For me, it was pretty straightforward: Money, and opportunity. Software companies here in Australia tend not to gamble so much on fresh graduates, so the majority of opportunities that were attractive financially were in the consulting (Accenture, IBM, Infosys) or Financial space. As a poor student coming out of university, when I'm given the offers of $45k/yr vs. $60k/yr, plus bonuses, it's a pretty easy decision. Work hours tend not to be onerous, workplace conditions good, and the majority are in the main CBD. After a couple of years, experience and recruitment policies tend to railroad you into the industry unless you take a major step sideways.
That said, I'm always curious what "more productive areas" of work people consider to be out there for the average software engineer.
If it is used to identify a company or product, it's a trademark.
Unless its a generic term. Then you might still also use it as part of your company or product name, but don't come back whining if some other entity use it too.
I don't think there's any specific restriction against using "generic" words in a trademark to identify your company, else every company would have to have made-up words as their names. (that said, IANAL)
To be fair, you can get some classy and yet functional digital watches, but you'd be hard pressed to find that combined with all the other features that you're looking for. Utility vs beauty alas remains a compromise.
MICHAEL WILLIAMS, who runs A Continuous Lean, a men’s style blog, ditched his Timex when he got his first cellphone in 2001.
Tyler Thoreson, the head of men’s editorial for Gilt Man, the flash sale Web site, often kept his forgettable watches stashed in a drawer.
And Eddy Chai, an owner of Odin New York, a downtown men’s boutique, gave up wearing watches regularly in his mid-20s, when he outgrew his Casio.
But after going watch-free for much of the last decade, the three men — all in their 30s and considered style influencers — are turning back time. Mr. Thoreson, 38, is shopping for a vintage gold IWC with a white dial or a Rolex GMT-Master. Mr. Chai, 38, has been wearing a vintage Rolex, loosely dangling around his wrist, “not as a timepiece, but as a piece of jewelry,” he said.
And Mr. Williams, 32, splurged on three watches: an IWC Portuguese, a Rolex GMT-Master II and an Omega Speedmaster, also known as the “moon watch,” since that is what Apollo astronauts wore.
“The men’s-wear set has recently rediscovered the joy of proper mechanical timepieces,” Mr. Williams said. “Right now there is no clearer indication of cool than wearing a watch. If it was your grandfather’s bubbleback Rolex, even better.”
As recently as a half-decade ago, time seemed to be running out for the wristwatch. With cellphones, iPods and other clock-equipped devices becoming ubiquitous, armchair sociologists were writing off the wristwatch as an antique, joining VHS tapes, Walkman players and pocket calculators on the slag heap of outmoded gadgets.
The wristwatch “may be going the way of the abacus,” declared a news article in The Sacramento Bee in 2006. The Times of London had it “going the same way as the sundial.” The Boston Globe, in a 2005 lifestyle feature, was more definitive: “Anyone who needs to know the time these days would be wise to ask someone over the age of 30. To most young people, the wristwatch is an obsolete artifact.”
Or, not.
The “sundial” of the wrist is experiencing an uptick among members of the supposed lost generation, particularly by heritage-macho types in their 20s and 30s who are drawn to the wristwatch’s retro appeal, just as they have seized on straight razors, selvedge denim and vintage vinyl.
"It’s an understated statement about your station in life, your taste level,” Mr. Thoreson said.
He got a taste of the pent-up demand last fall, when Gilt organized a high-end vintage watch sale with Benjamin Clymer, 28, who runs an online magazine for watch enthusiasts called Hodinkee.com. (Mr. Clymer, a former UBS manager, said his site attracts 250,000 unique visitors a month, more than half of them under 40.)
Fourteen of the 17 watches, with an average price of $4,800, sold in the first six hours. Gilt now holds a watch sale every month. “In certain circles,” Mr. Thoreson said, “if you don’t have a substantial timepiece with some pedigree, you feel like you’re missing out on something.”
To be fair, the doomsayers were not entirely wrong. Few people actually need a watch to tell time anymore. Melanie Shreffler, editor in chief of Ypulse, a Web site and market research company that tracks youth trends, observed, “even the high school and college students who wear watches usually pull out their cellphones to check the time.”
But that’s the point. A watch these days may strike some people as an impractical, frivolous and often costly way to express individual style. But that is just another way of saying that it’s fashion.
“Considering how casual most people dress on a day-to-day basis, a glamorous watch is one of the few accessories that can be at once sporty, luxurious and utilitarian,” the designer Michael Kors wrote in an e-mail. Mr. Kors has a line of oversize chronographs, manufact
That was one of the first features of Wave anyone I knew wanted to turn off.
It's like interrupting someone as their thoughts are coming through because you think you can guess the end of the sentence. Half-formed thoughts just fail to work in that context.
I hope this lays down a water-tight case for the NBN going ahead - or the combination of the two being a catalyst for each other. If there's one thing this is good for demonstrating, it's that future data requirements will outgrow the current infrastructure very quickly, and a project which is as far-sighted as installing FTTH throughout the country has a justification for the unforeseen benefits it can help happen.
(and bah humbug to anyone who thinks the SKA isn't justified to begin with!)
That said, where is this honest news outfit on US television* these days? They all seem rather wrapped up in their own particular slants, each catering to a clearly definable ideology.
Not that I live in the US, but surely there's some respectability still left at the news divisions of the broadcast networks, NBC/ABC/CBS? Or are those marginalised too?
That said, I think you'd be hard-pressed to suggest that CNN is catering to a clearly definable ideology.
Stimulus bills might not lead to direct money-in-people's-hands for 6 to 12 months, but there is a factor of a rising tide lifting all boats. The private sector gains some confidence that a flood of money is coming, directly or indirectly, and thus there's a need to gear up for that to take advantage of it as soon as it starts flowing. Business confidence plays as big a factor as many other economic indicators.
Unless you're into either those big-ass fugly Elton John-style glasses, or the old-skool "aviator" style frames, the difference in weight is minimal. Most glasses are a lot smaller than they were a generation ago.
As someone who has had both with the same prescription on similar sized frames (which aren't "aviator style")... no. It's a noticeable difference that particularly makes a difference by the end of the day.
The coke-bottle-bottoms effect comes from the standard plastic lens having to be thicker to achieve the same degree of correction, made worse by combining it with one of the older, bigger eye glass frames.
Did you not see what I said about the degree of refraction? Higher index plastic lenses are on par with glass, but the "coke bottle bottom" effect comes about because of the correction, not the thickness of the lens. You're more likely to observe that with higher index glass lenses than with plastic lenses, actually, since that tends to be used for the higher degrees of correction - though either one will have a similar affect once you get out past -9 or so.
(2) It's not a "wall" in the sense that TFS/TFA makes it out to be, it's just a quick way to do an @reply to the user whose profile you're looking at. Many Twitter clients already have a "reply to this user" button to achieve the same thing.
It's just a box which fills in the user's @name into your next tweet when you're looking at their profile. It's nothing like the "wall" that Facebook has at the moment.
If you have an issue with your real identity being too easy for people to "infer" when you're using a fake name on a social network... I'm thinking social networks aren't for you. What, are you Batman?
You're looking at a hierarchy there - a more primitive form of this might be self > family > tribe > nation > race. (> species if you must - humans before other animals, for instance)
It can work up to a (small) tribe level because you "know" everyone in the tribe within a couple of degrees of separation at most, and you can expect reciprocation enforced by the limited degrees of separation. Beyond that, the incentives for reciprocation drops off quite quickly.
I didn't read the Aussie legal code, but it would be the only country I know where publishing the info of foreign governments is a crime.
There's no legal proceedings against Assange in Australia, so I don't know where you're bringing that in. The Australian Federal Police (AFP, Australia's FBI) noted that they co-operated with Americans investigating, but that's not out of the ordinary given reciprocal agreements in place. The Attorney General also noted that they're provided Assange with consular assistance during his British extradition case, so the Aussie government has nothing against him in the legal sense.
You are of course assuming that the banks don't know about imaginary and complex number exploitation. How exactly do you think they got a profit out of the greatest financial crash since the Great Depression that they created *and* got bailed out to the tune of $700bn?
Slashdot Mirror
Not that hard. Excel, front of house. Linux, back of house.
For me, it was pretty straightforward: Money, and opportunity. Software companies here in Australia tend not to gamble so much on fresh graduates, so the majority of opportunities that were attractive financially were in the consulting (Accenture, IBM, Infosys) or Financial space. As a poor student coming out of university, when I'm given the offers of $45k/yr vs. $60k/yr, plus bonuses, it's a pretty easy decision. Work hours tend not to be onerous, workplace conditions good, and the majority are in the main CBD. After a couple of years, experience and recruitment policies tend to railroad you into the industry unless you take a major step sideways.
That said, I'm always curious what "more productive areas" of work people consider to be out there for the average software engineer.
Copyright != Trademark. Just you go try to trademark iStore and watch how quickly the Apple Legal ninjas jump on you.
Where exactly is their hostile approach to OS X software development?
iOS, sure, is a little more locked away, but your point seems to rest on the basis of your 2006 MacBook experience.
If it is used to identify a company or product, it's a trademark.
Unless its a generic term. Then you might still also use it as part of your company or product name, but don't come back whining if some other entity use it too.
You mean like Apple Corps v Apple?
I don't think there's any specific restriction against using "generic" words in a trademark to identify your company, else every company would have to have made-up words as their names. (that said, IANAL)
To be fair, you can get some classy and yet functional digital watches, but you'd be hard pressed to find that combined with all the other features that you're looking for. Utility vs beauty alas remains a compromise.
Forgot the byline: By ALEX WILLIAMS
MICHAEL WILLIAMS, who runs A Continuous Lean, a men’s style blog, ditched his Timex when he got his first cellphone in 2001.
Tyler Thoreson, the head of men’s editorial for Gilt Man, the flash sale Web site, often kept his forgettable watches stashed in a drawer.
And Eddy Chai, an owner of Odin New York, a downtown men’s boutique, gave up wearing watches regularly in his mid-20s, when he outgrew his Casio.
But after going watch-free for much of the last decade, the three men — all in their 30s and considered style influencers — are turning back time. Mr. Thoreson, 38, is shopping for a vintage gold IWC with a white dial or a Rolex GMT-Master. Mr. Chai, 38, has been wearing a vintage Rolex, loosely dangling around his wrist, “not as a timepiece, but as a piece of jewelry,” he said.
And Mr. Williams, 32, splurged on three watches: an IWC Portuguese, a Rolex GMT-Master II and an Omega Speedmaster, also known as the “moon watch,” since that is what Apollo astronauts wore.
“The men’s-wear set has recently rediscovered the joy of proper mechanical timepieces,” Mr. Williams said. “Right now there is no clearer indication of cool than wearing a watch. If it was your grandfather’s bubbleback Rolex, even better.”
As recently as a half-decade ago, time seemed to be running out for the wristwatch. With cellphones, iPods and other clock-equipped devices becoming ubiquitous, armchair sociologists were writing off the wristwatch as an antique, joining VHS tapes, Walkman players and pocket calculators on the slag heap of outmoded gadgets.
The wristwatch “may be going the way of the abacus,” declared a news article in The Sacramento Bee in 2006. The Times of London had it “going the same way as the sundial.” The Boston Globe, in a 2005 lifestyle feature, was more definitive: “Anyone who needs to know the time these days would be wise to ask someone over the age of 30. To most young people, the wristwatch is an obsolete artifact.”
Or, not.
The “sundial” of the wrist is experiencing an uptick among members of the supposed lost generation, particularly by heritage-macho types in their 20s and 30s who are drawn to the wristwatch’s retro appeal, just as they have seized on straight razors, selvedge denim and vintage vinyl.
"It’s an understated statement about your station in life, your taste level,” Mr. Thoreson said.
He got a taste of the pent-up demand last fall, when Gilt organized a high-end vintage watch sale with Benjamin Clymer, 28, who runs an online magazine for watch enthusiasts called Hodinkee.com. (Mr. Clymer, a former UBS manager, said his site attracts 250,000 unique visitors a month, more than half of them under 40.)
Fourteen of the 17 watches, with an average price of $4,800, sold in the first six hours. Gilt now holds a watch sale every month. “In certain circles,” Mr. Thoreson said, “if you don’t have a substantial timepiece with some pedigree, you feel like you’re missing out on something.”
To be fair, the doomsayers were not entirely wrong. Few people actually need a watch to tell time anymore. Melanie Shreffler, editor in chief of Ypulse, a Web site and market research company that tracks youth trends, observed, “even the high school and college students who wear watches usually pull out their cellphones to check the time.”
But that’s the point. A watch these days may strike some people as an impractical, frivolous and often costly way to express individual style. But that is just another way of saying that it’s fashion.
“Considering how casual most people dress on a day-to-day basis, a glamorous watch is one of the few accessories that can be at once sporty, luxurious and utilitarian,” the designer Michael Kors wrote in an e-mail. Mr. Kors has a line of oversize chronographs, manufact
That was one of the first features of Wave anyone I knew wanted to turn off.
It's like interrupting someone as their thoughts are coming through because you think you can guess the end of the sentence. Half-formed thoughts just fail to work in that context.
(Warning: Australian content ahead!)
I hope this lays down a water-tight case for the NBN going ahead - or the combination of the two being a catalyst for each other. If there's one thing this is good for demonstrating, it's that future data requirements will outgrow the current infrastructure very quickly, and a project which is as far-sighted as installing FTTH throughout the country has a justification for the unforeseen benefits it can help happen.
(and bah humbug to anyone who thinks the SKA isn't justified to begin with!)
You mean the press is doing *investigative* journalism? Viva la revolucion!
That said, where is this honest news outfit on US television* these days? They all seem rather wrapped up in their own particular slants, each catering to a clearly definable ideology.
Not that I live in the US, but surely there's some respectability still left at the news divisions of the broadcast networks, NBC/ABC/CBS? Or are those marginalised too?
That said, I think you'd be hard-pressed to suggest that CNN is catering to a clearly definable ideology.
Stimulus bills might not lead to direct money-in-people's-hands for 6 to 12 months, but there is a factor of a rising tide lifting all boats. The private sector gains some confidence that a flood of money is coming, directly or indirectly, and thus there's a need to gear up for that to take advantage of it as soon as it starts flowing. Business confidence plays as big a factor as many other economic indicators.
So on the one hand, they spent so much for no effect! we haven't recovered back to where we were before!
On the other hand, they spent so little that it made no difference! any recovery was a coincidence!
Something does not reconcile here.
Unless you're into either those big-ass fugly Elton John-style glasses, or the old-skool "aviator" style frames, the difference in weight is minimal. Most glasses are a lot smaller than they were a generation ago.
As someone who has had both with the same prescription on similar sized frames (which aren't "aviator style")... no. It's a noticeable difference that particularly makes a difference by the end of the day.
The coke-bottle-bottoms effect comes from the standard plastic lens having to be thicker to achieve the same degree of correction, made worse by combining it with one of the older, bigger eye glass frames.
Did you not see what I said about the degree of refraction? Higher index plastic lenses are on par with glass, but the "coke bottle bottom" effect comes about because of the correction, not the thickness of the lens. You're more likely to observe that with higher index glass lenses than with plastic lenses, actually, since that tends to be used for the higher degrees of correction - though either one will have a similar affect once you get out past -9 or so.
(1) Twitter.com is the biggest single client for interaction with Twitter: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/report-use-of-third-party-twitter-clients-dwindles-to-42-percent/
(2) It's not a "wall" in the sense that TFS/TFA makes it out to be, it's just a quick way to do an @reply to the user whose profile you're looking at. Many Twitter clients already have a "reply to this user" button to achieve the same thing.
It's just a box which fills in the user's @name into your next tweet when you're looking at their profile. It's nothing like the "wall" that Facebook has at the moment.
If you think about it, Circles is just an implementation of GMail's labels applied to contacts.
If you have an issue with your real identity being too easy for people to "infer" when you're using a fake name on a social network... I'm thinking social networks aren't for you. What, are you Batman?
You're looking at a hierarchy there - a more primitive form of this might be self > family > tribe > nation > race. (> species if you must - humans before other animals, for instance)
It can work up to a (small) tribe level because you "know" everyone in the tribe within a couple of degrees of separation at most, and you can expect reciprocation enforced by the limited degrees of separation. Beyond that, the incentives for reciprocation drops off quite quickly.
They're also more fragile and heavy, relatively unsuited to active uses.
The coke-bottle-bottoms effect comes from the degree of refraction, not the material used.
It introduces the very scary concept of a curve in the road, which many Americans living in cities are unfamiliar with.
Jesus, that's only voted the 4th scariest intersection in Britain?
I didn't read the Aussie legal code, but it would be the only country I know where publishing the info of foreign governments is a crime.
There's no legal proceedings against Assange in Australia, so I don't know where you're bringing that in. The Australian Federal Police (AFP, Australia's FBI) noted that they co-operated with Americans investigating, but that's not out of the ordinary given reciprocal agreements in place. The Attorney General also noted that they're provided Assange with consular assistance during his British extradition case, so the Aussie government has nothing against him in the legal sense.
You are of course assuming that the banks don't know about imaginary and complex number exploitation. How exactly do you think they got a profit out of the greatest financial crash since the Great Depression that they created *and* got bailed out to the tune of $700bn?