Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to Sacha,
Nick Smith seems a tad confused
That's really all you need to say.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I'm not sure there is anything about this case that hasn't been fucked up.
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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod - A TED talk from the last few days (might even be yesterday)
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
Rob Reid is a humor author and the founder of the company that created the music subscription service Rhapsody.
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Hard News: Fame Friday, in reply to Sacha,
I seed what you did there.
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And in other news, Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England
A 23-year old student from Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England is bound for America. That wouldn't be unusual—except that Richard O'Dwyer won't go voluntarily. The UK Home Secretary has today agreed to extradite O'Dwyer over US copyright infringement charges for running a "linking site" called TVShack.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz,
Except in Universities no one gets picked out to be a manager---people go to great lengths (and get paid a great deal---perhaps there's a clue there) to apply for themselves.
They are all self-selected---no coercion required!
Personal experience says you are incorrect in your assumption. It's also a well known way of trying to hold on to high performing staff, but companies won't pay specialist pay so they promote them.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to 81stcolumn,
Universities have a horrible habit of creating experts and then turning them into managers.
Companies are the same - "You're the best mechanic we've got, so we're going to make you the manager of all the mechanics and pay you more" - and then wonder why productivity slips.
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Thing about the pie is that we don't have enough ingredients. And we forget to blow on it.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Simon Grigg,
That's why he loves mankind.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Roger,
Surely, this is on the wrong thread. Emma's thread is over there ===>