"What Effect Will This Have on Shareholder Value?" This is the question that most managers should always be asking but seldom do. You can use this against them since they know that even their bosses know that this should be the most important question in determining policy. But if you use the Shareholder Value question be sure to have arguments as to why the dress code will detract from shareholder value. Does a "more professional atmosphere" add more to shareholder value than happy, inspired, and productive employees? Do the benefits of a dress code outweigh the higher salaries that a "more professional" workforce will demand? Does a dress code cut off opportunities for the company to hire talented creative people who are unwilling to work for other companies who have a dress code?
Remember Nazi Germany. They had a gene code. If you had jewish blood you're talents were not welcome. So they discarded some of their best smart creative people, many who went to work for the competition. The competition later put the Nazis out of business. Clearly this policy was not good for Nazi shareholder value. Unfortunately, the issue was one of their main sources of obtaining control and they came to believe their propaganda so fully that they were unable to move away from this policy.
Forget explosions, think about the massive changesof feet below the surface. Any downhole laser drilling system is going to have to be able to take some serious abuse. They don't call them "kicks" for nothing.
The article doesn't even touch on this issue.
"The intenet is for non-commercial purposes only. All others will be Flamed by the internet community to keep business off the internet."
This circa 1993 ideology is begining to seem like it is more prophetic than anyone could have imagined.
Prodigy does not have the financial resources to fight a long protracted fight. They are so heavily burdened with debt that they may have to be bailed out by new investment capital. This is something that is not going to be easy to do with the stock market going like it is, particularly if there is this lawsuit over Prodigy's head.
Tenious lawsuits are usually filed against the company with the deepest pockets (more likely to get a large settlement) or the one hanging on by the skin of their teeth (more likely to be able to bully them into a settlement). Looks like BT is doing the later.
According to Bill gates this is only a problem if someone figures out a way to "factor very large prime numbers". Apparently, factoring some of the smaller prime numbers is something he does in his sleep.
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"What Effect Will This Have on Shareholder Value?" This is the question that most managers should always be asking but seldom do. You can use this against them since they know that even their bosses know that this should be the most important question in determining policy. But if you use the Shareholder Value question be sure to have arguments as to why the dress code will detract from shareholder value. Does a "more professional atmosphere" add more to shareholder value than happy, inspired, and productive employees? Do the benefits of a dress code outweigh the higher salaries that a "more professional" workforce will demand? Does a dress code cut off opportunities for the company to hire talented creative people who are unwilling to work for other companies who have a dress code? Remember Nazi Germany. They had a gene code. If you had jewish blood you're talents were not welcome. So they discarded some of their best smart creative people, many who went to work for the competition. The competition later put the Nazis out of business. Clearly this policy was not good for Nazi shareholder value. Unfortunately, the issue was one of their main sources of obtaining control and they came to believe their propaganda so fully that they were unable to move away from this policy.
Forget explosions, think about the massive changesof feet below the surface. Any downhole laser drilling system is going to have to be able to take some serious abuse. They don't call them "kicks" for nothing. The article doesn't even touch on this issue.
"The intenet is for non-commercial purposes only. All others will be Flamed by the internet community to keep business off the internet." This circa 1993 ideology is begining to seem like it is more prophetic than anyone could have imagined.
Yea, this sould also reduce or even eliminate checkout lines at brick-and-mortar stores. Look out internet B2C.
Prodigy does not have the financial resources to fight a long protracted fight. They are so heavily burdened with debt that they may have to be bailed out by new investment capital. This is something that is not going to be easy to do with the stock market going like it is, particularly if there is this lawsuit over Prodigy's head. Tenious lawsuits are usually filed against the company with the deepest pockets (more likely to get a large settlement) or the one hanging on by the skin of their teeth (more likely to be able to bully them into a settlement). Looks like BT is doing the later.
According to Bill gates this is only a problem if someone figures out a way to "factor very large prime numbers". Apparently, factoring some of the smaller prime numbers is something he does in his sleep.
Sign it and then hire yourself out as an expert witness when others try to have this patent invalidated.