Plus, I would of thought it sexist to create something that is a lower performance, but then call it slim and put it in pastel colors.
Where did people get this idea that 'slim + pastel' is a sexuality or gender thing? I like slender electronics - because I carry around a lot of equipment and smaller generally equals lighter, as well as the bulk savings in my cargo pants. I have a subnotebook, small mobile, etc etc. I also like pastels. They're peaceful, easy on the eyes. The shirt I'm wearing in the office right now has pastel blue stripes, for example.
So no, it's not sexist. I don't understand where you, the article poster, or about half of the other people commenting in this thread got that idea.
She bought it herself, with her babysitting money.
Crap, now 13 year old kids are buying stuff I've been putting off as 'too expensive'. I gotta get myself a piece of this lucrative babysitting racket...
a user will eventaully give up on creating new username/password combinations that they will simply recycle them (a big security risk right there.)
How is this any more or less of a security risk than having a single sign-on in the first place? ( Assuming equal security of the account storage, I guess. )
Recycling l/p pairs can lead to 1 -> Several account compromises - single signons can lead to 1 -> All.
By the way, it's "universties", not "universitys".
Oh the god-damned humanity. It's universities.
And by the way, I did go to University and study Computer Science, and I agree with the original poster. A lot of students are just trying to get churned out into a job, they're not interested in contributing to the field.
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I don't see that a good thing necessarily. I've gone through the pain of compiling programs that had dozens of libraries needed because the author was too lazy to write a single function. Having all these libraries an arm reach away has made modern programmers lazy and less knowledgeable.
This is a tragic mis-statement. What it has done is extended the power of complex, standard behaviors and routines to other programmers, allowed for centralised bug fixing as well as system wide improvments and feature enhancements. Code reuse has allowed us to build complex software in short time periods to meet ever diminishing deadlines.
Even if the use of standard libraries made programmers 'lazy' and 'less knowledgeable' ( I can't believe I'm writing this ), how does this in any way negatively impact their output provided they have access to these amazing laze inducing libraries?
It almost makes me sad to read this post. My computing forebears slaved and suffered in a living hell of replicated work and wasted maintainance time - we have these tremendous advantages at our disposal, and they are characterised as some kind of enemy of programming moral fiber.
Yeah. There's intelligent life here on earth *now* and we're letting it go without clean water, medical care, housing and adequete education - areas which I am sure would be greatful to receive the kind of largesse that would be spent on such a mission. Oh well, I'm sure we can get the money from the defence piggy-bank... right, guys? Right??
First, I will take cheap, livable housing for the masses over beautiful housing any day of the week. The inhabitants can always redecorate it later.
Second, to my eyes, this technology allows you to build all kinds of crazy looking houses that would have had prohibitive labour costs in the original.
A very exciting idea! I am really looking forward to this new era of computer aided fabrication technology - my alma mater, UTS, has recently purchased two Statasys 3D printers, so if those cheapskates are getting into it, surely the commodotisation boom is not far away.
When the time does come, I look forward to seeing napster like services for three dimensionsional objects. "Six people for dinner? I better download some new forks."
But since games that can't run well on a console platform simply aren't published for that platform, isn't this somewhat useless?
There isn't enough correction in the world. A lot of games get released for consoles with noticable periodic slowdown - the classic example is the Metal Slug series. Still happening today too, I notice the occasional wad of dropped frames playing my XBox or Gamecube.
What is cooler still is that this philosophy goes all the way up the corporate tree. A while ago I wrote a letter to their support department asking about Mac ports, and I didn't get a friendly, personal letter confirming the Mac and Linux ports from some guy in the trenches, I got one from Mark Rein, Epics V.P.
A company whose big-wigs take the time to answer mail, and who understand the importance of supporting minor platforms is definitely a company I enjoy giving my money too.
I mean, if every empirical fact we have suggests LucasArts are complete idiots for not producing the game, perhaps we're not in possession of all the facts.
Or perhaps they are indeed complete idiots. Have you been following their non Starwars property lines lately?
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Move somewhere peaceful. Support your local police.
Which apparently has just ceased to be.
Two birds with one stone. I like the way you think.
Yes, a world of happiness and leisure... for everyone except the poor sucker who has to keep pushing the frozen hydrogen pellets into the lasers.
Hope he's got real thick gloves.
'Stop! Or I will say "Stop!" again!'
Arrrgh! More money to the education system now!
Plus, I would of thought it sexist to create something that is a lower performance, but then call it slim and put it in pastel colors.Where did people get this idea that 'slim + pastel' is a sexuality or gender thing? I like slender electronics - because I carry around a lot of equipment and smaller generally equals lighter, as well as the bulk savings in my cargo pants. I have a subnotebook, small mobile, etc etc. I also like pastels. They're peaceful, easy on the eyes. The shirt I'm wearing in the office right now has pastel blue stripes, for example.
So no, it's not sexist. I don't understand where you, the article poster, or about half of the other people commenting in this thread got that idea.
Crap, now 13 year old kids are buying stuff I've been putting off as 'too expensive'. I gotta get myself a piece of this lucrative babysitting racket...
How is this any more or less of a security risk than having a single sign-on in the first place? ( Assuming equal security of the account storage, I guess. )
Recycling l/p pairs can lead to 1 -> Several account compromises - single signons can lead to 1 -> All.
YLFIWere you dropped on your head as a child?
Hmm, I'm a different species to all the other guys here... I knew it all along!
-- YLFII hear you. It was not intended as a bash - I myself would love to go back to uni for postgraduate study... but then again, I also have to eat.
YLFIEh, someone else would have gotten it eventually. To misquote Fort, it steamrollers when it's steamroller time.
Oh the god-damned humanity. It's universities.
And by the way, I did go to University and study Computer Science, and I agree with the original poster. A lot of students are just trying to get churned out into a job, they're not interested in contributing to the field.
YLFIIt was totally awesome when computers were about being able to sit down and get some work done. Sometimes even more efficiently than the old way!
Anonymous Coward got my teeth whiter than ever before! I would recommend Anonymous Coward to anybody!
This is a tragic mis-statement. What it has done is extended the power of complex, standard behaviors and routines to other programmers, allowed for centralised bug fixing as well as system wide improvments and feature enhancements. Code reuse has allowed us to build complex software in short time periods to meet ever diminishing deadlines.
Even if the use of standard libraries made programmers 'lazy' and 'less knowledgeable' ( I can't believe I'm writing this ), how does this in any way negatively impact their output provided they have access to these amazing laze inducing libraries?
It almost makes me sad to read this post. My computing forebears slaved and suffered in a living hell of replicated work and wasted maintainance time - we have these tremendous advantages at our disposal, and they are characterised as some kind of enemy of programming moral fiber.
Yeah. There's intelligent life here on earth *now* and we're letting it go without clean water, medical care, housing and adequete education - areas which I am sure would be greatful to receive the kind of largesse that would be spent on such a mission. Oh well, I'm sure we can get the money from the defence piggy-bank... right, guys? Right??
First, I will take cheap, livable housing for the masses over beautiful housing any day of the week. The inhabitants can always redecorate it later.
Second, to my eyes, this technology allows you to build all kinds of crazy looking houses that would have had prohibitive labour costs in the original.
A very exciting idea! I am really looking forward to this new era of computer aided fabrication technology - my alma mater, UTS, has recently purchased two Statasys 3D printers, so if those cheapskates are getting into it, surely the commodotisation boom is not far away.
When the time does come, I look forward to seeing napster like services for three dimensionsional objects. "Six people for dinner? I better download some new forks."
There isn't enough correction in the world. A lot of games get released for consoles with noticable periodic slowdown - the classic example is the Metal Slug series. Still happening today too, I notice the occasional wad of dropped frames playing my XBox or Gamecube.
No, he said, and meant APRA. APRA are the royalty collecting body in Australia and New Zealand.
We come from a land down under, you insensitive clod!
Judging from your spelling, I sure hope you weren't working in the dispensary.
This deserves to be modded up just so more people can see it and laugh at it.
What is cooler still is that this philosophy goes all the way up the corporate tree. A while ago I wrote a letter to their support department asking about Mac ports, and I didn't get a friendly, personal letter confirming the Mac and Linux ports from some guy in the trenches, I got one from Mark Rein, Epics V.P.
A company whose big-wigs take the time to answer mail, and who understand the importance of supporting minor platforms is definitely a company I enjoy giving my money too.
Ayn? Is that you?
YLFIOr perhaps they are indeed complete idiots. Have you been following their non Starwars property lines lately?