From the article, it appears the man once ordered gay-themed material, and he later got recommendations for other gay material. Then he ordered a baby book for friends, and subsequently received recommendations for other baby/pregnancy related stuff. I don't see how this equals a computer "thinking" the subject is a gay pregnant man, or that it has any such category. And when the other guy ordered war movies and then started getting a lot of Third Reich stuff, he claims TiVo "thinks" he's a Nazi. People are reading way too much into this.
Bay of Pigs combatants were mostly anti-Castro Cubans, not Americans. There were some American CIA, and things went badly from the beginning.
Somalia? Forces were pulled out by executive order, mostly a political, not military, decision.
Neither involved the cowardice of soldiers on the ground or mass retreats by troops afraid to engage in battle, which was the aspersion cast towards the French in the parent post. Your comparisons are invalid.
2 benadryl will make me useless for an entire day, and even into the next. It makes me bleary and listless... much like Ellen looked in the ad. It's not like a high, but definitely a low.
So, you're saying that Lamborghini is not (always) an Italian car, it (at times) has been a French car, an American car (Chrysler!), an Indonesian car, and a Malaysian car. Most recently, Lamborghinis are German (Audi).
Agreed. My 18-month old daughter likes to climb up into the computer chair and start moving the mouse around and "typing" on the keyboard (she also knows where the power button is, grrr). I didn't introduce this to her, she picked it up watching me and my wife. As she grows, I'm sure she's going to want to know how to use the computer, whether I encourage it or not.
And besides, what is bad about promoting skills in children? I hear criticism of parents who have their very young children have music lessons, and here the criticism of early computer training... the gist being "let children just play and don't focus them on anything (because that's "forcing down their throats"). Do we take this attitude with learning to read? Be hands-off and when (if) the kid shows some interest in reading, that's when I as a parent will actively promote it?
At home I still use Windows 98 because of my wife. I've shown her Linux, but she wants what is familiar (which for her is Windows or Mac 9). On Linux (which currently is Mandrake 8), she feels like I have to make excuses for why she can't get the expected results ("I'll have to configure that to do what you want", for example). What she would really like installed is Korean Windows. I have not spent much time trying to get Linux and Hangul working together so that she can compose and read email in Hangul, but what time I did spend wasn't fruitful. She can do both on Windows using IE. Plus she wants to use Photoshop and Illustrator and Flash. My PC is over 3 years old and when we upgrade, I'd really like to switch to Mac, but the cost is hard to justify (I'm not floating in discretionary income). I hate the thought of WinXP and don't want to go that route if I can avoid it. Maybe it's time to get a more current KDE or Gnome and try to train the wife again;)
Yes, I have some problem with Mozilla, mainly that (for me at least) it sucks.
Ok, that's harsh, but really, Mozilla takes up way too much memory, crashes often, and overall gives a less favorable experience than other browsers I try. And they've been working on it for how long?
I have installed and tried Mozilla nightlies plus milestones for over a year. Each time I think, maybe this build will be the one that's a winner, and each time I'm disappointed.
Here's an idea: when one gets an idea for a project, maybe they can look at existing projects and think, "I could do that better." The Konqueror team was not beholden to Mozilla or the "community" to lend their talents and time to Mozilla.
I agree that older workers with families and outside lives are likely to be discriminated against in favor of younger workers who will work long hours. That said, here's my personal experience on long working hours:
When I worked at an Internet start-up, I was working mostly with 20 - 28 year olds (closer to the bottom number). I usually put in 10 hour days, 5 d/w. Some other programmers worked like I did, while some others and the CTO typically would
work from 10am to 11pm or even 2am. But you know what? Those "long hours" workers spent hours per day in smoking breaks, going to the store, sitting around bullshitting, etc. They'd go to dinner, spend hours out, go to bars, get drunk, then come back to the office and put in a few more hours. So, yes, the time spent at the office and not at home was very long. But productive time spent coding, designing, debugging, getting requirements? Not 80 hours' worth, by any stretch. On occassion, I and others would stay overnight when we were rolling out a new release (or during the crunch before a rollout). I wonder what others' experience is with the validity of these "80 hour weeks"?
I disagree about your assessment that 35+ yo programmers have stale skills. You are forgetting about the large number of older people who have changed careers into IT, and may be up in years (age) but not in years of IT experience. These people are not likely to be FORTRAN, COBOL, etc programmers.
Myself, I'm a few years shy of 40, been programming for 3 years, and program in Perl, Python, Java, XML, and am beginning to delve into C++. Am I outdated and outmoded? I can't say for certain if I've been discriminated against due to my age, but I certainly felt the weird vibes coming from co-workers and bosses when I have revealed my age.
They have sales taxes on booze and cigs and gasoline, and even regular every day food...This is extremely typical of a government who wishes to keep an industry afloat.
This isn't analogous to this particular tax in this story. The taxes you mention have nothing to do, AFAIK, with "keeping an industry afloat". Do you think cigarette taxes go back to Philip Morris et al? Or your tax on every gallon of gas goes to petroleum companies, or to the auto makers? I don't see anything in this tax that indicates the revenue will be paying for govt services. If I buy a computer, I may never use it for any media purposes whatsoever..it might sit in my basement crunching numbers and never play a CD, movie, etc....but the lawmakers want me to pay extra for my computer so that money can go to movie and music execs.
So, why don't Kodak, Agfa, Fuji etc get into this and get some tax monies from computers, after all, people are using computers to store and send copies of photographs and this cuts into photo film and processing revenues!
dude, what crack have you been smoking? 'un' possible because of the irony of Ralphie's assertion that it's impossible for him to fail English, yet his statement contains the incorrect (or perhaps uncorrect) negating prefix. 'om' isn't a negating prefix like 'im' 'an' or 'un'. I think your hearing is ompaired.
IIRC, in this incident, the Secret Service questioned this woman because, in the noise of the crowd, they heard the words "you....killed" shouted, which they had to follow up on since any potential threat to the President is taken very seriously. So much for free speech? Well, you aren't free to say "You ought to be killed" to the President without at least getting questioned.
In this case, I doubt Clinton was "getting revenge" or the forces-that-be were squashing dissent. Much vocal criticism has been lobbed at the President during public appearances without people being hauled in for questioning. People boo him, people hold up insulting signs, etc. There was a guy here in DC during the Lewinsky thing, holding a sign saying "Jail to the Chief" out along Rock Creek Park practically every single day for months. Political dissent is alive and well.
Ok, since you're all for ad hominum arguments (since when does my use of "cattle" to refer to a company's attitude toward the labor pool imply that I have a low self-esteem? Lousy logic there), then all I have to say is: your naivete about the workings of industries, their motivations, and your perceived power of market forces, is astonishing. Read some history.
As for thugs who murdered, how about the various times owners of companies (say, mining) had their own security forces or even the government murder workers and unionists? Check out "We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us" and ask how those workers could have said "screw this, I'll get a job somewhere else?"
If it were not for the people throughout history who were willing to jeopardize their jobs by demanding better working conditions or corrective action for something their employer was doing wrong, working conditions all over would be abysmal and you wouldn't have a choice!
Your attitude of "if you don't like it, leave" is what is cowardly. Plus, not everybody has the luxury of picking and choosing jobs here and there, and at some times in history jobs are damned hard to come by. Someone with several kids, a mortgage, health care issues, etc, might want to stay at their job, but want to fix some things they don't like. Without collective action by workers, companies will feel free to do whatever they want. After all, if one person quits, there's always more cattle to choose from.
An excellent idea here -- what if the CGI and other techies involved in movie production were to strike? Imagine the dollars per day lost and the resulting pressure on the movie moguls. Of course, I'm only speculating...as I'm nowhere near that industry and have no way of knowing the likelihood of CGI professionals taking up this cause.
Yup, gotta scratch them old wimmin and furriners right offa my marriage wish list. And fat people, you know...well, at least this ONE was otherwise nice.
Was your post supposed to be informative as some sort of random sampling of "types of women in IT classes and employment?" Or as an example of your attitudes towards the relative worth of women based on nationality, body size and age? What did "way too old" mean? Hmmph.
Bastards? Probably no (jokes pertaining to inbreeding notwithstanding). Racists? Definitely yes.
Why was the KKK formed in the first place? To have a club of guys proud of their white heritage? More than that. It was to promote white superiority, at the expense of black people's rights and lives. This stemmed from fears of black political gains due to Reconstruction. The white supremacists' world was changing, and they didn't like it one bit. Hence, kill blacks who were "uppity". Prevent blacks from voting - threaten to kill them if they voted. The only way the KKK intends to hold on to the dominant position of white Protestant Americans is through the suppression of the rights of non-white-Protestant Americans. Fortunately the KKK today is marginal.
Making an analogy between the KKK and football supporters is ludicrous. Football supporters don't attempt to interfere with baseball or basketball supporters or KILL them.
That "naive" acting style was a nightmare to experience in "A Walk with the Clods" yeesh! I had to endure that with a date who was, of course, drawn to the film due to Reeve's looks.
The split tongue looks stupid. I was expecting a reptilish looking tongue, then I see his fat tongue wagging to left and right...guess that's what happens when you cleave a human tongue. But lizard-like? No way.
And anyone who goes around calling himself "Satan" is just screaming "wannabe somebody." What a joke. Poseur.
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From the article, it appears the man once ordered gay-themed material, and he later got recommendations for other gay material. Then he ordered a baby book for friends, and subsequently received recommendations for other baby/pregnancy related stuff. I don't see how this equals a computer "thinking" the subject is a gay pregnant man, or that it has any such category. And when the other guy ordered war movies and then started getting a lot of Third Reich stuff, he claims TiVo "thinks" he's a Nazi. People are reading way too much into this.
Somalia? Forces were pulled out by executive order, mostly a political, not military, decision.
Neither involved the cowardice of soldiers on the ground or mass retreats by troops afraid to engage in battle, which was the aspersion cast towards the French in the parent post. Your comparisons are invalid.
2 benadryl will make me useless for an entire day, and even into the next. It makes me bleary and listless... much like Ellen looked in the ad. It's not like a high, but definitely a low.
So, you're saying that Lamborghini is not (always) an Italian car, it (at times) has been a French car, an American car (Chrysler!), an Indonesian car, and a Malaysian car. Most recently, Lamborghinis are German (Audi).
and... a Delorean??? Wedge shapes were popular in the late 70's, and the Esprit pre-dates the Delorean pseudo-sports car.
And besides, what is bad about promoting skills in children? I hear criticism of parents who have their very young children have music lessons, and here the criticism of early computer training... the gist being "let children just play and don't focus them on anything (because that's "forcing down their throats"). Do we take this attitude with learning to read? Be hands-off and when (if) the kid shows some interest in reading, that's when I as a parent will actively promote it?
At home I still use Windows 98 because of my wife. I've shown her Linux, but she wants what is familiar (which for her is Windows or Mac 9). On Linux (which currently is Mandrake 8), she feels like I have to make excuses for why she can't get the expected results ("I'll have to configure that to do what you want", for example). What she would really like installed is Korean Windows. I have not spent much time trying to get Linux and Hangul working together so that she can compose and read email in Hangul, but what time I did spend wasn't fruitful. She can do both on Windows using IE. Plus she wants to use Photoshop and Illustrator and Flash. My PC is over 3 years old and when we upgrade, I'd really like to switch to Mac, but the cost is hard to justify (I'm not floating in discretionary income). I hate the thought of WinXP and don't want to go that route if I can avoid it. Maybe it's time to get a more current KDE or Gnome and try to train the wife again ;)
But right, that apostrophe needs to go, the intent of the headline is that 'attack' is the verb, and publishers is plural, not possessive plural.
Ok, that's harsh, but really, Mozilla takes up way too much memory, crashes often, and overall gives a less favorable experience than other browsers I try. And they've been working on it for how long?
I have installed and tried Mozilla nightlies plus milestones for over a year. Each time I think, maybe this build will be the one that's a winner, and each time I'm disappointed.
Here's an idea: when one gets an idea for a project, maybe they can look at existing projects and think, "I could do that better." The Konqueror team was not beholden to Mozilla or the "community" to lend their talents and time to Mozilla.
BTW, what was/is the "whole Konqueror fiasco"?
When I worked at an Internet start-up, I was working mostly with 20 - 28 year olds (closer to the bottom number). I usually put in 10 hour days, 5 d/w. Some other programmers worked like I did, while some others and the CTO typically would work from 10am to 11pm or even 2am. But you know what? Those "long hours" workers spent hours per day in smoking breaks, going to the store, sitting around bullshitting, etc. They'd go to dinner, spend hours out, go to bars, get drunk, then come back to the office and put in a few more hours. So, yes, the time spent at the office and not at home was very long. But productive time spent coding, designing, debugging, getting requirements? Not 80 hours' worth, by any stretch. On occassion, I and others would stay overnight when we were rolling out a new release (or during the crunch before a rollout). I wonder what others' experience is with the validity of these "80 hour weeks"?
Myself, I'm a few years shy of 40, been programming for 3 years, and program in Perl, Python, Java, XML, and am beginning to delve into C++. Am I outdated and outmoded? I can't say for certain if I've been discriminated against due to my age, but I certainly felt the weird vibes coming from co-workers and bosses when I have revealed my age.
This isn't analogous to this particular tax in this story. The taxes you mention have nothing to do, AFAIK, with "keeping an industry afloat". Do you think cigarette taxes go back to Philip Morris et al? Or your tax on every gallon of gas goes to petroleum companies, or to the auto makers? I don't see anything in this tax that indicates the revenue will be paying for govt services. If I buy a computer, I may never use it for any media purposes whatsoever..it might sit in my basement crunching numbers and never play a CD, movie, etc....but the lawmakers want me to pay extra for my computer so that money can go to movie and music execs.
So, why don't Kodak, Agfa, Fuji etc get into this and get some tax monies from computers, after all, people are using computers to store and send copies of photographs and this cuts into photo film and processing revenues!
dude, what crack have you been smoking? 'un' possible because of the irony of Ralphie's assertion that it's impossible for him to fail English, yet his statement contains the incorrect (or perhaps uncorrect) negating prefix. 'om' isn't a negating prefix like 'im' 'an' or 'un'. I think your hearing is ompaired.
Interesting... but irrelevant since Samsung is a Korean company, not Japanese.
In this case, I doubt Clinton was "getting revenge" or the forces-that-be were squashing dissent. Much vocal criticism has been lobbed at the President during public appearances without people being hauled in for questioning. People boo him, people hold up insulting signs, etc. There was a guy here in DC during the Lewinsky thing, holding a sign saying "Jail to the Chief" out along Rock Creek Park practically every single day for months. Political dissent is alive and well.
As for thugs who murdered, how about the various times owners of companies (say, mining) had their own security forces or even the government murder workers and unionists? Check out "We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us" and ask how those workers could have said "screw this, I'll get a job somewhere else?"
Your attitude of "if you don't like it, leave" is what is cowardly. Plus, not everybody has the luxury of picking and choosing jobs here and there, and at some times in history jobs are damned hard to come by. Someone with several kids, a mortgage, health care issues, etc, might want to stay at their job, but want to fix some things they don't like. Without collective action by workers, companies will feel free to do whatever they want. After all, if one person quits, there's always more cattle to choose from.
Was your post supposed to be informative as some sort of random sampling of "types of women in IT classes and employment?" Or as an example of your attitudes towards the relative worth of women based on nationality, body size and age? What did "way too old" mean? Hmmph.
Racists? Definitely yes.
Why was the KKK formed in the first place? To have a club of guys proud of their white heritage? More than that. It was to promote white superiority, at the expense of black people's rights and lives. This stemmed from fears of black political gains due to Reconstruction. The white supremacists' world was changing, and they didn't like it one bit. Hence, kill blacks who were "uppity". Prevent blacks from voting - threaten to kill them if they voted. The only way the KKK intends to hold on to the dominant position of white Protestant Americans is through the suppression of the rights of non-white-Protestant Americans. Fortunately the KKK today is marginal.
Making an analogy between the KKK and football supporters is ludicrous. Football supporters don't attempt to interfere with baseball or basketball supporters or KILL them.
speaking of unbounded egoism....
And anyone who goes around calling himself "Satan" is just screaming "wannabe somebody." What a joke. Poseur.