The new Linux 'Flash 9' will just help to further cement flash as the mainstream format for video content distribution.
You're seriously overestimating how much most people care about linux desktop users. Digg, the "we'll put anything with the word ubuntu on the front page" site didn't even care enough to make their flash programs compatible with linux's best flash support at the time. Every single linux desktop user on the planet could join hands in boycott of some site or product, and you know what, almost nobody would care. I wish it were different, and it may well be one day, but for the moment we're not even small potatoes. We're just a couple fries sitting on a park bench.
They get exercises that involve football scores (real example).
You've actually seen CS majors who were not only heavily involved with football, but to the point of getting their class requirements waived? While I have seen this happen.....seriously, in computer science?
I've known several coworkers who had the same experiences with their daughters. Tried everything they could to get their daughters into coding, but it just wasn't who they were. Luckily, those coworkers were also awesome dads who loved their daughters for the people they were, rather than as potential female versions of their hacker fathers. Which isn't to say that a woman can't have an interest in it of course. One of my best friends is both a woman, and someone certain to build or dismantle any computer far faster than I ever could. But, that disclaimer aside, I have seen many attempts to get daughters interested in their fathers IT field, and zero successes. It doesn't mean I won't try if we have a girl though. It's all in the way it's presented, as a choice. These kinds of attempts to artificially lower the gap always worry me as more of a forced push, than an open invitation.
I thought IT was the field most people automatically think of first when "outsourced to india for ten cents an hour" comes out of someone's mouth. Aside from the first year, I don't think I ever knew anyone majoring in CS who was doing it for the money. We were all doing it in spite of what we'd probably get paid, just because we loved the subject matter.
Engineers and problem solvers in general should recognize that the best solutions come from diverse teams with widely different POVs. This whole dolls vs. legos debate is absurd.
I only know one female engineer, but that argument drives her insane. Having breasts doesn't automatically mean that a person is going to bring any different a point of view. Heck, she's the most lego person I know in terms of thinking.
The whole argument is off anyway. Genetic propensities, one way or another or not, treat everyone with the respect to make their own choices, and live their own lives, and the problem's taken care of far better than trying to get into their head and force their thinking. Doesn't matter if it's trying to force a female engineer into the doll camp when she's a lego person, or make another employee treat a doll person as if she were a lego person just because it fits someone elses view of what she should be.
Doctors are seriously bad when it comes to respecting the clients. I used to work in a hospital, and couldn't believe how doctors laughed about dead and dying patients when the doors were closed. Say what you want about IT, but at least we're not going to get together and laugh at you and your family after your loved one burns to death. Yah, I know, defense mechanisms and all that. I still say it's about as disrespectful as one can get.
Uwe's willing to fight people? I don't box, but I'd be thrilled to take him up on a real fight. I watched house of the dead I because I thought there was no way 'anyone' could totally fail in as formula friendly genre as a zombie movie. To this day, it's the only movie that I felt actually injured after watching. I never, never, would have thought a movie could be that bad.
Meh, "Gran" has been a fond nickname for Grandmothers within the US for at least sixty-five+ years now. It's the first thing I think of, at least, on hearing "Gran".
Ease of development for small companies and indi folk was among the main reasons I wasn't dismissing it even with the lock-in and high pricetag. If this is accurate, and I have some doubts, they really are going to need ipod level "hip" factor.
Newsgroups are great for that. Another good idea is to go the reverse, and check out the companies domain on newsgroups. Find out what the company seems weak on and brush up on it before the interview.
Just give me something, anything, that teaches kids the scientific method and logical thought. Just one show that will install a mental bullshit detector in a kid is worth a thousand shows focusing simply on the end results of science as applied to technology.
Some people find it annoying to spend a huge amount of time on a project, find that they can't make money off of it, and then see it make some other company rich when open sourced. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it's something a lot of people feel strongly about.
From what I've seen they do, or at least a large number of them do. Most don't like to talk to reporters because of the level of speculation involved in this kind of issue. The same people who trout a new cure for cancer any time a drug kills something in a test tube aren't going to do a good job with that level of detailed speculation. Most especially in a climate that's not very friendly to scientific explanations of life's beginning.
I've always thought it'd be a blast to work on a mmorpg chatbot/ai. But there's never been a game that has the level of freedom needed to really get something like that in motion. The closest so far being second life, with a bot stumbling its way around and sending requests to an http server. Fun for a bit, but not really the kind of autonomous, mistaken for a human, creation that would be really fun to create. This sounds like it might actually allow for something like that, at least in theory.
The scary thing is, even if that was meant as comedy, there's a large number of people who think they could actually get away with that as legal protection. A population totally ignorant of how their legal system works is far more scary than what operating system someone uses.
All this is making me feel better about hanging on to childhood powerwheels envy. There should be a support group somewhere, as this obviously isn't an isolated event.
Even adults can barely contain their jealousy when the little brat from down the block whizzes by on that shiny plastic hog.
Much like Seinfeld and people who owned a pony as a child, so am I and people who owned these things. My cousins had not one, but two of them. A fact that they never seemed to realize meant that they should give me one. Despite the fact that I told that to them constantly.
As I get older, I'm getting increasingly tired of characters like him for somewhat similar reasons. I got into sci-fi because I like science. Even as a kid I realized that it was the real magic of the world, and that almost every comfort in my life could be a result of it. Later I, like almost any human over 25, was able to thank it for saving my life at some point.
Unlike novels, TV science fiction seems to actually hate science. Evolution won't be Darwinian, but Lamarkian. Trying to improve civilization or the lot of humanity, is always the mark of either the villian or tragically flawed hero who only realises his mistake at the end. I nearly wanted to strangle the writers when they had McKay's redshirt utter something along the lines of "Pft, scientists. How's it feel to know everything you discovered will be proven wrong in a hundred years." The fact that a line like that can actually come from what, sadly, is one of the most intelligent fiction based channels out there depresses me to no end. It really drives home the fact that most western countries now have a population that is, in effect, pretty much scientifically illiterate.
Not because it means your better, but a large part of managing effectively means that people are able to find you when they need you.
Sounds like we've worked in pretty different types of office environments. Finding my superiors, usually means going from cubicle to cubicle after not finding them in their office, just on the chance of picking up a tip as to the persons current location. Whereas coworkers, at home, were available in seconds after an IM.
I totally agree on that one. I nearly killed myself out of loyalty to my last job, literally. One of the best companies on the planet, but not worth giving up even a minute of my family life. The idea that it's not family, but money or work status that will bring happiness is the biggest lie our culture tells to its children.
It's evidence of both strength and weakness. While perhaps unfortunate to see those platforms droppeed, any number of developers would be happy to keep things working if the community was willing to actually pay them for their work. I don't know if the end users can really claim any right to complain unless they're willing to put their money where their mouth is. Heck, I'd be happy to get it running on windows 95 if there were enough people willing to pay me enough to live on something other than raman noodles while I do it.
Thank you. I was wondering what this was, with the exact same chain of acronyms. I have to admit to some surprise that they'd use an abreviation as common as KVM. Especially when the end effect, if not the implementation, is similar to that of a kvm switch.
All that being said, a sufficiently corrupt patent office court would still uphold it.
The most important part of your post, sadly. While somewhat open to interpretation, personally, I'd put the US system right into that category. Or at least based on what I've seen large cooperations get away with.
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The new Linux 'Flash 9' will just help to further cement flash as the mainstream format for video content distribution.
You're seriously overestimating how much most people care about linux desktop users. Digg, the "we'll put anything with the word ubuntu on the front page" site didn't even care enough to make their flash programs compatible with linux's best flash support at the time. Every single linux desktop user on the planet could join hands in boycott of some site or product, and you know what, almost nobody would care. I wish it were different, and it may well be one day, but for the moment we're not even small potatoes. We're just a couple fries sitting on a park bench.
They get exercises that involve football scores (real example).
You've actually seen CS majors who were not only heavily involved with football, but to the point of getting their class requirements waived? While I have seen this happen.....seriously, in computer science?
I've known several coworkers who had the same experiences with their daughters. Tried everything they could to get their daughters into coding, but it just wasn't who they were. Luckily, those coworkers were also awesome dads who loved their daughters for the people they were, rather than as potential female versions of their hacker fathers. Which isn't to say that a woman can't have an interest in it of course. One of my best friends is both a woman, and someone certain to build or dismantle any computer far faster than I ever could. But, that disclaimer aside, I have seen many attempts to get daughters interested in their fathers IT field, and zero successes. It doesn't mean I won't try if we have a girl though. It's all in the way it's presented, as a choice. These kinds of attempts to artificially lower the gap always worry me as more of a forced push, than an open invitation.
IT and Business are perceived as high salary
I thought IT was the field most people automatically think of first when "outsourced to india for ten cents an hour" comes out of someone's mouth. Aside from the first year, I don't think I ever knew anyone majoring in CS who was doing it for the money. We were all doing it in spite of what we'd probably get paid, just because we loved the subject matter.
Engineers and problem solvers in general should recognize that the best solutions come from diverse teams with widely different POVs. This whole dolls vs. legos debate is absurd.
I only know one female engineer, but that argument drives her insane. Having breasts doesn't automatically mean that a person is going to bring any different a point of view. Heck, she's the most lego person I know in terms of thinking.
The whole argument is off anyway. Genetic propensities, one way or another or not, treat everyone with the respect to make their own choices, and live their own lives, and the problem's taken care of far better than trying to get into their head and force their thinking. Doesn't matter if it's trying to force a female engineer into the doll camp when she's a lego person, or make another employee treat a doll person as if she were a lego person just because it fits someone elses view of what she should be.
Doctors are seriously bad when it comes to respecting the clients. I used to work in a hospital, and couldn't believe how doctors laughed about dead and dying patients when the doors were closed. Say what you want about IT, but at least we're not going to get together and laugh at you and your family after your loved one burns to death. Yah, I know, defense mechanisms and all that. I still say it's about as disrespectful as one can get.
That really would be a few thousand times better than I'm guessing the franchise will really be moving to with the next TV series.
Uwe's willing to fight people? I don't box, but I'd be thrilled to take him up on a real fight. I watched house of the dead I because I thought there was no way 'anyone' could totally fail in as formula friendly genre as a zombie movie. To this day, it's the only movie that I felt actually injured after watching. I never, never, would have thought a movie could be that bad.
Meh, "Gran" has been a fond nickname for Grandmothers within the US for at least sixty-five+ years now. It's the first thing I think of, at least, on hearing "Gran".
Ease of development for small companies and indi folk was among the main reasons I wasn't dismissing it even with the lock-in and high pricetag. If this is accurate, and I have some doubts, they really are going to need ipod level "hip" factor.
Newsgroups are great for that. Another good idea is to go the reverse, and check out the companies domain on newsgroups. Find out what the company seems weak on and brush up on it before the interview.
Just give me something, anything, that teaches kids the scientific method and logical thought. Just one show that will install a mental bullshit detector in a kid is worth a thousand shows focusing simply on the end results of science as applied to technology.
Some people find it annoying to spend a huge amount of time on a project, find that they can't make money off of it, and then see it make some other company rich when open sourced. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it's something a lot of people feel strongly about.
From what I've seen they do, or at least a large number of them do. Most don't like to talk to reporters because of the level of speculation involved in this kind of issue. The same people who trout a new cure for cancer any time a drug kills something in a test tube aren't going to do a good job with that level of detailed speculation. Most especially in a climate that's not very friendly to scientific explanations of life's beginning.
I've always thought it'd be a blast to work on a mmorpg chatbot/ai. But there's never been a game that has the level of freedom needed to really get something like that in motion. The closest so far being second life, with a bot stumbling its way around and sending requests to an http server. Fun for a bit, but not really the kind of autonomous, mistaken for a human, creation that would be really fun to create. This sounds like it might actually allow for something like that, at least in theory.
The scary thing is, even if that was meant as comedy, there's a large number of people who think they could actually get away with that as legal protection. A population totally ignorant of how their legal system works is far more scary than what operating system someone uses.
All this is making me feel better about hanging on to childhood powerwheels envy. There should be a support group somewhere, as this obviously isn't an isolated event.
Even adults can barely contain their jealousy when the little brat from down the block whizzes by on that shiny plastic hog.
Much like Seinfeld and people who owned a pony as a child, so am I and people who owned these things. My cousins had not one, but two of them. A fact that they never seemed to realize meant that they should give me one. Despite the fact that I told that to them constantly.
We seem to be filming anything written by Phillip Dick at the moment
In a way that, aside from a few exceptions, will have his reanimated zombie vengefully gnawing on our brains any minute now.
As I get older, I'm getting increasingly tired of characters like him for somewhat similar reasons. I got into sci-fi because I like science. Even as a kid I realized that it was the real magic of the world, and that almost every comfort in my life could be a result of it. Later I, like almost any human over 25, was able to thank it for saving my life at some point.
Unlike novels, TV science fiction seems to actually hate science. Evolution won't be Darwinian, but Lamarkian. Trying to improve civilization or the lot of humanity, is always the mark of either the villian or tragically flawed hero who only realises his mistake at the end. I nearly wanted to strangle the writers when they had McKay's redshirt utter something along the lines of "Pft, scientists. How's it feel to know everything you discovered will be proven wrong in a hundred years." The fact that a line like that can actually come from what, sadly, is one of the most intelligent fiction based channels out there depresses me to no end. It really drives home the fact that most western countries now have a population that is, in effect, pretty much scientifically illiterate.
Not because it means your better, but a large part of managing effectively means that people are able to find you when they need you.
Sounds like we've worked in pretty different types of office environments. Finding my superiors, usually means going from cubicle to cubicle after not finding them in their office, just on the chance of picking up a tip as to the persons current location. Whereas coworkers, at home, were available in seconds after an IM.
I totally agree on that one. I nearly killed myself out of loyalty to my last job, literally. One of the best companies on the planet, but not worth giving up even a minute of my family life. The idea that it's not family, but money or work status that will bring happiness is the biggest lie our culture tells to its children.
It's evidence of both strength and weakness. While perhaps unfortunate to see those platforms droppeed, any number of developers would be happy to keep things working if the community was willing to actually pay them for their work. I don't know if the end users can really claim any right to complain unless they're willing to put their money where their mouth is. Heck, I'd be happy to get it running on windows 95 if there were enough people willing to pay me enough to live on something other than raman noodles while I do it.
Thank you. I was wondering what this was, with the exact same chain of acronyms. I have to admit to some surprise that they'd use an abreviation as common as KVM. Especially when the end effect, if not the implementation, is similar to that of a kvm switch.
All that being said, a sufficiently corrupt patent office court would still uphold it.
The most important part of your post, sadly. While somewhat open to interpretation, personally, I'd put the US system right into that category. Or at least based on what I've seen large cooperations get away with.