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This video is incredibly annoying.
1. Saying Zuckerberd did not have any friends is simply false. He got sued by former friends.
2. To say he chose coal is false. He chose a location and some of the electricity (58%) provided by the utility is that area is produced by burning coal.
3. Greanpeace's servers are in an area where 46% of the electricity is coal generated.
They are a "by any means necessary" organization which make them dangerous in a bad way.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
What public figures have integrity?
I'm having a hard time coming up with many independently and oddly Google is failing to find a list.
Nelson Mandela
Garry Kasparov
Oprah Winfrey
Ellen DeGeneres
David Letterman
Simon Cowell
Help!
Nelson Mandela
Garry Kasparov
Oprah Winfrey
Ellen DeGeneres
David Letterman
Simon Cowell
Help!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
US Airways Annoys Me
US Airways | Airline tickets, vacations & business flights
1. They make it difficult to find where to login using your email address or user name. They want you to use flight information or your frequent flier number, neither of which I have memorized meaning I have to look them up.
2. The site moves at the speed of dark and was occasionally non responsive to clicks.
3. Fees paid for checked baggage are non-refundable. Come on, at least give me some credit if I don't check the bag.
4. The put adds on the boarding passes wasting my ink or links I can't even click from a piece of paper and that I am unlikely to click on from a browser popup as I prepare to print.
Airlines are just getting more short sighted and greedy.
jConnect - Fax and Voicemail by Email
jConnect - Fax and Voicemail by Email
This company sucks! They own but independently market fax.com, myfax, efax, rapidfax, trustfax, and likely more. Clearly their strategy is to occupy the first page of Google's search output so that a comparison shopper who calls 3 alternatives off of the first page thinks that 10 cents/page is the market rate. This happened to me, but I found if fishy. The secret was divulged when several told me that their Onebox service was my only alternative if receiving over 2000 pages/month. I'm sure this monopolization of first page search results is not unique to fax services, so beware.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
UWCs can management and workers cooperate?
Last night I listened to this episode of This American Life, title NUMMI, that explains why GM failed because they did not build reliable cars. Combative relations between labor and management combined with the entrench interests of labor and management prevented necessary change for decades despite GM having co-owned and manged a US based plant with Toyota that produced reliable cars. To me, as more of a management type, the interview with one of the union workers was revealing.
"They would even keep track of stuff they'd missed, because that's what the company puts in the, that the only way you could protect you job is to keep the team strong, so there's a week link you have to get rid of that week link. So I'd go tell them 'You can't do that. You can't build up a case for management against your union member. Made me angry and disappointed that the union had gone so backwards that they forgot what a union meant--taking care of each other.'
What does/must he think? Either jobs are secure regardless of the quality of output or that there is relatively little difference between one member or all members loosing their jobs. It is as though he thinks that there is a fixed amount of profit to be split between management and labor and that the quality of output does not impact the size of the pie to split. Oddly, for the career duration of many union members he was right. It took 50 years for GM to fail. Maybe he seemingly odd believe were optimal for members with high enough discount rates. Keep in mind that GM would have survived longer if not for 2008's deep recession and recent high oil prices that killed sales of SUV's, GM's most profitable products.
He seemed far crazier before I analyzed his personal incentives. Now, his us versus them attitude make sense, especially for him. When his pension is considered the logic becomes far more questionable.
"They would even keep track of stuff they'd missed, because that's what the company puts in the, that the only way you could protect you job is to keep the team strong, so there's a week link you have to get rid of that week link. So I'd go tell them 'You can't do that. You can't build up a case for management against your union member. Made me angry and disappointed that the union had gone so backwards that they forgot what a union meant--taking care of each other.'
What does/must he think? Either jobs are secure regardless of the quality of output or that there is relatively little difference between one member or all members loosing their jobs. It is as though he thinks that there is a fixed amount of profit to be split between management and labor and that the quality of output does not impact the size of the pie to split. Oddly, for the career duration of many union members he was right. It took 50 years for GM to fail. Maybe he seemingly odd believe were optimal for members with high enough discount rates. Keep in mind that GM would have survived longer if not for 2008's deep recession and recent high oil prices that killed sales of SUV's, GM's most profitable products.
He seemed far crazier before I analyzed his personal incentives. Now, his us versus them attitude make sense, especially for him. When his pension is considered the logic becomes far more questionable.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Replay? Let's Be Honest: Microsoft's Mobile Business Is A Fantasy
Let's Be Honest: Microsoft's Mobile Business Is A Fantasy
I might recall other times when MS came from behind to dominate. The entire Office suite and Internet explorer are two. MS SQL is improving quickly and can handle most businesses, such as United Airlines for less than Oracle. Yes, these are desktop/server side solutions. Also, MS does not control the OS in mobile so they do not have an easy marketing advantage by bundling it. But, most businesses use Office for productivity, Exchange Server for email, and trust MS with their infrastructure. Despite MS's attempt to go social with Phone 7, I think there best chance of penetration is in providing desktop to mobile productivity integration. Cloud drive is ready to sync it all. I use Google docs all the time for simple text collaboration, but for a sophisticated documents don't even think about it competing with Word, and it won't for a while. Versus Excel, don't even think about it for large complicated sheets. And $15 is really irrelevant. If apple can charge a premium for flash (pun intended) then MS can for productivity. Don't count them out. Blackberry, beware. The social has to be cover to make Phone 7 appear up with the times, but the real advantage is integration with the tools business runs on.
I might recall other times when MS came from behind to dominate. The entire Office suite and Internet explorer are two. MS SQL is improving quickly and can handle most businesses, such as United Airlines for less than Oracle. Yes, these are desktop/server side solutions. Also, MS does not control the OS in mobile so they do not have an easy marketing advantage by bundling it. But, most businesses use Office for productivity, Exchange Server for email, and trust MS with their infrastructure. Despite MS's attempt to go social with Phone 7, I think there best chance of penetration is in providing desktop to mobile productivity integration. Cloud drive is ready to sync it all. I use Google docs all the time for simple text collaboration, but for a sophisticated documents don't even think about it competing with Word, and it won't for a while. Versus Excel, don't even think about it for large complicated sheets. And $15 is really irrelevant. If apple can charge a premium for flash (pun intended) then MS can for productivity. Don't count them out. Blackberry, beware. The social has to be cover to make Phone 7 appear up with the times, but the real advantage is integration with the tools business runs on.
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