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Update on Alan Cox's Sabbatical
seymansey writes "ITWales, a company which resides on the Swansea University Campus has posted an interview with Alan Cox regarding his progress of his MBA. It also mentions his opinions on some legal matters that he shows interest in, as well as his plans for the future, and of course for Linux itself."
Look at the picture and ask yourself: Can you see this man as a CEO? Would you even buy a used car from this man?
Yes, yes, I know, the man is brilliant. But what I don't understand is: if geeks are so smart, why can't they realize that appearance counts in the business world?
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In other news, this morning Linus woke up at 6:30, showered and shaved, and had a bowl of grape nuts cereal for breakfast, after which he had his morning coffee and drove off to work.
What the hell would /. do if Linus spent an evening partying in a whorehouse?
Be jealous, sigh, and compile the laterst 2.6 kernel?
What the hell would /. do if Linus spent an evening partying in a whorehouse?
Easy. Do a slashdotting on the whorehouse's website.
Divide et impera!
Is Slashdot going to start making articles now whenever Alan/Linus/RMS/Bruce make a bowel movement?
In other news : Linus Torvalds died in a terrible accident under the Alma Bridge Tunnel in Paris. The Ritz Hotel's driver, who was alledgedly inebriated, was driving Linus' Mercedes exceedingly fast to try to evade several Sun and other trash newspaper reporters. The paparazzi were chasing the fast luxury car to get a photo of Linus in Alan Cox's arms, after rumors of a new affair between the two Unix kernel clone superstars. Previously, Linus had repeatedly said that fame and attention were "very tiring". This tragic accident poses the question of the reponsability of the press when covering the life of stars and famous people.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I wonder if Mr. Cox has read the article on the 235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015. Maybe this is why he is getting an MBA?
That's not always just an arbitrary decision. Taller (men) are promoted to leadership roles because it's usually in the best interests of the group.
Tall men are usually more (overly) confident in their abilities and less likely to have a *chip* on their shoulders or the ambition to *prove* themselves to make up for a feeling of inadequacy that short men might have developed.
They're usually lazier and more likely to delegate tasks and, in turn, others (short women) are more likely to want to provide for them. It turns out that that's exactly the behaviour you'd want from a leader.
Short men, otoh, usually take a more hands-on, dictatorial leadership style. That never works.
Take famous tyrants, like Napoleon, Stalin, Bush II, and Kim-Jong Il. They're all midgets. You'd never know it, though, because every one of them went to absurd lengths to make themselves appear taller. Kim-Jong Il wears platform shoes and has that bouffant hairdo. Do you ever recall seeing any pictures or footage of Stalin *standing* up next to anyone? In most of the WWII meetings, he was sitting next to FDR and Churchill, but his feet weren't touching the ground. In other footage, he was always looking down on a crowd, standing behind a railing that concealed his lower body. Remember the footage of Bush shaking Aahnold's hand? I bet it didn't look odd if you didn't notice that Bush was standing on a platform and Arnold wasn't.
Dude, the fact that this even appeared as a story on Slashdot should have been warning enough...
Even Ron Jeremy needs a rest from time to time.
"What the hell would /. do if Linus spent an evening partying in a whorehouse?"
;)
Hopefully post a report with pictures?
*Derived without authorization from Mother Goose's "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a Thief" Nursery Rhyme
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