I think nuclear is a great choice, both now and going forward.
In some cases, yes. I am pretty convinced that the days of humongous nuc plants are long gone, however. A simple matter of concentrating so much energy in a small space, and the fact that that energy wants out.
We've seen the results on occasion, and the pro nuc stance is that every accident is a special case, and everyone who isn't in favor of the humongous plants is an idiot.
It is NOT a solved problem and as industrious as Americans are they cannot break the laws of physics.
The problem with batteries, flywheels, and such is that they use materials to produce. This means that they take up space, cost money, and must come from something.
And somehow the entire infrastructure of petrochemicals just miraculously happens, free of cost,, world without end amen.
But do go on, you are quite entertaining, I need more of the cold hard fact and laws of physics.
Plus, I gotta ask: why do you think so little of America? You clearly don't believe we're industrious enough to use an "unpredictable" energy source, so you're suggesting we should just call it quits instead. That's a lousy attitude, regardless of your political affiliation.
This is Slashdot, you know. As well, the coalition of shills and trolls have lost every battle on the alternative energy front, form coal to nuc to the minute nitpicking they are weakly attempting at present; somewhat reminiscent to the old god of the gaps argument, only weaker, and completely illogical.
"Bossy" is normally intended as an insult. It gets stuck on women who do things that would rate praise from men. It tends to be used on strong women, not weak ones, and is part of an overall view of things that directly hurts some women and indirectly men.
If a woman is harmed by being called bossy, she isn't a strong woman. She is a woman who will allow others to control her. My wife was called Bossy. Her retort was that she is the Boss.
I get a lot of male feminists completely dismissing my opinions insight and experience because it does not fit with their unshakable worldview. I do give you credit for withstanding anything that you disagree with for certain.
So allow me the conceit of for once dismissing someone else idea that a strong woman can be hurt and destroyed and while once wanting to be a leader, someone who could lead nations, because they are so strong. But one person called them Bossy, and their strength fell away, ruining them and sending then to cower in a corner. A strong woman, reduced to weakenss and stifled because she heard the word "bossy".
My sincere apologies, but I utterly reject that. It is 180 degrees away from the truth. A person easily destroyed by a word like that is weak. A strong person pushes through that.
I'd like to see that attitude go away. I fail to see how "let strong women be strong" is part of "tyranny of the weak".
I'd like to see peace and harmony among all people. I'd even like to buy the world a Coke. Neither of those is going to happen until we getaway from the tribal nature of humans. But as noted, Its a tyranny of the weak. I don't know if you have ever been in a leadership position. But when you are, there are people out there who want to take you down. This is not only men, but women. I've been called asshole dickhead, incompetent, stupid, harassed and even a couple physical threats. Some of which I've responded to professionally, but most ignored. The physical threats? I take those seriously, and they are reported to law enforcement. But "bossy"? That's about at th ebottom of the list of anything I give a damn about. Or my wife. Or the other strong women I've worked with. Because if Bossy is beyond the pale, you aren't going to be able to handle any of the other pejoratives that are hurled at you.
Anyone who is dissuaded from a leadership position because of people calling her bossy is going to have a rough time with all the other baggage you get in a leadership position.
Now, is this in any way right? No, we should be able to settle our civil disagreements in a civil manner. I'd prefer people didn't call me names, but it happens.
Side note: the best way to get someone who is calling you names is to ask them if they would like to help. I've appointed some of these folks to special committees. 90 percent walk away mumbling, and the 10 percent who actually do attempt to help? They tend to fade out really quickly, because they hate it when people call them names.
Now, I would imagine that you do not think that the only people who are called names are women.
Given that the "Ban Bossy" effort is 100 percent Sexist in nature - and it is - Why not have a program to attempt to get people to be more civil to each other? Not the ban bullying stuff, but just a program for everyone, male or female. Be excellent to each other. Who on earth other than sadistic people could be against that?
What is more, all of these programs are aimed at males. Yet some of the most cruel, nasty name calling and body shaming does indeed come from other women. My wife has been stopped by women in the street who have said things like "I hate you! You're so skinny! Her boss's wife used to buy her clothing at christmas that were always 2-3 sizes too big - on purpose. Except for one noteable problem with a man, all of her personnel issues at work were from women. And yes, she was even asked point blank "Did you fuck the owner to get your position?" by a woma
I'm fairly certain that EVERY iMac generation has had replaceable RAM, despite what TFS says.
Of course. The "live and die with what you bought because you can't upgrade" meme is alive and well because while it is a damn bald face lie, it feels so good for those who need to hate any Apple product feel really good.
Why, certainly that would be because they didn't start soldering RAM in until 2012.
No, it is impossible to upgrade a hard drive or any other component, on any iMac ever produced, and that the stuff you bought with your Mac is the stuff it will die with becase there are no possible upgrades. Sarcoff.
Memes are more powerful than the truth some times. But seriously, I've heard the same old lies since there were Macs. Long before 2011. Even the laptops. I just replaced a hard drive with an SSD and memory expansion on a 200(8?) white MacBook for a friend. The Windows guys she went to first told her that it was impossible to upgrade one. As it turns out, you simply pop out the battery, loosen a couple screws and the drive slips out. A couple screws and push a little lever at each memory slot, and the old RAM pops out. You put the new RAM in, the New drive and reverse the procedure. Takes maybe 5 minutes. Breateehd new life into an old "impossible to update" MacBook.
Maybe that's the case in online editing where you are finishing and working with the original camera files, but in offline editing, where you are making the decisions, you're using lower resolution lightweight codecs. Even in the days of FCP 7, there was not very much rendering going on in the offline.
The answer to the fellow is that he doesn't like Mac. Occam's razor. Did you know that all versions of Final cut stopped working with the release of X? It's true!
Especially with the dumpster fire that was the release of Final Cut X.
I see. Funny, it appears that all previous versions of Final cut have stopped working, correct? Explain how exactly that happens. And Adobe Premiere? Okay if you say so. I've used both because I had to do some editing on a PC. Must be to dumb to understand how that is better.
Get a grip. There's nothing "insidious" about soldered RAM. It has its benefits and drawbacks just like everything else. By your logic it's insidious to solder _anything_ down, because someone somewhere might want to replace it. If you want to replace your RAM don't but a computer with soldered RAM and then complain about how you can't replace the RAM.
I had this vision of hardore anything but Mac users demanding that their computers be made with those spring mounted components like the Old Radio Shack electronics kits.
There is some bullshit about the article anyhow. iMacs have replaceable RAM. I have a mid-2011 imac I did just that on.
The guy did use an iMac. I won't fault him, that has a very decent display that's like a pseudo standard as well, a stupidly fast quad i5 or i7 CPU - you might call that a shit CPU but well it beats spending $5K on a dual Pentium III with SCSI and maxed out RAM doesn't it? (for the tower only). And finally it has a low footprint and is like a really really good laptop or a plain desktop.
And I'm an Apple hater.
So, he deserved better hardware but iMac can be a nice low end editing station.
I love listening to folks go on about a creative process, and getting their selves wrapped around the axle with the hardware.
Its the software usability, and of course you don't want a slow machine, but in the end, it is the creative process.
Now for heavy 3D rendering, you need multiple machines and fast ones at that. But for editing video footage, a reliable machine running good software is job number 1.
When severely pressed for time, I have done very good work using freaking free iMovie. It ain't Final Cut, but no one noticed. People got their work, and I was accused of making miracles.
For video editing, the best equipment is something you can plug as many GPUs into as possible.
That basically rules out anything running OS X. And if you're running an edit bay that costs $1000/hr+, every second counts.
Do elaborate! The majority of video editing is making the decisions. How does your Anything but OSX (it's MacOS) hardware setup speed the decisions down to the 1 second level.
The best equipment is equipment that you can repair, so that you're not stuck buying a whole new computer if something goes wrong and you've got work to do. Only Apple users would ever pretend that hardware never fails.
?? Having done a lot of Video editing in my time, and much under hard deadline pressure, you don't have just one of whatever platform you are working on.
Regardless, that is a hardware and software issue. The editing software suites are integrated nicely among the applications, and they ran after Apple updates, unlike the Windows machines.
With projects running to the hundreds of millions, anyone worried about saving money or upgrading RAM on a few computers might be better off working at Best Buy.
Which leads me to wonder. A couple years ago, I upgraded memory on my personal mid 2011 iMac.
I discovered my Apple had a terrible flaw. I removed two screws on a plate at the bottom of the computer. I then -with my bare hands, popped out the memory that was already there, and installed new RAM.
Apple had forgotten to solder the RAM in place! And it was a dumb design anyhow, since both the new and old RAM hac connector like tabs on them, instead of the DIP or SIP RAM that any other PC company would use if they were going to solder it in.
But I had to get some work done, so I took a chance, popped the new RAM in and miraculously, it worked despite Apple having only soldered in RAM. I put in connector RAM, and it worked. GO figure!
I still don't know what you mean by tyranny of the weak. I gave it my best shot, and missed. Could you explain further?
Seriously? Okay. Let us speak of the concept of banning words "Ban Bossy". http://banbossy.com/ This project has the very bizzare concept of presumable leaders of people (just females) of being devastated and rendered impotent when people call them bossy. The irony is that teh women promoting this fit the 'bossy" moniker to a T. In my own experience, people have called my wife "Bossy" her reply is "Right, that's why I'm the boss!" Because that is the inherent nature of being a boss. Being too weak to withstand such a word means you are too weak to be a boss. And banning the word will not make a weak preson one bit stronger, merely show that they cannot withstand simple words. Tyranny of the weak.
I was listening to an NPR story this afternoon with a younf lady who wants those who utter the word "Retarded" prosecuted for Hate speech. It's rude, but a hate crime? If that were enacted, it would show how people are devastated by the very word, and must be proteced from it. Tyranny of the weak.
But that is merely a proposal, I only offer it as an example of the mindset.
However, Let us speak of the town in England where a man can be prosecuted and convicted of a hate crime, the wording so vague that the mere act of saying hello to a woman can get you arrested.
Quoting Winston Churchill gets you arrested for a hate crime. https://www.thenewamerican.com...
A woman was arrested for swearing in front of her children. http://www.mommyish.com/2014/0... Low life lady and no doubt, but apparently it completely destroys children to hear the word fuck, and must be punished to the maximum extent of the law.
We need a street harassment law. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...
Anther place in England is turning "Misogyny" into ahate crime. Even when no crime is committed, you can be investigated. Not certain how "investigations" go across the pond.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...
The wording of the law is:
The crime of misogyny is defined as “any incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman, and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman.”
Other parts of the law are:
Unwanted or uninvited sexual advances, Physical or verbal assault, Unwanted or uninvited physical or verbal contact or engagement, Use of mobile phones to send unwanted or uninvited messages, Take photographs without consent"
Yes David Thornley, you can go to jail for saying "hello" to a a woman. There are some other issues with the law. Unwanted sexual advances - of course. Tell the guy to shut it down and he needs to shut it down. But "uninvited"? That means that no man had better ever tell a woman that he thinks she is cute or attempts to hold her hand (religious in the US consider hand holding as a gateway to sex)
Assault - of course. phones? if you send a message disagreeing with her, welcome to the UK prison system.
Photographs without consent? SRSLY? In the UK, the home of massive surveillance? Take all those cameras down
Now between you and me and the capybaras in the back yard, almost all women don't give a rats putout about most of this weakling stuff. My wife is dare I say, pretty fetching, and gets catcalls on occasion. and she gets called bossy (all by women) and she gets comments about her weight - turn
I didn't know smog tests were still a thing in any state. It's just another regressive tax on the poor, with questionable positive impact on the actual environment. You'd think California of all places would have done away with them by now, considering how liberal they are and how much they care about the poor and the illegals (the ones who can least afford to drive a new car, right? Right??)
Smog tests are based on the year of the car, and it only has to be in proper tune to pass.
There are weaker and stronger people around, and I don't see that the weaker are any less deserving. They aren't, in my observation, less productive in general. The difference between what you said and "the strong will avoid preying on the weak only so long" is subtle at best.
The weak must be protected from the strong. The minority must have their say is a similar concept. . But I think you are confusing the tyranny of the weak with making certain that people do not abuse the minority or the weak. A similar concept is pandering to the least common denominator. We are not talking about the same thing.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that it's difficult to find what Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos think about things? We don't know their private thoughts, but we wouldn't if we went to a lecture by one of them anyway. It's easy enough to find what sorts of things they're likely to talk about, and what they're likely to say about them. It's reasonable to figure, knowing this, that they aren't going to be worth scheduling.
Seriously, you just wanted to disagree with me and you pulled that stunt? Of course it is easy peasy to find out what those two assholes have said. Teh internetz allow a lot of that.
But tell me, who is the arbiter of who should speak? I'll bet that you could find someone on every campus that would object to any speaker they might come up with.
Are you advocating not ever having a different viewpoint? Allow me to make an example along the feminists' allies as a point. If you are a feminist, one of your mentors is Alice Schwarzer, who believes that male/female sex is sexist, and "hardly possible without the subjugation of women". http://www.newser.com/story/10...
She is also a convicted criminal. Sounds like a true asshat to me.
But here is the difference between you and some people, and me. I would love to hear what she says. That's because I believe that hearing someone in person is very important. Apparently your desires are similar to people who want only self affirmation, IOW a bubble where you are insulated from anything you don't agree with.
Somewhere around the intertoobz, there was recently a story regarding a garage that had a tire balancing computer. It was a Commodore 64. I read another story yesterday about a Amiga 1200 running a modern RF communication system.
I think the upgrade/update virus has infected most of us. Me too at times.
And what happens when that C64 or Amiga dies? Right now, you could probably buy another one off of eBay, but do you think that one will last another 35 years?
Then you get something else. That's pretty simple. A tire balancing system that is using a computer from the 1980's is probably going to have a lot of wear and tear on it in general, so it will be ready to be replaced in toto. It doesn't owe you anything by this time. Then you have a new system, probably with a new computer. The constant update part willbe only if you have to have an internet connection. Regardless, the 5 year depreciation on the old equipment has long passed, and you'll have the new depreciation schedule on the new machine.
No matter how much you think that you don't need to upgrade at some point, there's always something eventually that bites you in the ass if you don't.
Exactly. You use it until it either doesn't work any more, or something else makes it in your favor to get a new machine. Drinkypoo noted that some of the laws in his area have changed, which require a internet connected computer. That would be an example of the second reason to get a new device.
Again, listen and believe. Why aren't you so doubtful? 3rd wave feminists would accuse you of being rape apologist if you showed a fraction of skepticism on their narrative.
One of the biggest problems that any group has, is that they don't stop once achieving their goals. From legal equality to the right to vote, to equality in the workplace, removing the impediments against women has largely been achieved. There will always be some incidents, but that goes both ways.
But as noted, they don't stop. Just a few of the third wave feminists examples and solutions to the "patriarchy"
Manspreading. Men sometimes sit with their knees further apart than third wave feminists believe is appropriate. It is also symbol of rape culture.https://femmagazine.com/the-problem-with-manspreading/ You can be arrested for it - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
In addition Professor Lyndsay Kirkham of Humber College in Toronto, she declares that people asking for proof of it are not human. She is also a fan of misandry. http://socawlege.com/feminist-...
We must not forget that Sweden, a country actually run by third wave feminists, declared that removing automobiles from the streets is a woman's rights issue, and that clearing the streets of snow was sexist, and implemented a policy of clearing streets after snow last, after clearing the sidewalks and schools. It didn't work out very well. Seems that an acedemic idea that since most vehicles are driven by men, therefore sexist, so punish the men by not clearing them affested women and children as well. Sorry for the Return of kings link, but while searching for cites, it was an early one to come up. http://www.returnofkings.com/1...
Anyhow, my definition of third wave feminism is just like when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail - when the main focus of your life is hatred of men, everything looks like misogyny.
And the problem of course, is that eventually, there is pushback, or outright rejection. You don't have to be a conservative right winger to be a bit concerned about the number of young men growing up with nearly zero male influence in their lives, and largely belittled from an early age, both from their now single mothers, the male deserts of school, and heaven help them if they are foolish enough to go to college, where they are considered rapists in waiting and have to pay for the classes that tell them just that.
And when they check out of the relationship game because of the lose lose situation for them, they are told they need to man up.
You don't have to be a trump voter to be concerned with the way you sit being a criminal offense, or that not allowing people to hear any other point of view is a right of yours, or that people who claim to be representing women have arguably insane ideas that clearing streets of snow is sexist. Well, I'm no right wing misogynist (outside of what third waver's think) but I have huge concerns over people who subscribe to that sort of thing being in power.
But the problem as such is that the rules come down from the women's studies group
I'm not aware of these rules, please elaborate.
Okay. The problem was addressed and administered by the women's studies group in university. The short list.
Any thing a woman perceives as sexual harassment is by definition, sexual harassment.
Commentary on a woman's appearance, such as telling her her hair looks nice, is not in violation of the law, but if the woman considers it sexual harassment, it is.
Images of scantily clad females are sexual harassment.
There were other restrictions on men, but those were the most onerous. There was also no addressing sexual harassment of men by women.
The first two restrictions were especially onerous, as many of the women had zero problem with a man saying they liked her dress or earrings. Saying a woman's earrings were nice was specifically addressed as a no-no by the harassment counselors.
There was an amusing incident when one of the men in the machine shop was ordered to take down a picture of his daughter in her High School cheerleader's outfit. He refused, called in the Union, and threatened a lawsuit of his own. The offensive photo showed a young lady, rather pretty, in one of those on one knee while holding a couple pompoms as high school cheerleaders are wont to do. The only skin showing was from the knee down on one leg, and of course her face. The Sexual harassment police decided to back down. Note that there was such a rumble by most employees - women included including some accusations of projection by the female who was so offended by the photo, that the rules were reviewed, and in some cases "relaxed".
In addition, the idea that any and all changes must come from males.
That's untrue. Women have made, and continue to make, many changes too.
Please elaborate.
For example, we really, really need men's liberation, like women benefited from in the 60s.
What exactly is "men's liberation"?
Women had similar ideas about toxic feminism, the idea that a woman's worth was measured by her ability to attract a good husband and the like.
But that is in part a measure of women's worth, just as being a good candidate for being a husband was a good measure of a man's worth. Jeezuz Bubinga on a pogo stick, I've never heard of the qualities of lovingkindness and stability being called toxic before.
I'm imagining the opposite of toxic femininity being a nasty mean person who no one wants to be around heralded as being healthy femininity and the goal for all women.
With the third wavers, you had to be extra careful. Telling some "professionals" they made a mistake made for upsets, and on a few occasions tearful sessions.
Those really don't sound like feminists. Third wave feminism certainly wouldn't support that behaviour. Can you point to specific ideas of the movement that would support it?
I'll do better. These women identify as modern feminists:
Karen Straughan, an MRA (I'm not in favor of MRA's but Straughan versus some third wavers is always interesting. In the pursuit of equal rights, women need them but men? no way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As one of the male protesters said "We are not interested in talking to them, we are interested in shutting down an even that supports the Male patriarchy."
Now that must have been Ted Nugent or some equally repugnant person t
STEM is not the place for that. You are often working long hours, and alone.
I've been working in STEM for a long time, and that's no my experience at all. It's extremely rare for me to do overtime, normally all the developers stick to 37.5 hours/week.
Now, now, I think this is the part where I say your experience isn't representative.
But I won't. It is important to point out that I am speaking of STEM in general, not just programming.
I'm not dismissing your experience, I'm just saying that I don't think it is representative. Not because my experience is different, that's just an illustration I'm using, but because a huge amount of research and investigation has been done and we actually have a pretty good idea of what the wider situation is.
Well why didn't you say so from the start! Give me the citations, I can read them.
Your whole point seems to be based on the idea that there is exactly one person who can do a job and that they must be available for long periods of unsociable time.
There was work that needed done, and it needed done quickly. I could do it, or one of the others could do it as well. They all had reasons that they couldn't do it, from car pooling, to having to cook dinner for their SO, or simple refusal. One woman had children, and having children myself, it is understandable that you don't want to incur extra charges or even be kicked out of the kid's daycare. I had to juggle daycare as well.
But there was no single point of failure.
Anything unique I did was based on my personal skillset, largely outside of job description, and I never expected anyone else to do those things.
That kind of assumption, which really only applies in fairly narrow circumstances anyway, is an example of one of the problems women face.
You assumed my assumption.
The concept of work being able to always be wedged into a pre-defined slot of time and effort works for some things, but not others. The big meeting happens, the dog and pony show starts at the time noted on the posters, and the ship sails when it sails. Either be ready when that happens, or fail completely.
My work involved intractable deadlines. The work had to be finished on time, or there was no need for it to be done at all. While some folks found No! to be an acceptable answer, it limited their utility, and not surprisingly, when the occasional downturn happened, the person who said "I can do it" was retained.
So how about some ideas, Animojo? How would you arrange that work so that no overtime would be worked ever? No travel would ever be involved?
And why is that crazy? If the software runs on a standalone computer, not connected to the internet, why does it matter? As long as it runs and does what it has to do, what's the problem?
Then why do you have to update at all? You don't.
Somewhere around the intertoobz, there was recently a story regarding a garage that had a tire balancing computer. It was a Commodore 64. I read another story yesterday about a Amiga 1200 running a modern RF communication system.
I think the upgrade/update virus has infected most of us. Me too at times.
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I think nuclear is a great choice, both now and going forward.
In some cases, yes. I am pretty convinced that the days of humongous nuc plants are long gone, however. A simple matter of concentrating so much energy in a small space, and the fact that that energy wants out.
We've seen the results on occasion, and the pro nuc stance is that every accident is a special case, and everyone who isn't in favor of the humongous plants is an idiot.
says "solar panel on the roof of every building" and then "no space needed" I dont think you understand what "Space" is buddy..
Whoosh!
This is already a solved problem.
It is NOT a solved problem and as industrious as Americans are they cannot break the laws of physics.
The problem with batteries, flywheels, and such is that they use materials to produce. This means that they take up space, cost money, and must come from something.
And somehow the entire infrastructure of petrochemicals just miraculously happens, free of cost,, world without end amen.
But do go on, you are quite entertaining, I need more of the cold hard fact and laws of physics.
Plus, I gotta ask: why do you think so little of America? You clearly don't believe we're industrious enough to use an "unpredictable" energy source, so you're suggesting we should just call it quits instead. That's a lousy attitude, regardless of your political affiliation.
This is Slashdot, you know. As well, the coalition of shills and trolls have lost every battle on the alternative energy front, form coal to nuc to the minute nitpicking they are weakly attempting at present; somewhat reminiscent to the old god of the gaps argument, only weaker, and completely illogical.
As Los Angeles installs a battery powered peaking plant, forgoing even Natural gas, https://www.scientificamerican...
This is real, and it is happening.
I felt like the headline was kinda patronizing Millennials, when all that's happened is the way we watch TV has changed.
Because clickbait for nerds. Like the women in STEM articles, Apple sucks, Microsoft sucks, WindpowersolarpowerTesla.
"Bossy" is normally intended as an insult. It gets stuck on women who do things that would rate praise from men. It tends to be used on strong women, not weak ones, and is part of an overall view of things that directly hurts some women and indirectly men.
If a woman is harmed by being called bossy, she isn't a strong woman. She is a woman who will allow others to control her. My wife was called Bossy. Her retort was that she is the Boss.
I get a lot of male feminists completely dismissing my opinions insight and experience because it does not fit with their unshakable worldview. I do give you credit for withstanding anything that you disagree with for certain.
So allow me the conceit of for once dismissing someone else idea that a strong woman can be hurt and destroyed and while once wanting to be a leader, someone who could lead nations, because they are so strong. But one person called them Bossy, and their strength fell away, ruining them and sending then to cower in a corner. A strong woman, reduced to weakenss and stifled because she heard the word "bossy". My sincere apologies, but I utterly reject that. It is 180 degrees away from the truth. A person easily destroyed by a word like that is weak. A strong person pushes through that.
I'd like to see that attitude go away. I fail to see how "let strong women be strong" is part of "tyranny of the weak".
I'd like to see peace and harmony among all people. I'd even like to buy the world a Coke. Neither of those is going to happen until we getaway from the tribal nature of humans. But as noted, Its a tyranny of the weak. I don't know if you have ever been in a leadership position. But when you are, there are people out there who want to take you down. This is not only men, but women. I've been called asshole dickhead, incompetent, stupid, harassed and even a couple physical threats. Some of which I've responded to professionally, but most ignored. The physical threats? I take those seriously, and they are reported to law enforcement. But "bossy"? That's about at th ebottom of the list of anything I give a damn about. Or my wife. Or the other strong women I've worked with. Because if Bossy is beyond the pale, you aren't going to be able to handle any of the other pejoratives that are hurled at you.
Anyone who is dissuaded from a leadership position because of people calling her bossy is going to have a rough time with all the other baggage you get in a leadership position.
Now, is this in any way right? No, we should be able to settle our civil disagreements in a civil manner. I'd prefer people didn't call me names, but it happens.
Side note: the best way to get someone who is calling you names is to ask them if they would like to help. I've appointed some of these folks to special committees. 90 percent walk away mumbling, and the 10 percent who actually do attempt to help? They tend to fade out really quickly, because they hate it when people call them names.
Now, I would imagine that you do not think that the only people who are called names are women.
Given that the "Ban Bossy" effort is 100 percent Sexist in nature - and it is - Why not have a program to attempt to get people to be more civil to each other? Not the ban bullying stuff, but just a program for everyone, male or female. Be excellent to each other. Who on earth other than sadistic people could be against that?
What is more, all of these programs are aimed at males. Yet some of the most cruel, nasty name calling and body shaming does indeed come from other women. My wife has been stopped by women in the street who have said things like "I hate you! You're so skinny! Her boss's wife used to buy her clothing at christmas that were always 2-3 sizes too big - on purpose. Except for one noteable problem with a man, all of her personnel issues at work were from women. And yes, she was even asked point blank "Did you fuck the owner to get your position?" by a woma
I'm fairly certain that EVERY iMac generation has had replaceable RAM, despite what TFS says.
Of course. The "live and die with what you bought because you can't upgrade" meme is alive and well because while it is a damn bald face lie, it feels so good for those who need to hate any Apple product feel really good.
Rendering...
And sometimes having to stop work because an update borked the computer.
Why, certainly that would be because they didn't start soldering RAM in until 2012.
No, it is impossible to upgrade a hard drive or any other component, on any iMac ever produced, and that the stuff you bought with your Mac is the stuff it will die with becase there are no possible upgrades. Sarcoff.
Memes are more powerful than the truth some times. But seriously, I've heard the same old lies since there were Macs. Long before 2011. Even the laptops. I just replaced a hard drive with an SSD and memory expansion on a 200(8?) white MacBook for a friend. The Windows guys she went to first told her that it was impossible to upgrade one. As it turns out, you simply pop out the battery, loosen a couple screws and the drive slips out. A couple screws and push a little lever at each memory slot, and the old RAM pops out. You put the new RAM in, the New drive and reverse the procedure. Takes maybe 5 minutes. Breateehd new life into an old "impossible to update" MacBook.
Maybe that's the case in online editing where you are finishing and working with the original camera files, but in offline editing, where you are making the decisions, you're using lower resolution lightweight codecs. Even in the days of FCP 7, there was not very much rendering going on in the offline.
The answer to the fellow is that he doesn't like Mac. Occam's razor. Did you know that all versions of Final cut stopped working with the release of X? It's true!
Especially with the dumpster fire that was the release of Final Cut X.
I see. Funny, it appears that all previous versions of Final cut have stopped working, correct? Explain how exactly that happens. And Adobe Premiere? Okay if you say so. I've used both because I had to do some editing on a PC. Must be to dumb to understand how that is better.
So Sloot's compression algorithm (if it really worked) would have likely driven demand up, and killing him would have made no sense.
Pretty much this.
Good gawd, the things people make conspiracies out of.
And this one fails on so many levels it's laughable. The data storage mafia killing a guy who made a good compression screen. Sounds soooo legit.
Get a grip. There's nothing "insidious" about soldered RAM. It has its benefits and drawbacks just like everything else. By your logic it's insidious to solder _anything_ down, because someone somewhere might want to replace it. If you want to replace your RAM don't but a computer with soldered RAM and then complain about how you can't replace the RAM.
I had this vision of hardore anything but Mac users demanding that their computers be made with those spring mounted components like the Old Radio Shack electronics kits. There is some bullshit about the article anyhow. iMacs have replaceable RAM. I have a mid-2011 imac I did just that on.
The guy did use an iMac. I won't fault him, that has a very decent display that's like a pseudo standard as well, a stupidly fast quad i5 or i7 CPU - you might call that a shit CPU but well it beats spending $5K on a dual Pentium III with SCSI and maxed out RAM doesn't it? (for the tower only). And finally it has a low footprint and is like a really really good laptop or a plain desktop. And I'm an Apple hater. So, he deserved better hardware but iMac can be a nice low end editing station.
I love listening to folks go on about a creative process, and getting their selves wrapped around the axle with the hardware.
Its the software usability, and of course you don't want a slow machine, but in the end, it is the creative process.
Now for heavy 3D rendering, you need multiple machines and fast ones at that. But for editing video footage, a reliable machine running good software is job number 1.
When severely pressed for time, I have done very good work using freaking free iMovie. It ain't Final Cut, but no one noticed. People got their work, and I was accused of making miracles.
For video editing, the best equipment is something you can plug as many GPUs into as possible.
That basically rules out anything running OS X. And if you're running an edit bay that costs $1000/hr+, every second counts.
Do elaborate! The majority of video editing is making the decisions. How does your Anything but OSX (it's MacOS) hardware setup speed the decisions down to the 1 second level.
The best equipment is equipment that you can repair, so that you're not stuck buying a whole new computer if something goes wrong and you've got work to do. Only Apple users would ever pretend that hardware never fails.
?? Having done a lot of Video editing in my time, and much under hard deadline pressure, you don't have just one of whatever platform you are working on.
Regardless, that is a hardware and software issue. The editing software suites are integrated nicely among the applications, and they ran after Apple updates, unlike the Windows machines.
With projects running to the hundreds of millions, anyone worried about saving money or upgrading RAM on a few computers might be better off working at Best Buy.
Which leads me to wonder. A couple years ago, I upgraded memory on my personal mid 2011 iMac.
I discovered my Apple had a terrible flaw. I removed two screws on a plate at the bottom of the computer. I then -with my bare hands, popped out the memory that was already there, and installed new RAM.
Apple had forgotten to solder the RAM in place! And it was a dumb design anyhow, since both the new and old RAM hac connector like tabs on them, instead of the DIP or SIP RAM that any other PC company would use if they were going to solder it in.
But I had to get some work done, so I took a chance, popped the new RAM in and miraculously, it worked despite Apple having only soldered in RAM. I put in connector RAM, and it worked. GO figure!
I still don't know what you mean by tyranny of the weak. I gave it my best shot, and missed. Could you explain further?
Seriously? Okay. Let us speak of the concept of banning words "Ban Bossy". http://banbossy.com/ This project has the very bizzare concept of presumable leaders of people (just females) of being devastated and rendered impotent when people call them bossy. The irony is that teh women promoting this fit the 'bossy" moniker to a T. In my own experience, people have called my wife "Bossy" her reply is "Right, that's why I'm the boss!" Because that is the inherent nature of being a boss. Being too weak to withstand such a word means you are too weak to be a boss. And banning the word will not make a weak preson one bit stronger, merely show that they cannot withstand simple words. Tyranny of the weak. I was listening to an NPR story this afternoon with a younf lady who wants those who utter the word "Retarded" prosecuted for Hate speech. It's rude, but a hate crime? If that were enacted, it would show how people are devastated by the very word, and must be proteced from it. Tyranny of the weak.
But that is merely a proposal, I only offer it as an example of the mindset.
However, Let us speak of the town in England where a man can be prosecuted and convicted of a hate crime, the wording so vague that the mere act of saying hello to a woman can get you arrested. Quoting Winston Churchill gets you arrested for a hate crime. https://www.thenewamerican.com...
A woman was arrested for swearing in front of her children. http://www.mommyish.com/2014/0... Low life lady and no doubt, but apparently it completely destroys children to hear the word fuck, and must be punished to the maximum extent of the law. We need a street harassment law. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...
Anther place in England is turning "Misogyny" into ahate crime. Even when no crime is committed, you can be investigated. Not certain how "investigations" go across the pond. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng... The wording of the law is:
The crime of misogyny is defined as “any incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman, and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman.”
Other parts of the law are:
Unwanted or uninvited sexual advances, Physical or verbal assault, Unwanted or uninvited physical or verbal contact or engagement, Use of mobile phones to send unwanted or uninvited messages, Take photographs without consent"
Yes David Thornley, you can go to jail for saying "hello" to a a woman. There are some other issues with the law. Unwanted sexual advances - of course. Tell the guy to shut it down and he needs to shut it down. But "uninvited"? That means that no man had better ever tell a woman that he thinks she is cute or attempts to hold her hand (religious in the US consider hand holding as a gateway to sex)
Assault - of course. phones? if you send a message disagreeing with her, welcome to the UK prison system.
Photographs without consent? SRSLY? In the UK, the home of massive surveillance? Take all those cameras down
Now between you and me and the capybaras in the back yard, almost all women don't give a rats putout about most of this weakling stuff. My wife is dare I say, pretty fetching, and gets catcalls on occasion. and she gets called bossy (all by women) and she gets comments about her weight - turn
I didn't know smog tests were still a thing in any state. It's just another regressive tax on the poor, with questionable positive impact on the actual environment. You'd think California of all places would have done away with them by now, considering how liberal they are and how much they care about the poor and the illegals (the ones who can least afford to drive a new car, right? Right??)
Smog tests are based on the year of the car, and it only has to be in proper tune to pass.
Now go roll some coal, AC.
There are weaker and stronger people around, and I don't see that the weaker are any less deserving. They aren't, in my observation, less productive in general. The difference between what you said and "the strong will avoid preying on the weak only so long" is subtle at best.
The weak must be protected from the strong. The minority must have their say is a similar concept. . But I think you are confusing the tyranny of the weak with making certain that people do not abuse the minority or the weak. A similar concept is pandering to the least common denominator. We are not talking about the same thing.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that it's difficult to find what Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos think about things? We don't know their private thoughts, but we wouldn't if we went to a lecture by one of them anyway. It's easy enough to find what sorts of things they're likely to talk about, and what they're likely to say about them. It's reasonable to figure, knowing this, that they aren't going to be worth scheduling.
Seriously, you just wanted to disagree with me and you pulled that stunt? Of course it is easy peasy to find out what those two assholes have said. Teh internetz allow a lot of that.
But tell me, who is the arbiter of who should speak? I'll bet that you could find someone on every campus that would object to any speaker they might come up with.
Are you advocating not ever having a different viewpoint? Allow me to make an example along the feminists' allies as a point. If you are a feminist, one of your mentors is Alice Schwarzer, who believes that male/female sex is sexist, and "hardly possible without the subjugation of women". http://www.newser.com/story/10...
She is also a convicted criminal. Sounds like a true asshat to me.
But here is the difference between you and some people, and me. I would love to hear what she says. That's because I believe that hearing someone in person is very important. Apparently your desires are similar to people who want only self affirmation, IOW a bubble where you are insulated from anything you don't agree with.
Somewhere around the intertoobz, there was recently a story regarding a garage that had a tire balancing computer. It was a Commodore 64. I read another story yesterday about a Amiga 1200 running a modern RF communication system.
I think the upgrade/update virus has infected most of us. Me too at times.
And what happens when that C64 or Amiga dies? Right now, you could probably buy another one off of eBay, but do you think that one will last another 35 years?
Then you get something else. That's pretty simple. A tire balancing system that is using a computer from the 1980's is probably going to have a lot of wear and tear on it in general, so it will be ready to be replaced in toto. It doesn't owe you anything by this time. Then you have a new system, probably with a new computer. The constant update part willbe only if you have to have an internet connection. Regardless, the 5 year depreciation on the old equipment has long passed, and you'll have the new depreciation schedule on the new machine.
No matter how much you think that you don't need to upgrade at some point, there's always something eventually that bites you in the ass if you don't.
Exactly. You use it until it either doesn't work any more, or something else makes it in your favor to get a new machine. Drinkypoo noted that some of the laws in his area have changed, which require a internet connected computer. That would be an example of the second reason to get a new device.
No but you do need security and bug fixes. Oh wait you think there is flawless software? Now that there is funny
I wasn't the one who claimed that a system was running perfectly. I was responding to the user who said it was.
Personally? I buy a new computer often enough that this isn't a problem at all. Been a long time since I had a 32 bit Mac or PC.
Again, listen and believe. Why aren't you so doubtful? 3rd wave feminists would accuse you of being rape apologist if you showed a fraction of skepticism on their narrative.
One of the biggest problems that any group has, is that they don't stop once achieving their goals. From legal equality to the right to vote, to equality in the workplace, removing the impediments against women has largely been achieved. There will always be some incidents, but that goes both ways.
But as noted, they don't stop. Just a few of the third wave feminists examples and solutions to the "patriarchy"
Manspreading. Men sometimes sit with their knees further apart than third wave feminists believe is appropriate. It is also symbol of rape culture.https://femmagazine.com/the-problem-with-manspreading/ You can be arrested for it - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
In addition Professor Lyndsay Kirkham of Humber College in Toronto, she declares that people asking for proof of it are not human. She is also a fan of misandry. http://socawlege.com/feminist-...
We must not forget that Sweden, a country actually run by third wave feminists, declared that removing automobiles from the streets is a woman's rights issue, and that clearing the streets of snow was sexist, and implemented a policy of clearing streets after snow last, after clearing the sidewalks and schools. It didn't work out very well. Seems that an acedemic idea that since most vehicles are driven by men, therefore sexist, so punish the men by not clearing them affested women and children as well. Sorry for the Return of kings link, but while searching for cites, it was an early one to come up. http://www.returnofkings.com/1...
Anyhow, my definition of third wave feminism is just like when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail - when the main focus of your life is hatred of men, everything looks like misogyny.
And the problem of course, is that eventually, there is pushback, or outright rejection. You don't have to be a conservative right winger to be a bit concerned about the number of young men growing up with nearly zero male influence in their lives, and largely belittled from an early age, both from their now single mothers, the male deserts of school, and heaven help them if they are foolish enough to go to college, where they are considered rapists in waiting and have to pay for the classes that tell them just that.
And when they check out of the relationship game because of the lose lose situation for them, they are told they need to man up.
You don't have to be a trump voter to be concerned with the way you sit being a criminal offense, or that not allowing people to hear any other point of view is a right of yours, or that people who claim to be representing women have arguably insane ideas that clearing streets of snow is sexist. Well, I'm no right wing misogynist (outside of what third waver's think) but I have huge concerns over people who subscribe to that sort of thing being in power.
But the problem as such is that the rules come down from the women's studies group
I'm not aware of these rules, please elaborate.
Okay. The problem was addressed and administered by the women's studies group in university. The short list.
Any thing a woman perceives as sexual harassment is by definition, sexual harassment.
Commentary on a woman's appearance, such as telling her her hair looks nice, is not in violation of the law, but if the woman considers it sexual harassment, it is.
Images of scantily clad females are sexual harassment.
There were other restrictions on men, but those were the most onerous. There was also no addressing sexual harassment of men by women.
The first two restrictions were especially onerous, as many of the women had zero problem with a man saying they liked her dress or earrings. Saying a woman's earrings were nice was specifically addressed as a no-no by the harassment counselors. There was an amusing incident when one of the men in the machine shop was ordered to take down a picture of his daughter in her High School cheerleader's outfit. He refused, called in the Union, and threatened a lawsuit of his own. The offensive photo showed a young lady, rather pretty, in one of those on one knee while holding a couple pompoms as high school cheerleaders are wont to do. The only skin showing was from the knee down on one leg, and of course her face. The Sexual harassment police decided to back down. Note that there was such a rumble by most employees - women included including some accusations of projection by the female who was so offended by the photo, that the rules were reviewed, and in some cases "relaxed".
In addition, the idea that any and all changes must come from males.
That's untrue. Women have made, and continue to make, many changes too.
Please elaborate.
For example, we really, really need men's liberation, like women benefited from in the 60s.
What exactly is "men's liberation"?
Women had similar ideas about toxic feminism, the idea that a woman's worth was measured by her ability to attract a good husband and the like.
But that is in part a measure of women's worth, just as being a good candidate for being a husband was a good measure of a man's worth. Jeezuz Bubinga on a pogo stick, I've never heard of the qualities of lovingkindness and stability being called toxic before.
I'm imagining the opposite of toxic femininity being a nasty mean person who no one wants to be around heralded as being healthy femininity and the goal for all women.
With the third wavers, you had to be extra careful. Telling some "professionals" they made a mistake made for upsets, and on a few occasions tearful sessions.
Those really don't sound like feminists. Third wave feminism certainly wouldn't support that behaviour. Can you point to specific ideas of the movement that would support it?
I'll do better. These women identify as modern feminists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Karen Straughan, an MRA (I'm not in favor of MRA's but Straughan versus some third wavers is always interesting. In the pursuit of equal rights, women need them but men? no way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Third wavers at a rally addressing male suicide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As one of the male protesters said "We are not interested in talking to them, we are interested in shutting down an even that supports the Male patriarchy."
Now that must have been Ted Nugent or some equally repugnant person t
STEM is not the place for that. You are often working long hours, and alone.
I've been working in STEM for a long time, and that's no my experience at all. It's extremely rare for me to do overtime, normally all the developers stick to 37.5 hours/week.
Now, now, I think this is the part where I say your experience isn't representative.
But I won't. It is important to point out that I am speaking of STEM in general, not just programming.
I'm not dismissing your experience, I'm just saying that I don't think it is representative. Not because my experience is different, that's just an illustration I'm using, but because a huge amount of research and investigation has been done and we actually have a pretty good idea of what the wider situation is.
Well why didn't you say so from the start! Give me the citations, I can read them.
Your whole point seems to be based on the idea that there is exactly one person who can do a job and that they must be available for long periods of unsociable time.
There was work that needed done, and it needed done quickly. I could do it, or one of the others could do it as well. They all had reasons that they couldn't do it, from car pooling, to having to cook dinner for their SO, or simple refusal. One woman had children, and having children myself, it is understandable that you don't want to incur extra charges or even be kicked out of the kid's daycare. I had to juggle daycare as well.
But there was no single point of failure.
Anything unique I did was based on my personal skillset, largely outside of job description, and I never expected anyone else to do those things.
That kind of assumption, which really only applies in fairly narrow circumstances anyway, is an example of one of the problems women face.
You assumed my assumption.
The concept of work being able to always be wedged into a pre-defined slot of time and effort works for some things, but not others. The big meeting happens, the dog and pony show starts at the time noted on the posters, and the ship sails when it sails. Either be ready when that happens, or fail completely.
My work involved intractable deadlines. The work had to be finished on time, or there was no need for it to be done at all. While some folks found No! to be an acceptable answer, it limited their utility, and not surprisingly, when the occasional downturn happened, the person who said "I can do it" was retained.
So how about some ideas, Animojo? How would you arrange that work so that no overtime would be worked ever? No travel would ever be involved?
And why is that crazy? If the software runs on a standalone computer, not connected to the internet, why does it matter? As long as it runs and does what it has to do, what's the problem?
Then why do you have to update at all? You don't.
Somewhere around the intertoobz, there was recently a story regarding a garage that had a tire balancing computer. It was a Commodore 64. I read another story yesterday about a Amiga 1200 running a modern RF communication system.
I think the upgrade/update virus has infected most of us. Me too at times.