Most open source projects aren't setup as an actual licensed company, and many aren't legally able to do business as a result. Which is fine because setting up a donation button works well enough for their needs.
There is also the problem with most of the people running the open source projects being techs, and not business people. For them, the creating and sending out an invoice for "support" and writing up the contract for a "client" to sign (to protect themselves in this situation) is pretty arcane.
And that's assuming those email accounts you used are even checked regularly. Some of those things get setup at day one, and everyone forgets about it unless forwarding is configured.
Again, I'm not saying that it's ONLY biological. Just that this isn't "problem" with the IT field. There's nothing specific about this field that turns women away from it, aside from peripherally extreme cases. It's not like we have equal participation in CompSci 101, before all the women run away from abuse and misogyny. They just aren't showing up in the first place.
So I'll reiterate my stance here, and say that these issues need to stop being framed as problems in the IT field when they are not. They aren't even problems in the STEM fields, in general, because most women aren't interested enough to even dip their toes in the water in the first place. Criticize the media for perpetuating gender stereotypes, or criticize parents for not giving their children a wider range of toys as kids, or criticize teachers for assuming girls don't like math. Don't just perpetuate the myth that there is this wide-spread gender conspiracy that's pervasive enough to push women away when they're still girls dealing with their first crush. Because that's exactly when people start to make decisions about what kinds of interests they have; teens.
I don't believe for a moment that it's any kind of negative force, such as sexism or bigotry, that's keeping women out of the field. It's just not interesting to most of them. I know it's hard to talk about in today's politically correct world, but men and women ARE wired differently. Exceptions certainly exist, but they are still just exceptions.
We could go on and on about why there aren't more male nurses, and the conversation would be silly if we tried to ignore the fact that guys just tend not to be interested in nursing because they're guys.
As for females in this industry, I've seen all kinds. Some are good, some are inexperienced, some just plain suck, and others are incredibly talented. Just like their male counterparts.
This is one of the worst summaries ever. The topic is bad. The summary is bad. It's confusingly written, without any clear idea as to what point it's trying to convey.
TLDR: CTRL+Shift+T restores tabs you accidentally closed.
Start by developing an idea, tone, and theme for a story that you can collaborate on and write. There's a lot of fun details to flesh out to make the world feel alive (especially if the story isn't just set in modern times) like establishing kingdoms or galactic alliances and whatnot. If you one you likes to draw or doodle, you can get some fun map-making in. You can setup short term goals like "this week, we should each try and write up a character profile for someone in the world" and then share the ideas you've come up with when you're together online again.
I know it's not a straight-up game in the way you were asking, but it could easily become one that's shared between just the two of you. Most rewarding is the actual progress you make on something that will last longer than the next WoW patch cycle. And who knows, maybe you guys end up releasing the next big book series as a result, or pioneer a new pen-and-paper RPG setting. As long as you did it together, you've created unique memories with each other, despite the distance.
Market fluctuations are pretty normal when a CEO as visible as Ballmer was leaves, gets fired, or dies. In almost every case, it's a temporary improvement or downfall, before swinging back in balance after a few weeks.
20B is a lot though, and obviously investors have been very happy with the news, but he *is* still in charge right now, and we still don't know who is going to replace him. That very well may create enough doubt in the coming months to cancel out "The Ballmer Effect."
At first I thought they were talking about actual organized crime like the mafia "meeting up" in World of Warcraft or something, to setup hits on witnesses and stuff.
Frankie: "Hey Tony, I need to speak to you about last nights heist real quick." Tony: "Yeah sure thing boss. Gimme a minute and I'll jump on my Paladin so we can do business."
Sadly, it won't. One thing companies have shown us is that they have no interest in passing the cost savings of digital distribution on to the consumer. They just look at it as extra profit. "Books" will be as expensive as ever, but will now require the hardware to read them.
What's even more insulting is the number of college courses that require you to purchase a book, only to find out that the teacher will barely use it. There were lots of classes where I was able to just leave the book shrinkwrapped, and just return it after a week or so claiming I purchased an extra on accident.
As much as I want to jump on that bandwagon and complain, I have to disagree. Average salaries are still up, and I've never been outright low-balled for an IT position. I think a lot of the "complaining" that you hear about not being able to find competent applicants is really just an effort to further the whole HB-1 agenda for a small portion of huge companies that are looking for that. Yeah, I'm sure there are some positions that come up involving arcane or older skill sets that can be hard to find, but most aren't trying to fill them on a retail salary; they just have a hard time finding someone with those skills.
The problem is that people get into this industry seeing reports of average salaries in the $70-120k range and assume that anything less is a rip off. I've seen people bitch about getting an offer of $50k for some mid-size business in Idaho with a handful of servers and maybe 30 employees, because it doesn't pay as much as their last job at TechGiant#7 in New York. There's a real mismatch in expectations in this industry when it comes to salary. It's like trying to base your expectations for physical beauty on what you see in Hollywood.
All they're saying is that the number of CONTRACTOR and/or CONSULTING jobs will go up, as businesses aren't likely to replace all of their aging and retiring in house staff. They aren't saying the overall unemployment rate or even career demand will change. Just that the shift away from in house staff is going to speed up in the next few decades as a result of baby boomers exiting the market.
If they target it as a low to mid range phone option that's more substance over style, it could find a very nice market full of people that are kind of tired of the high-end expensive 2-year contract cycles.
Or they could go after the already saturated high-end market and fail miserably.
Also, for clarification, when I meant tie it to the cloud, I'm talking about the ability for the OS to be kept updated and maintained in the same way as, say, Google Chrome does. Not by simply hosting a bunch of services in some kind of cloud farm. The servers and all the services would probably be installed and maintained on site.
It almost sounds like their trying to tie server services into the cloud... probably not actual data storage, but the services and functions themselves. Kind of like how if you go install chrome on a new computer, it can port over all of your settings and stuff, or how if you setup a new android device it will automatically load up your apps and contacts, etc.. In this case, I think the idea is to make it so that the hardware is less important, and easier to replace without having to go through the normal motions of reloading from backups or doing some kind of barebones restore. Instead, you just swap out or install whatever new hardware you need to, and "long in" (or whatever the process may be) to get your new server node online and sync'd with the rest of your network without much hassle.
There's a lot of blanks that need to be filled here, like actual data store. I imagine that would still be done in-house with central storage. The basic idea, as I understand it, is actually really cool.
As much as I like the idea of a longer life, there is simply no way our planet will support it. Which means it would be a perk for the wealthy and influential, rather than the unwashed masses. Nothing good could come from that.
We need to migrate the vast majority of career-oriented jobs towards a trade school model by training people to become licensed for their profession. Network admins, nurses, and other experience-focused professions are already setup as certificate and/or licensed careers, so it's not really that big of a leap. I look back on my college experience and think just how useless so much of that stuff was when it came to making me better at my chosen career.
As much as we bitch about cable companies forcing us to pay for 130 channels that we don't watch, just so we have access to the 3 we do, we don't seem to mind when colleges and universities are doing the exact same thing.
I haven't paid for TV in years. I just pirate everything that I can't find on Netflix. Not because I don't want to pay for something, or because I'm some kind of cheap ass looking to save a few bucks. I simply don't like paying $100+ a month to watch a few TV shows a week, which of course are laden with commercials. Unfortunately, this will always be an underground "war" until either the knowledge on how to safely pirate shows is commonplace, or there becomes actual competition in cable providers.
I'm content with things the way they are now, however. I watch what I want, when I want, and how I want, for either free or cheap. The ball is in their court now.
Despite the crappy summary, the articles aren't about public transportation. So I guess, leave it to the average slashdotter to not even bother reading.
They talk about how the big ass buses are just one of many examples of how the gab between the wealthy and the poor keeps widening in that area. They have tons of billionaires and millionaires, yet record numbers of people on food stamps. Any rental property within half a mile of the various elite bus stops is apparently going for up to twice the normal rate, effectively pushing out anyone who doesn't make a google wage.
They also complain about how the tech people don't even get out and interact with the community that they are taking over. They order stuff online rather than go shopping at local places; they bury their noses in smartphones when walking around, etc..
MS has done a pretty good job of keeping up on stability and security for all of their products since about 2006. I personally still host with nginx, due to the cost of MS products, but I administer enough to say that they are pretty straight forward and secure. It's easy for people to assume that Apache = secure or whatever, but the truth is, there are a shit ton of Apache deployments that are broken and exposed, usually as a result of people blindly apt-get installing whatever random package some outdated how-to tells them to in order for Obscure CMS Product #1 to run.
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Once again, Nintendo shows the world that it has no clue what people actually want from their products.
What exactly do these smart watches do? Do they just tell time and maybe connect to wifi for stock numbers or something? I don't get it.
Most open source projects aren't setup as an actual licensed company, and many aren't legally able to do business as a result. Which is fine because setting up a donation button works well enough for their needs.
There is also the problem with most of the people running the open source projects being techs, and not business people. For them, the creating and sending out an invoice for "support" and writing up the contract for a "client" to sign (to protect themselves in this situation) is pretty arcane.
And that's assuming those email accounts you used are even checked regularly. Some of those things get setup at day one, and everyone forgets about it unless forwarding is configured.
Again, I'm not saying that it's ONLY biological. Just that this isn't "problem" with the IT field. There's nothing specific about this field that turns women away from it, aside from peripherally extreme cases. It's not like we have equal participation in CompSci 101, before all the women run away from abuse and misogyny. They just aren't showing up in the first place.
So I'll reiterate my stance here, and say that these issues need to stop being framed as problems in the IT field when they are not. They aren't even problems in the STEM fields, in general, because most women aren't interested enough to even dip their toes in the water in the first place. Criticize the media for perpetuating gender stereotypes, or criticize parents for not giving their children a wider range of toys as kids, or criticize teachers for assuming girls don't like math. Don't just perpetuate the myth that there is this wide-spread gender conspiracy that's pervasive enough to push women away when they're still girls dealing with their first crush. Because that's exactly when people start to make decisions about what kinds of interests they have; teens.
And none of those issues are related to the IT field...
I don't believe for a moment that it's any kind of negative force, such as sexism or bigotry, that's keeping women out of the field. It's just not interesting to most of them. I know it's hard to talk about in today's politically correct world, but men and women ARE wired differently. Exceptions certainly exist, but they are still just exceptions.
We could go on and on about why there aren't more male nurses, and the conversation would be silly if we tried to ignore the fact that guys just tend not to be interested in nursing because they're guys.
As for females in this industry, I've seen all kinds. Some are good, some are inexperienced, some just plain suck, and others are incredibly talented. Just like their male counterparts.
I didn't care how silly I looked. I cared about not having to spend $120 on a book that wasn't getting used more than a few times in the class.
This is one of the worst summaries ever. The topic is bad. The summary is bad. It's confusingly written, without any clear idea as to what point it's trying to convey.
TLDR: CTRL+Shift+T restores tabs you accidentally closed.
Start by developing an idea, tone, and theme for a story that you can collaborate on and write. There's a lot of fun details to flesh out to make the world feel alive (especially if the story isn't just set in modern times) like establishing kingdoms or galactic alliances and whatnot. If you one you likes to draw or doodle, you can get some fun map-making in. You can setup short term goals like "this week, we should each try and write up a character profile for someone in the world" and then share the ideas you've come up with when you're together online again.
I know it's not a straight-up game in the way you were asking, but it could easily become one that's shared between just the two of you. Most rewarding is the actual progress you make on something that will last longer than the next WoW patch cycle. And who knows, maybe you guys end up releasing the next big book series as a result, or pioneer a new pen-and-paper RPG setting. As long as you did it together, you've created unique memories with each other, despite the distance.
Market fluctuations are pretty normal when a CEO as visible as Ballmer was leaves, gets fired, or dies. In almost every case, it's a temporary improvement or downfall, before swinging back in balance after a few weeks.
20B is a lot though, and obviously investors have been very happy with the news, but he *is* still in charge right now, and we still don't know who is going to replace him. That very well may create enough doubt in the coming months to cancel out "The Ballmer Effect."
At first I thought they were talking about actual organized crime like the mafia "meeting up" in World of Warcraft or something, to setup hits on witnesses and stuff.
Frankie: "Hey Tony, I need to speak to you about last nights heist real quick."
Tony: "Yeah sure thing boss. Gimme a minute and I'll jump on my Paladin so we can do business."
Sadly, it won't. One thing companies have shown us is that they have no interest in passing the cost savings of digital distribution on to the consumer. They just look at it as extra profit. "Books" will be as expensive as ever, but will now require the hardware to read them.
What's even more insulting is the number of college courses that require you to purchase a book, only to find out that the teacher will barely use it. There were lots of classes where I was able to just leave the book shrinkwrapped, and just return it after a week or so claiming I purchased an extra on accident.
As much as I want to jump on that bandwagon and complain, I have to disagree. Average salaries are still up, and I've never been outright low-balled for an IT position. I think a lot of the "complaining" that you hear about not being able to find competent applicants is really just an effort to further the whole HB-1 agenda for a small portion of huge companies that are looking for that. Yeah, I'm sure there are some positions that come up involving arcane or older skill sets that can be hard to find, but most aren't trying to fill them on a retail salary; they just have a hard time finding someone with those skills.
The problem is that people get into this industry seeing reports of average salaries in the $70-120k range and assume that anything less is a rip off. I've seen people bitch about getting an offer of $50k for some mid-size business in Idaho with a handful of servers and maybe 30 employees, because it doesn't pay as much as their last job at TechGiant#7 in New York. There's a real mismatch in expectations in this industry when it comes to salary. It's like trying to base your expectations for physical beauty on what you see in Hollywood.
All they're saying is that the number of CONTRACTOR and/or CONSULTING jobs will go up, as businesses aren't likely to replace all of their aging and retiring in house staff. They aren't saying the overall unemployment rate or even career demand will change. Just that the shift away from in house staff is going to speed up in the next few decades as a result of baby boomers exiting the market.
Which is exactly what the article said...
Actually, it looks like the Nexus 5 is actually being made by LG. Based on the LG G2...
If they target it as a low to mid range phone option that's more substance over style, it could find a very nice market full of people that are kind of tired of the high-end expensive 2-year contract cycles.
Or they could go after the already saturated high-end market and fail miserably.
Also, for clarification, when I meant tie it to the cloud, I'm talking about the ability for the OS to be kept updated and maintained in the same way as, say, Google Chrome does. Not by simply hosting a bunch of services in some kind of cloud farm. The servers and all the services would probably be installed and maintained on site.
It almost sounds like their trying to tie server services into the cloud... probably not actual data storage, but the services and functions themselves. Kind of like how if you go install chrome on a new computer, it can port over all of your settings and stuff, or how if you setup a new android device it will automatically load up your apps and contacts, etc.. In this case, I think the idea is to make it so that the hardware is less important, and easier to replace without having to go through the normal motions of reloading from backups or doing some kind of barebones restore. Instead, you just swap out or install whatever new hardware you need to, and "long in" (or whatever the process may be) to get your new server node online and sync'd with the rest of your network without much hassle.
There's a lot of blanks that need to be filled here, like actual data store. I imagine that would still be done in-house with central storage. The basic idea, as I understand it, is actually really cool.
Apparently, he should have just sold it on the black market since Facebook is trying to weasel out of paying over a technicality, no pun intended.
As much as I like the idea of a longer life, there is simply no way our planet will support it. Which means it would be a perk for the wealthy and influential, rather than the unwashed masses. Nothing good could come from that.
We need to migrate the vast majority of career-oriented jobs towards a trade school model by training people to become licensed for their profession. Network admins, nurses, and other experience-focused professions are already setup as certificate and/or licensed careers, so it's not really that big of a leap. I look back on my college experience and think just how useless so much of that stuff was when it came to making me better at my chosen career.
As much as we bitch about cable companies forcing us to pay for 130 channels that we don't watch, just so we have access to the 3 we do, we don't seem to mind when colleges and universities are doing the exact same thing.
I haven't paid for TV in years. I just pirate everything that I can't find on Netflix. Not because I don't want to pay for something, or because I'm some kind of cheap ass looking to save a few bucks. I simply don't like paying $100+ a month to watch a few TV shows a week, which of course are laden with commercials. Unfortunately, this will always be an underground "war" until either the knowledge on how to safely pirate shows is commonplace, or there becomes actual competition in cable providers.
I'm content with things the way they are now, however. I watch what I want, when I want, and how I want, for either free or cheap. The ball is in their court now.
Despite the crappy summary, the articles aren't about public transportation. So I guess, leave it to the average slashdotter to not even bother reading.
They talk about how the big ass buses are just one of many examples of how the gab between the wealthy and the poor keeps widening in that area. They have tons of billionaires and millionaires, yet record numbers of people on food stamps. Any rental property within half a mile of the various elite bus stops is apparently going for up to twice the normal rate, effectively pushing out anyone who doesn't make a google wage.
They also complain about how the tech people don't even get out and interact with the community that they are taking over. They order stuff online rather than go shopping at local places; they bury their noses in smartphones when walking around, etc..
Next time, RTFA.
MS has done a pretty good job of keeping up on stability and security for all of their products since about 2006. I personally still host with nginx, due to the cost of MS products, but I administer enough to say that they are pretty straight forward and secure. It's easy for people to assume that Apache = secure or whatever, but the truth is, there are a shit ton of Apache deployments that are broken and exposed, usually as a result of people blindly apt-get installing whatever random package some outdated how-to tells them to in order for Obscure CMS Product #1 to run.
Or, worse yet, they use Word Press.