electronics-industry

Okay, Ms. Bastos must be an expert on this issue. This book indeed contains a lot of information. HOWEVER, her English [stinks]. Sentences don't make any sense at all, and it makes your mind numb from exhaustion just trying to read 5 pages. (Forget about a whole chapter.) I am writing a graduate paper on this subject, and have read quite a few books on IPRs. This one is by far the worst of all, just because she didn't get her English checked. "These conditions, which helped the establishment of the microcomputer industry, were, however, imcompatible with sustained development of the whole IT sector, which included a newly born software industry, and therefore, could not persist as justification for a long-term policy orientation." Can anyone make out what she is trying to say? I truly wish she had had a better editor, because this book could have helped a lot with my research on the Brazilian IPR regime. I've given up reading it so that I can preserve my brain cells to write my paper. It is such a shame.

This awsome title charts the journey of Arthur Dent across the galaxy in a golden spaceship. Illiterate's Anonymous gives this excellent satire on American satire by Thomas Pynchon 2 thums up.

This book gives some insights in how to do business well in dot.com industry. It also talks about the founder of Yahoo! As Yahoo! is quite a successful online website, I think those who are interested in it should read this book.

Yahoo! is the company that defines success in the dot.com era and this is the book that defines its story. Vlamis and Smith have done an excellent job in writing a compelling account of Yahoo!'s rise to Internet glory while focusing on the key lessons that next generation entrepreneurs will have to know by heart. It's a must read for anyone seeking true insight into dot.com glory days as created, in large part, by Yahoo!

So if you wear flannel shirts and already know everything there is to know about Yahoo! already, you probably know how this book turns out. The gloss may have fallen from Yahoo! along with the NASDAQ, but the story of how this company came to be a household name is still well worth exploring. So if you want learn about the Yahoo! experience in easily digestible bites, here's your read.

This text appears to have been a technical report or a PhD thesis that was modified to become a book. The authors did their best to stretch the page count by providing basic information that is generally known by most senior-level students in electrical engineering or operations research. Even after this exercise, the "real" page count is 108. The remainder of the book was made possible by copying several standard formulas from a statistics book, by downloading and plotting some of PJM's data (isn't the Internet great?), and by providing an amateurish source code for some of the material suggested in the book for the single-unit case.

The book begins by describing the unit commitment problem, referencing a total of 9 journal articles (Page 9), but skipping most of the important references in this area. It is strange to discuss unit commitment (in a book) without mentioning the original work of Muckstadt and Koenig (1977), Merlin and Sandrin (1983), or that of Zhuang and Galiana (1988), to name a few. The authors quickly discount all previous work as being inadequate as it does not handle many of the important elements of a system (leading you to believe that they are going to discuss these issues), such as network constraints or losses. I suggest that they refer to "The Generalized Unit Commitment Problem" by Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1995, for a discussion on this subject. I also strongly recommend that Mr. Allen and Ms. Ilic obtain a copy of (the outdated) "Unit Commitment Literature Synopsis" by Sheble and Fahd, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1994. It may serve as a starter on this subject. The most impressive aspect of this book is its depth, or lack there of. The authors manage to provide their deep knowledge of the unit commitment problem and its solution techniques in less than 5 pages.

Chapter 3 describes the unit commitment in a deregulated environment in the most simplistic fashion possible (indicating the authors' lack of any true experience in this business) resulting in six pages of basic material. In chapter 4, the reader is presented with a pathetic review of dynamic programming. Chapter 5 is even more interesting. The authors assume a known price process in the market and optimize each individual generating unit based on these prices. They discuss (in less than 7 pages) the use of dynamic programming to solve the unit commitment (in reality a single generator) with and without generation limits using normal and lognormal price distributions. For those of us teaching dynamic programming to senior or master level students, the three models could serve as a homework assignment. If you are a "quant" on the trading floor, you may want to derive these formulas during your lunch hour.

Chapter 6 is entitled "Price Process of Electricity". Thanks to the statisticians of this world, the reader is bombarded with endless tests and distributions describing electricity prices. The authors skillfully demonstrate their ability to use Matlab to draw a large number of graphs.

I must admit that I stopped reading when I reached Chapter 7 "Computational Complexity of the Unit Commitment". The authors say that the dynamic programming is widely used for solving stochastic optimization problems "however, it also has the disadvantage of non-polynomial (NP) growth of operation count with respect to problem size." They refer the reader to the book by Bertsekas on Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control. The authors abruptly shy away from discussing this subject. Given the depth of the book, I would have expected a proof showing that the problem being discussed (the unit commitment) is NP. It is not sufficient to say that their formulation suffers from exponential growth. If the matter is so simple, I have several problems that I modeled as dynamic programs and would like to claim that they are NP (including a couple of linear programs that I solved using dynamic programming as I was lazy to call the LP solver).

In summary, the book is a waste of time and money. It is a sad demonstration of how tenure and graduation pressure can lead people to publish garbage. If you need to learn about this subject, I suggest searching the web for articles related to deregulation. Then, you can buy Bertsekas's book (or refer to your notes from college), use your good old Schaum's Series on statistics, and derive the results that truly fit your problem.

The unit commitment problem is stated using math formulas which contain 28 symbols. To understand the formulas, it is necessary to memorize the definition of each symbol. If you have the patience, you can translate the formulas into something coherent in about 3 hours. The result is rather straight forward and forms a basis for understanding which, theoretically, is the purpose for which the book was written.

For those who are already familiar with the symbols, see the review by the reader from Yonkers.

Excellent book. Definite keeper for anyone working in the market. Appreciate the source code and data which backs up the paper. For those who believe in cost based world, get this book and compare your results

Business is designed to make profit. If people don't like that they can go live in the People Republic of China and see how it is to live in a society without our form of capitalizm. Everyday I get amazed at peoples stupidity and reading this just futhers my opinion. Stupid liberals who just don't understand the business way.

GE has a dark side that doesn't always make it onto the pages of Fortune or Jack Welch's self-serving autobiography. This book covers it.

O"Boyle exposes an excellent example of what is wrong with the American business climate today. Corporate profiteers concerned with short term gain at the expense of everything else. Well written, easy to read, very enlightening, this book strikes out at the venerable institutions which though held in high esteem, should be looked on with contempt. Extremely well researched, the only thing missing from this book is a response from Jack Welch. Boy, I'm glad I don't work for General Electric.

I bought this book because I was interested in getting into ebay and it was the perfect book. Not only did it have the basic information that a beginner needs, but it is also a great reference tool for people who are seasoned (like I am now). I buy and sell on ebay and it has great tips for both buyers and sellers. It tells you the best way to bid to get an item for the lowest price. When to bid, how to know what to bid, how to outfox your competitors. I continually refer to the book when I am listing an item for sell to find out how to dress up my ads with bullet points, colored titles, and paragraphs (instead of the one paragraph that ebay allows you when you don't know HTML language). Mr. Sinclair tells you how to know what to set as the opening bid, when the best time to list an item is, and how to attract bidders. He also tells you how to deal effectively with other ebay members, inlcluding those who don't honor their bids. The book is full of inside tips that you can't find on the ebay tour online. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in getting started with ebay, or a seasoned ebayer who would like to learn how to be a more successful buyer and/or seller. After reading this book, you can definitely do it the SMART way.

This book really helped me get going on eBay. I chose this book after a quick review of some other eBay books at my local bookstore. The "Smart Way" book seemed to be better organized and an easier read than the others that I glanced at. I have picked up many useful tips that have helped me bid and win. The book also has information about how to create good auction listings. Some chapters I didn't read because they are on topics I'm not interested in, such as, selling and buying cars on eBay. If you are looking for a book that covers the basics, I think you'll find this one to be very readable, informative and well worth the time and money.

From choosing desktop computers and their many options to assessing business software and web tools, Ramon Ray's Technology Solutions For Growing Businesses provides the small business owner with valuable strategies for understanding technology options and needs. This goes far beyond recommending specific brands: it covers the basics of linking business goals to equipment assessment, and includes invaluable information on tech support and effective training for technology use. Many are selling on Ebay's auction site, but Joseph T. Sinclair's updated third edition is the unauthorized guide which provides newly expanded coverage of its auctions and how to profit from them. From coverage of real estate, international sales and auction management to using PayPal payment online systems and handling images, this is an important guide for any who would do more than dabble on the auction site.

Seriously, it's bad, I'm starting to cry again thinking about it.

I must say that this product is by far the best way to become A+ certified. I have read numerous home study courses on the subject and found them lacking. Then I found this course and I was more prepared to take the exams then I would ever be. The study course is an easy read, which makes it easy to retain the knowlage that is imparted to you. I also found that the self test software and question guide are 2 great additions that are not to be without. A meaning full mix of knowlage and experiance are what this product
brings to the table.

The editor (or, more accurately, compiler) of this volume is honest about how he put it together: He clipped interesting stories about unsuccessful dot.com companies and slipped them into a file. When the file was thick enough, he arranged the stories more or less topically, padded them with his file of recent non-dot.com "computer failure" articles, obtained reprint permissions and, voila!, produced a book (or, more accurately, a "book").

The stories are grouped into chapters, and between the chapters comes the editor's intellectual contribution, consisting mostly of jejune observations that we have all seen or thought before.

If you read The Wall Street Journal and The Industry Standard, you have already read most of this book, and the parts that you haven't read are of marginal interest. On the positive side, the articles are interesting, even though their moral is generally one that was old when Charles Dow was knee-high to a debenture: Don't throw money into an enterprise that you don't understand.

And the moral of this review is: Throw money at this book if you want a permanent anthology of schadenfreude. Otherwise, you got some bucks to invest? Right here I have the Next Great Thing. . . .

I have to admit I was drawn by the book's very provocative title, so I decided to browse through it today, to find that it is a very nice compilation of stories printed with permission, taken from publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Industry Standard, Barron's and Time Digital.

This is not to say that the content of the stories was bad at all. On the contrary, all of these publications are highly respectable, but if you have been a close follower of the whole dot.com shakedown process over the course of the past year and a half, and expect to find insights that will allow you to better understand the underlying reasons for it, you might be dissapointed not to find any "new" ones in this book.

In short, in my opinion, the book does not add significantly to the whole discussion about the topic.

My wife bought this to give to a friend for Christmas. Being a periodic eBay seller myself I thought I'd give it a quick glance before she wrapped it. Well, that's all it took. To my surprise it was 75 pages of double-spaced boring reading. Basically, it is the eBay help pages expanded upon and poorly written.

Mike's attempt to share his knowledge of striking it rich on eBay fails miserably, probably because he lacks such knowledge. However, he does give a few sample follow-up letters that might help those who can't write their own. If you are hoping to strike it rich on eBay, don't expect to find any answers here. Needless to say, I am recommending my wife return the book to save the ebmarassment with her friend. Although it could serve as a step-by-step user manual for someone just getting started on eBay, there are MUCH better books available on the subject.

Want to know the most amazing thing I came away with? Even the worst writer can publish a book on their own and get it sold on Amazon.

I think it could possibly be a good training tool in english classes. Have your students proofread the book for an asignment and grade them on how well they find and correct the errors and teach how NOT to write a book or anything else. Whatcha tink? Have you seen the infomercial with him in it. You can buy the course and get a hardback copy of the book with the course. NICE!

I really enjoyed the book and learned a lot. The author, Mike Baker, gave good, practical information. Unlike most authors of eBay books, Mr. Baker actually makes his living selling on eBay. Although he is not a professional writer, he gives you information necessary to succeed. His book is easily worth 10 times the price.

This miserable excuse for literature not only provides basic racist dogma but also severely jeopardizes the people who it attempts to serve. I was not only disgusted by this awful and horrific piece of literature but felt truly offended and disgusted to be a human being. After reading this text I question whether Donald Beane's life has any purpose. I hope that the next time he attempts to write a piece of literature he learns the basic tennets of research and common sense.

I was pleasantly surprised to find this book at Amazon and only more satisfied after reading it. Beane and company explore some profound issues not read about in other texts. I can see how the success of the electronic packaging industry has proliferated similar to government sponsored industries in Canada. Recommend this to anyone that wants to know how gov't and industry can successfully synergize.

Finally there is a book which explores why these two countries could make such an impact on the electronics industry in such a relatively short time frame. The infrastructure development for electronics industry by these two countries can be educational to other developing nations. The university-government-industry partnerships model is well presented in this book; this type of information is often overlooked by in other literature.

I was disappointed in this book. The author does not challenge the often bad judgement and bad taste of Fiorina. For example, she was reported by CNET to have hired the cast of a television gangster family to serve drinks at LinuxWorld. This is not a proper use of corporate funds, a key issue for a CEO. It would not be appropriate for taste reasons even if these high-priced actors worked for free. HP under Fiorina is clearly out-of-control, but we would never know this from this book.

This book falls into an interesting category, those books that are irresponsible by omission. George Anders' primary irresponsibility was his failure to point out that Carly Fiorina has never been focused on solving key HP business problems. This was clear in the Compaq merger debate this book reviews where she failed to answer the issues that Walter Hewlett and other critics raised in a substantive way.

It is even more true today -- it is clear from her recent activities that Carly Fiorina has essentially given up on HP and HP business problems and instead is focusing completely on personal interests. In reviewing the topics of her last 10 business speeches, only one (her Oracleworld keynote) promotes HP business interests. The other 90% focus on a variety of personal interests - her desire to be viewed as a great humanitarian, gender celebrations, etc. At the very minimum, HP shareholders, who have suffered a loss of 49% in the value of their shares during the Fiorina administration, deserve to have her focus her efforts on HP business. Surely this huge investment of her time in marketing herself as a great humanitarian etc can wait until she leaves HP. It only demeans HP to have a CEO (who HP has paid over 100 million dollars in cash, stocks and options) cost its shareholders 49% plus the time value of money of their investment and add insult to injury by public demonstrating to all her lack of interest in her job.

Anders' book could have been a valuable contribution if it had simply emphasized Fiorina's lack of interest in the true duties of her job.

There are two sides to every merger and in the case of Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computer, the competing sides weren't just the companies. They include the historians documenting it.

For Perfect Enough, George Anders gained access to HP CEO Carly Fiorina and her fellow board members and executives. It provides a full picture of the genesis of the computing deal. Explaining the frustration board members felt at the company's inability to keep up with competitors benefiting from the Internet boom such as Dell Computer Corp. or release a killer new product since the laser printer in the early 1980s, Anders stresses that the board members - and not just Fiorina- were seeking a radical makeover for HP.

Peter Burrows' competing book about the merger, Backfire, paints Carly Fiorina as a brilliant marketer and communicator who stumbled into HP after one of the worst executive search jobs of all time by Christian Timbers. Her first two years was good idea after good idea followed by poor execution after poorer execution. The Business Week journalist implies the Compaq merger was primarily a way to deflect attention away from her inability to turn the company around after her first two years there.

Anders' more sympathetic account is fascinating at times such as its description of the complex relationship between Fiorina and David Packard's daughter Susan Packard-Orr. But, Burrows' book - unencumbered by any sense of loyalty to Fiorina, who snubbed the author - digs deeper into Fiorina's past by interviewing her ex-husband and childhood friends, thereby providing a much fuller picture of the executive, if not the entire organization.

Taken together, the two books complement each other nicely. It remains to be seen if the same can be said for the merger.