Business PhDs argue about all manor of interesting stuff. Business BA and MBA programs are just degree mills operated by business academics so their salaries can be even vaguely competitive with the business world.
MBAs are soft degrees for people who want money but lack direction, drive, and guts, i.e. they're risk-averse personally. You don't really want that sort of person running your company.
You might view an MBA as a qualification to manage someone significantly less educated and less intelligent than yourself. I'd hire an MBA from a tier n school for managing engineers from say tier n+2 schools.. or tier n school engineers if the MBA's undergrad was a STEM degree. I'd usually hire a business BA from a lower tier school only for managing people who held no collage degree.
You also shouldn't make managers from the engineers who cannot manage. duh! Yet, there are actually enough engineers and scientists who can handled the organizational load & inter-personal factors.
I'd imagine the "scientists" you mentioned were academics who started a company. Imho, anyone fresh out of academia should not be running a company, this even covers business PhDs. Instead, they should take a couple years acclimating to the real business world.
Conversely, you'll actually find good manages much more frequently among some non-academic science degrees, although not computer science. Bowing has been considered the best run large aerospace company for decades. Bowing traditionally prefers hiring physics majors for their management positions. I'd imagine that mathematics majors make fairly good managers for software developers too, google certainly does that occasionally.
Yeah, Facebook might not require any theory, aside from it's ad placement toolkit, but they aren't a good example. Google requires theory, cryptography requires theory, chip design requires theory, all those nice advancements in materials, batteries, etc. require MAJOR theory, etc.
We need more schools that provide the European education model, i.e. most people get in, school costs almost nothing, but they slam your ass with theory until half fail out or quit. You'll have all the time in the world for learning the practical tools once your on the job, but, except for a very few remarkable & lucky people, the glass ceiling above your career is your theoretical knowledge.
Example 1. Any comp. sci. student should've written multiple homework assignments in Haskell, C, C++, Python, and yes Java, but not only Java like so many moronic programs today.
Example 2. Any comp. sci. masters student should've once worked out & proven the correctness of an approximation algorithm for some NP-complete problem and some randomized algorithm.
There aren't too many "filler" classes at the good schools like, MIT, CalTech, Berkeley, VaTech, GaTech, etc. either. And you shouldn't be attending most liberal arts collages for technical degrees.
Wuala offers both encryption and cheap storage via data deduplication. They simply AES encrypt your stuff using it's own SHA as the key. And they use the encrypted file's SHA for the identifier. In this way, any two people should encrypt the same file to the same encrypted file, but nobody who's never seen the original file could read it, including Wuala.
Soon, we'll see the MafiAA perusing people's DropBox accounts to delete pirated content and/or sue its possessors. Wuala doesn't offer that much more technical protection here since they'll simply subpoena the list of people possessing a particular file, but they cannot actually just browse your account because each directory gets encrypted too and directories are usually unique. Also, Wuala is far more likely to fight a MafiAA subpoena because they're (a) based in Switzerland, (b) started as a P2P network, and (c) started by academics.
Portal and Portal 2 are truly exceptional games however. There are many people intentionally waiting until Portal 2 drops in price though.
As I understand it, they had serious difficulties working more than two portal pairs into the physics engine. I'd imagine that'll get fixed eventually, paving the way for competitive portal games. Imagine Atlas and P-body in cowboy hats trying to round up escaping armed humans.
Yeah, maybe they'll steal Steve Jobs from Apple. Or might that violate their anti-compeditive behavior restrictions?
Afaik, all the clever youngsters, like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc., are wholly focussed upon the software-as-service mentality that's so hostile to Microsoft's interests.
I'd imagine the best move for stockholders would be de-facto breaking up the company, allowing each business component to go it's own way free from the politics & meddling of other components. Fire the board & Ballmer. Hire someone with an appropriate technical vision for each component.
Valve has discovered that they're making more money from their cut of the thousands of non-Valve games on Steam than from the few dozen Valve games. It's why they can so frequently give away their games for free. It's why they can dump a fortune into developing Portal, which while clearly the worlds best puzzle game, offers little replayability.
I'd expect the Source SDK licenses will require that games are sold only on Steam.
Yes, unfair competition closed them down, namely the anti-compeditive practices of Wallmart, B&N, etc. Amazon had nothing to do with it.
Amazon does not specifically target local businesses for extermination like the big box stores. Amazon also helps brings products too market without slitting the throat of the supplier. Yes, Amazon does evade local taxes, but ironically they do so by supporting independent retailers, used book stores, etc. In fact, your favorite independent brick & mortar bookstore may've become dependent upon the money they earn from tax free sales on Amazon.
Amazon is a "grey hat" business for sure, their actions definitely carry some good and some bad, but all their retail competitors are hiding corpses under their black hats.
p.s. I've often used Amazon's only large "white hat" competitor abebooks for books. And then I found that abebooks actually emails you your old password if you do a password reset, meaning abebooks doesn't even hash your passwords. So I deleted any important information from my abebooks account and switched back to Amazon.
The judge accepted his Xbox as part of his bail, not a punishment.
Europeans are much less accepting of the discriminatory & uncivilized practice of bail bondsmen, outlawing their activities in many jurisdictions. Instead, courts try harder to make the bail fit the accused means while still forcing their appearance at trial.
We should ideally outlaw bail bondsmen in the U.S. too, but they know their activities are morally bankrupt, and so hire lobbyists.
I'd imagine they selected Skype over some well managed SIP implementation that archives all their phone call specifically because Skype isn't nearly so practical to archive.
A physical store or physical media have no relevance to the actual data. I don't see how one would even mentally connect CD or store with new music, that's the weird part. I don't remember if Frys even has CDs, but, if so, then I'd never even glance at them as I walk past.
Ain't no free healthcare, just countries that (a) actually collectively negotiate with providers and/or (b) pay for the medical school so that medicine becomes a calling rather than an investment. It's just waaay cheaper to pay for the healthcare on the "front end", i.e. give doctors free med school but pay them much less over their lifetimes.
You also get way better doctors when graduation is determined by medical school professors rather than the admissions bureaucrats. Yes, that's actually true : European med schools fail out the dumb ones, American med schools mostly graduate them. lol
It's immoral to pay the assholes who sell physical CDs, major labels, etc. To me, the moral question is more : How much more convenient & pleasant do they need to make it before I buy the product?
I'll admit that I still order math or c.s. books from amazon or abebooks once I'm seriously reading the gigapedia download. I just enjoy the printed form factor more than a djvu or pdf on my ebook reader. I make an effort to (1) buy used before new, so the publisher sees no money, and (2) buy form abebooks before amazon. I naturally feel some anti-consumerist pang of guilt when forced to buy new.. and wonder if a better ebook reader might make me a more moral person. I would never purchase music or movies except from a truly independent artist, like PJ Harvey. And I've feel extremely guilty even paying for a theater. I've otoh spent maybe $80 at the xkcd store.
I'm obviously happy going the extra mile to avoid paying the immoral assholes & their lawyers running the content industry, but not everyone takes life nearly as seriously as me. It's therefore easy to imagine a developer writing this to help user kids into piracy, prevent them from wasting their money, etc., but it's quite hard to imagine ever actually using this software. If I had kids who hung out at a mall, then I'd install this on their phones, but otherwise it sounds useless to me.
I never knew this existed, but frankly this sounds like an anti-consumerist political statement, not a serious piracy tool.
I'd never enter a physical store with the intention of selecting my torrents, just like I'd never buy physical media, that's just weird, man. If this prevents a couple teenagers who hang out at the mall from buying CDs, well that's great, but the actual economic impact sound wholly secondary to the anti-consumerist moral message.
I would otoh use an android app that listens to the song playing in the club, identifies it, and pirates the mp3. I currently type the author & song into the notepad and pirate the song later.
There are a number of universities using Haskell for their intro to computer science courses. Haskell is a lovely language but maybe second only to C++ in complexity. You need not use all that complexity however.
Just fyi, any Python experience will serve them well when they reach high school and university calculous courses. The Python & Cython based Sage CAS is displacing Mathematica for calculous courses. There is also an LLVM based Cython & Python compiler that's helping liberate Python from various interpreted language bottlenecks.
I'd actually seriously consider some reduced subset of Haskell myself.
There won't be many Symbian, Android, iOS, etc. users buying WP7 phones. WP7 purchasers will mostly be existing Windows phone users and unlucky smartphone n00bs. M$ bought Nokia's industry connections, not Nokia's (ex)users.
You guys drifted slightly form the original comment's theme however, which is :
America's War on Drug is the fault of American Christianity precisely because they codify everything is this ridiculous & stupid religious morality play, public health issues, personal choice issues, medical issues, economic issues, scientific issues, educational issues, everything. If not for American Christianity, the War on Pot would be nothing more than some anti-Mexican racist rhetoric decades ago.
As an aside, I back off from criticizing christianity only when discussing some person like Jimmy Carter, who engages in major charitable works both intelligently & effectively. I respect Carter's motivations, and avoid insulting them, specifically because I respect his works. Yet, most American Christians, even mainlines ones, tacitly support the American Taliban by accepting bullshit Christian moralistic rhetoric, equating Christianity with morality, etc. And there should be no verbal quarter for them. Btw, I've just bough a stuffed velociraptor toy to dress in swaddling clothes as "Baby Velociraptor Jesus" this Halloween.:)
They bought something for that $100k, namely the hacker document his hack. I'm sure she even did a contentious job for a coked up Belorussian teenager who's english does not extend beyond text speak.
Yeah, sure $100k sounds steep for simply documenting a handful of security bugs, but they were the bugs that might've bitten you for $1M. And surely you saved way more by building your site using cheap ass Visual Basic developers, right?
Anyways, anyone who views hacking as terrorism is a moron, especially the authorities who threatened the company.
Does the nook support display and search of PDF, CHM, and DjVu formats?
The DjVu format is critical for ebook readers because sooooo many books are ONLY available in DjVu. DjVu to PDF conversion is NOT an acceptable option, but a third party app should be fine.
If they fail to monetize Android, but still pigeon hole the iPhone into a niche market, well that's a defensive win for Google. And they're doing that much very effectively if for no other reason than because people simply don't want all identical phones.
Apple's great strengths in design simply fall away once they get beyond niche status. Jobs is a genius who's given the word much. As one example, consider the time machine metaphor that makes ordinary people actually use incremental backup. Yet, he's too eccentric to conquer any market.
In addition, Apple has nothing that isn't immediately replaceable by something identical albeit less pretty. Even Apple's seeming lead in music sales pales when you consider a simple google search for "[artist] [song] mp3". Conversely, Bing, etc. simply cannot supplant Google.
Btw, there are also ways to poison the social well spring and obliterate facebook by offering traffic-analysis-resistant anonymity, end-to-end encryption, and friend-to-friend file sharing, but that'd ultimately damage their own profits from gmail too. Ergo, that task falls to smaller & more disrupting companies.
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Business PhDs argue about all manor of interesting stuff. Business BA and MBA programs are just degree mills operated by business academics so their salaries can be even vaguely competitive with the business world.
MBAs are soft degrees for people who want money but lack direction, drive, and guts, i.e. they're risk-averse personally. You don't really want that sort of person running your company.
You might view an MBA as a qualification to manage someone significantly less educated and less intelligent than yourself. I'd hire an MBA from a tier n school for managing engineers from say tier n+2 schools.. or tier n school engineers if the MBA's undergrad was a STEM degree. I'd usually hire a business BA from a lower tier school only for managing people who held no collage degree.
You also shouldn't make managers from the engineers who cannot manage. duh! Yet, there are actually enough engineers and scientists who can handled the organizational load & inter-personal factors.
I'd imagine the "scientists" you mentioned were academics who started a company. Imho, anyone fresh out of academia should not be running a company, this even covers business PhDs. Instead, they should take a couple years acclimating to the real business world.
Conversely, you'll actually find good manages much more frequently among some non-academic science degrees, although not computer science. Bowing has been considered the best run large aerospace company for decades. Bowing traditionally prefers hiring physics majors for their management positions. I'd imagine that mathematics majors make fairly good managers for software developers too, google certainly does that occasionally.
Yeah, Facebook might not require any theory, aside from it's ad placement toolkit, but they aren't a good example. Google requires theory, cryptography requires theory, chip design requires theory, all those nice advancements in materials, batteries, etc. require MAJOR theory, etc.
We need more schools that provide the European education model, i.e. most people get in, school costs almost nothing, but they slam your ass with theory until half fail out or quit. You'll have all the time in the world for learning the practical tools once your on the job, but, except for a very few remarkable & lucky people, the glass ceiling above your career is your theoretical knowledge.
Example 1. Any comp. sci. student should've written multiple homework assignments in Haskell, C, C++, Python, and yes Java, but not only Java like so many moronic programs today.
Example 2. Any comp. sci. masters student should've once worked out & proven the correctness of an approximation algorithm for some NP-complete problem and some randomized algorithm.
There aren't too many "filler" classes at the good schools like, MIT, CalTech, Berkeley, VaTech, GaTech, etc. either. And you shouldn't be attending most liberal arts collages for technical degrees.
Zuckerberg may be a twit but he did code. Paul Ceglia is a pure bullshit artist.
Marvel's High Evolutionary
Wuala offers both encryption and cheap storage via data deduplication. They simply AES encrypt your stuff using it's own SHA as the key. And they use the encrypted file's SHA for the identifier. In this way, any two people should encrypt the same file to the same encrypted file, but nobody who's never seen the original file could read it, including Wuala.
Soon, we'll see the MafiAA perusing people's DropBox accounts to delete pirated content and/or sue its possessors. Wuala doesn't offer that much more technical protection here since they'll simply subpoena the list of people possessing a particular file, but they cannot actually just browse your account because each directory gets encrypted too and directories are usually unique. Also, Wuala is far more likely to fight a MafiAA subpoena because they're (a) based in Switzerland, (b) started as a P2P network, and (c) started by academics.
Portal and Portal 2 are truly exceptional games however. There are many people intentionally waiting until Portal 2 drops in price though.
As I understand it, they had serious difficulties working more than two portal pairs into the physics engine. I'd imagine that'll get fixed eventually, paving the way for competitive portal games. Imagine Atlas and P-body in cowboy hats trying to round up escaping armed humans.
Yeah, maybe they'll steal Steve Jobs from Apple. Or might that violate their anti-compeditive behavior restrictions?
Afaik, all the clever youngsters, like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc., are wholly focussed upon the software-as-service mentality that's so hostile to Microsoft's interests.
I'd imagine the best move for stockholders would be de-facto breaking up the company, allowing each business component to go it's own way free from the politics & meddling of other components. Fire the board & Ballmer. Hire someone with an appropriate technical vision for each component.
Valve has discovered that they're making more money from their cut of the thousands of non-Valve games on Steam than from the few dozen Valve games. It's why they can so frequently give away their games for free. It's why they can dump a fortune into developing Portal, which while clearly the worlds best puzzle game, offers little replayability.
I'd expect the Source SDK licenses will require that games are sold only on Steam.
Yeah, they'll just buy off legislators to make effective spam prevention illegal.
Yes, unfair competition closed them down, namely the anti-compeditive practices of Wallmart, B&N, etc. Amazon had nothing to do with it.
Amazon does not specifically target local businesses for extermination like the big box stores. Amazon also helps brings products too market without slitting the throat of the supplier. Yes, Amazon does evade local taxes, but ironically they do so by supporting independent retailers, used book stores, etc. In fact, your favorite independent brick & mortar bookstore may've become dependent upon the money they earn from tax free sales on Amazon.
Amazon is a "grey hat" business for sure, their actions definitely carry some good and some bad, but all their retail competitors are hiding corpses under their black hats.
p.s. I've often used Amazon's only large "white hat" competitor abebooks for books. And then I found that abebooks actually emails you your old password if you do a password reset, meaning abebooks doesn't even hash your passwords. So I deleted any important information from my abebooks account and switched back to Amazon.
The judge accepted his Xbox as part of his bail, not a punishment.
Europeans are much less accepting of the discriminatory & uncivilized practice of bail bondsmen, outlawing their activities in many jurisdictions. Instead, courts try harder to make the bail fit the accused means while still forcing their appearance at trial.
We should ideally outlaw bail bondsmen in the U.S. too, but they know their activities are morally bankrupt, and so hire lobbyists.
I'd imagine they selected Skype over some well managed SIP implementation that archives all their phone call specifically because Skype isn't nearly so practical to archive.
He said "extend an embedded Web browser to provide access to native APIs".
He'll need ya on staff permanently fixing goatse sized security holes.
A physical store or physical media have no relevance to the actual data. I don't see how one would even mentally connect CD or store with new music, that's the weird part. I don't remember if Frys even has CDs, but, if so, then I'd never even glance at them as I walk past.
I discussed both convenient & pleasant, whatever.
Ain't no free healthcare, just countries that (a) actually collectively negotiate with providers and/or (b) pay for the medical school so that medicine becomes a calling rather than an investment. It's just waaay cheaper to pay for the healthcare on the "front end", i.e. give doctors free med school but pay them much less over their lifetimes.
You also get way better doctors when graduation is determined by medical school professors rather than the admissions bureaucrats. Yes, that's actually true : European med schools fail out the dumb ones, American med schools mostly graduate them. lol
It's immoral to pay the assholes who sell physical CDs, major labels, etc. To me, the moral question is more : How much more convenient & pleasant do they need to make it before I buy the product?
I'll admit that I still order math or c.s. books from amazon or abebooks once I'm seriously reading the gigapedia download. I just enjoy the printed form factor more than a djvu or pdf on my ebook reader. I make an effort to (1) buy used before new, so the publisher sees no money, and (2) buy form abebooks before amazon. I naturally feel some anti-consumerist pang of guilt when forced to buy new.. and wonder if a better ebook reader might make me a more moral person. I would never purchase music or movies except from a truly independent artist, like PJ Harvey. And I've feel extremely guilty even paying for a theater. I've otoh spent maybe $80 at the xkcd store.
I'm obviously happy going the extra mile to avoid paying the immoral assholes & their lawyers running the content industry, but not everyone takes life nearly as seriously as me. It's therefore easy to imagine a developer writing this to help user kids into piracy, prevent them from wasting their money, etc., but it's quite hard to imagine ever actually using this software. If I had kids who hung out at a mall, then I'd install this on their phones, but otherwise it sounds useless to me.
I never knew this existed, but frankly this sounds like an anti-consumerist political statement, not a serious piracy tool.
I'd never enter a physical store with the intention of selecting my torrents, just like I'd never buy physical media, that's just weird, man. If this prevents a couple teenagers who hang out at the mall from buying CDs, well that's great, but the actual economic impact sound wholly secondary to the anti-consumerist moral message.
I would otoh use an android app that listens to the song playing in the club, identifies it, and pirates the mp3. I currently type the author & song into the notepad and pirate the song later.
There are a number of universities using Haskell for their intro to computer science courses. Haskell is a lovely language but maybe second only to C++ in complexity. You need not use all that complexity however.
Just fyi, any Python experience will serve them well when they reach high school and university calculous courses. The Python & Cython based Sage CAS is displacing Mathematica for calculous courses. There is also an LLVM based Cython & Python compiler that's helping liberate Python from various interpreted language bottlenecks.
I'd actually seriously consider some reduced subset of Haskell myself.
There won't be many Symbian, Android, iOS, etc. users buying WP7 phones. WP7 purchasers will mostly be existing Windows phone users and unlucky smartphone n00bs. M$ bought Nokia's industry connections, not Nokia's (ex)users.
You guys drifted slightly form the original comment's theme however, which is :
America's War on Drug is the fault of American Christianity precisely because they codify everything is this ridiculous & stupid religious morality play, public health issues, personal choice issues, medical issues, economic issues, scientific issues, educational issues, everything. If not for American Christianity, the War on Pot would be nothing more than some anti-Mexican racist rhetoric decades ago.
As an aside, I back off from criticizing christianity only when discussing some person like Jimmy Carter, who engages in major charitable works both intelligently & effectively. I respect Carter's motivations, and avoid insulting them, specifically because I respect his works. Yet, most American Christians, even mainlines ones, tacitly support the American Taliban by accepting bullshit Christian moralistic rhetoric, equating Christianity with morality, etc. And there should be no verbal quarter for them. Btw, I've just bough a stuffed velociraptor toy to dress in swaddling clothes as "Baby Velociraptor Jesus" this Halloween. :)
They bought something for that $100k, namely the hacker document his hack. I'm sure she even did a contentious job for a coked up Belorussian teenager who's english does not extend beyond text speak.
Yeah, sure $100k sounds steep for simply documenting a handful of security bugs, but they were the bugs that might've bitten you for $1M. And surely you saved way more by building your site using cheap ass Visual Basic developers, right?
Anyways, anyone who views hacking as terrorism is a moron, especially the authorities who threatened the company.
Does the nook support display and search of PDF, CHM, and DjVu formats?
The DjVu format is critical for ebook readers because sooooo many books are ONLY available in DjVu. DjVu to PDF conversion is NOT an acceptable option, but a third party app should be fine.
Does it run other Android apps?
.. we atheists say : Ha, there is no god (particle).
If they fail to monetize Android, but still pigeon hole the iPhone into a niche market, well that's a defensive win for Google. And they're doing that much very effectively if for no other reason than because people simply don't want all identical phones.
Apple's great strengths in design simply fall away once they get beyond niche status. Jobs is a genius who's given the word much. As one example, consider the time machine metaphor that makes ordinary people actually use incremental backup. Yet, he's too eccentric to conquer any market.
In addition, Apple has nothing that isn't immediately replaceable by something identical albeit less pretty. Even Apple's seeming lead in music sales pales when you consider a simple google search for "[artist] [song] mp3". Conversely, Bing, etc. simply cannot supplant Google.
Btw, there are also ways to poison the social well spring and obliterate facebook by offering traffic-analysis-resistant anonymity, end-to-end encryption, and friend-to-friend file sharing, but that'd ultimately damage their own profits from gmail too. Ergo, that task falls to smaller & more disrupting companies.