I stunk at any kinf of math before seeing a lside rule, and the mathemechanical relations between numbers. Plus you had to learn notation. I have to chuckle when a calculator person gives a precise answer to 4 significant digits what is off by a shitload because they don't have a clue about a ballpark figure answer. One time a fairly simple derive teh height of the flagpole in front of the campus main building without directly measuring it, came back with answers like 2.5 feet, and 2500 feet.
Yeah, slide rules are a complete anachronism, but not without worth.
I still have one in the garage. The batteries in them seem to last forever as well!
A decade or so ago the company I worked at had to repeatedly advise customers to use FTDI or Silicon Labs based USB-serial converters with our products. It got to the point that it was the first question on the tech support script. The cheaper converters based on Prolific chipsets were incredibly unreliable but customers kept buying them because on ebay one converter appears much the same as another.
There were a lot of counterfeit prolifics out there, so it isn't specifically a prolific problem. It's kind of like blaming Apple for the cheap fake iphone chargers.
But yeah, if you can get a USB-Serial converter for 3 bucks, it might not be too good.
I use FTDI mostly now, but have a few of the real prolifics setting around and in use. Including an ancient one that was used for a palm device, and still works in Linux even though Windows doesn't support it at all any more.
Breathlessly announcing that this is some sort of farcical "dey gunna take our jerbs!" maneuver is fucking STUPID, and just one more attempt by the good old boys' network to scare women away from tech careers.
You do have some serious reading comprehension problems donchya, Coward?
In other words they see that in their industry I am, and will remain, what is called a "deadbeat." This does not mean a non-payer, this means someone who PAYS and doesn't carry balances,
You and I are cash flow. It's pretty obvious if everyone who paid those minimum monthly payment, that the model wouldn't work. Or at least it should b obvious. They are quite happy to get my check every month.
they're making the offer because it *is* within your means...
to pay the monthly minimum. Which is exactly what AC wrote.
Unfortunately, that isn't what I see. As easy as it is to make the CC company the root of all evil, then people just shouldn't use them, or only as little as absolutely possible.
But altogether too many people have zero financial discipline. NO one is making them buy a brand new computer 100 inch led tv take a vacation to Disneyworld every year go on a cruise buy a 20thousand dollar ring for the wife's/husband's birthday buy new furniture every two years and on and on and on.
It's how people get into financial messes, because it's their fault. I was a completely stupid fucker because I didn't refinance my house and buy Escalades and HumVee's or take the family and my kid's friends to Disneyworld like many of my co-workers, or buy a million dollar house with 250 dollars a month payment on a 50 year ARM mortgage. That's where the smart money was. We'll just keep refinancing and it will be heaven on earth for those who get in on the free money, gravy train.
But now, they are still paying on that car they bought in 2002 thropugh a continued mortgage, and it's probably been crushed for scrap by now. Honest to gawd, there were some people I worked with who bought houses in the same price range as mine, but at the time I had mine paid off, they were right where they started.
Now, I'm retired ten years early, and they may be looking at selling their McMansion because their Social security will barely cover the taxes on it, or more likely, not retiring until htey get the axe.So they'll fall off that bridge when they come to it.
So yeah, blame those bastard's at the Credit card company. Lack of disipline doesn't have anything to do with it. (sarc)
They _want_ people who arn't completely broke but can't afford the credit so they'll keep making minimum payments forever. They want to load you down with more credit than you can afford so you get on that treadmill.
I'm kinda on the fence with regards to how I feel about this. One one hand, the banks are doing some shady stuff and directly trying to set people up for financial disaster for their own benefit.
Yep, every dollar of debt you take puts $10 back into the sytem which they can then lend out to ten more suckers. Gotta love it.
Not completely. It might seem that people who pay off their credit cards every month would be refused credit under the "sucker system" y'all describe. But those people result in cash flow for the companies. If everyone made the easy minimum payments, it would be a big problem for them.
That's why I occasionally buy large things on credit, and pay them off quickly even though I have the cash.
Also, a really cool method of keeping credit churning along is getting a cashback credit card, living on it, then paying it off every month. You not only do not pay interest, but you have a record of what you spent, and you actually make a little money - I get back a thousand a year, more or less.
The system has some quirks, but then don't we all?
Call me crazy, but I think there may just be a little bit of malice going on here.
It very well might be indistinguishable from that.
If the idea was to get young ladies interested in Science, then I'm for as much exposure as they are willing to handle. But trying to get them into a dying field (at least for American citizens in America - is just plain nasty.
And having worked with several women engineers and scientists, there was a common thread in thinking that these type efforts are pointless, and especially blaming it all on men is likewise pointless.
And it isn't a denial of misogynism, or that some guys are jackasses. It's that they laugh at the idea that anything like that was going to keep them away from what they wanted to do. And all but one of the female engineers I worked with was highly respected. I think the one who wasn't was a young lady who got cast into the wrong profession. She quit and became a professional trainer, after which she was happy.
Is it? Usually when someone points this out - that women do a much better job at keeping smart women down than men do - someone comes along and starts claiming that this is internalized misogyny, instilled in women by the patriarchy. Sounds pretty easy to me.
Well, of course. But I've found in most matters, the people who have ot tap-dance through reasoning fo excuses, as in "I am never wrong", tend ot be.
I'm all for asking women to move into tech jobs - we have too little of them. But I think this documentary sends the wrong message. Girls building one-shot girlie apps isn't very flattering a proposition for women in tech.
Some times the whole thing sounds a little like the ladies down at Curves ( a women only gym) complaining about men excluding them.
They should've done a really good documentary on Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and perhaps some current day programmers doing serious and exciting work.
Or Hedy LaMarr, who had the side benefit of being so beautiful, she could destroy the "homely smart girl with glasses" stereotype instantly Aside from he acting career, she was an inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the most well known invention in conjunction with another person, of frequency hopping spread spectrum radio.
But back to women in science in general, Marie Curie, or Jane Goodall, Ellen RIchards, Beatrix Potter, and a slew of others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are some present day examples as well Amy Mainzer, Laura Danley, Danica McKellar, and these are just women I can name off the top of my head, but all doing science of some sort.
Rather than the standard "Men are pigs" argument, perhaps it would be better to ask these ladies why they got into science, and what did not keep them out of STEM.
Because at some point, when we keep coming back to the same old same old reasons - maybe the men are pigs argument isn't the cause of all problems. I do know that many women who are successful or have non traditional female careers are set upon by other women like hyenas on a wildabeest. And it's hard to blame that on men.
The only part that annoyed me is the whole "exclusive youtube premiere". You know what else has an exclusive youtube premiere? Cellphone video of cats.
Which of course brings up the question of why there are almost no pets in STEM careers.
The thing that seriously annoys me about this whole women can code thing is why we are going out of our way to train women for jobs that won't exist for them unless they renounce their citizenship, move to another country, then come back to get a job using an H-1B visa.
That doesn't matter. If you go to 10 sites and all of them tell your browser to contact Facebook for some Javascript API, then Facebook knows that your browser visited those 10 sites.
That's what script disabling is for. Certainly the number of tracker scripts FB has is impressive. And the site better be damn good for me to turn them off. Something like Sophia Vergara taking a shower maybe. Other than that, if I can't see their ads or content, its their loss - not mine.
We'll have to find out what will happen when >90% of the internet sees large drops in their traffic. People in general are becoming more aware to ad-blockers, it's no longer relegated to niche Firefox extensions. That day is coming.
Pretty much this. I've installed it on a lot of regular folks computers, usually after a demonstration of the difference in loading times enabled and disabled. I'm usually looking at them in the first place because of compliaints of slow loading.
And I'm pretty certain it is having some effect already, as a number of sites that I no longer ever go to pop up screens that tell me to disable my ad blocker software......
Umm no folks, you'll never have even the chance to infect my machine ever again. ESAD baby.
I'll tell you exactly what sort of response that would evoke from pretty much everyone, because I've already seen it: They start moving actual content and functionality for their sites to the same servers that are serving ads and things to track you, leaving you with two choices: accept their ads and tracking, or don't use their site at all. What's your response going to be when >90% of the Internet is denied to you, because you won't give in to their ads and tracking techniques? That's likely what's coming.
Good. Then I'll usse the ten percent of the sites that are left. Or not at all. Teh intertoobz are mighty damn sick these days, and are rapidly losing any semblance of usefulness. So if it reaches that point, then it will reach zero usefuness for many. Then business and the trackers will have won - sorta.
All I know is I already don't go to sites that demand I turn off my adblocker software.
What we need is 9 out of 10 users to start explicitly blocking tracking and advertising, and then flat-out ignore the companies who complain about their bottom line.
Yes, and this is part one of the strategy. Already, if I go to a site, and see "We see you are using an ad blocker. Please unblock to access our content.
NONONONONONO assholes! You can just go out of business for all I care. I just click back to where I was, and move on. If enough of them analyze how many people just say a collective "Eat shit mofo's!", that will be the first stage.
The second stage is to give them what they want. lots and lots and lots of data, all spoofed, all the time. Enough to make their data mining completely useless.
The internet is very sick brothers. Time to make it well again.
Higher paper and consumables.
Data is sent as image making it harder to index and catalog.
The mechanics of scanning analog sending and printing can cause a lot of errors in the stream.
Poor quality means less detail or bigger text.
Having to translate a bad fax.
Facing sucks. I work at a hospital I know. It is hard to force people off the habit.
But when the people you are dealing with use signed faxes? I don't use my fax portion of my machines unless requested. And since some of the people I deal with want faxes, I would lose a lot of time and money travelling to a place that had a fax and back.
The technology is ancient. But unless I'm going to change the lawyer in say, my father's will, or give up a sweet interest rate in order to not use a fax machine, - I'm not going to worry about it too much. I'll fax them the signed documents they want, then go about the rest of my life, fat dumb, and happy.
Probably because electronic form filling allows you to skip the steps of printing, handwriting, and then scanning each document, in addition to the dial and handshake, and the transmit time, and remember, time is money.
Maybe most folks are in a different world, but when I've served as Executor of wills, and enter the legal world, the lawyers wanted faxes with signatures, and even when I made a withdrawal from a Tax deferred account recently, I needed to fax a lot of signed forms to lawyers and accountants.
And yes, it seems weird to get a pdf emailed to you, then you fill in and sign it, then fax it back. But it's their rules, so I do it that way. I have to have a printer and a scanner, I have to have a phone line, so the costs and time of having a fax in the printer and the time to send it is pretty inconsequential.
Yes, because (a) lots of people here are advocating using the cloud as the sole repository of your data and (b) a whole freaking year isn't enough time to migrate to a new solution.
The way I see it, is that if I have to store locally, and all that entails, Storing it in the cloud as well, merely makes for another and pointless task.
I liken it to the state we are in now, where we have cheap 100 inch TV's but people watch movies on their little smartphones.
Storage is pretty cheap these days. I have a lot of pretty inexpensive storage on site, with lots of nice local backups. plus one to store offsite but under my control.
disclaimer, I do use Apple's cloud to "find my iphone" because I'm one of those shits who's always laying the phone around then can't find it. But other than that, I trust myself, not some outfit who might not be accessible when I need it, or might put me through the research to find another cloud every year or so.
I don't think they are going to like what they find.
I can't be the only one repulsed by the present day ads.
Especially during daytime - it's creeping to evenings now.
Because women are leaky things that spew matter from every orifice, men are the opposite, they have to put thingys up their weiners so they can pee. Drugs that might make you go on a killing rampage.
Vaginal mesh, mesothelioma, Call us so we can see who you can sue! Some wacky lady who is obsessed with pooping, and probiotics. J.G. Wentworth "It's my money and I need cash now!"
Dancing millenials. Did I mention dancing millenials? Do we have to have dancing millenials break into a dance because their Totino's pizza rolls came out of the microwave? Or found a piece of furniture online?
When they tortured the guy in A Clockwork Orange" they could have just used today's commercials.
Slashdot Mirror
Tracking you will be much more efficient. Built in, unblockable analytics.
I stunk at any kinf of math before seeing a lside rule,
And it would appear that I still stink at spelling.
Yeah, slide rules are a complete anachronism, but not without worth. I still have one in the garage. The batteries in them seem to last forever as well!
A decade or so ago the company I worked at had to repeatedly advise customers to use FTDI or Silicon Labs based USB-serial converters with our products. It got to the point that it was the first question on the tech support script. The cheaper converters based on Prolific chipsets were incredibly unreliable but customers kept buying them because on ebay one converter appears much the same as another.
There were a lot of counterfeit prolifics out there, so it isn't specifically a prolific problem. It's kind of like blaming Apple for the cheap fake iphone chargers.
But yeah, if you can get a USB-Serial converter for 3 bucks, it might not be too good.
I use FTDI mostly now, but have a few of the real prolifics setting around and in use. Including an ancient one that was used for a palm device, and still works in Linux even though Windows doesn't support it at all any more.
If only GA had a voter ID law to prevent fraud....
oh. wait.
I know. Do these kooks have any ideas that actually work?
Which of course brings up the question of why there are almost no pets in STEM careers.
PETA. Bosses wouldn't be allowed to treat animals the way they treat humans :-)
Well played!
Breathlessly announcing that this is some sort of farcical "dey gunna take our jerbs!" maneuver is fucking STUPID, and just one more attempt by the good old boys' network to scare women away from tech careers.
You do have some serious reading comprehension problems donchya, Coward?
In other words they see that in their industry I am, and will remain, what is called a "deadbeat." This does not mean a non-payer, this means someone who PAYS and doesn't carry balances,
You and I are cash flow. It's pretty obvious if everyone who paid those minimum monthly payment, that the model wouldn't work. Or at least it should b obvious. They are quite happy to get my check every month.
they're making the offer because it *is* within your means...
to pay the monthly minimum. Which is exactly what AC wrote.
Unfortunately, that isn't what I see. As easy as it is to make the CC company the root of all evil, then people just shouldn't use them, or only as little as absolutely possible.
But altogether too many people have zero financial discipline. NO one is making them buy a brand new computer 100 inch led tv take a vacation to Disneyworld every year go on a cruise buy a 20thousand dollar ring for the wife's/husband's birthday buy new furniture every two years and on and on and on.
It's how people get into financial messes, because it's their fault. I was a completely stupid fucker because I didn't refinance my house and buy Escalades and HumVee's or take the family and my kid's friends to Disneyworld like many of my co-workers, or buy a million dollar house with 250 dollars a month payment on a 50 year ARM mortgage. That's where the smart money was. We'll just keep refinancing and it will be heaven on earth for those who get in on the free money, gravy train.
But now, they are still paying on that car they bought in 2002 thropugh a continued mortgage, and it's probably been crushed for scrap by now. Honest to gawd, there were some people I worked with who bought houses in the same price range as mine, but at the time I had mine paid off, they were right where they started.
Now, I'm retired ten years early, and they may be looking at selling their McMansion because their Social security will barely cover the taxes on it, or more likely, not retiring until htey get the axe.So they'll fall off that bridge when they come to it.
So yeah, blame those bastard's at the Credit card company. Lack of disipline doesn't have anything to do with it. (sarc)
They _want_ people who arn't completely broke but can't afford the credit so they'll keep making minimum payments forever. They want to load you down with more credit than you can afford so you get on that treadmill.
I'm kinda on the fence with regards to how I feel about this. One one hand, the banks are doing some shady stuff and directly trying to set people up for financial disaster for their own benefit.
Yep, every dollar of debt you take puts $10 back into the sytem which they can then lend out to ten more suckers. Gotta love it.
Not completely. It might seem that people who pay off their credit cards every month would be refused credit under the "sucker system" y'all describe. But those people result in cash flow for the companies. If everyone made the easy minimum payments, it would be a big problem for them.
According to lenders this makes me a credit risk.
No doubt.
That's why I occasionally buy large things on credit, and pay them off quickly even though I have the cash.
Also, a really cool method of keeping credit churning along is getting a cashback credit card, living on it, then paying it off every month. You not only do not pay interest, but you have a record of what you spent, and you actually make a little money - I get back a thousand a year, more or less.
The system has some quirks, but then don't we all?
Call me crazy, but I think there may just be a little bit of malice going on here.
It very well might be indistinguishable from that.
If the idea was to get young ladies interested in Science, then I'm for as much exposure as they are willing to handle. But trying to get them into a dying field (at least for American citizens in America - is just plain nasty.
And having worked with several women engineers and scientists, there was a common thread in thinking that these type efforts are pointless, and especially blaming it all on men is likewise pointless.
And it isn't a denial of misogynism, or that some guys are jackasses. It's that they laugh at the idea that anything like that was going to keep them away from what they wanted to do. And all but one of the female engineers I worked with was highly respected. I think the one who wasn't was a young lady who got cast into the wrong profession. She quit and became a professional trainer, after which she was happy.
And it's hard to blame that on men
Is it? Usually when someone points this out - that women do a much better job at keeping smart women down than men do - someone comes along and starts claiming that this is internalized misogyny, instilled in women by the patriarchy. Sounds pretty easy to me.
Well, of course. But I've found in most matters, the people who have ot tap-dance through reasoning fo excuses, as in "I am never wrong", tend ot be.
Wrong.
I'm all for asking women to move into tech jobs - we have too little of them. But I think this documentary sends the wrong message. Girls building one-shot girlie apps isn't very flattering a proposition for women in tech.
Some times the whole thing sounds a little like the ladies down at Curves ( a women only gym) complaining about men excluding them.
They should've done a really good documentary on Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and perhaps some current day programmers doing serious and exciting work.
Or Hedy LaMarr, who had the side benefit of being so beautiful, she could destroy the "homely smart girl with glasses" stereotype instantly Aside from he acting career, she was an inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the most well known invention in conjunction with another person, of frequency hopping spread spectrum radio.
But back to women in science in general, Marie Curie, or Jane Goodall, Ellen RIchards, Beatrix Potter, and a slew of others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are some present day examples as well Amy Mainzer, Laura Danley, Danica McKellar, and these are just women I can name off the top of my head, but all doing science of some sort.
Rather than the standard "Men are pigs" argument, perhaps it would be better to ask these ladies why they got into science, and what did not keep them out of STEM.
Because at some point, when we keep coming back to the same old same old reasons - maybe the men are pigs argument isn't the cause of all problems. I do know that many women who are successful or have non traditional female careers are set upon by other women like hyenas on a wildabeest. And it's hard to blame that on men.
The only part that annoyed me is the whole "exclusive youtube premiere". You know what else has an exclusive youtube premiere? Cellphone video of cats.
Which of course brings up the question of why there are almost no pets in STEM careers.
The thing that seriously annoys me about this whole women can code thing is why we are going out of our way to train women for jobs that won't exist for them unless they renounce their citizenship, move to another country, then come back to get a job using an H-1B visa.
That doesn't matter. If you go to 10 sites and all of them tell your browser to contact Facebook for some Javascript API, then Facebook knows that your browser visited those 10 sites.
That's what script disabling is for. Certainly the number of tracker scripts FB has is impressive. And the site better be damn good for me to turn them off. Something like Sophia Vergara taking a shower maybe. Other than that, if I can't see their ads or content, its their loss - not mine.
We'll have to find out what will happen when >90% of the internet sees large drops in their traffic. People in general are becoming more aware to ad-blockers, it's no longer relegated to niche Firefox extensions. That day is coming.
Pretty much this. I've installed it on a lot of regular folks computers, usually after a demonstration of the difference in loading times enabled and disabled. I'm usually looking at them in the first place because of compliaints of slow loading.
And I'm pretty certain it is having some effect already, as a number of sites that I no longer ever go to pop up screens that tell me to disable my ad blocker software......
Umm no folks, you'll never have even the chance to infect my machine ever again. ESAD baby.
I'll tell you exactly what sort of response that would evoke from pretty much everyone, because I've already seen it: They start moving actual content and functionality for their sites to the same servers that are serving ads and things to track you, leaving you with two choices: accept their ads and tracking, or don't use their site at all. What's your response going to be when >90% of the Internet is denied to you, because you won't give in to their ads and tracking techniques? That's likely what's coming.
Good. Then I'll usse the ten percent of the sites that are left. Or not at all. Teh intertoobz are mighty damn sick these days, and are rapidly losing any semblance of usefulness. So if it reaches that point, then it will reach zero usefuness for many. Then business and the trackers will have won - sorta.
All I know is I already don't go to sites that demand I turn off my adblocker software.
What we need is 9 out of 10 users to start explicitly blocking tracking and advertising, and then flat-out ignore the companies who complain about their bottom line.
Yes, and this is part one of the strategy. Already, if I go to a site, and see "We see you are using an ad blocker. Please unblock to access our content.
NONONONONONO assholes! You can just go out of business for all I care. I just click back to where I was, and move on. If enough of them analyze how many people just say a collective "Eat shit mofo's!", that will be the first stage.
The second stage is to give them what they want. lots and lots and lots of data, all spoofed, all the time. Enough to make their data mining completely useless.
The internet is very sick brothers. Time to make it well again.
The summary says "seconds into the flight" but TFA says "mid-flight".
Many hundreds of seconds
"meant" to carry.
I know no one RTFA, but at least RTFS
Oh crap, I RTFA. Most appy lolly gees.
Higher paper and consumables. Data is sent as image making it harder to index and catalog. The mechanics of scanning analog sending and printing can cause a lot of errors in the stream. Poor quality means less detail or bigger text. Having to translate a bad fax.
Facing sucks. I work at a hospital I know. It is hard to force people off the habit.
But when the people you are dealing with use signed faxes? I don't use my fax portion of my machines unless requested. And since some of the people I deal with want faxes, I would lose a lot of time and money travelling to a place that had a fax and back.
The technology is ancient. But unless I'm going to change the lawyer in say, my father's will, or give up a sweet interest rate in order to not use a fax machine, - I'm not going to worry about it too much. I'll fax them the signed documents they want, then go about the rest of my life, fat dumb, and happy.
Probably because electronic form filling allows you to skip the steps of printing, handwriting, and then scanning each document, in addition to the dial and handshake, and the transmit time, and remember, time is money.
Maybe most folks are in a different world, but when I've served as Executor of wills, and enter the legal world, the lawyers wanted faxes with signatures, and even when I made a withdrawal from a Tax deferred account recently, I needed to fax a lot of signed forms to lawyers and accountants.
And yes, it seems weird to get a pdf emailed to you, then you fill in and sign it, then fax it back. But it's their rules, so I do it that way. I have to have a printer and a scanner, I have to have a phone line, so the costs and time of having a fax in the printer and the time to send it is pretty inconsequential.
Yes, because (a) lots of people here are advocating using the cloud as the sole repository of your data and (b) a whole freaking year isn't enough time to migrate to a new solution.
The way I see it, is that if I have to store locally, and all that entails, Storing it in the cloud as well, merely makes for another and pointless task.
I liken it to the state we are in now, where we have cheap 100 inch TV's but people watch movies on their little smartphones.
Storage is pretty cheap these days. I have a lot of pretty inexpensive storage on site, with lots of nice local backups. plus one to store offsite but under my control.
disclaimer, I do use Apple's cloud to "find my iphone" because I'm one of those shits who's always laying the phone around then can't find it. But other than that, I trust myself, not some outfit who might not be accessible when I need it, or might put me through the research to find another cloud every year or so.
I can't be the only one repulsed by the present day ads.
Especially during daytime - it's creeping to evenings now.
Because women are leaky things that spew matter from every orifice, men are the opposite, they have to put thingys up their weiners so they can pee. Drugs that might make you go on a killing rampage.
Vaginal mesh, mesothelioma, Call us so we can see who you can sue! Some wacky lady who is obsessed with pooping, and probiotics. J.G. Wentworth "It's my money and I need cash now!"
Dancing millenials. Did I mention dancing millenials? Do we have to have dancing millenials break into a dance because their Totino's pizza rolls came out of the microwave? Or found a piece of furniture online?
When they tortured the guy in A Clockwork Orange" they could have just used today's commercials.