I used to use the freebie Google Fit. Then I bought this Fitbit. And I was struggling to meet my daily goal of 10K steps. Then about eight weeks in, I found that I had not turned off the Google Fit. It had been faithfully giving me some 7K or 8K steps every day, which I did not even know about! Man, what an epiphany!! I immediately bought a jawbone device and a misfit. Now I am getting about 8K steps from each and doing 32 K steps like gangbusters without breaking a sweat.
I see more and more Indian terminology and terms being used as product names, especially in tech arena. Sansar is a Hindi word that has cognates in almost all Indian languages, originates from Sanskrit. Though it technically means "the World/Earth/Universe" it is often used in the sense of "mundane, not devine".
The Office365 version of powerpoint has some serious network latency. I think IT has set it up as Sharepoint something. Highlighting text to edit using mouse has random delay. I imagine it is saving backups to the server over the network or something. Or it is constantly communicating to the server. Network congestion slows down local work.
I don't do enough powerpoint to justify the time it would take to debug the issue. Unless I include a chart made in excel into powerpoint I dont use powerpoint. Excell charting is way ahead of Google sheets. That much I will grant you. If they fix google sheets I would not even touch MS-Office 365. I have it in just one of my four work machines.
For 90% of the people free tools without much of bells and whistles like Google Docs is enough. One thing Google doc does well is in collaborative editing. They really invested in that one weak area of MS-Office. For the remaining 10%, 90% of their work also could be done by simple tools. The advanced features of MS Office were used by them just 10% of the time.
And MS-Office fiddling with UI constantly, with the ribbon interface, then menu items rearranging themselves based on use etc confused lots of users of advanced features.
I have a 24 inch full hd screen. The UI seems to be optimized for a 5 inch handheld screen. Three dots, or three lines, sometimes nine dots, some times a gear sometimes something else, press and hold but sometimes press will be a click.... And on top of it the developers play where did they hide my cheese....
Your analogy is a perfect reason why we should never ever vote for any Republican, even for a dog catcher position. He/she could be a Trump. Why take risk, vote Democratic.
My Win10 updates had a setting buried somewhere. It allows me to set working hours and it will not do a forced update at the working hours. OK, at least some control, I thought. This is my home machine, so I will set my "working" hours to be 5 PM and 8AM that way the home machine update will happen when I am at my office.
No dice, starting hour can not be later than earlier hour! It would not let me set it up this way. I could force the winodws update to a narrow window between midnitght and 3 AM.
It clearly shows how badly the managers and UI guys in Microsoft think. Why call it working hours? Allow me to specify update hours. Why just one block of time? Why can't you show me a check boxes in 3 hour blocks and let me pick a block to update?.
The will help people working at odd hours, working on split shifts, etc. I am sure the idea, suggestions and counter proposals came up. Still MS did it in this brain dead way because, it wants to balance the load on its servers. If it gives "too much" freedom everybody will choose 3AM to 6AM block and so to reduce the load on its servers, it deliberately decided to serve about 80% of the user base to reduce complaints.
So what you are saying is, al queda and ISIS have to simply open source their bomb making recipes and release it under GPL, then they will be free of liability. Right?
Yes. The company that employs the driver routinely gets sued. FedEx, UPS, trucking companies...
Just last year an 18 wheeler made a careless lane change and scraped the bumper of my wife's car. (It was a peak hour traffic at 4 mph or so). It was the trucking company's insurance that paid for the 500$ damage.
If someone publishes some bomb making recipe, would that person be free of liability? You can's simple slap EULA and license agreements to dodge the liability. If the bomb recipe you provide or the software you provide enables a person to do something that they would not have been able to otherwise, are you completely free of liability?
So the Azure platform will be in some far away place. People will access it using "thin" clients. The C Shell name also has been co opted. I predict next the display will be called Virtual Teleport 100 or something, and it display 24 lines each 80 characters in beautiful glowing green phosphors.
20 years ago, someone would have a bright idea. Some venture capitalists might see some potential. They will work feverishly on it. Microsoft might get a wind of it. And it will just release a press release saying it is considering working on the same idea. That's it. The VCs will flee like they had seen ebola. Funding gone, the startup will die.
Now people just make fun of Microsoft, when it says vaguely plausible things they might have actually invested on. Even stupid idea like warehousing products in the near earth orbit and delivering packages using Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles by Amazon would be discussed seriously. But Microsoft? nah! No one believes it can do what it says it wants to do. Including the VP in charge of the project.
Why didn't they title it Brain Structure is linked to Personality traits.
If some study finds left hand/right structural differences are very different for 500 tennis players and it was linked to whether they were left handed players or right handed players, would you conclude "people born with big right hands become right handed players and those who were born with big left hands become left handed players"?
You think the "voice assistants" Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Cortana etc who continually listen to the microphone do not save what they hear? You think the companies are not saving all that audio? Recently there was an article about ultra low bit rate audio codecs, tuned to human speech, that can record 80 years of audio in a 8 GB file.
Street cars and rail roads had to maintain their own infrastructure. Private cars ran on tax payer funded roads.
In some sense karma is a bitch. The railroads were great vehicles to raid the tax payer's treasury. The trans continental railroad was built almost completely by public funds, and what the public funds built were owned by private companies, Central Pacific and Union Pacific. Cities raised taxes and paid private companies to bring railroads. Gave them land too. But it was not new. In an earlier era Canal companies were the vehicles of crony capitalism.
Then the auto industry came in, let the tax payer build and maintain the roads. Now the railroads could not compete anymore. Now there are moves afoot to convert the interstates into toll roads and sell them to private companies. With very onerous clauses for the tax payer. Government could not build alternative roads that would divert traffic without compensating the buyers of the toll roads, should guarantee some minimum revenue stream etc etc. When crony capitalists get their hands on the interstate and raise the costs, you might find people forced to switch to,... I don't know... drones?
First blame EPA and the government. Then the unions. Then claim it is not so cut and dry.
Have you looked at Consumer Reports reliability ratings of American cars in the 80s and 90s? It is a runaway process. Volvos got a reputation for safety at that time. Safety conscious buyers went to Volvo. And the company decided to emphasize safety and invested in it. Japanese were looking to break into US market. The were attacking every sector. In auto sector they emphasized reliability. They will test them in road conditions in Japan and Singapore before introducing the engines and powertrains in USA.
Sure Japanese cars too had breakdowns and failures and were less reliable than today's cars. But for the same model year Japanese cars were far far more reliable than American.
Cars used to be expensive, and people wanted their cars to last. But once everyone who wanted a car had one, the car sales would grow only at the rate of population. Firestone Ford and Standard oil engaged in nearly illegal actions, buying bus lines and tram lines and closing them down etc. But still the end was inevitable. That is when Lee Iococca had the epiphany. "If we build crappy cars that died every five years, they will be forced to buy new cars!".
He called it the "Planned Obsolescence". He argued, "If the planned life of a car is five years, it is a waste to design its components to last 10 years". So he deliberately got the cars built using less durable components. But statistics is a bitch. If the car had 100 components each with a design life of five years and they had 95% confidence level, you are likely to have at least 5 failures before 5 years. (Roughly speaking, I did not ace my stats class either).
But US was on a roll so and all the car makers got on the bandwagon. But rest of the world wanted reliable and durable cars. Where cars were considered too valuable to be scrapped in three/five years, the market demanded better cars. The Japaneses served those markets using small econoboxes, something no American would even look at.
Then came the oil shock! Americans tried the tiny Japanese econoboxes, for fuel economy. But fell in love with their durability. The difference between the reliability of Japanese and American cars were stark, plainly visible, no amount of marketing gimmicks could fix that. GM went from 60% of the world auto market in 1959 to less than 30% of just US auto market in 1990.
So the lesson Apple might learn would be, "We should not be building our computers that last this long."
That is not really true. Government by mere existence protects property. People with more property use more of the government protection. I am not just talking about homes. The financial instruments you own, the retirement funds you have saved, etc are protected by government enforcing contract law and settling civil disputes. People don't write rubber checks a lot because, they are scared they will end up in jail. It makes all businesses efficient, that improves your stock market returns and improves your ability to earn.
People who earn a lot, people who own a lot, use lots of government services. They have a lot to lose, if the government falls. So they should pay lots of taxes, and do everything to improve faith in the government and make sure the government works well and works efficiently.
Denounce government corruption, inefficiency, apathy etc. But not the government itself. Fight the unreasonable levels of taxation. But don't start going around saying "all taxation is theft". Such talk is very counterproductive.
I am not all that superstitious. But I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it. So yeah, make sure a cat does not cross your path, nor a lone Brahmin come in the opposite direction when you set out. Seeing a flower girl, or a woman wearing turmeric and flowers or full pot or milk cow are all good omens.
Solar, wind, hydro, even nuclear... all work for offices, factories and homes. But when it comes to transportation sector, we are too dependent on fossil fuels. Except for electric trains, that is. Cars and trucks run on diesel or gasoline. Ships on furnace oil or low grade diesel. Airplanes run on kerosene.
Just to given an example. Iceland has the world's largest geothermal sources currently being exploited. Electricity is so cheap 15% of world's Aluminum is produced there. Aluminum can be only produced with electricity. They ship boxite from around the world there to make Aluminum. And it has pollution and smog due to its diesel and gasoline burning vehicles.
Try speaking in Tamil or Tamil accent to Google Assistant. Sundar Pichai is a Tamilian and they might make sure that accent works correctly when they demo it to their boss.
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I used to use the freebie Google Fit. Then I bought this Fitbit. And I was struggling to meet my daily goal of 10K steps. Then about eight weeks in, I found that I had not turned off the Google Fit. It had been faithfully giving me some 7K or 8K steps every day, which I did not even know about! Man, what an epiphany!! I immediately bought a jawbone device and a misfit. Now I am getting about 8K steps from each and doing 32 K steps like gangbusters without breaking a sweat.
I thought no one can hear you scream.
I see more and more Indian terminology and terms being used as product names, especially in tech arena. Sansar is a Hindi word that has cognates in almost all Indian languages, originates from Sanskrit. Though it technically means "the World/Earth/Universe" it is often used in the sense of "mundane, not devine".
I don't do enough powerpoint to justify the time it would take to debug the issue. Unless I include a chart made in excel into powerpoint I dont use powerpoint. Excell charting is way ahead of Google sheets. That much I will grant you. If they fix google sheets I would not even touch MS-Office 365. I have it in just one of my four work machines.
And MS-Office fiddling with UI constantly, with the ribbon interface, then menu items rearranging themselves based on use etc confused lots of users of advanced features.
I have a 24 inch full hd screen. The UI seems to be optimized for a 5 inch handheld screen. Three dots, or three lines, sometimes nine dots, some times a gear sometimes something else, press and hold but sometimes press will be a click.... And on top of it the developers play where did they hide my cheese....
Your analogy is a perfect reason why we should never ever vote for any Republican, even for a dog catcher position. He/she could be a Trump. Why take risk, vote Democratic.
Trump would be confused by your post, if he ever read it. "How dare they compare pure Aryan Wernher von Braun witth turban wearning camel herders?"
No dice, starting hour can not be later than earlier hour! It would not let me set it up this way. I could force the winodws update to a narrow window between midnitght and 3 AM.
It clearly shows how badly the managers and UI guys in Microsoft think. Why call it working hours? Allow me to specify update hours. Why just one block of time? Why can't you show me a check boxes in 3 hour blocks and let me pick a block to update?.
The will help people working at odd hours, working on split shifts, etc. I am sure the idea, suggestions and counter proposals came up. Still MS did it in this brain dead way because, it wants to balance the load on its servers. If it gives "too much" freedom everybody will choose 3AM to 6AM block and so to reduce the load on its servers, it deliberately decided to serve about 80% of the user base to reduce complaints.
So what you are saying is, al queda and ISIS have to simply open source their bomb making recipes and release it under GPL, then they will be free of liability. Right?
Just last year an 18 wheeler made a careless lane change and scraped the bumper of my wife's car. (It was a peak hour traffic at 4 mph or so). It was the trucking company's insurance that paid for the 500$ damage.
If someone publishes some bomb making recipe, would that person be free of liability? You can's simple slap EULA and license agreements to dodge the liability. If the bomb recipe you provide or the software you provide enables a person to do something that they would not have been able to otherwise, are you completely free of liability?
So the Azure platform will be in some far away place. People will access it using "thin" clients. The C Shell name also has been co opted. I predict next the display will be called Virtual Teleport 100 or something, and it display 24 lines each 80 characters in beautiful glowing green phosphors.
Now people just make fun of Microsoft, when it says vaguely plausible things they might have actually invested on. Even stupid idea like warehousing products in the near earth orbit and delivering packages using Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles by Amazon would be discussed seriously. But Microsoft? nah! No one believes it can do what it says it wants to do. Including the VP in charge of the project.
If some study finds left hand/right structural differences are very different for 500 tennis players and it was linked to whether they were left handed players or right handed players, would you conclude "people born with big right hands become right handed players and those who were born with big left hands become left handed players"?
You think the "voice assistants" Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Cortana etc who continually listen to the microphone do not save what they hear? You think the companies are not saving all that audio? Recently there was an article about ultra low bit rate audio codecs, tuned to human speech, that can record 80 years of audio in a 8 GB file.
There are not thirty year old Nissans/ All existing Datsuns are more than 30 years old.
In some sense karma is a bitch. The railroads were great vehicles to raid the tax payer's treasury. The trans continental railroad was built almost completely by public funds, and what the public funds built were owned by private companies, Central Pacific and Union Pacific. Cities raised taxes and paid private companies to bring railroads. Gave them land too. But it was not new. In an earlier era Canal companies were the vehicles of crony capitalism.
Then the auto industry came in, let the tax payer build and maintain the roads. Now the railroads could not compete anymore. Now there are moves afoot to convert the interstates into toll roads and sell them to private companies. With very onerous clauses for the tax payer. Government could not build alternative roads that would divert traffic without compensating the buyers of the toll roads, should guarantee some minimum revenue stream etc etc. When crony capitalists get their hands on the interstate and raise the costs, you might find people forced to switch to, ... I don't know... drones?
Have you looked at Consumer Reports reliability ratings of American cars in the 80s and 90s? It is a runaway process. Volvos got a reputation for safety at that time. Safety conscious buyers went to Volvo. And the company decided to emphasize safety and invested in it. Japanese were looking to break into US market. The were attacking every sector. In auto sector they emphasized reliability. They will test them in road conditions in Japan and Singapore before introducing the engines and powertrains in USA.
Sure Japanese cars too had breakdowns and failures and were less reliable than today's cars. But for the same model year Japanese cars were far far more reliable than American.
He called it the "Planned Obsolescence". He argued, "If the planned life of a car is five years, it is a waste to design its components to last 10 years". So he deliberately got the cars built using less durable components. But statistics is a bitch. If the car had 100 components each with a design life of five years and they had 95% confidence level, you are likely to have at least 5 failures before 5 years. (Roughly speaking, I did not ace my stats class either).
But US was on a roll so and all the car makers got on the bandwagon. But rest of the world wanted reliable and durable cars. Where cars were considered too valuable to be scrapped in three/five years, the market demanded better cars. The Japaneses served those markets using small econoboxes, something no American would even look at.
Then came the oil shock! Americans tried the tiny Japanese econoboxes, for fuel economy. But fell in love with their durability. The difference between the reliability of Japanese and American cars were stark, plainly visible, no amount of marketing gimmicks could fix that. GM went from 60% of the world auto market in 1959 to less than 30% of just US auto market in 1990.
So the lesson Apple might learn would be, "We should not be building our computers that last this long."
I get nothing for it myself
That is not really true. Government by mere existence protects property. People with more property use more of the government protection. I am not just talking about homes. The financial instruments you own, the retirement funds you have saved, etc are protected by government enforcing contract law and settling civil disputes. People don't write rubber checks a lot because, they are scared they will end up in jail. It makes all businesses efficient, that improves your stock market returns and improves your ability to earn.
People who earn a lot, people who own a lot, use lots of government services. They have a lot to lose, if the government falls. So they should pay lots of taxes, and do everything to improve faith in the government and make sure the government works well and works efficiently.
Denounce government corruption, inefficiency, apathy etc. But not the government itself. Fight the unreasonable levels of taxation. But don't start going around saying "all taxation is theft". Such talk is very counterproductive.
I am not all that superstitious. But I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it. So yeah, make sure a cat does not cross your path, nor a lone Brahmin come in the opposite direction when you set out. Seeing a flower girl, or a woman wearing turmeric and flowers or full pot or milk cow are all good omens.
Just to given an example. Iceland has the world's largest geothermal sources currently being exploited. Electricity is so cheap 15% of world's Aluminum is produced there. Aluminum can be only produced with electricity. They ship boxite from around the world there to make Aluminum. And it has pollution and smog due to its diesel and gasoline burning vehicles.
Yeah, all these people seem to think such things will happen just by wishful thinking.
Try speaking in Tamil or Tamil accent to Google Assistant. Sundar Pichai is a Tamilian and they might make sure that accent works correctly when they demo it to their boss.