Life doesn't become beautiful and simple when you graduate highschool/college either. Life is like that. Difference is either barely tolerated, exploited, or sometimes outcast if not useful. I'm surprised at the number of adults here that think life becomes different when you graduate. No, you're still an outcast as a geek, you just earn money for it. The CEO of the company is one of those popular kids that beat you up, he's just learned that geeks are useful to have around. Since life is unfair like that, it's just better to learn how to cope. And what other people have said is true, by removing the trappings of geek society, you've taken away that means of coping. In truth, all freaks generally accept each other. You can watch, with dismay, as a counter-culture becomes taken over by the mainstream. That's about when the group starts refusing outsiders.
Some amazingly good high schools do have special programs for the gifted. But, this is worse than going to a normal school. Get this one: An old school that I went to had a "Talented and Gifted Program." The acronym: TAG. We had to sit in front of the "normal" school, waiting for a bus to take us to our "real" school, and endure the "TAG FAG" name which we got. {shrug}
Ah, MISSISSIPPI State University. Ok, that's a different story. Now, Michigan State University I can vouch for the existence of women in the CS department. Of course, I'm pretty sure that there are some in other MSU's.
They exist. Or at least, they existed when I went there. Unfortunately, they were few and far between. (And the two that I actually spoke to were both married, strangely enough.)
Quote: The items that mindcraft used for tuning NT are fairly well established, either from NT documents or documents relating to the NICs, etc. Quote from ZD's article: Mindcraft tested NT with NT tuning, benchmarking and technical support from Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), and Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 tuning information from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. So, the thing is: They had some official documents, that they knew about, beforehand. They tuned it with these people working with them beforehand. It's more like this: Hi, I want to test my car versus the competitions. I'm going to show you all the tips and tricks about my car. Now, go pose as some customer off of the street and see if you can get them to hot rod your car to be similar. Frequently, when you're going to run benchmarks, you get NO INFORMATION from anyone, or you get EQUAL COOPERATION. None of this: "Well, we'll help you all we can, because we're paying you. Go try and get RedHat to tune your server on their dime, without enough information for them to do it easily."
50 years of US non-involvement in world politics. Complete and utter, well we might be interested in just the Western Hemisphere. "Nope, we're not interested in helping you. We did that, we received criticism from the rest of the world. If it's not in our hemisphere, we're not interested at all."
Wait... we used to be like that. Some guy took advantage of that. Hmm... no problem, though, right?
Our problem is that we're making the decisions, based on our morals, and only with the information that we're given. Sooo....
You said "why aren't they bombing Turkey and Iraq (for massacres of Kurds)"
Just wait. We are. Well, I'm relatively sure, that we are. People I've talked to have been doing a lot of training in desert situations. No big surprise why, eh?
And as for the US involvement in various wars. Hell, don't get self-righteous yourselves. Yeh, we may get involved in a war for less than altruistic reasons, but another government with similar military power would do the same. Any government with the built up military power as the US is bound to end up using it, eventually, to protect its own interests... be the monetary or moral.
And as for the Northern Ireland thing... well, tell you the truth, I'm not sure that the US understands that conflict entirely. Who are you going to bomb? It's not FUNDED by a nation, so there's no NATION to bomb.
As for Haiti... this is where I need to shut up, because I don't understand my nation's politics, or actions.
You see, I'm quite happy to live in a nation where the only thing I need to pay attention to are the technical news magazines. I don't even vote. I'm one of the most irresponsible members of the "world community" because I allow my government to do what it wants... and I am not without a lot of company. (of course, I say this with the intention that I will learn more, and get involved more in the future.)
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Life doesn't become beautiful and simple when you graduate highschool/college either. Life is like that. Difference is either barely tolerated, exploited, or sometimes outcast if not useful. I'm surprised at the number of adults here that think life becomes different when you graduate. No, you're still an outcast as a geek, you just earn money for it. The CEO of the company is one of those popular kids that beat you up, he's just learned that geeks are useful to have around. Since life is unfair like that, it's just better to learn how to cope. And what other people have said is true, by removing the trappings of geek society, you've taken away that means of coping. In truth, all freaks generally accept each other. You can watch, with dismay, as a counter-culture becomes taken over by the mainstream. That's about when the group starts refusing outsiders.
Some amazingly good high schools do have special programs for the gifted. But, this is worse than going to a normal school. Get this one: An old school that I went to had a "Talented and Gifted Program." The acronym: TAG. We had to sit in front of the "normal" school, waiting for a bus to take us to our "real" school, and endure the "TAG FAG" name which we got. {shrug}
Ah, MISSISSIPPI State University. Ok, that's a different story. Now, Michigan State University I can vouch for the existence of women in the CS department. Of course, I'm pretty sure that there are some in other MSU's.
They exist. Or at least, they existed when I went there. Unfortunately, they were few and far between. (And the two that I actually spoke to were both married, strangely enough.)
Quote: The items that mindcraft used for tuning NT are fairly well established, either from NT documents or documents relating to the NICs, etc. Quote from ZD's article: Mindcraft tested NT with NT tuning, benchmarking and technical support from Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), and Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 tuning information from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. So, the thing is: They had some official documents, that they knew about, beforehand. They tuned it with these people working with them beforehand. It's more like this: Hi, I want to test my car versus the competitions. I'm going to show you all the tips and tricks about my car. Now, go pose as some customer off of the street and see if you can get them to hot rod your car to be similar. Frequently, when you're going to run benchmarks, you get NO INFORMATION from anyone, or you get EQUAL COOPERATION. None of this: "Well, we'll help you all we can, because we're paying you. Go try and get RedHat to tune your server on their dime, without enough information for them to do it easily."
You know what I would love to see.
... we used to be like that. Some guy took advantage of that. Hmm... no problem, though, right?
50 years of US non-involvement in world politics. Complete and utter, well we might be interested in just the Western Hemisphere. "Nope, we're not interested in helping you. We did that, we received criticism from the rest of the world. If it's not in our hemisphere, we're not interested at all."
Wait
Our problem is that we're making the decisions, based on our morals, and only with the information that we're given. Sooo....
You said "why aren't they bombing Turkey and Iraq (for massacres of Kurds)"
... be the monetary or moral.
... this is where I need to shut up, because I don't understand my nation's politics, or actions.
Just wait. We are. Well, I'm relatively sure, that we are. People I've talked to have been doing a lot of training in desert situations. No big surprise why, eh?
And as for the US involvement in various wars. Hell, don't get self-righteous yourselves. Yeh, we may get involved in a war for less than altruistic reasons, but another government with similar military power would do the same. Any government with the built up military power as the US is bound to end up using it, eventually, to protect its own interests
And as for the Northern Ireland thing... well, tell you the truth, I'm not sure that the US understands that conflict entirely. Who are you going to bomb? It's not FUNDED by a nation, so there's no NATION to bomb.
As for Haiti
You see, I'm quite happy to live in a nation where the only thing I need to pay attention to are the technical news magazines. I don't even vote. I'm one of the most irresponsible members of the "world community" because I allow my government to do what it wants... and I am not without a lot of company. (of course, I say this with the intention that I will learn more, and get involved more in the future.)
That was a great story. What does "-boupo2384" mean, though?