These are interesting results. I'm an ENTP - which seems to me to be an extroverted version of INTP. If you lump those two together - it seems that the overwhelming people here are very, very similar.
These annoyances don't seem to be all that critical. I haven't been able to use my wireless card on Gutsy since I installed it several months ago.
Last night, I upgraded to Heron and voila, my wireless card is recognized and functional.
Annoyances aside, making Ubuntu's very broken wireless driver support a little less broken makes installing Heron much more appealing than previous versions.
Funny, I had quite the opposite problem. I installed Gutsy and my wireless card worked out of the box, no config needed. But right after upgrading to Hardy, Ubuntu didn't recognize my wireless card.
I agree with the article; Hardy isn't quite ready for prime time.
It's funny how people are so eager to generalize from "my wireless card didn't work on Gutsy out of the box" to "Ubuntu [has] very broken wireless driver support".
My generalization stems from the number of comments with peers and countless internet searches for fixes.
In the case of peers, wireless card support was a common complaint.
In the case of searching, looking around the forums will give you a pretty good idea that wireless card support is pretty bad. I bought a standard Belkin wireless card from the local Staples. It should have worked, but didn't.
Am I the only one who thinks his writing is a bit obscure? I don't mean that what he's talking about is obscure but that the angles he takes come from seemingly weird directions.
What about correcting for color blindness? There must be a relatively easy way to auto correct certain colors so they stand out more. I bet there'd be a market for that.
You know, I always figured that a computer-simulated world would have smart compression techniques. Thus, the massive quantity of electrons flying around necessary for a brain impulse, for instance, only "exists" when someone does an MRI (or whatever tool they use for that sort of thing). Otherwise, a reference to "pleasure" or "pain" is passed into the perceptions.
