Importance of using updated and current software

It is important that organizations use the latest software especially if they are using the software for crucial, decision making tasks.

Recent use of older version of Excel application lead to this data loss which is unforgiveable.

Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

It is not becoming of any developer to use a 2007 software which created the above situation,

You want to know the difference between then and now versions of file extension, read here.

Here is an excerpt from the link.

"XLS vs. XLSX

The current default file extension for an Excel file is XLSX. Prior to Excel 2007, the default file extension was XLS. The main difference between the two is that XLSX is an XML-based open file format and XLS is a proprietary Microsoft format. But, the newer versions of Excel save and open XLS files for the sake of compatibility with earlier versions of the program"

Can Elan Musk sell his cars in India?

 There are enough billionaires and untold millionaires to buy cars in India, including Elan Musk's. It will definitely help to reduce pollution. There are already EV's manufactured in India. I have seen one in my neighbors since 2014 or so.

https://tinyurl.com/yyky3q2j

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There are lots of other moneyed folks who can afford. 

I hope that he can make a slightly smaller foot print car. The roads are congested. I further suggest that his cars do not violate animal rights, otherwise he will be asking for trouble. You need to share roads with cows, dogs, and sometimes donkeys.

I really suggest he delays ambition to see driver-less cars.

Perhaps, he should take up my bet, and if he succeeds, then he may.

The bet is here:

https://hodentek.blogspot.com/2020/10/in-2021-elon-musk-wants-to-sell-his.html

In my opinion, India should straight away go for hydrogen cars by side stepping the lithium battery nightmare. Our landscape is already littered with the auto-industry debris. I do not like to see discarded not working batteries on the side streets.

In 2021 Elon Musk wants to sell his cars in India, I will make a bet

I will bet a phenomenal $1000 (comparing my resources to his), if he can successfully traverse the Chickpet (popular holiday shopping street) in Bengaluru in his driver-less car. This is a promise. 

If he cannot in three years after launching, he will give me $100,000

Common, be a sport.

Street scene in Chickpet, Bengaluru.

Child specialists aren't where most of India's kids are

 This subject line is not that of the author. It came from Times of India.

Here is an excerpt from the news item:

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• Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan between them account for nearly half of all children born in India each year but have barely one-sixth of the pediatricians in the country. The imbalance between where the need for child specialists is and where they are available is just as pronounced within states with most of them concentrated in the bigger cities while the villages are where most children are.
• In UP and Bihar, which have the largest child populations, for instance, a large chunk of pediatricians, about 60% and 46% respectively, are concentrated in the top few cities.
• The skew in distribution within larger states is the worst in West Bengal where over 74% of pediatricians in the state are in the Greater Kolkata region (Kolkata, Hooghly, Howrah and North and South 24 Parganas districts), followed by Telangana, where almost 69% are in the Greater Hyderabad area (Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Rangareddy districts)"

We see so many Indian doctors in most of the countries I have visited and lived in the past 50 years and there is a dearth of doctors in India, especially to look after our national treasure, the children. 

It is time the Medical schools make an attempt to educate only those who are willing to work in areas where there is a scarcity. It is time the government support students who are willing to work in place there is a scarcity. China would enforce this.

Jai Hind

More here:

https://tinyurl.com/yyzvzje3

Oracle is picked up by ByteDance for TikTok operations in the USA

 Oracle will run the ByteDance operations in the USA. Will the US government receive a part of the transaction proceeds. This means Microsoft-Wall Mart combo is out.

https://tinyurl.com/yye84nwm

If Oracle is buying ByteDance without the algorithm, then the security risk will remain.