Einstein predicted that the gravity created by a large body warped space-time, but he also predicted that if the large body was rotating it would create a drag effect on space-time known as frame dragging.
Actually, you just did get on my good side. By getting it.
I know there are lots of guys that respect girls. Unfortunately, there are too many that don't, that's what discourages a lot of female would-be-gamers.
I just want to say that the comments from the male crowd here alone is a very good indication of why there aren't as many girl gamers.
We simply do not get any respect.
A common misconception about girls that play games is that they play "boring online games", such as Yahoo games, solitare, chess or whatever. Yes, many girls play those kinds of games. However, so do many guys. The thing is, most of those guys would never post here, and most of those girls are the only ones the average slashdotter would see (Yeah, I'm using a stereotype here, so sue me).
Another common misconception is that games are marketed towards guys because there aren't as many girls that do play "the cool" games. This is a matter of market forces. While I agree that there are fewer girls that play games than guys, the number of girls that play games isn't really that low. In fact, most of my female friends play games. Females make up 51% of the world population, after all, so there's a HUGE market out there.
A third misconception is that girls aren't interested in games. Totally wrong, see above. Girls ARE interested in games. Obviously.
These are misconceptions that are repeated constantly. We girls are simply seen as people who aren't techy. If one of us IS, then we're seen as not as competent as a guy. If we prove to be competent, then we suddenly turn into a threat. All of those are reasons to talk down to girls, not just in gaming, but in other areas as well.
I can tell you one thing that girls are though. We're not interested in being called names, just because we try to show an interest in the very same field as guys.
Maybe, just maybe, more girls would confess to being gamers if they weren't insulted whenever they tried it.
(Okay, maybe this post wasn't so thought through, but I'm currently busy starving myself to keep my figure.... or maybe I'm just delirious from coding all day and forgetting to eat. Bah, whatever.)
You're missing the point completely. Games don't have to be girl-oriented. They just have to be games. I'm a girl and I play damn near every game my male friends play. I kick the crap out of them in several of them too.
There are, however, games that I totally lose interest in, not because of the game's "orientation" but because of the immature male crowd that gets drawn to it because of the marketing.
I was recently involved in a project where a large Swedish car manufacturer migrated to a corporate wide client platform. The operating system was supplied by a major American software company, packaged by a major American computer manufacturer, reviewed and further packaged by the car manufacturer's mother company and finally tailored for local requirements by one of our teams.
At any one of those stages, a hacked binary could've been introduced into the operating system. To modify a binary, even without access to the source code for said binary, is a trivial task for anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of assembler.
Proprietary code does not, in any way, prevent malicious code from entering the system. One of the points in the original article was that a malicious distribution could be specifically tailored for and marketed to, for instance, a government. My example above shows how a proprietary code operating system can be used in a similar way, and this time without any source code to check against.
Spammers use relays to hide their true origins of operation. Whether that's insecure proxies or hosts they're explicitly allowed to use is irrelevant in this case, because they use both.
Yes, he's forced, by anti-spammers, to use an RBL evasion tactic commonly used by spammers.
We got around the problem by relaying all of our mail through another SMTP server run by a friend at an unamed ISP.
So, essentially, you were forced to use a technique commonly used by spammers to avoid blacklists, in order for you, as a non-spamming site to avoid the same blacklist? Am I the only one that sees the irony of this?
While I think this is a great step forward in terms of cooling, I'm afraid that if this gets widely implemented, it'll end up making processors less efficient in terms of heat management.
A modern processor creates around 60-70 watts of heat. Heat management is currently a problem in many systems, and the fact that the processors convert so much power into heat creates a need for larger power supplies. Now, if this was to be widely implemented, the incentive for reducing the heat waste in the processors would be largely negated, which would result in even higher power requirements and so on.
A screwdriver is also a very specific purpose tool. It's used to screw in screws.
However, if I was told, by shrink-wrap licenses or anything else, that I would only be allowed to screw in MetaScrew Brand X screws with my screwdriver, I'd use my pocket-knife for it instead. Or, simply not care and use it on other screws anyway.
Calm down. This is just the first story. We're just waiting for the conspiracy theories, and the usual terrorist organizations (Al-Queda, Hamas, USPO) claiming responsibility.
The problem is not Cisco teaching classful addressing. I'm not complaining about that. The problem is Cisco teaching classful addressing as if it's THE technology, the one they SHOULD use, instead of teaching CIDR and also state that people used to (and some still do) used Classful adressing, which works like This...
I've met I don't know how many CCNAs that, while they're aware of something called CIDR, they are too stuck into their mindset of classfulness, "borrowing bits" and other legacy concepts that it takes longer to retrain them than it'd take to train someone from scratch.
Sorry to be anal, but classful routing hasn't been used (by clueful people) for years now. Even then, a/16 would be the equivalent of a "B" class. Also, remember that the classes were limited to certain ranges, such as A-classes being 1.* to 127.*, B being 128.* to 191.* and so on. Anything dividing a classful block into something smaller would be a so called "subnet" (ever wondered where that name came from?).
Unfortunately, a certain networking hardware company still insists on teaching classful addressing, despite CIDR having been available for something like ten years now.
The thing is though, to use a cliché, we learn from our mistakes. A human is able to understand that it made a mistake. A computer is not. A computer merely observes the results and compares it to a - usually predefined or at least pre-seeded - set of parameters.
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Geocaching - Gotta find'em all!
Just wait for Nintendo Club Airlines to start offering cheap flights to exotic places, to find your rare Pokémons at. =)
Quick! Everyone! Stop thinking about 3M!
Einstein predicted that the gravity created by a large body warped space-time, but he also predicted that if the large body was rotating it would create a drag effect on space-time known as frame dragging.
AAagh! Mental images of my ex dancing! *SHUDDER!*
Actually, you just did get on my good side. By getting it.
I know there are lots of guys that respect girls. Unfortunately, there are too many that don't, that's what discourages a lot of female would-be-gamers.
When I play with the male avatar, I don't get hit on by horny teenagers.
When I play with the male avatar, I get respect for being a good player, just just my attributes.
I just want to say that the comments from the male crowd here alone is a very good indication of why there aren't as many girl gamers.
We simply do not get any respect.
A common misconception about girls that play games is that they play "boring online games", such as Yahoo games, solitare, chess or whatever. Yes, many girls play those kinds of games. However, so do many guys. The thing is, most of those guys would never post here, and most of those girls are the only ones the average slashdotter would see (Yeah, I'm using a stereotype here, so sue me).
Another common misconception is that games are marketed towards guys because there aren't as many girls that do play "the cool" games. This is a matter of market forces. While I agree that there are fewer girls that play games than guys, the number of girls that play games isn't really that low. In fact, most of my female friends play games. Females make up 51% of the world population, after all, so there's a HUGE market out there.
A third misconception is that girls aren't interested in games. Totally wrong, see above. Girls ARE interested in games. Obviously.
These are misconceptions that are repeated constantly. We girls are simply seen as people who aren't techy. If one of us IS, then we're seen as not as competent as a guy. If we prove to be competent, then we suddenly turn into a threat. All of those are reasons to talk down to girls, not just in gaming, but in other areas as well.
I can tell you one thing that girls are though. We're not interested in being called names, just because we try to show an interest in the very same field as guys.
Maybe, just maybe, more girls would confess to being gamers if they weren't insulted whenever they tried it.
(Okay, maybe this post wasn't so thought through, but I'm currently busy starving myself to keep my figure.... or maybe I'm just delirious from coding all day and forgetting to eat. Bah, whatever.)
You're missing the point completely. Games don't have to be girl-oriented. They just have to be games. I'm a girl and I play damn near every game my male friends play. I kick the crap out of them in several of them too.
There are, however, games that I totally lose interest in, not because of the game's "orientation" but because of the immature male crowd that gets drawn to it because of the marketing.
Just MAYBE girls don't game as much BECAUSE games are marketed towards guys?
Except that girls are better at multitasking than guys. =D
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how long it'll take our resident Nintendo troll to latch onto this thread with his amazing Smell-o-Vision? =)
Anyone remember when the Windows Update servers got hit by Code Red? =)
Playing the devil's advocate here, you can trust source from Apache yes, but can you trust a precompiled Apache HTTPD from ACME GPU/Linxu?
I was recently involved in a project where a large Swedish car manufacturer migrated to a corporate wide client platform. The operating system was supplied by a major American software company, packaged by a major American computer manufacturer, reviewed and further packaged by the car manufacturer's mother company and finally tailored for local requirements by one of our teams.
At any one of those stages, a hacked binary could've been introduced into the operating system. To modify a binary, even without access to the source code for said binary, is a trivial task for anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of assembler.
Proprietary code does not, in any way, prevent malicious code from entering the system. One of the points in the original article was that a malicious distribution could be specifically tailored for and marketed to, for instance, a government. My example above shows how a proprietary code operating system can be used in a similar way, and this time without any source code to check against.
All of it?
Spammers use relays to hide their true origins of operation. Whether that's insecure proxies or hosts they're explicitly allowed to use is irrelevant in this case, because they use both.
Yes, he's forced, by anti-spammers, to use an RBL evasion tactic commonly used by spammers.
We got around the problem by relaying all of our mail through another SMTP server run by a friend at an unamed ISP.
So, essentially, you were forced to use a technique commonly used by spammers to avoid blacklists, in order for you, as a non-spamming site to avoid the same blacklist? Am I the only one that sees the irony of this?
While I think this is a great step forward in terms of cooling, I'm afraid that if this gets widely implemented, it'll end up making processors less efficient in terms of heat management.
A modern processor creates around 60-70 watts of heat. Heat management is currently a problem in many systems, and the fact that the processors convert so much power into heat creates a need for larger power supplies. Now, if this was to be widely implemented, the incentive for reducing the heat waste in the processors would be largely negated, which would result in even higher power requirements and so on.
In my opinion not a good vision of the future.
The court case could help to decide the debate over whether violent video and computer games cause aggression in children
What's wrong with actual verifiable FACTS deciding debates, instead of court cases?
A screwdriver is also a very specific purpose tool. It's used to screw in screws.
However, if I was told, by shrink-wrap licenses or anything else, that I would only be allowed to screw in MetaScrew Brand X screws with my screwdriver, I'd use my pocket-knife for it instead. Or, simply not care and use it on other screws anyway.
Calm down. This is just the first story. We're just waiting for the conspiracy theories, and the usual terrorist organizations (Al-Queda, Hamas, USPO) claiming responsibility.
The dot-biz registry is handled by a specific company, namely Neu(?:star|level). It is as much controlled by ICANN as, say, .com, .org or .se.
The problem is not Cisco teaching classful addressing. I'm not complaining about that. The problem is Cisco teaching classful addressing as if it's THE technology, the one they SHOULD use, instead of teaching CIDR and also state that people used to (and some still do) used Classful adressing, which works like This...
I've met I don't know how many CCNAs that, while they're aware of something called CIDR, they are too stuck into their mindset of classfulness, "borrowing bits" and other legacy concepts that it takes longer to retrain them than it'd take to train someone from scratch.
Sorry to be anal, but classful routing hasn't been used (by clueful people) for years now. Even then, a /16 would be the equivalent of a "B" class. Also, remember that the classes were limited to certain ranges, such as A-classes being 1.* to 127.*, B being 128.* to 191.* and so on. Anything dividing a classful block into something smaller would be a so called "subnet" (ever wondered where that name came from?).
Unfortunately, a certain networking hardware company still insists on teaching classful addressing, despite CIDR having been available for something like ten years now.
Very good point.
The thing is though, to use a cliché, we learn from our mistakes. A human is able to understand that it made a mistake. A computer is not. A computer merely observes the results and compares it to a - usually predefined or at least pre-seeded - set of parameters.