I actually do agree that more straight men need to get into fashion. Because the idea that straight cisgender men are just more likely to not get into fashion by the nature of their being is offensive. Women are being actively discouraged against being into STEM at young ages in a variety of ways. Some are really subtle but do have a disproportionally larger effect than you'd think.
How brave of you, rushing to defend the status quo with uninformed opinions.
If you remove identifying information from resumes before they get to hiring managers, diversity goes *up*. Which means that we haven't been hiring the best and the brightest. We've been hiring those who are similar to us. There are many hiring and HR practices that when changed, do improve diversity.
Not just that, but as Neil de Grasse Tyson said about being black and in STEM, who was left behind? Who was told, "No don't focus on STEM, go play sports go do something else, you're black, STEM's not for you." So all of the money being invested in education is also going to mean is to try to stop the meme that, "you're a girl you shouldn't get into STEM. Go into arts or history or become a homemaker."
To suggest that the current status quo is acceptable is ignorant, if not dangerous.
Furthermore, the awfulness of review scores has been exacerbated by some publishers relying on Metacritic scores to determine bonus payouts to developers.
So I'm glad this is becoming a trend. I hope this extends out to movies. x stars out of y still doesn't tell me if I should go see it on opening night or wait for DVD
Given how many people have given when asked, it's less, "tragedy of the commons" and more "tragedy for not asking" which is understandable. In the west we think it's bad taste to ask for money. Even if there's some output in return some people consider it begging.
Stalking laws and harassment are incredibly difficult to enforce and a lot of police departments do not have the capacity to handle these problems.
Besides, legality aside, I'd rather know that Twitter was also doing something about abusive shitty behavior on their service than not. Free speech is a constitutionally protected right, but Twitter's not obliged to give bigots and assholes a platform to spew their shit.
I know that Zoe Quinn linked to a publicly discussed and passed around article that the head of TFYC claimed as, "Doxxing", Randi Harper has no qualms with outing people associated publicly on Facebook and Twitter who directly use their real names to the public, Anita Sarkeesian will republish abusive tweets and emails with no identifying information redacted.
But that's not to say that the anti-GG side "doxxes" more than GGers do. show me the anti-GG/baphomet/, and don't give me any shit about how Baphomet is not GG. For not being part of GG, a lot of their focus has been on people heavily critical of GG and they seem to clean out posts critical of GG.
Not all doxxing is equal and pretending like it is shows how craven and intellectually dishonest GG is.
When you're posting pictures of you in front of someone you don't like's work place because they said something you don't like counts as something. Maybe not trolling. But it's abusive and shitty and stalking like that happens fairly regularly on the internet.
I'd be willing to bet on graphene, since we've had it for years. However, silicene might make it first because it seems like despite the fact that making it is more involved, doing it at industrial scales might be easier.
I thoroughly dislike RMS but I think that RMS' crusade for Free as in Freedom software is important. It's absolutely zany from a practical stand point. For example, the four software freedoms just aren't aren't practical. Yet, it's done so much for us. Apache, the GNU toolchain, Linux, etc etc etc.
Satya Nadella comes from the services side of microsoft. Not the side that wants to sell everyone a Windows 8 and Office 2015 license.
Microsoft as a company is getting more hip and I really welcome their approach. They're finally catching up to, and surpassing, Apple in terms of sharing software.
Reminder that Apple gave us CUPS, WebKit and a few other things. Apple could finally catch back up and release Swift under the BSD license. If I'm understanding things, Swift is more than just a vanity language. It's a language that's designed to get the most out of LLVM by being designed with LLVM in mind.
Market might not be going anywhere but it might not be a healthy place to be.
What's worse is that if things go really poorly the much touted "choice" that PC proponents scream about might go away and many people in practical terms may be forced to pick from some bland options that don't really work because of how cheap things are being made.
Because "a while" might be like 10 15 minutes. When all you want to do is unplug, go out and start jamming, that sucks as UX. plus no worrying about what happens if the device writes garbage to the config, or what happens if power is lost mid write, etc.
Want to know how Apple beat Microsoft? There you go.
At the time I don't think that parsing metadata was feasible with out having to sit there and wait until it finished. Forcing users to use a tool to manage their device libraries meant the device never had to deal with the contingency of what happens when a bunch of mp3 files are dumped in.
The fact that the iPod was tied to iTunes meant that Apple didn't have to keep up backwards compatibility for no other reason other than some people didn't want to upgrade. Going with the, "here's how to do it, and if we change it, too bad so sad. Update it to work with the new stuff" still leaves part of the ecosystem up in the air with devs who may leave users wih software that doesn't work.
Being a control freak has its advantages. Everyone else chased commodity products with no differentiation and Apple is now laughing all the way to the bank.
More literally, the CPU in an iPhone owes its legacy to the Newton. The Newton was one of the first devices(maybe some Acorn box had one? Definitely among the first portables) with an ARM chip.
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I actually do agree that more straight men need to get into fashion. Because the idea that straight cisgender men are just more likely to not get into fashion by the nature of their being is offensive. Women are being actively discouraged against being into STEM at young ages in a variety of ways. Some are really subtle but do have a disproportionally larger effect than you'd think.
How brave of you, rushing to defend the status quo with uninformed opinions.
If you remove identifying information from resumes before they get to hiring managers, diversity goes *up*. Which means that we haven't been hiring the best and the brightest. We've been hiring those who are similar to us. There are many hiring and HR practices that when changed, do improve diversity.
Not just that, but as Neil de Grasse Tyson said about being black and in STEM, who was left behind? Who was told, "No don't focus on STEM, go play sports go do something else, you're black, STEM's not for you." So all of the money being invested in education is also going to mean is to try to stop the meme that, "you're a girl you shouldn't get into STEM. Go into arts or history or become a homemaker."
To suggest that the current status quo is acceptable is ignorant, if not dangerous.
Double agree, and out of mod points.
Furthermore, the awfulness of review scores has been exacerbated by some publishers relying on Metacritic scores to determine bonus payouts to developers.
So I'm glad this is becoming a trend. I hope this extends out to movies. x stars out of y still doesn't tell me if I should go see it on opening night or wait for DVD
Yeah but the Fn key is right next to ctrl, alt and windows/command on a macbook and most other decently designed notebooks.
Having to press an additional key beats having a cramped keyboard.
Given how many people have given when asked, it's less, "tragedy of the commons" and more "tragedy for not asking" which is understandable. In the west we think it's bad taste to ask for money. Even if there's some output in return some people consider it begging.
Stalking laws and harassment are incredibly difficult to enforce and a lot of police departments do not have the capacity to handle these problems.
Besides, legality aside, I'd rather know that Twitter was also doing something about abusive shitty behavior on their service than not. Free speech is a constitutionally protected right, but Twitter's not obliged to give bigots and assholes a platform to spew their shit.
I was at a Welcome to Nightvale show.
What I would've done for a camera with a zoom lens, you have no idea.
So you're all of baph? I thought baph was supposed to be a diverse group of people. I've heard of insulated communities but just on person... Wow.
[citation needed]
I know that Zoe Quinn linked to a publicly discussed and passed around article that the head of TFYC claimed as, "Doxxing", Randi Harper has no qualms with outing people associated publicly on Facebook and Twitter who directly use their real names to the public, Anita Sarkeesian will republish abusive tweets and emails with no identifying information redacted.
But that's not to say that the anti-GG side "doxxes" more than GGers do. show me the anti-GG /baphomet/, and don't give me any shit about how Baphomet is not GG. For not being part of GG, a lot of their focus has been on people heavily critical of GG and they seem to clean out posts critical of GG.
Not all doxxing is equal and pretending like it is shows how craven and intellectually dishonest GG is.
When you're posting pictures of you in front of someone you don't like's work place because they said something you don't like counts as something. Maybe not trolling. But it's abusive and shitty and stalking like that happens fairly regularly on the internet.
when it's one person, using one account. sure. block away
When it's a numerous people heaping shit on you, well, I hope you've got a good therapist.
I'm curious, which one gets fabbed first?
I'd be willing to bet on graphene, since we've had it for years. However, silicene might make it first because it seems like despite the fact that making it is more involved, doing it at industrial scales might be easier.
I thoroughly dislike RMS but I think that RMS' crusade for Free as in Freedom software is important. It's absolutely zany from a practical stand point. For example, the four software freedoms just aren't aren't practical. Yet, it's done so much for us. Apache, the GNU toolchain, Linux, etc etc etc.
Satya Nadella comes from the services side of microsoft. Not the side that wants to sell everyone a Windows 8 and Office 2015 license.
Microsoft as a company is getting more hip and I really welcome their approach. They're finally catching up to, and surpassing, Apple in terms of sharing software.
Reminder that Apple gave us CUPS, WebKit and a few other things. Apple could finally catch back up and release Swift under the BSD license. If I'm understanding things, Swift is more than just a vanity language. It's a language that's designed to get the most out of LLVM by being designed with LLVM in mind.
UEFI has never been about preventing owners from running free software.
The IBM BIOS from the early 80's is a goddamned dog though.
Market might not be going anywhere but it might not be a healthy place to be.
What's worse is that if things go really poorly the much touted "choice" that PC proponents scream about might go away and many people in practical terms may be forced to pick from some bland options that don't really work because of how cheap things are being made.
It's not the keynote. It's vendor availability and other trade secrets that were given away to other customers for ATI
Because "a while" might be like 10 15 minutes. When all you want to do is unplug, go out and start jamming, that sucks as UX. plus no worrying about what happens if the device writes garbage to the config, or what happens if power is lost mid write, etc.
Want to know how Apple beat Microsoft? There you go.
For one or two songs? Great. For a 5 gig dump?
Yeah.
At the time I don't think that parsing metadata was feasible with out having to sit there and wait until it finished. Forcing users to use a tool to manage their device libraries meant the device never had to deal with the contingency of what happens when a bunch of mp3 files are dumped in.
The fact that the iPod was tied to iTunes meant that Apple didn't have to keep up backwards compatibility for no other reason other than some people didn't want to upgrade. Going with the, "here's how to do it, and if we change it, too bad so sad. Update it to work with the new stuff" still leaves part of the ecosystem up in the air with devs who may leave users wih software that doesn't work.
Being a control freak has its advantages. Everyone else chased commodity products with no differentiation and Apple is now laughing all the way to the bank.
More literally, the CPU in an iPhone owes its legacy to the Newton. The Newton was one of the first devices(maybe some Acorn box had one? Definitely among the first portables) with an ARM chip.
You do know the iPod can mount as a hard drive right? It just relied on iTunes to populate it's metadata and music syncing.
If you don't think that syncing from iTunes is a better UX than manually managing files then you're nuts.
The problem is that very few OEMs are making money if at all. The DIY PC building niche isnt going to save the venerable PC.
Where are the profits? We easily see the market share, but the PC OEM industry has been this tenuous low margin for well over a decade and a half now.
If the PC is here to stay, who's going to build them?
I always thought it had to be something else. Games on android are silky smooth.
If weight and price aren't problems, there are a ton of vendors selling high res displays with nice GPUs and lots of RAM. Including Razor and Apple.