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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Your level of comprehension is about as good as that of the 'Indian IT employees' about whom you complain. Sure, it was my annoyance, and a little bit too much Pastis that was speaking. I could guess …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram By the same token, all the large IT companies from India - TCS, Infosys, Wipro - have a pretty impressive presence in the US. I am not talking about their sending over cheap Indian labor either: they emp…
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As an Indian, who went to one of the best CS schools in US, I abhor Indian IT companies. Not so much because of what they do, or who works there, but because they bring a bad name to Indians everywhere, and back home people cannot see much differenc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber I fully admit both my ignorance and my willingness to learn. How does one type on a QWERTY keyboard designed for the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet in Chinese, a language based on thousands of characters?…
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If you follow tech news, you will observe this pattern. An Apple employee leaves, company is doomed, or would be so soon. Or something is wrong or fishy. Google employee leaves, generally with a blog post detailing why he is leaving Google. Ge…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez Fourth time's a charm... Well, it only takes a few minutes looking at the comments to see how wrong he is, but let me add a few things. Apple is smart in that it's not building proprietary stuff to scale li…
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Quote: Originally Posted by scotty321 Something is rotting at Apple... how many dozens of high-level executives can we lose in just a few years? And WHY are they all fleeing Apple? What do they know that we don't know? This is not lookin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody it only "seems sad to you" because you read the stupid write-up on Reddit instead of actually looking at the picture. Both it and the next one clearly show Jobs smiling, and his wife smiling back at …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil And have any of these people ever felt or expressed love for another person? Jeez. Ah so you are the one who posted this on the other reddit post - "Did you see him lift anything? How do you know he's w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Oh, for frick's sake. He's not resting his head because he's exhausted, he's resting his head lovingly. These people have obviously never done that, so they're being doomsayers. Look at the next pic. It…
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This was trending on reddit. And I thought I should post. Things don't look too well. At least to me, or any one else who has seen them. Steve Jobs rests his head against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, after delivering the keynote address to the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by uplift1 Google's voice recognition tech is inferior to Nuance's--it was developed by former Nuance guys and had to play patent skirting games. And Google has nothing like Siri, they just feed a transcript of your reque…
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Quote: Originally Posted by crustyjusty 1) Nuance / Speech recognition - I believe Apple is going to figure out a way to make this more than just voice to text. If Siri is any indication, I should be able to speak general wishes (I want two tick…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mebbert There you have it. Certainly not the first time I've been wrong... I was about to post the same picture, figured that now. But it would not be the naive voice search you have in Android, but a very well …
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Talk about child labour. I grew up and lived most of my life in a small Indian city. You know what reaction the working class has when politicians try to enforce child labour laws. They scorn at them, because their children will not be able to bring…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross This issue was known earlier. It was even written about in a book about security that came out in December 2010. Since this file isn't insidious, it's not a big deal anyway. It's not a security issue at all, s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Wow, so that was it? The extent of Google's nasty comments, two years after Steve Jobs started trash-talking Google? Gosh, no wonder Mr. Jobs is so upset and overly-concerned with Android. Dude, Steve Jobs …
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The article does not mention that even the companies which are developing for Android are not giving their full offerings. And the main reason for that is not Apple affinity, but a chunk of their offerings are primarily tablet based. Same reason for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy To be fair Google never claimed to be working on a phone before Apple did. What they said was Android was already in development as a mobile OS before the iPhone was ever announced. And Google never planned to…