Comment Re:Did anyone else misread that as: (Score 1) 343
Hey, it's not fair to compare Don Mattrick to a dot matrix printer! At least the printer can still serve a useful purpose.
Hey, it's not fair to compare Don Mattrick to a dot matrix printer! At least the printer can still serve a useful purpose.
Or maybe Mattrick was a scapegoat and was doing what he was told to do.
That might be reasonable, if it weren't for the fact that Mattrick was in charge of the Xbox division and answered only to Steve Ballmer (who doesn't have a rep of micromanaging).
No, Mattrick's many mistakes were Mattrick's and no one else's.
I suspect the scene ended more along the lines of Ballmer throwing a chair at Mattrick and screaming "Get the fuck out and never come back, you piece of shit!"
It's kind of difficult to do that when the executives tell you that the point of the new product is to take a huge dump on the customer base and your job is to make sure they like it that way.
Yeah, except that Don Mattrick *WAS* that executive. He was the head of the Xbox division, not some low-level PR flunky. The only one he took orders from was Steve Ballmer. The decision to dump on the Xbox consumer base was all his.
Where are the reliable rockets coming and going like London buses?
Good news, everyone! The rockets you seek are on Futurama.
Bad news, everyone! It just got cancelled.
He and Zynga are a perfect match. No one would give a shit if either failed.
Yeah, and you don't want that launch clouded by having the prick who told the military and hardcore fans to go screw themselves still at the helm. He had to go.
More likely that Balmer kicked Mattrick's ass out the door (with a chair thrown after him for good measure), then took personal command of the sinking ship in an effort to right it. Whether Ballmer himself is the right man for the job is debatable, but he could hardly do much worse.
why should Microsoft start firing non marketing people for technical failures
Because marketing people should know how to open their mouths without inserting their feet in them? Don Mattrick has had one PR flub after another for months. The guy seems incapable of typing or speaking a single sentence that doesn't make him and MS come off like insensitive, officious, clueless pricks. Not exactly the guy you want to be the public face of your new product (or any product, for that matter).
I would be very interested if a group of Average Joe's were given a chance to make a ruling with respect to the rights that a government has to keep details of its surveillance program secret.
"Average Joe's" in the U.S. probably don't even know what the 4th Amendment is, much less how to apply it.
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They would even provide him with a place to stay when he got back to the U.S.--a permanent place to stay.
The ridiculously narrow job requirements are specifically designed so they *don't* find Americans to fill their jobs. They want an excuse to hire H1-B indentured servants, and to go to Congress claiming that there are no Americans to fill them.
Well, in that case, better send the Congressional Police to arrest him!! They can put him in Congressional Jail with the many, many others who've lied to Congress and been prosecuted for it.
I seriously doubt NSA lied to the President. And they only lied to Congress because they knew that the Congressmen didn't really give a shit and were just putting on a nice show for the cameras. If they had thought for a second that Congress might actually follow up on their answers (or that the press even had the ABILITY to follow up), they would have parsed their language much more carefully.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
