Comment Wrong priorities (Score 1) 26
How about first ensuring clean toilets and a website where you can actually do something hassle-free?
Seriously.
Seriously.
Comment Re:woooh technology is out to git ya (Score 1) 214
With a handle like "transporter_ii", tracking FedEx packages would be right up your alley !
Comment Re:Second job question (Score 3, Funny) 170
That guy in India is scamming you by billing you while working on his second, more interesting, job.
Comment Re:Still single-threaded, right? (Score 1) 172
Firefox is multi-threaded although all those threads currently reside in the same process. So one tab can easily bog down entire browser.
Multiprocess Firefox is coming soon.
Multiprocess Firefox is coming soon.
Comment The Boiling Frog (Score 1) 113
Vast majority of the consumers are like the frog in a pan that is being heated up very gradually. The frog doesn't realize it but it will be eventually cooked alive.
These consumers are slowly opting-in, slowly uploading their personal photos, slowly allowing their personal emails to be scanned until one day, they would realize how far down the road they have come.
These consumers are slowly opting-in, slowly uploading their personal photos, slowly allowing their personal emails to be scanned until one day, they would realize how far down the road they have come.
Comment Edward Snowden anticipated this (Score 2) 113
"The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change"
- Edward Snowden, at the end of Terms and Conditions May Apply
- Edward Snowden, at the end of Terms and Conditions May Apply
Submission + - Brick & mortar retail stores in India refuse to sell Android One phones
oyenamit writes: Online shopping in India is still in its infancy but is growing tremendously to reach the mostly untapped market of 1.2 billion people. Invariably, the conflict between pure online retailers like Amazon and Flipkart and brick and mortar stores was bound to emerge. Unfortunately for Google's Android One, it has been on the receiving end of this friction. Leading brick and mortar retailers in India have refused to sell Android One handsets ever since the US company chose to launch its products exclusively online.
The three Android One makers in India — Micromax, Karbonn and Spice — launched their handsets exclusively online in mid-September. When sales did not meet their expectations, they decided to release their products via the brick and mortar store channel. However, smaller retailer and mom-n-pop shops have decided to show their displeasure at having being left out of the launch by deciding not to stock Android One.
The three Android One makers in India — Micromax, Karbonn and Spice — launched their handsets exclusively online in mid-September. When sales did not meet their expectations, they decided to release their products via the brick and mortar store channel. However, smaller retailer and mom-n-pop shops have decided to show their displeasure at having being left out of the launch by deciding not to stock Android One.
Comment Re: Who's using Firefox anyway ? (Score 1) 400
I was so with you until you mentioned better memory management.
Despite what Firefox folks say about improved memory handling, it is still a huge hog.
Even then, it is my browser of choice for the other reasons you mentioned.
Despite what Firefox folks say about improved memory handling, it is still a huge hog.
Even then, it is my browser of choice for the other reasons you mentioned.
Comment Gravity of the situation (Score 1) 223
Despite the glitches, the fact that there is a man-made object currently sitting on the surface of a comet and beaming back actual pictures is flippin' mindblowing !
Comment Re:Permanent problem? (Score 1) 223
No, it does not seem permanent.
As per the original plan, the secondary batteries were expected to receive about 7 hrs of sunlight each 12.4 hr comet day.
Now it is expected to be only 1.5 hrs. This will definitely impact experiments that need to continuously run for long periods of time.
Comment None of The Above (Score 1) 468
And if there are no candidates you wish to vote for, then why should you vote for someone you don't want?
That is why there is a need for None of The Above to be introduced as an option.
Comment Re:How about giving Tibet back to the Tibetans? (Score 1) 84
Once that is done, how about stopping manipulating your currency so blatantly?
Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov 250
An anonymous reader writes with news that the Obama administration has appointed Jeffrey Zients to lead the effort to revamp Healthcare.gov after its trouble rollout earlier this month. Zients said, "By the end of November, healthcare.gov will work smoothly for the vast majority of users." Obama created a position for Zients within the government in 2009, when he was made the OMB's Chief Performance Officer. The purpose of his position was to analyze and streamline the government's budget concerns. "Healthcare.gov covers people in the 36 states that declined to run their own health-insurance exchanges. About 700,000 applications have been begun nationwide, and half of them have come in through the website. The White House aims to have 7M uninsured Americans covered by the scheme by the end of March." Zients's appointment came after a contentious House Committee hearing about the healthcare website, in which many were blamed and few took responsibility. The government also said that contractor Quality Software Services Inc., a subsidiary of UnitedHealth group, would "oversee the entire operation" of Healthcare.gov. QSSI has already done work on the website, building the pipeline that transfers data between the insurance exchanges and the federal agencies.
Comment When I type my name into a search engine... (Score 0)
When I type my name into a search engine......I am ego surfing.
Comment Re:Learning is great (Score 1) 230
. . . plus by learning the language . . . you also learn the culture. And be able to understand it better. That makes real business sense.
While this might be true for other countries, it is not necessarily so for India.
English is recognized as the secondary official language of the country (with Hindi being the official one). Even lowly clerks in government offices speak English (albeit with an accent). The huge amount of information & literature available in English and the high percentage of English-speaking population in India make learning Hindi optional.
Moreover, even though Hindi is the dominant language, it is only one of many. If you are doing business with a company based in Bangalore, chances are very high that the mother tongue of your business partner is Kannada (which has almost nothing in common with Hindi).
Save yourself some precious time - learn the culture, skip the language.
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