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And I don't complain about it. However with the recent (Sibbalusque) change in education marking system this trend may change.
Besides, it's a tradition to get high marks in an ICSE schools in India. So much that if you pass your 10 from an ICE school and go to a CBSE school for admission and have 94% marks then the kid who has 89-90% from a CBSE school or even lower from a state board school might be preferred. It was true in 2001-2003 and was till I kept track, not sure now.
Their system has(had) a lot of marks in the hands of school authority rather than the board and those marks were(are) very generously handed out.
All you have to know is two codes of a school: affiliation and school code which is public and schools put it on their websites[4]
[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=CBSE
[2]http://schoolcoderesults.nic.in/cbse-2013/result.php
[3]http://cbseresults.nic.in/class10/cbse102013cvb.htm
[4]A tiny % of schools have their websites but that information is readily available.
Feels like he had already calculated the fines and the outrage.
On a sadist note I couldn't resist wondering how long they are going to hold onto each other. Hope that ends without drama at least, after all this waste and damage. Well, this follows pretty soon these days, isn't it? Especially if it's two celebrities.
And it used to decide to crash from time to time and then it would simply stop streaming and buffering and you couldn't do anything about that.
There's a new player in town CatchFlix. Haven't checked them.
There's also BoxTV which worse than them all.
And range sucked in all of them.
Funny thing about that book, you can buy it legitimately at ~90 and even street vendors(pirated copy sellers) usually sell it at 50+ and people still buy :-) I think they never got that taste of that feeling when you read a book, hold it your hand, travel with it and then over the time appreciate the crease on it and dream passing it over to your bloodline hoping they would love reading books.
Anyway, I still feel bad having to pirate any book or film or songs. Very bad. Though my next statement is technically incorrect but there are times I can't avoid pirating a book.
I have reduced my music piracy. I've reduced/ the number of songs I listen to around ~ 7GB (almost all of them 320kbps or 8-20 MB on an average). Out of them around 4GB I've purchased and to be honest a lot of them is from Flipkart's 10 day freebie bonanza, but I've purchased from other sources a lot and I must say that A 7-9 Rupee DRM free song is a deal sweeter than saccharine so I like a song and I buy it. I can even go a lot more if the cost goes directly to the artist or most and I do it. Like Indian Ocean's music. I hope in a few months I'll not have any pirated song on my pc or phone. I use Spotify so that also covers a lot.
I've not have any good and affordable[1] alternative for fils. I hope sth like Netflix/Hulu comes up in India or even a good DVD/BRay rental online shop which offers quality with a price. The ones we have don't have many worthwhile films int heir inventory.
Yes, you are right - pricing does affect privacy, in a positive way to check it. However there are people who would just pirate! Piracy is imprinted on their minds and they never bothered to check whether it's a necessity and or is there a mid-way like a friend who stopped using WhatsApp the day his 1 yr trial was over, he just had to pay INR 55 for another year. Though I should have been this judgemental, still active in piracy myself.
[0] Publisher, distributor, agent etc
[1] Again, this is my point of view and someone else can just say I can buy the movies at INR 500 a dvd and this is just an excuse to pirate.
Banks/credit card companies have their payment APIs[0] open to parties they deal with (usually) payment gateways(now don't ask me for public methods and web service URIs) ->> payment gateway firms[1] deal with the banks and have access to those APIs ->> merchants/sellers[1] deal with payment gateways ->> customer checks out on seller/merchant's website ->> is redirected to (usually) payment gateway's portal where basic card/account credentials[2] are entered ->> is redirected bank/card's secure authentication page[3] ->> user enters login/password ->> is redirected back to seller/merchant's page with success/fail message.
[0] You might have to get in touch with some bank and/or payment gateway.
[1] When the seller is big, sometimes, they are themselves the payment gateways. Some PG examples are Citrus, Billdesk, SBI,CCAvenue(the shittiest) etc.
[2] Here in India the basic credentials include card number, exp date, name, CVV. In the USA these same basic details are more than enough for final purchase - sometimes even minus the cvv.
[3] Usually Mastercard's NetSafe or Verified By Visa etc.
Two friends have started a sort of startup for books and movies and their inventory is comparable, though with a shitty interface for which I have shamed them many times.
If you are in a metro then you get the item shipped next day. I've shopped with Flipkart, Myntra etc and this has always been the norm and when usually it becomes 2-3 days it's because your stuff is being sent from a warehouse in another metro. As I live in B'lore Myntra has almost always done 1-day shipping or 2 at most.
You want your items to be shipped to a small town? There's a problem. You want to ship it to your parents in a very small town or rural area? Forget it!
There are other services like eBay India, which has recently, started 3-4 day shipping. Earlier for them it was 7-8 minimum as standard. Deal sites like SnapDeal etc follow the same minimum 7-8 days golden rule.
Sites like IndiaPlaza are plague. You get your stuff in months or fortnights and then you congratulate yourself.
The thing is there are so many options in India, even on smaller scales, for online shopping and people actively use them where they best deals. In USA when I try to buy sth, to get it via a friend who is coming form USA, I have more or less one option - Amazon!
Soldier: Yes I did, but I was following orders.
Judge: But, you could have avoided shooting the peasant, right? But you didn't.
Soldier: Yes I could, but I was following orders.
Please:
1. Do away with the browser plugins and come out in the open about your tracking and storing private user data.
2. Develop a backend or service that we can use on other clients as well, not just inside your almost ugly and non-intuitive browser plugin powered website.
3. Finally, set a price. People, who love their services and become dependent on them don't like to see them sink and/or read my private data to sell not to avoid the sinking. If you are free you are doing sth fishy because no-one can believe you receive grants for Greenpeace or PETA.
4. Keep my data exportable and takeout ready at any time, in a format that I can use elsewhere i.e. Have your service conform to some standard standard(preferably "open" open, not Google's open).
I never thought humour writing has gone to such lows, both in terms of content and presentation.
Okay, I first thought it's another "bash them winz" post but I thought give it a try and I am back with the feeling that it's worse then that. At least those bashes have content and analysis even though very trite and non-significant.
Guess, I'll wait for a few updates or patches before uninstalling. Or maybe I'll reinstall after it's stable enough.
By the way, I don't think there's a way to browse Vine on the web, is it?
App had it seems pre-subscribed to some of the users/streams/or-vines-maybe, because my feed is not empty and I don't see a way to empty it and then maybe subscribe to users/handles I would find fitting to my taste(I doubt that seeing all the animations).
>>Not For those who are happy in their cushy jobs
This can be alarming though!
Why say so? People are always looking for sth better, "cushier". Or are you planning to pull the same trick here - "in compensation we'll give you challenging work and awesome problems to solve, instead of top salary and other benefits and shares are exhausted or we stopped giving that away"?
The last bit was more of a careless rant.. Once burnt fingers....blah blah.
Cool names. Good luck!
On another, lighter note, riots add sort of a romantic tinge to college life. Hell, what's that UG in India where you didn't pelted stones against police or at director's bungalow(in our case the latter was the favourite and easy target, it didn't hit back).
Jokes aside, you have not mentioned the actual/precise events. What usually happens is a guy brushes someone(it might have been a knock and you might as well have downplayed it too) and then starts abusing the pedestrian itself, the guy who was knocked down. Now, if some friends were around then this called for a beating. Most probably this was the case.
BTW, Nigerian students sell drugs in Bangalore(mentioned city name because I live here and I know this from 1st hand exp from a safe distance or rather 2nd hand experience). But that doesn't mean all Nigerian students in India are into drug peddling and people from other countries are not. Most of this business is controlled by Indians though. It's rising alarmingly, subtly and almost without a check.
I am from a NIT. So, I knew many foreign students - mostly from Africa and Middle East. They were fun. Our favourite topic of discussion used to be girls in either countries, their sexuality and preferences and they were bloody curious why it's a taboo in India(esp people from non-ME countries). Among many things we almost generally agreed upon fcuk the religion. Yes, that included people from that religion too :-)
I had an Afghan friend(from another college, non-tech, we met at a fest). He was 6+ tall, incredibly handsome(one of my friends - I was sort of seeing her at the time - casually mentioned whether I could introduce them(2 girls) to him, I wisely diverted the topic), peace loving, god fearing and a thorough gentleman! Last month he told me, from EU(he moved there), that he got married and also lost his virginity. I was ROFLing for few minutes, he had typed both events in same line. I was not able to convince him in India to take the plunge.
Moral of the story, they(foreigners) are almost like us and sometimes I think better. You should not stereotype people. People like you ought to be stoned to fever!
I still liked the guy, I knew these allegations. I read his articles while growing up, as I've mentioned above.
While in 1st year, I would, each month go to the market and buy last month's tech magazines mainly for software and those Linux distros. Now I am on X but I still have fond memories with playing and struggling with all those Linux distros.
When I recently saw his name in one of the news-letters somewhere I immediately checked whether he's the same guy I used to read in those magazines and I was glad to know he was.
RIP!
I really do not know what this map considered as corruption. A little explanation shall sure help!
The Old Reader doesn't provide an API yet it seems. (I had mailed awesome Android app FeedMe's[1] dev and that's what he said)
FeedHQ started taking payments(actually became paid only) without any features or implementation which is worthwhile.
Feedly is plague. Ask them why they need a Firefox extension to read their website.
FeedBin is one that sounds sane and I am going to stick to them till others improve.
We don't have an option, yet!
Besides, in most of the blog posts and comments people were worried about a reading client than a service which(latter) IMHO was the real loss.
[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...