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by thras 18y ago
He's talking about selling Linux OS in a shrinkwrap package. On the other hand, Shuttleworth says that services are where the money is at -- something that companies like Red Hat have known for a long time. Shuttleworth's most interesting c
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by thras 18y ago
As usual, I'm amazed at how cheap it is to buy off our Congressmen. Abramoff was sentenced for picking up a few $100 restaurant tabs. Now Stevens is heading to jail over things like a free massage chair and work done on his house. With the
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by thras 18y ago
Sorry, but I run Linux, Windows, and OS X. Vista isn't worse than XP in any meaningful way (better in a few), and I have never run into any problems using it. OS X is pretty, but there is nothing about it that makes me go "wow!" And Linux i
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by thras 18y ago
I don't believe that Windows 7 will really improve on Vista's issues. Mainly because the real problems with Vista are either imaginary (cf. Mojave) or completely out of Microsoft's control (third party applications, drivers). A fundamental
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by thras 18y ago
Ubuntu can't surpass Apple until someone figures out how to teach open source developers to create good UIs. Or at least get them to stick to standards.
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Really? Read about the New York Police "Class of '39". It was the tail end of the depression, and the New York Police had 30,000 applicants for 300 positions. They decided to choose them based on an intelligence test. As a body, the 300 peo
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by thras 18y ago
I think that's a popular way of thinking because people like the word 'diversity,' not necessarily because it makes any sense. If you wanted to write the next Digg, say, would you hire a chemist, a programmer, and a doctor? Or would you hir
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by thras 18y ago
Even then, I wonder whether maximizing intellectual diversity is really the best strategy. Teams with hefty philosophical disagreements can have trouble getting on the same page enough to accomplish goals. There may be an optimal level for
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Unlikely. This is a theoretical paper, not based on any actual data. What the authors get wrong is assuming that there is no correlation between intelligence and original thinking. It is an unwarranted and frankly stupid assumption. The cla
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"if it's inborn it should be universal" Yeah -- just like lactose tolerance. Right. This is genetic, and it's one of those things that differs by genetic ancestry. As Sir Richard Burton once said (paraphrasing here), polygamy versus monogam