I think the whole situation is better characterized as doing what women in the U.S. often do, make themselves miserable. Underneath her statement is possibly a feeling that she doesn't like talking with men. (If you want to meet women who are, in general, much happier, go to Brazil.)
No negotiating? That's crazy! Negotiating is just talking. When there is good communication, there will be better decisions. To give one small example, maybe there is a clerical error in the human resources department that makes the person being interviewed seem less valuable to the company than he or she really is.
If someone makes exaggerated claims, that person is dishonest. Don't hire a dishonest person. If someone asks for 10% more pay than offered, ask why, and investigate any information that supports the request.
Ellen Pao appears to be another Carly Fiorina. (Look at that terrible photo of Ms. Fiorina.) To me, Ellen Pao seems to lack social sophistication.
wonkey_monkey, I'm guessing you are actually wonkey_human.
Yes, I think I have an explanation. Google has been degrading rapidly. More and more Google is out of control. To me, that is very sad. For years, Google was an amazingly excellent company.
The Google traffic map near Portland, Oregon shows traffic accidents in Seattle, 3 hours away. The design of the text in the upper left corner of Google maps is very poor.
The 2 Gb is just an electrical connection speed. The delivery of actual information is FAR slower. It's a dishonest way of drawing attention away from the real issues.
Jurgen Schmidt of Heise Security says: "Since Facebook buttons are virtually omnipresent, Facebook can get a complete list of all the websites that I visit and link it to my person..."
"Don't think for a second that they don't have an army of tech-savy advisors and specialists..."
How would someone who isn't technically knowledgeable know if someone IS technically knowledgeable? In fact, a lot of incompetent people want high-paying jobs. Incompetent people may sound wonderful to a manager.
Most government leaders are profoundly ignorant about technology.
For those of us who work with technology, it is difficult to understand how ignorant the leaders are, and what we could do to fix the problems ignorant leaders cause.
That seems correct. A lot of companies will think: "Don't hire women. They may accuse someone of "gender bias" or "sexual harassment". In the U.S. at present, that is an easy way to get money without earning it.
A long time ago, I was dating an attractive woman who had 2 jobs in traditionally male areas. I said to her, "Women often say they have trouble with unacceptable male attention." She told me, "They ask for it!" (Exact quote) I questioned her and learned that opinion of hers was very strong and rooted in considerable experience.
She always dressed in a way that made people respect her.
That's the best proposal for law that I've seen in many years. After many years, we see some excellent leaders, rather than weak people who pretend to be leading.
"monstrous surveillance engine" He left out evil. Should be: "evil monstrous surveillance engine"
But Facebook can be useful: Are you too happy? Is it uncomfortable being happier than everyone else? Do you want to be miserable like everyone you see around you?
1) Dog runs from bushes and attacks drone, destroys it. Who pays?
2) Child runs to drone, is hurt. Whose fault?
3) Drone fails in flight, crashes, kills people, destroys property. Amazon pays more than all profits from drone delivery.
4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?
5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?
In newspaper publishing, what Slashdot and Dice Holdings management writes are called "Blind Headlines". You can't know whether you want to read the story until you have read the story.
I looked at all the comments. There don't seem to be any that mention the underlying issue. Areva makes HUGE reactors. Management of large constructions causes expensive problems. Dealing with a disaster in a huge reactor is also far more difficult.
Quote: "Generally, modern small reactors for power generation are expected to have greater simplicity of design, economy of mass production, and reduced siting costs. Most are also designed for a high level of passive or inherent safety in the event of malfunction."
The Areva design does not have "passive or inherent safety".
Also, Areva's reactors are so extremely large that special equipment is needed to make them. See this PDF file: How to Make Nuclear Cheap - The Breakthrough Institute. Quote: "Very large Gen III+ reactors have experienced construction delays and cost overruns."
24*7 = 168. Sleeping 130 hours leaves 38 hours for everything besides sleeping. Sounds like a male lion. Plus there are all those female lions hanging around.
It seemed to me that "Yahoo was stagnating for years" not because of employees working from home, but, overall, because of poor and insufficient management.
When Google stopped paying Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 each year, Mozilla Foundation took money from Yahoo to sneakily "update" Firefox so that it uses "Yahoo search". Yahoo search is actually Microsoft's Bing search. A quote from Marissa:
"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
Now, somehow, the Firefox and Thunderbird user interfaces have been degraded. Firefox no longer allows making a duplicate tab from a tab; it is necessary to right-click on a web page to make a duplicate; that doesn't work well because it is necessary to find a place on the web page that is not a link.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey composer now have the Save-As bug.
So, Microsoft paid Yahoo. Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to trick users into using Microsoft's Bing search engine. And now Mozilla Foundation is apparently allowing the degradation of its products. Apparently Microsoft wants Firefox and Thunderbird to be degraded that so there will be more users of Microsoft's browser and email software.
"... they hired someone who they thought would bring a lot of Google inside information to them,..."
Marissa Meyer was demoted, according to an L.A. Times story that has now been deleted, but is available at another site.
Quote: "But when Page took over as CEO in April 2011, he did not make a spot for her on his senior leadership team. Instead, she took over the company's location and local products, fueling speculation she would leave Google."
Back in 2006, before she joined Yahoo, there were questions about how much she thinking she could do, considering her work habits: How I work.
Quote: "I do marathon e-mail catch-up sessions, sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday. I'll just sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight. I almost always have the radio or my TV on."
Another, earlier quote: "I use Gmail for my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast."
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MightyMartian, somewhat above-average Earthman here.
I think the whole situation is better characterized as doing what women in the U.S. often do, make themselves miserable. Underneath her statement is possibly a feeling that she doesn't like talking with men. (If you want to meet women who are, in general, much happier, go to Brazil.)
No negotiating? That's crazy! Negotiating is just talking. When there is good communication, there will be better decisions. To give one small example, maybe there is a clerical error in the human resources department that makes the person being interviewed seem less valuable to the company than he or she really is.
If someone makes exaggerated claims, that person is dishonest. Don't hire a dishonest person. If someone asks for 10% more pay than offered, ask why, and investigate any information that supports the request.
Ellen Pao appears to be another Carly Fiorina. (Look at that terrible photo of Ms. Fiorina.) To me, Ellen Pao seems to lack social sophistication.
wonkey_monkey, I'm guessing you are actually wonkey_human.
Yes, I think I have an explanation. Google has been degrading rapidly. More and more Google is out of control. To me, that is very sad. For years, Google was an amazingly excellent company.
The Google traffic map near Portland, Oregon shows traffic accidents in Seattle, 3 hours away. The design of the text in the upper left corner of Google maps is very poor.
There are many other issues of that nature.
The 2 Gb is just an electrical connection speed. The delivery of actual information is FAR slower. It's a dishonest way of drawing attention away from the real issues.
Jurgen Schmidt of Heise Security says: "Since Facebook buttons are virtually omnipresent, Facebook can get a complete list of all the websites that I visit and link it to my person..."
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Facebook can be useful if you have this problem: Are you too happy? Is it uncomfortable being happier than everyone else? Do you want to be miserable like everyone you see around you? Facebook has an answer. Read Facebook use predicts declines in happiness, new study finds. Or download the scientific paper.
How to avoid the abusers:
Adblock Edge
NoScript
Ghostery
Better Privacy
Cookies Manager Plus (Does not delete one particular Google cookie.)
"Don't think for a second that they don't have an army of tech-savy advisors and specialists..."
How would someone who isn't technically knowledgeable know if someone IS technically knowledgeable? In fact, a lot of incompetent people want high-paying jobs. Incompetent people may sound wonderful to a manager.
Most government leaders are profoundly ignorant about technology.
For those of us who work with technology, it is difficult to understand how ignorant the leaders are, and what we could do to fix the problems ignorant leaders cause.
She had a not-showy manner of dressing that looked both excellent and comfortable.
She was comfortable around men. Men accepted her as someone with whom they could talk.
Most women in the U.S. show by their manner that they aren't comfortable around men.
That seems correct. A lot of companies will think: "Don't hire women. They may accuse someone of "gender bias" or "sexual harassment". In the U.S. at present, that is an easy way to get money without earning it.
A long time ago, I was dating an attractive woman who had 2 jobs in traditionally male areas. I said to her, "Women often say they have trouble with unacceptable male attention." She told me, "They ask for it!" (Exact quote) I questioned her and learned that opinion of hers was very strong and rooted in considerable experience.
She always dressed in a way that made people respect her.
That's the best proposal for law that I've seen in many years. After many years, we see some excellent leaders, rather than weak people who pretend to be leading.
"monstrous surveillance engine" He left out evil. Should be: "evil monstrous surveillance engine"
But Facebook can be useful: Are you too happy? Is it uncomfortable being happier than everyone else? Do you want to be miserable like everyone you see around you?
Facebook has an answer. Read Facebook use predicts declines in happiness, new study finds. Or download the scientific paper.
Dogs will definitely attack a dangling rope!
1) Dog runs from bushes and attacks drone, destroys it. Who pays?
2) Child runs to drone, is hurt. Whose fault?
3) Drone fails in flight, crashes, kills people, destroys property. Amazon pays more than all profits from drone delivery.
4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?
5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?
6) Drone is stolen.
Kills tourism to N.Z.
Are you too happy? Is it uncomfortable being happier than everyone else? Do you want to be miserable like everyone you see around you?
Facebook has an answer. Read Facebook use predicts declines in happiness, new study finds. Or download the scientific paper.
In newspaper publishing, what Slashdot and Dice Holdings management writes are called "Blind Headlines". You can't know whether you want to read the story until you have read the story.
"soulless husk that was formerly human"
Good description of someone who works for a dishonest company.
I looked at all the comments. There don't seem to be any that mention the underlying issue. Areva makes HUGE reactors. Management of large constructions causes expensive problems. Dealing with a disaster in a huge reactor is also far more difficult.
Quote: "Generally, modern small reactors for power generation are expected to have greater simplicity of design, economy of mass production, and reduced siting costs. Most are also designed for a high level of passive or inherent safety in the event of malfunction."
The Areva design does not have "passive or inherent safety".
Also, Areva's reactors are so extremely large that special equipment is needed to make them. See this PDF file: How to Make Nuclear Cheap - The Breakthrough Institute. Quote: "Very large Gen III+ reactors have experienced construction delays and cost overruns."
Dictionary definition of Yahoo: A person who is very rude, loud, or stupid.
It amazes me that technically knowledgeable people choose names that limit their success.
TeX is 3 letters from another alphabet!
Gimp means: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. A term used to refer to a person who limps or is lame.
24*7 = 168. Sleeping 130 hours leaves 38 hours for everything besides sleeping. Sounds like a male lion. Plus there are all those female lions hanging around.
It seemed to me that "Yahoo was stagnating for years" not because of employees working from home, but, overall, because of poor and insufficient management.
After Terry Semel, and before Marissa Meyer, there were 5 Yahoo CEOs who stayed less than 2 years each.
Nothing has changed, apparently. Marissa Mayer's second-in-command 'leaves with $109m' on being fired from Yahoo after just 15 months. The rapid changes in management continue, that time with a $109,000,000 loss for Yahoo. (What management arrangement allowed a poor manager, someone who was so bad he was fired, to make $7,266,666 per month?)
When Google stopped paying Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 each year, Mozilla Foundation took money from Yahoo to sneakily "update" Firefox so that it uses "Yahoo search". Yahoo search is actually Microsoft's Bing search. A quote from Marissa:
"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
Now, somehow, the Firefox and Thunderbird user interfaces have been degraded. Firefox no longer allows making a duplicate tab from a tab; it is necessary to right-click on a web page to make a duplicate; that doesn't work well because it is necessary to find a place on the web page that is not a link.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey composer now have the Save-As bug.
So, Microsoft paid Yahoo. Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to trick users into using Microsoft's Bing search engine. And now Mozilla Foundation is apparently allowing the degradation of its products. Apparently Microsoft wants Firefox and Thunderbird to be degraded that so there will be more users of Microsoft's browser and email software.
The sneaky tactic is not working: American Firefox users dump Yahoo and go back to Google.
Now: Yahoo's Incredible Shrinking Profitability In Its Core Business (Forbes, March 1, 2015).
"... they hired someone who they thought would bring a lot of Google inside information to them, ..."
Marissa Meyer was demoted, according to an L.A. Times story that has now been deleted, but is available at another site.
Quote: "But when Page took over as CEO in April 2011, he did not make a spot for her on his senior leadership team. Instead, she took over the company's location and local products, fueling speculation she would leave Google."
Do you think someone can be CEO and take care of a baby at the same time?
Back in 2006, before she joined Yahoo, there were questions about how much she thinking she could do, considering her work habits: How I work.
Quote: "I do marathon e-mail catch-up sessions, sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday. I'll just sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight. I almost always have the radio or my TV on."
Another, earlier quote: "I use Gmail for my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast."
Would an Ikea manager know enough about technology to know who is competent and who isn't?
Would you buy an Ikea table because you want to charge a phone? The question makes me laugh.
"Ikea's move is one of the best things I've heard for the future of wireless charging."
Would you buy that Ikea table so that you could use it to charge a phone?