Nothing happens in the world without someone selling something first.
You get to interact with numerous people, experience new projects on almost a daily basis, basically set your own schedule (as long as you make your target), and are rarely tied to a desk during the day.
The misconception is that all salespeople are car salespeople. While it is true you can take the path of being dishonest, a cheat, and misleading it is rarely successful. Engineers tend to see through those tactics anyway.
The tradeoff is that it isn't "easy" work. There is some personal sacrafice, which is rewarding by taking 1/2-full days off whenever you want. You still have to manage a chunk of data with a PC and communication with a phone. However, most of your work is done in front of Mr. Customer.
If you are strong-technically you can be an application engineer (broader than "computer applications"). Provide pre- and post- sales support to your sales partners.
If you have great people skills and are technically inclined, then the quote-carrying sales role can be rewarding and fun.
I took the Applications Engineer route straight out of school. For about a year I switched into direct sales. Now I am back to the being the AE.
It is one of the most fun jobs I've ever had. The engineers who I call on that understand my job often tell me they are jealous.
Where's the oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and various probes required to test designs? Not much of an "R&D" facility really. This looks more like a product-test bench. A stage that occurs far after the "R&D" portion.
I end up running dvdshrink via wine Does that work now? I tried about 6-9 months to do the same thing. dvdshrink would load, but couldn't read the discs. I had to use my work laptop since it was the only thing running Windows.
Now I have an iMac and use MacTheRipper. Not as elegant as dvdshrink, but it gets the job done.
the officer who responded made sure to tell me that I was the one pressing the charges,
That is where the misunderstanding comes from. You are not pressing charges. You are filing the complaint. Your actions are "pressing" the charges. The actual charges are filed by the DA.
I would be the one to face the false arrest liability, not the officer.
Exactly. You are still not pressing offical charges and neither is the police officer. What he is warning you is that if the DA determines the person should not have been arrested in the first place, you are responsible. Not the officer. In this case the officer is simply acting as a civil servant and doing what his boss (Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer) told him to do.
A store CAN do something (have you charged with theft) and they're likely to be hit with a false arrest charge
You are granting powers to people that don't have them. "Stores" and "civillians" are not capable of "charging" or "pressing charges." One of the funniest lines used in movies is, "no officer, I don't want to press charges." That isn't your option. If a police officer (not a store) arrests you, it is up to the district attorney to press charges or not to press charges. The person who originally called the police, has no say. (They are welcome to contact the DA, but it is usually a waste of time.)
You have to remember that in the United States, criminal activities are commited against society. Society as a whole determines the course of action , not an individual. Civil torts are commited against people. Which is why you can be not charged for stealing from a store but still sued.
This is just a list of things two writers at IGN would like to see in the game. The list include innovative ideas like "good storyline" and "voice acting."
As for the Wolf rumor, all they say is, "we hope it's true."
This read more like someone's blog entry, not any kind of news what-so-ever. The subheading was: "We examine fact and take a took at the possibilities." That translates to: "We took what everyone already knows and guess."
I've tried to use my inverters on a couple of plane flights but they wouldn't work. The DC power port wouldn't provide enough current even for when the inverter was idle. I'd imagine they are pretty current limited as it is so this explains the problem.
Maybe the airport inverters are deliver less power (and so draw less current) and work better on planes.
I like the idea of the rechargable battery pack, myself. It'd be nice if I could just leave it in my bag, plug in my laptop while 'traveling', and know it's getting charged while I am idle...
I had the same experience at Gamestop. So later that day when I was in Target, not only did they have plenty of PSPs, but also a good selection of games available.
I've never pre-ordered anything and have always been able to purchase something on release day that I really wanted it.
When Game-store employees start harassing about pre-ordering, I have found pulling out my credit card (or cash) tends to end the conversation. In my PSP situation, the clerk went into bashing the portable and all of its hyped-flaws. I didn't feel the need to continue with him.
Hate to point this one out to you. I think you missed it because you're too busy spouting-trolling-crap.
Yea, and if some European was in class at school you'd no doubt call him "The Spanish dude" or whatever.
Then you (this is the best part) go on to say:
You refer to somebody born in Europe as "European" (such a classification is laughable) despite the fact that EUROPE IS NOT A COUNTRY (it will be at the current rate of things, but isn't yet).
Nice! Burned yourself!
I'm not sure, but I think you may have actually made my point in your post. You (you as in yourself, not a general group of people) were so ready to jump on something I did "wrong", yet you did it yourself.
When I visited Eastern Europe this past fall, I learned the truth to a myth. The rest of the world doesn't know anymore about the United States than the United States knows about the rest of the world. Turns out, Europeans are pretty "me-centric" too. Many of them only know about the immediately specific area around them. I was amazed at how hypocritical this type of attitude is.
I also found that after I introduced myself, nobody cared what specific-city (or state) I was from. I was, "the American dude."
I've found the following demo to help people understand what I'm talking about.
Open up a white window (notepad, textedit, whatever) and make it full screen. Wave your hand in front of the monitor. Change the refresh rate to something higher and do it again.
While most people don't notice the flicker, they will become aware of the strobe effect.
You know, somewhere this is some poor marketing manager who keeps saying, "IT'S NOT JUST A TOASTER!" Meanwhile places like slashtdot are posting, "its a $10k toaster!"
Why don't you tell us why you want it instead? We can't help you if you don't tell us what you are trying to do. All of you've done is asked for a specific solution!
The guy reviewing the unit seems to think some company produced this unit. Its pretty obvious to me (maybe because I do the same kind of thing) that its built in someone's garage. Its a generic PCB with components that were obviously hand-soldered.
Mind you, I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that the reviewer doesn't seem to get it.
The camera--for me--is a gimmicky thing, I hardly *ever* use it.
For me, cameras on the phone are a PITA. I can't carry it into most customer sites since cameras are prohibited. On top of that, I agree with you on it being a gimmick. The phone I have does have a camera and other than to geek-play with it, I've never used it. I've never even thought, "Hey I have a camera right here!"
Granted, maybe that's because I end up leaving it in the car most of the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Go into technical sales.
Nothing happens in the world without someone selling something first.
You get to interact with numerous people, experience new projects on almost a daily basis, basically set your own schedule (as long as you make your target), and are rarely tied to a desk during the day.
The misconception is that all salespeople are car salespeople. While it is true you can take the path of being dishonest, a cheat, and misleading it is rarely successful. Engineers tend to see through those tactics anyway.
The tradeoff is that it isn't "easy" work. There is some personal sacrafice, which is rewarding by taking 1/2-full days off whenever you want. You still have to manage a chunk of data with a PC and communication with a phone. However, most of your work is done in front of Mr. Customer.
If you are strong-technically you can be an application engineer (broader than "computer applications"). Provide pre- and post- sales support to your sales partners.
If you have great people skills and are technically inclined, then the quote-carrying sales role can be rewarding and fun.
I took the Applications Engineer route straight out of school. For about a year I switched into direct sales. Now I am back to the being the AE.
It is one of the most fun jobs I've ever had. The engineers who I call on that understand my job often tell me they are jealous.
Where's the oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and various probes required to test designs? Not much of an "R&D" facility really. This looks more like a product-test bench. A stage that occurs far after the "R&D" portion.
There are machines in the top 500 supercomputers that won't do 2 teraflops peak
Those machines are servers clusters based on Pentium-IV Xeon processors. The cell processor is like a cluster on a die.
I don't give much credit to teraflops though. It is about as useless as "horsepower" for mechanical engines.
I end up running dvdshrink via wine
Does that work now? I tried about 6-9 months to do the same thing. dvdshrink would load, but couldn't read the discs. I had to use my work laptop since it was the only thing running Windows.
Now I have an iMac and use MacTheRipper. Not as elegant as dvdshrink, but it gets the job done.
the officer who responded made sure to tell me that I was the one pressing the charges,
That is where the misunderstanding comes from. You are not pressing charges. You are filing the complaint. Your actions are "pressing" the charges. The actual charges are filed by the DA.
I would be the one to face the false arrest liability, not the officer.
Exactly. You are still not pressing offical charges and neither is the police officer. What he is warning you is that if the DA determines the person should not have been arrested in the first place, you are responsible. Not the officer. In this case the officer is simply acting as a civil servant and doing what his boss (Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer) told him to do.
A store CAN do something (have you charged with theft) and they're likely to be hit with a false arrest charge
You are granting powers to people that don't have them. "Stores" and "civillians" are not capable of "charging" or "pressing charges." One of the funniest lines used in movies is, "no officer, I don't want to press charges." That isn't your option. If a police officer (not a store) arrests you, it is up to the district attorney to press charges or not to press charges. The person who originally called the police, has no say. (They are welcome to contact the DA, but it is usually a waste of time.)
You have to remember that in the United States, criminal activities are commited against society. Society as a whole determines the course of action , not an individual. Civil torts are commited against people. Which is why you can be not charged for stealing from a store but still sued.
The guy doesn't seem to understand that all of Slashdot's posts today were April Fool's jokes.
/. got fooled.
He's making it sound like
Examined? How?
This is just a list of things two writers at IGN would like to see in the game. The list include innovative ideas like "good storyline" and "voice acting."
As for the Wolf rumor, all they say is, "we hope it's true."
This read more like someone's blog entry, not any kind of news what-so-ever. The subheading was: "We examine fact and take a took at the possibilities." That translates to: "We took what everyone already knows and guess."
I've tried to use my inverters on a couple of plane flights but they wouldn't work. The DC power port wouldn't provide enough current even for when the inverter was idle. I'd imagine they are pretty current limited as it is so this explains the problem.
Maybe the airport inverters are deliver less power (and so draw less current) and work better on planes.
I like the idea of the rechargable battery pack, myself. It'd be nice if I could just leave it in my bag, plug in my laptop while 'traveling', and know it's getting charged while I am idle...
I had the same experience at Gamestop. So later that day when I was in Target, not only did they have plenty of PSPs, but also a good selection of games available.
I've never pre-ordered anything and have always been able to purchase something on release day that I really wanted it.
When Game-store employees start harassing about pre-ordering, I have found pulling out my credit card (or cash) tends to end the conversation. In my PSP situation, the clerk went into bashing the portable and all of its hyped-flaws. I didn't feel the need to continue with him.
Hate to point this one out to you. I think you missed it because you're too busy spouting-trolling-crap.
Yea, and if some European was in class at school you'd no doubt call him "The Spanish dude" or whatever.
Then you (this is the best part) go on to say:
You refer to somebody born in Europe as "European" (such a classification is laughable) despite the fact that EUROPE IS NOT A COUNTRY (it will be at the current rate of things, but isn't yet).
Nice! Burned yourself!
I'm not sure, but I think you may have actually made my point in your post. You (you as in yourself, not a general group of people) were so ready to jump on something I did "wrong", yet you did it yourself.
Seriously people, learn some fucking
When I visited Eastern Europe this past fall, I learned the truth to a myth. The rest of the world doesn't know anymore about the United States than the United States knows about the rest of the world. Turns out, Europeans are pretty "me-centric" too. Many of them only know about the immediately specific area around them. I was amazed at how hypocritical this type of attitude is.
I also found that after I introduced myself, nobody cared what specific-city (or state) I was from. I was, "the American dude."
$700/yr?
They obviously do not know me.
ARRRGGHhh.
I've found the following demo to help people understand what I'm talking about.
Open up a white window (notepad, textedit, whatever) and make it full screen. Wave your hand in front of the monitor. Change the refresh rate to something higher and do it again.
While most people don't notice the flicker, they will become aware of the strobe effect.
Great Link!
Thanks!
Ohhh. Great point.
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So that would mean we're looking
Day 1: 8/sec
Day 2: 16/sec
Day 3: 24/sec
Day 365: 2920/sec
Which means units sold per day would be:
Day 1: 691,200
Day 365: 252,288,000 units
So in one year: 46,168,704,000 games were sold. At $50 a pop that's $2,308,435,200,000.00
Wow. I had no idea the video game market was a $2 trillion dollar business.
Its simpler than that.
Apple sells both at a profit.
eight titles were sold per second per day throughout the year
What other unit of measure would there but "per day"?
I'ts(sic) not like i'm going to quit playing because I wont get a free month
So then why would they give a free month?
Where did anything about Flash or USB2 come from?
There are no stupid products. Only the stupid people that buy them.
You know, somewhere this is some poor marketing manager who keeps saying, "IT'S NOT JUST A TOASTER!" Meanwhile places like slashtdot are posting, "its a $10k toaster!"
Why don't you tell us why you want it instead? We can't help you if you don't tell us what you are trying to do. All of you've done is asked for a specific solution!
The guy reviewing the unit seems to think some company produced this unit. Its pretty obvious to me (maybe because I do the same kind of thing) that its built in someone's garage. Its a generic PCB with components that were obviously hand-soldered.
Mind you, I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that the reviewer doesn't seem to get it.
The camera--for me--is a gimmicky thing, I hardly *ever* use it.
For me, cameras on the phone are a PITA. I can't carry it into most customer sites since cameras are prohibited. On top of that, I agree with you on it being a gimmick. The phone I have does have a camera and other than to geek-play with it, I've never used it. I've never even thought, "Hey I have a camera right here!"
Granted, maybe that's because I end up leaving it in the car most of the time.