Well from experience Microsoft has secret contract terms like this that repeatedly come out after years of competitive interests being shitcanned on support from hardware vendors or OEMS. So while this exact term may be made up, it most certainly EXISTS in their contracts... Because that's Microsoft's MO.
They didn't mention advertising at all in the first WEEK after they announced it. Microsoft marketing guys haven't mentioned that it can read two sets of lips at a time so that it can target ads based on who's in the room... Nobody at all has thought about this.
Like how the system won't operate with kinect unplugged.... Where are we getting these crazy ideas?
That was at the END of the Empire when the rich didn't want to pay taxes for the Emperor's army. That was just after the Ceasars when the Generals essentially "owned" their armies with other private interests... Until the Emperor's government stopped that practice for obvious reasons.
What has BILL GATES done for them? Is HE PERSONALLY working 80 hour weeks on MICROSOFT projects to turn the company around? As a 5% investor it doesn't really matter if he WAS the founder or not... He's not spending his TIME on the company, just waiting out till he cashes out in the next 5-10 years.
More importantly, Ballmer is Gates' anointed... And has performed poorly. If BILL GATES isn't going to PUBLICLY step up and escort Ballmer out of the company (his FISCAL DUTY as CEO) then what quality of follow up leader is Gates going to back?
Microsoft needs a 100 hour a week CEO and a 100 hour a week President... If these guys don't want to do that job, get out of the way!
But like any other EMPLOYEE, what has he done for Stockholders lately? If they are equal stockholders, what has Gates done THIS DECADE (2010's) that deserves the EXTRA money for being CEO?
Giving help to starving kids is nice, but that's not what THEY are PAYING HIM FOR. Microsoft may be only 10% of Gates' wealth, but as CEO the company really NEEDS 100% of his time... Not 10%. That's not fair to the people holding the other 95% of the voting stock.
It's not about plotters, he doesn't HOLD A STAKE in the company that deserves as much power as he holds. They are correct to replace Gates before even looking at Balmer's replacement as Gates hasn't held Balmer's feet to the fire nearly hard enough in the last 7-10 years.
Almost as difficult as just hitting you over the head. Then just using your fingers. (Hopefully still attached)
That's probably the strongest case against it right there... You don't have to be AWAKE for your finger to unlock the phone. Thugs and thugs with uniforms don't have to beat a pass code out of you now.
Or just undo parts if the H1-B process. What other professions other than STEM has a SPECIFIC immigration law much looser than the rules for general immigration? The rule is barely 20 years old and we've had TWO recessions... STEM degrees are the CORE of Middle-Upper Middle class... And they CHOOSE to gut them.
On this case they are hiring them SPECIFICALLY up send them back to India. IBM has some face-to-face jobs they can't quite stop hiring.. Do rather than repurpose their own staff they lay off they will hire the Indians first, work them 4-5 years in America and send them home.
India Business Machines Isn't even pretending they are axing all US citizens any more.
This type of thing is a big part of the plot of Ghost in the Shell TV series. The idea that what "people" think can be shifted as it evolves especially because people are always connected.
But do we have to have EVERYTHING be violent and killing all the time? We just talked about Ponies which is about the most peaceful kids show on TV that adults like too.... and called them all stupid for liking it. It's fine that adults can buy a kid a game with abuse, sex, and drugs... But the bronies that like stories with beauty and heart are "maladjusted"?
the missing link of course, is that somebody (the soon to be laid off IT staff) has to TRAIN THE OUTSOURCING in how the IT department works. The outsourcing company doesn't come to YOU and learn things... you have to provide the documentation for them... so they can do your job for cheaper!
that's the problem is that it doesn't make money ON IT'S OWN.
does your next big contract demand EDI setup? do they demand special invoice? special material handling? etc, etc all these things are kept track of by IT. IF you didn't DO THEM, there would be no contract because you didn't meet the customer requirements. but what the hell do SALES people ever pay attention to requirements??? and THAT would be why IT is so drastically undervalued, we just have to make sure everybody in the company is notified of those requirements sales agree to every single day.
because to management # 1, 2,3 &4 are part of the PROBLEM. You see they don't want to pay people to call IT and ask questions, they want appliances. When the Appliances get broken because of ebay or personal use, then we take it away and lock it down. It's all about cutting out the special favors or individual circumstances for vendors, employees AND customers.
#5 and #6 are related because there was never "mutual value". 5) Management decided years ago that departments were "services" which is less than "employees" we were sold under the bus, they just couldn't live without us till now. that leads to 6) that Management has always wanted MANAGEMENT to be the gateway to "technology" not IT. They LIKE the idea that all the requests go through them, it's "less money" the business is going to pay. If its harder to make computer changes then that's a good thing... it's not like the company remodels the bathrooms or office spaces just because employees "think it's better".. they're employees... they aren't there to have opinions for open ended change projects. 6) Project will get done when the contractors say they're done to management.... ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, !!
"That no-advance-warning is only a good idea if you can't trust your IT people in the first place. And if you can't trust them, why are you trusting them to run your IT department?"
Bingo! for several things. IT is generally treated as partners at the management level of an organization. If you suddenly feel the need to fire ALL your IT people what were we doing for you? Is it really all "just money"?
Second, you are going to have massive amounts of experience "walk out the door". That affects all the things from "where is this at", "what did this do" to big things like how did we calculate our yearly income report and who's reading the CEO's emails to his mistress.
Kristen Vaughness' "office in the basement" is much closer to how serious hacking is done.
Unfortunately REAL cyber-security is more like being a dreaded SOX Auditor.... Lots of checking and double checking that somebody "locked the gates" every night like they're supposed to.
Exactly, this should worry competition. While other guys are adding quad and octo cores of various types, Apple is content to let them be peedier for now... While Apple sets up its next move two or five years down the road. People miss that Apple was TRIPLE booting OSX in the earlier days while they were moving from PPC to X86 but also to ARM or iPhone at the same time. Apple is making this move to position valuable Engineering resources for the NEXT big project we don't even know about yet... And they make modest gains in performance with the current device right now.
This could signal Tim Cook has "something up his sleeve" and Apple learned how to REPEAT moving to new products that Steve taught them.
But being next to the mountains, its still subjet to rapid flash-flooding because of the thin rocky soil, low density of foliage to soak up rain it all wants to go DOWNHILL... Right through town.
Lie detectors are unconstitutional as criminal evidence, and unconstitutional as terms of employment... But we wouldn't let that get in the way of using hem to weed out candidates, would we?
No, because we still has constitutional rights back then. The Feds had to rewrite tax law to get Al Capone because they could not get CONSTITUTIONSL evidence he ordered or assisted in any crimes. Second and Third-hand "crimes" like these were barely registered.
Remember during Prohibition DRINKING ALOCHOL was never illegal. Making, selling, transporting.. But not OWING or CONSUMING. Now realize how our "possession by consumption" arrests are morally and legally EXTREMELY wrong.
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Well from experience Microsoft has secret contract terms like this that repeatedly come out after years of competitive interests being shitcanned on support from hardware vendors or OEMS. So while this exact term may be made up, it most certainly EXISTS in their contracts... Because that's Microsoft's MO.
They didn't mention advertising at all in the first WEEK after they announced it. Microsoft marketing guys haven't mentioned that it can read two sets of lips at a time so that it can target ads based on who's in the room... Nobody at all has thought about this.
Like how the system won't operate with kinect unplugged.... Where are we getting these crazy ideas?
That was at the END of the Empire when the rich didn't want to pay taxes for the Emperor's army. That was just after the Ceasars when the Generals essentially "owned" their armies with other private interests... Until the Emperor's government stopped that practice for obvious reasons.
What has BILL GATES done for them? Is HE PERSONALLY working 80 hour weeks on MICROSOFT projects to turn the company around? As a 5% investor it doesn't really matter if he WAS the founder or not... He's not spending his TIME on the company, just waiting out till he cashes out in the next 5-10 years.
More importantly, Ballmer is Gates' anointed ... And has performed poorly. If BILL GATES isn't going to PUBLICLY step up and escort Ballmer out of the company (his FISCAL DUTY as CEO) then what quality of follow up leader is Gates going to back?
Microsoft needs a 100 hour a week CEO and a 100 hour a week President... If these guys don't want to do that job, get out of the way!
But like any other EMPLOYEE, what has he done for Stockholders lately? If they are equal stockholders, what has Gates done THIS DECADE (2010's) that deserves the EXTRA money for being CEO?
Giving help to starving kids is nice, but that's not what THEY are PAYING HIM FOR. Microsoft may be only 10% of Gates' wealth, but as CEO the company really NEEDS 100% of his time... Not 10%. That's not fair to the people holding the other 95% of the voting stock.
It's not about plotters, he doesn't HOLD A STAKE in the company that deserves as much power as he holds. They are correct to replace Gates before even looking at Balmer's replacement as Gates hasn't held Balmer's feet to the fire nearly hard enough in the last 7-10 years.
Almost as difficult as just hitting you over the head. Then just using your fingers. (Hopefully still attached)
That's probably the strongest case against it right there... You don't have to be AWAKE for your finger to unlock the phone. Thugs and thugs with uniforms don't have to beat a pass code out of you now.
That's cause it runs Gears of Halo Theft Auto Mobile
Or just undo parts if the H1-B process. What other professions other than STEM has a SPECIFIC immigration law much looser than the rules for general immigration? The rule is barely 20 years old and we've had TWO recessions... STEM degrees are the CORE of Middle-Upper Middle class... And they CHOOSE to gut them.
On this case they are hiring them SPECIFICALLY up send them back to India. IBM has some face-to-face jobs they can't quite stop hiring.. Do rather than repurpose their own staff they lay off they will hire the Indians first, work them 4-5 years in America and send them home.
India Business Machines Isn't even pretending they are axing all US citizens any more.
They did change the charging pins when they removed FireWire as a charging source. Even though they kept the 30-pin connector.
This has nothing to do with Accessories, just charging.
This type of thing is a big part of the plot of Ghost in the Shell TV series. The idea that what "people" think can be shifted as it evolves especially because people are always connected.
The fanfic scene has a lot to do with it too. In fact the fanfic scene panicked Hasbro so much the almost canceled the show.
But do we have to have EVERYTHING be violent and killing all the time? We just talked about Ponies which is about the most peaceful kids show on TV that adults like too.... and called them all stupid for liking it. It's fine that adults can buy a kid a game with abuse, sex, and drugs... But the bronies that like stories with beauty and heart are "maladjusted"?
So is she a Hipster? Moderate? Or Creative?
the missing link of course, is that somebody (the soon to be laid off IT staff) has to TRAIN THE OUTSOURCING in how the IT department works. The outsourcing company doesn't come to YOU and learn things... you have to provide the documentation for them... so they can do your job for cheaper!
that's the problem is that it doesn't make money ON IT'S OWN.
does your next big contract demand EDI setup? do they demand special invoice? special material handling? etc, etc all these things are kept track of by IT. IF you didn't DO THEM, there would be no contract because you didn't meet the customer requirements. but what the hell do SALES people ever pay attention to requirements??? and THAT would be why IT is so drastically undervalued, we just have to make sure everybody in the company is notified of those requirements sales agree to every single day.
because to management # 1, 2,3 &4 are part of the PROBLEM. You see they don't want to pay people to call IT and ask questions, they want appliances. When the Appliances get broken because of ebay or personal use, then we take it away and lock it down. It's all about cutting out the special favors or individual circumstances for vendors, employees AND customers.
#5 and #6 are related because there was never "mutual value". 5) Management decided years ago that departments were "services" which is less than "employees" we were sold under the bus, they just couldn't live without us till now. that leads to 6) that Management has always wanted MANAGEMENT to be the gateway to "technology" not IT. They LIKE the idea that all the requests go through them, it's "less money" the business is going to pay. If its harder to make computer changes then that's a good thing... it's not like the company remodels the bathrooms or office spaces just because employees "think it's better".. they're employees... they aren't there to have opinions for open ended change projects. 6) Project will get done when the contractors say they're done to management.... ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, !!
"That no-advance-warning is only a good idea if you can't trust your IT people in the first place. And if you can't trust them, why are you trusting them to run your IT department?"
Bingo! for several things. IT is generally treated as partners at the management level of an organization. If you suddenly feel the need to fire ALL your IT people what were we doing for you? Is it really all "just money"?
Second, you are going to have massive amounts of experience "walk out the door". That affects all the things from "where is this at", "what did this do" to big things like how did we calculate our yearly income report and who's reading the CEO's emails to his mistress.
This is JUST the kind of leadership Microsoft deserves! The world + dog would be really happy if they nominated this Elop guy to run the ship.
(World + dog that wants to watch in glee as this Elop guy finds the closest iceberg!!!)
Kristen Vaughness' "office in the basement" is much closer to how serious hacking is done.
Unfortunately REAL cyber-security is more like being a dreaded SOX Auditor.... Lots of checking and double checking that somebody "locked the gates" every night like they're supposed to.
Exactly, this should worry competition. While other guys are adding quad and octo cores of various types, Apple is content to let them be peedier for now... While Apple sets up its next move two or five years down the road. People miss that Apple was TRIPLE booting OSX in the earlier days while they were moving from PPC to X86 but also to ARM or iPhone at the same time. Apple is making this move to position valuable Engineering resources for the NEXT big project we don't even know about yet... And they make modest gains in performance with the current device right now.
This could signal Tim Cook has "something up his sleeve" and Apple learned how to REPEAT moving to new products that Steve taught them.
But being next to the mountains, its still subjet to rapid flash-flooding because of the thin rocky soil, low density of foliage to soak up rain it all wants to go DOWNHILL... Right through town.
Lie detectors are unconstitutional as criminal evidence, and unconstitutional as terms of employment... But we wouldn't let that get in the way of using hem to weed out candidates, would we?
No, because we still has constitutional rights back then. The Feds had to rewrite tax law to get Al Capone because they could not get CONSTITUTIONSL evidence he ordered or assisted in any crimes. Second and Third-hand "crimes" like these were barely registered.
Remember during Prohibition DRINKING ALOCHOL was never illegal. Making, selling, transporting.. But not OWING or CONSUMING. Now realize how our "possession by consumption" arrests are morally and legally EXTREMELY wrong.