As a result, tech continues to stumble when it comes to diversity. The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees.The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees. IBM's head of talent organization, Sam Ladah, calls this sort of initiative a focus on 'new-collar jobs.'
The bold text is a duplicate information, I would guess maybe a copy/paste/paste? So...diversity in the editing world I suppose.
Aside from that, I have been doing QA since the early 90s, and I did get a CS degree. I have been a manager for over 10 of those years, and have looked at a lot of resumes. I am always interested in seeing if people have degrees or not, or what it may be in. It's just a point of reference, and not a deciding factor usually. I see people applying for QA jobs that have Marketing and Communications degrees. But some rules always apply - don't overstate your competency, you will be found out, and if you DO have a degree in communication, don't make a bunch of grammatical/spelling/formatting mistakes on your resume.
I also think it's funny that some people immediately see "tech jobs" and think "IT", or "networking" or "programmer". There is so much more that goes into technology than just those things. I have seen pretty much everything over the years, from genius self-taught programmers who sucked because they couldn't work on a team, to customer service people who were some of the best testers I had. I don't think you can force this diversity, because to be honest I have seen customer service people who were awful at testing too. I think what is more important is that hiring managers are willing to get the right people and not just warm bodies who can fill seats. I don't want to hire someone who is a QA robot, nor do I want to hire someone who is a "people person" and has no ability to be diligent and think critically.
Ads. Ads. ADS. ADS. The only time I went to the theater to see a movie in the last 5 years was recently to see Logan. Mainly because I had the day off, the kids were in school, and my wife and I went together. It was the opening show, by total chance because we went on a whim. Luckily it was at 11AM and the local theater had $5 movies before noon, so it was a great start.
We got there right at 11, it wasn't crowded so we found good seats, and the lights came down.
After watching advertisement after advertisement, from car dealerships to restaurants, and two from the movie theater chain itself, they started in on the previews. I don't usually mind them, and they weren't that annoying. Then MORE ads, including YET ANOTHER one for the movie theater chain. Not just a simple logo or slogan, but a minute or two advertisement for their great movie experience. It had been about 25 minutes and I was almost ready to walk out I was so pissed.
One of the parts I really dislike about hiring is that we have to go through Recruiters/HR when dealing with candidates. I don't even know if they communicate with candidates at all. I always ask that they let candidates know when I decide not to hire them and give them feedback. But I found out once, when I ran into a candidate later, that they didn't. They just got no response at all after the interview. Which sucks for everyone involved, and makes the company look bad. But HR/Recruiters don't care. They really don't.
So when you talk about "the company" you mean the face of the company to the candidates.
But to your point, and interviewer may give feedback to the hiring manager to gives it to the recruiter who gives it to the candidate. By the time it gets to the candidate, if at all, it most likely isn't the original information. I have been that candidate too... and it does really suck to think you nailed it and you never hear anything back. On the flip side, I have gotten resumes that were ok, but 2 minutes into the phone screen knew the person was a NO. My feedback to the recruiter was specific and definite...and while we were talking, he got an email from the candidate saying the phone screen went well. Sometimes, your perspectives are just completely different.
Good for you. Yours is one story, and while you were able to do what you did, I am sure that you can't expect everyone to be able to do that.
In the late 80s I went to Jr College for 2 years, worked to pay my way, then went to University to get my bachelors. I have worked in some form or another since I was 17, all through college, and including summers. I still had to take out loans to make it through college, and I didn't go to an expensive school. After I graduated I wasn't deep in debt, but I was in debt with loans (and no credit card debt). I didn't have any scholarships, and I didn't get a 4.0.
I would love to be able to help my kids with college, but that will start in 7 years and the accounts we have set up and contributed money to will not cover much of anything. And we have planned and saved and are trying to stay out of debt. I can't imagine how other people can just pay for their kids college, and I don't know how college kids can come out without racking up debt these days.
I just went through booking a flight last week. I used Expedia and Kayak to look around. One of them found a much better deal (called a hacker fare) where you are essentially buying two one-way tickets on different airlines. It was $100 cheaper than anything else, which was $400+. Then I did a search for reviews, and everything said to stay away. The "price guarantee" is true, but if there are schedule changes - and you can be assured there will be - then you have to pay a change fee, or some other types of fees. And what will you do, refuse to pay it?
I ended up going right to the airline I have points with, and found a better deal @ $325 for round trip. And this airline was even listed in the meta-search-engine's results. So I think there are definitely some "preferred results" things going on with these sites. For me, there is no reason to risk the trip by using the meta-search-engines. I like the peace of mind of booking with the airline, and in this case it even saved me some money.
Don't say anything. Put your head in the sand, maybe it will go away
And everyone will keep making the problem worse.
But you'll be able to say it wasn't your fault! Good for you!
To some degree.... YES! Yes it will go away. Not everything, but so much fluff is driven by viewership/ratings/likes/followers. That is what happens when everyone is given a voice. Journalism used to be about fact checking, research, etc. Now they show tweets.
There is a lot of power (and good) in giving everyone a voice, but when everyone is talking at once you can't hear anything. It instant information and misinformation. It changes the way people act, and not in a good way. Raise your head up, and look around. See everyone with their heads down, tapping away at their phones like deranged chickens? It becomes an obsession. Do you really think that EVEYTHING they are doing is important? I can assure you, it is not. But they are compelled. It is changing us, and not in a good way.
The point of which is, that decisions in the public interest, even ones in defense of the commons, are not necessarily "simple" -- they involve cost-benefit tradeoffs and often hurt a lot of people even as they (perhaps) help the majority. Government agencies in general, and to be frank government LAWS in general, should ALL be based on transparent, openly debated from a common set of assumptions and data, reasoning.
I'm frankly hopeful that this law, if passed, can be used to challenge each and every regulation throughout government based on religion. Republicans might find that what is really good medicine for all government agencies in their decision making process tastes bitter to them as it is even BETTER medicine for the legislative process itself.
While I agree with you in principle, and I think this bill can be a good thing, I have a sinking suspicion that it won't make much difference when it comes to making policy. At best, it is a misdirection. Our government (which happens to be Republican currently) will find a way to push their own agenda, regardless of what data there is. Look at climate change, and how that clear-cut data has been spun to point some opinions in the opposite direction. It's almost like having the data just leads to more smoke and mirrors. They can come to a conclusion based on "the data" and yell loud enough to drown out any further proof to the contrary. And this is by no means limited to the current administration, it happens all across our governmental machine.
This has been going on for a LONG time with WalMart. For electronics, look at the part numbers - they are different for WalMart, sometimes with just a "-WM" on the end of the normal part number. Why on earth would an "identical" product sold there have a different part #? Because they are such a big retailer it is worth it for the manufacturers to make an 'identical' product but cut corners in whatever ways will cut their costs to meet the price demands.
They have been doing this for a very long time. You can't just magically get a product for cheaper than other places. If you buy anything used, like on eBay or CL, always check the entire part number.
Really. Seriously. I have spent the last couple of years really cutting back on my news. I haven't watched the nightly news for 4 years. I only catch a little bit of TV news in the breakroom at work because its on. I check the BBC website on occasion. That's really about it. I ditched Instagram, I don't do Facebook.
You'd be surprised how much most of it really doesn't matter. To paraphrase a great quote: If you don't watch the news, you're uninformed. If you do watch the news, you're misinformed.
Some actors make $20mil for a movie - so it's high, but not all that outrageous. They are investing in things that will cause their subscriber base to grow. ++
I am all for it. Their original content has gotten better and better. Networks had better pay attention.
Everyone has their opinions, I would suggest trying some out on your own using live distros (CD/DVD or USB drive). I have been using linux since 1998 at home, and it is great. Live distros are a beautiful thing.
You can boot into a fully running OS and try it out without installing it. It will also let you know if it is compatible with your hardware. It will run slower than if you installed it, but it will run and you can get the feel for it.
As you read through these comments, you'll see names of distros. All of them should have live versions you can try out. Try them to see which desktop environment you like the best, that would be a good start. I use Mint XFCE. There is also Mint KDE, Mint Cinnamon, Mint Mate. Maybe others now too. Some distros, like Mint and Ubuntu have specific packaged versions with these desktop environments as the default. Others don't and you would hvae to install them and try them out. You can also have different desktop environments on the same machine and switch between them if you like once you install it.
For a beginner, I would say to stick with Ubuntu or Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. They have good guides/documentation, and large communities. You can also check out distrowatch.com, which shows the most popular in terms of downloads. I am sure there are some of the top ones I haven't tried yet.
That is the beauty of it - take some time and try them out.
A serious question - what kind of phone do you have?
I have known one person who had a Windows phone. One. I don't know anyone anymore who has a blackberry. Well, my son does. It's my old one from work that I had 5 years ago, he uses it as a pretend phone. Everyone talks about physical keyboards, but I could do no better on that than I can on my Android phone.
I would actually love for there to be alternatives. And I think that is what we have with Android. Not alternative OS, but alternative providers. Who provides Windows phones? Who provides iPhones? See the difference? Now if Google takes Android fully into their castle, that is when alarms should sound.
I would expect that RottenTomatoes has also *increased* the viewing of many movies as well. I know that I have often gone there and looked at the highest rated movies when looking for something to add to my Netflix DVD queue. I like looking at the critics vs reviewers rating as well. Many a good movie (to me) has been panned by critics. Likewise, many critically acclaimed movies don't always get good reviews.
It's just information though, the choice of what to watch is still mine.
And I knew Batman vs Superman was poorly rated.... and I still added it to my queue. I didn't make it through it though, shut it off after about 1/4 of the way in. Just terrible.
I didn't even know what ORMs and URMs were, had to look it up. He is a white male, and he still works there. So I am about 99.99867% sure you were exaggerating when you said "all".
I work with plenty of minorities, always have for 23 years at large and small companies. I have never ever seen preferential treatment towards or against minorities. I have always seen where we hire the best people we can given the constraints. Sometimes that was hiring a contract team instead of full-time employees, and sometimes they were offshore/nearshore, everyone from the US to Ukraine to Mexico to India. But the bottom line was that those teams were always temporary, and employees were protected when cuts were required.
That is the thing about technology, we always want the best people we can get to do the work - I really don't care where they are from or what they look like.
You are confusing "technology" with "IT Sector". Those are two completely different things. Wal-Mart was innovating with technology a long time ago, increasing efficiency and automating a lot of information flow - for their own purposes. I thought all that was widely known. I think that they weren't quite as prepared for the web presence, and although they were in it early, they don't dominate like other players. I remember reading about how they deployed RFID to their warehouses to track trucks, and how they optimized shipping routes, etc. All high-tech, but not necessarily consumer facing.
Having said that, I don't shop there unless I absolutely need something quickly that nobody else around has... maybe 2 or 3 times a year. IT people or managers might be paid well, but my brother used to work for them and he absolutely hated it. As soon as he could find something else he left. They kept him at a certain number of hours to avoid having to offer insurance. If there is one thing I haven't heard about Wal-Mart, it's that they treat their employees well.
I have a friend who is celebrating his 21st year at Intel. He has considered leaving a few times, but just couldn't because they take such good care of him. He gets stock options that come out to about 1/3 of my salary, he makes very good money, usually gets double-digit raises and bonuses that are about 1/4 to 1/3 my salary.
Every seven years, he gets a paid 3-month sabbatical, in addition to vacation. This year will be his 3rd one. He had to move once for the company, and when he did they pretty much covered every expense.
Quite honestly, I have known a couple of other people who have worked there, and none of them complained about it. What I was told about Intel was that they take care of their employees, and during hard times (like during the economic downturn) they take better care of them. It's how they keep good people. I always respected them for that. I can't say as much for any software or financial company that I have worked for in the last 24 years.
At a small company in 2005 I was hired as the QA manager, I moved across the country for this small startup that had been around for 6 or 7 years. I was told I would get to hire my team of 7 and build the QA team and processes. For 8 months I was the only QA person and was told I couldn't hire anyone. Then suddenly I was asked why I hadn't hired my team yet. So I started interviewing... requirements were 3-5 yrs experience. Interviewed, made offers, nobody was accepting. As the hiring manager, my boss wouldn't let me in on how much the position paid. When I finally found out, I know why nobody was accepting - $30k. I finally convinced him to increase the salary, and I was able to hire two people. Not 7.
When I joined the company, my wife was pregnant with our first child. I talked to my boss, and asked if I could take some vacation days / sick days when the baby came. He said of course, that he had kids, and he totally understood. He was genuinely nice about it and I felt better. My wife had the baby, we had to do an emergency c-section, and everything was fine. That was on a Saturday, and I had planned to take the week after off. On Tuesday, the 2nd day I was off, I got a call from a co-worker saying my boss was flipping out, asking where the hell I was, saying I had to be in the office immediately. I said I couldn't and that my wife needed me as we had no family there. I went in on Thursday, and my boss was a total asshole to me. There was nothing urgent going on at all either, he just wanted me there.
After about a year of putting some kind of QA process with my 2 person team in place at this small company, I was told "You need to automate all of our testing". Then I was told that I could have no budget, couldn't hire any automation people, and had to do it in my spare time without any impacts to other schedules. I explained that it was possible to do, but not with those constraints. I even made some suggestions about how to approach it given those constraints. That wasn't good enough, so I set about busting my ass trying to do it. I was working 60+ hours a week, and making some headway. Two months later a new product manager was hired, and I was told to train him on our product as well. I came in the Monday after a long July4th weekend, and I couldn't log in. Then I was called into the conference room and was fired. I had a bad attitude, and when I was told to do something I should just say "yes". I calmly explained that what they asked me to do wasn't possible, and that's when I found out that the "product manager" I trained was my replacement, and he was going to take my position and do that automation. I said "I guarantee you that he won't".
I kept in touch with friends there. Three months later, the new QA manager was fired. They promoted the first person I hired to manager. She wasn't happy about it. She was fired after a month, followed by the rest of the QA team. Within a year the entire company folded. The promised IPO never happened, the multi-millionaire president-and-founder slunk back to his mansion, and the executives [my boss included] went on to other shady ventures.
I learned a lot there, but it was all mostly how NOT to be a manager.
I can think of a couple of sequels, or movies in a series, that I liked just as much or maybe more than previous movies.
Toy Story 3 is my favorite in that series. Logan is my favorite of the X-Men franchise. I think that these two did need the previous movies to give them the full context though.
Batman Begins dwarfs all previous attempts to tell that story, and The Dark Knight was fantastic.
Rise of and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes were great and much less corny than the original, although they were prequels.
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And that is how it should be. Because businesses will come and go (even Microsoft), but the truly innovative and useful things are sustainable.
It is like the monk walking with his teacher, and they see a rabbit being chased by a fox. The student says "That poor rabbit will get eaten". The teacher asks "Why do you think so?" "Because the fox is much faster, stronger, and more cunning". The teacher says "But the rabbit will elude him". "Why is that teacher?" "Because the fox is running for his dinner, but the rabbit is running for his life"
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As a result, tech continues to stumble when it comes to diversity. The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees. The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees. IBM's head of talent organization, Sam Ladah, calls this sort of initiative a focus on 'new-collar jobs.'
The bold text is a duplicate information, I would guess maybe a copy/paste/paste? So...diversity in the editing world I suppose.
Aside from that, I have been doing QA since the early 90s, and I did get a CS degree. I have been a manager for over 10 of those years, and have looked at a lot of resumes. I am always interested in seeing if people have degrees or not, or what it may be in. It's just a point of reference, and not a deciding factor usually. I see people applying for QA jobs that have Marketing and Communications degrees. But some rules always apply - don't overstate your competency, you will be found out, and if you DO have a degree in communication, don't make a bunch of grammatical/spelling/formatting mistakes on your resume.
I also think it's funny that some people immediately see "tech jobs" and think "IT", or "networking" or "programmer". There is so much more that goes into technology than just those things. I have seen pretty much everything over the years, from genius self-taught programmers who sucked because they couldn't work on a team, to customer service people who were some of the best testers I had. I don't think you can force this diversity, because to be honest I have seen customer service people who were awful at testing too. I think what is more important is that hiring managers are willing to get the right people and not just warm bodies who can fill seats. I don't want to hire someone who is a QA robot, nor do I want to hire someone who is a "people person" and has no ability to be diligent and think critically.
Ads. Ads. ADS. ADS. The only time I went to the theater to see a movie in the last 5 years was recently to see Logan. Mainly because I had the day off, the kids were in school, and my wife and I went together. It was the opening show, by total chance because we went on a whim. Luckily it was at 11AM and the local theater had $5 movies before noon, so it was a great start.
We got there right at 11, it wasn't crowded so we found good seats, and the lights came down.
After watching advertisement after advertisement, from car dealerships to restaurants, and two from the movie theater chain itself, they started in on the previews. I don't usually mind them, and they weren't that annoying. Then MORE ads, including YET ANOTHER one for the movie theater chain. Not just a simple logo or slogan, but a minute or two advertisement for their great movie experience. It had been about 25 minutes and I was almost ready to walk out I was so pissed.
One of the parts I really dislike about hiring is that we have to go through Recruiters/HR when dealing with candidates.
I don't even know if they communicate with candidates at all. I always ask that they let candidates know when I decide not to hire them and give them feedback. But I found out once, when I ran into a candidate later, that they didn't. They just got no response at all after the interview. Which sucks for everyone involved, and makes the company look bad. But HR/Recruiters don't care. They really don't.
So when you talk about "the company" you mean the face of the company to the candidates.
But to your point, and interviewer may give feedback to the hiring manager to gives it to the recruiter who gives it to the candidate. By the time it gets to the candidate, if at all, it most likely isn't the original information. I have been that candidate too... and it does really suck to think you nailed it and you never hear anything back. On the flip side, I have gotten resumes that were ok, but 2 minutes into the phone screen knew the person was a NO. My feedback to the recruiter was specific and definite...and while we were talking, he got an email from the candidate saying the phone screen went well. Sometimes, your perspectives are just completely different.
Good for you. Yours is one story, and while you were able to do what you did, I am sure that you can't expect everyone to be able to do that.
In the late 80s I went to Jr College for 2 years, worked to pay my way, then went to University to get my bachelors. I have worked in some form or another since I was 17, all through college, and including summers. I still had to take out loans to make it through college, and I didn't go to an expensive school. After I graduated I wasn't deep in debt, but I was in debt with loans (and no credit card debt). I didn't have any scholarships, and I didn't get a 4.0.
I would love to be able to help my kids with college, but that will start in 7 years and the accounts we have set up and contributed money to will not cover much of anything. And we have planned and saved and are trying to stay out of debt. I can't imagine how other people can just pay for their kids college, and I don't know how college kids can come out without racking up debt these days.
I just went through booking a flight last week. I used Expedia and Kayak to look around. One of them found a much better deal (called a hacker fare) where you are essentially buying two one-way tickets on different airlines. It was $100 cheaper than anything else, which was $400+. Then I did a search for reviews, and everything said to stay away. The "price guarantee" is true, but if there are schedule changes - and you can be assured there will be - then you have to pay a change fee, or some other types of fees. And what will you do, refuse to pay it?
I ended up going right to the airline I have points with, and found a better deal @ $325 for round trip. And this airline was even listed in the meta-search-engine's results. So I think there are definitely some "preferred results" things going on with these sites. For me, there is no reason to risk the trip by using the meta-search-engines. I like the peace of mind of booking with the airline, and in this case it even saved me some money.
OK, don't participate.
Don't say anything. Put your head in the sand, maybe it will go away
And everyone will keep making the problem worse.
But you'll be able to say it wasn't your fault! Good for you!
To some degree.... YES! Yes it will go away. Not everything, but so much fluff is driven by viewership/ratings/likes/followers. That is what happens when everyone is given a voice. Journalism used to be about fact checking, research, etc. Now they show tweets.
There is a lot of power (and good) in giving everyone a voice, but when everyone is talking at once you can't hear anything. It instant information and misinformation. It changes the way people act, and not in a good way. Raise your head up, and look around. See everyone with their heads down, tapping away at their phones like deranged chickens? It becomes an obsession. Do you really think that EVEYTHING they are doing is important? I can assure you, it is not. But they are compelled. It is changing us, and not in a good way.
The point of which is, that decisions in the public interest, even ones in defense of the commons, are not necessarily "simple" -- they involve cost-benefit tradeoffs and often hurt a lot of people even as they (perhaps) help the majority. Government agencies in general, and to be frank government LAWS in general, should ALL be based on transparent, openly debated from a common set of assumptions and data, reasoning.
I'm frankly hopeful that this law, if passed, can be used to challenge each and every regulation throughout government based on religion. Republicans might find that what is really good medicine for all government agencies in their decision making process tastes bitter to them as it is even BETTER medicine for the legislative process itself.
While I agree with you in principle, and I think this bill can be a good thing, I have a sinking suspicion that it won't make much difference when it comes to making policy. At best, it is a misdirection. Our government (which happens to be Republican currently) will find a way to push their own agenda, regardless of what data there is. Look at climate change, and how that clear-cut data has been spun to point some opinions in the opposite direction. It's almost like having the data just leads to more smoke and mirrors. They can come to a conclusion based on "the data" and yell loud enough to drown out any further proof to the contrary. And this is by no means limited to the current administration, it happens all across our governmental machine.
This has been going on for a LONG time with WalMart. For electronics, look at the part numbers - they are different for WalMart, sometimes with just a "-WM" on the end of the normal part number. Why on earth would an "identical" product sold there have a different part #? Because they are such a big retailer it is worth it for the manufacturers to make an 'identical' product but cut corners in whatever ways will cut their costs to meet the price demands.
They have been doing this for a very long time. You can't just magically get a product for cheaper than other places. If you buy anything used, like on eBay or CL, always check the entire part number.
No wait, I mean - WTF? THIS is considered not only news, but news for nerds?
So easy to ask the questions or make the demands.
It is an entirely different thing to make it happen and work as intended.
But.. fine. Let's gather your requirements, and we'll go from there. As long as you fund the project.
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Really. Seriously. I have spent the last couple of years really cutting back on my news. I haven't watched the nightly news for 4 years. I only catch a little bit of TV news in the breakroom at work because its on. I check the BBC website on occasion. That's really about it. I ditched Instagram, I don't do Facebook.
You'd be surprised how much most of it really doesn't matter.
To paraphrase a great quote:
If you don't watch the news, you're uninformed. If you do watch the news, you're misinformed.
I only use it at work. I use Linux at home, and my family uses Win7.
Some actors make $20mil for a movie - so it's high, but not all that outrageous. They are investing in things that will cause their subscriber base to grow. ++
I am all for it. Their original content has gotten better and better. Networks had better pay attention.
Without that, or to have these numbers normalized in some way, it is meaningless to just compare salaries.
Everyone has their opinions, I would suggest trying some out on your own using live distros (CD/DVD or USB drive). I have been using linux since 1998 at home, and it is great. Live distros are a beautiful thing.
You can boot into a fully running OS and try it out without installing it. It will also let you know if it is compatible with your hardware. It will run slower than if you installed it, but it will run and you can get the feel for it.
As you read through these comments, you'll see names of distros. All of them should have live versions you can try out.
Try them to see which desktop environment you like the best, that would be a good start. I use Mint XFCE. There is also Mint KDE, Mint Cinnamon, Mint Mate. Maybe others now too. Some distros, like Mint and Ubuntu have specific packaged versions with these desktop environments as the default. Others don't and you would hvae to install them and try them out. You can also have different desktop environments on the same machine and switch between them if you like once you install it.
For a beginner, I would say to stick with Ubuntu or Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. They have good guides/documentation, and large communities. You can also check out distrowatch.com, which shows the most popular in terms of downloads. I am sure there are some of the top ones I haven't tried yet.
That is the beauty of it - take some time and try them out.
A serious question - what kind of phone do you have?
I have known one person who had a Windows phone. One. I don't know anyone anymore who has a blackberry. Well, my son does. It's my old one from work that I had 5 years ago, he uses it as a pretend phone. Everyone talks about physical keyboards, but I could do no better on that than I can on my Android phone.
I would actually love for there to be alternatives. And I think that is what we have with Android. Not alternative OS, but alternative providers. Who provides Windows phones? Who provides iPhones? See the difference? Now if Google takes Android fully into their castle, that is when alarms should sound.
I would expect that RottenTomatoes has also *increased* the viewing of many movies as well. I know that I have often gone there and looked at the highest rated movies when looking for something to add to my Netflix DVD queue. I like looking at the critics vs reviewers rating as well. Many a good movie (to me) has been panned by critics. Likewise, many critically acclaimed movies don't always get good reviews.
It's just information though, the choice of what to watch is still mine.
And I knew Batman vs Superman was poorly rated.... and I still added it to my queue. I didn't make it through it though, shut it off after about 1/4 of the way in. Just terrible.
I didn't even know what ORMs and URMs were, had to look it up.
He is a white male, and he still works there. So I am about 99.99867% sure you were exaggerating when you said "all".
I work with plenty of minorities, always have for 23 years at large and small companies. I have never ever seen preferential treatment towards or against minorities. I have always seen where we hire the best people we can given the constraints. Sometimes that was hiring a contract team instead of full-time employees, and sometimes they were offshore/nearshore, everyone from the US to Ukraine to Mexico to India. But the bottom line was that those teams were always temporary, and employees were protected when cuts were required.
That is the thing about technology, we always want the best people we can get to do the work - I really don't care where they are from or what they look like.
You are confusing "technology" with "IT Sector". Those are two completely different things. Wal-Mart was innovating with technology a long time ago, increasing efficiency and automating a lot of information flow - for their own purposes. I thought all that was widely known. I think that they weren't quite as prepared for the web presence, and although they were in it early, they don't dominate like other players. I remember reading about how they deployed RFID to their warehouses to track trucks, and how they optimized shipping routes, etc. All high-tech, but not necessarily consumer facing.
Having said that, I don't shop there unless I absolutely need something quickly that nobody else around has... maybe 2 or 3 times a year. IT people or managers might be paid well, but my brother used to work for them and he absolutely hated it. As soon as he could find something else he left. They kept him at a certain number of hours to avoid having to offer insurance. If there is one thing I haven't heard about Wal-Mart, it's that they treat their employees well.
I have a friend who is celebrating his 21st year at Intel. He has considered leaving a few times, but just couldn't because they take such good care of him. He gets stock options that come out to about 1/3 of my salary, he makes very good money, usually gets double-digit raises and bonuses that are about 1/4 to 1/3 my salary.
Every seven years, he gets a paid 3-month sabbatical, in addition to vacation. This year will be his 3rd one. He had to move once for the company, and when he did they pretty much covered every expense.
Quite honestly, I have known a couple of other people who have worked there, and none of them complained about it.
What I was told about Intel was that they take care of their employees, and during hard times (like during the economic downturn) they take better care of them. It's how they keep good people. I always respected them for that. I can't say as much for any software or financial company that I have worked for in the last 24 years.
At a small company in 2005 I was hired as the QA manager, I moved across the country for this small startup that had been around for 6 or 7 years. I was told I would get to hire my team of 7 and build the QA team and processes. For 8 months I was the only QA person and was told I couldn't hire anyone. Then suddenly I was asked why I hadn't hired my team yet. So I started interviewing... requirements were 3-5 yrs experience. Interviewed, made offers, nobody was accepting. As the hiring manager, my boss wouldn't let me in on how much the position paid. When I finally found out, I know why nobody was accepting - $30k. I finally convinced him to increase the salary, and I was able to hire two people. Not 7.
When I joined the company, my wife was pregnant with our first child. I talked to my boss, and asked if I could take some vacation days / sick days when the baby came. He said of course, that he had kids, and he totally understood. He was genuinely nice about it and I felt better. My wife had the baby, we had to do an emergency c-section, and everything was fine. That was on a Saturday, and I had planned to take the week after off. On Tuesday, the 2nd day I was off, I got a call from a co-worker saying my boss was flipping out, asking where the hell I was, saying I had to be in the office immediately. I said I couldn't and that my wife needed me as we had no family there. I went in on Thursday, and my boss was a total asshole to me. There was nothing urgent going on at all either, he just wanted me there.
After about a year of putting some kind of QA process with my 2 person team in place at this small company, I was told "You need to automate all of our testing". Then I was told that I could have no budget, couldn't hire any automation people, and had to do it in my spare time without any impacts to other schedules. I explained that it was possible to do, but not with those constraints. I even made some suggestions about how to approach it given those constraints. That wasn't good enough, so I set about busting my ass trying to do it. I was working 60+ hours a week, and making some headway. Two months later a new product manager was hired, and I was told to train him on our product as well. I came in the Monday after a long July4th weekend, and I couldn't log in. Then I was called into the conference room and was fired. I had a bad attitude, and when I was told to do something I should just say "yes". I calmly explained that what they asked me to do wasn't possible, and that's when I found out that the "product manager" I trained was my replacement, and he was going to take my position and do that automation. I said "I guarantee you that he won't".
I kept in touch with friends there. Three months later, the new QA manager was fired. They promoted the first person I hired to manager. She wasn't happy about it. She was fired after a month, followed by the rest of the QA team. Within a year the entire company folded. The promised IPO never happened, the multi-millionaire president-and-founder slunk back to his mansion, and the executives [my boss included] went on to other shady ventures.
I learned a lot there, but it was all mostly how NOT to be a manager.
I can think of a couple of sequels, or movies in a series, that I liked just as much or maybe more than previous movies.
Toy Story 3 is my favorite in that series.
Logan is my favorite of the X-Men franchise.
I think that these two did need the previous movies to give them the full context though.
Batman Begins dwarfs all previous attempts to tell that story, and The Dark Knight was fantastic.
Rise of and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes were great and much less corny than the original, although they were prequels.
I don't think you know what a Catholicism is then.
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And that is how it should be.
Because businesses will come and go (even Microsoft), but the truly innovative and useful things are sustainable.
It is like the monk walking with his teacher, and they see a rabbit being chased by a fox.
The student says "That poor rabbit will get eaten".
The teacher asks "Why do you think so?"
"Because the fox is much faster, stronger, and more cunning".
The teacher says "But the rabbit will elude him".
"Why is that teacher?"
"Because the fox is running for his dinner, but the rabbit is running for his life"