I have worked in software and computer product development for 20 years. Here are my observations. A company can be run by an engineer, an MBA (includes marketing types), and finance guys. The engineer will be popular with the rank and file engineers and will look inward for company solutions. The risk with him is that he does not control costs and may be susceptible to the 'not invented here syndrome'. The MBA is usually convinced of his own genius and impatient with the lack of genius around him. He loves to make deals and partnerships with other companies, and outsource, and therein lies the risk. If successful he can be good for your career. More often he will not and the company will die from within. Example, Boston Scientific and its disastrous mergers over the last 5 years. The last guy in my opinion is the most dangerous, the finance guy. At best he is caretaker, at worse your company will slowly evaporate in ever more desperate efforts to control costs without innovation. I agree with the story that we are headed for a period of engineer dominated management. We are in a period of stagnant innovation and it is a natural part of the cycle. The other guys will be ready to step in and 'manage' those innovations to extract maximum value some time later in the cycle.
You take your chances when you live in a river flood plain. The Army Corps can reduce the frequency of flooding but cannot eliminate it. People who live in flood plains would be wise to build on stilts like those in Carolina and Georgia, etc. I am puzzled why they do not.
As a person who has visited this fantastic preserve on several occasions, I cannot think of a worse place for the tree huggers to setup their moronic windmills. Of all of the desolate and remote lands on the high plains why would they pick the tiny percentage that is a true national treasure? If there were a site worthy of being a prairie national it would be in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma and Kansas. The same line of reasoning goes for the stupid, wasteful Cape Winds project off of Cape Cod, were the leftists plan to plunk a bunch of windmills in the middle of the most valuable recreational waters on the east coast. I can't imagine either project would last long due to vandalism. Drilling for oil and gas are far preferable means to exploit the energy resources of North America, especially with fracking technology.
Interesting coincidence. My company just fired a Machead graphic designer because of an attendance problem. The little Leninist wouldn't buy a car. He said he wouldn't be coerced into buying one. But then he complained about the price of a cab. Plonk.
You have to laugh at the way genius wannabees, like the ones who run Microsoft, are so desperate to associate themselves with a real one. Some things you simply cannot buy. One cannot help but think Feynman would scorn Microsoft's uninspired products.
SpaceX has absolutely no credibility in the current discussion. They've never launched anything of note. Why the left feels obligated at hand the manned space program over to a billionaire hobbyist on a lark, I'll never know. But congress has put a stop to it. All we need is for the GOP to win back the Presidency from the Bolsheviks and the US can set matters right.
Yeah, the Java frameworks are a whole other world of hurt. At least they were when I boycotted the language 10 years ago. XML has been a curse. That is another reason to like scheme. The program and data representation are indistinguishable.
Java is C++ for dummies. Mirah is Java for morons. It is a shame the programming world has forgotten about Scheme. The programming state of the art hasn't improved in 20 years and isn't going anywhere. Python is vile.
The space shuttle is retiring and NASA has no replacement planned. This moronic Open Source summit shows how confused the agency is about its mission and how readily it wastes funds. Those in charge of this boondoggle ought to be fired.
I had to buy the Tahoe. I enjoy skiing and need room for my dog, although I admit it is a bit marge for my morning commute alone. Global warming is a fraud. Peak oil a myth. Long live the American way of life!
Who cares? The oil will break down naturally soon enough. Have any of you Bolsheviks notice gas is $3.20 and rising? It is costing me over $50 to gas up my Chevy Tahoe. To paraphrase Sarah Palin, "its time for nature to take one for the team."
WA needs to try something. Democrat fraud is rampant. Dino Rossi has 2 elections stolen from him in a row by the Kings County democrat fraud machine. My guess is the left will continue to cheat the system, whatever it is.
Just what we need, a Soviet style rail system that will, at best, be half as fast as air travel. Is this the best he can come up with? I suppose the union sluggos are thrilled.
The economic value of the recreational waters off of Cape Cod vastly outweigh the profit potential of wind. And how did the developer obtain the rights for this incredibly valuable offshore property? Did they pay the citizens of Massachusetts. Of course not. They knew someone. NIMBY is at least as valid as a defense as the absurd energy justification for the project.
$50 million from the government because there is no profit potential in private industry. Like every other green energy initiative. Remember Carter? This one too will fail. Wind is less than 1% as efficient as coal. You can't change physics. The government will take the hard earned money of young families anyway, mal-invest it, and divert it to cronies like Jeff Immelt at GE. A sick con where there is no accountability. How ironic when there is an amazing revolution going on in natural gas extraction from shale in the US. The eco-left has found reason to hate it too.
Microsoft's stock price is down 20% over 10 years. Their chart really stinks. Most options have long expired. That alone will drive away the best people.
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I have worked in software and computer product development for 20 years. Here are my observations. A company can be run by an engineer, an MBA (includes marketing types), and finance guys. The engineer will be popular with the rank and file engineers and will look inward for company solutions. The risk with him is that he does not control costs and may be susceptible to the 'not invented here syndrome'. The MBA is usually convinced of his own genius and impatient with the lack of genius around him. He loves to make deals and partnerships with other companies, and outsource, and therein lies the risk. If successful he can be good for your career. More often he will not and the company will die from within. Example, Boston Scientific and its disastrous mergers over the last 5 years. The last guy in my opinion is the most dangerous, the finance guy. At best he is caretaker, at worse your company will slowly evaporate in ever more desperate efforts to control costs without innovation. I agree with the story that we are headed for a period of engineer dominated management. We are in a period of stagnant innovation and it is a natural part of the cycle. The other guys will be ready to step in and 'manage' those innovations to extract maximum value some time later in the cycle.
You take your chances when you live in a river flood plain. The Army Corps can reduce the frequency of flooding but cannot eliminate it. People who live in flood plains would be wise to build on stilts like those in Carolina and Georgia, etc. I am puzzled why they do not.
I encourage those opposed to these highly visible boondoggles to vandalize them in protest!
As a person who has visited this fantastic preserve on several occasions, I cannot think of a worse place for the tree huggers to setup their moronic windmills. Of all of the desolate and remote lands on the high plains why would they pick the tiny percentage that is a true national treasure? If there were a site worthy of being a prairie national it would be in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma and Kansas. The same line of reasoning goes for the stupid, wasteful Cape Winds project off of Cape Cod, were the leftists plan to plunk a bunch of windmills in the middle of the most valuable recreational waters on the east coast. I can't imagine either project would last long due to vandalism. Drilling for oil and gas are far preferable means to exploit the energy resources of North America, especially with fracking technology.
He got tired of being owned by the Chinese. A master of bullsh*t bingo with the right skin color, nothing more.
War with China is inevitable. The sooner we glass the mainland back to the stone age the better.
No. We are not using up the earth's resources. We are just temporarily governed by wild eyed Bolsheviks.
Interesting coincidence. My company just fired a Machead graphic designer because of an attendance problem. The little Leninist wouldn't buy a car. He said he wouldn't be coerced into buying one. But then he complained about the price of a cab. Plonk.
You have to laugh at the way genius wannabees, like the ones who run Microsoft, are so desperate to associate themselves with a real one. Some things you simply cannot buy. One cannot help but think Feynman would scorn Microsoft's uninspired products.
SpaceX has absolutely no credibility in the current discussion. They've never launched anything of note. Why the left feels obligated at hand the manned space program over to a billionaire hobbyist on a lark, I'll never know. But congress has put a stop to it. All we need is for the GOP to win back the Presidency from the Bolsheviks and the US can set matters right.
Obama is indeed a pathetic joke. Let us bomb the terrorist Gaddafi so the terrorists take over the Libya! What an inspiration.
This is true when they aren't shilling for Elon Musk!
Yay! Slower, less comfortable clean, green jets. The wildlife will be thrilled.
The Chinese do a very good job of covering their stadiums with clouds, of pollution.
Yeah, the Java frameworks are a whole other world of hurt. At least they were when I boycotted the language 10 years ago. XML has been a curse. That is another reason to like scheme. The program and data representation are indistinguishable.
Java is C++ for dummies. Mirah is Java for morons. It is a shame the programming world has forgotten about Scheme. The programming state of the art hasn't improved in 20 years and isn't going anywhere. Python is vile.
The space shuttle is retiring and NASA has no replacement planned. This moronic Open Source summit shows how confused the agency is about its mission and how readily it wastes funds. Those in charge of this boondoggle ought to be fired.
I had to buy the Tahoe. I enjoy skiing and need room for my dog, although I admit it is a bit marge for my morning commute alone. Global warming is a fraud. Peak oil a myth. Long live the American way of life!
Who cares? The oil will break down naturally soon enough. Have any of you Bolsheviks notice gas is $3.20 and rising? It is costing me over $50 to gas up my Chevy Tahoe. To paraphrase Sarah Palin, "its time for nature to take one for the team."
WA needs to try something. Democrat fraud is rampant. Dino Rossi has 2 elections stolen from him in a row by the Kings County democrat fraud machine. My guess is the left will continue to cheat the system, whatever it is.
Educate yourself, moron.
Just what we need, a Soviet style rail system that will, at best, be half as fast as air travel. Is this the best he can come up with? I suppose the union sluggos are thrilled.
The economic value of the recreational waters off of Cape Cod vastly outweigh the profit potential of wind. And how did the developer obtain the rights for this incredibly valuable offshore property? Did they pay the citizens of Massachusetts. Of course not. They knew someone. NIMBY is at least as valid as a defense as the absurd energy justification for the project.
$50 million from the government because there is no profit potential in private industry. Like every other green energy initiative. Remember Carter? This one too will fail. Wind is less than 1% as efficient as coal. You can't change physics. The government will take the hard earned money of young families anyway, mal-invest it, and divert it to cronies like Jeff Immelt at GE. A sick con where there is no accountability. How ironic when there is an amazing revolution going on in natural gas extraction from shale in the US. The eco-left has found reason to hate it too.
Microsoft's stock price is down 20% over 10 years. Their chart really stinks. Most options have long expired. That alone will drive away the best people.