If only they can clean their Y!Mail and make messenger XMPP happy and can give other (clean) apps like Calendar/Taks/Notes (free or for a decent fee) etc. I can switch but somehow, I know this is not good, user friendliness wins over worry for my own privacy. May be because the intuitiveness of an app or the absence of it is sth I've to deal with daily. Or maybe not, it's just simple laziness and dangerous indifference.
Few things I would like to add. BOSE products are actually overpriced. If there would be an overpricing scale then those will be a lot more overprices than Apple products which are themselves very much overpriced.
If I take the sound quality and compare with other brands like it becomes even more pronounced.
Having said that, the design aesthetic BOSE brought into its products long time ago is considered hip and innovation toady.
Yes, I would like to know what's really wrong with "qwerty". Have never used anything other than QWERTY, ever. I really want to know. Seeing this "can't tell if it's much better than QWERTY" in your comment I thought I can get a well balanced answer from you, other than the types of "Ecams is best, Vim is best".
>>They're trying to push smart TVs in the living room
And depending on Google and other companies shall not be wise anyway. Heard how they had to wait for few months to launch their TV just YouTube certification[1], where the OEMs that used Android didn't have to.
Hey Bolivians, in case you are reading this - this should be reason enough to oppose the next western interference in your country whether it's in the name of emancipation, oil or ending a dictatorship.
Just wanted to say this as the west is too good in propaganda. And yes, it's a shame in the name of democracies, UN and world peace. I think we are actually past all that. The subtle moves by the USA and its cronies have been replaced by blunt and obvious bullying.
Or failed to grok the fact that they shall mostly have to do away with those 3-4 years of their lives outside studies. Or failed to understand that "you want to get into an IIT, you have to study Chemistry[1] - by rot, by repetition or by whatever it is required or take the refund and go home or to an NIT[2]".[3]
Sort of feels bad. That the curriculum and exam pattern(the core of it) is still the same it was like 50 years ago and then it's life. You learn to deal with it and accept the failure or rather the fact that I was not supposed to be what I am today via that route. My only regret as of now is the grand campus life I missed. Nothing else.
[1]Replace this with any subject that a particular doesn't like or is not interested in or hates(I did)
[2]This is where I passed out from finally
[3]A Bansal faculty member told me this when I went there after my +2 and failing at JEE(as a fresher), not clearing Chem cut-off - he said my overall score would have put me somewhere around 400-500 AIR if it was not for Chemistry. Well, I didn't take the refund and lost another INR 70K.
I shall not say they didn't work hard. But admission to an IIT and the status that you get after that is more about rot, luck, parents who can afford it and the fact that overall quality of education in India is so dismal and whatever good there is the quantity is so sparse.
So , what happens is when you are not in one of the IITs or few top colleges - you are stuck with the stereotype of second grade, third grade and over the years you fall into the line without even knowing you could have been sth else, sth bigger or better.
It's IIT or nothing. Govt and public alike are trying hard keep it that way.
When new IITs were announced - most of the alumni and pundits were not even giving it a thought that more students shall have access to relatively better education and facilities ; they were worried that brand value of IITs shall be diluted. Uhh.. once you get in and get out getting the tag, you are the elite and don't want many around you to dilute your elitism. Fair enough.
Remove these all and then wait for 3 weeks. Your a/c should be deleted. This is how I successfully deleted mine(To be a little more safe I had deleted my photos, notes and videos manually, one by one).
I wonder where the Govt found this opportunity and grabbed it without delay..was it the new way of terrorism? First propagating Islam-phobia and then bring in the restrains slowly - one by one? What was it exactly?
Author takes into example two extreme institutes: IIT Bombay and Amity. They are the extremes in quality. The former is from the upper part of the extreme.
What you need to open an engineering college in India?
-Money and land. It's al right if you do not have adequate amount of land but you have money. [A]
How do you get the license?
-You have to pay for it. Fees and then the mandatory bribe.[B]
Are all the engineering colleges(you can read tech schools) are like these?
-Government - no, almost none. Almost all are good. They are usually free of [A] and [B] mentioned above and quality of education and students(at the time of entry) is exponentially better than most of private ones.
Private - 90% or more among these colleges can be simply labelled as garbage even though they have all the shiny pretty campuses which actually few have.
How do you admit students?
-If you are one of the TOP ones - {IITs - call them Ivy tier-1}, {NITs, IIITs - call them Ivy tier 1.5 - 2}, {some better private and Govt. colleges, maybe 10-15 in entire India - they range from Ivy tier 1.5 to 3} - then you admit students based on entrance exams and/or marks obtained in 10+2 exam(both are considered now).
If you are are among the rest then it's donation based. Donation is a form of bribe/development fee or whatever you call it. You pay a hefty fee either directly to the institute or through agents/crooks/thugs blah-blah and join that institute to get a B Tech/BE[1] degree at the end of 4 years. A degree is almost 100% guaranteed at the end of the year even though you can't figure out what the fuck is O(n)[2] and I mean just the definition without even understanding it.
Do they get jobs?
-Yes. Many(most of them) do. If not via campus selection then trying from the outside. Some get in 2-3-4 years. A friend of mine got a job 2 months back. 3 years after leaving the college. In the mean time he had collected 4-5 fake experiences and show a particular experience papers for that kind of jobs. There are companies offering this service they even pass background checks. Hiring is taken care by services companies. Forget Google, Amazon, MS, Fb, Start-ups blah-blah. It's Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Patni, CSC, Cognizant, Accenture. They hire in thousands. There are jokes in colleges like this year Infy is coming with a bus or train.
Their interview process is great. You are asked questions like "Do you have a girl friend?", "Which city you would prefer to join in?", "and why?", "Who is your favourite sportsman?" -> answer is a cricketer almost always, "Favourite sports" -> it's Cricket and then maybe he will talk about it. Questions like this. No, you are not interviewed for your coding skills. It's just a luck or random game. Some get in some don't. Don't ask why. Earlier I used to get angry why they don't check coding skills but then I realized they don't need that.
So, students don't learn or enhance their skills because it's not needed.
What is AICTE then? Don't they check it?
-Well, other than the officialese[3] it's a shop where you can buy anything if you can pay the right price. It personifies Indian bureaucratic corruption, babudom and how almost every system in India is rotten at the core/root and people are watering the tip or at least pretending to do so.
[1] Bachelor of Technology/Engineering and it really doesn't matter whether it's an E or a T.
[2] I am a CS guy so I skipped Mechanical, EE, Chemical (&c) equivalents.
tl;dr: Education in Indian engineering colleges is a farce that is why students don't get jobs when their skills are tested and they can't create jobs either. Skills again.
Ruby is practically made in Japan then. Nice to know this.