President Trump now.
OK, he is fully qualified.
We can set up such a password, parent over the shoulder, password etc. They will appear to be normal and seemingly function cleanly. But it will expose only parts of the account you had already deemed safe for that access.
They can implement POTS (parent over the shoulder) password too. Log in using that password, everything would be seemingly normal, with write access and everything. But only portions that you had declared "safe" using earlier regular full access password sessions would be visible.
... as though millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror ... and were silenced over a ten year period ...
It is drastically different from the Flood legends of Hindu, Sumerian and Abrahamic Flood Legends. "God was angry at the sinfulness of the world and He destroyed most of Humanity, sparing a selected few" is common to these religions. Hindu Noah is called Manu. He was spared by Lord Vishnu who came in the form a giant fish. Sumerian Noah is called Ziusudra. Another common thing between these faith is the Indo-European language family. Since proto-Indo-European was spoken in the region north-east of the present day black sea, the speculation is: The ending of the ice age, raised the level of the Mediterranean sea so much, it overtopped the isthmus of Bhosporus, making it the Straits of Bhosporus. Black sea was a fresh water lake before. The Flood created by this overtopping was sudden and catastrophic and the people on the North-East shores barely escaped and scattered. They took with them the story of the Flood and the Indo-European language with them and slowly filled up the lands of the Levant, Mesopotamia, and then the Indus and Gangetic plains.
It is an interesting speculation. Not much of evidence to it, not even an "Ancient Aliens" like documentary in History channel.
If the lawyer fees are capped at a certain percentage of the money actually distributed, then there will be an incentive for the lawyers to actually make some effort to find the beneficiaries and get them some cash. As it stands now, the lawyers get a percentage of "estimated" compensation, deduct all their expenses and make a few news paper ads and go home. The money not distributed goes back to the defendant. So they don't have any incentive to actually distribute cash.
Ancient Tamil literature mentions many places and things that were "taken by the Sea". The city of South Madurai where the First Tamil Sangam (Institute) was established. The river Pahtruli, the first ever grammar book of Tamil called Agasthiam, the five great epics associated with the First Sangam were all taken by the sea. The oldest extant Tamil book is a grammar book, called Tholkappiam (literally Old Literature) is believed to be derivative of the lost book Agasthiam.
Since Homo sapiens broke out of Africa just 75,000 - 100,000 years ago it is commonly believed by the scientists that these events did not take place in geological time. The most common explanation was that, these were the folk memories of the ending of the last ice-age, 9000 years ago. Sea levels rose, inexorably and the coastal communities moved slowly to the higher ground, each generation remembering that they used to live where the sea was. The places mentioned in the fragments of Tamil literature must have been in the continental shelf just south of Cape Comarin.
In the Tsunami of 2004, people claim seeing a temple in the sea bed when the seas retreated before the onslaught of the tsunami off the coast of Mahabalipuram. The local legend claims the present shore temple is the seventh in the series, as the previous six were "taken by the Sea".
You will see Amzon delivering packages before you see electric flying taxis carrying fare paying passengers. FAA regulations for passenger carrying aircraft is very stringent.
True, almost all the games I played were arcade games, and I have never played a first person shooter.