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Business Ethics Timeline
30 August 2008Business Ethics Timeline:
This page follows the development of business ethics through five decades, examining:
• Ethical Climate
• Major Ethical Dilemmas
• Business Ethics Developments
1960s:
Ethical Climate:
Social unrest. Anti-war sentiment. Employees have an adversarial relationship with management. Values shift away from loyalty to an employer to loyalty to ideals. Old values are cast aside.
Major Ethical Dilemmas:
• Environmental issues
• Increased employee -employer tension
• Civil rights issues [...]
Open Source Software Development
25 August 2008Open Source Software Development:
This is a research idea rather than a research agenda. The idea is to look at the quality of typical open-source software (OSS). The possible areas of research that we currently consider are:
• Specification-based testing of OSS.
• Empirical SW Engineering of OSS.
Typical OSS does not come with test-suites or specifications from which test-cases could [...]
Fundamentals of Effective Speaking
7 August 2008 Fundamentals of Effective Speaking
1. Acquiring the Basic Skills
• Take heart from the experience of others
[...]
Mother
1 August 2008Mother
Our mother is the sweetest and
Most delicate of all.
She knows more of paradise
Than angels can recall.
She’s not only beautiful
But passionately young,
Playful as a kid, yet wise
As one who has lived long.
Her love is like the rush of life,
A bubbling, laughing spring
That runs through all like liquid light
And makes the mountains sing.
And makes the meadows turn [...]
Don’t Do
25 July 2008* Don’t smoke - Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher). [...]
Confident
6 June 2008· Happiness is in mind, not in objects
· Nobody can make you happy except yourself
· Money can give you every thing except happiness
· Happiness can’t be purchased. It can only be experienced
· [...]
Internet Family
13 May 2008Internet Family
On line
Also redundant. If it weren’t on line (or on-line or online), the user couldn’t see it.
Point your browser at…
One cannot point programs at sites.
Press this button
Like “click here”, only worse.
Netscape-enhanced
If you do it, don’t talk about it. If you talk about it, don’t assume that markup [...]

