Anybody having a modicum of tech support experience would know that even "point and click" is overly complicated for plenty of average people.:P
"Yes, I need you to turn it off and on again. You need to pull the trigger and slide back th-no, don't worry sir, we already dispatched an ambulance. Now, has your remaining hand stopped bleeding? Sir, I need you to stop the bleeding first before we can proceed. Now, hold the handle with your teeth an- sir? Sir?"
It's the british that use '-re' to sound like 'er'. My guess is that most americans have heard spanish long enough to link '-re' to sound like 'ay'. And have heard canadians long enough to put an 'ay' at the end of any word anyways.:P
And the vast majority of all those are not in programming at all. Programmers/CS/IT workers make good money, have a very low work death rate, and CS graduates are overwhelmingly dominated by males. It's a privileged field (not saying that's wrong, but compared to blue collar work, let's be real here. You know, like work where there are actual deadly hazards?), and while I'm no fan of affirmative action, it's absolutely silly to complain that there's a little extra incentive to teach an couple more people from an under-represented demographic in such a discipline.
I haven't worked with any of the top tier supercomputers, although I have (albiet cursory) worked in HPC environments running linux. The environment was very heterogeneous in terms of available hardware, permissible job parameters, and user groups.
Not to side with the hoard of mac trolls in this thread . . . but Linux systems tend to be pretty pricy too. Also, the "double price" is not entirely honest. Computer models tend to get more expensive per hardware capability near the end of their life. That's far from Apple specific, and it's very easy to pick out the cheapest, newer pc model against an old mac line right before an update. Sure you can conjure up numbers that make it look double. But when you factor in computer support, making informed purchases (like buying after soon a model update, and buying cheaper RAM from a reputable 3rd party), and software (bloatware subsidizing some PCs vs hardware subsidizing software), Macs are not terribly far from PCs in terms of price vs specs. Same goes for vendor supplied Linux PCs. Quality just isn't cheap. And no, I'm not biased towards Apple; I'll just as happily use BSD, Linux, or even Windows 7.
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Piss off, you bastard operator from hell!
That was during a test. The European mission wasn't.
Dammit ESA, you had one job.
Which is why I want my doctors to be solely educated by google! And the folks who build the planes and cars I ride in.
But not BASIC. It's just dirty prototyping. :P
Many of them are or were college students. What do you think? :P
R.net?
Anybody having a modicum of tech support experience would know that even "point and click" is overly complicated for plenty of average people. :P
"Yes, I need you to turn it off and on again. You need to pull the trigger and slide back th-no, don't worry sir, we already dispatched an ambulance. Now, has your remaining hand stopped bleeding? Sir, I need you to stop the bleeding first before we can proceed. Now, hold the handle with your teeth an- sir? Sir?"
Just don't drink and drive. It's not rocket science.
It's been a long time since I last studied physics, but an extremely strong EM field can have mass.
We can outright throw it out, as there isn't an infinite amount of energy in the visible universe.
No, it's just 'Doctor'.
Please don't make me explain the joke.
"s/electric universe/flat earth/g"
gnuSSL? Although TLS should be supported, so maybe gnuTLS?
It's the british that use '-re' to sound like 'er'. My guess is that most americans have heard spanish long enough to link '-re' to sound like 'ay'. And have heard canadians long enough to put an 'ay' at the end of any word anyways. :P
Seeing as how the news is about programming, who's being silly?
Here you go: three internets.
And the vast majority of all those are not in programming at all. Programmers/CS/IT workers make good money, have a very low work death rate, and CS graduates are overwhelmingly dominated by males. It's a privileged field (not saying that's wrong, but compared to blue collar work, let's be real here. You know, like work where there are actual deadly hazards?), and while I'm no fan of affirmative action, it's absolutely silly to complain that there's a little extra incentive to teach an couple more people from an under-represented demographic in such a discipline.
Silly, all "Open*" projects are owned by OpenBSD. Like OpenGL. And OpenOffice. :p
All non-trivial code bases are stuffed with exploits, flaws, and vulnerabilities. Source: Just ask any competent programmer.
And why so mean to folks with small mines?
I haven't worked with any of the top tier supercomputers, although I have (albiet cursory) worked in HPC environments running linux. The environment was very heterogeneous in terms of available hardware, permissible job parameters, and user groups.
And it comes with lots of petabytes in the cloud! The kind they use in Big Data, not like those cheap terabytes they use in the SQL.
Not to side with the hoard of mac trolls in this thread . . . but Linux systems tend to be pretty pricy too. Also, the "double price" is not entirely honest. Computer models tend to get more expensive per hardware capability near the end of their life. That's far from Apple specific, and it's very easy to pick out the cheapest, newer pc model against an old mac line right before an update. Sure you can conjure up numbers that make it look double. But when you factor in computer support, making informed purchases (like buying after soon a model update, and buying cheaper RAM from a reputable 3rd party), and software (bloatware subsidizing some PCs vs hardware subsidizing software), Macs are not terribly far from PCs in terms of price vs specs. Same goes for vendor supplied Linux PCs. Quality just isn't cheap. And no, I'm not biased towards Apple; I'll just as happily use BSD, Linux, or even Windows 7.
Like those that run the world's best supercomputers?