I thought the overhead of Aero was one of the reasons the original "Vista capable" devices performed badly? Stripping pretty effects out of the interface doesn't seem that drastic to me. If it represents a slight performance increase, I'll take it.
I don't ever spend a lot of time staring at the windows 7 interface, I don't expect to with windows 8.
I like that when I use the moderation on my Android phone, I have to select from the radio buttons then hit "ok". On my windows 7 laptop I don't get that second chance.
I agree that making a phone is better than doing nothing. And facebook has a locked-in user base to leverage, if they played their cards right (I'm not betting money on this.)
I'm surprised they aren't planning to make a bargain basement 10" tablet (also). And their user base is already used to their products being crud, so they could go in very cheap on the quality and no-one would be overly surprised.
I'd love to see a reliable poll on how many people who use facebook regularly were pleased to see the share price tank...
No-one ever said on their death beds that they wanted to spend more time in the office. And your career will never wake up one morning and tell you it doesn't love you any more. Both of these are reasons to do something she actually wants to do.
If she is in the unenviable position of having to trade her time for money in order to live, she should at least do something she has some interest in. Just work out what she wants to do, then get the qualifications or experience to suit. Don't assume her current qualifications should be the starting point for making that decision. She wouldn't necessarily be starting from scratch, having a degree of any kind (especially a Masters degree) gives you a head start in many other areas.
The OP says this person is a "bright young woman", retirement is probably a long way off... hopefully she can find something she likes that makes economic sense also.
With Sheldon and the bird (apparently a Blue Jay) at an impasse, Raj (Kunal Nayyar) and Howard (Simon Helberg) are stuck impatiently waiting so they can all watch Star Wars on Blu-Ray.
Howard: “If we don’t start soon, George Lucas is going to change it again.”
I went to a Sophos event once (mostly because it was catered...), the only content I remember was one speaker who spent 10 minutes of his presentation time showing various screenshots of web sites and asking the audience whether they were phishing scams, or the real thing. Towards the end it was very difficult, and this was an audience of technical IT people.
I also don't trust an OS once it has been compromised, and I agree that actually thinking/paying attention is vital to complete security. For me it is a question of risk mitigation. I've had an AV signature update cause problems, more than once. I'm also aware that I'm basically a couple of unthinking mouse clicks away from running something malicious.
AV isn't that expensive to protect against brain fade.
You will need an undergraduate degree before an MBA
You often don't need an undergraduate degree to do a post-graduate degree like an MBA - I didn't - if you can demonstrate long term, relevant experience. It would depend on the institution where you were doing the MBA, many offer this option.
The "work experience" option exists for a degree like an MBA, because the OP would have worked in a business environment for most of his career. There is an understanding that an undergraduate degree prepares you to a specific level and often work experience can teach the same level of preparedness to complete a post-graduate degree (note, that's your ability to study, not your preparedness to work in a specific job).
There are technology/management post-graduate degrees also, which is what I did, and I do not have an undergraduate degree, and that's never been an issue for me. For the most part it's been having a degree of some kind that gets the "tick" when applying for jobs, again at least in my experience.
You would often need to complete the initial graduate certificate (in my case, that was 4 subjects) with a specific grade point average to be able to continue on to the full degree.
And that was going to be my suggestion to the OP - not to do a full degree initially, look at post-graduate options that he may have access to as a mature-age student. Advantages include, there is an early exit point (graduate certificate, graduate diploma) and they are faster to complete, as there are less (but harder) subjects. In my case my degree was 12 subjects, the undergrad would have been 24... I finished it in 2 years, while working full time.
consider enhancing your portfolio with a PMP certification.
I completely agree - PMP or maybe CAPM if he doesn't have the PM experience to do the PMP straight away - and/or Prince2 (just do the foundations cert if you're short on cash). These are "quick wins" also, doing them is an instant line to add to your resume.
Give a family that makes 5 grand a year because the dad is a meth addict and the mom is a compulsive gambler (this is just one of the stories I've heard from students) hardware worth (figure 2-3 kids per family, even low end laptops add up) $500 at the pawn shop and what do you think will happen?
I was thinking along the lines of other posters that I'd spend the money on standard hardware instead of a OLPC device, until I read your comment.
I do agree with your comments (and others) who have said that simply handing out laptops to everyone isn't a magic cure, it does seem worth pointing out that going for OLPC rather than something you'd get at a local computer store will help mitigate the risk of the devices being sold off or disappearing because a OLPC device isn't going to be worth anything like $500 at the local pawn broker. And the low purchase price would make replacing lost devices (slightly) easier.
Yes, meth addicts would still pawn it for the $20 they'd get instead, but that scenario is very close to one end of the bell curve. Other struggling families that would pawn it for $500 (because that would feed them for a month) aren't going to pawn it for $20.
I was under the impression that the hash tag is used by twits (tweeters? twitterers?) to tag other users in posts/tweets/whatever they are called.
So you might be right that there are more # using programmers than # using twits, on a "unique users" basis, but I think they have you beat on frequency. For every time a programmer using the # symbol once, there are probably 1000 twitter users using the # symbol in a post talking about Ashton Kucher's bowel movements, or something else equally discussion-worthy.
(I'm not exactly sure when a # symbol is used by someone on twitter, I've used twitter even less than G+. They are all tools to achieve specific outcomes, so far I haven't had a need that either one met.)
He's not even a politician - he's preselected to run as a candidate in the as-yet-unscheduled federal election, which isn't likely to occur until 2013.
I technically have a twitter account, I sent about 2 tweets, subscribed to some morons and some PR agents fronting for some media people, watched for awhile, said WTF is this and never used it again. I would assume this is a rather large fraction of their "subscribers".
You've just described my google+ experience so far.
I think they meant that they own the business, not the staff. I hope that's what they meant anyway.
Our labour laws do stifle productivity in some cases by impacting on hiring decisions, and they also protect staff in other cases. There's no one good solution that fits everyone/everywhere. Personally I'd like to see the labour laws that lean more towards protecting staff than helping businesses, just because that seems the right thing to do.
I traveled a lot in my life. First thigns i need in any house(i had some places simply empty), are bed, shower, internet(well, pc wi), washing machine, owen.(in that order)
Capitalism (and greed) always wins, so if a person in any country makes a product of any kind that people would want to own/consume, the global market tends to set the price. All Fair Trade does is work within the current system to make sure some of those proceeds go back to the people doing the work.
The main impact of intentionally not buying Fair Trade is that the few locals who currently get a decent share of the proceeds of the export of these goods would have to go back to working for peanuts. Those crops will be exported either way, if the price is right.
Now, I said Fair Trade works within the current system to make sure some of the proceeds go back to the people who do the work - that wasn't an endorsement of the current system. I'd like to see Fair Trade selling more non-food items, the manufacturing requirements of these would require building local infrastructure - maybe that's a next step for them.
Business cards won't disappear until offices really are paperless. Non-technical people just aren't going to adapt the way people who are into tech would want them to, and sometimes people have different paradigms they work from other than "technical solutions are best".
Wellington Ma's business card was a rectangular slice of pink synthetic quartz, laser-engraved with his name, 'The Ma-Mariano Agency,' an address on Beverly Boulevard, and all kinds of numbers and e-mail addresses. It arrived by GlobEx in its own little gray suede envelope while Rydell was still in the hospital.
'Looks like you could cut yourself on it,' Rydell said.
'You could, many no doubt have,' said Karen Mendelsohn, 'and if you put it in your wallet and sit down, it shatters.'
'Then what's the point of it?'
'You're supposed to take very good care of it. You won't get another.'
Absolutely agree - this probably makes me sound old fashioned but I think the business cards are classier. If I asked someone for their contact details, and they offered me their phone, I'd just ask them to e-mail me.
I sometimes use asking "Do you have a card?" as a way of fobbing people off, if I were adding their contacts to my phone in that process I feel that they'd somehow have more justification for expecting me to call and let them take me out to lunch and try to sell me their crap.
I want to be selective about who I add to my e-mail/phone contacts, I meet too many people and don't want to add "categorise contacts" to my end-of-day activities. Just because someone gives me a business card doesn't mean I rush back to the office and add them to my contacts list.
For example, I will often meet with a group of people about a project, I will have one primary contact from that vendor but still collect the business cards from their boss, boss's boss etc at that meeting. I will keep the cards for the duration of the project in case I need to escalate an issue, and then I will ditch the cards when I don't need them anymore. I could do that with my contacts but I don't want to keep contacts in my e-mail for someone I am very unlikely to ever contact directly, and I'm less likely to clean them up at the end. There's also less point keeping those contact details long term because they aren't going to let me know about staff movements, and having a stale business card somewhere is less risky than having stale contact info in my e-mail client/phone, because I'm unlikely to accidentally send them a message.
I'd also miss having a pile of 2" by 3.5" pieces of blank card to write stuff on the back of, so I'd hate barcodes on the back. And if we do ditch business cards then am I supposed to put my smartphone into the barrel to possibly win a prize at the next product launch (junket) I attend? (yeah I know they could scan them, but then they'd be "drawing a card from the barrel" electronically and no-one would trust it).
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:-\ Oh well. Maybe she has a sister...
I wouldn't have thought so.
I thought the overhead of Aero was one of the reasons the original "Vista capable" devices performed badly? Stripping pretty effects out of the interface doesn't seem that drastic to me. If it represents a slight performance increase, I'll take it.
I don't ever spend a lot of time staring at the windows 7 interface, I don't expect to with windows 8.
I doubt it. I still have a tiny bit of hope that hasn't been crushed yet though.
Please, tell us more about the excellent banking system in Europe.
Oh, right... never mind.
I like that when I use the moderation on my Android phone, I have to select from the radio buttons then hit "ok". On my windows 7 laptop I don't get that second chance.
(FYI I'm posting this to undo an incorrect mod)
I agree that making a phone is better than doing nothing. And facebook has a locked-in user base to leverage, if they played their cards right (I'm not betting money on this.)
I'm surprised they aren't planning to make a bargain basement 10" tablet (also). And their user base is already used to their products being crud, so they could go in very cheap on the quality and no-one would be overly surprised.
I'd love to see a reliable poll on how many people who use facebook regularly were pleased to see the share price tank...
...but I couldn't see where I could mod the submission as "troll"?
No-one ever said on their death beds that they wanted to spend more time in the office. And your career will never wake up one morning and tell you it doesn't love you any more. Both of these are reasons to do something she actually wants to do.
If she is in the unenviable position of having to trade her time for money in order to live, she should at least do something she has some interest in. Just work out what she wants to do, then get the qualifications or experience to suit. Don't assume her current qualifications should be the starting point for making that decision. She wouldn't necessarily be starting from scratch, having a degree of any kind (especially a Masters degree) gives you a head start in many other areas.
The OP says this person is a "bright young woman", retirement is probably a long way off... hopefully she can find something she likes that makes economic sense also.
Good luck.
I also would have expected that it wouldn't be that hard for the courts to find out what IPs TPB already own, so they can block them proactively?
Even if they don't have anything considered illegal* on those IPs?
* not that they have anything really illegal on the other IPs, not unless you consider what Google does illegal too.
I don't think the courts care much any more about what is/is not illegal.
With Sheldon and the bird (apparently a Blue Jay) at an impasse, Raj (Kunal Nayyar) and Howard (Simon Helberg) are stuck impatiently waiting so they can all watch Star Wars on Blu-Ray.
Howard: “If we don’t start soon, George Lucas is going to change it again.”
http://thevoiceoftv.com/recaps-and-reviews/the-big-bang-theory-5-09-the-ornithophobia-diffusion/
That'd make for some interesting firewall logs. Also, from TFS:
an extended game of whac-a-mole using the hundreds of IP addresses they have available
I also would have expected that it wouldn't be that hard for the courts to find out what IPs TPB already own, so they can block them proactively?
I went to a Sophos event once (mostly because it was catered...), the only content I remember was one speaker who spent 10 minutes of his presentation time showing various screenshots of web sites and asking the audience whether they were phishing scams, or the real thing. Towards the end it was very difficult, and this was an audience of technical IT people.
I also don't trust an OS once it has been compromised, and I agree that actually thinking/paying attention is vital to complete security. For me it is a question of risk mitigation. I've had an AV signature update cause problems, more than once. I'm also aware that I'm basically a couple of unthinking mouse clicks away from running something malicious.
AV isn't that expensive to protect against brain fade.
The course I did was a predecessor to this:
http://www.open.edu.au/public/courses/it/swinburne-university-of-technology-master-of-technology-business-systems--swi-bsd-mas-2012#overview-tab
It's in Australia, not sure if that suits you.
You will need an undergraduate degree before an MBA
You often don't need an undergraduate degree to do a post-graduate degree like an MBA - I didn't - if you can demonstrate long term, relevant experience. It would depend on the institution where you were doing the MBA, many offer this option.
The "work experience" option exists for a degree like an MBA, because the OP would have worked in a business environment for most of his career. There is an understanding that an undergraduate degree prepares you to a specific level and often work experience can teach the same level of preparedness to complete a post-graduate degree (note, that's your ability to study, not your preparedness to work in a specific job).
There are technology/management post-graduate degrees also, which is what I did, and I do not have an undergraduate degree, and that's never been an issue for me. For the most part it's been having a degree of some kind that gets the "tick" when applying for jobs, again at least in my experience.
You would often need to complete the initial graduate certificate (in my case, that was 4 subjects) with a specific grade point average to be able to continue on to the full degree.
And that was going to be my suggestion to the OP - not to do a full degree initially, look at post-graduate options that he may have access to as a mature-age student. Advantages include, there is an early exit point (graduate certificate, graduate diploma) and they are faster to complete, as there are less (but harder) subjects. In my case my degree was 12 subjects, the undergrad would have been 24... I finished it in 2 years, while working full time.
consider enhancing your portfolio with a PMP certification.
I completely agree - PMP or maybe CAPM if he doesn't have the PM experience to do the PMP straight away - and/or Prince2 (just do the foundations cert if you're short on cash). These are "quick wins" also, doing them is an instant line to add to your resume.
Give a family that makes 5 grand a year because the dad is a meth addict and the mom is a compulsive gambler (this is just one of the stories I've heard from students) hardware worth (figure 2-3 kids per family, even low end laptops add up) $500 at the pawn shop and what do you think will happen?
I was thinking along the lines of other posters that I'd spend the money on standard hardware instead of a OLPC device, until I read your comment.
I do agree with your comments (and others) who have said that simply handing out laptops to everyone isn't a magic cure, it does seem worth pointing out that going for OLPC rather than something you'd get at a local computer store will help mitigate the risk of the devices being sold off or disappearing because a OLPC device isn't going to be worth anything like $500 at the local pawn broker. And the low purchase price would make replacing lost devices (slightly) easier.
Yes, meth addicts would still pawn it for the $20 they'd get instead, but that scenario is very close to one end of the bell curve. Other struggling families that would pawn it for $500 (because that would feed them for a month) aren't going to pawn it for $20.
I was under the impression that the hash tag is used by twits (tweeters? twitterers?) to tag other users in posts/tweets/whatever they are called.
So you might be right that there are more # using programmers than # using twits, on a "unique users" basis, but I think they have you beat on frequency. For every time a programmer using the # symbol once, there are probably 1000 twitter users using the # symbol in a post talking about Ashton Kucher's bowel movements, or something else equally discussion-worthy.
(I'm not exactly sure when a # symbol is used by someone on twitter, I've used twitter even less than G+. They are all tools to achieve specific outcomes, so far I haven't had a need that either one met.)
He's not even a politician - he's preselected to run as a candidate in the as-yet-unscheduled federal election, which isn't likely to occur until 2013.
I technically have a twitter account, I sent about 2 tweets, subscribed to some morons and some PR agents fronting for some media people, watched for awhile, said WTF is this and never used it again. I would assume this is a rather large fraction of their "subscribers".
You've just described my google+ experience so far.
After reading your suggestion and the GP's, all I could hear in my head was "I, Jackie Moon, will wrestle a bear."
I think they meant that they own the business, not the staff. I hope that's what they meant anyway.
Our labour laws do stifle productivity in some cases by impacting on hiring decisions, and they also protect staff in other cases. There's no one good solution that fits everyone/everywhere. Personally I'd like to see the labour laws that lean more towards protecting staff than helping businesses, just because that seems the right thing to do.
...come across like a hapless conspiracy-theorist-slash-nutjob, which ...
"Slashnutjob: News for conspiracy-theorists, stuff that matters unless you've been taking your lithium."
I traveled a lot in my life. First thigns i need in any house(i had some places simply empty), are bed, shower, internet(well, pc wi), washing machine, owen.(in that order)
So... does your wife know about Owen?
Capitalism (and greed) always wins, so if a person in any country makes a product of any kind that people would want to own/consume, the global market tends to set the price. All Fair Trade does is work within the current system to make sure some of those proceeds go back to the people doing the work.
The main impact of intentionally not buying Fair Trade is that the few locals who currently get a decent share of the proceeds of the export of these goods would have to go back to working for peanuts. Those crops will be exported either way, if the price is right.
The "local production for local consumption reduces local prices" argument doesn't work for products with a high demand, like food - or petrol. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/03/22/226200/domestic-drilling-doesnt-decrease-gasoline-prices
Now, I said Fair Trade works within the current system to make sure some of the proceeds go back to the people who do the work - that wasn't an endorsement of the current system. I'd like to see Fair Trade selling more non-food items, the manufacturing requirements of these would require building local infrastructure - maybe that's a next step for them.
Business cards won't disappear until offices really are paperless. Non-technical people just aren't going to adapt the way people who are into tech would want them to, and sometimes people have different paradigms they work from other than "technical solutions are best".
Wellington Ma's business card was a rectangular slice of pink synthetic quartz, laser-engraved with his name, 'The Ma-Mariano Agency,' an address on Beverly Boulevard, and all kinds of numbers and e-mail addresses. It arrived by GlobEx in its own little gray suede envelope while Rydell was still in the hospital.
'Looks like you could cut yourself on it,' Rydell said.
'You could, many no doubt have,' said Karen Mendelsohn, 'and if you put it in your wallet and sit down, it shatters.'
'Then what's the point of it?'
'You're supposed to take very good care of it. You won't get another.'
(copied from http://newark.pardey.org/book/virtual.html)
Absolutely agree - this probably makes me sound old fashioned but I think the business cards are classier. If I asked someone for their contact details, and they offered me their phone, I'd just ask them to e-mail me.
I sometimes use asking "Do you have a card?" as a way of fobbing people off, if I were adding their contacts to my phone in that process I feel that they'd somehow have more justification for expecting me to call and let them take me out to lunch and try to sell me their crap.
I want to be selective about who I add to my e-mail/phone contacts, I meet too many people and don't want to add "categorise contacts" to my end-of-day activities. Just because someone gives me a business card doesn't mean I rush back to the office and add them to my contacts list.
For example, I will often meet with a group of people about a project, I will have one primary contact from that vendor but still collect the business cards from their boss, boss's boss etc at that meeting. I will keep the cards for the duration of the project in case I need to escalate an issue, and then I will ditch the cards when I don't need them anymore. I could do that with my contacts but I don't want to keep contacts in my e-mail for someone I am very unlikely to ever contact directly, and I'm less likely to clean them up at the end. There's also less point keeping those contact details long term because they aren't going to let me know about staff movements, and having a stale business card somewhere is less risky than having stale contact info in my e-mail client/phone, because I'm unlikely to accidentally send them a message.
I'd also miss having a pile of 2" by 3.5" pieces of blank card to write stuff on the back of, so I'd hate barcodes on the back. And if we do ditch business cards then am I supposed to put my smartphone into the barrel to possibly win a prize at the next product launch (junket) I attend? (yeah I know they could scan them, but then they'd be "drawing a card from the barrel" electronically and no-one would trust it).