Hmm, I've changed my CC# for exactly this reason and it worked perfectly. I'm in the US also. I'm really surprised your CC company would give out that kind of information. My credit card is about to expire and the companies I have subscriptions with are emailing me asking for an updated number. Why would they do that if they could just phone my credit card company themselves and guarantee a continuing customer?
Call your Credit Card company and have them issue you a new credit card number. If you want to do it simply, claim your credit card was lost -- they have a great system in place for cancelling the current credit card and issuing you a new one. Then when Telus tries to bill your CC it will fail and they will have to send you a paper bill. Once you have a paper bill, only pay for the phone service portion. In the mean time, write them a letter expressing your intentions to only pay for phone service.
Don't be silly:). I really can't talk about competitors openly, but you needn't look much farther than the Microsoft Expression suite to see there's competition. Almost every Adobe product has competitors.
Valid point:). But again, that has a lot to do with the stock market. I think a better argument is toybuilders' -- Channel operations, distribution channels, and suppliers are definitely ripe for competitive challenges. A down-to-earth example is eBay Powersellers, who tightly guard their inventory suppliers since someone could easily come in, buy from the same supplier, sell for a slightly lower amount, and steal the entire market.
So after reading the points of you two, I realize there's a lot more to steal than R&D-related data:).
Is corporate espionage actually valuable? I'm currently working at Adobe, and development plans are pretty widely discussed amongst employees. If something were to leak, I'm not sure what the value of it would be. The only real data points that are heavily protected are financial results and projections, and the product release dates that those rely on. But I'm pretty sure those are only protected for Wall Street purposes.
What kind of data do corporate spies hope to obtain? Would that data be actionable -- e.g, could a company come up with a competing product and be first to market if another company's already half way there?
OMG WTF I THOUGHT THOSE WERE POP-UPS BY HACKERS!!! when i pressed the "X" it still went to there page!!!!! those are the ppl we should really be suing$@!one!!
Graduate school is definitely an asset in the software engineering industry. At my company, people in positions with the most responsibility, such as software architects and managers, primarily have graduate degrees. Software architects, who are tasked with coming up with a framework under which 10-50 engineers develop within, typically have PhDs in Computer Science or Mathematics. First-level people managers typically have a masters in Computer Science, or occasionally an MBA. Second-level people managers, known as directors here and many other places, nearly always have an MBA.
I've been doing quite well at my company with a simple bachelors in Computer Science, but it will take me much longer to become an architect without a graduate degree in CS. It would also be very difficult to obtain director status without an MBA. I'm not saying it's impossible for me to obtain these roles, but having an advanced degree gives one substantial credibility, even if it is undeserved.
The title of this article is "Why The U.S. PC Market is On The Decline", but right in the summary it says that IDC expects the PC market to grow 5.7%!! That's not decline.
What background do you have in software development? Currently Google interviews people for "core basics", which are the basic skills you would learn by going to university or trade school in the field related to your position. For example, when interviewing for the Java Developer Software Engineering position, you'll get a lot of questions about the collections library, synchronization, and core computer science questions like semaphores and two-phase commit. My experience with Java, and I know I'd completely fail a system administration interview.
Perhaps you should have informed your recruiter about your background?
This is mildly true. When you start at Google, you're given a 3 month assignment to judge where you skills are and what kind of person you are. Once you are familiarized with the major projects going on, then you are assigned to contribute to a larger project. I would assume that if your 3 month assignment went down in flames, you would probably not be invited to join a larger project and therefore you would leave the company.
(I believe there's a documentary movie based on the book as well...)
There is, I rented it from NetFlix, and it was very disappointing. Nearly all of the information in the movie should be common knowledge to someone who reads a newspaper or reads CNN.com on a semi-regular basis. The only interesting aspect was the biographies of Skilling, Lay, and Fastow, which allowed me to understand the personalities of the people involved instead of just the facts that come out of the news.
He probably asked his secretary to download the "internet" to a floppy so he could read it in his spare time.
You accuse Sen. Stevens of being feeble brained, yet you use the phrase "the internet"??? If YOU KNEW HOW TO READ, you would know that there are LOTS of internets. The DoD has its own internet. Sen. Stevens receives many internets a day. So quit talking about "the" Internet like it's the Vatican.
And maybe you haven't worked in the US Government, so let me inform you that you can't fit more than a few government-related internets on a floppy disk at one time. For that you need an Iomega Jaz disk.
I believe the way native methods are specified in geniously elegant. It uses the native keyword for its designed use -- to specify that there's a method with an implementation in the interpreter's native language. In the case of GWT, that's Javascript. And instead of extracting the Javascript implementations to an external file where dependencies must be mapped through convention or configuration, the/*-{... }-*/ block provides a clean way to put the native methods right into their class. The big problem with GWT is it's difficult integration with existing codebases (it doesn't play that well with others). But the overall syntax of class file definitions is brilliant.
You're worrying too much. Google has just as much interest in receiving revenue from the advertising placement as you do. If someone posts an ad for $3,000 hottubs and the conversion rate is excessively small, Google won't want to display the ad either. Instead they'll display an ad that's more likely to result in conversion, and you'll both get to prance around in happy land.
Hehe, it seems like we both didn't RTFA:). According to the invitation, CPA advertisements are going through an AdSense-like model rather than on Google's own pages. However, they will be distributed using different servers and will not be mixed with traditional AdSense advertisements. There's still an interesting equilibrium for CPA ads, however, because Google will obviously show CPA ads with high conversions before they'll show ads with low conversions. Under what circumstances would Google ever show an ad with a low conversion rate?
As for fraudulent clicks, CPA completely bypasses this problem because if there's no action, there's no cost for the action. A previous post brings up a good point about the CJ network using stolen credit cards to make purchases, therefore costing the advertiser more than he's earning, but I believe Google will be more responsible about heading this problem off.
Then what do you does Google do with all the stuff they just bought? Return it? That doesn't sound like an attractive proposition for online retail stores.
I wonder how ads purchased using CPA will rank versus ads purchased using CPC. Currently advertisers must calculate their conversion ratios and profit margins and judge whether an ad is worth running at the current rates. But with Google providing CPA, advertisers only need to worry about profit margin, since Google's advertising costs are now fixed per sale. Therefore I would imagine that Google is calculating conversion ratios per advertisement behind the scenes, and then only showing ads for the products with the highest conversion ratio (multiplied by the CPA rate). Very cool.
But what if you're trying to sell a product that has a very low conversion ratio such that Google refuses to display your ad? Must you bid a higher CPA rate or find ways to increase your conversion ratio through site redesigns or lower prices? It will be interesting to see how Google educates advertisers on these issues.
If a point-of-sale site pushed their transactions through Google's new GBuy service, advertisers would have no way to hide actions resulting in revenue. Perhaps the invite-only aspect of the launch is designed to focus on businesses that are planning on using GBuy?
There's a big space between your level 0 and level 1. One must learn that documents are created with text editors, and an example is Word. To create a chart of data, one uses a spreadsheet, an example being Excel. At this point, one doesn't need to know other examples besides Word and Excel -- one just needs to know the different types of applications available and how to invoke them. After that one can start learning what other applications also fill those types.
I suspect that technical types (at least developers) will more likely "not bother" to upgrade than non-technical types. In fact, I still run Windows 2000 on a number of my development machines on purposes. My reasoning is that older versions are more of a "lowest common denominator", and if I develop on them, my programs are more likely to work on more platforms. Gamer types, if you can call them technical, will probably upgrade at a higher rate than others, though.
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Hmm, I've changed my CC# for exactly this reason and it worked perfectly. I'm in the US also. I'm really surprised your CC company would give out that kind of information. My credit card is about to expire and the companies I have subscriptions with are emailing me asking for an updated number. Why would they do that if they could just phone my credit card company themselves and guarantee a continuing customer?
Call your Credit Card company and have them issue you a new credit card number. If you want to do it simply, claim your credit card was lost -- they have a great system in place for cancelling the current credit card and issuing you a new one. Then when Telus tries to bill your CC it will fail and they will have to send you a paper bill. Once you have a paper bill, only pay for the phone service portion. In the mean time, write them a letter expressing your intentions to only pay for phone service.
Don't be silly :). I really can't talk about competitors openly, but you needn't look much farther than the Microsoft Expression suite to see there's competition. Almost every Adobe product has competitors.
Valid point :). But again, that has a lot to do with the stock market. I think a better argument is toybuilders' -- Channel operations, distribution channels, and suppliers are definitely ripe for competitive challenges. A down-to-earth example is eBay Powersellers, who tightly guard their inventory suppliers since someone could easily come in, buy from the same supplier, sell for a slightly lower amount, and steal the entire market.
:).
So after reading the points of you two, I realize there's a lot more to steal than R&D-related data
Good news for you, they already are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/10/11/AR2005101101788.html.
I'm glad you didn't asphyxiate yourself today!
Altho their revenu and profits are good, why is their share price going down?
I think a better reason is that the overall computer hardware business has fallen nearly 30% over the last two months:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5ESOXX&t=1y.
Is corporate espionage actually valuable? I'm currently working at Adobe, and development plans are pretty widely discussed amongst employees. If something were to leak, I'm not sure what the value of it would be. The only real data points that are heavily protected are financial results and projections, and the product release dates that those rely on. But I'm pretty sure those are only protected for Wall Street purposes.
What kind of data do corporate spies hope to obtain? Would that data be actionable -- e.g, could a company come up with a competing product and be first to market if another company's already half way there?
Besides, how many stock traders do you know that got rich sitting on a basket of stocks and watching the dividends trickle in?
Warren Buffett? But he's only the second richest person in the world.
OMG WTF I THOUGHT THOSE WERE POP-UPS BY HACKERS!!! when i pressed the "X" it still went to there page!!!!! those are the ppl we should really be suing$@!one!!
Burger King differentiates itself by emphasizing their willingness to take custom orders.
Can't customers customize their orders at every fast food chain? I've never heard of someone being required to have onion on their burger.
Graduate school is definitely an asset in the software engineering industry. At my company, people in positions with the most responsibility, such as software architects and managers, primarily have graduate degrees. Software architects, who are tasked with coming up with a framework under which 10-50 engineers develop within, typically have PhDs in Computer Science or Mathematics. First-level people managers typically have a masters in Computer Science, or occasionally an MBA. Second-level people managers, known as directors here and many other places, nearly always have an MBA.
I've been doing quite well at my company with a simple bachelors in Computer Science, but it will take me much longer to become an architect without a graduate degree in CS. It would also be very difficult to obtain director status without an MBA. I'm not saying it's impossible for me to obtain these roles, but having an advanced degree gives one substantial credibility, even if it is undeserved.
The title of this article is "Why The U.S. PC Market is On The Decline", but right in the summary it says that IDC expects the PC market to grow 5.7%!! That's not decline.
What background do you have in software development? Currently Google interviews people for "core basics", which are the basic skills you would learn by going to university or trade school in the field related to your position. For example, when interviewing for the Java Developer Software Engineering position, you'll get a lot of questions about the collections library, synchronization, and core computer science questions like semaphores and two-phase commit. My experience with Java, and I know I'd completely fail a system administration interview.
Perhaps you should have informed your recruiter about your background?
This is mildly true. When you start at Google, you're given a 3 month assignment to judge where you skills are and what kind of person you are. Once you are familiarized with the major projects going on, then you are assigned to contribute to a larger project. I would assume that if your 3 month assignment went down in flames, you would probably not be invited to join a larger project and therefore you would leave the company.
(I believe there's a documentary movie based on the book as well...)
There is, I rented it from NetFlix, and it was very disappointing. Nearly all of the information in the movie should be common knowledge to someone who reads a newspaper or reads CNN.com on a semi-regular basis. The only interesting aspect was the biographies of Skilling, Lay, and Fastow, which allowed me to understand the personalities of the people involved instead of just the facts that come out of the news.
He probably asked his secretary to download the "internet" to a floppy so he could read it in his spare time.
You accuse Sen. Stevens of being feeble brained, yet you use the phrase "the internet"??? If YOU KNEW HOW TO READ, you would know that there are LOTS of internets. The DoD has its own internet. Sen. Stevens receives many internets a day. So quit talking about "the" Internet like it's the Vatican.
And maybe you haven't worked in the US Government, so let me inform you that you can't fit more than a few government-related internets on a floppy disk at one time. For that you need an Iomega Jaz disk.
I believe the way native methods are specified in geniously elegant. It uses the native keyword for its designed use -- to specify that there's a method with an implementation in the interpreter's native language. In the case of GWT, that's Javascript. And instead of extracting the Javascript implementations to an external file where dependencies must be mapped through convention or configuration, the /*-{ ... }-*/ block provides a clean way to put the native methods right into their class. The big problem with GWT is it's difficult integration with existing codebases (it doesn't play that well with others). But the overall syntax of class file definitions is brilliant.
You're worrying too much. Google has just as much interest in receiving revenue from the advertising placement as you do. If someone posts an ad for $3,000 hottubs and the conversion rate is excessively small, Google won't want to display the ad either. Instead they'll display an ad that's more likely to result in conversion, and you'll both get to prance around in happy land.
Hehe, it seems like we both didn't RTFA :). According to the invitation, CPA advertisements are going through an AdSense-like model rather than on Google's own pages. However, they will be distributed using different servers and will not be mixed with traditional AdSense advertisements. There's still an interesting equilibrium for CPA ads, however, because Google will obviously show CPA ads with high conversions before they'll show ads with low conversions. Under what circumstances would Google ever show an ad with a low conversion rate?
As for fraudulent clicks, CPA completely bypasses this problem because if there's no action, there's no cost for the action. A previous post brings up a good point about the CJ network using stolen credit cards to make purchases, therefore costing the advertiser more than he's earning, but I believe Google will be more responsible about heading this problem off.
Then what do you does Google do with all the stuff they just bought? Return it? That doesn't sound like an attractive proposition for online retail stores.
I wonder how ads purchased using CPA will rank versus ads purchased using CPC. Currently advertisers must calculate their conversion ratios and profit margins and judge whether an ad is worth running at the current rates. But with Google providing CPA, advertisers only need to worry about profit margin, since Google's advertising costs are now fixed per sale. Therefore I would imagine that Google is calculating conversion ratios per advertisement behind the scenes, and then only showing ads for the products with the highest conversion ratio (multiplied by the CPA rate). Very cool.
But what if you're trying to sell a product that has a very low conversion ratio such that Google refuses to display your ad? Must you bid a higher CPA rate or find ways to increase your conversion ratio through site redesigns or lower prices? It will be interesting to see how Google educates advertisers on these issues.
If a point-of-sale site pushed their transactions through Google's new GBuy service, advertisers would have no way to hide actions resulting in revenue. Perhaps the invite-only aspect of the launch is designed to focus on businesses that are planning on using GBuy?
There's a big space between your level 0 and level 1. One must learn that documents are created with text editors, and an example is Word. To create a chart of data, one uses a spreadsheet, an example being Excel. At this point, one doesn't need to know other examples besides Word and Excel -- one just needs to know the different types of applications available and how to invoke them. After that one can start learning what other applications also fill those types.
How many KB should be enough for everybody? 640! Not 655!
:( Slashdot needs more geeks.
What's the limit in Excel rows? 64k, not 65k!!
I suspect that technical types (at least developers) will more likely "not bother" to upgrade than non-technical types. In fact, I still run Windows 2000 on a number of my development machines on purposes. My reasoning is that older versions are more of a "lowest common denominator", and if I develop on them, my programs are more likely to work on more platforms. Gamer types, if you can call them technical, will probably upgrade at a higher rate than others, though.