From The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
He’s got 100 Macs in his basement, including 30 Mac Classics and 18 original iMacs, as well as both a Lisa and a 20th Anniversary Macintosh. And these aren’t just sitting around on shelves with cords all over the place– oh no. These are set up just as Jobs would want them to be– booted, running, cleanly placed, in an immaculate workspace, gently lit from above. If there’s a Mac heaven, it’s in this guy’s basement in Missouri.
Interesting article in Business Week:
BusinessWeek research has found that fewer than one out of three executives who reach those lofty heights do so with the help of an MBA. And if you think a sheepskin from a top school is a necessity, think again. Only half of the executives with MBAs went to the top 10 schools in the 2004 BusinessWeek ranking.
Only 146 of the 500 executives reported having MBAs, a surprising number considering the hundreds of thousands of B-school alumni with enough experience to qualify them for top jobs. What’s more, only 71 received MBAs from the top 10 B-schools, and two-thirds of those executives have degrees from just three institutions: Harvard Business School, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
To hear B-schools tell it, an MBA is the price of admission to the ranks of senior managers. While it may or may not improve the odds of landing such a job, it is not, strictly speaking, a requirement. Timing plays a big role. Most of the MBAs in the study — including such high-profile CEOs as General Electric Co.’s (GE ) Jeffrey R. Immelt, from HBS class of 1982 — graduated more than 20 years ago. Back then, B-school admissions were determined almost entirely on the basis of test scores, and many students lacked the people skills now recognized as critical to managerial success. So MBAs from that generation might be underrepresented in the executive suite today. This was also the era before the B-school rankings. At the time, MBAs — even those from highly respected schools like Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton — didn’t have the marquee status they possess today.
This is ridiculous…
This sort of thing is why I stopped watching TV news years ago.
P.S. Go Ron!
I have no idea why I thought of this song, but I feel a need to rant…
This is most likely my least favorite song of all time. They played it every freaking hour on the radio back in 1980. These guys made the Knack seem talented. Bad lyrics, bad music, bad bad BAD. I’m sure they were a great band to see live, but since I hated them so much I never bothered.
Damn, that sucks.
Looking back to the early 1980’s, this song along with anything by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger and Jackson Browne made me jump up and change the radio channel.
This is cool in the very geekiest sense of “cool”. From Ars Technica:
One of the big draws of OS X has always been the UNIX-like, BSD heritage of the operating system. Apple has always touted OS X as UNIX-based and played up the security, stability, and compatibility that comes with the BSD foundation. The company has also gotten in some trouble with The Open Group over Apple’s use of the UNIX name, when in fact OS X wasn’t actually UNIX-certified. All that is changing, though, since the upcoming Leopard release has received the UNIX 03 certification (PDF) as of May 18, meaning that Mac OS X 10.5 on the Intel platform is a “true” UNIX OS, rather than just being UNIX-like.
It may all sound like semantics, but the certification is actually quite important for Apple and for the OS. The UNIX 03 certification means that Leopard conforms to the Single UNIX Specification Version 3 (SUS), a specification for how things like the shell, compiler, C APIs, and so on should work. Of course, the UNIX 03 certification is only for Intel-based Macs, but I suspect that has more to do with Apple not bothering to get OS X certified for an older architecture. This latest news marks Leopard as the first BSD-based OS to receive the UNIX 03 certification, which is quite an impressive feat, and also adds Apple to a very short list of official UNIX 03 OS vendors (IBM, Sun, and HP being the others).
The fact that Apple can use the UNIX name more freely is cool, but the certification will have a far bigger impact on enterprise customers. Any software written for the SUS specification is easily portable to a UNIX 03 operating system, meaning that enterprise customers who need a “real” UNIX for their applications can now use Leopard servers if they so desire. Leopard’s certification also gives developers another option for a development platforms, which could translate into some extra Mac sales. Things like the GUI may not be portable, but any code written according to the specification should be. This would make the UNIX 03 certification a big draw for developers and enterprise customers alike, by providing another (perhaps cheaper) option for developing and running UNIX applications.
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