"Why do these people think that they're the "good guys" when they do this?"
Very good question. Personally while people like this say their motives are pure I think they just want the media spotlight.
The next thing you know we'll have some nutbar hijacking a plane and buzzing the whitehouse just to demonstrate "how easy it is". People are crazy, ya know?
And we all know that Bill gets PCs for free. He pulls them out of his magic hat, right?
Even if 75% of his donations where copies of MS software (that magically cost Bill nothing), how much does that leave? Something like FIVE BILLION in donations? How about you have a big cup of shut the hell up until you've donated a few billion to needy causes?
Good morning, Microsoft-basher. Please smell the coffee, open your eyes, and realize that Gates has GIVEN (where do you get take from???) more money to an assortment of charities and institutions that you will ever see in your life. Yes, I know you hate him but let's face it he's a smart guy and now that he has more money than God he's pretty damn generous with it.
I think most rational humans would agree. But since human nature is what it is we will end up with a huge mess of crap. For examples, see the American civil justice system. Ugh.
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Wow, lame.
What's scary is that people bother with this kind of scam. Sure we all laugh and point but somewhere out there, some moron is clicking "Bid" right now (or sending his bank acct number to the Nigerian dudes or whatever). Sad commentary on the human race.
I tend to agree. The trend is for hardware devices to get "cooler" and do more stuff. The problem is that they cost a lot of $$$ and most of us normal folks don't need or want the functionality.
Cell phones are a prime example of this but I see it everywhere these days. I suppose the profit margin on bare bones stuff is just too lean.
Splitting hairs but actually no it's not. Disk striping (commonly called RAID0) is not redundant, therefore it's not technically a form of "__Redundant__ Array of Independent Disks".
Fair enough. In that case I point to my "In some sectors maybe." clause. I suppose I'm talking bananas and you're talking apples. Feel free to ignore the blithering techie...:)
I'm a cheap bastard. I'm willing to spend bucks on the optics. I own a couple of excellent lenses (though not pro-grade). But I'm too cheap to want to spend $1k on the body. I get results out of an ancient body that are every bit as good as the results you'd get out of a top-of-the-line body. YMMW, but Nikon has known how to build an effective light meter for ages, I usually manual focus, and I don't need auto-bracket or any of the "fancy" stuff.
Anyways, this is way off topic now. $1k for the nikon body is really not bad, just not for me personally. It's just too much money to spend for resolution that while very nice, is still not quite high enough to kill film.
First off, I do live in a tech hole, but I'm happy so it's ok. Anyways I was replying to your post about the ratio of females in tech jobs. My personal experience is just what I said. It's not false but it is personal. Given that I've worked a variety of company types and had meetings with many others in two countries (more if you want to count customer visits) I feel my personal experience is not terribly inaccurate.
Back to the original article... I still don't see how they figure females in that age bracket are #1. I just can't see that being true, but who knows.
I suppose it depends on how they count "access". My grandma has "access" in that she lives in a house with an Internet connection but she has never actually been online herself. Would she be counted?
"You guys keep being surprised, but women make up half the work force where we spend a lot of time on computers."
In some sectors maybe. In "hardcore dev"... I've worked at 3 companies in my adult life (plus 4 more companies as an intern). The male/female ratio has been and remains approximately 10:1. My graduating class (Comp Eng) consisted of 80 or so guys and *zero* females.
Now don't get me wrong. I sure wish there were more chicks around. OTOH if I go across the street to marketing the ratio is more like 2:1 with the females on top (figuratively).
Personally, I'm surprised at the results (and wondering if they can be accurate).
Pressure differences in solid objects? How come the Moon doesn't explode then? It's a solid object and it's in a vacuum. Or are you saying that if we some created an atmosphere around the moon then it would explode? Then why doesn't the Earth explode?
I'm sorry but you're just so wrong it's not funny. Of course the universe would be a lot more fun if things just started exploding more.
The price tag on this phone is $613. Uh... wtf? I make a very comfortable living but IMHO $613 for a phone is stupid. When I want to take pictures I'm not going to want to use a one megapixel camera. The images will look like absolute crap compared to any decent digital camera costing half as much, or less! Similarly I'd expect the other non-phone features to suffer drawbacks.
Give me a solid, sexy little device that let's me talk to people and costs $30 and I'm a very happy camper. Strangely enough it's getting harder and harder to find such a beast!
Lenses in most consumer level digital cameras totally suck. This is definitely a problem once you get up to 3-4 mpixels but at 1 mpix it's really not a big deal.
Personally I'm not moving to digital until I can put my Nikkor lenses on a digital body (and not pay mega bucks for the body!)
My health club is the same. The sign on the door to the change room says "no cell phones". Obviously what they really mean is "no cameras". If you want to be literal, the posted policy says they don't mind if you walk in with your Nikon SLR and start shooting. Americans... *shrug*
AMD64 boxes are exactly like that. Nice little package but they sound like a freaking 747. I have one here at work. But when I say "here" I mean "stuffed in the corner of some poor bastard's test lab" because it's way too loud to keep in my office. RDP is handy for all kinds of things...
Yeah, all that hydrogen in one place is dangerous. So is a 747 full of jet fuel or a even a Honda full of gasoline. If you do some basic research on the Hindy you know what the wreckage burned for *HOURS*. Why? Because it was built from a huge amount of flammable materials and it had a large load of diesel fuel. The hydrogen wasn't responsible for much, if any, of the disaster.
It's a fairly safe generalization that almost anything that moves contains something dangerous. Even an electric vehicle might contain batteries or a fuel cell which could be dangerous in an accident.
How does someone who let an employer "take over" their personal email get +5 Insightful? No offence but is sounds like you were a bit clueless!
I trust my employer I get bank and personal emails at work. But I do it through a forwarder and I never give out my work email unless it is work-related. Be smart.
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Do you suppose Bill gave this money without knowing or even suspecting what it would be used for?
I don't know how smart you are, but I would think that you would be smart enough to realize that Bill isn't an idiot. He hasn't been hood-winked here.
"very little respect for the human race"
Gates may not be an angel but wtf are you talking abot? Are you implying he is a sociopath, a mass-murderer, or what?
What have you done lately to demonstrate *your* "respect for the human race"?
And for the record, I have very little respect for the human race myself. Does that make me evil too? I guess not - I'm not uber-wealthy.
I am a Canadian living in America. I don't consider myself either Republican or Democrat: they're all a pack of raving idiots IMHO.
"Why do these people think that they're the "good guys" when they do this?"
Very good question. Personally while people like this say their motives are pure I think they just want the media spotlight.
The next thing you know we'll have some nutbar hijacking a plane and buzzing the whitehouse just to demonstrate "how easy it is". People are crazy, ya know?
And we all know that Bill gets PCs for free. He pulls them out of his magic hat, right?
Even if 75% of his donations where copies of MS software (that magically cost Bill nothing), how much does that leave? Something like FIVE BILLION in donations? How about you have a big cup of shut the hell up until you've donated a few billion to needy causes?
"taking a big chunk of money from Mr. Gates"
Good morning, Microsoft-basher. Please smell the coffee, open your eyes, and realize that Gates has GIVEN (where do you get take from???) more money to an assortment of charities and institutions that you will ever see in your life. Yes, I know you hate him but let's face it he's a smart guy and now that he has more money than God he's pretty damn generous with it.
I think most rational humans would agree. But since human nature is what it is we will end up with a huge mess of crap. For examples, see the American civil justice system. Ugh.
Wow, lame.
What's scary is that people bother with this kind of scam. Sure we all laugh and point but somewhere out there, some moron is clicking "Bid" right now (or sending his bank acct number to the Nigerian dudes or whatever). Sad commentary on the human race.
I tend to agree. The trend is for hardware devices to get "cooler" and do more stuff. The problem is that they cost a lot of $$$ and most of us normal folks don't need or want the functionality.
Cell phones are a prime example of this but I see it everywhere these days. I suppose the profit margin on bare bones stuff is just too lean.
Maybe I'm just old...
Splitting hairs but actually no it's not. Disk striping (commonly called RAID0) is not redundant, therefore it's not technically a form of "__Redundant__ Array of Independent Disks".
Fair enough. In that case I point to my "In some sectors maybe." clause. I suppose I'm talking bananas and you're talking apples. Feel free to ignore the blithering techie... :)
"What's wrong with the price?"
I'm a cheap bastard. I'm willing to spend bucks on the optics. I own a couple of excellent lenses (though not pro-grade). But I'm too cheap to want to spend $1k on the body. I get results out of an ancient body that are every bit as good as the results you'd get out of a top-of-the-line body. YMMW, but Nikon has known how to build an effective light meter for ages, I usually manual focus, and I don't need auto-bracket or any of the "fancy" stuff.
Anyways, this is way off topic now. $1k for the nikon body is really not bad, just not for me personally. It's just too much money to spend for resolution that while very nice, is still not quite high enough to kill film.
First off, I do live in a tech hole, but I'm happy so it's ok. Anyways I was replying to your post about the ratio of females in tech jobs. My personal experience is just what I said. It's not false but it is personal. Given that I've worked a variety of company types and had meetings with many others in two countries (more if you want to count customer visits) I feel my personal experience is not terribly inaccurate.
Back to the original article... I still don't see how they figure females in that age bracket are #1. I just can't see that being true, but who knows.
I suppose it depends on how they count "access". My grandma has "access" in that she lives in a house with an Internet connection but she has never actually been online herself. Would she be counted?
"You guys keep being surprised, but women make up half the work force where we spend a lot of time on computers."
In some sectors maybe. In "hardcore dev"... I've worked at 3 companies in my adult life (plus 4 more companies as an intern). The male/female ratio has been and remains approximately 10:1. My graduating class (Comp Eng) consisted of 80 or so guys and *zero* females.
Now don't get me wrong. I sure wish there were more chicks around. OTOH if I go across the street to marketing the ratio is more like 2:1 with the females on top (figuratively).
Personally, I'm surprised at the results (and wondering if they can be accurate).
Yeah I've been looking at it. Nice but still not cheap enough. (I'm asking a lot, I know.)
Pressure differences in solid objects? How come the Moon doesn't explode then? It's a solid object and it's in a vacuum. Or are you saying that if we some created an atmosphere around the moon then it would explode? Then why doesn't the Earth explode?
I'm sorry but you're just so wrong it's not funny. Of course the universe would be a lot more fun if things just started exploding more.
You're old. And so am I! (Kidding... :) )
The price tag on this phone is $613. Uh... wtf? I make a very comfortable living but IMHO $613 for a phone is stupid. When I want to take pictures I'm not going to want to use a one megapixel camera. The images will look like absolute crap compared to any decent digital camera costing half as much, or less! Similarly I'd expect the other non-phone features to suffer drawbacks.
Give me a solid, sexy little device that let's me talk to people and costs $30 and I'm a very happy camper. Strangely enough it's getting harder and harder to find such a beast!
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Lenses in most consumer level digital cameras totally suck. This is definitely a problem once you get up to 3-4 mpixels but at 1 mpix it's really not a big deal.
Personally I'm not moving to digital until I can put my Nikkor lenses on a digital body (and not pay mega bucks for the body!)
My health club is the same. The sign on the door to the change room says "no cell phones". Obviously what they really mean is "no cameras". If you want to be literal, the posted policy says they don't mind if you walk in with your Nikon SLR and start shooting. Americans... *shrug*
Why I can't find the "Too rational for slashdot" moderation option. ;)
AMD64 boxes are exactly like that. Nice little package but they sound like a freaking 747. I have one here at work. But when I say "here" I mean "stuffed in the corner of some poor bastard's test lab" because it's way too loud to keep in my office. RDP is handy for all kinds of things...
That would be so cool. Of course running out to the liquid nitrogen store every month or whatever might get old.
Yeah ok I was doing my usual /. skim-read. I feel for ya.
Yeah, all that hydrogen in one place is dangerous. So is a 747 full of jet fuel or a even a Honda full of gasoline. If you do some basic research on the Hindy you know what the wreckage burned for *HOURS*. Why? Because it was built from a huge amount of flammable materials and it had a large load of diesel fuel. The hydrogen wasn't responsible for much, if any, of the disaster.
It's a fairly safe generalization that almost anything that moves contains something dangerous. Even an electric vehicle might contain batteries or a fuel cell which could be dangerous in an accident.
How does someone who let an employer "take over" their personal email get +5 Insightful? No offence but is sounds like you were a bit clueless!
I trust my employer I get bank and personal emails at work. But I do it through a forwarder and I never give out my work email unless it is work-related. Be smart.