Yeah. Mac OS is my choice too. There's something about it that just gives me peace and let's me do creative (coding) work. I'm not stressed and scared a program will hang (like in Windoze at work). I also own a WinXP box and no matter what you do, there is a couple seconds of "crunch", "crunch" before you find out if it works or not.
For example plugging a usb-memory in: sometimes works, sometimes not. And "ejecting" it is sooo stupid compared to Mac OS. Windoze: Icon->Dialog->Click->Dialog->Click. Done. Mac: Icon->drag. Done!
I had to install Windows XP on a work machine that I had installed SuSE 9.0 earlier.
SuSE 9.0: everything worked "out-of-the-box": vidcard, networking, usb, everything without any tampering.
WindowsXP: Could not find drivers for Intel gigabit ethernet card, could not find drivers for Intel extreme graphics card!!? I had 8bit VGA graphics until I downloaded drivers for networking (on another machine) and could download vidcard drivers.
We're talking pretty mainstream HW here and the good-for-nothing Windoze install couldn't do half as well as Linux...
So you think girls/women are so stupid they don't know what they want? They need to be told that?
Or do you think they are so weak in their intrest toward CS, that any obstacle or discouraging word will put them off?
You might be rigth... I know two women working in IT and neither of them really seems intrested in the field. They do what they need to do (what they are told to do), but nothing else! They are smart, but not very creative. And if you ask them what their favourite OS is, they will answer with a puzzeled look since they have never thought of that: they've always just pointed and clicked like someone has told them, but never thought of what OS they are using.
I don't believe it is a question of culture: women just don't react to computers like men do (on average).
All the men I know in my industry like to play around with computers even (or especially) when nobody tells them to do so. Then when a skill is needed, they often have it ready from their hacking hobby. That's where females are left badly behind, since they have no knowledge of things outside what they have been told to do (again: in the average case).
Here go the magicians of Egypt, reproducing prophesying so nobody should believe in God...
Nothing new under the sun.
See Exodus 7-12 by Moses of MIT (Midian Institute of Theology)
From what I read above I conclude that Hubble should be saved like this:
1) push it onto a higher orbit for safekeeping
2) build an elevator to the moon
3) take hubble to the moon and modify it for use there
sound good?
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Can't wait to see autonomous, self-powered critters swimming around: bumping into boats and saying "beep beep".
I guess they could be used to give updates on water quality or sumptin'
For example plugging a usb-memory in: sometimes works, sometimes not. And "ejecting" it is sooo stupid compared to Mac OS. Windoze: Icon->Dialog->Click->Dialog->Click. Done. Mac: Icon->drag. Done!
SuSE 9.0: everything worked "out-of-the-box": vidcard, networking, usb, everything without any tampering.
WindowsXP: Could not find drivers for Intel gigabit ethernet card, could not find drivers for Intel extreme graphics card!!? I had 8bit VGA graphics until I downloaded drivers for networking (on another machine) and could download vidcard drivers.
We're talking pretty mainstream HW here and the good-for-nothing Windoze install couldn't do half as well as Linux...
So you think girls/women are so stupid they don't know what they want? They need to be told that?
Or do you think they are so weak in their intrest toward CS, that any obstacle or discouraging word will put them off?
You might be rigth... I know two women working in IT and neither of them really seems intrested in the field. They do what they need to do (what they are told to do), but nothing else! They are smart, but not very creative. And if you ask them what their favourite OS is, they will answer with a puzzeled look since they have never thought of that: they've always just pointed and clicked like someone has told them, but never thought of what OS they are using. I don't believe it is a question of culture: women just don't react to computers like men do (on average).
All the men I know in my industry like to play around with computers even (or especially) when nobody tells them to do so. Then when a skill is needed, they often have it ready from their hacking hobby. That's where females are left badly behind, since they have no knowledge of things outside what they have been told to do (again: in the average case).
Fine, as long as they still sell the lossless version for the same price as the lossy compressed one...
and to me even a high quality mp3 is lossy.
Here go the magicians of Egypt, reproducing prophesying so nobody should believe in God... Nothing new under the sun. See Exodus 7-12 by Moses of MIT (Midian Institute of Theology)
From what I read above I conclude that Hubble should be saved like this: 1) push it onto a higher orbit for safekeeping 2) build an elevator to the moon 3) take hubble to the moon and modify it for use there sound good?