hate to break your party but we are not asexuate amoebas, we are ppl... and there are two genders which are Different... calling a girl "asshole" is not the same as calling a guy "asshole"... same as calling a guy "delicate cutie" is not the same as callin a girl "delicate cutie". agree.. genders should have equal rights... but dont try and pretend they are TheSame The term 'asshole' applies equally to men and women however, the term 'bitch' applies primarily to women. I wasn't evaluating the similitude of men and women, rather that calling a male boss an asshole and an equivalent female boss a bitch is not an equal application of derision. You made a point about context, but I think it's backwards - the difference in context between calling any person 'delicate cutie' derives not from the meaning of terms but the person saying them. That means, that you calling me or my female co-workers a 'delicate cutie' will prompt the same hostile reaction.
Yeah, and that attitude fucking sucks thereby proving that helping to make the industry inclusive for women will make it better for all of us.
that attitude is related to Domination, which is the backbone of Evolution.. you can say "evolution sucks" all day long, but i'm pretty sure noone cares
It's funny to hear wizened coders talk about the perils of evolution. Our species is at the point that brute force isn't the only factor of survival. The intellect has gained supremacy over quivering masses of muscle. I don't know what you mean by capitalizing Domination - I suspect you of misunderstanding the Will to Power, so consider this:
Certainly the state in which we hurt others is rarely as agreeable, in an unadulterated way, as that in which we benefit others; it is a sign that we are still lacking power, or it shows a sense of frustration in the face of this poverty. - Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 13 Domination and the macho attitude in IT is really the morality of a squirming mass of degenerate weaklings - weak in the intellectual sense, of course.
But they don't give the men less respect BECAUSE they are men, do they?
u do have a point here.. but it's the smallest one ever.
It's not a small point at all. The grand-parent said:
Guys call the hard-driving male boss an asshole, just like they call the hard-driving female boss a bitch. My understanding of biology is that men and women both have asshole and so the 'guys' could call the 'hard-driving female boss' an asshole also. They don't - they go right to insulting her gender.
guys love to pick on each other for ANY reason... while females compliment each other earings or whatnot, we tease each other about pretty much everything and all the time.. the smallest defect u have, the smallest mistake u make, there is a guy near that's gonna make fun of you, try to put u down, etc.. and if u ever try to complain about that being rude/mean/etc, congrats, u just joined the sissies club... welcome to the boys world;) Yeah, and that attitude fucking sucks thereby proving that helping to make the industry inclusive for women will make it better for all of us.
It does help to develop a thicker skin and learn to tell when they are serious and when they're just trying to bait you because they are bored, and to learn how to respond in kind in the latter situation.
well, looks like you got the point already;).. congrats, that is pretty rare for a woman
The only place on which I need thick skin to code is, maybe, my fingertips.
since he's such a believer in life after death, shoot himself so he can see Jebus that much quicker No. He's forbidden from taking away the gift God gave him. He needs to find a way to be martyred.
In my experience, the wide-screen monitors are usually used by artists who have a special problem - all the tool bars and dialogs in applications such as Photoshop are on the sides which leaves a narrow space in the center to draw. It's very frustrating.
When I'm using a wide screen monitor I don't maximize the browser window. I hate the extra space on the sides for sites with a max width and I can't read sites that fill the width. We use the lines breaks and jagged right edge to keep track of where we are in a paragraph (justified text is harder to read).
I find that I usually keep my mouse at the top of the screen so I put my task bar, workspace switcher and volume controls at the top of my screen. Information that I don't need to interact with, like cpu load, time/date and weather are on another task bar on the bottom. I also discovered that I tend to use the top-right of the screen more often so I've put window controls and browser navigation on the right side of the window. I hate all the vertical space taken up also and I recently discovered something to help: In Firefox you can put UI widgets on the same tool bar as the file menu. For regular browsing my tool bars look like this:
|File, Edit, etc.| |search box| |bookmarks toolbar| |back, forward, reload, stop| |a really, really long url bar (I'm a developer)| |the WebDeveloper tool bar when I'm working| |tabs|
After all that I find the idea of tabs on the side offensive to my wrist. I've also long suspected that horizontal mouse movement is easier for me, so aiming for vertical tabs might be more difficult. Still, it would be nice if you had the choice. I'd like to be able to dock stuff to any side of the window. LiveHttpHeaders in the side bar sucks - it should be on the bottom to read the long urls (I've switched to a debugging proxy for that reason). Sometimes I might want two sidebars. In any case, if we could have to side bars, you might find that your monitor width is well used without putting tabs there.
I do not think that attributing it to greed is at all obvious. I do not think that a politician, especially an incumbent, would want the outcome of the election to be random. Who will hack these machines? What will be their inclination? A Republican would not want a Democrat altering the machine; a Democrat would not want a Republican altering the machine. That is obvious and, I would think, sufficient motive to keep these machines out of an election - especially if the budget to cover the replacement of current machines is already available.
Diebold's only purpose may be to sell machines at the highest profit, but we have elected representatives deciding to use their shoddy merchandise. It is a stupid decision unless one can guarantee who has access to the machine. It could also be that the machine does not matter. Regardless, there is something more than incompetence and more than greed behind the decision. Whether it is a conspiracy or complete apathy it is dangerous.
I'm not buying a damned, DRMed book, but there's always Project Gutenburg (http://www.gutenberg.org/).
I'd actually like a peripheral display using something like e-ink. It would be something I can dump text from the main monitor for long reading (like Slashdot comments) - or documentation...that'd be a relief.
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that attitude is related to Domination, which is the backbone of Evolution .. you can say "evolution sucks" all day long, but i'm pretty sure noone cares
It's funny to hear wizened coders talk about the perils of evolution. Our species is at the point that brute force isn't the only factor of survival. The intellect has gained supremacy over quivering masses of muscle. I don't know what you mean by capitalizing Domination - I suspect you of misunderstanding the Will to Power, so consider this: Certainly the state in which we hurt others is rarely as agreeable, in an unadulterated way, as that in which we benefit others; it is a sign that we are still lacking power, or it shows a sense of frustration in the face of this poverty. - Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 13 Domination and the macho attitude in IT is really the morality of a squirming mass of degenerate weaklings - weak in the intellectual sense, of course.u do have a point here .. but it's the smallest one ever.
It's not a small point at all. The grand-parent said: Guys call the hard-driving male boss an asshole, just like they call the hard-driving female boss a bitch. My understanding of biology is that men and women both have asshole and so the 'guys' could call the 'hard-driving female boss' an asshole also. They don't - they go right to insulting her gender. guys love to pick on each other for ANY reasonwell, looks like you got the point already ;) .. congrats, that is pretty rare for a woman
The only place on which I need thick skin to code is, maybe, my fingertips.In my experience, the wide-screen monitors are usually used by artists who have a special problem - all the tool bars and dialogs in applications such as Photoshop are on the sides which leaves a narrow space in the center to draw. It's very frustrating.
When I'm using a wide screen monitor I don't maximize the browser window. I hate the extra space on the sides for sites with a max width and I can't read sites that fill the width. We use the lines breaks and jagged right edge to keep track of where we are in a paragraph (justified text is harder to read).
I find that I usually keep my mouse at the top of the screen so I put my task bar, workspace switcher and volume controls at the top of my screen. Information that I don't need to interact with, like cpu load, time/date and weather are on another task bar on the bottom. I also discovered that I tend to use the top-right of the screen more often so I've put window controls and browser navigation on the right side of the window. I hate all the vertical space taken up also and I recently discovered something to help: In Firefox you can put UI widgets on the same tool bar as the file menu. For regular browsing my tool bars look like this:
|File, Edit, etc.| |search box| |bookmarks toolbar| |back, forward, reload, stop|
|a really, really long url bar (I'm a developer)|
|the WebDeveloper tool bar when I'm working|
|tabs|
After all that I find the idea of tabs on the side offensive to my wrist. I've also long suspected that horizontal mouse movement is easier for me, so aiming for vertical tabs might be more difficult. Still, it would be nice if you had the choice. I'd like to be able to dock stuff to any side of the window. LiveHttpHeaders in the side bar sucks - it should be on the bottom to read the long urls (I've switched to a debugging proxy for that reason). Sometimes I might want two sidebars. In any case, if we could have to side bars, you might find that your monitor width is well used without putting tabs there.
Maybe we should build a huge transmitter specifically to broadcast our location. Maybe someone else has done the same.
I do not think that attributing it to greed is at all obvious. I do not think that a politician, especially an incumbent, would want the outcome of the election to be random. Who will hack these machines? What will be their inclination? A Republican would not want a Democrat altering the machine; a Democrat would not want a Republican altering the machine. That is obvious and, I would think, sufficient motive to keep these machines out of an election - especially if the budget to cover the replacement of current machines is already available.
Diebold's only purpose may be to sell machines at the highest profit, but we have elected representatives deciding to use their shoddy merchandise. It is a stupid decision unless one can guarantee who has access to the machine. It could also be that the machine does not matter. Regardless, there is something more than incompetence and more than greed behind the decision. Whether it is a conspiracy or complete apathy it is dangerous.
And to what do you attribute the decision to use thse 'poorly-thought-out, poorly-engineered, poorly-constructed, poorly-maintained piles of shit?'
I want to see pictures a week later. You might regret putting a fan on it.
(And my captcha for this post is 'unclean.')
"Mexicans do it all the time. But if I dare criticize them, I'm a racist."
...but you just did it. What are you, now that you criticize them with abandon and mock oppression?
Great, I thought we had space problems at work before - now they're going to crowd three of us around one monitor.
I'm not buying a damned, DRMed book, but there's always Project Gutenburg (http://www.gutenberg.org/). I'd actually like a peripheral display using something like e-ink. It would be something I can dump text from the main monitor for long reading (like Slashdot comments) - or documentation...that'd be a relief.