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The State of R&D At HP, IBM, and Microsoft
jcatcw writes "Computerworld surveys the R&D efforts at HP, IBM and Microsoft ($17 billion annually) and raises the question: Are these companies supporting more long-term basic research, or just the usual short-term, product-oriented work? HP is consolidating its focus on a few 'big bet' projects in five major research areas — information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure, and sustainability. IBM has four 'high-risk' basic research areas — nanotechnology, cloud computing, integrated systems and chip architecture, and managing business integrity through advanced math and computer science. Many of the 272 research projects named at Microsoft Research's Web site are structured with major product lines like Windows, Office, or Xbox in mind, but many also seem to have no likely application to anything the company sells today."
You should heed dilbert's advice and take away all industry magazines from your boss.
Not if you are a PHB
Hans? Is that you?
I think what you mean to say is: "Grammar [corrected as above] Nazis are the WORST waste of human space there [b]are[/b] online." However... as I read on in your post, I think you're trying to be ironic. I applaud your hilarious use of (but not limited to); run-on sentences, missing subjects, improper abbreviations (PHD should be PhD), using the wrong conjugation ("OR proof" should be "OR prove"), extra commas ("...have to contribute, so their stupidity..."), and wrong plurality ("...underachievers there is online today.").
Interesting.