H1B program is just the tip of the iceberg. Indian companies TCS, Cogniscent, HCL, or Indian-American companies Syntel, Mastec, whatever name they go by now, all engage in faking credentials, faking interviews, faking resumes. A few good ones take a phone interview, and someone else shows up for the job.
It is all just down payment or insurance for them.
When they leave this company, which they plan to do as soon as they cash in the stock options, they need to park themselves someplace, preferably getting paid to sit idle. They go to McKinzie and part of what the sent in earlier, they will collect for a few months, till they find another cow to milk.
Many audio players in android and iOS have skins that look like cassettes spinning. So you can get all the high fidelity of digital sound and the nostalgia of looking at the spinning wheels with just the right touch of wobble.
It will create a PrizeZone 65000 feet above the stratosphere. All prices will be moved up to the PrizeZone by Strato-Elevator, it is like the Space Elevator but goes only up to Stratosphere. There ion-engine powered semi-spacecraft robotic drones will move the prices beyond the stratrosphere. Super fast intelligent massless robotic agents will fetch the prices to the shoppers' access devices.
Before the TechDirt revealed "intelligent massless robotic agents" is the new monicker for software, the market valuation of Amazon went up by 20% and the top management was able unload more of their stock options just in time.
It is not really unlimited, because after 2GB per line per month it gets throttled. But anyway I don't use much of data any way on the phone. 100$ for 4 lines. Including taxes i think it comes 125$ or so.
So says the anonymous coward who would let his grocery store compile complete purchase history of food and medications so that he can get 25 cents off a loaf of bread. Most people don't place much value on their privacy. Those who do, usually are not the target market demographic for these products.
I agree it is hype. But I was under the impression "shatter, do not splinter" is old. And that present day windshields are two pieces of glass sandwiching a tough layer of plastic in the middle. Thus it shatters, but the pieces do not fly everywhere. They all get stuck to the plastic. Or plastic is old, and shatter is new?
Same here. I can rattle off , "Clive Llyod scored 242 not out in the Bombay match, sixth test in the series, Indian second innings collapsed, only Brijesh Patel broke 50". But names and faces?... complete blank.
My conversation would be like:
"Did you see Avinash?"
"Eh?"
"With Kamala, Blue sari, red necklace..."
"mmm?"
"He had gold rimmed glasses... Plaid shirt..."
"not sure"
"Volvo"
"Yes! they had the station wagon, silver, New Jersey plates, Pink Genesha on the dash..."
Mail vans, many delivery vans, most school buses stay parked in one location for a long time. Their routes and timing are mostly predictable. There was some company created by executives who are Tesla alumi. It was pitching the use of battery garbage trucks and delivery vans. Wonder what happened to them?
The home battery will provide a nice aftermarket resale value for the batteries coming off the car. When the battery pack falls below spec for automotive application, it gets sold, unpacked, bad cells thrown out, repacked for home use. The cost of the battery to the car owner is somewhat mitigated.
Receivers for FM are CHEAP, UBIQUITOUS, Easy to receive transmissions, And Analog signals are very forgiving.
That is precisely the problem. There is no money to be made anymore in making or selling FM receivers. It takes courage, to ditch the headphone jack and make everyone buy new hardware. It takes courage to obsolete (yes, I am verbing obsolete. BTW that also obsoletes rules regarding intransitive verbs.) all existing ubiquitous, cheap hardware and force every one to buy new hardware. And, think! Once people get used to the idea of monopolies (defacto or de-fiat) obsoleting hardware, we can force them upgrade at will, at more frequent intervals. Think of all the moolah to be made! Oooo! profit!!!
They were planning to string together make shift wires from church belltowers to harness lightnings and save the energy in batteries. Everyone knows lightnings have 88 jigawatts of electricity. To avoid copyright claims with Steven Spielberg, they changed it to giga instead of jiga.
A group of veterinarians and ophthalmology surgeons announced plans for a new procedure to enable people to enjoy 8K resolution monitors. The details are unclear, but it looks like they are planning to harvest fovea from eagle retinas and transplanting them in their volunteers. They feel the retinas and eye resolution of human beings do not do full justice to the 8K monitors. Mr Applef Anboy, spokesman for the American Association Of Consumers Of The Latest And Greatest Gadgets agreed. "We have reached the peak of what you can do with displays with iPhone 4 retinal display. The only thing left to improve is the human eye, not the display".
Tax evasion is rampant in India. Underinvoicing, false invoicing, maintaining inventory and sales off-the-record etc are very common. Even well established publicly traded companies do it. My uncle was the dealer/distributor for United Breweries for a district. The brewery would invoice "seconds" "damaged" goods at low price, affix easily removable stickers on the crates and ship them to him. The understanding is, he would remove the stickers, sell the liquor at full price, grease the palms of police, excise tax collectors etc and send back the rest in cash in suitcases. (The owner is a tax fugitive now hiding in UK). Small and medium businesses like his have so many such secondary deals going on, paying off protection money to the politicians, paying off the excise tax collectors...
It is so rampant last quarter of 2016 the government demonetized 500 rupee and 1000 rupee currency notes. That is, all those notes were deemed not legal tender unless you can prove the source and deposit it in the bank.
Real estate and gold are other places full of shady business accounting practices and black money havens. Given that reality, it would be difficult to persuade people like my uncle to switch to a fully accountable, traceable, transparent business system. Unless they can be assured they can dodge taxes, they won't touch it.
Lest I give a too gloomy picture... Things are improving. The general public, despite all the inconveniences are fully supportive of the demonetizing of notes. The value of black money is discounted on the street. At some point the discounted value of black money in the street would become lower than the value of white money after paying taxes. At that point, honest businesses will enjoy so many benefits of smoother processing and efficiency etc, the economy will turn around and eschew off-the-book-transactions. Till that date comes, such initiatives by companies like google streamlining business ops will find it difficult to get traction.
Fees would not always have the effect you want. There was a famous study, where a child care charged fees if the parents do not show up by closing time. Parents who used to feel guilty about keeping them waiting and forcing them to keep the center open beyond the closing time, who were very apologetic and tried to minimize it started feeling entitled. "Here is the fee, stay open for one hour just for me!".
Tesla owners are affluent, they will not be deterred by fees. However they will be deterred by time penalty. If you overstay for 10 minutes, they you must park the car in the penalty zone for 5 minutes before driving off, or for 5 minutes before you could charge next time. If the penalty area is marked well, people will feel the nasty eye of fellow Tesla owners, and seriously try to avoid it. Penalty is silent and secret. Shaming would motivate them better.
I remember an incident mentioned by Zoologist Desmond Morris, in The Naked Ape . He goes through how difficult it was to get a dog through quarantine and get it into UK. Then about opening his regular mail one day and finding some dog brain slices sent from Africa! Some acquaintance/collaborator asking for a favor, "Please test the enclosed dog brain slices for...". I think the book was published in 1970 or so.
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H1B program is just the tip of the iceberg. Indian companies TCS, Cogniscent, HCL, or Indian-American companies Syntel, Mastec, whatever name they go by now, all engage in faking credentials, faking interviews, faking resumes. A few good ones take a phone interview, and someone else shows up for the job.
All those companies have already moved.
It is all just down payment or insurance for them.
When they leave this company, which they plan to do as soon as they cash in the stock options, they need to park themselves someplace, preferably getting paid to sit idle. They go to McKinzie and part of what the sent in earlier, they will collect for a few months, till they find another cow to milk.
And 99% of McKinsey jobs can be automated with a good bullshit generator
There! FIFY
CD will survive, most likely, if they are not scratched. But CD players ? ... YMMV
Many audio players in android and iOS have skins that look like cassettes spinning. So you can get all the high fidelity of digital sound and the nostalgia of looking at the spinning wheels with just the right touch of wobble.
Before the TechDirt revealed "intelligent massless robotic agents" is the new monicker for software, the market valuation of Amazon went up by 20% and the top management was able unload more of their stock options just in time.
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Appendix is where the lawyers put all the escape clauses, in fine print too.
It is not really unlimited, because after 2GB per line per month it gets throttled. But anyway I don't use much of data any way on the phone. 100$ for 4 lines. Including taxes i think it comes 125$ or so.
So says the anonymous coward who would let his grocery store compile complete purchase history of food and medications so that he can get 25 cents off a loaf of bread. Most people don't place much value on their privacy. Those who do, usually are not the target market demographic for these products.
Why is it called 18:9, instead of 2:1?
No he mean All one of them.
I agree it is hype. But I was under the impression "shatter, do not splinter" is old. And that present day windshields are two pieces of glass sandwiching a tough layer of plastic in the middle. Thus it shatters, but the pieces do not fly everywhere. They all get stuck to the plastic. Or plastic is old, and shatter is new?
My conversation would be like: "Did you see Avinash?"
"Eh?"
"With Kamala, Blue sari, red necklace..."
"mmm?"
"He had gold rimmed glasses... Plaid shirt ..."
"not sure"
"Volvo"
"Yes! they had the station wagon, silver, New Jersey plates, Pink Genesha on the dash..."
But it is a Huawei. It has all the spyware mandated by China preinstalled. Chinese hackers will be able to get your bank account details.
Mail vans, many delivery vans, most school buses stay parked in one location for a long time. Their routes and timing are mostly predictable. There was some company created by executives who are Tesla alumi. It was pitching the use of battery garbage trucks and delivery vans. Wonder what happened to them?
The home battery will provide a nice aftermarket resale value for the batteries coming off the car. When the battery pack falls below spec for automotive application, it gets sold, unpacked, bad cells thrown out, repacked for home use. The cost of the battery to the car owner is somewhat mitigated.
Receivers for FM are CHEAP, UBIQUITOUS, Easy to receive transmissions, And Analog signals are very forgiving.
That is precisely the problem. There is no money to be made anymore in making or selling FM receivers. It takes courage, to ditch the headphone jack and make everyone buy new hardware. It takes courage to obsolete (yes, I am verbing obsolete. BTW that also obsoletes rules regarding intransitive verbs.) all existing ubiquitous, cheap hardware and force every one to buy new hardware. And, think! Once people get used to the idea of monopolies (defacto or de-fiat) obsoleting hardware, we can force them upgrade at will, at more frequent intervals. Think of all the moolah to be made! Oooo! profit!!!
More courage than taking away the head phone jack.
They were planning to string together make shift wires from church belltowers to harness lightnings and save the energy in batteries. Everyone knows lightnings have 88 jigawatts of electricity. To avoid copyright claims with Steven Spielberg, they changed it to giga instead of jiga.
A group of veterinarians and ophthalmology surgeons announced plans for a new procedure to enable people to enjoy 8K resolution monitors. The details are unclear, but it looks like they are planning to harvest fovea from eagle retinas and transplanting them in their volunteers. They feel the retinas and eye resolution of human beings do not do full justice to the 8K monitors. Mr Applef Anboy, spokesman for the American Association Of Consumers Of The Latest And Greatest Gadgets agreed. "We have reached the peak of what you can do with displays with iPhone 4 retinal display. The only thing left to improve is the human eye, not the display".
It is so rampant last quarter of 2016 the government demonetized 500 rupee and 1000 rupee currency notes. That is, all those notes were deemed not legal tender unless you can prove the source and deposit it in the bank.
Real estate and gold are other places full of shady business accounting practices and black money havens. Given that reality, it would be difficult to persuade people like my uncle to switch to a fully accountable, traceable, transparent business system. Unless they can be assured they can dodge taxes, they won't touch it.
Lest I give a too gloomy picture... Things are improving. The general public, despite all the inconveniences are fully supportive of the demonetizing of notes. The value of black money is discounted on the street. At some point the discounted value of black money in the street would become lower than the value of white money after paying taxes. At that point, honest businesses will enjoy so many benefits of smoother processing and efficiency etc, the economy will turn around and eschew off-the-book-transactions. Till that date comes, such initiatives by companies like google streamlining business ops will find it difficult to get traction.
Tesla owners are affluent, they will not be deterred by fees. However they will be deterred by time penalty. If you overstay for 10 minutes, they you must park the car in the penalty zone for 5 minutes before driving off, or for 5 minutes before you could charge next time. If the penalty area is marked well, people will feel the nasty eye of fellow Tesla owners, and seriously try to avoid it. Penalty is silent and secret. Shaming would motivate them better.
I remember an incident mentioned by Zoologist Desmond Morris, in The Naked Ape . He goes through how difficult it was to get a dog through quarantine and get it into UK. Then about opening his regular mail one day and finding some dog brain slices sent from Africa! Some acquaintance/collaborator asking for a favor, "Please test the enclosed dog brain slices for ...". I think the book was published in 1970 or so.