You are correct. IANAL, but look up a "Markman Hearing" and you will be astounded as to how much court time is given to defining terms. And this is just patent cases.
Sadly, I have Acrobat Pro, and it is just about as bad too. I suspect I will not spend the $$$ to upgrade to Acrobat X this go around. It used to be great, then bloat, and collaboration ware seemed to appear, and its actual value has plummeted.
Actually, of the dozens of applicants I have had with MBA's from UoP, they all were arrogant, overconfident, and exhibited poor decision making skills when tested. They may have been good at one time, but in the past decade when I have been hiring people, the UoP MBA students they have turned out have been marginal.
When I first started looking for people, I eagerly thought that an MBA, even from UoP would be a decent entry point. Some business skills are useful in a Product Management position, even at a junior level.
I was going to say the same thing about the University of Phoenix. If I see a resume with that as the vendor of the degree (usually an MBA), it gets round filed immediately.
Oh, my kingdom for mod points. You have mentioned one of my pet peeves, and indeed, I have spent thousands of dollars on irrelevant papers from some of these sites. Alas, there is no option.
My bad, that is in thousands of households. What I get for posting while eating a bourgeois Solid White tuna salad sandwich.
Still, that is not a large swath of the country, and if you look at the number that are >> $1M versus those that are much closer to $250K, I bet that the number of the near wealthy shoulder a small portion of the $700B than the "super rich"
In response to your FYI, the top 5% is earners over $157K, and above 250K is a meager 1.57%. Thus that $700B will be distributed over a mere 1,699 households over the next 10 years.
Somehow, I suspect that the number of small business owners among this group of ~1700 odd households is a tiny fraction of the overall.
Good point, but fixing the price point will probably not lead to a 15 fold increase in volume (and thus a comparable commercial success). As many have commented, the base Windows OS doesn't translate to a gesture based computing environment. Stylus, yes, but that isn't for the masses.
Ding, we have a winner. Microsoft has had ample entry points into this market, and frankly the sales and adoption have been pathetic.
Don't get me wrong, people who have adopted them are satisfied with their pen computers, but the sales have been in the low 200K units per year out of the 40M laptops or so sold per year. A tiny fraction.
Repackaging WinMo or Win7 into an iPad like form factor will not result in success
Count me in in this assessment. I used to use an iPhone for business at my last job. Moved here a year ago and they handed me a Blackberry (Curve8320, AT&T)
Loved the iPhone, hate the blackberry. It might be the hardware, but the BB is used solely for email and light phone calls (mostly I use a Google Voice number that goes through to my personal cell, then falls over to the BB if I fail to answer that). It has to be the most unresponsive UI I have ever seen. It can literally take a minute for it to scroll through the list of Today's email. If the little "transmission arrows are active, the whole thing becomes completely unresponsive until it is done.
Of course, it isn't a 3G handset, and that probably is part of it, but RIM should be shot putting such low powered handsets into the market in late 2009 (when I got the damn thing).
I have to agree here. Last year I ripped my entire collection of CD's that I have been collecting since 1982 ish time frame ( I was a real early adopter)and all of them were readable and sounded fine.
Many of them I hadn't listened to in 20 years as my taste's have changed, but they were still fine. Of course, I rip/dub them onto CDR's when I put them in my car, and never has an original been in my car deck.
Same argument around the proliferation of ATM's at banks. It was originally a vehicle to reduce staff expenditure (salary, benefits etc.), and save money. The irony is that you are often charged more for using an ATM transaction than to walk into a live branch and talk to a teller for the same transaction.
Best prof I ever had in university was Dr. Nguyen. He had a fresh PhD, and his english was marginal with a heavy Vietnamese accent.. When I started the class, (Linear Algebra) I was tempted to drop it due to it being too hard to understand his accent.
But the man could TEACH. I learned the subject backwards and forwards, and in the future took advanced math courses from him because of his mad skills and ability to to really teach the subject material. I got a bunch of A+'s in his classes (I am a physics geek, so math is my thing, so to speak).
To this day I claim I minored in Dr Nguyen. I hope he earned his tenure and has stuck with it.
I got my physics degree before the internet, before electronic devices were allowed in class (other than a 4 function calculator), and graphing intersecting solids of rotation were ugly. Hey, I wasn't an art major
Hell, we didn't have electronic card catalogs in the library. I had to look it up in a real card catalog, navigate to the proper floor/row/shelf and read the Dewey decimal code to find my reference books...
What was I ranting about? Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN!
Yes, I received resumes from lots of US citizens. Just none that had technical degrees. Plenty of business, accounting, and marketing fresh outs, and a deluge of people in the middle of their career with similar (read: business) backgrounds "looking for a change" but none with the educational requirements.
I would have taken a mid career person who had a EE or science degree, but I got exactly 0 of those resumes. Well that is not entirely true. I got a couple, but both of them had salary requirements that were much closer to $200K, well out of my range. The Silly Valley seems to have distorted some people's belief in their value. When I told them that it was an $80K position, they politely asked to be removed from the running.
Also, the location (as some have bantered about) is not a totally undesirable place. Tucson Arizona is a mid sized city, with plenty of outdoor activity, 2 hours from Phoenix, a world class university (U of A, which not surprisingly is where the H1B I ended up hiring went), and a reasonable cost of living.
Perhaps IT is filled with abuse of the H1B program, but I can assure you that it took me 5 months, hundreds of resumes before removing the "Must be authorized to work in the USA" from the job requirements. Killed me to do it (and destroyed my budget for the year with the fees and legal costs), but I got a great candidate in about 3 weeks. Had dozens of high quality resumes, and plenty of choice once I removed that restriction.
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I didn't expect any PhD's to apply. I said it would be a bonus, and that I would stretch my salary range $20K to accommodate. The last time I hired one of these roles was in 1998, and I had been inundated with strong PhD's from a variety of physics programs eager for the opportunity. The one we hired was great and still is in the same company (ironically, he moved to Marketing and is a great resource there).
HR didn't throw any resume's in the trash. We just got garbage. I was serious that we just got nothing meeting the requirements who were authorized to work in the US.
No. It was entry level in that I didn't expect 3 - 5 years of experience. A fresh out of school person would have been welcome. It was for a job working with a pretty high precision piece of equipment, and we would have trained for all the sundry items.
It was not entry level as in dishwashing at a restaurant. We preferred to "grow" our senior people, but really wanted a strong foundation educationally.
You would be surprised how many PhD people emerge into the job market without any salable skills, and are hungry for such opportunities. At least there used to be back in the mid 90's.
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I have to agree here. I was forced to go the H1B route at my last job to hire an entry level applications engineer. Believe it or not, I couldn't find a single qualified US citizen or resident alien, and we did not have a mystery requirement. It was a solid technical person, engineer, that anyone with a EE or even a physics degree could have done. Just no early career people to fill the role (it was a junior applications engineer role).
It probably cost us the better part of $200K by the time we were done to hire someone from China, after legal and all the fees. The pay was good for the area as well, $80K target, and I would have easily gone to $100K for someone with a couple years experience or a PhD.
Of course, it wasn't IT, and I will probably get my karma dinged by this, but the US is just not turning out home grown talent in mathematics, engineering, physics and chemistry to fill these opportunities. Go to an engineering or science program at mid level to elite university, and not many citizens are in the programs.
I love this idea. I learned 6502 assembly way back, and spent time in grad school hand optimizing fortran subroutines to extract the optimal performance out of a well aged (in 1985) Cyber 730 system.
Most programmers I run into today have never once touched assembly, and many of them think that ANSI C is the same as assembly. While it has been a LONG time since I have coded anything, I have shown a couple coders some old school optimization techniques that blew their minds
Of course I know that modern, optimizing compilers can do about 90% of what we used to do by hand, but to extract the last 10%, you really need to know the architecture, the opcodes, and even the errata to get the best.
Nice. I used to ride my bike by that road a lot when I lived in the south bay. Always got a good laugh at the inventiveness of the petty bureaucrats in that area.
I have been to Europe, and have tried several beers in many countries (I remember a particularly nice white bitter in Darlington, UK).
Regardless of what you say, American Budweiser is beer, it is brewed with barley, rice yeast, water and hops, just like beer on the continent, and it has its following of fans. It is not atrocious, it is a pale blond lager, lighter than most that you see on the continent.
Oh, and I have also had Czech Budweiser. Fabulous, and much better than its bastard cousin in the US.
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You are correct. IANAL, but look up a "Markman Hearing" and you will be astounded as to how much court time is given to defining terms. And this is just patent cases.
Cool. I was contemplating a similar response, but you nailed it.
Wish I had modpoints
My kingdom for mod points. I would add that paying extra for the non-free (and non ad supported) versions of various apps is worth it as well.
Sadly, I have Acrobat Pro, and it is just about as bad too. I suspect I will not spend the $$$ to upgrade to Acrobat X this go around. It used to be great, then bloat, and collaboration ware seemed to appear, and its actual value has plummeted.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Actually, of the dozens of applicants I have had with MBA's from UoP, they all were arrogant, overconfident, and exhibited poor decision making skills when tested. They may have been good at one time, but in the past decade when I have been hiring people, the UoP MBA students they have turned out have been marginal.
When I first started looking for people, I eagerly thought that an MBA, even from UoP would be a decent entry point. Some business skills are useful in a Product Management position, even at a junior level.
I was going to say the same thing about the University of Phoenix. If I see a resume with that as the vendor of the degree (usually an MBA), it gets round filed immediately.
Oh, my kingdom for mod points. You have mentioned one of my pet peeves, and indeed, I have spent thousands of dollars on irrelevant papers from some of these sites. Alas, there is no option.
My bad, that is in thousands of households. What I get for posting while eating a bourgeois Solid White tuna salad sandwich.
Still, that is not a large swath of the country, and if you look at the number that are >> $1M versus those that are much closer to $250K, I bet that the number of the near wealthy shoulder a small portion of the $700B than the "super rich"
In response to your FYI, the top 5% is earners over $157K, and above 250K is a meager 1.57%. Thus that $700B will be distributed over a mere 1,699 households over the next 10 years.
Somehow, I suspect that the number of small business owners among this group of ~1700 odd households is a tiny fraction of the overall.
2005 census data : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
Good point, but fixing the price point will probably not lead to a 15 fold increase in volume (and thus a comparable commercial success). As many have commented, the base Windows OS doesn't translate to a gesture based computing environment. Stylus, yes, but that isn't for the masses.
Ding, we have a winner. Microsoft has had ample entry points into this market, and frankly the sales and adoption have been pathetic.
Don't get me wrong, people who have adopted them are satisfied with their pen computers, but the sales have been in the low 200K units per year out of the 40M laptops or so sold per year. A tiny fraction.
Repackaging WinMo or Win7 into an iPad like form factor will not result in success
Count me in in this assessment. I used to use an iPhone for business at my last job. Moved here a year ago and they handed me a Blackberry (Curve8320, AT&T)
Loved the iPhone, hate the blackberry. It might be the hardware, but the BB is used solely for email and light phone calls (mostly I use a Google Voice number that goes through to my personal cell, then falls over to the BB if I fail to answer that). It has to be the most unresponsive UI I have ever seen. It can literally take a minute for it to scroll through the list of Today's email. If the little "transmission arrows are active, the whole thing becomes completely unresponsive until it is done.
Of course, it isn't a 3G handset, and that probably is part of it, but RIM should be shot putting such low powered handsets into the market in late 2009 (when I got the damn thing).
I have to agree here. Last year I ripped my entire collection of CD's that I have been collecting since 1982 ish time frame ( I was a real early adopter)and all of them were readable and sounded fine.
Many of them I hadn't listened to in 20 years as my taste's have changed, but they were still fine. Of course, I rip/dub them onto CDR's when I put them in my car, and never has an original been in my car deck.
Same argument around the proliferation of ATM's at banks. It was originally a vehicle to reduce staff expenditure (salary, benefits etc.), and save money. The irony is that you are often charged more for using an ATM transaction than to walk into a live branch and talk to a teller for the same transaction.
Talk about messed up
They do that (fingerprint & picture) because the US now harasses all foreign nationals, even from "friendly" countries.
Sucks, because japan used to have the world's best and fastest customs at Narita. Sigh.
Best prof I ever had in university was Dr. Nguyen. He had a fresh PhD, and his english was marginal with a heavy Vietnamese accent.. When I started the class, (Linear Algebra) I was tempted to drop it due to it being too hard to understand his accent.
But the man could TEACH. I learned the subject backwards and forwards, and in the future took advanced math courses from him because of his mad skills and ability to to really teach the subject material. I got a bunch of A+'s in his classes (I am a physics geek, so math is my thing, so to speak).
To this day I claim I minored in Dr Nguyen. I hope he earned his tenure and has stuck with it.
Damn, I wish I had mod points.
I got my physics degree before the internet, before electronic devices were allowed in class (other than a 4 function calculator), and graphing intersecting solids of rotation were ugly. Hey, I wasn't an art major
Hell, we didn't have electronic card catalogs in the library. I had to look it up in a real card catalog, navigate to the proper floor/row/shelf and read the Dewey decimal code to find my reference books...
What was I ranting about? Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN!
Yes, I received resumes from lots of US citizens. Just none that had technical degrees. Plenty of business, accounting, and marketing fresh outs, and a deluge of people in the middle of their career with similar (read: business) backgrounds "looking for a change" but none with the educational requirements.
I would have taken a mid career person who had a EE or science degree, but I got exactly 0 of those resumes. Well that is not entirely true. I got a couple, but both of them had salary requirements that were much closer to $200K, well out of my range. The Silly Valley seems to have distorted some people's belief in their value. When I told them that it was an $80K position, they politely asked to be removed from the running.
Also, the location (as some have bantered about) is not a totally undesirable place. Tucson Arizona is a mid sized city, with plenty of outdoor activity, 2 hours from Phoenix, a world class university (U of A, which not surprisingly is where the H1B I ended up hiring went), and a reasonable cost of living.
Perhaps IT is filled with abuse of the H1B program, but I can assure you that it took me 5 months, hundreds of resumes before removing the "Must be authorized to work in the USA" from the job requirements. Killed me to do it (and destroyed my budget for the year with the fees and legal costs), but I got a great candidate in about 3 weeks. Had dozens of high quality resumes, and plenty of choice once I removed that restriction.
I didn't expect any PhD's to apply. I said it would be a bonus, and that I would stretch my salary range $20K to accommodate. The last time I hired one of these roles was in 1998, and I had been inundated with strong PhD's from a variety of physics programs eager for the opportunity. The one we hired was great and still is in the same company (ironically, he moved to Marketing and is a great resource there).
HR didn't throw any resume's in the trash. We just got garbage. I was serious that we just got nothing meeting the requirements who were authorized to work in the US.
No. It was entry level in that I didn't expect 3 - 5 years of experience. A fresh out of school person would have been welcome. It was for a job working with a pretty high precision piece of equipment, and we would have trained for all the sundry items.
It was not entry level as in dishwashing at a restaurant. We preferred to "grow" our senior people, but really wanted a strong foundation educationally.
You would be surprised how many PhD people emerge into the job market without any salable skills, and are hungry for such opportunities. At least there used to be back in the mid 90's.
I have to agree here. I was forced to go the H1B route at my last job to hire an entry level applications engineer. Believe it or not, I couldn't find a single qualified US citizen or resident alien, and we did not have a mystery requirement. It was a solid technical person, engineer, that anyone with a EE or even a physics degree could have done. Just no early career people to fill the role (it was a junior applications engineer role).
It probably cost us the better part of $200K by the time we were done to hire someone from China, after legal and all the fees. The pay was good for the area as well, $80K target, and I would have easily gone to $100K for someone with a couple years experience or a PhD.
Of course, it wasn't IT, and I will probably get my karma dinged by this, but the US is just not turning out home grown talent in mathematics, engineering, physics and chemistry to fill these opportunities. Go to an engineering or science program at mid level to elite university, and not many citizens are in the programs.
Very sad
I love this idea. I learned 6502 assembly way back, and spent time in grad school hand optimizing fortran subroutines to extract the optimal performance out of a well aged (in 1985) Cyber 730 system.
Most programmers I run into today have never once touched assembly, and many of them think that ANSI C is the same as assembly. While it has been a LONG time since I have coded anything, I have shown a couple coders some old school optimization techniques that blew their minds
Of course I know that modern, optimizing compilers can do about 90% of what we used to do by hand, but to extract the last 10%, you really need to know the architecture, the opcodes, and even the errata to get the best.
Nice. I used to ride my bike by that road a lot when I lived in the south bay. Always got a good laugh at the inventiveness of the petty bureaucrats in that area.
Rats, that is what I should have done, instead of getting this stent after my MI.
I have been to Europe, and have tried several beers in many countries (I remember a particularly nice white bitter in Darlington, UK).
Regardless of what you say, American Budweiser is beer, it is brewed with barley, rice yeast, water and hops, just like beer on the continent, and it has its following of fans. It is not atrocious, it is a pale blond lager, lighter than most that you see on the continent.
Oh, and I have also had Czech Budweiser. Fabulous, and much better than its bastard cousin in the US.