There IS research on sex difference in cognition, although a lot of it is crap: Gender role socialization starts at birth (look at toys and types of play offered to infant males vs females), while useful studies of cognition necessarily start later.
The real issue, for me, is that if any genetic cognitive differences exist, they are without a doubt subtle, and probably insignificant to the real-world jobs we're talking about. Cumulative differences in socialization are otoh VERY real, all the way from "nerdy-boy" stereotypes and selective play through the sexual harassment and general mistreatment that continue to plague womem at research universities. More cognitive research is fine, although given the field's track record (weighing brains, anyone?) I'll take it with a grain of salt. But we can and should fight for cultural change now; social stigma and structural hurdles (e.g., the lack of paid childcare or parental leave for teaching fellows and lecturers) are clearly keeping women out of some fields, while cognitive differences remain speculative.
The poster is not legally required to give his boss two weeks' notice; that's a custom. The poster isn't under contract and could walk immediately, although I wouldn't recommend it.
As for the on-call business, give them a figure that would make it worth your while (plus 25% for good measure:). If the boss isn't willing to compensate you adequately, that isn't your problem, and you should be moving on to a job where you can develop your skills.
... is easy. gaim can do it automatically, plaintext or html, by recipient, and searching is easy. Opening up a nice big html file in a browser, complete with every conversation you've ever had with someone on AIM, can be quite handy.
I actually have two backups of my mail:
raw mbox. procmail copies everything to a folder (on my mailsever) which fetchmail (on my box) grabs once in a while, usable with most civilized mail programs (want to copy everything to an imap server? Use t-bird or some crap) and searchable with mutt, or for that matter a text editor; and
gmail. Yes, you have an extra invite or 50... just procmail or otherwise autosend a copy of everything to a gmail account as backup. Gmail might not last forever (hence the mbox, and some cdr/tape), but while it does, it makes for handy searching. Not as nice as mutt though:)
... is going to be underwater. Buy a Nunavat hill and some little drink umbrellas, you'll be living the high life as soon as the extreme weather events and famine-induced warfare subside.
That is true for income and property taxes, but sales taxes (a big part of state budgets, not to mention a major tax source in big cities) cut across class, and Social Security winds up being basically regressive (i.e. hits the poor harder, proportionally). Since Social Security post-Reagan is used to shore up the federal budget, taxation isn't nearly as progressive as most people think. In any case income taxes hit "wealthy wage earners" much harder pound for pound than those who, e.g., earn their cash off of stocks and get to write off 18 holes at Pebble Beach as a 'business expense'...
The link you provided shows Democrats -- sometimes without reason -- denouncing alleged Republican voter suppression techniques. While unsavory, such tactics are not in the same ballpark as having a registration company shred your opponents' right to cast a ballot -- or, for example, having Florida arbitrarily purge its voter rolls of large amounts of non-felons listed as "black", but no non-felons listed as "Hispanic," as it did under Republican leadership. Dems levy such slanders because they stick; they stick because Republicans use such tactics as a matter of course.
Yeh, watch out with that. Converting a (really lossy) Real file to a (less lossy) mp3 or ogg will just get you a really, really lossy file.
I'm waiting for someone with XM (or the brit equivalent) to upload some nice ogg's, but not holding my breath...
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Wizards and dummy-versions of everything like the (currently in XP) Control Panel that can be in classic mode or the new re-organized gay-mode.
So, now gay guys get crap for... bad design? I mean, I know we're godless sodomites, and I know everyone thinks we molest kids routinely, but have you been in a store lately? Breeders fucking suck at design.
Afghanistan was helped by the US in the war against the USSR so they fly planes into US buildings.
First off, I'd like you to name one Afghan who has flown a plane into a building in the US. Hmm? I can think of 15 Saudis and 4 assorted other Arabs. No Afghans, sorry.
Second, the US-backed forces in Afghanistan in the '80s largely preceeded the Taliban, which is mostly a Pakistani export.
allows you to play that song on whatever AAC-compatable devices suit your fancy; and
won't make it particularly easier for filesharers, who appear to be more apt to share ripped CDs, anyways.
And this is supposed to be bad how, exactly?
iTunes customers will still have to pay; filesharing will be unaffected; and iTunes users will have more options in how they play their songs. Apple won't like it, since to them iTunes is only a way to sell their overpriced little toys... But it won't have any appreciable impact on iTunes sales, methinks.
The problem with DRM'ing music (aside from the fact that DRM-as-content-protection is a ricockulous business plan with no engineering merit whatsoever) is that record companies sell oodles of unwatermarked, non-DRM'ed CD's. Files don't wind up on Kazaa because some clever 13-year-old h4x0r3d your encryption; they wind up their because a chimpanzee could rip files off a CD.
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I wish courts worked like that.
Step 1: Switch to the metric system.
There IS research on sex difference in cognition, although a lot of it is crap: Gender role socialization starts at birth (look at toys and types of play offered to infant males vs females), while useful studies of cognition necessarily start later.
The real issue, for me, is that if any genetic cognitive differences exist, they are without a doubt subtle, and probably insignificant to the real-world jobs we're talking about. Cumulative differences in socialization are otoh VERY real, all the way from "nerdy-boy" stereotypes and selective play through the sexual harassment and general mistreatment that continue to plague womem at research universities. More cognitive research is fine, although given the field's track record (weighing brains, anyone?) I'll take it with a grain of salt. But we can and should fight for cultural change now; social stigma and structural hurdles (e.g., the lack of paid childcare or parental leave for teaching fellows and lecturers) are clearly keeping women out of some fields, while cognitive differences remain speculative.
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Mmkay, so at 13 this kid'll just rebel and turn cool.
Clever parents learn to fake out their kids, which is why I'm going to pretend to be a Republican from when my kids are btwn 10 and 18.
The poster is not legally required to give his boss two weeks' notice; that's a custom. The poster isn't under contract and could walk immediately, although I wouldn't recommend it.
:). If the boss isn't willing to compensate you adequately, that isn't your problem, and you should be moving on to a job where you can develop your skills.
As for the on-call business, give them a figure that would make it worth your while (plus 25% for good measure
You think aliens are likely to kill us for hogging bandwidth? You know, they're not exactly like /. users ...
Wow, smokers contribute nothing to society? Take that, Winston Churchill!
I actually have two backups of my mail:
With an attitude like that, the only way you'll be passing on your genes involves handing a cup to a nurse.
Mark my words, 2055 will be the year of HURD on the desktop. As soon as they implement support for scroll wheels and holoprojectors, they're set.
Yes, because educated opinions are the hallmark of fundamentalist crusades against the First Amendment.
The fact that people live in North Dakota makes wifi moot.
That is true for income and property taxes, but sales taxes (a big part of state budgets, not to mention a major tax source in big cities) cut across class, and Social Security winds up being basically regressive (i.e. hits the poor harder, proportionally). Since Social Security post-Reagan is used to shore up the federal budget, taxation isn't nearly as progressive as most people think. In any case income taxes hit "wealthy wage earners" much harder pound for pound than those who, e.g., earn their cash off of stocks and get to write off 18 holes at Pebble Beach as a 'business expense' ...
The link you provided shows Democrats -- sometimes without reason -- denouncing alleged Republican voter suppression techniques. While unsavory, such tactics are not in the same ballpark as having a registration company shred your opponents' right to cast a ballot -- or, for example, having Florida arbitrarily purge its voter rolls of large amounts of non-felons listed as "black", but no non-felons listed as "Hispanic," as it did under Republican leadership. Dems levy such slanders because they stick; they stick because Republicans use such tactics as a matter of course.
What's better than a Libertarian? A Libertarian who thinks himself above contractual arrangements!
Yeh, watch out with that. Converting a (really lossy) Real file to a (less lossy) mp3 or ogg will just get you a really, really lossy file.
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I'm waiting for someone with XM (or the brit equivalent) to upload some nice ogg's, but not holding my breath
Wow, how classy of you to turn a reasonable point into a second-hand gay joke.
Okay, then what are ordinary citizens supposed to do when the Diebold machines won't count their votes?
Second, the US-backed forces in Afghanistan in the '80s largely preceeded the Taliban, which is mostly a Pakistani export.
Of course, in every war our troops fight they get shot with plenty of American weapons.
Okay, so FairPlay:
And this is supposed to be bad how, exactly?
iTunes customers will still have to pay; filesharing will be unaffected; and iTunes users will have more options in how they play their songs. Apple won't like it, since to them iTunes is only a way to sell their overpriced little toys ... But it won't have any appreciable impact on iTunes sales, methinks.
The problem with DRM'ing music (aside from the fact that DRM-as-content-protection is a ricockulous business plan with no engineering merit whatsoever) is that record companies sell oodles of unwatermarked, non-DRM'ed CD's. Files don't wind up on Kazaa because some clever 13-year-old h4x0r3d your encryption; they wind up their because a chimpanzee could rip files off a CD.
The new file selector broke binary compatability and thus required a new GTK+. You're right, it took too long, but GTK+ has long release cycles.
I don't know about KDE but I assume the issues are similar.