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theodp writes "How do you replace your Chief Pretexting Officer? HP CEO Mark Hurd announced that Joel Hyatt, an individual of 'exceptional judgment and outstanding character,' has joined HP's Board of Directors, filling one of the seats vacated during last year's boardroom scandal. Hyatt, who drew the ire of a judge over the illegal, Philadelphia-like treatment of an attorney at Hyatt's namesake law firm who was diagnosed with AIDS, was also appointed to HP's HR and Compensation Committee. Presumably, the HP womenfolk won't hold it against Hyatt that he reportedly once advocated keeping alma mater Dartmouth female-free. Hyatt acknowledged making mistakes that he's learned from, but said he was not eager to share them."
Was does ODP stand for, anyway?
You don't realize that being on the Board of Directors is a hard and underpaid job. Pay as little as $499,000 USD annually isn't uncommon. That isn't very much money when you consider the kind of earnings these people bring into the company and the amount of shareholders these people have with which to deal in shareholder meetings. You are ignorant of how hard the job really is. Good management is hard to come by, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that good management from a failed company can find new jobs. And whitecollar crimes shouldn't be punished anyway.
Does this mean that HP will start filling their ink-jet cartridges all the way now??
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Why does a printer driver require 435 MB of disk space (no really, you cannot install it otherwise) and take 30 minutes and a reboot to install?
You don't understand. That 435 MB is to prevent reverse engineering. It would take 895 man years to reverse engineer a driver this size. The 30 minutes to reboot and install is to make you think twice about changing brands of printers ever again. We need you to help protect our profits.
Thank you for your support.
The mgmt.
That interests me for my career. How do I get in the Board of Directors at *another* billion dollar company?
open (SIG, "</dev/zero"); $sig = <SIG>; close SIG;
There is some truth to this.
I used to work on a large software project at HP. It was written in Java.
I remember one meeting where there was a debate about if we should obfuscate the code or not to make it harder to decompile and reverse-engineer. We reasoned that since we can't even figure our own code out half the time when it came time to fix defects, there was little risk in leaving it "un-obfuscated". If our competitors got ahold of it, we'd just laugh and say "good luck, suckers"!