They found that women were just as good as men at virtual navigation when they had a large computer display. "The gender difference simply disappeared," says Czerwinski.
To summarize: The article does not state if the larger display helped men or not, but with the larger display, men and women tested equally.
We're not talking about an entire OLTP system that runs a business -- we're talking about the object data used for the code itself. The article suggests a different way of managing the object data instead of using a flat file, XML, or a database.
Is it now unacceptable to criticise anything unless the critic is perfect? If so, I suggest you stop expressing your opinions, because I am sure you have some flaws, too. That aside, I think you are missing the difference in scope and degree that exists between your examples.
USA: Miniscule control of contested content as part of an on-going struggle over intellectual property. This control is almost entirely public, and any punishment is delivered openly after proper trials. An open and energetic debate is taking place within the USA regarding the correctness of these actions.
China: Sweeping control of political expression. This control is as covert as possible. Much of the punishment is delivered in an arbitrary and concealed manner. Public debate within China is limited because people fear arrest if they complain.
Neither situation is ideal, but equating the situation in the USA with the situation in China diminishes the situation the Chinese people must endure.
This exploit was reported to Microsoft on May 20, according to Yahoo!
"Oy Online Solutions Ltd. of Finland said it notified Microsoft Corp. of the security hole on May 20 but the software giant has yet to produce a software patch to fix the problem, the Toronto Star reported Tuesday."
If Microsoft cared, this would be fixed or annonced to the public in a timely fashion. Instead, there have been days of silence.
They also dropped this little gem, "Responsible security researchers work with the vendor of a suspected vulnerability issue to ensure that countermeasures are developed before the issue is made public and customers are needlessly put at risk."
Fashionable to bash Microsoft? Sure. Justified this time? Absolutely.
I used to work at VERITAS Software. They routinely delayed release dates on products if quality wasn't good enough.
There is a problem with this, though. Customers made business plans based upon planned release dates. When those release dates slipped, the customer's plans were upset. This could leave them in awkward situations because they couldn't do certain things without features present in newer versions of the software. As a consequence, we always dreaded a slipping of the release date because it would provoke great annoyance from the customers.
Customers want it right and on-time. If they have to pick between those two, they will select to have it right, but will not be happy about it!
Have they finally realized that they will shortly be THE ONLY operating system that still relies on file extensions as the primary way of identifying files?
I think MacOS uses data they store in the resource fork of a file to determine what type of file it is and what application created it. This allows different files of the same type to be opened by different applications, and doesn't require *any* file extension.
Good for you! I have a nine month old son, and our general rule is that toys requiring batteries are not welcome. This isn't because we're afraid of technology or anything of that sort.
The problem I have with so many of the battery-powered toys is that they try to channel the play into paths intended by the designer of the toy.
The toys without batteries are better at evoking play.
Companies do this not just to avoid legal attacks and misconstrued evidence. They also implement document retention policies to save money.
If I sue ABC company for sexual discrimination, the court may mandate a discovery process. During this discovery process, I can tell ABC Corp that I want all of their email that pertains to hiring/firing decisions for the past 5 years (for example). So far, so good.
This gets difficult if ABC corp switched from Netware to Windows two years ago and switched backup software at the same time. The process of recovering and reviewing that older information can quickly become time consuming and expensive, costing into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If ABC Corp has a document retention policy that says "We keep backups of email only for 6 months," then they don't have to worry about that older stuff and the potential cost of having to recover it when a lawyer goes on a fishing expedition.
See, here's the deal. If you want incredible wealth and prosperity, it seems the US is pretty much the model you want to adopt. When people are allowed to choose between:
A) Keep the old ways, but accept there will be less economic growth and the benefits that brings. In time, you'll feel poor compared to your neighbors.
B) Keep some of the old ways, but change some, too. This will result in significant economic growth and development, but some nations will be more wealthy than you are. You will have some social stresses.
C) Allow the old ways to whither. This will result in the fastest economic growth , but will also cause your society struggle with the changes. There will be internal dissent about this.
The US seems to have selected option C. Are there problems? Hell yes. There are inequalities and social unrest, but there has been phenominal economic growth.
Other nations have selected option B+ and C-. They, too, have experienced economic growth, but less social upheaval.
It looks like China is trying to impose option B- or B. And that's the problem. The Chinese government is not legitimate, so social unrest is very threatening to them. Legitimate governments don't like social unrest, either, but they don't fear it to the point they imprison and kill thousands of their people just to shut them up.
If the Chinese government is truly loved and supported by its people, why does it use force to suppress and control its people? Is this the action of a government confident in their people's support and approval?
If the Chinese people, as a group, truly wanted their society to be "protected" from the outside world, there would be no need for the thugs in Beijing to crush kids with tanks, beat grannies for meditating, etc. and then try to hide it from their people with the threat of force.
That's the essential point here: all nations have flaws. Some are willing to use force to hide their flaws from their own people.
I'm a little fuzzy on the level of control the government has over newfangled things like TV.
You may not know this, but you can buy these collections of printed words in a variety of formats. A few different formats are called: newspapers, magazines, tabloids, and books. These words can communicate ideas and information. In some areas of the nation and, I hear, even in other countries, you can get these collections of words from a computer.
The revolutionary thing about these collections of words is that they aren't controlled by the government! Sometimes the government has tried to stop these words, but they let the law prevent them from stifling criticism! Fools!
Don't you now that we will distort your words and the facts so that we never have to respond to the thrust of your argument? Also, we levy many charges against the US and accuse the US government of being Imperialist and domineering.
If you persist in this line, we will be forced to become shrill in our defense of our glorious Chinese system.
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To summarize: The article does not state if the larger display helped men or not, but with the larger display, men and women tested equally.
I don't think the T68i is Tri-band. I wish it were, though, because GSM coverage is still pretty weak here in the US.
We're not talking about an entire OLTP system that runs a business -- we're talking about the object data used for the code itself. The article suggests a different way of managing the object data instead of using a flat file, XML, or a database.
Your company mades a series of bad choices.
Exabyte equipment is cheap in very sense of the word and will cause problems. I recommend something from ADIC or STK.
BackupExec sucks. An open file causes the backup job to be considered a failure. Look at something like Galaxy.
I have two 17" iMacs. Very quiet machines. They have a fan, but the only way I can tell they're running is by looking at them.
Is it now unacceptable to criticise anything unless the critic is perfect? If so, I suggest you stop expressing your opinions, because I am sure you have some flaws, too. That aside, I think you are missing the difference in scope and degree that exists between your examples.
USA:
Miniscule control of contested content as part of an on-going struggle over intellectual property. This control is almost entirely public, and any punishment is delivered openly after proper trials. An open and energetic debate is taking place within the USA regarding the correctness of these actions.
China:
Sweeping control of political expression. This control is as covert as possible. Much of the punishment is delivered in an arbitrary and concealed manner. Public debate within China is limited because people fear arrest if they complain.
Neither situation is ideal, but equating the situation in the USA with the situation in China diminishes the situation the Chinese people must endure.
I think Apple's laptops already have an antenna. It's not external to the laptop, but it is external to the card itself.
Do WiFi sniffers use extra big external antennas?
I thought SpamAssassin could be configured to never reject mail from certain addresses?
Can't be so! The Star Wars story takes place "Long, long ago."
Perhaps the Kung Fu masters are the descendants of Jedi?
This exploit was reported to Microsoft on May 20, according to Yahoo!
"Oy Online Solutions Ltd. of Finland said it notified Microsoft Corp. of the security hole on May 20 but the software giant has yet to produce a software patch to fix the problem, the Toronto Star reported Tuesday."
If Microsoft cared, this would be fixed or annonced to the public in a timely fashion. Instead, there have been days of silence.
They also dropped this little gem, "Responsible security researchers work with the vendor of a suspected vulnerability issue to ensure that countermeasures are developed before the issue is made public and customers are needlessly put at risk."
Fashionable to bash Microsoft? Sure. Justified this time? Absolutely.
I used to work at VERITAS Software. They routinely delayed release dates on products if quality wasn't good enough.
There is a problem with this, though. Customers made business plans based upon planned release dates. When those release dates slipped, the customer's plans were upset. This could leave them in awkward situations because they couldn't do certain things without features present in newer versions of the software. As a consequence, we always dreaded a slipping of the release date because it would provoke great annoyance from the customers.
Customers want it right and on-time. If they have to pick between those two, they will select to have it right, but will not be happy about it!
Girls in thongs don't qualify as porn in my estimation.
Find something to do with your time, aside from whining about non-problems.
Tru64 has some very cool technology in the file system and clustering space.
First off, they offer a journaling file system and have been doing so for a long time.
Second off, their clustering is very good -- some of the best around.
Have they finally realized that they will shortly be THE ONLY operating system that still relies on file extensions as the primary way of identifying files?
I think MacOS uses data they store in the resource fork of a file to determine what type of file it is and what application created it. This allows different files of the same type to be opened by different applications, and doesn't require *any* file extension.
Windows Terminal Server does this. There are companies that will host Terminal Services from their site and you can access them from anywhere.
I especially liked this line in the review (emphasis mine):
A real-life sorcerer keeps his spells in a book called a grimoire.
Where do I find a real-life sorcerer? I have some spells I wouldn't mind cast.
There are 6 billion people on earth, 5 billion of those appeared the the last 100-120 years
If so, I think *all* them appeared in the last 1-120 years.
As a person who's read the reviews in Scientific American, I feel strongly that this Cato piece misrepresents the original article.
Of course, I could have been tipped by the personal attacks and name calling.
Good for you! I have a nine month old son, and our general rule is that toys requiring batteries are not welcome. This isn't because we're afraid of technology or anything of that sort.
The problem I have with so many of the battery-powered toys is that they try to channel the play into paths intended by the designer of the toy.
The toys without batteries are better at evoking play.
Shredding is a first step that is supposed to make it easier to thoroughly burn the document as the next step.
Companies do this not just to avoid legal attacks and misconstrued evidence. They also implement document retention policies to save money.
If I sue ABC company for sexual discrimination, the court may mandate a discovery process. During this discovery process, I can tell ABC Corp that I want all of their email that pertains to hiring/firing decisions for the past 5 years (for example). So far, so good.
This gets difficult if ABC corp switched from Netware to Windows two years ago and switched backup software at the same time. The process of recovering and reviewing that older information can quickly become time consuming and expensive, costing into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If ABC Corp has a document retention policy that says "We keep backups of email only for 6 months," then they don't have to worry about that older stuff and the potential cost of having to recover it when a lawyer goes on a fishing expedition.
See, here's the deal. If you want incredible wealth and prosperity, it seems the US is pretty much the model you want to adopt. When people are allowed to choose between:
A) Keep the old ways, but accept there will be less economic growth and the benefits that brings. In time, you'll feel poor compared to your neighbors.
B) Keep some of the old ways, but change some, too. This will result in significant economic growth and development, but some nations will be more wealthy than you are. You will have some social stresses.
C) Allow the old ways to whither. This will result in the fastest economic growth , but will also cause your society struggle with the changes. There will be internal dissent about this.
The US seems to have selected option C. Are there problems? Hell yes. There are inequalities and social unrest, but there has been phenominal economic growth.
Other nations have selected option B+ and C-. They, too, have experienced economic growth, but less social upheaval.
It looks like China is trying to impose option B- or B. And that's the problem. The Chinese government is not legitimate, so social unrest is very threatening to them. Legitimate governments don't like social unrest, either, but they don't fear it to the point they imprison and kill thousands of their people just to shut them up.
If the Chinese government is truly loved and supported by its people, why does it use force to suppress and control its people? Is this the action of a government confident in their people's support and approval?
If the Chinese people, as a group, truly wanted their society to be "protected" from the outside world, there would be no need for the thugs in Beijing to crush kids with tanks, beat grannies for meditating, etc. and then try to hide it from their people with the threat of force.
That's the essential point here: all nations have flaws. Some are willing to use force to hide their flaws from their own people.
I'm a little fuzzy on the level of control the government has over newfangled things like TV.
You may not know this, but you can buy these collections of printed words in a variety of formats. A few different formats are called: newspapers, magazines, tabloids, and books. These words can communicate ideas and information. In some areas of the nation and, I hear, even in other countries, you can get these collections of words from a computer.
The revolutionary thing about these collections of words is that they aren't controlled by the government! Sometimes the government has tried to stop these words, but they let the law prevent them from stifling criticism! Fools!
Don't you now that we will distort your words and the facts so that we never have to respond to the thrust of your argument? Also, we levy many charges against the US and accuse the US government of being Imperialist and domineering.
If you persist in this line, we will be forced to become shrill in our defense of our glorious Chinese system.