Tienes toda la razon (soy australiano, pero mis textos de MBA en general son gringos).
"Moderno" en contra de "Clasico". Los clasicos son estructuras como burocracia y idea como el hombre es solo una maquinita de trabajo. Los teorias "Modernas" entienden que hay interacciones entre los trabajadores y su foco es un controlar las interacciones, no los individuales.
Los EE.UU. pagan mejor, pero su costo de vida es mas alta tambien. Y, hay probreza profunda en lugares como LA y sus protectorados como Puerto Rico.
Ni una sola vez ha tenido capacitación por una empresa española, pero parace que los gringo entienden su importancia.
Getting all of South America drunk first would be prohibitively expensive.
No it wouldn't. South Americans are light-weights when it comes to alcohol, and every country has its native un-identifiable clear spirit that sells for a song because there's no import tax. In Peru its "Pisco", in Chile its "Aguadiente" (They also have "Pisco" but they deny stealing it from the Peruvians), in Bolivia it doesn't even have a name but its 95% alcohol and tasts like rocket fuel. I don't remember what the Brazillian one is called, but they mix into with lemons into a Cahparinha, which is really yummy.
Disclaimer: I am an Australian with an engineering degree. I am fully qualified to talk about drinking.
Re:That'll lower the productivity index
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We're collapsing because management is viciously incompetent
Hallajulah, brother!
Then, do what I'm doing.
After 5 years of complaining about shit managers, I arrived at "I can do better than that", so I enrolled in an tech-oriented MBA program.
Recommend it to anyone. You can't lead tech if you don't understand tech and leadership. We are engineers, we learn from manuals. An MBA has plenty of merit. Also has plenty of bullshit and a good dose of religion... but enough hard and real stuff to justify its existance.
An MBA isn't the problem. People who act like the jerk in the Fedex ad are the problem, and give MBAs a bad name.
Puede ser que hay ejemplos de empresas con una manera de pensar mas "moderno", pero telefonica no es, ni Alma Technologias, ni Indra, ni las otras empresas informaticas con quien he trabajado.
Mi novia trabajé por un banco, y ellos siempre estaban implementando tecnicas gringas y europeas. No siempre con exito, pero por lo menos fue buenas intenciones.
Re:Close, but misses the mark
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I'm can't speak for the French, but realise that "hours worked" does not equal productivity.
Chileans are number 3 when it comes to most hours worked, but number 43 when it comes to productivity.
Maybe US culture still rewards people who spend 80 hours a week with their nose to the grindstone, but in general, people who achieve goals are more highly regarded, whether they do it in 20 hours or 80.
Work HARD = Work SMART, not Work LONG
And, yeah, I'm slacking, but I'm putting in my resignation next week (unless I can negotiate an exit package this week).
Re:That'll lower the productivity index
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And if you still think loafing is the way to go, please do not procreate.
She's on top!
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Nah.
Spanish companies are bastards (and, as an sometime employee of Telefonica, I can say that with authority).
The Spanish management mentality is really stuck in the "People are meat" age. Bum on seat = position filled. If you can sack somebody and replace them with somebody cheaper, then do it. Experience counts for nothing. If you've got a degree, then that is what you are.
Efficiency means "sack people", business plan means "sell stuff". Its really a very simple way to look at the complex dynamics of a business.
Re:Please follow her advice.
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When the annual review comes up the people that take pride or work hard will move ahead.
Please give me a one-way ticket to your ideal world.
The chances that annual reviews will hand out awards in a way that correspondes to reality is basically nil. The problem, widely documented, is that most low to middle IT managers have no management skills. Corperations are failing to instill these skills when promoting good technical people.
Its Catch 22, we need your technical skills so we promote you, but when we promote you, you manage people.
That people are slacking THIS badly means that his or her manager should be shot, and they are obviously not excessing control over their team.
The Web should be capitalized, as it is a contraction of "World Wide Web". The guy who invented it (Tim Berners Lee) has the right to name it, and he named it with a capital.
As for "internet" vs "Internet", somebody should ask its inventor, Al Gore.
more vibrant color and brighter image, looks
more like cinema than video.
Bollocks. If you want it to look brighter like a cinema, drag heavy dark-crimson curtains over every possible light source and tread stale pop-corn into your carpet.
What this doesn't do is improve resolution, which is the principal deficiency with home systens. But give that is a problem with the source material rather than the display.
I'm guessing that dollar figure comes from 50000 lost sales at $55 a pop.
The question that always needs to be asked is "how many of those 50000 wouldn't have bought the game anyway?"
I'm not saying that they should have downloaded it... I'm no where near saying that id shouldn't be rewarded for 4 years of effort... but I do dispute the statement that id "lost" that amount of money.
For the record, I haven't bought Doom III. I'm waiting for the Demo to see if it runs on my hardware, and to work out if the game justifies updating my video card.
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Actually, now that I think about the AI in Doom III, maybe a "Cheerleader" Mod isn't too bad an idea.
All we'd need are skins, and a "Soriety Dorm" map.
And a chainsaw.
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The next id game won't be anything like the others
Um. They've done "blowing the living shit out of Nazis" and "Blowing the living shit out of hell demons" as well as "blowing the living shit out of each other".
So, how to make that completely different? Blowing the shit out of Cheerleaders in a slumber party? Are ID going to recreate that old Sega game?
I have NO PROBLEM, with you owning an larger vehicle, as long as you understand that it is a larger, heavier vehicle and thus doesn't handle the same way a Ford Taurus does, and you are licensed or at least trained or at least licensed to that effect.
(Note, 4x4 clubs are, in general excellent at this).
By the way, I lived in the country where I owned own a smallish (2.7 litre Diesel) 4x4.
Same in Australia where the big city 4x4 of choice is the Toyota LandCruiser 100 series. Its a fine vehicle for travelling Outback australia, but its not a city vehicle.
The one advantage is that if you want one to go bush, you can pick up one that's 5 years old with 20,000 on the clock.
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Yup.. MBA, y soon CCIE.
Management isn't total bullshit, emphasis on Total.
We need MORE TECHS IN MANAGEMENT. Would your rather a PHB with no clue, or a PHB who can back you up when the system fails?
Tienes toda la razon (soy australiano, pero mis textos de MBA en general son gringos).
"Moderno" en contra de "Clasico". Los clasicos son estructuras como burocracia y idea como el hombre es solo una maquinita de trabajo. Los teorias "Modernas" entienden que hay interacciones entre los trabajadores y su foco es un controlar las interacciones, no los individuales.
Los EE.UU. pagan mejor, pero su costo de vida es mas alta tambien. Y, hay probreza profunda en lugares como LA y sus protectorados como Puerto Rico.
Ni una sola vez ha tenido capacitación por una empresa española, pero parace que los gringo entienden su importancia.
No it wouldn't. South Americans are light-weights when it comes to alcohol, and every country has its native un-identifiable clear spirit that sells for a song because there's no import tax. In Peru its "Pisco", in Chile its "Aguadiente" (They also have "Pisco" but they deny stealing it from the Peruvians), in Bolivia it doesn't even have a name but its 95% alcohol and tasts like rocket fuel. I don't remember what the Brazillian one is called, but they mix into with lemons into a Cahparinha, which is really yummy.
Disclaimer: I am an Australian with an engineering degree. I am fully qualified to talk about drinking.
Hallajulah, brother!
Then, do what I'm doing.
After 5 years of complaining about shit managers, I arrived at "I can do better than that", so I enrolled in an tech-oriented MBA program.
Recommend it to anyone. You can't lead tech if you don't understand tech and leadership. We are engineers, we learn from manuals. An MBA has plenty of merit. Also has plenty of bullshit and a good dose of religion... but enough hard and real stuff to justify its existance.
An MBA isn't the problem. People who act like the jerk in the Fedex ad are the problem, and give MBAs a bad name.
Mira.
Puede ser que hay ejemplos de empresas con una manera de pensar mas "moderno", pero telefonica no es, ni Alma Technologias, ni Indra, ni las otras empresas informaticas con quien he trabajado.
Mi novia trabajé por un banco, y ellos siempre estaban implementando tecnicas gringas y europeas. No siempre con exito, pero por lo menos fue buenas intenciones.
I'm can't speak for the French, but realise that "hours worked" does not equal productivity.
Chileans are number 3 when it comes to most hours worked, but number 43 when it comes to productivity.
Maybe US culture still rewards people who spend 80 hours a week with their nose to the grindstone, but in general, people who achieve goals are more highly regarded, whether they do it in 20 hours or 80.
Work HARD = Work SMART, not Work LONG
And, yeah, I'm slacking, but I'm putting in my resignation next week (unless I can negotiate an exit package this week).
She's on top!
Nah.
Spanish companies are bastards (and, as an sometime employee of Telefonica, I can say that with authority).
The Spanish management mentality is really stuck in the "People are meat" age. Bum on seat = position filled. If you can sack somebody and replace them with somebody cheaper, then do it. Experience counts for nothing. If you've got a degree, then that is what you are.
Efficiency means "sack people", business plan means "sell stuff". Its really a very simple way to look at the complex dynamics of a business.
Please give me a one-way ticket to your ideal world.
The chances that annual reviews will hand out awards in a way that correspondes to reality is basically nil. The problem, widely documented, is that most low to middle IT managers have no management skills. Corperations are failing to instill these skills when promoting good technical people.
Its Catch 22, we need your technical skills so we promote you, but when we promote you, you manage people.
That people are slacking THIS badly means that his or her manager should be shot, and they are obviously not excessing control over their team.
As for "internet" vs "Internet", somebody should ask its inventor, Al Gore.
... to read SlashDot.
more vibrant color and brighter image, looks more like cinema than video.
Bollocks. If you want it to look brighter like a cinema, drag heavy dark-crimson curtains over every possible light source and tread stale pop-corn into your carpet.
What this doesn't do is improve resolution, which is the principal deficiency with home systens. But give that is a problem with the source material rather than the display.
How do you respond to claims that Ingress is dying?
No, the article spells "Own" with a letter.
Why are they giving money to the french?
... as long as you own the rights to said material.
I'm guessing that dollar figure comes from 50000 lost sales at $55 a pop. The question that always needs to be asked is "how many of those 50000 wouldn't have bought the game anyway?" I'm not saying that they should have downloaded it... I'm no where near saying that id shouldn't be rewarded for 4 years of effort... but I do dispute the statement that id "lost" that amount of money. For the record, I haven't bought Doom III. I'm waiting for the Demo to see if it runs on my hardware, and to work out if the game justifies updating my video card.
Actually, now that I think about the AI in Doom III, maybe a "Cheerleader" Mod isn't too bad an idea.
All we'd need are skins, and a "Soriety Dorm" map.
And a chainsaw.
Um. They've done "blowing the living shit out of Nazis" and "Blowing the living shit out of hell demons" as well as "blowing the living shit out of each other".
So, how to make that completely different? Blowing the shit out of Cheerleaders in a slumber party? Are ID going to recreate that old Sega game?
You frag Petunia's Pom Poms with a rocket.
Then you are either
which means you are officially a member of a slashdot minority group.
Man,
I have NO PROBLEM, with you owning an larger vehicle, as long as you understand that it is a larger, heavier vehicle and thus doesn't handle the same way a Ford Taurus does, and you are licensed or at least trained or at least licensed to that effect.
(Note, 4x4 clubs are, in general excellent at this).
By the way, I lived in the country where I owned own a smallish (2.7 litre Diesel) 4x4.
Here?
Same in Australia where the big city 4x4 of choice is the Toyota LandCruiser 100 series. Its a fine vehicle for travelling Outback australia, but its not a city vehicle.
The one advantage is that if you want one to go bush, you can pick up one that's 5 years old with 20,000 on the clock.
Dude, its still a Volvo.
No self respecting big-ass-truck owner is going to be seen DEAD in a Volvo.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Bicycle couriers....