It's not just the PR companies... there are many people who just hover over a topic and make sure the topic reflects their viewpoint, regardless of whether their viewpoint is substantiated. That's why I stopped contributing to Wikipedia, I've had edits (complete with citations) reversed with no given reason other than the hoverer did not like the tense of a verb I used.
Whenever a person has asked me about working from home and what are the concerns, my response has always been the same --- the question will not be ~ how many hours are you working?~. The question should always be, ~ how do you intend to be a part of a team and commit to the appropriate level of communications to remain a part of that team?~.
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Contrary to the opinion of most [clueless] managers, it is not about the slackers.
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It is about communication among the team.
If you hire good employees, then you should not need to be concerned about the number of hours they are working, except to make sure they are not working too many hours.
.Lee Iacocca - "I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
What is described in the article is not micromanagement, it is knowing what the product should be and assuring it meets that goal.
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Micromanagement occurs when your manager spends more time asking you detailed questions about your project than you spend actually working on the project. Micromanagement occurs when your manager really does not understand technically what you are doing, and thinks that he can look like he does by asking a lot of questions. Micromanagement is telling you how to do your job, not telling you what the goal of your job is.
Micromanagement is not good for the person being "managed", the project, or the company.
...Microsoft said it wants gestures to complement what is possible using mouse and keyboard, rather than replacing them...
Didn't Microsoft say a similar thing about the new interface in Windows 8 and the Start Menu? Yet Microsoft tried burying the Start Menu, only to be chastised by its customers for doing Yet Another Stupid Thing.
I've posted countless essays over the years on the importance of Net neutrality and how big ISPs are trying to turn the Internet into a pay-per-view system, rather than the open-access system it was always intended to be. I've written open letters to federal legislators; remarked on the various games being played by AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and the like; and cheered Google Fiber for demonstrating that the big ISPs are full of nonsense when they claim their backs are against the wall in terms of broadband speeds and reach.
And now, Verizon is claiming it has free speech rights to limit and block content flowing from the Internet to its customers....
If you say such things about Apple's software, your messages might be removed from their support forums, or you might be banned from their forums. When you are in the walled garden, you should be a happy consumer. Or else.
Management at my company seems to think that our developers can get extra work done if they work extra long days.
When I managed software engineers, I used to walk around and tell them to go home. The software engineers need the time to refresh, just as an athlete needs time to rejuvenate.
The author of the summary and/or TFA seems to draw a conclusion based upon a paucity of information.
Yet, according to IHS, client SSD annual failure rates under warranty tend to be around 1.5%, while HDDs are near 5%. So an SSDs not only outperforms, but on average outlast spinning disk."
The unknown in the equation is the length of the warranty periods for the drives used in the comparison.
potentially creating a national security headache for the government.
The Chinese, having been unable to deliver nuclear weapons via ICBMs, have now cleared that hurdle --- place the nuclear weapons within the sovereign state of the enemy with a remote control capability to blow it up at any time. What more could China ask for?
The background image behind the text makes the text more difficult to read. Doesn't anyone at Yahoo have any usability design experience? It looks like Yahoo is going back to the days of the flaming logos. Gaudy design for the sake of gaudiness.
Is this a joke article? What in the world is all the fuss about?
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Microsoft has... more patents... than any other tech company on the planet.
Microsoft didn't even start to make the yearly Top Ten list of patent recipients until 2007. And even then it usually placed around number 3 to number 5.
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Rubbish.
Huge market share, huge profit margins, huge cash reserves... and they can hire almost anybody in the world to be their next CEO.
When you compare fundamentals, Apple's position is far more precarious than Microsoft's. Apple relies on its "cool" factor, and cool is almost always short-lived. Microsoft has never been cool, but they have more developers, more patents and more lobbyists than any other tech company on the planet. Write them off at your peril.
I like your rose-coloured glasses.....
Huge market share
Only in old markets. How's Microsoft's marketshare in the mobile segment?
huge profit margins
Only in old markets. How's the profit margin doing for Xbox?
huge cash reserves
Agreed, but no working strategy to turn that cash reserve into viable, growing new businesses.
Microsoft has never been cool,
At one time, they were. But they lost that attribute when the 1990's ended.
they have more developers
Yup, a lot of developers without a strategic direction, but with lots of internal fighting and back-stabbing.
more patents than any other tech company on the plane
Not correct.
more lobbyists than any other tech company on the planet
Now *there's* a feature of a tech company that I would be proud of... NOT. Microsoft needs the lobyists because has lost the ability to compete in the marketplace.
Write them off at your peril.
I did not write them off. I merely said the new CEO has a tough job.
Microsoft needs to get off the teat of the Windows cash cow and look towards the future.
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The damage Mr. Ballmer has done to Microsoft in the past eight years is strategic and structural. His successor will have an enormous uphill battle to turn the company around.
A bank robber who gets killed during the robbery sacrifices a lot, he lost his life and his future. Does that automatically make the bank robber a Patriot? Of course not.
At some point, if there does not exist already, there will be a market for MAC addresses and information that is linked to them.
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Marketeers like Acxiom and SurveySampling are probably lusting after the ability to link a MAC address to a social media account, or a person's demographics.
"Right on the heals of the Bill Gates BusinessWeek article discussing the importance of disease prevention and cure over technological deployment
I disagree with the premise of the summary.
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First of all, it was not a Bill Gates BusinessWeek article, it was an interview with Bill Gates in BusinessWeek.
Second, Bill Gates takes a swipe at technology deployment being done by a Microsoft competitor, without giving any substantiation of why technology deployment is bad.
The BusinessWeek interview of Bill Gates shows just how short-sighted and self-centered his "vision" really is. He is unable to comprehend the benefits of anything besides what he is doing.
1) The wi-fi balloons will provide the needed networking infrastructure in those areas, infrastructure that assists the medical and other health professionals with their tasks.
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2) Gates is an individual, google is a corporation. Apples and oranges to compare the two.
Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders and see the whole picture.
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It's not just the PR companies... there are many people who just hover over a topic and make sure the topic reflects their viewpoint, regardless of whether their viewpoint is substantiated. That's why I stopped contributing to Wikipedia, I've had edits (complete with citations) reversed with no given reason other than the hoverer did not like the tense of a verb I used.
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Contrary to the opinion of most [clueless] managers, it is not about the slackers.
,
It is about communication among the team.
If you hire good employees, then you should not need to be concerned about the number of hours they are working, except to make sure they are not working too many hours.
.Lee Iacocca - "I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
I'd be willing to bet that many, if not most, of those funding this have backed reduced taxes and the subsequent reduction of the police force.
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Micromanagement occurs when your manager spends more time asking you detailed questions about your project than you spend actually working on the project. Micromanagement occurs when your manager really does not understand technically what you are doing, and thinks that he can look like he does by asking a lot of questions. Micromanagement is telling you how to do your job, not telling you what the goal of your job is.
Micromanagement is not good for the person being "managed", the project, or the company.
It needs to be banished, not praised.
Billions of flies like to eat it, but does that mean that you also want to eat it?
it's interesting to see how forward-thinking the company was 20 years ago.
If Microsoft really were forward thinking 20 years ago, they would not be having the troubles they are currently having.
I have to lift my hands from the keyboard to control stuff?
Don't worry, this is just Microsoft trying to look innovative. This, too, shall pass.
...Microsoft said it wants gestures to complement what is possible using mouse and keyboard, rather than replacing them...
Didn't Microsoft say a similar thing about the new interface in Windows 8 and the Start Menu? Yet Microsoft tried burying the Start Menu, only to be chastised by its customers for doing Yet Another Stupid Thing.
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What if Verizon succeeds in killing the Internet?
I've posted countless essays over the years on the importance of Net neutrality and how big ISPs are trying to turn the Internet into a pay-per-view system, rather than the open-access system it was always intended to be. I've written open letters to federal legislators; remarked on the various games being played by AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and the like; and cheered Google Fiber for demonstrating that the big ISPs are full of nonsense when they claim their backs are against the wall in terms of broadband speeds and reach.
And now, Verizon is claiming it has free speech rights to limit and block content flowing from the Internet to its customers....
If you say such things about Apple's software, your messages might be removed from their support forums, or you might be banned from their forums. When you are in the walled garden, you should be a happy consumer. Or else.
If I have to sign into google in order to create and/or manage the adID, then it is not anonymous.
Management at my company seems to think that our developers can get extra work done if they work extra long days.
When I managed software engineers, I used to walk around and tell them to go home. The software engineers need the time to refresh, just as an athlete needs time to rejuvenate.
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Here's a good article on the topic.
Yet, according to IHS, client SSD annual failure rates under warranty tend to be around 1.5%, while HDDs are near 5%. So an SSDs not only outperforms, but on average outlast spinning disk."
The unknown in the equation is the length of the warranty periods for the drives used in the comparison.
potentially creating a national security headache for the government.
The Chinese, having been unable to deliver nuclear weapons via ICBMs, have now cleared that hurdle --- place the nuclear weapons within the sovereign state of the enemy with a remote control capability to blow it up at any time. What more could China ask for?
What is frightening about the sports page redesign is that yahoo most likely will eventually carry that awful theme across all the yahoo sites.
The background image behind the text makes the text more difficult to read. Doesn't anyone at Yahoo have any usability design experience? It looks like Yahoo is going back to the days of the flaming logos. Gaudy design for the sake of gaudiness.
Is this a joke article? What in the world is all the fuss about?
Microsoft has ... more patents ... than any other tech company on the planet.
Microsoft didn't even start to make the yearly Top Ten list of patent recipients until 2007. And even then it usually placed around number 3 to number 5.
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List of Top Patent recipients
Rubbish.
Huge market share, huge profit margins, huge cash reserves ... and they can hire almost anybody in the world to be their next CEO.
When you compare fundamentals, Apple's position is far more precarious than Microsoft's. Apple relies on its "cool" factor, and cool is almost always short-lived. Microsoft has never been cool, but they have more developers, more patents and more lobbyists than any other tech company on the planet. Write them off at your peril.
I like your rose-coloured glasses.....
Huge market share
Only in old markets. How's Microsoft's marketshare in the mobile segment?
huge profit margins
Only in old markets. How's the profit margin doing for Xbox?
huge cash reserves
Agreed, but no working strategy to turn that cash reserve into viable, growing new businesses.
Microsoft has never been cool,
At one time, they were. But they lost that attribute when the 1990's ended.
they have more developers
Yup, a lot of developers without a strategic direction, but with lots of internal fighting and back-stabbing.
more patents than any other tech company on the plane
Not correct.
more lobbyists than any other tech company on the planet
Now *there's* a feature of a tech company that I would be proud of... NOT. Microsoft needs the lobyists because has lost the ability to compete in the marketplace.
Write them off at your peril.
I did not write them off. I merely said the new CEO has a tough job.
Microsoft needs to get off the teat of the Windows cash cow and look towards the future.
The damage Mr. Ballmer has done to Microsoft in the past eight years is strategic and structural. His successor will have an enormous uphill battle to turn the company around.
Baloney, a sacrifice is volunary, and a bank robber certainly doesn't go in hoping to get shot. Snowden DID come forth volunarily,...
Both the robber and Snowden took risks, risks that have possibly severe consequences. Completely the same.
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Snowden ran away, and is now hiding in Russia. Like a coward.
he has sacrificed more
A bank robber who gets killed during the robbery sacrifices a lot, he lost his life and his future. Does that automatically make the bank robber a Patriot? Of course not.
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Marketeers like Acxiom and SurveySampling are probably lusting after the ability to link a MAC address to a social media account, or a person's demographics.
"Right on the heals of the Bill Gates BusinessWeek article discussing the importance of disease prevention and cure over technological deployment
I disagree with the premise of the summary.
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First of all, it was not a Bill Gates BusinessWeek article, it was an interview with Bill Gates in BusinessWeek. Second, Bill Gates takes a swipe at technology deployment being done by a Microsoft competitor, without giving any substantiation of why technology deployment is bad. The BusinessWeek interview of Bill Gates shows just how short-sighted and self-centered his "vision" really is. He is unable to comprehend the benefits of anything besides what he is doing.
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2) Gates is an individual, google is a corporation. Apples and oranges to compare the two.
Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders and see the whole picture.