If you have been following tech news recently, you would be aware that Amazon has already started levying sales tax in several states across the US. (Currently – Arizona; California; Kansas; Kentucky; New York; North Dakota; Pennsylvania; Texas; Washington, but soon to be all states, if the proposed legislation goes through.) There has been a lot written about this in the past several days.
Anyway, as someone who has been affected by the state taxes (the state I am in right now collects sales tax ), I have some theories on how well Amazon may continue to do.
1) Same day delivery a definite possibility – This is what a lot of sites have been predicting. Amazon will build warehouses close to you and offer same day delivery. How do I know this ? My most recent offers shipped from a warehouse some 30 miles away from where I live. Earlier, it would do a cross country from some state that was miles away.
2) Sales tax is a big turn off – There are two things about state taxes I hate. One – I end up paying more, and everyone hates that. Two – I hate it when the tax is applied at the end, and I am like whoa! that suddenly sounds expensive. I like to see price and buy at that price. I don’t like to calculate in my head what x% of that amount is and then add it to the amount. It’s a big turn off!
3) How competitive will the prices be compared to Brick and Mortar companies ? – Hard to say – with the addition of tax, I find that some of the items I bought recently were the same price or even lesser in some cases at stores like Walmart.
4) Why buy on-line ? For a long time now, the model has been, go to a store, take a look at an item, and then go order it on Amazon for far fewer dollars. I think that trend may now change. I could look up prices on Amazon, read product reviews, and then go to a store, and buy it if it is the same price or less. Why wait, and why buy on Amazon ?
5) Planned vs Impulsive – I feel people that buy on Amazon are generally well planned. They have staked out an item for some time, seen the price fall and rise, (Through wishlist) and determined that the price it is at right now is as good as it gets. Then we order it, and don’t mind if we have to wait even a week till the package arrives at the door. Impulsive shoppers on the other hand, go to a mall, look at something and say – that’s something I got to have. Impulsive shoppers could also possibly buy stuff on Amazon, depending on how lazy they are. However, I feel that if the price difference advantage goes away, people that plan out their purchases might not really want to wait. They might head to stores…
I haven’t ranted in a while. I think whenever I am at my busiest, or at least supposed to be, is when I have been taking to blogging in recent times. I have a pile of work to do before 8 am tomorrow, and yet, here I am wasting time. Well, I was wasting time anyway, so thought might as well write a blog post – since I haven’t written one in a long long time.
I am almost done with my Masters degree, and I look forward to the vacation to India in a month from now. It’s a bit of a relief. Two years back, when I quit my job as a software developer to pursue my Masters in Electrical Engineering, I was sure that that’s what I wanted to do. But I had no plans on what to do after that. And now that I am almost done, I am not sure what I want to do. I know I need to work here in the US for a couple of years at the very least, because I need to repay the loan I had to take out to pay for my Masters degree. But what after that ?
I don’t know – that’s what I am really confused about. What do I want to do next ? I know there are a lot many things I have wanted to do. On the academic front, I want to do a PhD. On a personal front, there is so much I have wanted to do, and things got put on hold for some reason or another. I like to watch movies, I like to read books, I like to play some sport – badminton, tennis, I like to watch sitcoms, I like to go on trips, I like to program for a hobby, I even wanted to learn to plan the Guitar. In fact, I used to do most of these things quite regularly. But for all of these, I need both time and money. I know I can surely manage that if I just go to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. The pay is good, and you have a lot of time to yourselves. But then I would not be able to accomplish all of the things I wanted to on the academic front.
On the other hand, a PhD is a huge undertaking. I can write away what little is left of my youth to slogging over research. Sure, I will still have time to do all of the things I want to on a personal front, after I am done with the PhD, but I will be putting them away for so many more years. Again, with the PhD, I am not sure what I will do after it.
Life seems so confusing. One thing I have not missed is watching TV (except maybe when I was in school, and used to come home to Cartoon Network), or watching Cricket matches on TV. I do sometimes miss playing cricket as well. It’s been so long since I played cricket. Damn it! I liked it when I was younger and more impulsive, and just went ahead and did things.
You know, I have always had this anger building inside of me. Every time I hear it, I flinch. Every time I read about it, I clench my fists, and bare my teeth. And every time someone mentions it in a context I think is crazy, I nearly lose it.
Well, what set off the ticking time bomb then ? Why rant about it suddenly ? Couple of things- My exams just got over, and I finally (finally x n! times) have time to myself, I was just recently profile jumping through Linkedin (that’s right, I stalk people on Linkedin and not Facebook) and something on the page caught my eye – it said ‘Good Team Player’!! Well, I did the next thing best to punching the floor. I switched tabs, and started punching on my keyboard furiously.
(Ok, now that the anger is out of the way, phew!) Well, to be honest, I think being a good (quote)team player(unquote) is important. But you know what’s more important ? Defining that term correctly.
Here’s what a good team worker is in my opinion,
Person a: Hey, how’s work coming along ?
Person b: Great. Very nearly done with everything. I think we should be able to complete ahead of schedule. How are things coming along at your end ?
Person a: That’s awesome. Pretty good too.
….. sometime later
Person b: Hey, can you help me with a little something. I seem to be stuck.
Person a: Sure, let’s head over to your desk.
….. and 2 minutes later.
Person b: Thanks mate. Let me get back to work then. Thanks a bunch.
…… and for 2 months they never have to bother each other. See, that’s how things work. You always help each other out. Person a is a good team player.
Now here’s another scenario:
Person c: Hey, how’s work coming along ?
Person d: Listen dude, I am really awfully stuck here. You need to help me out. Really.
Person c: Oh, so how far have you gotten ?
Person d: See, that’s part of the issue. I was never really sure what I was supposed to do. If you can come take a look at it, I am sure “we” as “a team” can get it done in practically no time.
Person c: Gee, sorry, but I have some work to do on my own. Maybe you should talk to someone else. Manager to Person c: You did an outstanding job on your part/schematic/circuit/code. You even finished it a full week before it was due. But see, you could have helped Person d. You need to be a better team player. You get a “B-”. Let’s try to do better next time. Person c: That’s it – I QUIT!!
….. See, Person c there is obviously not a team player, right ? Right ? See, that’s why I get green when someone pulls that “team player” crap on me.
Now here’s a “team player instead”
Person d: See, that’s part of the issue. I was never really sure what I was supposed to do. If you can come take a look at it, I am sure “we” as “a team” can get it done in practically no time.
Person e: Oh, you know, even I don’t know what I am doing. Let’s head over to your desk and figure things out, then we will head over mine and figure things out.
…. after a week of plodding through and making no progress,
Person d/e: Person c – can you help us out ? We are stuck.
Manager to d/e: You guys really worked hard this quarter. Sure, some things could have been better, but I have never seen such wonderful camaraderie and team spirit. You guys are good “Team Players”. An “A” for you two then.
Moral of the story: Everybody has their interpretation of Team Player, but if you are on the losing team, it doesn’t matter – you lost. (So, if you are on the losing team, and think you fit the description of Person c, what are you doing reading this post, quit now!!)
P.S: Mahendra Singh Dhoni – if you read this, please don’t use this as an excuse to ask Sachin to Retire. (even if Srinivasan things you deserve an A)
A good friend of mine, posted a link to this article on Facebook, and being vetti, I went ahead and read it. Now being the kind of person who has a very strong point of view on most things in life, I certainly do not agree with Justice Katju. While I could be juvenile, and dismiss him off as an idiot, like many others do in the comments section, I think the more appropriate thing to do is, think openly about a few things.
“I advised Tamilians to learn Hindi”
Absolutely nothing wrong with it. But everyone should decide on their own on what they want to do with that advice. After all, if everyone listened to every other stupid person’s advice, Sachin Tendulkar would have retired ages back.
But saying that, I leave it to you – you decide, and then constantly nagging, trying to justify what you said over and over again, it not letting you decide freely – well, that is compellingly compelling.
Person 1: Do you want to ice-cream or a cookie ? Person 2: I’ll take the cookie Person 1: But the ice-cream is really good. Person 2: No thanks, I’ll still take the cookie. Person 1: Are you sure ? the ice-cream is nice and cold. Person 2: Can I please have the cookie ? Person 1: Well, it’s your choice. All I am saying it, the ice-cream is a better choice over the cookie. Person 2: $%$# you. Do me a favor and stick both up your rear en*!!
Do you see how annoying that is ?
“the number of Hindi speakers would be about 15 times that of Tamil speakers.”
My dear Justice Katju, let me point out to you that the majority of the world’s population speaks Mandarin Chinese. Why don’t you learn it ? Maybe you already know it. So why don’t you advice people to learn it ?
Let me make my point more clear – it is not to heckle poor Mr. Katju. Have you heard the proverb “While in Rome, be a Roman” ? Yes, it makes sense to learn a language if you are going to be visiting a place where the language is used predominantly or solely. Let’s say you were going to go on a short/decently long trip to Spain – don’t you take trouble to learn at least a few common phrases of the language ? But do you sit home and learn Spanish, so that if Spaniard tourists were to visit your city, you can give them directions ?
Same with Hindi.If you expect to be posted/travel to a place where the majority of the population speaks Hindi, then by all means buy the “Rapidex guide to learning Hindi in 10 minutes” book – more seriously, learn the common phrases, learn what will get you by your day to day life at the very least. But, should you learn it on the off-chance that might happen ? Maybe not, for the same reason that you will not learn Chinese on the off-chance that you will travel to China.
See my gripe stems from the fact that, Mr Katju doesn’t advise Hindi speaking populace to learn Tamil when they visit Tamil Nadu. While in Tamil Nadu, speak Tamil. The problem stems from the fact that “Northies” coming into Tamil Nadu, expect to be spoken to in Hindi, served hot Parathas at Kaiyendhi Bhavan, and want the crappiest of Hindi movies to be released ahead of Tamil movies. They will also walk up to a shop and inquire in Hindi ‘you don’t know Hindi’ ? The Germans and French don’t respond to people who talk to them in English even if they know English. Did you know that ? You would be very unwelcome if you constantly tried to force them to converse with you in English.
Mr. Katju, being the literary expert he is, also also disregards Urdu,
“Pakistanis (who number about 200 million) also speak Hindi, though they call it Urdu” he claims blatantly. Any dimwit with half a school education should know that Urdu is not Hindi.
“Anyone coming from Tamil Nadu to other parts of India will realise this. Without knowing Hindi he will experience great difficulty”
This, I agree with.
Back to the point of, When in Rome – be a Roman.
“I fully support the demand that lawyers in the Madras High Court should be allowed to argue in Tamil (except before judges who have come on a transfer from other States“
Why should judges who come from other states not learn Tamil, in the same way anyone from Tamil Nadu going to other parts of India should learn other languages ? This is very simply and definitely double standards.
Mr. Katju, your suggestion is absurd and inconsistent. I have considered your suggestion. It doesn’t make sense. I reject it. Thank you. Maybe you should sit down and “think rationally about this, and it would make sense”.
For those who feel strongly against the Justice Katju’s article, Although not entirely on the same matter, I suggest reading this slightly old other post.
Edit : 16-Dec-2012
It would be unfair to leave out a few details here. I generally do not talk about myself on my posts or my blog. (At least not the relevant details.) However, some things need a special mention. As a student I studied Hindi in school, till I ditched it in favour of French for my last two years in School. I did Tamil as a third language, and learnt to read and write. I can already talk Tamil well enough. Now, why did I learn Hindi ? Well, it’s hard to say that as a kid that I had a choice in the matter,but I can say with confidence that if I were asked today, I’d pick the same. Why ? Why not ? Do my actions need to be justifiable ? No, not as long as they don’t affect others. But I’ll say this – I’ll do whatever the frig pleases me. And I will not have someone tell me I cannot learn Hindi if I want to – just as I will not have someone tell someone else that they should learn Hindi even if they don’t want to, and shove it down their throat.
Do I fell I can communicate and bond with people better because I know Hindi ? No. I in fact converse in English when the other person talks to me in Hindi or Tamil (unless they are already close enough, at which point, it makes no sense any more.) I don’t let anyone “arey yaar” me into giving them my homework just as much as I don’t let anyone “enna machi” me into doing the same. There are no favours. Well, but that’s just at the student to student – colleague to colleague level. In those circles, if you can’t talk to me in English, get the hell out, and do me a favour by not talking to me. Would I treat a ‘rickshaw wallah’ or an ‘auto kaaran’ the same way ? Of course not. I would try my best to get my message across in a tongue they understand.
Enough about me already. The other important thing is, this post is not about whether or not you should learn a language. This post is about one man, trying to force his ill-formed opinion upon others in the name of advice. So, I did my research on Justice Katju – I thought he didn’t know Urdu. So I listened to an interview on ‘Walk the Talk’. He quoted Urdu poetry effusively, and I thought to myself, my God, did I make a mistake in thinking this guy was cuckoo ? But then it dawned on me that if he knew Urdu and made a statement that went “They speak Hindi too – they just call it Urdu”, he was not an ignoramus. He was being a Machiavellian. He was purposefully misleading or misguiding people. Also, if you take the trouble of watching the video,
I have nothing against Intel – It’s a great company that has given us processors that have powered our desktops and laptops for many many years, and done extremely well at it. I also think that if they thought of the ultra-book, then it is a pretty neat idea, (Sure, calling it Windows air would have meant Apple took to the courts before you could say sue.) although with some of the laptops Dell claims to be Ultrabooks, one wonders what an Ultrabook really is.
But see, when someone [Acer] makes an advertisement [attaching the Ultrabook name to it] which is so dumb, that even the dumb will find it hard not to think of it as dumb, it’s just very sad.
In this particular advertisement, Megan Fox (yes, Megan Fox) apparently uses an ‘Ultrabook’ to inspire herself ? and a bunch of other scientists to hear a Dolphin talk.
There are so many things that are not right with the advertisement, that you find yourself shaking your head, twisting your mouth, wrinkling your nose, doing strange things with your eyebrows, while it plays out. Here are some irritants,
I Googled on Megan Fox (no no, not images ), and did not find any place, where it said she was involved in any kind of research, leave alone with dolphins. Her Wikipedia article doesn’t carry any such information either.
When you want to do a lot of research, and let’s say you want to crunch a lot of numbers, or run complex programs, what kind of computer do you use ? A server ? A server farm ? Vector Processors ? (aha, you know your Computer Architecture) Of course not – you use a sleek laptop, or wait, Ultrabook. Right ?
I am sure loads of people that have been researching Dolphins, and have dedicated their lives to it must be going – ‘Duh! I should have bought an Ultrabook’. Oh, and have Megan Fox read stories to the Dolphins.
There are at least 6 other researchers in the video, but it has to be Megan Fox that has to do the ‘adjusting’ before the Dolphin’s voice can be deciphered. That’s how inspired you can be with an Ultrabook, you can go to NASA mission control, and say, “ok, thrusters full power”, and all the scientists who spent the better part of their lives giving to the program will go, “Oooh, let’s clap and hug other scientists”
Oh, and on day 103, Intel announced their next processor.
So, she asks ‘How’s it going’, and suggests something like ‘Let’s increase the high frequency by 10%’. All of you guys and girls out there, who want to sound intelligent in team meetings, take note. That’s all you need to sound/seem like a researcher. Oh, that and you always have to wear a white coat to seem like a researcher.
I think one Youtube comment (and not even a mean or nasty one) sums it up for me, “All I got from this ad is that Megan Fox owes some poor restaurant two lobsters.“
Edit:
Youtube does some justice, by blocking Megan off the video Life is fair after all.
Ok, no ‘vs’ in the title there. I am not doing a comparison anyway. It isn’t fair to compare two bikes with completely different displacements.
Just a few months back, when I was looking for an affordable bike to buy, the options were limited – I could only narrow down to the Ninja 250 and the CBR 250R. I somehow found the look of the Ninja 250 quite dated, and cludgy. The CBR in comparison looked sleek and new. (partly because it was).
The CBR 250R promo video was also pretty well made,
I hadn’t seen anything on the Ninja 250R, but found this ok, but not-so-great video,
Now, Kawasaki announced the Ninja 300 just a few months back, and although I might have wanted to go for it, I couldn’t wait, and went in for the Honda CBR 250R instead. I am pretty happy with the CBR 250R – would have just preferred the Ninja 300.
The Ninja 300 promo video is mind-blowing,
Just a few days back, Honda announced a few new bikes – of which I found the CBR500R the most appealing. However, the promo video is a complete let down. It feels like it’s a video from the 90′s. Two decades back.
YAWN!!
This other video is slightly better,
Of course, this post has nothing to do with the merits of the bikes themselves.
On a closing note, the Pulsar 220 ad still seems to best all of these. The bike itself looks a little puny when you look at it now.
Ok, apparently this is at least a year old as I write about, but I happened to come across some songs that Shankar Tucker produces and uploads on youtube. Most of them are pretty good. Now, I am by no means a trained musician, nor do I claim to know music. But like anyone and everyone, I have my own preferences. I am generally open to any genre as long as it is engaging enough. (almost any genre. Pop makes me want to puke most times.)
Now, it is not true that my parents did not try and get me to learn a musical instrument. While my siblings could all play the Violin, thanks to my army school, all I could play (and not even well at that), was the Bugle. My dad made every effort to enrol me in a music class post the army school stint, but he wanted me to learn keyboard (by now, Violin was obviously out of the equation) and I wanted to play the drums. Stalemate.
Many many years later, I tried learning guitar on my own, and even blew a decent amount on a Cort acoustic guitar, making sure I only replaced the strings with D’Addario when I broke them. (which was, well, once too often) After about 6 months of playing with it, I had learnt nothing. Two flights and a few time-zones later, I was a few thousand miles away from my guitar, and more than a year and a half has gone by. The gist of it – can’t play instruments – don’t know music. I shall make every effort to try and learn again.
Anyway, back to the point of the post, this is the song under discussion,
What was amusing, other than the video, which I think is a little goofy (not that I mean that negatively at all), was the pronunciations of a couple of words. The post title gives away one of them. As[h]ai. S[h]olven. Nes[h]am. If you spoke Tamil, then you’d probably know that these words are alternatively, and perhaps more predominantly pronounced Asai, Solven,Nesam. Now, hailing from a PI (Palakkad Iyer – Tamilians who are somehow associated with Palakkad in Kerala, and as a result speak in a uniquely different way which combines Tamil and some Malayalam, and some other stuff, that neither camp understands. ) family myself, I could instantly recognize the pronunciations.
My reaction was a mix of curiosity and incredulity. Very few people I know still speak like this today. My parents’ generation does. My grandparents’ generation most certainly does. But I know very few people of my age group who still speak this way. People still do, and I am sure I have other relatives who look at me and say ‘how come he doesn’t speak like us?’, but even so, the PI Tamil speaking population is a little limited.
If you have never heard PI Tamil before, here’s probably a good (I might include one of the more popular) reference,
I heard S[h]eri as I was previewing the video. [chuckles]
Anyway, as I was thinking about how the pronunciation was amusing, I got to reading the comments on the video, and the amusement vanished. Of course, as always sensible people exist, but a good number of people taking a stand for no particular reason. I would like to heard some of these people speak Tamil. Take people in Chennai [Sennai anyone ?] for instance.
I am reminded of a day when I was still in college (oh, wait, I still am only different place, and different time) when one of my classmates said something that went ‘Anga rendu ver nikkian, inga rendu ver nikkian‘ and I burst out laughing. He joined in. I later learnt that in Tirunelveli Tamil, that meant ‘there are two guys standing there, and two guys standing here’. I sure as hell don’t remember anyone asking him not to ‘mispronounce’ words.
Back to the sisters, their rendition of ‘Nee Ninaindhal’ is also pretty good. Munbe Va – umm, not so much.
[Edit - Nov-19] As I continued reading the comments section on YouTube, my amusement only increased with each comment. I think the comments can pretty broadly be classified into the following (actually, a lot of YouTube videos have comments that fall into these categories. Some of the videos are richer in the diversity of comments though. )
I [y]am the save the Tamil Language/I will criticize thee, and also contradict myself/An*l retentive:
Several of the ‘your mis-pronunciation spoil the beauty of the song’, fall under this broad category. Here are some of these jokers,
“How ‘sai’ can become shai? can sit become shit?..you have a wonderful voice …just some caution while pronouncing language will help.”
“music is gd…but ashingamaana pronounciation…sucks “
“tamil and our people means perfection. we lost it.because of cultural invasion like u broadminded hypocrates headed people spoiled in all the way. great work enjoy.”
“great work , sibilance sound always have fanciness and attractiveness but any change in language looses its basic property.i don’t think the poet will accept this.Musically its advanced and inspiring.”
“Hi– if this is repetition– sorry… Pls pronounce Thamizh words in Thamizh phonetics only– there is a sanskrit flavor heard.. especially while listening to S sound – it is ASAI- not ASHAI, it is Solven – not SHOLVEN … it is NESAM – not NESHAM– The song title itself shown as ÄSHAI— please correct it…! The lovely voice flowing to heart– but the pronouncing of words hitting back… Plss”
I defend thee: Several of the ‘give them a break’ comments fall under this category,
“Excellent.They are singing their hearts out and all you can do is criticize their pronunciation?A language,any language for that matter,is meant to be spoken freely.”
“AWESOMENESS……………….………there is no wrong in the pronunciation of “sha”……………super innovation…..inner meaning and eternal music have created a good product……..all the best”
I don’t know Tamil, but I am totally dig this song: (after going to Google translate and typing - எனக்கு சுத்தமா தமிழ் தெரியாது , ஆனா நான் இந்த பாட்டை ரொம்ப தோண்டுவேன் )
“I am Like this Song And My Life Chan..ging Very Help This Song And This 2 Sister Thank Sister”
“Kudos to shankar tucker and the singer sisters, beautiful job, i dont knoe tamil, don’t even get one word, but cant help listening it multiple times every day, same goes with the other 2 songs as well “Nee Nenaindal” and “Munbe Va”"
People who are from the Snail Mail Era:, and write Dear Sir, Dear Madams and please find enclosed herein
“Hi Shankar Tucker….” O, hello there yourself.
Hyper People/ The punctuation-ally challenged/The SMS speak:
“awesome songs you guys are super!!!!”
“fantastic Superb song…singers …music……”
“Just <3 der voice”
The woefully misinformed:
“It not different dialects, its english influence but still good to listen to.” - right then.
“they are brahmins , they incorporate sanskrit alot in their daily vocabs. Nothing wrong.” – yes, GRE Voabs 800/800
“These are pure tamil word we often use in srilankan tamil” - Ok, maybe I am misinformed, but really ?
The Trolls:
“12345″
I [y]am know music better than you B**es:
(well, that’s just figurative. The category would have remained even if it was for a Justin Beiber song.) But these are at least way better than the ‘don’t spaail the Tamil comments’
“Very amateurish. No feelings or emotional connection. This sort of retro rerecording has become a fad. The singers lack basic understanding of music, melody and raga. Gamakams are half-baked at best and blatantly incorrect at worst.”
“singing is bad..no breath control”
“its..ok..nothing grt !! “
I am suck so much at this:
“Hi.. am **. love this song so much.. i am so bad in singing.. but i feel so good when sing this song.. I tried n recorded..pls comment if u do hear..(at ur own risk) “
The pirates:
“How to download this song.. pls give me link..”
The disliker dislikers:
“.and why their are bloody 110 dislikes…probably some alliens”
“108 deaf people came here.”
The lower-case Challenged
“TAMIL LANGUAGE MUST B SAVED AND THE GIRLS DID WELL BUT INDIAN MUSIC NEEDS PRONUNCIATION AND ITS VERY IMPORATANT………………”
The teachers/reviewers [go, and redo it I say]
“Beauty of language is in its words and at least when one is singing it is VERY important to pronounce well. Girls sing well, I am sure they can correct pronunciation and redo… All the best”
Ok, as I going on reading, I am find more categories, but I think for now this should suffice. More, when I am bored.
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), I have some theories on how well Amazon may continue to do.
However, I feel that if the price difference advantage goes away, people that plan out their purchases might not really want to wait. They might head to stores…
to slogging over research. Sure, I will still have time to do all of the things I want to on a personal front, after I am done with the PhD, but I will be putting them away for so many more years. Again, with the PhD, I am not sure what I will do after it.
