Well, Google IS the default search for almost every other browser out there. It is the default search toolbar on Mozilla and Safari; the latter of which comes with every computer Apple sells, although it isn't built into the OS the way IE is so it is pretty easy to un-install. I don't know about Opera, but I think you see my point.
Just out of curiosity, how did you measure "sales per click"? I'm assuming that you measure the number of sales you got received from people who clicked the ad and then bought your product during that session, but how do you know there weren't others who clicked your ad, saw your product, then decided to come back later directly through your URL to buy the product? Seems kind of difficult to sort out I would imagine. Of course a lot of the clicks may be fradulent, but meausring the success of your ad by the number of people who buy right away after clicking the ad seems to be a poor measure of cuccess.
However, the reality at most places is really in between. Due to the sheer number of resumes people get for a lot of job openings, they have to pare down the applicant pool somehow. There simply isn't enough time for the tech people to look at everyone. Therefor HR uses certain requirements to cull the herd as it were. Then the tech people look at the ones that remain and do the interview and make the final decision. Yeah, it's not the best system in the world, but remeber, for every diamond in the rough, you have a lot of rough. Therefore, using networking to get in contact with the final decision makers and impress them is still the best way to get a job, especially if you lack the paper to get through the process in the other channels.
Why did they go through all the motions of creating a distribution network but only pretend to be one company? And why NEC? NEC isn't really much of a player anymore in the consumer world, they are more into industrial grade manufacture and IT consulting. They still do make consumer electronics, but they hardly seem to be the companies bread and butter anymore. Nor are they dominant in the field, TFA goes on to say that some of the products weren't even close to anything NEC currently makes. Why not also claim to be Philips or Sony or Samsung?
Um, the thing is, THIS ISN'T FOR HOME USERS! I'm sure if you wanted to use it in your home they wouldn't stop you, but you aren't their target market. Their target is businesses, ie the ones who are using power during the day which is why the power companies charge them peak rates. Businesses have to run lots of computers and lots of lights etc. Their power bills are much bigger than yours and could get a ROI much quicker than a single user ever could.....
But don't let that stop you from slinging the term "snake oil" around....
In fact I do live in a place where it snows, I have only lived 1 year out of my life in a place with no snow, and I have yet to own a car. I ride my bicycle in the winter, or if the weather is really bad, I walk. It's not the end of the world. Really though, a smart car is a great solution, I was just pointing out that there is no real reason for the vehicle the original post was talking about.
Why bother with either really? Motorcycles can get 45 or so miles per gallon and they are safe provided:
a) you don't act like a fucking idiot
b) soccer moms in behemoth SUVs stop talking on their phones long enough to see you.
A is probably easier than b though...at least if you live in the states.
And Smart cars can get up to 60 mpg on regular unleaded(though YMMV). These kinds of vehicles just seem like an odd crossover between motorcycles and smart cars.
I'm looking forward to the 3 ff remakes, but I would like to know when they are coming out!
I'm planning a trip to Japan in May, hopefully I could score something good there, but I guess we will see
You are describing the abuses of the system, and that hurts the system in 2 ways:
1. Most obvious is the fact that now someone else is doing a job that unemployed Americans are qualified to do, the only reason the company didn't hire the American is because they consider it to be too expensive. That hurts the person who could have had the job, but probably the overall effect on the economy is minimal if the number of H1B visa holders is kept low.
2. However, the more subtle way it hurts the economy is it prevents people who actually need experts from abroad from getting them. According to this(yeah, it's a lawyer site, but there are better articles out there if you look) the H-1B visa cap is reached months before the year is up. Where is the problem? Well consider the following scenario:
A robotics start-up launches in Maine. The people who founded the company are some awesome AI guys, but when it comes to figuring out the best way to build and manufacture the robots, they are at a loss. So they look for people to hire and cannot find anyone in the US, but they do find some people in Japan who are very well qualified to do the job. They want to bring them over, offer them a good salary, and the Japanese agree. Now the easiest way for a company without a team of lawyers to do this is to sponsor them for an H1-B visa. However, the start up finds out that the cap had been reached because as soon as the new year started a bunch of huge companies who could afford to hire qualified Americans wanted save a couple of bucks and be able to abuse their workers got in line first with their teams of lawyers to carry away as many of the H1-B slots they could get their hands on. Now our little start up is left with few options. They could outsource the work, but for such a small company that would involve a huge amount of overhead, not the least of which is dealing with labor laws in 2 different countries. They would have to find their Japanese counterparts offices in Japan, make frequent trips etc. All that stuff could spell doom for a small company, so the people who found it might go belly up costing even more jobs.
Abusers of the system really do need to be punished, and stricter limits on the number of visas individual companies can have should be enforced.
That is just my 2 cents
I'd also note that for some people who might think that the 15" MacBook Pro looks like a bad deal next to this, the 17" is simply too large for many people
Which is why I'm surprised they didn't come out with the 12" one before the 17", it seems, at least in my personal experience(obviously I don't have stats on hand) that the 12" is much more popular than the 17". Though they could still be having heat issues with the 12" mac book.
calling them part of the "Axis of Evil". Before that little gem the younger generation in Iran was probably among the most pro-western group of people in the middle east according to some reporter(The NY Times Kristoff among them). Due to demographic issues the younger generation in Iran is very large and powerful. They were seriously resisting the government and the "Islamic Revolution" However, Bush's wonderful little speech and random invasion of a neighboor killed all that.
He gave a perfect chance for the conservative Iranian government to say, "Look, these people hate you, we don't, so screw them and come to us!" And obviously people don't like being called evil and being bullied, so alas they are now rallying around the government instead of fighting it. And we have $75 a barell oil....
I have travelled around the world, and I would have to say that America used to be my favorite country....pre Bush America that is. The man and his neocon hawks have destroyed that. Now except for visiting family I really don't want to go back....
It is insecure and it isn't....Security through obscurity if you want to put it like that does do one thing: it buys time for them to create a fix. If they came out right away and told people about the holes then they would be in an even more intense race against attackers.
I'm not defending their practice(this is/. after all:P) but saying "it is totally worthless" is a bit well..disengenious.
It depends. I met a LOT of SRK(stupid rich kids) at Penn State, but they are probably not the majority. The difference between when you went to school and today is probably lines of credit. Especially with the new bankruptcy laws in place, credit card companies are falling over eachother trying to market to college students promising free t-shirts, hoagies what have you. So kids(and I hate to say it, but I fell into this category too, then I got smart the hard way) are leaving college with huge amounts of credit card debt at insane interest rates. That is how they are getting all this extra money....
As a country the US is living on borrowed time...
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But Ann Coulter is hot....are you insinuating that Dvorak would look good in a bathing su....OH GOD IMAGES IN MY HEAD! PLEASE GET THEM OUT!!!
Well, Google IS the default search for almost every other browser out there. It is the default search toolbar on Mozilla and Safari; the latter of which comes with every computer Apple sells, although it isn't built into the OS the way IE is so it is pretty easy to un-install. I don't know about Opera, but I think you see my point.
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'Nuff said.
Just out of curiosity, how did you measure "sales per click"? I'm assuming that you measure the number of sales you got received from people who clicked the ad and then bought your product during that session, but how do you know there weren't others who clicked your ad, saw your product, then decided to come back later directly through your URL to buy the product? Seems kind of difficult to sort out I would imagine. Of course a lot of the clicks may be fradulent, but meausring the success of your ad by the number of people who buy right away after clicking the ad seems to be a poor measure of cuccess.
However, the reality at most places is really in between. Due to the sheer number of resumes people get for a lot of job openings, they have to pare down the applicant pool somehow. There simply isn't enough time for the tech people to look at everyone. Therefor HR uses certain requirements to cull the herd as it were. Then the tech people look at the ones that remain and do the interview and make the final decision. Yeah, it's not the best system in the world, but remeber, for every diamond in the rough, you have a lot of rough. Therefore, using networking to get in contact with the final decision makers and impress them is still the best way to get a job, especially if you lack the paper to get through the process in the other channels.
I know! I hear that the spelling classes in ingeneering schools are brutal!
As well as helpful librarians who will point out the difference between "here" and "hear"
And I also here they have these strange, pictureless things made out of very thin strips of wood with some type of text printed on them. :P
Why did they go through all the motions of creating a distribution network but only pretend to be one company? And why NEC? NEC isn't really much of a player anymore in the consumer world, they are more into industrial grade manufacture and IT consulting. They still do make consumer electronics, but they hardly seem to be the companies bread and butter anymore. Nor are they dominant in the field, TFA goes on to say that some of the products weren't even close to anything NEC currently makes. Why not also claim to be Philips or Sony or Samsung?
Um, the thing is, THIS ISN'T FOR HOME USERS! I'm sure if you wanted to use it in your home they wouldn't stop you, but you aren't their target market. Their target is businesses, ie the ones who are using power during the day which is why the power companies charge them peak rates. Businesses have to run lots of computers and lots of lights etc. Their power bills are much bigger than yours and could get a ROI much quicker than a single user ever could.....
But don't let that stop you from slinging the term "snake oil" around....
And being ruined morally by lots of Chinese women is bad how?
In fact I do live in a place where it snows, I have only lived 1 year out of my life in a place with no snow, and I have yet to own a car. I ride my bicycle in the winter, or if the weather is really bad, I walk. It's not the end of the world. Really though, a smart car is a great solution, I was just pointing out that there is no real reason for the vehicle the original post was talking about.
Why bother with either really? Motorcycles can get 45 or so miles per gallon and they are safe provided:
a) you don't act like a fucking idiot
b) soccer moms in behemoth SUVs stop talking on their phones long enough to see you.
A is probably easier than b though...at least if you live in the states.
And Smart cars can get up to 60 mpg on regular unleaded(though YMMV). These kinds of vehicles just seem like an odd crossover between motorcycles and smart cars.
You mean to tell me there is stuff on the internet BESIDES pornography? Why didn't anyone tell me!
I'm looking forward to the 3 ff remakes, but I would like to know when they are coming out!
I'm planning a trip to Japan in May, hopefully I could score something good there, but I guess we will see
You are describing the abuses of the system, and that hurts the system in 2 ways:
1. Most obvious is the fact that now someone else is doing a job that unemployed Americans are qualified to do, the only reason the company didn't hire the American is because they consider it to be too expensive. That hurts the person who could have had the job, but probably the overall effect on the economy is minimal if the number of H1B visa holders is kept low.
2. However, the more subtle way it hurts the economy is it prevents people who actually need experts from abroad from getting them. According to this(yeah, it's a lawyer site, but there are better articles out there if you look) the H-1B visa cap is reached months before the year is up. Where is the problem? Well consider the following scenario:
A robotics start-up launches in Maine. The people who founded the company are some awesome AI guys, but when it comes to figuring out the best way to build and manufacture the robots, they are at a loss. So they look for people to hire and cannot find anyone in the US, but they do find some people in Japan who are very well qualified to do the job. They want to bring them over, offer them a good salary, and the Japanese agree. Now the easiest way for a company without a team of lawyers to do this is to sponsor them for an H1-B visa. However, the start up finds out that the cap had been reached because as soon as the new year started a bunch of huge companies who could afford to hire qualified Americans wanted save a couple of bucks and be able to abuse their workers got in line first with their teams of lawyers to carry away as many of the H1-B slots they could get their hands on. Now our little start up is left with few options. They could outsource the work, but for such a small company that would involve a huge amount of overhead, not the least of which is dealing with labor laws in 2 different countries. They would have to find their Japanese counterparts offices in Japan, make frequent trips etc. All that stuff could spell doom for a small company, so the people who found it might go belly up costing even more jobs.
Abusers of the system really do need to be punished, and stricter limits on the number of visas individual companies can have should be enforced.
That is just my 2 cents
3- what about distinguished merit and NO ability models like XXX (insert your own answer)
Holy shit, they give away H1Bs for porn stars now? I guess it is a special talent.
back in 1998....
The more things change the more they stay the same I suppose.
I'd also note that for some people who might think that the 15" MacBook Pro looks like a bad deal next to this, the 17" is simply too large for many people
Which is why I'm surprised they didn't come out with the 12" one before the 17", it seems, at least in my personal experience(obviously I don't have stats on hand) that the 12" is much more popular than the 17". Though they could still be having heat issues with the 12" mac book.
Put the Putonghua(sorry, my pinyin sucks) word for "China" into pinyin....
Zhoogle was a joke. If you didn't get it then, you probably won't if I explain it to you...
before the Chinese government gets its hands on this technology anyway.
Make way for zhoogle!
calling them part of the "Axis of Evil". Before that little gem the younger generation in Iran was probably among the most pro-western group of people in the middle east according to some reporter(The NY Times Kristoff among them). Due to demographic issues the younger generation in Iran is very large and powerful. They were seriously resisting the government and the "Islamic Revolution" However, Bush's wonderful little speech and random invasion of a neighboor killed all that.
He gave a perfect chance for the conservative Iranian government to say, "Look, these people hate you, we don't, so screw them and come to us!" And obviously people don't like being called evil and being bullied, so alas they are now rallying around the government instead of fighting it. And we have $75 a barell oil....
I have travelled around the world, and I would have to say that America used to be my favorite country....pre Bush America that is. The man and his neocon hawks have destroyed that. Now except for visiting family I really don't want to go back....
It is insecure and it isn't....Security through obscurity if you want to put it like that does do one thing: it buys time for them to create a fix. If they came out right away and told people about the holes then they would be in an even more intense race against attackers. /. after all :P) but saying "it is totally worthless" is a bit well..disengenious.
I'm not defending their practice(this is
It depends. I met a LOT of SRK(stupid rich kids) at Penn State, but they are probably not the majority. The difference between when you went to school and today is probably lines of credit. Especially with the new bankruptcy laws in place, credit card companies are falling over eachother trying to market to college students promising free t-shirts, hoagies what have you. So kids(and I hate to say it, but I fell into this category too, then I got smart the hard way) are leaving college with huge amounts of credit card debt at insane interest rates. That is how they are getting all this extra money....
As a country the US is living on borrowed time...