But is it tied to a particular machine? a general purpose computer does not count as a particular machine. (and also, what is a general purpose computer? A PC would probably not qualify based on past court cases, not sure about an iphone though)
Trying to get females interested in comp sci at the university level is a mistake - it's too late. Most people already have an idea of what they want to do by then and if they know nothing about computers it's a little intimidating to jump in like that.
I think the numbers will eventually go up on their own, since kids of both genders are using computers from an early age now and it won't be such a big leap. I liked computers as a kid, but I never really got into them until I was older because none of my friends (girls) liked them, too. I think I went to one computer club meeting in high school, but I stopped going because some of the creepy guys there kept asking me out. It wasn't that I wasn't interested, but there were other things I was also interested in that were more fun socially.
If you're looking to work in the US, try applying to non-American companies. A big German international company I interned for hired a lot of foreign students (they also had an intern program where they brought over German students for a summer internship in the USA).
Expensive shoes are comfortable and last longer. It probably doesn't make a huge difference in a lot of men's shoes because men's shoes are usually comfortable, but to me, expensive women's shoes feel much better (and they usually look a lot nicer).
Cheap high heels can be very uncomfortable - they're narrow, made of plasticy or fake leather, the soles are slippery, and the heels are less durable and can snap. They give you blisters (you don't wear socks with heels), if they don't fit well you'll walk out of them. Usually you only wear them to places that involved a lot of sitting and almost no walking. After wearing them for a season they're beat up unless you take great care of them.
I have a pair of well made leather/suede heels that are so soft they conform to the shape of my feet and the thick leather sole will last for decades. They don't hurt - I can do a lot of walking in them. If the soles ever wear out I can take them to get resoled and not have to buy a new pair. There are a lot of semi-expensive shoes that are not well made though, you have to look for both. Some of what you're paying more for is the quality of the materials - nicer leather uppers, leather soles instead of plastic or rubber.
In gymnastics at least, they count the 10 most difficult skills in the routine. Usually the most possible points they can get will be in the 6's or 7's.
Isn't much of the IT workforce due to retire in a few years? I think at my company 90% are eligible to retire within the next 5 years. We're aggressively hiring so that we won't be in trouble when they do start retiring.
Therefore, even if there are a large number of IT jobs cut next year, would the number of people retiring balance it out?
I started to program because I thought designing websites was sooo cool as a preteen and used to work on my blog layout so it would be better than my friend's:/ So I started doing the template in HTML and progressed to javascript and then PHP and went on from there.
Regardless, he needs to find something he really wants to do, whether it's to develop a mod for a game he likes to play or build a game, a website, etc. You can't make someone want to do something:) Like maybe you can help him learn how to make a character that looks like him in his favorite game or some kind of online quiz he can send to his friends or something fun without making him wade through all the boring stuff first. Teaching the basics first is nice but not interesting, so teach him what he needs to know and if he likes it he can always pick it up through other things.
Cost plus is common in situations like this and is typical for NASA. The shuttle replacement requires a significant amount of R&D and it's not easy (or possible) to accurately estimate the final cost without knowing how you're going to build something. Cost-plus shifts some of this risk to the customer and is typically used when you're concerned about long term quality instead of cost.
How can you support teaching ID in science classrooms? It's not science. Evolution is science. Science is not about arguments, it's about facts. If it's in a current events or critical thinking class then teaching ID might have merit, but there is no excuse for teaching non-scientific material in a science class.
I doubt you think we should reconsider teaching other theories such as gravity, relativity, etc, so why reconsider evolution? Should we also teach a "intelligent falling" to students for those of us that don't believe in gravity?
too late, Web 3.0 already exists as the "semantic web" and I've seen Web 4.0 as "the learning web" or "the webOS", whatever that means. Some days it's really hard to stop rolling my eyes at work.
See the following topics: Database(architect), Network engineer, Security Engineer (risk assessment and the like), software integration, enterprise architecture, business development, innovation/evaluating new technologies, writing requirements, testing, program/project management, middle management.
Basically, you really just need to start working for a large company that deals with IT, technology or engineering and then move around to different job functions. After you get hired, your degree doesn't matter much. You might try to get into a leadership development program that will give you a lot of opportunities to keep changing your job description.
I am a female programmer and I always try to write clear, well-organized code so that it's easy for others to use and modify. I think this has less to do with my gender than it has to do with the fact that I'm not a jerk to my coworkers;)
Though I think some women in some environments are more concerned about how others perceive them becuase there can be a certain attitude (or a perceived attitude) and they want to avoid negative attention.
i agree. When you're a vegetarian (or vegan), you're forced to think more about what you eat. When you have to read all the nutrition lables to make sure what you're buying is meat-free, you realize how surpringly unhealthy some foods can be.
of course, there are still plenty of fat vegans who eat chips and cookies all day.
This is the best solution. Since there's no good reason not to give them access (other than cost?), querying a replication db should be fine. It's not going to mess up your data.
Technically, if you're buying regular meat in an American supermarket, you're not eating grass. You're eating corn, soy, bits of cow and other things;)
This is article is about in-vitro meat, so technically what they would produce from this would still be considered meat - it would just be created artificially. I think you may be missing the point.
I agree - I work for a large company, and where the applicant went to school isn't a big factor. It hasn't been for any of the companies I've worked for. People are hired into the same positions whether they graduated from a very well-respected, expensive school or from community college and they all generally are able to perform at the same level.
What might matter is size - companies tend to recruit more at larger or more reputable schools, which will make it easier for you to be find jobs/internships. But in the end, it doesn't really matter.
But can't you use things like LJ or blogs to find like-minded people and become acquaintences/friends with them? I feel like online communication is so much more introvert-friendly because it's "non-threatening" in that it's asynchronous and you have ample time think about any message you want to send.
How would that be any different? Most/all universities (or at least all of the types of universities that the RIAA targets) require authentication to access the university network, whether it's from the ethernet port in their dorm room or through a wireless access point in the library. It'd still be traceable back to a single student account.
Not only that, there are also issues with USB keys and viruses or malware they can come with. Once a USB stick is infected, all the subsequent machines its read by can become infected, and so on. Sure, a corporate environment may be set up to prevent these viruses from spreading, but what happens when the user takes home some data to read on their personal, unsecured computer?
Allowing employees to use independantly acquired USB sticks is a security risk - they could easily be using an infected stick they were given at a conference or from a mailing.
We complain becuase we don't want to pay $8.91/gallon. Just because you're content with paying ridiculously high prices doesn't mean we should be, too. You need to consider that most of America is set up so that driving every day or almost every day is a necessity... such a high price would create financial hardship for many Americans.
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But is it tied to a particular machine? a general purpose computer does not count as a particular machine. (and also, what is a general purpose computer? A PC would probably not qualify based on past court cases, not sure about an iphone though)
Trying to get females interested in comp sci at the university level is a mistake - it's too late. Most people already have an idea of what they want to do by then and if they know nothing about computers it's a little intimidating to jump in like that.
I think the numbers will eventually go up on their own, since kids of both genders are using computers from an early age now and it won't be such a big leap. I liked computers as a kid, but I never really got into them until I was older because none of my friends (girls) liked them, too. I think I went to one computer club meeting in high school, but I stopped going because some of the creepy guys there kept asking me out. It wasn't that I wasn't interested, but there were other things I was also interested in that were more fun socially.
If you're looking to work in the US, try applying to non-American companies. A big German international company I interned for hired a lot of foreign students (they also had an intern program where they brought over German students for a summer internship in the USA).
Expensive shoes are comfortable and last longer. It probably doesn't make a huge difference in a lot of men's shoes because men's shoes are usually comfortable, but to me, expensive women's shoes feel much better (and they usually look a lot nicer).
Cheap high heels can be very uncomfortable - they're narrow, made of plasticy or fake leather, the soles are slippery, and the heels are less durable and can snap. They give you blisters (you don't wear socks with heels), if they don't fit well you'll walk out of them. Usually you only wear them to places that involved a lot of sitting and almost no walking. After wearing them for a season they're beat up unless you take great care of them.
I have a pair of well made leather/suede heels that are so soft they conform to the shape of my feet and the thick leather sole will last for decades. They don't hurt - I can do a lot of walking in them. If the soles ever wear out I can take them to get resoled and not have to buy a new pair. There are a lot of semi-expensive shoes that are not well made though, you have to look for both. Some of what you're paying more for is the quality of the materials - nicer leather uppers, leather soles instead of plastic or rubber.
In gymnastics at least, they count the 10 most difficult skills in the routine. Usually the most possible points they can get will be in the 6's or 7's.
Isn't much of the IT workforce due to retire in a few years? I think at my company 90% are eligible to retire within the next 5 years. We're aggressively hiring so that we won't be in trouble when they do start retiring.
Therefore, even if there are a large number of IT jobs cut next year, would the number of people retiring balance it out?
I started to program because I thought designing websites was sooo cool as a preteen and used to work on my blog layout so it would be better than my friend's :/ So I started doing the template in HTML and progressed to javascript and then PHP and went on from there.
Regardless, he needs to find something he really wants to do, whether it's to develop a mod for a game he likes to play or build a game, a website, etc. You can't make someone want to do something :) Like maybe you can help him learn how to make a character that looks like him in his favorite game or some kind of online quiz he can send to his friends or something fun without making him wade through all the boring stuff first. Teaching the basics first is nice but not interesting, so teach him what he needs to know and if he likes it he can always pick it up through other things.
That's exactly right.
Cost plus is common in situations like this and is typical for NASA. The shuttle replacement requires a significant amount of R&D and it's not easy (or possible) to accurately estimate the final cost without knowing how you're going to build something. Cost-plus shifts some of this risk to the customer and is typically used when you're concerned about long term quality instead of cost.
How can you support teaching ID in science classrooms? It's not science. Evolution is science. Science is not about arguments, it's about facts. If it's in a current events or critical thinking class then teaching ID might have merit, but there is no excuse for teaching non-scientific material in a science class. I doubt you think we should reconsider teaching other theories such as gravity, relativity, etc, so why reconsider evolution? Should we also teach a "intelligent falling" to students for those of us that don't believe in gravity?
too late, Web 3.0 already exists as the "semantic web" and I've seen Web 4.0 as "the learning web" or "the webOS", whatever that means. Some days it's really hard to stop rolling my eyes at work.
See the following topics: Database(architect), Network engineer, Security Engineer (risk assessment and the like), software integration, enterprise architecture, business development, innovation/evaluating new technologies, writing requirements, testing, program/project management, middle management. Basically, you really just need to start working for a large company that deals with IT, technology or engineering and then move around to different job functions. After you get hired, your degree doesn't matter much. You might try to get into a leadership development program that will give you a lot of opportunities to keep changing your job description.
I am a female programmer and I always try to write clear, well-organized code so that it's easy for others to use and modify. I think this has less to do with my gender than it has to do with the fact that I'm not a jerk to my coworkers ;)
Though I think some women in some environments are more concerned about how others perceive them becuase there can be a certain attitude (or a perceived attitude) and they want to avoid negative attention.
I miss wbs.net, too. It was so disappointing when Go shut it down, I'm sure they could have made it profitable with such a large user base.
women's bathrooms are nastier - men possess at least some aiming ability ;)
i agree. When you're a vegetarian (or vegan), you're forced to think more about what you eat. When you have to read all the nutrition lables to make sure what you're buying is meat-free, you realize how surpringly unhealthy some foods can be. of course, there are still plenty of fat vegans who eat chips and cookies all day.
This is the best solution. Since there's no good reason not to give them access (other than cost?), querying a replication db should be fine. It's not going to mess up your data.
Technically, if you're buying regular meat in an American supermarket, you're not eating grass. You're eating corn, soy, bits of cow and other things ;)
This is article is about in-vitro meat, so technically what they would produce from this would still be considered meat - it would just be created artificially. I think you may be missing the point.
I agree - I work for a large company, and where the applicant went to school isn't a big factor. It hasn't been for any of the companies I've worked for. People are hired into the same positions whether they graduated from a very well-respected, expensive school or from community college and they all generally are able to perform at the same level. What might matter is size - companies tend to recruit more at larger or more reputable schools, which will make it easier for you to be find jobs/internships. But in the end, it doesn't really matter.
But can't you use things like LJ or blogs to find like-minded people and become acquaintences/friends with them? I feel like online communication is so much more introvert-friendly because it's "non-threatening" in that it's asynchronous and you have ample time think about any message you want to send.
How would that be any different? Most/all universities (or at least all of the types of universities that the RIAA targets) require authentication to access the university network, whether it's from the ethernet port in their dorm room or through a wireless access point in the library. It'd still be traceable back to a single student account.
also depressing: judgemental losers who think attending class is the same thing as a dating service.
Not only that, there are also issues with USB keys and viruses or malware they can come with. Once a USB stick is infected, all the subsequent machines its read by can become infected, and so on. Sure, a corporate environment may be set up to prevent these viruses from spreading, but what happens when the user takes home some data to read on their personal, unsecured computer?
Allowing employees to use independantly acquired USB sticks is a security risk - they could easily be using an infected stick they were given at a conference or from a mailing.
Static IP's would be useful for more than tracking spammers, unfortunately.
We complain becuase we don't want to pay $8.91/gallon. Just because you're content with paying ridiculously high prices doesn't mean we should be, too. You need to consider that most of America is set up so that driving every day or almost every day is a necessity... such a high price would create financial hardship for many Americans.