Most of the first computers *were* women. Many of the first programmers were women. There was a war on. So there were definitely large numbers of women in the field.
Not exactly surprising, but I wonder how much of that is tied to the OS (f'rinstance, dual core kicks ass on OS X for processor-intensive tasks).
Wow. Where'd you find those benchmarks?
My understanding was that even with Tiger's "fine grained locking", there were still lots of threading bottlenecks in OS X, especially for networking and disk I/O. And I've heard conflicting predictions about how well the dual cores will share cache on the new powermacs.
So what makes you say that dual core kicks ass on OS X but less so on Windows XP? Are you saying that one better optimizes cache performance, or are you just talking about how pervasive the multithreading is? Does Windows have worse bottlenecks than OS X's funnels? If so, I haven't heard of them.
Either way, you must actively submit your site, or actively seek a link. Opt-IN.
You are apparently using a definition of "opt in" with which I have never previously been acquainted.
The vast majority of websites are indexed because they were linked to via a third party. This occurs whether or not you "actively seek a link" and whether or not you would like to be indexed by Google. Everyone else is looking at exactly the same thing you are, and they call it "opt out". Maybe they have a reason.
MySQL took off back when Postgresql was really hard to install. Now no one complains about the postgresql install and MySQL's got some more ACID features now.
And yeah, it co...
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And also worth noting that Mirrormask was released in motion picture form and rocks. I think to describe it would be equal parts The Dark Crystal and Myst, combine with Carnivale and a dash of The City of Lost Children.
Making it as derivative as humanly possible. Any further attempt at derivation would require creation and make it less derivative.
If people determined who to have sex with by hooking up wires to their penises and seeing what makes their dick twitch, that might have some bearing on whether "bi" people exist.
Patient Zero (the french canadian flight attendant was bi, not gay) had no way of knowing he had HIV: No one knew what HIV was. He was the first known case.
Some jurisdictions wrote laws to cover intentional HIV transmission specifically. Dunno if they mentioned HIV, but that was what they had in mind when they wrote the laws.
And if you fail to learn the markup, just do your brain dump unformatted. Later, when someone cares enough about the information, they can format it.
My manager is constantly frustrated that he doesn't know enough HTML to change the font in UseMod Wiki, and I keep reminding him that he is wasting his time trying to nitpick the fucking font on a single page in a website used by 10 people. He may as well ask for the icon in cornflower blue.
Yes, grandparent poster was clearly incorrect. I didn't mean to be showing you wrong with the decoupling note. When I said, "Did I miss the point?" I meant it:)
It has no technical details whatsoever since it was written for business people.
Absolutely.
All I'm getting from the article is that the "let's rewrite from scratch" crowd got the upper hand within Microsoft.
See, all I get from it is that the encapsulation and unit-testing crowd got the upper hand. It sounds more like they re-wrote their development methodology than their actual code. That's a way less absurd claim to make about a 18 month period, and it explains why a primary concern was developer buy-in (rather than time-to-release sanity).
Vista is introducing a whole new API system (WinFX), graphics api (Avalon/WPF), communications platform (Indigo/WCF), completely new audio stack, completely new network stack, and a few other major changes. All this while maintaining compatibility with 95-99% of current windows applications out there without a shitty emulation layer.
Uh, what? Did you read the article? I thought the whole point was that they had to decouple those features from the OS release. Vista had to be totally rejiggered so that WinFX, WinFS, Avalon, and Indigo can all be released separately, and at least some of them will be released for Windows XP.
Did I miss the point?
Also, while the magnitude of the change may be as large as System 9 <-> OS X, it's a little weird to draw that analogy because what that change was about for most people was real memory protection and preemptive multitasking. That maps to Windows ME <-> Windows XP and nothing else. Yes, I realize the API change is similar.
Apple didn't give us OS X. The kernel came from CMU (an open source project), and NeXT and Apple spent the last 20 years making it less modular. The GUI software architecture came from NeXT, borrowed heavily from Smalltalk, and is client-server, like X11, only not as well architected or as efficient.
I don't know why you'd go so far out of your way to put this badly for Apple. To say Apple sucks because they bought their innovation from NeXT is idiotic: Apple is NeXT. There's one common element in the C.V. of just about every high ranking person at Apple (aside from Ives). To praise NeXT is to praise Apple. From Wikipedia:
The lead developer on the Mach project, Richard Rashid, has been working at Microsoft since 1991 in various top-level positions revolving around the Microsoft Research division. Another of the original Mach developers, Avie Tevanian, was formerly head of software at NeXT and today is Chief Software Technology Officer at Apple Computer.
So it's not like they've co-opted OSS code and betrayed its principles of modularity. The guys who made Mach moved to the highest places in the two largest operating system companies by market share, and Avie certainly calls shots at Apple. NeXT, including one of the Mach guys, run Apple.
There are loads of worthwhile criticisms to make of Apple and OS X, but your criticism doesn't make any fucking sense.
You aren't offtopic. If he is concerned that this is "another round of Sue Somebody (TM)", then he is at least full of crap in this case. This is exactly the time for another round of "Sue Somebody", and he doesn't understand our legal system.
Ok, maybe he should have put it this way: The release of Vista will be positive for anyone building x86 boxes, which didn't used to include Apple.
If the original poster meant that five years ago, Jobs lined up OS X on Intel with Vista's release, then OP might be wrong. But it would have been a decent plan.
If you are buying a new computer in order to run Vista, it may as well be a Macintosh. How is that not totally awesome?
I'd go further and say that no one at all would do that.
The only significant thing about Vista on Apple is that you can run Vista alongside OS/X a bit better than you could under emulation in the past, but a very small minority care about that.
I totally disagree. And it is a whole hell of a lot better than emulation. Games will work.
The cost for Cassini-Hyugens will be 3.2 something billion, and you have described a very small failure.
The Mars climate orbiter error made waste of 328 million.
This CEV thing will easily cost 100 billion.
The cost of unmanned space flight is smaller than the margin of error in the cost of manned space flight. This ignores the risk of death. Unmanned spaceflight is, in comparison, without risk.
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Swear to God, there are actually problems with Linux. Not newbie fear. Problems.
There are merits too. But a common reason people don't use Linux is that it isn't the best option for them.
Most of the first computers *were* women. Many of the first programmers were women. There was a war on. So there were definitely large numbers of women in the field.
Ah. Thanks. That makes more sense now.
My understanding was that even with Tiger's "fine grained locking", there were still lots of threading bottlenecks in OS X, especially for networking and disk I/O. And I've heard conflicting predictions about how well the dual cores will share cache on the new powermacs.
So what makes you say that dual core kicks ass on OS X but less so on Windows XP? Are you saying that one better optimizes cache performance, or are you just talking about how pervasive the multithreading is? Does Windows have worse bottlenecks than OS X's funnels? If so, I haven't heard of them.
The vast majority of websites are indexed because they were linked to via a third party. This occurs whether or not you "actively seek a link" and whether or not you would like to be indexed by Google. Everyone else is looking at exactly the same thing you are, and they call it "opt out". Maybe they have a reason.
MySQL took off back when Postgresql was really hard to install. Now no one complains about the postgresql install and MySQL's got some more ACID features now.
And yeah, it co...
Wait a second. This is completely offtopic. Mod parent down. Whatever. This has been hashed out so many times now.
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If people determined who to have sex with by hooking up wires to their penises and seeing what makes their dick twitch, that might have some bearing on whether "bi" people exist.
Thankfully, it doesn't, and they do.
Patient Zero (the french canadian flight attendant was bi, not gay) had no way of knowing he had HIV: No one knew what HIV was. He was the first known case.
Right?
Some jurisdictions wrote laws to cover intentional HIV transmission specifically. Dunno if they mentioned HIV, but that was what they had in mind when they wrote the laws.
Because, as any seasoned, hardcore survivalist will tell you, you can't necessarily count on having internet access. Or electricity.
You want paper copies, USB copies, and your Yahoo Mail copy.
And if you fail to learn the markup, just do your brain dump unformatted. Later, when someone cares enough about the information, they can format it.
My manager is constantly frustrated that he doesn't know enough HTML to change the font in UseMod Wiki, and I keep reminding him that he is wasting his time trying to nitpick the fucking font on a single page in a website used by 10 people. He may as well ask for the icon in cornflower blue.
Yes, grandparent poster was clearly incorrect. I didn't mean to be showing you wrong with the decoupling note. When I said, "Did I miss the point?" I meant it :)
Did I miss the point?
Also, while the magnitude of the change may be as large as System 9 <-> OS X, it's a little weird to draw that analogy because what that change was about for most people was real memory protection and preemptive multitasking. That maps to Windows ME <-> Windows XP and nothing else. Yes, I realize the API change is similar.
There are loads of worthwhile criticisms to make of Apple and OS X, but your criticism doesn't make any fucking sense.
Tag them, smart guy.
You aren't offtopic. If he is concerned that this is "another round of Sue Somebody (TM)", then he is at least full of crap in this case. This is exactly the time for another round of "Sue Somebody", and he doesn't understand our legal system.
Fair enough?
Ok, maybe he should have put it this way: The release of Vista will be positive for anyone building x86 boxes, which didn't used to include Apple.
If the original poster meant that five years ago, Jobs lined up OS X on Intel with Vista's release, then OP might be wrong. But it would have been a decent plan.
If you are buying a new computer in order to run Vista, it may as well be a Macintosh. How is that not totally awesome?
The cost for Cassini-Hyugens will be 3.2 something billion, and you have described a very small failure.
The Mars climate orbiter error made waste of 328 million.
This CEV thing will easily cost 100 billion.
The cost of unmanned space flight is smaller than the margin of error in the cost of manned space flight. This ignores the risk of death. Unmanned spaceflight is, in comparison, without risk.
The manned space flight mafia put an extremely expensive device into space that cannot be legally destroyed and must have a crew at all times.
Supplies can only be delivered to that crew by a device that must also have a crew at all times.
So the manned space flight mafia are holding astronauts hostage on the ISS. Dunno who the unmanned spaceflight mafia is threatening.