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The Microsoft Salary and Review System 375

Posted by Zonk from the who-doesn't-like-a-salary dept.
f1055man writes "If you can make it through the obvious bias, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WASHTECH) has put together a revealing article on Microsoft's salary and review system. 'Internal Microsoft documents obtained by WashTech News show that Microsoft salaries have been stagnant or nudged only slightly higher over the past two years. Comments from current and former employees about the company's compensation and performance review system suggest a growing level of frustration among rank-and-file workers.'"

Stem Cell Research in a Judge's Hands 148

Posted by Zonk from the choose-but-choose-wisely dept.
deman1985 wrote to mention a San Francisco Chronicle article discussing the future of stem cell research in California. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has had a suit filed against it for doling out money to stem cell research groups, and the future of the organization is now in the hands of the Judge on the case. From the article: "The taxpayers groups said that at least five members of the 29-member board have conflicts because they are University of California officials and the school's various campuses have already applied for stem cell grants. Others on the board are biotechnology executives and investors whose investments could benefit from stem cell grants."

The Impact of Violent Gaming 421

Posted by Zonk from the toad-sure-is-a-rebel dept.
An anonymous reader writes "IGN has an article up looking at the impact of violent videogames. It discusses some of the rationale on the gaming industry side for having violent images in their games, and the reactions from politics and lawmakers to these games." From the article: "Despite the large body of evidence that supports a link between playing violent videogames and aggression, lawmakers still have a difficult time convincing the courts that they should be removed from children's hands. One of the reasons for this is that most of the work done is correlational studies which look for a link between two factors. That is, if we see an increase in violent videogame play, is there also an increase in violent behavior?"

Comment I use Verizon's 'High Speed' service and... (Score 1) 461

by McNeany (#12690822) Attached to: Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link?
in my area they havn't yet deployed the 'high speed' part of the service yet. The promise they will open up the pipe sometime in 2005. (we all know how that goes)

I'm a Network Administrator and we give these card to all of our systems installers for remote access to our corporate VPN.
Its from Verizon and Its called NATIONAL BROADBAND Access. Its $80.00/mnth (just like yours) and offers me very portable Dial up speed access. It uses technology called EVDO-1x and CDMA ... although I'm really not sure what that means... The High Speed access is being beta tested in Washington D.C. and San Diego. I was in SAn Diego last summer and had the opportunity to preview the 'High speed' access. I think I saved my performace graph from a bandwith test site:

2004-07-28 19:17:44 EST: 706 / 351
Your download speed : 723821 bps, or 706 kbps.
A 88.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 359969 bps, or 351 kbps.

Not too shabby for a truely portable i-net connection... and no... nothing is filtered. (You can even buy a static ip)

-Michael

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