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"... current brainless moron at the helm."

Report: IBM's top exec pay package 'now worth $65 million'. Quote: "... IBM has posted declining revenues over the past five years under her leadership and last week reported declining revenue for the 20th consecutive quarter."

Could someone explain how CEOs get such high pay?

IBM == Is Brainless Moron?

IBM == Insufferably Bad Management?

http://www.decaturmetro.com/20...

http://wraltechwire.com/no-goo...

And though the above two links only show this for Raleigh and Atlanta, I'll assume the same promise was made to all the potential new cities.

Is there any correlation between how they posted the job offering and which cities they have announced in?

Or maybe old posting were plan A and new are plan B?

If I was a gambling type, I'd wager the cities Google is posting for "local" candidates are the winners and the "telecommuter" position cities are the losers. Nice to see that Google's momentum in the ISP market not only isn't slowing down, but in fact is accelerating.

maybe Google is finding some other value in the deal, Hopefully not Comcast like access to more eyeballs.

Let me tell you about extra value... Who isn't sick of Google not being able to do real time deep packet inspection on all our layer 7 content? I'm tired of getting metro-sexual fashion ads showing guys in tight jeans, when all I really care about is monster trucks and WWF wrestling events. Maybe Google will be able to get the hint finally once they have access to my entire data stream. Did you hear that Google-bots, BIG TRUCKS!?!!

That's funny (as well as being a good point) but India already got hit with layoffs. Labor laws in India being what they are, the layoff's there were harsher with employees given hours to return their laptops and leave the premises.

*cough* Bing! *cough* MSN *cough* messanger *cough* cloud *cough cough cough*

Slashdotters, anyone who believes that MS does NOT gather your information, please raise your hands. Maybe it's proper that I point out here, that MS has reached that corporate "age" where they aren't going to grow a lot, or very fast, doing the same thing they've done since they were incorporated. It's time to diversify, moving into new fields. There is room for growth based on their old business model, but that is slowing. It won't continue indefinitely.

Can't find the article I was thinking of at the moment, but this one should provide food for thought:
http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/opinion/story/3810948/

I have username envy.

That is a fascinating idea, but according to this story about who HIPAA applies to, employers are rarely subject to HIPAA except under some specific circumstances.

And your evidence to the contrary is wheeerrre? To invalidate a claim you have to provide evidence supporting your position. Granted, the GP does too, but just having an "I'm right, you're wrong - because." war is for politicians.

I on the other hand used the Google on the internet machine and after 10 seconds of searching for the simplest metric I could think of, 'PC vs Console sales', came up with the following from Nvidia last year:
http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/news/blogpost/10174154/

Granted this is from last September but it shows the rising trend of PC gaming once again and the stagnation of console gaming across the past few years and the trends into the next few years. GP was wrong in that PC gaming is still the largest - that hasn't been true since Brody and Broseph found out about Call of Duty...however, PC gaming is coming back in spite of all of the claims to the contrary over the approx. 19 years that I've been into PC and console gaming.

They're also getting rid of those popular low cost phones that have been selling in Africa and India. Elop is killing all possible ways to save Nokia and is actively ruining the company. Other analysts don't see Nokia returning to profitability devices in the foreseeable future either this year or next. There's nothing left to save. The pre-Microsoft Nokia is already dead and gone. There's nothing to rejoice about, it's just a fact.

Corollary - investors who put faith in good companies are rewarded. investors who do not are not.

The problem is that many of these investors did not have much choice, they were simply working for Nortel and their pension was in company stock. If I work for a company and get a company pension I have very little choice how that is invested on my behalf. Some of these people losing out have probably worked 20 or 30 years thinking their retirement was covered and have just discovered they are redundant and also looking forward to a pennyless old age.

Actually not quite pennyless, but capped at £28,000 per year in the UK and $54,000 in the US. Also in the US people will only be able to claim their pension at the age of 65, so if you are 55 and have just retired or are about to you now have no money and have to try and rejoin the job market. The IT and mobile device sector is not exactly the best place to have to find work if you are in your late 50's.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5536942.ece
http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/news/story/5596907/