Why Vista Sucks

E-043 Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity

"Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies (V1, V10, V11). These organizations are evaluating their options, but overseas it's turning into a stampede to get out of Microsoft software (V15).

School districts in the U.S. are starting to move entirely to Linux rather suffer the cost of upgrading Windows. Examples are the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California and the Bexley, Ohio high school district. Schools making this move have been surprised how easy it is and how much money is saved. (V6, V8)

Leading computer maker HP is reporting "massive deals for Linux desktops" with corporate clients (V4). Runner-up computer maker and long time faithful Microsoft ally Dell has been overwhelmed by demand and has started developing Linux desktop preloads for their notebook and desktop computers (V9)."

I love as in absolutely love such articles!

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Whither Infinity?

The following paradox is not my own creation. I forget where I stole it from. Nevertheless here's the deal.

What is a line?

A line is a geometric concept consisting of an arrangement of an infinite number of points. There. Infinity!



But wait. If I was to get in a car and travel in a straight line from any point A to any other point B, it would mean that I must be traveling through an infinite number of points. Or, in other words, I would be changing my location through infinite positions. Infinity, by its very nature, must ensure that I do not reach point B. Ever. I can get closer and closer to point B, but never really reach it. Rather strangely, in real life, I eventually do! So, doesn't that mean that the definition of a straight line needs alteration? A straight line is made up of only a finite number of points? No. That's clearly wrong. Because, as you zoom into the line, you will ultimately see that the finite number of points become discontinuous and hence technically do not form a line. In order to make a line that is continuous at all levels of zoom, so to speak, you do need an infinite set of points. So where does that leave us now?



I swear to God I am not on LSD.

And as a side note, when the dee and myself were a-fightin last week like them old times, she started agreeing to everything i said, just to wear down my defenses. Eventually she did and i snapped at her. I told her "Look, stop agreeing to everything I say from this moment on!"
What should she do now?
A. If she says "Ok, i shall stop agreeing", she is still agreeing, and hence actually disobeying my demand.
B. If she says "I shall never do that", it means she is going to disobey my request and continue agreeing with whatever i say, but in a way I won cos she disobeyed me by saying she would never stop agreeing with me.

Both of us took a time-out from the fight to figure out our options. And we are yet to get back to it. I love paradoxes.

MiG 23 finally laid to rest

IAF to retire swing-wing MiG-23 interceptor Tuesday - India

At its peak, the IAF operated two MiG-23 squadrons - 223 and 224. The former converted to the MiG-29 in May 1989.

Considering that back in the 80s, the MiG 23 was one of the first to have BVR (beyond Visual Range) AAMs (Air to Air Missiles), swing wings and was cheap, I quite liked this old warhorse.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The MiG-23 had the advantage of being quite cheap in the early 1980s. For example, the MiG-23MS was priced between US$3.6 million and US$6.6 million depending on the customer; on the other hand in 1980, the F-16 Fighting Falcon was priced at US$14 million, and the Flogger's closest Western competitor was the Kfir C2 with a price of US$4.5 million.

But it is a little surprising that they only logged about 32581 hours of flight from 1980 till today.

Career survival tips

Posting after a long hiatus. And i'm back with a... a link! Things they never taught me at design school very much applies to every walk of life. And the one important lesson i take away from it is

95 percent of any creative profession is shit work.
Only 5 percent is actually, in some simplistic way, fun.

How fucking true!