> If a woman wants to be a physicist, nothing will stop her. If she doesn't, no one can make her.
That's just incredibly naive.
Your statement is bullshit. You apparently believe thatr men are pushed along, with nary a cloudy day, their road to physics paved with gold.
When the fact is - it's not easy. This is not a fraternity. Today, there are sexists on both sides. There are large scale disagreements.
But here's the truth coward. This is not a field for the easily dissuaded. If you have a theory, there are going to be those who oppose it. Either because of belief, or even devil's advocate. I've sat in rooms where my ideas are called bullshit. I've been called an asshole. (so what's new)The lady physicists and scientists get no free pass, nor do they want one. The opposition is part of the process.
But here's the kicker.
I don't care. Neither do they. They are in this because this is what they want to do with their life. This is not a world where certain groups are above criticism.
Naive? What is naive is the concept that anyone, male or female will sit down one day and say "I think my passion is to be a physicist! At least until someone anyone opposes me, then I'm nothing and it is their fault."
Sorry cowardly entity, but if you want to be a physicist, you must have passion - real passion, not one that you get from a career day in 3rd grade, but one you know you have. And real passion is a white hot pillar of flame that drags you along with it. The men and women who I made careers with had it. Interestingly enough, the biggest skeptics of today's modus were those same women.
Today, some folks are attempting to redefine passion as a mild interest. In truth, so few people have real passion.
It's simply because there are less women working at the highest levels in these fields, which has as an underlying cause that women, in general, are less inclined to put in what it takes to lead such research teams (ie. putting work before family, foregoing socializing, personal hygiene, etc).
Whoa their Sparky! Could you drag out a few more memes there? I've worked with a lot of physicists and scientists, and the ladies had perfectly acceptable hygiene. And you might be surprised at how many even played sports. Hell - I'm into Ice Hockey, and shower twice a day, and many buds are into sports like handball and running. I mixed genders in that group.
Now, discarding the memes, There is a particular mindset and way of thinking required of a physicist. There is almost certainly a thought process difference - in generalization - that goes along gender lines.
Point is, my wife, who is exceptionally brilliant, simply does not think in the same way as I do. I on the other hand, am likewise not too bad at what I do.
And here is the takeaway. Rather than engage in some battle over who is "better" - and the answer is neither - we use our respective differences as synergy, not some age old misogynist/misandrist shitfest. Its like we serve as each other's mentat.
Less women willing to make such sacrifices (or only part-time) means they're competing with more men willing to do so, which naturally leads to men being over represented and thus having increased chances of winning prestigious merit based prices.
But we can just call all that sexism and pretend that men and women are exactly equal and that millions of years of evolution couldn't possibly have had an impact on how men and women mentally develop, and how that might effect their careers.
Now you are back on track.
If a woman wants to be a physicist, nothing will stop her. If she doesn't, no one can make her.
It means under represented in tech compared to their presence in the general population.
So anything except a white or Asian male.
Black, Hispanic, Native American, or female of any race is under represented.
I spent several years working in after school programs for robots, coding, and GATE (Gifted And Talented Education). I can see some sense in "girl-only" instruction, since boys can get overly enthusiastic about tech, so the girls often pull back and just sit and watch. But this can be addressed by allowing girls to self-segregate into girl-only workgroups.
For race it make NO SENSE. Black kids do better when intermixed, and kids learn a lot from their peers.
What about Black girls only classes, or transgender only.
Gender apartheid is rapidly becomeing a liberal touchstone.
Asking questions is not flame bait slash dotters. Asking questions is looking for answers.
And modding my post flamebait is merely showing that you know that you don't want to answer the question. Why not?
School boards are filled with people who have too much time on their hands. That typically means religious folk trying to shove more Jesus into the lessons or the new religious sort trying to shove more wokeness into lessons.
And if Facebook is serious about targeting poorer communities, I doubt the school boards will complain about the extra opportunity whether it is truly beneficial or not.
Knowing what I know about facebook, letting them around your children is about as safe as letting Jerry Sandusky babysit yout 10 year old son. Not for the same reason, but just imagine what Disney would pay for children's data.
I'd pull my kid and put him in a different school.
It means under represented in tech compared to their presence in the general population.
So anything except a white or Asian male.
Black, Hispanic, Native American, or female of any race is under represented.
I spent several years working in after school programs for robots, coding, and GATE (Gifted And Talented Education). I can see some sense in "girl-only" instruction, since boys can get overly enthusiastic about tech, so the girls often pull back and just sit and watch. But this can be addressed by allowing girls to self-segregate into girl-only workgroups.
For race it make NO SENSE. Black kids do better when intermixed, and kids learn a lot from their peers.
What about Black girls only classes, or transgender only.
Gender apartheid is rapidly becomeing a liberal touchstone.
Enough with all the utopian bullshit and just make it work better!
How about being able to actually get GB speed from the GB connection Iâ(TM)m paying for? Start there.
How about not being stuck waiting on a connection to some third part domain that Iâ(TM)ve never even heard of, so that the site Iâ(TM)m ACTUALLY VISITING will load and make itself available to me?
How about a goddamned single sign on mechanism of any kind so that I donâ(TM)t have 1000 different passwords for websites?
How about a âoepay nowâ button that accesses the info I have already stored in my web browserâ(TM)s âoeID cardâ, so that I donâ(TM)t have to type it in all the time?
Start with that. Let me know when you have it. Thanks.
You aren't quite understanding, friend. All that you complain about is a direct result of what the web has become, not utopian bullshit.
Do you want to know why data caps has been increasing? Why they advertise faux so called Unlimited data?
All of the thigs you complain about cause it. The increase in data is just so you can be force-fed more ads, scripts, tracking, and attempts to get you to freely give away data that can be monetized or weaponized.
If I tether a computer to my smartphone without an ad blocker or ghostery, I'll blow through data so fast that it takes hardly any time to blow my cap or get data throttled. The phone by itself gobbles up that data if I use it's browser.
I measured one time - one page that I went to without protection to get a 40 K PDF file blew through over 40 Mbytes of the shit they make you wade through.
The Nazis and Japanese could have made some pretty cool robots, but we'd have fought the actual war regardless of who won the robo-battle. The Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Taliban wouldn't have robots anywhere near our league, so they'll lose the war and then fight anyway.
This touches upon the final question of the article.
A war of robot versus robot is pointless other than as entertainment.
War is specifically designed to kill humans. Humans, by virtue of their genetic based hyper aggressiveness, have an innate need to define an "other", then to do what they can to end the lives of the other.
There are often reasons - resources, different Gods, but not to worry - the reason is just a casus belli, the excuse for killing the other. One will always be found.
The only thing that frustrates our need to kill is that we have become so good at it that many of our options to kill the other lead to our own destruction. We now have a relatively inexpensive ability to make ourselves go extinct. So our higher thought processes realize this, and fights it's own war with our lizard brain, and has come up with the concept of proxy wars. Take some group like middle eastern populations that are no where near as technologically advanced, and start the bloodshed. And always a casus belli.
But never ever understimate the lizard brain coupled with our genetic need to identify the other and then kill it.
I have long believed that at some point in the not-too-distant future, humans will gleefully use our big-boomey toys. Our hyper aggressiveness will prove to be our extinction.
tl:dr version. Robots killing robots can't work. At some point a human has to die.
If I understand this correctly this would be built in poison pill and destroy Open Source as we know it.
If a company/individual wanted to seriously harm an open source project they would make significant contributions to a project that becomes integrated and built upon and then at some point announce they want to rescind their contributions and thereby destroying the project. This is pure stupidity.
Almost as stupid to think that only nice people be allowed to work on a project.
The very best talent does not always correlate with lovingkindness. I've worked with many people without whom a project would have failed, who were jerks.
A "code of Conduct" would have killed the project, and wasted sponsors money, and meant the sponsor wouldn't give us any more.
The code of conduct people will kill linux as quickly as rescinding code.(which you can't do anyhow) More than likely, the code won't be offered in the first place. Why risk offending someone and the resulting punishment?
But everyone will be very nice, so that will be really nice.
Of course you can't "take back" something freely given under those circumstances.
But here's the issue. If you are going to be #metoo'd and castigated or perhaps even demanded to be fired for violating the mandatory rules on how you must act, there is an excellent chance that you will decide that participation has no positives. What do you get for contributing, and what do you get if in a moment of weakness, you write or say something that someone might find offensive?
I certainly believe in everyone being excellent to each other.
But I also know that there are some people in this working world who will take full advantage of a "code of conduct" to tear down those who are better than them - crab potting.
Me? No thanks, I've been in places where the most easily offended control the group dynamic. If you think Linus was toxic, just wait until you get someone who controls the group by claiming every criticism or minor disagreement is a personal attack.
Because the goal then becomes to avoid offending them, not the original goal of accomplishing something.
"powered by oxidizing zinc with oxygen from the air"
Before the ecologists find out.
Zinc-air batteries are already in common use for devices like hearing aids. They put out a pretty good amount of power, but not for a long time. . And they are really cheap.
What I am interested in is how a zinc-air battery becomes rechargeable. Zinc generally gets the proverbial crap beat out of it in a battery.
I wish there was a little more detail in the press release.
Just because it has the printer drivers doesn't mean they work.
Now there is a strange statement. I've used the two printers for years, they print perfectly. Meanwhile, My Win10 Laptop hasno driver - period.
Same thing happened with USB to serial converters. I was setting up some dual boot laptops that used the converter . I set up the Linux side first. Worked great. You have to add yourself to dialout to use them because Linux considers Serial port a security risk. But hardly an effort at all.
But trying to set up the converter on the Windows side failed. Some detective work followed, and yup, No Windows driver, and none would be issued. Yet putting the converter through it's paces showed it to function exactly the same as the new converter that Windows accepted.
1) Originating from within the Earth's crust.
2) Bouncing off something in the Earth's crust.
3) Leaking through the Earth from an undetected particle beam impact on the other side, originating deep in space.
Who wants to bet on one?
A very good chance of just that. If every claim of something something shatter modern physics actually did shatter modern physics, modern physics would be irrecoverably shattered long ago.
You prefer vainly trying to curb emissions, blowing all kinds of money on marginal gains that won't change the situation, rather than stockpiling resources in the hope of surviving what's coming?
You go ahead and do that.
Its like refusing to use the brakes to stop your car when it's hurtling toward a cliff.
You've forgotten about business critical applications. Granted more and more are going cloud, so then a switch to Linux is possible, but there is still a plethora of Windows only options (even many cloud ones are just remoteapp/citrix xenapp). Microsoft Office is also a compelling reason for those already ingrained in their ecosystem.
It's a stupid company that ties it's very core to an Operating system. But hey - we saw the Internet Exploder 6 web app phenomenon too.
Meanwhile I've been setting up Apache Office pr places, and I've used it pretty exclusively for years, since it is compatible on Linux MacOS and Windows. Microsoft Office isn't even compatible with itself.
If only Linux on the desktop wasn't a pile of unusable shit that makes Windows 10 look good.
Says the WIndows fanboy who never learned to use Linux or is afraid to try.
(Now, tell me you tried it 20 years ago and it didn't work)
Windows now has the worst driver support bar none.
I received a nice new W10 Laptop. I did some work on it and wanted to print off the resullts. Shouldn't be an issue.
No driver for either of my printers - no driver available. I guess Microsoft decided that perfectly good printers needed to be chucked.
My Mac's latest MacOS has drivers. Every Linux install has pain free drivers for them. I could still by inkjet and laser carts, so I just incorrectly assumed they would work on the Windows 10 machine. Wrong.
So I printed to pdf, thumb-drived the pdf to my Mac, and printed it because the latest and greatest W10 install is not capable.
So that Windows fanboi is bitching about the wrong computer.
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> If a woman wants to be a physicist, nothing will stop her. If she doesn't, no one can make her.
That's just incredibly naive.
Your statement is bullshit. You apparently believe thatr men are pushed along, with nary a cloudy day, their road to physics paved with gold.
When the fact is - it's not easy. This is not a fraternity. Today, there are sexists on both sides. There are large scale disagreements.
But here's the truth coward. This is not a field for the easily dissuaded. If you have a theory, there are going to be those who oppose it. Either because of belief, or even devil's advocate. I've sat in rooms where my ideas are called bullshit. I've been called an asshole. (so what's new)The lady physicists and scientists get no free pass, nor do they want one. The opposition is part of the process.
But here's the kicker.
I don't care. Neither do they. They are in this because this is what they want to do with their life. This is not a world where certain groups are above criticism.
Naive? What is naive is the concept that anyone, male or female will sit down one day and say "I think my passion is to be a physicist! At least until someone anyone opposes me, then I'm nothing and it is their fault."
Sorry cowardly entity, but if you want to be a physicist, you must have passion - real passion, not one that you get from a career day in 3rd grade, but one you know you have. And real passion is a white hot pillar of flame that drags you along with it. The men and women who I made careers with had it. Interestingly enough, the biggest skeptics of today's modus were those same women.
Today, some folks are attempting to redefine passion as a mild interest. In truth, so few people have real passion.
It's simply because there are less women working at the highest levels in these fields, which has as an underlying cause that women, in general, are less inclined to put in what it takes to lead such research teams (ie. putting work before family, foregoing socializing, personal hygiene, etc).
Whoa their Sparky! Could you drag out a few more memes there? I've worked with a lot of physicists and scientists, and the ladies had perfectly acceptable hygiene. And you might be surprised at how many even played sports. Hell - I'm into Ice Hockey, and shower twice a day, and many buds are into sports like handball and running. I mixed genders in that group.
Now, discarding the memes, There is a particular mindset and way of thinking required of a physicist. There is almost certainly a thought process difference - in generalization - that goes along gender lines.
Point is, my wife, who is exceptionally brilliant, simply does not think in the same way as I do. I on the other hand, am likewise not too bad at what I do.
And here is the takeaway. Rather than engage in some battle over who is "better" - and the answer is neither - we use our respective differences as synergy, not some age old misogynist/misandrist shitfest. Its like we serve as each other's mentat.
Less women willing to make such sacrifices (or only part-time) means they're competing with more men willing to do so, which naturally leads to men being over represented and thus having increased chances of winning prestigious merit based prices.
But we can just call all that sexism and pretend that men and women are exactly equal and that millions of years of evolution couldn't possibly have had an impact on how men and women mentally develop, and how that might effect their careers.
Now you are back on track.
If a woman wants to be a physicist, nothing will stop her. If she doesn't, no one can make her.
Also, what does underrepresented actually mean?
It means under represented in tech compared to their presence in the general population.
So anything except a white or Asian male.
Black, Hispanic, Native American, or female of any race is under represented.
I spent several years working in after school programs for robots, coding, and GATE (Gifted And Talented Education). I can see some sense in "girl-only" instruction, since boys can get overly enthusiastic about tech, so the girls often pull back and just sit and watch. But this can be addressed by allowing girls to self-segregate into girl-only workgroups.
For race it make NO SENSE. Black kids do better when intermixed, and kids learn a lot from their peers.
What about Black girls only classes, or transgender only.
Gender apartheid is rapidly becomeing a liberal touchstone.
Asking questions is not flame bait slash dotters. Asking questions is looking for answers.
And modding my post flamebait is merely showing that you know that you don't want to answer the question. Why not?
School boards are filled with people who have too much time on their hands. That typically means religious folk trying to shove more Jesus into the lessons or the new religious sort trying to shove more wokeness into lessons. And if Facebook is serious about targeting poorer communities, I doubt the school boards will complain about the extra opportunity whether it is truly beneficial or not.
Knowing what I know about facebook, letting them around your children is about as safe as letting Jerry Sandusky babysit yout 10 year old son. Not for the same reason, but just imagine what Disney would pay for children's data.
I'd pull my kid and put him in a different school.
Also, what does underrepresented actually mean?
It means under represented in tech compared to their presence in the general population.
So anything except a white or Asian male.
Black, Hispanic, Native American, or female of any race is under represented.
I spent several years working in after school programs for robots, coding, and GATE (Gifted And Talented Education). I can see some sense in "girl-only" instruction, since boys can get overly enthusiastic about tech, so the girls often pull back and just sit and watch. But this can be addressed by allowing girls to self-segregate into girl-only workgroups.
For race it make NO SENSE. Black kids do better when intermixed, and kids learn a lot from their peers.
What about Black girls only classes, or transgender only.
Gender apartheid is rapidly becomeing a liberal touchstone.
It's Facebook's money. They can do with it what they want.
So you are saying that school boards have no say in this?
I'm not sure I like Facebook having ANY presence in the classroom even if it's trying to help.
The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook conglomerate knows you have to get their data early and often.
The internet is badly broken.
The internet is working perfectly. It was never intended as a virtual domain to allow primates to pick nits off each other digitally.
Yeah, it was always about an advertisement, tracking and data weapon service.
Enough with all the utopian bullshit and just make it work better!
How about being able to actually get GB speed from the GB connection Iâ(TM)m paying for? Start there.
How about not being stuck waiting on a connection to some third part domain that Iâ(TM)ve never even heard of, so that the site Iâ(TM)m ACTUALLY VISITING will load and make itself available to me?
How about a goddamned single sign on mechanism of any kind so that I donâ(TM)t have 1000 different passwords for websites?
How about a âoepay nowâ button that accesses the info I have already stored in my web browserâ(TM)s âoeID cardâ, so that I donâ(TM)t have to type it in all the time?
Start with that. Let me know when you have it. Thanks.
You aren't quite understanding, friend. All that you complain about is a direct result of what the web has become, not utopian bullshit.
Do you want to know why data caps has been increasing? Why they advertise faux so called Unlimited data?
All of the thigs you complain about cause it. The increase in data is just so you can be force-fed more ads, scripts, tracking, and attempts to get you to freely give away data that can be monetized or weaponized.
If I tether a computer to my smartphone without an ad blocker or ghostery, I'll blow through data so fast that it takes hardly any time to blow my cap or get data throttled. The phone by itself gobbles up that data if I use it's browser.
I measured one time - one page that I went to without protection to get a 40 K PDF file blew through over 40 Mbytes of the shit they make you wade through.
The internet is badly broken.
The Nazis and Japanese could have made some pretty cool robots, but we'd have fought the actual war regardless of who won the robo-battle. The Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Taliban wouldn't have robots anywhere near our league, so they'll lose the war and then fight anyway.
This touches upon the final question of the article.
A war of robot versus robot is pointless other than as entertainment.
War is specifically designed to kill humans. Humans, by virtue of their genetic based hyper aggressiveness, have an innate need to define an "other", then to do what they can to end the lives of the other.
There are often reasons - resources, different Gods, but not to worry - the reason is just a casus belli, the excuse for killing the other. One will always be found.
The only thing that frustrates our need to kill is that we have become so good at it that many of our options to kill the other lead to our own destruction. We now have a relatively inexpensive ability to make ourselves go extinct. So our higher thought processes realize this, and fights it's own war with our lizard brain, and has come up with the concept of proxy wars. Take some group like middle eastern populations that are no where near as technologically advanced, and start the bloodshed. And always a casus belli.
But never ever understimate the lizard brain coupled with our genetic need to identify the other and then kill it.
I have long believed that at some point in the not-too-distant future, humans will gleefully use our big-boomey toys. Our hyper aggressiveness will prove to be our extinction.
tl:dr version. Robots killing robots can't work. At some point a human has to die.
If I understand this correctly this would be built in poison pill and destroy Open Source as we know it.
If a company/individual wanted to seriously harm an open source project they would make significant contributions to a project that becomes integrated and built upon and then at some point announce they want to rescind their contributions and thereby destroying the project. This is pure stupidity.
Almost as stupid to think that only nice people be allowed to work on a project.
The very best talent does not always correlate with lovingkindness. I've worked with many people without whom a project would have failed, who were jerks.
A "code of Conduct" would have killed the project, and wasted sponsors money, and meant the sponsor wouldn't give us any more.
The code of conduct people will kill linux as quickly as rescinding code.(which you can't do anyhow) More than likely, the code won't be offered in the first place. Why risk offending someone and the resulting punishment?
But everyone will be very nice, so that will be really nice.
But here's the issue. If you are going to be #metoo'd and castigated or perhaps even demanded to be fired for violating the mandatory rules on how you must act, there is an excellent chance that you will decide that participation has no positives. What do you get for contributing, and what do you get if in a moment of weakness, you write or say something that someone might find offensive?
I certainly believe in everyone being excellent to each other.
But I also know that there are some people in this working world who will take full advantage of a "code of conduct" to tear down those who are better than them - crab potting.
Me? No thanks, I've been in places where the most easily offended control the group dynamic. If you think Linus was toxic, just wait until you get someone who controls the group by claiming every criticism or minor disagreement is a personal attack.
Because the goal then becomes to avoid offending them, not the original goal of accomplishing something.
Combustion, no one knows how it works!
The release of phlogiston.
That's what she said.
"powered by oxidizing zinc with oxygen from the air" Before the ecologists find out.
Zinc-air batteries are already in common use for devices like hearing aids. They put out a pretty good amount of power, but not for a long time. . And they are really cheap.
What I am interested in is how a zinc-air battery becomes rechargeable. Zinc generally gets the proverbial crap beat out of it in a battery.
I wish there was a little more detail in the press release.
Just because it has the printer drivers doesn't mean they work.
Now there is a strange statement. I've used the two printers for years, they print perfectly. Meanwhile, My Win10 Laptop hasno driver - period.
Same thing happened with USB to serial converters. I was setting up some dual boot laptops that used the converter . I set up the Linux side first. Worked great. You have to add yourself to dialout to use them because Linux considers Serial port a security risk. But hardly an effort at all.
But trying to set up the converter on the Windows side failed. Some detective work followed, and yup, No Windows driver, and none would be issued. Yet putting the converter through it's paces showed it to function exactly the same as the new converter that Windows accepted.
Piss-poor driver support for no reason at all.
Lol, like the greens? Who did you mean?
Anyone, left or right
1) Originating from within the Earth's crust. 2) Bouncing off something in the Earth's crust. 3) Leaking through the Earth from an undetected particle beam impact on the other side, originating deep in space.
Who wants to bet on one?
A very good chance of just that. If every claim of something something shatter modern physics actually did shatter modern physics, modern physics would be irrecoverably shattered long ago.
Hi there Sparky! Where ya been?
You prefer vainly trying to curb emissions, blowing all kinds of money on marginal gains that won't change the situation, rather than stockpiling resources in the hope of surviving what's coming?
You go ahead and do that.
Its like refusing to use the brakes to stop your car when it's hurtling toward a cliff.
Airbags are awesome, they might save you.
You go ahead and do that.
The malware is named Facebook.
The Lizard People are coming to greet us! All hail the Great Lizard.
You've forgotten about business critical applications. Granted more and more are going cloud, so then a switch to Linux is possible, but there is still a plethora of Windows only options (even many cloud ones are just remoteapp/citrix xenapp). Microsoft Office is also a compelling reason for those already ingrained in their ecosystem.
It's a stupid company that ties it's very core to an Operating system. But hey - we saw the Internet Exploder 6 web app phenomenon too.
Meanwhile I've been setting up Apache Office pr places, and I've used it pretty exclusively for years, since it is compatible on Linux MacOS and Windows. Microsoft Office isn't even compatible with itself.
If only Windows Server OS was free as in beer.
If only Linux on the desktop wasn't a pile of unusable shit that makes Windows 10 look good.
Says the WIndows fanboy who never learned to use Linux or is afraid to try. (Now, tell me you tried it 20 years ago and it didn't work)
Windows now has the worst driver support bar none.
I received a nice new W10 Laptop. I did some work on it and wanted to print off the resullts. Shouldn't be an issue.
No driver for either of my printers - no driver available. I guess Microsoft decided that perfectly good printers needed to be chucked.
My Mac's latest MacOS has drivers. Every Linux install has pain free drivers for them. I could still by inkjet and laser carts, so I just incorrectly assumed they would work on the Windows 10 machine. Wrong.
So I printed to pdf, thumb-drived the pdf to my Mac, and printed it because the latest and greatest W10 install is not capable.
So that Windows fanboi is bitching about the wrong computer.
Did they suck off their doors, or did they blow off their doors? Editing is important.
As kinky as the Japanese are, I wouldn't be surprised if they sucked off the doors before they blew off.
You'd think they would wrap tentacles around it - nothing can escape from tentacles.
Jokes and all, but is that real, or just them pulling our tentacles?
"the magnetic fields were generated using a technique called electromagnetic flux-compression. "
They didn't have a flux-compensator.
Exactly! I saw that episode of Star Trek Voyager too. They also should have used reverse tachyon companding.