On a related note, if you love(d) RadioShack, be sure to check out Akihabara ('Electric Town') in Tokyo if you ever get a chance. http://www.kirainet.com/english/radio-center/. I have never seen so many electronic components on sale in one place. It was even possible to find "vintage" ICs.
Reminds me a bit of the Yongsan electronics market in Seoul. I've never been in a building before with a hundred different stores selling nothing but PC power supply fans.
I saw a documentary about the UK Police a year or so ago and was interested to see them challenging suspicious-looking people who were using public telephones. Their theory was that most suspicious-looking people have mobile phones these days so if they are using a payphone they are often actively up to no good!
One short stay shouldn't have any negative impact in future. Most people understand sometimes things don't work out or you get an offer you can't refuse (in a good way). If you had, say, three short stays in a row, future employers might get nervous.
I would go where you think you'll be happiest where 'happiness' is a linear equation comprising money, interesting work, nice colleagues and whatever else matters to you.
A word of caution: make sure nobody at your current company finds out you're talking to the new company until you have an offer on the table.
> these are exactly the types of people you don't want to hire
Depends on your budget and appetite for risk. If you have the budget and want to reduce your risk, IMHO there's no better indicator of future performance than past performance.
Can you elaborate on the PayPal isuses? Have you looked at PayPal Authorization & Capture? I am launching an equipment rental site and planning to use PayPal Authorization & Capture to help me take deposits.
Very sad. When I read the headline I thought they might be going after _real_ pirates like the ones off the coast of Somalia. Seems like that would be a more worthwhile use of taxpayer's money.
Seems like we should wait till we have some kind of actual confirmation of whether the UK government is planning on doing something like this before we jump to conclusions. Actual confirmation, not just someone on the internet syaing they know someone who says they're planning something. I don't think this would pass muster with Labour back benches.
Somalian pirates have to play a careful game with opportunity cost: the ransoms they demand have to be less than the cost of eliminating them, and on top of that they have to not kill people. As long as they stay "reasonable", there's no reason for national governments to actually do anything about them.
The days of "millions for defense, but not a penny for tribute" are long gone.
I doubt anything is really going to happen. This is a typical "anonymous source" article. Low-quality newspapers have been using those for a while to create a controversy where none exists. When the plans don't happen, they can claim "well, we called it and thereby averted it", or - if that's too obvious - that they misjudged their source.
But those pirates are actually killing people and holding British citizens hostage, as opposed to reducing the profits of dinosaur vested interests, so obviously going after them isn't going to be a priority for Her Majesty's Government.
It would be good if he illustrated his point with an example of an ad optimized for the 84%. Brand awareness? Advertising online to bring people in-store rather than simply driving clicks? What are good examples?
Brand awareness. An ad for a BMW for example. You're not likely to click and buy the car right there, so it works the same way as their TV ad does -- it'll keep the brand in your memory until you need to make a car purchase decision.
