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- Despair Inc.™: Get More from Your Compensation Plan
- Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of “The Art of Demotivation,” shows how to improve your compensation plan by applying radically different pay philosophies for different types of workers. Learn more about his company’s demotivational products at Despair.com.
- Tags: Benefits, Human Resources, Despair, compensation plan, compensation
- Whiteboards 2006-05-09
- Despair Inc.™: Benefits of a Demotivated Workforce
- Do your employees have low self-esteem and feelings of powerlessness? Do they believe they are victims of a hostile fate? Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of “The Art of Demotivation,” says these attitudes can benefit the bottom line. Learn more about his company’s demotivational products at Despair.com.
- Tags: Workforce, Benefits, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Despair, Benefit
- Whiteboards 2006-05-09
- Open Internet advocates poised between elation and despair
- There is a strange bipolar aspect to the Freedom2Connect conference. Everyone seems poised between elation and despair. DeWayne Hendricks was among those who offered the elation. Like folks such as Dave Hughes 20 years ago he doesn't complain about what can't be done, he just goes out and does it....
- Tags: FCC, staffer, Dewayne Hendricks, elation, despair
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
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- What's transparent carbon neutrality worth to you?
- Here's another checkoff item for your hosting company: carbon neutrality. At least that's what e-retailer hosting specialist Guidance, based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., is hoping. The best part is that it's not requiring its customers to do anything different. It's taking this approach behind the scenes. ...
- Tags: Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Where to ditch that old iPhone? Recycling and mobile phones
- This story from the Environmental Leader is perfectly timed, considering the overwhelming media din over today's iPhone launch. According to a timed survey released by Nokia, it seems that only three percent of people opting for a new mobile phone actually recycle the old ones when...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Recycling, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 1)
- Here at ZDNet, we all get on most of the time and I'm lucky to be working with some absolutely lovely people. Behind the scenes, we have a discussion group, and I've been bitching about my lack of Internet the last week or so. My editor-in-chief, Larry, asked me a...
- Tags: House, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Cable, Tiscali, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- XP SP3 - Downloaded and installed
- XP SP3 - Downloaded and installedRTMAm on the RTM final build--no issues found here. Schweet.What version does "help" -> "about windows" show?I see the following:version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp.080413-2111 : Service Pack 3)Can anyone confirm this is the RTM version?download doesnt work for meI'm trying to download from the Top Downloads...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Document management, Modi, XP SP3, Microsoft Windows XP, Downloaded
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- 1,788 entries compete for $5mil Android prize money
- Submissions for the $10million Android Developers Challenge have closed, and Google has announced that when the dust settled there were 1,788 entries from over 70 countries. Azhar Hashem writes: When we announced the Android Developer Challenge back in January, developers started submitting entries right away but it wasn't until...
- Tags: Entry, Productivity, Games, Development Tools, Cellular Phones, Middleware, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Nokia dismisses Google Android threat at its peril
- `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Sometimes, you have to laugh.(Picture from Juan Cole, who was writing about someone else at the time.) Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, "Olli-mandias" and CEO of Nokia, sneeringly dismisses Google's Android effort with a figurative...
- Tags: Google Inc., Nokia Corp., Handset, Apple Inc., Motorola Inc., Olli-mandias, Open Handset Alliance, Linux, Cellular Phones, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Microsoft's OEM chief defects to Lenovo
- Microsoft's OEM chief defects to LenovoSo you two work at Microsoft?For a bunch of Microsoft employees, you guys sure aren't very loyal. BTW: Ballmer does get over excited, but he's sane. I would oust him out, but he's not crazy.How many chairs did Ballmer destroy this time?Wuahahaha!! I wonder how...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, insult, Microsoft Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-02
- Linux vs. Unix (Cost)
- Linux vs. Unix CostUnix/Linux distinction a mistake?Linux is cheaper than Unix. Whether an observation or a perception, buyers believe that in making choices. That's the reason Linux server sales have been primarily Unix replacements. Calling that a change within the same family is reasonable. There's a...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Unix, hobbyist
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
- Online library offers 1.5 million works and counting
- Online library offers 1.5 million works and countingKnowledge needs to be free!Microsoft, Colleges and University's don't want that to happen!Use the new TOOLS as they should be used! FRICK THEM and get the know-how to improve our universe!Thou shalt not pay for knowledge granted by GOD!Wonder if they could work...
- Tags: Gutenberg, Online Library
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Experts doubt plan to block bomb recipes on Web
- Experts doubt plan to block bomb recipes on Web"dangerous words"One of the most worrying phrases I've read in a while...RE: Experts doubt plan to block bomb recipes on WebI think its going to cost a initially, and that costs will immediately for result. :-)Best to get...
- Tags: Channel management, Federal government, bomb, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Singularity Summit 2007: How to be a Singular boy scout
- It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...
- Tags: Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Thiel, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never land
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Mr., Church, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Rescuing software trainwrecks, without sacrificing goats
- Rescuing software trainwrecks, without sacrificing goatsSome good advice, but goats can still be usefulWhat you need is a special business process reengineering goat.Instead of the usual complex and time consuming hunting around for someone to blame, with the task split over several departments, the goat, following the principles of BPR,...
- Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), software, goat
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Sonicwall, Watchguard, or Untangle?
- Sonicwall, Watchguard, or Untangle?smoothwallwell i use smooth wall works great for my use and the newest one can watch ims and emails that come inEducational TechnologyWhile the Linux and complex applicatons information in this can be somewhat useful to full blow geeks it's not a place where I want to...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Untangle, Watchguard, SonicWall
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- 2008 BMW 535i
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW 535iThe 2008 BMW 535i was love at first drive. And while we do have to admit to a BMW bias, we always thought of the 5-series as a family car. But no more. Once behind the wheel of the new 535i, we felt its silky,...
- Tags: navigation system, BMW AG, Highway, Highway 92
- Product reviews 2007-08-03
- What will next-generation multicore apps look like?
- What will next-generation multicore apps look like?PLINQ Is Part of the Multi-Core StoryMicrosoft is staffing up its Parallel LINQ PLINQ development group to take advantage of multicore processors in handling LINQ expressions especially Group Join and Group By.Joe Duffy has more information and a set of PowerPoint slides about PLINQ,...
- Tags: Joe Duffy, PLinq, multi-core, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, musing
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
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