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Your post gives very little context about your firing of the "open source zealot", and what little there is seems to indicate that you fired him for daring to dissent publicly, rather than for any actual problem he may have been causing.

While not all open-source programmers are nut-cases, there is a size-able demographic that thinks that being pro-open-source can be a substitute for coding competence.

I have worked with people whose code smelled, and who were terrible programmers and people, and who also used open-source fanaticism as a substitute for real insight and ideas.

Experience Dotcom Mayhem.

The only problem with an MBA is that it doesn't teach you how to react to things that aren't in figures. I am sure most successful entrapaneurs have a good grasp of the job they are doing and will take certain actions inspite of what the figures say.

This really depends on the program you are talking about.

Once you get away from the Ivy Leagues many smaller, not-as-well-known MBA programs actually give you real experience in business. You learn to make decisions which reduce risk even in situations where there are no numbers involved. For example, you learn to move in small-steps, which reduces risk. This is a general principle which has no requirement of numbers.

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Here is a link which describes RC5-64 pretty clearly. Basically it is a romp through 64-bit numbers.

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Here is an idea that is better than eInk. By better I mean cheaper and so simple you can implement it right now. Create a tiny projector that is able to project images to a flat white sheet of paper. After use the sheet of paper can be folded up. The size of the computer powering the projector can be tiny.

Dotcom Nostalgia.

The Bill Gates interview linked at the bottom of the article is actually pretty good. I recommend it highly.

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Just as Linux has taken on and beaten much larger competitors just by being open source, so can open source musicians.

An open source lyricist writes a song, someone else writes a melody, others contribute tweaks and bug-fixes to it, then someone sings it, later open source musicians edit out and add different music to it. All of this happens over CVS. Over time the song can evolve to become really good.

Eventually good enough to get on the top 10 and drive RIAA out of business.

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You could also use a scripting language like Perl, Python, or Ruby. On Linux Perl and Python are likely to come pre-installed so your program would also be quite portable across Unix systems.

Most of these languages provide nice wrappers around curses or even a full-fledged X interface.

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Space for me, and not for thee. csy writes "Dennis Tito returns jubilant to Earth. Meanwhile, John Glenn criticizes Tito's trip as a "misuse of a spacecraft designed for research". I guess space junkets by geriatric senators must count as research.

Umm, it's not clear to me why Dennis needs to be morally assaulted for spending his own money by the senator who got a free ride on the taxpayers.

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