Posts by alwarming

Why do people want to smell of deer's excretions?

http://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Musk-4.html

Re: When is the film coming out

http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=megalodon

Re: Insulation from the US?

What's with the icon ?

my year of travel in 2000

Where did you travel to, pal ? Where ? Inquiring minds want to know!

zOMG!

Kim and Courtney are not speaking to each other!!!! Wow.... that's so Kim.

I knew she was cheating on <whatsisname>.

Queen has celebrated her Golden Jubilee

I know what it means... but why does it sound so naughty to moi ears ?

"her data centre"

Ya.. I would've gone with the rack mountable option.

Re: well respect

> my wife and her family are French, and I do my best but my old brain is a slow learner!

Also, it'll be rather pointless to learn Mandarin to talk to a French family. Unless that's part of your brilliant plan.

Re: Average?

> If a company promotes preening dummies far beyond their true level of competence,

> then it is the owners who lose out. There's no need to have Government controls on this.

In an ideal world, yes. But remember owners are represented by board.. and boards hire from the old boys network for the top jobs. Boards pays them well not just for competently heading the company but also to earn their loyalty and currying favours.

Yes, employees can always leave in theory, but how many times have you seen employees leaving because their CXO is getting an obscene pay ? In a large enough company (>10k employees), the damage per employee is usually < 1% which is easy to ignore - if you never received it in first place!

And regarding dummies: leadership comptency is not really a black and white skill like coding. Some leaders have their own vision and drive (Jobs, Schmidt, Musk) which can result in unprecedented wealth creation but at the same time they can easily run a multi-billion dollar business to ground by making high risk calls that align with their vision (Elop). OTOH, a play-safe dummy can either choke the company in the long run by failing to seize opportunities (Hurd). Or maybe our dummy recognizes their limitations and relies on a smart group of advisors to grow the company in a sustained manner (Dell).

PS: Free market is the most successful economic model, yes. But once you start treating a theorectical model like your relegion, you get fat bankers gambling away the world's wealth on even fatter CEOs....

Re: There really must be a god....

Luckily for some, there is a third place to wear a wrist watch, except it's not on a wrist.... :-|

Paris, coz her teeth hurt.

Re: As a parent I frankly disapprove

> You're talking absolute rubbish. Age ≠ Maturity.

Obviously. And there is no proven corelation either. If anything its negative.

Re: SEMI lols

Ha ha, spot on. No half-cocked measures there.

Re: i hate this man

I have a Sennheiser PXC. I hear Bose quietcomfort is as good, just that I couldn't bring myself to buy a Bose (maybe it's just me, but there is something creepy about buying a bose).

But I get a feeling that you are not really interested in noise cancellation and it's not really about that flight. Maybe too many shares of kid achievements on facebook by smug parents who show-off their spawns just like, zOMG, their iPhones ? Or, an over-bearing aunt who keeps pestering you to have kids ? I know things are strongly labelled in US.. you could either be a family-loving-god-fearing-conservative or a workaholic-single-liberal. Or "a trekkie" or a star wars fan. A nerd or a jock. An alarmist or a denier. Or, "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" mindset, if you may.

An in-between stance is simply a show of a weak character. Slowly, your victories become primary and happiness is just a distant secondary goal. I know, for I've been there but since nobody really takes life advice from the forums section of the interwebs, I'll just shutup.

Re: Bias

Thanks OP for making me re-read. On my first glance of the article, I thought it was yet another butthurt n00b on lkml, that el reg is having fun with. But looks like he thinks he is OK with the harshness but probably people from other cultures are not. Pretty sure that the reference to "saving face" is directed at Asian cultures.

From what I've been told, in the US offices of Sun and Microsoft, about 30% of the OS devs were of Asian origin. My SWAG is that this ratio in the Linux community is much lower (< 5%). In theory, it should be higher because they don't need work visa to contribute to Linux, but maybe it's lower because they don't see themselves "fitting in" ?

PS: how many people are fine with Steve Jobs/Ballmer running their companies like a dictator but not when Linus does it ? (Or the other way round).

Re: Clarification

> GT Technologies in Westland, MI

In an unrelated clarification: Detroit, MI filed for bankruptcy, not be confused with Westland, MI.

Leo Apothekar and HP split

1) As business dynamics evolve, what was reasonable(/feasible) yesterday may not be today.

2) As incorrectly reported(/trolled) by el reg, this idea has been around before Leo. His fault was prematurely discussing it openly. I am all for openness in general, but you can't play poker with an open hand.

3) Splits are done primarily for shareholders, not for consumers or employees - so they can decide with greater control what they are buyng for 1 dollar. Autonomy is just a problem to be solved.. only question is what is the cheapest way to do it.

4) And for hopefulls, let me be the bearer of bad news - in all likelihood Autonomy is already dead. (Maybe someone still workingthere can confirm).

Re: Tiles should replace icons fully - everywhere.

I see I see the El Reg has an Edit feature. Cool.

Edit: Sorry for the pointless post.

Edit: Should I just withdraw it ?

Re: Clearly size matters

> 10mm

MBA talk... they abbreviate million to mm...which perhaps alludes to the roman M (thousand) times M.

http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for

Re: Congratulations India.

(repost, with changes)

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- 0 million : UK aid to India (2015, maybe)

- 22 million : luxury Yacht

- 26 million : burning man (2013)

- 40 million : Katie price wealth (reality tv)

- 60 million : low end private jet

- 65 million : Kim Kardashian wealth (reality tv)

- 74 million : Mars attempt India // Not just cheap labour but also the method.

- 110 million : London police budget

- 110 million : Sachin Tendulkar networth (cricket player)

- 140 million : (In)famous Gareth Bale transfer to Real Madrid.

- 175 million: Hollywood blockbuster cost

- 210 million: India Space Agency revenues // Its not just willy waving.

- 236 million: Trump Golf Course

- 350 million: A Boeing jet.

- 450 million: UK aid to India (2013)

- 500 million: India space budget (2013)

- 600 million : Bono networth

- 650 million: Burj-al-Arab

- 1,000 million : India Cricket revenue

- 1,500 million : Canada winter olympics

- 1,900 million : Commonwealth games India // Hmmm....

- 2,470 million: Mars Rover

- 5 billion: India aid to Africa! (one time?)

- 8 billion: BBC revenues.

- 13 billion: TCS revenue (IT outsourcing)

- 14 billion: London Olympic games.

- 16 billion: India Education/yr

- 16 billion: Lakshmi Mittal (Richest Londoner)

- 19 billion: India food subsidy budget

- 21 billion: Mukesh Ambani (Richest Indian)

- 34 billion: South Korea Defense budget/yr

- 38 billion: India Defense /yr

- 68 billion: India Tech exports

- 160 billion: Worldwide space market. // Prize

- 640 billion: US defense budget/yr

- 1,700 billion: India GDP/yr

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Complied this as a result of a debate during intial MoM launch, but never posted it. Posting here with some updates.. sources for all data is internet, so take them with a pinch of salt.

As far as the meaning of the aid goes, it's simply a way for nations to lubricate future trades and relations. Unless you are paying for a major portion of a nation's budget, you have no say on how they run their country (ie based on the aid). Think of it as 100 quid that your rich neighbour puts in your birthday envelop. Maybe he hopes to boink your mama in future, but that doesn't allow him to question how your house is run.