It's fundamentally a bad idea to push anyone into a profession (yes, "geek" is a profession to most of us here) simply to "make up numbers" or "even the odds". This applies to both men and women equally.
There's a very good reason there's not many girl-geeks. Females aren't genetically predispositioned to work in the "hard" sciences, such as maths, engineering and physics.
In 1921, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung analysed people's approaches to decision making. Jung found that there were two ways people approached the decision making process. He titled these two groups "thinkers" and "feelers". The "thinker" group has an emphasis on analytical factors, while the "feeler" group bases decisions upon feelings and their values.
Different personality types are suited to different professions. The analytical types are naturally suited towards professions where logic and structure dominate; such as Engineering. The values-based personalities are naturally suited towards professions where they are directly rewarded for helping people, such as psychology, the health care industry, and human resources (Myers in Consulting Psychologists press, 1998).
Encouraging people of any gender into a profession where their personality doesn't suit them is wrong -- both for the person involved, and for society as a whole.
The problem with children nowadays is the parents. Parents refuse to discipline their kids, so it's up to the school to.
Unfortunately, the schools don't have the authority to discipline your children properly. Sometimes, that means a good wallop on the arse -- because reasoning (arguing) just don't cut it.
Kids nowadays wake up, eat cheerio's, go to school, text all day, get home, eat pizza, and play their xbox.
And we wonder why our children are both obese and obnoxious...
Both of these devices assume that you're guilty until proven innocent. There can be legitimate reasons for crossing the white line when the light is red -- for example, to move out of the way for an emergency services vehicle.
I had a friend who was booked for running a red for this exact reason. He had to take it all the way to court to have the fine (and demerit points) dismissed.
Do you really think Bob Brown will stand up to Stephen Conroy when he's called a kiddy fiddler?
Conroy has an infallible argument. If you come out against his Internet filter, he just calls you a child molester. And no politician wants to risk that.
In Australia, I'm pretty sure that content that's refused classification is not only illegal to sell, it's illegal to import. You therefore have no legal way of owning the content -- hence, illegal to own.
The best example I can think of this was a film called "Lolita". A couple of well-known movie critics here (David and Margaret) organised a private screening of the film. They got into a fair bit of strife over this.
I don't think they'll even realise: most serious gamers will either be running Windows, or dual boot into Windows. The rest probably use Codeweavers' Crossover
I was never notified that an ADOBE product would entail installing an addin to a completely NON-Adobe product.
Get with the times. Companies install addons to "complementary" products (web browsers, office suites, etc).
I never understand why people get so hung up about the semantics.
Windows XP was, for all intents and purposes, a "large service pack" for Windows 2000. Kernel 5.1 to 2000's 5.0, plus some "tweaks".
But most people will agree that XP, in terms of performance and usability, was well worth the upgrade.
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It's fundamentally a bad idea to push anyone into a profession (yes, "geek" is a profession to most of us here) simply to "make up numbers" or "even the odds". This applies to both men and women equally.
There's a very good reason there's not many girl-geeks. Females aren't genetically predispositioned to work in the "hard" sciences, such as maths, engineering and physics.
In 1921, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung analysed people's approaches to decision making. Jung found that there were two ways people approached the decision making process. He titled these two groups "thinkers" and "feelers". The "thinker" group has an emphasis on analytical factors, while the "feeler" group bases decisions upon feelings and their values.
Different personality types are suited to different professions. The analytical types are naturally suited towards professions where logic and structure dominate; such as Engineering. The values-based personalities are naturally suited towards professions where they are directly rewarded for helping people, such as psychology, the health care industry, and human resources (Myers in Consulting Psychologists press, 1998).
Encouraging people of any gender into a profession where their personality doesn't suit them is wrong -- both for the person involved, and for society as a whole.
(mostly borrowed from "Women in Engineering" -- but equally relevant).
Now I can run TWO operating systems TWICE as slow!!!
Seriously, virtualisation is all well and good on hardware with capacity to spare. It makes no sense at all on a mobile device.
The problem with children nowadays is the parents. Parents refuse to discipline their kids, so it's up to the school to.
Unfortunately, the schools don't have the authority to discipline your children properly. Sometimes, that means a good wallop on the arse -- because reasoning (arguing) just don't cut it.
Kids nowadays wake up, eat cheerio's, go to school, text all day, get home, eat pizza, and play their xbox.
And we wonder why our children are both obese and obnoxious...
Similar to police speed traps: red light cameras.
Both of these devices assume that you're guilty until proven innocent. There can be legitimate reasons for crossing the white line when the light is red -- for example, to move out of the way for an emergency services vehicle.
I had a friend who was booked for running a red for this exact reason. He had to take it all the way to court to have the fine (and demerit points) dismissed.
Do you really think Bob Brown will stand up to Stephen Conroy when he's called a kiddy fiddler?
Conroy has an infallible argument. If you come out against his Internet filter, he just calls you a child molester. And no politician wants to risk that.
Having a copy of Windows that boots on an architecture and having a commercially viable architecture are two VERY different things.
Microsoft pretty much canned all non-x86 versions of Windows: nobody bothered running them because of the extraordinarily poor application support.
Hell, they have enough trouble pushing copies of Windows for Itanium.
128-bit time sounds a little impractical at present.
Sure, but can Ubuntu run this poor woman's Verizon install disk?
I'm guessing the real root of both of your problems is old graphics drivers
Standard response. Oh, it's the graphics drivers fault. Usually followed by "compile from source".
In Australia, I'm pretty sure that content that's refused classification is not only illegal to sell, it's illegal to import. You therefore have no legal way of owning the content -- hence, illegal to own.
The best example I can think of this was a film called "Lolita". A couple of well-known movie critics here (David and Margaret) organised a private screening of the film. They got into a fair bit of strife over this.
I don't think they'll even realise: most serious gamers will either be running Windows, or dual boot into Windows. The rest probably use Codeweavers' Crossover
I was never notified that an ADOBE product would entail installing an addin to a completely NON-Adobe product. Get with the times. Companies install addons to "complementary" products (web browsers, office suites, etc).
I never understand why people get so hung up about the semantics. Windows XP was, for all intents and purposes, a "large service pack" for Windows 2000. Kernel 5.1 to 2000's 5.0, plus some "tweaks". But most people will agree that XP, in terms of performance and usability, was well worth the upgrade.