The summary seems to make a very big deal of "ship with" as the reason that someone would look at computer science. I'd say that it is not up to the shiny new computer to lure an unsuspecting child into computer science. If the child wants to go into computer science, then the child will find the way.
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The bigger problem to be solved occurs down the road when females start encountering artificial barriers and discrimination against their participation in the field.
Best course of action --- ask female computer science people (and I don't mean a person who brought Microsoft Bob to an unsuspecting world, but real female computer science people) what obstacles they faced and what would they do to remove them.
... NATO chief John Fithian warned that while iPic was free to make its own decisions, "We all should tread lightly and be mindful that over the years, the film industry's success is a direct result of a highly successful collaboration between film makers, distributors and exhibitors."....
A couple of questions, please...
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1) WTF is NATO having anything to do whatsoever in the release dates of films screened in movie theaters? Doesn't NATO have more important things to worry about, like, e.g., Syria?
2) Why has the NATO chief effectively admitted that the success of Hollywood is not the result of the quality of the films being made, but the restrictive and limiting aspect of their distribution?
...Customers who wanted more privacy had to pay another $29 a month..
Once AT&T put a price on customer privacy ($29 per month) then, if AT&T were ever found violating customer privacy, the cost to settle would start at $29 per month per customer involved. imo, AT&T's legal department did not want to have a specific cost placed on customer privacy.
I mean, really, what will keep me safe from the egregious data harvesting of Windows 10? If I do not trust the operating system, then I do not trust anything the operating system does.
I do not read minds, only words. And I read and attributed meaning to what he wrote.
An x86 PC.
Maybe he meant an older Mac?
A router uses a small fraction of what a desktop of uses.
Nowadays, PCs have drastically reduced their energy usage. I have a PC that uses ten watts. Since you can read minds, how many watts does his router and hard drive use?
Given my ISP's monthly cap of 100GB per month, it will take me about 30 months, nearly 3 years, to get all my music files into Plex's cloud. Meanwhile, I won't be able to use my Internet connection for anything else while I am uploading the music files.
...Microsoft added that this 400 million active devices figure include tablets and phones as well as Xbox One consoles, HoloLens, and Surface Hubs running Windows 10. Paul Thurrott adds:...
After a year of lambasting users to upgrade, at times trying to trick and mislead users into upgrading, 400 million devices, which includes tablets and phones as well as Xbox One consoles, is all that Windows 10 has garnered so far?
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Instead of issuing a press release, Microsoft should be hanging its head in shame.
Can you trust your thermostat to not browse your files?
Nowadays, that is an amazingly valid question. Just a few short years ago, if you asked that question, you would have been __________. (fill in the blank)
Charter doesn't want customer-owned DOCSIS 1 or 2 modems on their network messing things up / slowing things down for other people.
Comcast, which allows customer-owned modems, handles this problem quite well with notifications that a customer-owned modem will be obsolete in a year or so, and then has follow-up notices. Additionally, Comcast will start refusing to activate a modem when it has hit EOL. You can find out what modems are EOL here.
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While Comcast is not my favorite company, imo, they handle customer-owned modems well.
Charter customers pay for the modem, Charter is not in the charity business. Charter doesn't put the modem fee on a the bill as a separate line item because then Charter's customers will want to avoid the fee by owning their modem instead of leasing it.
Netflix has slowly, but surely, been reducing the breadth of its non-original content. It used to be that Netflix was the go-to streaming service. Now, with Netflix reducing the non-original content, Netflix is turning into just another cable TV channel.
After a decade or so of blaming piracy for its own internal lack of vision, the music industry is finally looking good again since it finally embraced technology to give its customers what they want.
... I'm sure there are others that offer some form of API....
Lots of DNS providers have their own API to access and edit the zone data. What would really be cool would be if there were one [real, IETF] standard API to access and edit the zone data. That would make it a lot easier to move my DNS around to different vendors, or to find open source tools to help me manage my DNS, regardless of which provider I use.
As much as I have had bad experiences with GoDaddy, even they may be able to come up with a good idea every once in a while.
Slashdot Mirror
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The bigger problem to be solved occurs down the road when females start encountering artificial barriers and discrimination against their participation in the field.
Best course of action --- ask female computer science people (and I don't mean a person who brought Microsoft Bob to an unsuspecting world, but real female computer science people) what obstacles they faced and what would they do to remove them.
Is Samsung now in the circle the wagons mindset regarding problems with their latest phone?
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Never mind. (said in my Church Lady voice)
... NATO chief John Fithian warned that while iPic was free to make its own decisions, "We all should tread lightly and be mindful that over the years, the film industry's success is a direct result of a highly successful collaboration between film makers, distributors and exhibitors." ....
A couple of questions, please...
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1) WTF is NATO having anything to do whatsoever in the release dates of films screened in movie theaters? Doesn't NATO have more important things to worry about, like, e.g., Syria?
2) Why has the NATO chief effectively admitted that the success of Hollywood is not the result of the quality of the films being made, but the restrictive and limiting aspect of their distribution?
...Customers who wanted more privacy had to pay another $29 a month..
Once AT&T put a price on customer privacy ($29 per month) then, if AT&T were ever found violating customer privacy, the cost to settle would start at $29 per month per customer involved. imo, AT&T's legal department did not want to have a specific cost placed on customer privacy.
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That's what it looks like to me.
I mean, really.
Next topic.
Hey editor, did you ever think about the meaning of the word "summary" and how to apply it to a wall of text you present to your readers?
I mean, really, what will keep me safe from the egregious data harvesting of Windows 10? If I do not trust the operating system, then I do not trust anything the operating system does.
...you know exactly what he means. An x86 PC....
I do not read minds, only words. And I read and attributed meaning to what he wrote.
An x86 PC.
Maybe he meant an older Mac?
A router uses a small fraction of what a desktop of uses.
Nowadays, PCs have drastically reduced their energy usage. I have a PC that uses ten watts. Since you can read minds, how many watts does his router and hard drive use?
I don't want a computer running full time and using electricity. ... connected to a shared hard drive plugged into my router.
Your router is a computer.
Given my ISP's monthly cap of 100GB per month, it will take me about 30 months, nearly 3 years, to get all my music files into Plex's cloud. Meanwhile, I won't be able to use my Internet connection for anything else while I am uploading the music files.
...Microsoft added that this 400 million active devices figure include tablets and phones as well as Xbox One consoles, HoloLens, and Surface Hubs running Windows 10. Paul Thurrott adds:...
After a year of lambasting users to upgrade, at times trying to trick and mislead users into upgrading, 400 million devices, which includes tablets and phones as well as Xbox One consoles, is all that Windows 10 has garnered so far?
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Instead of issuing a press release, Microsoft should be hanging its head in shame.
Can you trust your thermostat to not browse your files?
Nowadays, that is an amazingly valid question. Just a few short years ago, if you asked that question, you would have been __________. (fill in the blank)
Stop talking about it in the future tense and do it already. One system was converted a month ago. The second system is in progress.
that I'm moving to Linux.
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Funny, I don't know why, but facebook was never one of the ones I thought might do it.
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- cost: $117 --- fail
- runs full Windows 10 --- irrelevant
- significant (outstanding?) maker community support --- fail
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So that's a minus 2.5 out of a possible 3. Not a fail, but an abundance of hype.
Charter doesn't want customer-owned DOCSIS 1 or 2 modems on their network messing things up / slowing things down for other people.
Comcast, which allows customer-owned modems, handles this problem quite well with notifications that a customer-owned modem will be obsolete in a year or so, and then has follow-up notices. Additionally, Comcast will start refusing to activate a modem when it has hit EOL. You can find out what modems are EOL here.
.
While Comcast is not my favorite company, imo, they handle customer-owned modems well.
Charter customers pay for the modem, Charter is not in the charity business. Charter doesn't put the modem fee on a the bill as a separate line item because then Charter's customers will want to avoid the fee by owning their modem instead of leasing it.
Netflix has slowly, but surely, been reducing the breadth of its non-original content. It used to be that Netflix was the go-to streaming service. Now, with Netflix reducing the non-original content, Netflix is turning into just another cable TV channel.
After a decade or so of blaming piracy for its own internal lack of vision, the music industry is finally looking good again since it finally embraced technology to give its customers what they want.
... I'm sure there are others that offer some form of API....
Lots of DNS providers have their own API to access and edit the zone data. What would really be cool would be if there were one [real, IETF] standard API to access and edit the zone data. That would make it a lot easier to move my DNS around to different vendors, or to find open source tools to help me manage my DNS, regardless of which provider I use.
As much as I have had bad experiences with GoDaddy, even they may be able to come up with a good idea every once in a while.
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allow you to browse the internet and watch YouTube inside Emacs