Business Decisions by Microsoft: Bad vs Good Business Decisions by Microsoft: Bad vs Good Microsoft had a lot to live up to after supporting an operating system called Windows XP. Windows XP was widely used by everyone from school kids‚ to multi-million dollar corporations. Microsoft seemed to be under a lot of pressure to create a GUI that was as “user friendly” as the Mac‚ handle crashes better than XP‚ and made better use of memory. Their answer: Windows Vista. Quickly seeing
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March 2014 Good and Bad Procrastination According to Paul Graham‚ in his article‚ “Good and Bad Procrastination‚” he claims that it is impossible to avoid procrastination because there is always something you could be doing‚ “No matter what you work on‚ you’re not working on everything else” (86). Graham talks about three types of procrastination: (a) working on nothing‚ (b) working on something less important‚ and (c) working on something more important. He says that the last type is good procrastination
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It’s easy to blame individuals for engaging in illegal or unethical activities by assuming bad behaviour is an inherent personality trait. "Only shady people do shady things‚" right? We assume the CFO who reports false financial data and the hedge fund manager who commits insider trading do so because they are inherently "bad people." The maxim of individual responsibility is comforting because it implies that‚ to eradicate criminal or unethical behaviour‚ all we need to do is identify and weed
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Technology: The Good‚ The Bad‚ and The Ugly Writer’s Memo: For my research paper‚ I would really like to discuss how modern technology is taking away our intelligence. I read a statistic the other day that read‚ 19% of child between the ages of two and four can operate an Iphone application‚ but only 9% can tie their shoes. This quote startled me and caused me to realize that we‚ as humans‚ are slowly loosing are ability to do simple tasks such as learning to tie our shoes. There is so much
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we get really a legitimate source that we can rely on for accurate facts? It is so easy to find bad sources that give us the correct information. A bad source isn’t one that has improper grammar or misspelled words. In fact it is an article that portrays bad references and resources and is not recent. Many current issues exist in the world today that can be used for comparing a good article and a bad article. One current issue that is really popular in the United States right now is the topic of
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demonstrates throughout the book is whether people are essentially good or essentially bad. He creates this theme by involving the death of Simon‚ Ralph’s adrenaline rush to hunting the boar for the first time‚ and the war that Jack had started with his tribe in order to kill Ralph at the very end of the novel. Golding includes these incidences to show us that people are essentially bad over the fact that people are essentially good. Simon was on his way back to the beach to tell the rest of the
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l am writing in response to your letter about ‘’Being Celebrities- Good or Bad ?’’which is found in a forum. HK people are believed to be money-oriented .Under such gaze‚ most of the teenage always think that being a public figure is their vision. However‚ is it really amazing to be a celebrity? To start with ‚being a celebrity can obtain a fame and society status which always come up with money‚ power‚ glamour and attention. Thay can lead a materialistic life. What’s more‚ it should be enjoyable
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A large number of prisoners go on a hunger strike in response to complaints by some inmates about their deprivation of rights by being placed in administrative segregated housing units. A spokespersons for inmates say that many inmates are willing to sacrifice their health and safety to stop the harsh segregation policies. The inmates refuse to eat‚ work assignments‚ leave cell‚ nor exercise. Prison officials claim that the hunger strike is a ploy by powerful prison gangs to increase their influence
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At the time of the Pullman Strike‚ the environment of the United States was pro-business therefore necessitating a strike by the company workers. Due to the depression facing the nation in 1893‚ the Pullman Car Company had to have finance cuts. This led to a work or be fired situation that put in the thought that workers were expendable. The ARU soon refused to pull Pullman Cars and the Pullman Strike was developed. Due to poor living conditions‚ workers demanded to make less into more. In Pullman’s
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to teach children‚ but to change their point of view of achieving excellence‚ not good marks or scores. At times‚ children don’t see how much knowledge they have. They measure this knowledge by marks and not by how much they have understood. And when they score less‚ they think they are not intelligent. I‚ being in ninth standard‚ have also seen my friends crying for marks and I also feel extremely bad if I score less but I feel worse about the stupid mistakes I make. But no one realizes
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