preference, religion, or nationality, but we still have zero women in my graduating class and only 3 black students (of roughly 80 graduates).
About a third to a half of the students in any of my electrical engineering classes are black. (Only 5 girls though.) Then again, I go to a public university in New York, and I think I'm the only white girl in my program (Computer Engineering). *shrugs* Could also be the demographics of the school.
I don't mind combat bots and the like 'cause honestly most of the competitions I've seen aren't even that much like that, more goal oriented ball in hoop type things. I just wish the girls got to do real work.
My experience with USFirst was that very few of the girls actually got anywhere near the mechanical if they were from a coed school (at worst they were basically cheerleaders, at best they were the coders, though I think it has gotten better.) I headed public relations. College is a little better, probably 'cause every one's a bit more experienced, dunno. Though it's still mostly code, cosmetics, and project management.
because I would have to deal with people thinking that I couldn't have gotten in if there had been no quota to fill.
You already have to deal with the idiots who think you need to be coddled to make it through. I had a professor who was a total asshole to all the guys in class (unless they could prove they knew their stuff), yet he let the girls scrape by barely knowing anything. (Hell, his less then nice attitude towards me was probably a complement.)
Want real fun? Do something that involves putting stuff together. Dunno why, but some guys seem to have a pathological fear of girls near soldering irons or tools. Great for labs if your lazy, 'cause partner will try to do everything, not so fun if you actually wanna learn something.
*shrugs* They've got some cheaper collections where the pieces (new) are about a $100-$200, so I could possibly see some of the real pieces going for about $50 used. I think it's all about doing research, knowing the prices and what the real pieces look like. I ran a search on a necklace I own and most of the knockoffs are obvious.
I think accountability is a little hard 'cause there are also lots of people who want to resell real Tiffany's pieces and don't have proof, 'cause it was a gift or they bought it a long time ago or whatever.
You can be a christian and believe in evolution, but not without going against the first book of the bible.
Huh? He's already created light and dark, so I don't see the problem with that sustaining basic plant life 'til a more solid sun and stars to focus that light. *shrugs* I'm an orthodox Jew and also buy into evolution as a possible method of creation.
Wiki's got a problematic article that's still a decent round up: Jews/Evo
Alice has been trying to get Bob, her department head, interested in developing curricula with FOSS tools. Because she knows her students cannot afford to buy the products that Microsoft gives to her school for essentially no cost. A Best Buy copy of Ubuntu fits her strategy since it is professionally packaged by a big box store. She is deliberately buying the packaging, knowing that the contents are free. She will use it as a prop at meetings that discuss FOSS adoption.
Then why isn't Alice buying a bulk package of edubuntu from canonical's store? Or getting plain old edubuntu shipped from canonical? It comes in pretty professional packaging, and the web page is really solid from a marketing/presentation standpoint. I get your argument, just really don't think Alice is the right user.
Essay? I wrote some thing like "My robotics team is using ubunutu, so I'd like one for use and one for backup." Got two, and a few months later when the new one came out, they sent me that one when I requested it, no problem.
I read Left Hand of Darkness when I was about 13 and found it really dense. It's more of a philosophical tract then an actual story, so it may not be so appealing to kids just because nothing really happens, and when stuff does happens it can be incredibly confusing.
(evil browser crash ate my first answer) I don't read Japanese and therefore don't seek out raws, so this is by no means exhaustive.
a) the scanlation groups. Some of 'em post raws in their forum, (like mangashare) and others may be willing to email 'em to you 'cause you're just using 'em for education.
*shrugs* Pay attention to the grammar, as that's actually really useful regardless of which language you learn or how well you pick it up. Just knowing the basics of Hebrew and Russian grammar (I'm lousy in one language, only good with understanding/reading in the other) helps me understand how English is structured, and decode badly written English. Plus it's easier to pick up other languages in the same family if you've got a strong grasp of one child langauge's grammar.
You could also learn Japanese for some geek cred if you're into anime
Plus it makes it so much funner to learn, which in turn makes it easier, and it's convenient for when mkv transfers do weird things. Tons of available media, and for alphabets you can compare manga raws to scans.
And read another dozen on why they are. Back when the National Forensics League (big high school debate league) made WMD's part of their resolution (2001-2002), teams were running, and winning, positions where racism was a WMD. A WMD is whatever people want to define as such, though most rational people go with the big three: nuclear, biological, chemical.
To give him karma points? He's pretty new and far as I know, Funny doesn't get karma, so they may have been trying to be nice.
Or the joke was insightful? The site looks pretty real, and it's totally not far fetched to believe that somebody's already implemented this for profit. Hell, there are plenty of sites that track spouses, invade their privacy, etc. I've heard of people installing key loggers to get into their spouses emails. Lots of people seem really quick to throw away all their ideals about privacy when they think someone is screwing around on 'em.
Uh, 'cause I'd have to convince my mom (the person who's paying the bill) and it's more expensive, though she is the youtube watcher.... I just double checked and damn, it isn't available.
It's unconstitutional? 8th amendment, cruel and unusual punishment, all that.
It's also ethically questionable. Prisoners are an institutionalized population, and are therefore a vulnerable population (children, mentally ill fall here too) so a researchers gotta jump through a couple of hoops to get clearance to use them. It'd probably be really hard, if not impossible because of the reward, to get this past an IRB.
All that aside, from a scientific standpoint the findings are of limited value because it's a deviant sub-group of a deviant population. Their brains may be wired so differently that the effects on them may very well not generalize at all.
Even stranger is that the headline/post actually does a good job of summing up the article.
To stay on topic, the article points out that a people are sloppy about their security, so a respondent could plausibly provide the kind of info the grandparent jokes about the FTC asking for.
Uh, 'cause a lot of engineers don't want to talk to them? Even if they don't think of the customers as idiots, they think of 'em as a hassle. Even the understanding ones often have trouble with communication knowing what level to keep the conversation at so as not go over the customers heads and not be patronizing, the right questions to ask to figure out what the customer really wants (which is often completely different from what they requested in the first place), and just how to talk to them.
I think that's 'cause some of the./ crowd seems to buy into cartoon stereotypes of the evil adman. I've done lots of pr for non-profits, mostly to recruit people or raise money for a good cause.
I headed PR for my high school's robotics team and I wasn't trying to sell anyone anythying; I just wanted to get us cash (in the form of sponsers) so we could buy the parts we needed for our robot and some girls 'cause they look good to sponsers/US FIRST. I do the same thing for my college robotics club and team 'cause well a bot costs money and it helps to have people to build it and in any school sufficiently large there's no way people will know what's going on without telling 'em.
Out in the real world, good marketing's a large part of why the 'buntus are going strong Canonical's got a great marketing team that knows how to sell the product and to who, which is why it's slowly picking up market share and reaching a lot newbies. Joel on Software makes a point about how Torvalds "evangelized" linux, which is really another way of saying marketed it. Slashdot posters play into the game all the time with the pro-FOSS, anti-MS rethoric; they play right into the new word-of-mouth marketing strategy that's become all the rage.
- A successful company is a gestalt of different people with different skills doing what they do best.
Totally agree. I wish these "elite" techies would get that without marketing and management and everyone else, they probably wouldn't get paid. (Unless they work for google and/or any other company where customers never have to go near what they produce.)
Nope, they cover median and mode when they cover mean. I think it's just that means get calculated more often than the other two, so they stick in people's minds as the only way to calculate averages.
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preference, religion, or nationality, but we still have zero women in my graduating class and only 3 black students (of roughly 80 graduates).
About a third to a half of the students in any of my electrical engineering classes are black. (Only 5 girls though.) Then again, I go to a public university in New York, and I think I'm the only white girl in my program (Computer Engineering). *shrugs* Could also be the demographics of the school.
I don't mind combat bots and the like 'cause honestly most of the competitions I've seen aren't even that much like that, more goal oriented ball in hoop type things. I just wish the girls got to do real work.
My experience with USFirst was that very few of the girls actually got anywhere near the mechanical if they were from a coed school (at worst they were basically cheerleaders, at best they were the coders, though I think it has gotten better.) I headed public relations. College is a little better, probably 'cause every one's a bit more experienced, dunno. Though it's still mostly code, cosmetics, and project management.
because I would have to deal with people thinking that I couldn't have gotten in if there had been no quota to fill.
You already have to deal with the idiots who think you need to be coddled to make it through. I had a professor who was a total asshole to all the guys in class (unless they could prove they knew their stuff), yet he let the girls scrape by barely knowing anything. (Hell, his less then nice attitude towards me was probably a complement.)
Want real fun? Do something that involves putting stuff together. Dunno why, but some guys seem to have a pathological fear of girls near soldering irons or tools. Great for labs if your lazy, 'cause partner will try to do everything, not so fun if you actually wanna learn something.
*shrugs* They've got some cheaper collections where the pieces (new) are about a $100-$200, so I could possibly see some of the real pieces going for about $50 used. I think it's all about doing research, knowing the prices and what the real pieces look like. I ran a search on a necklace I own and most of the knockoffs are obvious.
I think accountability is a little hard 'cause there are also lots of people who want to resell real Tiffany's pieces and don't have proof, 'cause it was a gift or they bought it a long time ago or whatever.
You can be a christian and believe in evolution, but not without going against the first book of the bible.
Huh? He's already created light and dark, so I don't see the problem with that sustaining basic plant life 'til a more solid sun and stars to focus that light. *shrugs* I'm an orthodox Jew and also buy into evolution as a possible method of creation.
Wiki's got a problematic article that's still a decent round up: Jews/Evo
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Alice has been trying to get Bob, her department head, interested in developing curricula with FOSS tools. Because she knows her students cannot afford to buy the products that Microsoft gives to her school for essentially no cost. A Best Buy copy of Ubuntu fits her strategy since it is professionally packaged by a big box store. She is deliberately buying the packaging, knowing that the contents are free. She will use it as a prop at meetings that discuss FOSS adoption.
Then why isn't Alice buying a bulk package of edubuntu from canonical's store? Or getting plain old edubuntu shipped from canonical? It comes in pretty professional packaging, and the web page is really solid from a marketing/presentation standpoint. I get your argument, just really don't think Alice is the right user.
Essay? I wrote some thing like "My robotics team is using ubunutu, so I'd like one for use and one for backup." Got two, and a few months later when the new one came out, they sent me that one when I requested it, no problem.
I read Left Hand of Darkness when I was about 13 and found it really dense. It's more of a philosophical tract then an actual story, so it may not be so appealing to kids just because nothing really happens, and when stuff does happens it can be incredibly confusing.
(evil browser crash ate my first answer)
I don't read Japanese and therefore don't seek out raws, so this is by no means exhaustive.
a) the scanlation groups. Some of 'em post raws in their forum, (like mangashare) and others may be willing to email 'em to you 'cause you're just using 'em for education.
b) Lurk's DAN bot has a decent selection.
c) Mangahelpers provides raws for a bunch of groups
d) Shoujo world, probably not your speed, but had to throw it out there. (Chinese and Japanese raws)
e) torrents, lots floating around on torrents. (I know some scan groups get theirs off Japanese torrent sites.)
*shrugs* Pay attention to the grammar, as that's actually really useful regardless of which language you learn or how well you pick it up. Just knowing the basics of Hebrew and Russian grammar (I'm lousy in one language, only good with understanding/reading in the other) helps me understand how English is structured, and decode badly written English. Plus it's easier to pick up other languages in the same family if you've got a strong grasp of one child langauge's grammar.
You could also learn Japanese for some geek cred if you're into anime
Plus it makes it so much funner to learn, which in turn makes it easier, and it's convenient for when mkv transfers do weird things. Tons of available media, and for alphabets you can compare manga raws to scans.
And read another dozen on why they are. Back when the National Forensics League (big high school debate league) made WMD's part of their resolution (2001-2002), teams were running, and winning, positions where racism was a WMD. A WMD is whatever people want to define as such, though most rational people go with the big three: nuclear, biological, chemical.
To give him karma points? He's pretty new and far as I know, Funny doesn't get karma, so they may have been trying to be nice.
Or the joke was insightful? The site looks pretty real, and it's totally not far fetched to believe that somebody's already implemented this for profit. Hell, there are plenty of sites that track spouses, invade their privacy, etc. I've heard of people installing key loggers to get into their spouses emails. Lots of people seem really quick to throw away all their ideals about privacy when they think someone is screwing around on 'em.
Uh, 'cause I'd have to convince my mom (the person who's paying the bill) and it's more expensive, though she is the youtube watcher.... I just double checked and damn, it isn't available.
And it's actually stable? Been considering upgrading to it as I've got their DSL (also New York) and it's totally flakey.
Scrap?
The lcd's alone are worth a ton and some of the other parts can be melted down.
It's unconstitutional? 8th amendment, cruel and unusual punishment, all that.
It's also ethically questionable. Prisoners are an institutionalized population, and are therefore a vulnerable population (children, mentally ill fall here too) so a researchers gotta jump through a couple of hoops to get clearance to use them. It'd probably be really hard, if not impossible because of the reward, to get this past an IRB.
All that aside, from a scientific standpoint the findings are of limited value because it's a deviant sub-group of a deviant population. Their brains may be wired so differently that the effects on them may very well not generalize at all.
Before you get too excited, the law is 5 years old and known to be ineffective—probably thought it was good for PR or something.
Might break slashdot.
Even stranger is that the headline/post actually does a good job of summing up the article.
To stay on topic, the article points out that a people are sloppy about their security, so a respondent could plausibly provide the kind of info the grandparent jokes about the FTC asking for.
Uh, 'cause a lot of engineers don't want to talk to them? Even if they don't think of the customers as idiots, they think of 'em as a hassle. Even the understanding ones often have trouble with communication knowing what level to keep the conversation at so as not go over the customers heads and not be patronizing, the right questions to ask to figure out what the customer really wants (which is often completely different from what they requested in the first place), and just how to talk to them.
I think that's 'cause some of the
I headed PR for my high school's robotics team and I wasn't trying to sell anyone anythying; I just wanted to get us cash (in the form of sponsers) so we could buy the parts we needed for our robot and some girls 'cause they look good to sponsers/US FIRST. I do the same thing for my college robotics club and team 'cause well a bot costs money and it helps to have people to build it and in any school sufficiently large there's no way people will know what's going on without telling 'em.
Out in the real world, good marketing's a large part of why the 'buntus are going strong Canonical's got a great marketing team that knows how to sell the product and to who, which is why it's slowly picking up market share and reaching a lot newbies. Joel on Software makes a point about how Torvalds "evangelized" linux, which is really another way of saying marketed it. Slashdot posters play into the game all the time with the pro-FOSS, anti-MS rethoric; they play right into the new word-of-mouth marketing strategy that's become all the rage.
- A successful company is a gestalt of different people with different skills doing what they do best.
Totally agree. I wish these "elite" techies would get that without marketing and management and everyone else, they probably wouldn't get paid. (Unless they work for google and/or any other company where customers never have to go near what they produce.)
Except, of course, for all the old people who shell out for satellite feeds from their home countries. I miss English television.
Nope, they cover median and mode when they cover mean. I think it's just that means get calculated more often than the other two, so they stick in people's minds as the only way to calculate averages.