I'm okay with Ballmer being friends with Gates and getting a company.

I'm kinda okay with Ballmer being inept and driving it in circles for a decade. He's practically a founder and he was personally chosen by the founder. He should feel guilty that a lot of people's careers were screwed up by his poor leadership, but without Gates in Microsoft, Apple and Google flourished.

Sometimes the personal relationships and unfairness at the top is the stuff which leads to a company's wild success. Apple and Facebook are good examples.

But to teach two courses?

It's a discredit to the schools.

He should be pulled out in a cage as a specimin of "real business leaders" and studied from a distance.

Microsoft's janitor's certainly have more qualifications. They've had to at least interview and apply for a job in their life.

"While Dan Rather attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable 'terrorist propaganda video,' it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," the family said.

"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose. By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan."
-- Mariane Pearl, May 15, 2002

Yeah, because those countries that idolize sloth and indolence do SO WELL in the world.

Average Americans are wedded to a culture of indolence (rest in preference to work), not leisure, which values rest after work. This is why they live in such squalid conditions. To do otherwise would be to privilege work, which would be contrary to their ideological predilections. It is also why they have such an irresponsibly large number of children, whom they mercilessly exploit by requiring them to care for them as they age. Then, when the children mature and have children of their own, they themselves obtain the opportunity to exploit their own offspring and achieve indolence. Average Americans also have no incentive to save or improve because they know the government will step in to stop it.

Yes, let's totally ignore the corrupt nature of labor unions and the culture that leads them, even today, to destroy the very industries that spawned them. Not a word about it...well done! A++ would pay for this comment again. Because paid commenters really do inhabit sites like Slashdot.

Yes! Things will be so much better when the world equalizes. We will all have a standard of living that a Pakistani bricklayer recognizes as good. What a golden future we have to anticipate. Forward!

Step #2, follow him into success.

Step #4, take over the company when he steps down.

Step #5, fail repeatedly throughout a decade.

Step #6, teach MBA class at Stanford and USC.

Your style of RPG was perfected a few years ago: http://progressquest.com/

Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?

Being gay means you must be on the left. Ask any homosexual if you doubt.

I know the phone well.

Battery life, camera, sound quality, gps resolution aren't as good. You have to root the phone to be able to control your privacy, and if you're talking about privacy, forget Google apps. Best go go Cyanogenmod.

Wasn't your last update was 10 months ago? http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/31/google-galaxy-nexus-kitkat/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Jelly_Bean

Leaving three unpatched vulerabilities?

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/product_id-19997/version_id-161187/Google-Android-4.3.1.html

I'm using an iPhone 4s, it's still pretty awesome and still being actively sold and supported. Release date late 2011.

OTOH, Nexus 3 users, release date late 2011, no longer supported.

I just want a working phone. My Android sits in my desk for development and hacking.

Funny how it's OK if you ridicule them online, but you're too chicken to do it to their face.

when in truth a sheetrock wall has more common sense than that person does.

I think you and the wall have something in common, but it's doubtful you'll ever see it. It's not surprising you're anti-intellectual. Educated people are frequently more informed than you and it gets under your skin, doesn't it? This is your way of getting back at them. Fuck you, and fuck your anti-intellectual friends. Go back to your friend Sarah Palin, retard.

There is a difference between 'satire' and 'outright lies'. Ridiculing people because they're not the same as you is despicable. Oh, but it's so important to have fun at the expense of others, because if everyone got it, then there would be no fun.

"all of these cultural rituals are a waste of time "

Get a clue, humans have culture. If you don't follow their cultural norms, no matter who they are, they're not going to accept you. It is already amazing how tolerant Westerners are in 2014, and apparently that's just not good enough. Just imagine showing up to some hipster gathering in a suit and tie and watch yourself be ostracized in the exact same way.

Engineers frequently are know-it-alls who prioritize what they personally find interesting or meaningful over what's important to the business. Indeed, if business priorities are considered at all, they are thought of as an impediment rather than the reason most of us have paying jobs. Then when their manager tries to redirect their work, they retreat back to their cubes to grumble among themselves (or a few million friends on /.) about how idiotic and hopelessly out-of-touch their managers are with the nitty-gritty technical details or their work. This way of thinking about management is so in-grained and common that there's a very popular comic strip about it.

Maybe if more engineers figured out how to understand and appreciate decision-making on the "business side" or at least gave the same benefit of the doubt that they expect to receive from managers, they would find that their relationships with their companies would not be so adversarial.