I'm more or less happy with my HP hardware (not manufactured by HP by the way) However I've never seen an internal application of HPs that was ever more than 'blah'. I have yet to see HP produce any software product for the consumer market that would merit a footnote in a footnote. To be fairly direct I dont think HP has the software engineering acumen to be competitive in that kind of a market and I think it proves that every day when it meets the real world. The problem is the companies management culture, its inability to create a tradition a software engineering excellence and the belief that its management and engineering processes lead the industry. Not close, so not competitive.
People are making a lot of noise about the air quality in BeiJing. Personally, Iâ(TM)ve never been the least effected by the quality of the air, and I doubt that healthy athletes will notice it either. The big problem, and as far as I can tell no one anywhere has discussed it, is that BeiJing in August is bone dry â" dryer than anywhere Iâ(TM)ve ever been in the US, including Arizona. Anyone who is involved in an outdoor endurance event is going to have a high hurdle to adjust to if they are not training for that kind of an environment right now. I generally donâ(TM)t drink water at all during the day but when I go to BeiJing in August 15 minutes outdoors and I need water in a big way.
As an engineering undergraduate, I spent a lot of time learning Chinese, later I did my graduate work in China, and now I work in China as a software engineer -- And after that large time investment, Im as comfortable using English as I am using Chinese. But with that in mind, I still wouldnt recommend learning a language while your doing an engineering major. Engineering is very demanding and so is learning a language -- if you want to learn well. But the problem is you wont learn a language well in a classroom setting -- you will be distracting yourself from your major and getting little in return. If you want to learn a 2nd language do an intensive language course during the summer (like Middlebury's). Three months of intensive study will leave you far and away more capable in your chosen language than 4 years of dedicated classroom work.
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I'm more or less happy with my HP hardware (not manufactured by HP by the way) However I've never seen an internal application of HPs that was ever more than 'blah'. I have yet to see HP produce any software product for the consumer market that would merit a footnote in a footnote. To be fairly direct I dont think HP has the software engineering acumen to be competitive in that kind of a market and I think it proves that every day when it meets the real world. The problem is the companies management culture, its inability to create a tradition a software engineering excellence and the belief that its management and engineering processes lead the industry. Not close, so not competitive.
People are making a lot of noise about the air quality in BeiJing. Personally, Iâ(TM)ve never been the least effected by the quality of the air, and I doubt that healthy athletes will notice it either. The big problem, and as far as I can tell no one anywhere has discussed it, is that BeiJing in August is bone dry â" dryer than anywhere Iâ(TM)ve ever been in the US, including Arizona. Anyone who is involved in an outdoor endurance event is going to have a high hurdle to adjust to if they are not training for that kind of an environment right now. I generally donâ(TM)t drink water at all during the day but when I go to BeiJing in August 15 minutes outdoors and I need water in a big way.
As an engineering undergraduate, I spent a lot of time learning Chinese, later I did my graduate work in China, and now I work in China as a software engineer -- And after that large time investment, Im as comfortable using English as I am using Chinese. But with that in mind, I still wouldnt recommend learning a language while your doing an engineering major. Engineering is very demanding and so is learning a language -- if you want to learn well. But the problem is you wont learn a language well in a classroom setting -- you will be distracting yourself from your major and getting little in return. If you want to learn a 2nd language do an intensive language course during the summer (like Middlebury's). Three months of intensive study will leave you far and away more capable in your chosen language than 4 years of dedicated classroom work.