An MBA from a top 25 (and even top 50) school will open your options up far more than you would expect. Any other schools will only help you claw your way up to middle management. The recruiters are STARVING for technical people. Who bettter than a geek to evaluate the M&A or investment value of new technology? If technical people were involved in the 'strategy discussions' 2 years ago, the dot-com thing wouldn't have been nearly as disasterous. I think the best IS program and assets are at University of Austin, and they are well ranked otherwise.
Check these sites for current rankings and contact admissions asap so they can start a file on you and track your interest in their program. Don't forget to contact financial aid asap too, and look for the free money, because it IS out there.
Business Week B-school Rankings are at http://businessweek.com/bschools/index.htm US News and World Report rankings are at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/gradrank/m ba/gdmbat1.htm
ANY MINORITY APPLICANTS PLEASE CHECK OUT http://cgsm.org !!! They want to give you free money. Contact them immediately. I will accept e-mail questions about the program.
I bumped into a copy of this book last night. It looked excellent, although it seemed to focus more on the actual disgusting reality behind the counter of fast food joints rather than the social and cultural concerns
I highly recommend "The McDonaldization of America" and "Expressing America: The Credit Card Society," both by George Ritzer.
Also, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past" by Barbara Garson (1988, Simon and Schuster) has an *excellent* chapter on what it is like to work at McDonalds and brings these concepts to take on office situations and electronic surveillance. Dated, but good.
I agree. I think outboard mediaserving devices are silly unless they run on batteries.
I just use a Mac in every room to drive the stereo and television. Playing files off other machines in the network is no problem.
I think component MP3 products are redundant. Your laptop can do the same thing, anywhere. I suppose a portable and rechargable power amp would be nice.
What we need are better consumer video capture cards and a software based TIVOlike systems.
If anyone knows of a cableTVhack for Mac please let me know, thats one thing the PC's still hold over us oppressed Macintosh Loyalists. I shouldn't hold my breath.
In Europe it's generally accepted that there should be limits to freespeech. What transpired in Europe 60 years ago has show to us that freespeech should not be abused to give speaking rights to those who would deny those rights to others.
So you are saying the the RIAA and the MPAA should be denied THEIR freedom of speech? I'd dig it if it weren't hippocritical of me.
Does anyone know a better way to annoy the RIAA other than sending hatemail at http://www.riaa.com/Contact.cfm ?
I guess all those Y2K supplies I stockpiled will help me resist the coming police state;)
I use Speakeasy DSL, on Covad copper. After 8 months of bliss with 768/768 linespeed, it went down. took 6 moths to get back up. now I pay the same rate for 144/144 and had to pay several hundred dollars to get my slower line REINSTALLED. However absurd and offensive this is, it was necessary. It was the only way to get service. I wanted to avoid small, young isp's, which ended up being a good decision.
The moral of my wager in accepting seemingingly exploitative terms for re-connection is that it is best to go with a company which will not go under. I think Speakeasy and Covad are the only 800 pound gorillas who stand a chance against the tele-monopolistic establishment. I let them screw me on my rates, hell I KNOW they are losing money...besides, sometimes the techs who drop by forget to bring all their toys home...
The bottom line is that to many of us, DSL is priceless. Don't concentrate on the best deal, even hold time and customer service is irrelevant, as it ebbs and flows with every little development. Just go with someone who is stable and isnt verizon, which means Earthlink or Speakeasy (i believe the latter offers more 'freedom') on Covad copper.
Oh yeah, and be ready to pay thru the nose and lose your service once in awhile. I suggest begging (bribing) verizon techs who happen to be in your neighborhood, often the problem is simply that some idiot disconnected your pair on the pole. BTW, the Covad techs consistantly believe in a Verizon conspiracy against other ISP's (I ask every time).
THIS POST IS OFF TOPIC, FASCIST. Please remember that the klan, the christian right, and every gay basher in the country votes republican. FASCIST!
LOL!
hmmm.... slashdot doesn't market themselves, and see what we are all looking at???
If you rely on record labels and gaudy marketing techniques to decide which records to buy, you either aren't looking hard enough or have extremely bad taste. IMHO the best music isn't marketed at all anyway, people who need it know where to find it. Similar to slashdot and other sticky, un-marketed sites.
Don't worry about the lemming masses or the bands hoping for money. Things will change soon enough.
I disagree strongly with your statement about bands depending on the music industry. As a musician who has worked in the belly of the beast, I would NEVER sign with any major label, and with only a precious few indies. Their time is over, and their evil, exploititave, corrupt ways are clearly obsolete. We are just thinking about it a little too early for it to be plain and obvious.
I think the morality of the theft of intellectual property is not the issue. It is the enforcement which is dangerous. You cannot stop people from doing what they will with the technology. I do not have to justify theft, rather you have to justify enforcing the laws against it upon the expotentially growing number of thieves. If you are an artist who is technologically inclined and no instance of copyright infringment is present on your drive, I pity you and question your love and devotion to the arts. I give my music away for free because I'm not in it for the money. Its the new model for the ideas which become popular. No marketing. Get used to it.
If copyright laws are strictly enforced, we could see nearly every computer user criminalized and subject to arrest, let alone discouraging the manufacturers which provide us with exciting and useful products to further explore the world with.
I am more worried of copyright law being used to justify digital fascism and arrest warrants than the silly intellectual property issues.
This HP decision further justifies the obsolete notion that someone has to pay.
Information, everything digital, will soon get much cheaper if not free. Scarcity is the most serious and longstanding obstacle to human equality and sustainance, now that we have a situation which could allievate scarcity, at least in the digital realm, comapnies and even individual people are being punished.
The economy will certainly undergo drastic and painful changes and these lame legal decisions only prolong the inevitable and create more mayrters to piss off the new world order.
Accept this now and prepare, and you will be much happier when the dust settles. Please forgive my spelling.
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I think the best IS program and assets are at University of Austin, and they are well ranked otherwise.
Check these sites for current rankings and contact admissions asap so they can start a file on you and track your interest in their program. Don't forget to contact financial aid asap too, and look for the free money, because it IS out there. Business Week B-school Rankings are at http://businessweek.com/bschools/index.htm US News and World Report rankings are at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/gradrank/m ba/gdmbat1.htm
ANY MINORITY APPLICANTS PLEASE CHECK OUT http://cgsm.org !!! They want to give you free money. Contact them immediately. I will accept e-mail questions about the program.
Good luck, the recession is coming.
I bumped into a copy of this book last night. It looked excellent, although it seemed to focus more on the actual disgusting reality behind the counter of fast food joints rather than the social and cultural concerns
I highly recommend "The McDonaldization of America" and "Expressing America: The Credit Card Society," both by George Ritzer.
Also, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past" by Barbara Garson (1988, Simon and Schuster) has an *excellent* chapter on what it is like to work at McDonalds and brings these concepts to take on office situations and electronic surveillance. Dated, but good.
I just use a Mac in every room to drive the stereo and television. Playing files off other machines in the network is no problem.
I think component MP3 products are redundant. Your laptop can do the same thing, anywhere. I suppose a portable and rechargable power amp would be nice.
What we need are better consumer video capture cards and a software based TIVOlike systems.
If anyone knows of a cableTVhack for Mac please let me know, thats one thing the PC's still hold over us oppressed Macintosh Loyalists. I shouldn't hold my breath.
So you are saying the the RIAA and the MPAA should be denied THEIR freedom of speech? I'd dig it if it weren't hippocritical of me.
Does anyone know a better way to annoy the RIAA other than sending hatemail at http://www.riaa.com/Contact.cfm ? I guess all those Y2K supplies I stockpiled will help me resist the coming police state ;)
The moral of my wager in accepting seemingingly exploitative terms for re-connection is that it is best to go with a company which will not go under. I think Speakeasy and Covad are the only 800 pound gorillas who stand a chance against the tele-monopolistic establishment. I let them screw me on my rates, hell I KNOW they are losing money...besides, sometimes the techs who drop by forget to bring all their toys home...
The bottom line is that to many of us, DSL is priceless. Don't concentrate on the best deal, even hold time and customer service is irrelevant, as it ebbs and flows with every little development. Just go with someone who is stable and isnt verizon, which means Earthlink or Speakeasy (i believe the latter offers more 'freedom') on Covad copper.
Oh yeah, and be ready to pay thru the nose and lose your service once in awhile. I suggest begging (bribing) verizon techs who happen to be in your neighborhood, often the problem is simply that some idiot disconnected your pair on the pole. BTW, the Covad techs consistantly believe in a Verizon conspiracy against other ISP's (I ask every time).
THIS POST IS OFF TOPIC, FASCIST. Please remember that the klan, the christian right, and every gay basher in the country votes republican. FASCIST! LOL!
hmmm.... slashdot doesn't market themselves, and see what we are all looking at???
If you rely on record labels and gaudy marketing techniques to decide which records to buy, you either aren't looking hard enough or have extremely bad taste. IMHO the best music isn't marketed at all anyway, people who need it know where to find it. Similar to slashdot and other sticky, un-marketed sites.
Don't worry about the lemming masses or the bands hoping for money. Things will change soon enough.
I disagree strongly with your statement about bands depending on the music industry. As a musician who has worked in the belly of the beast, I would NEVER sign with any major label, and with only a precious few indies. Their time is over, and their evil, exploititave, corrupt ways are clearly obsolete. We are just thinking about it a little too early for it to be plain and obvious.
I think the morality of the theft of intellectual property is not the issue. It is the enforcement which is dangerous. You cannot stop people from doing what they will with the technology. I do not have to justify theft, rather you have to justify enforcing the laws against it upon the expotentially growing number of thieves. If you are an artist who is technologically inclined and no instance of copyright infringment is present on your drive, I pity you and question your love and devotion to the arts. I give my music away for free because I'm not in it for the money. Its the new model for the ideas which become popular. No marketing. Get used to it.
If copyright laws are strictly enforced, we could see nearly every computer user criminalized and subject to arrest, let alone discouraging the manufacturers which provide us with exciting and useful products to further explore the world with.
I am more worried of copyright law being used to justify digital fascism and arrest warrants than the silly intellectual property issues. This HP decision further justifies the obsolete notion that someone has to pay.
Information, everything digital, will soon get much cheaper if not free. Scarcity is the most serious and longstanding obstacle to human equality and sustainance, now that we have a situation which could allievate scarcity, at least in the digital realm, comapnies and even individual people are being punished.
The economy will certainly undergo drastic and painful changes and these lame legal decisions only prolong the inevitable and create more mayrters to piss off the new world order.
Accept this now and prepare, and you will be much happier when the dust settles. Please forgive my spelling.