hawkeyeMI - Slashdot User

Submission + - India's Graduates Not Suitable for Call Centers (wsj.com) 1

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hawkeyeMI

on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @12:24PM

hawkeyeMI writes: "There's a story today in the Wall Street Journal about a problem faced by India's outsourcing industry; while there are many graduates from high school and college, most of them lack the critical thinking and English speaking skills needed for work in call centers, and for more skilled labor. The problem is especially keen where communication with the English-speaking world is most needed. This mirrors my own experiences with various firms on Elance, and with GetFriday and AskSunday. Maybe the outsourcing 'threat' espoused by many in IT is hitting its limits?"

Submission + - Bitcoin Economy Exceeds US$1M 1

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hawkeyeMI

on Friday November 05, 2010 @12:54PM

hawkeyeMI writes: "Just this morning, the Bitcoin economy exceeded a value of US$1M. It's come a long way since Beta version 0.3 was announced on Slashdot."

Submission + - Long-term storage of moderately large datasets 1

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hawkeyeMI

on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:34PM

hawkeyeMI writes: "I have a small scientific services company, and we end up generating fairly large datasets (2-3 TB) for each customer. We don't have to ship all of that, but we do need to keep some compressed archives. The best I can come up with right now is to buy some large hard drives, use software RAID in linux to make a RAID5 set out of them, and store them in a safe deposit box. I feel like there must be a better way for a small business, but despite some research into Blu-ray, I've not been able to find a good, cost-effective alternative. A tape library would be impractical at the present time. If anyone would have some ideas, I figure it would be the Slashdot audience. What do you recommend?"

Submission + - SPAM: Heart simulator enters academic beta

Submitted by hawkeyeMI on Monday November 09, 2009 @04:28PM

hawkeyeMI writes: CardioSolv, LLC, a company that is commercializing academic heart simulation software, is beginning a beta trial of their heart simulator and web interface. The simulator is capable of handling a whole human heart using accurate human-derived ionic models. Its capacity is limited only by the constraints of VirtualBox and the machine on which it is running. All of the necessary tools will be bundled in a VirtualBox machine image. The company is now taking sign-ups from academic users on its site. (Disclosure: I am a founder of the company and this is my project.)
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