There are consultants for lots of things. Why not have female consultants on game design?
Duh. You missed the point. If a game company wants to make a game more palatable to women, they should hire someone who knows how; if a game company wants it more palatable to young men, they should also hire someone appropriate. Get the idea yet? Target demographic is the key.
Most game companies don't hire Muslim consultants, taxi driver consultants or redheaded consultants.
No offense, but I'm guessing you're not very good at chess. From what I've read about grand masters, and from my personal experience, the good chess players very much base their play on board patterns and abstractions. People simply can't analyze more than a few moves in advance, at least at a reasonable speed.
You're trying to chastise the idealism of the man who proved by existence that his idealism was practical. Twenty years of history would seem to suggest such admonition is unwise. RMS's existence doesn't prove any more than Bill Gates' existance. RMS's complete irrelevance to IT and computer science should make it pretty clear his idealism isn't worth much.
I don't have to substantiate my contention: It's not my job to keep my parent poster's application running. I still run a couple Classic apps on my Powerbook, and by and large they work fine.
So? It's not your job to post on/. either. I have a couple apps that broke when upgrading from Jaguar to Panther. Yippy. I'm happy OS X works so well for you, personally I've had better luck with XP, but neither are perfect. If you just want to praise Apple fine, but try to be honest about it: you're just another fan boy.
Microsoft's OS releases are scary. By and large, Apple's are fairly seamless.
Do you have anything that substantiates your contention? Really, if you're going to complain about unsubstantiated claims, be consistent and don't make them either.
As a woman who codes and went to an engineering university, I can testify that to that there are social factors that do dissuade girls and young women from going into technical fields. For one thing, there are few scientifically-inclined female role models. I don't know about you, but when I think of a female scientist stereotype, I have this vision of a cold, austere looking woman, which doesn't even remotely describe me or any of my female peers.
I'm shocked every time I hear this crap. Role model? Who the fuck needs a role model? I can't do homework because I don't have a role model?
Others would treat me like I was some sort of idiot who was incapable of doing the assigned work myself.
Through college I was always harassed by idiots who couldn't do their work. The guys pretended like we were friends, the girls flirted. Were you capable of doing the work by yourself?
If you are assertive, you're labeled a bitch.
Most women who call themselves assertive are bitches. Most men who call themselves assertive are assholes. I've met plenty of assertive men and women who were fine, but as soon as some one calls them self assertive they're probably making excuses.
When you go for jobs, there are people who think, "Well, she's going to want to start a family soon, so I'd better not go with her; she's going to be undependable", without having any evidence of her dependability.
Possibly, but I doubt you read their minds or they told you this. Married men tend to make more than single men and are hired more quickly, wheres the public outcry from single men? I'd think slashdot would be a good place for it to start.
You aren't terribly special, if you could become a coder other woman could to. Given enough time, if there are a significant number of women who struggle through and become coders things will get easier. If there aren't many women who struggle to become coders, I'd say there's some sort of predisposition involved.
Then you'd say, "So a human life is worth 18 pirated movies. Good to know."
And the point would still be valid. A life is worth more than every movie ever made; any punishment for copyright violation that includes jail time is out of proportion.
By the same token anyone who risks jail time to download Big, is a bit crazy.
It's more likely to keep the cost of websites high and in the process piss off a lot of developers.
I don't see it. Write your code for one common broswer or code for one inconsistently implemented standard. From a development standpoint limiting support to just IE is easy and covers 90% of your customers.
If people come to rely on their internet connections the way they do power, it'll be the same scenario.
This is where you seem to be missing the point. People don't rely on their internet connections the way they do power. Part of the reason is that internet connections aren't all that reliable.
My company has a DS3, and it rarely has any problems. But it does sometimes. At home I have both cable and DSL, because I do rely on the internet and neither is reliable enough.
Why would you not push your security fixes back to the original maintainer of phpBB?
I have no experience with phpBB. In general there is no way to push your changes into an open source project, the only option is to ask the project to pull your changes. Open Source allows you to modify your copy of the source, but does precious little to get your changes accepted.
I've had better luck getting fixes into HP-UX than Linux, and no I don't work for HP.
The Netscape brand is advertised on television and in magazines. How many TV commercials have there been for the Firefox/Mozilla brand? How about magazine ads?
Of course people interested in computers are well aware of Firefox. The vast majority of the planet, however, is not interested. If you want an example, ask your dentist to list the web browsers they know of.
Slashdot Mirror
From what I've seen, only religious nuts and other non-introspective types.
I can't figure out happiness but with enough pleasure who cares?
Everytime you run "make install" as root without reading the entire makefile you are at risk of running a trojan.
What if mozilla_installer is infected?
There are consultants for lots of things. Why not have female consultants on game design?
Duh. You missed the point. If a game company wants to make a game more palatable to women, they should hire someone who knows how; if a game company wants it more palatable to young men, they should also hire someone appropriate. Get the idea yet? Target demographic is the key.
Most game companies don't hire Muslim consultants, taxi driver consultants or redheaded consultants.
I've got to point out that Windows 2000 is not 8 years old. It is only 2005 isn't it?
Feel free to look up more of your favorite artists, etc. But you will rarely find a well-known artist that owns their own copyright.
I had thought you were right, but looking up Nine Inch Nails it would seem otherwise. Better than half is owned by Trent Reznor.
Adaptec - supported
NCR/LSI/Symbios - supported
Tekram - supported
No. I know for a fact many Adaptecs and LSI cards are not supported in a usable way. Very few are bootable, and most don't work well.
How about tackling the cause rather than the effect?
Puberty?
The bottom line: Do you really want to spend 40+ hours a week around people can't take you for who you are?
I spend 168 hours a week around people who can't take me for who I am. I got used to it.
Because people in Normal, OH aren't free to be wacky?
Brad Pitt or Heidi Klum? Jobs might be lots of things, but he's not an actor/model, he's a businessman with an over 20-year proven track record.
He's still mortal. Businessmen die just as easily as actors.
Not in a paper cup it isn't.
Yes. It is. If you can't handle it, you shouldn't leave your bubble.
No offense, but I'm guessing you're not very good at chess. From what I've read about grand masters, and from my personal experience, the good chess players very much base their play on board patterns and abstractions. People simply can't analyze more than a few moves in advance, at least at a reasonable speed.
So what are the factors of 796409?
Critics? Who cares what they think?
Insecure people in desperate need of external validation?
You're trying to chastise the idealism of the man who proved by existence that his idealism was practical. Twenty years of history would seem to suggest such admonition is unwise.
RMS's existence doesn't prove any more than Bill Gates' existance. RMS's complete irrelevance to IT and computer science should make it pretty clear his idealism isn't worth much.
I don't have to substantiate my contention: It's not my job to keep my parent poster's application running. I still run a couple Classic apps on my Powerbook, and by and large they work fine.
/. either.
So? It's not your job to post on
I have a couple apps that broke when upgrading from Jaguar to Panther. Yippy. I'm happy OS X works so well for you, personally I've had better luck with XP, but neither are perfect. If you just want to praise Apple fine, but try to be honest about it: you're just another fan boy.
Microsoft's OS releases are scary. By and large, Apple's are fairly seamless.
Do you have anything that substantiates your contention? Really, if you're going to complain about unsubstantiated claims, be consistent and don't make them either.
As a woman who codes and went to an engineering university, I can testify that to that there are social factors that do dissuade girls and young women from going into technical fields. For one thing, there are few scientifically-inclined female role models. I don't know about you, but when I think of a female scientist stereotype, I have this vision of a cold, austere looking woman, which doesn't even remotely describe me or any of my female peers.
I'm shocked every time I hear this crap. Role model? Who the fuck needs a role model? I can't do homework because I don't have a role model?
Others would treat me like I was some sort of idiot who was incapable of doing the assigned work myself.
Through college I was always harassed by idiots who couldn't do their work. The guys pretended like we were friends, the girls flirted. Were you capable of doing the work by yourself?
If you are assertive, you're labeled a bitch.
Most women who call themselves assertive are bitches. Most men who call themselves assertive are assholes. I've met plenty of assertive men and women who were fine, but as soon as some one calls them self assertive they're probably making excuses.
When you go for jobs, there are people who think, "Well, she's going to want to start a family soon, so I'd better not go with her; she's going to be undependable", without having any evidence of her dependability.
Possibly, but I doubt you read their minds or they told you this. Married men tend to make more than single men and are hired more quickly, wheres the public outcry from single men? I'd think slashdot would be a good place for it to start.
You aren't terribly special, if you could become a coder other woman could to. Given enough time, if there are a significant number of women who struggle through and become coders things will get easier. If there aren't many women who struggle to become coders, I'd say there's some sort of predisposition involved.
And the point would still be valid. A life is worth more than every movie ever made; any punishment for copyright violation that includes jail time is out of proportion.
By the same token anyone who risks jail time to download Big, is a bit crazy.
It's more likely to keep the cost of websites high and in the process piss off a lot of developers.
I don't see it. Write your code for one common broswer or code for one inconsistently implemented standard. From a development standpoint limiting support to just IE is easy and covers 90% of your customers.
Kinda sucks, but that's business.
If people come to rely on their internet connections the way they do power, it'll be the same scenario.
This is where you seem to be missing the point. People don't rely on their internet connections the way they do power. Part of the reason is that internet connections aren't all that reliable.
My company has a DS3, and it rarely has any problems. But it does sometimes. At home I have both cable and DSL, because I do rely on the internet and neither is reliable enough.
If your fixes are actually useful, then they will be accepted.
You don't actually believe that do you?
Why would you not push your security fixes back to the original maintainer of phpBB?
I have no experience with phpBB. In general there is no way to push your changes into an open source project, the only option is to ask the project to pull your changes. Open Source allows you to modify your copy of the source, but does precious little to get your changes accepted.
I've had better luck getting fixes into HP-UX than Linux, and no I don't work for HP.
C# !=
Not even close.
Of course people interested in computers are well aware of Firefox. The vast majority of the planet, however, is not interested. If you want an example, ask your dentist to list the web browsers they know of.