Comments for The Idea Exchange http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com Entrepreneurship. Collaboration. Creativity. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:12:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About by grizhdazabar http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/about/#comment-38 grizhdazabar Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:12:25 +0000 #comment-38 hi, congratulations for the blog...i really liked..especially because you don't lose yourself in words and you get straight to the point in a very fluid way... see ya. bye g.e.a.z. hi, congratulations for the blog…i really liked..especially because you don’t lose yourself in words and you get straight to the point in a very fluid way…
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]]> Comment on Free vs. Paid Web 2.0 Sites by kac http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/free-vs-paid-web-20-sites/#comment-29 kac Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:09:59 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/free-vs-paid-web-20-sites/#comment-29 FYI-- The Motley Fool discussion boards are now free by invitation or application. FYI– The Motley Fool discussion boards are now free by invitation or application.

]]> Comment on Engineering Shortage by stuart http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-28 stuart Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:53:38 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-28 There is no shortage of engineers. There is a shortage of cheap qualified engineers. All business has to do is to raise salaries and there will be a flood. BUT the businessman will not do this cause they want maximum profits. Here is a sugestion: hire all now MBA's with H1B visa employement. US going to end up a second rate country. There is no shortage of engineers. There is a shortage of cheap qualified engineers. All business has to do is to raise salaries and there will be a flood. BUT the businessman will not do this cause they want maximum profits. Here is a sugestion: hire all now MBA’s with H1B visa employement. US going to end up a second rate country.

]]> Comment on Engineering Shortage by Ron Grammas http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-27 Ron Grammas Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:54:53 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-27 I have been an engineer for 20 years and I don't believe it’s a dead end job. An engineering degree prepares you for whatever you want to do in life. I believe that one of the most important things that you can take away from an engineering education is how to think critically and how to analyze. Simply put, engineers are trained to solve problems. I have spent my entire 20 year career working as an engineer and have not regretted it. I have been challenged by my job, met those challenges, and been compensated well for it. I also happen to know many college educated engineers who, for one reason or another, left the practice of engineering and prospered in other fields. They are lawyers, doctors, dentists, small business owners, salesmen, and even a priest. The one thing that they all say is that their undergraduate engineering studies prepared them well for whatever they wanted to do in life. Being an engineer is only a dead end job if you stick with it when you don't enjoy it. I have been an engineer for 20 years and I don’t believe it’s a dead end job. An engineering degree prepares you for whatever you want to do in life. I believe that one of the most important things that you can take away from an engineering education is how to think critically and how to analyze. Simply put, engineers are trained to solve problems. I have spent my entire 20 year career working as an engineer and have not regretted it. I have been challenged by my job, met those challenges, and been compensated well for it. I also happen to know many college educated engineers who, for one reason or another, left the practice of engineering and prospered in other fields. They are lawyers, doctors, dentists, small business owners, salesmen, and even a priest. The one thing that they all say is that their undergraduate engineering studies prepared them well for whatever they wanted to do in life. Being an engineer is only a dead end job if you stick with it when you don’t enjoy it.

]]> Comment on The Positive Repercussions of Scandals in Sports by eric http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/the-positive-repercussions-of-scandals-in-sports/#comment-26 eric Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:37:47 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/the-positive-repercussions-of-scandals-in-sports/#comment-26 I also wrote a column yesterday about the Michael Vick situation. I am NFL obsessed, hence the column. http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/michael-vick-when-heroes-fall/ If you like the column, let me know if you are up to a link exchange, since I get some pretty decent traffic. Also, I am competing at the bloggers choice awards, although not in the sports category. http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21020 eric I also wrote a column yesterday about the Michael Vick situation. I am NFL obsessed, hence the column.

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/michael-vick-when-heroes-fall/

If you like the column, let me know if you are up to a link exchange, since I get some pretty decent traffic.

Also, I am competing at the bloggers choice awards, although not in the sports category.

http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21020

eric

]]> Comment on Entrepreneurship Implications by Peter http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/entrepreneurship-implications/#comment-25 Peter Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:23:39 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/entrepreneurship-implications/#comment-25 Great article. I stumbled across it while looking for entrepreneurial lessons. Here's one you might be interested in: http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/how-to-go-from-.html Great article. I stumbled across it while looking for entrepreneurial lessons. Here’s one you might be interested in:

http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/how-to-go-from-.html

]]> Comment on Engineering Shortage by Bryan Povlinski http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-24 Bryan Povlinski Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:47:14 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-24 This is a very interesting point. I recently had to make a choice of what college I attended and my degree and I was down to two choices, Purdue for engineering and Indiana for business. I chose Indiana and I am very happy so far with how my degree is progressing so I found it intriguing to here your comment. The shortage I was mostly referring to was not so much a supply and demand shortage but more of a relative shortage in comparison to China and India and other countries. Those countries are graduating 8 times the engineers that the U.S. is and that does not bode well for future growth and breakthroughs. With that rate, the United States will not have the mindpower or the technological capabilities to grow at anywhere near the rates of these countries. That is why I believe there is a shortage and it poses a problem to the United States This is a very interesting point. I recently had to make a choice of what college I attended and my degree and I was down to two choices, Purdue for engineering and Indiana for business. I chose Indiana and I am very happy so far with how my degree is progressing so I found it intriguing to here your comment. The shortage I was mostly referring to was not so much a supply and demand shortage but more of a relative shortage in comparison to China and India and other countries. Those countries are graduating 8 times the engineers that the U.S. is and that does not bode well for future growth and breakthroughs. With that rate, the United States will not have the mindpower or the technological capabilities to grow at anywhere near the rates of these countries. That is why I believe there is a shortage and it poses a problem to the United States

]]> Comment on Free vs. Paid Web 2.0 Sites by Bryan Povlinski http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/free-vs-paid-web-20-sites/#comment-23 Bryan Povlinski Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:37:17 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/free-vs-paid-web-20-sites/#comment-23 Lucky, Thanks for your post, and you made a lot of very good points. I have not used an online dating service before so I am not very familiar with the environment. I understand in that context where it would certaintly be beneficial to pay for a subscription in order to weed out the spam profiles. I definitely agree with the fact that not having a paid account can lead to a lot of frustration. I also understand what you're saying about mass-mailing lists, but I've never encountered problems with that in any of the services I've joined. My point was really on the business side of the sites themselves. The sites can stand to make a lot more money if they gain a lot of customers through free accounts with additional ad revenue than if they gain a small amount of fee based accounts. Also, if another site with similar features offers a free service then a subsciption based service is going to lose some members, or at least not grow much more due to the competition. If free, legitimate services became the norm then there wouldn't be many of these problems that you discussed. Lucky,

Thanks for your post, and you made a lot of very good points. I have not used an online dating service before so I am not very familiar with the environment. I understand in that context where it would certaintly be beneficial to pay for a subscription in order to weed out the spam profiles. I definitely agree with the fact that not having a paid account can lead to a lot of frustration. I also understand what you’re saying about mass-mailing lists, but I’ve never encountered problems with that in any of the services I’ve joined. My point was really on the business side of the sites themselves. The sites can stand to make a lot more money if they gain a lot of customers through free accounts with additional ad revenue than if they gain a small amount of fee based accounts. Also, if another site with similar features offers a free service then a subsciption based service is going to lose some members, or at least not grow much more due to the competition. If free, legitimate services became the norm then there wouldn’t be many of these problems that you discussed.

]]> Comment on Engineering Shortage by J. Estes http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-22 J. Estes Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:09:13 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/engineering-shortage/#comment-22 All very nice, but there is no shortage of engineers, only a shortage of engineers who will work cheaply. Saying there is a shortage of engineers is like saying there is a shortage of gold, if you want it for US$5/oz, but there is an abundance of it at or above the spot price. If there were a shortage of engineers, the salaries would increase tremendously, but that has not happened, except briefly during the late 1990s tech bubble. I have been an engineer for 29 years and have regretted it economically for the last 25 years. If had it all to do over I would go for a business degree and then a law degree, or to medical school. Being an engineer is a dead end job. All very nice, but there is no shortage of engineers, only a shortage of engineers who will work cheaply. Saying there is a shortage of engineers is like saying there is a shortage of gold, if you want it for US$5/oz, but there is an abundance of it at or above the spot price. If there were a shortage of engineers, the salaries would increase tremendously, but that has not happened, except briefly during the late 1990s tech bubble.

I have been an engineer for 29 years and have regretted it economically for the last 25 years. If had it all to do over I would go for a business degree and then a law degree, or to medical school. Being an engineer is a dead end job.

]]> Comment on Free vs. Paid Web 2.0 Sites by lucky http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/free-vs-paid-web-20-sites/#comment-21 lucky Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:10:34 +0000 http://ideaexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/free-vs-paid-web-20-sites/#comment-21 My question is to Bryan Povlinski. Would like to know why you think the paid services by a website are not good option. Let me take an example of free dating site and paid dating site. Refer to the article below and give your views on the same I came to realize that free dating sites were awfully expensive. Want to know why? First, free dating sites attract all types of rubbish: Nigerian scammers, Russian "mail order brides", and all types of unstable and wicked people that were banned from quality services. Those people have too much time on their hands (or it is their full-time Internet rip-off occupation) and this is why they don't mind to hang there. On the other hand, since the website is free, they do not have much staff on hand to look after it, and check on possible scams. So scammers are free to go wild there. Second, free dating sites usually make their revenue from the ads they show to their members. In other words, they aren't really interested in you actually FINDING someone on their site: they would rather have you frustrated and clicking on the ads you see on their site. Another venue is selling your email address to mass-mailing companies, or running mass-mailings themselves. It means you risk being bombarded with hundreds of commercial emails, day after day. Third, I find it appalling that a person cannot find some twenty bucks to pay for a subscription. As a woman, I want to KNOW that the guy I am talking to is at least capable of paying his own rent. If I were a guy, I would also prefer a woman who is capable of looking after herself and doesn't think a man is there to provide for her. Forth, the software on free sites is often inconvenient and the customer support sucks. I prefer things that work as they are supposed to. Fifth, for a busy person like you and me, filtering through heaps of bogus profiles can be maddening. My time is valuable. I'd rather spend it meeting someone for coffee than talking to people that aren't even real. On a paid dating site people have invested something in the process, so they are more serious and don't play games. Sixth, for all the reasons outlined above, quality people tend to avoid free dating services. Their time is too valuable. If you want to meet a quality person, you are unlikely to meet them on free sites. All in all, I have realized that using a free dating site is awfully expensive. I simply cannot afford it. It costs me more in time and effort, which I could use more productively - like running a dating coaching session, or writing an article. I'd rather pay for subscription and have ten times less frustrations and ten times more results. What about you? lucky My question is to Bryan Povlinski. Would like to know why you think the paid services by a website are not good option. Let me take an example of free dating site and paid dating site. Refer to the article below and give your views on the same

I came to realize that free dating sites were awfully expensive.

Want to know why?

First, free dating sites attract all types of rubbish: Nigerian scammers, Russian “mail order brides”, and all types of unstable and wicked people that were banned from quality services. Those people have too much time on their hands (or it is their full-time Internet rip-off occupation) and this is why they don’t mind to hang there.

On the other hand, since the website is free, they do not have much staff on hand to look after it, and check on possible scams. So scammers are free to go wild there.

Second, free dating sites usually make their revenue from the ads they show to their members. In other words, they aren’t really interested in you actually FINDING someone on their site: they would rather have you frustrated and clicking on the ads you see on their site.

Another venue is selling your email address to mass-mailing companies, or running mass-mailings themselves. It means you risk being bombarded with hundreds of commercial emails, day after day.

Third, I find it appalling that a person cannot find some twenty bucks to pay for a subscription. As a woman, I want to KNOW that the guy I am talking to is at least capable of paying his own rent.

If I were a guy, I would also prefer a woman who is capable of looking after herself and doesn’t think a man is there to provide for her.

Forth, the software on free sites is often inconvenient and the customer support sucks. I prefer things that work as they are supposed to.

Fifth, for a busy person like you and me, filtering through heaps of bogus profiles can be maddening. My time is valuable. I’d rather spend it meeting someone for coffee than talking to people that aren’t even real.

On a paid dating site people have invested something in the process, so they are more serious and don’t play games.

Sixth, for all the reasons outlined above, quality people tend to avoid free dating services. Their time is too valuable. If you want to meet a quality person, you are unlikely to meet them on free sites.

All in all, I have realized that using a free dating site is awfully expensive. I simply cannot afford it. It costs me more in time and effort, which I could use more productively – like running a dating coaching session, or writing an article.

I’d rather pay for subscription and have ten times less frustrations and ten times more results.

What about you?

lucky

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