I used to be in that class too. I flew at least 3 trips a week, 4 weeks a month. After the second year of less travel, they forget about you. I think I was only 20,000 miles away from "Diamond for Life", but the new job paid less (but I was home more!), and I didn't travel in time for the offer to expire. I now fly cattle-class all the time since you can't buy upgrades to business class unless you have gold or better status from that year.
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I'm in middle to low-level management. The last two positions I had to hire for (both IT related... one was for a technician, and one was for a technical project manager) had over 1,000 resumes that were submitted to the job posting. We only had our posting online for two weeks.
There is no way I could ever comprehend that many resumes. So, I'm only left to do some filters. First filter is for a college education. Why? It's one clear thing that sets people apart. Sure, I'm throwing away 60% of the people -- many of them who are probably really good, but I have to filter on something.
Next thing I usually filter on is certain technologies. I put a lot of "required" technologies in the job posting. If you aren't smart enough to put those same words into your resume and/or cover letter, you are out. That usually boils down the number of resumes I need to look at to about 120 or so. From there I somehow have to figure out how to not spend the next two months interviewing people.. I usually get about 10 - 12 in the door to an interview.
It's a sad fact, but you have a 88% chance of having your resume NOT hitting my desk. If you are applying for a job, you have to look at the requirements, the posting and every other clue the company gives you to get past the filters. You have to treat applying for a job like a job. Once you get in the door is when you can bedazzle them with your knowledge. The resume is just to get IN the door.
Oh, and I know you personally, that always helps. I will tell you specifically what I am looking for and help you get around the filters. You will still need to stack up to the best of the crop that I'm looking at.
In one department in my organization, it has somehow become practice to email the entire organization letting people know if they are planning on being out of the office, or simply leaving early for the day. We have 1,200 people, and I've never met, nor interacted with this department (nor will I ever have to). We get an average of 10 emails from them a week, with it getting much worse this time of year. The PHBs all the way up the chain like it because they know these people's schedules (they also don't share their calendars like the rest of the org does).
In Michigan, you can buy just about everything from local grocers, liquor stores or even bars. Heck, there used to be an old drive-thru liquor store (before that, it was a car-wash). You could buy a cup with ice for $1.
As far as fun things to do... we got lots of outdoors, more lakeshore than any other state, hunt, fish, bike, oh, and drive places... since we do cars too.
Not all SWFs are AS3 -- quite a few of the older ones out there are still AS2 -- and all but two of the demos they've provided are AS2.
By looking at the code, it looks like they've implemented maybe half of the opcodes in the SWF spec for AS3. They got the easiest ones for graphics, but they are missing all the networking ones, most of the effect, and a lot of the event handling. They still have a LONG way to go before they can say they run even a portion of the Flash apps out there.
On a side note to those who are interested in the project -- Apache just released a flash compiler (the former Flex compiler), and a second, next gen compiler for ActionScript. It's available on the Apache Flex Incubation Project (http://incubation.apache.org/flex). The next-gen compiler is pretty awesome, and very well documented...
Exactly this. I know our athletics department has been worried about people tuning out of the traditional media (Radio/TV) and trying to catch the game via twitter updates. This, in their mind, reduces the media partner's viability because of lost ad listens, and essentially brings a third "live media" into the mix -- one that may not have been authorized to do live media.
So, the phone got released last week, and they are only "close" to having the SDK available?
So, that means for the first 6 months we will only have simple demo apps, and quick "fart" apps until everybody gets up to speed, and the big dev houses get their act together. I honestly don't see the platform inertia lasting that long. People who have phone who can't get the Pandora, and other tangential apps they are used to will drop it for the ones who do. By the time the big apps come, there won't be any users left.
The PSTN has been VoIP for its long-haul for at least 10 years. Nobody noticed. The important thing is the last mile, where the CO-provided battery backups would provide uninterrupted service during power outages.
From the look of it, it seems the bid required them to front-load 8 years of maintenance for software and hardware. Cisco usually wins bids by basically giving the hardware away, but charging full for their maintenance (Smartnet). By forcing them to front-load it for such a long time, they had no way to make money on the back-end, which is probably why it was so expensive.
Mostly so we can better predict weather events down to street-level and beyond. Newer equipment will help us predict for tornadic activity, predict for those really nasty snow storms everybody keeps complaining about, etc.
It used to be that if you had the SSSS printed on your boarding pass, you had to enter the secured area through a different gate. If you waited in line at the wrong checkpoint, the would still make you go to the special one. This was at least happening at ORD and DTW. This all went away when you could get your boarding passes at home -- so pretty much you were limited to knowing your security screening level from the time the gate agent printed your boarding pass to the time you go to the screening area, which was no more than a few minutes.
I of course was on the special list after I mistakenly subscribed to 2600 with my credit card... Those were some fun times to at an airport 3 times a week:S
And natural gas has become so cheap because everybody invested in it after Wall St. tanked. Natural Gas was seen as the most stable commodity at the time, and became one of the most heavily invested resources (because it was pretty expensive at the time). Now, many are taking their money out of NG because the bottom fell out and investing elsewhere -- meaning the price will go up again (and seeing that many places are not riding out their investments in NG, but rather shuttering plants, it is looking like it is going to spike rather than slowly rise).
The problem lies in how OTA now works. A lot of people in major cities can't get the same channels they used to OTA. 8VSB has a nasty habit of suffering from the ghosting effect, effectively rendering the signal useless Ghosting == the signal bouncing off a building, and you get the same signal on the same frequency, just time-delayed. In NTSC this wasn't a problem -- it would just display it (and it was usually weak enough the end user had no idea it was going on), but in ATSC any bit of it causes an issue in the digital signal and causes the signal BER to go up beyond the point that the TV will display the signal. It is estimated that 30% of households in major markets get less than half of the the channels than they did before the switch to digital. I only get 3 stations when I used to get 9 before the switch (and I'm not in a major market -- I just live within 2 miles of some tall buildings where the signal is bouncing).
And that doesn't count the channel loss that everybody got when the stations were forced to UHF, which has a poorer penetration rate, and requires more power to go the same distance.
In a previous job, I helped setup large call centers. In order for those call centers to best track staffing levels that were needed (on a 15 minute, hour, day, day of week, basis), they needed to know when people were available to answer the calls. If the stats came back that they were loosing 1 FTE between all the bathroom breaks between 10 and 11 every day, then they knew they needed to fill it with additional resources.
If you get put into the situation where your boss sits you down and says you are taking too many breaks, then you know the data has become specific to you -- but I doubt that they are collecting it for those reasons.
Windows 7's XP mode is horrible at supporting old hardware devices. Their USB/Port pass-through is very buggy, and is the only way I've seen BSOD's generated on Windows 7. Luckily, VMWare's solution is much better if you have to support XP with older devices, but it is much more klunky to push out to multiple users..
I teach a blended class at a very large university (Blended = Students have the choice of online or offline). While both sets of students get the exact same assignments, same quizzes and the same readings, students who attend in person average one full grade higher than those who do not.
It comes down to two things :
- Being in front of your prof will build a relationship with him/her and generally you will get more out of the class. That being said, students are just as able to hide away in a live class and not participate. - Being online only, makes you study only the subject from the point of the material. Very rarely do I get questions from students, or really any exploration of tangential subjects. The barrier to ask impromptu questions is much greater online. Also, because of a delayed response, it may not be as timely. Again, I've had online students ask more questions than what was asked in class, but that was an abnormally. Rarely do the questions asked online get posted in a public manner so all students can benefit from the response.
The massively online classes (like the one talked about in the article) exacerbate those issues... How do you ask a question to the instructor? If they only provide forums, sometimes other students will answer them for you -- but they are not necessary qualified. How can a student bring up tangential topics that may enhance the class?
It's a different style of learning. You learn the material that is expected of them, and that is it. You know the principals of X, but you may not know how they relate (and its up to you, on your own research to find it).
In the last studio upgrade we did, we retrofitted everything with Ethernet -- 10G switches. Cameras are all ASI -> GigE (MPEG-2 Multicast), switchers, and final outs.
Uncompressed, at full rate, an ASI feed uses 380 MB/s. An uncompressed 1080p melted feed is 38 MB/s.
You need to do careful network planning, but remember these are switches -- you shouldn't see traffic you didn't request. Right now we usually have about 8 cameras, plus the mixer, plus the groomer, plus the ad-insert. It then goes right out via the internet (Internet2 -- FSN is also a partner so we can send right to them), and a satellite truck as a backup. Our plan next year is not to have the satellite tuck on site anymore.
This is for a live-sports studio that feeds about 300 cable / satellite providers, reaching about 73M homes.
Only if you sell the device in the market place. If you are looking to interface your own equipment to an iOS device, you can use a Redpark TTL cable. These are designed for hobbyists, and are designed to connect to Arduinos (among other prototype boards). They had them at MakerFaire for $50 -- http://www.makershed.com/Redpark_TTL_Cable_for_iOS_p/msrp03.htm
One of the new projects, announced just months before CERN opened was the Federal Rare Isotopes Beam project in Lansing, Michigan. Since congress committed to funding it fully in 2008, it's only received a small portion of the full funding -- with the current congress kicking the pledges down the road year after year. Funding has been augmented for this facility by private investors, but that will also dilute the type of research this facility will be able to do once it is complete..
What happened to that? The creation of the "non-exempt" category, which businesses quickly pressured the powers that be to expand that to cover most jobs, except for part-time and certain labor positions that have unions. Since programmers, system analysts, engineers, etc. are all now classified as non-exempt professionals, we are (almost always) excluded from any overtime, expectation of normal work days, or in some cases, guaranteed lunch breaks.
There was a chance that the classification got changed a few years ago when congress was looking to reign in what was non-exempt, but I think the only people who were effected at the end were nurses.
It's not Divide and Conquer, it's "Doubling Down." Lets place two bets on the same table with two different strategies. There is no way you CAN lose! ugh.
Both community colleges in my area offer all three -- "Aircraft Mechanics, Engineering, CAD". Sure, the engineering isn't a 4-year degree, so you won't be eligible for a P.E., but it is the requirement for a lot of positions out there.
Here's the thing... people are starting to have concern about possession -- those people are just the developers, not the users. The developers are getting sick of the "users" ripping off their software, pirating it with ease, and not thinking twice about if their software is legal or not. If you have an app that depends on a service you control -- you now can control people's access to it, and they can't rip you off. Same reason why there are less and less single-player games....
Additionally new accounting laws are forcing companies to realize the cost of creating the software in the past, rather than allowing them to ammoritize it for the future -- which means that new features are verboten if they simply "sell it once". If they rent it, they can realize those revenue in shorter chunks, and keep making new features without having to wait for the next big release.
On the user perspective, I totally agree with you. I go out of my way to 'own' software (or rather license it), but the hipster thing to do is simply lease it, so that is what people are getting used to.
This same model was used in the car industry.. People got used to renting (leasing) $50,000 SUVs for $200/month. They ended up not owning anything, and everybody ended up happy, from what the fine people in never-land told me...
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I used to be in that class too. I flew at least 3 trips a week, 4 weeks a month. After the second year of less travel, they forget about you. I think I was only 20,000 miles away from "Diamond for Life", but the new job paid less (but I was home more!), and I didn't travel in time for the offer to expire. I now fly cattle-class all the time since you can't buy upgrades to business class unless you have gold or better status from that year.
I'm in middle to low-level management. The last two positions I had to hire for (both IT related... one was for a technician, and one was for a technical project manager) had over 1,000 resumes that were submitted to the job posting. We only had our posting online for two weeks.
There is no way I could ever comprehend that many resumes. So, I'm only left to do some filters. First filter is for a college education. Why? It's one clear thing that sets people apart. Sure, I'm throwing away 60% of the people -- many of them who are probably really good, but I have to filter on something.
Next thing I usually filter on is certain technologies. I put a lot of "required" technologies in the job posting. If you aren't smart enough to put those same words into your resume and/or cover letter, you are out. That usually boils down the number of resumes I need to look at to about 120 or so. From there I somehow have to figure out how to not spend the next two months interviewing people.. I usually get about 10 - 12 in the door to an interview.
It's a sad fact, but you have a 88% chance of having your resume NOT hitting my desk. If you are applying for a job, you have to look at the requirements, the posting and every other clue the company gives you to get past the filters. You have to treat applying for a job like a job. Once you get in the door is when you can bedazzle them with your knowledge. The resume is just to get IN the door.
Oh, and I know you personally, that always helps. I will tell you specifically what I am looking for and help you get around the filters. You will still need to stack up to the best of the crop that I'm looking at.
In one department in my organization, it has somehow become practice to email the entire organization letting people know if they are planning on being out of the office, or simply leaving early for the day. We have 1,200 people, and I've never met, nor interacted with this department (nor will I ever have to). We get an average of 10 emails from them a week, with it getting much worse this time of year. The PHBs all the way up the chain like it because they know these people's schedules (they also don't share their calendars like the rest of the org does).
Le' Sigh.
In Michigan, you can buy just about everything from local grocers, liquor stores or even bars. Heck, there used to be an old drive-thru liquor store (before that, it was a car-wash). You could buy a cup with ice for $1.
As far as fun things to do... we got lots of outdoors, more lakeshore than any other state, hunt, fish, bike, oh, and drive places... since we do cars too.
Not all SWFs are AS3 -- quite a few of the older ones out there are still AS2 -- and all but two of the demos they've provided are AS2.
By looking at the code, it looks like they've implemented maybe half of the opcodes in the SWF spec for AS3. They got the easiest ones for graphics, but they are missing all the networking ones, most of the effect, and a lot of the event handling. They still have a LONG way to go before they can say they run even a portion of the Flash apps out there.
On a side note to those who are interested in the project -- Apache just released a flash compiler (the former Flex compiler), and a second, next gen compiler for ActionScript. It's available on the Apache Flex Incubation Project (http://incubation.apache.org/flex). The next-gen compiler is pretty awesome, and very well documented...
Exactly this. I know our athletics department has been worried about people tuning out of the traditional media (Radio/TV) and trying to catch the game via twitter updates. This, in their mind, reduces the media partner's viability because of lost ad listens, and essentially brings a third "live media" into the mix -- one that may not have been authorized to do live media.
So, the phone got released last week, and they are only "close" to having the SDK available?
So, that means for the first 6 months we will only have simple demo apps, and quick "fart" apps until everybody gets up to speed, and the big dev houses get their act together. I honestly don't see the platform inertia lasting that long. People who have phone who can't get the Pandora, and other tangential apps they are used to will drop it for the ones who do. By the time the big apps come, there won't be any users left.
The PSTN has been VoIP for its long-haul for at least 10 years. Nobody noticed. The important thing is the last mile, where the CO-provided battery backups would provide uninterrupted service during power outages.
From the look of it, it seems the bid required them to front-load 8 years of maintenance for software and hardware. Cisco usually wins bids by basically giving the hardware away, but charging full for their maintenance (Smartnet). By forcing them to front-load it for such a long time, they had no way to make money on the back-end, which is probably why it was so expensive.
Mostly so we can better predict weather events down to street-level and beyond. Newer equipment will help us predict for tornadic activity, predict for those really nasty snow storms everybody keeps complaining about, etc.
It used to be that if you had the SSSS printed on your boarding pass, you had to enter the secured area through a different gate. If you waited in line at the wrong checkpoint, the would still make you go to the special one. This was at least happening at ORD and DTW. This all went away when you could get your boarding passes at home -- so pretty much you were limited to knowing your security screening level from the time the gate agent printed your boarding pass to the time you go to the screening area, which was no more than a few minutes.
I of course was on the special list after I mistakenly subscribed to 2600 with my credit card... Those were some fun times to at an airport 3 times a week :S
And natural gas has become so cheap because everybody invested in it after Wall St. tanked. Natural Gas was seen as the most stable commodity at the time, and became one of the most heavily invested resources (because it was pretty expensive at the time). Now, many are taking their money out of NG because the bottom fell out and investing elsewhere -- meaning the price will go up again (and seeing that many places are not riding out their investments in NG, but rather shuttering plants, it is looking like it is going to spike rather than slowly rise).
The problem lies in how OTA now works. A lot of people in major cities can't get the same channels they used to OTA. 8VSB has a nasty habit of suffering from the ghosting effect, effectively rendering the signal useless Ghosting == the signal bouncing off a building, and you get the same signal on the same frequency, just time-delayed. In NTSC this wasn't a problem -- it would just display it (and it was usually weak enough the end user had no idea it was going on), but in ATSC any bit of it causes an issue in the digital signal and causes the signal BER to go up beyond the point that the TV will display the signal. It is estimated that 30% of households in major markets get less than half of the the channels than they did before the switch to digital. I only get 3 stations when I used to get 9 before the switch (and I'm not in a major market -- I just live within 2 miles of some tall buildings where the signal is bouncing).
And that doesn't count the channel loss that everybody got when the stations were forced to UHF, which has a poorer penetration rate, and requires more power to go the same distance.
In a previous job, I helped setup large call centers. In order for those call centers to best track staffing levels that were needed (on a 15 minute, hour, day, day of week, basis), they needed to know when people were available to answer the calls. If the stats came back that they were loosing 1 FTE between all the bathroom breaks between 10 and 11 every day, then they knew they needed to fill it with additional resources.
If you get put into the situation where your boss sits you down and says you are taking too many breaks, then you know the data has become specific to you -- but I doubt that they are collecting it for those reasons.
Windows 7's XP mode is horrible at supporting old hardware devices. Their USB/Port pass-through is very buggy, and is the only way I've seen BSOD's generated on Windows 7. Luckily, VMWare's solution is much better if you have to support XP with older devices, but it is much more klunky to push out to multiple users..
Sit in the front and ask questions. It worked for me for my 4 years in higher-education. You can't blame the system if you don't participate.
I teach a blended class at a very large university (Blended = Students have the choice of online or offline). While both sets of students get the exact same assignments, same quizzes and the same readings, students who attend in person average one full grade higher than those who do not.
It comes down to two things :
- Being in front of your prof will build a relationship with him/her and generally you will get more out of the class. That being said, students are just as able to hide away in a live class and not participate.
- Being online only, makes you study only the subject from the point of the material. Very rarely do I get questions from students, or really any exploration of tangential subjects. The barrier to ask impromptu questions is much greater online. Also, because of a delayed response, it may not be as timely. Again, I've had online students ask more questions than what was asked in class, but that was an abnormally. Rarely do the questions asked online get posted in a public manner so all students can benefit from the response.
The massively online classes (like the one talked about in the article) exacerbate those issues... How do you ask a question to the instructor? If they only provide forums, sometimes other students will answer them for you -- but they are not necessary qualified. How can a student bring up tangential topics that may enhance the class?
It's a different style of learning. You learn the material that is expected of them, and that is it. You know the principals of X, but you may not know how they relate (and its up to you, on your own research to find it).
In the last studio upgrade we did, we retrofitted everything with Ethernet -- 10G switches. Cameras are all ASI -> GigE (MPEG-2 Multicast), switchers, and final outs.
Uncompressed, at full rate, an ASI feed uses 380 MB/s. An uncompressed 1080p melted feed is 38 MB/s.
You need to do careful network planning, but remember these are switches -- you shouldn't see traffic you didn't request. Right now we usually have about 8 cameras, plus the mixer, plus the groomer, plus the ad-insert. It then goes right out via the internet (Internet2 -- FSN is also a partner so we can send right to them), and a satellite truck as a backup. Our plan next year is not to have the satellite tuck on site anymore.
This is for a live-sports studio that feeds about 300 cable / satellite providers, reaching about 73M homes.
Only if you sell the device in the market place. If you are looking to interface your own equipment to an iOS device, you can use a Redpark TTL cable. These are designed for hobbyists, and are designed to connect to Arduinos (among other prototype boards). They had them at MakerFaire for $50 -- http://www.makershed.com/Redpark_TTL_Cable_for_iOS_p/msrp03.htm
One of the new projects, announced just months before CERN opened was the Federal Rare Isotopes Beam project in Lansing, Michigan. Since congress committed to funding it fully in 2008, it's only received a small portion of the full funding -- with the current congress kicking the pledges down the road year after year. Funding has been augmented for this facility by private investors, but that will also dilute the type of research this facility will be able to do once it is complete..
Didn't we in fact do that in like the 1920's? What happened to that?
What happened to that? The creation of the "non-exempt" category, which businesses quickly pressured the powers that be to expand that to cover most jobs, except for part-time and certain labor positions that have unions. Since programmers, system analysts, engineers, etc. are all now classified as non-exempt professionals, we are (almost always) excluded from any overtime, expectation of normal work days, or in some cases, guaranteed lunch breaks.
There was a chance that the classification got changed a few years ago when congress was looking to reign in what was non-exempt, but I think the only people who were effected at the end were nurses.
Which is great, until you have a house fire, or your gear at home gets stolen.
It's not Divide and Conquer, it's "Doubling Down." Lets place two bets on the same table with two different strategies. There is no way you CAN lose! ugh.
Both community colleges in my area offer all three -- "Aircraft Mechanics, Engineering, CAD". Sure, the engineering isn't a 4-year degree, so you won't be eligible for a P.E., but it is the requirement for a lot of positions out there.
Here's the thing... people are starting to have concern about possession -- those people are just the developers, not the users. The developers are getting sick of the "users" ripping off their software, pirating it with ease, and not thinking twice about if their software is legal or not. If you have an app that depends on a service you control -- you now can control people's access to it, and they can't rip you off. Same reason why there are less and less single-player games....
Additionally new accounting laws are forcing companies to realize the cost of creating the software in the past, rather than allowing them to ammoritize it for the future -- which means that new features are verboten if they simply "sell it once". If they rent it, they can realize those revenue in shorter chunks, and keep making new features without having to wait for the next big release.
On the user perspective, I totally agree with you. I go out of my way to 'own' software (or rather license it), but the hipster thing to do is simply lease it, so that is what people are getting used to.
This same model was used in the car industry.. People got used to renting (leasing) $50,000 SUVs for $200/month. They ended up not owning anything, and everybody ended up happy, from what the fine people in never-land told me...