They promised that KDE 4.1 would be more stable and fix all the holes and problems with KDE 4.0.
The KDE developers never promised that all the holes and problems would be fixed in 4.1...
Reminds me of 4.0 when/. was saying it would be a finished DE, despite the KDE developers themselves saying this wasn't the case. People will be happy with KDE when/. stop exaggerating and lying about what it will be like
If it's good that teaching-style change has made girls completely catch up in mathematics, then obviously you support a change in teaching style that will make boys catch up in biology and psychology - even if that makes it harder for girls - right?
No you idiot, it's only sexism if it's women who are wronged
No it doesn't, and if true it would make it more likely that TFA is correct, since it only quotes White and Asian people's results (without figures of course), I'd imagine that with Asian AND black girls outperforming the boys then overall the results may be roughly equal.
Of course if the boys are overall better, don't worry, that 7% is just an illusion.
My technical drawing teacher did that, but it was always taken for what it was, a joke, no-one got butthurt about the sexism of an old mans joke and the girls in the class went on to get good results, and they acknowledge that the teacher helped them with a lot of it.
I'm sure if they spent all their time getting offended they wouldn't have done nearly as well.
The way many studies show this is that the average scores for boys and girls are roughly equal, with boys slightly outperforming girls, however girls tend to have a much lower deviation, most girls score about average, whereas boys are much more likely to score either very high or very low.
My problem with this article is that it writes off a 7% difference as an illusion. And doesn't actually give any of the figures, just results (which I can't really trust without figures, especially after how the one figure they do include contradicts the article headline)
Well yes, I only read about half of TFA when posting that. But the vast majority of people in the US are White AFAIK, so unless the results for asian are very phenomenally skewed in favour of girls, the overall average should show that boys are better
The article is much more misleading than my statement though, it claims girls are equal to boys at maths, then says boys are better (at least white boys and the average SAT taking boy).
The title shouldn't be "Girls = Boys at Math", it should be "Boys better than Girls at maths, but for cultural reasons, not gender related reasons."
I imagine that this title would never be chosen because it's either not politically correct enough, or not attention grabbing, regardless of it's accuracy
According to TFA more girls than boys do the SAT, doesn't give whether more boys than girls did other tests, but the article implies girls outnumber boys.
It also says boys do 7% better in the maths portion of the SATs, but writes it off as a statistical illusion due to more girls doing the test (they don't know how averages work?).
I bet it wouldn't be a statistical illusion if the girls where the ones getting 7% better.
Some would say eating meat is sacrilegious.
Some would say drinking alcohol is sacrilegious.
Some would say pre-marital sex is sacrilegious.
On the other hand, some would say that NOT eating meat is sacrilegious.
Some would say NOT drinking alcohol is sacrilegious.
It's better to just do what you feel is acceptable, because grown men with imaginary friends are usually the wrong people to decide what is acceptable and what isn't.
Yes, his wife needed to answer for helping him jailbreak (and perhaps assisting in his prior business ventures; I don't know.) But it was not his place to try her for those actions -- and certainly not with the death penalty.
Yeah, I'm certain he killed his wife as punishment for helping him escape from prison.
A hundred and eight years ago if you told someone it was possible to speak into a little plastic box and for someone else with a little plasic box halfway across the planet to hear it, they'd call you a nutter too. Speaking of which, I need to check my voicemail...
China has, or is about to, overtake the US as the world's highest producer of CO2.
It's just overtaken, or soon will over-take America, but it has over 3 times the population of America for a long time.
The way I see, it, both are inexcusably high, but China uses 2/3 less per person.
I would have assumed from the way people go on about it, that China actually create MORE pollution per person, not much, much less.
Would be handy, but port forward suffices all my torrenting needs
I don't know much about networking, but I've tried port forwarding, it didn't work, I've followed instructions on several sites, nothing, I called up and asked, they said I couldn't do it without a business connection.
They say I don't get a public IP address unless I upgrade, which, they didn't explain it at all, but I'm pretty sure means that I go through some proxy controlled by them...
I can't edit wikipedia articles without logging in, download from rapidshare without incredible luck, a lot of the time if I try to post on slashdot as an AC it tells me I have to wait between posts (regardless of when I last posted), all thanks to this
An ideal interface is one that a novice can just sit down to and automatically "know" how to use it. The way people automatically "know" how to use a comb or automatically "know" how to drive a car (even if they aren't good at it).
Jesus Christ, if people just let people start driving based on the assumption that they automatically know how to do it then I for one will leave my house even less.
Are there driving tests where you live, do you need a license or driving lessons (official or otherwise), or do the roads run red with blood?
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They promised that KDE 4.1 would be more stable and fix all the holes and problems with KDE 4.0.
The KDE developers never promised that all the holes and problems would be fixed in 4.1...
/. was saying it would be a finished DE, despite the KDE developers themselves saying this wasn't the case. People will be happy with KDE when /. stop exaggerating and lying about what it will be like
Reminds me of 4.0 when
If it's good that teaching-style change has made girls completely catch up in mathematics, then obviously you support a change in teaching style that will make boys catch up in biology and psychology - even if that makes it harder for girls - right?
No you idiot, it's only sexism if it's women who are wronged
I'm Irish you insensitive clod.
Well boys may be good at maths, but sentence structure is not our strong point
No it doesn't, and if true it would make it more likely that TFA is correct, since it only quotes White and Asian people's results (without figures of course), I'd imagine that with Asian AND black girls outperforming the boys then overall the results may be roughly equal.
Of course if the boys are overall better, don't worry, that 7% is just an illusion.
My technical drawing teacher did that, but it was always taken for what it was, a joke, no-one got butthurt about the sexism of an old mans joke and the girls in the class went on to get good results, and they acknowledge that the teacher helped them with a lot of it.
I'm sure if they spent all their time getting offended they wouldn't have done nearly as well.
The way many studies show this is that the average scores for boys and girls are roughly equal, with boys slightly outperforming girls, however girls tend to have a much lower deviation, most girls score about average, whereas boys are much more likely to score either very high or very low.
My problem with this article is that it writes off a 7% difference as an illusion. And doesn't actually give any of the figures, just results (which I can't really trust without figures, especially after how the one figure they do include contradicts the article headline)
Well yes, I only read about half of TFA when posting that. But the vast majority of people in the US are White AFAIK, so unless the results for asian are very phenomenally skewed in favour of girls, the overall average should show that boys are better
The article is much more misleading than my statement though, it claims girls are equal to boys at maths, then says boys are better (at least white boys and the average SAT taking boy).
The title shouldn't be "Girls = Boys at Math", it should be "Boys better than Girls at maths, but for cultural reasons, not gender related reasons."
I imagine that this title would never be chosen because it's either not politically correct enough, or not attention grabbing, regardless of it's accuracy
According to TFA more girls than boys do the SAT, doesn't give whether more boys than girls did other tests, but the article implies girls outnumber boys.
It also says boys do 7% better in the maths portion of the SATs, but writes it off as a statistical illusion due to more girls doing the test (they don't know how averages work?).
I bet it wouldn't be a statistical illusion if the girls where the ones getting 7% better.
Among students with the highest test scores, the team did find that white boys outnumbered white girls by about two to one.
Ok then, so in most of the western world, boys are better than girls at maths...
Only on /. can this be considered off topic, I always assumed that moderators would at least read the summary of an article, if not TFA itself
You forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" box
Some would say eating meat is sacrilegious.
Some would say drinking alcohol is sacrilegious.
Some would say pre-marital sex is sacrilegious.
On the other hand, some would say that NOT eating meat is sacrilegious.
Some would say NOT drinking alcohol is sacrilegious.
It's better to just do what you feel is acceptable, because grown men with imaginary friends are usually the wrong people to decide what is acceptable and what isn't.
Yes, his wife needed to answer for helping him jailbreak (and perhaps assisting in his prior business ventures; I don't know.) But it was not his place to try her for those actions -- and certainly not with the death penalty.
Yeah, I'm certain he killed his wife as punishment for helping him escape from prison.
True. And -- psychologically, not legally -- it's never really as simple as { criminal | !criminal }, is it?
Good, because if it was, everyone would be a criminal, or is that statement not meant to be taken literally?
A hundred and eight years ago if you told someone it was possible to speak into a little plastic box and for someone else with a little plasic box halfway across the planet to hear it, they'd call you a nutter too. Speaking of which, I need to check my voicemail...
As long as he only exposes his son to camelCase I don't care what language he uses
China has, or is about to, overtake the US as the world's highest producer of CO2.
It's just overtaken, or soon will over-take America, but it has over 3 times the population of America for a long time.
The way I see, it, both are inexcusably high, but China uses 2/3 less per person. I would have assumed from the way people go on about it, that China actually create MORE pollution per person, not much, much less.
I'm almost certain I posted that as AC...
I bet your girlfriend doesn't keep you up at night either... It's ok, someday you'll find someone who loves you
You don't type './configure', 'make' or 'make install' when installing stuff on Gentoo, it has a package manager, but thanks for playing
Which is why this site should never be brought to the attention of the general public
Would be handy, but port forward suffices all my torrenting needs
I don't know much about networking, but I've tried port forwarding, it didn't work, I've followed instructions on several sites, nothing, I called up and asked, they said I couldn't do it without a business connection.
They say I don't get a public IP address unless I upgrade, which, they didn't explain it at all, but I'm pretty sure means that I go through some proxy controlled by them...
I can't edit wikipedia articles without logging in, download from rapidshare without incredible luck, a lot of the time if I try to post on slashdot as an AC it tells me I have to wait between posts (regardless of when I last posted), all thanks to this
An ideal interface is one that a novice can just sit down to and automatically "know" how to use it. The way people automatically "know" how to use a comb or automatically "know" how to drive a car (even if they aren't good at it).
Jesus Christ, if people just let people start driving based on the assumption that they automatically know how to do it then I for one will leave my house even less.
Are there driving tests where you live, do you need a license or driving lessons (official or otherwise), or do the roads run red with blood?