If it is xserve-like the way that the article says, it could hold more than one PCI slot horizontally while still containing a low profile. I think even a mockup along the lines of this one could contain enough room for two PCI slots, or one AGP and one PCI at least.
Apple is about marketing to core groups that can serve them well. With the success of OS X there are thousands of enthusiasts and geeks who want a light small machine they can try OS X on. A little expansion and that would take care of a large segment of that market. Home users can still get an eMac if they want a plug & play computer with three cables and nothing more, and it comes with a monitor.
This would be a fine enthusiast box. Cheap like one of the pizza box LC cased computers from the early 90s, and even they had one nubus expansion port inside.
I used to think like this. What does it matter what the percentage divide is? We shouldn't be looking to get more women into computing. We should try to get the best people into computing, regardless of their sex.
Definitely. Get the people in who are interested and who have the skills. As a woman who's been there and done that, I'd recommend to anyone not to read the title as "Attracting Women into Computer Science" but "Stop turning women away from computer science". OK, it's not exactly that situation, but somewhere in between. There are many of us, MANY, who share a common story. We're young girls who, aged 13, find computers. DOS. Linux. whatever. We enjoy computing, we game, we script, we learn to code. Then we come up against...
Little subconcious things that us males do to women in IT segregate the two sexes e.g. hitting on them. Also, (I've been guilty of this in the past as a University Lab demonstrator) if we were helping a guy out with a problem we'd explain what to do / talk them through it. If it's a woman, we take their keyboard and do it for them - thus they learn nothing.
Spot on!. We come up against those little things. And while they're little individually, when they happen constantly, day in & day out, over and over it's a drain to have to deal with it. Any guy ever had the odd bad boss and had to move on? The attitudes of many men feels like that. Not just one, but many all the time. For all the good guys out there there's still many who can't take a hint. Look at a GNAA troll for example. It's funny once, right? Someone's put some effort into a troll. Six months later when 20 of those trolls are cluttering up a story it's not even remotely fun.
I had a discussion with a male friend at university once, who tried to understand how much a PITA it could be and I described the issue of unwanted advances from guys I really didn't care for. He described in great detail how it once happened to him. At the start of the year (a few months prior) a new girl began in his help shift and latched onto him. He felt he knew what it was like, and it was no big deal, he eventually got rid of her affections & moved on. He understood my point when I mentioned that so far that day I'd had 3 unwelcome advances from guys, ones who'd done it before. Just in that day. Guys, it's like spam. Really. Once is flattery, thirty times a week is "I'm going somewhere else, really". I consider myself pretty damned boring as girls go. I'm plain, overweight, completely unstylish and still this amount of attention pops up.
I just think we could do more to get women into IT, not by treating them differently but by trying to treat them the same.
You have it pretty much on the ball. We're all just geeks in the end. Nobody has to try getting any & every woman into IT, that's unfair to the women and men involved. Just let the girl geeks have the same fun as the boys, without the condescending hit-ons put-downs and crap that happen daily, over and over.
Been raped, been there, done that, dragged to a house next door to the place I was visiting and held down while a filthbucket got off inside and all over me.
His defense was we'd both been drinking and it was consensual, and that was enough for him to get off completely free.
I hadn't had a drink. I'd never met the guy before he showed up. It's all too easy for the little boy's club who want to stick their dicks where they don't belong to make excuses for him.
That's where I also see benefits. Repair of human bodies on a scale not seen before. Repair of DNA. Repair of existing cells on a large scale. Something like Red/Green/Blue mars has.
The immense changes in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery would be incredible. Have a massive facial scar from an accident when you were 12? Have it fixed in weeks, to a point where your physiology is no different than if you'd never been scarred (well, ok, admittedly it may be part guesswork, but you'd have an unscarred face). Regrow a limb? Adjust entire organs for those who've been left without, or had damage due to one of hundreds of reasons. Want a sex change? Have your entire body resculpted to match a perfectly normal member of the opposite sex.
Repairing nerve tissue, spinal injuries, cancers. Changing height, eyesight and degenerative diseases. Repair DNA itself so that ageing doesn't occur...
Gamers aren't geeks any more. That's what's changing.
I know 2 people with laptops used for nothing but gaming, and they're both the kind of guy that would, stereotypically, be said to have a life. They go out, they visit friends, they party, they don't want to geek about at home playing XBox or their PC. So they have a gaming laptop.
Having survived the 1980s it looks like the gaming laptop as I've seen it used has the place of a ghettoblaster... not everyone has them but those who do share with friends when they're out... It's just one more part of the entertainment for them.
(me, I'm a nerd. I don't game and I get off on coding. until coding is entertaining at parties I guess I'm out of luck:)
Unfortunately for every good article there's another full of FUD about *ix systems. take this one
"A new email virus called MyDoom is spreading rapidly across the Internet through UNIX mail servers, bringing with it a dangerous attachment that, when opened, can give attackers access to users' computers through an electronic backdoor."
Amazing what they'll print these days? unix systems, one of the systems so amazingly resistant to worms like mydoom, and still we have the press implying they're to blame for the spread of windows viruses.
I'm curious. How big does an object have to be to have gravity that'll hold say, a person to it?
I'm thinking say, if I were standing on a rock the size of NYC out in space, would I just drift away from its surface without any noticeable gravity, or could it hold me there? How about something the size of a state like Oregon? or something only 2miles in diameter?
apple has been doing unix since 1996, NeXT has been doing it since 1988.
Apple has also been doing unix since 1987 (if I have my years correct) with it's first release of A/UX, a product they supported for almost 10 years afterwards, and through three versions. If that's counted along with their work on NeXTSTEP->OSX, then that's 17 straight years of UNIX experience within the company.
>> Apple have had several fixes just in the last few months >> fixing remote root access vulnerabilities. > > Yeah, and the difference is, they were found and fixed > without being maliciously exploited.
Speaking of exploitation, I found it hilarious that the %01 URL exploit in IE, discovered in November and still not patched NINE WEEKS LATER doesn't actually have a 'fix' from microsoft, but they do offer some handy advice. Straight from their help page at support.microsoft.com
Things that you can do to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER.
Microsoft can't be bothered fixing a broken (and now exploited at least 3 times by scammers out for credit cards, bank info and the like) part of IE, but they will offer you advice to cripple your browsing experience. Type URLs in manually!
One chart I've seen of IBM's POWER chips and their derivatives had an entire section devoted to the PPC chips, and the RAD6000 wasn't included in these, but was an offshoot to the side, branching just before the PPC601.
By all other standards however, they seem to be closely related in time and technology to the 601, which powered Powermac 6100, 7100, 8100, 9150, 7200, 8200 and 7500 PPCs, as well as I think, one of IBM's thinkpads.
Those 601s are a very nice chip, and quite underestimated at what they can do at low clock speeds. If the RAD6000 is anywhere similar, I can understand why it was picked.
Cost is one thing, who is responsible for that cost is another. I was somewhat stunned to find that, on a windows system, just clicking an attachment pointed it directly off to the OS to handle, whether that be a pdf, a txt, or a.exe file. This was on Win2000, so I can't say for sure if newer versions do the same. I suspect they may, as one of the reasons given that MS isn't responsible for any virus spreading by a pro windows guy I know, was that:
"It doesn't matter which mail client you use, if you click the attachment to open it, it'll run and you're infected". I'd commented about OE's lack of security, which prompted his statement. Is this for real? I'd have expected ANY app that pulls in unrequested files, like a mail app with attachments, would do nothing more than save the file on a HD when clicked, and even then require you to specifically give it permissions to run if it was an.exe. I didn't see his comment as being worthy of defending Outlook, but rather indicting Windows in general.
To me, the responsibility is on the software vendor that allows not just hiding of an executable app within an attachment, but also allows it to be run so simply and then also allows it to modify core parts of the system so simply. Combined with those three "features" I don't see there can be any lack of future viruses.
As of 4:17pm EST, pictures are rolling in from Opportunity. It's opened and sending pictures back already. The magnetite ground "looks like a tiled patio" and is more ordered and flat than that of Spirit's landing site
Nasa TV has the RM stream: http://realserver1.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/ramg en/encode r/live.rm
The problem causing the rebooting may have been triggered by radiation, but by avoiding certain parts of the flash ram the machine boots up fine (if somewhat crippled), so it's avoidable.
Curiously, is there any difference with flashram on Spirit, and the stuff we have here? I didn't know about any radiation hardened flash ram... or even if there's any difference between the physical chips themselves in CF, SD, MemorySticks etc.
The nasa report mentioned the problem seems to be revolving around the software that accesses the flashram. It could be filesystem corruption, or a physical problem with the flash ram itself, or even a broken interface to the flash ram. It's about the equivalent of having a machine a thousand miles away and just seeing that a certain drive won't mount, at the moment. Finding out whether there's a problem with the SCSI card it's connected to, or the drive itself, or a filesystem corruption, or a head crash... that comes in the next few weeks
Is it really invasion if the store where they signed up for this card notifies them of various things?
I don't think so. Honestly, if I'd bought what was, say, 100% certain BSE infected beef that WOULD kill me by a slow horrific painful death, and the supermarket only had my name, and they then used the phone book, online tracking agencies, a private investigator or phoning my relatives to get hold of me, I would be fucking glad.
I'd be pissed at the situation, but this is something that'd save my life.
What next, five people asleep in a burning house and firemen must phone twice and knock before entering? There's points where the line of privacy can and should be crossed, I see this as one of them
bigcompany patents something obvious smallcompany says "hey this is my patent!" bigcompany goes "prove it" bigcompany and smallcompany go into a legal battle over it and bigcompany drains smallcompany through endless legal wranglings.
I once advised a friend who jokingly said to me one of his IM "inventions" was patentable, and that he should go get a patent on it. I told him it shouldn't be a joke, and he should indeed patent it.
2 years later a large company came up with that exact feature, patented to themselves.
The only way to win in this patent system is to use it, currently. If you have an idea you're using, a unique one, patent it. now. then release it under license to anyone in return that they do the same with one of their patents, or patents in products that use your patent, or something.
There must be an evolutionary advantage to having a time when nothing else was going on to do something, and what else apart from the days events could occupy a brain if it has no external sensory input... I seriously doubt all the higher life-forms on the planet would do it if there wasn't a good reason....
I've read it before, quite a few times I'm sure, and yes in NS and Sciam too. What I suspect is that, perhaps, sleep is the time when parts of our minds can solve problems without the biases we have when we're awake. I might for example, have a bias against doing some mathematical process that would help, because I just find it dull or boring, yet it's needed to solve a certain problem.
Later after sleep, in the morning, my sleep mind may have worked through enough of the problem to tell me that it really IS worth doing, as it's a certain fix to the problem.
'course, it may get quite a bit more complex than that. It doesn't necessarily mean my wake mind or sleep mind is superior to the other, just that they both work at thinking, and work in different ways.
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Joswiak is obviously the product of secret genetic experiments at Apple in the early 1980s to combine the best of Jobs and Wozniak in the one beast.
> I was about to ask that: so the U2 iPod does scratch just as much as the black iPod nano
And as much as any iPod I've come across. it's just you can't see it unless you look closely on the white but it's really visible against the black!.
Competition freebie dude. You're a stupid fuck for presuming :)
I hear what you're saying. U2 iPod here, black, scratched to all heck. it's still a beautiful thing!
Does that mean I have to send back the mighty mouse that came with my iMac? will I get $50 back, and will Apple send me a normal mouse in return?
If it is xserve-like the way that the article says, it could hold more than one PCI slot horizontally while still containing a low profile. I think even a mockup along the lines of this one could contain enough room for two PCI slots, or one AGP and one PCI at least.
Apple is about marketing to core groups that can serve them well. With the success of OS X there are thousands of enthusiasts and geeks who want a light small machine they can try OS X on. A little expansion and that would take care of a large segment of that market. Home users can still get an eMac if they want a plug & play computer with three cables and nothing more, and it comes with a monitor.
This would be a fine enthusiast box. Cheap like one of the pizza box LC cased computers from the early 90s, and even they had one nubus expansion port inside.
I used to think like this. What does it matter what the percentage divide is? We shouldn't be looking to get more women into computing. We should try to get the best people into computing, regardless of their sex.
Definitely. Get the people in who are interested and who have the skills. As a woman who's been there and done that, I'd recommend to anyone not to read the title as "Attracting Women into Computer Science" but "Stop turning women away from computer science". OK, it's not exactly that situation, but somewhere in between. There are many of us, MANY, who share a common story. We're young girls who, aged 13, find computers. DOS. Linux. whatever. We enjoy computing, we game, we script, we learn to code. Then we come up against...
Little subconcious things that us males do to women in IT segregate the two sexes e.g. hitting on them. Also, (I've been guilty of this in the past as a University Lab demonstrator) if we were helping a guy out with a problem we'd explain what to do / talk them through it. If it's a woman, we take their keyboard and do it for them - thus they learn nothing.
Spot on!. We come up against those little things. And while they're little individually, when they happen constantly, day in & day out, over and over it's a drain to have to deal with it. Any guy ever had the odd bad boss and had to move on? The attitudes of many men feels like that. Not just one, but many all the time. For all the good guys out there there's still many who can't take a hint. Look at a GNAA troll for example. It's funny once, right? Someone's put some effort into a troll. Six months later when 20 of those trolls are cluttering up a story it's not even remotely fun.
I had a discussion with a male friend at university once, who tried to understand how much a PITA it could be and I described the issue of unwanted advances from guys I really didn't care for. He described in great detail how it once happened to him. At the start of the year (a few months prior) a new girl began in his help shift and latched onto him. He felt he knew what it was like, and it was no big deal, he eventually got rid of her affections & moved on. He understood my point when I mentioned that so far that day I'd had 3 unwelcome advances from guys, ones who'd done it before. Just in that day. Guys, it's like spam. Really. Once is flattery, thirty times a week is "I'm going somewhere else, really". I consider myself pretty damned boring as girls go. I'm plain, overweight, completely unstylish and still this amount of attention pops up.
I just think we could do more to get women into IT, not by treating them differently but by trying to treat them the same.
You have it pretty much on the ball. We're all just geeks in the end. Nobody has to try getting any & every woman into IT, that's unfair to the women and men involved. Just let the girl geeks have the same fun as the boys, without the condescending hit-ons put-downs and crap that happen daily, over and over.
I don't believe that for a second
Been raped, been there, done that, dragged to a house next door to the place I was visiting and held down while a filthbucket got off inside and all over me.
His defense was we'd both been drinking and it was consensual, and that was enough for him to get off completely free.
I hadn't had a drink. I'd never met the guy before he showed up. It's all too easy for the little boy's club who want to stick their dicks where they don't belong to make excuses for him.
Look closer, those photos are well-known photoshop fakes.
That's where I also see benefits. Repair of human bodies on a scale not seen before. Repair of DNA. Repair of existing cells on a large scale. Something like Red/Green/Blue mars has.
The immense changes in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery would be incredible. Have a massive facial scar from an accident when you were 12? Have it fixed in weeks, to a point where your physiology is no different than if you'd never been scarred (well, ok, admittedly it may be part guesswork, but you'd have an unscarred face). Regrow a limb? Adjust entire organs for those who've been left without, or had damage due to one of hundreds of reasons. Want a sex change? Have your entire body resculpted to match a perfectly normal member of the opposite sex.
Repairing nerve tissue, spinal injuries, cancers. Changing height, eyesight and degenerative diseases. Repair DNA itself so that ageing doesn't occur...
There's a lot there to take in.
Gamers aren't geeks any more. That's what's changing.
:)
I know 2 people with laptops used for nothing but gaming, and they're both the kind of guy that would, stereotypically, be said to have a life. They go out, they visit friends, they party, they don't want to geek about at home playing XBox or their PC. So they have a gaming laptop.
Having survived the 1980s it looks like the gaming laptop as I've seen it used has the place of a ghettoblaster... not everyone has them but those who do share with friends when they're out... It's just one more part of the entertainment for them.
(me, I'm a nerd. I don't game and I get off on coding. until coding is entertaining at parties I guess I'm out of luck
Unfortunately for every good article there's another full of FUD about *ix systems. take this one
"A new email virus called MyDoom is spreading rapidly across the Internet through UNIX mail servers, bringing with it a dangerous attachment that, when opened, can give attackers access to users' computers through an electronic backdoor."
Amazing what they'll print these days? unix systems, one of the systems so amazingly resistant to worms like mydoom, and still we have the press implying they're to blame for the spread of windows viruses.
I'm curious. How big does an object have to be to have gravity that'll hold say, a person to it?
I'm thinking say, if I were standing on a rock the size of NYC out in space, would I just drift away from its surface without any noticeable gravity, or could it hold me there? How about something the size of a state like Oregon? or something only 2miles in diameter?
apple has been doing unix since 1996, NeXT has been doing it since 1988.
Apple has also been doing unix since 1987 (if I have my years correct) with it's first release of A/UX, a product they supported for almost 10 years afterwards, and through three versions. If that's counted along with their work on NeXTSTEP->OSX, then that's 17 straight years of UNIX experience within the company.
>> fixing remote root access vulnerabilities.
>
> Yeah, and the difference is, they were found and fixed
> without being maliciously exploited.
Speaking of exploitation, I found it hilarious that the %01 URL exploit in IE, discovered in November and still not patched NINE WEEKS LATER doesn't actually have a 'fix' from microsoft, but they do offer some handy advice. Straight from their help page at support.microsoft.com Microsoft can't be bothered fixing a broken (and now exploited at least 3 times by scammers out for credit cards, bank info and the like) part of IE, but they will offer you advice to cripple your browsing experience. Type URLs in manually!
One chart I've seen of IBM's POWER chips and their derivatives had an entire section devoted to the PPC chips, and the RAD6000 wasn't included in these, but was an offshoot to the side, branching just before the PPC601.
By all other standards however, they seem to be closely related in time and technology to the 601, which powered Powermac 6100, 7100, 8100, 9150, 7200, 8200 and 7500 PPCs, as well as I think, one of IBM's thinkpads.
Those 601s are a very nice chip, and quite underestimated at what they can do at low clock speeds. If the RAD6000 is anywhere similar, I can understand why it was picked.
Cost is one thing, who is responsible for that cost is another. I was somewhat stunned to find that, on a windows system, just clicking an attachment pointed it directly off to the OS to handle, whether that be a pdf, a txt, or a .exe file. This was on Win2000, so I can't say for sure if newer versions do the same. I suspect they may, as one of the reasons given that MS isn't responsible for any virus spreading by a pro windows guy I know, was that:
.exe. I didn't see his comment as being worthy of defending Outlook, but rather indicting Windows in general.
"It doesn't matter which mail client you use, if you click the attachment to open it, it'll run and you're infected". I'd commented about OE's lack of security, which prompted his statement. Is this for real? I'd have expected ANY app that pulls in unrequested files, like a mail app with attachments, would do nothing more than save the file on a HD when clicked, and even then require you to specifically give it permissions to run if it was an
To me, the responsibility is on the software vendor that allows not just hiding of an executable app within an attachment, but also allows it to be run so simply and then also allows it to modify core parts of the system so simply. Combined with those three "features" I don't see there can be any lack of future viruses.
When queen liz slips.
Anyone here in the UK? someone tell her you have to swing REEEALLY hard.
thanks
As of 4:17pm EST, pictures are rolling in from Opportunity.
Oops. 4:17am even.
As of 4:17pm EST, pictures are rolling in from Opportunity. It's opened and sending pictures back already. The magnetite ground "looks like a tiled patio" and is more ordered and flat than that of Spirit's landing site
g en/encode r/live.rm
Nasa TV has the RM stream:
http://realserver1.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/ram
The problem causing the rebooting may have been triggered by radiation, but by avoiding certain parts of the flash ram the machine boots up fine (if somewhat crippled), so it's avoidable.
Curiously, is there any difference with flashram on Spirit, and the stuff we have here? I didn't know about any radiation hardened flash ram... or even if there's any difference between the physical chips themselves in CF, SD, MemorySticks etc.
The nasa report mentioned the problem seems to be revolving around the software that accesses the flashram. It could be filesystem corruption, or a physical problem with the flash ram itself, or even a broken interface to the flash ram. It's about the equivalent of having a machine a thousand miles away and just seeing that a certain drive won't mount, at the moment. Finding out whether there's a problem with the SCSI card it's connected to, or the drive itself, or a filesystem corruption, or a head crash... that comes in the next few weeks
Is it really invasion if the store where they signed up for this card notifies them of various things?
I don't think so. Honestly, if I'd bought what was, say, 100% certain BSE infected beef that WOULD kill me by a slow horrific painful death, and the supermarket only had my name, and they then used the phone book, online tracking agencies, a private investigator or phoning my relatives to get hold of me, I would be fucking glad.
I'd be pissed at the situation, but this is something that'd save my life.
What next, five people asleep in a burning house and firemen must phone twice and knock before entering? There's points where the line of privacy can and should be crossed, I see this as one of them
This is unfortunately how it ends up working:
bigcompany patents something obvious
smallcompany says "hey this is my patent!"
bigcompany goes "prove it"
bigcompany and smallcompany go into a legal battle over it and bigcompany drains smallcompany through endless legal wranglings.
I once advised a friend who jokingly said to me one of his IM "inventions" was patentable, and that he should go get a patent on it. I told him it shouldn't be a joke, and he should indeed patent it.
2 years later a large company came up with that exact feature, patented to themselves.
The only way to win in this patent system is to use it, currently. If you have an idea you're using, a unique one, patent it. now. then release it under license to anyone in return that they do the same with one of their patents, or patents in products that use your patent, or something.
Gnu Patent License, anyone?
There must be an evolutionary advantage to having a time when nothing else was going on to do something, and what else apart from the days events could occupy a brain if it has no external sensory input... I seriously doubt all the higher life-forms on the planet would do it if there wasn't a good reason....
I've read it before, quite a few times I'm sure, and yes in NS and Sciam too. What I suspect is that, perhaps, sleep is the time when parts of our minds can solve problems without the biases we have when we're awake. I might for example, have a bias against doing some mathematical process that would help, because I just find it dull or boring, yet it's needed to solve a certain problem.
Later after sleep, in the morning, my sleep mind may have worked through enough of the problem to tell me that it really IS worth doing, as it's a certain fix to the problem.
'course, it may get quite a bit more complex than that. It doesn't necessarily mean my wake mind or sleep mind is superior to the other, just that they both work at thinking, and work in different ways.