Well, they're so busy donating to Obama hoping for GE-like tax subsidies... of course the GOP won't support them.
Maybe they'll consider that next election. If you're going to pick a winner, then be prepared to live with the consequences.
As to the rest of your idiotic rant, its Obama that bailed out all the banks and financial institutions, but I guess you're too busy playing with your iPhone to notice.
That's what I'm talking about - the first bailout was passed while he was still running for President. Well done, you prove my point with emphasis of calling me an idiot.
The GOP through the George W. Bush years didn't care much for California (or really much else of the country) It's largely assumed because despite a great many republicans living in California, many of whom are very conservative, the state appears to the rest of the country as Liberal or Moderate at the very most, so not a lot of interest in the GOP doing anything for anyone or business in the state. Aside the push to get Gray Davis ousted, after the administration overlooked the criminal manipulation of the power industry (hey, deregulation is good, right?) there was genuine hope of a conservative being elected - alas, Arnold stepped in and derailed that train.
Meg had all sorts of good ideas - mostly theories, as she'd never held office, nor taken interest in the political affairs of the state (or nation) by voting for years. Yet, millions believed she was the one to save California. Now HP are saddled with her - good luck giving her the boot without having to pay her tens of millions in an exit package.
Really did have high hopes for HP, but the writing was on the wall when they picked her.
Man, if anyone's "too big to fail" it's the second largest company in a critical industry with just two major players. Maybe that would be too small too fail. Whatever.
Intel's certainly done well at keeping up a legitimate release schedule in the last five years, especially for a company with no real competition at all, but I'd hate to see the world where Intel suddenly gets that last 20% of processor market share by default. Their prices aren't exactly low to begin with.
I mean really, what's the most recent company that had any real development capability and brand presence besides those two? Cyrix? Via?
A world without AMD would suck...
GOP has no sympathies for California companies. Didn't you get the memo? AMD and Intel are blocks from each other, in Silicon Valley, California. Either one could founder and they'd hardly bat an eye... but if they were banks, well, that's another matter entirely - bail them out and then spread disinformation it was themocrats what were behind it and wasting the people's money.
This would be preferable to what one company I applied for a job with did recently. Gave me a fairly straight forward maths problem involving modulus, gave me about *5* seconds to solve it using real code and not just pseudocode. Sure, that was fine. Then they added the caveat 'What if % is an expensive operation? how would you work around it?'. Turns out it was a trick question. They were expecting you to statically store the result explicitly instead of finding different maths that achieved the same result dynamically but more efficiently. less than 2 seconds later the interviewer interjected with the answer before I had a chance to even say or do anything right *or* wrong.
I don't see how *this* particular kind of quizzing *can* weed good candidates from bad, it's stacked against everyone equally. It's hostile. I'm pretty sure they didn't ever find the 'right' candidate.
I'm all for puzzles and quizzes to test someone's experience and ability and problem solving skills during job applications, but they MUST a) be unambiguous otherwise you're just being a jerk, and b) must be given a reasonable amount of time to actually perform them otherwise, again, you're just being a jerk.
Interview panels I've been on, we generally throw out a few simple problems - we're not so concerned with whether the candidate arrive at a correct answer as we want to observe their thinking - "Explain how you would do X, in general terms" More telling than someone who has the IQ to pass the test, but then proves to be a problem in how they go about work.
That aside:
'The company best known for this is Google. Past applicants tell tales of a head-spinning battery of coding problems, riddles, and brain teasers, many of which seem only tangential to the task of software development.
This seems to explain some of the idiotic updates Google has been rolling out to Chrome and other products. Brilliant, but lacking wisdom.
That's probably a better way depending on the position you are hiring for. However, even these tests are fairly meaningless. A real test would take months or even a year or more and the candidate's skills would have to be evaluated on a longer term project. Solving little puzzles doesn't have much to do with experience in maintaining, debugging or designing a large application over a long period of time. I've seen PhDs who can solve those puzzles who crank out absolutely non-maintainable code. They are great at algorithms, and specialize in them, but long term development and maintenance of a software system is out of sight and out of mind for them.
Might be better to just hire candiddates, assign them to a work group on some Google Labs type of thing, see how they do. Keep the good ones and wash out the ones who prove not up to the task, unable to work with others or have other issues.
I thought Jobs "thought different" and Apple should be worshiped!
Apple, Inc. (formerly Apple Computer) is not thinking much different from most idiotic practices of idiotic companies.
I expect, as the article doesn't delve into anything much presently going on, from the Apple, Inc., end there may have been a "whoa, there, pard!" issued from Cupertino to the feisty lawyers. Crush a hapless little bistro and you may find riots in front of Apple Stores across Europe - not the kind of "ooo, shiny!" they're going for.
Next in line: Oracle sues Mother Nature for making a star named Sun.
Larry Ellison is rumored to be working on a time machine, so he can go back to Delphi, about 2,800 years ago, to sue Apollo for speaking through an unauthorised Oracle (without a licence, no less!)
Apollo is rumored to have been preparing a strong defence, including a handful of lightning bolts, and his own attorneys, those failing.
This is a trademark issue, not a patent issue. Trademark owners have to defend it or risk losing it.
That, of course, won't stop the Slashdotters from freaking out over nothing. Notice the article was submitted by the ITWorld author who wrote it. He knew exactly what he was doing and how this readership would react. It's all about page views. This story isn't even new; it dates back to late August.
Name and logo, have you looked, are not very close.
This is a very big stretch of "confusion" concern.
Turns out Nasa isn't the only one looking to go to cloud computing: main implication: all systems are penetrable and now all the data will be in one place rather than scattered across agencies. They'll prolly invent cyber m16s soon though to guard it and stuff, so it's ok right?
How about some simple gatekeeping security? In my experience security fails when it becomes too complicated to administer properly or navigate by users - that's when you find all those little post it notes laying around and gaps a 10 year-old could exploit.
There were also some very heroic company workers. Though I wonder how many of them performed their tasks out of a sense of duty versus told they had nothing to worry about, the levels were safe and their suits would protect them.
You write as if those conditions have been proven untrue.
I believe we have seen that the stated conditions turned out to be far worse than were reported at the time, with this article simply adding to that body of evidence. Company officials were telling the government of Japan and media that things were not too bad, continuously. When the reactor building popped its cork they finally had to admit they didn't really know how bad things were.
actually HP and the state of california have almost identical revenue, HP at 126 Billion, and California at 120, so she can fuck up a roughly equal amount of money.
Have you looked at the California budget in the past couple of years? It's not quite 120 billion anymore. 2011-12 is projected at about 85 billion.
Though I expect post-2008 HP looks a bit lower, too.
Most voters in California could see that Whitman is out of touch with reality
That is not what happened. The voters of California chose between two people out of touch with reality. proving that most of California is out of touch with reality, because the (R) party gave us Whitman and the (D) party gave us Moonbeam.
California is after all, the land of fruits and nuts.
How you talk.
Meg was fortunately outed as poor manager. Sitting at the helm of eBay was a cake walk, they hold a dominant position in online auctions, pretty much everyone else threw in the towel and left it to them. So they never really got better and she was collecting a lot of money for being there.
Put her in a company which is struggling to keep pace with the technology market, which was once a leader, and she's a fish out of water. Super poor choice. She'll be out in a year.
Couldn't Windows 8 tablets run windows applications?
Some, but who in their right mind wants to run Word on a tablet?
A fair point.
What's the horse power of the minimum configuration for Windows 7 PC? What will it be for Win 8? Anyone paying attention to the considerably slower processors (compared to laptops and desktops) of tablets? If Win 8 is the bloated beast of its presecessors, good luck.
Exactly. Not even released yet and it's already outdated.
Very cautious about Windows on a tablet. When XP for tablets came out it was extremely clunky and far to large for the humble resources of a device loaded with low power chips and a slow (by desktop standards) HDD. Perhaps the greatest reason tablets didn't catch on until iPad.
As Win 8 is probably still going to be a Be-All, Do-All OS and crammed with everything, including the kitchen sink, it'll probably not compare to iPad or Android. But that's my speculation.
To be up front about it, she didn't really do anything for eBay, except oversee the company becoming more monopolistic and distant from their user base
You may whine about your problem to a volunteer in our forum, but we don't really care about you or your problem, especially if we've already got our cut
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There are 4 people head of your in the help queue, average wait time, 2 hours.
What did HP really think they were getting?
Yeah, I don't think I could do worse as CEO at HP, either and I don't even require a company car.
China's certainly moving at a brisk pace. I expect they learned as much as they could from the US and Russia and are throwing their full weight behind it.
Best of luck to them, but please be honest with your setbacks (you will have them) rather than attempt to snow the world media with tales of a program which makes no mistakes at all, ever.
Actually the elderly in Japan volunteered to be the workers early on in the crisis since they were already old and wouldn't be much more adversely affected by radiation cancers in 20 years...
There were also some very heroic company workers. Though I wonder how many of them performed their tasks out of a sense of duty versus told they had nothing to worry about, the levels were safe and their suits would protect them.
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"GOP has no sympathies for California companies."
Well, they're so busy donating to Obama hoping for GE-like tax subsidies... of course the GOP won't support them.
Maybe they'll consider that next election. If you're going to pick a winner, then be prepared to live with the consequences.
As to the rest of your idiotic rant, its Obama that bailed out all the banks and financial institutions, but I guess you're too busy playing with your iPhone to notice.
That's what I'm talking about - the first bailout was passed while he was still running for President. Well done, you prove my point with emphasis of calling me an idiot.
The GOP through the George W. Bush years didn't care much for California (or really much else of the country) It's largely assumed because despite a great many republicans living in California, many of whom are very conservative, the state appears to the rest of the country as Liberal or Moderate at the very most, so not a lot of interest in the GOP doing anything for anyone or business in the state. Aside the push to get Gray Davis ousted, after the administration overlooked the criminal manipulation of the power industry (hey, deregulation is good, right?) there was genuine hope of a conservative being elected - alas, Arnold stepped in and derailed that train.
Meg had all sorts of good ideas - mostly theories, as she'd never held office, nor taken interest in the political affairs of the state (or nation) by voting for years. Yet, millions believed she was the one to save California. Now HP are saddled with her - good luck giving her the boot without having to pay her tens of millions in an exit package.
Really did have high hopes for HP, but the writing was on the wall when they picked her.
If it "fails" perhaps a Chinese investor will buy it. There is no inherent reason that AMD can't implode then be reborn elsewhere.
If they've done any classified design work for the DoD I don't think the US gummint would allow it.
Man, if anyone's "too big to fail" it's the second largest company in a critical industry with just two major players. Maybe that would be too small too fail. Whatever.
Intel's certainly done well at keeping up a legitimate release schedule in the last five years, especially for a company with no real competition at all, but I'd hate to see the world where Intel suddenly gets that last 20% of processor market share by default. Their prices aren't exactly low to begin with.
I mean really, what's the most recent company that had any real development capability and brand presence besides those two? Cyrix? Via?
A world without AMD would suck...
GOP has no sympathies for California companies. Didn't you get the memo? AMD and Intel are blocks from each other, in Silicon Valley, California. Either one could founder and they'd hardly bat an eye ... but if they were banks, well, that's another matter entirely - bail them out and then spread disinformation it was themocrats what were behind it and wasting the people's money.
Is it 10% of AMD's global workforce or 11%?
Rounding error, Luyseyal ran the article through an early Pentium with the FDIV bug.
shoudda got AMD!
With the disruption of technology firms in Thailand, I expect more companies to follow suit.
This would be preferable to what one company I applied for a job with did recently. Gave me a fairly straight forward maths problem involving modulus, gave me about *5* seconds to solve it using real code and not just pseudocode. Sure, that was fine. Then they added the caveat 'What if % is an expensive operation? how would you work around it?'. Turns out it was a trick question. They were expecting you to statically store the result explicitly instead of finding different maths that achieved the same result dynamically but more efficiently. less than 2 seconds later the interviewer interjected with the answer before I had a chance to even say or do anything right *or* wrong.
I don't see how *this* particular kind of quizzing *can* weed good candidates from bad, it's stacked against everyone equally. It's hostile. I'm pretty sure they didn't ever find the 'right' candidate.
I'm all for puzzles and quizzes to test someone's experience and ability and problem solving skills during job applications, but they MUST a) be unambiguous otherwise you're just being a jerk, and b) must be given a reasonable amount of time to actually perform them otherwise, again, you're just being a jerk.
Interview panels I've been on, we generally throw out a few simple problems - we're not so concerned with whether the candidate arrive at a correct answer as we want to observe their thinking - "Explain how you would do X, in general terms" More telling than someone who has the IQ to pass the test, but then proves to be a problem in how they go about work.
That aside:
'The company best known for this is Google. Past applicants tell tales of a head-spinning battery of coding problems, riddles, and brain teasers, many of which seem only tangential to the task of software development.
This seems to explain some of the idiotic updates Google has been rolling out to Chrome and other products. Brilliant, but lacking wisdom.
That's probably a better way depending on the position you are hiring for. However, even these tests are fairly meaningless. A real test would take months or even a year or more and the candidate's skills would have to be evaluated on a longer term project. Solving little puzzles doesn't have much to do with experience in maintaining, debugging or designing a large application over a long period of time. I've seen PhDs who can solve those puzzles who crank out absolutely non-maintainable code. They are great at algorithms, and specialize in them, but long term development and maintenance of a software system is out of sight and out of mind for them.
Might be better to just hire candiddates, assign them to a work group on some Google Labs type of thing, see how they do. Keep the good ones and wash out the ones who prove not up to the task, unable to work with others or have other issues.
I thought Jobs "thought different" and Apple should be worshiped!
Apple, Inc. (formerly Apple Computer) is not thinking much different from most idiotic practices of idiotic companies.
I expect, as the article doesn't delve into anything much presently going on, from the Apple, Inc., end there may have been a "whoa, there, pard!" issued from Cupertino to the feisty lawyers. Crush a hapless little bistro and you may find riots in front of Apple Stores across Europe - not the kind of "ooo, shiny!" they're going for.
Next in line: Oracle sues Mother Nature for making a star named Sun.
Larry Ellison is rumored to be working on a time machine, so he can go back to Delphi, about 2,800 years ago, to sue Apollo for speaking through an unauthorised Oracle (without a licence, no less!)
Apollo is rumored to have been preparing a strong defence, including a handful of lightning bolts, and his own attorneys, those failing.
This is a trademark issue, not a patent issue. Trademark owners have to defend it or risk losing it.
That, of course, won't stop the Slashdotters from freaking out over nothing. Notice the article was submitted by the ITWorld author who wrote it. He knew exactly what he was doing and how this readership would react. It's all about page views. This story isn't even new; it dates back to late August.
Name and logo, have you looked, are not very close.
This is a very big stretch of "confusion" concern.
when lawyers have too much time on their hands.
Time on their hands? I thought they would be busy with Google/Android?
Though I'm certain a tiny little bistro couldn't hope to hold out in the long run, there's always that David vs. Goliath thing which grabs attention.
Maybe someone should advise Apple that being seen as a bully is not very fashionable.
I'm putting my money on Apple, Mother Nature's screwed. No more apples for us :(
Mother Nature is, if nothing else, tenacious. She'll simply rename Poo as Apples and Apples as Poo.
"How ya like your new iPood?"
Has some interesting information
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/231901731?itc=edit_in_body_cross
Turns out Nasa isn't the only one looking to go to cloud computing: main implication: all systems are penetrable and now all the data will be in one place rather than scattered across agencies. They'll prolly invent cyber m16s soon though to guard it and stuff, so it's ok right?
How about some simple gatekeeping security? In my experience security fails when it becomes too complicated to administer properly or navigate by users - that's when you find all those little post it notes laying around and gaps a 10 year-old could exploit.
There were also some very heroic company workers. Though I wonder how many of them performed their tasks out of a sense of duty versus told they had nothing to worry about, the levels were safe and their suits would protect them.
You write as if those conditions have been proven untrue.
I believe we have seen that the stated conditions turned out to be far worse than were reported at the time, with this article simply adding to that body of evidence. Company officials were telling the government of Japan and media that things were not too bad, continuously. When the reactor building popped its cork they finally had to admit they didn't really know how bad things were.
actually HP and the state of california have almost identical revenue, HP at 126 Billion, and California at 120, so she can fuck up a roughly equal amount of money.
Have you looked at the California budget in the past couple of years? It's not quite 120 billion anymore. 2011-12 is projected at about 85 billion.
Though I expect post-2008 HP looks a bit lower, too.
There you go, proof that everyone else is just using wrong!
Denial as a business model?!?
It's just crazy enough, it might work!
Windows 8 has the same hardware requirements as Windows 7 and is said to be slightly smaller and faster.
So... without significantly paring things from it it will be a cow even on the fastest tablet.
That is not what happened. The voters of California chose between two people out of touch with reality. proving that most of California is out of touch with reality, because the (R) party gave us Whitman and the (D) party gave us Moonbeam.
California is after all, the land of fruits and nuts.
How you talk.
Meg was fortunately outed as poor manager. Sitting at the helm of eBay was a cake walk, they hold a dominant position in online auctions, pretty much everyone else threw in the towel and left it to them. So they never really got better and she was collecting a lot of money for being there.
Put her in a company which is struggling to keep pace with the technology market, which was once a leader, and she's a fish out of water. Super poor choice. She'll be out in a year.
Couldn't Windows 8 tablets run windows applications?
Some, but who in their right mind wants to run Word on a tablet?
A fair point.
What's the horse power of the minimum configuration for Windows 7 PC? What will it be for Win 8? Anyone paying attention to the considerably slower processors (compared to laptops and desktops) of tablets? If Win 8 is the bloated beast of its presecessors, good luck.
it'll run windows 8...
Exactly. Not even released yet and it's already outdated.
Very cautious about Windows on a tablet. When XP for tablets came out it was extremely clunky and far to large for the humble resources of a device loaded with low power chips and a slow (by desktop standards) HDD. Perhaps the greatest reason tablets didn't catch on until iPad.
As Win 8 is probably still going to be a Be-All, Do-All OS and crammed with everything, including the kitchen sink, it'll probably not compare to iPad or Android. But that's my speculation.
To be up front about it, she didn't really do anything for eBay, except oversee the company becoming more monopolistic and distant from their user base
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What did HP really think they were getting?
Yeah, I don't think I could do worse as CEO at HP, either and I don't even require a company car.
This is the sort of brilliance the people of California were very nearly exposed to as a follow up to Governor Ahnold.
Sad to see she's being clueless for millions at HP, but better than clueless for billions in Sacramento.
I think HP should buddy-up with Google.
China's certainly moving at a brisk pace. I expect they learned as much as they could from the US and Russia and are throwing their full weight behind it.
Best of luck to them, but please be honest with your setbacks (you will have them) rather than attempt to snow the world media with tales of a program which makes no mistakes at all, ever.
Right. Do I have any volunteers?
Actually the elderly in Japan volunteered to be the workers early on in the crisis since they were already old and wouldn't be much more adversely affected by radiation cancers in 20 years...
There were also some very heroic company workers. Though I wonder how many of them performed their tasks out of a sense of duty versus told they had nothing to worry about, the levels were safe and their suits would protect them.