this is a classic. enjoy. yearning to rent this movie again.
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had the distinct opportunity of traveling with my brother via the Rajadhani Express from hyderabad to bangalore. an overnight journey that is supposed to be a pleasant relaxing experience at a price that is comparable to flying. but here’s what we got. check out the photos in full view. in one of my previous travels by this train, i have seen rats in the coaches, sometimes jumping on to sleeping people. it’s quite pitiful where railways is headed. i’d say why bother. i know flying takes a ton of overhead time/money, but this is downright filthy experience.
i wrote on my bold predictions about silicon valley’s unemployment forecast a while ago, concluding that next question is, what’s the peak? my hypothesis is that it’d be less than the 9.1% of 2003. the 2003 cycle was the dotcom bubble, pinching the Valley harder than the rest of the industries and regions. since 2008 is more organic meltdown, and the volume of labor force hasn’t risen as much as it did last time (see chart below), the unemployment rate might top out at 8.25-8.5%. and when would the good times roll again? based on the same theory of accelerated swings above, i’d say, a year from recovery that puts us into Oct-Dec 2010. apple (or may be google, facebook, whoever) probably would have a killer product for christmas, lifting us to a nice Jan 2011. i am already way off on the peak unemployment, and we aren’t even done yet. a wall street journal report on silicon valley unemployment shows a bleak picture. here’s the money chart.
the theory of accelerated swings seems to be coming true, and the peaks are getting higher. so my guess is that when it does get better, it will get better quickly. but it still might be a few months before it starts to get better.
the story is not about the disembowelment of yahoo. i don’t blame the journo-types for feasting on the story. a proud internet giant taken down by the unstoppable force of the evil empire. it’s the star-wars type of a story that is there to be played. the CEO’s must guffaw. jobs will need to get lost. heartburn to be squelched. it’s a game, and we know how it is played. they scored a touchdown on us, let the end-zone dance play out, the pompoms fly and the stadium announcers go wild. all yahoo can do is to set the ball on 30-yard line, get set, and kick it off for another set of downs. that’s what yahoo has done for 14 years, and that’s why yahoo is still here, standing tall, and it counts for something on the web. the company has been the quiet innovator of online media from day-one. it used technology to do it – and i am glad to see the company realize that it’s time to stop chasing someone else’s story. nor someone else’s technology. knowingly or unknowingly, it’s time to lose the spent rocket boosters, and look for the next source of fuel to enter a new orbit. search is NOT the product of the century – nothing can be a product of the century on the web. period. search is already a mature product. search has no feature growth potential. it only stands there to be picked off by the next best thing. with the talent and the the market position it boasts, yahoo can do build the technologies and sciences of the web that will create their own wonders for the web. being the big player in online media WILL require new technologies. the traditional cornerstone concepts of the web – like scale, like distribution, like ubiquity, like speed… will matter in this market that the also-ran’s won’t have – the cnn’s. the hulu’s. the twitters. it’s the beginning of the new season of this show. so quit writing eulogies numb nuts. NDTV has a great tribute to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Kargil war. looking at it, one has to wonder how molested the serene beauty of the landscape would have been during the war. and how faithful JP Dutta’s LOC was in paying the tributes. our solders may not look like the 6-ft cyborg’s like the marines, nor do they step out of humvees so sophisticated weaponry. but the humble jawans do have a big heart and the pride the size of the mountains they defended – even while we play scams with their coffins. http://www.ndtv.com/kargil/videos.aspx?id=nn1139114 |
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