How it's seen in corporate America
on
Linked In Or Out?
·
· Score: 1
The truth is, what can be googled about you will play a role if you want a new job.
My job is basically being a CIO/CTO type for a segment of a F100 company. In my experience, every person that comes to meet with with me, salesperson, interviewee, or consultant has googled me and done some research on who I am. There's plenty out there.
LinkedIn shows that you do actually work the field and have not faked your resume. LinkedIn is also helpful since many people circulate open jobs and resumes through the networks.
Recruiters and HR people will google you.
I don't tend to google people for work, excepting for interviews. What I'm looking for it to get a sense of the personality. Because without a good personality, even the most skill person can become a liability to a team.
IMHO, a technology professional that is invisible to a dedicated search is actively trying to hide.
My advice is to have a limited public presence on the net. Enough that if someone is looking for you, they see you appear on the net and that see that Mr. Whoopass is a real person and different than Mr. Wayne Whoopass, serial killer. LinkedIn is good for this, since serial killers don't visit LinkedIn.
All it would take is a simple vanity domain with a couple pages to establish an identity.
Cringely's fantasty is making the rounds and it is amazingly wrong.
The hard drive is there for one basic reason, syncing content with another computer that holds an iTunes library.
No mystery. No hidden agenda. The answer was in the Keynote and is on Apple's web site.
I guess he can't be bothered to do any kind of research.
This whole business of stacking components is pointless. An Airport goes near the cable/DSL modem or home router, not near the TV. And who exactly is telling him to put a Mac Mini near the TV set?
The Apple TV is a computer running OS X that is configured to playback content to a TV. It is not an iPhone or a stealth peer-to-peer device.
This is what I hate about pundits, their inability to discern a technophile wet dream from a well researched and logically consistent prediction based on trends and indicators.
You feel the need to be _anonymous_ to defend a '3D platform' on a web site and make ad hominen attacks. If you are going to be a raging fanboi, at least use your real name, you sniveling little coward.
Second Life is a product of marketing hype, not new net dynamics. The marketplace for virtual items and cash in online games is longstanding and far greater than anything Second Life has come within 1% of achieving. Go check out http://ige.com/ if you want to see what serious cash flow in virtual 3D spaces looks like.
Isn't/. and the rest of the web tired of the relentless PR 'news releases' and 'studies' that Second Life is constantly sending to every web news site.
Second Life is trying to make up for a poor 'gaming' experience by somehow convincing everyone that it's newsworthy to have virtual cybersex and pay for virtual items. That was old news in the 90s.
C'mon this has got to be a plant. Even a rabid Second Life fanboy wouldn't be praising this security breach. Of course it's Linden's fault for the breach.
Enough about Second Life. It's quite dull. Their PR department gets them press everywhere, but compared to the 6 million people in WoW, it's a miniscule world.
The "omfgwtfbbq people are making money off of virutal gold" is a stale story with it going back to Ultima Online and Everquest in the late 90s. In 2006, this kind of story is nothing more than marketing hype.
The hardest part of tech managing is letting your staff do things their way, even though you would do it another way.
Yes, I know you could do it better/faster/more elegantly, but that's NOT YOUR JOB anymore.
This is by far the toughest thing. You MUST delegate and you must NOT micro-manage.
You are owed excellent info about projects, people, rumors, and concerns. In return, you must explain why your team is doing certain things. Giving your staff a view of the big picture is critical.
Respect your staff, never chastise or demean someone in public, fire the slackers, and insist on deadlines & plans. Let me repeat that, deadlines & plans.
Lastly, understand who your customer is and give them what they want. Your job is to help them get their work done, not work on your pet projects (unless you are at Google).
Advertising is here for good. It's a mainstay of our entire socio-economic model.
Of course, as television changes, so will the way advertising works.
For all of you that are 'shocked, shocked' that Tivo intends to get into the ad business, wake up and smell the coffee. Business is about money and ads are where the money lives.
People want to watch television programming. In fact, these days, they want it more than ever, desiring a wide selection.
People are not going to start watching television on desktop computers or start sticking PCs in the living rooms. The lean forward/lean back experiences are well defined and they aren't going to change.
TV may adopt methods and technology that are in use by computers today, but the idea that Television is dead is like declaring books dead because we have computers...
An ATSC HD bitstream is 19.3 Mb/s. All those with 19.3 Mb/s net connections at your home raise your hand. Now consider what bandwidth you need if youhave two TVs in your house.
This person took just enough physics to be dangerous.
To escape the gravity well of Earth, you must achive the velocity of about 25,000 mph. There is no getting around this simple fact.
Specifically, this statement "As long as your acceleration away from Earth is greater than than the Earth's gravitational acceleration at your distance from it, you will eventually escape Earth's gravity well, and at a speed of much less than Mach 25 to boot." is wrong. You CANNOT escape the gravity well at any lower velocity.
If you had a way to provide a constant acceration over a long period, you can achive the needed velocities without a dramatic high G rocket, but you still need to reach these velocities.
There are plenty of variables in orbits, but not in escaping the Earth.
The author above doesn't seem to grasp the fundamental relationships of orbital mechanics, velocity and acceration.
Slashdot Mirror
The truth is, what can be googled about you will play a role if you want a new job.
My job is basically being a CIO/CTO type for a segment of a F100 company. In my experience, every person that comes to meet with with me, salesperson, interviewee, or consultant has googled me and done some research on who I am. There's plenty out there.
LinkedIn shows that you do actually work the field and have not faked your resume. LinkedIn is also helpful since many people circulate open jobs and resumes through the networks.
Recruiters and HR people will google you.
I don't tend to google people for work, excepting for interviews. What I'm looking for it to get a sense of the personality. Because without a good personality, even the most skill person can become a liability to a team.
IMHO, a technology professional that is invisible to a dedicated search is actively trying to hide.
My advice is to have a limited public presence on the net. Enough that if someone is looking for you, they see you appear on the net and that see that Mr. Whoopass is a real person and different than Mr. Wayne Whoopass, serial killer. LinkedIn is good for this, since serial killers don't visit LinkedIn.
All it would take is a simple vanity domain with a couple pages to establish an identity.
Did you hurt yourself with the elaborate contortions and twists you'd made to somehow justify the flaying Maynor took at the hands of the Mac Fanbois?
It's very simple. Maynor said there was a direct wifi hack on Macs, he was right, the Apple cultists were wrong.
All the FUD then or now doesn't change that fact.
Apple cultist Jon Gruber offered a MacBook to David Maynor and Jon Ellch if the wifi hack was true.
It was true. He owes them a laptop...
Disclaimer: I work for Disney and in the television group.
Why is this issue so important to you that will not watch Disney owned channels?
Is it the lack of control over the VOD stream, the ad itself, or something else?
As someone involved, I'd like to hear what's important to you.
Cringely's fantasty is making the rounds and it is amazingly wrong.
The hard drive is there for one basic reason, syncing content with another computer that holds an iTunes library.
No mystery. No hidden agenda. The answer was in the Keynote and is on Apple's web site.
I guess he can't be bothered to do any kind of research.
This whole business of stacking components is pointless. An Airport goes near the cable/DSL modem or home router, not near the TV. And who exactly is telling him to put a Mac Mini near the TV set?
The Apple TV is a computer running OS X that is configured to playback content to a TV. It is not an iPhone or a stealth peer-to-peer device.
This is what I hate about pundits, their inability to discern a technophile wet dream from a well researched and logically consistent prediction based on trends and indicators.
A BBQ smoker from a trash can
Actually, the AMOL ID for a specific network is overlaid onto the commerical segments as well.
It is not turned off or changed during the commercial breaks.
Wow.
You feel the need to be _anonymous_ to defend a '3D platform' on a web site and make ad hominen attacks. If you are going to be a raging fanboi, at least use your real name, you sniveling little coward.
Second Life is a product of marketing hype, not new net dynamics. The marketplace for virtual items and cash in online games is longstanding and far greater than anything Second Life has come within 1% of achieving. Go check out http://ige.com/ if you want to see what serious cash flow in virtual 3D spaces looks like.
Grow up Anonymous Fucktard.
Isn't /. and the rest of the web tired of the relentless PR 'news releases' and 'studies' that Second Life is constantly sending to every web news site.
Second Life is trying to make up for a poor 'gaming' experience by somehow convincing everyone that it's newsworthy to have virtual cybersex and pay for virtual items. That was old news in the 90s.
Praise?
C'mon this has got to be a plant. Even a rabid Second Life fanboy wouldn't be praising this security breach. Of course it's Linden's fault for the breach.
Enough about Second Life. It's quite dull. Their PR department gets them press everywhere, but compared to the 6 million people in WoW, it's a miniscule world.
The same story over and over about the same people making money in Second Life. Here's a good post about how dull it is.
The "omfgwtfbbq people are making money off of virutal gold" is a stale story with it going back to Ultima Online and Everquest in the late 90s. In 2006, this kind of story is nothing more than marketing hype.
With Atom all official and whatnot, why would anyone be working on RSS 3.0?
Atom seems far superior to RSS 2.0 and much farther along than RSS 3.0.
Is someone trying to give Dave Winer a heart attack?
Are shadow priests an effective class on pvp servers?
The hardest part of tech managing is letting your staff do things their way, even though you would do it another way.
Yes, I know you could do it better/faster/more elegantly, but that's NOT YOUR JOB anymore.
This is by far the toughest thing. You MUST delegate and you must NOT micro-manage.
You are owed excellent info about projects, people, rumors, and concerns. In return, you must explain why your team is doing certain things. Giving your staff a view of the big picture is critical.
Respect your staff, never chastise or demean someone in public, fire the slackers, and insist on deadlines & plans. Let me repeat that, deadlines & plans.
Lastly, understand who your customer is and give them what they want. Your job is to help them get their work done, not work on your pet projects (unless you are at Google).
I mean seriously folks.
Advertising is here for good. It's a mainstay of our entire socio-economic model.
Of course, as television changes, so will the way advertising works.
For all of you that are 'shocked, shocked' that Tivo intends to get into the ad business, wake up and smell the coffee. Business is about money and ads are where the money lives.
The real benefit of high karma is basically getting free reign to incur -1 mod downs.
I fear no Foe!
If Microsoft did this, all of Slashdot would be outraged and ranting about evilness and what not.
Apple does it and people come out of the woodwork to defend them and find work-arounds.
Why is buying an Apple iPod is any different than buying an MP3 player laden with Microsoft DRM?
People want to watch television programming. In fact, these days, they want it more than ever, desiring a wide selection.
People are not going to start watching television on desktop computers or start sticking PCs in the living rooms. The lean forward/lean back experiences are well defined and they aren't going to change.
TV may adopt methods and technology that are in use by computers today, but the idea that Television is dead is like declaring books dead because we have computers...
An ATSC HD bitstream is 19.3 Mb/s. All those with 19.3 Mb/s net connections at your home raise your hand. Now consider what bandwidth you need if youhave two TVs in your house.
nmoog, you ignorant slut.
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
It's pistols at dawn for your besmirching of my honor.
You guys killed my site, but I've put them up on another domain I have.
Please mirror the images. Thanks.
GLAT Images
I mean really...
Didn't they all give up?
This person took just enough physics to be dangerous.
To escape the gravity well of Earth, you must achive the velocity of about 25,000 mph. There is no getting around this simple fact.
Specifically, this statement "As long as your acceleration away from Earth is greater than than the Earth's gravitational acceleration at your distance from it, you will eventually escape Earth's gravity well, and at a speed of much less than Mach 25 to boot." is wrong. You CANNOT escape the gravity well at any lower velocity.
If you had a way to provide a constant acceration over a long period, you can achive the needed velocities without a dramatic high G rocket, but you still need to reach these velocities.
There are plenty of variables in orbits, but not in escaping the Earth.
The author above doesn't seem to grasp the fundamental relationships of orbital mechanics, velocity and acceration.
Yes, it has the feature.
Too bad Winer didn't have the courtesy to let the users use it.
There is no excuse for his behavior or attitude in this matter.
Playing on DSL & cable modem lines provides plenty of sub 90 ms ping servers. You will find many servers under 50 ms, especially near bigger cities.
ISDN? Give me a break. All modern broadband is better for gaming than ISDN.