Yes but come on, it's not like it's a different architecture used here, it's just incompatibility built-in for the sole purpose of being incompatible...
Have you seen the new apple commercial? "...for years it's been trapped in a PC, dull little boxes doing dull little tasks"...
Honestly I felt down the whole evening... How many people know the new macs actually ARE pc's?
Of course they aren't, cuz there are macs and pcs right?... macs have this apple thingie on the top of the screen and ya now the pc's come with this colored flag and it says windows.
Of course in the public mind, mac and pc's are opposed on the operating system side... this is really Mac OS Versus Windows, no one gives a shit about the internal architecture... but people don't make the difference between a machine and an OS... so Apple is doing a good job, bashing PC's, it's still there concurrent...but it really makes me sad that this commercial will deepen public confusion... shame shame shame on them. Shame on people for being easy marketting prays.
Fortunately, porting OS X to standard PC will maybe awaken some puzzling among the general audience.
... the way France handle things related to computer technology... You wanted Google to be French, well too bad for you, it's too late, you should have taught computer science in high-schools... In France CS before higher studies is some occasional classes on "using word" and after it is highly mathematical and theoretical (which is good, IF you already have a strong practical CS background). The highest diploma for a professor is called the aggregation.. it doesn't exist for CS, so math teacher teach it... It's too late to come whining. Heck, Jacques Chirac himself ridiculized himself when, in a meeting with Bill Gates, he asked him what that "mouse" thing was all about.
Oh by the way, I am French, so it's not some ignorant French bashing I'm doing here. They'd better try and attract (or at least retain, living in the US now...) CS people rather than have this big government oriented project kind of things.
The best way to preserve data, imho is storage independent. Suppose you want to archive your family photos. Sure you can put them on a hard drive... then you can use raid, hard drive will be replaced regulary and the probability of a simultaneous failure being low you dramatically increase the lifespan of your storage.
The same could be done on the internet with a P2P network dedicated to long term storage. You divide your files into chuncks and calculate a hash. Peers download it and keep it on their machines. You just have to keep signatures of your chuncks, you can do that on highly reliable mediums, like grave it into stone if you wish. The P2P network automatically polls for chunks and ensure redundancy by pushing rare pieces to clients. To ensure collaboration, you can upload only a fraction of what you host. Some sort of bittorrent expect it's rather a bitpool.
really, learn both they're extremely similar. Much of the learning process is factorized so really it's worth it. Or just learn java and when you need C# learning it will be a snap.
Why not take firefox then, it wouldn't even cost them a penny... just rebrand it and hack the code to support activex... That would be so mouwwahahahah
Am I the only one here to find the huge mean reversion on most data series very surprising if not doubtful?
Take a look at wikipedia. Sure there are cycles created by week-ends for example, but I have a hard time believing they account for so much movement.
You already have certificates for websites, why don't ebay, paypal and the others digitally SIGN their email... So far the system is:
Ok the email can be crap but them the links point to websites that are signed...
Urr sorry, why not sign the email directly ?
Hum, I observed the number of girls in scientific studies that generally require more analytical skills. Actually there were more girls in that order in biology, chemistry, physics, maths and last computer-science. I don't have access to statistics but this is my observation. My proposed explanation is that girls on average are less inclined for these tasks.
This doesn't contradict what we know about biology.
Yes, it's nothing more than a guess, and you are right, history has tended to disprove such statements. But it's not a formal invalidation.
It's irrelevant to say "they are so many inept male programmers", sure there are, in any field there will be under average and above average.
Now if you ask me, I do think social pressure has a role to, has it is in my opinion an emulation of evolution, it provides the same effects except in a much finer way.
Just to be sure I said specialization not socialization. I am offering an explanation which I think is simple. It does not make it true, but it's refutable. Unless you can point me to studies showing that I'm wrong ( instead of telling me "There are no studies") I will keep followig Occam's razor and assume there are natural trends in the way different gender think and perceive the world.
I think this initial disparity is enhanced by society.
If I were to hire a Computer Scientist for eg I would look at his education and estimate his level. The fact that I believe I will get more men applications than women does NOT mean I will prefer a man over a woman.
The point is not here. The absence of women in CS and analytical fields it a fact. If you don't agree on that stop reading. I am offering the most simple explanation.
I fully realize it might not be the only explanation, and it being simple does not make it true, but at least it is still a good theory
-it's easily refutable
-it provides a good explanation of the observed phenomena
-it doesn't contradict other verified theories
I didn't break it into parts. When I was referring to other fields I was thinking completely outside of computer science. I am a theoretical computer scientist so I know what it's about. In classes of pure CS there were maybe a 2% girls, most of the time lagging behind.
You're saying there are so much field in CS it's "ridiculous to call it masculine or feminine"? Urrr actually I am going further than this. CS as a whole is small enough to make this statement accurate, but I think it could be extended to things that needs an analytic mind. I'm not stating something binary here. I say there is a natural masculine bias in analytics task and a natural feminine bias in holistic tasks.
... we could accept that men and women are different in nature, very different and that men perform better on technical skills than women, period. It's called specialization, it goes back to the beginning of life and there's nothing sexist to it. The social pressure justification seems a little far fetched, for the sake of correctness. Women perform much better than men in a wide variety of intellectual activities, I'm not implying any kind of superiority, I am just saying the obvious.
P.S. Counter-example are pointless because this is of course a general trend and applies on average.
Thanks for the support! It really makes me sad to see that ipod has become defacto == "mp3 player" just because people were to affraid to buy one for years, and suddenly it's ok because it's not nerdy, it's cool, look at those shadows dancing over a flashy background. Podcast is another illustration... how many people are going to buy an ipod thinking they need one to hear those famous "podcasts" they keep hearing about...
I feel like they just put "IEjournal" instead of "blog" in the dictionnary...
I don't OOo it IS bloated, no really... but I think the open source model is not to be blamed here... I'd rather point to the huge legacy code from StarOffice... take KOffice which started from scratch.. it's not as "advanced" but much more responsive... I just keep openoffice to convert.doc =>.odt and edit with Koffice after... What the world need is not an open source office application that tries to replicate Office, it's a light efficient office suite. For 99% people, there is very little difference between MSWord and Google mail rich edit box... Font, color, size and that's it!
On the one hand I hate this cause it sounds like apple invented the mp3 player and this makes me completly crazy... you know those kind of assumptions: I've got a PC => Oh you have windows I have an MP3 player => Ah, an IPOD NO YOU FUCKING MORONIC FUCK, I DON'T NEED A FUCKING MARKETTING HYPE MACHINE TO LEARN, WITH A FIVE YEAR LAG, THAT SOMETHING CALLED AN MP3 PLAYER EXISTS. So now it sounds like they invented the "podcasting"... great, cause it's for ipods right... I mean it's a music file, they play on ipods no?
On the other hand, the word going official is generally bad for trademarks... I wish "ipod" would make it in the dictionnary as "MP3 player" so anyone can start selling ipods... mouwahahahah
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Yes but come on, it's not like it's a different architecture used here, it's just incompatibility built-in for the sole purpose of being incompatible...
http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/
Have you seen the new apple commercial? "...for years it's been trapped in a PC, dull little boxes doing dull little tasks"... Honestly I felt down the whole evening... How many people know the new macs actually ARE pc's? Of course they aren't, cuz there are macs and pcs right?... macs have this apple thingie on the top of the screen and ya now the pc's come with this colored flag and it says windows. Of course in the public mind, mac and pc's are opposed on the operating system side... this is really Mac OS Versus Windows, no one gives a shit about the internal architecture... but people don't make the difference between a machine and an OS... so Apple is doing a good job, bashing PC's, it's still there concurrent...but it really makes me sad that this commercial will deepen public confusion... shame shame shame on them. Shame on people for being easy marketting prays. Fortunately, porting OS X to standard PC will maybe awaken some puzzling among the general audience.
... the way France handle things related to computer technology... You wanted Google to be French, well too bad for you, it's too late, you should have taught computer science in high-schools... In France CS before higher studies is some occasional classes on "using word" and after it is highly mathematical and theoretical (which is good, IF you already have a strong practical CS background). The highest diploma for a professor is called the aggregation.. it doesn't exist for CS, so math teacher teach it... It's too late to come whining. Heck, Jacques Chirac himself ridiculized himself when, in a meeting with Bill Gates, he asked him what that "mouse" thing was all about. Oh by the way, I am French, so it's not some ignorant French bashing I'm doing here. They'd better try and attract (or at least retain, living in the US now...) CS people rather than have this big government oriented project kind of things.
...could not result from a bug but was actually intelligently designed?
Doesn't it belong to Dell? They already sell AMD based computers.
The best way to preserve data, imho is storage independent. Suppose you want to archive your family photos. Sure you can put them on a hard drive... then you can use raid, hard drive will be replaced regulary and the probability of a simultaneous failure being low you dramatically increase the lifespan of your storage. The same could be done on the internet with a P2P network dedicated to long term storage. You divide your files into chuncks and calculate a hash. Peers download it and keep it on their machines. You just have to keep signatures of your chuncks, you can do that on highly reliable mediums, like grave it into stone if you wish. The P2P network automatically polls for chunks and ensure redundancy by pushing rare pieces to clients. To ensure collaboration, you can upload only a fraction of what you host. Some sort of bittorrent expect it's rather a bitpool.
Mod parent funny or insightful... I think most people really don't get the C# joke.
really, learn both they're extremely similar. Much of the learning process is factorized so really it's worth it. Or just learn java and when you need C# learning it will be a snap.
Why not take firefox then, it wouldn't even cost them a penny... just rebrand it and hack the code to support activex... That would be so mouwwahahahah
Am I the only one here to find the huge mean reversion on most data series very surprising if not doubtful? Take a look at wikipedia. Sure there are cycles created by week-ends for example, but I have a hard time believing they account for so much movement.
I guess the moderators were people like you... I was aiming for +5 funny...
You already have certificates for websites, why don't ebay, paypal and the others digitally SIGN their email... So far the system is: Ok the email can be crap but them the links point to websites that are signed... Urr sorry, why not sign the email directly ?
Hum, I observed the number of girls in scientific studies that generally require more analytical skills. Actually there were more girls in that order in biology, chemistry, physics, maths and last computer-science. I don't have access to statistics but this is my observation. My proposed explanation is that girls on average are less inclined for these tasks. This doesn't contradict what we know about biology. Yes, it's nothing more than a guess, and you are right, history has tended to disprove such statements. But it's not a formal invalidation. It's irrelevant to say "they are so many inept male programmers", sure there are, in any field there will be under average and above average. Now if you ask me, I do think social pressure has a role to, has it is in my opinion an emulation of evolution, it provides the same effects except in a much finer way.
I'm totally using it to produce my GPG secret key, with so many digits it'll never be cracked!!
Just to be sure I said specialization not socialization. I am offering an explanation which I think is simple. It does not make it true, but it's refutable. Unless you can point me to studies showing that I'm wrong ( instead of telling me "There are no studies") I will keep followig Occam's razor and assume there are natural trends in the way different gender think and perceive the world. I think this initial disparity is enhanced by society. If I were to hire a Computer Scientist for eg I would look at his education and estimate his level. The fact that I believe I will get more men applications than women does NOT mean I will prefer a man over a woman.
I'm sorry I fail to see how I held such an opinion. If one thing is certain it's that your opinion is certainly NOT balanced.
The point is not here. The absence of women in CS and analytical fields it a fact. If you don't agree on that stop reading. I am offering the most simple explanation. I fully realize it might not be the only explanation, and it being simple does not make it true, but at least it is still a good theory -it's easily refutable -it provides a good explanation of the observed phenomena -it doesn't contradict other verified theories
I didn't break it into parts. When I was referring to other fields I was thinking completely outside of computer science. I am a theoretical computer scientist so I know what it's about. In classes of pure CS there were maybe a 2% girls, most of the time lagging behind. You're saying there are so much field in CS it's "ridiculous to call it masculine or feminine"? Urrr actually I am going further than this. CS as a whole is small enough to make this statement accurate, but I think it could be extended to things that needs an analytic mind. I'm not stating something binary here. I say there is a natural masculine bias in analytics task and a natural feminine bias in holistic tasks.
... we could accept that men and women are different in nature, very different and that men perform better on technical skills than women, period. It's called specialization, it goes back to the beginning of life and there's nothing sexist to it. The social pressure justification seems a little far fetched, for the sake of correctness. Women perform much better than men in a wide variety of intellectual activities, I'm not implying any kind of superiority, I am just saying the obvious. P.S. Counter-example are pointless because this is of course a general trend and applies on average.
Thanks for the support! It really makes me sad to see that ipod has become defacto == "mp3 player" just because people were to affraid to buy one for years, and suddenly it's ok because it's not nerdy, it's cool, look at those shadows dancing over a flashy background. Podcast is another illustration... how many people are going to buy an ipod thinking they need one to hear those famous "podcasts" they keep hearing about... I feel like they just put "IEjournal" instead of "blog" in the dictionnary...
I don't OOo it IS bloated, no really... but I think the open source model is not to be blamed here... I'd rather point to the huge legacy code from StarOffice... take KOffice which started from scratch.. it's not as "advanced" but much more responsive... I just keep openoffice to convert .doc => .odt and edit with Koffice after...
What the world need is not an open source office application that tries to replicate Office, it's a light efficient office suite. For 99% people, there is very little difference between MSWord and Google mail rich edit box...
Font, color, size and that's it!
On the one hand I hate this cause it sounds like apple invented the mp3 player and this makes me completly crazy... you know those kind of assumptions:
I've got a PC => Oh you have windows
I have an MP3 player => Ah, an IPOD
NO YOU FUCKING MORONIC FUCK, I DON'T NEED A FUCKING MARKETTING HYPE MACHINE TO LEARN, WITH A FIVE YEAR LAG, THAT SOMETHING CALLED AN MP3 PLAYER EXISTS.
So now it sounds like they invented the "podcasting"... great, cause it's for ipods right... I mean it's a music file, they play on ipods no?
On the other hand, the word going official is generally bad for trademarks... I wish "ipod" would make it in the dictionnary as "MP3 player" so anyone can start selling ipods... mouwahahahah
Just make a mouse or a keyboard... I'd trade a hand for a direct link to a computer.
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