Yeah, probably why my silly dinky little nokia (of all things) netbook fits that description exactly. There's a couple of those in the PC world here and there. Its just that without Apple patented brainwashing marketing (patend pending), no one gives a flying duck.
The "large corporation" i worked for (easily one of the largest companies in the world) would hire so many people, virtually every employee had to help with the interviews. Still, for people out of college, the only way they would take resume was in school job fairs or whatever, and only after talking for a while with each applicant. That was more than enough to dwindle down the selection.
Yet they still wouldn't take anyone below 3.0 GPA. It was pretty silly, because sometimes we'd talk to someone at a job fair, and the person was amazing, we could ask them anything and they'd have the answer, had tons of real world experience (via internships, side jobs, or be a member of a well known open source organization), but unless they were a community superstar, if you didn't have 3.0 GPA, you were screwed.
Ironically, I didn't, but when I applied it was at a time when they were impossibly desperate, and HR didn't tell me about that rule, and lied about my credentials (without me knowing) during the process. I only learnt a full year later when they were asking people to verify the info in the HR database...
the issue is that the gain from high grades, regardless of how they're obtained, is far too high. So many companies won't hire anyone under 3.0 GPA, colleges won't accept you if you're not good enough in highschool, etc.
For people that are borderline, cheating on one test in one class could be the difference between their dream job and, in certain fields in certain areas of certain countries, no job. I fortunately don't live in such a place, but I know people who do. Make college acceptance process smarter and more personalized instead of the streamlined garbage it is now, and educate employers. Then students will be able to cheat all they want, it won't matter.
Obviously becoming a good typist is like having good oral skills in 2010 (2011 i guess?), especially for someone in an IT related field. However, being a.NET developer, using Visual Studio with every add-in under the sun, what made me a faster, more efficient coder wasn't my typing speed. It was....
(wait for it)
Playing Starcraft. Being able to hit countless keyboard shortcuts and macros without needing to think about it made me able to use Visual Studio (or any other keyboard shortcut heavy IDE, so it could be Emacs/VIM for non-Microsoft developers) way, way better.
Thats unfortunately the issue. Microsoft has been going "Try something, if its not a uber success after 2 weeks, drop it, start over with something else". After getting screwed with the Zune (which was a formidable device at the time) in Canada (no music store ever made the light of day, even though they promised over and over and over), the Zune HD virtually not making it out of the states (and got forgotten after its first push), I don't see why Windows 7 Phone (which IS completely awesome btw) would be any different.
As a.NET dev who knows Silverlight, I could easily go and make stuff for Windows Phone 7. Will I? Lol, I'm not that stupid...
Ironically, having worked as a consultant for far too long, I probably interviewed for hundreds of jobs, and usually, they don't care about how much actual work you put into the tech, only how long its been. So someone who worked with Java 3 hours a week for 6 years is ahead of someone who worked with it 40 hours a week for 3.
That it takes a LOOOOOOOOOT more than a few alt tags, standard compliant markup and Flash that can be screen scraped to be ADA compliant. Its a freagin nightmare, and a lot of people who think they are compliant, are not, unless their web site is EXTREMELY simple.
For all practical purpose, its impossible to ACTUALLY be compliant. They're just a bit soft over it...
My point is: if something isn't working, its not because of something that is IE-only. News Flash, even Firefox, Chrome and Safari are far from 100% compatible. Standard all you want, even those browsers disagree on some stuff. Secondly, my other point was that the video player isn't part of ASP.NET since it doesn't provide one. So whatever they're using, if it sucks, doesn't suck because of ASP.NET. Another news flash: like most web development environments, ASP.NET lets you render whatever you freagin want. Its as standard compliant or not compliant as you want.
#1: its in asp.net, not asp (big difference) #2: asp.net doesn't have a dependency on IE. Its browser agnostic (and thus like any other environment used for web development, it works BETTER if you're not using IE) #3: the video is in Flash using a pretty standard Flash player that has nothing to do with asp.net. #4: it works just fine in non-IE browsers (I'm using Chrome)
Ironically, Ive done agile in small companies with small projects, and in huge companies with multi-hundred millions projects and thousands of people involved (using Scrum of Scrums for scaling), both software and non-software project... the multi-hundred million dollar non-software projects in many cases worked better than the software ones in Agile.
Thats why it used to be referred to as a recommendation, instead of standard (lots of discussions around it, though i think the likes of ISO and whatsnot now consider W3C stuff as actual standards).
That said, if you ever tried to implement anything from the W3C, its full of holes, inconsistencies, ambiguous parts, things "left to the implementator", and all around, Microsoft's OOXML may have been a lousy ISO standard, but it sure would fit right in anything the W3C ever published.
The only reason it kindda works, and that so many browsers seem to implement it, is because the likes of those working on Firefox, Safari, etc, kind of agree on stuff they don't like or the standard doesn't dictate. That also makes IE8 look worse than it actually is (not that its not awful, but in a few (very few) cases web developers will complain about things on which IE8 is actually right, and Firefox is wrong, but Safari, and Chrome are wrong the same way).
Its not just HTML/CSS/whatever. The XQuery specs for example, are just as bad.
Now, think about that really hard for a sec. A -lot- of companies go with Google Apps Premier for their gmail accounts (at 50$/year/user). There's a reason for it.
They have a version for free, like Google Docs. And like google docs, they have a pay for version. There's just a bigger distinction between the two (Microsoft's marketing department is the worse in the industry).
Sure, if you include 25 gb managed mailboxes for the 500 people with a 99.9% uptime SLA and 24/7 support, backups, failover, etc. That is going to be entertaining.
On machines that don't need patching for whatever reason (rare, but thats true for Linux kernel too), a Windows Vista, 7, Server 2003 or 2008, with hundreds of days of uptime is not rare or even difficult, and for power reason, Sleep mode is more than sufficient (since you just hit the keyboard and in 3 seconds flat you're back where you were).
You only ever reboot a windows box to patch it, ever, and aside for emergency patches, thats once a month, on exactly the same day.
Right, slashdot removes greater than and lower than signs. I meant that first world asian countries are cheaper than many places in Europe that is significantly cheaper than USA that is leaps and bound cheaper than Canada.
$75 probably includes other stuff, not just phone. That said, always keep in mind that when it comes to telecom prices, Asia Europe USA Canada. Its always been like this. In South Korea or Japan you can get for the equivalent of a few douzen US dollar the equivalent of a corporate connection that can cost 4 figures in Canada.
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Yeah, probably why my silly dinky little nokia (of all things) netbook fits that description exactly. There's a couple of those in the PC world here and there. Its just that without Apple patented brainwashing marketing (patend pending), no one gives a flying duck.
The "large corporation" i worked for (easily one of the largest companies in the world) would hire so many people, virtually every employee had to help with the interviews. Still, for people out of college, the only way they would take resume was in school job fairs or whatever, and only after talking for a while with each applicant. That was more than enough to dwindle down the selection.
Yet they still wouldn't take anyone below 3.0 GPA. It was pretty silly, because sometimes we'd talk to someone at a job fair, and the person was amazing, we could ask them anything and they'd have the answer, had tons of real world experience (via internships, side jobs, or be a member of a well known open source organization), but unless they were a community superstar, if you didn't have 3.0 GPA, you were screwed.
Ironically, I didn't, but when I applied it was at a time when they were impossibly desperate, and HR didn't tell me about that rule, and lied about my credentials (without me knowing) during the process. I only learnt a full year later when they were asking people to verify the info in the HR database...
the issue is that the gain from high grades, regardless of how they're obtained, is far too high. So many companies won't hire anyone under 3.0 GPA, colleges won't accept you if you're not good enough in highschool, etc.
For people that are borderline, cheating on one test in one class could be the difference between their dream job and, in certain fields in certain areas of certain countries, no job. I fortunately don't live in such a place, but I know people who do. Make college acceptance process smarter and more personalized instead of the streamlined garbage it is now, and educate employers. Then students will be able to cheat all they want, it won't matter.
If you think thats silly, they do that with videogames. There's a special division for women in Starcraft tournaments.
Obviously becoming a good typist is like having good oral skills in 2010 (2011 i guess?), especially for someone in an IT related field. However, being a .NET developer, using Visual Studio with every add-in under the sun, what made me a faster, more efficient coder wasn't my typing speed. It was....
(wait for it)
Playing Starcraft. Being able to hit countless keyboard shortcuts and macros without needing to think about it made me able to use Visual Studio (or any other keyboard shortcut heavy IDE, so it could be Emacs/VIM for non-Microsoft developers) way, way better.
As someone pointed out below, I'm not talking about autocompletion. All languages can have that, even freagin Javascript and COBOL.
But in Java and .NET, among others, the tools can go very far. Auto-completion is just a bare bare minimum.
Except in Java with all the tools you have at your disposal, if you're typing 1/2 or even 1/3 of the code you're writing, you're doing it wrong.
I'd expect McAfee and Norton to be much bigger "bulls eye" targets, since they're heavily deployed in corporate environments. MSE isn't.
Btw, Gmail and whatsnot have offline modes (via Google Gears or whatsnot), so you won't always need to connect to get your data.
Thats unfortunately the issue. Microsoft has been going "Try something, if its not a uber success after 2 weeks, drop it, start over with something else". After getting screwed with the Zune (which was a formidable device at the time) in Canada (no music store ever made the light of day, even though they promised over and over and over), the Zune HD virtually not making it out of the states (and got forgotten after its first push), I don't see why Windows 7 Phone (which IS completely awesome btw) would be any different.
As a .NET dev who knows Silverlight, I could easily go and make stuff for Windows Phone 7. Will I? Lol, I'm not that stupid...
Ironically, having worked as a consultant for far too long, I probably interviewed for hundreds of jobs, and usually, they don't care about how much actual work you put into the tech, only how long its been. So someone who worked with Java 3 hours a week for 6 years is ahead of someone who worked with it 40 hours a week for 3.
Stupid as hell.
That it takes a LOOOOOOOOOT more than a few alt tags, standard compliant markup and Flash that can be screen scraped to be ADA compliant. Its a freagin nightmare, and a lot of people who think they are compliant, are not, unless their web site is EXTREMELY simple.
For all practical purpose, its impossible to ACTUALLY be compliant. They're just a bit soft over it...
Unless, of course, its a loss leader, which is extremely common in the gaming hardware industry.
In theory, unless both the pilot and the copilot are in on it, he'd need the nail clipper to kill the copilot first =P
Woosh!!.
My point is: if something isn't working, its not because of something that is IE-only. News Flash, even Firefox, Chrome and Safari are far from 100% compatible. Standard all you want, even those browsers disagree on some stuff. Secondly, my other point was that the video player isn't part of ASP.NET since it doesn't provide one. So whatever they're using, if it sucks, doesn't suck because of ASP.NET. Another news flash: like most web development environments, ASP.NET lets you render whatever you freagin want. Its as standard compliant or not compliant as you want.
#1: its in asp.net, not asp (big difference)
#2: asp.net doesn't have a dependency on IE. Its browser agnostic (and thus like any other environment used for web development, it works BETTER if you're not using IE)
#3: the video is in Flash using a pretty standard Flash player that has nothing to do with asp.net.
#4: it works just fine in non-IE browsers (I'm using Chrome)
Just figured I'd clear that up.
Ironically, Ive done agile in small companies with small projects, and in huge companies with multi-hundred millions projects and thousands of people involved (using Scrum of Scrums for scaling), both software and non-software project... the multi-hundred million dollar non-software projects in many cases worked better than the software ones in Agile.
Kind of counter intuitive.
Thats why it used to be referred to as a recommendation, instead of standard (lots of discussions around it, though i think the likes of ISO and whatsnot now consider W3C stuff as actual standards).
That said, if you ever tried to implement anything from the W3C, its full of holes, inconsistencies, ambiguous parts, things "left to the implementator", and all around, Microsoft's OOXML may have been a lousy ISO standard, but it sure would fit right in anything the W3C ever published.
The only reason it kindda works, and that so many browsers seem to implement it, is because the likes of those working on Firefox, Safari, etc, kind of agree on stuff they don't like or the standard doesn't dictate. That also makes IE8 look worse than it actually is (not that its not awful, but in a few (very few) cases web developers will complain about things on which IE8 is actually right, and Firefox is wrong, but Safari, and Chrome are wrong the same way).
Its not just HTML/CSS/whatever. The XQuery specs for example, are just as bad.
Now, think about that really hard for a sec. A -lot- of companies go with Google Apps Premier for their gmail accounts (at 50$/year/user). There's a reason for it.
They have a version for free, like Google Docs. And like google docs, they have a pay for version. There's just a bigger distinction between the two (Microsoft's marketing department is the worse in the industry).
Sure, if you include 25 gb managed mailboxes for the 500 people with a 99.9% uptime SLA and 24/7 support, backups, failover, etc. That is going to be entertaining.
On machines that don't need patching for whatever reason (rare, but thats true for Linux kernel too), a Windows Vista, 7, Server 2003 or 2008, with hundreds of days of uptime is not rare or even difficult, and for power reason, Sleep mode is more than sufficient (since you just hit the keyboard and in 3 seconds flat you're back where you were).
You only ever reboot a windows box to patch it, ever, and aside for emergency patches, thats once a month, on exactly the same day.
And you probably can count how many times he did after 1.1.1 patch on one hand =P
Right, slashdot removes greater than and lower than signs. I meant that first world asian countries are cheaper than many places in Europe that is significantly cheaper than USA that is leaps and bound cheaper than Canada.
$75 probably includes other stuff, not just phone. That said, always keep in mind that when it comes to telecom prices, Asia Europe USA Canada. Its always been like this. In South Korea or Japan you can get for the equivalent of a few douzen US dollar the equivalent of a corporate connection that can cost 4 figures in Canada.