How Melinda Gates Got Her Daughters Excited About Science (geekwire.com)

theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Melinda Gates concluded a Davos panel discussion about gender parity with a personal story about her own family, explaining how she originally became interested in computer science, and how she later played Lab Manager to Bill's Mr. Wizard to help pass along their passion for science and math to their kids. "On Saturday mornings," Gates explained, "I wanted to sleep late. So you know what I did? I made sure there were science projects available, and that's what he did with our two daughters and our son. And guess what my two daughters are interested in? Science and math."

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Re: This would be better :

[BitZtream]

Well, except Linux isn't actually Unix. Its a bad clone that does a lot of things in its own silly non-standard way which is one of, if not the biggest problem it has.

Irix is actually UNIX. OS X is actually UNIX.

Being open has not made it amazingly faster, its advanced at a slower pace than both Windows and OS X in every measurable way. It is also not actual OSS software, its copyleft, which is nothing more than pretend open source fitting RMS's personal hippie agenda.

Its highly modifiable to a small select group of people capable of doing so. That same group of people is capable, with a little effort to making the same sort of changes to OS X and Windows for the most part. Once you understand how kernels work and interfacing with them, its not really a whole lot different between OS X, Windows and Linux drivers for instance.

I'm struggling to find anything factual to say about your post other than 'you spelled most of the words right'