Yep, stem crisis is a myth.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...
Behind every diversity push, is the desire to save money. Whether through h1b, diluting the labor market, or in ed tech, the desire to make money by controlling tools of propaganda/indoctrination
The "War on Women in Tech" is Fabricated
seattle4truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most hilarious part pointed out by seattle4truth, in their effort to "equalize" women's supposed disadvantage in salary negotiations, they removed salary negotiations from everyone, which is a rather convenient way for a company to save money, simply declare no one can ask for a higher salary....because "social justice".
Common Core, Propaganda, and #GamerGate
LeoPirate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#GamerGate/Ouya/Common Core Connection Unveiled: [SHUT IT DOWN! THEY KNOW!! Edition]
seattle4truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#GamerGate: Actually, it's About...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Polygon/Vox Founders Lecture Microsoft on How to Use Blogging for Propaganda in 2006
seattle4truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme
http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e...
CLASSIFIED: Security Expert on Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal
Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
DNC, wikileaks, dead staffer, so many to pick from.... what's embarassing is that Trump people are digging into these while all Hillary has is supposed gaffs and mining twitter......
I find this angle of attack amusing because most people would only dream to be as much of a "business failure" as Trump. We know the track record of lottery winners, the fact is even with seed money, most don't do anything with it or fail.
And of course its absurd when comparing to candidates with ZERO business experience of note. Hillary's rigged elections didn't start with Sanders, she was given a safe seat once a democrat had stepped down by the establishment machine, and then she was simply appointed for her next post.
Her only success is corruption, aka pay to play via the Clinton foundation where billions have been funneled through for less than charitable purposes.
But of course these things go uncovered in any real way because it takes an hour just to explain the basics.
The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8
Nypost tried but the news cycle is more fixated on supposed gaffs than substance.
Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme
http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e...
I mean really, wikiwut? Oh Assange is just an MRA, don't ask questions anymore....
Yes yes, exposing the DNC and all that Clinton corruption was the work of that "MRA" Julian Assange
http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2...
Because anyone against Hillary Clinton is a racist, sexist, mra, gamergater, and just kicks children, everybody knows this! Even "berniebros" were just misogynists who hated women and so instead supported an old communist jew!! Yes that's the ticket!
The fact that he blew the lid open on DNC corruption, press collusion and Clinton Foundation shennigans, well why look into that, lets just call people names.
Never mind the whole thing about the DNC staffer being murdered, and now fingered as the leaker.... "trump's the real danger"
https://twitter.com/magnifier6...
Funny how both attack/assassination attempts were on Trump, not Clinton.
Most every attack/attempt to shut down a rally is by rabid leftists. Just in the last two days a man was beaten with a crowbar for wearing a Trump shirt.
Anyways, things which matter
The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8
Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme
http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e...
Clinton's private server held emails about nuclear 'spy' executed in Iran: Aides discussed scientist 'friend' and his decision to return home after defecting to the U.S. for $5m
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...http://thefederalist.com/2016/...https://youtu.be/8acghuIfLTE
Julian Assange exposes Google's political ties to Hillary Clinton & Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...http://theralphretort.com/bust...http://theralphretort.com/bust...
Its no surprise people so smug get their information from 20 minute comedy news shows these days....
No, we've seen what your "steady hand" Merkel has done to europe.
We've seen the neocons scurry over to support the Clinton's.
We've seen people dig into things that matter
https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8
Not tweet analysis, but billions of reasons to "get rid of" people who get in the way
https://twitter.com/magnifier6...
Never mind the blatant incompetence when it comes to IT security, which should be something people on slashdog would be familiar with. Someone with intimate knowledge of our own cyber offense capabilities through intelligence briefings should have known better...or more disturbingly, she knew, and protecting her Clinton Foundation corruption was more important than state security.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/...https://youtu.be/8acghuIfLTE
Why would you think the liberal media mattered during Lewinski, that had its own political momentum and was not pushed by the media.
Things like Clinton setting up the sub prime lending disaster which cost the US 10 times what the Iraq war did however was not covered in any way by the media which would have prevented that disaster.
Still isn't.
Apple are moral monsters... in more ways than just this one, something to keep in mind, especially considering so many of the high minded sjw types are Apple brand loyalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is true, many males who excel in areas simply have a wider scope of skills and focus on the areas which matter. It's men after all who spend their free time on hobbies which have practical application, hot rodding cars to making game mods, men build additional skills for fun, and no pay, and these simply add the disparity seen between the sexes. There tends to be more self directed building of skills with men, people like Woz learned outside of school, women seem to only involve themselves in these areas as a practical consideration which probably accounts for much of the difference.
People want to play at a role are simply not going to be good as people who live the role, and frankly as you said, have no choice but to thrive or fail. Women choose men with higher pay and education, the fundamental motivators simply aren't there for women on the same scale, so there is no benefit for them to sacrifice on the same level. An old woman who has thrown away her youth for a job title is simply not attractive as a young woman to any man, no amount of feminist complaining will change this, and the presumption one role is better than the other is again, without basis.
Just look at the average shopping mall and one will see the signs of privilege, most of the shops cater to the leisure class, the leisure gender, that is the bargain women make, so it is ridiculous to complain about it without looking at the full picture.
It's really obnoxious how these publications close comments so early, I saw the usual citation of the git-hub study claiming women's code was better. Study was pure junk science, not peer reviewed.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016...
But i guess that's why they do it, it spreads a lie out there to be repeated, no different from this new article which conflates titles where the job description changes radically through the generations.
Feminism has proven that the cultural assumption people held of women being the empathetic gender was wrong.
Every perceived slight against women is taken seriously,whether real or not.
Society is really gynocentric, meaning it revolves around women as they are the biological limiter on reproduction. This worked to some degree when jobs were grueling and women took the bargain of less direct power for the safety of more comfort at home, doing less strenuous jobs while wielding power through proxy.
With modern technology, this changed the environment and now women have equal access, while still holding onto the societal biases of the past which gave them special status and considerations as protected people, less rights, less accountability and responsibility was transferred to the nearest man. Women/feminists cherry picked their way into the power structures of men, and society didn't fully reassess women's status. This is why irresponsible men who have children they cannot or will not pay for are thrown in jail, while the mothers who had every hand in the decision to irresponsibly bring children in to the world they cannot or would not pay for simply get a hand out. Accountability and judgement is not equally applied, and this has led to all this gender strife we've been seeing. Feminists are now cherry picking grievances when they are really demanding entitlement to the special treatment they are used to. I think a study showed that treating women equal to men in many cases was seen as misogynistic, this is the ugly reality of the situation.
Tech is a hard one for feminists because merit applies, if your code is bad, can you really blame the patriarchy? These aren't soft sciences where total bs gets a pass because of identity politics, skill matters, and so they've had more trouble imposing their will on this sector.
But they still try, while ignoring the gender differences which lead to the disparity. More men are on the autism spectrum and thus attracted to these fields, there is no way around that. Beyond that, people should question this demand for more women as if it were anything good. We got to the moon by harnessing the minds of the best, even some rather horrible people, former nazi's, and look how our scientific progress has stagnated as people have fixated more on what a person is than what they can do.
Women aren't treated badly in anything, there are simply women who misconstrue equal treatment with not being catered to as they have become accustomed to as a special class in society. The men in open source need to serve women, they have to be more charming, they have to be this or that, they have to white knight for women, raise them up when frankly women should rise on their own merits.
The special class in society for women is undeniable. Why do you think women wear heels, make up, long hair, all the impractical adornment is is an indicator of class, or an aspiration of a class which seeks to be above menial labor. The problem comes when this is not acknowledge and becomes toxic female entitlement which leads to accusations like these that women aren't being made "welcome". You are always welcome to work if your work is good, let alone for free, its an absurd statement to make.
The proof of this low standard is seen in who is held up as representative of "women in tech". Have people not noticed the Zoe Quinn's of the world? Someone who is so untalented they had to use an open source tool named twine which requires zero programming knowledge to write their choose your own adventure text game. And because this person without a degree or any relevant tech experience claims harassment as a woman, they are now a "woman in tech", and they've been speaking as representative for over a year now, even ending up in front of the UN. Complete hacks lie Quinn and Sarkeesian end up at the UN, their stories aren't questioned or their credentials, because there is this special standard for women in society of benevolent sexism no one wants to address to this very day, instead we have yet another "women aren'
Currently its clear women in tech suffer from the people who claim to represent them. Its notable that the "voices" in tech are some of the least talented or credentialed around. The Zoe Quinn's, the Randi Harpers(freebsdgirl), the Brianna Wu's, the people who catch the eye of gender study graduates to fit their agenda, these women who much of the time lack any real experience in coding are held up as "women in tech". Quinn's example is just galling, she used an open source tool twine to write a choose your own adventure text game, a tool who's selling point is that no coding knowledge is required to use it. But through this, she not only became a "game dev" in the "industry", but also a "women in tech" who now spoke for all women in tech. Same goes with the other two.
This complete lack of standards, this completely perverse form of excessive misguided empathy for women is what creates the problems for women in tech or stem, much of them imagined.
The issue of empathy is really perverse in that its clear from feminism that women really aren't the more empathetic gender. They are the gender subject to benevolent sexism which is based on excessive empathy by society for the welfare of women. It is something which functioned in more traditional societies for most of human history where gender roles were more in line with this concession against reason, but in the modern world, its become maladaptive. Its allowed toxic femininity, female chauvinism to infect professions and communities like tech with toxic gender politics.
These women need to take a look at the life story of Grace Hopper, who's achievements should not exist if the world really was as they painted. A stem phd who ended up doing so well that a modern advanced navy destroyer is named after her, and by republicans no less. All this happened so many decades ago, and now we hold up women who insult Hopper's name as examples of women in tech, its actually quite disgusting.
This is all allowed because the people who claim to support women actually think less of them, that is the ugly truth at the heart of the matter.
Yea its just amazing how tone deaf they are. The entire pc industry has sales suffering in large part because of windows 8, and still they push on.
I remember a time when people had passionate debates about how windows or osx was better, as misguided as those were, it showed people cared.
Now I'm pretty sure even die hard windows users can't be bothered, they know microsoft is just kicking them in the teeth over and over again..and its just getting sad.
I just can't believe how they keep hiring total fuckups at microsoft. The group think and bad management must be rampant in that company now. Just look at the recent xbox one drm debacle, any discussion with people outside of their company, perhaps a few gamers would have told them this, they needed to lay down a record of steam like summer sales and the rest to gain the trust before online drm would be an acceptable thing to ask for. Its not rocket science, its demonstrated in the market place by a competitor for them already...
Now this windows 8 UI mess, how many times do people have to explain that they don't want this nonsense, they won't even give us the OPTION of disabling all the new junk to switch back to win7 UI. Its like they know people would turn metro off en masse and they'd be embarrassed, so what, they should have buried it and moved on, but no, they hang on and torture us for no reason at all. So the alternatives just keep looking better at this point. And add to this mess their recent announcement about technet being over, and they are just driving the nail into their own coffin as they push even more people to find and build alternatives to their system.
Its not good for a desktop UI to constantly switch to a different screen to do other functions, the point of a desktop is not always have to "context switch", its like having to clear your desk, clean it and wipe out off do minor multitasking, it wipes your memory a little in a bad way, its just how human brain works. Hell science has shown us that memory wipes a bit when you just walk through a doorway even. Their new interface is just broken, it has no place at all being on a desktop machine, and the more they force it, the more obvious how unsuited to task it is. Windows 7 evolved to where it was, windows 8 just skipped evolution and is just arbitrary.
As the penny arcade said already
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/28
This is just a big middle finger to all of us that use their o/s's.
A whole boat load of managers across microsoft need to be fired, they've grown tone deaf to criticism and reality. Problem is balmer is at the helm, and he was the guy that dismissed the iphone because he said microsoft was just fine selling millions of their phone....yea oops.
Again, money goes further in china, if said workers can save for homes when they go back to their villages the deal they strike is not that bad, else they'd stay on their farms.
Now look at american workers. Walmart doesn't pay a living wage, much of their workers are essentially subsidized with government programs. The same exists for all minimum wage labor in america, yet the apple bashing folks aren't about to fix this, they need to cry over some chinese workers? How about you look at yourself before pointing fingers!!
45 million americans on food stamps as I've said.
chinese spent 4 billion on art alone last year.
Time to mind your own business I say, their problems are their responsibility, time to take our own problems on before we point fingers.
Well the main issue is folks are missing the actual point. China has one government with absolute power, and has cornered the market on manufacturing, you jump when they say jump or you go out of business when the iphone 5 fails to be delivered on time because some government official decides to get in the way.
With absolute power comes absolute responsibility, that is the chinese government alone.
Fixation on apple when everything else is made in china kind of says it all, this isnt really about principles. Furthermore when 45 million americans are on food stamps and many are jobless...it reeks a bit of hypocrisy. You won't help your own when you can worry about people over seas? How about the folks who cry over chinese workers fight for living wage for american mcdonalds and walmart workers first, then you'd have something to stand on. As it is this reeks of yuppie guilt, diversion of said guilt to something far away you can do little about to avoid even thinking about the problems you have at home.
Never mind the fact that it also reeks of paternalism in the way of the old colonialist attitude, the natives need to be taken care of, they don't know any better. The reality is china is so rich now they spent 4 billion on art alone last year.... so who needs to spread the wealth to these workers? We need to give charity to them when we don't even pay walmart workers a decent wage? What kind of sick priorities are these?
And you fail to mention, china is not poor.
3 Trillion in dollar reserves
4 billion spent on art by their rich just last year alone.
You folks want charity for chinese workers?
Lets see you enact living wage for mcdonalds workers in the USA before you talk!! 45 million americans on food stamps, and this is what yuppies waste their time on?
Again, that is your distorted cartoonish view of the situation. They are workers who left poverty on farms to work there, they aren't forced to, and they have the chance to better themselves, many saving enough to buildhomes in their villages when they return.
What mcjobbers in america have even that dream. Much of this criticism is just based on ignorance, and perhaps a need to distract from your own problems. As I said, 45 million americans are on food stamps, and yuppies cry about the chinese, who have 3 trillion in reserves and spent 4 billion on art just last year. The semi racist view of chinese as all poor is a massive distortion, they have plenty of rich there, and if they won't take care of their own people, that is their own fault.
You want to demand charity for chinese workers?
How about we stop the hypocrisy first, demand living wage for mcdonalds workers...then maybe the chinese will listen to you. Lets see how that goes.
It is the governments responsibility. This is left out of most of the recent fad of criticism against apple.
Chinas government has absolute power, thus they have absolute responsibility. They have rigged the system so any business that wants to stay in business has to make their stuff there, apple isn't calling the shots, the chinese are.
Furthermore there is some inherent racism in the criticism. Its as if they are holding the chinese to a lower standard, with the ignorant assumption that the chinese are just 3rd world bumpkins who can't handle responsibility. The facts are this, china sits on 3 trillion dollars in reserve money, their rich have bought 4 billion dollars in art just last year alone, that is the real china. So when lefty yuppies in the west try to assuage their consumerist guilt by crying over the chinese as if they were all poor it gets a bit insulting. There are plenty of rich in china, they do not need our charity, In fact if we look at how we have 45 million americans on food stamps, we maybe the ones that require charity. But I guess that is what it comes down to, people who buy luxury products in western country feel guilty, they play with their toys while their countrymen are jobless, so they distract themselves by fixating on issues like this.
this
i've long been surprised at how removed such benchmarks are from real world use. chrome bogs down horribly many tabs open. its "ability" to save memory seems to mean it pages out rather eagerly or whatever and if i leave it minimized for a while it just gets awful slow to restore anything back on screen when brought back up. firefox doesn't have this issue. plus with all my no script and such extensions, managing many tabs open at once is a breeze, and runs quickly. chrome just loses all functionality after a dozen tabs are open.
but of course in benchmarks its faster!!!
load of bs.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, stem crisis is a myth. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo... Behind every diversity push, is the desire to save money. Whether through h1b, diluting the labor market, or in ed tech, the desire to make money by controlling tools of propaganda/indoctrination The "War on Women in Tech" is Fabricated seattle4truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Most hilarious part pointed out by seattle4truth, in their effort to "equalize" women's supposed disadvantage in salary negotiations, they removed salary negotiations from everyone, which is a rather convenient way for a company to save money, simply declare no one can ask for a higher salary....because "social justice". Common Core, Propaganda, and #GamerGate LeoPirate https://www.youtube.com/watch?... #GamerGate/Ouya/Common Core Connection Unveiled: [SHUT IT DOWN! THEY KNOW!! Edition] seattle4truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?... #GamerGate: Actually, it's About... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Polygon/Vox Founders Lecture Microsoft on How to Use Blogging for Propaganda in 2006 seattle4truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... CLASSIFIED: Security Expert on Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal Stefan Molyneux https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux Stefan Molyneux https://www.youtube.com/watch?... DNC, wikileaks, dead staffer, so many to pick from.... what's embarassing is that Trump people are digging into these while all Hillary has is supposed gaffs and mining twitter ......
I find this angle of attack amusing because most people would only dream to be as much of a "business failure" as Trump. We know the track record of lottery winners, the fact is even with seed money, most don't do anything with it or fail. And of course its absurd when comparing to candidates with ZERO business experience of note. Hillary's rigged elections didn't start with Sanders, she was given a safe seat once a democrat had stepped down by the establishment machine, and then she was simply appointed for her next post. Her only success is corruption, aka pay to play via the Clinton foundation where billions have been funneled through for less than charitable purposes. But of course these things go uncovered in any real way because it takes an hour just to explain the basics. The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8 Nypost tried but the news cycle is more fixated on supposed gaffs than substance. Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... I mean really, wikiwut? Oh Assange is just an MRA, don't ask questions anymore....
It's true, remember, the BernieBros were just MRA's who hated women and so wouldn't vote for Hillary because of her gender.
Yes yes, exposing the DNC and all that Clinton corruption was the work of that "MRA" Julian Assange http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2... Because anyone against Hillary Clinton is a racist, sexist, mra, gamergater, and just kicks children, everybody knows this! Even "berniebros" were just misogynists who hated women and so instead supported an old communist jew!! Yes that's the ticket! The fact that he blew the lid open on DNC corruption, press collusion and Clinton Foundation shennigans, well why look into that, lets just call people names. Never mind the whole thing about the DNC staffer being murdered, and now fingered as the leaker.... "trump's the real danger" https://twitter.com/magnifier6... Funny how both attack/assassination attempts were on Trump, not Clinton. Most every attack/attempt to shut down a rally is by rabid leftists. Just in the last two days a man was beaten with a crowbar for wearing a Trump shirt. Anyways, things which matter The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8 Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... Clinton's private server held emails about nuclear 'spy' executed in Iran: Aides discussed scientist 'friend' and his decision to return home after defecting to the U.S. for $5m http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://thefederalist.com/2016/... https://youtu.be/8acghuIfLTE Julian Assange exposes Google's political ties to Hillary Clinton & Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://theralphretort.com/bust... http://theralphretort.com/bust... Its no surprise people so smug get their information from 20 minute comedy news shows these days....
No, we've seen what your "steady hand" Merkel has done to europe. We've seen the neocons scurry over to support the Clinton's. We've seen people dig into things that matter https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8 Not tweet analysis, but billions of reasons to "get rid of" people who get in the way https://twitter.com/magnifier6... Never mind the blatant incompetence when it comes to IT security, which should be something people on slashdog would be familiar with. Someone with intimate knowledge of our own cyber offense capabilities through intelligence briefings should have known better...or more disturbingly, she knew, and protecting her Clinton Foundation corruption was more important than state security. http://thefederalist.com/2016/... https://youtu.be/8acghuIfLTE
Why would you think the liberal media mattered during Lewinski, that had its own political momentum and was not pushed by the media. Things like Clinton setting up the sub prime lending disaster which cost the US 10 times what the Iraq war did however was not covered in any way by the media which would have prevented that disaster. Still isn't.
Quite the opposite, he stretches the truth just enough to get people to stick their own foots in their mouths going after him. Take for instance... "Obama founded ISIS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Putin Tells Everyone Exactly Who Created ISIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?... U.S Senator Confirms Hillary Clinton Created ISIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Hillary Clinton : We created Al-Qaeda https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Well, in ways, he did, and now attentions back on it.
These days they aren't just ignored, they die https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well, these days its more insidious because the internet and social media give the illusion of control, but in the end they hold the power to manipulate perception. http://theralphretort.com/bust... http://theralphretort.com/bust... Julian Assange exposes Google's political ties to Hillary Clinton & Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apple are moral monsters... in more ways than just this one, something to keep in mind, especially considering so many of the high minded sjw types are Apple brand loyalists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is true, many males who excel in areas simply have a wider scope of skills and focus on the areas which matter. It's men after all who spend their free time on hobbies which have practical application, hot rodding cars to making game mods, men build additional skills for fun, and no pay, and these simply add the disparity seen between the sexes. There tends to be more self directed building of skills with men, people like Woz learned outside of school, women seem to only involve themselves in these areas as a practical consideration which probably accounts for much of the difference. People want to play at a role are simply not going to be good as people who live the role, and frankly as you said, have no choice but to thrive or fail. Women choose men with higher pay and education, the fundamental motivators simply aren't there for women on the same scale, so there is no benefit for them to sacrifice on the same level. An old woman who has thrown away her youth for a job title is simply not attractive as a young woman to any man, no amount of feminist complaining will change this, and the presumption one role is better than the other is again, without basis. Just look at the average shopping mall and one will see the signs of privilege, most of the shops cater to the leisure class, the leisure gender, that is the bargain women make, so it is ridiculous to complain about it without looking at the full picture. It's really obnoxious how these publications close comments so early, I saw the usual citation of the git-hub study claiming women's code was better. Study was pure junk science, not peer reviewed. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016... But i guess that's why they do it, it spreads a lie out there to be repeated, no different from this new article which conflates titles where the job description changes radically through the generations.
So much for that... https://archive.is/jdOHs
Feminism has proven that the cultural assumption people held of women being the empathetic gender was wrong. Every perceived slight against women is taken seriously,whether real or not. Society is really gynocentric, meaning it revolves around women as they are the biological limiter on reproduction. This worked to some degree when jobs were grueling and women took the bargain of less direct power for the safety of more comfort at home, doing less strenuous jobs while wielding power through proxy. With modern technology, this changed the environment and now women have equal access, while still holding onto the societal biases of the past which gave them special status and considerations as protected people, less rights, less accountability and responsibility was transferred to the nearest man. Women/feminists cherry picked their way into the power structures of men, and society didn't fully reassess women's status. This is why irresponsible men who have children they cannot or will not pay for are thrown in jail, while the mothers who had every hand in the decision to irresponsibly bring children in to the world they cannot or would not pay for simply get a hand out. Accountability and judgement is not equally applied, and this has led to all this gender strife we've been seeing. Feminists are now cherry picking grievances when they are really demanding entitlement to the special treatment they are used to. I think a study showed that treating women equal to men in many cases was seen as misogynistic, this is the ugly reality of the situation. Tech is a hard one for feminists because merit applies, if your code is bad, can you really blame the patriarchy? These aren't soft sciences where total bs gets a pass because of identity politics, skill matters, and so they've had more trouble imposing their will on this sector. But they still try, while ignoring the gender differences which lead to the disparity. More men are on the autism spectrum and thus attracted to these fields, there is no way around that. Beyond that, people should question this demand for more women as if it were anything good. We got to the moon by harnessing the minds of the best, even some rather horrible people, former nazi's, and look how our scientific progress has stagnated as people have fixated more on what a person is than what they can do. Women aren't treated badly in anything, there are simply women who misconstrue equal treatment with not being catered to as they have become accustomed to as a special class in society. The men in open source need to serve women, they have to be more charming, they have to be this or that, they have to white knight for women, raise them up when frankly women should rise on their own merits. The special class in society for women is undeniable. Why do you think women wear heels, make up, long hair, all the impractical adornment is is an indicator of class, or an aspiration of a class which seeks to be above menial labor. The problem comes when this is not acknowledge and becomes toxic female entitlement which leads to accusations like these that women aren't being made "welcome". You are always welcome to work if your work is good, let alone for free, its an absurd statement to make. The proof of this low standard is seen in who is held up as representative of "women in tech". Have people not noticed the Zoe Quinn's of the world? Someone who is so untalented they had to use an open source tool named twine which requires zero programming knowledge to write their choose your own adventure text game. And because this person without a degree or any relevant tech experience claims harassment as a woman, they are now a "woman in tech", and they've been speaking as representative for over a year now, even ending up in front of the UN. Complete hacks lie Quinn and Sarkeesian end up at the UN, their stories aren't questioned or their credentials, because there is this special standard for women in society of benevolent sexism no one wants to address to this very day, instead we have yet another "women aren'
Currently its clear women in tech suffer from the people who claim to represent them. Its notable that the "voices" in tech are some of the least talented or credentialed around. The Zoe Quinn's, the Randi Harpers(freebsdgirl), the Brianna Wu's, the people who catch the eye of gender study graduates to fit their agenda, these women who much of the time lack any real experience in coding are held up as "women in tech". Quinn's example is just galling, she used an open source tool twine to write a choose your own adventure text game, a tool who's selling point is that no coding knowledge is required to use it. But through this, she not only became a "game dev" in the "industry", but also a "women in tech" who now spoke for all women in tech. Same goes with the other two. This complete lack of standards, this completely perverse form of excessive misguided empathy for women is what creates the problems for women in tech or stem, much of them imagined. The issue of empathy is really perverse in that its clear from feminism that women really aren't the more empathetic gender. They are the gender subject to benevolent sexism which is based on excessive empathy by society for the welfare of women. It is something which functioned in more traditional societies for most of human history where gender roles were more in line with this concession against reason, but in the modern world, its become maladaptive. Its allowed toxic femininity, female chauvinism to infect professions and communities like tech with toxic gender politics. These women need to take a look at the life story of Grace Hopper, who's achievements should not exist if the world really was as they painted. A stem phd who ended up doing so well that a modern advanced navy destroyer is named after her, and by republicans no less. All this happened so many decades ago, and now we hold up women who insult Hopper's name as examples of women in tech, its actually quite disgusting. This is all allowed because the people who claim to support women actually think less of them, that is the ugly truth at the heart of the matter.
Yea its just amazing how tone deaf they are. The entire pc industry has sales suffering in large part because of windows 8, and still they push on. I remember a time when people had passionate debates about how windows or osx was better, as misguided as those were, it showed people cared. Now I'm pretty sure even die hard windows users can't be bothered, they know microsoft is just kicking them in the teeth over and over again..and its just getting sad.
I just can't believe how they keep hiring total fuckups at microsoft. The group think and bad management must be rampant in that company now. Just look at the recent xbox one drm debacle, any discussion with people outside of their company, perhaps a few gamers would have told them this, they needed to lay down a record of steam like summer sales and the rest to gain the trust before online drm would be an acceptable thing to ask for. Its not rocket science, its demonstrated in the market place by a competitor for them already... Now this windows 8 UI mess, how many times do people have to explain that they don't want this nonsense, they won't even give us the OPTION of disabling all the new junk to switch back to win7 UI. Its like they know people would turn metro off en masse and they'd be embarrassed, so what, they should have buried it and moved on, but no, they hang on and torture us for no reason at all. So the alternatives just keep looking better at this point. And add to this mess their recent announcement about technet being over, and they are just driving the nail into their own coffin as they push even more people to find and build alternatives to their system. Its not good for a desktop UI to constantly switch to a different screen to do other functions, the point of a desktop is not always have to "context switch", its like having to clear your desk, clean it and wipe out off do minor multitasking, it wipes your memory a little in a bad way, its just how human brain works. Hell science has shown us that memory wipes a bit when you just walk through a doorway even. Their new interface is just broken, it has no place at all being on a desktop machine, and the more they force it, the more obvious how unsuited to task it is. Windows 7 evolved to where it was, windows 8 just skipped evolution and is just arbitrary. As the penny arcade said already http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/28 This is just a big middle finger to all of us that use their o/s's. A whole boat load of managers across microsoft need to be fired, they've grown tone deaf to criticism and reality. Problem is balmer is at the helm, and he was the guy that dismissed the iphone because he said microsoft was just fine selling millions of their phone....yea oops.
So in other words you'd like to protect the unelected government of china from potential strife with its people by giving charity to them?
Again, money goes further in china, if said workers can save for homes when they go back to their villages the deal they strike is not that bad, else they'd stay on their farms. Now look at american workers. Walmart doesn't pay a living wage, much of their workers are essentially subsidized with government programs. The same exists for all minimum wage labor in america, yet the apple bashing folks aren't about to fix this, they need to cry over some chinese workers? How about you look at yourself before pointing fingers!! 45 million americans on food stamps as I've said. chinese spent 4 billion on art alone last year. Time to mind your own business I say, their problems are their responsibility, time to take our own problems on before we point fingers.
Well the main issue is folks are missing the actual point. China has one government with absolute power, and has cornered the market on manufacturing, you jump when they say jump or you go out of business when the iphone 5 fails to be delivered on time because some government official decides to get in the way. With absolute power comes absolute responsibility, that is the chinese government alone. Fixation on apple when everything else is made in china kind of says it all, this isnt really about principles. Furthermore when 45 million americans are on food stamps and many are jobless...it reeks a bit of hypocrisy. You won't help your own when you can worry about people over seas? How about the folks who cry over chinese workers fight for living wage for american mcdonalds and walmart workers first, then you'd have something to stand on. As it is this reeks of yuppie guilt, diversion of said guilt to something far away you can do little about to avoid even thinking about the problems you have at home. Never mind the fact that it also reeks of paternalism in the way of the old colonialist attitude, the natives need to be taken care of, they don't know any better. The reality is china is so rich now they spent 4 billion on art alone last year.... so who needs to spread the wealth to these workers? We need to give charity to them when we don't even pay walmart workers a decent wage? What kind of sick priorities are these?
And you fail to mention, china is not poor. 3 Trillion in dollar reserves 4 billion spent on art by their rich just last year alone. You folks want charity for chinese workers? Lets see you enact living wage for mcdonalds workers in the USA before you talk!! 45 million americans on food stamps, and this is what yuppies waste their time on?
Again, that is your distorted cartoonish view of the situation. They are workers who left poverty on farms to work there, they aren't forced to, and they have the chance to better themselves, many saving enough to buildhomes in their villages when they return. What mcjobbers in america have even that dream. Much of this criticism is just based on ignorance, and perhaps a need to distract from your own problems. As I said, 45 million americans are on food stamps, and yuppies cry about the chinese, who have 3 trillion in reserves and spent 4 billion on art just last year. The semi racist view of chinese as all poor is a massive distortion, they have plenty of rich there, and if they won't take care of their own people, that is their own fault. You want to demand charity for chinese workers? How about we stop the hypocrisy first, demand living wage for mcdonalds workers ...then maybe the chinese will listen to you. Lets see how that goes.
It is the governments responsibility. This is left out of most of the recent fad of criticism against apple.
Chinas government has absolute power, thus they have absolute responsibility. They have rigged the system so any business that wants to stay in business has to make their stuff there, apple isn't calling the shots, the chinese are.
Furthermore there is some inherent racism in the criticism. Its as if they are holding the chinese to a lower standard, with the ignorant assumption that the chinese are just 3rd world bumpkins who can't handle responsibility. The facts are this, china sits on 3 trillion dollars in reserve money, their rich have bought 4 billion dollars in art just last year alone, that is the real china. So when lefty yuppies in the west try to assuage their consumerist guilt by crying over the chinese as if they were all poor it gets a bit insulting. There are plenty of rich in china, they do not need our charity, In fact if we look at how we have 45 million americans on food stamps, we maybe the ones that require charity. But I guess that is what it comes down to, people who buy luxury products in western country feel guilty, they play with their toys while their countrymen are jobless, so they distract themselves by fixating on issues like this.
this i've long been surprised at how removed such benchmarks are from real world use. chrome bogs down horribly many tabs open. its "ability" to save memory seems to mean it pages out rather eagerly or whatever and if i leave it minimized for a while it just gets awful slow to restore anything back on screen when brought back up. firefox doesn't have this issue. plus with all my no script and such extensions, managing many tabs open at once is a breeze, and runs quickly. chrome just loses all functionality after a dozen tabs are open. but of course in benchmarks its faster!!! load of bs.
griefers aren't conservative, they go against the system for crisake. calling people on bullsh*t is hardly conservative.