Yup. When an employee is in a loud shouting contest with management, the person is going to be fired 99.9% of the time. Why waste 12 days of cooling off time? And why not confiscate the laptop immediately? Vaguely sounds like union rules or an overly restrictive set of procedures to follow.
As for the employee, it seems like he expected a chance to not be retained and he got his revenge only after being officially terminated.
These sorts of actions are the reason why more and more companies treat anyone being laid off as a hostile entity. Perp walked out the door, can't take person items with you (but with vague hopes that they will be mailed later). Then someone dumb in IT attempts to wipe their laptops soon, and someone in facilities starts to box everything up and put it into storage, leaving whatever project they were on in shambles.
I had three reports laid off in the past, two were out of the building before I even showed up in the morning and the third was in progress. No chance to talk to them, get any status of ongoing work, or even say goodbye.
I still can't imagine the PC as a "serious" computing machine at that time. It was so amazingly underpowered and with really lousy applications. But maybe for small businesses it was cheaper than getting a time shared machine or a larger workstation. It really only succeeded because it was slightly more popular and everyone wanted to run something that someone else already had, so that getting support was easier.
PC was not a good environment in the office. What it had going for it were some managers who wanted something on their desk under their control rather than having to deal with time shared systems that had better and more reliable applications. For personal computing, the PC was not very good and was overpriced and in short time became very flaky due to all the clones copying each other's designs.
I had worked on Amiga, Unix, and VMS. Lots of nice software available, free and with source code. Went to PC and then the software was flaky and nagged you to send in money, or READMEs that said "I learned now to program writing this utility, if you use it you owe me $50".
The most ridiculous videos are the ones titled "Breaking news about Your Favorite Game!" that then has the first ten minutes hyping other channels or videos, introducing themselves, introducting their guests, and then 5 seconds of "Your Favorite Game will have penguins in it", followed by ten minutes getting shocked responses from the guests, hyping the guests channels, and finally ending with "Remember to subscribe to get more breaking news!"
The office alternatives took a very long while to switch to Windows.... Basically people underestimated Windows.
Of course they did. There was not much hint that Windows would take over. It sucked badly. There were competing windowing systems, and competing platforms. Windows didn't become a big thing until Microsoft got its OEM deals going.
Wysiwyg as a tool is not very good. It gets in the way of having a properly and consistently formatted document. Generally documents work better if you just get in the plain text first and then add formatting later. Even better if you have automatic formatting rules.
True, on the micro side, they were all terrible. On the workstation side though, Framemaker was extremely good. Word was ok, but would barf on large documents, had/has horrible style format handling, etc. Word may be fine for memos or notes or corporate stuff, but wasn't a very professional product. Today though, Word still sucks and feels even slower than Word 98.
Every company seems to excel at shooting itself in the foot. Some companies are good at bandaging up the feet afterwords and pretending that nothing happened.
There is just so much in business that is sheer luck, whereas technical competence or superiority is usually irrelevant to success or only provides a temporary boost.
Don't forget when Amiga just came out. The old CEO, Jack Tramiel, had left and joined Atari, and he used to go around and bad mouth how bad Commodore and the Amiga was. Amiga, Atari ST, and Apple IIGS, all came out around the same time and were considered potential PC killers). But the Amiga pulled ahead because it was just very good in overall, and had a very forward looking OS with multitasking built in at the core. Atari ST in comparison was somewhat bland. But it was the over the top trash talking by Tramiel that really soured a lot of people, it hurt the Atari brand more than it hurt Commodore I think.
Naw, 8051 assembler if you want to go for nearly universal. Counting number of devices using 8051, it completely overwhelms Java. The drawback is that it's more confusing than German verbs.
And you're the problem here. You provide no proof, you probably saw those numbers on some partisan website, and you assume everyone who disagrees with you must have a political agenda.
I mean, he's never been deeply into technology anyway, he's far more interested in people and their environments.
And that's the problem. Because all of the science is wrong and the use of technology is implausible, Gibson's books are fantasy, not futurism or science fiction.
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Don't forget, once grocery stores become popular, farming started being phased out too!
Naw, you'd need bigger balls than that. Remember, any sufficiently advanced level of ignorance is indistinguishable from chutzpah.
Yup. When an employee is in a loud shouting contest with management, the person is going to be fired 99.9% of the time. Why waste 12 days of cooling off time? And why not confiscate the laptop immediately? Vaguely sounds like union rules or an overly restrictive set of procedures to follow.
As for the employee, it seems like he expected a chance to not be retained and he got his revenge only after being officially terminated.
Our bus factor is 0.
These sorts of actions are the reason why more and more companies treat anyone being laid off as a hostile entity. Perp walked out the door, can't take person items with you (but with vague hopes that they will be mailed later). Then someone dumb in IT attempts to wipe their laptops soon, and someone in facilities starts to box everything up and put it into storage, leaving whatever project they were on in shambles.
I had three reports laid off in the past, two were out of the building before I even showed up in the morning and the third was in progress. No chance to talk to them, get any status of ongoing work, or even say goodbye.
I still can't imagine the PC as a "serious" computing machine at that time. It was so amazingly underpowered and with really lousy applications. But maybe for small businesses it was cheaper than getting a time shared machine or a larger workstation. It really only succeeded because it was slightly more popular and everyone wanted to run something that someone else already had, so that getting support was easier.
PC was not a good environment in the office. What it had going for it were some managers who wanted something on their desk under their control rather than having to deal with time shared systems that had better and more reliable applications. For personal computing, the PC was not very good and was overpriced and in short time became very flaky due to all the clones copying each other's designs.
I had worked on Amiga, Unix, and VMS. Lots of nice software available, free and with source code. Went to PC and then the software was flaky and nagged you to send in money, or READMEs that said "I learned now to program writing this utility, if you use it you owe me $50".
Are you implying that there may be other reasons?
The most ridiculous videos are the ones titled "Breaking news about Your Favorite Game!" that then has the first ten minutes hyping other channels or videos, introducing themselves, introducting their guests, and then 5 seconds of "Your Favorite Game will have penguins in it", followed by ten minutes getting shocked responses from the guests, hyping the guests channels, and finally ending with "Remember to subscribe to get more breaking news!"
I don't remember any professors starting off lectures with "be sure to like this video and join my channel!"
The office alternatives took a very long while to switch to Windows. ... Basically people underestimated Windows.
Of course they did. There was not much hint that Windows would take over. It sucked badly. There were competing windowing systems, and competing platforms. Windows didn't become a big thing until Microsoft got its OEM deals going.
Wysiwyg as a tool is not very good. It gets in the way of having a properly and consistently formatted document. Generally documents work better if you just get in the plain text first and then add formatting later. Even better if you have automatic formatting rules.
True, on the micro side, they were all terrible. On the workstation side though, Framemaker was extremely good. Word was ok, but would barf on large documents, had/has horrible style format handling, etc. Word may be fine for memos or notes or corporate stuff, but wasn't a very professional product. Today though, Word still sucks and feels even slower than Word 98.
Every company seems to excel at shooting itself in the foot. Some companies are good at bandaging up the feet afterwords and pretending that nothing happened.
There is just so much in business that is sheer luck, whereas technical competence or superiority is usually irrelevant to success or only provides a temporary boost.
Don't forget when Amiga just came out. The old CEO, Jack Tramiel, had left and joined Atari, and he used to go around and bad mouth how bad Commodore and the Amiga was. Amiga, Atari ST, and Apple IIGS, all came out around the same time and were considered potential PC killers). But the Amiga pulled ahead because it was just very good in overall, and had a very forward looking OS with multitasking built in at the core. Atari ST in comparison was somewhat bland. But it was the over the top trash talking by Tramiel that really soured a lot of people, it hurt the Atari brand more than it hurt Commodore I think.
My uncle used to have a one-person backhoe service.
Naw, 8051 assembler if you want to go for nearly universal. Counting number of devices using 8051, it completely overwhelms Java. The drawback is that it's more confusing than German verbs.
"Primarily"? Really, that's the most important thing in their success? Not their engineering, quality, etc?
And you're the problem here. You provide no proof, you probably saw those numbers on some partisan website, and you assume everyone who disagrees with you must have a political agenda.
Genetic diversity in nature leads to stronger individuals, that's elementary biology. For example, purebred dog breeds are not as healthy as mutts.
You don't know very many then.
"Pivot" means all new staff. Unless they're so amazingly stupid that they think smart phone developers are also AI experts.
but the development of the Internet and pop culture since Neuromancer has drawn heavily on his writing.
So sort of like Kim Kardashian greatly influencing the internet and pop culture?
I mean, he's never been deeply into technology anyway, he's far more interested in people and their environments.
And that's the problem. Because all of the science is wrong and the use of technology is implausible, Gibson's books are fantasy, not futurism or science fiction.