What percent of that do you think came from people working working either smarter or harder? I'll tell you. Close to zero percent. One word: Automation. One phrase: 'increasingly capital intensive as opposed to labor intensive'.
Nice presentation. And it plays into the fact that managers, no matter what they come up with, always seem to think that it should take "about two weeks".
Formal CS education has many merits, but listening to the interview made me realize that aptitude, motivation and a conducive training environment can go an incredibly long way in producing competent developers.
Countries like India have very large populations to draw on and the seed costs there for such an approach are very low.
I am not sure if the same method would work so well in 'developed' countries where there is such a strong 'you need a degree' mindset.
Also see http://www.findabetterbank.com
This has "Up-to-date checking, savings and money market account information for over 11,000 US cities and towns and over 53,000 branch locations."
I have quite a number of those too. Some of the PDF's display better than others. The problem ones have the text bunched in one area and one artifact (a 'cut' mark) in the whitespace area. This stops the DX from zooming up to just the non-whitespace area. This happens in about 20% of the free pdf books. Most of the time it is still quite readable by rotating to horizontal mode.
I have about 150 textbooks on mine and I don't need to lug a laptop around anymore just to read pdf books. I love this thing.
There will be a few PDFs (badly made ones) that just won't show the font large enough. If you need 100%, stick to your other options.
I wondered how internet usage featured in this, so I referred to
http://www.bls.gov/tus/
In there it says "Computer or Internet use may be coded as work, education, volunteering, or relaxing, depending on how the respondent identified the activity during data collection".
So the answer is that it is spread all through depending on what the user was using the internet for at the time. This includes shopping.
Aside from the lack of full transparency, are you saying that generalized second-price auctions are not really auctions or that auctions with reserve prices are not really auctions?
This sounds like the google algorithm for account termination has some hair-trigger based on chargebacks.
It basically means that a disgruntled (or just plain vindictive) customer can take you out on a whim regardless of the truth of the claim.
The google model is not based on wetware or 'operators standing by'. It is based on arrays of machines running code that will spit out notifications (if their fraud alert is triggered) that are designed to discourage you from ever calling. There isn't anyone back there. In this case you get what you pay for and your business is just hanging in the breeze.
You need a login to see the videos from the links shown. Only Harvard students will have that.
Unless you go to http://www.cs171.net and choose "2008 Videos on iTunes U"
Then (through iTunes) you can get to CSCI E-64 which seems like the same thing taught through the "extension school".