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Smith college, a private institution, openly does not accept male students for admission (yet if you enter as a woman and change, that's perfectly fine). I have yet to see a straight male work at Victoria's Secret. Similarly, I've worked at a local gym for quite some time and when I expressed interest in working as a babysitter (I'm good with kids), in addition to my role at front desk, I was never given that role. Thus far only females have had it.

Harvard is proudly hosting a black-only graduation event while some UMichigan students are demanding a non-white safe-space.

It's only discriminatory if it applies to non-white cisgender males.

The hoops some people jump through to justify this.

To the person that moderated my post offtopic, RTFA and make the connection.

To save time and money, management made a disastrous decision. But in the case of the current article, it was narrowly avoided. The title is misleading. It wasn't a design flaw from the architect, but a stupid decision to save money on the implementation. (Which also is the reason why the Gulf spill happened.)

http://www.science.smith.edu/~...

"But welded joints, which are
labor-intensive and therefore expensive, can be needlessly
strong; in most cases, bolted joints are more practical and
equally safe. That was the position taken at the May meeting
by a man from U.S. Steel, a potential bidder on the contract
to erect the Pittsburgh towers. If welded joints were a
condition, the project might be too expensive and his firm
might not want to take it on"
  LeMessurier put in a call to his office in New York. "I spoke to Stanley Goldstein and said, 'Tell me
about your success with those welded joints in Citicorp.' And Stanley said, 'Oh, didn't you know? They were changed--
they were never welded at all, because Bethlehem Steel came to us and said they didn't think we needed to do it.'

Read this when it was in the New Yorker in 1995.

That reminds me of the clusterfuck that is the copy-replace dialog in Windows 7.
Who don't know what I'm talking about, try to copy files in a directory that already contains the files:
http://www.smith.edu/tara/smith_network/2007_word.html (scroll little bit down there is a screenshot)

First of all, it's huge. I mean really huge. For such a simple file operation it's so freaking huge.
Second, there are no simple buttons like "Ok", "Replace", "Cancel". The only buttons you see are "Skip" and "Cancel" and you don't really want them because you want to copy files.
Third, too many choices. a) copy and replace, b) don't copy, c) copy, but keep files, d) skip (which is the same as b)), and e) cancel.
Fourth, you need to check [] do this for the next x conflicts. So you need first to check the radio button, then you need to choose one action. Why not just a "replace all" button.

Compare it with the Copy&Replace dialog from Windows XP:
http://superuser.com/questions/104908/windows-7-copy-file-dialog-keyboard-accelerators
Simple, small, compact. Few choices. One click actions.
It would be better if the buttons would be "Replace", "Replace All", "Skip" and "Cancel" so you don't have to read the pre-text, but "Yes", "Yes to All", "No" and "Cancel" are just as fine.

I don't even really want to think about how much money and man-hours Microsoft spend on the design of the Copy&Replace dialog for Windows 7. Only to come up with that clusterfuck. And it don't even have keyboard accelerators.

I searched for the identities, and it turns out that you're right: they are known or assumed. My bad.

You *really* were just joking?

Anyhow, this website shows that atheists will resort to creating media in a similar style.

The RAM chips

http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/270/datasheets/2114.html

or the gate drivers

http://www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/ir2114ss.pdf

?

... literally:
Quote: "Research of the Racetrack has continued. In the April 1997 GPS World, Paula Messina, Phil Stoffer and Keith C. Clarke reported a GPS study they conducted of the Racetrack. In ten days of intense field work they mapped every featured of the playa using differential GPS to produce, "the first-ever, complete, georeferenced, submeter-resolution map of the wandering rocks." (Messina, 1997, p. 42)"
http://sophia.smith.edu/~lfletche/deathvalley.html

But it seems they have no real conclusion too.

What about 'The Force"?

CC.

I think its clear assembly is the best place to start learning to program.

For some real numbers, check out the following:

• http://www.anitaborg.org/faq.html
• http://www.cra.org/statistics/trends/Gender/bachpe rc.html
• http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/fstats.html

Keylock, around 10th century BC

Archimedean Screw, around 3rd century BC
Astrolabe, 2nd century BC

The Sandglass, before the 14th century
First pendulum clock, 1656

The same thing is happening in western Massachusetts to connect The Five Colleges (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

Bubble sort is actualy very slow in all cases check out this wonderful page on sorting.

A fascinating natural topic - see more here where the Golden Angle and its close relationship to the Golden Ratio (Mean) is described.

There is evidence to suggest working batteries in use 2000 years ago:

The Baghdad Battery

As usual with alot of Computer Science, this appears to be just an old idea reinvented...the Transputer...and about time too!

If you're a Smith College student, you can get support-level funding for an unpaid internship through their Praxis: the liberal arts at work program. Every student can get at least one Praxis grant during her undergrad career, to fund that cool internship that doesn't pay anything but is a great experience.

(Smith's a women's college, and home of the first engineering undergrad program at a US women's college. If you're in high school, do consider applying. Women's college graduates get PhDs in the sciences at a much higher rate than do women who attend coed undergrad programs.)

If you're a Smith College student, you can get support-level funding for an unpaid internship through their Praxis: the liberal arts at work program. Every student can get at least one Praxis grant during her undergrad career, to fund that cool internship that doesn't pay anything but is a great experience.

(Smith's a women's college, and home of the first engineering undergrad program at a US women's college. If you're in high school, do consider applying. Women's college graduates get PhDs in the sciences at a much higher rate than do women who attend coed undergrad programs.)

If you're a Smith College student, you can get support-level funding for an unpaid internship through their Praxis: the liberal arts at work program. Every student can get at least one Praxis grant during her undergrad career, to fund that cool internship that doesn't pay anything but is a great experience.

(Smith's a women's college, and home of the first engineering undergrad program at a US women's college. If you're in high school, do consider applying. Women's college graduates get PhDs in the sciences at a much higher rate than do women who attend coed undergrad programs.)

A quick Google search finds this.

The page basically says they believe the battery to have been used for electro-plating gold onto silver, a technique which is still used today.

The Romans used electric eels to treat arthritis and gout.

Not the only one. But I discovered Smith during a break..

All proper feminists are antipornography.

You mean like Annie Sprinkle?

You must be one of those "Northampton feminists", not one of those proper "Boston feminists".

Sorry, Anne Marie, you've lost me. I thought you had a point. Now I think you're just ranting and raving.

I Meta Moderate and I lose karma?

>To put it another way: It's the page designer's fault for creating overly complex pages.
That's not so simple. Most of times, stupid HTML code is created by WYSIWYG editor, the worst of all being Word (go look at the source code of this example site, if you dare). For a truly better HTML, we need to force the include of a low-speed connection emulator in all HTML editor like Frontpage or Dreamweaver. It would be a very simple navigator, strictly conforming to the standard, and loading the page in memory at about 1.5 kilobyte per seconds. With sometimes random stalled waitings, and, once it's finished loading, it would also output a list of errors like those produced by the official validator. I think the world will be brighter with that.

For those of you able to read French, I wrote a year ago a Strict Code of Internet Ethic who ban unecessary use of images, cookies, applets, etc; and which insist on the necessity to conform to HTML standards. Yeah, except the title, it's in French, not in English.