I can't quite remember when I saw it, but it was an amazing self build, all stramlined - even the rivets had been made flush with the body work. I think it was an employee of Scaled Composites who did it for a learning experience to pick up credit with work. I remember being pretty amazed.
Can I find it doing a search? Nope.
I wish that I could remember just a little more!
Quite a smart strategy. I wouild love to impliment this and infact, I think I could come up with a very good business case for it. As with most of you I suspect, I at first thought about the angle of "it's a quick $1k, I'll just quit in a week and be better off for it".
But of course - Zappos has already weeded out unsuitable candidates in interview/tests. That 10% figure is highly realistic because Zappos have a good idea that the vast majority of their new hires ARE right for the job, before they even start their training.
Plus they're probably running Bayesian statistics on all the data they have on the interview/test results of the candidates, so they can get better on hiring those that are less likely to quit. (And if they're not, they should be.)
I put myself through university and gained extensive skills using pirated software. At the time I decided I would do what needed to be done and because I could. I resolved however to get licensed copies once I was working.
7 years later I have an annual budget of £2.3 million and am responsible for buying decisions relating to the software we use.
Autodesk, Macromedia (until a while ago) and Adobe have all been represented largely.
All I can say is that at the time, I used software piracy to my advantage - now I am trying to repay my debt.
"...many of us thirty-somethings wouldn't be where we are today if we hadn't coughfoundcough a copy of Windows NT4 somewhere. Don't steal our stuff, please. We try to make it inexpensive enough so that anyone can afford it."
i think almost every s/w professional from BRIC have used pirated s/w - in fact i read this somewhere that we would have huge skills shortage if there were no pirated s/w available to these smart people of 3rd world countries ... and if the s/w professional were in shortage then prices of tons of products (from air line tickets to chocolate bars) would be much higher than what it is right now ... so in a sense pirated product did created jobs and revenue and economy .... it gave an opportunity to smart people to learn new skills and get employment.
Amen do that! I would have never learned Photoshop or Dreamweaver without pirated software. This was me in college.
Doing that under your own company would be a bad thing to do. Don't risk it unless your using the software for personal education gain.
The upside to buying software as a student is that these companies sell them with a massive discount..or give them away for free. The downside being it's usually only for noncommercial usage.
agreed I've pirated s/w which would have been to expensive to buy purely to learn new skills, however I suppose, I was lucky when I was taking my first steps with Photoshop my uncle bought me a copy.
Touched on slightly before, with no answers - however, I feel that the question as to different peoples memory retention is a valid one. I know myself that being Dyspraxic, I have quite a low retention rate when it comes to short term memory.
Could be of use to set a base level of memory retention and then use that to define the length of time between repetitions?
