Anybody capable of doing science(esp at a high level), and enjoying this incredible meaningfulness and understanding (read:enlightenment) that comes as a result.. those people should be at least encouraged to pursue it.
But she quite obviously doesn't want to do that. Don't get me wrong, anything we can do to encourage more people, women or men to enjoy science, programming, physics, etc is great.
However I don't see any value in forcing people into the field if they quite obviously don't want to do it. I'd rather have enthusiastic people working with me, not clock watchers and that goes for both genders.
To answer the question of what she can do instead, all I can think of is uncreative jobs: - accounting - share trader - lawyer - marketing analyst (very math heavy)
All I can really suggest is maybe show her some cool things people make on hack-a-day and stuff like that and hope she picks up an interest.
However, maybe it's better that she doesn't want to do something creative so people seem to get paid more money. You can always encourage her to have a creative hobby outside of her work.
and as soon as you can record those synapses and download them off the internet we'll be hearing about mind wiping devices.
I am assuming in 2040 we'll be hearing something like this, "We wanted to wipe people's brains before, it's just up until this point the technology hasn't been available to enforce our rights. You have the right to view our movie only once, not remember it!"
You mis understand the GPs point, all the perp has to do is frame someone else for the crime and said perp gets to keep the 1 million while someone innocent gets charged with his crime.
All good points but lets not forget that simulation != observation.
This point was made about astrological observations on older slashdot stories and it holds true for climate prediction too.
I have to admit I am sceptical about blindly believing in global warming. I used to in the past however I've become a little smarter since then I can not see any hard observations for it, especially when volcanoes pump out 26 times more CO2 per year then all of humanity on the planet (however I'm slightly sceptical of how they measure the pollution figures too).
Indeed, however like I believe I posted somewhere else, boot times are irrelevant as I am sure you will agree.
I personally wouldn't care much if it took 2 minutes to boot. It takes my Ubuntu laptop around 40 seconds max, but since I leave it on all the time apart from when I am out it's never an issue.
I think there are just some really impatient people.
I'm a European socialist, I have no idea where you get these ideas from.
Here's what I know about you based on your comment history..
- Your a mac fanboi - You rattle on and on about Bush and Oil in unrelated stories (you also did it in my comment) - Whenever someone disagrees with you, you start with baseless attacks - You're a hypocrite, you accuse me of an ad hominem smear against you then call me an "ASS" - When you lose an argument you can't man up and admit you're wrong, you have to start with the "well you're just a neo-con" shit..
I always laugh when people push out the neo-con shit on me when I am European and voted for the green party last election.. Just goes to show how people split the world up into left and right.
Your problem is that you have no morals. You can't comprehend that she's done anything wrong in the first place.
Being ignorant of the law is not an excuse for breaking it.
Your attitude of throwing the book at the most vulnerable 5th of the population
I never said she should go to jail. However there is too much pity for this women with no one looking at the whole picture.
You are definitely getting marked as a "foe" for it is people like you who advocate kicking people when they are down that make the world an endless cruel shit hole
There's no need to act all butt hurt because you know you're wrong.
To be honest I am glad, hopefully I'll never have to hear from you again, seeming as all your posts are nonsensical dribble about oil and bush.
not everyone in the U.S. is a techie and thus is going to immediately know what a Nigerian 419 scam is as she obviously didn't.
It doesn't matter if you know what a Nigerian scam is.
If someone you don't know contacts you with the promise to give you millions of dollars to just move money for them you know that it is against the law. She knew she was breaking the law.
So no, why should I feel sorry for someone breaking the law and got a sour deal? Should I feel sorry for drug dealers that get shot when a deal goes bad?
She's not a victim of the con artists, she's a victim of her own greed and willingness to break laws when it's to her advantage.
I don't lack social skills and empathy. It is your weakness for poor old mom which is stopping you from seeing the truth of the matter.
If she had stayed a law abiding citizen in the first place she wouldn't have lost all her money.
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Even if novell didn't hire them they'd still work on their projects.
Some people resigned from novell after the microsoft deal, they didn't stop working on their projects.
I think you could reproduce it and get it running, I believe most of the code is produced by outside contractors, so I don't see what the problem is.
Otherwise how would they test the code themselves? You think they keep a couple of shuttles hanging around for testing the software?
There was a story on slashdot about a year back about how they produce code, etc.
I just call it more then one site I need to allow on noscipt.
Web 2.0, where websites insist on you loading over 10 websites worth of javascript crap.
Why don't they publish read only access of the source code online and allow the public to file bug reports?
More eyeballs, shallow bugs.
But she quite obviously doesn't want to do that. Don't get me wrong, anything we can do to encourage more people, women or men to enjoy science, programming, physics, etc is great.
However I don't see any value in forcing people into the field if they quite obviously don't want to do it. I'd rather have enthusiastic people working with me, not clock watchers and that goes for both genders.
To answer the question of what she can do instead, all I can think of is uncreative jobs:
- accounting
- share trader
- lawyer
- marketing analyst (very math heavy)
All I can really suggest is maybe show her some cool things people make on hack-a-day and stuff like that and hope she picks up an interest.
However, maybe it's better that she doesn't want to do something creative so people seem to get paid more money. You can always encourage her to have a creative hobby outside of her work.
As do most women in programming and the games industry which is why I find it ridiculous to pander to all this women in the games industry bullshit.
Let her do what she wants.
You're posting as an AC what the fuck do you care about what you're modded? wtf..
Well you could ball it up and try and shoot it into a waste basket from a distance.
Make it into a paper aeroplane.
Burn it
Origami perhaps..
Yeah, that's all the fun things I can think of doing with a degree...
So let me get this right, they pay to go to school so said school can keep their copyright?
It sounds like paying to go to work, no thanks.
Then you should be paying to use another films content in your film. You can't just use other people's copyrights.
I doubt anyone would arrest you for filming someone watching a film as long as you're not filming the screen.
and as soon as you can record those synapses and download them off the internet we'll be hearing about mind wiping devices.
I am assuming in 2040 we'll be hearing something like this, "We wanted to wipe people's brains before, it's just up until this point the technology hasn't been available to enforce our rights. You have the right to view our movie only once, not remember it!"
Come on now, that's not accurate.
More like you figure out how to open the door, walk around the house, read some of the notes left on the fridge.
Then after you're done, go boast about what you did while someone listening runs over to the house figures out how you got in then steals everything.
Meanwhile you're in court being charged for stealing all the possessions.
oh shit, you'd better go tell the guys that run http://hackaday.com/ . Thanks dude, I had no idea!
You mis understand the GPs point, all the perp has to do is frame someone else for the crime and said perp gets to keep the 1 million while someone innocent gets charged with his crime.
You got me all the way up to the point where the PR women said "lol.. fag sucks" and "from the onion news network..." confirmed it for me. :P
Hack a day has a much better looking flying car..
http://hackaday.com/2008/11/13/flying-cars-a-reality/
My link goes to impulsedriven.com, the makers of impulse. You're an idiot.
It's been offline a lot this month...
All good points but lets not forget that simulation != observation.
This point was made about astrological observations on older slashdot stories and it holds true for climate prediction too.
I have to admit I am sceptical about blindly believing in global warming. I used to in the past however I've become a little smarter since then I can not see any hard observations for it, especially when volcanoes pump out 26 times more CO2 per year then all of humanity on the planet (however I'm slightly sceptical of how they measure the pollution figures too).
Wait, what's this got to do with the story... : /
Indeed, however like I believe I posted somewhere else, boot times are irrelevant as I am sure you will agree.
I personally wouldn't care much if it took 2 minutes to boot. It takes my Ubuntu laptop around 40 seconds max, but since I leave it on all the time apart from when I am out it's never an issue.
I think there are just some really impatient people.
Indeed however the summary says,
"Phoronix is reporting on a new Linux driver nVidia is about to release"
It's not really a new one, it's the old one just updated.
I'm a European socialist, I have no idea where you get these ideas from.
Here's what I know about you based on your comment history..
- Your a mac fanboi
- You rattle on and on about Bush and Oil in unrelated stories (you also did it in my comment)
- Whenever someone disagrees with you, you start with baseless attacks
- You're a hypocrite, you accuse me of an ad hominem smear against you then call me an "ASS"
- When you lose an argument you can't man up and admit you're wrong, you have to start with the "well you're just a neo-con" shit..
I always laugh when people push out the neo-con shit on me when I am European and voted for the green party last election.. Just goes to show how people split the world up into left and right.
lol, Americans..
The summary confused me a little into thinking this was a new nvidia driver. It is in fact new features being added to their closed source driver.
Your problem is that you have no morals. You can't comprehend that she's done anything wrong in the first place.
Being ignorant of the law is not an excuse for breaking it.
I never said she should go to jail. However there is too much pity for this women with no one looking at the whole picture.
There's no need to act all butt hurt because you know you're wrong.
To be honest I am glad, hopefully I'll never have to hear from you again, seeming as all your posts are nonsensical dribble about oil and bush.
It doesn't matter if you know what a Nigerian scam is.
If someone you don't know contacts you with the promise to give you millions of dollars to just move money for them you know that it is against the law. She knew she was breaking the law.
So no, why should I feel sorry for someone breaking the law and got a sour deal? Should I feel sorry for drug dealers that get shot when a deal goes bad?
She's not a victim of the con artists, she's a victim of her own greed and willingness to break laws when it's to her advantage.
I don't lack social skills and empathy. It is your weakness for poor old mom which is stopping you from seeing the truth of the matter.
If she had stayed a law abiding citizen in the first place she wouldn't have lost all her money.