Heh. I first started using my current brand of shampoo when mine ran out and I stole some from my girlfriend of the time. It makes my hair shiny and all the girls jealous. Like the original poster, not quite the reaction I was hoping for, but it's a start...
My brother is insanely metro-sexual and uses more girly products than I (the girl) do, and he's never had trouble getting a girl/laid/etc. 'cause he rocks the whole asshole/bad boy vibe. I mean seriously, it's all about confidence + attitude, 'cause girls are stupid that way.
This is honestly really bad advice. Most women don't care about really technical stuff stuff.
I've put just as many guys to sleep rambling on about tech as I have girls, so I think the quote should be changed to "most people don't care about really technical stuff." From my experience, most people don't mind hearing about tech stuff as long as you keep it on their level: one the best audiences I get for my ramblings are kids from a family that just upgraded from windows ME, and a coworker raved about How To Be a Geek Goddes. after I rec'd it to her 'cause she was constantly asking for computer help. Basically, I think it's cause of personality, not gender.
Maybe, just maybe, someone calling a small laptop "cute" is not a reflection on your sexual identity or masculinity.
I'm a girl. I call everything cute*. It's 'cause I think it's, well, cute. I've called ancient men's ties cute. It's an adjective that some girl's tend to use a lot.
*and bunny. and shiny. and other things that end in y.
It even messes up on a tablet PC when in portrait mode. I think that almost takes talent to mess up. I read on a psp, provided the site doesn't break the poor thing by being too big.
By the way, I'm using the old/. style without all the AJAX stuff, maybe that's got something to do with it?
I'm using whatever they throw at me, including the newest/beta incarnations of the front page and I still get all the messages. (The only thing I never see anymore are requests to metamod.)
You can get a perfectly serviceable laptop for $700 these days, less for a netbook. If you can afford to take classes, you can afford a laptop.
My college's about 2000 a semester (NY's CUNY system) and people can get some scholarships and grants, so uh totally not true. Granted, my school's also not cutting their computer labs (and we've got dozens of 'em) anytime soon, 'cause the labs are usually full of people.
And guess whose "black box" software is to blame for the shitty hands-off education? Guess! I dare you.
Sun? Eclipse is painless unless you go into funky plugin territory, whereas getting visual studio to work properly sometimes results in learning more about an OS then you ever wanted. The curriculum still covers OS's, compilers, runtime, etc, but that doesn't mean students actually absorb what they're supposed to learn (which I don't think is the curriculum's fault). I know a guy who didn't know what an api is, even though I don't think you can do hw for any class without using api's. Some people are incompetent, or copy their way through school or whatever.
That being said, I'm for a command line (don't care if it's linux or ms) approach to cs courses, but only 'cause the last course I had with visual studio, I ended up more time on trying to figure out the compilers quirks than I did the course material. (And I'm ready to kill teammates who're scared to/can't code on anything 'cept windows/visual studio or eclipse).
If you can start at a community college and TRANSFER to Yale or Harvard or Stanford, you'll be better off. A big name helps a lot on paychecks.
Though on the plus side, if he stays at a community college (or any public one) most of the students will be about the same age he is, so he won't have to deal with many bratty 20 year olds. I'm at a public college and at 21 am always one of the youngest people in my engr/comp sci classes.
South Africa is one of those countries where way more people have cell phones than computers, so having users validate a database by text is actually a really solid idea. ('specially since it seems like this db has been wildly inaccurate before.)
\No idea how they are making a revenue other than with t-shirts and bags, but apparently they do make a profit. It's not just one person or fund. Or the fund is large enough for sufficient interest.
Granted my background is with SQL Server and Oracle, so perhaps I'm not the target audience
I probably am the target audience as I'd never worked with db's (or even taken a course on them) before being required to last year. My first experiment with db's was the python interface to SQLite and I found it rather simple and pain free once I got the hang of it. Now I'm working with SQLalchemy, and I think it's another great newbie db tool 'cause it offers a dozen ways to do things, so a newbie can start with sql/sql like commands and work up to orms or whatever else.
I strongly suspect any psychological test was published in psychological academic journals and is freely available from the journal publisher's reprint department or any major university library.
I remember my experimental psych professor saying that most of the assessment tests (MMPI for example) aren't freely available. He gave us a few sample questions when discussing them, but said the actual tests have to be bought from the company and you need proof that they'll be used in a diagnostic setting or for research purposes. I don't think the papers I've seen on MMPI validity have the questions.
And some unique random # isn't anonymous? Hell, shift the table entries around at random intervals if you're that paranoid.
At my polling place, you sign your name in a book next to your signature, then vote. Unless one of the little old ladies manning the station keeps track of everyone who comes in, there's no way to tag a # to a person. (Granted, my polling place uses the old school lever machines.)
Perhaps its the belief that all life is sacred and precious that makes them want to hold on to life, regardless of their belief in the afterlife.
That's pretty much why Orthodox Jews have to do everything in their power to stay alive: Life/saving a life is the most important commandment there is (you can break pretty much all the other ones to save a life, yours included) and therefore if it's medically possible to keep on ticking, unless there's a really good reason not to they'll do it. The value of a person's life is held so high that the reasoning for abortion goes that it's allowed basically because mother's life>fetus, so it's considered a form of self-defense.
If you want to use your already-existing expensive earbuds, just wait for the aftermarket.
How about if I want to run out and buy headphones from any old drugstore when my "comes with shuffle" headphones fry? I've bought every brand under the sun and am finally having some luck, and the apple equivalent is 3 times as much (assuming they'll make it in a form that works with the shuffle.) I adore the shuffles and would be all for buying the new one, 'cept those headphones aren't gonna survive more than a month with me.
The psps's also had a control cable on the earphone line, but you could plug any old headphones into the control line. The new shuffle doesn't have that.
Now see... once they become proficient, I find that the ESL students have *better* written and spoken English than native-speakers.
Seeing as I'm a tutor, I don't get the most proficient students. I've got anecdotal evidence to support you: my mom says that she always proofread my dad's writing 'cause she (as a new immigrant) had grammar drilled into her at her ESL classes and he (having come her as a kid) didn't.
I don't know why it is, but native English speakers don't have the rules of grammar and spelling drilled into their heads nearly as thoroughly as every other language I've studied.
So did I, and I totally agree with the criticism; I was making a general statement: over all, I see lot more criticism of grammar on slashdot then I did on forums filled with English majors (and these were places that had proper grammar as part of their ToS).
I doubt it. I tutor writing and don't see much of a difference between the science geeks' and humanities people's writing, once I factor in the slightly higher percentage of ESL students in science/math/engineering.
That's funny. Wonder what the percentage of scientifically literate people who can identify a misplaced modifier is?
About the same as non-scientifically literate people? Or maybe it's a 2:1 ratio (for every two non-science that can identify the misplace modifier, maybe one science person can). I see way more grammar nitpicking on slashdot than I did on book forums.
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Heh. I first started using my current brand of shampoo when mine ran out and I stole some from my girlfriend of the time. It makes my hair shiny and all the girls jealous. Like the original poster, not quite the reaction I was hoping for, but it's a start...
My brother is insanely metro-sexual and uses more girly products than I (the girl) do, and he's never had trouble getting a girl/laid/etc. 'cause he rocks the whole asshole/bad boy vibe. I mean seriously, it's all about confidence + attitude, 'cause girls are stupid that way.
This is honestly really bad advice. Most women don't care about really technical stuff stuff.
I've put just as many guys to sleep rambling on about tech as I have girls, so I think the quote should be changed to "most people don't care about really technical stuff." From my experience, most people don't mind hearing about tech stuff as long as you keep it on their level: one the best audiences I get for my ramblings are kids from a family that just upgraded from windows ME, and a coworker raved about How To Be a Geek Goddes. after I rec'd it to her 'cause she was constantly asking for computer help. Basically, I think it's cause of personality, not gender.
But Tuz is also a total cutie pie. And he comes with his own good cause for even more "aww" factor.
Tuz+Tux+Konqui='s total gooey cutie goodness.
(I wanted to buy a Tux plush toy the other day.)
Where do you find those?
There was a big sale on Lenovo.com 'bout a month back. (A lot of info on slickdeals.)
Amazon? A quick search in google pulled up tons of cables.
Maybe, just maybe, someone calling a small laptop "cute" is not a reflection on your sexual identity or masculinity.
I'm a girl. I call everything cute*. It's 'cause I think it's, well, cute. I've called ancient men's ties cute. It's an adjective that some girl's tend to use a lot.
*and bunny. and shiny. and other things that end in y.
And if you're on an iPhone, it sucks even worse. The CSS is totally borked--the right column is a fixed width and overlaps your comment scores so you can't see them at all.
It even messes up on a tablet PC when in portrait mode. I think that almost takes talent to mess up. I read on a psp, provided the site doesn't break the poor thing by being too big.
By the way, I'm using the old /. style without all the AJAX stuff, maybe that's got something to do with it?
I'm using whatever they throw at me, including the newest/beta incarnations of the front page and I still get all the messages. (The only thing I never see anymore are requests to metamod.)
I never read anyone else's user page, and I doubt anyone reads mine.
I read other people's user pages, but mostly to see their comments on other stories.
What makes VirtualBox inadequate?
Working with hardware? At least that's the major reason for begging for some ubunutu boxes in the senior design lab.
You can get a perfectly serviceable laptop for $700 these days, less for a netbook. If you can afford to take classes, you can afford a laptop.
My college's about 2000 a semester (NY's CUNY system) and people can get some scholarships and grants, so uh totally not true. Granted, my school's also not cutting their computer labs (and we've got dozens of 'em) anytime soon, 'cause the labs are usually full of people.
And guess whose "black box" software is to blame for the shitty hands-off education? Guess! I dare you.
Sun? Eclipse is painless unless you go into funky plugin territory, whereas getting visual studio to work properly sometimes results in learning more about an OS then you ever wanted.
The curriculum still covers OS's, compilers, runtime, etc, but that doesn't mean students actually absorb what they're supposed to learn (which I don't think is the curriculum's fault). I know a guy who didn't know what an api is, even though I don't think you can do hw for any class without using api's. Some people are incompetent, or copy their way through school or whatever.
That being said, I'm for a command line (don't care if it's linux or ms) approach to cs courses, but only 'cause the last course I had with visual studio, I ended up more time on trying to figure out the compilers quirks than I did the course material. (And I'm ready to kill teammates who're scared to/can't code on anything 'cept windows/visual studio or eclipse).
If you can start at a community college and TRANSFER to Yale or Harvard or Stanford, you'll be better off. A big name helps a lot on paychecks.
Though on the plus side, if he stays at a community college (or any public one) most of the students will be about the same age he is, so he won't have to deal with many bratty 20 year olds. I'm at a public college and at 21 am always one of the youngest people in my engr/comp sci classes.
South Africa is one of those countries where way more people have cell phones than computers, so having users validate a database by text is actually a really solid idea. ('specially since it seems like this db has been wildly inaccurate before.)
\No idea how they are making a revenue other than with t-shirts and bags, but apparently they do make a profit. It's not just one person or fund. Or the fund is large enough for sufficient interest.
Training and support?
Granted my background is with SQL Server and Oracle, so perhaps I'm not the target audience
I probably am the target audience as I'd never worked with db's (or even taken a course on them) before being required to last year. My first experiment with db's was the python interface to SQLite and I found it rather simple and pain free once I got the hang of it. Now I'm working with SQLalchemy, and I think it's another great newbie db tool 'cause it offers a dozen ways to do things, so a newbie can start with sql/sql like commands and work up to orms or whatever else.
I strongly suspect any psychological test was published in psychological academic journals and is freely available from the journal publisher's reprint department or any major university library.
I remember my experimental psych professor saying that most of the assessment tests (MMPI for example) aren't freely available. He gave us a few sample questions when discussing them, but said the actual tests have to be bought from the company and you need proof that they'll be used in a diagnostic setting or for research purposes. I don't think the papers I've seen on MMPI validity have the questions.
Even then, all the questions about bowel movements - do you fail if you eat a lot of fruit and vegetables or fail if you live off pizza?
I've seen those on a lot of psych questionnaires; I think that they have to do with validity and/or psycho-somatic symptoms.
We like to have anonymous elections in the US.
And some unique random # isn't anonymous? Hell, shift the table entries around at random intervals if you're that paranoid.
At my polling place, you sign your name in a book next to your signature, then vote. Unless one of the little old ladies manning the station keeps track of everyone who comes in, there's no way to tag a # to a person. (Granted, my polling place uses the old school lever machines.)
Perhaps its the belief that all life is sacred and precious that makes them want to hold on to life, regardless of their belief in the afterlife.
That's pretty much why Orthodox Jews have to do everything in their power to stay alive: Life/saving a life is the most important commandment there is (you can break pretty much all the other ones to save a life, yours included) and therefore if it's medically possible to keep on ticking, unless there's a really good reason not to they'll do it. The value of a person's life is held so high that the reasoning for abortion goes that it's allowed basically because mother's life>fetus, so it's considered a form of self-defense.
If you want to use your already-existing expensive earbuds, just wait for the aftermarket.
How about if I want to run out and buy headphones from any old drugstore when my "comes with shuffle" headphones fry? I've bought every brand under the sun and am finally having some luck, and the apple equivalent is 3 times as much (assuming they'll make it in a form that works with the shuffle.) I adore the shuffles and would be all for buying the new one, 'cept those headphones aren't gonna survive more than a month with me.
The psps's also had a control cable on the earphone line, but you could plug any old headphones into the control line. The new shuffle doesn't have that.
Now see... once they become proficient, I find that the ESL students have *better* written and spoken English than native-speakers.
Seeing as I'm a tutor, I don't get the most proficient students. I've got anecdotal evidence to support you: my mom says that she always proofread my dad's writing 'cause she (as a new immigrant) had grammar drilled into her at her ESL classes and he (having come her as a kid) didn't.
I don't know why it is, but native English speakers don't have the rules of grammar and spelling drilled into their heads nearly as thoroughly as every other language I've studied.
Whole language
So did I, and I totally agree with the criticism; I was making a general statement: over all, I see lot more criticism of grammar on slashdot then I did on forums filled with English majors (and these were places that had proper grammar as part of their ToS).
I doubt it. I tutor writing and don't see much of a difference between the science geeks' and humanities people's writing, once I factor in the slightly higher percentage of ESL students in science/math/engineering.
That's funny. Wonder what the percentage of scientifically literate people who can identify a misplaced modifier is?
About the same as non-scientifically literate people? Or maybe it's a 2:1 ratio (for every two non-science that can identify the misplace modifier, maybe one science person can). I see way more grammar nitpicking on slashdot than I did on book forums.