I don't see a problem. Quite obviously, IT doesn't appeal to women? We have one female member in the development team where I work. She's a very competent Oracle DBA/Developer, and it doesn't seem to me that she may feel isolated (she gets on well with everyone). In fact, there are more Women in the Testing department that Men. What does that tell us? (absolutely nothing).
Whilst it'd be great to have more Women to work with, why is everyone throwing a sh*t-fit over it?
Seems like this is a blessing indisguise for AMD...or not? From TFA:
AMD can use some good news, as the company has fallen from its glory days in early 2006, when the chip maker had passed 20 percent market share. Strong competition from Intel's Core Duo and newer Xeon lines of CPUs have hit AMD hard, and the company continues to lose money despite rising sales: the company reported a $600 million loss last quarter. AMD has high hopes that its purchase of graphics card maker ATI, combined with upcoming Barcelona CPU technology, will be enough to turn the company around.
Will this have any affect on Intel's stranglehold on the market though? This whole situation is reminiscent of Microsoft and the EU a few years back. Even that barely stopped them. I doubt this'll do much for AMD...much like it didn't do much for Netscape in the browser wars (MS forced to remove IE as the default browser from new Windows installs).
It seems Microsoft's approach on this site, is to twist the terminology and meaning of Open Source to link it to their products.
From the site (microsoft.com/opensource), they've linked to a PDF explaining how SharePoint (first link, 'share' and 'open') is the 'Road To Open' and the Sharepoint Learning Kit (SLK) has been released under Microsoft's own OSI-submitted open source license.
Could the idea be to confuse the average consumers (and buzz-word obsessed manager types) into thinking Microsoft when they hear 'Open Source'?
Either way, it's interesting to see them formally acknowledge their opponents - again!
I'm British and watched a TV programme on a similar study a while back. It seemed that those who were complaining of illness were in-fact next to a tower that was not even operating (a.k.a the 'placebo'). Again, people were leaving the experiment due to health issues.
I remember being at secondary school and the school accepting a building contract for a mobile-phone company building a mast in on the school property (occupying a small section of the playground). At the time there was uproar that it could be affecting the children etc, when actually noone knew anything about the dangers of mobile phones, nor what the masts could do to children. Rightly so, perhaps, the parents were at the root of this uproar, but I suppose it just shows how the fears of the many tend to control the hearsy of things people don't know about - that is, everyone feared mobile phone (despite going out and buying one anyway) based purely on a rumour.
I wonder what Theo will say about all this? 9 times out of 10 he tends to scorn things, so I wonder if he'll embrace this with open arms, or just shun it like he does most things.
Either way i'm happy. At least there's even more support for open source software and anything non-windows related.
I'm in the market to build my own PC. I have always been an AMD fan (purely because of 64-bit support), but have been annoyed in the past at some software (such as codecs - this was before Automatix2 for my Ubuntu box) not being available. I'm thinking an Intel QuadCore or the AMD Athlon 64 6000+ (Dual Core), but am tempted to wait a little longer - especially if AMD open the ATI GPU drivers and now i'm tempted to wait for these new chips! Choice...choice...choice...
"Covering a base of three or four square metres, MOTAT's machine is a complex arrangement of cogs, string and chains, used to drive a plotter (pictured)"
Jeeze, thank god computers got smaller. That thing wouldn't fit in my lounge...let alone my bedroom:O
"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything." ~Gregg Easterbrook
I'm quite impressed how the (quite obvious) spin was placed on this claim. It's only $275 more if you WANT to upgrade.
Still, i'm definitely disappointed in Dell; i'd have liked that upgrade for free too...(Although Vista would need it to Pagefile usage, whereas Ubuntu would use it for the hoards of FOSS that's available...)
I have an old laptop, specs here, and it's been running Ubuntu and other flavours of Linux for years now - all without hindrance or laggish behaviour. Recently I installed Beryl, and have the wonderfully looking desktop that Mac users have had for years, except I don't need to buy the latest hardware for it.
Think about it. Beryl or Aeroglass (or whatever they've called it in Vista) - keep my current PC, or upgrade and spend too much just so I can run an unreliable, unproven and overpriced OS?
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade for me please, i'm staying put.
The fight against DRM seems to be heating up. MP3s seem to be getting more of the attention with regards to removing DRM. Why is it mostly music? Why aren't we getting the same for movies?
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I don't see a problem. Quite obviously, IT doesn't appeal to women? We have one female member in the development team where I work. She's a very competent Oracle DBA/Developer, and it doesn't seem to me that she may feel isolated (she gets on well with everyone). In fact, there are more Women in the Testing department that Men. What does that tell us? (absolutely nothing).
Whilst it'd be great to have more Women to work with, why is everyone throwing a sh*t-fit over it?
It seems Microsoft's approach on this site, is to twist the terminology and meaning of Open Source to link it to their products.
From the site (microsoft.com/opensource), they've linked to a PDF explaining how SharePoint (first link, 'share' and 'open') is the 'Road To Open' and the Sharepoint Learning Kit (SLK) has been released under Microsoft's own OSI-submitted open source license.
Could the idea be to confuse the average consumers (and buzz-word obsessed manager types) into thinking Microsoft when they hear 'Open Source'?
Either way, it's interesting to see them formally acknowledge their opponents - again!
I'm British and watched a TV programme on a similar study a while back. It seemed that those who were complaining of illness were in-fact next to a tower that was not even operating (a.k.a the 'placebo'). Again, people were leaving the experiment due to health issues.
I remember being at secondary school and the school accepting a building contract for a mobile-phone company building a mast in on the school property (occupying a small section of the playground). At the time there was uproar that it could be affecting the children etc, when actually noone knew anything about the dangers of mobile phones, nor what the masts could do to children. Rightly so, perhaps, the parents were at the root of this uproar, but I suppose it just shows how the fears of the many tend to control the hearsy of things people don't know about - that is, everyone feared mobile phone (despite going out and buying one anyway) based purely on a rumour.
The Wi-fi aspect is nothing new. Brighton beach in East Sussex, southern England, has had wi-fi access for years now. I believe it's free too...
I wonder what Theo will say about all this? 9 times out of 10 he tends to scorn things, so I wonder if he'll embrace this with open arms, or just shun it like he does most things.
Either way i'm happy. At least there's even more support for open source software and anything non-windows related.
Clever bastards!
I bet loads of board-game manufacturers are getting their lawyers to work overtime looking for a way to take these guys to court...
That was meant to be "to a proprietary license"...damn typos...
How would Intel change the kernel proprietary license?...
Isn't Galileo having funding issues at the moment? If so, isn't this 'deal' a bit...redundant?
I'm in the market to build my own PC. I have always been an AMD fan (purely because of 64-bit support), but have been annoyed in the past at some software (such as codecs - this was before Automatix2 for my Ubuntu box) not being available. I'm thinking an Intel QuadCore or the AMD Athlon 64 6000+ (Dual Core), but am tempted to wait a little longer - especially if AMD open the ATI GPU drivers and now i'm tempted to wait for these new chips! Choice...choice...choice...
Jeeze, thank god computers got smaller. That thing wouldn't fit in my lounge...let alone my bedroom
You are correct, they implemented it with the Zune, but this article refers to Microsoft's success at patenting the technology behind it.
Did you read the article?...
Heh, I meant the hoards of cool FOSS that the user has installed because they can :)
"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything." ~Gregg Easterbrook
I'm quite impressed how the (quite obvious) spin was placed on this claim. It's only $275 more if you WANT to upgrade.
Still, i'm definitely disappointed in Dell; i'd have liked that upgrade for free too...(Although Vista would need it to Pagefile usage, whereas Ubuntu would use it for the hoards of FOSS that's available...)
I know: GIVE THE DAMN APPLICATION A BACKGROUND!
Would be interesting to see the output of these automated observations, though...
And proud of it!
:)
We'll all write the works of Shakespeare sooner or later, right? That's gotta be worth something
Blogged about the BBC's choice of DRM a while back, Could the BBC lose respect over DRM?
I have an old laptop, specs here, and it's been running Ubuntu and other flavours of Linux for years now - all without hindrance or laggish behaviour. Recently I installed Beryl, and have the wonderfully looking desktop that Mac users have had for years, except I don't need to buy the latest hardware for it.
Think about it. Beryl or Aeroglass (or whatever they've called it in Vista) - keep my current PC, or upgrade and spend too much just so I can run an unreliable, unproven and overpriced OS?
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade for me please, i'm staying put.
'nuff said.
Are MS doing this to trick their customers and partners in to adoption, then 1 year down the line spring suprise lawsuits or license fees on them?
The fight against DRM seems to be heating up. MP3s seem to be getting more of the attention with regards to removing DRM. Why is it mostly music? Why aren't we getting the same for movies?
Sign of the times my friend, sign of the times.
It's a hardware platform, yes, but it also means they have a direct (and rather large) competitor in the Linux-based phone market. That was my point.
Give it a year or two and these'll be in pill form, no doubt. Interesting research though.