Women were designed to have children, not be breadwinners. That's primarily the man's job.
And they can't do both because? A bunch of my friends are supporting their husbands (it's a cultural thing in certain branches of orthodox Judaism that has to do with learning Torah all day) while having tons of kids. One of 'em had her first while getting her engineering degree and had 2 more while working on construction sites. Lots of girls I know manage at least two before their husbands ever start working. It's difficult, but doable.
... Since men are better at math (and generally smarter), they're less likely thwarted by the job interviewers at schools to take the crappy teaching job for ideological reasons.
Guys don't teach cause it's a traditionally female field* (read here for usual reasons) not 'cause they can get better jobs. The equally gender skewed male equivalent is probably a technical job like repairmen, carpenter, or electrician.
*acceptableness of male teachers is inversely proportional to age of student, which is why there are as many male professors as female ones, but very few male pre-school teachers)
As a girl in those classes: 8 years (high school + college) of male dominated courses and only a handful of reasonably attractive (even fewer hot) guys. Equal distribution of eye candy would also be nice.
Personally, I say they are all comic books. More than one person works on them. Novels are done by one person.
a) I also think they're all comic books, just that graphic novels are a subset. b) I've read plenty of novels written by two authors, and lots of comics (especially manga/manwha/etc.) written by one author (and some unnamed assistants helping with the art.)
I just feel that there's a big difference between a set of comics that tells a cohesive tale (Fables, Y the Last Man, most any shoujo/josei manga) and a big sprawling set of independent stories that never really end or don't always lead up to something big (most of the DC/Marvel comics, Archie, newspaper strips). I agree with you that novel probably isn't the best term for it; that's why the term is usually strictly defined as a stand alone comic like Maus or Watchman (each book in Sandman is considered a graphic novel 'cause it's a standalone tale, but the go together in the series to tell the bigger story-like Harry Potter or LoTR).
"Goodnight Moon" is technically a children's short story. Beats me where the line between short story and novel breaks.
Seriously though, attempting to legitimize them as "Graphic Novels" is just spin and makes you look more ridiculous.
Although I agree with you 'cause the "graphic novel" label gets thrown at every comic under the sun, technically a graphic novel is a subset of all comic books; a graphic novel has the whole plot structure (rising action, climax, falling action) wrapped up in one book (or over the course of the series), whereas many other types of comics stretch the plot out over the course of an arc, and a few collective arcs can be combined into an overarching arc, and a comic series often has many overarching arcs. Basically "graphic novels" have one big climax. A good rule of thumb is: do all the chapters/books in this series tie into one big event (usually at the end)? if yes: graphic novel
In any case, grad students should be at least generally supervised in their work and not just sent off to figure it all out on their own.
The professor in my lab spends a decent amount of time with his students (our lab is mostly undergrads) but most of the grad students we've gotten were so clueless-it's a comp sci lab- that they were pawned off to undergrads who had been there longer and knew the work/machines/comp-sci better.
Its not anything against the ethnicity, but the Indian schools themselves seem to do a horrible job actually giving students a wide breadth of knowledge.
Not just the Indian schools, if the work on my senior design (EE) is any indicator. Bad/no grounding, fuses too high to do any good, safety features that don't actually work 'cause they're not wired in correctly, and a whole host of other "basics" that just get lost. The comp-sci group is even worse, but that's a different rant.
At my (American) university, the only semi-practical experience any of the EE guys get are 2 or 3 labs that don't require wiring anything more complicated than an amp and therefore don't instill any safety precautions. All the other courses are basically a collection of math formulas to solve some problem, and the way the testing is structured there's no sense in learning anything 'cause the exam questions are based on the old exams that are based on this list of formulas. I've tried asking profs why a formula is used or what's the reasoning behind a methodology and gotten answers that boil down to "this is used 'cause this is used."
Surely in that case it's only an issue if the cracker has already compromised your email account?
Which the cracker often can do if he knows the answer to a security question, which often as not is the same question he answered the 1st go around ('cause there are about 5 common questions and people tend to choose the same ones across accounts.) The major exception I can think of is if the account is tagged to a school/work/other non-hotmail/yahoo/gmail account.
Compare these to the 'new age' time-out techniques and the like which are based on adult psychology and are probably completely inappropriate for immature minds. Probably far more damaging, but we won't know for another couple of decades or so...
What really pans out best is being consistent in whatever parenting style (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, etc.) so time-outs are fine as long as they're actually enforced. Anecdotal: My mother managed to put me and my sib in a corner when we were 15, but she almost never used a belt on us when were kids. When I worked at a pre-school, time outs worked brilliantly at getting the rowdy kids sorted out.
But I wonder about the culture correlation-do families that tend to practice consistent authoritative discipline come from cultures where education is highly valued?
And had your mom and aunts had the option to not follow the norm and do what they wanted to and not have to play with Barbie dolls would they be like that today?
Gah, the anti-Barbie rhetoric burns. I love my Barbies and other dolls and learned to sew by making clothes for them and have tons of outfits for them and grew up enamored with it all. I also play with legos and robots and computer parts and a lot of the other stuff the "standard slashdot geek" is interested in. My mom says I liked pink and rhinestones as a kid, but that didn't stick. Basically, I don't buy that childhood exposure to gender-specific toys leads to conforming to gender stereotypes. Either it's natural or it's not, though I think most people are a blend of everything. (I cook and clean, but I also do household repair.)
they aren't looking for answers like guy does when he talks to a friend about problems...
Can I be friends with those guys, 'cause most of the ones I know are as ranty as the girls I know. I've found length(interpersonal problems)> length(anything else) across genders. Basically, if it's an easy problem with a fast solution (like how to code something or where to find something) the conversation is always short and if it's a problem with a teammate/girlfriend/etc. the speaker doesn't really want to hear (they don't really care in some ways) the solution, they just want a sounding board and agreement that "X is a total bastard".
Same with video games that are overtly aimed at girls.
I loved my Barbie games, 'specially all the hair/makeup/clothes ones, mostly 'cause at that point they were the only ones on the market offering that kind of thing. Half the reason I got into computers in the first place was 'cause I had a pipe dream of creating a more realistic fashion simulation. I don't think there's anything wrong with a niche game marketed towards it's audience, as it's just like any other toy.
The whole "della" concept though is just insulting, 'cause ask any female (excluding the ones in fiction, who seem to be so totally tech illiterate it's scary) what she does with her laptop and the answer is probably the same thing any guy does with his. And hell, if the girl is in any field that requires heavy performance, she probably needs a rig more decked out than the average guys, not something with pink sparkles.
Initial user participation was good until for some completely unknown reason, 90% of images presented to users for rating were goatse, tubgirl, or other shock images.
I assume you were joking, but it's actually playing out that way. One out of every four of the images on the front page looks like the type of thing a slashdotter would contribute, and the site says:
5/15/2009 Due to a slashdot exposure, we are experiencing a much larger traffic to our small Webserver. There is a possibility that your photo request may not be handled as fast as it should be. Thanks!
those who pirate only do so either because they are not interested in buying the book at all, or they cannot afford it.
I like pirated versions of books I own 'cause then I can do the homework in class without having to pull out my textbooks. I'm one of the few people who's bought/borrowed (mostly bought) just about every textbook a professor's ever required (including the awful one written by the prof that was absurdly over-priced 'cause there was no used book market 'cause the two people who buy the book sell it the second the semester ends.)
This is why, at my university, many active textbooks are limited in quantity, have a two hour checkout limit, and you can't take them off library premises.
Exact same deal at my school, and lots of times the newest editions aren't on reserve yet. Photocopy the problem set. Everything else is usually better explained online or in another book anyway.
I'd rather be out going to bars, playing poker, or otherwise enjoying my nights rather than obsessing over RAM timing.
Then I bought a mac.
Once you factor in the time spent picking out configurations (vs. picking out parts), a new build takes about an hour* longer than anything store bought.
*give or take depending on how many boxes you've bought
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Women were designed to have children, not be breadwinners. That's primarily the man's job.
And they can't do both because? A bunch of my friends are supporting their husbands (it's a cultural thing in certain branches of orthodox Judaism that has to do with learning Torah all day) while having tons of kids. One of 'em had her first while getting her engineering degree and had 2 more while working on construction sites. Lots of girls I know manage at least two before their husbands ever start working. It's difficult, but doable.
Guys don't teach cause it's a traditionally female field* (read here for usual reasons) not 'cause they can get better jobs. The equally gender skewed male equivalent is probably a technical job like repairmen, carpenter, or electrician.
*acceptableness of male teachers is inversely proportional to age of student, which is why there are as many male professors as female ones, but very few male pre-school teachers)
Don't care and never said I was. (I'm most probably not.) Just saying, if he wants pretty girls in class, better bring in the pretty boys.
Aww, phdcomics
As a girl in those classes: 8 years (high school + college) of male dominated courses and only a handful of reasonably attractive (even fewer hot) guys. Equal distribution of eye candy would also be nice.
Personally, I say they are all comic books. More than one person works on them. Novels are done by one person.
a) I also think they're all comic books, just that graphic novels are a subset.
b) I've read plenty of novels written by two authors, and lots of comics (especially manga/manwha/etc.) written by one author (and some unnamed assistants helping with the art.)
I just feel that there's a big difference between a set of comics that tells a cohesive tale (Fables, Y the Last Man, most any shoujo/josei manga) and a big sprawling set of independent stories that never really end or don't always lead up to something big (most of the DC/Marvel comics, Archie, newspaper strips). I agree with you that novel probably isn't the best term for it; that's why the term is usually strictly defined as a stand alone comic like Maus or Watchman (each book in Sandman is considered a graphic novel 'cause it's a standalone tale, but the go together in the series to tell the bigger story-like Harry Potter or LoTR).
"Goodnight Moon" is technically a children's short story. Beats me where the line between short story and novel breaks.
You insensitive clod!
Seriously though, attempting to legitimize them as "Graphic Novels" is just spin and makes you look more ridiculous.
Although I agree with you 'cause the "graphic novel" label gets thrown at every comic under the sun, technically a graphic novel is a subset of all comic books; a graphic novel has the whole plot structure (rising action, climax, falling action) wrapped up in one book (or over the course of the series), whereas many other types of comics stretch the plot out over the course of an arc, and a few collective arcs can be combined into an overarching arc, and a comic series often has many overarching arcs. Basically "graphic novels" have one big climax. A good rule of thumb is: do all the chapters/books in this series tie into one big event (usually at the end)? if yes: graphic novel
In any case, grad students should be at least generally supervised in their work and not just sent off to figure it all out on their own.
The professor in my lab spends a decent amount of time with his students (our lab is mostly undergrads) but most of the grad students we've gotten were so clueless-it's a comp sci lab- that they were pawned off to undergrads who had been there longer and knew the work/machines/comp-sci better.
Its not anything against the ethnicity, but the Indian schools themselves seem to do a horrible job actually giving students a wide breadth of knowledge.
Not just the Indian schools, if the work on my senior design (EE) is any indicator. Bad/no grounding, fuses too high to do any good, safety features that don't actually work 'cause they're not wired in correctly, and a whole host of other "basics" that just get lost. The comp-sci group is even worse, but that's a different rant.
At my (American) university, the only semi-practical experience any of the EE guys get are 2 or 3 labs that don't require wiring anything more complicated than an amp and therefore don't instill any safety precautions. All the other courses are basically a collection of math formulas to solve some problem, and the way the testing is structured there's no sense in learning anything 'cause the exam questions are based on the old exams that are based on this list of formulas. I've tried asking profs why a formula is used or what's the reasoning behind a methodology and gotten answers that boil down to "this is used 'cause this is used."
Surely in that case it's only an issue if the cracker has already compromised your email account?
Which the cracker often can do if he knows the answer to a security question, which often as not is the same question he answered the 1st go around ('cause there are about 5 common questions and people tend to choose the same ones across accounts.) The major exception I can think of is if the account is tagged to a school/work/other non-hotmail/yahoo/gmail account.
Compare these to the 'new age' time-out techniques and the like which are based on adult psychology and are probably completely inappropriate for immature minds. Probably far more damaging, but we won't know for another couple of decades or so...
What really pans out best is being consistent in whatever parenting style (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, etc.) so time-outs are fine as long as they're actually enforced.
Anecdotal:
My mother managed to put me and my sib in a corner when we were 15, but she almost never used a belt on us when were kids. When I worked at a pre-school, time outs worked brilliantly at getting the rowdy kids sorted out.
citation:
Inconsistent parenting: Is there evidence for a link with children's conduct problems?
I actually found a study that kind of supports your and the gp's claim: (though timeouts are common in authoritative parenting)
The relation of parenting style to adolescent school performance, but the reason the study gives for why authoritative has the highest correlation is that it's the most internally consistent.
and another, 'cause I'm feeling bored
But I wonder about the culture correlation-do families that tend to practice consistent authoritative discipline come from cultures where education is highly valued?
Freedom to not be a fluffy bunny also inherently implies a freedom to be one as well.
Can I steal for my sig?
And had your mom and aunts had the option to not follow the norm and do what they wanted to and not have to play with Barbie dolls would they be like that today?
Gah, the anti-Barbie rhetoric burns. I love my Barbies and other dolls and learned to sew by making clothes for them and have tons of outfits for them and grew up enamored with it all. I also play with legos and robots and computer parts and a lot of the other stuff the "standard slashdot geek" is interested in. My mom says I liked pink and rhinestones as a kid, but that didn't stick. Basically, I don't buy that childhood exposure to gender-specific toys leads to conforming to gender stereotypes. Either it's natural or it's not, though I think most people are a blend of everything. (I cook and clean, but I also do household repair.)
If you want to sell something to men, show us that we can be idiots and spill on it, drop it, and generally treat it like crap and it will still work.
That's also a great marketing campaign for anybody with kids.
they aren't looking for answers like guy does when he talks to a friend about problems...
Can I be friends with those guys, 'cause most of the ones I know are as ranty as the girls I know. I've found length(interpersonal problems)> length(anything else) across genders. Basically, if it's an easy problem with a fast solution (like how to code something or where to find something) the conversation is always short and if it's a problem with a teammate/girlfriend/etc. the speaker doesn't really want to hear (they don't really care in some ways) the solution, they just want a sounding board and agreement that "X is a total bastard".
Same with video games that are overtly aimed at girls.
I loved my Barbie games, 'specially all the hair/makeup/clothes ones, mostly 'cause at that point they were the only ones on the market offering that kind of thing. Half the reason I got into computers in the first place was 'cause I had a pipe dream of creating a more realistic fashion simulation. I don't think there's anything wrong with a niche game marketed towards it's audience, as it's just like any other toy.
The whole "della" concept though is just insulting, 'cause ask any female (excluding the ones in fiction, who seem to be so totally tech illiterate it's scary) what she does with her laptop and the answer is probably the same thing any guy does with his. And hell, if the girl is in any field that requires heavy performance, she probably needs a rig more decked out than the average guys, not something with pink sparkles.
Initial user participation was good until for some completely unknown reason, 90% of images presented to users for rating were goatse, tubgirl, or other shock images.
I assume you were joking, but it's actually playing out that way. One out of every four of the images on the front page looks like the type of thing a slashdotter would contribute, and the site says:
5/15/2009 Due to a slashdot exposure, we are experiencing a much larger traffic to our small Webserver.
There is a possibility that your photo request may not be handled as fast as it should be. Thanks!
those who pirate only do so either because they are not interested in buying the book at all, or they cannot afford it.
I like pirated versions of books I own 'cause then I can do the homework in class without having to pull out my textbooks. I'm one of the few people who's bought/borrowed (mostly bought) just about every textbook a professor's ever required (including the awful one written by the prof that was absurdly over-priced 'cause there was no used book market 'cause the two people who buy the book sell it the second the semester ends.)
This is why, at my university, many active textbooks are limited in quantity, have a two hour checkout limit, and you can't take them off library premises.
Exact same deal at my school, and lots of times the newest editions aren't on reserve yet.
Photocopy the problem set. Everything else is usually better explained online or in another book anyway.
Now what am I going to do when these bitches piss me off? ;-)
Advertise her services in a men's bathroom in some skeevy bar? Or your local high school?
but they do charge for some ads.
The fees are listed in the craigslist FAQ.
Yes, but so am I (and we're straight so it's not the least bit interesting.)
I'd rather be out going to bars, playing poker, or otherwise enjoying my nights rather than obsessing over RAM timing.
Then I bought a mac.
Once you factor in the time spent picking out configurations (vs. picking out parts), a new build takes about an hour* longer than anything store bought.
*give or take depending on how many boxes you've bought
Bigger than mine too, and they cost less than a years rent, and I share with a roommate. Ah ... the joys of a Manhattan studio a block from school ...
Clothes are a form of fanservice in shoujo/josei manga.
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