. It also didn't stop them from lying in court until their own stories didn't line up. luckily for me, the jury took more time to elect a foreman than it took to come back with a verdict of not guilty.
The public image of police has been on a downward slide since the 60's. There is good reason: too many abuses of power.
But... what can we expect when we blessed them with ultimate power? We placed ourselves in a position of subservience when we gave them their mandate and skirted our responsibility to police ourselves.
They cut off his mic and he didn't take the cue so the campus police asked him to leave. It's apparent when the guards approached him. When he resisted, he became a trespasser, which is a crime in USA. Police can taser you if you're trespassing and resisting their effort to remove you from private property. His resistance escalated the police response to tasering; it was his fault.
The audience did not rush to his aid because it's apparent many were applauding the police, which implied they perceived the student to be a disruption. They were right not to rush to his aid because doing so would have disrupted a legal arrest, which is also a crime. He was charged with disrupting a public event, which appears to be the case if you watch the video.
Had it been on a public sidewalk, I think the guy would have a civil right's case, but since it was on campus, the campus police acted within their rights. Acting like an idiot and not liking the response is not a civil right's violation.
You are right about the public's fear of gestapo-like police, but I didn't see it in the video. It's really too late to be concerned about that though. Police have the power, you don't. We as a nation gave it to them a long time ago. We all just have to live with it... or work toward changing it.
Time Warner = $85 total for internet and analog TV
Dish Network = $32 for great wall TV package
$117 total
When I had digital cable and no satellite, I was paying $115. According to other reports, I may be paying higher than average for the area. A friend of mine was able to negotiate digital cable + internet for about the same price I pay for internet + analog. I'm betting his part of town offers DSL. My area doesn't. (It happens to be a DSL void right in the middle of the greater city area.)
You know... I have Dish Network and the best location for the dish was on top my root but there's a huge ass tree blocking line of sight to the satellite. I have no problem with reception. It works fine in summer and winter (it's a deciduous tree).
As a side note, I also have Time Warner for cable internet (plus analog TV). I've had equal amounts of down time with Time Warner (due to people tinkering with the line) as compared to satellite (during storms). Time Warner may be a hard line, but they don't mention they frequently cut the line due to maintenance.
The general consensus seems to be this story is a non-story, of course I would agree, but I find it highly illuminating that the consensus was very different when a similar story appeared regarding virtual corruption in the game of Eve, which in my opinion was a very non-story.
By the way, don't give me any bull that one is free and the other is a paid for service... they're both internet communities. No one is forced to use them.
So, I guess the lesson is it only matters to you when it's a forum you happen to use.
Over the years, I've sent in maybe as many as 10 rebates, and never gotten any kind of a response.
Odd. I've sent in maybe 100 to 150 rebates over the last 4 years and I know of only one that I didn't get back (about $10-15). My rebates were from $2 to $75 for various items, shampoo to hard drives. I've always had good luck with them. I always use the email notification if they offer it.
Apathetic employees is one of the reasons I don't buy my PC's at walk-in stores anymore. Just like cars, all your money is made on add-on extras, most of which I don't want or already have, so it's really just easier to avoid in store PC shopping. Plus I've read story after story about getting higher prices on walking in versus ordering and picking up in store.
When I buy a PC I buy a laptop online and get it in the mail, so there's no need to haggle with salesman and there's plenty of time to compare prices. Or, I build it myself if it's a desktop, although I probably won't be building any more desktops because I prefer mobility over power. The last one I built was 2 years ago and it collects dust as it is (waste of money).
Anyway. I see those desktop dinosaurs as going extinct anyway, along with all the finagling with a salesman to buy one. The PCs in the future will be prepackaged, small, and disposable in the way cell phones are. You'll just pull one off the shelf (or hook) and head to the checkout.
You need a car at RIT to maintain your sanity. You should know that if you went there, otherwise you're trapped in brick city (hoping one of your friends will take you somewhere).
And what will you do if you've mistakenly outed someone that wasn't transgendered?
It is possible to get murdered if you were outed at the wrong time. There was a case of a male-to-female woman who was outed by a so-called friend at a bar. A few guys felt the need to beat this person to a pulp until she was dead.
As a side question, when refering to a trans-gender indvidiual in the past tense, which pronoun do you use?
I am trans, so I believe I have some insight into your question. Given a person is male-to-female, it's always "she" regardless whether you're referring to an event before transition or after. (And obviously "he" if the person is female-to-male.) It's also the safest answer if you're concerned about offending someone.
It's been my experience that more men hold chauvinist opinions than do not. I've walked among them. I know what they say when women are not around. However, there are ones I came to respect immensely. Those ones were fair and well mannered down to the core.
I actually think the Slashdot population has less chauvinism than the average male population. I think guys who do factory work or trade type of jobs are the worst. Slashdotters are just more vociferous because they can type away all day without fear of embarrassment or retribution.
I still don't think the right thing to do is come to Slashdot (of all places) and complain.
You are some piece of work. Meanwhile, 999 out of 1000 of all other (male) posts are absolute bitch-fests, but you feel the need to single out this one thread. The GP was an observation and a valid one at that.
No, secretary just means secretary.
I'm not going to play games with you. The context was "always being assumed one was a secretary". You want to forget about the context to help your argument. Being called a secretary when you are not is an obvious insult that you refuse to acknowledge. The connotative meaning is contextual. It's similar to the assumption of a woman being a nurse rather than a doctor. The assumption is an insult, plain and simple. Your "respect" of secretaries is pointless and completely irrelevant to women in the IT industry.
If it's really only about doing the job, then shut up and do the job.
Yes. And let the tit and pussy jokes continue right? Nobody needs to shut up about those huh? You are a hypocrite.
I'm not the boss, so actually, no I don't. I respect new hires if they show those qualifications.
Beginning a co-worker relationship with a new employee by starting with zero respect for them is inane. The truth is you do respect them. You respect them enough to help answer their questions, point them to documentation, or diagram out the system design. If you had no respect for them, you'd do none of these things for new recruits because it'd be waste of your time. You'd let them sink or float all by themselves. I seriously doubt you do this otherwise you'd have been fired for failing to be a team player.
By the way, tell me you still hold that opinion after you've mentored a junior worker. Your attitude is atrocious.
I'm sorry, did I say that? Did I even use the word man here?
You expected the woman on the job to do all the work of change. Your attitude was boys will be boys and will always toss around jokes and rude insults. You also framed that around rolling with the punches to attain or earn respect. So by applying your twisted logic, a woman has to shrug off all the insults to earn your respect. Ignoring an insult is not change, at least of a substantial variety. You demanded they change and "act like they belong" which means participating in the childish male behavior. That's why I made that comment.
By the way, insulting or mentally rough housing people to test their reaction in order to know if they're worthy or not is extremely dysfunctional behavior (not to mention childish).
I do expect you to act like a decent and fair human being, and your comment shows neither. It's called "prejudice" -- you'd decided before you started writing that I was a misogynistic bastard, and nothing I can say will change your mind.
My comment was entirely decent and fair. It was your response that was the problem. Now you're preaching prejudice to me. Me. You have no idea who you're talking to. I've experienced more prejudice in the last year than you will in your lifetime. I didn't pre-judge you. I post-judged you based on your words. You demonstrated typical male indifference and pigheadedness regarding how men treat women in the work place. When I said I didn't blame you, I meant it. I don't blame you. You can't see the problem because it's invisible to you.
There's a reason I have this insight about you and that's because of certain life changes I've undertaken and continuing to undergo. I've been in both camps. I've seen both viewpoints. Men disrespecting women in the office happens and it's not fun being on the receiving end; however, the problem is actually manageable because it's definitely better today than it was 20 years ago. Most women have accepted it as part of doing business
For example: Have you actually been "shouted down"? If that ever happened to me, in any job that doesn't directly involve shouting, I'd be gone.
You are male. Men are fearful of shouting down other men so it doesn't happen to you. Understand? Besides, shouting down someone isn't necessarily screaming at the top your lungs. It can be someone simply talking over your voice as if you're not there even though you started speaking first. That happens a lot in group meetings, so if you quit over that you'll be changing jobs every month.
Assuming you're a secretary? Takes but a moment to correct that one.
Umm. There are times when it can't be corrected, such as not being introduced to clients or being passed over for assignments by high-up managers. And then think about this. Imagine you were told you a weak pathetic little man at least several times a week by clients or co-workers? It'd get annoying wouldn't it? Secretary is a keyword for pathetic little woman.
If you want to be socially accepted in any group, you're going to have to do something.
This isn't about social acceptance. This is about a job and doing work for an employer. This is not high school as you seem to believe it is.
No one gets respect automatically. You have to earn it.
Bullshit. You respect new hires because they have certain qualifications. You hired them because of such; you don't hire people you don't respect. It's only when they fail miserably that you lose your respect for them.
If they won't magically behave the way you want them to, then you're the one who has to change -- because at that point, if you don't change, no one will.
So a woman is expected to go against her nature and pretend to be a man? Is that what it takes to get and hold a job in IT? Would you say that to a gay man? You better start dating women and acting like a macho man if you want to keep this job. Your comment is utterly repugnant.
It doesn't mean you have to "act like one of the boys." It does mean you have to loosen up, learn to take a joke (even a *gasp* dirty joke), and so on. It means you have to act like you belong.
But you said later on you have to change? There you said you don't have to change ("act like one of the boys"). Which is it? Make up your mind.
Women can take jokes. They take them all day long. Jokes about asses, big tits, loose vaginas, prostitutes, blondes, wives, secretaries.. it's endless. The problem is when the jokes are mean spirited or down right insulting (such as women are worthless without their fuck hole type of jokes). Would you enjoy hearing small dick comments every day?
And it is possible for you to demand respect, but you do it by acting like a really and truly interesting human, and not playing the female victim all the time. You may really be a victim, but stop wallowing in it and do something about it.
It's always so easy to give advice on something you haven't experienced.. isn't it? It's not your fault that you can't relate. I don't blame you. You're like one of those single people who give parenting advice to parents. Do you have any idea how removed from the situation you are? Do you have any idea how hollow your advice is?
I suspect that if you can make that work, you wouldn't have anything to complain about on Slashdot.
She was only trying to help you understand a different perspective. You perceived that as whining. You can't even be quiet to let a woman tell her side. The reality is you don't want to understand. You want to maintain the status quo. You don't want to hear anything that might cause you to reflect upon yourself.
I've seen it before, females being over looked for a job, then blaming the 'old boys club' when in reality they ignore the fact that 100s of men were looked over for the job as well
So gender discrimination doesn't exist? Righhhhhht. I call bullshit on your observation. If they were passed over for the job, you would have had no future interaction with them so how do you know they cried "old boys club"? You didn't. You're just pushing anti-feminist stereotypes you hold in your mind. You have no real experience with the subject you're pushing.
Just as a side note; for females who are reading - want to know how to get on with your male collegues - take the piss, have fun, take the piss out of yourself, go out to the pub and drink with the boys - and maybe realise that if you present yourself as an equal rather than a 'weak and frail women' you might actually get included as 'one of the boys'. Socialising is the key.
If you were constantly getting hit on by men who you had no interest in, you wouldn't want to go out drinking with them, which only encourages them to do more of it the next day. You have NO idea how frustrating it is to have to deal with men who simply cannot get sex off their mind.
And, secondly. Every time a woman tries to present herself as a strong aggressive woman, the "bitch" word is guaranteed to make an appearance, so take your "weak and frail" comment and shove it up your ass.
By the way, do you really believe "sociali[z]ing is the key"? Are you that daft? Women are the masters of socialization. Tossing around a football, gabbing about Superbowl scores, or chugging a beer at the pub is hardly masterful socialization. You confuse socialization with demonstrations of machismo.
Women are the communicators, which is what socialization is at its root. Don't EVER say women fail due to lack of socialization or communication, otherwise you will expose yourself as a total and complete idiot.
I mean, I've worked in female dominated jobs, and believe me - females do not make it easy for males to merge themselves into the company culture.
That doesn't negate the fact men make it difficult for women in male dominated fields. It's an aspect of how majority groups interact with minority groups.
When there are millions of females 'getting on' in male dominated situations, I think those who do complain have no legs to stand on.
Since no female complainer has a leg to stand on, you are implying no transgressions take place. You are a f_cking idiot if you actually believe that statement. By the way, where did you get your "millions of females" figure from? I know. You just made it up. There are less than 3 1/2 million computer IT jobs to begin with. Millions of females. Righhhht. (By the way, this is slashdot, we're talking about male dominated IT situations.)
Don't try to 'feminise' the work place - realise that its rome, and its up to you 'to do as the romans do'
Since when is showing up on time and doing a job an attempt to feminize the work place? Oh right, you associate a woman's presence as a challenge. Why can't you just do your job instead of obsessing about how masculine the work place ought to be?
Like I've said, I've worked in male dominated jobs, and those females who do knuckle down and work - socialise and act like 'one of the boys' actually enjoy themselves.
The problem with you males is you can't see how assholish your comments are. Your hold a built-in assumption that anyone who complains just didn't "knuckle down" and do the hard work. How dare you make that comment.
Since you like scenarios, how about this one:
You're a female software engineer. You and another male recruit show up to the office on your first day of work and you're greeted by 10 men and 0 women. 3 o
If women start to pull away from men in the earning department, I wonder if we will see any interest in helping men to increase their earnings? I won't hold my breath.
Data does not matter. I've been severely slammed by other women for merely stating gov't Bureau and Labor Statistics numbers. If the numbers don't agree with their opinion, you are the devil and nothing will change that.
The truth simply doesn't matter.
There is discrimination and there is harassment and there is inequality. I see no way of resolving any of those problems when most people invest in their future by gaining at the expense of others. The real issue for activists is punishment. To punish categories of society as payback for past transgressions.
If a developer wants to lock themselves into a Windows platform, that's their choice. I can't negatively judge that choice because their motive is their own, not mine.
Besides.. I think it's been proven to death that OS portable code can exist on Windows, so it's not an automatic lock-in. And, the author always maintains control anyway. The only time I'd ever get worried is if MS started issuing mandates on the freedoms you have regarding code you developed.
How about other projects? Other sites? sourceforge.net, ubuntu.com, gimp.org, inkscape.org, etc. Nearly endless list and then throw on top of that the other for profit OSS businesses such as RedHat, Linspire, etc.
www.gnu.org/graphics does not negate my point. It only means YOU aren't hypocritical.
Wouldn't the movie's script be the "source" in your example?
No, because the movie does not exist with only a script, but it does if the video and audio have been recorded. Movie editing is equivalent to source code compilation.
Let's say two producers have the same script and both create their version of the movie. Both movies will be completely different products. It would be impossible to recreate a movie exactly the same with only the script. But, if both producers use the same video and audio tape, then both could reproduce the exact same movie--indistinguishable down to a single frame.
What that means is the script is an attribute or sub-component of the movie in the same way actors, sets, locations, and sound effects are, similar to how a library of C++ classes are sub-components of your C++ application. The script != the movie. 3rd party C++ class library != your application.
I believe the parent was talking more about the fact that Gnash (alpha quality) aside, there's no way for the people they're trying to reach to view a Flash movie whilst maintaining the consistent ethical view of the free software community.
I know. I was off topic on purpose. Ok. I'll be on topic this time.
If anyone really believes that opinion, then they should start demanding OSS sites release PSD, AI, XCF, CDR, or SVG files pertaining to any raster images featured on the OSS site, because those file formats are the source code equivalents for image files.
Some here are crying hypocrisy but blatantly ignore OSS hypocrisy where it exists.
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But... what can we expect when we blessed them with ultimate power? We placed ourselves in a position of subservience when we gave them their mandate and skirted our responsibility to police ourselves.
They cut off his mic and he didn't take the cue so the campus police asked him to leave. It's apparent when the guards approached him. When he resisted, he became a trespasser, which is a crime in USA. Police can taser you if you're trespassing and resisting their effort to remove you from private property. His resistance escalated the police response to tasering; it was his fault.
The audience did not rush to his aid because it's apparent many were applauding the police, which implied they perceived the student to be a disruption. They were right not to rush to his aid because doing so would have disrupted a legal arrest, which is also a crime. He was charged with disrupting a public event, which appears to be the case if you watch the video.
Had it been on a public sidewalk, I think the guy would have a civil right's case, but since it was on campus, the campus police acted within their rights. Acting like an idiot and not liking the response is not a civil right's violation.
You are right about the public's fear of gestapo-like police, but I didn't see it in the video. It's really too late to be concerned about that though. Police have the power, you don't. We as a nation gave it to them a long time ago. We all just have to live with it... or work toward changing it.
Time Warner = $85 total for internet and analog TV
Dish Network = $32 for great wall TV package
$117 total
When I had digital cable and no satellite, I was paying $115. According to other reports, I may be paying higher than average for the area. A friend of mine was able to negotiate digital cable + internet for about the same price I pay for internet + analog. I'm betting his part of town offers DSL. My area doesn't. (It happens to be a DSL void right in the middle of the greater city area.)
You know... I have Dish Network and the best location for the dish was on top my root but there's a huge ass tree blocking line of sight to the satellite. I have no problem with reception. It works fine in summer and winter (it's a deciduous tree).
As a side note, I also have Time Warner for cable internet (plus analog TV). I've had equal amounts of down time with Time Warner (due to people tinkering with the line) as compared to satellite (during storms). Time Warner may be a hard line, but they don't mention they frequently cut the line due to maintenance.
...your arrogance sickens me.
Just kidding. I will not upgrade to Vista tho. When XP is no longer supported and patched, I will upgrade to something else. I've had it with MS.
Doesn't matter anyway since a big chunk of what I do is stored on servers.. not on my desktop.
"20% Troll"
I will never understand the psychology of a slashdot moderator. I guess the definition of troll has changed since the 90's.
The general consensus seems to be this story is a non-story, of course I would agree, but I find it highly illuminating that the consensus was very different when a similar story appeared regarding virtual corruption in the game of Eve, which in my opinion was a very non-story.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/26
By the way, don't give me any bull that one is free and the other is a paid for service... they're both internet communities. No one is forced to use them.
So, I guess the lesson is it only matters to you when it's a forum you happen to use.
Software engineers don't know style or design. Pffft.
Apathetic employees is one of the reasons I don't buy my PC's at walk-in stores anymore. Just like cars, all your money is made on add-on extras, most of which I don't want or already have, so it's really just easier to avoid in store PC shopping. Plus I've read story after story about getting higher prices on walking in versus ordering and picking up in store.
When I buy a PC I buy a laptop online and get it in the mail, so there's no need to haggle with salesman and there's plenty of time to compare prices. Or, I build it myself if it's a desktop, although I probably won't be building any more desktops because I prefer mobility over power. The last one I built was 2 years ago and it collects dust as it is (waste of money).
Anyway. I see those desktop dinosaurs as going extinct anyway, along with all the finagling with a salesman to buy one. The PCs in the future will be prepackaged, small, and disposable in the way cell phones are. You'll just pull one off the shelf (or hook) and head to the checkout.
You need a car at RIT to maintain your sanity. You should know that if you went there, otherwise you're trapped in brick city (hoping one of your friends will take you somewhere).
It happens.
It's been my experience that more men hold chauvinist opinions than do not. I've walked among them. I know what they say when women are not around. However, there are ones I came to respect immensely. Those ones were fair and well mannered down to the core.
I actually think the Slashdot population has less chauvinism than the average male population. I think guys who do factory work or trade type of jobs are the worst. Slashdotters are just more vociferous because they can type away all day without fear of embarrassment or retribution.
You are some piece of work. Meanwhile, 999 out of 1000 of all other (male) posts are absolute bitch-fests, but you feel the need to single out this one thread. The GP was an observation and a valid one at that.
I'm not going to play games with you. The context was "always being assumed one was a secretary". You want to forget about the context to help your argument. Being called a secretary when you are not is an obvious insult that you refuse to acknowledge. The connotative meaning is contextual. It's similar to the assumption of a woman being a nurse rather than a doctor. The assumption is an insult, plain and simple. Your "respect" of secretaries is pointless and completely irrelevant to women in the IT industry.
Yes. And let the tit and pussy jokes continue right? Nobody needs to shut up about those huh? You are a hypocrite.
Beginning a co-worker relationship with a new employee by starting with zero respect for them is inane. The truth is you do respect them. You respect them enough to help answer their questions, point them to documentation, or diagram out the system design. If you had no respect for them, you'd do none of these things for new recruits because it'd be waste of your time. You'd let them sink or float all by themselves. I seriously doubt you do this otherwise you'd have been fired for failing to be a team player.
By the way, tell me you still hold that opinion after you've mentored a junior worker. Your attitude is atrocious.
You expected the woman on the job to do all the work of change. Your attitude was boys will be boys and will always toss around jokes and rude insults. You also framed that around rolling with the punches to attain or earn respect. So by applying your twisted logic, a woman has to shrug off all the insults to earn your respect. Ignoring an insult is not change, at least of a substantial variety. You demanded they change and "act like they belong" which means participating in the childish male behavior. That's why I made that comment.
By the way, insulting or mentally rough housing people to test their reaction in order to know if they're worthy or not is extremely dysfunctional behavior (not to mention childish).
My comment was entirely decent and fair. It was your response that was the problem. Now you're preaching prejudice to me. Me. You have no idea who you're talking to. I've experienced more prejudice in the last year than you will in your lifetime. I didn't pre-judge you. I post-judged you based on your words. You demonstrated typical male indifference and pigheadedness regarding how men treat women in the work place. When I said I didn't blame you, I meant it. I don't blame you. You can't see the problem because it's invisible to you.
There's a reason I have this insight about you and that's because of certain life changes I've undertaken and continuing to undergo. I've been in both camps. I've seen both viewpoints. Men disrespecting women in the office happens and it's not fun being on the receiving end; however, the problem is actually manageable because it's definitely better today than it was 20 years ago. Most women have accepted it as part of doing business
Umm. There are times when it can't be corrected, such as not being introduced to clients or being passed over for assignments by high-up managers. And then think about this. Imagine you were told you a weak pathetic little man at least several times a week by clients or co-workers? It'd get annoying wouldn't it? Secretary is a keyword for pathetic little woman.
This isn't about social acceptance. This is about a job and doing work for an employer. This is not high school as you seem to believe it is.
Bullshit. You respect new hires because they have certain qualifications. You hired them because of such; you don't hire people you don't respect. It's only when they fail miserably that you lose your respect for them.
So a woman is expected to go against her nature and pretend to be a man? Is that what it takes to get and hold a job in IT? Would you say that to a gay man? You better start dating women and acting like a macho man if you want to keep this job. Your comment is utterly repugnant.
But you said later on you have to change? There you said you don't have to change ("act like one of the boys"). Which is it? Make up your mind.
Women can take jokes. They take them all day long. Jokes about asses, big tits, loose vaginas, prostitutes, blondes, wives, secretaries.. it's endless. The problem is when the jokes are mean spirited or down right insulting (such as women are worthless without their fuck hole type of jokes). Would you enjoy hearing small dick comments every day?
It's always so easy to give advice on something you haven't experienced.. isn't it? It's not your fault that you can't relate. I don't blame you. You're like one of those single people who give parenting advice to parents. Do you have any idea how removed from the situation you are? Do you have any idea how hollow your advice is?
She was only trying to help you understand a different perspective. You perceived that as whining. You can't even be quiet to let a woman tell her side. The reality is you don't want to understand. You want to maintain the status quo. You don't want to hear anything that might cause you to reflect upon yourself.
So gender discrimination doesn't exist? Righhhhhht. I call bullshit on your observation. If they were passed over for the job, you would have had no future interaction with them so how do you know they cried "old boys club"? You didn't. You're just pushing anti-feminist stereotypes you hold in your mind. You have no real experience with the subject you're pushing.
If you were constantly getting hit on by men who you had no interest in, you wouldn't want to go out drinking with them, which only encourages them to do more of it the next day. You have NO idea how frustrating it is to have to deal with men who simply cannot get sex off their mind.
And, secondly. Every time a woman tries to present herself as a strong aggressive woman, the "bitch" word is guaranteed to make an appearance, so take your "weak and frail" comment and shove it up your ass.
By the way, do you really believe "sociali[z]ing is the key"? Are you that daft? Women are the masters of socialization. Tossing around a football, gabbing about Superbowl scores, or chugging a beer at the pub is hardly masterful socialization. You confuse socialization with demonstrations of machismo.
Women are the communicators, which is what socialization is at its root. Don't EVER say women fail due to lack of socialization or communication, otherwise you will expose yourself as a total and complete idiot.
That doesn't negate the fact men make it difficult for women in male dominated fields. It's an aspect of how majority groups interact with minority groups.
Since no female complainer has a leg to stand on, you are implying no transgressions take place. You are a f_cking idiot if you actually believe that statement. By the way, where did you get your "millions of females" figure from? I know. You just made it up. There are less than 3 1/2 million computer IT jobs to begin with. Millions of females. Righhhht. (By the way, this is slashdot, we're talking about male dominated IT situations.)
Since when is showing up on time and doing a job an attempt to feminize the work place? Oh right, you associate a woman's presence as a challenge. Why can't you just do your job instead of obsessing about how masculine the work place ought to be?
The problem with you males is you can't see how assholish your comments are. Your hold a built-in assumption that anyone who complains just didn't "knuckle down" and do the hard work. How dare you make that comment.
Since you like scenarios, how about this one:
You're a female software engineer. You and another male recruit show up to the office on your first day of work and you're greeted by 10 men and 0 women. 3 o
The truth simply doesn't matter.
There is discrimination and there is harassment and there is inequality. I see no way of resolving any of those problems when most people invest in their future by gaining at the expense of others. The real issue for activists is punishment. To punish categories of society as payback for past transgressions.
If a developer wants to lock themselves into a Windows platform, that's their choice. I can't negatively judge that choice because their motive is their own, not mine.
Besides.. I think it's been proven to death that OS portable code can exist on Windows, so it's not an automatic lock-in. And, the author always maintains control anyway. The only time I'd ever get worried is if MS started issuing mandates on the freedoms you have regarding code you developed.
www.gnu.org/graphics does not negate my point. It only means YOU aren't hypocritical.
Let's say two producers have the same script and both create their version of the movie. Both movies will be completely different products. It would be impossible to recreate a movie exactly the same with only the script. But, if both producers use the same video and audio tape, then both could reproduce the exact same movie--indistinguishable down to a single frame.
What that means is the script is an attribute or sub-component of the movie in the same way actors, sets, locations, and sound effects are, similar to how a library of C++ classes are sub-components of your C++ application. The script != the movie. 3rd party C++ class library != your application.
If anyone really believes that opinion, then they should start demanding OSS sites release PSD, AI, XCF, CDR, or SVG files pertaining to any raster images featured on the OSS site, because those file formats are the source code equivalents for image files.
Some here are crying hypocrisy but blatantly ignore OSS hypocrisy where it exists.