No accountability of the contractors, no accountability of those who were to oversee the contractors and no accountability of the people who were to oversee those overseeing the contractors.
The next chapter in the The Time Traveling Adventures of Reginald Smitherington, Klutz: In Reginald's previous episode he dropped in on Preston Tucker and helped him with the debut of his revolutionary car, mistakenly connecting the fuel line to the distributor and starting a fire.
This time Reginald helps Steve Jobs improve upon his perfectly assembled and functioning mobile phone, by introducing some last minute code, to make the presentation even more spiffy...
The apartments will go for market rates, and a handful will be set aside for low income residents. All but 15 of the units will be open to non-Facebook employees.
So, it's a new 394-unit development in Menlo Park, which is near Facebook (and lots of other things).
If he is officially diagnosed, what would you say then?
I'd say that there's a significant difference between autism and sociopathy. An autistic person frequently doesn't understand how to interact with someone else, but they have enough empathy to know some basics of how *not* to interact.
He seems to have been highly organized and quite practiced at what he did. I'm a skeptic of his claims.
Since the BBC makes its money from the license fee, not from advertising, it has no concept of "return" for a particular program. And, while viewer figures are not totally ignored, it is regarded as having some mandate to put on programs for minority groups not well catered for by commercial TV - such as, for example, amateur astronomers. On the other hand, TFA gives no idea what viewer figures actually are. If everybody has stopped watching after Moore died, it makes sense to drop the program. If viewer figures are holding up, it makes no more sense to drop it now than at any time over the past decades.
Sky at Night also has a magazine, which is very popular with excellent content.
The main argument for leaving the hardware to others is you can then promote the best of what they produce (and ignore the abysmal flops). With it in-house they have to match what Apple and Samsung are already doing, which is a tough mark to toe.
Don't you get a slave in golf? Where's my slashdot slave?
Yeah... gotta remember we're all geeks here (pretty much anyway) and we'd rather send out our slave to play golf for us so we can stay in our Cubical O' Doom and hack deep into the night.
to paraphrase a popular tune.. it's two AM somewhere
interrupted his address to a cafeteria full of employees to chastise a guy who had an [competing technology], belligerently telling the crowd that we should all practice brand loyalty the way his family did. [...] I remember thinking [CEO] was a royal asshole, without a shred of humility and unable to have the common sense to recognize an engineer's choice of superior technology
Funny. I'm reading Steve Jobs' biography currently and this quote could apply just as well to him...
It was widely feared to be on the elevator if Steve entered it. When you got off you may not have still had your job because Steve may have made a decision your work was unessential. Given that he had some flaws, he did have a very clear vision.
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when I was so focused on what I had to do around Windows that I wasn't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Last I checked : - there is no I in team - I do not believe Ballmer to be skilled to be redoing work in Kernel nor would he be micro-managing engineering teams - Windows 2k was great, but lacked functionalities and ease of access. - He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft [source: wiki]. Doesn't mean he made a bad choice; Look at the proportion of Windows based servers in operation in the world. They might've miss the first boat by focusing on their main source of revenue, but they made the acquisition of Nokia. Had they gone cell phone, Android might have plunged into servers - who knows.
To justify his position in the company he is the ultimate leader and facilitator for company success. Failing to be a good observer or listener and missing the boat, time after time does not bode well for his final mark. Many of the structural problems within the company he has failed to address, which is how a nimble competitor, such as Google, blew past Microsoft in the interval following the initial success of the iPhone and successive launches of Android. The play field was there and he was so blinkered he utterly missed the opportunity. Good leaders take the responsibility, poor leaders spread blame.
The acquisition of Nokia may be the last great screw-up of Ballmer. Where they should be pairing with a company which specializes in the hardware, they've gone and tied their wagon to one horse, named Nokia. The layoffs at Nokia will be coming fast and furious as Microsoft wind it down. They know this already in Finland.
I'll say. Big mistake was making everyone wait for the ms app store with Win8 and Win phone. As soon, as Apple's app store was showing success they should have brought the windows app store to every platform they had. Who cares about windows upgrades (sales guy think)... get the app store rolling on... xp, vista, whatever. Too little too late now.
Microsoft have become the K-mart of tech companies. Well played, Mr. Ballmer.
For $200 I can get a ready made Atom with an Nvidia GPU.
This board is worse than useless. It's insulting.
Yeah, I know, this reply x1,000. It's almost like they held a secret meeting with Ballmer up in Redmond and agreed they could nudge the Wintel syndicate in on Raspberry Pi turf.
It will have its niche. Someone will find a use for it somewhere.
MS whiffed when they put balless in charge of anything. He can stop blaming others...
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs
Steve's been a failure and has just capped his career. Notice his use of the royal we, deflecting direct blame to the company, not its leader:
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Should be...
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when I was so focused on what I had to do around Windows that I wasn't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
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No accountability of the contractors, no accountability of those who were to oversee the contractors and no accountability of the people who were to oversee those overseeing the contractors.
and I was ønce bitten by a møøse nø realli!
The next chapter in the The Time Traveling Adventures of Reginald Smitherington, Klutz: In Reginald's previous episode he dropped in on Preston Tucker and helped him with the debut of his revolutionary car, mistakenly connecting the fuel line to the distributor and starting a fire.
This time Reginald helps Steve Jobs improve upon his perfectly assembled and functioning mobile phone, by introducing some last minute code, to make the presentation even more spiffy...
Key quote:
So, it's a new 394-unit development in Menlo Park, which is near Facebook (and lots of other things).
Yep. And now's the time to acquire real estate.
Will probably be the only thing people remember of facebook in 10 years.
"How yer know that?"
"It's written in charcoal."
i'll get me coat
What do they look like?
Probably like Princess Vespa's.
So shouldn't they change brand to BlewBerry instead?
Too bad they weren't bought out by Microsoft. With Ballmer's lack of vision exceeded only by their own it could have been Ballmerberry.
comes pre-loaded with chair throwing app!
This largest problem with ships is the loose nut on the wheel.
... as peacefully as Assad. President Omar al Bashir has had found no difficulty allying with clans and tribes to depopulate area, such as Darfur.
As for the protests, the country no longer has the oil or revenues as they largely left with South Sudan. The subsidies are not coming back.
Even if he does go, he will probably be replaced by a more brutal government. Can't say I envy the people in Sudan.
If he is officially diagnosed, what would you say then?
I'd say that there's a significant difference between autism and sociopathy. An autistic person frequently doesn't understand how to interact with someone else, but they have enough empathy to know some basics of how *not* to interact.
He seems to have been highly organized and quite practiced at what he did. I'm a skeptic of his claims.
Summer is the Pre-Season - Early Autumn is the real season, depending upon how moody Dame Nature feels.
Since the BBC makes its money from the license fee, not from advertising, it has no concept of "return" for a particular program. And, while viewer figures are not totally ignored, it is regarded as having some mandate to put on programs for minority groups not well catered for by commercial TV - such as, for example, amateur astronomers. On the other hand, TFA gives no idea what viewer figures actually are. If everybody has stopped watching after Moore died, it makes sense to drop the program. If viewer figures are holding up, it makes no more sense to drop it now than at any time over the past decades.
Sky at Night also has a magazine, which is very popular with excellent content.
The main argument for leaving the hardware to others is you can then promote the best of what they produce (and ignore the abysmal flops). With it in-house they have to match what Apple and Samsung are already doing, which is a tough mark to toe.
Don't you get a slave in golf? Where's my slashdot slave?
Yeah ... gotta remember we're all geeks here (pretty much anyway) and we'd rather send out our slave to play golf for us so we can stay in our Cubical O' Doom and hack deep into the night.
to paraphrase a popular tune .. it's two AM somewhere
Dead or Alive Xtreme Volleyball models, in swimsuits, in all the future movies!
... all with the face and voice of Jar Jar Binks ...
You must recall the franchise is pwned by Dizfiz.
...which just continues to flush the toilet until everything is completely gone.
interrupted his address to a cafeteria full of employees to chastise a guy who had an [competing technology], belligerently telling the crowd that we should all practice brand loyalty the way his family did. [...] I remember thinking [CEO] was a royal asshole, without a shred of humility and unable to have the common sense to recognize an engineer's choice of superior technology
Funny. I'm reading Steve Jobs' biography currently and this quote could apply just as well to him...
It was widely feared to be on the elevator if Steve entered it. When you got off you may not have still had your job because Steve may have made a decision your work was unessential. Given that he had some flaws, he did have a very clear vision.
Does code golf count too?
Only if you take three beers out with you. No more. No less.
and the number of counting shall be three...
"Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive?" - no but Slashdot and TheChive sure do
Oh come now! You're Slashdotting is counted toward Professional Development. Same as for when the execs slip out for an afternoon of golf.
Should be...
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when I was so focused on what I had to do around Windows that I wasn't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Last I checked :
- there is no I in team
- I do not believe Ballmer to be skilled to be redoing work in Kernel nor would he be micro-managing engineering teams
- Windows 2k was great, but lacked functionalities and ease of access.
- He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft [source: wiki]. Doesn't mean he made a bad choice; Look at the proportion of Windows based servers in operation in the world. They might've miss the first boat by focusing on their main source of revenue, but they made the acquisition of Nokia. Had they gone cell phone, Android might have plunged into servers - who knows.
To justify his position in the company he is the ultimate leader and facilitator for company success. Failing to be a good observer or listener and missing the boat, time after time does not bode well for his final mark. Many of the structural problems within the company he has failed to address, which is how a nimble competitor, such as Google, blew past Microsoft in the interval following the initial success of the iPhone and successive launches of Android. The play field was there and he was so blinkered he utterly missed the opportunity. Good leaders take the responsibility, poor leaders spread blame.
The acquisition of Nokia may be the last great screw-up of Ballmer. Where they should be pairing with a company which specializes in the hardware, they've gone and tied their wagon to one horse, named Nokia. The layoffs at Nokia will be coming fast and furious as Microsoft wind it down. They know this already in Finland.
Print me a Lawyerbot! (c:
Sue me, baby, I can make a million of them!
I'll say. Big mistake was making everyone wait for the ms app store with Win8 and Win phone. As soon, as Apple's app store was showing success they should have brought the windows app store to every platform they had. Who cares about windows upgrades (sales guy think)... get the app store rolling on... xp, vista, whatever. Too little too late now.
Microsoft have become the K-mart of tech companies. Well played, Mr. Ballmer.
pppppffft!
For $200 I can get a ready made Atom with an Nvidia GPU.
This board is worse than useless. It's insulting.
Yeah, I know, this reply x1,000. It's almost like they held a secret meeting with Ballmer up in Redmond and agreed they could nudge the Wintel syndicate in on Raspberry Pi turf.
It will have its niche. Someone will find a use for it somewhere.
Hey, engineers to spin up this board got to eat you know.
Yes, but not that much.
Donut + coffee OR Mountain Dew + Doritos
MS whiffed when they put balless in charge of anything. He can stop blaming others...
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Steve's been a failure and has just capped his career. Notice his use of the royal we, deflecting direct blame to the company, not its leader:
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Should be...
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when I was so focused on what I had to do around Windows that I wasn't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'