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wout de zeeuw wrote: Let's hope the successor will do a better job!
It would be almost impossible not to! 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Depends on what you are measuring. He wasn't to bad when it came to throwing a chair. I suppose if they found someone more athletic they might have a better arm for it, but Ballmer make sure to practice as often as he could. 
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It's rare, I would have thought, for a man with so little talent to rise quite so high. Unless you are talking about politicians.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: It's rare, I would have thought, for a man with so little talent to rise quite so high.
Bill Gates' Harvard chum?
Ballmer was academically very bright though. Of course, that's no guarantee of being business/entrepreneur bright.
Kevin
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The ability to pass exams is no guarantee of intelligence. I can provide examples. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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You probably need a modicum of intelligence for Harvard or Oxbridge I would guess.
But, anyway, academic intelligence does not necessarily correlate with business intelligence.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: But, anyway, academic intelligence does not necessarily correlate with business intelligence.
Doesn't correlate with any intelligence. I've known some pretty thick PhDs and some very smart people who never went to college. Taking it further, I think that the impetus to go to university for youngsters is almost overwhelming and, for the most part, completely wrong. What is the point of everyone having a degree??? Some kids should go and be plumbers or electricians or nurses. My daughter works in graduate recruitment and she now differentiates on a masters - merely having a bachelors is not enough to get you a great job any more. Plus, she has to hold seminars to show the kids how to get a job like what to wear, how to shake hands, how to maintain eye contact, etc. Bit sad, really.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I agree. The "everyone must have degrees" mania is totally insane.
Kevin
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A U.S. investigation into Microsoft Corp.’s relationships with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign officials in return for contracts includes activity in Russia and Pakistan, a sign that the probe is wider reaching than previously known, according to people familiar with the matter. Why do these things never reach as far as me?
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Here’s the thing – people like to say whatever framework their not using sucks. "Sucks", really? Two-way binding, route handlers, and dynamic events pushing data into a remote API within an hour - that used to take thirty years to do that and you thought you would die on the way there and have a baby. You’d be a whole different group of developers when you got there. We used to code twenty miles a day, uphill. Both directions!
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Article seemed good until:
Quote: Just take 10 minutes and read the documentation!
At which point all credibility was lost. Documentation, who ever bothers to write that. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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He makes a point worth remembering (even if the documentation is actually non-existent).
To put it another way though, there's been many times when I curse something and it takes hours (if not days) to figure out the solution. If I change my mindset to be more open to learning and understanding, I find, over and over again, that I can get things working a lot faster. It's amazing how a simple change of mental state can have such significantly better results.
Marc
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A new method that takes the pulse of the general public via Wikipedia activity can predict how a movie will fare up to a month before it hits theaters. Also: Elephant population in Africa has tripled over the past six months
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When people download software from SourceForge, or any major repository of Open Source software, they expect the software to be trustworthy. (baring unintentional bugs). They do not expect the software to be a source of “drive by installer” style malware, spyware, adware, or any other unrelated/unintended software. "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck"
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brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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"Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth tells Guardian: US carriers and Asian handset manufacturers are interested in building phones with Ubuntu Mobile to capture 25% of smartphone buyers "Hope is a waking dream."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with Ubuntu Mobile to capture 25% of smartphone buyers
In his case, hope is a egoistic induced hallucination.
Marc
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To be fifth (or sixth if you include Firefox OS) to a two horse race and expect to get 25% market share? Yup, that does qualify as hallucination.
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TTFN - Kent
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Users want a real Start menu on Windows 8, and Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, is happy to oblige. It just announced that Lenovo PCs will come with the Pokki app, which includes a real Start button and menu, not the useless Start button that will ship with Windows 8.1. Even worse for Microsoft: It lets users bypass the Windows Store to download apps and games. For Those Who Do (want a start button)
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Only if the acorn looks nice, then I'll get a lenovo. 
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I must live under a rock because I have never heard of that program before and it has been around for 2 years 
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Have you heard of Start8 from Stardock? If Win8.1 really doesn't get its act together, this will be on the horizon
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mope i have not heard of that one either. I was put off of Win 8 after the developer and consumer preview.
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