Do you live in a fishbowl? How, exactly, does a private citizen go about legally ordering covert surveillance of another private citizen? Would you feel differently if your employee decided to surveill your personal, out of work conversations?!
And that 'good' is very much a relative term, not an absolute. These days 'good' is often defined as a top quartile CS student who's had 5 years of on the job experience with a top level team. Er, what about the other 75% of the workforce HR assbags?
Talk to engineers in China & India.... they don't do it because they love it. They do it because it will give them a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle and they've an aptitude and some affinity for the profession. This is the same reason my grandfathers, and my father, were engineers.
The perceived return just isn't there on that investment in todays market.
A perfect example of this is the premium paid for engineers with a security clearance, companies are willing to pay 20+% more to hire someone who can do the job ASAP, and increasingly ignore canidates from outside the industry. (Lower level clearances require citizenship and a pulse. Higher levels require you didn't do really stupid things. Both can take 6-12 months to grant) This leads to the same phenomena - a pool of "too expensive" workers and cries from companies of "not enough skilled workers" - a direct result of their poor investments.
When you can't get a business advantage playing by the rules you get creative. DRAM is a commodity. A commodity that requires continued massive capital investment to receive the razor thin margins - if you are a an industry leader! If you lose it's even worse. The depths of skulduggery and secrecy in the semicon industry was quite eyeopening to me, a lowly supplier engineer (who'd previously worked in the defence industry!)
I take it you haven't migrated to CS2, or you just don't use Adobe Bridge? Photoshop doesn't have a browser anymore - that's Adobe Bridge. Bridge does a decent bit of what you want. And based on the thinksecret rumours, CS3 will kick Aperture's butt. Better raw, better tracking, better everything.
I was speaking of science and engineering - a field that encompasses far more than computer scientists. Computer Scientists make up a very small portion of that field, and it's specialty that has a very broad competence distribution. Many other fields are much more tightly grouped, yet Intel still hires only the best. There are literally tens of thousands of competent workers that Intel has fired. I know, I work with them daily at highly profitable companies. The same holds for Microsfot and Cisco. They've based their business model on obtaining "highly competent" workers. Unfortunately as your business increases in size the relative supply of such workers decreases. You can call them "competent" you can call them whatever you'd like, but when desirable workers are in the minority a field is bound for change. It's why John Henry lost out.
On a side note I'll guess that you are still a young career professional, if indeed you've graduated? You'll probably find as you move into the "real" world, that technical skills are a commodity, and priced as such. Managerial and sales skills are not priced as such, and are much more transferrable. I know what I'm aiming for.
Exactly. The market has spoken, and it doesn't want scientists and engineers. Well, it wants them, but it doesn't want to pay enough to encourage more people to enter the profession. Sorry, the Intel/Microsoft/Cisco "We want the top 10%, and only the top 10%" isn't sustainable, even with a surplus of cheap H1B's.
As an intelligent American youth why would you go through 4 years of gruelling schooling (more for an advanced degree) for a degree that has limited employment opportunities and career advnacement potential vs. a business type degree with much broader potential? You wouldn't, and they don't.
Provide intelligant people a reason to enter science and they will.
It's power is a major reason for it's acceptance at some medium to large size companies. I'm convinced there were whole flotillas of flotsam managers at a previous employer whose lone skills were an in depth command of Outlook meeting scheduling arcana, and the ability to create moving graphs in powerpoint. Well that and a desire to live like lampreys on their bosses ass.
Kodak is substantially more than a film manufacturer. Their skills and experience with quality optical design streches over a century. If you dispute quality, for a number of years their Commercial & Governmental systems division was one of the largest spy satellite contractors, until it was sold to ITT last year. Digital Camera experience? Kodak has been working with digital cameras and sensors since the 70's. Their failure to own the digital market is a story worthy of a long novel.
As for your answer r.e. memory. I believe any reviewer of digital cameras should encourage the user to purchase as large a flash card as reasonable. 512Mb minimum now, 128MB then. With a larger card installed internal memory is a bonus, a small card is in the dustbin.
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Mossberg's column has been full of puff pieces for the past 5 years. I still remember a 4 megapizel digital camera review he did where he picked the HP (big WSJ advertiser) model over the Kodak model because the HP came with a far superior 32MB CF card standard, whereas the Kodak only had 16MB of builtin memory as standard you had to purchase a card extra.
May I reccomend you read the book "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Succesful Design" by Henry Petroski? Engineers most certainly make mistakes. Whether the NASA problems are the result of engineering errors is a different kettle of fish...
Exactly!
When the service providers can talk get the content providers to provide downloadable music they'll be begging for convergence devices. It'd double or triple the number of devices capable of playing mp3's.
Is his name Paul Graham? Or Anthony Robbins? He's just another self helper, i.e. a consultant for your life. And we all know consultants just charge you money for things you already know.
There isn't bias because they cobbed that story together from AP & Reuters wire service pieces. Oh, I mean "Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report"
Get home from work - ask girlfriend which movie she wants to watch this evening (or let her pick). Go for run and clean up. 1 hr. Have nice relaxing dinner. 1hr. Have nice relaxing shag after dinner (1 hr) instead of driving to blockbuster (15min), picking movie and waiting in line (30 min) and driving home (15min). Watch movie.
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"entitled to inspect" - please do tell me how they are entitled to pose as someone else to obtain their phone records and then inspect those records.
Do you live in a fishbowl? How, exactly, does a private citizen go about legally ordering covert surveillance of another private citizen? Would you feel differently if your employee decided to surveill your personal, out of work conversations?!
Buffet had a long history of for the estate tax.
If you can say "Porn was not the internet killer app" with a straight face I might believe you.
And that 'good' is very much a relative term, not an absolute. These days 'good' is often defined as a top quartile CS student who's had 5 years of on the job experience with a top level team. Er, what about the other 75% of the workforce HR assbags?
Talk to engineers in China & India.... they don't do it because they love it. They do it because it will give them a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle and they've an aptitude and some affinity for the profession. This is the same reason my grandfathers, and my father, were engineers.
The perceived return just isn't there on that investment in todays market.
A perfect example of this is the premium paid for engineers with a security clearance, companies are willing to pay 20+% more to hire someone who can do the job ASAP, and increasingly ignore canidates from outside the industry. (Lower level clearances require citizenship and a pulse. Higher levels require you didn't do really stupid things. Both can take 6-12 months to grant) This leads to the same phenomena - a pool of "too expensive" workers and cries from companies of "not enough skilled workers" - a direct result of their poor investments.
When you can't get a business advantage playing by the rules you get creative. DRAM is a commodity. A commodity that requires continued massive capital investment to receive the razor thin margins - if you are a an industry leader! If you lose it's even worse. The depths of skulduggery and secrecy in the semicon industry was quite eyeopening to me, a lowly supplier engineer (who'd previously worked in the defence industry!)
I take it you haven't migrated to CS2, or you just don't use Adobe Bridge? Photoshop doesn't have a browser anymore - that's Adobe Bridge. Bridge does a decent bit of what you want. And based on the thinksecret rumours, CS3 will kick Aperture's butt. Better raw, better tracking, better everything.
Wow. What a typically oblivious reply.
I was speaking of science and engineering - a field that encompasses far more than computer scientists. Computer Scientists make up a very small portion of that field, and it's specialty that has a very broad competence distribution. Many other fields are much more tightly grouped, yet Intel still hires only the best. There are literally tens of thousands of competent workers that Intel has fired. I know, I work with them daily at highly profitable companies. The same holds for Microsfot and Cisco. They've based their business model on obtaining "highly competent" workers. Unfortunately as your business increases in size the relative supply of such workers decreases. You can call them "competent" you can call them whatever you'd like, but when desirable workers are in the minority a field is bound for change. It's why John Henry lost out.
On a side note I'll guess that you are still a young career professional, if indeed you've graduated? You'll probably find as you move into the "real" world, that technical skills are a commodity, and priced as such. Managerial and sales skills are not priced as such, and are much more transferrable. I know what I'm aiming for.
Exactly. The market has spoken, and it doesn't want scientists and engineers. Well, it wants them, but it doesn't want to pay enough to encourage more people to enter the profession. Sorry, the Intel/Microsoft/Cisco "We want the top 10%, and only the top 10%" isn't sustainable, even with a surplus of cheap H1B's.
As an intelligent American youth why would you go through 4 years of gruelling schooling (more for an advanced degree) for a degree that has limited employment opportunities and career advnacement potential vs. a business type degree with much broader potential? You wouldn't, and they don't.
Provide intelligant people a reason to enter science and they will.
It's power is a major reason for it's acceptance at some medium to large size companies. I'm convinced there were whole flotillas of flotsam managers at a previous employer whose lone skills were an in depth command of Outlook meeting scheduling arcana, and the ability to create moving graphs in powerpoint. Well that and a desire to live like lampreys on their bosses ass.
Kodak is substantially more than a film manufacturer. Their skills and experience with quality optical design streches over a century. If you dispute quality, for a number of years their Commercial & Governmental systems division was one of the largest spy satellite contractors, until it was sold to ITT last year. Digital Camera experience? Kodak has been working with digital cameras and sensors since the 70's. Their failure to own the digital market is a story worthy of a long novel. As for your answer r.e. memory. I believe any reviewer of digital cameras should encourage the user to purchase as large a flash card as reasonable. 512Mb minimum now, 128MB then. With a larger card installed internal memory is a bonus, a small card is in the dustbin.
Mossberg's column has been full of puff pieces for the past 5 years. I still remember a 4 megapizel digital camera review he did where he picked the HP (big WSJ advertiser) model over the Kodak model because the HP came with a far superior 32MB CF card standard, whereas the Kodak only had 16MB of builtin memory as standard you had to purchase a card extra.
Clearly no one makes money on $3 a movie. Not Movielink. Not Blockbuster. Not Netflix. Clearly $3 is a price the market isn't willing to bear.
Merely taking engineering (or science) classes puts you above at least 70% of the school. In this day and age a liberal arts degree is a waste.
May I reccomend you read the book "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Succesful Design" by Henry Petroski? Engineers most certainly make mistakes. Whether the NASA problems are the result of engineering errors is a different kettle of fish...
I've heard very similar stories from Wells Fargo stateside. No data security, no personal record security. It's a lawsuit timebomb.
That phenomenon ended with Napster? Your kidding me, right? If anything it's grown.
If we used hexadecimal would it be 15 friends?
Exactly! When the service providers can talk get the content providers to provide downloadable music they'll be begging for convergence devices. It'd double or triple the number of devices capable of playing mp3's.
Is his name Paul Graham? Or Anthony Robbins? He's just another self helper, i.e. a consultant for your life. And we all know consultants just charge you money for things you already know.
There isn't bias because they cobbed that story together from AP & Reuters wire service pieces. Oh, I mean "Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report"
Expedia was owned by Microsoft but is now owned by IAC/InterActive Corp.
Get home from work - ask girlfriend which movie she wants to watch this evening (or let her pick). Go for run and clean up. 1 hr. Have nice relaxing dinner. 1hr. Have nice relaxing shag after dinner (1 hr) instead of driving to blockbuster (15min), picking movie and waiting in line (30 min) and driving home (15min). Watch movie.