Also, in line with the "Peter Principle," when some people are "promoted" into management they think that their job is to bark orders or to make proclamations to be followed without questions and that their title of manager makes all of their decisions right. These people enjoy the arbitrary power they think they have. I hold that a leader (manager) is a servant who's job it is to keep things out of the way of their team. It is also a leader's job to identify what motivates each team member and use those factors to get work done while making people happy to come to work. Profit.
The people who bark orders and use people to do the things they don't want to do just create an environment that makes people averse to work and causes them to focus only on themselves as a defense mechanism. Liability.
As a manager I let people do what they like to do and gain their respect. If they get out of line and I have to confront them it is a lot easier if they like their job and respect me. When the "order barkers" confront someone it is probably because they caused the issue and the person responds by gathering up evidence against them to present to HR. I wish they put this stuff in textbooks.
Indeed, the local-to-internet search is beyond intrusive and utterly insulting to a thinking human. Fortunately for Microsoft we don't have many of those--at least not enough to make a difference more than once every few hundred years..
Well, Linux on the desktop is a disaster. Nonetheless, Microsoft was focused on having their product (windows?) power set-top boxes and media players and what OS is doing that now? Linux.
As a developer I tried running Linux as my dev environment but it wasn't happening, but Linux is propagating like a freaking fire to "devices."
Agreed. Google will stop hiring conformist Ivy League'rs with 4.0s and will eventually win. They have a much better reach than Microsoft. Bing has already failed and is being sheepishly ignored until its final demise 15 years from now.
Indeed, I use a time of service scale for everything I buy at Wal-Mart. I do this by placing a guess on how long I think the item will last. There are three levels. Removal from package, one month, six months, one year, three years. Nothing, absolutely nothing I have bought from Wal-Mart in the last decade has made it past three years. I stay away from Wal-Mart now. I tried some $35 shoes (Dr. Scholls) that ended up damaging my feet and causing problems that took a few years to heal after wearing properly engineered replacements. The products *look* the part but there are MANY hidden engineering problems in almost everything they sell.
Google recently acknowledged that their hiring practices were not yielding any significant advantage. Specifically referring to hiring only people from Ivy League schools with 3.5+ GPAs. This had been my guess for some time and I often thought it was the root of their stagnation or lack of innovation recently--hiring only people who are proven conformists. Working in education I don't have anything really good to say about those with advanced degrees. My overall conclusion is that it rots innovative areas of the mind and turns those people off to engaging further education, resulting in intellectual laziness and low self-esteem.
I don't think there is any such thing as the "average Joe." That label seems to negate people and makes it seem OK that they have no privacy. Again, there is no "average Joe." Everyone I have ever met had their own life which was district from everyone else.
Once it sinks in that the violations of the constitution were committed by their pet politician they will switch on to another thought and try desperately to forget it.
The human mind is generally weak, and it takes a lot of introspection for someone to detect brainwashing and work to eliminate it. The process is replete with caveats and subtle pitfalls including the initial acknowledgement that you have not been and are not now forming your own thoughts and perceptions. That might be a hurdle too large for some people to overcome, although it is really rather liberating to admit that you are flawed and that the future holds nothing but improvement after admitting as much. Part of the "brainwashing" is dependent on setting up this anomalous assumption that you face some type of death (dark fear) if your perception is proven false so that the mind artfully and subconsciously evades all paths of reason which could possibly come to this conclusion.
Don't be mad at the brainwashed, they can't help it and they are not dumb or lesser people--pity them and drop hints to a path of self discovery. Blatantly calling them out on their flawed logic is like triggering a check valve on their thoughts--it prevents any flow of progress. When you do this you are only solidifying the malady and helping to perpetuate their dark state.
That little logic bulb went off in my head a while back. There are a left and right voting population who never vote for another party. Then there is a small non-partisan swath which the politicians focus on, learn how to manipulate, and which virtually decide every election. So yeah, the same people who put Bush in office also put Obama in office. This is a rather trivial point of logic once you realize it, but most people never do. When their guy "wins" they just file it away in the back of their head that a majority of people in the country unified on a specific choice because of the reasons *they* tell themselves that they voted for the person--when in fact they were never going to vote for the other party, even if Zombie-Hitler was running on their ticket.
It would be nice if you could flag ads or companies that you don't want to see again and have them be gone forever. To my sensibility the ads are in my face. I would like to be able to cancel ad displays that I do not find relevant--right now there is no feedback mechanism.
She wasn't acting as a journalist. They just stuck that in there to lend credence to the story. She was acting like a spoiled brat who heard about the NSA "thing" on TV, went hipster batshit, and clocked on these people associated with the NSA. It was a grinding, unfulfilling, unenlightening choppy yarn. Rather boring, and a waste of time. I believe the saying is: "Nothing to see here folks, move along."
I would have thought any one of here could have divined the answer they provided. It was pretty clear cut--the answer they gave--and didn't provide the least bit of revelation to me. I would assume everyone was an adversary. How do you run a business like the NSA and exclude any potential target?
They answered the question. Did you LTFA? She just came off as some brat who was taking advantage of their situation to vent her misguided anger. Do you think the NSA acts on their own accord? No, they take orders from the president and a few people who serve at his pleasure. We can even blame some other president if that makes you feel better.
Cats bounce back quickly. I had a domesticated house cat that had to go outside, now it won't let me within 10 feet before it darts off. Totally feral.
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What is "notifications?" There is no explanation for such a vague term.
Also, in line with the "Peter Principle," when some people are "promoted" into management they think that their job is to bark orders or to make proclamations to be followed without questions and that their title of manager makes all of their decisions right. These people enjoy the arbitrary power they think they have. I hold that a leader (manager) is a servant who's job it is to keep things out of the way of their team. It is also a leader's job to identify what motivates each team member and use those factors to get work done while making people happy to come to work. Profit.
The people who bark orders and use people to do the things they don't want to do just create an environment that makes people averse to work and causes them to focus only on themselves as a defense mechanism. Liability.
As a manager I let people do what they like to do and gain their respect. If they get out of line and I have to confront them it is a lot easier if they like their job and respect me. When the "order barkers" confront someone it is probably because they caused the issue and the person responds by gathering up evidence against them to present to HR. I wish they put this stuff in textbooks.
Indeed, the local-to-internet search is beyond intrusive and utterly insulting to a thinking human. Fortunately for Microsoft we don't have many of those--at least not enough to make a difference more than once every few hundred years..
I think this always been true.
No monopoly. Careful with your hyperbole.
Anyone read the latest Redmond Rag? They have an article entitled "14 Reasons to Fire Your IT Staff." Good read.
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Agreed, people are eating it.
Well, Linux on the desktop is a disaster. Nonetheless, Microsoft was focused on having their product (windows?) power set-top boxes and media players and what OS is doing that now? Linux.
As a developer I tried running Linux as my dev environment but it wasn't happening, but Linux is propagating like a freaking fire to "devices."
Dual boot? What is this 2004?
Agreed. Google will stop hiring conformist Ivy League'rs with 4.0s and will eventually win. They have a much better reach than Microsoft. Bing has already failed and is being sheepishly ignored until its final demise 15 years from now.
Indeed, I use a time of service scale for everything I buy at Wal-Mart. I do this by placing a guess on how long I think the item will last. There are three levels. Removal from package, one month, six months, one year, three years. Nothing, absolutely nothing I have bought from Wal-Mart in the last decade has made it past three years. I stay away from Wal-Mart now. I tried some $35 shoes (Dr. Scholls) that ended up damaging my feet and causing problems that took a few years to heal after wearing properly engineered replacements. The products *look* the part but there are MANY hidden engineering problems in almost everything they sell.
Google recently acknowledged that their hiring practices were not yielding any significant advantage. Specifically referring to hiring only people from Ivy League schools with 3.5+ GPAs. This had been my guess for some time and I often thought it was the root of their stagnation or lack of innovation recently--hiring only people who are proven conformists. Working in education I don't have anything really good to say about those with advanced degrees. My overall conclusion is that it rots innovative areas of the mind and turns those people off to engaging further education, resulting in intellectual laziness and low self-esteem.
She'll get it.
I made to "Daniel Ortega" in the article, and then got really hungry. I feel like Homer Simpson.
I don't think there is any such thing as the "average Joe." That label seems to negate people and makes it seem OK that they have no privacy. Again, there is no "average Joe." Everyone I have ever met had their own life which was district from everyone else.
Once it sinks in that the violations of the constitution were committed by their pet politician they will switch on to another thought and try desperately to forget it.
The human mind is generally weak, and it takes a lot of introspection for someone to detect brainwashing and work to eliminate it. The process is replete with caveats and subtle pitfalls including the initial acknowledgement that you have not been and are not now forming your own thoughts and perceptions. That might be a hurdle too large for some people to overcome, although it is really rather liberating to admit that you are flawed and that the future holds nothing but improvement after admitting as much. Part of the "brainwashing" is dependent on setting up this anomalous assumption that you face some type of death (dark fear) if your perception is proven false so that the mind artfully and subconsciously evades all paths of reason which could possibly come to this conclusion.
Don't be mad at the brainwashed, they can't help it and they are not dumb or lesser people--pity them and drop hints to a path of self discovery. Blatantly calling them out on their flawed logic is like triggering a check valve on their thoughts--it prevents any flow of progress. When you do this you are only solidifying the malady and helping to perpetuate their dark state.
That little logic bulb went off in my head a while back. There are a left and right voting population who never vote for another party. Then there is a small non-partisan swath which the politicians focus on, learn how to manipulate, and which virtually decide every election. So yeah, the same people who put Bush in office also put Obama in office. This is a rather trivial point of logic once you realize it, but most people never do. When their guy "wins" they just file it away in the back of their head that a majority of people in the country unified on a specific choice because of the reasons *they* tell themselves that they voted for the person--when in fact they were never going to vote for the other party, even if Zombie-Hitler was running on their ticket.
It would be nice if you could flag ads or companies that you don't want to see again and have them be gone forever. To my sensibility the ads are in my face. I would like to be able to cancel ad displays that I do not find relevant--right now there is no feedback mechanism.
She wasn't acting as a journalist. They just stuck that in there to lend credence to the story. She was acting like a spoiled brat who heard about the NSA "thing" on TV, went hipster batshit, and clocked on these people associated with the NSA. It was a grinding, unfulfilling, unenlightening choppy yarn. Rather boring, and a waste of time. I believe the saying is: "Nothing to see here folks, move along."
I would have thought any one of here could have divined the answer they provided. It was pretty clear cut--the answer they gave--and didn't provide the least bit of revelation to me. I would assume everyone was an adversary. How do you run a business like the NSA and exclude any potential target?
You seriously are concerned about your slashdot karma? Really?
They answered the question. Did you LTFA? She just came off as some brat who was taking advantage of their situation to vent her misguided anger. Do you think the NSA acts on their own accord? No, they take orders from the president and a few people who serve at his pleasure. We can even blame some other president if that makes you feel better.
Cats bounce back quickly. I had a domesticated house cat that had to go outside, now it won't let me within 10 feet before it darts off. Totally feral.
I immediately thought they were avoiding Japanese societal pressures.