what you have failed to take into account is that we use 100% of that extra brain-space (plus about 90% of the overlap) thinking about girls, either what they look like naked, or what they are thinking about, or sometimes both. Hence we are mostly baffled by what they are thinking about and I can assure you they are baffled not so-much by what we think about, but why we bother thinking at all.
sure we boys do iq tests well, but they simply measure how well we do iq tests. they were designed by boys for boys so no surprise we do better in them.
given a choice between working in a development team with a bunch of lads, or a team of women - i'd pick the ladies every time.
hey felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work
One wonders if they have considered the stigma associsated with flipping burgers, or working at a checkout, or minding babies, or alll those other 'traditional jobs for girls'.
strangely when I started university comp-sci there were about 400 girls and about 500 guys in the course. by 3rd year 90% of the girls had gone - many over to pure maths, but many just left university. Lat year we were recruiting for developers and I was keen to get some female coders in to gender-balance the team up a bit. no dice. the recruiters told me there was no such thing as female java programmers and that I was breaking the law by asking for them. what a world. Out of 12 candidates I saw one woman and she was not all that skilled compared to the others we saw. and yet i know many female mathematicians; my grandmother was one in fact. and maths is pure geek - computing is merely applied geek.
I have 4 macs here at home and yet yesterday went out to the sony shop to buy a cheap dvd player. why? because sony will happily sell me a region-free player - something no mac will ever be. I have disks from regions 1, 2, 4, and 6 and be fucked if I am going to have my choice of viewing restricted by some stupid region.
you make an excellent point. i guess because i have never used windows much (have had macs for close to 21 years now since) and apple][ prior to that, i never even considered windows users. i live such a rose-tinted world. but it's cosy in here.
what really spooks me about the iPod photo, to the point that it puts me off getting one, is that you use iTunes, not iPhoto to transfer the photos. Doesn't this just scream "it's a hack until they roll out a new iPhoto." well they did roll out a new iPhoto but lo - no support for synching your photo lib at all. I mean even if they'd done it with iSync that would have been acceptable (and if so, iSync should sync with your iTunes lib too just for orthoganality's sake). But to make you sync your photos with iTunes smells of piss and shatters the whole user illusion in so many ways. Whoever's decision that was should be ashamed.
It's still not as dumb as robots that eat meat! from the linked article " the robot is known for fun as Chew Chew" - FOR FUN! You may be laughing on the other sides of your cheeks when "Chew Chew"'s descendents are featsing on your guts in front of you. For fun! For shame! Both Bill Joy and The Register were right all along.
AutoID + ZeroConfig + IP6 + quantum computing + evolutionary computing + nanotech + biotech + runaway capitalism = things that are somehow NOT supposed to eat us. I say good luck.
Almost unbelievably you said "Normally, there's little I hate more than running closed-source software as root, but I'll forgive them this time since 1) it's a beta...".
Yes. I was given a Jabra headset for my birthday and it works fine with Skype, iChat and my ancient Nokia phone. It's also very comfortable, tiny and sorta space-age. The only catch is you can't pair it to your phone and Mac at the same time and it's a slight pain to try to re-pair it in a hurry. I tend not to use it with my phone, and occasionaly use it at work if i want to Skype or iChat and not annoy my workmates any more than me talking on the phone would.
whenever i read one of these fantastical articles i am always a little thrilled, but then as usual it turns out that the black hole did it - again. so predictable.
It's a bit like wondering, "but what if deep down google really is evil." Google claim their ethos i to do no evil, but if I were truly evil, and out to do as much evil as i could - a genuine evil-doer in fact, the first thing I'd tell people is I am devoted to not doing evil. So Google's very prominent "we are not evil" claim is truly the first evidence that they are in fact as evil as Hitler.
If google are evil then their endgame still just is as murky as if they are benign. I mean say you are google - what do you want this to be? is google going to announce google currency, google implants a google health care system? the google army? "google squad". With luck google will become OCP. Good business is where they find it.
I think the above post clearly shows evidence that the poster is not a Judge. But if I am wrong, I think we have some proof that are all in a lot of trouble.
man i am glad you are not my lawyer. show me any evidence that 99% of people think that evidence = proof. nukin's too good for us all if i am wrong.
sorry what you are arguing is that plenty of experiments set out to show something, but not prove it. nothing can prove any scientific theory. experiments are performed to try to confirm that the logical predictions of a theory are indeed the case, and many experiments are done just to try to get the same results as other experiments. some are done just to see what happens and note the results in order that a theory may emerge to explain your results. but none are done to prove a theory. the greatest experiments are the ones that punch a massive hole through a well accepted theory. this is where we get the saying "outrageous claims require outrageous proof".
First of all, no species has ever been shown to evolve into another species. No scientific experiment has ever proved this.
no scientific experiment ever proved anything. they are set up to disprove theories. nothing has ever disproved the theory of evolution is what you are trying to say I think.
i too buy music through the iTMS and have an iPod. I have made a habit of running every track I buy through Hymn to strip out the DRM bollocks. 90% of my collection is in AAC format ripped from my own CDs. IANAL but figure it's well within my fair-use rights to keep the music I buy digitally in whatever format I like.
So let's posit the worst case scenario should Google turn out to have been really very evil all along. The biggest potential for evil as I see it is the possibility for google to sell private, undisclosed web services interfaces to layers of data that we just don't have access to. Perhaps as a private high net worth client I could google for individual people, their news reading habits (i.e. the articles they follow from news.google.com), their gmail, their desktop files, their friends (i.e. people they invited to gmail, people in their address books), their buying tastes (the ads they click on or products they search on), web surfing habits (google ads again) and their reading tastes (print.google.com). Google could cross reference this data against traditional google searches and google searches on 'hidden' pages - i.e. pages that have been indexed by machines that do not ever declare themselves as being google, but masquerade as other indexing agents, and which run through and index everything in spite of no-robots files and instructions.
Such a webservice would make a fantastic tool for a more precise purge of social undesirables. What state security apparatus, especially one fighting a war of^Hn terror, would want to be without one. Stalin's almost random enslaving and death of 30 million odd people would have been much more focussed by such a tool. No need for messy torture to find out who your friends are - until of course you have all of them in custody too and still have a quota to fill. You can just see the ads - "A revolution in state oppression!".
Google have in theory at least, a terrible potential for abuse. Given how terrible it is, I think Google would be well advised to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that they really truly do not link everything up like that under the hood, that they recognise the inherent lurking evil that would just love to get its hands on Google itself, hire a team of ethicists to help them actually define what evil is and isn't, and take a public ethical stand on issues - after all one of the greatest ways to allow evil to flourish is to remain silent.
I got within 60 pages of the end and just lost interest and just stopped reading.
you didn't miss much - but i still can't believe that after making it thru the first 700 odd pages you gave up so close to the end. sure it's a rambling shaggy dog tale, but it's much less boring that american psycho.
i mean what part of "thou shalt not build flesh eating robots" don't these people understand. It's a pretty basic lesson to learn you'd think, but no.... has sci-fi taught these people nothing!
I am the happy owner of 3 lacie pocket drives - the little blue rubber ones that bounce (sorta) and get their power thru the firewire. i happily carry one to work every now and again when i want to shift huge volumes of data. i can confirm they work like a dream on my macs.
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what you have failed to take into account is that we use 100% of that extra brain-space (plus about 90% of the overlap) thinking about girls, either what they look like naked, or what they are thinking about, or sometimes both. Hence we are mostly baffled by what they are thinking about and I can assure you they are baffled not so-much by what we think about, but why we bother thinking at all.
sure we boys do iq tests well, but they simply measure how well we do iq tests. they were designed by boys for boys so no surprise we do better in them.
given a choice between working in a development team with a bunch of lads, or a team of women - i'd pick the ladies every time.
One wonders if they have considered the stigma associsated with flipping burgers, or working at a checkout, or minding babies, or alll those other 'traditional jobs for girls'.
strangely when I started university comp-sci there were about 400 girls and about 500 guys in the course. by 3rd year 90% of the girls had gone - many over to pure maths, but many just left university. Lat year we were recruiting for developers and I was keen to get some female coders in to gender-balance the team up a bit. no dice. the recruiters told me there was no such thing as female java programmers and that I was breaking the law by asking for them. what a world. Out of 12 candidates I saw one woman and she was not all that skilled compared to the others we saw. and yet i know many female mathematicians; my grandmother was one in fact. and maths is pure geek - computing is merely applied geek.
I have 4 macs here at home and yet yesterday went out to the sony shop to buy a cheap dvd player. why? because sony will happily sell me a region-free player - something no mac will ever be. I have disks from regions 1, 2, 4, and 6 and be fucked if I am going to have my choice of viewing restricted by some stupid region.
you make an excellent point. i guess because i have never used windows much (have had macs for close to 21 years now since) and apple][ prior to that, i never even considered windows users. i live such a rose-tinted world. but it's cosy in here.
what really spooks me about the iPod photo, to the point that it puts me off getting one, is that you use iTunes, not iPhoto to transfer the photos. Doesn't this just scream "it's a hack until they roll out a new iPhoto." well they did roll out a new iPhoto but lo - no support for synching your photo lib at all. I mean even if they'd done it with iSync that would have been acceptable (and if so, iSync should sync with your iTunes lib too just for orthoganality's sake). But to make you sync your photos with iTunes smells of piss and shatters the whole user illusion in so many ways. Whoever's decision that was should be ashamed.
It's still not as dumb as robots that eat meat! from the linked article " the robot is known for fun as Chew Chew" - FOR FUN! You may be laughing on the other sides of your cheeks when "Chew Chew"'s descendents are featsing on your guts in front of you. For fun! For shame! Both Bill Joy and The Register were right all along.
AutoID + ZeroConfig + IP6 + quantum computing + evolutionary computing + nanotech + biotech + runaway capitalism = things that are somehow NOT supposed to eat us. I say good luck.
Almost unbelievably you said "Normally, there's little I hate more than running closed-source software as root, but I'll forgive them this time since 1) it's a beta...".
ROTFL
I'm not sure even your Jesus can help you.
WATFME
Yes. I was given a Jabra headset for my birthday and it works fine with Skype, iChat and my ancient Nokia phone. It's also very comfortable, tiny and sorta space-age. The only catch is you can't pair it to your phone and Mac at the same time and it's a slight pain to try to re-pair it in a hurry. I tend not to use it with my phone, and occasionaly use it at work if i want to Skype or iChat and not annoy my workmates any more than me talking on the phone would.
whenever i read one of these fantastical articles i am always a little thrilled, but then as usual it turns out that the black hole did it - again. so predictable.
It's a bit like wondering, "but what if deep down google really is evil." Google claim their ethos i to do no evil, but if I were truly evil, and out to do as much evil as i could - a genuine evil-doer in fact, the first thing I'd tell people is I am devoted to not doing evil. So Google's very prominent "we are not evil" claim is truly the first evidence that they are in fact as evil as Hitler.
If google are evil then their endgame still just is as murky as if they are benign. I mean say you are google - what do you want this to be? is google going to announce google currency, google implants a google health care system? the google army? "google squad". With luck google will become OCP. Good business is where they find it.
just tried their test in my safari browser and everything worked fine. no popup spoof for me.
man i am glad you are not my lawyer. show me any evidence that 99% of people think that evidence = proof. nukin's too good for us all if i am wrong.
sorry what you are arguing is that plenty of experiments set out to show something, but not prove it. nothing can prove any scientific theory. experiments are performed to try to confirm that the logical predictions of a theory are indeed the case, and many experiments are done just to try to get the same results as other experiments. some are done just to see what happens and note the results in order that a theory may emerge to explain your results. but none are done to prove a theory. the greatest experiments are the ones that punch a massive hole through a well accepted theory. this is where we get the saying "outrageous claims require outrageous proof".
no scientific experiment ever proved anything. they are set up to disprove theories. nothing has ever disproved the theory of evolution is what you are trying to say I think.
dude have you never heard of "The Peter Principle". That bloke is probably being promoted right now.
i too buy music through the iTMS and have an iPod. I have made a habit of running every track I buy through Hymn to strip out the DRM bollocks. 90% of my collection is in AAC format ripped from my own CDs. IANAL but figure it's well within my fair-use rights to keep the music I buy digitally in whatever format I like.
So let's posit the worst case scenario should Google turn out to have been really very evil all along. The biggest potential for evil as I see it is the possibility for google to sell private, undisclosed web services interfaces to layers of data that we just don't have access to. Perhaps as a private high net worth client I could google for individual people, their news reading habits (i.e. the articles they follow from news.google.com), their gmail, their desktop files, their friends (i.e. people they invited to gmail, people in their address books), their buying tastes (the ads they click on or products they search on), web surfing habits (google ads again) and their reading tastes (print.google.com). Google could cross reference this data against traditional google searches and google searches on 'hidden' pages - i.e. pages that have been indexed by machines that do not ever declare themselves as being google, but masquerade as other indexing agents, and which run through and index everything in spite of no-robots files and instructions.
Such a webservice would make a fantastic tool for a more precise purge of social undesirables. What state security apparatus, especially one fighting a war of^Hn terror, would want to be without one. Stalin's almost random enslaving and death of 30 million odd people would have been much more focussed by such a tool. No need for messy torture to find out who your friends are - until of course you have all of them in custody too and still have a quota to fill. You can just see the ads - "A revolution in state oppression!".
Google have in theory at least, a terrible potential for abuse. Given how terrible it is, I think Google would be well advised to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that they really truly do not link everything up like that under the hood, that they recognise the inherent lurking evil that would just love to get its hands on Google itself, hire a team of ethicists to help them actually define what evil is and isn't, and take a public ethical stand on issues - after all one of the greatest ways to allow evil to flourish is to remain silent.
you didn't miss much - but i still can't believe that after making it thru the first 700 odd pages you gave up so close to the end. sure it's a rambling shaggy dog tale, but it's much less boring that american psycho.
If this is your cup of tea then please read "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. [google].
buddy they eat flies... not beer
I am willing to bet that if this had been a robot that eats kittens more people would be complaining.
i mean what part of "thou shalt not build flesh eating robots" don't these people understand. It's a pretty basic lesson to learn you'd think, but no.... has sci-fi taught these people nothing!
you mean like spotlight?
I am the happy owner of 3 lacie pocket drives - the little blue rubber ones that bounce (sorta) and get their power thru the firewire. i happily carry one to work every now and again when i want to shift huge volumes of data. i can confirm they work like a dream on my macs.
I don't want a social circle of drunks.
but perhaps you do want a social circle of coctail waitresses.