Everything is opinion. If we're restricted to facts then the argument is over. Because it is impossible to prove or disprove via facts that women should even have jobs, or that men should or should not have jobs. Of course it is opinion. My opinion is that women are great at computing, and I wish I saw more of them in computing today like I used to see in the past. My opinion is that I'm tired of the frat house attitudes at work. But there's no way to give a 'fact' that more women should be in computing any more than you can have a 'fact' that the number of women is the correct number or that it should be even smaller.
So the opinions are about whether you want an improvement for women or if you want to defend the status quo.
I graduated first in 1986, there were a LOT of female students, it was closer to 30-40% instead of an even split but still quite respectable compared to other programs on campus. I was later a grad student from '89 to '94, and we still had a good number of female students, but not as many, as well as African American students, in a CS program. Given that females are very rare in CS today, yet the curriculum is essentially the same, then the mystery is what actually changed. I also saw many women in mathematics in the past too.
- CS is now less of a mathematics curriculum, and even less engineering oriented, and more about entry-level job skills in a glutted help desk or web apps market. - The industry is now more well established ('mature' is the wrong word), so designing and programming computing machinery is a 9-to-5 job and no longer as interesting or ground breaking as it once was. - Computers at one time were in the sphere of business support, data entry, and so on. Ie, in the 50s it raised no eyebrows to see women using computers any more than seeing them on an adding machine or typewriters. There was not yet a stereotype of computer operator being a men's versus women's job. Today there is the stereotype though, fair or not.
I think there are hiring attitudes that subtly affects things. Absolutely I see women in the R&D departments but a very much larger number are in the QA groups rather than the development groups (and extremely few in the IT backoffice clubs). These QA women *are* programmers, they *are* experts, they often end up knowing more about the products than the engineers (at least they have to understand systems as whole rather than the tunnel vision where a developer only knows one piece). So it this a subtle effect of hiring practices that directs more women to QA rather than development or engineering, despite having the same skill sets? Or maybe that QA lets you have a 9-to-5 job with a predictable schedule and a real life at home where so many developers are suckered into work long hours and see the family on the weekends?
My grandfather didn't have a sense of smell. So one day a skunk sprayed under his house and he never noticed, although he was getting nauseous but didn't know why. Then my grandmother came home and started shouting about how awful the smell was and he figured it out.
Lotus 1-2-3 was great. I figured out how to use it without a manual and did some impressive stuff, back in 81. I still can't figure out how to use Excel though.
I think home users are the same. No one wants to upgrade merely because software got fat and bloated. It's about time that we hold the line. The topic is just wrong, it wasn't an opportunity that was missed but perhaps sanity peeking a head out briefly.
Playful banter is in the eye of the beholder. Most of it is a bunch of backwards people with no social skills. People who have to be homophobic, racist, or misogynist online need to get a life. These are emotional outbursts from people who have no self control, who likely function badly in the real world. Sure, they're probably just imitating moronic sports stars with their trash talking, but that's not an excuse.
The problem is that if everyone just says "boys will be boys" or "they're blowing off steam" then nothing changes. And it NEEDS to change! It's unacceptable behavior, and that means stop accepting it. Then they say "women don't play games because they don't like games" instead of realizing they don't like to be around 50 year old guys with ten year old brains. Go walk in the poor slums area and start spewing the same racist filth you hear in games and see how well the excuse of "you need to get a thicker skin" works.
I have noticed this. I only come to slashdot for geeky news. I never go to reddit, tumblr, 4chan, or whatever all those other social media places are. But for sure on this site the misogynists come out immediately and in force when news like this arrives. Most likely infuriated at the interruption in their perusal of hacked nude celebrity photos that they don't notice the irony.
And no slight defense of women that won't bring the full fury of misogynists to bear. Those guys whine louder and longer than anyone else. They're the ones that made up the ridiculously stupid term, SJW. Can't find a way to argue coherently with someone, then make up names for them, send hate articles, and try to get advertising pulled. There is no louder butthurt group of thin skinned people than the misogynists.
I haven't been keeping score of the sides, but it is most definitely the anti-feminist crowd that is getting the most air play.
But refresh, as advertised, only works for modern "metro" apps. It does not do a clean refresh for the desktop which is what everyone uses. Or more specifically, for metro it will reinstall the apps for you but for desktop you will have to do this yourself.
Or at least this is what it said when I read the description from Microsoft. Thus I have never actually tried it because I don't want to blow my system away and reinstall everything.
I'd like to see package dependencies too. Microsoft applications are every much as convoluted as Linux apps when it comes to the files they depend upon. DLLs, shared directories, etc. But when uninstalling the applications they don't always uninstall the shared stuff cleanly. Ie, an app wants vbrun300.dll or such, so you visit the relevant Microsoft site and get it, but then you uninstall the original application but the dll is left behind; and there is no uninstaller for these libraries, they don't appear in the control panel.
I used to have a utility that would monitor all system changes during installation so that it could clean up later when uninstalling. Almost every time there would be some junk left over even after a successful uninstall. There would even be junk left over if you installed and immediately uninstalled without ever using the application.
Another problem is even if the application has an uninstall file, if it gets corrupted or lost then it's useless and the standard Microsoft uninstallation will refuse to run. This is not hard to do actually, just installing an application on top of itself will often cause severe confusion if you try to uninstall later.
IT is probably a bigger cause of slowdown than Microsoft. Corporate approved spyware stuck on the PCs and Macs, validating that all software running is on the approved list, periodically running audits, etc.
Microsoft went further than just having a bad registry, they essentially forced developers to use it if they wanted to get the approved sticker (ie, to say "works with Windows 95" or such).
Not really. There are a lot of really solid improvements since Morrowind, but everyone focuses on other things while ignoring what's good. Ie, conversations in Morrowind were awful. Seriously, 99% of all NPCs had exactly the same thing to say but in Skyrim you can actually get some useful information. NPCs vital to quests don't accidentally die in Skyrim.
Of course, exactly like Oblivion you must first get some mods to make it PC friendly.
I've definitely seen butter measured by sticks in recipes. That's why most sticks also include measurements along the side on the wrapping, so that you can easily get 1/2, 1/8, etc. Ie, cut directly into the butter and the wrapper where the line indicates then pull off the wrapper afterwords.
If it's in the US, are they really "imperial" measurements?
Also, one of my grandmothers used all sorts of extremely obscure measurements. She knew the difference between a dash of salt and a pinch of salt. I suspect many cooks even in super-genius-enlightened EU countries do the very same thing, no one's going to measure out.35ml of of vanilla, they're just going to add a little.
I don't think anyone at Youtube ever send out emails to all of its own employees saying "upload all the videos you can by monday or you're on my shit list!" It's one thing to be unable to keep up with the take-down lists, and it's quite another to encourage your employers to contribute to the infringing.
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Everything is opinion. If we're restricted to facts then the argument is over. Because it is impossible to prove or disprove via facts that women should even have jobs, or that men should or should not have jobs. Of course it is opinion. My opinion is that women are great at computing, and I wish I saw more of them in computing today like I used to see in the past. My opinion is that I'm tired of the frat house attitudes at work. But there's no way to give a 'fact' that more women should be in computing any more than you can have a 'fact' that the number of women is the correct number or that it should be even smaller.
So the opinions are about whether you want an improvement for women or if you want to defend the status quo.
I graduated first in 1986, there were a LOT of female students, it was closer to 30-40% instead of an even split but still quite respectable compared to other programs on campus. I was later a grad student from '89 to '94, and we still had a good number of female students, but not as many, as well as African American students, in a CS program. Given that females are very rare in CS today, yet the curriculum is essentially the same, then the mystery is what actually changed. I also saw many women in mathematics in the past too.
- CS is now less of a mathematics curriculum, and even less engineering oriented, and more about entry-level job skills in a glutted help desk or web apps market.
- The industry is now more well established ('mature' is the wrong word), so designing and programming computing machinery is a 9-to-5 job and no longer as interesting or ground breaking as it once was.
- Computers at one time were in the sphere of business support, data entry, and so on. Ie, in the 50s it raised no eyebrows to see women using computers any more than seeing them on an adding machine or typewriters. There was not yet a stereotype of computer operator being a men's versus women's job. Today there is the stereotype though, fair or not.
I think there are hiring attitudes that subtly affects things. Absolutely I see women in the R&D departments but a very much larger number are in the QA groups rather than the development groups (and extremely few in the IT backoffice clubs). These QA women *are* programmers, they *are* experts, they often end up knowing more about the products than the engineers (at least they have to understand systems as whole rather than the tunnel vision where a developer only knows one piece). So it this a subtle effect of hiring practices that directs more women to QA rather than development or engineering, despite having the same skill sets? Or maybe that QA lets you have a 9-to-5 job with a predictable schedule and a real life at home where so many developers are suckered into work long hours and see the family on the weekends?
My grandfather didn't have a sense of smell. So one day a skunk sprayed under his house and he never noticed, although he was getting nauseous but didn't know why. Then my grandmother came home and started shouting about how awful the smell was and he figured it out.
Sports on Slashdot. Is it the end times already?
Lotus 1-2-3 was great. I figured out how to use it without a manual and did some impressive stuff, back in 81. I still can't figure out how to use Excel though.
I think home users are the same. No one wants to upgrade merely because software got fat and bloated. It's about time that we hold the line. The topic is just wrong, it wasn't an opportunity that was missed but perhaps sanity peeking a head out briefly.
They then wonder why they can't get or keep jobs. Seriously, I've seen some of these people first in line when the layoffs come.
Playful banter is in the eye of the beholder. Most of it is a bunch of backwards people with no social skills. People who have to be homophobic, racist, or misogynist online need to get a life. These are emotional outbursts from people who have no self control, who likely function badly in the real world. Sure, they're probably just imitating moronic sports stars with their trash talking, but that's not an excuse.
The problem is that if everyone just says "boys will be boys" or "they're blowing off steam" then nothing changes. And it NEEDS to change! It's unacceptable behavior, and that means stop accepting it. Then they say "women don't play games because they don't like games" instead of realizing they don't like to be around 50 year old guys with ten year old brains. Go walk in the poor slums area and start spewing the same racist filth you hear in games and see how well the excuse of "you need to get a thicker skin" works.
I have noticed this. I only come to slashdot for geeky news. I never go to reddit, tumblr, 4chan, or whatever all those other social media places are. But for sure on this site the misogynists come out immediately and in force when news like this arrives. Most likely infuriated at the interruption in their perusal of hacked nude celebrity photos that they don't notice the irony.
And no slight defense of women that won't bring the full fury of misogynists to bear. Those guys whine louder and longer than anyone else. They're the ones that made up the ridiculously stupid term, SJW. Can't find a way to argue coherently with someone, then make up names for them, send hate articles, and try to get advertising pulled. There is no louder butthurt group of thin skinned people than the misogynists.
I haven't been keeping score of the sides, but it is most definitely the anti-feminist crowd that is getting the most air play.
But refresh, as advertised, only works for modern "metro" apps. It does not do a clean refresh for the desktop which is what everyone uses. Or more specifically, for metro it will reinstall the apps for you but for desktop you will have to do this yourself.
Or at least this is what it said when I read the description from Microsoft. Thus I have never actually tried it because I don't want to blow my system away and reinstall everything.
I'd like to see package dependencies too. Microsoft applications are every much as convoluted as Linux apps when it comes to the files they depend upon. DLLs, shared directories, etc. But when uninstalling the applications they don't always uninstall the shared stuff cleanly. Ie, an app wants vbrun300.dll or such, so you visit the relevant Microsoft site and get it, but then you uninstall the original application but the dll is left behind; and there is no uninstaller for these libraries, they don't appear in the control panel.
I used to have a utility that would monitor all system changes during installation so that it could clean up later when uninstalling. Almost every time there would be some junk left over even after a successful uninstall. There would even be junk left over if you installed and immediately uninstalled without ever using the application.
Another problem is even if the application has an uninstall file, if it gets corrupted or lost then it's useless and the standard Microsoft uninstallation will refuse to run. This is not hard to do actually, just installing an application on top of itself will often cause severe confusion if you try to uninstall later.
IT is probably a bigger cause of slowdown than Microsoft. Corporate approved spyware stuck on the PCs and Macs, validating that all software running is on the approved list, periodically running audits, etc.
Microsoft went further than just having a bad registry, they essentially forced developers to use it if they wanted to get the approved sticker (ie, to say "works with Windows 95" or such).
Fallout must come first before the crappy console games.
I think those were proven to be done in a movie studio in Culver City.
Bureaucratic Time Units?
For everyone who claims Americans are prideful and parochial, they need to visit France for awhile.
Not really. There are a lot of really solid improvements since Morrowind, but everyone focuses on other things while ignoring what's good. Ie, conversations in Morrowind were awful. Seriously, 99% of all NPCs had exactly the same thing to say but in Skyrim you can actually get some useful information. NPCs vital to quests don't accidentally die in Skyrim.
Of course, exactly like Oblivion you must first get some mods to make it PC friendly.
I've definitely seen butter measured by sticks in recipes. That's why most sticks also include measurements along the side on the wrapping, so that you can easily get 1/2, 1/8, etc. Ie, cut directly into the butter and the wrapper where the line indicates then pull off the wrapper afterwords.
If it's in the US, are they really "imperial" measurements?
Also, one of my grandmothers used all sorts of extremely obscure measurements. She knew the difference between a dash of salt and a pinch of salt. I suspect many cooks even in super-genius-enlightened EU countries do the very same thing, no one's going to measure out .35ml of of vanilla, they're just going to add a little.
At which altitude?
All I care about is finally someone gets to laugh at a country that isn't the US.
I don't think anyone at Youtube ever send out emails to all of its own employees saying "upload all the videos you can by monday or you're on my shit list!"
It's one thing to be unable to keep up with the take-down lists, and it's quite another to encourage your employers to contribute to the infringing.