TOP JOB APPLICANT IS PASSIONATE ABOUT TOPIC.Byline: Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. QUESTION: How can somebody impress you on a job interview? Jim Kerr (jak7(AT)opsirm1.em.cdc.gov) ANSWER: I don't do "I Don't Do" was the debut single by glamour model Michelle Marsh, released on 6 November 2006. The single reached 27 in the UK in its first week, selling only 9,000 copies and over 16,000 copies as of January 2007. The single spend a total of four weeks in the Top 75. many job interviews. When I do, my approach is to find a business-related topic that the candidate says he or she cares passionately about, then try to gauge whether the person has gone out of his or her way to learn about it and think of it in new ways. I want to know if candidates have formed a complete model of how a project or company works. How do the candidates engage? Do they dive into something? Talking about a subject a person cares a great deal about allows me to explore the lengths to which he or she might go on a project we assign. My general advice to job applicants is to find out as much as possible about a company in advance. Perhaps the most efficient way to do this today is by studying the company's site on the Internet's World Wide Web. Not every company has one, but more and more do each day. On a Web site you can learn not only about employment opportunities but also about the needs and challenges the company faces. In fact you can often learn more about a company on the Web than you would by actually spending a day at the company. A demonstration of deep corporate knowledge on the part of a job applicant impresses me - and almost any other prospective employer. QUESTION: What do you think is more important to your success, raw intelligence or hard work? Matthew Nagowski (NagM(AT)msn.com) ANSWER: Hard work, without a doubt. But not just my hard work. What really matters is the hard work of people who come to work with me. Raw intelligence weighs most heavily in a little contest like a math puzzle. But over a period of years, when you're in business, building complex projects and working with customers, success is much more a result of dedication and persistence (1) In a CRT, the time a phosphor dot remains illuminated after being energized. Long-persistence phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that linger on screen for a fraction of a second. than brilliance. I don't mean to discount intelligence. I value it highly, and it is essential to many kinds of success. But even when intelligence appears to be the reason for success, hard work probably had a lot to do with it, too. Thomas Edison said, ``Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration perspiration: see sweat. perspiration Fluid given off by the skin as vapour by simple evaporation or as sweat actively secreted from sweat glands to evaporate and cool the body. .'' I believe that. QUESTION: I have developed software that may be patentable. Naturally I hope to profit from my idea. What is the best way for a software inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that to market his or her product, or present it to an established software company for further development and marketing? Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan "Gerry" Cohen, (born 1941) is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, philosophy and political science) and the University of Oxford , Birmingham, Mich. (entrefilet(AT)aol.com) ANSWER: If the idea really is patentable, you probably should patent it so that you can disclose it to people without the anxiety that somebody might take it. Obtaining a patent isn't cheap but its protection can be invaluable. Microsoft sometimes buys patented technologies. From time to time we even buy a whole company when it owns a product or technology that we think has strategic value. We get a massive number of suggestions from customers - for everything from feature improvements to new products. Microsoft pays close attention to these volunteered ideas because they help us understand what customers want. We're grateful for the suggestions. But when somebody has an unpatented idea that they want to profit from, companies such as Microsoft and IBM Many people are too new to the computer industry to remember that IBM once occupied the lofty position that Microsoft currently enjoys. Today, it's a Microsoft versus The Rest of the World computer industry. Yesterday, it was IBM versus everybody else. just can't let themselves look at it or evaluate it at all. We might already be working on the same idea or we might come up with something similar on our own. So we tell people who approach us with a proprietary idea which they want to protect that there's nothing we can do to cooperate with them. The same policy is in place at most if not all large software companies, I'm afraid. QUESTION: Do you have a photographic memory? Yat Hing Chan, Australia (cyh(AT)tpgi.com.au). ANSWER: I've never met anybody who had a photographic memory in the literal In programming, any data typed in by the programmer that remains unchanged when translated into machine language. Examples are a constant value used for calculation purposes as well as text messages displayed on screen. In the following lines of code, the literals are 1 and VALUE IS ONE. sense. It's well documented that there are people who can recall detailed information that they have only scanned and never really thought about. I'm certainly not one of them. I have a good memory, though, for information that I've been deeply involved with or have cared about. I can remember all the moves of many chess games
I can still remember all my lines in a high school play, ``Black Comedy.'' I was so afraid that I'd forget the lines that I just burned them into my head. I remember financial data very well, too. I can visualize the source code to the version of BASIC that I wrote for the first microcomputer microcomputer Small digital computers whose CPU is contained on a single integrated semiconductor chip. As large-scale and then very large-scale integration (VLSI) have progressively increased the number of transistors that can be placed on one chip, the processing capacity , back in 1975. That was the programming code that got Microsoft started, so maybe it's no surprise that I can still see every detail of the first page, the second page, the third page - as if they were in front of me. MEMO MEMO Memorandum MEMO Medicines Monitoring Unit (University of Dundee) MEMO Medical Equipment Management Office MEMO Mission-Essential Maintenance Only MEMO Mission-Essential Maintenance Operations MEMO Mental Modeler : Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp., writes a syndicated column twice a month for the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times News Service. Questions may be sent to Gates by electronic mail. The address is askbillmicrosoft.com. Or write to him care of The New York Times Syndicate Syndicate organized crime unit throughout major cities of the United States. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2018] See : Gangsterism , 122 E. 42nd St., 14th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10168. |
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