The depressing lack of female role models in CS is a real problem, but revisionist history is not a valid solution.
Well, there's certainly a shortage, but I don't think anyone can deny Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's contributions to software engineering. Her contributions had a direct influence on how programming languages evolved.
The point is that Elite was groundbreaking, and I think this is what's meant by "Games like Elite". Make a game similar and it's something we've seen before.
I'm not sure this is really a fair comparison. At the time there was something of a Cambrian explosion of games. Lots of potential niches, lots of scope for new ideas. Elite was a risk and the publishers had trouble getting their heads around it (one suggestion was that the player gets three lives).
Also, for every huge success like Elite, there were many failures. I remember a game that combined space combat and word puzzles.
But how does the risk/reward equation look for the decision maker? Not the studio. The manager actually looking at studio pitches and deciding which ones he's going to fund.
Huge success. A pat of the back a small bonus, and probably contributes to a raise. The publisher rakes in millions.
Moderate success. A pat on the back. Probably contributes to a raise.
Moderate failure: Commiserations. Won't contribute to a raise. Not a huge problem. Win some lose some. everyone realises that.
Huge failure: Called in by the CEO and asked what the hell you were thinking. You become the guy who wasted millions on a ridiculous concept that would never work. Hindsight is 20/20 so nobody can grasp why it seemed like a good idea at the time.
So the managers will find themselves going for the low risk options. The reward simply isn't high enough. It's unlikely you even get risk takers since these people would find the environment too limiting.
10 years ago such an explicit exception wouldn't have been needed. It would have been like mandating that the schools also teach the heliocentric model and chemistry rather than alchemy.
The fact that there are genuinely enough people who believe this to make it a risk is a step backwards.
I do subscribe to a usenet service (giganews) and I presume it's at least vaguely similar. I dare say I could work out how to use bitcoin, but I think I'd find learning how everything works, and the hassle of actually buying bitcoins then using them to pay for a service enough of a deterrent to prevent me from bothering.
Then another company decides it will index German news sites, and by indexing more material, becomes a viable competitor to Google, Bing and Yahoo in Germany.
The US is an arms exporter though. The companies behind the planes are very good at PR and they have the infrastructure in place to get pictures to the media.
The main reason I think this could be true is because of the point you make. Its not that impressive. Iran does have a technology sector. They make planes (which are mostly copies of American aircraft, but it demonstrates they have the manufacturing technology at least). They also have rockets and robots. UAVs aren't all that difficult to make. The main attraction is that they're cheap.
Another possibility is that they want to dissuade the west from attacking by announcing their technology but don't want to give too close look in case the west realises just how useless it is.
"Tool" is poorly defined. And as for the actual question, are you looking for his motivations for being said tool, what he thinks it is that makes him a tool, or what?
It's a practical measure, based on the realisation that DVD sales will increase piracy, blank DVD manufacturers pay a levy per unit and this is passed onto the customer.
I don't think even the automated message is required. Ask for their account number as soon as they ask a question. I'm pretty certain this can all be handled just by changing the dioalogue.
I'm a paid Microsoft Shill. Honestly, it's excellent money. We just spend all day posting to Slashdot. Clearly this is well worth it to Microsoft, because just a few well worded comments will make the notoriously Microsoft-hostile Slashdot readers suddenly change their minds, and immediately decide that they're going to use an inferior product.
Or maybe they're getting the exact result they really want - lots of publicity for the low, low price of $4000 a pop.
Of course they are.
Their PR comes across as a little whiny though. People are remarkably unsympathetic to the victims of violence when the victims have spent a lot of time provoking the aggressors.
This is curious though. Europe does have a much stronger tradition of personal privacy, at least in the sense of things like stronger data protection laws. I wonder if this legal protection means they're less likely to have concerns about this.
so that the murderer could be traced through (close or distant) family members sharing part of this DNA.
This seems reasonable, but confusing. If they asked the women as well, then even if he didn't volunteer his, there would have been a good chance of his daughters volunteering. Each would have had a 50% match indicating a parent or a sibling.
There must have been a good chance of the perpetrator not having a living father, and having no brothers.
It's still possible that he is. I'm sure I could conceive of a way his DNA could end up on her body. While I doubt this is the case, it's only fair to let him tell his side of the story.
Not really. It is illegal to circumvent copy protection
Even this isn't quite the case. Well, technically it is, but strictly speaking what's illegal is distributing the tools that allow you to circumvent copy protection. If you somehow legally come into possession of such a tool and your purpose in circumventing copy protection is legitimate fair use then this is legal.
Also, you aren't hosting screenings, you are renting rooms. A private party is watching a movie in there, just like they might do if they had their own home theater.
The law isn't quite as rigid as that though. This is just a legal argument. It may work, but a studio may well sue and make an argument that this is a public performance. It depends on the exact nature of how this is handled, and how well each side argues the case.
That's not how tort law is meant to work though. The idea is that if there's a disagreement, you can get the legal system to settle things, and restore the injured party to where he should be.
If the behaviour is illegal then it shouldn't be up to private citizens to get justice when there's a justice system that's meant to do this.
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My understanding was that the 486 was architecturally very similar.
What is the new absolute minimum spec for Linux?
Well, there's certainly a shortage, but I don't think anyone can deny Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's contributions to software engineering. Her contributions had a direct influence on how programming languages evolved.
Google's informal motto is actually "Don't be evil". There's a subtle difference.
Which groups are still active? The handful I used to use seem to be spam with perhaps an occasional semi-automated posting.
OS/2 while solid and robust is the wrong tool for this problem. I'd suggest switching to a more media oriented OS like BeOS.
The point is that Elite was groundbreaking, and I think this is what's meant by "Games like Elite". Make a game similar and it's something we've seen before.
I'm not sure this is really a fair comparison. At the time there was something of a Cambrian explosion of games. Lots of potential niches, lots of scope for new ideas. Elite was a risk and the publishers had trouble getting their heads around it (one suggestion was that the player gets three lives).
Also, for every huge success like Elite, there were many failures. I remember a game that combined space combat and word puzzles.
So the managers will find themselves going for the low risk options. The reward simply isn't high enough. It's unlikely you even get risk takers since these people would find the environment too limiting.
Not really.
10 years ago such an explicit exception wouldn't have been needed. It would have been like mandating that the schools also teach the heliocentric model and chemistry rather than alchemy. The fact that there are genuinely enough people who believe this to make it a risk is a step backwards.
I do subscribe to a usenet service (giganews) and I presume it's at least vaguely similar. I dare say I could work out how to use bitcoin, but I think I'd find learning how everything works, and the hassle of actually buying bitcoins then using them to pay for a service enough of a deterrent to prevent me from bothering.
It's about difficulty for the average consumer to pay with bitcoins, starting form a position of never having heard of them.
Then another company decides it will index German news sites, and by indexing more material, becomes a viable competitor to Google, Bing and Yahoo in Germany.
The US is an arms exporter though. The companies behind the planes are very good at PR and they have the infrastructure in place to get pictures to the media.
The main reason I think this could be true is because of the point you make. Its not that impressive. Iran does have a technology sector. They make planes (which are mostly copies of American aircraft, but it demonstrates they have the manufacturing technology at least). They also have rockets and robots. UAVs aren't all that difficult to make. The main attraction is that they're cheap.
Another possibility is that they want to dissuade the west from attacking by announcing their technology but don't want to give too close look in case the west realises just how useless it is.
It's a rubbish question.
"Tool" is poorly defined. And as for the actual question, are you looking for his motivations for being said tool, what he thinks it is that makes him a tool, or what?
Doesn't work like that.
It's a practical measure, based on the realisation that DVD sales will increase piracy, blank DVD manufacturers pay a levy per unit and this is passed onto the customer.
Yes, and something that has been very much in the news in Britain as well - both those companies have come under substantial scrutiny.
With an internet company, it's even harder to establish where they're incorporated.
It shouldn't, but I've found occasional websites that I simply can't use with my netbook. Bad javascript can really clobber a relatively slow CPU.
I don't think even the automated message is required. Ask for their account number as soon as they ask a question. I'm pretty certain this can all be handled just by changing the dioalogue.
So why would this be from date of publication rather than from the date of the author's death?
I'm a paid Microsoft Shill. Honestly, it's excellent money. We just spend all day posting to Slashdot. Clearly this is well worth it to Microsoft, because just a few well worded comments will make the notoriously Microsoft-hostile Slashdot readers suddenly change their minds, and immediately decide that they're going to use an inferior product.
Of course they are.
Their PR comes across as a little whiny though. People are remarkably unsympathetic to the victims of violence when the victims have spent a lot of time provoking the aggressors.
This is curious though. Europe does have a much stronger tradition of personal privacy, at least in the sense of things like stronger data protection laws. I wonder if this legal protection means they're less likely to have concerns about this.
This seems reasonable, but confusing. If they asked the women as well, then even if he didn't volunteer his, there would have been a good chance of his daughters volunteering. Each would have had a 50% match indicating a parent or a sibling.
There must have been a good chance of the perpetrator not having a living father, and having no brothers.
It's still possible that he is. I'm sure I could conceive of a way his DNA could end up on her body. While I doubt this is the case, it's only fair to let him tell his side of the story.
Even this isn't quite the case. Well, technically it is, but strictly speaking what's illegal is distributing the tools that allow you to circumvent copy protection. If you somehow legally come into possession of such a tool and your purpose in circumventing copy protection is legitimate fair use then this is legal.
The law isn't quite as rigid as that though. This is just a legal argument. It may work, but a studio may well sue and make an argument that this is a public performance. It depends on the exact nature of how this is handled, and how well each side argues the case.
That's not how tort law is meant to work though. The idea is that if there's a disagreement, you can get the legal system to settle things, and restore the injured party to where he should be.
If the behaviour is illegal then it shouldn't be up to private citizens to get justice when there's a justice system that's meant to do this.