The Dept Of Defense security requirements for classified information specifies that there is no internet connectivity on computers having classified data on them.
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Actually, studies have answered that question a few times: Yes, boys will prefer soldier type toys and women household simulation type toys.
Makes sense, gender roles are _really_ strongly related to genetics. If it were different, then societies would have evolved more gender-homogenously.
Women/Men have about the same IQ (which, btw & IMO, is too subjective to mean a damn thing) but men are more rationally centered, so it is easier for us. But after a little start, most women I know have had little problem working with computers. Actually some I know are damn good EEs.
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Hmm... 1. My computer is my favorite toy. I like to play GCC.
2. All computers are basically overpowered calculators.
3. It's VERY cool to get kids on computers. And there's nothing wrong with them using it for games only to start: that's how most of us got here in the first place.
Especially the Barbie: computers have been all male for too long. Sure they'll use it for toys, but that's how most of us start. Gaming first, then we find a scripting language that takes our interest. Imagine 5 or 6 year olds learning a macro language.
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The little bullshit detector in my mind is ringing like crazy today. Damn they're shoveling it pretty deep today. The NSA reviews their system but doesn't have a copy of the key they review? Pardon me if I've misunderstood, but how wouldn't they have the key, exactly? The NSA is known (or at least well rumoured;-)) for making large crypto suppliers put backdoors in the system for them. MS Admits to having the NSA check over their code suuuuuuure there isn't a backdoor for them...
And my ass isn't hairy....
-- Lally "Hairy Ass" Singh
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Just a quick question to those folks who get off on this kind of stuff: anyone seen an embedded Pentium or above with a 3D accel chip on there? I have a valid embedded use:-)
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1. Hardware costs are a mere fraction of per user computer costs. A machine over 3 years will easily have at least 2-3K worth of support costs associated with it. Cheap machines are big in the home market. The business market really doesn't care that much.
2. These machines are pre built, tested, and have a known configuration. Hardware maintanence and support is trivial for these things. The significant cost of human support is cut to a fraction for that of a PC. No HDD means that each machine is _completely_ exchangable. Imagine when a user has a problem with their box, they take it over to the support office, and the office gives them another box in 3 minutes, and look at the defective one later. That's productivity.
3. Software support costs are cut to the servers and servers only.
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Its sad to see SGI hurt like this, hell I feel their pain.
But, on the other side, SGI has always had one thing on its side: fan-fsking-tastic hardware.
And when the OS is the same, and the platform is the same, what matters? Hardware. So maybe they have a chance in the server market. If they have fun with stupidly high bandwidth busses and don't get greedy with the prices, they may do alright.
But for God's sake man, LEAVE THE HIGH END MARKET AS IS! The world needs at least one vender doing what SGI's doing. Sheesh.
that requires that the video cards themselves support that feature. afaik, only a few cards support multihead. i think matrox & ibm & another i don't remember are the only ones who have models that support it.
so.. it can be done with a soldering iron & alot of spare time:-)
Well, wouldn't SGI be the ones to talk about in this respect? I think that they'd have more expertise in this area:-)
But seriously, I could see SGI selling these beasts as Linux workstations. NT for the ones who want something new & shiny on their desks, and Linux for those who actually want to get work done (and play Quake REALLY REALLY FAST:).
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it to another, more linux-friendly format by now.
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held. Looks like MS will have to make an offer
that MainSoft can't refuse
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before the end of the month.
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for classified information specifies that
there is no internet connectivity on
computers having classified data on them.
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few times: Yes, boys will prefer soldier type
toys and women household simulation type
toys.
Makes sense, gender roles are _really_ strongly
related to genetics. If it were different, then
societies would have evolved more gender-homogenously.
Women/Men have about the same IQ (which, btw & IMO, is too subjective to mean a damn thing) but
men are more rationally centered, so it is
easier for us. But after a little start, most
women I know have had little problem working
with computers. Actually some I know are damn
good EEs.
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1. My computer is my favorite toy. I like to play GCC.
2. All computers are basically overpowered calculators.
3. It's VERY cool to get kids on computers. And there's nothing wrong with them using it for games only to start: that's how most of us got here in the first place.
Especially the Barbie: computers have been all male for too long. Sure they'll use it for toys, but that's how most of us start. Gaming first, then we find a scripting language that takes our interest. Imagine 5 or 6 year olds learning a macro language.
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say a $2,000,000 lawsuit for the winner of the
challenge...
That's a quick way to get rid of any numbers.
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is ringing like crazy today. Damn they're
shoveling it pretty deep today. The NSA
reviews their system but doesn't have a copy
of the key they review? Pardon me if I've
misunderstood, but how wouldn't they have the
key, exactly? The NSA is known (or at least
well rumoured
suppliers put backdoors in the system for them.
MS Admits to having the NSA check over their code
suuuuuuure there isn't a backdoor for them...
And my ass isn't hairy....
-- Lally "Hairy Ass" Singh
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off on this kind of stuff: anyone seen an
embedded Pentium or above with a 3D accel
chip on there? I have a valid embedded use
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user computer costs. A machine over 3 years will
easily have at least 2-3K worth of support costs
associated with it. Cheap machines are big in
the home market. The business market really
doesn't care that much.
2. These machines are pre built, tested, and
have a known configuration. Hardware maintanence
and support is trivial for these things. The
significant cost of human support is cut to
a fraction for that of a PC. No HDD means
that each machine is _completely_ exchangable.
Imagine when a user has a problem with their box,
they take it over to the support office, and the
office gives them another box in 3 minutes,
and look at the defective one later. That's
productivity.
3. Software support costs are cut to the servers
and servers only.
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processor bound. Have you at least tried
make -j to parallelize the compilation?
They can't do much about making the CPU itself
faster, just getting rid of the bottlenecks
around it.
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Look at the Win98 kernel a little bit closer boy.
Using Mach's message passing is just as bad
as basing your OS on DOS, anyhow. Ick ick ick ick.
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their pain.
But, on the other side, SGI has always had one
thing on its side: fan-fsking-tastic hardware.
And when the OS is the same, and the platform
is the same, what matters? Hardware. So maybe
they have a chance in the server market. If they
have fun with stupidly high bandwidth busses and
don't get greedy with the prices, they may do alright.
But for God's sake man, LEAVE THE HIGH END MARKET
AS IS! The world needs at least one vender doing
what SGI's doing. Sheesh.
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prompt is because SMARTDRIVE will sync the
disks before the prompt is displayed.
That's easy nuff to do in bash
PS1="`sync`\$ " or whatever...
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that requires that the video cards themselves
:-)
support that feature. afaik, only a few cards
support multihead. i think matrox & ibm & another
i don't remember are the only ones who have
models that support it.
so.. it can be done with a soldering iron & alot
of spare time
Well, wouldn't SGI be the ones to talk about :-)
:).
in this respect? I think that they'd have
more expertise in this area
But seriously, I could see SGI selling these
beasts as Linux workstations. NT for the ones
who want something new & shiny on their desks,
and Linux for those who actually want to get
work done (and play Quake REALLY REALLY FAST