WIPOI stands for the World Intellectual Property Organisation. From the atomchip website "THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) AWARDED A GOLD MEDAL TO SHIMON GENDLIN FOR THE QUANTUM-OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY". So I guess the guy gave himself an award.
Besides that, the Shimon Gendlin name is related to some patents (of which there are many bullcrap ones) and when you google the name, you end up picking up many crackpot sites.
An obvious hoax, but I am still curious as to what the motivation is for it.
I agree with that as well, which is why I stated that it shouldn't be difficult for host countries to do at least as good of a job. In fact, anything except for outright support would probably be good enough. Nevertheless, there are plenty of places where the government itself has more important things to do than worry about its citizens cheating Americans.
I am the victim of identity theft and would have had more problems had a nice clerk at Sears not questioned the fact that someone needed to apply for a card and then buy three laptops and four video cameras in Florida when their home address was Maryland. Now I pay for a fraud watch service and can no longer apply for quick credit (which I seldom did anyway and much of the fraud could be eliminated if there were no such thing as "quick credit").
I have little doubt the my problem can be traced back to a wonderful institution of higher learning that demanded we put our entire SSN on course assignements and used it openly as a student ID #.
I concur. There are bad people everywhere. However, if the countries which host these offshore efforts do not respond to the criminal activities at least as well as the US (which shouldn't be too hard in my mind) then they will lose the ability to either gain or maintain business. Also, consumer choice may have an effect over the long term (similar to the "look for the union label" or the boycott of manufacturers that use child labor/sweat shops). I have no doubt the absence of offshore labor could become a marketing tool in the near future.
I went through a similar process only slightly more gradual as I acted as a project leader between the geek (engineer role) and management. The project leader role taught me early on that I needed to improve my interpersonal skills (which of course could still uses some improvement). The easiest thing to do is find a role model in management you like and try to get them as a mentor or at minimum try to learn from them through observation and occasional questioning. If you can't find an example of a manager that you look up to or feel you can learn from, then do what I did...go get an MBA. That doesn't imply that getting one will make you a great manager (e.g. a CS degree doesn't make a great programmer) but it certainly opens you up to a large amount of imformation so that you can make some educated decisions about what approaches and systems are viable in your situation. Just like and engineering degree can help someone see things from and "engineers" perspective, the MBA can help you see it from a business mans/managers perspective. If you are managing technical people, I would suggest you start reading Druker. I would stay away from the quick fix Blanchard type material.
I would agree. Especially when so many people end up in a profession that pays the bills when they would rather be doing something else (whether they were able to do it or chose not to for other reasons). I thought the Derbyshire book was excellent, well written and went well beyond the typical mathematical biography/history and really delved into the mathematics.
I started reading books on mathematics or mathematicians after listening to an Audible version of A Beautiful Mind. Other books of the same genre I have enjoyed since then include Men of Mathematics by E.T. Bell, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel and The Mystery of the Aleph : Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel. Nevertheless, none of these books go as deeply into the actual mathematics as the Derbyshire book. Another great thing about the Prime Obsession is that it references enough other texts to keep my future reading list full.
When on call, employees in my organization receive a 10% pay increase and straight pay for any actual work (in.5 hour increments, so it's great when you can correct the problem in 5 minutes without being aroused in the middle of the night). In addition, if we actually have to hit the road and come into the office, we automatically get a minimum of 2 hours straight pay. The only downside to being on-call is that you absolutely must respond (no excuses), you should remain within 30 minutes of the office, and you have to lay off the bottle.
-griffm
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I have a good friend that went to work for Convio (www.convio.com). From what I understand, they specialize in CRM for non-profits.
I guess that rules out Streisand and the Baldwins.
WIPOI stands for the World Intellectual Property Organisation. From the atomchip website "THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) AWARDED A GOLD MEDAL TO SHIMON GENDLIN FOR THE QUANTUM-OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY". So I guess the guy gave himself an award.
Besides that, the Shimon Gendlin name is related to some patents (of which there are many bullcrap ones) and when you google the name, you end up picking up many crackpot sites.
An obvious hoax, but I am still curious as to what the motivation is for it.
Griff
I agree with that as well, which is why I stated that it shouldn't be difficult for host countries to do at least as good of a job. In fact, anything except for outright support would probably be good enough. Nevertheless, there are plenty of places where the government itself has more important things to do than worry about its citizens cheating Americans.
I am the victim of identity theft and would have had more problems had a nice clerk at Sears not questioned the fact that someone needed to apply for a card and then buy three laptops and four video cameras in Florida when their home address was Maryland. Now I pay for a fraud watch service and can no longer apply for quick credit (which I seldom did anyway and much of the fraud could be eliminated if there were no such thing as "quick credit").
I have little doubt the my problem can be traced back to a wonderful institution of higher learning that demanded we put our entire SSN on course assignements and used it openly as a student ID #.
I concur. There are bad people everywhere. However, if the countries which host these offshore efforts do not respond to the criminal activities at least as well as the US (which shouldn't be too hard in my mind) then they will lose the ability to either gain or maintain business. Also, consumer choice may have an effect over the long term (similar to the "look for the union label" or the boycott of manufacturers that use child labor/sweat shops). I have no doubt the absence of offshore labor could become a marketing tool in the near future.
I was going to mention the Robert Kanigel book as well. It's a great book. You've beaten me to the punch.
I went through a similar process only slightly more gradual as I acted as a project leader between the geek (engineer role) and management. The project leader role taught me early on that I needed to improve my interpersonal skills (which of course could still uses some improvement). The easiest thing to do is find a role model in management you like and try to get them as a mentor or at minimum try to learn from them through observation and occasional questioning. If you can't find an example of a manager that you look up to or feel you can learn from, then do what I did...go get an MBA. That doesn't imply that getting one will make you a great manager (e.g. a CS degree doesn't make a great programmer) but it certainly opens you up to a large amount of imformation so that you can make some educated decisions about what approaches and systems are viable in your situation. Just like and engineering degree can help someone see things from and "engineers" perspective, the MBA can help you see it from a business mans/managers perspective. If you are managing technical people, I would suggest you start reading Druker. I would stay away from the quick fix Blanchard type material.
I would agree. Especially when so many people end up in a profession that pays the bills when they would rather be doing something else (whether they were able to do it or chose not to for other reasons). I thought the Derbyshire book was excellent, well written and went well beyond the typical mathematical biography/history and really delved into the mathematics.
I started reading books on mathematics or mathematicians after listening to an Audible version of A Beautiful Mind. Other books of the same genre I have enjoyed since then include Men of Mathematics by E.T. Bell, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel and The Mystery of the Aleph : Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel. Nevertheless, none of these books go as deeply into the actual mathematics as the Derbyshire book. Another great thing about the Prime Obsession is that it references enough other texts to keep my future reading list full.
When on call, employees in my organization receive a 10% pay increase and straight pay for any actual work (in .5 hour increments, so it's great when you can correct the problem in 5 minutes without being aroused in the middle of the night). In addition, if we actually have to hit the road and come into the office, we automatically get a minimum of 2 hours straight pay. The only downside to being on-call is that you absolutely must respond (no excuses), you should remain within 30 minutes of the office, and you have to lay off the bottle.
-griffm