Agreed, I am tired of this old troll coming over and over. All the women that I know working in IT have been saying that this was one of the less sexist work environment they knew (yes, they knew other work environment). It just doesn't attract girl at the school level. It is not the proportion of girls working in IT that is low, it is the proportion of girls who graduate in IT.
I hate ad hominems. Fnord. The claim is easy to prove wrong. It takes a single statement of the methodology used to choose these stations instead of others.
Hey, here is an idea : military grunts should ask for competent advice when dealing with computers and I'll ask for competent advice when dealing with arms. You don't exactly see me disabling any device I don't like / don't understand. But if that kind of behavior is tolerated, I'll gladly go around with clamps, bending any cannon I can find, pretending to make the country safer (which I also somehow believe it would do but again, I know nothing about guns)
Since she was lucky and the hard drive wasn't hit, it was probably better in the end for her than what would have happened to her if she tried to enter the US with a laptop with Al-Qaeda stickers on it. Under the old rules (which supposedly have been changed under Obama), the TSA could arbitrarily seize the laptop for an indefinite period of time for investigation.
The equivalent would be to have a "fuck america" sticker and any mainstream 2003 French newspaper talking about the Iraq war.
I am still a bit sad that this is still a sub-orbital vehicle. I find it borderline to call it a spaceship. Sure it can go into space, but the only thing it can do in space is to fall. It is like calling a boat a floating planch without sail, engine or oars. I wish we could see a space travel company (at least to LEO).
"If this doesn't scale, logically, up to the network at a whole, I'm not sure why."
You and your roommate are using a link between your computer and the internet link that is faster than the internet link. Try saturating a DSL internet connection while sharing it through 9600 bauds links and you get a fair comparison to what is happening. Sure, hundreds of users in these conditions can choke it, but it is unlikely for a single user to be responsible for the whole situation. The fairer way would be to lower the speed cap of everyone, while the easiest way is to disconnect those that use the connection at the maximum : this minimizes the angry-users/performance-gains ratio.
At one moment there was entanglement between "grid" and "cloud" computing. I'm not sure people who use them usually understand their underlying meanings. I try to make people more specific, I don't like these words which are too close to buzzwords, in my humble opinion...
Then why does she only offer up a single page of plants as decoded anagrams? What about the other ~199 pages? What about the pages of block text?
She calls for help from people knowing medieval Italian. Apparently she used a reference book on the medieval Italian name of certain plants ot get these hints. She makes the interesting suggestion that this was written by a child, maybe mimicking scientists he knows be drawing "obvious" stuff, i.e. the plants in the garden and in the kitchen, and "hiding" his discoveries using a code used by scientists of the time.
You found that on Wikipedia? Call Yale University, you've decoded it. Citing Wikipedia for a fact while analyzing centuries old manuscripts? Why you bother to put PhD after you name bewilders me.
She referred to Wikipedia as an inspiration to explore an anagram-based lead. Not such a bad thing to do.
If you want my theory, we're dealing with an unknown autistic artist's work.
That was the theory that sounded the most plausible to me too, but these new leads and discoveries call for more investigation, I would say.
Exactly. Let me piratly hijack this +5 post (Yarrrr!) to add a point.
Somalia has no official government, therefore no police, no coast guards, no naval force. What exactly is a "Spanish tuna fishing vessel" doing off Somalian coast ? I'll tell you : it is fishing illegally there. Well, illegally is a theoretic term because there are no functioning law system to prevent them doing so. So what happens ? Some Somalian fishermen gather, put money in common, arm a vessel and try to bring some order.
Illegal fishing is a minor offense. But you have to know that illegal dumping of nuclear waste also occurred in Somalia waters. I must say that I consider it a good news that they form cooperatives instead of lord-vassal structure.
There is also a basic fact I like to remind concerning these "pirates" : they have not killed any hostage yet. The only hostage to die was killed by a (French) military in a recovery mission.
Maybe what changed is the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation. Maybe it is a preconceived idea but I have the feeling that patents were created in a time where the process "I found this nifty idea ! let's find a few thousand dollars and start production !" was far more common than "I have a few thousand dollars, let's find an innovative thingie and start production !". Now that every company invest millions if not billions in R&D, the need for an incentive has reversed.
Maybe the main reason for that is the huge number of "innovators" profile there is now on the jobs market : engineers, doctors, developers... These people either are unemployed or spend their time solving problems. Some of these problems fall under the strange set of "problems whose solution can be patented" despite the fact that two different independent engineers would solve it almost exactly in the same way.
Well instead of being one anonymous user amongst 25 millions, that makes you one user amongst 2 cell phones which have the same number. I think this makes being anonymous a tad bit harder.
Exactly. The huge savings from computers come from the fact that totally new procedures can be made. It is slower for most people to use a tablet PC or a laptop than a paper notebook, the savings are not made there and if it is the only part that is changed, you'll loose money by doing so.
* Use open standards (so that old and new equipement can easily communicate, and so that different departments can share information)
* Network everything that is not life-critical.
* Define clear access rights enforced through cryptography.
* Have an efficient search engine. That's what computers do well, that is where the time saving is. Digitazing non-searchable data is only doing half of the work.
* Publicize the data that you have available. Often it is not enough to be able to provide information to someone. Informing about the kind of information one can provide is the first step for an efficient search.
I think that doctors, like too many people, dismissed the fact that computers were merely a tool, not pixie dust, and that a tool has limitation and strength one has to understand. I am not saying that every nurse and doctor should know how to program a search engine, but at least understand what it is, and why it is useful. Failing that, they will probably be more efficient with a pen and paper.
I should have pointed out that, as a European (froggy surrendering monkey), I didn't consider that as a voting issue. My point of view is more to consider if America either is back as a herald of freedoms or is still an avatar of big corps. If I had to choose a country to exile to, America still doesn't have my vote back from Finland (who declared internet access to be a human right).
On this point I am really saddened by the Obama administration. The 3-strikes-and-out is hugely unpopular including amongst artists. It is "lobbying for special interests" at its finest and really should not belong to the 21st century. There are already some countries who recognized access to internet as an opposable right.
I thought now there were progressives in the White House and in Senate ? Does nobody want geeks' votes anymore ? How many pirate party will be necessary in order for this madness to end ?
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Agreed, I am tired of this old troll coming over and over. All the women that I know working in IT have been saying that this was one of the less sexist work environment they knew (yes, they knew other work environment). It just doesn't attract girl at the school level. It is not the proportion of girls working in IT that is low, it is the proportion of girls who graduate in IT.
I began to consider piracy when I bought a DVD with non-skippable ads on them.
I hate ad hominems.
Fnord.
The claim is easy to prove wrong. It takes a single statement of the methodology used to choose these stations instead of others.
Otherwise, the distros are just flavored differently. It's all the same under the hood.
Yep : all are debians
Hey, here is an idea : military grunts should ask for competent advice when dealing with computers and I'll ask for competent advice when dealing with arms. You don't exactly see me disabling any device I don't like / don't understand. But if that kind of behavior is tolerated, I'll gladly go around with clamps, bending any cannon I can find, pretending to make the country safer (which I also somehow believe it would do but again, I know nothing about guns)
Since she was lucky and the hard drive wasn't hit, it was probably better in the end for her than what would have happened to her if she tried to enter the US with a laptop with Al-Qaeda stickers on it. Under the old rules (which supposedly have been changed under Obama), the TSA could arbitrarily seize the laptop for an indefinite period of time for investigation.
The equivalent would be to have a "fuck america" sticker and any mainstream 2003 French newspaper talking about the Iraq war.
So they had to shoot down her laptop. With three bullets. Missing her hard drive. That really makes sense now.
Well, you just need 0.5 milli electron-ampere then...
I am still a bit sad that this is still a sub-orbital vehicle. I find it borderline to call it a spaceship. Sure it can go into space, but the only thing it can do in space is to fall. It is like calling a boat a floating planch without sail, engine or oars. I wish we could see a space travel company (at least to LEO).
Still a great achievement though !
Numbers are like words : they can mean anything, but it takes an intelligent readers to spot the lies.
At least the meta-thief doesn't try to convince the thief he has made a good deal.
"If this doesn't scale, logically, up to the network at a whole, I'm not sure why." You and your roommate are using a link between your computer and the internet link that is faster than the internet link. Try saturating a DSL internet connection while sharing it through 9600 bauds links and you get a fair comparison to what is happening. Sure, hundreds of users in these conditions can choke it, but it is unlikely for a single user to be responsible for the whole situation. The fairer way would be to lower the speed cap of everyone, while the easiest way is to disconnect those that use the connection at the maximum : this minimizes the angry-users/performance-gains ratio.
There are too many educated people on earth for all of them to be contributive to the society. Some of them just become patent lawyers.
The article posits child Da Vinci as the creator
Anyone remember that doing something no one ever did is difficult ?
At one moment there was entanglement between "grid" and "cloud" computing. I'm not sure people who use them usually understand their underlying meanings. I try to make people more specific, I don't like these words which are too close to buzzwords, in my humble opinion...
Then why does she only offer up a single page of plants as decoded anagrams? What about the other ~199 pages? What about the pages of block text?
She calls for help from people knowing medieval Italian. Apparently she used a reference book on the medieval Italian name of certain plants ot get these hints. She makes the interesting suggestion that this was written by a child, maybe mimicking scientists he knows be drawing "obvious" stuff, i.e. the plants in the garden and in the kitchen, and "hiding" his discoveries using a code used by scientists of the time.
You found that on Wikipedia? Call Yale University, you've decoded it. Citing Wikipedia for a fact while analyzing centuries old manuscripts? Why you bother to put PhD after you name bewilders me.
She referred to Wikipedia as an inspiration to explore an anagram-based lead. Not such a bad thing to do.
If you want my theory, we're dealing with an unknown autistic artist's work.
That was the theory that sounded the most plausible to me too, but these new leads and discoveries call for more investigation, I would say.
We need a so-fucking-seriously-fucked-up-it-is-funny mod point...
Exactly. Let me piratly hijack this +5 post (Yarrrr!) to add a point.
Somalia has no official government, therefore no police, no coast guards, no naval force. What exactly is a "Spanish tuna fishing vessel" doing off Somalian coast ? I'll tell you : it is fishing illegally there. Well, illegally is a theoretic term because there are no functioning law system to prevent them doing so. So what happens ? Some Somalian fishermen gather, put money in common, arm a vessel and try to bring some order.
Illegal fishing is a minor offense. But you have to know that illegal dumping of nuclear waste also occurred in Somalia waters. I must say that I consider it a good news that they form cooperatives instead of lord-vassal structure.
There is also a basic fact I like to remind concerning these "pirates" : they have not killed any hostage yet. The only hostage to die was killed by a (French) military in a recovery mission.
Maybe what changed is the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation. Maybe it is a preconceived idea but I have the feeling that patents were created in a time where the process "I found this nifty idea ! let's find a few thousand dollars and start production !" was far more common than "I have a few thousand dollars, let's find an innovative thingie and start production !". Now that every company invest millions if not billions in R&D, the need for an incentive has reversed.
Maybe the main reason for that is the huge number of "innovators" profile there is now on the jobs market : engineers, doctors, developers... These people either are unemployed or spend their time solving problems. Some of these problems fall under the strange set of "problems whose solution can be patented" despite the fact that two different independent engineers would solve it almost exactly in the same way.
Well instead of being one anonymous user amongst 25 millions, that makes you one user amongst 2 cell phones which have the same number. I think this makes being anonymous a tad bit harder.
Exactly. The huge savings from computers come from the fact that totally new procedures can be made. It is slower for most people to use a tablet PC or a laptop than a paper notebook, the savings are not made there and if it is the only part that is changed, you'll loose money by doing so.
* Use open standards (so that old and new equipement can easily communicate, and so that different departments can share information)
* Network everything that is not life-critical.
* Define clear access rights enforced through cryptography.
* Have an efficient search engine. That's what computers do well, that is where the time saving is. Digitazing non-searchable data is only doing half of the work.
* Publicize the data that you have available. Often it is not enough to be able to provide information to someone. Informing about the kind of information one can provide is the first step for an efficient search.
I think that doctors, like too many people, dismissed the fact that computers were merely a tool, not pixie dust, and that a tool has limitation and strength one has to understand. I am not saying that every nurse and doctor should know how to program a search engine, but at least understand what it is, and why it is useful. Failing that, they will probably be more efficient with a pen and paper.
I should have pointed out that, as a European (froggy surrendering monkey), I didn't consider that as a voting issue. My point of view is more to consider if America either is back as a herald of freedoms or is still an avatar of big corps. If I had to choose a country to exile to, America still doesn't have my vote back from Finland (who declared internet access to be a human right).
On this point I am really saddened by the Obama administration. The 3-strikes-and-out is hugely unpopular including amongst artists. It is "lobbying for special interests" at its finest and really should not belong to the 21st century. There are already some countries who recognized access to internet as an opposable right.
I thought now there were progressives in the White House and in Senate ? Does nobody want geeks' votes anymore ? How many pirate party will be necessary in order for this madness to end ?
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