Maybe I'm just still used to Laptops being well over $1000. The last one I bought was a Lenovo T61 with an Intel graphics card and it was over $1K. I wouldn't consider it "high-end."
Well, the one example I can think of, the HP EliteBook 8730, is HP's top-end machine and is priced at $1730 stock. The Macbook Pro 17" is still well over $2000, and is considered by many to be a top-end mobile machine.
From what I've seen, the most dramatic price adjustments have been in the mid-range laptop sector, which has received nice performance boosts over the years. For instance, I got my Dell Latitude E6500, which came with an Intel Core 2 P8600 CPU, 4GB of RAM, an 80GB hard disk (didn't need the space), a nVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M discrete graphics card, the 15.4" WXGA LED screen (which is absolutely beautiful; on par with most high end screens out there) and a pretty good sound card, only cost me $700 shipped. A few years ago, that would have bought me a possibly decent, and definitely heavy, craptop. Definitely a plus.
Nonetheless, even though I didn't think this would happen, netbooks are starting to become versatile enough to replace bigger laptops for most daily tasks, especially with everything beginning to move over to the web. I've thought of swapping this several times with a Mini, since I have no issues with smaller screens after trying a friend's MBP 13" and I really don't need the speed as much as I thought I did. (Not to mention that it supports OS X should I decide to give it a whirl again.)
I disagree. One of my younger siblings, born in the "iGeneration" Stone defines (1990-), text messages her friends significantly more than she calls them. On the other hand, my other sibling, who was born a year after I was, still spends a considerable amount of time on the phone, though she texts a lot too (usually to people younger than her...)
Furthermore, the women that I've dated who were born in that generation text messaged a LOT more as well. Same thing with the guys.
Step 1. Go to InsanelyMac and find the links for the Chamelion (sp?) boot loader. This will do practically the same thing, from what I've been told, and it worked extremely well for me when I used OS X on my Dell (took it off b/c I wanted real Office and some other Windows-preferred applications, but didn't want it in a VM).
Step 2 While you're at InsanelyMac, look for a tutorial on how to install OS X on your hardware. If there are none (which shouldn't be the case if the computer's popular somewhat), there are default methods to follow, which can help you give back by making one!
Step 3. Install OS X, hope that nothing breaks and enjoy!
This sounds just like the support I'd get if I bought an iPhone from eBay and had T-Mobile service...except I would actually have a choice on the plan configuration I want. Not having nice and responsive customer support over the phone blows, especially for an expensive phone that you can't try until the cash is dropped and the item is shipped.
plus, was Google EVER known to have good support? Changing one's password without the forms can take a while...and is email only. I hope they're working on rectifying this, since this form of support will kill them.
I thought that being a good sysadmin, or a good tennis player, or a good anything depended on the experience and natural talent the person has, not his or her age. There are kids out there that can probably develop much, much better than many with years and years of experience in the field; hell, most of the hackers back in the day were kids themselves!
I think that actually letting these folks do something of importance with their skills is more laudable, since most companies that hire undergrads or high school students can only afford to give them low-risk projects that may or may not contribute to their development of in-field experience.
- Want to thether for free even though your carrier wants you to pay extra? There's a WinMo app for that.
iPhone OS has supported Internet Tethering since 3.0, and is pretty easy to set up regardless of how your plan is provisioned.
- Want to thether for free via your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot so that everyone in your carpool can access the interenet at once? There's a WinMo app for that, too.
PdaNet for the iPhone does this. (Jailbreak required.)
- Hell, I can even run two programs at once and mount my phone as a disk drive and fill it up with whatever I damn well please.
If you're hell-bent on running multiple applications, iPhone can do this as well with Backgrounder. However, it will crash and slog through everything, while eating even more battery life, just like Windows Mobile does.
Finally, the iPhone can store whatever you want via SSH. Certain programs even let you mount SFTP connections as drives to make transfers easier.
I thought the same way you did, and kept my HTC Touch Pro around after I got my iPhone for these purposes. However, as I found my iPhone doing more and more of what I designated the Touch Pro to do, I finally decided it was time to get rid of it. Traded it in for 2GB DDR2 RAM and an external drive, which has been infinitely more useful than that phone has been.
Here are some points to consider before making that leap:
* Apple has succeeded in making itself look like the "rich snob's alternative" to the PC... probably because of the snarky "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads, and partly because of the next one,
Considering that many people who own iPhones are certainly not rich, I would beg to differ. Nonetheless, this is a purely ethical decision.
* Apple products carry a price premium that nobody can reasonably explain... you just pay more because it's an Apple.
That might be, but then that might also have something to do with the HTC Hero being close to $600 on release day, which is comparable to a carrier-locked Apple iPhone 3GS. Plus, iPhone 3Gs are $350 or so, and new iPhone 2Gs can be had for less than $300.
* No stereo bluetooth music transmission from the iPhone (and WHY not?)
The iPhone has had support for A2DP since the 3G, and has been backported to the 2G as well.
* iPhone is carrier specific for now.
It is also extremely easy to unlock, though your point still holds if you want carrier support for your phone.
At the top of the "who are you kidding" list is probably the Powerbook G4. A look at the sales numbers alone would be sufficient to disqualify it.
I agree that it wasn't the Powerbook G4 that set the precedent for making better-looking laptops; I think it was the Powerbook 17" and the Macbook that did it in. Many, many laptops before those looks like clunky plastic pieces of junk; after the introduction of the Macbook, many manufacturers strived to make sleeker and prettier computers. I'd say that's a pretty influential change.
I will concede to your point that netbooks have made a more immediate dent than I thought, and especially to my fault in including the VAIO in that list (they were pretty high-end shit, should've included the Thinkpad X series instead). However...
USB Pen drives are not an invention of this decade. They all but killed floppy drives within their first year.
Incorrect; first commerical USB drive was released in 2000, and increased in popularity as USB became more common. You can't tell me that it wasn't the proliferation of cheap "jump drives" that pretty much blew floppies out of the scene; if you were part of the crazy, you would have seen that transition happening pretty quickly.
The iPod Nano and Shuffle are just descendants of the original. The original iPod, of course, is from 2001. It deserves its position on the list.
That's correct, but parent items aren't the only ones that can set trends. The iPod changed how people listen to music, but I remember MP3 CD players being popular for years after the iPod was released mostly because of its huge price point. It was the iPod Mini, followed by the Nano and shuffle, which helped not only reduce the price on the hard-disk based player, but also made it affordable enough for it to become a household name.
Google didn't turn the search industry on its face when it came out either. These things take time (just like netbooks, which I will concede I was wrong on, but is still very much in its infancy and hasn't really proven to be anything but a really cheap notebook at this point).
The Blackberry was the first smartphone to get attention.
Horribly incorrect. While celebrities were toting around Treo 650s and showing them off, Blackberry devices were still ugly, useless for most people outside of those that needed their work email (much to their chagrin) and very limited in functionality. It wasn't until the 8700 that they started to gain a foothold in the consumer smartphone space (and even then, it was still limited relative to the Treo, but was much more stable). More notably, it was the Curve and Pearl that really helped RIM supplant Palm's old, tired and unreliable devices.
This compilation is really short-sighted, though they seem to have gotten a few things right.
Windows XP and Mac OS X are software, not gadgets. They were very influential in changing the landscape of daily computing, but I don't think either of them belong on this list.
The netbook hasn't been in the market long enough to really make an impact, but I think it's contributions were more negative than positive. The sub-notebooks that preceded them, such as the Fujitsu LifeBook, Toshiba Libretto, Sony VAIO, and even the OQO, were really high-quality devices that were expensive, but lasted a really long time. Netbooks, on the other hand, are just really cheap notebooks that (initially) shipped with an even crappier operating system (Xandros? Seriously?) and are meant to be replaced and/or disposed of within two years or so. Additionally, sub-notebooks were way more capable than these devices, which are meant to mostly have people interact with the internet. I think that they are definitely propelling the cloud computing movement, but at the moment are merely toys than anything else.
USB "pen drives" didn't even make the list, despite essentially obsoleting floppy-based media almost single-handedly. Before them, folks would carry several floppy disks (or ZIP drives, which always had a tough time getting critical mass) and hope that they didn't fail unexpectedly. Today, people are carrying at least 2GB of storage space on their keychains!
They should've included the iPod Nano and Shuffle on that list, since they had a bigger market impact than the original iPod did. (Even today, one is more likely to find people with iPod nanos or shuffles than the big, hard-disk based iPods.)
I definitely agree, though, that the RAZR did a lot to force manufacturers to slim their phones, despite it being a pretty mediocre phone on its own. I also agree that the Treo 650 was basically responsible for putting smartphones on the map for most people, though the Blackberry popularized push e-mail to the point of making it an expectancy for most people nowadays.
BB is essential for cwhoreporate systems, because NO OTHER PHONE ON THE MARKET ANYWHERE matches its functionality
Actually, several companies are already planning mass-scale iPhone deployments because it matches most of its core functionality with appropriate security policies. (Tasks support is still missing, but EAS supports it and Apple is hopefully working on bridging that gap.)
However, it's still the most secure Exchange-capable mobile device available, and it's going to be a LONG time before high-security environments consider anything else...
In addition to the ability to “mind read” vowels, consonants, and individual letters, brain wave applications also include algorithms to turn brain waves into music and even “tweeting” (using the popular Twitter Internet application) by thought alone.
Expect to see millions of tweets saying, "I'm tweeting about what I'm thinking of tweeting next!" In succession. For a week. And then there's Music Monday, Thinking Tuesday, and Lord knows what else...
Verizon Wireless said Friday that it doubled the fees for customers to break service contracts for smart phones because those devices cost much more.
and other companies have not raised their ETF incredibly (including AT&T, who just so happens to have rights to the most smartphones, including iPhone), it basically comes down to maximizing profit with the added benefit of increasing retention rate. In other words, they want more money.
However, it's not completely bleak, since they do decrease the ETF like other carriers do:
Verizon, like several other carriers, lowers the price of the early termination fee over the length of the contract. A Verizon customer who canceled a two-year contract after 23 months would still be charged $120, though.
It must suck if Verizon Wireless is one's only option. If it isn't, it makes zero sense to switch (except for network coverage, but AT&T is practically right there with them).
Sorry to respond to my own post (again), but I really, really wished that Microsoft added C99 support to their Visual C++ compiler. Does anyone know why they haven't?
I discovered the consequences of this as I tried to port over a project for school from Linux to Windows. Compiled perfectly on gcc, but failed dramatically when I used Visual Studio. (Yes, I know I could've use make instead of nmake to link gcc to it, but I don't think I should have to go through that kind of work just to say that Visual Studio compiled my program. Also, getting the code to work in C# using DLL import/export was a HUGE pain in the ass.)
C# is replacing Java as the language to teach kids new to object-oriented programming how to program. It is gaining widespread acceptance in industry, and works perfectly (obviously) with Visual Studio and other development environments. It has also made creating professional Windows-based GUIs much easier and more desirable to do, which is something that only Visual Basic and hardcore C++ shell API developers could accomplish. Its reporting tools are also held to high regard and are used quite frequently in industry. Finally, with Windows Vista and 7 coming pre-packaged with.NET frameworks, integration is only that much easier for.NET developers. Let's not forget about how it sort of, kind of now works in Linux with the Moonlight Project (by the man that shalt not be nam-ed).
However, that's just C#.NET. Visual Basic.NET didn't share the same success, though its usage is also proliferating. Thus, I'd say that as a platform, it's still growing, but C# by itself has accomplished its goals as an established and well-regarded language in IT and beyond.
So yes. Women are in fact generally too smart for careers in computers. He nailed it.
Right. Women are smarter for going into fields like modeling, where some agencies mandate some of the unhealthiest and strictest diets you'll ever hear of (or NOT hear of, for that matter). Women are smarter for going into fields like special education, whose practitioners have to deal with fucked up shit IT workers will, more than likely, never ever ever EVER have to deal with in a single day of business. Women are smarter for going into fields like nursing, where working hours are as unpredictable and uncontrollable as retail, pain and trauma are everywhere and, at worst, overtime is almost mandatory (and possibly unpaid).
Did I forget to mention that with the exception of nursing, all of those positions are HORRIBLY paid? Before you whip out the "models make money" argument, come take a trip to New York City and have chats with the women there (yes, this might be a lot to ask on Slashdot...but bear with me). Most of them are "aspiring models and actresses." Most of them are approaching or are in their 30s. Most of them are dead fucking broke. You only make money if you're (a) pretty hot, (b) pretty hot according to modeling standards (which are really strict, btw...no big boobs for you!), (c) have a really good catwalk and (d) know the right people.
Women don't avoid IT because they're smarter, though statistics say they are on average. Women avoid it because they just do. Just like you hardly ever see female auto mechanics, janitors or the like. If computers didn't have the social stigma they gained in the 80s and 90s and IT stood as profitable as it is today, you can bet that there would be an inflow of women to please management, write reports and talk about shoes and the latest relationships.
If anything, I'm seeing more women assume IT-related roles, though they are usually deal with its "softer" aspects (like client relationships, process management and business analysis). One of my previous managers, who was the director of eCommerce for that company, didn't know how to use a CD-ROM. That's right; here's a person who got their MCSE (for Windows NT) that's heading up eCommerce with zero knowledge of modern-day computing. But it's IT.
I believe that as IT continues broadening up and diversifying, we'll start seeing more women take on all sorts of roles within it, even potentially support-related ones. (I mean, someone has to keep the Twitter running, the Facebook profiles up to date and the Wordpress web site clean from cross-site scripting attacks.) Until then, the "hard" fields will continue being sausage parties.
Uh, not really, as our UIDs link to our IP addresses at the moment, which can be subpoenaed and traced right back to us...(Unless you're on Tor or an anonymizer)
Now that I've aired that out, this isn't too unsurprising of a read, considering how a former girlfriend I had told me of people she knew who would AIM while doing in doggystyle, record themselves having sex, reading, etc. etc. etc...
Opera Mobile claimed to be the fastest browser of them all, but all the masses got was a fast browser that locked up almost ALL of the time and was bogged down by incredible resource usage. I've been hearing about Firefox Mobile for years now; I'll believe it when I see it.
Plus, Safari is one of Apple's core tools! Does anyone think Mozilla can finagle their browser into Apple's app store? That'd be awesome if they pulled it off, but I see it as being quite unlikely.
I think the point behind that was to make it closer to their Infrastructure Client, which is a LOT more expensive. It's great for servers that are dedicated to cheap virtualization, but is terrible for workstations. That's not a big deal either, considering that it's really a server product and wasn't 'technically' meant to be used on the workstation, anyway.
Last time I tried VMware Server (latest version), it was mostly web-based as opposed to its previous version which was more "together." It was also kind of a hog. Excellent for servers, terrible for workstations.
I wanted to respond directly to the person who put this post up, but I don't want to register for yet another forum.
I'll gladly help develop for the project. My knowledge in video and audio processing is very weak (I took a class on it, but I didn't really put too much work into it), but my skills in C and C++ are pretty good (but not expert). I'm also pretty well-versed in Java, though it's been a while since I needed to whip it out. Finally, I'm slowly, but surely, learning Objective-C.
Please e-mail me at the address listed here. I don't want to see this die! I just migrated over to OS X and find this app extremely helpful, especially from my use of it in Windows.
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Maybe I'm just still used to Laptops being well over $1000. The last one I bought was a Lenovo T61 with an Intel graphics card and it was over $1K. I wouldn't consider it "high-end."
Well, the one example I can think of, the HP EliteBook 8730, is HP's top-end machine and is priced at $1730 stock. The Macbook Pro 17" is still well over $2000, and is considered by many to be a top-end mobile machine.
From what I've seen, the most dramatic price adjustments have been in the mid-range laptop sector, which has received nice performance boosts over the years. For instance, I got my Dell Latitude E6500, which came with an Intel Core 2 P8600 CPU, 4GB of RAM, an 80GB hard disk (didn't need the space), a nVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M discrete graphics card, the 15.4" WXGA LED screen (which is absolutely beautiful; on par with most high end screens out there) and a pretty good sound card, only cost me $700 shipped. A few years ago, that would have bought me a possibly decent, and definitely heavy, craptop. Definitely a plus.
Nonetheless, even though I didn't think this would happen, netbooks are starting to become versatile enough to replace bigger laptops for most daily tasks, especially with everything beginning to move over to the web. I've thought of swapping this several times with a Mini, since I have no issues with smaller screens after trying a friend's MBP 13" and I really don't need the speed as much as I thought I did. (Not to mention that it supports OS X should I decide to give it a whirl again.)
But most people hate leaving voice mail...
I disagree. One of my younger siblings, born in the "iGeneration" Stone defines (1990-), text messages her friends significantly more than she calls them. On the other hand, my other sibling, who was born a year after I was, still spends a considerable amount of time on the phone, though she texts a lot too (usually to people younger than her...)
Furthermore, the women that I've dated who were born in that generation text messaged a LOT more as well. Same thing with the guys.
Step 1. Go to InsanelyMac and find the links for the Chamelion (sp?) boot loader. This will do practically the same thing, from what I've been told, and it worked extremely well for me when I used OS X on my Dell (took it off b/c I wanted real Office and some other Windows-preferred applications, but didn't want it in a VM).
Step 2 While you're at InsanelyMac, look for a tutorial on how to install OS X on your hardware. If there are none (which shouldn't be the case if the computer's popular somewhat), there are default methods to follow, which can help you give back by making one!
Step 3. Install OS X, hope that nothing breaks and enjoy!
This sounds just like the support I'd get if I bought an iPhone from eBay and had T-Mobile service...except I would actually have a choice on the plan configuration I want. Not having nice and responsive customer support over the phone blows, especially for an expensive phone that you can't try until the cash is dropped and the item is shipped.
plus, was Google EVER known to have good support? Changing one's password without the forms can take a while...and is email only. I hope they're working on rectifying this, since this form of support will kill them.
I thought that being a good sysadmin, or a good tennis player, or a good anything depended on the experience and natural talent the person has, not his or her age. There are kids out there that can probably develop much, much better than many with years and years of experience in the field; hell, most of the hackers back in the day were kids themselves!
I think that actually letting these folks do something of importance with their skills is more laudable, since most companies that hire undergrads or high school students can only afford to give them low-risk projects that may or may not contribute to their development of in-field experience.
- Want to thether for free even though your carrier wants you to pay extra? There's a WinMo app for that.
iPhone OS has supported Internet Tethering since 3.0, and is pretty easy to set up regardless of how your plan is provisioned.
- Want to thether for free via your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot so that everyone in your carpool can access the interenet at once? There's a WinMo app for that, too.
PdaNet for the iPhone does this. (Jailbreak required.)
- Hell, I can even run two programs at once and mount my phone as a disk drive and fill it up with whatever I damn well please.
If you're hell-bent on running multiple applications, iPhone can do this as well with Backgrounder. However, it will crash and slog through everything, while eating even more battery life, just like Windows Mobile does.
Finally, the iPhone can store whatever you want via SSH. Certain programs even let you mount SFTP connections as drives to make transfers easier.
I thought the same way you did, and kept my HTC Touch Pro around after I got my iPhone for these purposes. However, as I found my iPhone doing more and more of what I designated the Touch Pro to do, I finally decided it was time to get rid of it. Traded it in for 2GB DDR2 RAM and an external drive, which has been infinitely more useful than that phone has been.
Here are some points to consider before making that leap:
* Apple has succeeded in making itself look like the "rich snob's alternative" to the PC... probably because of the snarky "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads, and partly because of the next one,
Considering that many people who own iPhones are certainly not rich, I would beg to differ. Nonetheless, this is a purely ethical decision.
* Apple products carry a price premium that nobody can reasonably explain... you just pay more because it's an Apple.
That might be, but then that might also have something to do with the HTC Hero being close to $600 on release day, which is comparable to a carrier-locked Apple iPhone 3GS. Plus, iPhone 3Gs are $350 or so, and new iPhone 2Gs can be had for less than $300.
* No stereo bluetooth music transmission from the iPhone (and WHY not?)
The iPhone has had support for A2DP since the 3G, and has been backported to the 2G as well.
* iPhone is carrier specific for now.
It is also extremely easy to unlock, though your point still holds if you want carrier support for your phone.
At the top of the "who are you kidding" list is probably the Powerbook G4. A look at the sales numbers alone would be sufficient to disqualify it.
I agree that it wasn't the Powerbook G4 that set the precedent for making better-looking laptops; I think it was the Powerbook 17" and the Macbook that did it in. Many, many laptops before those looks like clunky plastic pieces of junk; after the introduction of the Macbook, many manufacturers strived to make sleeker and prettier computers. I'd say that's a pretty influential change.
I will concede to your point that netbooks have made a more immediate dent than I thought, and especially to my fault in including the VAIO in that list (they were pretty high-end shit, should've included the Thinkpad X series instead). However...
USB Pen drives are not an invention of this decade. They all but killed floppy drives within their first year.
Incorrect; first commerical USB drive was released in 2000, and increased in popularity as USB became more common. You can't tell me that it wasn't the proliferation of cheap "jump drives" that pretty much blew floppies out of the scene; if you were part of the crazy, you would have seen that transition happening pretty quickly.
The iPod Nano and Shuffle are just descendants of the original. The original iPod, of course, is from 2001. It deserves its position on the list.
That's correct, but parent items aren't the only ones that can set trends. The iPod changed how people listen to music, but I remember MP3 CD players being popular for years after the iPod was released mostly because of its huge price point. It was the iPod Mini, followed by the Nano and shuffle, which helped not only reduce the price on the hard-disk based player, but also made it affordable enough for it to become a household name.
Google didn't turn the search industry on its face when it came out either. These things take time (just like netbooks, which I will concede I was wrong on, but is still very much in its infancy and hasn't really proven to be anything but a really cheap notebook at this point).
The Blackberry was the first smartphone to get attention.
Horribly incorrect. While celebrities were toting around Treo 650s and showing them off, Blackberry devices were still ugly, useless for most people outside of those that needed their work email (much to their chagrin) and very limited in functionality. It wasn't until the 8700 that they started to gain a foothold in the consumer smartphone space (and even then, it was still limited relative to the Treo, but was much more stable). More notably, it was the Curve and Pearl that really helped RIM supplant Palm's old, tired and unreliable devices.
This compilation is really short-sighted, though they seem to have gotten a few things right.
I definitely agree, though, that the RAZR did a lot to force manufacturers to slim their phones, despite it being a pretty mediocre phone on its own. I also agree that the Treo 650 was basically responsible for putting smartphones on the map for most people, though the Blackberry popularized push e-mail to the point of making it an expectancy for most people nowadays.
BB is essential for cwhoreporate systems, because NO OTHER PHONE ON THE MARKET ANYWHERE matches its functionality
Actually, several companies are already planning mass-scale iPhone deployments because it matches most of its core functionality with appropriate security policies. (Tasks support is still missing, but EAS supports it and Apple is hopefully working on bridging that gap.)
However, it's still the most secure Exchange-capable mobile device available, and it's going to be a LONG time before high-security environments consider anything else...
In addition to the ability to “mind read” vowels, consonants, and individual letters, brain wave applications also include algorithms to turn brain waves into music and even “tweeting” (using the popular Twitter Internet application) by thought alone.
Expect to see millions of tweets saying, "I'm tweeting about what I'm thinking of tweeting next!" In succession. For a week. And then there's Music Monday, Thinking Tuesday, and Lord knows what else...
Since this is the crux of it...
Verizon Wireless said Friday that it doubled the fees for customers to break service contracts for smart phones because those devices cost much more.
and other companies have not raised their ETF incredibly (including AT&T, who just so happens to have rights to the most smartphones, including iPhone), it basically comes down to maximizing profit with the added benefit of increasing retention rate. In other words, they want more money.
However, it's not completely bleak, since they do decrease the ETF like other carriers do:
Verizon, like several other carriers, lowers the price of the early termination fee over the length of the contract. A Verizon customer who canceled a two-year contract after 23 months would still be charged $120, though.
It must suck if Verizon Wireless is one's only option. If it isn't, it makes zero sense to switch (except for network coverage, but AT&T is practically right there with them).
Sorry to respond to my own post (again), but I really, really wished that Microsoft added C99 support to their Visual C++ compiler. Does anyone know why they haven't?
I discovered the consequences of this as I tried to port over a project for school from Linux to Windows. Compiled perfectly on gcc, but failed dramatically when I used Visual Studio. (Yes, I know I could've use make instead of nmake to link gcc to it, but I don't think I should have to go through that kind of work just to say that Visual Studio compiled my program. Also, getting the code to work in C# using DLL import/export was a HUGE pain in the ass.)
C# is replacing Java as the language to teach kids new to object-oriented programming how to program. It is gaining widespread acceptance in industry, and works perfectly (obviously) with Visual Studio and other development environments. It has also made creating professional Windows-based GUIs much easier and more desirable to do, which is something that only Visual Basic and hardcore C++ shell API developers could accomplish. Its reporting tools are also held to high regard and are used quite frequently in industry. Finally, with Windows Vista and 7 coming pre-packaged with .NET frameworks, integration is only that much easier for .NET developers. Let's not forget about how it sort of, kind of now works in Linux with the Moonlight Project (by the man that shalt not be nam-ed).
However, that's just C#.NET. Visual Basic.NET didn't share the same success, though its usage is also proliferating. Thus, I'd say that as a platform, it's still growing, but C# by itself has accomplished its goals as an established and well-regarded language in IT and beyond.
So yes. Women are in fact generally too smart for careers in computers. He nailed it.
Right. Women are smarter for going into fields like modeling, where some agencies mandate some of the unhealthiest and strictest diets you'll ever hear of (or NOT hear of, for that matter). Women are smarter for going into fields like special education, whose practitioners have to deal with fucked up shit IT workers will, more than likely, never ever ever EVER have to deal with in a single day of business. Women are smarter for going into fields like nursing, where working hours are as unpredictable and uncontrollable as retail, pain and trauma are everywhere and, at worst, overtime is almost mandatory (and possibly unpaid).
Did I forget to mention that with the exception of nursing, all of those positions are HORRIBLY paid? Before you whip out the "models make money" argument, come take a trip to New York City and have chats with the women there (yes, this might be a lot to ask on Slashdot...but bear with me). Most of them are "aspiring models and actresses." Most of them are approaching or are in their 30s. Most of them are dead fucking broke. You only make money if you're (a) pretty hot, (b) pretty hot according to modeling standards (which are really strict, btw...no big boobs for you!), (c) have a really good catwalk and (d) know the right people.
Women don't avoid IT because they're smarter, though statistics say they are on average. Women avoid it because they just do. Just like you hardly ever see female auto mechanics, janitors or the like. If computers didn't have the social stigma they gained in the 80s and 90s and IT stood as profitable as it is today, you can bet that there would be an inflow of women to please management, write reports and talk about shoes and the latest relationships.
If anything, I'm seeing more women assume IT-related roles, though they are usually deal with its "softer" aspects (like client relationships, process management and business analysis). One of my previous managers, who was the director of eCommerce for that company, didn't know how to use a CD-ROM. That's right; here's a person who got their MCSE (for Windows NT) that's heading up eCommerce with zero knowledge of modern-day computing. But it's IT.
I believe that as IT continues broadening up and diversifying, we'll start seeing more women take on all sorts of roles within it, even potentially support-related ones. (I mean, someone has to keep the Twitter running, the Facebook profiles up to date and the Wordpress web site clean from cross-site scripting attacks.) Until then, the "hard" fields will continue being sausage parties.
Uh, not really, as our UIDs link to our IP addresses at the moment, which can be subpoenaed and traced right back to us...(Unless you're on Tor or an anonymizer)
Well, let's get the obvious out of the way:
Now that I've aired that out, this isn't too unsurprising of a read, considering how a former girlfriend I had told me of people she knew who would AIM while doing in doggystyle, record themselves having sex, reading, etc. etc. etc...
Opera Mobile claimed to be the fastest browser of them all, but all the masses got was a fast browser that locked up almost ALL of the time and was bogged down by incredible resource usage. I've been hearing about Firefox Mobile for years now; I'll believe it when I see it.
Plus, Safari is one of Apple's core tools! Does anyone think Mozilla can finagle their browser into Apple's app store? That'd be awesome if they pulled it off, but I see it as being quite unlikely.
I thought it was as simple as putting that NIC in bridge mode with the vNIC...
I think the point behind that was to make it closer to their Infrastructure Client, which is a LOT more expensive. It's great for servers that are dedicated to cheap virtualization, but is terrible for workstations. That's not a big deal either, considering that it's really a server product and wasn't 'technically' meant to be used on the workstation, anyway.
Last time I tried VMware Server (latest version), it was mostly web-based as opposed to its previous version which was more "together." It was also kind of a hog. Excellent for servers, terrible for workstations.
Sorry to respond to my own post, but if you feel compelled to help too, reply to this! It'd be pretty cool to get a team going. -mrc
I wanted to respond directly to the person who put this post up, but I don't want to register for yet another forum.
I'll gladly help develop for the project. My knowledge in video and audio processing is very weak (I took a class on it, but I didn't really put too much work into it), but my skills in C and C++ are pretty good (but not expert). I'm also pretty well-versed in Java, though it's been a while since I needed to whip it out. Finally, I'm slowly, but surely, learning Objective-C.
Please e-mail me at the address listed here. I don't want to see this die! I just migrated over to OS X and find this app extremely helpful, especially from my use of it in Windows.