Ok, maybe there is something to this slashdot stereotype... if you've ever lived with a woman you should know that they complain about freezing all the frickin time.
I'm sure the continuous maligning of males in computer science as creepy and ugly, and blaming them for other people's choices is doing wonders for making the field welcome more women. Everybody loves to be despised, right? To top it off there should be some comment about how the women who are in the field are obviously much superior to any of their male colleagues because they had it so much harder.
It seems to me a good test would be how popular the field is in other cultures. If the difference in demographics is more pronounced in the US than in Europe or Asia, then it's likely cultural. It's not important that exactly 50% of IT students are women - if the ideal distribution (in terms of aptitude and interest) was e.g. 30/70 and the US only gets 10/90, then it would still be a loss for the US economy.
Easy to find out, just ask google for "clubbing a staked-out bunny" - it provides around 90 results, all of them apparently copies or links to the article we are discussing here. So "who EVER says that?" - just Bruce Byfield, it appears.
That says nothing about the fact that even if it is illegal, terrorists, criminals, and drug czar wannabes will still have their labs. This can only hurt the honest law abiding citizenry.
I wish that were true, but I don't think it is. Making it harder to get chemicals and equipment for everybody, also makes it harder for criminals. Most criminals are just not that well organized, and the bulk of the cases which police handles involves inept, stupid and careless criminals.
However I think the important point is: we can't outlaw everything which is valuable, just because criminals might find it useful for their activities, as well. There is a huge loss to society if everything about pursuit of knowledge and interest in science is considered suspicious and dangerous.
Well some hobbyist chemists - or the kids of hobbyist chemist - might become professional chemists in time. Having the opportunity to do some work in their own lab (even if it's just about making soap, and doing some simple experiments) can create an interest in the field.
If you are really that important for your boss, then he won't fire you that easily either. You are correct of course, there are unreasonable managers around - however that doesn't mean you can never stand up for yourself. Most people (even managers) are not unreasonable. You need to make sure that you assert your rights - don't make it into a fight though, just state your position calmly.
Think about it - your manager's performance ratings depends usually on yours. If his team is not productive then he is seen to be a failure. If he needs to replace you, he needs to spend time finding a replacement - he loses the experience you have, he runs the risk not finding someone equally qualified. There could even be a hiring freeze on, and that means he'll be a manager of a smaller team. If he's interested in his career, that's something he wants to avoid - headcount looks good on his resume. You are not without leverage in this situation.
Depends what you want to do. If you'd prefer a better democratic system, there is nothing hypocritical about trying to reach that goal using (among other things) the current electoral process. Similarly there is nothing hypocritical about trying to get the best result out of the current system, even if the system is not great to begin with.
On the other hand if you are a trying to establish a totalitarian dictatorship, then you don't need to worry about being hypocritical - evil overlords are exempt from that. If you do have a viable plan to enslave mankind and that was the only consideration standing between and world domination... then please consider me for the position of trusted lieutenant. I mean - I helped you out there, right?
BTW... does anyone else think that there is a great potential for disappointment for kids when they get their SuperCoolTM toy packed in a plain brown cardboard box?
I think that's a valid point. However there is also the frustration of a kid trying to get to their toy and being unable to open the package without the help of an adult - made worse by having to wait till *someone else* is opening the packaging. Plus the danger that tackling the packaging could damange the toy. (Seems reasonably likely in that detailed pirate ship, which Amazon uses as an example product). Cutting your fingers on clamshell plastic remains is not so fun either.
Of course the whole point of this line of lingerie is to get Ms Lorio into the news. Thanks to the apparently limitless supply of feminist who are ready to be outraged at any publicity stunt - no matter how transparent - she has succeeded, too.
I actually like the EeePC interface, I'd agree that it's very well suited for the small screen. I've given EeePCs to relative who are not so computer-savy, and it's great for them - everything needed is already installed and everything just works. The one exception is the Eee Download capability. Whoever is packaging the new software is doing a bad job with quality control. Sometimes the same app appears twice for no discernible reason, sometimes a package installed with this tool will screw-up the packaging system and won't allow further updates. That's definately something that should be improved - you need better QA there. For installing apps I'll stick to apt-get. Maybe instead of the specialized software-install system, add a good frontend for apt-get?
Something that would be nice for me: have an easy way to add icons to the GUI. That's maybe more for the geeks, but it would be very helpful.
The picture-viewer should default to gwenview, that's the better one. A Wii-type viewer with pan and zoom would be cool, too.
The network dialogs are a bit strange - you'd think that to connect to WLAN you'd have to click on "wireless". That works, but that dialog will not remember the password. If you want that you need to go via "network" dialog instead. Not very intuitive. Also once configured the EeePC should automatically connect to the first WLAN it knows.
Very specialized I admit: but on the Taiwanese version... why can't I input tradition Chinese in Hanyu-Pinyin? It seems the program installed there would have all the required capabilities, it just doesn't allow to select this combination. Also would be cool if the touchpad could be used with a pen for handwriting-recognition. (I know there are additional handwriting-detection pads sold, but add-on hardware for a device that size?)
"Pingus" might be a good addition to the games menu. They are lacking a bit in levels, admittedly...
Ok, just a few ideas, maybe there's something there you can use. Thanks for the opportunity to make suggestions and for your willingness to listen.
It was "no taxation without representation", and people fought for it. It wasn't "somebody make sure my representation is adequate, dealing with politics myself and fighting for my own ideas is so tiring". Sorry democracy is a "do it yourself" system and if it currently is in a rather sorry state, it's a "take part of the blame yourself" system, too. There is everything in the US constitution which enables you to make things better, there is nothing in there which says it would be easy.
Well, surely you recognize that - no matter who dominates publicized opinion - the right wing media has more than sufficient resources to investigate Obama, if they want to? I mean you can claim that "xyz is not reported enough" (especially so since there is no objective way to define "enough") but to claim that there are no resources to investigate xyz? How is that supposed to work?
Well if you are writing in Ron Paul, how much would you be willing to bet that he wins? Let's say I give you $3000 if he wins, you give me $100 if he doesn't? $50? $20?
I'm honestly curious. If you are not willing to bet, doesn't this mean you are doing something which you believe to be absolutely hopeless?
Blaming voting for a third party candidate is pretty short-sided.
Well, this is ultimately where the buck stops, isn't it? If the power is with the people, then the people are responsible for the result of the election.
Not really - they just want to select a set of chips which can stand higher ambient temperature. Using those they can set their AC to 5 degrees higher. This only works if every single chip in the room can withstand the higher temperature. If you have two data centers, and each of these has 50% chips which can run at higher temperature, and 50% which can't - then you need to set the AC in both places low enough for the 50% of chips which need it.
So the savings in one data center are only possible if the chips are concentrated there - the second data center doesn't spend anything extra.
I'm a chip designer, one of the things we do for our chips is burn-in testing: we test that they can run at high temperature for a long period of time. It's conceivable (though by no means certain) that most of Intel's chips can tolerate the higher ambient temperature, they just aren't tested for it. In this case Intel would merely add another burn-in step (or modify the existing burn-in).
Some chips dissipate a lot of heat, some chips have strict requirements for ambient temperatures. These are different issues - they are related, but you can't in general say that a chip dissipating more heat also has stricter requirement for ambient temp.
That's just a design trade-off. Let's say you have system A: if computer and pilot disagree, the computer is given ultimate control - and system B: if computer and pilot disagree, the pilot is given ultimate control. That's understandably an emotional issue for some, but it shouldn't be. It's clear that in some cases the computer will be wrong, and in others the pilot will be wrong. Sometimes the pilot will initiate the correct action, and the computer will - erroneously - override him, but sometimes the reverse will apply, too. The question is: which one of these do occur more often, what kind of errors are these, which kills/injures more people? If system B kills less people, then you should use that one otherwise you must select system A. In both cases there will be some people who will be killed by one system which would have been saved by the other.
A single incident isn't enough to show which system is superior, you need to establish a metric to measure their performance statistically.
Well it might be interesting if you run your own business. You wouldn't get distracted by a phone call, but get a notification that someone called. At the next convenient point you park your car and return the call.
For whatever reason probably it's historical but the president of the US is not just a figurehead, he dominates American politics. It could be the other way round, with house and senate dominating, but they don't.
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Ok, maybe there is something to this slashdot stereotype ... if you've ever lived with a woman you should know that they complain about freezing all the frickin time.
I'm sure the continuous maligning of males in computer science as creepy and ugly, and blaming them for other people's choices is doing wonders for making the field welcome more women. Everybody loves to be despised, right? To top it off there should be some comment about how the women who are in the field are obviously much superior to any of their male colleagues because they had it so much harder.
It seems to me a good test would be how popular the field is in other cultures. If the difference in demographics is more pronounced in the US than in Europe or Asia, then it's likely cultural. It's not important that exactly 50% of IT students are women - if the ideal distribution (in terms of aptitude and interest) was e.g. 30/70 and the US only gets 10/90, then it would still be a loss for the US economy.
I understand your problem, but getting chatted up is in no way sexual harassment and shouldn't be referred to as such.
You could get the data from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080111140739/http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list/
Easy to find out, just ask google for "clubbing a staked-out bunny" - it provides around 90 results, all of them apparently copies or links to the article we are discussing here. So "who EVER says that?" - just Bruce Byfield, it appears.
There is a torrent for it, too: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4015400/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments_(1960).4015400.TPB.torrent
I wish that were true, but I don't think it is. Making it harder to get chemicals and equipment for everybody, also makes it harder for criminals. Most criminals are just not that well organized, and the bulk of the cases which police handles involves inept, stupid and careless criminals.
However I think the important point is: we can't outlaw everything which is valuable, just because criminals might find it useful for their activities, as well. There is a huge loss to society if everything about pursuit of knowledge and interest in science is considered suspicious and dangerous.
Well some hobbyist chemists - or the kids of hobbyist chemist - might become professional chemists in time. Having the opportunity to do some work in their own lab (even if it's just about making soap, and doing some simple experiments) can create an interest in the field.
Think about it - your manager's performance ratings depends usually on yours. If his team is not productive then he is seen to be a failure. If he needs to replace you, he needs to spend time finding a replacement - he loses the experience you have, he runs the risk not finding someone equally qualified. There could even be a hiring freeze on, and that means he'll be a manager of a smaller team. If he's interested in his career, that's something he wants to avoid - headcount looks good on his resume. You are not without leverage in this situation.
On the other hand if you are a trying to establish a totalitarian dictatorship, then you don't need to worry about being hypocritical - evil overlords are exempt from that. If you do have a viable plan to enslave mankind and that was the only consideration standing between and world domination ... then please consider me for the position of trusted lieutenant. I mean - I helped you out there, right?
I think that's a valid point. However there is also the frustration of a kid trying to get to their toy and being unable to open the package without the help of an adult - made worse by having to wait till *someone else* is opening the packaging. Plus the danger that tackling the packaging could damange the toy. (Seems reasonably likely in that detailed pirate ship, which Amazon uses as an example product). Cutting your fingers on clamshell plastic remains is not so fun either.
The more I hear about it, the better I like Amazon's idea...
Of course the whole point of this line of lingerie is to get Ms Lorio into the news. Thanks to the apparently limitless supply of feminist who are ready to be outraged at any publicity stunt - no matter how transparent - she has succeeded, too.
Something that would be nice for me: have an easy way to add icons to the GUI. That's maybe more for the geeks, but it would be very helpful.
The picture-viewer should default to gwenview, that's the better one. A Wii-type viewer with pan and zoom would be cool, too.
The network dialogs are a bit strange - you'd think that to connect to WLAN you'd have to click on "wireless". That works, but that dialog will not remember the password. If you want that you need to go via "network" dialog instead. Not very intuitive. Also once configured the EeePC should automatically connect to the first WLAN it knows.
Very specialized I admit: but on the Taiwanese version ... why can't I input tradition Chinese in Hanyu-Pinyin? It seems the program installed there would have all the required capabilities, it just doesn't allow to select this combination. Also would be cool if the touchpad could be used with a pen for handwriting-recognition. (I know there are additional handwriting-detection pads sold, but add-on hardware for a device that size?)
"Pingus" might be a good addition to the games menu. They are lacking a bit in levels, admittedly...
Ok, just a few ideas, maybe there's something there you can use. Thanks for the opportunity to make suggestions and for your willingness to listen.
It was "no taxation without representation", and people fought for it. It wasn't "somebody make sure my representation is adequate, dealing with politics myself and fighting for my own ideas is so tiring". Sorry democracy is a "do it yourself" system and if it currently is in a rather sorry state, it's a "take part of the blame yourself" system, too. There is everything in the US constitution which enables you to make things better, there is nothing in there which says it would be easy.
Well, surely you recognize that - no matter who dominates publicized opinion - the right wing media has more than sufficient resources to investigate Obama, if they want to? I mean you can claim that "xyz is not reported enough" (especially so since there is no objective way to define "enough") but to claim that there are no resources to investigate xyz? How is that supposed to work?
I'm honestly curious. If you are not willing to bet, doesn't this mean you are doing something which you believe to be absolutely hopeless?
Well, this is ultimately where the buck stops, isn't it? If the power is with the people, then the people are responsible for the result of the election.
So the savings in one data center are only possible if the chips are concentrated there - the second data center doesn't spend anything extra.
I'm a chip designer, one of the things we do for our chips is burn-in testing: we test that they can run at high temperature for a long period of time. It's conceivable (though by no means certain) that most of Intel's chips can tolerate the higher ambient temperature, they just aren't tested for it. In this case Intel would merely add another burn-in step (or modify the existing burn-in).
Some chips dissipate a lot of heat, some chips have strict requirements for ambient temperatures. These are different issues - they are related, but you can't in general say that a chip dissipating more heat also has stricter requirement for ambient temp.
You seem to equate tied-up with unwilling - you're missing out on something really fun.
A single incident isn't enough to show which system is superior, you need to establish a metric to measure their performance statistically.
Well it might be interesting if you run your own business. You wouldn't get distracted by a phone call, but get a notification that someone called. At the next convenient point you park your car and return the call.
Yes, or what if you are in a bus or in a limo?
For whatever reason probably it's historical but the president of the US is not just a figurehead, he dominates American politics. It could be the other way round, with house and senate dominating, but they don't.