"What I want from the CISSP or any certification program is that it be hard to pass."
On exam difficulty, try CCIE certification. There are two parts, the written ($350 per an attempt) and then the lab part which cost $1500 per an attempt. The lab part has a 26% pass rate over the history of the exam. In comparison, the CA Bar exam has a 35% and 55% pass rate, which is the lowest in the US.
You also can't just take it anywhere, you have to travel to a designated lab testing center, and depending on where you are that means cost of travel and lodging.
Love him or hate him, I think it's great when someone makes a mistake, owns up to it publicly. Even allow others to contact them directly and list all levels of accountability even to the top.
I have heard of Scoble but never follow him.I have made the same mistake he has made, where a friend I highly trust, who I think is rarely wrong forwards me info which I use for an argument and it turns out to be completely false. Yes it was laziness, no doubt about it and I learn that the hard way, and so has Scoble.
Not a surprise at all. I have read many stories like this and the problem is that many of them come from poverty. They get money and they feel very guilty, so they give money to any friends or family that asks. This is why many have such huge entourages.
One player was paying rent for 15 of his friends. It wasn't some cheap place either, but at high rises in a big city.
He also paid for 20 cell phone bills, on top of buying house for his parents, brothers and sisters. Paying all the bills eating out with his close friends, paying for rides and flights.
I don't know about an NBA player that did that but Brazilian football player Marcelinho did that while playing in Germany. Despite having a seven-figures salary he was broke all the time and had to ask his club for loans because he financed the lives of literally dozens of his friends and family members.
Google can fail at Google+ because this is not their main product. Look at Buzz and Wave, they both failed spectacularly, and Google moved on to the next thing.
Like wise you can write a whole article about how Google standing by and doing nothing while Facebook dominates the social network scene is a mistake.
Everyone is different. Take the advice just as things to think about.
I know people who have been through hardship and they actually tell people to hang around, to just talk, say anything. They prefer people say something to not saying anything at all.
"But Google was riding so high that it essentially refused to negotiate, offering no concessions to Nokia despite its global presence. Elop later told the Salo employees that Google "acted like they'd already won. Apple and Android deserve some real competition."
Pretty much he's saying Google acted like Apple in how it views everyone below them.
He tried to negotiate a deal with Google to run Android, but Google refused to give the world's biggest phonemaker any advantages over its smaller partners, meaning Nokia's corps of 11,600 engineers would have next to no ability to add their own innovations to Google's software. "It just didn't feel right," Elop says to the crowd. "We'd be just another company distributing Android..."
Sounds kind of fair of Google to not give Nokia special concessions their other Android partners don't get. Nokia could have used Android anyway, just without Maps and the Android market.
And then fall behind the curve as Google makes new builds available exclusively to partners? Fork it and risk another Meego/Maemo fiasco?
Without Google apps and Android Market, its hard to sell a phone. To make the requisite alternate software, it will take a year plus, all while parallelly developing hardware, might be a bit too much even for a huge company like Nokia especially seeing that they seem to lack software dev skills.
Indeed. I'm not sure which is more disappointing: that China seems to be bringing things to a new level or that its cool to take advantage of a situation that many people won't understand by throwing that line in there in the midst of what reads as quite scary news.
Was not able to find any sources worth reading but I am interested to know the comparison between American Universities, and free universities in Europe. It would be interesting to see how each system works for students during, and after college.
On exam difficulty, try CCIE certification. There are two parts, the written ($350 per an attempt) and then the lab part which cost $1500 per an attempt. The lab part has a 26% pass rate over the history of the exam. In comparison, the CA Bar exam has a 35% and 55% pass rate, which is the lowest in the US.
You also can't just take it anywhere, you have to travel to a designated lab testing center, and depending on where you are that means cost of travel and lodging.